Museum of Contemporary Commodities – Data Derby Day – Furtherfield Commons, London, 13 June 2015, 10.30am – 4.30pm

http://furtherfield.org/programmes/event/mocc-data-derby-day-who-tracking-who-finsbury-park Date: Saturday 13 June, 10.30am – 4.30pm Venue: Furtherfield Commons Walkshop, making session and drop-in day Come for one or both sessions, or just drop in for a chat about MoCC over tea and cake. 11am-1pm – Data Walkshop with data activist Dr Alison Powell (LSE) Explore and discuss the data surveillance processes at play in Finsbury Park through … Read More

Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA) London 2015 – 7-9 July 2015 (V&A pre-event 6 July)

http://www.eva-london.org/ Venue: British Computer Society, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7HA Register online: https://events.bcs.org/book/1443/ Registration for the conference dinner will open shortly. Digital Futures meets EVA London The free V&A pre event is on Monday 6th July please find info and register at http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-futures-meets-eva-london-tickets-17195811134 There is also the Art That Makes Itself: Brown & Son book launch at EVA London 2015 … Read More

Digital Toybox 2015 – London Met Faculty of Life Sciences and Computing Student Summer Show, London, 11-12 June 2015

http://www.thinkmakeplay.co.uk/show Faculty of Life Sciences and Computing Student Summer Show at London Metropolitan University, 166-220 Holloway Road, London, N7 8DB http://eventbrite.com/e/digital-toybox-2015-tickets-16810511693 promo trailer What’s happening this year at Digital Toybox? You can interact with robot butterflies, control R2D2 with your mobile phone, watch amazing animations and see superlative showreels, play a load of funky games and find out about some … Read More

Les Immatériaux: towards the virtual with Jean-François Lyotard – Somerset House, London, 27-28 March 2015

The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, March 27 – 28, 2015 Registration deadline: Mar 27, 2015 Les Immatériaux: towards the virtual with Jean-François Lyotard 17.30 – 19.00, Friday 27 March 2015 (with registration from 17.00) 09.30 – 17.45, Saturday 28 March 2015 (with registration from 09.00) Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R … Read More

Young_Fraud Fest // Collaborative action at Furtherfield Gallery, London – 28 March 2015, 12-5pm

http://furtherfield.org/programmes/clear-spots/youngfraud-fest-collaborative-action #Young_Fraud is a ‘contra contest’ to influence politicians and protest drastic cuts to public art funding. As part of Furtherfield Clear Spots, the awarded artists and the promoters of the campaign will be presenting the project and showcasing the artworks. You are invited to create and discover the most stylish mediterranean Fraud Tapas and dance to the rhythms of … Read More

Open call – The Furtherfield Clear Spots – deadline 1 May 2015

http://furtherfield.org/blog/furtherfield/open-call-furtherfield-clear-spots The Furtherfield ‘Clear Spots’ programme of self-initiated and self-funded exhibitions and events support the presentation of new work and artistic invention, to discover new perspectives on the horizon of a wider networked society. Curators and artists that meet Furtherfield’s selection criteria can showcase work at Furtherfield Gallery in the heart of London’s Finsbury Park. Clear Spot projects can reach … Read More

CoLAB (Hackney, London) open call for inaugural Associates – deadline 20 March 2015

http://www.artandtechnologyspace.com/ Placing prototyping at the heart of artistic provocation to enable innovation without constraint, celebrating process over product. Applications are now open to become part of the inaugural community of Associates at CoLAB – SPACE’s new creative innovation and prototyping incubator. Environment CoLAB features 12 workstations radiating from a prototyping area, designed to encourage a democratic environment for innovation and … Read More

Secrets of the Dark Net: Jamie Bartlett and Zach Blas – London, 14 May 2015, 6.30pm

Public Lecture: Secrets of the Dark Net, Jamie Bartlett; The Contra-Internet, Zach Blas  14 May 2015, 18.30-20.30, Edmund J. Safra Lecture Theatre http://secretsofdarknet.eventbrite.co.uk Jamie Bartlett, author of The Dark Net and member of the think tank, Demos, will be giving this keynote lecture on the secret side of the Internet. Bartlett will discuss some of the net’s most shocking and unexplored subcultures including trolling, … Read More

Politics of Big Data conference – King’s College London – 8 May 2015

Book your (free) ticket via Eventbrite http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/politics-of-big-data-tickets-15741681794 ——————- POLITICS OF BIG DATA CONFERENCE – King’s College London – MAY 8TH 2015 “Big Data” is a contested term describing the increasing pervasiveness of data generation, gathering and mining in our society. The unprecedented market success Facebook, Google, and related digital, media, and marketing corporations is predicated on Big Data. Furthermore, as … Read More

Agostino Di Scipio lecture – London, 23 February 2015, 6pm

23 February 2015 h 18:00 Queen Mary University of London Arts One Lecture Theatre Mile End Campus E1 4NS London Event page: http://xname.cc/emsensing/agostino-di-scipio-lecture/ RSVP: http://agostino-di-scipio-lecture.eventbrite.com Flyer: http://xname.cc/flyers/discipio_flyer.jpg ::: The place of computing in situated sonic interactions of performers, machines, and environment ::: In this presentation I address the place and meaning of computing resources in the context of the hybrid … Read More

Creating, Commissioning, Exhibiting and Collecting Art in the Digital Age – London, 22 January 2015, 5-6pm

http://www.londonartfair.co.uk/page.cfm/Action=Form/FormID=87/t=m Please note: entrance to the session requires a valid London Art Fair invitation or ticket. Since the establishment of the World Wide Web, questions have proliferated around the possibilities, value and collectability of its associated contemporary art forms. The web provides a single site for the creation (and sometimes co-creation), distribution, review and remix of an art form that … Read More