The Cutting Room presents Dual, a digital exhibition to compliment The Importance of Being Earnest :: September 5 – October 30, 2012 :: Nottingham Playhouse, Wellington Circus, Nottingham, NG1 5AF, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Continue reading

Remote Encounters: Connecting Bodies, Collapsing Spaces And Temporal Ubiquity In Networked Performance :: April 11-12, 2013 :: ATRiuM, Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries, University of Glamorgan, Adam Street, Cardiff, Wales, CF24 2FN :: Call for Papers and Performances – Deadline: August 31, 2012.

The keynotes / lead performer lineup has now been confirmed. We are proud to welcome:

Keynotes: Jo-Anne Green from Turbulence.org (http://turbulence.org) and Networked_Performance (http://turbulence.org/blog); and Marc Garrett from Furtherfield (http://www.furtherfield.org)

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Remote Encounters: Connecting Bodies, Collapsing Spaces And Temporal Ubiquity In Networked Performance :: April 11-12, 2013 :: ATRiuM, Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries, University of Glamorgan, Adam Street, Cardiff, Wales, CF24 2FN :: Call for Papers and Performances – Deadline: August 31, 2012.

Since the internet entered the public domain in the early 90’s there has been an explosion in artistic interest in its use as a means, site and context for creative practice. Much of this practice is performative in nature; either originating from a performance background and using the internet as a new site and/or augmenting aspect of that practice or is a form of practice developed as direct response to the internet and becomes performative to some degree in its spectatorship. Continue reading

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Robots And Avatars :: March 16 – May 27, 2012 ::
FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), 88 Wood Street, Liverpool, Merseyside L1 4DQ, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. 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

Transmittance #2 – Telepresence Performance :: December 13, 2011; 8:00 pm (CET) :: http://transmittance.si ( Online audience can watch and interact with the performance live using a recent version of popular browser like Firefox or Chrome) & Tobacco 001 Cultural Centre, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Transmittance explores collaboration which is local, global, networked and broadcasted. It involves an artistic group of performers, visual artists, musicians and computer programmers to research performative possibilities of streaming, broadcasting and telepresence forging new types of performance and audience. With focus on critical and socially-aware artistic languages this work is based on asking questions about body, self and society – opening non-dualistic perspectives. Continue reading

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Art, Design, and Public Domain Lecture Series: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, “Antimonuments and Subsculptures” :: November 28, 2011; 6:30 – 7:30 pm :: Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA :: Free and open to the public. Continue reading

Blowup: We Are All Crew :: November 3-5, 2011 :: V2_Institute for the Unstable Media, Eendrachtsstraat 10, 3012 XL, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

To acknowledge the 100th anniversary of Marshall McLuhan’s birth, this edition of Blowup will present the ‘Strategic Art Initiative 2.0’ exhibition of re-created early telematic artworks; the worldwide premiere of ‘Them F*ckin’ Robots’, a documentary on the work and influence of electronic art pioneer Norman White; a keynote lecture by Dutch thinker and author Arjen Mulder, examining the things we love and love to hate about McLuhan; and a closing party for the exhibition featuring a custom cocktail. Continue reading