Homo Ludens Ludens - Locating Play in Contemporary Culture and Society :: Exhibition: April 18 - September 22, 2008 :: Symposium: April 19 - 20, 2008 :: LABoral Centre for Art and Creative Industries, Los Prados, 121, 33394 Gijón (Asturias) Spain.

Homo Ludens Ludens is an international exhibition and symposium exploring games as a critical element in our daily lives and a speculation on the emergence of the “Homo Ludens Ludens”: the contemporary playing man. What does it mean “to play” and to be “a player”? The goal of this Symposium, organised jointly with The Planetary Collegium, is to provide the framework for contemporary play, to highlight its interdisciplinary nature, and to show the multifaceted reality of our present-day entertainment society. Continue reading

To complement the exhibition Synthetic Times: Media Art China 2008, a Beijing Olympics Cultural project opening at the National Art Museum of China in June 2008, media art pundits debate imminent topical issues revolving around the exhibition themes: Beyond Body; Emotive Digital; The Recombinant Reality; and Here, There and Everywhere at Synthetic Times: Media Art Now. With an introduction by Zhang Ga, artistic director and curator. The evening event kicks off a pre-exhibition symposium (April 15) held at Parsons, the New School for Design, and EYEBEAM, in conjunction with the National Art Museum of China. Continue reading

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

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

2008 International GE3LS Symposium - A challenge to digital artists to explore the complex ethical and societal issues emerging from genomic research and new genomic technologies :: April 28-30, 2008 :: The Westin Calgary, Calgary Alberta, Canada :: Call for Work - Deadline: April 13, 2008.

The Art Exhibit Subcommittee of the 2008 GE3LS International Symposium welcomes submissions of original digital works of art that address the ethical, legal, and social themes related to the human genome, biology in the 21st century, or genetics in society. Continue reading

[Image: Robert Duffy] Leonardo Day at Berkeley Big Bang 2008: Remix: From Science to Art and Back in the Digital Age :: June 3, 2008 :: UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.

Join us in Berkeley for a three-day symposium and festival of new media and art hosted by the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and the Berkeley Center for New Media. This event is timed to link with 01SJ: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge, so come spend the week in the Bay Area and be part of the biggest explosion of new media art in the nation. [On June 2, Embodied Media, the first of a two-part symposium.] June 3: Continue reading

Migrating Reality :: April 4-5, 2008 :: Gallerie der Kuenste, Berlin. Migrating is reality. Reality is migrating. Migrating Reality is a live platform to discuss the mixing and remixing of art forms and digital data flows within the context of the current worldwide reality of migration.

Since March 1, in cooperation with the online zine balsas.cc for media and technology, we have focused on the migration between reality, media, technologies, art, spaces, disciplines, politics, and networks. Migration interests us in cultural and technological aspects as well as in aspects of the movement of different objects and subjects. Continue reading

New World Bank + Teleport Färgfabriken :: April 3 - August 31, 2008 :: Opening: April 3 :: Färgfabriken Norr, Stadsdel Norr, byggnad 33, 831 32 Östersund.

For over 80 years Östersund has been waiting for their own art venue. Finally it’s here. With more than 80 contributing artists, 20 well known speakers and a conference with over 400 participants, Färgfabriken is participating and placing Östersund on the world map. The convention exists and works as a hub to create the presumptions for a new world bank - an interactive digital platform on the Internet where individuals and ideas are the new currency. Continue reading

Together with the category of “space”, “time” has been radically changed by computer networks and the implementation of their instant communication. Present Eternity, sense and experience in the digital society times is a conference focused on ‘time’ specific influence on the contemporary work of art, especially as a founding value of any modernity principle. Among the conference topics there are digital images impact on our society, the instant, the continuum, the degradable and the eternal. Continue reading

Programmable Media II: Networked Music, a one-day symposium examining the current and future possibilities of network-enabled music, will be held on April 11, 2008 at Pace University, NYC. The symposium is free and open to the public, and will include artist presentations and live performances.

Based on the rapidly expanding archive of music/sound experiments to be found on Networked Music Review and the fifteen short works recently commissioned for it, the symposium aims to stimulate critical and far-ranging discussion on emerging music and sound art practice.

To register, email turbulence at turbulence dot org with “Programmable Media II” as the subject. Continue reading