December 2, 2011, to February 19, 2012, the FRAC Centre presents Gramazio & Kohler and Raffaello d’Andrea, Flight Assembled Architecture, the first installation to be built by flying machines.

In 2011, Gramazio & Kohler and Raffaello D’Andrea started to develop a pioneering approach on dynamic material formation and machine behaviour.

Belonging to the generation of young architects aiming at using the full potential of digital design and fabrication, Gramazio & Kohler joined with Raffaello D’Andrea whose work addresses ground-breaking autonomous systems design and algorithms. Continue reading

Amir Baradaran, The BuZZ @ Pulse Miami :: December 1-4, 2011 :: Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, Booth B-104, The Ice Palace Studios, 1400 N. Miami Avenue, Miami, Florida.

This project represents the newest development of FutARism under the auspices of Augmented Reality (AR). As a minimal still life installation, a faintly historical looking vase accompanied by an antique magnifying glass sit upon a pedestal covered with the artist’s signature markers. Upon closer inspection, one recognizes that the found objects are incomplete: the magnifying glass is missing its lens, and the vase is empty. What are these fragments doing, exalted atop a pedestal? Continue reading

Announcing RR02: Regional Relationships is very pleased to announce our second mailing, Greetings from the Cornbelts, a project by Claire Pentecost. Continue reading

Dialogue Cafe: Computation and Humanities – Revisiting a Silent Revolution with Kavita Philip (University of California, Irvine) :: December 2, 2011; 4:00 – 6:00 pm :: The Centre for Internet & Society, Bangalore, India :: RSVP: Prasad [at] cis-india.org

The Centre for Internet and Society announces the launch of its Dialogue Cafe, where every month, we approach seminal thinkers, scholars and practitioners to help explore knowledge paradigms that help us understand and research techno-social realities through innovative thought, concepts and frameworks. Continue reading

The Wild West of Chronic Pain: Collaborations among Artists, Scientists & Health Care Experts by Artist in Residence Dr. Diane Gromala, Transforming Pain Research Group, SFU, Canada Continue reading

Disfluency: Artist Talk with Nina Katchadourian & Krzysztof Wodiczko :: December 3, 2011; 12:00 – 2:00 pm :: Kellen Auditorium, 66 5th Avenue, NYC :: Free and open to the public. RSVP disfluencyexhibit [at] gmail.com

This event is part of DisFluency, an exhibition and series of events which examines inhibited communication as a universal human condition.

Curated by George Bixby, Jeanna Hamilton and Ryan Raffa: Continue reading

Trust Me I’m an Artist: Towards an Ethics of Art/Science Collaboration presents Adam Zaretsky: Mutate or Die :: December 10, 2011; 3:00 – 6:00 pm :: The Theatrum Anatomicum, De Waag, Nieuwmarkt 4, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

This series of public events, taking place in international settings, investigates the new ethical issues arising from art and science collaboration and consider the roles and responsibilities of the artists, scientists and institutions involved. At each event (before a live audience) an internationally known artist will propose an artwork to a specially formed ethics committee Continue reading

Network Archaeology Conference :: Miami University, Oxford OH :: April 20-21, 2012 :: Call for Papers – Deadline: November 29, 2011.

This conference will bring together scholars and practitioners to explore the resonances between digital networks and “older” (perhaps still emergent) systems of circulation; from roads to cables, from letter-writing networks to digital ink. Drawing on recent research in media archaeology, we see network archaeology as a method for re-orienting the temporality and spatiality of network studies. Continue reading

Currents 2012: Santa Fe International New Media Festival :: June 22 – July 8, 2012 :: El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, 555 Camino de la Familia, Santa Fe, New Mexico :: Call for Submissions – Deadline: February 1, 2012.

Currents 2012, the 3rd annual Santa Fe International New Media Festival, explores the role of technology and the diverse applications of New Media in the arts. This year submission categories include single channel video, video and sound installation, interactive new media, animation, computer/ software modulated sculpture, multimedia performance, experimental and interactive documentary video, Digital Dome projection, art gaming and web art. Continue reading

Artivistic Promiscuous Infrastructures (Phase 2) :: March 9 – April 14, 2012 :: Opening: March 9; 5:00 pm :: Skol, Montreal :: Call for Submissions -Deadline: February 4, 2012.

As part of its project entitled Promiscuous Infrastructures, the Artivistic collective invites submissions for the second phase of the project.

Artivistic is currently in the research-creation phase of a publication tentatively entitled Promiscuous Infrastructures: experiments in art + information + activism. Rooted in the work of Artivistic’s friends, allies, and past participants, the publication sets its sights on “autonomous infrastructures” by looking at radical education & the production of knowledge, intergenerational support systems, as well as sustainable financing. Continue reading