MTAA’s Self-Selected Super St*rs :: April 29, 2008; 8:00 pm :: Industry City, 55 33rd Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenue), 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, NY.

MTAA shoot and simultaneously screen two films’ starring you. Are you great at off-the-cuff repartee? Look good taking a nap? Able to read bad sci-fi scripts out loud without laughing? Or are you just perfect at hanging out and being you? MTAA needs you to star in our low budget and barely (if at all) scripted film. Think Chelsea Girls meets Plan 9 from Outer Space while watching Empire. Continue reading

“Aether Architecture is a design and architecture studio based in Budapest, Hungary, that is known at an international level for its innovative and conceptual approach to media architecture … In projects such as “Ping Genius Loci“ or “Wifi Camera”, the digital is used as a real architectonic instrument, with the idea of promoting a structural approach that allows the visualization of mediation spaces, between the real and the virtual, between the local and the global in terms of connection between single individuals. For Adam the urban and the virtual space represent a single unity in constant relation, an expanded environment that the architect has to necessarily confront.” Continue reading Aether Architecture: Real Spaces, Virtual Spaces by Marco Mancuso (English translation by Caterina Sartori), DigiMag.

The International Dance Party, an installation by Niklas Roy and Adad Hannah, is a complete plug ‘n’ play party in a box. Equipped with radar sensing technology, the system can sense activity nearby and quickly transform from an idle box into a psychedelic light and laser dance machine with a 600W sound system that will make the room bounce with excitement. The machine even taunts its audience with ambience with a built-in smoke machine that spews fog onto the dance floor. When everyone has left the room, the machine quickly transforms back to its static state and waits quietly for the next party to start. Watch the video. [blogged by Jonah Brucker-Cohen on Coin-Operated]

Pong - the analog arcade machine (prototype #2: championship evening) - by André Gonçalves :: March 28, 2008; 7:00 pm :: Lisboa20 Arte Contemporânea, Rua Tenente Ferreira Durão 18B (Campo de Ourique).

Arcade machine, 2 joysticks, 2 tvs, coin dispenser, 5 diy arduino based network, 26 led score display, 2 motors, 2 fans, 4 optocoupled h-bridges, 2 printer head mechanics, hair dryer, 2 infra-red sensors, 4 switches, 2 potenciometers, button, 220v 5v relay system, 2 fluorescent lamps, 8 power supplies, wood structure, tripod, video camera. Continue reading

Disclosures :: March 27 - May 18, 2008 :: Various locations, London :: Organised by Anna Colin and Mia Jankowicz for Gasworks.

Disclosures is a multi-faceted project that looks at the manifestations of Open Source methodologies in fields of cultural production outside of the Internet. Openness – or its technological underpinning, Open Source – here refers to situations in which the viewer, reader, listener or Internet user becomes emancipated through egalitarian participation, collaborative authorship and/or the breaking down of hierarchical and social boundaries. Continue reading

[Image: Annina Rüst, eRiceCooker] FEEDBACK :: March 13 - April 19, 2008 :: Closing Reception: April 19, 3 pm :: Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st St., New York.

What does it mean to think “green”? Eyebeam’s expansive new exhibition, FEEDBACK, surveys artists, designers, architects and engineers on the topic of sustainability, and presents their responses—19 projects varying from public art projects and industrial design to DIY energy solutions and software tools—to inspire discussion and action on this pervasive (and increasingly commodified) subject.

As the culmination of Eyebeam’s Beyond Light Bulbs programming series, the show highlights the concerns, interests and work of Eyebeam’s Sustainability Research Group, with work by individuals, collectives, students, local community groups and the Eco-Vis Challenge winners. Continue reading

With Caitlin Berrigan, Adam Zaretsky, Brandon Ballengee, and Kathy High :: organized and moderated by Regine Debatty :: March 14, 2008; 7:30 pm :: New Museum, NY.

Biology plays an increasingly pervasive role in international society and our lives—a role that artists are responding to with a diverse array of practices. Some have started to collaborate with research labs to engage with organic materials; others buy DIY biology sets reminiscent of the early computer kits of the late ´70s. All are getting their hands into the material of life itself to reflect upon some of the most complex issues society has to deal with: the integration of biotechnology in quotidian life, and the ethical, cultural, and even political consequences of scientific discovery.

STS Colloquium Joins with MIT’s Space, Policy and Society Research Group to present The UrbanSpaceStation - Natalie Jeremijenko :: March 12, 2008; 5:30 - 7:00 pm :: MIT, Building E15, Lower Level (Bartos Theater), Cambridge, MA.

The UrbanSpaceStation (USS) is a device designed to sequester the carbon dioxide emissions from buildings (which account for 80% carbon dioxide emissions in Manhattan and 35% of the national average) and return oxygen-enriched air to the building. It provides an intensive urban agriculture facility, coupling and reusing building waste streams locally, and potentially providing significant food. Continue reading

ArtBots is pleased to announce that the fifth international ArtBots exhibition for robotic art and art-making robots will take place at the Trinity College Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland on September 19-21, 2008. Creators of talented robots are invited to submit their work for possible inclusion in the show. Deadline: May 1, 2008.

We have no fixed idea of what qualifies as robotic art; if you think it’s a robot and you think it’s art, we encourage you to submit your work. Regardless of whether it’s hi-tech, low-tech, or neg-tech, we’re interested in the ideas you’re working with, not just the gear. Proposals for workshops, performances, and other kinds of participation are also welcome. Continue reading

Lunchbox Laboratory is a collaboration between Futurefarmers + the Biological Sciences Team, National Renewable Energy Lab. Currently scientists are using algae to produce hydrogen and have discovered that it is a viable renewable energy form, in that,algae is everywhere and it could also be used to produce biodiesel. One of the main hurdles for the research is to find the most productive strains of algae. Since there are potentially millions of strains, this task is monumental. Continue reading