New technologies of the self, mobilities and (co-)construction of identity :: Edited by: Fred Dervin & Yasmine Abbas :: Call for Abstracts :: Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by March 15, 2008. Full chapters will be expected to be submitted by September 1, 2008.

The new interpersonal spaces created by web 2.0 and 3.0 technologies seem to correspond to the technologies of the self that Michel Foucault (1988) has addressed in his lectures at the Collège de France at the beginning of the 1980s. These new technologies enable the individual’s self to emerge publicly and to be worked upon with its “disciples”: be they companions in Second Life, readers (for example on a blog) or listeners (Podcasts). Continue reading

A presentation made by Ruairi Glynn in November 2007 at Europrix Graz, Austria about some of the elements of architecture, technology and cultural history that most inspire him in his research and installation art work exploring the potential for an Interactive Architecture.

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SHOT@50: Looking Beyond - Society for the History of Technology 2008 Annual Conference :: October 11-14, 2008 :: Lisbon :; Call for Proposals - Deadline: March 14, 2008.

The Society for the History of Technology will continue the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Society. The theme of last year’s conference was “SHOT@50: Looking Back.” This year’s will be “SHOT@50: Looking Beyond.” Continue reading

The New Technologies / Liedts-Meesen Foundation Award will be bestowed upon an artwork exploiting state-of-the-art technology and media in its quest for creativity and renewal. Ten projects will be chosen by an international jury. The composition of the jury and the competition rules may be found on the website.

The presentation of the selected works will take place at the same time as Update II, an exposition of interactive artworks from the Centre for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe (Germany); the ZKM is internationally known as the leading museum of new media. During Update II (April 20-July 6, 2008), to be held at the Zebrastraat Ghent, one of the projects will be awarded a cash prize of 5000 euros.

Art, Technology, Culture - A Series of Conferences at Friche Belle de Mai, 41 rue Jobin, 13003 Marseille, France :: presented by Alphabetville, Zinc-Ecm, and Leonardo/Olats :: Free entrance.

Interested in the field of technological and new media art, but also into the relations between scientists, engineers, artists and cultural players, this new series is opening an enjoying and common reflection around the relationship between art, technology and culture.

December 5, 2007; 6.30 pm: Critical Spaces for Art, Technology and Culture - This conference will propose a presentation of Leonardo/Olats, and will focus and report on the recent Mutamorphosis international conference in Prague. Continue reading

Decoy, by Jane Prophet, is a screen based digital work reflecting on the politics of landscape, construction and ownership. Drawing on works by painters such as Gainsborough and Poussin as well as the creations of landscape designers Humphry Repton and “Capability” Brown, Decoy consists of a series of animated digital “paintings”, displayed on plasma-screens, in which subtly evolving fractal landscapes are combined with photographic images of the views of the grounds of various country houses. Continue reading

Jonctions 10 / Verbindingen - Tracks in electr(on)ic fields - Interdisciplinary & multimedia festival presented by Constant - association for art & media :: Video library, installations, live concerts, video experiments, screenings, workshops, performances, lectures, demos :: Opening: November 24, 2007; 2:00 pm :: until December 2, 2007 :: La Bellone, Q-02, La Compilothhque, Actic asbl :: VJ10 stream and chat.

Tracks in electr(on)ic fields, gestures transformed into data, codes that set bodies in motion, prescriptions that ask to be interpreted. Continue reading

Black Brane by Tomas Eller :: December 14, 2007 - February 16, 2008 :: Opening: December 13, 2007; 7 p.m. :: Kunstverein Medienturm, Josefigasse 1, A-8020 Graz.

“Tomas Eller’s video works question the precarious relation of “nature” or “naturalness” and “technology” by analysing, surveying and using as a stage the Alpine mountainscape by means of complex, technical procedures. Continue reading

TAFKAV by Francesco Monico :: AMBER’07: Body-Process Art Festival :: Istanbul, Turkey :: until November 17, 2007. TAFKAV is an installation that could be considered a ‘moist medium’; it was conceived to explore a poetic communication process between a vegetable organism and man. The scheme used can be described thus: Sensors able to detect bioenergetic fields – electric conductivity, photosynthesis and other properties – that plants produce are applied around Vanda, an epiphytic orchid with a monopodial growth habit that likes to live on the branches of trees. Continue reading

International Journal of Arts and Technology (IJART) :: Special Issue on: Performance and the City - Call For Papers :: This special issue seeks long- and short-form submissions exploring historical and contemporary relationships between live performance and the city, especially those prompted or mediated by technological development.

Technology drives (and can reveal) the rhythms of our cities. It modulates information flow, mediates our rituals and is in the midst of some of our most essential invitations to be together: urban public space and live performance. Performance has been vitalized by technology at times and rightly shunned it at others. Continue reading