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“Digital Labor”. The Internet as Playground and Factory

The book asks whether life on the internet is mostly work, or play. We tweet, we tag photos, we link, we review books, we comment on blogs, we remix media, and we upload video to create much of the content that makes up the web. And large corporations profit on our online activity by tracking our interests, affiliations, and habits—and then collecting and selling the data. What is the nature of this interactive ‘labor’ and the new forms of digital sociality that it brings into being?... READ MORE...

Conflux Festival 2012

The annual NYC festival for the investigation of urban life through emerging artistic, technological and social practices is back! During the Conflux Festival 2012 over 30 artists, activists, interaction designers, and pranksters will present documentation, give talks, and provide workshops for festival goers on October 20-21, 2012 in the East Village.... READ MORE...

Sky Arts Ignition: Doug Aitken, “The Source” at Tate Liverpool

What is the source of a creative idea? Where does it start and what is its journey to the finished creation? Doug Aitken explores the creative drive behind many of the cultural pioneers who are shaping our creative future in Sky Arts Ignition: Doug Aitken – The Source. Presented as a series of filmed conversations between Aitken and celebrated cultural figures from diverse media including visual art, architecture, film, new media and music, The Source leads us to new frontiers of contemporary culture.... READ MORE...

The Tanks: Art in Action. Aldo Tambellini exhibition and other events

15 Weeks of Art in Action, the opening programme of the new Tanks at Tate Modern, reaches its final weeks in October with an electromedia installation and performance by cross-disciplinary pioneer Aldo Tambellini, a major installation and series of performances revisting the work of the Filmaktion group, a restaging of Juan Downey's 1973 experimental video performance Plato Now, and the performance series and symposium dedicated to performative projection, Playing in the Shadows.... READ MORE...

Economies of the Commons 3: Sustainable Futures for Digital Archives

Economies of the Commons (eCommons) believe that technology brings fundamental change to the way cultural heritage institutes work and the expectations their audiences have of them. Institutes are no longer the exclusive ‘holders and curators of culture’ while their audiences have become accustomed to their active roles as co-producers of culture––they want to create, curate and co-produce cultural artefacts.... READ MORE...

Alpha-Ville 2012. A festival of post digital culture

After three consecutive editions of Alpha-ville Festival, its producers announce the official start of a new strategic phase for the organisation. Although the annual festival has been cancelled this year due shortage of funding, the organisation will still be going ahead with a series of individual events that celebrate cutting-edge visual and music cultures.... READ MORE...

Yunchul Kim. “Carved Air” Exhibition at Ernst Schering Foundation

In his exhibition CARVED AIR, the Berlin-based Korean artist Yunchul Kim presents a series of electrochemical drawings as well as his latest fluid-kinetic sculptures, coupled to a cosmic ray detector. Conceived specifically for the Project Space of the Ernst Schering Foundation, the works were created in cooperation with “Fluid Skies,” a working group consisting of Kim, the art historian Lucía Ayala and the astrophysicist Jaime Forero (http://www.fluid-skies.net). Curated by Lucía Ayala, the exhibition is the first outcome of this collaboration.... READ MORE...

Matt Hope. “Spectrum Divide” exhibition at Saamlung Gallery

The new solo installation project from artist Matt Hope is going to close at Saamlung gallery in Hong Kong. For his first solo presentation in Asia after five years working in Beijing, the artist created a disorienting sensation of contrasting experience with an apparatus that simultaneously focuses the viewer on the physical experience of the gallery space while also transforming it into a mediatized event. Entitled Spectrum Divide, the installation draws parallels between machine vision and human blindness.... READ MORE...