STEIM organizes Patterns + Pleasure Festival:: September 26, 27 and 28, 2011, daily from 10:00 am to 0:00 pm. :: at Frascati, Nes 63 Amsterdam :: Day-ticket: € 30,- (symposium + festival), Festival Passe-partout: € 75,- ::

STEIM (Studio for electro-instrumental music) organizes the Patterns + Pleasure Festival a festival for adventurous contemporary electronic music, on 26, 27 and 28 September at Frascati Amsterdam. This three-day festival presents the latest and most adventurous contemporary electronic music from today. There will be lectures, workshops, debates and performances by musicians and sound artists from home and abroad. Starring Alex Nowitz, Tom Johnson, Jessica Rylan, Fuyuki Yamakawa, Steina Vasulka, David Toop, Moldover, Edison and many more. Continue reading

Bora Yoon at New York Electronic Art Festival :: June 26, 2011; 8:00 - 11:00 p.m. :: St. Paul’s Chapel :: Free and open to the public ::

Harvestworks Digital Media Center presents the 3rd biannual New York Electronic Arts Festival [May 27th - Sept. 25th] Celebrating all forms of innovative new technology and art, Bora Yoon and Luke DuBois perform at the historic St. Paul’s Chapel of Trinity Wall Street church (across from Ground Zero), alongside Satoshi Takeishi’s “Whirlpools”, w/ post-show Q&A Artist Talk to follow.

This performance will premiere new custom technology The Body Electric, developed through a residency at Harvestworks Media, with groundbreaking Kinect sensor technology by Microsoft, and acclaimed programmer and longtime collaborator Luke DuBois. Continue reading

Harvestworks’ New York Electronic Arts Festival:: with exhibitions, concerts and workshops from May 27, 2010 to Sep 25, 2010 :: in collaboration with The National Park Service, River to River Festival, Trinity Wall Street, Roulette and other partners, and sponsored by Tekserve, New York’s Largest Independent Apple Store and Service Facility. The festival is a summer series of concerts, workshops, and exhibitions centered on the cutting-edge work being done at the intersection of art and technology.

For the first time the Festival will take place outside of galleries and concert halls, and will explore the geography of the island through sound and related technology, re-imagining the architecture and history of the spaces. Some of Governors Island’s public spaces will be transformed into a series of sound landscapes where the public can appreciate a new dimension to the visual and auditory environment. Continue reading

I C::ntr::l Nature v3@ WRO2011 Media Art Biennale, Alternative Now :: May 13, 2011 at 19:00 hrs :: The Grotowsky Institute, Wroclaw, Poland :: Audiovisual concert I C::ntr::l Nature v.3.0 for augmented bass guitar and butterfly by Marco Donnarumma (UK).

I C::ntr::l Nature v. 3 excerpts - Audiovisual concert for augmented electric bass guitar, self-designed software and butterfly from Marco Donnarumma aka TheSAD on Vimeo.

A gigantic, stringy life form struggles to take life, the convulsions slowly transform its shape in a brand-new body, at last a caterpillar is revealed. Continue reading

City University London and London Centre for Arts and Cultural Exchange (LCACE) in association with: Institute of Musical Research, University of London, Iran Heritage Foundation, Centre for Iranian Studies, SOAS and The Royal Anthropological Institute present: Festival of Music in Middle Eastern Cinema :: Saturday, May 14, 2011 to Friday May 20, 2011 :: A mini-festival of feature and documentary films, and a two-day conference, focusing on the rich musical heritage and the burgeoning new music scenes in the Middle East.

Two-Day Conference: Tuesday May 17 and Wednesday May 18, 2011 :: Venue: Institute of Musical Research, University of London: Continue reading

Northern Spark: a nuit blanche:: the evening of June 4, 2011 (sunset 8:55 pm) till the morning of June 5, 2011 (sunrise 5:28 am):: along the Mississippi River and surrounding areas in Minnesota.

Northern Spark is a new MN Festival modeled on a nuit blanche or “white night” festival—a dusk to dawn participatory art event along the Mississippi and surrounding areas.

Our goal is make Northern Spark a world-class event that focuses on Minnesota-based artists, pushes the boundaries of contemporary art, transforms the urban environment into a city-wide art gallery, includes a diversity of participating organizations from partner non-profits to commercial sponsors to “mom and pop” businesses, involves a broad and diverse audience who are not regular attendees of traditional art venues, and showcases the natural and urban splendors of the Twin Cities. Continue reading

PIXILERATIONS [v.8] :: New Media Fringe Festival @ FirstWorks :: September 22nd-October 2nd, 2011 :: Call for Work: Deadline for entries extended to April 19, 2011 :: To submit work: http://pixilerations.org/2011/submission.html

PIXILERATIONS [v.8] is a new media festival in Providence, Rhode Island (USA) that investigates the state of new media arts through installations, performances and film/video screenings. It is part of the larger FirstWorks Festival (www.first-works.org), a multidimensional performing arts festival in Providence each fall. Pixilerations is produced by FirstWorks in collaboration with the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Brown University, and the City of Providence’s Department of Art, Culture + Tourism. Now in its eighth year, Pixilerations is one of the foremost venues for new media artwork in New England. Continue reading

Taming Technology - Addomesticare la Tecnologia :: April 22-23, 2011 — Associazione Culturale Nub in Montale (PT) + April 29-30, 2011 — Le Murate, via delle carceri, Italy (at the historical prison complex of Le Murate and at the club Cargo).

Switch - Creative Social Network in collaboration with Associazione Culturale Nub and Tempo Reale present Taming Technology, a two day program including performances, DJ sets, installations, lectures and workshops exploring the territory between music, art and new media. The focus will be on practices such as physical computing, interface and interaction design, hardware hacking and biological computation, framed as fields of research capable of providing new connections between the virtual domain and the physical world. Continue reading

Sonic Acts: Modulating the Human Sensory Apparatus :: March 23, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. :: Sonic Acts Festival, Michigan Theatre (Screening Room) 603 East Liberty Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 ::

With this program we take a closer look at how artists, over the last fifty years, have been using a broad range of cinematic techniques to investigate the analog and electronically induced play at the boundaries of perception. Ranging from stroboscopic patterns and psychoacoustic drones to visual chaos and pure silence, all used techniques tickle, hypnotize or physically assault the senses resulting in hallucinating trips, exercises in abstraction, and sublime audiovisual spectacles. Continue reading

Tune-in Music Festival :: February 16 – 20, 2011 :: Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10065 :: (212) 616-3930 ::

Grammy Award-winning eighth blackbird curates and performs at the Armory’s five-day music festival, bringing together some of today’s leading new music groups, including red fish blue fish, Argento Chamber Ensemble, Sympho, and Newspeak. Within the vast Wade Thompson Drill Hall, the audience becomes part of the musical experience. Works by Steve Reich, Frederic Rzewski, John Cage, Louis Andriessen, Kurt Schwitters, David T. Little, Stefan Weisman, and Matt Marks will be performed. Closing the festival is the New York—and indoor—premiere of John Luther Adams’ percussion-only Inuksuit, which features 72 performers moving throughout the expansive hall during the performance. Continue reading