SwanQuake is a unique project involving the ongoing making of an interactive artwork comprising 3-D computer graphic environments and motion-capture driven characters created from a variety of materials and methods by an interdisciplinary team gathered together and led by Igloo.

In each of the pieces, using a game controller, the viewer navigates freely throughout the 3D computer graphic environments. The spaces are comprised of both exterior and interior landscapes, each thematically, visually & sonically distinct where users can interact with avatars to create new performances / performance spaces. 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

Turbulence Spotlight: Tulsita by the Wa-KOW! Collective [Needs Flash plugin] - The Wa-KOW! Collective was founded on the idea that the distinctions between artistic media are problematic and productive rather than essential. Our primary goal has been to find ways to blur those boundaries. The group–made up of poets, musicians, and photographers–works in and around the borders between text, sound, and image, exploring the relations between the three media and the nature of each type of media. Continue reading

Concrete Daisies - by Carole Kim :: January 19-20, 2008; 7:30 pm :: The Velaslavasay Panorama at the Union Theatre, 1122 West 24th Street (@ Hoover), Los Angeles, CA.

Concrete Daisies is a site-specific performance / installation of dance, sound, and live-feed video projection. A stellar ensemble of dancers, musicians, and video artists will explore the interior and exterior spaces of the Velaslavasay Panorama, an historic exhibition hall, theatre and garden dedicated to the production and presentation of unusual visual experiences. 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

Soft Machines and the Cinematographic Imaginary, Nowe media i film - International conference within the confines of the 15th International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography Plus Camerimage :: November 30, 2007, 12:00 – 6:00 pm :: The Grand Theatre Łódź.

Beginning in the last decades of the 20th century, the increasing expansion of multimedia has made the digital synthesis of image, interactivity, non-linearity and intermediality not only ephemeral practices of contemporary art, but also prevalent and established characteristics of popular culture. Continue reading

POW!, Performance Art Mini-Festival :: March 6 - 8, 2008 :: Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA :: Call for Entries - Deadline: IN HAND DEADLINE: November 12, 2007 :: Produced by samo-wilmo-tek.

POW!, Performance Art Mini-Festival is searching for original “cutting edgy” works that combine disciplines in an unusual, original, and intelligent manner. We are looking for 20-minute maximum, low tech or semi-low tech (simple video+audio, performance, lighting) creative pieces that integrate music, sound, performance art, theater, dance, and/or visual arts. Selected works will be performed live at Space Gallery in San Francisco, California during our 1st Annual Spring Performance Festival March 6 - 8, 2008. Continue reading

Conceived by Grisha Coleman, echo::system is a series of multi-platform, site-specific, live performance installations, referred to as Action Stations. Natural habitats such as the bottom of the ocean floor, an open prairie land, a volcanic island, a desert, provide the information from which the team of collaborators develop physical, virtual and mythological material systems to create alternative environments. By research and observation of natural and urban habitats, echo::system is an experience of ‘constructed’ nature that looks at integrated systems and resonant patterns in the landscape to create a surreal parallel world and unearth unexpected experiences for its inhabitants. Continue reading

[Image: Vytautas Landsbergis with a cardboard figure of Lt. Colonel Oliver North on a visit in the USA, picture: private] FLUXUS EAST - Fluxus Networks in Central and Eastern Europe
:: September 27 - November 4, 2007; Wed - Sun 2-7 pm :: Opening: September 26, 7 pm :: Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, D-10997 Berlin.

Fluxus is well-known as an (anti-)artistic, international network with centres in the USA, Western Europe and Japan. But what about this “intermedia” art — art encompassing music, actions, poetry, objects and events — beyond the “Iron Curtain”? What echo did Fluxus find in the states of the former Eastern Bloc, and what parallel developments existed there? Continue reading

The League of Imaginary Scientists is a non-exclusive society for creative scientists, mechanically-inclined artists, absurdist inventors, and self-proclaimed quacks (think subterfuge meets centrifuge). The League specializes in building mega-media constructions of scientific mythologies. Media artist Lucy H. G. is a returning LKV artist-in-residence, having worked and exhibited in Trondheim in winter, 2005. As Dr. L. Hernandez Gomez, she acts as coordinating researcher for the League, pulling from the collective creativity of local and remote artists to realize interactive mega-media installations. Collaborators for The Childhood Machine include Matt Solomon from Los Angeles, artists Anne Helga Henning and Pol Buyesen of Trondheim, with remote engineering by Jeremy Schwartz and Steve Shoffner in Los Angeles and sound development by Imaginationandmymother in London. Continue reading