Special Issue of Dance Chronicle (Published by Routledge) - Choreographers at the Cutting Edge: Contemporary Practices in Concert Dance :: edited by Lynn Matluck Brooks and Joellen A. Meglin :: Call for Research Articles: Deadline: January 30, 2009.

Choreographers today are pushing the edges of dance as a concert form: extending movement capacities of the body, intermixing movement genres, integrating the virtual with the actual body through technological applications, presenting dance in non-traditional sites, challenging audience-performer boundaries, and in other ways exploring and expanding dance as a theater art. Papers might address such subjects as those listed below (as well as other topics proposed by authors): Continue reading

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Data Cities Modelling Movies @ Metropolis’ Connecting Cities Congress :: October 22-25, 2008 :: Sydney, Australia :: Call for entries. Continue reading

Artspeak presents Carrall Street - Althea Thauberger :: September 30, 2008; 8:00 - 11:00 pm :: the 200 block of Carrall Street, Vancouver (in front of Artspeak Gallery) :: curated by Melanie O’Brian.

Althea Thauberger’s one-night performance will present the street (brightly lit like a film set at nighttime) as a stage, or zone of illumination where the roles of participant and spectator blur. The interweaving of organized performers, random passers-by and audience members will allow for unforeseen interactions to take place, resulting in a destabilized form of community theatre that reveals the street’s history, its current successes and stresses, as well as its future. Continue reading

Reminder: Emerging Ethical Issues of Life in Virtual Worlds :: Revised call for chapters - Deadline: August 15, 2008.

Scholarly articles on emerging issues of life in virtual worlds such as Second Life are solicited. Work that connects streams of ethics research and theory to virtual worlds as they are and to what they are developing into is particularly sought. Among the virtual world issues explicitly invited are: privacy, monitoring and eavesdropping, the fear of being exploited, the loss of identity, ethical impacts of aesthetic decisions, values and ethics manifested in the social processes and their relevance for activities such as design there, professional ethics, standards of integrity given identity issues and Continue reading

[Image: Kevin Schmidt, Wild Signals, Video installation, 2007] Wild Signals. Artistic Positions between Symptom and Analysis :: September 13 - November 9, 2008 :: Württembergischer, Kunstverein Stuttgart, Schlossplatz 2, D-70173 Stuttgart.

Wild Signals. Artistic Positions between Symptom and Analysis comprises works by eleven international artists who have appropriated scientific methods in different ways. Historical documents are subjected to a shifted reading. The instruments and discourses of criminology, psychoanalysis, ethnology, natural and parasciences are borrowed as much as questioned. Continue reading

This year, at Ars Electronica (sept 4 - 9) openFrameworks is planning to make something pretty unique. Essentially, it’s a laboratory space where a group of us will make artwork live during the course of the festival. The idea is to build a space where a dozen or so hackers, tinkerers and researchers will hang out and experiment, make stuff, create guerrilla exhibitions around the festival and document their progress and discoveries. The work that we do will come directly out suggestions from the festival audience members — and hopefully, over the 5 days, we’ll create a kind of good feedback loop between getting suggestions, making projects and exhibiting the results.

For us, we like a project like this because it can demo really well the activity of the community, and it’s a great chance to meet face to face and work closely together, since many of us are spread out in different locations. Continue reading

Laboratorio de Arte y Espacio Social (Art and Social Space Laboratory) :: August 2008 :: Quito, Ecuador.

The Laboratorio de Arte y Espacio Social (LAES) is a collaborative research workshop directed by María Fernanda Cartagena and Bill Kelley, Jr. for the Education Department of the Museo del Banco Central del Ecuador (Central Bank Museum of Ecuador). LAES will offer a free and open space for participants of any discipline to investigate and engage in issues involving the relationship between art and public space. Methodological research that involves working with and understanding public cultural practices are of primary concern within a field that has seen enormous growth of activity both locally and internationally, institutionally and informally, and individually and collectively. Continue reading

Trevor Paglen: The Other Night Sky / MATRIX 225 :: until September 14, 2008 :: University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2626 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA.

We have always contemplated the night sky with awe, envisioning ties to mythic pasts or space-bound futures. The night sky of the present is pregnant with these associations. At the same time, it cloaks in plain sight constellations of technology employed by the United States government’s “black world” of covert military and intelligence activities. Trevor Paglen, trained as both an artist and a geographer, deploys an array of tactics—from data analysis and on-the-ground exploration to long-distance photography and astronomy—to map this shadowy world of secret bases, unspecified budget allocations, stealth planes, assumed identities, and secret satellites on land and in the heavens. Continue reading

Media Matters is a multi-phase project designed to provide guidelines for care of time-based media works of art (e.g., video, film, audio and computer based installations). The project was created in 2003 by a consortium of curators, conservators, registrars and media technical managers from New Art Trust, MoMA, SFMOMA and Tate. The consortium launched its first phase, on loaning time-based media works, in 2004, and its second phase, on acquiring time-based media works, in 2007.

Often only fully realised in their installed state, time-based media works are complex systems that pose new challenges for their custodians. Continue reading

VIDA 11.0 rewards works of art developed with artificial life technologies and related disciplines: robotics, artificial intelligence, etc. We are looking for works of art with emerging behaviours, which evolve over time, react with their environment and seem to have a life of their own. VIDA 11.0 is searching for projects that relate technology with biology and that research the synthetic characteristics of modern life. Continue reading