The Second International Conference on Transdisciplinary Imaging at the Intersections between Art, Science and Culture :: June 22-23, 2012 :: Victorian College of the Arts, Federation Hall, Grant Street, Southbank, Melbourne 3006 :: Call for Papers: Interference Strategies for Art – Deadline for Abstracts: March 30, 2012.

The Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference seeks papers that explore the theme of ‘Interference’ within practices of contemporary image making. Continue reading

[3D Alignment Forms. Animation of dancer’s traceforms in One Flat Thing, reproduced mapped to 3D space. Synchronous Objects Project, The Ohio State University and The Forsythe Company.] Goethe-Institut New York presents Objects in Performance: Continue reading

The Rhizome, Complexity and Pasifika View of ulu by Ian Clothier. Continue reading

Network by Michael Rigley.

Cory Arcangel, Nik Kosmas, Daniel Keller, Ed Fornieles, Oliver Laric, Jon Nash, Rafael Rozendaal, Karen Archey, Moderated by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

The Social Media Reader, edited by Michael Mandiberg:

With the rise of web 2.0 and social media platforms taking over vast tracts of territory on the internet, the media landscape has shifted drastically in the past 20 years, transforming previously stable relationships between media creators and consumers. The Social Media Reader is the first collection to address the collective transformation with pieces on social media, peer production, copyright politics, and other aspects of contemporary internet culture from all the major thinkers in the field.

Culling a broad range and incorporating different styles of scholarship from foundational pieces and published articles to unpublished pieces, journalistic accounts, personal narratives from blogs, and whitepapers, The Social Media Reader promises to be an essential text, Continue reading

in/compatible aesthetics symposium: Uncorporated Subversion: Tactics, Glitches, Archeologies with Michael Dieter (au/nl), Jussi Parikka (fi/uk), Julio D’Escrivan (ve/uk) and jon.satrom (us); Moderated by Rosa Menkman (nl) :: February 3, 2012; 4:00 – 5:30 pm :: Auditorium, HKW. Continue reading

Negative Dialectics in the Google Era: A Conversation with Trevor Paglen by Julian Stallabrass :: OCTOBER 138, Fall 2011, pp. 3–14.

In the last seven years, in a series of performances, publications, exhibitions, and installations, Trevor Paglen has explored the world of hidden military projects and infrastructure. One of his best-known series is Limit Telephotography, for which he trained lenses designed for astronomical photography on secret military bases in the U.S., using their very-long-range photographic capabilities to capture images that would otherwise be hidden to civilian eyes. These are the “limits” that lie at the heart of Paglen’s project: the limits of democracy, secrecy, visibility, and the knowable. Continue reading

Artefact Festival for Art and Media: The Social Contract :: February 14-23, 2012 :: STUK arts centre, Naamsestraat 96, Leuven, 3000, Belgium. Continue reading

Unlike Us: What to expect in 2012 by Marc Stumpel:

2011 was an exciting year with the Occupy movement, Facebook’s settlement with FTC’s charges, Europe versus Facebook, decentralized social media alternatives developing, critical social media art, more awareness about tracking and a significant wave of criticism after Facebook’s new changes. Moreover, the Unlike Us research network was launched at the Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, where the first conference was held.

Now in 2012, we are looking forward to Unlike Us #2 in Amsterdam. Artists, designers, scholars, activists and programmers will gather to analyze the economic and cultural aspects of dominant social media platforms and discuss alternative, decentralized social media software. Continue reading