Next Nature 2008: The Biggest Visual Power Show - an intellectual show between a conference and a pop concert; from movies to live performance. From physical experience to virtual imagination :: May 17, 2008; 8:00 - 10:00 pm :: Million Dollar Theater, 307 South Broadway, Los Angeles, CA.

We are living in a time in which the ‘made’ and the ‘born’ are fusing. Hypoallergenic cats are already on the market. Plants are used as sensors, information displays and chemical factories. Animals are being augmented and branded. Young girls are provided with hypernatural vaginas, modeled after the photoshopped vaginas seen in Playboy magazine. In response to donor organ shortages, researchers are working on a 3D organ printer. Continue reading

THURSDAY CLUB :: Rachel Beth Egenhoefer: Knitting Intangibles :: April 17, 2008; 6-8 pm :: Seminar Rooms at Ben Pimlott Building (Ground Floor, right), Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross :: FREE, ALL ARE WELCOME.

Rachel Beth Egenhoefer will be presenting work in progress from her residency that explores the motion of knitting and the motion of code. Some of the work includes a knit zoetrope, interactive virtual knitting, knitting with the Nintendo Wii and others. She describes the interactive virtual knitting as demonstrating the motion from the knitting actions are tracked and translated into a visualization of knit code displayed on screen (and eventually on the web). Continue reading

Eclectic Tech Carnival :: May 25-31, 2008 :: Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

The /ETC is a unique tech skill-share that has been held annually since 2002. The emphasis has always been women sharing their experiences, knowledge and skills around free software, open hardware and universal interoperability of systems in a fun way. We are calling all women who are interested in the Eclectic Tech Carnival to register here. Registration closes at 23:59 on April 1, 2008. Continue reading

Together with the category of “space”, “time” has been radically changed by computer networks and the implementation of their instant communication. Present Eternity, sense and experience in the digital society times is a conference focused on ‘time’ specific influence on the contemporary work of art, especially as a founding value of any modernity principle. Among the conference topics there are digital images impact on our society, the instant, the continuum, the degradable and the eternal. Continue reading

Urban Living - Six International Artists Explore Technology and Environmental Issues: France Cadet, Pascal Glissmann & Martina Hofflin, Informationlab, Roman Kirschner, and Sabrina Raaf :: January 25 - April 5, 2008 :: Opening: January 25, 2008; 5:30-9 pm :: France Cadet - Artist Talk :: January 26; 1 pm :: Wood Street Galleries, 601 Wood Street, Pittsburgh, PA.

France Cadet (Artist / Robotic Teacher), born in 1971, is a French Artist whose work raises questions about various aspects in science debates: danger of possible accidents, observation of animal and human behavior, artificialisation of life, side effects of cloning… Continue reading

Carnival of e-Creativity & Change-Agents Conclave 2008 [CeC & CaC (pronounced “Sek & Sak”) ]:: Shankar Barua, curator :: February 15-17, 2008 :: New Delhi India International Centre, (Main Auditorium - Conference Room #2 - Gandhi-King Plaza - Rooftop Pergola). Also see Electroacoustic Workshop [PDF].

CeC & CaC is an annual global occasion to collectively seek out, manifest, learn from, connect with and enjoy a studied broad canvas of cutting-edge participation & content from India and the world, addressing the Creative Empowerment of Individuals by the burgeoning spread of Technology across multiple streams of human endeavour. Continue reading

An 8-bit Moment in Gameplay: [giantJoystick] - Mary Flanagan :: Exhibition: February 4 - March 17, 2008 :: Reception: February 14, 6 - 8 pm :: Gallery at Calit2, Atkinson Hall, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA.

On February 4, the UCSD division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) will launch the 2008 program of its new Gallery at Calit2, an art-meets-technology space on the first floor of Atkinson Hall on the La Jolla campus. The art showcase reflects the nexus of innovation implicit in Calit2’s vision, and advances the understanding and appreciation of the dynamic interplay among art, science and technology. Continue reading

Pierre Lévy in conversation with Scott Lash and Robert Zimmer :: January 29, 2008; 5.30-7.30 pm :: Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre, Goldsmiths College, New Cross :: To reserve a place, please email graduateschool [at] gold.ac.uk.

Pierre Lévy is a philosopher who has devoted his professional life to the understanding of the cultural and cognitive impacts of the digital technologies and to promote their best social uses. His work is focused around the concept of collective intelligence and knowledge-based societies, and he is a world-leading thinker on “cyberculture”. Continue reading

Nature Version 2.0: Ecological Modernities and Digital Environmentalism :: January 21 – February 16, 2008 :: Opening: February 8, 2008; 5–7 pm :: Clifford Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, N.Y. :: Works by Natalie Jeremijenko, Brooke Singer, Joline Blais, Tom Sherman, Jane Marsching, Don Miller (aka no carrier), Colin Ives, Alex Galloway, Amy Franceschini, Michael Alstad, and Andrea Polli.

Nature Version 2.0 is a survey of artists who reinvent environmentalism for a digital age in a number of ways: by examining how digital technologies can make ecological problems more salient, by reusing and recycling obsolete technologies for new uses, and by exploring how digital spaces and the public domain may require environmental protection much like nature. Continue reading

The Not Quite Yet - On the Margins of Technology Artists Workshop :: February 2008 :: [ s p a c e ], 129 -131 Mare Street, London.

For artists working with media/technology who are interested in the social implications of technology and working in the public domain. Hosted by specialists in their field, sessions will raise questions and facilitate approaching relevant and personal answers. Attendees will enhance key communication and negotiation skills whilst contributing to the wider debate of realising the impacts of technology for opening up participation in art. Outcomes will feed into On the Margins of Technology symposium day on February 29, 2008. Continue reading