The man-made objects currently on the furthest expeditions from the Earth are space probes launched by the United States. Space probes Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, both launched in 1977, carry a metal disk known as a Golden Record, which contains greetings in 55 languages, music from many different cultures, as well as sounds and images sampled from nature.
Liverpool Biennial 2016 will unfold through the landscape of the city. It is organised as a story narrated in several episodes: fictional worlds sited in galleries, museums, pubs, unused spaces, stations, hotels, parking lots, shops and supermarkets. For the first time children will work together with artists and the Biennial team to develop ambitious exhibitions, projects and publications specifically for young audiences.
The 9th Berlin Biennale is open to the public from June 4 until September 18, 2016, at various venues in Berlin.
The 9th Berlin Biennale is open to the public from June 4 until September 18, 2016, at various venues in Berlin.
IABR-2016, having as its theme THE NEXT ECONOMY, will investigate the relationship between spatial design and the (future development of the) economy.
2016 is a meaningful year for Ireland as it marks the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising, a moment of great significance in the struggle for liberation from British colonial rule. Responding to the context of the centenary, EVA International 2016 curated by Koyo Kouoh will be entitled Still (the) Barbarians and will investigate the post-colonial condition of Ireland as a point of departure from where artistic reflections, critical redefinitions and political transformations are articulated.
The 20th Biennale of Sydney, inspired by a quote from leading science fiction author William Gibson, is titled The future is already here
The 20th Biennale of Sydney, inspired by a quote from leading science fiction author William Gibson, is titled The future is already here
The curatorial concept of this year’s biennial starts the premise of the designated title for the Biennale: Not New Now. It aims to provide for an intellectual framework that unites multiple arenas of art and cultures by looking at it from the particular location and history of the city of Marrakech. It builds on a longstanding history of Pan Afro-Arab unity, through critically investigating socio political projects, cultural partnerships, and art movements that have led to many shared artistic tendencies.
THE SOCIAL is the title of the 4th International Association for Visual Culture Biennial Conference (IAVC2016@Boston) held at Boston University September 29, 30 and October 1, 2016. The conference IAVC2016@Boston invites international collaborations, papers and events on post-democracy, post-society, anger, violence, future visions, crisis, zombie democracies, social media, neo-slavery, post-capitalism, post-data, social evolution, revolution, actionism, post-state, interventionism, cannibalizing corporativism, post-colonialism, economic vampirism, neo-serfs, globalized thievery, art activism, red art, insurrectional art and social exploitation.
As part of its arts and culture program The 15th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALIFE 2016) will host an exhibition of artificial life and other electronic artworks, such as video- and sound-based installations as well as agent-based systems and tangible interfaces. The aim is to showcase artworks related to the conference theme of “Artificial Life and Society.” During the exhibition renowned artist Ken Rinaldo will premiere a new installation that was commissioned specifically for this year’s conference: a series of breathing sound and projection mapped sculptures that connect to real time weather data and then cascade to complex soundscapes.
On Saturday 23 January NeMe invites you to the exhibition Iconoclastic Controversies: A visual sociology of statues and commemoration sites in the southern regions of Cyprus by Nico Carpentier and to the accompanying seminar, Monuments and Memorials as rhetoric / Objectivity as male.
This is a call for proposals for tech-based artworks that represent innovative water or energy solutions for self-reliance of communities in or around the Mediterranean.
Iannis Zannos (SuperCollider) and Yiannis Christidis (Guitar) will perform an Algorave at the NeMe Arts Center on Monday, November 2, at 9:30pm.
Two Worlds is a project co-organised by NeMe, the Cyprus University of Technology (School of Fine and Applied Arts) and the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University focusing on some of the of issues related to migration.
Two Worlds is a project co-organised by NeMe, the Cyprus University of Technology (School of Fine and Applied Arts) and the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University focusing on some of the of issues related to migration.
IDIOSYNCRASIES.CY investigates a selection of distinctive features, thoughts, oddities or modes of behaviour that we all have assumed are particular to Cyprus and its social landscape. These local, so called truisms, are often humorous confessions of the unconventional. However, in many cases, these commonplace phrases have become enmeshed in our social fabric revealing apathy, prejudice and stereotypic racism, intolerance of difference and discrimination, self censorship and the willingness to passively accept many forms of injustice, such as corruption, repression and cruelty.
SCREENGRAB is now entering its seventh year with an international call out for the AU$10,000 Media Arts Prize and the companion exhibition to be held in December 2015 for short listed applicants.
SCREENGRAB is looking for challenging and provocative works by media arts practitioners and theorists working in screen based media on the theme of RESISTANCE. All interpretations of resistance will be considered: the politics of resistance, the physics of resistance, the messiness of resistance, the urgency of resistance – and all its private, political and social connotations, (see the theme abstract below).
A few weeks ago, NeMe received an erroneous DMCA notice for one of of videos hosted on Vimeo.
Many thanks to torrentfreak for making our case viral, but also thanks to everyone for their support. Here is some of the sites that published our case.
Chronus Art Center, Rhizome, and TASML are pleased to announce the second edition of the Prix Net Art, a $10,000 prize for net art. The prize will recognize the future promise of an artist making outstanding work on the internet, as demonstrated by past achievement. A second distinction prize of $5,000 will also be awarded. Awards are made to acknowledge excellent artists who remain committed to working online. Nominations are now open, and guidelines available here. The winners will be selected by a jury of three international judges: Josephine Bosma, Chrissie Iles, and Domenico Quaranta.
