Click on image to go to video. Transcription of talk here. Related: James Bridle’s The New Aesthetic and Bruce Sterling’s An Essay on the New Aesthetic. Continue reading

Your Day/ My Night: Round 3: Pressure Valve/ Virtual Confinement :: March 7, 2012, 3:48 pm – March 8, 2012, 3:50 pm (SLT/PST) :: Second Life.

For the past six months, two teams of artists, Iranian (Negin Ete, Sasan Abri, Vana Nabipour) and American (Andrew Blanton, Patrick Lichty, Allie Pohl), and one Turkish translator (Zeren Goktan), under the facilitation of Morehshin Allahyahri and Eden Unluata have been creating an artistic conversation by creating texts for one another from which the other team responds through the creation of bodies of work.

This is the third round of our conversation, where the rules were to abandon the mediation of the translator and try to directly interact for the creation of a work. Continue reading

America’s Got No Talent — by Jonah Brucker-Cohen and Katherine Moriwaki — is a web-based software project that synthesizes and processes the steady stream of Twitter feeds for several American reality television shows such as “American Idol,” “America’s Got Talent,” “America’s Next Top Model,” and “X Factor US” among others in this genre. Continue reading

Hz Call For Articles — Deadline: March 10 :: Please send your submissions to hz-journal [at] telia.com.

Online journal Hz is looking for articles on New Media, Sound Art, Electro-Acoustic Music, Virtual World/ Machinima and Social Media. We accept earlier published and unpublished articles in English.

Hz is published by the non-profit organisation Fylkingen in Stockholm. Established in 1933, Fylkingen has been known for introducing yet-to-be-established art forms throughout its history. Nam June Paik, Stockhausen, Cage, Stelarc, etc. have all been introduced to the Swedish audience through Fylkingen. Its members consist of leading composers, musicians, sound artists, dancers, performance artists and video artists in Sweden.

Monika Fleischmann, Wolfgang Strauss: Performing Data (2011) [English/Polish]:

Performing Data exhibition (April-June 2011) is a review of Fleischmann and Strauss´ body of work from Virtual Reality (Home of the Brain) up to Mixed Reality (Murmuring Fields or Energie-Passagen), from Fluid (Liquid Views) to Rigid (Rigid Waves) up to Floating Interface (Media Flow).

Monika Fleischmann and Wolfgang Strauss from the Fraunhofer IAIS Research Institute show an intersection of the body and immaterial digital data. From Body Space (Virtual Striptease) to Knowledge Space (Semantic Map): Interactivity as an extension of touch is a central strategy of their work – interactivity with its complex relationship to reality, re-presentation and presence. Continue reading

Albion A.R. Art Walk :: April 22 - May 17, 2012 :: Reiger and Victory Parks - Albion, Michigan :: Call for Submissions — Deadline: February 11.

Albion College and the city of Albion, Michigan seek artists and designers to submit work for consideration for a virtual public art exhibit to launch the first annual Albion A.R. Art Walk. This Augmented Reality competition will feature sculptures digitally overlaid in Albion’s Reiger and Victory Parks from April 22 through May 17, 2012.

Up to 20 works of art will chosen from around the world for this inaugural year of the Albion A.R. Art Walk. Continue reading

Not Here Not There :: Call for Papers - Deadline: January 31, 2012.

Leonardo Electronic Almanac in collaboration with The Samek Art Gallery and with Kasa Gallery announces a special issue titled: Not Here Not There. This issue arises out of the territory between two cultural streams.

In the 1960’s, artist Robert Morris articulated the strategy of representation summarized by ‘site vs. non-site’ whereby certain artworks were simultaneously abstract and representational and could be site-specific without being sited. In the 1990’s net.art re-de-materialized the art object and found new ways to suspend the artwork online, between (web)site and non-site. Continue reading

Into the Diagram: Two Public Lectures by Brian Massumi and Erin Manning :: December 13, 2011: 6:00 pm :: Artspace, 43-51 Cowper Wharf Road, Woollomooloo, Sydney.

Artspace and National Institute of Experimental Arts, CoFA present two lectures by Brian Massumi and Erin Manning, leading philosophers and practitioners of movement, affect and relationality. Together their lectures Animality and Abstraction (Massumi) and The Dance of Attention (Manning) explore the virtual, abstract and powerful dimensions of diagrams. Continue reading

BodyControlled with Robert Henke (DE), Peter Kirn (US), Stephen Cornford (UK), Julian Oliver (NZ), João Martinho Moura (PT), Robert Mathy (AT) :: Opening and Performances: November 26, 2011; 8:00 pm :: Exhibition: November 28 - December 2, 2011 :: Lab for Electronic Arts and Performance, Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 13 10178 Berlin + streamed live.

BodyControlled is a new exhibition and performance series at Lab for Electronic Arts and Performance - LEAP presenting artists who are dedicated to performance art and have explored in their work the medium of sound in electronic as well as other expressive art forms. Continue reading

The Real-Fake :: until December 2, 2011 :: November 17: Panel Discussion with the Curators, 12:30 - 2:00 pm :: University Galleries, William Paterson University, 300 Pompton Road, Wayne, New Jersey.

The Real-Fake is an exhibition that presents the approaches employed by artists exploring artificial xyz space, the non-referenced synthetic image or object, and the specific qualities of the virtual camera that records it. Its purpose is to position 3D computer graphics in the discursive context of contemporary art. Continue reading