The Ends of Audience: Interdisciplinary Workshop :: May 30-31, 2012 :: Queen Mary University of London :: Call for Proposals - Deadline: January 31; Midnight GMT.

People in audiences act: they talk, clap, heckle, sigh, inhale, exhale, rustle, twitch, tweet, dance, flirt, laugh, whisper, shuffle, cough… in doing so, they interact. There is a structure and dynamic to these responses which is central to the experience of being in a live audience. This workshop aims to bring together researchers and professionals with interests in performance, interaction and technology who are working on understanding, instrumenting or experimenting with these dynamics, and the shifting ends of audience that they reveal. Continue reading

319 Scholes presents Art Hack Day :: January 26-28, 2012 :: 319 Scholes Street, Brooklyn, NY. Continue reading

Beyond Blind Mist: A Conversation with Brad Troemel and Jonathan Vingiano by Nicholas O’Brien, Bad At Sports:

“Over the past year Brad Troemel and Jonathan Vingiano have been steadily collaborating together to create platforms of digital exchange and dialog through their development of various browser-exclusive projects… Continue reading

The Mobile Audience: Media Art And Mobile Technologies, edited by Martin Rieser, with an Introduction by Howard Rheingold:

The convergence of mobile technologies and ubiquitous computing is creating a world where information-rich environments may be mapped directly onto urban topologies. This book tracks the history and genesis of locative and wearable media and the ground-breaking work of pioneer artists in the field. It examines changing concepts of space and place for a wide range of traditional disciplines ranging from Anthropology, Sociology, Fine Art and Architecture to Cultural and Media Studies, Fashion and Graphic design. Continue reading

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The International Award for Participatory Art is world-wide the first award promoting and supporting artists who involve their audiences in the process of producing works of art.

The relation between artist and audience has been at the heart of the research of artists for more than a century. Over the last decades there have been innumerous experimentations and a variety of critical approaches regarding the questions of authorship, the levels of involvement of the audience in production and  in decision processes. Often these researches take the form of temporary interventions rather than objects meant to last in time. Aiming beyond the strategies of the art market, to find funding for this kind of projects is challenging. Continue reading

So What Again Is HASTAC? Post #HASTAC2011 Reflections on a Network Founded on a Theory That’s a Practice by Cathy Davidson, originally posted on HASTAC:

We have just finished two and a half glorious days at the University of Michigan. Soon we at HASTAC Central will write a formal thank you blog to all the incredible planners, organizers, and participants of our fifth HASTAC Conference, Digital Scholarly Communications, sponsored by the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, and the Kidder Residency in the Arts, and led by two of our HASTAC Steering Committee members, Danny Herwitz and Julie Thompson Klein. And many others. Incredible event.Incredible people.

Now some overview thinking, not just about the #hastac2011 but about what it all means at this point in HASTAC’s history: Continue reading

Rhythms of Time Sharing (RoTS) in collaboration with Vox Populi, Philadelphia is seeking performers/ collaborators/ artists/ writers working within the conceptual remit of Participation for a live, transatlantic broadcast event in late January 2012. DEADLINE: December 16, 2011

Rhythms of Time Sharing’s first live event will take the form of a collaboration between two artist collectives – KIOSK (London) and Vox Populi (Philadelphia). This one-off event will be held at the Vox Populi space in Philadelphia formed of live performances in the gallery and nocturnal performances streamed across the Atlantic from KIOSK’s studio in South East London. Continue reading

Art, Design, and Public Domain Lecture Series: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, “Antimonuments and Subsculptures” :: November 28, 2011; 6:30 - 7:30 pm :: Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA :: Free and open to the public. Continue reading

After a 10 month hiatus the SoundTransit project is back, hosted by Turbulence.org.

SoundTransit is a collaborative, online community dedicated to field recording and phonography. Phonography is the art of recording sounds from the environment around us, with an emphasis on the unintentional sounds which often go unnoticed in our daily lives. An international community of phonographers collect and share their recordings, with interests ranging from recordings of natural or urban environments to improvised situations or soundwalks, to the resonance of solid objects or the Earth’s atmosphere. Continue reading