Urban Modernities Research Group: Call for Submissions

UnDesign
CRITICAL PRACTICES AT THE INTERSECTION OF ART AND DESIGN

Undesign is calling for submissions from researcher, curators, theorists as well as practicing designers and artists, for an edited text to be published in late 2014 - early 2015.

Traditionally, design has been placed ...

Dear Rhizomeans,

I post this eagerly interested in receiving feedback/discussion from whoever reads this. I work pretty much in a vacuum having only feedback from the PC. I admit it is a great silent partner without any argumentative personality except going blank once in a while. The Manifesto I ...

  • Location:Hyperion Tavern, 1941 Hyperion Avenue, Los Angeles, California, 90027, US
Farrah Karapetian is a Los Angeles-based artist who works with cameraless photography in a sculptural field. She believes in transparency of process, and in the capacity of photography to communicate the marks of its making. Her work raises questions of the nature of—and difference between—abstraction and representation, pictorial ...

  • Location:AC Institute, 547 W. 27th St. #210, New York, New York, 10001, US
There are thousands of these lying around is an attempt to work the boundaries of intrusion as an organizing principle. Each day we are bombarded by messaging, instructions, advertisements. No media goes untainted. It is virtually impossible to exist in contemporary American culture without exposing oneself to a barrage of ...

  • Location:AC Institute, 547 W. 27th St. #210, New York, New York, 10001, US
In the two hand-drawn animations on view by Nathania Rubin, a girl acts out her struggle with letting go in a farcical treatment of the psychoanalytic preoccupation with feces and a morphing face struggles to congeal an identity which it temporarily accomplishes during a sexual encounter before splintering into multiple ...

  • Location:S1 Artspace, 120 Trafalgar Street, Sheffield, S1 4JT, GB
With coal seams beneath it and water running through, Sheffield has a surfeit of energy. Historically this energy has produced stainless steel and electro pop. Love in a Cold Climate reflects the latent energies within the city – both industrial and social.

Works include post-Vorticist lithographs from 1919 by Edward Wadsworth ...

  • Location:web, , FR
L’Autre musique laboratory (in association with the ACTE UMR8218 Paris1/CNRS) leads an investigation about all the new forms of writing the sound and music distant from the traditional Western scoring.
If you want to participate, just send us a graphic score, conceptual score, diagram, drawing… or other forms ...

  • Location:Breadboard, 3711 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104, US
Please see our website for the full opportunity description: http://www.breadboardphilly.org/programs/art-along-the-avenue-of-technology

Breadboard is launching a dynamic public art residency program called Art Along the Avenue of Technology (AAAT), to explore the intersection of Art and Technology along the corridor of Market Street west of 30th Street ...

  • Location:MacEwan University, 10045 156 Street , Edmonton, Alberta , T5P 2P7 , CA
The Design Studies program in the Centre for the Arts and Communications (CFAC) at MacEwan University invites applications for the position of Chair/Assistant Professor in the Design Studies program. This is a full-time, continuing faculty appointment with both teaching and leadership responsibilities.

Located in Edmonton, Alberta, MacEwan University is ...

  • Location:The Walper Hotel , 1 King St. W. , Kitchener, Ontario, N2G 1A1 , CA
Opening Reception Thursday May 2, 2013, 7 PM

CAFKA – Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area is pleased to be teaming up with the Walper Hotel to exhibit eight provocative art installations throughout the hotel.

CAFKA @ The Walper Hotel is a program of contemporary art installations that engage the unique spaces ...

  • Location:The Bushwick Augmented Reality Intervention 2013, between Flushing and Cooper Street, Bushwick, New York, 11237, US
This is a call to artists making art with augmented reality for a city wide art intervention across Bushwick, NY. The show will open with the Bushwick Open Studios.

"The Bushwick AR Intervention" is the 1st and longest running augmented reality art intervention in the world. Artists from around the ...

  • Location:Museum of Contemporary Cuts,
The Museum of Contemporary Cuts (MoCC) is developing a research project, under the directorship of Lanfranco Aceti, to assess and map the impact of the arts funding reductions in several European Countries and North America, and would like to invite individuals and funded organizations to contribute their data.

The research ...

  • Location:ABC No Rio, 157 Rivington, NYC, New York, US
Michael Alan's Living Installation is a "live spiritual circle." A full circle of eight female performers in a deep meditative ritual will become living installations at the landmark punk/gallery ABCNORIO.

How much negativity is put into the world about form and body? Stakes are high in the world ...

  • Location:ArtPadSF - Phoenix Hotel, 601 Eddy St, San Francisco, California, 94109, US
Submissions are to be moving-image, computer-generated new media art that is representative of the experimental, critical and interrogative nature of this burgeoning medium. Sound and physical materials will not be supported at the installation.

Jurors include: Anthony Antonellis [netartnet.net], Nick Briz [gli.tc/h], Manuel Fernández [domain-gallery.net], Daniel ...

  • Location:Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, 540 West 21 Street, New York, New York, 10011
$15 General Admission

HPSCHD, John Cage’s legendary Gesamtkunstwerk is a mass media orgy, considered by many as the wildest, largest, and loudest musical composition of the 20th century, its very nature inextricable from the tumult of the year it premiered, 1969. ISSUE Project Room presents this spectacle on May ...