MTAA’s Self-Selected Super St*rs :: April 29, 2008; 8:00 pm :: Industry City, 55 33rd Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenue), 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, NY.

MTAA shoot and simultaneously screen two films’ starring you. Are you great at off-the-cuff repartee? Look good taking a nap? Able to read bad sci-fi scripts out loud without laughing? Or are you just perfect at hanging out and being you? MTAA needs you to star in our low budget and barely (if at all) scripted film. Think Chelsea Girls meets Plan 9 from Outer Space while watching Empire. Continue reading

Subversive Complicity: Critical Conversations in a Limo - created by Holly Crawford :: May 1, 2008; 5, 6, 7, and 8 pm :: The LAB, 16th and Capp St., San Francisco :: The limo will leave from and return to The LAB. Reserve your free space by calling the gallery at (415) 864-8855 :: Exhibition runs May 1-24, 2008 :: Opening Reception: May 1, 6-9 pm.

Hop into a white limousine with eight strangers to converse about anything in art for one hour. Hosts, who are critics and curators, will guide conversations and offer refreshments. Continue reading

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For Internal Message Search: A Performative Installation, opening Friday, April 18th, pioneering video and internet artist Nina Sobell will install her Location One artist residency studio in the not-for-profit art center’s project space, where she will carry on her practice for the duration of the show. Visitors will be able to see Sobell’s recent wax sculptures and drawings, interact freely with the artist, and even accompany her for impromptu musical sessions (Sobell is a skilled improvisational guitarist and keyboardist). Continue reading

Amateurs :: April 23 - August 9, 2008 :: CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, California College of the Arts, 1111 Eighth Street, San Francisco.

Participating artists: Johanna Billing, Jennifer Bornstein, Andrea Bowers, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Harrell Fletcher, Josh Greene, Cameron Jamie, Alan Kane, Long March Project, Yoshua Okon, Michele O’Marah, Hirsch Perlman, Jim Shaw, Simon Starling, Javier Téllez, Jeffrey Vallance, and Eric Wesley :: Curator: Ralph Rugoff.

Amateurs surveys a terrain of artistic practice that departs from the hyperprofessionalization characterizing so much cultural production today. Whether working as amateurs in disciplines beyond the art world or collaborating with amateur practitioners, the artists featured in this exhibition refuse to let the experts have the last word. Continue reading

Cityscapes — initiated by Myron Turner — offers a common ground where people can share their experiences of the places where they live and have lived, or have visited. Or places they’ve imagined, read about, hope or have hoped to visit. In other words, Cityscapes is not only the reflection of physical space but of a shared imaginative space.

Its theoretical basis lies in ideas of locative art and pyschogeography. The camera and descriptive text are its locative technologies, and the pyschogeography consists of the spaces we inhabit as a global community. Continue reading

Pat Kane wrote: A general, not-too-technical review for mainstream paper in the UK of Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody, and Leadbeater’s We-Think, but it may be a departure point for the IDC community. One thing I would add: the tension between these books’ approach to the same phenomenon - what Shirky calls ’social tools’, what Leadbeater calls ‘mass collaboration’ - lies in the role of the state as having an input into internet governance.

Shirky takes a largely hands-off line - these are historical rapids, made turbulent by a Gutenberg-level of social transformation, in which the best we can do is to ’stay upright on our kayak’. Leadbeater believes that there are elements of mass collaboration - open source biology? ‘we-think’ between terrorists or criminal networks? - that politicians and citizens need to try and police, through some intervention in the enabling network infrastructures. Continue reading

Urban Screens Melbourne 08: Conference: Mobile Publics; October 3-5, 2008 :: Multimedia exhibition; October 3 – 8, 2008 :: Calls for film&video, multimedia projects and poster presentations :: Deadline for poster presentations: May 24, 2008 :: Deadline for film&video / multimedia projects: May 31, 2008.

Urban Screens Melbourne 08 is the third, ground-breaking international conference and multimedia exhibition in a series of worldwide events around the redefinition of a growing digital infrastructure of moving images in public space. It will mark the official launch of the International Urban Screens Association and will take place at Federation Square, Melbourne. Federation Square is a unique cultural and community oriented multimedia precinct, centred around a significant 38m2 public LED screen. 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

Ursula Endlicher invites you to dance html with her and Nancy Agabian, Robert Appelton, Laura Meyers on Saturday. Join them in Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited #1 - www.yahoo.com :: April 5, 2008; 5:30 pm :: Performance Mix Festival at LMCC’s Swing Space, Seaport, New York (210 Front Street corner Beekman).

Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited (2006-2008) is a live performance series, which utilizes Web code as choreography. In these performances Endlicher embodies the “character” of a Website - this time she has a cast of performers joining her! - and performs its html code, which is fed in from the Web “on the fly”. Continue reading