Conducting Mobility - Brian Collier, Free Soil, Amy Balkin / Kim Stringfellow / Tim Halbur / Greenaction / Pond, kanarinka, Michael Mandiberg, Laurie Palmer, Platform, Josephine Starrs / Leon Cmielewski :: Curators Ryan Griffis and Claude Willey collide with a carload of cultural projects focusing on the problems of mobility and energy :: @ greenmuseum.org.

Our world is continually shaped and reshaped by patterns of mobility. In the United States, motorization and single-use zoning are the principal components of a system that depends upon long distance travel and cheap energy. In the developing world, the wasteful patterns of the West are being repeated in places like China and India where increased automobile and fuel use are quickly becoming the norm. Continue reading

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

Virtual Residency Project - Call for Participation :: Deadline: May 1, 2008 :: Dates of Residency: June 1 - November 4, 2008.

Location One presents its first ever Virtual Residency Project in the form of a call to artists and other creative individuals with the express purpose of fostering collaboration and creativity across geographical expanses and areas of expertise around the topic of the 2008 US Presidential Election. Continue reading

Invisible Threads by Jeff Crouse and Stephanie Rothenberg :: April 15, 2008; 8 -10 pm :: Eyebeam Art & Technology Center, 540 West 21st (between 10th & 11th) :: Free event + performances by current Eyebeam artists.

Think virtually. Buy locally. Invisible Threads - a virtual sweatshop - will be operating live from Second Life and Eyebeam as part of the Synthetic Times Beijing Media Arts Symposium closing reception. The mixed reality performance explores the politics of virtual labor through the creation of a designer jeans sweatshop in the online, 3-dimensional world of Second Life. Continue reading

This spring, WGBH Lab’s Open Call and P.O.V. offer you a chance to make your voice heard BEFORE the voting booths open :: Deadline: May 2, 2008.

PITCH the WGBH Lab and P.O.V. your ideas for a compelling, 3-minute video short. Be creative — we want to be surprised! If selected, we’ll give you $2,000 to make it happen. Afterwards we’ll feature it online and we may broadcast it on national TV! Your story could be about an ongoing national or local issue, memories of elections past, or insight on how our NEW president can make a change — you decide! Continue reading

Democracy: Call for Curator(s) [PDF] and Artists [PDF] :: Deadline: May 30, 2008.

City Without Walls (cWOW) seeks a curator (or co-curators) for an upcoming group exhibition dealing with issues and ideas about democracy. The exhibition opens in September 2008, taking the pulse of democracy in America and around the world just prior to the Presidential election.

City Without Walls (cWOW) seeks artists and artwork for a group exhibition dealing with issues and ideas about democracy, and scheduled to open this fall just prior to the Presidential election. The exhibition will take the pulse of the state of democracy in America and around the world. Continue reading

Theory + Practice curated by Evonne M. Davis; Networked curated by Donna Kessinger, New Media Room; If So, Then So! New Work by Kevin Darmanie, Project Room :: April 19 - May 17, 2008 :: Opening Reception: April 19, 7 -10 pm :: Gallery Aferro 73 Market St Newark NJ .

“There are no countries now.” From artist Alan Bigelow’s When I was President :: Theory+ Practice is an acknowledgment, interrogation and fete of the void between what the world could be and what it is. Web artist and writer Alan Bigelow’s piece, When I was President is an interactive projection that details a presidency ended by a suicide bomber: ‘a high school teacher from Des Moines.’ ‘She said it was the only way to make the world right again.’ Continue reading

“It’s the Transmediale at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. Somewhere, something in this cavernous Marshall Plan edifice is flickering. Closer at hand in the exhibition hall, half-tilted black boxes on the floor solicit you to crawl under them and encounter others of your kind watching videos. The fauna underneath are warm and resistant, though you would expect to encounter something rather more cold and slimy when lifting a rock, which is what the black-box bivouac viewing situation feels like. Continue reading

No Place - like Home. Perspectives on Migration in Europe :: April 15 - June 21, 2008 :: Opening: April 12; 6 - 9 pm :: Argos - Centre for Art and Media, Werfstraat 13 rue du Chantier, B – 1000 Brussels.

The group exhibition No Place - like Home: Perspectives on Migration in Europe features eighteen Belgian and international artists. Their videos, photographic works and installations take a closer look at what lies under the surface of the migration issue. Migration is a thing of all ages. Where Europeans once colonized various continents and emigrated en masse to other lands both in and beyond their own continent, movement from the opposite direction has now taken hold. Capital, goods and information circulate freely in the late-capitalist, globalized world economy. Continue reading

Upgrade! Tel Aviv - Jerusalem: Watchmen: Screening of the video, meeting and talk with Jack Faber :: April 2, 2008; 8 pm :: Daila, Shlomzion Hamalka 4, Jerusalem.

Model of Influence by Tal Ben Zvi / Jack Faber: Tal Ben Zvi: from the various constructions of meaning that artworks can create to influence other structures of society, the recent and relevant work to the Model of Influence investigation is to my opinion ‘Watchmen’ - an ongoing 3 years project ranging from guerrilla filmmaking, through gallery installations, to an innovating international precedent court verdict in the field of art, human rights and the freedom of expression. Continue reading