Upgrade! Berlin presents: Mader | Stublic | Wiermann :: April 25, 2008; 8 pm :: Redesign Deutschland, aka System Lüftung, Torstrasse 94 in Berlin-Mitte (U Rosenthaler Platz oder Rosa Luxemburg Platz).

Heike Wiermann, Holger Mader and Alexander Stublic focus on video art installations, media facades and art in the public sphere. Their latest projects cover for example the spectacular media facade design (”twists and turns”) of the Uniqua tower in Vienna, where they have managed to transform the structure of the architecture into an ever-changing, fluid state of transition. Furthermore, they co-initiated OSRAM’s new light platform Seven Screens, which they launched with their LED-piece Reprojected. This installation focuses on the shadows of computer-simulated people. Continue reading

International Guerrilla Video Festival :: Milan :: July 12-14, 2008 :: Open Call - Deadline: June 9, 2008.

The International Guerrilla Video Festival (IGVFest) is a mobile festival integrating video art with the urban and social environment. The festival removes the technologically complex medium of video out of the institutional situation re-positioning it as open and reflexive in the public domain. The artworks have site-specific thematic relations to the space where they are shown, engaging and reflecting upon the unique architectural, historical, and interpersonal context of each area the festival travels to. Continue reading

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The Temporary Travel Office has just released a 44 page report that summarizes our research and initial recommendations for expanding the Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve in Jacksonville, FL. The report, titled Contaminating the Preserve, outlines two proposals: our 2006-7 proposal for an 800 km elevated boardwalk connecting the current Preserve to Guanabacoa, Cuba as well as the more recently proposed extension to the current Preserve that we are currently referring to as the Ash Site Annex, a 43 square mile area of Northwest Jacksonville that contains 7 former incinerator and ash- dump sites. You can download the report as a 3.4MB PDF file here. Continue reading

Living Room :: Flux Factory in collaboration with openhousenewyork :: October 4-5, 2008 :: Deadline: May 10, 2008.

Living Room is a continuation of Flux Factory’s interest in the urban experience, in New York history, and in the overlap between private and public space. Being a live / work collective, we are fascinated by what it means to inhabit a space, to make it one’s own. We want to invite artists to play with the notion of belonging to a home, and claiming a space as one’s own. So we’re going to give artists the opportunity to go into someone else’s home and make it their own, aesthetically. Continue reading

Dream Amsterdam - Ryoji Ikeda :: June 6 - 21, 2008 :: Opening: June 6, 8:30 pm - live concert and performance by Ryoji Ikeda and an amazing line up of other international guest artists and DJ’s.

Renowned composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda (Japan 1966) will create art projects for Dream Amsterdam. Ikeda’s hypnotic work plays with human perception through installations, performances, live concerts, recordings and album releases. Ikeda will use pure light as the material for his interventions in various secret locations across Amsterdam. Continue reading

Brentford Biopsy :: April 5- June 15, 2008 :: :: Watermans Gallery, 40 High Street, Brentford, London.

Watermans gallery will be converted into a live design / mapping studio where investigatory, locative media artist Christian Nold together with the designer Daniela Boraschi will be working with local residents to gather information for digital and physical visualizations of the ecological, cultural and economic ‘health’ of Brentford. Continue reading

Robert Ladislas Derr will perform Chance: Fairfax, a psychogeographical walk performance through the streets of Fairfax on March 28, 2008, starting in front of City Hall, 10455 Armstrong Street at 11:00 am. On April 4, his performance will start in front of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA), 230 The Fenway, Boston.

During The Fifth Annual Visual Cultures Symposium at George Mason University’s Johnson Center Cinema on March 27, the viewers will determine the direction of his walk performance (wearing four video cameras harnessed to his person) through the streets based upon the roll of a dice; the dice indicates that he move forward, backward, right, left, spin, or stand in place. He will accept thirty dice rolls then proceed on his walk accordingly. When spin or stand in place are the command, he will complete each for one minute. Continue reading

“The performance-, theatre- and radio-art group LIGNA (formed 1997) consists of the media theorists and radio artists Ole Frahm, Michael Hüners and Torsten Michaelsen, who work in the FSK (Free Broadcaster Combine), a non-commercial, local radio in Hamburg. LIGNA repeatedly design experimental situations which aim for the transgression of the conventional application of radio technology and the re-actualisation of its inherent, but forgotten or ignored potentials.The action Radioballet took place in the main station of Hamburg and one year later in Leipzig. Both spaces had been recently privatised and subject to control by surveillance cameras and security guards. Continue reading

Troika’s All the time in the world is a 22m long electroluminescent wall that marks the entrance to the First and Concorde Galleries lounges in the new Heathrow Terminal 5.

All the time in the World extends the conventional notion of a world clock, which commonly concentrates on capital cities in different time zones, by linking real time to places with exciting associations. It allows passengers to extend their imagination to the great natural wonders of the world, the highest mountains, the most beautiful lakes, the tallest buildings, the longest rivers, ancient cities, museums with untold treasures, dream islands and exotic deserts, thereby subverting the hard function of the traditional world clock into a poetic, fictional tool. Continue reading