make-shift by Helen Varley Jamieson (from Umetnost Radi Akcije Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia) and Paula Crutchlow (from London) :: October 15, 2011; 8:30 pm (find your local time here) :: Go to www.make-shift.net and follow the LIVE LINK in the top right hand corner.



make-shift is a unique and intimate networked performance that speaks about the fragile connectivity of human and ecological relationships. Devised by Paula Crutchlow (Devon based performer and director) and Helen Varley Jamieson (NZ writer and cyberformer) the performance takes place simultaneously in two separate houses that are connected through a specially designed online interface. Continue reading

Netscapes — by Garrett Lynch — is an automated application which uses live feeds from networked webcams to create combined and imagined landscape compositions, networked landscapes. Continue reading

Lab to test and explore the online venue TAP :: July 4-8 and 14-15, 2011 :: Call for Participation.

Networked/ telematic/ telepresence performance/ presentation & real time media mixing laboratory exploring & testing the online venue, TAP. Scores/ parameters/ mini-scripts on the theme of water, interaction between webcams & body movements/ voice & media, mixing & layering media (also with webcams), interaction text/ voice/ sound/ chat, interaction online/ onsite spaces with or without projections.

Documentation of previous laboratories on the blog. Continue reading

(French version below) After a year of preparation, 2011: The Waterwheel starts turning! Welcome! Be a part of this new online collaborative space without borders: from teachers to students, performers to scientists, producers, programmers, curators, visual artists, composers, activists and everyone in between. All ages welcome!

The upcoming Waterwheel project revolves around water as a topic and metaphor - what you want to share, say, or debate about this fundamental element. It includes:

• The Waterwheel - an interactive website
• The Tap - an online performance & collaborative venue
• Fountains - outcomes that well up from the project

The Waterwheel interactive website will give you the power to collaborate, explore ideas, research and gather feedback by uploading and sharing media about water: images, video, music, text or sound. Continue reading

Upgrade! Chicago: The Unintentional Art of Digital Cultures & Communities: From 4chan to cam4 & beyond… with Natacha Stolz, Ei Jane Janet Lin & Miao Jiaxin :: December 10, 2010; 7:00 pm :: The Nightingale, 1084 N. Milwuakee, Chicago, IL.

What happens when contemporary Performance Art meets Digital Cultures online? How is New Media Art conversational? Who is having these conversations and what are their expectations?

Natacha Stolz performed her Interior Semiotics project at an exhibition/ event called FOREVER(21) in Chicago, Illinois on March 27, 2010. Stolz uploaded video documentation of the performance to YouTube on May 8. Then, as Know Your Meme reports, During the week of August 5th, the video was posted to 4chan. Continue reading

[Image: Jenniches' SPAN 1 (2007-2009). Digital Lightjet print, 67.5" x 93.5"] Mechanics of the Imagination :: November 3-27, 2010 :: Opening: November 5, 6:00 - 8:00 pm :: Prescott College Art Gallery (Sam Hill Warehouse), 232 N. Granite Street, Prescott, Arizona.

Isabelle Jenniches’ Mike O’ Callaghan - Pat Tillman Bridge, Hoover Dam, Nevada: Two webcams are mounted on either side of the Colorado River to monitor construction of a suspension bridge as part of the Hoover Dam Bypass Project. The robotic camera on the Nevada side of the Colorado River has an extreme range of motion that allows for views deep into Black Canyon and across to Sugarloaf Mountain. Continue reading

Julian Oliver - TEDxRotterdam 2010 from TEDxRotterdam on Vimeo.

The Artvertiser source code is now available, licensed under the GPLv3. It is an Improved Reality platform, designed for the live substitution of advertisements in a video stream with alternative 2D content. The code was initially developed by Julian Oliver before being significantly improved by Damian Stewart.

A typical application of The Artvertiser at work might be the Product Replacement of street billboards with 2D art using a laptop with webcam or camera-enabled mobile device. You might also want to have your own personal exhibition in the Louvre, substituting well known paintings with your own creations and inviting others to enjoy the show. Counter-propaganda operations are also well suited to the platform, like changing the imagery of a disliked political campaigner before uploading the recorded result for all to see. Alternatively, it can be used to product replace planar images in archival video, like a Hollywood movie or TV advert, using popular films as an ‘exhibition surface’. Continue reading

Turbulence Commission: I am unable to tell you by Benjamin Dean [Needs webcam]:

I am unable to tell you is an experiment in collective solipsism. It’s about leaving your fingerprints on the glass you were trying to clean. It’s only someone else’s experience. It’s about the closure property of sets. It’s just the referents. It’s depth-first search. It’s about being face to face. It’s about not talking. It’s turtles all the way down.

BIOGRAPHY: Ben Dean makes many different things for many different reasons. He considers art a form of experimentation, believes science to be a way of discovering beauty, and thinks engineering is just plain fun. Ben was educated at Yale University, and lives in Brooklyn. He is always interested in collaboration, and would love to hear from you. Email Ben at bddbbd.b [at] gmail.com

Turbulence Commission: WWW-Enabled Noise Toy by Loud Objects (with funds from the Jerome Foundation):

Loud Objects, NYC-based circuit sorcerers, present a wacky way to learn hardware audio programming. The WWW-Enabled Noise Toy invites anyone with a web browser to write their own audio code, program it remotely onto a Noise Toy, and play it live via webcam. In the spirit of “try it yourself” software demos, the website provides a simple environment for experimenting with low-level microchip-generated audio. Load code from the Loud Objects’ own library of performance algorithms, hone your own noise techniques, and add your work to the online archive to share it with other microchip coders and create an open source noise community. Continue reading