dead-in-iraq
Joseph DeLappe
Live performance followed by a discussion with DeLappe and Mark Tribe.
Thursday, March 20
7PM
Location: Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st St., NYC
Cost: Free
http://www.eyebeam.org

On Thursday, March 20-the date of the US invasion of Iraq-from 7 - 9PM, Joseph DeLappe, recipient of Eyebeam's 2008 Commission for Resident Artists, will enact his ongoing protest and memorial work set within the Department of Defense's online military recruiting and marketing video game, America's Army. Using the login name "dead-in-Iraq", DeLappe enters the multiplayer game as a player and, forgoing fighting, uses the game's features to memorialize US military members killed in Iraq.

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SoundLAB - sonic art project environments
http://soundlab.newmediafest.org

is happy to make 2 announcements:

1. Call for soundart for SoundLAB VI
Deadline: 30 November 2008

2. SoundLAB IV on FILE Rio 2008
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Art in General facilitates the production and exhibition of artist's proposed projects, shifting its mode of support according to what is required for the full realization of their art work.

The open call period for 2008 lasts until 11:59 pm Monday March 31st. If you would like to submit a proposal, go to our open call website http://commissions.artingeneral.org, read all the guidelines and restrictions, create your profile and get to work!

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"Virtual Jihadi"



Wafaa Bilal is currently an artist-in-residence at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the city of Troy, New York. Shortly after his arrival on March 5, his exhibition in the gallery of the Arts department was closed to the public by order of the university's president. Today there is no certainty that the exhibition will be reopened. What I want to show is that every aspect of Wafaa Bilal's visit to RPI points back to one fundamental issue: the value of free speech in a democracy.

Bilal was born in Iraq in 1966. He resisted the authoritarian government of Saddam Hussein, suffered persecution and then escaped the country, emigrating to the US in the early 1990s to realize a lifelong dream. He completed an MFA at the Chicago Art Institute in 2003 - and then, due to circumstances far beyond his own choosing, he became one of the most controversial artists in America.

He works with photography, video and computer games, using the Internet to reach beyond the gallery to a wider public. At the heart of his recent pieces is a single principle: he performs the existence of an Iraqi civilian. He shows us, tells us and tries to make us feel what life might be like right now, for those he left behind in his home country. By staging himself in interactive situations, he asks each of us to chose what we have to say to the Iraqi people.

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www.colorflip.com (2008) by Rafaël Rozendaal.

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Driven- a dilemma of coexistence by Marc Garrett and Ruth Catlow

Two people attempt to resolve a recurring argument. Their conversation is transcribed into 2 frames in a single browser. Lag starts to interfere with the flow of statements and responses.

'Driven' can be viewed in most Internet browsers and requires no plug-ins. It can be accessed in two ways. Either by individuals with personal computers, who can click through the work at their own pace,
or projected with sound in public spaces where it has its own tempo.

The first page may take a while to load. Please turn up your volume.

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Voices from the Paradise Network by John Hudak, with Flash programming by erational.org [Needs Flash Player and speakers on]

John writes: My mother-in-law passed away recently, reminding me of a technique that a parapsychologist named Dr. Konstantin Raudive (1906-1974) used to record what he purported to be voices of deceased spirits. With the amount of information moving around on the internet these days, and the passing of my mother-in-law, who I thought would want to get in touch (if possible), I thought I'd give Raudive's technique a try within the digital realm.

Voices from the Paradise Network is a 2007 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.

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Eyebeam
March 13 - April 19, 2008
Opening: Thursday, March 13, 6-8PM.
Closing Reception: April 19, 3PM.
Free 540 W. 21st St.

What does it mean to think "green"?

Eyebeam's expansive new exhibition, FEEDBACK, surveys artists, designers, architects and engineers on the topic of sustainability, and presents their responses- 19 projects varying from public art projects and industrial design to DIY energy solutions and software tools-to inspire discussion and action on this pervasive (and increasingly commodified) subject.

As the culmination of Eyebeam's Beyond Light Bulbs programming series, the show highlights the concerns, interests and work of Eyebeam's Sustainability Research Group, with work by individuals, collectives, students, local community groups and the Eco-Vis Challenge winners. Free, artist-run workshops are integral to the exhibition's design and are scheduled Saturdays throughout the show's duration.
The exhibition's title, FEEDBACK, refers to the self-correcting mechanisms by which systems-in this case, ecological- respond to the influence they exert on their environments...

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On Thursday March 6th at 11am SLT the Ars Virtua Artist in Residency program presents Feed Lack Loop with Micheál O'Connell.

Feed Lack Loop arose out of experiments with the idea of Feedback. Using a live performer and an Avatar in the Online World Second Life, Micheál O'Connell inquires whether the concept of interactivity, so lauded in contemporary culture, is about Empowerment or possibly leads to its opposite: Control. Also the liveliness, or lack of it, in virtual space is brought into question. The event will be situated in two spaces simultaneously, Ars Virtua Gallery in Second Life and as a live projection and performance at Lighthouse. Other relevant pieces by the same artist may be incorporated or displayed...

1) Event on this Thursday 6th March:
http://www.lighthouse.org.uk/whatson/digiville.htm
2) Come either in Real Life or as Second Life avatar. Virtual Location:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Seventh%20Eye/108/60/50

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