Building Bridges is the motto of Munich’s 850th birthday. The project A Day in a Life is going to establish virtual bridges: Munich is linked via livestreaming with some parts of the world. The public place Wittelsbacher Platz is connected via image and sound with – since now - the following cities: Curitiba / Brazil, Skopje / Macedonia, Wellington / New Zealand, London / England, Sendai / Japan.

Artists of diverse backgrounds are involved, working mainly through performative strategies. Sceneries involving the passers-by in every city are created. For example you may see four people of four countries at the same time on four screens, communicating via webcam their wishes oder questions as a sort of statement. Continue reading

Virtual Residency Project - Call for Participation :: Deadline: May 1, 2008 :: Dates of Residency: June 1 - November 4, 2008.

Location One presents its first ever Virtual Residency Project in the form of a call to artists and other creative individuals with the express purpose of fostering collaboration and creativity across geographical expanses and areas of expertise around the topic of the 2008 US Presidential Election. Continue reading

Multiplace Network Culture Festival #7 - telematic networking, imaginary broadcasting, experimental mobility :: April 26 - May 3, 2008 :: CALL FOR ENTRIES - Deadline: February 29, 2008.

Multiplace 2008 invites artists and cultural workers to submit events / performances / installations / ideas of a networked character, such as online performances, streaming and radio projects, collaborative networked projects and workshops, or the works accessing the networks within a physical location, urban space or between remote venues. Use of digital technologies is not a crucial requirement.

Submitted projects will be proposed to participating venues and organisers. These will assist in providing the infrastructure (technical equipment, internet connection, material, staff, etc) for the project (if needed). Continue reading

Remote — by Neill Donaldson, Usman Haque, Ai Hasegawa and Georg Tremmel — connects together two spaces, one in Boston the other in Second Life, and treats them as a single contiguous environment, bound together by the internet so that things that occur in one space affect things that happen in the other and vice versa - remotely controlling each other.

From Feb 7 to April 15, 2008 you can see: The Remote chair in Boston, Huret & Spector Gallery, Emerson College :: The Remote chair in Second Life, Ars Virtua :: PDF menu of interactions between the two spaces :: Real time data from the two spaces @ turbulence.org. Continue reading

Streaming Museum -
Real-time Exhibitions in Cyberspace and Public Space on Seven Continents; A source of free cultural content and public service messaging on the environment, education and health, accessed via Internet and in high visibility public locations :: January 29 through April 2008.

Streaming Museum will present an ongoing program of multi-media exhibitions in collaboration with international curators and cultural institutions. The exhibitions will be displayed simultaneously on large screens at the participating locations, where the website itself will also be on view on nearby monitors for access to a “Global Meetup” and program information. Continue reading

SWAMP Splash: about the deluge of information rising up through the grass-roots - Video Vortex Workshop by Furtherfield.org :: February 8, 2008 :: 12:00 pm and 3:00 pm :: Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst, Keizersgracht 264, 1016 EV Amsterdam :: For reservations (free) mail to: malka[at]nimk.nl :: Participants will need: laptops with browser, wireless capability.

Marc Garrett and Ruth Catlow from Furtherfield.org will demo VisitorsStudio and introduce participants to its (easy-to-use) tool-set and features. Using your own files (bring jpg, mp3, swf, flv under 200k) or harvesting files from the net, you can work with others to create and distribute mixes and remixes. Continue reading

In 2008, TRANSIT LOUNGE becomes an experiment in remote collaboration, as 15 artists work between Berlin, Brisbane, Perth, Muttama, Melbourne, Sydney, on the evolution of a complex, emergent structure. The platform for this trans-disciplinary exchange is the TRANSIT LOUNGE website, powered by open-source, wiki software. An organic structure, the site grows in multiple directions as the content is layered and interlinked, tracing remote interactions and local interventions between artists. The latency of these dialogues across time zones and locations creates feedback loops (local interventions – web – local interventions) opening up spaces for mistranslation resonating between the different cities. Continue reading

concreteSTREAM is an experimental netcasting platform for live multi-location artist collaborations using low and high bandwidth including Internet 2. concreteSTREAM also invites Guest Curators for free live netcast programs, lectures and symposium panels. Baltimore MD, 2001-present.

After ten years of the emergence of the world wide web, artists have consistently sought to describe its ability through metaphor, material, and social means, such as creating a place of community beyond the borders of politicians and their regulations. Continue reading

Give it Up :: January 12, 2008; 8:00 pm :: p|m Gallery, 1159 Dundas Street East, Suite 149, Toronto, Canada vs The Verve Dance Studio, 910 Main Street, Buffalo, New York. The performances in both locations are free and open to the public.

Give It Up is a live breakdance battle that takes place between 2 geographically separate spaces linked through a live web stream. Part performance art, part social experiment, the project explores hyper-socialized space of web-based performance through an open-source model of participation, and examines the complex relationship between relational practice, collaboration and the practice of art making.

STREAM: A Unique Multimedia Exhibition of Artists from Portugal, curated by João Silvério ::  until January 5, 2008  :: White Box, 525 West 26th Street, New York, NY.

STREAM is an exhibition that will surprise New York audiences, making us reconsider, rethink and re-contextualize global art making and information technology. The selected group of Portuguese artists stretch and stream their particular lenses into outposts of innovative art, be it where their work is made, in New York or elsewhere. STREAM’s media-based works require a public art space where the art is available in a one-to-one temporal engagement, a viewing that takes place in the context of continual coming and goings, with traffic and a constant flow of visitors – different from a cinema or a concert hall. Continue reading