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

Time-Based Conceptual Art Symposium :: April 19, 2008; 3:00 pm :: EDA (on the ground floor, next to the elevators), Broad Art Center, UCLA (directions).

TELIC Arts Exchange presents a symposium on time-based conceptual art at UCLA with the Department of Design | Media Arts and basjanader.com. This symposium is held in conjunction with our exhibition, Gravity Art. It is free and open to the public. Two artists from the exhibition will speak: Guido van der Werve and Marco Schuler. The curator of the exhibition, Rene Daalder, will give a short talk about Gerry Schum’s film Identifications, which will then be screened. At the end of the evening, Seven Easy Pieces by Marina Abramovic will be screened for the first time in Los Angeles. 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.

Sousveillance Culture Conference :: April 26, 2008; 12 - 5 pm :: The Change You Want to See Gallery, 84 Havemeyer @ Metropolitan, Brooklyn, NY.

Presentations on the theory & practice of surveillance and contemporary protest art, by graduate students in the ITP program at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. The presenters’ talks will be grouped into four panels, to be moderated by their Professor, Marisa Olson (Curator at Large, Rhizome), on topics ranging from voyeurism and play to intervention and networks of control. These panels will consist of both artist talks and critical essays, and audience members will be invited to give feedback on a few works in progress. Continue reading

Welcome Upgrade! Eindhoven, the newest Upgrade! International node! - Upgrade! Eindhoven: Mateusz Herczka and Frederico Bonelli :: May 5, 2008; 8 - 10:30 pm :: TAC (Temporary Art Centre), Vonderweg 1, 611 BK Eindhoven. The discussion will be in English.

The artists will introduce themselves and their projects related to the discourse between art and technology. To get things clear, we want to discuss the notion of ‘art VS science’. Is art hacking technology? or is technology hacking creativity? Where do we stand as artists, curators? And what do technologists, academics say about this? Continue reading

Wrestling with the Blob Beast by Ezra Johnson :: April 17, 2008; 6 - 8 pm :: Dia Art Foundation, 535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor, New York City.

In Wrestling with the Blob Beast, Johnson presents a collection of sixteen animated screensavers. Derived from painting, they cover a wide field, ranging from formal studies where color is a primary concern, to quiet nature scenes like a campfire at night, to vignettes where figure and abstraction appear to be in active battle, as in several pieces where hands appear to wrestle with paint which morphs into a dog’s face and then reverts to paint strokes. While the wrestling pieces serve as humorous metaphors for the sometimes arduous endeavor of painting, others suggest a more serene relationship, such as Fly, in which a tiny painted airplane inches across a wet, painted sky. Continue reading

Info-Aesthetics: Information and Form by Lev Manovich :: April 22, 2008; 3 - 5 pm :: Studio Ciborra, Fifth Floor, Tower One, London School of Economics and Politics, Houghton Street
London.

The unprecedented growth of information puts new pressures on contemporary societies. We need to invent new ways to interact with information, new ways to represent it, and new ways to make sense of it. How are artists, designers, and architects are responding to these challenges? Rather than trying to defend ourselves against “information glut,” can we approach this situation creatively as the opportunity to invent new forms appropriate for our information-rich world? Continue reading

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

Creative Commons Salon LA: Share, Remix, Reuse - Legally with Rex Bruce, Holly Willis, Jack Lerner, Chris Weisbart and Michael Wilson :: April 16, 2008; 7:30 pm :: Found Gallery, 1903 Hyperion Ave., Los Angeles, CA.

Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from “All Rights Reserved” to “Some Rights Reserved.” Rex Bruce, director of the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, will be screening a video he directed that uses public domain imagery from the US Military (also playing at the Centre Pompidou). Continue reading