Electronic Village Galleries Penryn :: April 15, 2011; 6:30 – 8:30 pm :: Penryn Town Hall, Higher Market Street, Penryn, Cornwall, UK.

Electronic Village Galleries Penryn is an event exhibiting four collections of network, sound and new media art. The evening will be hosted by Fi Henshall and include discussion with Rob Gawthrop and Patrick Simons. Everyone is welcome to come and enjoy the artwork, food, wine and discussion.

Each collection has been selected especially for the Electronic Village Galleries by a diverse range of new media curators and artists. Continue reading

The Border Crossed Us — A temporary public art installation by the Institute for Infinitely Small Things :: April 20 - May 1, 2011 :: Opening Ceremony: April 20; 3:30 pm :: UMass Amherst Campus.

The Border Crossed Us transplants the US-Mexico border fence in southern Arizona to the UMass Amherst campus in the form of a 400-foot-long photographic mural and sound installation emanating from a vent in the ground. The campus will be divided along its North-South boundary by a to-scale photographic replica of the vehicle fence that runs along the international boundary in southern Arizona/Northern Sonora. The particular stretch of fence being represented was erected in 2007 by Homeland Security and now divides the Tohono O’odham Nation – the second largest Native American reservation in the country – into two parts. Continue reading

The Global art system, contemporary internationalism and ways to challenge the mainstream — A two day workshop with Lucrezia Cippitelli Continue reading

David Galbraith: KenKen GS :: April 10 - May 12, 2011 :: Gridspace, 112 Rogers Avenue, Brooklyn, New York .

KenKen GS is a new installation work that continues David Galbraith’s exploration of a tightly-coupled yet non-linear and generative relationship between image and sound. The work’s compositional basis includes the structure and expanded numerical content of four KenKen puzzles, historical color scales that propose different mappings from musical pitch to color hue, and 15 resonant acoustic frequencies taken from various locations within Gridspace. Continue reading

UrbanRemix is a collaborative and locative sound project developed by Jason Freeman, Carl DiSalvo, Michael Nitsche, and many of our students at Georgia Tech. Our goal in developing UrbanRemix was to design a platform and series of events that would enable participants to develop and express the acoustic identity of their communities, and enable participants to explore and experience the soundscapes of the city in a novel fashion.

The UrbanRemix platform consists of a mobile phone system and web interface for recording, browsing, and mixing audio. It allows users to document and explore the obvious, neglected, private or public, even secret sounds of the urban environment. Continue reading

Upgrade! Boston: Mark Shepard — Pathetic Fallacies and Category Mistakes: making sense and nonsense of the (near-future) Sentient City :: April 26, 2011; 7:00 pm :: MIT Media Lab (E14), 6th Floor, Room 633, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts (map).

As computing leaves the desktop and spills out onto the sidewalks, streets and public spaces of the city, we increasingly find information processing capacity embedded within and distributed throughout the material fabric of everyday urban space. Artifacts and systems we interact with daily collect, store and process information about us, or are activated by our movements and transactions. Continue reading

Electronic Art on the Waterways featuring Greg Sholette :: April 22, 2011; 3:00 - 6:00 pm :: Boston Harbor, Massachusetts :: SPACE IS LIMITED. PLEASE RSVP.

Join Assistant Professor of Art Cat Mazza’s digital media class aboard UMass Boston’s Division of Marine Operations 64-foot vessel for a lecture by artist and writer Greg Sholette on his new book Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture. Sholette will touch on collective art practices’ use of new technologies. The boat ride starts at Fox Point Dock on the UMass campus and ends at a pier near the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) where passengers can see a new public artwork using augmented reality by the art collective Manifest.AR. Vessel piloted by Captain Russ Bowles. Continue reading

ReGeneration: Open Call — Deadline: May 2, 2011. Continue reading

Sonic Unconscious — Yolande Harris, Scorescapes :: April 16, 2011; 7:00 pm :: Issue Project Room, At the Old American Can Factory, 232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, NY .

The Sonic Unconscious brings together three artists whose work begins in the field: Jana Winderen, Yolande Harris and Gina Badger.

Yolande Harris’s Scorescapes is a program including the pieces Tuning In / Spacing Out, a collaboration with Edward Shanken, Fishing for Sound, and S.W.A.M.P., with Kato Hideki, Jim Pugliese, & William Lang. Tuning In / Spacing Out: Collaboration with Edward Shanken. Continue reading

The Philosophy of Software: Code and Mediation in the Digital Age by David M. Berry, Palgrave Macmillan:

The Philosophy of Software is a critical introduction to the subject of code and software, and develops an understanding of its social and philosophical implications in the digital age. The book has been written specifically for people interested in the subject from a non-technical background and provides a lively and interesting analysis of these new media forms. Software is a tangle, a knot, which ties together the physical and the ephemeral, the material and the ethereal, into a complete system that can be controlled and directed. However, software exceeds our ability to place limits on its entanglement, for it has in the past decade entered the everyday home through electronic augmentation that has replaced the mechanical world of the twentieth century. Continue reading