Locustream Promenade — @ Festival MIMI, July 1-14, 2010, Marseille, Iles du Frioul, France — is a sound art installation composed of sonic beams (10 parabolic dishes equipped with sound speakers and small computers). The parabolas are suspended in the public space in such a way that a visitor only hears the sound from the beam when he or she is directly underneath it. Each beam plays a different stream from the Locustream project. The live streamed sounds are soundscapes coming from remote locations through the Internet. The space where the paraboles are hung is virtually connected to geo-distant spaces. By moving from one beam to another the audience walks through audio windows opening out onto a worldwide soundscape. Invited to take part in this experience the listener becomes conscious his or her immediate surroundings in a new way, perception of the local audio environment is modified. Continue reading

Spill»Forward — An Exhibition of Earth Art for the 21st Century :: MediaNoche & Online.

Following on the heels of a decidedly unsuccessful round of climate talks in Copenhagen, the Earth Day disaster in the Gulf of Mexico frames this exhibition of Earth Art for the 21th CenturyTM. Artists and designers from around the world are invited to address the theme of sustainability in the future. Works responding to the Deepwater Horizon accident, or related ecological and cultural concerns, will be given precedence. Submission deadline: July 20, 2010.

Visit the site to sign up for news regarding the exhibition and a related lecture series. Or upload a contribution to Spill » Forward in a few simple steps. This call for participation encompasses diverse forms including: images, sound, video, interactive. Continue reading

Live Media+Performance.Lab with Johannes Birringer and Mark Coniglio :: August 16-22, 2010 :: Empac, Troy, NY :: Workshop Fee: $500 :: Résumé and informal letter of application due: June 30, 2010.

Announcing our first summer lab for interactive media in performance! Directed by Johannes Birringer and Mark Coniglio, the workshop offers intensive training and possibilities for experimentation with mixed reality and real time architectures, programmable environments, interactive design and the integration of time-based media into live performance and installation. Continue reading

free103point9 is pleased to present AIRtime@Devotion :: July 2-August 16, 2010 :: Devotion Gallery, 54 Maujer Street, Williamsburg, NY.

Works: Radio Silence by Zach Poff opens at 6:00 p.m. on July 2; Bike Box by Sabine Gruffat & Bill Brown opens at 6:00 p.m. on July 16; and Noospherium by Brett Baloghby opens at 6:00 p.m. on July 30.

The series consists of solo exhibitions by Zach Poff (Radio Silence), Sabine Gruffat & Bill Brown (Bike Box), and Brett Balogh (Noospherium), which span the contemporary genre of Transmission Art. The Transmission Art genre is informed by works which employ an intentional use of space — often the airwaves — and manifests in participatory live art or time-based art, including radio, video, light, installation, and performance. Continue reading

Call For Proposals: Open Call: Learn to Play :: Are you a game maker? Are you telling compelling stories about your life or the world around you? Are you doing interesting things through games and interactivity that cannot be done elsewhere?

If you are telling a story, relaying an experience, or interacting with a player in an innovative or novel way we want to see it. Learn to Play is calling for submissions of work for a new museum show built around games as art. Learn to Play will be opening this fall as parallel programming for the 2010 01SJ Biennial. The theme is “build your own world.”

What makes a game art? Is it a compelling experience? A story that cannot be told elsewhere? Continue reading

The American Society for Acoustic Ecology presents Listening for the Future Symposium :: July 9-11, 2010 :: Chicago, IL :: Hosted by the ASAE’s Midwest chapter and the World Listening Project this conference is the first of its kind in the United States.

Event Highlights: July 9 – ‘Citizen Sound’ symposium (5-7 p.m.) opens with a wine and cheese reception, introductions to each of the ASAE chapters, and presentations by leaders in Chicago’s cultural and advocacy scene at Columbia College, 33 E. Congress Parkway, basement lobby and room # LL11. Featured guests include Lou Mallozzi, Executive Director of Experimental Sound Studio and architect Graham Balkany of the Gropius in Chicago Coalition. A media lounge, where guests can sample CDs and peruse publications by participants, performers and ASAE members, will be open all night. Following dinner at a local eatery, we’ll be treated to a concert (8:30-10:30 p.m. – $10) featuring ASAE member composers, performers and special guests. Continue reading

Call for Papers: Cinesonika Festival and Conference seeks contributions on Sound and the Moving Image :: Festival Dates: November 12-21, 2010 :: Conference Dates: November 13-14, 2010 :: Simon Fraser University, Surrey Campus, Vancouver, British Columbia :: Keynote Address: Don Ihde.

Cinesonika: The First International Film and Video Festival of Innovative Sound Design is adding a conference component. We are seeking interdisciplinary contributions on sound in relation to the moving image. Media thinkers, film scholars, art historians, performance theorists, composers, filmmakers, sound practitioners, multimedia semioticians, philosophers of perception – we invite these and others to submit proposals for 20 minute panel presentations. All accepted submissions will be considered for inclusion in an edited volume (papers should be expandable to 3000-5000 words if selected for final essay publication). Continue reading

You are invited to participate in the first World Listening Day :: July 18, 2010; 12:00 am – 11:30 pm :: everywhere around the world, wherever you are, wherever there is sound.

The purposes of World Listening Day are:

• to celebrate the practice of listening as it relates to the world around us, environmental awareness, and acoustic ecology • to raise awareness about issues related to the World Soundscape Project, World Listening Project, World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, and individual and group efforts to creatively explore phonography • and to design and implement educational initiatives which explore these concepts and practices. Continue reading

Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA:: July 12 – August 1, 2010 :: Residency Program for composers and performers.

The Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA (the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) is dedicated entirely to adventurous contemporary music. We will write it. We will perform it. We will think about it and we will talk about it. We will spend three weeks immersed in recent music that has changed the world. Available studies include Balinese music workshops, improvisation, as well as performance coaching, master classes, music business seminars and more. Composers will have their works performed. Players will perform publicly in ensembles sitting alongside their teachers. There are daily performances in the museum galleries, free with museum admission. And the residency concludes with a six-hour blow-out Marathon Concert featuring performances by the student/faculty ensembles. Continue reading

Academy of Media Arts Cologne— annual exhibition 2010 of films, concerts, performances :: July 15 – 18, 2010 :: Opening: July, 15; 6:30 pm :: Filzengraben 2, D-50676 Cologne, Germany.

The Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM), inaugurated in 1990, offers an educational concept that cross-links and integrates the fields of Film, Art and Theory in one single degree course titled “Audiovisual Media”. This is unique in Germany and contrasts with the traditional academic class or master student principle of art academies and other art schools where study courses are divided into classes or subjects. The curriculum promotes an interdisciplinary and multifaceted involvement with media arts. Continue reading