Year Zero One in partnership with the Textile Museum of Canada and [murmur] is pleased to announce the launch of TXTilecity, an interactive map and mobile app exploring the role of textiles in shaping Toronto’s urban landscape.

Navigate Toronto through the lens of TXTilecity with commentary by notable figures including designers Linda Lundström and Pat McDonagh, entrepreneur Joe Mimran, Art Gallery of Ontario curator Michelle Jacques, Social Body Lab director Kate Hartman and many more. Stories come to life in audio and video documentary accounts exploring early garment manufacturing and the performing arts, to the rise of the fashion industry and new artistic practices emerging from the intersection of textiles and technology. Continue reading

MIT Press Journals Podcast Series: Episode 17: Maximilian Schich, Isabel Mereilles, and Roger Malina on Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks:

Schich, Meirelles, and Malina discuss the contents and creation of the new article collection, Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks, which explores the application of the science of complex networks to art history, archeology, visual arts, the art market, and other areas of cultural importance. Click HERE to listen to the podcast.

Maximilian Schich, DFG fellow at László Barabási’s Center for Complex Network Research in Boston.

Isabel Meirelles, information designer and associate professor of graphic design at Northeastern University, Boston.

Roger Malina, physicist, astronomer, editor-in-chief of Leonardo, distinguished professor at the University of Texas, Dallas.

‘TranSonic’ Perception in Interactive ChoreoSonic Performance Practice by Stan Wijnans, Body, Space & Technology Journal, Vol 10 Number 2:

This paper reflects on the creation and perception of an interactive spatial ChoreoSonic1 performance environment. The term ‘Transonic Perception’ is introduced to describe the intimate bodily experience of the dancer who creates the 3D spatial sonic environment within the technologically enhanced environment. I will discuss conceptual issues that outline a synchronicity between the spatial elements of dance movement and 3D spatial sound perception that can be used artistically in the creative process. The discussion focuses specifically on the human perception of the visual, tactical and auditory space in the digitally enhanced performance environment.

Mountain Ghosts by Halsey Burgund :: until mid-November :: Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.

Mountain Ghosts is a site-specific sound art installation that infuses the entire University of Colorado / Colorado Springs campus with a location-based layer of audio created collectively by the artist and participants. Building on Burgund’s interest in systems, collected voices, and participation, Mountain Ghosts explores sound as fundamental to our experiences of space, place and history. Participants use a custom smartphone app to make audio recordings that the Mountain Ghosts system then codes by location and immediately assimilates into a collective databank for other visitors to access. Continue reading

Immersion Into Noise by Joseph Nechvatal, Open Humanities Press:

The noise factor is the ratio of signal to noise of an input signal to that of the output signal. Noise can block or interfere with the meaning of a message in both human and electronic communication. But in Information Theory, noise is still considered to be information.

By refining the definition of noise as that which addresses us outside of our preferred comfort zone, Joseph Nechvatal’s Immersion Into Noise investigates multiple aspects of cultural noise by applying the audio understanding of noise to the visual, architectural and cognitive domains. Nechvatal expands and extends our understanding of the function of cultural noise by taking the reader through the immersive and phenomenal aspects of noise into algorithmic and network contexts, beginning with his experience in the Abside of the Grotte de Lascaux. Continue reading

Turbulence Commission: You Don’t Know Me by Liangjie Xia [Needs Software Download]:

You are not always who other people think you are; you even hear your own voice in a different way. By recording and manipulating a recording of your voice with You Don’t Know Me, you will be able to restore your real voice and share with people how you hear yourself. This is a unique task that nobody else in the world can do. You Don’t Know Me provides a toolset and an online voice gallery. We are looking forward to hearing your true voice.

You Don’t Know Me is a 2010 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. for its Turbulence web site. It was supported by the Jerome Foundation. Continue reading

Call for Participation: These Walls Could Talk :: Virtual Tour at American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, New York. Continue reading

Radius, Episode 04: 8 Silences by Art of Failure :: April 9 and April 16 at 8:00 pm (CST) :: online.

8 Silences (part of the Laps series) offers a sensible representation of Internet by broadcasting audio streams that travel and reverberate trough the web. Initially silents, the streams progressively incorporate an infinity of transformations or “errors” that modify the sound as it circulates on the network. These alterations are comparable to a form of erosion caused by the network space – they are a key to allow different mental representations of this digital topography. Presented as a live performance, 8 silences is a sound immersion in the heart of data flows.

Episode 04 presents a special mobile broadcast of 8 Silences from Urbana, IL, USA as part of the art exhibition Bricoleurs at the Independent Media Center in association with the 2011 Boneyard Arts Festival. Continue reading

VARIATIONS #6. The Library, a podcast series by Jon Leidecker on the history of appropriative collage RWM MACBA:

In the sixth episode of this series of podcasts, we encounter the establishment of sound libraries, collections explicitly curated for further use: sound objects presented as authorless, unfinished ingredients. Though some libraries contain newly commissioned generic sounds, specifically designed for maximum flexibility, the most widely used sounds are often sourced from commercial recordings, freed from their original context to propagate across dozens to hundreds of songs. From presets for digital samplers to data CD ROMs to hip-hop battle records, sounds increasingly detach from their sources, used less as references to any original moment, and more as objects in a continuous public domain.

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Contemporary Art Centre and Goethe-Institut in Vilnius present Carsten Nicolai’s pioneer :: until March 13, 2011 :: Contemporary Art Centre, Vokiečių g.2, Vilnius, Lithuania.

The Contemporary Art Centre and Goethe-Institut in Vilnius are happy to present the first comprehensive solo show of Carsten Nicolai to date. The show, pioneer, is titled after one of the most recent works by the artist — an ephemeral installation featuring a huge parachute, presented to the public for the first time. ‘pioneer’ marks the experimental nature of Nicolai’s work — his exhibitions resemble scientific laboratories where various calculations and tests with partly open results are performed. Continue reading