ASK THE ROBOT is a platform that gives artists working within and across different media a chance to present their work on an open stage. Whether you use your body, your voice, or strange technical gadgets to perform — all analog, digital and just plain human media are welcome!

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Museum to Show Artist's Fingernail Scrapings

Gordon Matta-Clark, the conceptualist and Late Land artist famous for revealing buildings' inner structures by chainsawsing big cuts in them, is good but overfetishized. Because he died at age 35 there's just not that much work--many weak scraps have been shown. The estate is still being picked over, first for real work and now for unfinished projects that can be "completed" and ultimately commodified. As Sarah Hromack and others have reported, the latest exercise in enshrining the bone chip of a saint is the "completion" of Fake Estates, a work deep in the research hopper while Matta-Clark still lived.

Matta-Clark was acquiring slivers of land around NYC "sliced from the city grid through anomalies in surveying, zoning, and public-works expansion." According to the press release

he collected the maps, deeds, and other bureaucratic documentation attached to the slivers; photographed, spoke, and wrote about them; and considered using them as sites for his unique brand of "anarchitectural" intervention into urban space. Matta-Clark died in 1978 at the age of 35 without realizing his plans for Fake Estates, and ownership of the properties reverted to the city. The archival material that he had assembled went into storage and was not rediscovered until the early 1990s, when it was assembled into exhibitable collages. [smarmy emphasis added]

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SYNAPSE is a group exhibition of seven artists who made a difference by not only pursuing their personal aesthetics but because they operated in such a way as to build bridges between art forms and art communities.

SYNAPSE highlights some of the key accomplishments of the last quarter-century in the development of the Southern California digital art scene.

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The Department of Teledramatic Arts and Technology within the College of Science Media Arts and Technology at California State University Monterey Bay invites application for two tenure track faculty positions.

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Drunken Boat,international online journal for the arts, announces its First Annual Panliterary Awards in Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Web-Art, Photo/Video, Sound. Submit up to three works, either via email to or via physical mail.Deadline Extended to: August 15th, 2005

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The Connectors
12-18 September 2005
An international festival at the cutting edge of sound and image processing featuring exclusive performances, specially curated films screenings, artist led masterclasses and software courses.

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The SAC gallery invites submissions for Revisioning nature which will address contemporary representations of nature and natural forms. New media and animation artisits are strongly encouraged to apply. Open to all media.

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The 7th backup_festival. new media in film, which takes place at the E-Werk, Weimar, Germany, from October 6-9, 2005, is looking for theoretical texts by academic newcomers. Under the title of backup.plaintext we are collecting essays on the theory and context of moving images.

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CNMA provides a unique environment in Australia for the artistic use of computers and a focus on interdisciplinary education for artists interested in exploring the potential of new technologies and new media. CNMA is a centre dedicated to creative applications of new technology and artistic practice and offers studies in new digital sound and image technologies at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

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Visual AIDS invites artists to participate in our eighth annual Postcards From the Edge benefit. We are looking for artists to donate a 4" x 6" original work on paper for the exhibition and sale. Painting, drawing, photography, printmaking and mixed media are welcomed.

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