Dream Amsterdam - Ryoji Ikeda :: June 6 - 21, 2008 :: Opening: June 6, 8:30 pm - live concert and performance by Ryoji Ikeda and an amazing line up of other international guest artists and DJ’s.

Renowned composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda (Japan 1966) will create art projects for Dream Amsterdam. Ikeda’s hypnotic work plays with human perception through installations, performances, live concerts, recordings and album releases. Ikeda will use pure light as the material for his interventions in various secret locations across Amsterdam. Continue reading

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]

SIMULTAN04 - Video and Media Arts Festival :: Timisoara, Romania :: May 22 - 24, 2008 :: Call for Entries :: Deadline: April 10, 2008 (postmark).

Under the theme Temporary Tactics, Simultan04 explores a conflict situation, a difficult cohabitation between the independent audio-visual works and the cultural, social and political context in which they are born. Temporary Tactics wishes to highlight time and space connected “speculative” situations, the practice of acting and reacting, of making and creating, in the moment and in response to the stimulus of one’s immediate environment. Continue reading

Festival SOS 4.8, Murcia (Spain) :: Call for Artists - Visual Arts, Visual Jockeying (VJ), Net Art, and Performance :: Curators: Christiane Paul, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Paco Barragán :: Organized by Dept. of Culture Region Murcia and LegalMusic :: Deadline March 15, 2008.

Murcia launches the event SOS 4.8: 48 hours of non-stop artistic creation related to the concept of sustainability. Sustainability basically means meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. In words of the artistic director, Paco Barragán, SOS 4.8 understands sustainability not only in exclusively ecological terms  – Continue reading

Upgrade! Lisbon :: VJ Theory - Ana Carvalho and Brendan Byrne :: December 19, 2007; 7:00 pm :: Lisboa20 Arte Contemporânea, Rua Tenente Ferreira Durão 18B (Campo de Ourique).

VJ Theory project intends to develop a community actively discussing and reflecting on philosophy and theory related with VJing and realtime performative practices. It is apparent, during workshops and discussions at Festivals and symposia, that practitioners of both VJing and Interactive Installations are moving on from problems with the practicalities of production to more complex ideas of how and why the process has, for example, significance for the viewer. Continue reading

The northern Italian city of Turin will be a hotbed of generative art this weekend, for the second annual C.Stem festival. While the fest is generally dedicated to ‘the applications of electronic systems in cultural and artistic fields,’ this year’s focus is on the conceptual and creative aspects of generative systems, particularly in relation to graphic design and auditory culture. In a project that would make graffiti writer and theorist Ramellzee proud, artist Michael Schmitz explores the relationship between typography and genetics in GynoTyp, asking if font types can reproduce themselves through generative systems. Continue reading

Upgrade! Skopje: Girls know best - exhibition + DJ laptop/set :: November 24, 2007; 9:00 pm :: Cultural Centre Tocka, Skopje.

This exhibition is an announcement for the project Consumer vs. User 2 .0 that will be realized from January to June 2008. The exhibition will introduce several young female artists from Macedonia which will take part in the project afterwards. Besides, there will be a presentation of female artists which a result of continuous collaboration with Kyd Campbell from Canada. The participants of the exhibition are: Marija Sotirovska, Kristina Hadzieva, Kristina Gacova, Jasna Dimitrovska, Ruki and Ivana Dragsic. Continue reading

[aires-de-confluxence] Anne Roquigny’s WJ-s // Les WJ’- d’Anne Roquigny :: October 26-27, 2007 :: LX5 Homebase, Luxembourg :: Curator : Anne Roquigny :: Organised by Arscenic Luxembourg Asbl in the field of “Luxembourg and Greater Region 2007: European City of Culture.”

WJs (webjockeys) WJ-s is a software and a flexible, high speed connexion public device for web performances which allows actors of the Internet, sound and image artists, net artists, bloggers, graphic designers, flashers, programmers, curators, hackers, new media theorists, pioneers and web mutants…to play live with the full scope of contents available in the wideness of the web. Continue reading

Distributed Aesthetics

Distributed Aesthetics edited by Lisa Gye, Anna Munster and Ingrid Richardson–Abstracts: …and Beyond: Anticipating Distributed Aesthetics by Darren Tofts; Theses on Distributed Aesthetics. Or, What a Network is Not by Anna Munster & Geert Lovink; Sharing Styles: New Media, Creative Communities and the Evidence of an Open Source Design Movement by Greg Turner-Rahman; Excerpts From ‘Portrait Of The VJ’ by Mark Amerika; Multiple Perspectives/Multiple Readings by Simon Biggs; Beyond the Museum Walls: Situating Art in Virtual Space (Polemic Overlay and Three Movements) by Vince Dzekian; Reshaping Spectatorship: Immersive and Distributed Aesthetics by Edwina Bartlem; Entropy And Digital Installation by Susan Ballard; Intimate Transactions: The Evolution of an Ecosophical Networked Practice by Keith Armstrong. Continue reading