[Worldview is an urban installation for tourists that enables them to record their experience with both an instant-print postcard and a video clip and look through realtime windows into public spaces in other cities.] Fitting in with the surveillance theme in the last few posts but also some older work discussed here (World Bench, Miroir Aux Silhouettes, Intimate Transactions and the work of Paul Sermon), Worldview (by Haque Design) allows users to engage with both the spaces around them, subsequent users to the installation and users interacting with a similar installation elsewhere. 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

The following text complements the exhibition An 8-bit Moment in Gameplay: [giantJoystick], currently on view at gallery@calit2, Calit2, University of California at San Diego.

Mary Flanagan Interview: Social Change, Video Games and the Visual Arts by Eduardo Navas: Mary Flanagan is an artist and media theorist invested in developing games for social change and performance/action installations. Based on her interests Flanagan produced [giantJoystick] in 2006, and gallery@calit2 is proud to present this working large-scale game-interface from February 4 to March 17 of 2008. [giantJoystick] brings together Flanagan’s diverse interests as a cultural producer. Continue reading

Email became an integral part of my life in 1998. Like many people, I have archived all of my email with the hope of someday revisiting my past. I am interested in revealing the innumerable relationships between me, my schoolmates, work-mates, friends and family. This could not readily be accomplished by reading each of my 60,000 emails one-by-one. Instead, I created My Map, a relational map and alternative self portrait. My Map is a piece of custom designed software capable of rendering the relationships between myself and individuals in my address book by examining the TO:, FROM:, and CC: fields of every email in my email archive. Continue reading

Download these notes for Putting Region in its Place. A Work in Progress: …it is still the case that no one lives in the world in general. Everybody, even the exiled, the drifting, the diasporic, or the perpetually moving, lives in some confined and limited stretch of it - ‘”the world around here” (Geertz 1996: 261-2).

Definitions: What do we mean by place and region? What constitutes these often taken-for-granted identities? Furthermore what sort of entity is a place? A long standing assumption is that there is something natural or essential about the identities of regions and places. Continue reading

On Yasmine, Janine Randerson asked Can Art be a ‘mediator’ between Art and Climate Science? www.out-of-sync.com responded: In relation to our own work, Talking about the Weather, and an exhibition we co-curated at UTS Gallery, Sydney (with Jacqueline Bosscher), The Trouble with the Weather — here are some initial thoughts on your opening questions.

1. Is an emergent mode of “relational” art developing that is more receptive to public anxieties and concerns about climate and atmospheric pollution?

Our project description for Talking about the Weather, which involves social encounters in public places, directly addresses this, so hope you don’t mind if we just repeat it here: Continue reading

On November 20, 2007, greyworld’s latest work, entitled Monument to the Unknown Artist, will be unveiled. At first glance, Monument to the Unknown Artist appears to be a simple bronze statue, dressed in a neck scarf and loose fitting suit. However, the super-sized monument will seek inspiration from passers-by, inviting them to strike poses which he will copy, continually changing his form in a light-hearted and mischievous way. The unique sculpture will offer an alternative and accessible creative experience for the public allowing them to create a dialogue with the work of art. Continue reading

Into.Inter.Tech Project: Introvert, Intercommunicate and the Intersection of Technology :: November 3, 2007; 11 am - 7 pm :: The Brewery Complex, 284 Amory Street, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.

This is the first show for a newly created Boston-based art project, Into.Inter.Tech Project, founded in September 2007 by Rebecca Scheckman to create a live art forum for artists working with new technologies. This specific show is dedicated to communication technology and how we relate to one another through it/because of it. These shows are to be hosted in alternative spaces that are unclaimed by a specific group and open to the public asking only for donation. Continue reading

Reading Review - Relational Aesthetics - Nicolas Bourriaud; with additional resources: [1] Flash In Japan: Brian Massumi on Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s Amodal Suspension 2003; [2] Public Warning in the Networked Age: Open Standards to the Rescue? by Art Botterell and Ronja Addams-Moring March 2007; [3] Tele-Agency: Telematics, Telerobotics and the Art of Meaning by Edward A. Shanken 2000.

The writings of Nicolas Bourriaud on the subject of Relational Form takes a broader look upon the structures of art in contemporary society. Bourriaud’s main focus is on the relationship between the artwork and the cultural space in which it was created. Continue reading

Enzimi: Call for Action! public art, urban art, psychogeography, net art, interactive art, socializing process between members of real and virtual community :: Please submit your project on our website before October 27, 2007.

Enzimi offers space to talents and assists the natural outcome of creative processes. We want to bring projects together, and share them, make them real. Enzimi is meant as a continuous drive towards viral ideas, their changing quality and their ability to move, generate and regenerate possibilities. Continue reading