Netacronyms by Marisa Olson (2007).

Annual NSO Conference’ Nonlinear Fabrication: Strange Loops in the Product’s Lifecycle :: April 3-4, 2008 :: University of Pennsylvania. Program.

Though matter itself has always found its expressions through nonlinear organizations, architecture’s modes of intervention in the life of matter have been linear and willful. As architecture continues its age-old struggles against material realities, the future holds astonishing possibilities as we slowly discern the nuances of complex material organizations and cultivate new regimes of expression. Continue reading

Eva and Franco Mattes continue their investigations into power, authorship and identity with The Surrogates a new performance based video project. Combining elements of theater, video, surveillance, and social interaction, The Surrogates transforms Over The Opening (OTO) into an experimental social space questioning the distinction between the viewer and the viewed :: April 11, 2008; 7 – 10 pm :: Over The Opening (MTAA’s Studio), N6th St., Brooklyn, NY [map and directions].

AREA 10 Project Space, Peckham presents () RE | BOOT – the launch event of Area10’s new media media platform: AREA 10: MEDIALAB /> :: Live Event and Opening: April 12, 2008; 7:00 pm – film screenings, live performances, interactions, vjing, sound art, experimental and electronic noise music :: April 11-12; 11 am – 5 pm – activities include workshops, lectures presentations being held alongside an exhibition of digital and interactive arts :: Area 10 Project Space, Eagle Wharf, Peckham Square, London SE15 5JT (White building behind Peckham Library). Continue reading

From Yukihiko Yoshida: Avant-garde-like “Super-flat”, Web 2.0 media dance performance tool in Archidemo by Gekitora Gackt from “inetdance Japan”. Gekitora intends “Dance-performance that can be appreciated from any angle 360 degrees”, and does various experiments in Archidemo.

Gekitora choreographs both dancers and avatars. It is fantastic experience for him to choreograph avatars, because artist can share only pure movement of motion with many users in Internet. Now, A series of four dances can be tested with the dance-pad. A free body expression act is done in the weightless space. Those expressions reminds users of the space suit of “2001: A Space Odyssey”. Continue reading

Cesare Pietroiusti and Juraj Carný – Evolution De l’Art :: April 2, 2008; 7:00 pm :: 16 Beaver Group, 16 Beaver Street, 4th / 5th fl., New York, NY :: Free and Open to all.

This Wednesday night you are all invited to join us for an evening with Cesare Pietroiusti, Juraj Carný, Shelly Silver, Alex Villar to discuss and think together Evolution De L’Art. What is Evolution De L’Art? An idea, a gallery that Cesare and Juraj will talk about how it started; the kind of art projects that it presents and its relation with the artists. Continue reading

CHArt (Computers and the History of Art) 2008 Conference: Seeing… Vision and Perception in a Digital Culture :: November 6-7, 2008 (central London venue to be confirmed) :: CALL FOR PAPERS: Deadline: May 30, 2008.

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

“It’s another installment of Entropist, a sci-fi culture column by futurist design maven Geoff Manaugh, author of BLDG BLOG. The British branch of Penguin Books recently premiered a new website called – a bit lamely – We Tell Stories. The basic idea is that six authors will tell six stories over a period of six weeks. More interesting, however, is the fact that story #1, “The 21 Steps” by Charles Cumming, was told using Google Maps. So combine this same strategy with today’s urban sci-fi, add a few more cities – and you’ve got a way to map science fiction across the planet. Could there someday be a Google Maps of Sci-Fi? Continue reading

Mobilefest 2008: International Festival of Mobile Arts and Creativity: Call for Posters, Papers, Projects and Products – Deadline: June 30, 2008.

How can mobile technology contribute to democracy, culture, art, ecology, peace, education, health and third-sector?

KEYWORDS: 3g, activism, art, augmented reality, bluetooth, citizen videos, culture, cyberculture, democracy, diy, ecology, education, electronic art, electronic music, gprs, gps, health, innovation, interactive and networked performance with mobile and wireless devices, interactive architecture, lbs, live cinema, locative, mesh networks, mms, mobile activism, mobile and wireless games, mobile applications, mobile education, mobile music, mobile narrative, mobile streaming, open networks, peace, rfid, sensors, sms, third-sector, trends, video production and distribution, wearable technologies, wi-fi, wi-max, zigbee, etc. Continue reading

This is a call to collect videos, sounds, texts and images that witness the attempt to contact the abandoned areas of the brain. The reason for this call is a series of videos found on the Internet using the keyword cronovisore.

The Chronovisor is a machine for viewing past and future events. It was invented in the ’40s by Father Pellegrino Ernetti together with a group of twelve world famous scientists. The Chronovisor was portrayed as a large cabinet with a normal cathode ray tube for viewing the received events and a series of buttons, levers, and other controls for selecting the time and the location to be viewed. Continue reading