Building Bridges is the motto of Munich’s 850th birthday. The project A Day in a Life is going to establish virtual bridges: Munich is linked via livestreaming with some parts of the world. The public place Wittelsbacher Platz is connected via image and sound with – since now - the following cities: Curitiba / Brazil, Skopje / Macedonia, Wellington / New Zealand, London / England, Sendai / Japan.

Artists of diverse backgrounds are involved, working mainly through performative strategies. Sceneries involving the passers-by in every city are created. For example you may see four people of four countries at the same time on four screens, communicating via webcam their wishes oder questions as a sort of statement. 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

Multiplace Network Culture Festival #7 - telematic networking, imaginary broadcasting, experimental mobility :: April 26 - May 3, 2008 :: CALL FOR ENTRIES - Deadline: February 29, 2008.

Multiplace 2008 invites artists and cultural workers to submit events / performances / installations / ideas of a networked character, such as online performances, streaming and radio projects, collaborative networked projects and workshops, or the works accessing the networks within a physical location, urban space or between remote venues. Use of digital technologies is not a crucial requirement.

Submitted projects will be proposed to participating venues and organisers. These will assist in providing the infrastructure (technical equipment, internet connection, material, staff, etc) for the project (if needed). Continue reading

The I Buy Everything Event - a hybrid happening by Florian Kuhlmann (aka Lance Kannos): The purpose of The I Buy Everything Event was to connect the digital world of Second Life with the non-digital world - and vice versa - in order to generate an open hybrid space, and extend the tradition of the ‘Happening’ via 21st century communication-technology.

The happening occurred on December 6, 2006, at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne and on a prepared piece of land in Second Life. The I Buy Everything Event was a happening around money and sex. The main focus was set on buying and selling virtual artifacts; the erotic part was assumed by ge:schuetz, doing a sex-and-gender performance to reflect on the sexual identity of the participants - in non-digital space. Continue reading

Streaming Museum -
Real-time Exhibitions in Cyberspace and Public Space on Seven Continents; A source of free cultural content and public service messaging on the environment, education and health, accessed via Internet and in high visibility public locations :: January 29 through April 2008.

Streaming Museum will present an ongoing program of multi-media exhibitions in collaboration with international curators and cultural institutions. The exhibitions will be displayed simultaneously on large screens at the participating locations, where the website itself will also be on view on nearby monitors for access to a “Global Meetup” and program information. Continue reading

concreteSTREAM is an experimental netcasting platform for live multi-location artist collaborations using low and high bandwidth including Internet 2. concreteSTREAM also invites Guest Curators for free live netcast programs, lectures and symposium panels. Baltimore MD, 2001-present.

After ten years of the emergence of the world wide web, artists have consistently sought to describe its ability through metaphor, material, and social means, such as creating a place of community beyond the borders of politicians and their regulations. Continue reading

STREAM: A Unique Multimedia Exhibition of Artists from Portugal, curated by João Silvério ::  until January 5, 2008  :: White Box, 525 West 26th Street, New York, NY.

STREAM is an exhibition that will surprise New York audiences, making us reconsider, rethink and re-contextualize global art making and information technology. The selected group of Portuguese artists stretch and stream their particular lenses into outposts of innovative art, be it where their work is made, in New York or elsewhere. STREAM’s media-based works require a public art space where the art is available in a one-to-one temporal engagement, a viewing that takes place in the context of continual coming and goings, with traffic and a constant flow of visitors – different from a cinema or a concert hall. Continue reading

Threatbox.us by Marie Sester :: November 17, 2007 - January 13, 2008 :: Fargfabriken, Laboratory of the Contemporary, Stockholm, Sweden.

Threatbox.us is an art installation with web surveillance interface in which a movie frame “attacks” visitors via a robotic video projector and computer vision tracking system. The beam of light that technologies of vision cast upon the world is also always the line of sight for a weapon with which to destroy what the beam presents as its ‘objective’ — its target. The moving projection becomes an aggressor. The merging of these technologies of vision and of destruction result in our “military-entertainment” industry. Threatbox.us seeks to question the ideological onslaught of American military-entertainment politics. Continue reading

nocinema.org: Travelling without Moving :: Oboro Center, Montreal (CAN - QC) :: curated by Suzanne Jaschko :: November 3 - December 8, 2007 :: Works by Heman Chong (SP), Angela Detanico / Rafael Lain (BR), Jérôme Joy (FR), radioqualia (NZ/GB), Sascha Pohflepp / Jakob Schillinger (DE), Marius Watz (NO).

Nocinema.org (1999-2007) is an automatic process, drawing upon strings of live streaming webcams across the world, transmitting live scenes collected from different locations with added panoramic movements and temporized on-line editing, into which some black shots are inserted (listening without visual). The sound, each time offering a different sequenced overlay, comes from a shared sound files database which is fed and updated by a team of sound artists / partners, including Continue reading

[Image: Eric Paulos’ Personal Roving Presence] “And so talking about “presence” lets us transform the question from “Must we keep moving?” to “can we make moving part of a much larger set of tools, choices that we have for projecting presence?” Or alternately, “how can we combine moving with other things to move less?”

So if you can, imagine a spectrum: one end where we’re constantly engaged in high-energy intensity mobility like airplanes, the other end where we’re locked in our bedrooms playing World of Warcraft. Its in this spectrum where we can create interesting combinations, leverage telecommunications technology to alter the way we move, that help us live our lives more sustainably. As a designer, imagine a dial that we can use to move along that spectrum - as we dial down movement, we dial up telepresence - but never fully substituting one for the other. Continue reading