Archive for May, 2010
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05.25.2010
geoweb: a body of artistic works on the geographic web
On Wednesday, May 26, 2010, at the Society for Arts and Technology [SAT ] in Montreal, Agence TOPO launches a body of four web art projects exploring the thematic of the geographic web. Nowadays, popular cartographic and earth visualization tools have become an increasingly tangible component of how we experience the web. Moreover, the use […]
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05.23.2010
Craig Venter unveils synthetic life
Craig Venter and team make a historic announcement: they’ve created the first fully functioning, reproducing cell controlled by synthetic DNA. He explains how they did it and why the achievement marks the beginning of a new era for science.
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05.23.2010
Symphony #2 for dot matrix printers
[The User] is opening the 11th edition of the Mutek festival in Montréal with a rare performance of the Symphony #2 for dot matrix printers. Wednesday 2 June 2010, 8 pm Monument national, Salle Ludger-Duvernay 1182 St-Laurent The Symphony for dot matrix printers transforms obsolete office technology into an instrument for musical performance. Fifteen vintage […]
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05.20.2010
Whose Map is it? new mapping by artists
Nine contemporary international artists question the underlying structures and hierarchies that inform traditional mapmaking. They provide individual insights that inscribe new, often omitted perspectives onto the map. Film, installation, print and audio are used to challenge the authority of the map and explore wider social and political issues. Whose Map is it? includes three new […]
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05.10.2010
Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media @ OCAD
The OCAD Faculty of Art presents: Wednesday, May 19 Talk: 6 p.m. in Rm 284 Reception and book launch: 7 to 8 p.m. in Rm 187 The Criticism & Curatorial Practice program in the Faculty of Art and the Criticism & Curatorial Practice Graduate program at the Ontario College of Art & Design are pleased […]
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05.04.2010
Open Data Ottawa
On April 24th I attended a hackfest at Ottawa’s City Hall organized by the Open Data Ottawa group. ‘Open Data’ is a growing movement to encourage governments of all levels to release public data in open and machine-readable formats which allow for reuse and development. A few examples of data that could be made available […]
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05.04.2010
Colours in Cultures
What colour is happiness in China? Or good luck in Africa? Or anger in Eastern Europe? Are any colour meanings universal across cultures and continents? A visualisation of the meanings of different colours in different cultures by David McCandless and AlwaysWithHonor.com. via: Information is Beautiful
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05.03.2010
Tracing Mobility: Cartography + Migration in Networked Space
Nottingham, UK : May 14th, 2010 Trampoline will present the first in a new series of platform events, called Territorial Play. This event will launch the Tracing Mobility programme and seeks to illustrate and annotate the critical debate of the Tracing Mobility Symposia by presenting a day long event of performances, screenings, live music, pervasive […]
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05.01.2010
ARTIST COMMITS SUICIDE ONLINE AS A WORK OF ART (WELL, SORT OF)
Thousands of people watched powerless while a person was hanging from the ceiling, slowly swinging, for hours and hours. It happened yesterday, in the popular website Chatroulette, where people from all over the world can anonymously and randomly see each other through their webcams and chat with perfect strangers. The hanging man was in fact […]