Upgrade! Boston: Moments of Inertia by R. Luke DuBois, with Todd Reynolds :: February 8, 2011; Doors open @ 6:30 pm. Performance begins @ 7:00 pm :: MIT Media Lab (E14), 6th Floor, Room 633, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts (map).

Moments of Inertia is an evening-length performance based on a teleological study of gesture in musical performance and how it relates to gesture in intimate social interaction. The work is written for solo violin with real-time computer accompaniment and video. Moments consists of twelve violin études written by R. Luke DuBois for Todd Reynolds – ranging from 1-10 minutes in length – each of which uses a different violin performance gesture as a control input for manipulating a short piece of high-speed film (300 frames-per-second) – of objects and people in motion. Continue reading

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Let Us Imagine a Straight Line by Joseph Butch Rovan, featuring dancer Ami Shulman — A multi-movement intermedia project for interactive image, sound, and performance — one in a series of Studies in Movement :: October 17 – November 8, 2009 :: Opening: October 16; 5:00 pm :: Digital Humanites Lab (lower floor), Cogut Center for the Humanities, Pembroke Hall, 172 Meeting Street, Providence, RI.

Studies in Movement is a series of intermedia études based in part on the unique visual legacy of the great French physiologist Étienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904). From his pioneering work with graphical recording devices to his work with stop-action photography, Marey sought to break down locomotion in order to learn how humans and animals moved in the natural world. Continue reading

Hyde Park Visual History Project – Project Premiere :: October 17, 2009; 8:00 – 11:00 pm :: Hyde Park Drive In – Route 9 – Hyde Park, NY.

The Hyde Park Visual History Project, developed by artist Matthew Slaats, is a community centered artistic project that engages the elaborate evolution of the local landscape and its inhabitants through images and sound.

Conceived as a public art installation, the Hyde Park Visual History Project serves as a dynamic meeting point for the community, the arts, and the history of Hyde Park, New York. By gathering visual and auditory material from local residents, the project uses a community centered approach to understanding the complexity of context in America. Continue reading

BALTAN Laboratories and Piksel OpenCV Collaborative Research and Development Residency :: Open Call for Proposals — Deadline: August 31, 2009.

As part of BALTAN Laboratories’ Blueprint research programme investigating the roles and forms of the art and technology laboratory of the future, BALTAN and Piksel are collaborating to explore the relationship between hard and software developers working on free and open source tools for artistic production, and the artistic use and development of these tools in a laboratory setting. One artist will be selected from this open call to produce an artwork using tools developed in collaboration with local and international developers of the Piksel Community, together with BALTAN and Piksel, through workshops and a residency at BALTAN. The Piksel/BALTAN collaboration will run from September until December 2009. Continue reading

2009 Visual Artist’s Residency at Sonic Arts Research Center :: Call for Proposals — Deadline: May 30, 2009.

The Sonic Arts Research Center (SARC) is offering a 6 Month residency in 2009 for a visual artist working with digital technologies. This residency is co-hosted by the European Culture 2007 project CO-ME-DI-A (Cooperation and Mediation in Digital Arts). The successful applicant is expected to have a solid grounding in at least one of the following: Motion Capture, Live video, Opengl, Computer gaming or 3d modeling. The chosen artist will be working alongside the network performance research team at SARC, developing real-time computer graphics for network performance, addressing virtual presence and will also contribute to other CO-ME-DI-A related events. Continue reading

“[…] What an exciting opportunity to engage with this topic, Critical Movement Practice …

To start things off I will share some thoughts on my artistic work and academic scholarship, if you will allow me to temporarily bifurcate these two inseparable aspects of my career. As a choreographer who has a particular interest in digital media, I explore real-time dancer/ audience interactions with digital performance technologies including live video motion tracking and motion tracking sensors. My work with this technology has led me to question how digitally facilitated movements impact our physical awareness and stand relative to dance history. As a female choreographer, I find relationships between dance history and digital technologies particularly important as I consider social relations that might instantiate a classically masculinized audience gaze. Continue reading

Turbulence Commission: School of Perpetual Training — by Stephanie Rothenberg [Needs webcam and speakers] — is an ironic edutainment website that exposes the underbelly and not so glamorous side of the computer video game industry. An animated personal trainer leads eager job seekers through a series of webcam game training exercises for outsourced jobs in digital game manufacturing and global distribution. Classic arcade games such as Dig Dug and Space Invaders are redesigned to train job seekers for positions in mineral mining and printed circuit board assembly. Continue reading

Le Corridor by Marie-Hélène Parant :: December 5-14, 2008 :: Opening: December 4; 6:00 pm :: iMAL, 30 Quai des Charbonnages / Koolmijnenkaai 30, 1080 Brussels.

“Narrow passageway between two territories” … Le Corridor proposes the experience of modulating one’s perception. In this long and dark space, portrait and echo’s of the visitor’s presence combines themselves and reveal a luminous migrating reality within one self. iMAL hosts the last interactive video installation of Marie-Hélène Parant. Based on motion analysis and its pictorial modulation, the installation uses “Sketch-In”, a programming set-up developed by the artist since 2004. Continue reading

Storytelling is fundamental to being human: itʼs how we share our experiences, learn from our past, and imagine our future.

With the establishment of the Media Labʼs Center for Future Storytelling, the Media Lab, together with Plymouth Rock Studios, is rethinking what “storytelling” will be in the 21st century. The Center will take a dynamic new approach to storytelling, developing new creative methods, technologies, and learning programs that recognize and respond to the changing communications landscape.

The Center builds on the Media Labʼs more than 20 years of experience in developing society-changing technologies for human expression and interactivity, and will now take this to the next level. Continue reading