[Image: COP19, United Nations Climate Change Conference, Warsaw, 2013. Photo: Giulia Bruno and Armin Linke.] Anthropocene Observatory by Territorial Agency (John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog), Armin Linke, and Anselm Franke :: February 7 – April 26, 2015 :: Opening: February 6, 6:00 pm :: BAK, basis voor actuele kunst Lange Nieuwstraat 4, 3512 PH Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Anthropocene Observatory is a research exhibition and discursive space that proposes to rethink the contemporary world through the prism of the “Anthropocene thesis.” The Anthropocene is understood as an epoch in geological chronology during which the global impact of human activities is inscribed onto planet Earth. Continue reading

[Image : Tehching Hseih, Punching the Time Clock, One Year Performance, 1980–1981. Photo: Michael Shen. © 1981 Tehching Hsieh. Courtesy the artist and Sean Kelly Gallery, New York.] How to Construct a Time Machine :: January 23 – March 22, 2015 :: MK Gallery, 900 Midsummer Boulevard, Milton Keynes MK9 3QA.

What is time? How do we order the past, the present, and the future? Why are artists interested in time? How is art a machine, vehicle, or device for exploring time? How is art a means by which time “travels,” and how does art permit us to travel in time? These and other questions provide the rationale for How to Construct a Time Machine, an exhibition presented at MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, of over 25 historical and contemporary works that explore how artists transform our experience of time, curated by Dr Marquard Smith of the Royal College of Art, London. Continue reading

Julian Oliver: COVER ME :: January 14 – February 21, 2015 :: Opening: January 14, 2015 @ Link Cabinet.

COVER ME is a gallery of Creative Commons licensed photographs found on Flickr that the artist transformed into data containers for distributing Snowden files. Using a method known as as steganography, the artist embedded the volatile data into images matching the search queries ‘island getaway’ and ‘beach paradise’, without visibly changing their appearance. Continue reading

TEMP Art Space is pleased to announce Everything is TEMP, an exhibition curated by Alex Ahn and Ari Lipkis featuring work by nine emerging artists who explore the fleeting nature of digital art. The idea ultimately reflects the inherent ephemerality of technology and life. Artists include Yonatan Ben-Simhon, Tyler Healy, Jack Kalish, Rune Madsen, Marisa Prefer, Byron Peters, Matthew Ostrowski, Ryan Raffa, and Timo Toots.

In the novel Nineteen Eight-Four, George Orwell created a fictional language “Newspeak,” intended to be used by the dystopian rulers of his world to limit and control free thought. Orwell masterfully demonstrated that the development of language could either hold back mankind’s advancement or pull it forward. Arduino, C, C++, CSS, HTML, Java, Javascript, PHP, Processing, Python, UNIX, XML, etc. – these are the new languages of today used to program the technologies that now run our lives, these are the advancement of language. Continue reading

Open(Art) – Creative platforms for the open web :: July 12 – August 11 :: Opening Reception: July 12; 6-8 pm :: Workshops: July 13; 12-3 pm :: Eyebeam, 540 W 21st St. New York, NY. Continue reading

[Image: Handheld Histories as Hyper-Monuments by Carmin Karasic, 2007] Digital Art and the Urban Environment: Symposium, Art Exhibition, and Scholarly Volume :: October 4, 2013 :: Pace University, Downtown Manhattan, New York City :: Call for Participation — Deadline: July 13, 2013.

Digital and new media artists utilize innovations in locative media, tracking technologies, telecommunication networks, and novel computer interfaces to craft artworks that create new ways to connect with the city. Just as their predecessors transformed urban neighborhoods, such as New York’s SoHo and Chelsea, through their energy and imagination, today’s artists are altering our perceptions of, and relationships with, urban space though their digital inventions and interventions. Continue reading

[Image: HeHe, Fracking Futures, 2013. Installation. Image courtesy of the artists.] Turning FACT Inside Out :: June 13 – September 15, 2013 :: FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), 88 Wood Street, Liverpool, L1 4DQ, UK.

A selection of provocative international artists tackle some of the most pressing, controversial and literally ground-breaking political issues of today. Exploring aspects of environment, architecture, capitalism and augmented reality, Turning FACT Inside Out is an exhibition that will take over the entire building and beyond, including recreating an indoor fracking site complete with earth tremors and flames. Continue reading

Googleheim :: June 7 – July 13, 2013 :: InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre,9 Ossington Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M6J 2Y8, Canada.

Googleheim proposes five projects that critically explore the tensions between transiency and permanence of the image in the context of contemporary art and media technology: Continue reading

The Emergent City. From Complexity to The City of Bits by Stanza :: June 5 – July 26, 2013 :: Watermans, 40 High Street, Brentford, TW8 0DS, UK.

The Emergent City. From Complexity to The City of Bits captures the changes over time in the environment (city) and represents the changing life and complexity of space as an emergent artwork. The installation goes beyond simple single user interaction to monitor and survey in real time the whole city and entirely represent the complexities of the real time city as a shifting morphing and complex system. Continue reading

Meaning Motion: Nathaniel Stern and Tegan Bristow :: June 12 – August 18, 2013 :: Wits Art Museum, Bertha + Jorissen Streets, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa.

How does movement perform meaning?

Digital artists Tegan Bristow and Nathaniel Stern use cutting-edge technologies to ask this question in a highly innovative exhibition of interactive art. Participants use their full bodies to trigger custom-made software in seven large-scale installations, exploring, experiencing and practicing how we make meaning, through movement. Continue reading