The Synesthetic Plan of Chicago :: June 1 - October 9, 2009 :: Chicago Cultural Center, 77 E. Randolph Street, Chicago.

2009 is the centenary of the publication of The Plan of Chicago. The Synesthetic Plan of Chicago: A Multi-Sensory Journey Through Chicago and Its Neighborhoods corresponds with the celebration of this historic event. An interactive installation at the Chicago Cultural Center Visitor Information Center (77 E. Randolph Street), The Synesthetic Plan of Chicago is part of the citywide summer tourism initiative, Explore Chicago: Take A Neighborhood Vacation (June 1–September 30). More than 40 artists and organizations have joined in creating this exploration of Chicago through the five senses.

Visitors and locals can experience Chicago imagery, sounds, fragrances, flavors and textures captured in miniature neighborhood scenes such as a mapping of the tastes and recipes of Chinatown, and an exploration of East Garfield Park candy. SPC’s participating artists and organizations have designed installation pieces which invite people to interact with the sensory “artifacts” of Chicago in creative and imaginative ways, and to think about synesthetic connections with things that relate to Chicago. The Synesthetic Plan of Chicago is commissioned by the City of Chicago, and it is co-curated by Annie Heckman and Dan Godston. Continue reading

The End of Something — A collection of reflections on the Global Crisis :: July 31 - August 30, 2009 :: Volume, 114-116 Amersham Vale, Deptford Police Station, New Cross, London :: Images of Ebb Workshop :: August 1; 1:00 - 5:00 pm :: Deskspace medialab. To reserve a place, please RSVP with phone number to: a.hadzi(a)gold.ac.uk (limited space!).

Images of Ebb (with Adnan Hadzi (Deptford TV) + Rob Canning (GOTO10)) will introduce participants to Sousveillance and CCTV filmmaking where material and images from the Deptford.TV archive will be edited to submissions from Sounds of Ebb. Continue reading

TOPLAP presents PUBCODE2 — Featuring: chr15m (making machines that make machines that make music); MCLD (beatboxing + livecoding, is it possible?); Yee-King + Click Nilson (algorithmic choreography); openSlub (crowdsourced livecoding) :: August 5, 2009; 7:00 - 11:00 pm :: The Roebuck, 50 Great Dover Street, London.

Live coding is a new direction in electronic music and video, and is starting to get somewhere interesting. Live coders expose and rewire the innards of software while it generates improvised music and/or visuals. All code manipulation is projected for your pleasure. Continue reading

glitch.fm is a newborn radio station specializing in all things with a glitchy touch - glitch-hop, midtempo, breaks, dubstep, chillout etc.

The station is currently actively fielding talent!

If you’re interested in getting involved, please feel free to contact us.

DJ Applicants: The application process is OPEN! Feel free to apply on our contact page!

Chiptune Marching Band — DIY soundmaking with Kazuhiro Jo, Jamie Allen from the Culture Lab at Newcastle University :: August 8, 2009; 12:00 - 3:30 pm :: NK, ElsenStr. 52 2HH 2Etage 12059, Berlin, Germany :: Register by email: eNKa_NK [at] gmx.de :: Places are limited to 15.

Chiptune Marching Band from jamie allen on Vimeo.

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Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium (TES) :: August 7-8, 2009; 9:00 am - 5:00 pm :: Loop Studio Centre for Lively Arts, 601 Christie #170, Toronto, Canada.

The Canadian Electroacoustic Community and New Adventures in Sound Art are pleased to announce the 2009 Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium. The symposium presents a selection of refereed papers and presentations as well as a keynote lecture by internationally acclaimed scholar Annette Vande Gorne. This is your opportunity to find out the latest in sound art activity around the world. The proceedings of the symposium will be published in a forthcoming issue of the CEC’s online journal, eContact! More info here. Go to here and click on on-line registration to register.

Butch Morris “Does His Thing” :: July 28, 2009; 8:00 pm & 10:00 pm :: The Stone, Avenue C & E. 2nd Street, NYC.

Butch Morris (conduction) with string ensemble: Charlie Burnham, Nicole Federici, Corneilius Dufallo, Stephanie Griffin, Okkyung Lee, Alex Waterman, Michael Bates, Shawn McGloin and Jane Wang (MAG).

e-lab/rixc/riga has re-made the Xchange website. Check it out:

Xchange is a pioneering streaming audio and sound art project on the Internet. It was launched in 1997 by Riga based artists group E-LAB (Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits, Jaanis Garancs) in collaboration with various other emerging net.radio initiatives from all over the world. The Xchange mailinglist for information exchange and communication was started in December 1997. The Xchange community reached its’ highest activity in 1998 and 1999 - when the most dynamic experiments with collaborative streaming possibilities took place during X-Open Channel sessions. Co-sessions were facilitated by E-LAB net.radio Ozone weekly webcast-programmes, during which live stream loops were created for connecting two and more participants from different locations of the network. In 1998 Xchange project received the PRIX Ars Electronica “Award of Distinction” in the net.category. Continue reading

First International Conference on Computational Creativity :: January 7-9, 2010 :: Lisbon, Portugal.

Although it seems clear that creativity plays an important role in developing intelligent computational systems, it is less clear how to model, simulate, or evaluate creativity in such systems. In other words, it is often easier to recognize the presence and effect of creativity than to describe or prescribe it. The purpose of this conference is to facilitate the exchange of ideas on the topic of computational creativity in a cross-disciplinary setting. It will bring together people from AI, Cognitive Science and related areas such as Psychology, Philosophy and the Arts who research questions related to the notion of creativity as it relates to computational systems. Continue reading

Sculptural Clay Flutes — A workshop with Susan Rawcliffe :: August 31 - September 4, 2009; 10:00 am - 2:00 pm:: at Truro Center for the Arts, 10 Meetinghouse Rd, Castle Hill, MA.

If it’s hollow, it can be made into a flute! Join master craftswoman and flute maker Susan Rawcliffe. Explore the possibilities of clay hand building through creating sculptural flutes & whistles. Make ocarinas shaped like feet, fruit, or abstract follies; use your plumbing skills to make big harmonic flutes or didjeridus; stick whistles like birds on tree forms; combine hollow forms with whistles to make whistling bottles. Come, pucker up & blow with us. Continue reading