The Smart Frrridge by Nicolas Ceccaldi, Simon Denny, Yngve Holen, Ilja Karilampi, Morag Keil, AIDS-3D (Keller / Kosmas), Marlie Mul :: Curators: Sandro Droschl, Yngve Holen :: until February 19, 2011 :: Kunstverein Medienturm, Josefigasse 1, 8020 Graz, Austria.

The current fridge interface contains many flaws that could be improved and expanded. For example you can’t see everything in your fridge at a glance. You thought you’d bought hot sauce, but you don’t see it anywhere. Or imagine it’s dark, it’s the middle of the night, you turn to your fridge and when staring into the light you can’t remember when you bought something. When exactly did you put those leftover fish-sticks in there? How old is that Bircher-muesli? What’s up with that asparagus? Continue reading

Electrohype 2010 — The Sixth Biennial for Electronic Art :: November 27, 2010 – January 30, 2011 :: Opening: November 27; 12:00 – 4:00 pm :: Ystad Art Museum, St. Knuts torg, Ystad, Sweden.

The theme for this year’s biennial is objects, a suitable theme for an exhibition that will be presented in an art museum, where the object, in the sense of an artwork often is focused upon. Both historically and in contemporary art. Continue reading

[Photo by David Masters] Anne Galloway: Counting Sheep – NZ Merino Wool in an Internet of Things :: August 31, 2010; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm :: Queensland University of Technology, Council Room (A105), A Block, Victoria Park Road, Kelvin Grove, Australia :: Please RSVP by 25 August 2010 to julieanne.edwards [at] qut.edu.au

Abstract: Pervasive computing brings together wireless, networked and context-aware technologies, including Global Positioning System (GPS), environmental sensors and Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID), to embed computational capacities in the objects and environments that surround us. The “Internet of Things” is a related vision for future computing that proposes a shift from a network of interconnected computers to a network of interconnected objects. Continue reading

Upgrade! Boston — Richard The – Design for Social Interaction :: May 4, 2010; 7:00 – 9:00 pm :: MIT-ACT (Art, Culture, Technology), 265 Massachusetts Avenue, 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA.

Richard The is studying at the MIT Media Lab with David Small; he also works at The Green Eyl design studio in Berlin. He focuses on new forms of visual expression that utilize computation and design for new social interactions. His work has been shown at Ars Electronica, Design Museum London and Experimenta Design Amsterdam. Richard is the recipient of numerous awards, including Honorary Mention at Ars Electronica, London Designs of the Year, and Tokyo Type Director’s Club. Continue reading

e-flux journal – issue #13, February 2010 :: Editorial by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle:

Repeated attempts to dismantle the aura of value and rarity surrounding art objects have been, for the most part, unsuccessful. Why is that? The majority of these attempts throughout the twentieth century have consisted of infiltrating the economy of care, custodianship, conservation, and considered attention granted to art objects upon entry into the art establishment. While the introduction of impostors into this ecosystem in the form of real-world doubles (such as Duchampian readymades) served to short-circuit the aura of authenticity within spaces of art, over time these impostors nevertheless began to perform the function of ritualizing a general sense of disbelief with regard to the art establishment’s unpredictable and indeterminate patterns of attention to art objects. Continue reading

Structured Data :: The Real-Time Web :: Personalization :: Mobile Web & Augmented Reality :: Internet of Things

Fluid Sculpture from Charlie Bucket on Vimeo. [via Network Research]

The 25th Annual CHArt Conference: Object and Identity in the Digital Age :: November 12-13, 2009 :: Birkbeck, University of London :: Call for Papers — Deadline: May 30, 2009.

We live in a time when our identities are increasingly fractured, networked, virtualised and distributed. The same appears to be true of our things. Objects are becoming more contingent, reconfigurable, distributable and immaterial.

For the 25th anniversary CHArt conference we are looking for papers that engage with these questions in relation to art practice, production, consumption, representation and display. Continue reading

Susan Collins – Seascape :: April 4 – 14, 2009 :: Opening: April 4, 2:00 – 4:00 pm :: De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, UK.

A new body of work by British artist Susan Collins combines digital technologies with the classical traditions of English landscape painting to present an extraordinary visual exploration into the natural cycles of tide, time and light.

Commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella and De La Warr Pavilion, Seascape consists of a series of gradually unfolding digital seascapes created using imagery captured in real time by webcams installed at five key coastal vantage points between Margate and Portsmouth. Continue reading

KIOSK. Artefacts of a Post-Digital Age :: April 3-13, 2009 :: STRP Festival, Eindhoven (NL)

Many people collect art while others collect technology. Then there are the pioneering types who look for a combination of art and technology. They collect art objects that are continually changing, or as Yves Bernard and Domenico Quaranta put it: “They love screens. They love bits with atoms. They love things that move and change, because they live in a world that moves and changes.” They love the process, not necessarily static finished products. “They wouldn’t mind a Mona Lisa, provided it alternates between smiling and crying. For these art lovers KIOSK is bound to be a dream come true.” Continue reading