Plausible Artworlds: Pad.ma — Potluck and Skype Conversation :: August 17, 2010; 6:00 - 8:00 pm :: skype “basekamp” and/ or 723 Chestnut St, 2nd floor, Philadelphia, PA.

The Pad.ma project is a result of the efforts of oil21.org from Berlin, the Alternative Law Forum from Bangalore, and three organizations from Mumbai: Majlis, Point of View and Chitrakarkhana/CAMP.

Pad.ma, short for Public Access Digital Media Archive, is an interpretative web-based video archive, which works primarily with footage rather than “finished” films. Pad.ma provides access to material that is easily lost in the editing process as well as in the filmmaking economy, and in changes of scale brought about by digital technology. Continue reading

Interactivos?’10: Neighborhood Science :: until July 31, 2010 :: Medialab-Prado, c/ Alameda, 15, Plaza de las Letras, Madrid, Spain.

Interactivos?’10: Neighborhood Science is a digital art exhibition in which ten prototypes developed by nearly 70 artists, scientists, teachers, designers and a variety of professionals, students and fun of DIY and DIWO (Do It With Others) will be on show. This exhibition aims to offer a new and experimental point of view about what you can do with low cost tools applied to the work with the local environment, urban ecology, citizen collaboration networks, etc.

Visitors will be able to “listen” to satellites surrounding us (Birds Within); research urban water analisys methods (Lilipod); easily create solar powered electronic devices (Open Solar Circuits) and participate in a discarded objects project (re:tag), among others.

Natural Fuse: Usman Haque from Architectural League of New York on Vimeo.

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subclopedia: In general research activities involve different concepts, definitions, ideas and categories, that belong to different areas of knowledge. A subclopedia is the subset of an encyclopedia that encloses such concepts. Imagine it is possible to isolate the articles that are relevant for a person or group in regards to his/their work and interests, and put them together in a single volume. The result could be a brand new compendium of interdisciplinary knowledge.

We believe that in the near future people in general smaller communities (such as groups of researchers working on a particular branch of science), will find useful, even urgent, to create their own subclopedias. To create a subclopedia is basically to identify, classify and share a set of articles, papers and definitions that fit the best as possible with the information is needed and used. Continue reading

Tag Ties & Affective Spies — a critical approach on the social media of our times.

The social web, commonly known as web 2.0, resembles a mixture of promises and contradictions that refer directly to its main components, those of sociality and participation. In the new public spaces of the contemporary info-sphere such as those of the YouTube, the Facebook or the flickr, people meet, interact and inter-define themselves while they are producing and consuming, they are spying and being spied. Through uploading photos, videos and posts and through tagging and linking, the users share beliefs and experiences, they construct different sides of their subjectivity and they also form the content and the structure of web itself. Continue reading

“Contrary to early predictions that the internet will render geography obsolete, the discipline is increasingly gaining importance. In a 1998 speech at the California Science Center, former US Vice President Al Gore, called for replacing the prevalent desktop metaphor with a “multi-resolution, three-dimensional representation of the planet, into which we can embed vast quantities of geo-referenced data” (Gore 1998). After the successful introduction of virtual globes such as NASA World Wind, Google Earth and MS Virtual Earth, achieving the vision of a Geospatial Web seems more realistic than ever. By integrating cartographic data with geotagged knowledge repositories and environmental indicators, the Geospatial web will revolutionize the production, distribution and consumption of media products. Continue reading

Turbulence Commission: Bronx Rhymes by Claudia Bernett and Maria Ioveva: Bronx Rhymes illuminates the history and significance of Hip Hop in the Bronx by tagging important locations for Hip Hop (1520 Sedgwick, for example) with posters. Each poster describes the historical significance of that location in the form of a rhyme, and invites people walking by to join in a rhyming battle by txt-ing their own rhyme from their mobile phone. The website displays the artists and locations along with all the submitted rhymes elevating the most recent submission. Eventually, visitors to the website will be able to rate existing rhymes, and add their own. Continue reading

Commissioned for Interact 15, Clouds of clouds — by Miguel Leal and Luis Sarmento — is a random generator of cloud images. Each new cloud is unique and indexed to a particular time (GMT) on a particular day. It was developed in Perl + MySQL; the database has more than 1,000,000 photos gathered from Flickr between September 10-13 2008, using Flickr API.

“This is randomness, and that is altogether different. If absolutely necessary, you can count the stars. A catalogue has been kept of them since Antiquity. But if you ask for a catalogue of the clouds, people laugh at you. There is no such term as cloud, defined as permanent, defined by its borders, by its terms or its terminations. [?] Clouds, whirlwinds, flows, noises, all primary masses without qualities.” — M. Serres. Continue reading

Since January 2007 TAGallery asks “What if a link turns into the representative of the artefact, the context and the exhibition at once?”. Until now - July 2008 - there are 500 different answers, represented by 438 artists, 473 artworks, 483 tags, a dozen of curators and still 999 exhibitons to come. Finally it is time to open the folksonomic experiment for public participation. From July 15 to September 15 netizens are invited to contribute link-collections, to re-contextualise the existing material and/or to experiment with tagging as a curatorial practice within the framework of TAGallery. If you are interested in participating please go here and read about how to submit an exhibition. Do not hesitate to contact us via cont3xt-at-cont3xt-dot-net if there are any questions remaining.

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