V2_Lab: Better than Reality with CREW (Eric Joris and Vincent Jacobs), Joachim Rotteveel, Marnix de Nijs, Boris Debackere, and Jonas Hielscher :: December 11, 2008; 8:00 - midnight :: V2_Lab, Eendrachtsstraat 10, off Witte de Withstraat, Rotterdam :: and streamed live online.

Ever wonder what happened to the future of Virtual Reality (VR)? VR’s past has seen many visionaries who, often with goggles and joysticks in hand, claimed that the technology’s future would hold completely new realities for everyone. Continue reading

Finishing School presents Finding Joy :: December 4, 2008 7:00 – 10:00 pm :: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Grand Avenue, Sculpture Plaza, 250 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012.

Intrigued by the military term “finding joy” (referring to the successful establishment of radio contact on the battlefield), Finishing School leads a workshop in which participants build small DIY radios that will be used to detect prerecorded transmissions located throughout the museum. To generate audio content prior to the event, Finishing School will interview members of the MOCA community about what brings them joy. The public is also welcome to share their thoughts by phone; to participate, please call the Finding Joy Hotline at 213/455-2926. Continue reading

Automata and The Velaslavasay Panorama present: All That Passes Before You, Already in Ruins by Jordan Biren and Denial Clinic by Perry Hoberman :: December 13, 2008; 8:00 - 11:00 pm :: The Velaslavasay Panorama, 1122 West 24th Street, Los Angeles, CA.

Jordan Biren changes course for his new work, All That Passes Before You, Already in Ruins, adding a live film performance to his spectral narrative of transient landscapes, characters and time, melodramatically moving in the shadows of glistening cinematic moments.

Perry Hoberman continues his ill-advised foray as a singer/songwriter, presenting Denial Clinic, a live performance with 3D projection, drawings and songs, chronicling various tales of frustration, loss and self-deception. Continue reading

INTERACTIVOS?09: Garage Science Workshop-Seminar with Critical Art Ensemble :: January 28-February 14, 2009 :: Medialab-Prado. Plaza de las Letras, C/ Alameda, 15 · Madrid :: Call for Papers and Projects — Deadline: December 14, 2008.

Garage Science: The socialization of technology and the accessibility of information available on the Web make it increasingly easy for anyone to have the possibility of building a home laboratory. Garage science is nothing new but home laboratories are connected now more than ever before. There are home laboratories of all kinds: technology factories, chemistry or biology labs, artists’ studios, places to rehearse, etc. These home laboratories have a worldwide scope via the Web, which serves as a space for the dissemination of projects and the exchange of knowledge and techniques. Continue reading

Virtual Peace reflects a rich, interdisciplinary collaboration among experts and educators at the Duke-UNC Rotary Center for International Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution, Virtual Heroes (a Durham, NC-based developer of game-based training and learning environments), Duke University’s Visual Studies Initiative, the Duke Computer Science Department, and the Program for Information Science + Information in Society at Duke. Together, the group has transformed video game technology previously used for army training simulations into an innovative tool for international humanitarian aid education. The simulation developed by these partners takes as its model the real-life events following a major natural disaster: Hurricane Mitch, which devastated much of Central America in 1998. Continue reading

OOZing: A Public Workshop with Natalie Jeremijenko :: December 4, 2008; 6:30 - 8:30 pm :: Van Alen Institute, 30 West 22nd Street, 6th Floor, New York City.

Van Alen Institute invites you to join artist and engineer Natalie Jeremijenko for a workshop that demonstrates productive cohabitation with urban nonhumans and teaches “table manners” for sharing nutritional resources with birds, bees, and other intelligent creatures.

What does biodiversity look like in New York City? Who wants to share the urban context with nonhumans and why? What are the present and possible roles for animals in urban infrastructure? Can human/nonhuman interaction be productive, fun, and improve the environmental performance of human habitats? Continue reading

The Colloquy of Things — Philip Beesley, Marc Bohlen, Natalie Jeremijenko (Moderated by Omar Khan) :: December 11, 2008; 7:00 pm :: The Urban Center, 457 Madison Avenue, New York City.

This panel discussion will explore the growing agency of natural and artificial “things”, a theme being developed by the Situated Technologies Pamphlet Series. What are the social and technological challenges when “things” begin to be the producers and consumers of information? What are the opportunities and consequences of delegating greater responsibility and autonomy to technologies or natural ecologies? Continue reading

Le Corridor by Marie-Hélène Parant :: December 5-14, 2008 :: Opening: December 4; 6:00 pm :: iMAL, 30 Quai des Charbonnages / Koolmijnenkaai 30, 1080 Brussels.

“Narrow passageway between two territories” … Le Corridor proposes the experience of modulating one’s perception. In this long and dark space, portrait and echo’s of the visitor’s presence combines themselves and reveal a luminous migrating reality within one self. iMAL hosts the last interactive video installation of Marie-Hélène Parant. Based on motion analysis and its pictorial modulation, the installation uses “Sketch-In”, a programming set-up developed by the artist since 2004. Continue reading

16th Annual New Genre Art Festival - [::ART.net::] :: February 26, 2009 - March 26, 2009 :: Tulsa, Oklahoma :: Submission Deadline: January 30, 2009.

Living Arts of Tulsa is currently accepting submissions from artists working with the internet as an artistic medium — websites, email works, networked installations, interactive works, animated .gifs, networked performances, data visualization. As this new component of the festival will largely introduce the concept of Net Art to the populace of Tulsa, the works accepted should be highly engaging and accessible to a large portion of a large and highly diverse viewing audience. Continue reading

Continuous City - The Builders Association :: December 4 and 5, 2008; 8:00 pm :: EMPAC, Troy, New York.

From Shanghai to Los Angeles, Toronto to Troy, Continuous City is a multimedia theatrical performance for the stage and screen that tells the story of a traveling father and his daughter at home tethered and transformed by speed, hypermodernity, and failing cell phones. The characters they interact with pursue their own transnational business, from an internet mogul exploiting networking across the developing world to a nanny who blogs humorous stories about the people and places within her universe. In essence, Continuous City is a fable about how contemporary experiences of location and dislocation stretch us to the maximum as our ‘networked” selves move through the world. Continue reading