Other: The Nihilists :: July 16, 2011; 8:00 - 10:00 pm :: (starting from) Mynyndd Llanwenarth Car Park, Grid Ref: SO268167, Sugar Loaf, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire NP7 7LA, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

A one-day visual art event, with a sound performance by Team Sports. The Nihilists is a series of outdoor installations by Stefhan Caddick, temporarily located on the Sugar Loaf mountain near Abergavenny, South Wales (UK). The installations generate electricity in order to illuminate their futility.

Team Sports (Matthew Lovett, Jimmy Ottley & Ian Watson) is a sound performance that explores the relationship between a musician and their surroundings. Continue reading

Open call for submissions to MOEBIUS, new journal of iARTA, the Initiative for Advanced Research in Technology and the Arts, a research group at the University of North Texas. Special consideration will be given to submissions received by September 1, 2011.

MOEBIUS examines the convergence of theory & practice in the electronic arts. We are currently seeking submissions for a special inaugural issue on the topic of Environment(s) + Art. We look forward to receiving submissions of papers, projects, documented lectures, installations on any and all aspects of this topic, no matter how narrowly or broadly conceived. Continue reading

Solar Sound Workshop taught by David Casey :: June 11, 2011; 2:00 - 5:00 pm :: Machine Project, 1200-D North Alvarado Street, Los Angeles, CA.

Ever wanted to learn how to build your own solar-powered gadgets for use in sustainable installations & outdoor computing? This workshop will provide an introduction to attaching mini solar panels to small battery-powered devices. Wire your own simple oscillators using solar cells, piezo discs & a few simple electronic components such as resistors & potentiometers. Learn how to power the Arduino microcontroller with solar cells & explore some basic Arduino projects such as powering small motors & generating sound. Continue reading

ISEA2012 Albuquerque: Machine Wilderness — Re-envisioning Art, Technology and Nature :: Conference: September 19 - 24, 2012 :: Exhibition: September 20, 2012 - January 6, 2013 :: Regional Collaboration: September - December, 2012 :: New Mexico, US :: Call for Proposals — Deadline October 1, 2011.

ISEA2012 Albuquerque: Machine Wilderness is a symposium and series of events exploring the discourse of global proportions on the subject of art, technology and nature. The ISEA symposium is held every year in a different location around the world, and has a 30-year history of significant acclaim. Albuquerque is the first host city in the U.S. in six years. Continue reading

Faster Than Sound: Soundfields — featuring Blast Theory, Chris Clark, Beaconsfield ArtWorks, Bruce Gilbert, James Bulley :: May 28-29, 2011 :: Suffolk, UK. Continue reading

Sonic Unconscious — Yolande Harris, Scorescapes :: April 16, 2011; 7:00 pm :: Issue Project Room, At the Old American Can Factory, 232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, NY .

The Sonic Unconscious brings together three artists whose work begins in the field: Jana Winderen, Yolande Harris and Gina Badger.

Yolande Harris’s Scorescapes is a program including the pieces Tuning In / Spacing Out, a collaboration with Edward Shanken, Fishing for Sound, and S.W.A.M.P., with Kato Hideki, Jim Pugliese, & William Lang. Tuning In / Spacing Out: Collaboration with Edward Shanken. Continue reading

Acoustic Space Issue #8: ENERGY - Scientific and Artistic, Utopian and Critical Visions :: Edited by Rasa Smite, Armin Medosch, Kerstin Mey, Raitis Smits :: Published by RIXC (Riga) and MPLab of Liepaja university, 2011:: ISSN 1407-2858.

In human society, energy is the most essential resource driving its economy and its future development. Yet, the currently used forms of terrestrial energy production are non-sustainable, posing serious danger to climate, people and the environment. Now, in the twenty-first century, human society with its information technologies needs more resources then ever before, thus sustainable development of both energy and information technologies have become the key issues of the present. Continue reading

Stealing the Senses :: March 12 – June 6, 2011 :: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Cnr Queen and King Sts, New Plymouth 4342, Aotearoa, New Zealand.

Inhabiting their own potential moment of encounter, certain artworks have the capacity to create heterotopias of the senses. Remembering Foucault’s concept in human geography, heterotopia describes place and spaces of otherness. This exhibition offers an accumulation of work by international and Aotearoa New Zealand artists whose practices offer sensory and immersive encounters and thus propose new avenues to our phenomenological experience of the world.

Included are Brook Andrew’s room-sized participatory inflatable The Cell; a participatory accumulative project, Passage, by Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan; Continue reading

Forecast: Communicating Weather and Climate :: January 24, 2011; 7:00 - 9:00 pm :: 2nd Floor Gallerias, Washington State Convention Center, 800 Convention Place, Seattle, WA.

Over the past year, Carrie Bodle worked with Miles Logsdon, UW faculty member in the College of Ocean and Fishery Sciences, and was inspired by his use of visualizations in detecting patterns in oceanographic research data. This collaboration resulted in Bodle making eight embroidered Hovmoller plots displaying chlorophyll-a patterns for different regions of the Northeast Pacific Ocean over the time period of December 2002-July 2010. These images are visualizations of data from the NASA SeaWiFs Satellite for an area off the entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca. A detail image of one of the plots is above. Continue reading

2011 Cheng Long Wetlands International Environmental Art Project: Environmental Sculpture Installations, Call for Proposals — Deadline: February 11, 2011 :: Kuan Shu Educational Foundation, Lane 79, Wu Lang Street, Taichung City 403, Taiwan.

Artists from all countries are invited to send a proposal for a site-specific outdoor sculpture installation that will involve working with local elementary school children to create an artwork focused on making the Cheng Long Wetlands a ‘greener’ place where biodiversity can flourish. This year the emphasis will be on sculpture installations in the waters of the wetlands that can improve the habitat for wildlife and increase biodiversity as well as provide aesthetic enjoyment and raise public awareness about the importance of wetlands. Continue reading