The Last Pictures by Trevor Paglen — an ultra-archival disc of images capable of lasting in space for billions of years:

In 1963 NASA launched the first communications satellite “Syncom 2” into a geosynchronous orbit over the Atlantic Ocean. Since then, humans have slowly and methodically added to this space-based communications infrastructure. Currently, more than 800 spacecraft in geosynchronous orbit form a man-made ring of satellites around Earth at an altitude of 36,000 kilometers. Most of these spacecraft powered down long ago, yet continue to float aimlessly around the planet. Geostationary satellites are so far from earth that their orbits never decay. Continue reading

We Won’t Fly For Art: Media Art Ecologies by Ruth Catlow, Culture Machine Vol 13: Paying Attention (2012):

“The insights of American anarchist ecologist Murray Bookchin into environmental crisis hinge on a social conception of ecology that problematises the role of domination in culture. His ideas are becoming increasingly relevant to those working with digital technologies in the post-industrial information age, as big business daily develops new tools and techniques to exploit our sociality across high-speed networks (digital and physical). According to Bookchin, our fragile ecological state is bound up with a social pathology. Continue reading

INTERFUN – Tel Aviv Speed Show with Ran Slavin, Ben Hagari, Talia Link, Dana Darvish, Vanilla Royal, Ilan Yona, Tzion Abraham Hazan, David Oppenheim, Yael Kanarek; Curator: Doron Golan :: September 6, 2012; 7:00 – 10:00 pm :: 20 Allenby Street (near Herbert Samuel Boardwalk), Tel Aviv, Israel.

Thinking through the Body: Essays in Somaesthetics by Richard Shusterman, Florida Atlantic University:

This book provides a richly rewarding vision of the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of somaesthetics. Composed of fourteen wide-ranging but finely integrated essays by Richard Shusterman, the originator of the field, Thinking through the Body explains the philosophical foundations of somaesthetics and applies its insights to central issues in ethics, education, cultural politics, consciousness studies, sexuality, and the arts. Integrating Western philosophy, cognitive science, and somatic methodologies with classical Asian theories of body, mind, and action, these essays probe the nature of somatic existence and the role of body consciousness in knowledge, memory, and behavior. Continue reading

Expanded Life Definition: Michał Brzeziński :: October 5 – November 5, 2012 :: Czytelnia Sztuki, Willa Caro, ul. Dolnych Wałów 8a, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland.

The exhibition touches the problem of transspecies communication and the changing definition of life in the context of information systems, and the changing definition of a human kind transformed by the recent technology from biotechnology, and the increasing prevalence of transgenic organisms and various human body integration with computerized machines — from various simple devices (smartphone) subject to the convergence of extended brain functions such as memory, numeracy, to the knowledge of foreign languages, or medical grounds, up to the senses such as sight, hearing (monitoring, interception) to advanced nanotechnology equipment to support the immune system, and performing various operations for the army (Smartdust). Continue reading

The Unconscious Performance of Identity: A Review of Johannes P. Osterhoff’s “Google” by Owen Mundy, Rhizome.org:

As part of this year’s Transmediale festival in Berlin, media artist Johannes P. Osterhoff organized an online collaborative performance of search engine queries, simply titled, “Google.” For one week, Osterhof convinced myself and 36 other participants to add a unique search method to our default web browsers so that everything we “googled” — from the personal to the mundane — became instantly visible online at google-performance.org. Continue reading

Reading the Wind is a video about the future of electronic literature. It was developed for the ELO 2012 conference panel “Future of ELO” (June, Morgantown, WV) using 123D (inkjet print on bedsheets) and Maya physical dynamics.

Via Inception helmet creates alternative reality by Mo Costandi, guardian.co.uk.

e-Literature & the Nonhuman: Juried Reading at SLSA 2012 :: September 29, 2012; 5:00 pm :: Milwaukee, Wisconsin :: Call for Submissions — Deadline: September 1, 2012.

Literature in the first part of the 21st Century continues to undergo a revolution. Whether playing to the new aesthetic or re-imagining the literary tradition, emerging works are responding to and shaping the changing nature of reading. The Society for Literature Science and the Arts has been a long-standing center for scholarship on electronic literature. Continue reading

MyMirrorCity by Will Pappenheimer (with Manifest.AR, for the Conversations exhibition) :: August 24 – October 21, 2012 :: Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Nikolaj Plads 10, Copenhagen, DK – 1067, Denmark.

MyMirrorCity transforms the Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center Nikolaj Church building, the surrounding area and as much of Copenhagen as possible into a city of mirrored buildings. Participants take a picture of themselves (or any image of their desire), upload it, and it then appears on every facet of all the buildings around them in augmented reality space. Continue reading