319 Scholes presents Art Hack Day :: January 26-28, 2012 :: 319 Scholes Street, Brooklyn, NY. Continue reading

Webcasts of Media Squares - International Public Seminar on the New Forms of Protest and their Media (hosted by De Balie, Amsterdam, September 30, 2011).

Social protest has become almost inseparably linked to a plethora of media images and messages distributed via internet, mobile phones, social media, internet video platforms and of course traditional media outlets such as newspapers, radio and television. A popular category to have emerged recently is the ‘twitter-revolution’. In almost all cases (Iran, Tunisia, Egypt, London) the role of the platform turned out to be less than essential in retrospect. Protests mostly manifested on the streets and particularly the public squares (’Take the Square’). Continue reading

An Acoustic Journey Through YouTube - presented by curatingyoutube.net at radioCona (on the occasion of the Radio Arts Space exhibition) :: December 7-16, 2011; 12:00 - 7:00 pm :: Galerija Škuc, Stari trg 21, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenija and FM 88.8MHz, Ljubljana and streamed here.

Youtube (YT) is an archive. An archive for not only movies and pictures, but also for music. That is why it is used, not only as a video platform, but in the same amount as a music platform. As a music archive, YT contains composed music, but also sounds, tones, voices and noises. Continue reading

WJ-Spots Brussels — An Immersive Performance of Live Websurfing and Speeches about the History and Future of Artistic Creation on the Internet 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

Radius Episode 14: Sara Pinheiro — Quem Contra Um Conto, II :: Radius will transmit Quem Conta Um Conto, II for five days to mirror the narrative stages found in Chris Vogler’s “Hero’s Journey” on October 1 (1:12am CST), 4 (5:12am CST), 7 (10:12am CST), 10 (3:12pm CST), and 13 (8:12pm CST).

Quem Conta Um Conto, II is a study in narrative, Pinheiro’s main subject of research. The individual sounds in the piece grow as characters, based on film theorist Chris Vogler’s twelve stages of the Hero’s Journey. Pinheiro juxtaposes sound spaces to join together disparate times and places; she ignores the physical impossibilities of their junction in order to potentiate the conflict that can emerge from their friction. Continue reading

[Image via] Webinar: Interacting with a Digital ‘Person’: what impact(s) and implication(s) for identity? :: June 20, 2011; 12:15 pm - 1:45 pm (GMT +2) :: Streamed live here. The audience will have the opportunity to ask questions, interact with the speakers and share their own experiences.

Speakers: Yasmine Abbas (Neo-nomad research), Georges Chapouthier (Research director at the CNRS in Paris, Centre Emotion -CNRS UMR 7593- Université Pierre & Marie Curie, Pitié-Salpétrière, Paris, France), Mark Coeckelbergh (Department of Philosophy, University of Twente, the Netherlands) and Jasper Michiel van Hemert (Senior User Experience Researcher, TomTom, The Netherlands). Continue reading

Ubicidade | Ubicity :: June 27-30, 2011; 9:00 am - 4:00 pm :: Electronic Computational Center - University of São Paulo, Avenida Professor Gualberto, 71, travessa, 3 Cidade Universitária, Butantã, São Paulo, Brazil.

Ubicity is a Telematic Art Project, proposed to stimulate conceptual, mediatic and aesthetic experimentation through streaming, videoconferencing and social media. Its main goal is to establish a structure that will enable artistic and cultural exchanges specially among research centers in Universities around the world. Ubicity, a word created through the conjunction of Ubiquity and City, is proposed to enhance Internet-based communication between artists and researchers of geographically distant places around the world. Continue reading

Monetary Utopias with Jaromil & Marco Sachy, Enric Duran, Christian Nold, Mansour Ciss Kanakassy, Baruch Gottlieb :: CONFERENCE: MCDate – le café numérique | Upgrade! Paris with Mal au Pixel Festival; June 17, 2011; 7:00 pm :: Maison des Métallos, 94 Rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, 75011 Paris + and on Digitalarti live stream.

For its sixth edition, Mal au Pixel Festival — dedicated to the Open Source and DIY Cultures — looks at the issue of alternative money and currencies through a series of public lectures. This conferences panel is associated to an exhibition at Plateforme Gallery, with Paolo Cirio, Baruch Gottlieb & Mansour Ciss Kanakassy, DYNDY, Christian Nold. Continue reading

WalkSpace: Beirut-Venice with artist Conor McGarrigle :: June 2-3, 2011; 12:00 - 2:30 pm :: Venice (Piazza San Marco) and Beirut (to be announced later) :: Part of THESTATEOFMIND @ the Lebanese Pavilion, Venice Biennale.

WalkSpace: Beirut-Venice invites the participant on a drift through Venice guided from Beirut and in Beirut guided from Venice. The work involves two simultaneous dérives through the historic cities of Beirut and Venice, connected in real time to each other and to the world. Two interconnected groups of participants will walk in each city, each receiving instruction and guidance from the other as they wander, get lost and explore …the psychogeographical ambiance of the city. Continue reading