Starts:
May
16
2012
Sarada Rauch: Jellyfish Piano
Type:
Exhibition
Dates:
Wed May 16, 2012 13:00
- Sat May 26, 2012
Location:
New York,
New York
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
May 16 – May 26, 2012 All exhibitions are free and open to the public. Contact: info@artcurrents.org Jellyfish Piano: Reinterpretation gives history more than one perspective. With this in mind, I reinterpret traditional narratives using contemporary images to create modern folklore. Narratives that I use come from traditional epics, fairy tales and myths which are collections of oral traditions. An oral tradition is passed down as a broad formula. The storyteller improvises a great deal ...
Starts:
May
16
2012
Stop & Go 3-D and Doppler Stop
Type:
Exhibition
Dates:
Wed May 16, 2012 20:00
- Thu May 17, 2012
Location:
Berlin,
Germany
Description:
Stop & Go 3-D features a new series of stop-motion animations by 27 contemporary visual artists and filmmakers from around the world. The program dramatically plays ones visual senses with stobing effects, afterimages, anaglyphic experiments, optical elements and three-dimensional spoofs. The animations in this program were chosen from a world-wide open call for submissions and by invitation. Five of the animations in the program require the audience to wear red/cyan-colored glasses to fully engage with ...
Starts:
May
17
2012
ART HK 12: Galerie Gmurzynska presents Wifredo Lam exhibit with new works and booth designed by Zaha Hadid
Type:
Exhibition
Dates:
Thu May 17, 2012 12:00
- Thu May 17, 2012
Location:
China
Description:
Galerie Gmurzynska will return to ART HK 12 with a unique booth designed by renowned architect Zaha Hadid and a special exhibition on Wifredo Lam. Hadid will present a new series of paintings of her Hong Kong Peak project and showcase recent design pieces including the acclaimed Liquid Glacial Table for David Gill Galleries, Z-Chair for Sawaya & Moroni and Zephyr sofa. Almost 30 years ago, the Peak project launched Hadid on the international platform, ...
Starts:
May
17
2012
ArtPadSF 2012
Type:
Festival
Dates:
Thu May 17, 2012 18:00
- Sun May 20, 2012
Location:
San Francisco,
California
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
From May 17 to May 20, over 10,000 art enthusiasts and collectors will return to the iconic Phoenix Hotel for the second edition of ArtPadSF, San Francisco’s only hotel-based art fair. Referred to by art community insiders as “a touch of Art Basel Miami in San Francisco,” ArtPadSF is an unparalleled crossroads for the creative and marketplace for art. During ArtPadSF, the electric atmosphere throughout the courtyard of the Phoenix Hotel is palpable. Ignited by ...
RICHARD KOSTELANETZ: SEDUCTIONS
Type:
Performance
Dates:
Thu May 17, 2012 19:00
- Thu May 17, 2012
Location:
New York,
New York
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
From Kostelanetz’s More Short Fictions, sixteen performers narrate interwoven tales of sex and memory. This event is part of a larger installation, AVANT-GARDE EROTICAS, on view May 3-May 26, 2012
Starts:
May
18
2012
Just A Girl: Angela Washko and Ann Hirsch
Type:
Performance
Dates:
Fri May 18, 2012 07:00
- Fri May 18, 2012
Location:
Brooklyn,
New York
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
An evening of two performances by Angela Washko and Ann Hirsch at Microscope gallery. 7pm-8:30pm ... $6 4 Charles Place, Brooklyn, NY. Myrtle/Broadway JMZ or Morgan or Jefferson L Cause A Flat Chested Woman Might As Well Be A Man As an extension of her recent founding of The Council on Gender Sensitivity and Behavioral Awareness in World of Warcraft, Angela Washko will bring audience members into the incredibly misogynistic realms within WoW. There she ...
Audiovisual Programming: Mapping and Visualization
Type:
Workshop
Dates:
Fri May 18, 2012 18:00
- Sun May 20, 2012
Location:
Barcelona,
Spain
Description:
This seminar will investigate the built-in graphical features of SuperCollider (http://supercollider.sf.net) and how to use these artistically in combination with the sound synthesis server. We will use simple sounds and simple graphics to explore the endless possibilities of audiovisual mapping and sound visualization. The aim is to combine shapes, colours, paths and pixels with oscillators, control signals, wavetables and spectrums. At the end of the course we will have programmed a few unique audiovisual instruments ...
