format: symposium

Together with Omar Khan and Mark Shepard I organized this 3-day symposium. It will bring together researchers and practitioners from art, architecture, technology and sociology to explore the emerging role of "situated" technologies in the design and inhabitation of the contemporary metapolis.

website: initiative

collaboration:  The Center for Virtual Architecture (SUNY at Buffalo), the Institute for Distributed Creativity, The Architecture League of New York

date | location: May 6, 2005 | The Graduate Center, City University of New York

format: conference

"Share, Share Widely" is organized by the Institute for Distributed Creativity (iDC) in collaboration with the Office of the Associate Provost for Instructional Technology and the New Media Lab, The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Over the past ten years new-media art programs have been started at universities. Departments are shaped, many positions in this field open up and student interest is massive. In China, India, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand enormous developments will take place in the next few years in "new media" art education. At the same time technologists, artists and educators acknowledge a crisis mode: from Germany to Canada, Finland, Ireland, Australia, Taiwan and Singapore to the United States and beyond. But so far, at least in the United States there has been surprisingly little public debate about education in new-media art.

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format: conference

A conference about the art of collaboration, models of critical web-specific art, and the role media technologies play in the making of social networks. What really happens when we communicate through technological channels daily?

In a high-energy context this conference brougt together 150 artists, designers, musicians, activists, art historians and engineers in formats such as workshops, open mic, parties, performances, interviews, and brain storming sessions — all aiming at ongoing collaborations, genuine dialogue, and the exchange of knowledge.

A DVD of the event is available. 

image report: gallery

facilitators: Trebor Scholz (NYC/Buffalo), Geert Lovink (Amsterdam)

Founded in May 2004 by Scholz, the research of the Institute for Distributed Creativity (iDC) focuses on collaboration in media art, technology, and theory with an emphasis on social contexts. The iDC is an international network with a participatory and flexible institutional structure that combines advanced creative production, research, events, and documentation. While the iDC makes appropriate use of emerging low-cost and free social software (ie. peer-to-peer technologies, blogs and mailing lists) it balances these activities with regular face-to-face meetings.

website: institute website

date | location: April 9 | SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

In this talk at the Department of Media Study Tevere will introduce some of her recentprojects: from video, performance, collaboration, and activism, to micro-radio broadcasting. Tevere’s practice has looked to the public sphere as a condition and framework forinquiry and discourse. Her recent projects permeate the urban environment as temporal public works and performances that rely upon structured yet spontaneous encounters withcity inhabitants.

Valerie Tevere received an MFA in Photography from the California Institute of the Arts.  A graduate of the Whitney Independent Study Program, Tevere is Assistant Professor for Communication at the College of Staten Island/CUNY. She lives and works in New York City and exhibits widely in the US, Europe, Chile and Mexico.

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date | location: January to April 2005 | Department of Media Study, SUNY at Buffalo

website: WebCamTalk Series 1.0, Share, Share Widely

 An evening with Swati Bandi, Shawn Rider, Ruth Goldman, and Orkan Telhan at Hallwalls.


website: Hallwalls