Artists Tara Rebele (USA), Miljana Peric (Serbia) and Suzon Fuks (Australia) invite you to contribute to and participate in a new work commissioned for the 090909 UpStage Festival, a curated cyberformance event for live online audiences and proximal audiences at RL venues around the world to take place on September 9, 2009.

The piece is a poetic, abstract, participatory performance. Part live intermedia cyberformance exquisite corpse, part virtual poetic installation, this work will explore the poetic, lyrical, polyvocal, participatory possibilities of the UpStage venue — collaging visuals, sound, text and live audience participation. Text and media contributions will be collected, produced for UpStage, and added to the mashup in the live event. Continue reading

Upgrade! Milwaukee: Nadav Assor and Maria Bolivar :: July 12, 2009; 7:00 – 9:00 pm :: MOCT, 240 E Pittsburgh Ave, Milwaukee, WI.

Nadav Assor: “I am greatly interested in theories and explorations of urban architectural, emotional and ideological sub-structures. One tactic I use in exposing and reshaping the structures around me is digitization, in the sense of reduction to a primal, reconfigurable matter. The transformed digital matter is recast into its original context, physically manipulated in an ongoing live process that ranges from the absurd to the violent. Continue reading

RE:akt! Reconstruction, Re-enactment, Re-reporting with Lucas Bambozzi, Vaginal Davis, Janez Jan a, Janez Jan a, Janez Jan a, Eva and Franco Mattes (aka 0100101110101101.ORG), SilentCell Network (Mare Bulc, Janez Jan a, Bojana Kunst, Igor Stromajer); curated by Domenico Quaranta :: March 25 – April 17, 2009 :: Book Launch and Opening: March 25, 2009; 7:00 – 9:00 pm :: Galerija kuc, Stari trg 21, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

During recent years the term re-enactment and the practices it refers to have enjoyed increasing success in the artistic context. On one hand, the success of re-enactment appears to be connected to a parallel, vigorous return to performance art, both as a genre practiced by the new generations, and as an artistic practice with its own historicization. Continue reading

Beyond the Screen: Transformations of Literary Structures, Interfaces and Genres – International conference at the Cultural Studies Research Center “Media Upheavals” :: University of Siegen, Germany, November 20-21, 2008.

PANELS: Performance and the Emergence of Meaning :: Literature between Virtual, Physical, and Symbolic Space :: Beyond Genre: Transformations of Narrative, Poetic, and Dramatic Structures :: Preservation, Archiving and Editing.

Using electronic and networked media has resulted in such serious changes in the relationship between “author”, “work,” and “reader” that it seems necessary to make revisions in the traditional models analyzing literary communication. Continue reading

Intercreate Research Centre presents SCANZ 2009 Raranga Tangata Symposium: Interconnections :: February 7-8, 2009 :: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, Aotearoa New Zealand :: OPEN CALL FOR PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS – Deadline: October 15, 2008.

Interconnections: Chaos theory, Complexity, Cybernetics, Post-structuralism + Pasifika, Aboriginal, Indigenous, Indian, Asian, Polynesian and Maori Knowledge and Belief systems.

We are seeking papers and artist presentations which interrogate, examine, tease, put forward, discuss, postulate, propose, analyse, synthesise, combine, hybridise, expound and tickle ideas around the above subjects. Continue reading

Lara Schnitger & My Barbarian – Dance witches Dance :: August 30 – November 30, 2008 :: Opening: August 29, 5:00 pm … with a performance by My Barbarian ::
The T-time with Lara Schnitger: August 31; 12.30 pm :: Museum Het Domein, Postbus 230, 6130 AE Sittard, The Netherlands.

Dance witches Dance plunges the public and sculptures in Het Domein into a trance and sets them dancing. This is the first time that Lara Schnitger (1969, Haarlem) has worked in close collaboration with performance group My Barbarian. The group, and Schnitger, are based in Los Angeles. In an installation, a film and texts, the characters in the songs literally acquire a physical presence and Schnitger’s sculptures evolve their own quirky personalities. Continue reading

Upgrade! São Paulo: Interface: The Bridge Between Worlds – Rafael Beznos :: August 16, 2008, 7:30 pm @ i-People: Av Vergueiro 727, next to the Vergueiro Subway Station.

The DreamLoading project, created by Rafael Beznos, consists in a set of researches, installations and interactive interfaces integrating multiple technological media, artists and collaborators from all around the world, uniting music, video projections, fine arts, architecture, graphite, interactive programming, 2D and 3D animation and digital art in the creation of multimedia experiences, among them interactive samplers of audiovisual for touch-screen or tabletop surfaces (projection over an interactive film on glass or acrylic), interactive art and video exhibition with related animation. Continue reading

Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller – The House Of Books Has No Windows :: Edinburgh Art Festival Exhibition :: July 31 – September 28, 2008 :: The Fruitmarket Gallery, 45 Market Street, Edinburgh, Scotland.

A rare chance to experience the work of one of the most internationally respected artist partnerships, Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller. Cardiff/Miller’s collaborative installations are multi-layered, multi-media experiences. Using objects, images and sound, they collage together impressions and experiences, memory and history, mixing references to high and popular culture in works which draw an audience into a series of intensely credible fictional worlds. Continue reading

SwanQuake is a unique project involving the ongoing making of an interactive artwork comprising 3-D computer graphic environments and motion-capture driven characters created from a variety of materials and methods by an interdisciplinary team gathered together and led by Igloo.

In each of the pieces, using a game controller, the viewer navigates freely throughout the 3D computer graphic environments. The spaces are comprised of both exterior and interior landscapes, each thematically, visually & sonically distinct where users can interact with avatars to create new performances / performance spaces. Continue reading

SWAMP Splash: about the deluge of information rising up through the grass-roots – Video Vortex Workshop by Furtherfield.org :: February 8, 2008 :: 12:00 pm and 3:00 pm :: Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst, Keizersgracht 264, 1016 EV Amsterdam :: For reservations (free) mail to: malka[at]nimk.nl :: Participants will need: laptops with browser, wireless capability.

Marc Garrett and Ruth Catlow from Furtherfield.org will demo VisitorsStudio and introduce participants to its (easy-to-use) tool-set and features. Using your own files (bring jpg, mp3, swf, flv under 200k) or harvesting files from the net, you can work with others to create and distribute mixes and remixes. Continue reading