Arc of “The Surrogates” - A contemporary performance art piece by Eva and Franco Mattes (a.k.a. 0100101110101101.ORG) via MTAA.

sur•ro•gate transitive verb: to put in the place of another: to appoint as successor, deputy, or substitute for oneself

On Friday April 11, 2008 as part of its monthly curatorial project, art collective MTAA premiered The Surrogates, a performance art piece exploring the nature of perceived identity and representation, credited to European-based art collective 0100101110101101.ORG (in absentia).

Presented at MTAA’s OTO art space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, the two-hour piece began at 7 p.m. with an open bar and velvet rope welcoming attendees in the hallway. Continue reading

Aurora Picture Show, recognized as the most innovative microcinema in Texas, presents the fifth annual Media Archeology Festival April 17-19, 2008. Curated by Aurora Artistic Director Andrea Grover and New York musician/curator Nick Hallett, this year’s festival is titled Media Archeology: Live and Televised and features multimedia artists who incorporate audio/visual technology with live performance. Each of the performers uses pre- recorded video and audio to create a mise-en-scène of projected sets, props, and environments- sometimes creating a stage, a sound-scape, or an entire cast. Continue reading

[Image: “Sentimental Objects In Attempt to befriend a Virus” by Caitlin Berrigan] ” … I have been in the midst of a serious battle with my university over a censorship case and issues of freedom of speech (not “bioart” related). An exhibition, “Virutal Jihadi,” by an Iraqi / U.S. artist Wafaa Bilal was closed because the university did not think the content was appropriate. Then this same exhibition was moved to a non-profit art space in the city of Troy, and the day after the exhibition opened the city closed that art space down claiming their building had code violations. So needless to say it is all a mess and has been taking up much of my time. The university is now proposing to set up a committee to review all exhibition proposals. For further details please go to www.wafaabilal.com. Continue reading

LIVE - Radical Software Group (Alexander R. Galloway) and MTAA (Mike Sarff & Tim Whidden), Natalie Bookchin, Aphid Stern, Michael Dale, Karen Finley, Siebren Versteeg and Ben Rubin :: April 3 – June 7, 2008 :: Opening Reception: April 3, 6:30 – 9:00 pm :: Beall Center for Art & Technology, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, University of California, Irvine, CA :: curated by David Familian.

What is the meaning of “live” when the majority of our day-to-day interactions are so mediated? LIVE features seven artists who sample and transform data, photographs and video from the Internet and incorporate it into their sculptures and installations. Continue reading

Reenactment: Gandhi’s March to Dandi — The Salt Satyagraha Online by Joseph DeLappe :: March 12 – April 6, 2008; 12 – 6 pm daily :: Spangle (Second Life - SLURL changes daily, check the blog) and Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st St., NYC.

Over the course of 26 days, using a treadmill customized for cyberspace, Joseph DeLappe, recipient of Eyebeam’s 2008 Commission for Resident Artists, will reenact Mahatma Gandhi’s famous 1930s Salt March. The original 240-mile walk was made in protest of the British salt tax. Continue reading

Call for Contributions: free103point9 Transmission Art Archive - A participatory online initiative toward defining the genre :: Deadline: March 15, 2008 :: free103point9 defines Transmission Arts as a conceptual umbrella that unites a community of artists and audiences interested in transmission ideas and tools. This genre encompasses a diversity of practices and media working with the idea of transmission or the physical properties of the electromagnetic spectrum. Transmission art is generally a participatory live-art or time-based art, and often manifests as radio art, video art, light sculpture, installation, and performance. Continue reading

Spring NODE.L ‘08 is a seasonal gathering of media art called by NODE.London, showing how London is budding with fresh exhibitions, discussions, musical events and participatory projects.

Designing for the 21st Century: Using Web 2.0 Technologies for Social Action :: March 11; 1 pm - March 12, 4 pm :: SPACE Studios, 129-131 Mare St, Hackney, E8 3RH - Social networking tools and Web 2.0 are this year’s talking points. But the chatter hides their growing history as means to contact, link and engage a broad range of friends, strangers, existing and emergent groups in forms of work and play that build (or challenge) civil society. Continue reading

Ars Virtua Artist in Residence (AVAIR): Feed Lack Loop by Micheál O’Connell :: March 6, 2008; 7:30 pm (11:30 am Second Life Time)  :: Lighthouse, 28 Kensington Street, Brighton :: SLURL.

Feed Lack Loop arose out of experiments with the idea of Feedback. Using a live performer and an Avatar in the Online World Second Life, Micheál O’Connell inquires whether the concept of interactivity, so lauded in contemporary culture, is about Empowerment or possibly leads to its opposite: Control. Also the liveliness, or lack of it, in virtual space is brought into question. The event will be situated in two spaces simultaneously, Ars Virtua Gallery in Second Life and as a live projection and performance at Lighthouse. Other relevant pieces by the same artist may be incorporated or displayed. Continue reading

Digital Chile_08 - Isabel Aranda, Klaudia Kemper, Alberto Lagos, Roberto Larraguibel, Félix Lazo and Claudio Rivera-Seguel :: Electronica Digital Chile Road-Show - Live Audio / Visual Performance :: March 1, 10 pm - 3 am :: Society for Arts and Technology [SAT], 1195 Saint-Laurent Boulevard, Montreal, Canada.

This travelling exhibition, which now visits Montreal for its Canadian première, is an exciting overview of avant-garde art in Chile. It shows the great wealth of themes and styles that currently inspire the imaginations of Chilean artists. The mixed-media digital artworks of this exhibition are installations that invite the audience to reflect on and experiment with the sometimes inscrutable, often complex behavior of human beings. Continue reading

Massive Change - Australasia_2008 C-M.TV: Media Arts Network - Call for Proposals :: Australasia_2008 C-M.TV: Media Arts Network is a curated new media web site in the context of global change. Proposal Australasia_2008 is ‘glocal’ responses to events that are happening around the world. From a ‘local’ viewpoint to a ‘global’ distribution feed. Current issues around forms of change that are effecting the planet: carbon counting, climate change, social networking, weather and ‘live’ data aesthetics…

The arena of Massive Change - since environmental tipping points are interconnected with other spheres that may have ramifications beyond the environment, into social and political systems - we open up that dialogue with you to interpret and make a proposal. Continue reading