[Image: Portrait of the Puppet, The Vitruvian World by Michael Takeo Magruder, Drew Baker, David Steele] International Journal of Arts and Technology (IJART) - Call For Papers :: Special Issue on Immersive Virtual, Mixed, or Augmented Reality Art :: Guest Editors: Maria Roussou and Maurice Benayoun :: Deadline: September 1, 2008.

For the past fifteen years, virtual reality (VR) and, more recently, mixed reality (MR) and augmented reality (AR) environments that immerse their participants in imaginary space, have emerged to define an area that blurs the lines between the seemingly different worlds of research, creativity, and technological practice, while exploring the interdependencies between the virtual and the physical. Continue reading

Journal of Location Based Services, Special Issue: Neogeography: Theory and Tools :: Guest Editors - Sanjay Rana, University College London, UK; Thierry Joliveau, University of Jean Monnet-St. Etienne, France :: Submission Deadline: May 30, 2008.

In the last few years some of the most exciting new developments in location-aware computing, mobile GIS and web cartography have come from a new wave of developers, hackers, bloggers and entrepreneurs from outside the traditional GIS industry and research community. These new players have developed a new type of geo-application that is service-oriented, collaborative and web-oriented in nature and have pioneered mass market and collaborative applications. Continue reading

January’s Art and Immaterial Labour conference at the Tate brought together some famous names from post-Autonomia to discuss conjunctions between the dematerialisation of art and immaterialisation of labour. John Cunningham reports.

“Upon hearing that some of the stars of the post-autonomist scene – Maurizzio Lazzarato, Judith Revel, Franco Beradi aka Bifo and Antonio Negri – were to give presentations at a conference examining the conjunction of ‘immaterial labour’ and art, my initial reaction was fairly sceptical. The concept of immaterial labour has always showed signs of strain at the sheer weight of revolutionary expectation placed upon it – a carrier of a subversive charge so immanent to Capital that it is almost already here. Continue reading

Mark Marino announces the launch of a new collaborative blog titled Critical Code Studies. The blog is dedicated to exploring interpretations of computer code within cultural contexts. Rather than focusing primarily on making code function or even the pursuit of “beautiful” code, critical code studies brings in critical theory to examine the ways in which the lines of code reflect, shape, and reproduce our culture including aspects of class, gender, race, sexuality. These criticisms include both the context for the code’s creation and the ways in which it circulates in culture. Rather than one specific lens, CCS names a growing collection of methodologies for making/finding meaning in code. Continue reading

RFID and the Tagged exhibition by Space Media Arts

The Spychip Under Your Skin by Armin Medosch: Commissioned by [ space.media.arts ] to accompany the Tagged exhibition, Armin Medosch writes about RFID, first introducing the technology and its context. Briefly introducing Bruce Sterling’s ideas about ’shaping things’ Medosch adds to this some of my his reflections about the contentious notion of techno-social ‘progress’. Based on this contextual analysis the text formulates some of the challenges and possibilities for artists who work with technology in general and the routes chosen by the selected artists in the Tagged exhibition. [PDF] Continue reading