Audiovisual Programming: Mapping and Visualization
Type:
Workshop
Dates:
Fri May 18, 2012 18:00
- Sun May 20, 2012
Location:
Barcelona,
Spain
Description:
This seminar will investigate the built-in graphical features of SuperCollider and how to use these artistically in combination with the sound synthesis server. We will use simple sounds and simple graphics to explore the endless possibilities of audiovisual mapping and sound visualization. The aim is to combine shapes, colours, paths and pixels with oscillators, control signals, wavetables and spectrums. At the end of the course we will have programmed a few unique audiovisual instruments and ...
Starts:
May
18
2012
Aritsts Space + Dirty Looks: Race d'Ep, a film by Lionel Soukaz + Guy Hocquenghem
Type:
Screening
Dates:
Fri May 18, 2012 19:00
- Fri May 18, 2012
Location:
New York,
New York
Description:
Race d’Ep! – A film by Guy Hocquenghem and Lionel Soukaz With a conversation between Lionel Soukaz and Bruce Benderson Friday, May 18, 7pm Artists Space : Books & Talks 55 Walker Street $5 Entrance Donation Members Free Artists Space, in partnership with the queer film series Dirty Looks, presents a new translation overseen by Bruce Benderson of the 1979 experimental documentary Race d’Ep! (previously released in English as The Homosexual Century). Made by the ...
The Xth Sense - Making Your Own Biophysical Sensor
Type:
Workshop
Dates:
Sat May 19, 2012 12:00
- Sun May 20, 2012
Location:
New York,
New York
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Cost: Regular: $280, Members & Students (with ID): $250 (+ $40 Materials Cost) Please bring the $40 for the materials cost in cash to the workshop! The workshop is limited to 10 people. The workshop offers an hands-on experience and both theoretical and practical training in gestural control of music and live video, deploying the Xth Sense (XS), a brand-new, biophysical, free and open technology. The XS was recently awarded the first prize in the ...
Starts:
May
19
2012
Digital Duets
Type:
Performance
Dates:
Sat May 19, 2012 14:30
- Sat May 19, 2012
Location:
New York,
New York
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
For tickets please call: 212-475-7710 or go to LaMaMa.org In conjunction with Contact Theatre Manchester, UK / La MaMa E.T.C. A celebration of dance, improvisation that uses telepresence technology to connect dancers, musicians, visualists and spoken word artists at La MaMa in New York and Contact Theatre in Manchester, UK. Collapsing distance and allowing for spontaneous real time collaborations across networked environments. Inspired by DawN Crandell’s Mixed MoveMent.
Starts:
May
19
2012
Donnarumma, Tanaka, Parkinson, Biophysical and mobile music
Type:
Performance
Dates:
Sat May 19, 2012 20:00
- Sat May 19, 2012
Location:
New York,
New York
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
In a double bill on May 19th, Marco Donnarumma starts with a performance utilizing the award-winning biophysical instrument Xth sense, that he teaches this weekend in a class at Harvestworks. This is followed by Adam Parkinson's and Atau Tanaka's exploitation of a common consumer electronics device, the iPhone. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Marco Donnarumma's Music for Flesh II is a seamless mediation between human biosonic potential and algorithmic composition. By enabling a computer to amplify and augment the ...
Final Event: La Ultima Noche Que Pase Contigo/The Last Night I Spent With You
Type:
Performance
Dates:
Sat May 19, 2012 21:00
- Sat May 19, 2012
Location:
New York,
New York
Description:
Co-founder and Artistic Director Papo Colo will present a farewell celebration performance as an exit from Exit Art and the entrance to his next full-time project, Tricker Theater. The hour long performance will be a collage of old works (2010’s Distant Sex) and new works meditating on time and memory, the political and sexual, the economic and monetary, and current modes of unrest in the spirit of the Occupy movement. The performances will be followed ...
