Networking Event and Residency Closing Party: Configurations: Technology and Textiles Networking Afternoon :: April 25, 2008; 3.30 - 6 p :: HTTP Gallery, 71 Ashfield Rd, London (Click here for map and location details) :: Booking essential: email Aaron, visibility [at] furtherfield.org.

You are invited to share ideas, discuss and develop future working around art work that investigates the relationship between new technology, traditional making techniques and transformative political actions. Rachel Beth Egenhoefer, Anna Dumitriu, Ele Carpenter, and Nicola Naismith will present their work using diverse approaches to the making of work using new technology alongside textiles, followed by a “Long Table Discussion”. 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.

Roberto Aguirrezabala. Net.art 1998 - 2008 :: until April 6, 2008 :: The Huarte Contemporary Art Centre, Huarte (Navarra), Spain :: Curators: Roberta Bosco and Stefano Caldana.

The Huarte Art Centre is pleased to announce the first net.art solo exhibition by Spanish artist Roberto Aguirrezabala. His works are focused in his two fetishes subjects: the concept of identity and the interpersonal relations in the age of Internet. His projects avoid the stereotype of the website, do not exhibit banners or navigational menu and manage to address the user towards unforeseen thematics developments. The show displays three net.art works: Continue reading

(Essay for Share Festival Catalog 2008) (Here is my slide presentation, related to the essay below. But, I did not read this essay at the festival, rather it was printed in the festival catalog.)

There are a few things to say about manufacturing, design and digital arts. First, we’re not talking about manufacturing. Manufacturing is about making things on a large scale using machinery. Manufacturing evokes cavernous, cold, awesomely huge assembly lines with scales all out of proportion to the experiences of mere mortals. Factory floors throwing sparks, littered with metal shavings, huge overhead cranes moving impossibly large masses of steel - this is what manufacturing means. Continue reading

Spacecowboys - a workshop about hybrid spaces :: May 6-7, 2008 :: Z33, Hasselt, Belgium :: 15-20 participants within a wide range of disciplines Free.

Our feeling of space and place changes and refreshes constantly through the interaction and communication possibilities of new media. Locations and environments may be altered from public to a private and from concrete to virtual through mobile technologies. These hybrid spaces create emotional and aesthetic possibilities for artists to experiment with. How do artists work with hybrid space and how do they make us aware of the social and cultural implications?

This workshop will be moderated by John Hopkins. Speakers & guests: Armin Medosh, Anne Nigten, Jeanne van Heeswijk, Eric Kluitenberg, Kurt Vanhoutte, Peter Westenberg, Maja Kuzmanovic and Pieter van Bogaert. Continue reading

Migrating Reality :: April 4-5, 2008 :: Gallerie der Kuenste, Berlin. Migrating is reality. Reality is migrating. Migrating Reality is a live platform to discuss the mixing and remixing of art forms and digital data flows within the context of the current worldwide reality of migration.

Since March 1, in cooperation with the online zine balsas.cc for media and technology, we have focused on the migration between reality, media, technologies, art, spaces, disciplines, politics, and networks. Migration interests us in cultural and technological aspects as well as in aspects of the movement of different objects and subjects. Continue reading

In contributing to the discussion on Second Life and the politics of virtual labor I’d like to report on a hybrid reality, social networking project I recently exhibited / performed at the Sundance Film Festival with Jeff Crouse, Senior Research Fellow at Eyebeam in NYC. The project titled “Invisible Threads” explores the growing intersection between labor, emerging virtual economies and real life commodities through the creation of a designer jeans “sweatshop” in Second Life (SL). The factory virtually manufactures designer jeans that are “teleported” into the real world upon completion and worn by real live people. Continue reading

Our Literal Speed: Performative Discourse - Conference: February 29 - March 2, 2008 :: ZKM_Lecture hall and ZKM_Media Theater :: Exhibition: February 29 - May 25, 2008 :: ZKM | Media Museum, Atrium 8 :: Opening: February 29, 6 pm :: ZKM | Foyer.

Our Literal Speed manifests the imperatives that materialize the theoretical and the pedagogical. No longer can we interpret forms of academic and artistic professionalism as neutral, abstract backgrounds to the aesthetic and performative. These activities have produced their own distinctive surfaces and materials: the aesthetic has become discursive and discourse has become aesthetic. Continue reading

The I Buy Everything Event - a hybrid happening by Florian Kuhlmann (aka Lance Kannos): The purpose of The I Buy Everything Event was to connect the digital world of Second Life with the non-digital world - and vice versa - in order to generate an open hybrid space, and extend the tradition of the ‘Happening’ via 21st century communication-technology.

The happening occurred on December 6, 2006, at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne and on a prepared piece of land in Second Life. The I Buy Everything Event was a happening around money and sex. The main focus was set on buying and selling virtual artifacts; the erotic part was assumed by ge:schuetz, doing a sex-and-gender performance to reflect on the sexual identity of the participants - in non-digital space. Continue reading

The Not Quite Yet (1) The Long Table :: January 23, 2008; 6-8 pm :: (2) If I could do one thing… - Performance by Lois Weaver :: February 28, 2008; 7 pm :: [ s p a c e ], 129 -131 Mare Street, London.

Introduced by Lois Weaver, The Long Table is an experimental public forum. A hybrid performance installation - roundtable discussion - dinner party designed to facilitate informal conversations on serious topics. Come along and give your opinion!

Lois Weaver is a performance artist, director, writer, teacher and curator with thirty years professional experience. She was co-founder of Spiderwoman Theatre and the WOW Theatre in New York and Artistic Director of Gay Sweatshop Theatre in London. She has been a performer, director, and writer with the Split Britches Company since 1980. Continue reading