Halsey Burgund: ROUND :: March 9 - July 27, 2008 :: Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, 258 Main Street, Ridgefield, Connecticut :: Exhibition Reception: March 9, 2008; 3 - 5 pm.

ROUND is an audio installation that will solicit spoken voice contributions from visitors and use them as part of a musical composition intended to be listened to while viewing the work on view in the galleries. The interactive audio experience will allow visitors to hear a diverse range of voices — including artists, curators, and visitors — sharing their perspectives about the exhibitions and to add their responses. 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

STREAM: A Unique Multimedia Exhibition of Artists from Portugal, curated by João Silvério ::  until January 5, 2008  :: White Box, 525 West 26th Street, New York, NY.

STREAM is an exhibition that will surprise New York audiences, making us reconsider, rethink and re-contextualize global art making and information technology. The selected group of Portuguese artists stretch and stream their particular lenses into outposts of innovative art, be it where their work is made, in New York or elsewhere. STREAM’s media-based works require a public art space where the art is available in a one-to-one temporal engagement, a viewing that takes place in the context of continual coming and goings, with traffic and a constant flow of visitors – different from a cinema or a concert hall. Continue reading

‘Rhetoric’ is usually understood to be the art or technique of persuasion through the use of oral, visual, or written language. However contemporary studies of rhetoric have a more diverse range of practices and meanings than in the past. Rhetoricians now argue in fact that the classical understanding of rhetoric is limited because persuasion depends on communication, which in turn depends on meaning. Thus the scope of rhetoric is to include much more than simply public, both legal and political, discourse. This emphasis on meaning and how it is constructed and conveyed particularly through media is part of Zachary Poff’s (zachpoof) latest installation Parallel Rethoric: Coming and Going. Continue reading

The Tulca Freedom Trail - a web based psychogeographical project created for Tulca 2007 by Conor McGarrigle :: November 10, 2007; 3:30 pm - Conor McGarrigle invites you to join him on a guided tour of the Freedom Trail and a free flowing conversation on freedom, art, maps, cultural tourism, situationism and the art of getting lost; leaves from 1-5 Merchants Road, Galway.

The Tulca Freedom Trail is a self guided audio tour based on a remapping of the famous Boston Freedom Trail to Galway. Participants equipped with a map and the authentic audio guide walk the route of the Boston Freedom Trail - commemorating the events of the American War of Independence - which has been remapped to the streets of Galway. Continue reading

Water - Vocal, Endangered by Ruri (2007): The work is an interactive multimedia installation with multiple video projections and audio. The installation was shown exhibited for the first time at the exhibition Falling Water at Reykjavik Art Museum, Kjarvalsstadir. Several video images of three waterfalls are projected onto an installation of transparent canvases, while the recorded “voices” of the waterfalls is playing. The visitor influences the audio when moving around in the installation. One of these waterfalls has now disappeared under the surface of a huge water reservoir for a new power plant. Continue reading

Boundaries + Crossings - a multimedia journal inspired by the cultures and people of Asia. Boundaries and Crossings is a critical journal showcasing creative and scholarly work examining the people and cultures of Asia, published by imagining global asia (iga). Boundaries explores issues of religion, media and communications, identity, image of other, immigration and energy-policy using a multimedia format to effectively showcase creative and scholarly work.

The inaugural issue is based on the theme of media and identity. We invite submissions that explore the diverse ways that identity is mediated by people of Asian origin, whether in the diaspora or within Asia, from branding India Shining to the western world, to the face of Islam in mainstream media. Continue reading

Embodying Sound. An interview with Bill Furlong on Audio Arts: William Furlong (1944) belongs to the generation of British artists who developed a new concept of sculpture in the 1970’s and 80’s (Gilbert & George, Bruce McLean, Paul Richards etc.). Furlong’s special contribution has been in the area of “Sound Scuplture” and, with the founding of Audio Arts (together with Michael Archer) in 1973, he began a project of mapping the territory of contemporary art in a series of cassette editions. Since its inception in 1972, Audio Arts has grown to become the world’s most comprehensive and coherently focused sound archive of artists’ voices as well as sound art but also contains documents of important exhibitions, symposia and festivals. The cassette-magazine has been in continuous and regular publication for thirty-five years, with over twenty-five volumes of four issues each. Continue reading

Second Life Walkie-Talkie Walks by Sander Veenhof; Assisted (in-world) by: Violetta Leshelle :: Contact: info[at]slwalkietalkie.com :: Conflux Festival 2007 :: Williamsburg, NY - September 13-16.

A simultaneous walking tour for Second Life avatars and real people, connected to each other by a pair of walkie talkies. One operating from the Second Life virtual world, the other running on any internet enabled mobile phone. Connect to a Second Life avatar and make a simultaneous walk in both real life and the virtual world, using a specially developed pair of walkie talkie devices. A number of thematic walks will be scheduled throughout the festival period starting at certain times, announced in both Second Life time and real time at http://slwalkietalkie.com. Continue reading

glich-gen by DreamAddictive lab :: Glitch is the digital deconstruction of an image that suffers a rupture in its source code, this rupture is known as a system error. Glich-gen uses a series of errors processed through a source code in actionscript 2 in order to generate computer animations based on image errors. Continue reading