ElasticMapping: A lecture-performance by Esther Polak :: October 6, 2009; 8:30 pm :: Netherlands Media Art Institute, keizersgracht 264, 1016 EV Amsterdam, Netherlands :: RSVP: info [at] nimk.nl

At this evening session Esther Polak will do a public performance with the GPS drawing robot, based on the herders’ and truck drivers’ tracks collected in Nigeria. The performance will be followed by a talk on ElasticMapping: the possibilities of manipulating and editing GPS tracks, and how this opens up the cinematographic qualities of location data ‘as such’ to meaningful artistic investigation, resulting in more and more subjective and personalized mappings that will have a big impact on the future use of digital location aware media. Continue reading

New Frontiers of Science, Art and Thought Meeting: Simulated Certainty :: September 30 – October 2, 2009 :: Barcelona, Spain.

The conference Simulated Certainty explores the threshold between reality and imagination. Where does the scientific hypothesis start? Where does the confirmation of the theory begin? How does the contemplation of an art piece become an intimate experience? What mechanisms enable us to generate this awareness of a hidden reality? The advent of new technologies and of the web has heightened more and more the tension between fiction and reality. Artistic creation and scientific research both impose an interdisciplinary point of view. Continue reading

Society of the Query Conference :: November 13 – 14, 2009 :: Trouw Amsterdam.

In the information society the current reality is an increasing dependence on technological resources to create order and to find meaning in a gigantic quantity of online data. Searching has surpassed browsing and surfing as main activity on the web. This development turned the search engine into our most significant point of reference. Its focus on efficiency and expansion of services tends to veil the nature of the technology as well as underlying (corporate) ideologies.

In this query driven society, The Society of the Query conference seeks to analyze what impact our reliance on resources to manage knowledge on the Internet has on our culture. Continue reading

Tuvalu Visualization Project is an art project visualizing information of Tuvalu on Google Earth. This project has been executed as a joint research of NPO Tuvalu Overview and Hidenori Watanave Laboratory @ Tokyo Metropolitan University from September 2008.

It is said that Tuvalu is exposed to danger of going under water by sea level rising because of global warming. However, we suppose that it is important to understand not only the problem of global warming, but also the real situation of Tuvalu. The Internet is an effective tool for collecting information, but it was difficult to obtain information of the real situation of Tuvalu from the Internet. Continue reading

[Image: Traveling Music by Diller Scofidio + Renfro with Julia Wolfe] evento 2009: Collective Intimacy: The artistic and urban rendez-vous of Bordeaux :: October 9 – 18, 2009 :: Bordeaux, France.

evento 2009 is a new biennial event that will take place throughout the urban public space of the city of Bordeaux. This year’s edition will present artistic, theoretical and performative interventions by over 50 participants, articulated by the notion of Collective Intimacy, the concept proposed by its curator, Didier Fiúza Faustino: Continue reading

The 25th Annual CHArt Conference: Object and Identity in the Digital Age :: November 12-13, 2009 :: Birkbeck, University of London, Clore Lecture Theatre, Clore Management Centre, Torrington Square, London, WC1 7HX.

This year’s CHArt conference engages with the idea of object and identity in relation to art practice, production, consumption, representation and display. The conference will explore new notions of the identity of the artist, including those involving collaboration and anonymity; new conceptions and ontologies of the art object, as processual, virtual, or hybrid; new means of consumption and reception, whether in galleries and museums, in public spaces, or over networks of broadcast and narrowcast; and the challenges these transformations bring to the display of art and to its curation and access. Continue reading

The Berkman Center for Internet and Society presents DELETE: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age — A book talk with Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger :: October 7, 2009; 6:00 pm :: Pound Hall Room 335, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA and webcast live.

By now the perils of posting indiscrete photographs or information on social networking sites like Facebook or MySpace are well known — jobs are lost or denied, reputations diminished, and families destroyed by a single click. But the problem is far greater than this, argues Viktor Mayer-Schönberger in DELETE: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age. Continue reading

Ursula Endlicher’s Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited #2 – www.google.com (final part) — The Code=The Choreography :: October 3, 2009; 8:00 pm :: Center for Performance Research, 361 Manhattan Avenue, Unit 1, Brooklyn, NY.

In the final show of Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited, three dancers, two performers, the audience, and the artist will interpret the HTML tags of google.com in real-time to create new dance movements, which will immediately be translated into text-based descriptions, and stored online in the html-movement-library. This information is reused on stage as new instruction material, and then recycled yet anew… Continue reading

Prospectives.09: International Digital Arts Festival (Attention Grads and Phd Candidates!) :: November 12-14, 2009 :: University of Nevada, Reno :: Call for Proposals: Exhibit, Play, Present, Perform, Project (full dome) — Deadline: October 5, 2009.

Prospectives.09 will highlight the work of currently enrolled graduate and phd candidates working in experimental digital media at Universities throughout the United States and abroad. Graduate students working in and across disciplines are encouraged to submit works to be considered for this unique opportunity. Continue reading

CODED CULTURES – Exploring Creative Emergences – a Bi-national Festival :: October 14-18, 2009 :: Opening: October 16; 6:00 – 10:00 pm :: Yokohama Creativecity Center (YCC), 6-50-1 Honmachi, Naka-ku, Yokohama, Japan.

CODED CULTURES is a bi-national festival (Austria – Japan) as part of the official »Austria-Japan Year 2009«. Its aim is to explore new artistic practices and creative ability profiles within media integrated project-cultures and digital media related arts, focusing on Japan and Europe. The main focus is to investigate the exchange of creative cultures and to give artists, curators, scientists from the field of new media related fields a platform to discuss and present their works and ideas. Continue reading