Resonate – An Interactive Light And Sound Installation :: Opening: September 7, 2012; 7:00 pm :: ZKM_Subspace, Lorenzstraße 19, Karlsruhe, Germany.

The sound persists – the exhibition “Sound Art. Sound as a Medium of Art” continues to draw a large crowd. As of 8 September, a further installation will enrich the exhibition: sound strings, stretched and illuminated, draw in visitors to the ZKM_Subspace; the spatial composition “resonate” allows visitors to experience in a unique way this unity of form, light, and sound.

The installation “resonate” consists of several kilometers of sound strings and eight interactive bodies containing a total of 1600 controllable LED lights. Continue reading

In April, Landmarks, the public art program of The University of Texas at Austin, unveiled a new commission on campus: an architectural projection entitled And That’s The Way It Is by New York artist Ben Rubin. Continue reading

Bring To Light: Nuit Blanche New York 2012 :: October 6, 2012 :: Call for Submissions — Deadline: July 13, 2012.

Bring to Light is a site-specific contemporary art exhibition that illuminates the streets, parks, and industrial waterfront of Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Bring to Light is New York’s “nuit blanche,” part of a global network of locally organized nighttime art festivals.

An investigation of the tension and transformation underway throughout the New York waterfront, Bring to Light seeks proposals from artists exploring innovative approaches to temporary public art that engages the built environment and re-imagines public space. Continue reading

[DPoN showing temperatures in the low-60’s, clear skies, and winds out of the south (indicated by the vertically-oriented yellow streak to the right)] Dynamic Performance of Nature: Augmenting Environmental Perception Through Social Media And Architectural Informatics by Brian W. Brush, Yong Ju Lee & Noa Younse:

Abstract: Architecture has always functioned as a mediating structure between humans and the environments in which they live; a static assemblage of semi-inert materials orchestrated, amongst other things, to temper environmental forces for human habitation. With advances in material and communications technology, architectural assemblies no longer perform as impassive boundaries separating discrete conditions of occupation between environments. Continue reading

Geometry by Félicie d’Estienne d’Orves :: until September 12, 2012; dawn – midnight :: Watermans, 40 High Street, Brentford, TW8 0DS. Continue reading

[WikiLeak – Kaupthing Claims, 2011, Rules Series. Gouache Wall Painting. Dimensions variable.] Short Big Drama – Angela Bulloch :: January 21 – April 9, 2012 :: Opening: January 20; 7:00 – 9:00 pm :: Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Witte de Withstraat 50, 3012 BR Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Short Big Drama highlights the theatricality of the artist’s practice. This comprehensive exhibition presents a wide selection of existing works together with specially commissioned new pieces. The spotlight falls on three types of works — monumental wall paintings, colorful Pixel Box installations and interactive Drawing Machines. Continue reading

Touch and Go, Leonardo Electronic Almanac :: Call for Papers – Deadline: February 12, 2012.

Leonardo Electronic Almanac in collaboration with Watermans and Goldsmiths College in occasion of the Watermans’ International Festival of Digital Art, 2012 announces a special issue titled: Touch and Go.

The Watermans’ International Festival of Digital Art, 2012, will coincide with the Olympics and Paralympics in London, and Watermans is pleased to host a Festival of ground-breaking installations exploring interactivity and participation in New Media and Digital Art. Continue reading

Exquisite Zone by Carmin Karasic & Rolf van Gelder @ GLOW 2011 Festival :: November 5 – 12, 2011 :: Kennedyplein, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

The title, Exquisite Zone, references the 1920-30s surrealist drawing game called ‘Exquisite Corpse’, in which each collaborator adds to a collective composition.

Exquisite Zone invites nightly participants to use their smart phones to make digital marks in public space. “The idea is simple, but we’ve never seen it done real time with mobile devices, such as phones.” [See Cell Tagging by Brooke Knight] Many people can add to the ‘collaborative public drawing’. Continue reading

Data/Fields: Artists Explore the Flow and Transfer of Sensory Data :: September 22 – November 27, 2011 :: Opening Reception: September 23; 7:00 – 10:00 pm :: Gallery Talk: September 26; 12:30 pm :: Artisphere, 1101 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia.

Internationally renowned sound artist RICHARD CHARTIER brings together a celebrated group of international artists for Data/Fields, a thought-provoking new media exhibit which explores the connection between the viewer and the flow and transfer of data. These selected and commissioned works by CALEB COPPOCK (U.S.), MARK FELL (U.K.), ANDY GRAYDON (U.S./Germany), RYOJI IKEDA (Japan), FRANCE JOBIN (Canada) act as hubs of sensory information-sites of signal, noise, presence, and absence. Data/Fields marks the artists’ gallery debut in the Washington, DC-area and includes two premiere exhibitions in the United States. Continue reading

RAM | Rethinking Art and Machine with Jim Campbell, Alan Rath, Daniel Rozin, Peter Vogel, George Legrady, David Rokeby :: September 15, 2011 – January 22, 2012 :: THEMUSEUM, 10 King Street West, Kitchener, ON N2G 1A3, Canada. Continue reading