Dislocate 08: International Festival for Art, Technology and Locality :: August 30 - September 21, 2008 :: Yokohama, Japan.

Dislocate is an ongoing project examining the relationship between art, technology and locality. Exploring the impact of new media upon our experience and expression of place, Dislocate08 examines the creative potential of the technologies which surround us to heighten our awareness of our locality, transforming our encounter with our direct environment and the manner in which we attempt to communicate this to elsewhere.

Over 40 artists from Asia, Europe and America will be brought together over a three week period to join in a series of exhibitions, workshops, live events, artist talks and symposia. Continue reading

[Image: The Seamless Globe c. 1630] Media in Transition 6: stone and papyrus, storage and transmission :: International Conference :: April 24-26, 2009 :: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Our current era of prolonged and profound transition is surely as media-driven as the historical cultures Innis describes. His division between the durable and the portable is perhaps problematic in the age of the computer, but similar tensions define our contemporary situation. Digital communications have increased exponentially the speed with which information circulates. Continue reading

Interaction, Interactivity, Interactive Art - A buzzword of new media under scrutiny :: September 4, 2008 :: Part of Ars Electronica - A New Cultural Economy, Linz, Austria :: Organized by Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research.

Interaction: The relation between two or more relatively independent things or systems of change which advance, hinder, limit, or otherwise affect one another - (Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology, 1901) Interactivity has become virtually a magic word for the promotion of new media and the media arts alike. The term refers not only to a certain technology, it also stands for social concepts and visions ranging from grassroots democracy all the way to consumer freedom. This imbues the term with its broad-ranging impact, but also contributes to its dilution. Continue reading

International symposium: (New)Media Art in Museums: production - keeping - presentation :: City Hall, City Government edifice, Korzo 16, Rijeka, Croatia (organized by Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art) :: October 15 - 17, 2008 :: Call for papers - Deadline: August 20, 2008.

The aim of the international symposium (New)Media Art in Museums is to consider status of (new)media art in museum collections, conditions of keeping, protection, modes of exhibiting and all the changes that (new) media art introduces into the everyday practice of contemporary museums. Special attention will be paid to the specifics regarding production and rights that evolve from interrelations between museum - author - agency - certified producer. Continue reading

Moving the Map: CAVC / MUA Plataform 2008 / 2010 :: Center of Contemporary Visual Arts, Barrio la Plazuela, Ave. Cervantes, Casa 1331, Tegucigalpa, Honduras :: Open Calls for the Interchanges Programs - Deadline: July 30, 2008.

Moving the Map is an artistic project that investigates the discourse of political spheres regarding migrations, and from which there will be debate on the analytical focus and on the execution of urban artistic practices from the articulation and recognition of the migrating weave with local scenarios. Continue reading

Electronic Media Group Call for Papers: Conservation 2.0 - New Directions :: Deadline: August 20, 2008 :: American Institute for Conservation (AIC) 37th Annual Meeting :: May 19 - 22, 2009 :: Los Angeles, California.

The Electronic Media Group would like to invite papers following the theme of Conservation 2.0 - New Directions, highlighting the ways in which emerging technologies are affecting the conservation field. This is an ideal topic for this specialty group, corresponding with the most important issues confronting EMG professionals: the migration of technologies from one format to another and the use of new technologies to preserve obsolete components. We will also happily accept other abstracts related to electronic media conservation issues and the education of conservators of electronic media. Continue reading

The Renaming Machine :: P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute - Ljubljana, Hrusevska 66, SI - 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia :: EXHIBITION: 12-19 June, 2008; OPENING: 12 June, 2008, 8 P.M.; CONFERENCE: 13 June, 2008, 12 - 7:00 P.M. :: Curated by Suzana Milevska

The P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute – Ljubljana is pleased to announce the launch of The Renaming Machine project with the opening of an exhibition on 12 June at the Jakopič Gallery in Ljubljana, and on the following day, a one-day conference.

These events are only the first in a series of curated exhibitions and conferences, research-based art projects, public discussions and workshops, which will extend into the middle of 2009 in Ljubljana, Skopje, Prishtina, and Zagreb, all under the umbrella of The Renaming Machine project. Continue reading

Symposium: Sensual Technologies: Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH :: Nash and Brandon Rooms :: Nearest tube: Charing Cross or Piccadilly :: Friday 27 June 2008, 9.30am :: tel: 020 7930 3647 ::

A one day international symposium from The Brunel School of Arts, Sensual Technologies, led by Stelarc, Johannes Birringer and Susan Broadhurst, features theorists and practitioners of performance, dance, music and electronic media arts. It will explore alternate and aesthetic uses of technology that extend artistic practice beyond the expected, into realms of unusual and heightened experience. The contributors to this event are leading practitioners and theorists offering diverse perspectives to the debate. They include Roy Ascott, Roger Malina, Jill Scott, Gary Hall, Rachel Armstrong, Paul Brown, Louis-Philippe Demers, Marta De Menezes, Kira O’Reilly, Kathleen Rogers, Paul Sermon, Theodore Spyropoulos, Atau Tanaka and Andrea Zapp. Continue reading

SYMPOSIUM: IMAGINARY PROPERTY :: Friday 6 June 2008 :: 6:00 - –10:00 p.m. :: Jan van Eyck Academie, cademieplein 1, 6211 KM Maastricht, Netherlands :: with Florian Schneider, Franco Berardi Bifo, Anselm Franke

The symposium Imaginary Property, introducing the research project by the same name, explores new potentials for design practices across various registers at the intersections of design-theory and image-production. What challenges emerge from the paradoxes that research into ‘imaginary property’ has given rise to? How could these potentially generate new rules of production, bearing in mind that property relations are constantly exchanging meaning? Do we have to rethink and re-evaluate the notion of ‘design’ against this background? Continue reading

CALL FOR ENTRIES: Code-Switchers :: Jurors: Steve Dye and Stephanie Syjuco :: The LAB, San Francisco, CA :: Deadline for entries: 5PM, Thursday, July 30, 2008.

How are contemporary artists dealing with issues of cultural complexity, multiple allegiances, and hybrid forms? How are they communicating these ideas and addressing their audience? Using the metaphor of “code-switching,” a linguistic term referring to the use of more than one language within a single conversation, this juried exhibition seeks submissions from artists investigating a variety of approaches to cultural and material bilingualisms, (mis)translations, appropriations, and the purposeful misuse of “proper” communication codes. Continue reading