Starts:
May
22
2012
Steve Lambert - Big Ideas in Art and Culture Lecture Series
Type:
Talk/Lecture
Dates:
Tue May 22, 2012 19:00
- Tue May 22, 2012
Location:
Kitchener,
Canada
Description:
Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area (CAFKA) and Musagetes are pleased to announce that Steve Lambert will present his practice at the Big Ideas in Art & Culture Lecture Series. The lecture will be taking place in the Rotunda at Kitchener City Hall (200 King St. W., Kitchener, ON) on Tuesday May 22, 2012 at 7:00 PM. Admission is free. Steve Lambert is an American artist who works in a variety of media, commonly using ...
Starts:
May
23
2012
Facesponge
Type:
Workshop
Dates:
Wed May 23, 2012 10:00
- Wed May 23, 2012
Location:
Eindhoven,
Netherlands
Description:
Have you ever wondered what is going on “behind the scenes” on social networks like Facebook? In this workshop we will explore our so-called social data and get a glimpse at how it is viewed by the company and third parties who access it. In order to break several myths about Facebook applications, you will be invited to take part in designing small programs that extracts and manipulate you and your friend’s online information. Nothing ...
Starts:
May
23
2012
SIGHT & SOUND 2012
Type:
Festival
Dates:
Wed May 23, 2012 12:00
- Sun May 27, 2012
Location:
Montréal,
Canada
Description:
For its fourth edition, Sight & Sound Festival returns in full force with original and experimental programming, as unique as always within Montreal’s digital art scene. Sight & Sound proposes an overall aesthetic of experience-based, intimate and unconventional work, via a unique line-up of sitespecific performances and installations. This year, the festival takes place from May 23rd to the 27th, 2012, and explores the theme of “Systems of Symmetry.” A dozen installations and AV performances, ...
Starts:
May
23
2012
Things That Have Interested Me
Type:
Exhibition
Dates:
Wed May 23, 2012 18:00
- Sat Jul 14, 2012
Location:
London,
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Description:
Things That Have Interested Me Simon and Tom Bloor, Dan Coopey, Benedict Drew, Robert Filby, Leo Fitzmaurice, Colin Guillemet, Suzanne Mooney, Fay Nicolson, Peles Empire (Barbara Wolff and Katharina Stoever), Hannah Perry, Helen A Pritchard, Giles Round In 1921, the prolific writer Arnold Bennett – author of Buried Alive and The City of Pleasure and inventor of the Savoy’s ‘Omelette Arnold Bennett’ – begun publishing Things That Have Interested Me, a series of miniature essays ...
Starts:
May
24
2012
Ubiquography
Type:
Other
Dates:
Thu May 24, 2012 12:10
- Wed Jun 06, 2012
Location:
Everywhere,
Description:
Ubiquography is an exhibition that aims to make people think about the traits that define mobile photography: ubiquity and immediacy. http://ubiquography.com/ Participants capture, edit and publish their pictures using their phones and they are instantly displayed in the exhibition (real time) enforcing the immediacy. The exhibition will be simultaneously held in different cities of the world, in very diverse and distant locations, making the exhibition itself ubiquitous. The website is operating since January 2012, receiving ...
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Starts:
May
24
2012
Teun Hocks: Recent Works
Type:
Exhibition
Dates:
Thu May 24, 2012 17:45
- Sat Jun 23, 2012
Location:
New York,
New York
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
P.P.O.W is proud to present Teun Hocks’ ninth solo exhibition with the gallery. Through these Recent Works, the Dutch artist expands his body of constructed imagery with fourteen photographic works that flex his mastery of process while narrating actions of futility and possibility. Hocks’ photographic paintings are tedious with layers of production that reveal the enduring patience of the artist while challenging the acute eye of his viewers. He begins each work by constructing a ...
Starts:
May
24
2012
Parsing (IM)Possibilities
Type:
Exhibition
Dates:
Thu May 24, 2012 18:00
- Thu May 24, 2012
Location:
New York,
New York
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
“Parsing (Im)Possibilities” May 18 – June 2, 2012 Reception: Thursday, May 24, 6 - 8pm Visual Arts Gallery School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents “Parsing (Im)Possibilities,” an exhibition that brings together selected thesis projects from graduating students in the MFA Computer Art Department. Curated by Hsiang Chin Moe and Jose Vargas, the exhibition will be on view from May 18 through June 2 at the Visual Arts Gallery, 601 West 26 Street, 15th floor, New ...
