[Oyvind Fahlstrom’s World Maps, Aurel Scheibler] Sense of Planet: The Arts and Ecology at Earth Magnitude – A NIEA Symposium :: August 25, 2012; 9:30 am – 6:30 pm :: UNSW CBD Campus, Level 6 (Combined Theatres T1 & 2), 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney, NSW 2000.

The acceleration of climate change, species extinction, and other ecological crises, enjoins us to find ways of grasping historical and evolving circumstances at earth magnitude. The Sense of Planet symposium concentrates together an international array of artists, eco-theorists and scholars to address the issues and activities of representing the earth in its entirety, and of representing and self-representing regions or localities amid the complex global systems in which they are enmeshed. Continue reading

The Hybrid City II: Subtle rEvolutions — Conference, workshops, exhibition and parallel events :: May 23-25, 2013 :: University of Athens, Athens, Greece :: Call for Papers — Deadline: October 20, 2012.

Hybrid City is an international biennial event dedicated to exploring the emergent character of the city and the potential transformative shift of the urban condition, as a result of ongoing developments in information and communication technologies (ICTs) and of their integration in the urban physical context. After the successful homonymous symposium in 2011, the second edition of Hybrid City has grown into a peer reviewed conference, aiming to promote dialogue and knowledge exchange among experts drawn from academia, as well as artists, designers, researchers, advocates, stakeholders and decision makers, actively involved in addressing questions on the nature of the technologically mediated urban activity and experience. Continue reading

Carbon 13 presented in conjunction with The Marfa Dialogues: Politics and Culture of Climate & Sustainability :: August 31, 2012 – February 17, 2013 :: Opening: August 31; 6:00 – 8:00 pm :: Ballroom Marfa, 108 East San Antonio Street, Marfa, TX.

“I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.” –Marshall McLuhan

Carbon 13 presents newly commissioned work by eight international artists who have focused the lens of their creativity to interrogate the reality of climate change. These new and daring works demonstrate that one salient image can speak louder than volumes of scientific data and capture the public’s imagination with an immediate and resonate voice. Continue reading

Remote Encounters: Connecting Bodies, Collapsing Spaces And Temporal Ubiquity In Networked Performance :: April 11-12, 2013 :: ATRiuM, Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries, University of Glamorgan, Adam Street, Cardiff, Wales, CF24 2FN :: Call for Papers and Performances – Deadline: August 31, 2012.

The keynotes / lead performer lineup has now been confirmed. We are proud to welcome:

Keynotes: Jo-Anne Green from Turbulence.org (http://turbulence.org) and Networked_Performance (http://turbulence.org/blog); and Marc Garrett from Furtherfield (http://www.furtherfield.org)

Lead performer: Annie Abrahams (http://www.bram.org) Continue reading

From Utopian Teleologies to Sporadic Historiographies: “Interfaces” of Art and Cybernetics :: April 11-13, 2012 :: 39th Annual AAH Conference, University of Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland :: Call for Papers — Deadline: November 12, 2012.

It has been more than six decades since cybernetics was introduced to the English-speaking world by Norbert Wiener, Claude Shannon, and Warren Weaver. Stimulated by the information explosion in the 195Os, it grew as an international phenomenon that challenged disciplinary boundaries and preconceptions. Continue reading

amberPlatform: Amber Art and Technology Festival and Conference :: Türkgücü Caddesi No:3A Tophane, BeyoÄŸlu 34425, Istanbul, Turkey :: Call for Artworks – Deadline: June 30, 2012 :: Call for Papers – Deadline: August 31, 2012.

amberFestival is interested in interactive installations that explore the theme of Paratactic Commons in today’s world. We see the theme as a tool to think and work with, and the festival as an opportunity to raise an artistic voice. You alone will define that voice. Continue reading

Remote Encounters: Connecting Bodies, Collapsing Spaces And Temporal Ubiquity In Networked Performance :: April 11-12, 2013 :: ATRiuM, Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries, University of Glamorgan, Adam Street, Cardiff, Wales, CF24 2FN :: Call for Papers and Performances – Deadline: August 31, 2012.

Since the internet entered the public domain in the early 90’s there has been an explosion in artistic interest in its use as a means, site and context for creative practice. Much of this practice is performative in nature; either originating from a performance background and using the internet as a new site and/or augmenting aspect of that practice or is a form of practice developed as direct response to the internet and becomes performative to some degree in its spectatorship. Continue reading

Invitation for proposals for the first Cyberformance Symposium [CyPosium], organised by UpStage :: Deadline: June 15.

Since the early 1990s, there has been a growing body of live performance that is situated online. These events differ enormously in form and content, are described with multiple terms (such as cyberformance, remote performance, internet theatre, screen stage, computer-mediated performance), are staged in a variety of online environments (such as text-based and graphical chat rooms, sound broadcast, real time choreography for screen, virtual worlds, games and purpose-built or existing platforms as for instance facebook) and engage diverse audiences. The net, however, is forgetful: it loses the memory of those events, and of the people who lived them, of the environments and communities who hosted them. Continue reading

Wilderness Art Conference: Wind As Context :: May 24-26, 2012 :: Marjaniemi Luotsihotelli & Cafe Bar Haiku, Hailuoto, Finland. Program here. Continue reading

DEAF2012 (Dutch Electronic Art Festival) :: Symposium: Vital Beauty – May 16-20, 2012 :: DeBalie, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

The symposium focuses on the question of how the age-old notion of beauty can regain an importance appropriate to the 21st century.

Our need for beauty has not diminished, as hard as modernism tried to erase it from art and life and supplant it with the sublime. It was a sublime that increasingly associated itself with negation and deconstruction. In contrast, vital beauty, as defined by John Ruskin more than 150 years ago, is a beauty of sympathies and affinities with life forms. Yet vital beauty must be reinvented, since life forms today can be technological as well as natural. Continue reading