Project 929: Mapping the Solar — Augmented Bike Ride as Performative Intervention by Joseph DeLappe :: May 19-29, 2013 :: LIVE STREAM. Continue reading

HeHe – M-Blem: the train project :: August 29 – September 1, 2012; 6:00 – 10:00 pm daily :: Museum of Science and Industry, Old Station entrance, Liverpool Road, Manchester M3 4FP, UK.

The Arts Catalyst in collaboration with Abandon Normal Devices (AND) Festival is delighted to present M-blem: the train project, a new participatory commission by international public art interventionists HeHe. The project commemorates the birthplace of the world’s first recognizable modern railway – the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR), a twin-track intercity public transport system which opened in the autumn of 1830. Continue reading

Interception 5 by Roch Forowicz: Opticon is a visualization based on transformation of a 3D glassy solid. With its oval and organic shape, the transparent form generated many optical illusions and caustic reflections during the transformation process.

As a part of an artistic action entitled Interception 5, Opticon was illegally embedded in the CCTV monitoring system at The Fryderyk Chopin University of Music. The image from one of the CCTV cameras was intercepted, connected with the visualization and then implemented into the system again. The security guards could see the visualization overlaying the view of the monitored space on their screen. Continue reading

Surveillance Chess: Hijacking CCTV Cameras in London: Equipped with an interfering transmitter Mediengruppe Bitnik hacks surveillance cameras in pre-Olympic London and assumes control. The artist collective replaces real-time surveillance images with an invitation to play a game of chess. The security staff’s surveillance monitor located in the control room becomes a game console. Continue reading

Blow-Up is pleased to announce Locating Story by Dora García, a Twitter performance beginning February 20.

Locating Story combines twitter, geo-location software and performance. A performer will monitor a person as they move through the city, from home to work, from his work to elsewhere. The performer does not know the person; like a detective, he is only given a very brief description and an image – therefore, the performer’s first task is to determine who the person is and what his daily routine appears to be. All these observations are transmitted via twitter to a twitter account @locatingstory and to the platform. Continue reading

Seismopolite Journal of Art and Politics – Reimagining The Political Geography Of Place And Space :: Call for Papers – Deadline: March 5, 2012.

In the coming issue we wish to focus on political geographies, as well as artistic interventions in, and reimaginations of, such geographies. The distinction between “place” and “space” is of particular interest, as it is fundamental not only to much art, but also to our global situation within neoliberal political geography. If time has come for us to reimagine this geography, as well as the interrelationships between, and definitions of “space” and “place”, is it thinkable that art could be an ideal site for such reimagination?

The construction and exploitation of a particularism of the local also seems indigenous to the logic of neoliberalism, in the sense that it relies on the opposition between place and space to be able to expand in the first place. Continue reading

The Ends of Audience: Interdisciplinary Workshop :: May 30-31, 2012 :: Queen Mary University of London :: Call for Proposals – Deadline: January 31; Midnight GMT.

People in audiences act: they talk, clap, heckle, sigh, inhale, exhale, rustle, twitch, tweet, dance, flirt, laugh, whisper, shuffle, cough… in doing so, they interact. There is a structure and dynamic to these responses which is central to the experience of being in a live audience. This workshop aims to bring together researchers and professionals with interests in performance, interaction and technology who are working on understanding, instrumenting or experimenting with these dynamics, and the shifting ends of audience that they reveal. Continue reading

Urban Research 2012 :: February 9–19, 2012 :: Directors Lounge, Naherholung Sternchen, Berolinastraße 7 Berlin / Mitte, Germany :: Open Call For Film And Video Works – Deadline: Dec 20, 2011.

The program Urban Research, curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr for Directors Lounge 2012, reaches beyond the genre “city films”. Contemporary artists are engaged in local politics, they are concerned with specific urban problems and developments, and they are directly interacting with the public with performances and public interventions. Continue reading

Artivistic Promiscuous Infrastructures (Phase 2) :: March 9 – April 14, 2012 :: Opening: March 9; 5:00 pm :: Skol, Montreal :: Call for Submissions -Deadline: February 4, 2012.

As part of its project entitled Promiscuous Infrastructures, the Artivistic collective invites submissions for the second phase of the project.

Artivistic is currently in the research-creation phase of a publication tentatively entitled Promiscuous Infrastructures: experiments in art + information + activism. Rooted in the work of Artivistic’s friends, allies, and past participants, the publication sets its sights on “autonomous infrastructures” by looking at radical education & the production of knowledge, intergenerational support systems, as well as sustainable financing. Continue reading

LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) presents Nothing Beside Remains Weekend :: December 9-11, 2011 :: Marfa, Texas.

Nothing Beside Remains is a suite of commissioned public projects, presented by LAND, opening in September 2011 and continuing into 2012. This LAND 1.0 exhibition is sited in Marfa, Texas — rural town of 1,800 residents and a site of seminal art historical import — and features new commissions ranging from large-scale installations to discreet interventions. Continue reading