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

[Kayıtsız/Unrecorded] :: March 5 - April 16, 2008 :: Akbank Art Center, Istiklal Cad. Zambak Sok. No:1, Beyoglu,Istanbul.

Unrecorded Conference: You Are Not Here - Laila El-Haddad (Palestine), Dan Phiffer (US), and Mushon Zer-Aviv (Israel) :: March 6, 2008, 6:30 pm :: Akbank Art Center, Istanbul.

Unrecorded exhibition looks at the notion of space as a decisive factor in our perception of the realities that surround us. They are temporary, augmented, designed, and loaded. Yet, the works, which the exhibition inhabits, unfold and restructure all possible perceptual codes through their own inspections, observations, and approaches. Continue reading

Anytime, Anyplace: Art Collectives in the 21st Century - A Symposium :: March 13-14, 2008 :: Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA :: All events are free and open to the public. Register here.

Artists’ groups representing some of the finest examples of 21st century collaborative art practice will participate in a two-day symposium. The symposium will examine artists’ collectives that focus on social, political and environmental issues and those groups’ strategies for engaging individuals and communities. “The artist groups in ‘Anytime, Anyplace’ work to challenge systems of power and accepted strategies typically adopted by young artists,” said Claude Willey, organizer of the symposium (and co-founder of the collective MOISTURE). Continue reading

Gravity Art :: featuring work by Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Monsieur Moo, Johanna Billing, Slater Bradley, Lonnie van Brummelen, Daniel Devlin, Gino de Dominicis, Hege Dons Samset, Friedrich Kunath, Gavin Maitland, Ari Marcopoulos, Liza May Post, Willem de Ridder, Pipilotti Rist, Fernando Sanchez, Wim Schippers and Wim Vanderlinden, Richard Serra, Pascual Sisto, Stelarc, Marco Schuler, Joel Tauber, Jacob Tonski, Tsui Kuang-Yu, Marijke van Warmerdam, Guido van der Werve, and Erik Wesselo.March 1 - April 26, 2008 :: Opening Reception: March 1; 6-9 pm :: TELIC Arts Exchange, 975 Chung King Road, Los Angeles, CA. Continue reading

Computational Aesthetics 2008 :: Call for Artworks and Performances :: June 18-20, 2008 :: Hotel Riviera, Lisbon, Portugal :: Keynotes by Pat Hanrahan, Stanford, CA; and Ernest Edmonds, University of Technology, Sydney.

Computational Aesthetics bridges the analytic and synthetic and integrates aspects of computer science, philosophy, psychology, and the fine & performing arts. In particular it focuses on the mathematical and information theoretic aspects of both connectionist and symbol processing methods by humans and computers. Computational Aesthetics seeks to facilitate both the analysis and the augmentation of creative behaviour. Continue reading