Art and Technoscience: Practices in Transformation — Keynotes by Roy Ascott and Jill Scott :: March 24-25, 2010; 10:00 am - 5:00 pm :: Auditorium, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Kaikukatu 4.

The beginning of the 21st century is characterized by an overwhelming awareness of environmental issues. Facing the threat of global warming, the findings of scientific research have become a subject of intensive political debate. The ethical questions traditionally discussed in the green-wing marginals have become mainstream, as science has become a coffee-table topic. Continue reading

ASPECT: The Chronicle of New Media Art, a biannual DVD publication, is currently accepting submissions of work for V16: Lo-tech, and V17: Hi-tech. Artists have historically co-opted emerging technology, adapting and expanding complex developments to suit their own goals. Conversely, there is nostalgia for obsolete technology. We seek work that exploits antiquated or sophisticated technology, either as an aesthetic or technical choice. We will review installation, video, performance, sound, and any other work best documented in time-based format. Continue reading

Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance by Chris Salter (with a Foreword by Peter Sellars), MIT Press:

This ambitious and comprehensive book explores technology’s influence on artistic performance practices in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In Entangled, Chris Salter shows that technologies, from the mechanical to the computational — from a “ballet of objects and lights” staged by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in 1917 to contemporary technologically enabled “responsive environments” — have been entangled with performance across a wide range of disciplines. Salter examines the rich and extensive history of performance experimentation in theater, music, dance, the visual and media arts, architecture, and other fields; explores the political, social, and economic context for the adoption of technological practices in art; and shows that these practices have a set of common histories despite their disciplinary borders. Continue reading

Test_Lab: Tools for Propaganda — Experience how new media technologies direct, divert, distract and manipulate your gaze on the world :: March 11, 2010; 8:00 -11:00 pm :: V_2, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam + and streamed live.

Featuring: Maurice Benayoun (FR) | Marc Lee (CH) | Damian Stewart (NZ/AT) | Opening: Alessandro Ludovico (IT) | Screening: uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki | www.subvertr.com | streetwithaview.com.

The increased accessibility and affordability of contemporary media technologies has greatly expanded possibilities for the dissemination of independent and grassroots information. At the same time, these developments have also greatly increased the opportunities for (mis)use of media technologies as powerful and effective tools for political and commercial propaganda. Continue reading

ilinx. Berliner Beitrage zur Kulturwissenschaft: Mimesen :: Call for Artists — Deadline: March 1, 2010.

ilinx. Berliner Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft tests the potential and limits of cultural science. Its title (ilinx, gr. = vortex) is programmatic, since vortices emerge where different approaches, theories, and data collide, where calm continuous flow is disturbed and turbulently transformed by the reconfiguration of knowledge and things.

The second volume focuses on the techniques, agents, and methods that come into play at sites where similarities are being produced – whether in artistic, cultic, technological or scientific processes. Following Walter Benjamin all these kinds of mimesis can be understood as expressions of a ‘mimetic capacity’ that encompasses the recognition as well as the production of similarities and thus combines cognitive, practical, and aesthetical dimensions. Continue reading

7th International Multimedia Art Meetings: RIAM 2010 - Low-Tech :: February 25 - March 6, 2010 :: Marseilles, France.

Nowadays, artistic events devoted to connections between art and technology are facing a paradox: how to stand back from technological glorifications, in a consumerist world constantly saturated by new gadgets? RIAM (International Multimedia Art Meetings) have always focused on analyzing and criticizing the technology’s role and the artists way of appropriate and embezzled it. Even if technology have transformed our everyday life in a distinct way, RIAM’s programming has never been blindly rushed into enthusiasm for new technological feats. It seems evident to us that media and technical evolution have radically transformed our way of organizing, interpreting and understanding the world. Continue reading

Interfaces of Performance, edited by Janis Jefferies, Goldsmiths, University of London, Maria Chatzichristodoulou, University of Hull and Rachel Zerihan, Queen Mary, University of London, UK; Ashgate, November 2009.

This collection of essays and interviews investigates current practices that expand our understanding and experience of performance through the use of state-of-the-art technologies. It brings together leading practitioners, writers and curators who explore the intersections between theatre, performance and digital technologies, challenging expectations and furthering discourse across the disciplines. As technologies become increasingly integrated into theatre and performance, Interfaces of Performance revisits key elements of performance practice in order to investigate emergent paradigms. To do this five concepts integral to the core of all performance are foregrounded, namely environments, bodies, audiences, politics of practice and affect. Continue reading

Digitale Afrique: Call for Dance + New Technology Proposals :: 8 works (including at least 1 from Africa) to be performed at International Digital Arts Festival of Enghien-les-Bains (France) :: June 11-19, 2010 :: Deadline for Proposals: January 8, 2010.

For the 5th edition of the Bains numériques Digital Arts International Festival, the Centre des Arts is organising an international competition for creations mixing dance and new technologies. This international call for project proposals aims at pre-selecting 8 hybrid stage form to be presented during the festival. A dedicated Committee will be assigned to select projects coming from the African Continent in order to ensure representation of African Digital Art and to select an African Project which will join the 7 other Works in competition. Continue reading

One Part Human :: January 9 - February 13, 2010 :: Opening: January 9; 6:00 - 8:00 pm :: Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, 31 Mercer Street, New York City.

One Part Human brings together artists who explore the tension between human and technological capabilities in today’s scientific society. The exhibition includes two remarkable motorized sculptures by Canadian artists who have not exhibited previously in New York: Perfect Vehicle by Simone Jones and Robotic Chair conceived by visual artist Max Dean and realized in collaboration with Raffaello D’Andrea and Matt Donovan. Brian Knep, an artist in residence at Harvard Medical School, will exhibit photography and high definition video related to the microscopic worm, Caenorhabditis elegans, one of the most studied multi-cellular organisms in the world Continue reading

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