New writing for Brown’s immersive 3D virtual environment. Cave Writing Spring’08 will be giving a number of presentations from the workshop on the evenings of May 14, 15, and 16, at the CCV (Center for Computation and Visualization) CAVE, 180 George Street (NE corner at Brook), 6:30 to 8:30 pm.

Showings must be strictly limited to six people per session, so we ask that you get back to us at this email address — cayley at shadoof dot net –with your first and second choice of a preferred session. These spaces will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis and we apologize in advance if we are unable to accommodate you. Continue reading

Curatorial Network Seminar: Inter_connections - Speakers: Basak Senova, Ute Meta Bauer and Paul O’Neill :: April 25, 2008, 12.30-5.30 pm :: Plymouth Arts Centre, 38 Looe Street, Plymouth.

Plymouth Arts Centre and i-DAT present Inter_connections seminar, the concluding event of a curatorial residency undertaken by Basak Senova. Senova is assistant professor at Kadir Has University, an independent curator and founding member of the Istanbul association NOMAD. Continue reading

b.TWEEN08: Where Interactive Ideas are Seeded, Shared and Sold :: June 18-20, 2009 :: Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester, UK :: Call for Submissions - DEADLINE: April 28, 2008; 5:00 pm.

This year’s b.TWEEN forum has a range of creative and commercial opportunities on offer. To win a grand prize of £10,000, industry specialist development workshops and have your work screened in the Interactive Gallery, at the ICA, FACT and on Big Screens across Manchester: get involved. Submissions to be uploaded on the forum’s website. Continue reading

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

[Image: Trevor Paglen] Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) - featuring presentations by Ken Goldberg, Carlo Sequin, Richard Rinehart, Kris Paulsen and Trevor Paglen :: May 12, 2008 6 - 10 pm :: SFSU Downtown, 835 Market Street, San Francisco, CA [organized by Piero Scaruffi on behalf of Leonardo/ISAST]

Trevor Paglen of the Department of Geography University of California at Berkeley on The Other Night Sky - Artist / geographer Trevor Paglen will talk about his recent project to track and photograph 189 classified “moons” (reconnaissance satellites) in Earth orbit. Continue reading

Upgrade! Warsaw: Jacek Markiewicz: From Christ to Kaczynski | Od Chrystusa do Kaczynskiego :: April 27, 2008; 5:00 pm :: Dziekanka (dormitory of The Academy of Music), 58/60 Krakowskie Przedmieście, Warsaw, Poland :: informal and free.

Born in 1964 in Plock. Studies: 1986 1988 at PWSSP in L dz; 1988 1993 at the Faculty of Sculpture of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Graduated under professor Grzegorz Kowalski. Since 1992 he run a.r.t. Gallery in Plock. Urodzil sie w 1964 r. w Plocku. Studia: 1986 1988 w PWSSP w Lodzi; 1988 1993 na Wydziale Rzezby Akademii Sztuk Pieknych w Warszawie. Dyplom w pracowni prof. Grzegorza Kowalskiego. Od 1992 prowadzi w Plocku galerie a.r.t. Continue reading

[Image: Mark Amerika] New Works with Mobile Phones: Mark Amerika, Chris Fry and Max Schleser (Chaired by Tom Corby) :: May 2, 2008, 6.30 - 8.30 pm :: Fyvie Hall, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW [Nearest Tube Oxford Circus; Map] :: Please email corbyt [at] wmin.ac.uk to be put on the guest list.

The Centre for Research in Art, Education and Media (CREAM) invites you to presentations and discussions of new work using mobile phones by Mark Amerika, Chris Fry and Max Schleser.

Mark Amerika will be showing his new work which composites various art personas and artworks into a narrative sequence of mobile phone video images that conjure up both the spirits of the past as well as hauntological actors of the present. Continue reading

Virus Culture: Infection Communication and the Economy of Desire - a talk by Alessandro Ludovico :: April 22, 2008, 7:30 - 9:00 pm :: CIANT Gallery, Křížkovského 18, 130 00, Praha 3 (close to the Žižkov TV Tower).

Perception of viruses stems both from the way we consider the most recent epidemic diseases and from an innate fear of having one’s own body invaded by other efficient organisms, capable of re-arranging their working patterns in order to facilitate infiltration into their host. Perception of spam, as one of the inescapable communication phenomena of our times, is a changing lively part of our everyday infoscape. Spam is extremely pervasive and effective for billions of persons whose (easy to spot and trade) personal and open communication door are infiltrated usually after being verbally titillated. Continue reading

Subversive Complicity: Critical Conversations in a Limo - created by Holly Crawford :: May 1, 2008; 5, 6, 7, and 8 pm :: The LAB, 16th and Capp St., San Francisco :: The limo will leave from and return to The LAB. Reserve your free space by calling the gallery at (415) 864-8855 :: Exhibition runs May 1-24, 2008 :: Opening Reception: May 1, 6-9 pm.

Hop into a white limousine with eight strangers to converse about anything in art for one hour. Hosts, who are critics and curators, will guide conversations and offer refreshments. Continue reading

SPACE :: April 26, 2008; 7:30 pm :: Monkeytown 58N 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY :: $5/door $10/minimum.

This show will feature new and experimental works in dance, music, and video art. Each artist/team came up with a work based on meditations on the word “SPACE.” The artists with works being shown are:

Nina Barnett & Robyn Nesbitt, Jessica Feldman, David Jensenius, Hiram Navarrete, Jessica Noe & Kate March, Blithe Riley, Kathleen Stanard, Carl Testa.