Claiming Its Space: Machinima by Michael Nitsche, Dichtung-Digital #37, 2007:

ABSTRACT: Although machinima has grown exponentially, it remains a largely undefined digital artistic practice in-between existing traditions. Machinima makers freely sample/ combine/ and break elements of traditional media. They “play” their references. This essay does not attempt to fix machinima to any single definition but will identify the intermedia relations to better position machinima into the digital media landscape. The argument will target three main influences: film, television, and theatrical performance. To exemplify these points the essay will discuss exemplary and relevant machinima pieces. It puts emphasis on the real-time aspects in production and play back to highlight the key specifics of this relatively new format.

直接当下：网络文化与现实诗学 by Kazys Varnelis; Chinese Translation by Lily & Honglei:

在整个九十年代，数字计算和网络技术在很大程度上只应用于办公室工作，其文化影响仅限于个别专有领域的爱好者。如果说这十年的新媒体艺术形成了一种非常重要的艺术亚文化，它基本上还是孤立和自我参照的，部分原因是由于艺术家们对黑客文化的迷恋，由于长期以来格林伯格主义者 (Greenbergian) 的艺术审察, 还由于艺术机构将其边缘化. 在电脑离开有限的用户群体, 成为有广泛社会功能之前,瓦克﹒寇司克 (Vuk Cosic)，朱迪(Jodi)，阿列克谢﹒舒利金 (Alexei Shulgin)，和希思﹒班廷 (Heath Bunting) 等艺术家重演了二十世纪初的前卫战略，同时将图形与八十年代黑客文化的程序演示平等化[1].

今天，相比之下，数字技术，是日常生活中的明确无误的存在，并逐渐与地来自主流社会的需要和公约不可分割的. 网络文化是一个广泛的社会文化的转变，就像后现代性，并不限于科技发展或“新媒体” [2]. 正因为数字和网络技术的成熟与当代文化是不可分割的, 我们必须在更宽广的背景下理解其, 事实上, 这甚至比电视产生于后现代的现象更令人瞩目. 今天, 可以说, 所有的艺术都是网络艺术的一种延伸.

Vital Signals: Japanese and American Video Art from the 1960s and 70s :: New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape ::: The Sum of Myself: Photographic Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection :::: Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles CA.

VIDEO SCREENING: Vital Signals: Japanese and American Video Art from the 1960s and 70s is a three-part screening program presented in collaboration with Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) that investigates the correspondence between the pioneering, and rarely seen, works of artists experimenting with video in both Japan and America. Continue reading

Read | Write The Immediated Now: Network Culture and the Poetics of Reality by Kazys Varnelis — in Networked: a (networked_book) about (networked_art):

ABSTRACT: Network culture is not limited to digital technology or to the Internet but rather is a broad sociocultural shift. Under network culture both art and everyday life take mediation as a given. Life becomes performance, taking place in a culture of exposure in exchange for self-affirming feedback from the net. This chapter explores the role of this poetics of the real in cultural production from YouTube to the gallery. The new poetics of reality is not the traditional realism. Earlier codes are replaced by immediacy, self-exposure, performance, and remix.

Qualitative Analysis of Visual Performance Algorithms as a Function of Internet Search Queries from Amy Alexander on Vimeo.

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Third Person: Authoring and Exploring Vast Narratives; edited by Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin [Also see Henry Jenkins' interviews with the editors, Part 1 and Part 2]:

The ever-expanding capacities of computing offer new narrative possibilities for virtual worlds. Yet vast narratives — featuring an ongoing and intricately developed storyline, many characters, and multiple settings — did not originate with, and are not limited to, Massively Multiplayer Online Games. Thomas Mann’s Joseph and His Brothers, J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, Marvel’s Spiderman, and the complex stories of such television shows as Dr. Who, The Sopranos, and Lost all present vast fictional worlds. Continue reading

CollaborationTransmission — Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, 14 rue Bonaparte, 75006, Paris, France with with Leeds Metropolitan University, Civic Quarter, Calverley St, Leeds, LS1 3HE, UK :: Call for Student Group Collaborations.

We announce the online project, entitled CollaborationTransmission. CT aims to link students of art academies, university cultural departments, or independent organisations, to collaborate through the space of transmission. collaborationtransmission.com is designed to be operational as an open forum built upon the self-initiating principle of broadcast live TV; the online provision of both the discussion and production of collaborative works and independent initiatives. Continue reading

No Nails, No Pedestals presents Saso Sedlacek - Infocalypse Now! … Installation, demonstration, discussion :: October 22, 2008; 8 pm :: SCCA-Ljubljana Center for Contemporary Arts, Metelkova 6, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Infocalypse Now! is an initiative for the creation of an autonomous media zone in the 700 MHz spectrum, within which analogue television stations broadcast at present. With the introduction of the digital signal by 2012, the majority of the spectrum, just like the present-day analogue technology, will become a junkyard, which will be appropriated by the capital. Continue reading

Madrid Abierto 2009-2010 :: Call for Artists of all Nationalities :: Deadline: September 10, 2008.

The Cultural Association, MADRID ABIERTO, announces the start of the presentation of projects period for the 6th edition of its international public art programme which will be held in 2009 and 2010. The programme will hold debate sessions on public art and will generate a series of interventions of an ephemeral or temporary nature in the centre of Madrid, whose authors will mainly be selected through this open call for presentations. A specific call for presentations of sonorous work, which includes collaboration in the audiovisual TV Interventions project, is also announced. Continue reading