[DPoN showing temperatures in the low-60's, clear skies, and winds out of the south (indicated by the vertically-oriented yellow streak to the right)] Dynamic Performance of Nature: Augmenting Environmental Perception Through Social Media And Architectural Informatics by Brian W. Brush, Yong Ju Lee & Noa Younse:

Abstract: Architecture has always functioned as a mediating structure between humans and the environments in which they live; a static assemblage of semi-inert materials orchestrated, amongst other things, to temper environmental forces for human habitation. With advances in material and communications technology, architectural assemblies no longer perform as impassive boundaries separating discrete conditions of occupation between environments. Continue reading

Jer Thorp’s work focuses on adding meaning and narrative to huge amounts of data as a way to help people take control of the information that surrounds them. 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

(Read a review here) Good Listeners is a browser plugin that exposes the secret ways in which our browsing habits are shared with and mined by 3rd party web trackers (like Google Analytics and Facebook “Like”) without our consent or knowledge. Whenever a site exposes the visitor’s data to a third party service a confessional booth window is opened and the priest in the window offers words of invisible wisdom, divine providence and spiritual guidance pertaining to matters of web browsing, social networking, e-commerce and digital identity.

Good Listeners in a critical/ amusing/ awkward visualization and sonification of the vast data dimension passively generated by us and aggressively collected and mined by these mysterious omnipresent all-seeing tracking forces of the web. Continue reading

The Second International Conference on Transdisciplinary Imaging at the Intersections between Art, Science and Culture :: June 22-23, 2012 :: Victorian College of the Arts, Federation Hall, Grant Street, Southbank, Melbourne 3006 :: Call for Papers: Interference Strategies for Art - Deadline for Abstracts: March 30, 2012.

The Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference seeks papers that explore the theme of ‘Interference’ within practices of contemporary image making. Continue reading

[3D Alignment Forms. Animation of dancer's traceforms in One Flat Thing, reproduced mapped to 3D space. Synchronous Objects Project, The Ohio State University and The Forsythe Company.] Goethe-Institut New York presents Objects in Performance: Continue reading

Network by Michael Rigley.

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

Northern Spark: presenting innovative art in the public sphere.

Calling All Artists: Northern Lights is happy to announce a number of calls for participation in the 2012 edition of Northern Spark, which will take place June 9-10, 2012. For some background on this year’s Northern Spark see here. The new website will launch later this week at northernspark.org.

Call for 10 projects in any media/discipline: We are looking for projects that are sited/ performed in public space and engage a broad public audience in that space. Projects can be in any medium or discipline. Continue reading

3rd Leonardo Satellite Symposium: Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks @ NetSci2012 :: June 19, 2012 :: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois :: Call for Proposals - Deadline: March 16, 2012.

We are pleased to announce the third Leonardo satellite symposium at NetSci2012 on Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks. The aim of the symposium is to foster cross-disciplinary research on complex systems within or with the help of arts and humanities.

The symposium will highlight arts and humanities as an interesting source of data, where the combined experience of arts, humanities research, and natural science makes a huge difference in overcoming the limitations of artificially segregated communities of practice. Continue reading