I have the huge ambition (huge because i’m lazy) to post with more regularity a list of “recommended” events. I’d invite you to write me if there’s any relevant festival, show, workshop, conference or open day you think i should write about.
The program of the ARTEFACT festival consists of installations, concerts, theatre & performances, a symposium and a software / video exhibition. Participating artists will present surprising forms of presentation, sublime moments, corporeal experiences and emotional technology. Artefact takes place on February 13-18 at STUK, in Leuven (Belgium).
Collision 9 is an experimental art show where artists invent new technologies, new art forms, and even new forms of life.
January 28th – February 12th, Art Interactive, 130 Bishop Allen Dr, Cambridge, MA.
Floating Points 3 will address the subject of “Ubiquitous Computing” in two moderated panel discussions, one on February 8 and the other on March 15. The first will focus on artist-thinkers who work collaboratively with research teams to produce environments and systems that respond to the human presence; it will include Mark Goulthorpe, Susan Kozel and Chris Salter. The second panel will feature artist-thinkers who question and confront the ongoing development of networked objects and work creatively to subvert them. Guests will be Adam Greenfield, Beatriz da Costa and Brooke Singer (Preemptive Media), and Michelle Teran.
I’d love to be able to attend the next events two but i can’t (though i’ll do my best to pop up at the Barcelona one), so if you’re going and feel like sharing pictures and feedbacks about it, please please drop me a note.
The second Seamless: Computational Couture runway fashion event will present collection of technologically experimental clothing (examples) at the Museum of Science in Boston on Feb. 1 at 7 p.m.
Get your tickets now cuz there will be many fabulous projects on show.
Días de Bioarte’06 [Days of Bioart ’06] is a series of presentations, workshops, debates and space for consultation about biological and living art with some of the pioneer artists, curators and critics in the field.
Participants: Andy Gracie (cf. Fish, Plant, Rack), Oron Catts & Ionat Zurr (Tissue Culture and Art Project, see their Extra Ear 1/4 Scale for Stelarc and victimless jacket), José Eugenio Marchesi, Jens Hauser (his talk at ars electronica), Antonio Cerveira Pinto, María Jesús Buxó.
16th – 17th February Centre d’Art Santa Mònica.
In the context of the event, Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr of SymbioticA have prepared a SymbioticA Tissue Engineering and Art Workshop. The workshop will introduce artists and other interested people to basic principals of animal tissue culture and tissue engineering, as well as to its history and the different artistic projects working with TC and TE.
Wednesday 15th and Thursday 16th February, Laboratories of the Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona
onedotzero have invited over 20 key creatives that represent the breadth of moving image programming onedotzero explores: across motion graphics, music videos, short films, interaction design, live audio –visual performances, music and architecture. Featured artists include airside, hi-res!, trevor jackson, allofus, the light surgeons, d-fuse, intro, jason bruges, neutral, peepshow, phillip o’ dwyer, pre-loaded, sennep, tank.tv, universal everything, usman haques, united visual artists. February 24, at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Oh! zut! that’s a third event i’d like to attend (thx Chris will very probably write a report).
Notre Histoire showcases the works of young French artists, + performances, conferences, workshops for kids, screenings, etc. It’s in Paris at the Palais de Tokyo until May and i’m looking forward to check it.
Fat Bat, by Virginie Barré (found her equally overweight spiderman on the web).
Reminders: Lift06, Transmediale, Dorkbot Berlin.