HYDROUS ‘08 (conference) :: August 21, 2008; 6:00 pm - midnight :: V_2 Institute for Unstable Media, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam and streamed live.

HYDROUS ‘08 is an interdisciplinary scholarly roundtable and arts event that is devoted to shifts in contemporary water governance. It brings together new studies and cultural works undertaken by scholars and artists working at the intersection of science and technology studies and water governance studies. Presenters. Continue reading

Writers and their works in a virtual space: Trope — promoting new writing in Second Life :: Invitation to Melbourne Writers’ Festival roundtable :: August 28, 2008; 7:00 - 9:00 pm :: ACMI Cinema 1, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Federation Square, Flinders Street, Melbourne, Australia.

Trope promotes new writing within virtual space, and launched as an imagetext gallery within Second Life that coincided with the Sydney Writers’ Festival in May 2008. Trope creatively intervenes in the ways that readers engage with literary texts and aims to expand writing networks and to further develop virtual literary community. Continue reading

Pikslaverk - New node in the Pixelache Network - Reykjavik! :: November 6 - 9, 2008 :: Reykjavik, Iceland :: Open Call - Deadline: September 30, 2008.

The Pikslaverk 2008 conference is the Icelandic component in the international network of Pixelache conferences. It is organized by Lorna (the Icelandic organization for electronic arts) in collaboration with The Icelandic Academy of the Arts and The Reykjavik Municipal Art Galleries. Through a series of lectures, presentations and performances, this year’s conference will continue Helsinki’s theme on education and act as a precursor to Bergen’s them on Free, Libre and Open Source Software by focussing on artists’ use of computer programming code to create works of art. Continue reading

LIGHTWAVE 2009 :: Festival: January 24 - February 1, 2009; exhibitions until February 21 :: Open Call - Deadline: September 5, 2008.

Calling all techno-artists, playful scientists, renegade engineers, architects, sculptors, lighting designers, fashion designers, guerrilla projectionists and inventors!

LIGHTWAVE returns to the Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin following the unprecedented success and international acclaim received in its phenomenal inaugural show. Bigger, better and raising the bar, LIGHTWAVE 2009 promises to mesmerize audiences not only within the Science Gallery, but to captivate on-lookers city wide as interactive experiences, roving installations and participatory workshops flood the creative, cultural quarters of Dublin. Continue reading

Eileen Botsford - The Preretrospective Exhibition :: September 18 – 30 September, 2008 :: Booze Cooperativa, 57 Kolokotroni St. Athens.

Too young to have a retrospective exhibition yet too evolved in her career not to have one, New Media Public Artist Eileen Botsford, presents for the first time in Athens, through The Preretrospective Exhibition, a series of works from 2005 till present. Her mediums of work – film, net.art, photography, interactive, and installations – many of which have been presented as part of various public art projects and exhibitions internationally, provide a rare insight into the world of artist Eileen Botsford.

Personal and intimate yet mesmerizing and profoundly engaging to the audience’s psyche, Botsford tackles issues of our perception of mind and body, and questions about social identities and aesthetics. Working with her core subject, ‘the human’, the majority of her works present and analyse aspects of our being. Continue reading

Daniel Howe and Aya Karpinska have two pieces, open.ended and No Time Machine (the latter funded by Turbulence) in Text in Video:

“Text in Video explores how through use of the written word in time-based media, artists make the journey from awe to anger to internal beauty to humor. Sometimes the integration is implemented purely for the sake of visual beauty, sometimes to explore what it means to be a community. Words are used to convey thought, to redefine ways to approach literature and witticisms, even to express distaste in a decaying system. The participating artists explore various applications of text in video as a vehicle to both deliver and enhance their message.” Continue reading

(re)Actor3: The Third International Conference on Digital Live Art - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION :: September 3, 2008 :: Holiday Inn & Contemporary Urban Centre, Liverpool, Liverpool City Centre, UK.

Digital Live Art is the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Live Art and Computing. (re)Actor3: The Third International Conference on Digital Live Art seeks to bring together practitioners and academics from the varying worlds of Performance, Computing and HCI for a lively debate and after-party event which will explore this emerging field. This year, (re)Actor3 is co-locating with one of Europe’s largest and longest running HCI conferences - HCI 2008 which is being held in Liverpool UK - host of Europe’s 2008 Capital City of Culture events. HCI 2008 is the premier annual conference on human-computer interaction in Europe attracting hundreds of delegates from dozens of countries - this is where you have to be if you want to mingle with leaders in usability, user experience, interaction design, the web, wearables, mobile computing - anything where people act with computers. Continue reading

a new set of generative visual themes that are directly created from, & visually accompany poems. each theme can be interactively explored online.

in the 2008 version, all words words in a poem based on their frequency in the text, which are placed on a line. the most frequent words are thus relatively large & placed on the left hand side. then, all words that appear in several poems are connected by a fluid red line. the width of the line is related to the length of the word in the regarding sequence. Continue reading

CHArt (Computers and the History of Art) 2008 Conference: Seeing… Vision and Perception in a Digital Culture :: November 6-7, 2008 :: The Clore Lecture Theatre, Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck, University of London, Torrington Square, London :: Places are limited so early booking is recommended. The booking form is available online. Bookings made before 1 October 2008 will be entitled to a discount. Conference fees (pounds sterling) - include coffee/tea breaks and lunch.

This year’s CHArt conference takes seeing as its theme and the associated questions of vision, perception, visibility and invisibility, blindness and insight - all in the context of our contemporary digital culture in which our eyes are assaulted by ever greater amounts of visual stimulus, while we are also increasingly being surveyed, on a continual basis. Continue reading

The Nam June Paik Art Center opens to the public with its inaugural art festival :: October 9, 2008 - February 5, 2009 :: Nam June Paik Art Center, 85 Sanggal-dong, Giheung-gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, 446-905, Republic of Korea.

Supported by Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation and Gyeonggi Province, the Nam June Paik Art Center is located in Yongin, a city on the outskirts of Seoul. Discussed with the artist and under development since 2001, the NJP Art Center opened its permanent building in April 2008. Under the current director, Young Chul Lee, it aspires to reactivate the experimental and interventionist spirit of 20th century and contemporary art practices in order to become a locus where aesthetic, political and social potentialities contribute to questioning and redefining the relationships between art, philosophy, media and life. Continue reading