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

Nomadic Shopping - A locative media project by Esther Polak :: World premiere of GPS track docu-fiction: Esther Polak used a new innovative GPS-functionality to tell a poetic story: a GPS docu-fiction, central theme being the The Opzeeland Dairy Route by night :: Place: The Waarder Polder, an industrial area in East – Haarlem, Netherlands :: Space: The daily route of the mobile Dairy Shop Van Opzeeland.

To create a double image of space and place, Esther Polak used the “mashup website” VeoGeo.com. The website combines images of GPS registrations with YouTube route-footage. Combined and synchronized, tracks and video’s can be followed step by step resulting in an extremely realistic experience of armchair traveling. Continue reading

Fundamentalism vs Evolution- another dilemma of coexistence DIWOlogue 2 - a live networked performance :: March 20, 2008; 8:00 pm (2 am GMT) :: online in Visitorsstudio :: As part of the Liminal Screen Programme, Colab-lab, JPL Building, BMNI, Banff, Canada.

A 30 minute performance will be given by Marc Garrett and Ruth Catlow. The mix will then open up for everyone who is logged in to Visitorsstudio to join in. The title for the performance is inspired by a silent news reel from 1925 called ‘Fundamentalism vs Evolution’ by the Topical Film Company, UK 1925, released last year by the BFI Creative Archive Licence Group. Continue reading

Turbulence Commission: iPak - 10,000 songs, 10,000 images, 10,000 abuses curated and engendered by Ajaykumar.

iPak - 10,000 songs, 10,000 images, 10,000 abuses (iPak) is a playful, inter-active and participatory art work, that integrates your creativity, the random generation of works by a computer, and art engendered by Ajaykumar. iPak synthesises conceptual innovation, social engagement and therapeutic process: generative art as re-generative force; art-making as a medicine; inspiration emerging from tragedy; and the notion that social factors — such as marginalisation and racism — cause mental illness. Continue reading

In The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1979), Lyotard argued that our postmodern age is marked by “incredulity towards grand narratives” (the progress of history, the ability of knowing everything by science, and the possibility of absolute freedom). Lyotard argues that we don’t believe anymore they represent and contain us all. We are alert to difference, diversity, beliefs and desires, and so postmodernity is characterised by an abundance of micronarratives. Continue reading

Dancing in Second Life - Mixed Reality Performance in Second Life & Real Life - part of The International Society for Improvised Music (ISIM) Second Annual Conference: Building Bridges :: December 14, 2007; 2-3 pm EST / 20:00-21:00 GMT+1 :: Locations: online in Second Life: Funk Soup Theater, Gembong West, 31/75/551 and at Northwestern University School of Music, Lutkin Hall. Attendance is limited. RSVP with your Second Life name. First time in Second Life? Check out our SL help page.

In this session, Second Life avatars will dance with improvised music from Real Life at ISIM. Real Life performers are Pauline Oliveros - electronics, harmonica & small instruments with spoken word artist Ione & dancer Heloise Gold. Continue reading

[Image: Future Memories by Scott Kildall] Scott Kildall wrote: I am an independent artist, currently living in San Francisco. Lately I have been working with forms of remediation including several projects in Second Life, a recreation of the lost Apollo 11 moon landing tapes and event-specific video portraits. I have an M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago through the Art & Technology Studies department. Recent projects include a residency focusing on contemporary conceptual art at the Banff Centre for the Arts and a 6-month fellowship at the Kala Art Institute. My work is at www.kildall.com.

I would like to open up a discussion on the effects of the recent blurring between media production and consumption. Specifically I would like to invite everyone to consider how this impacts contemporary art production. Continue reading

“NOISIEL, France — An American mashup artist let passers-by put words in giant zombies’ mouths last week. The show, called Txt of the Living Dead, projected 15-foot-wide, black-and-white stills from George A. Romero’s classic 1968 horror flick Night of the Living Dead onto buildings. Text messages from random people on the street then filled comics-style speech balloons that were added to the images in what New York artist Paul Notzold called an “SMS-enabled interactive street performance.” …

Notzold’s work is one of several public art projects, like Smoke Signals and the Helloworld Project, that encourage viewers to become participants. Continue reading

With WikiPediaVision you can watch realtime English Wikipedia edits on a Google Map. It was inspired by Twittervision and Flickrvision (Radar post). The site combines Wikipedia’s Recent Changes page with “Google Maps API, hostip.info and GoNew’s IP to country service.” You can learn more about the service on its FAQ. It was built by László Kozma, a grad-student at the Helsinki University of Technology.

[via Justin Hall via Duncan Gough] [posted by Brady Forrest on O’Reilly Radar]

RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA - October 24, 2007 - March 2, 2008 :: Bancroft Lobby, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2625 Durant Avenue #2250m, Berkeley, CA.

RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA celebrates the cultural and artistic practice of remix, inviting guest artists to “rip, mix, and burn” elements from two digital-media works in the museum’s collection—Ken Goldberg’s Ouija 2000 and Valéry Grancher’s 24h00 (both 1999)—resulting in new artistic creations. Continue reading