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Contestational Cartographies Symposium, January 28-30 at CMU!

From January 28-30 I’ll be co-hosting Contestational Cartographies, a symposium at CMU about critical and technocultural approaches to maps. Guest presenters include experimental geographer, Trevor Paglen; radical cartographer Lize Mogel; tactical media artist Rich Pell; concept architect Pablo Garcia; visualization researcher Chris Harrison; artist Susanne Slavick, ecologist/activist Jessica McPherson, and others. The event is [...]


Golan’s 2009 TED Talk, online

The TED Conference just posted a 15′33″ online video of my February 2009 presentation today. Happily, the TED organization also permits their videos to be shared and embedded under a Creative Commons licence:

TED kindly provides the same video for download in additional formats as well:Zipped MP4 video file / Podcast MP4 video for iTunes.
The snappy [...]


Art and Code recap!

I’ve finally recovered from directing ART AND CODE, a conference about “programming environments for artists, young people, and the rest of us” that we held at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh from March 6-9th. The conference featured 26 workshops in 11 different arts-programming languages, and lecture presentations by fifteen or so of the key innovators [...]


“ART AND CODE” Conference at CMU, March 7-9

From March 7-9, I will be directing ART AND CODE, a conference on “Programming Environments for Artists, Young People and the Rest of Us“, held on the campus of Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh. Come join us!

This conference is going to be a remarkable summit of sorts, as it will feature presentations and hands-on workshops by [...]


Symposium: Code, Form, Space (February 3-7 at CMU)

I am delighted to announce “Code, Form, Space”, a mini-symposium about generative form and digital fabrication, which will be held at Carnegie Mellon University during the week of February 3-7. Nearly all of the events are completely free and open to the public – and include lecture presentations by such distinguished computational artist/designers as C.E.B. [...]


Summer workshops in interactive art & design!

I’m delighted to announce that I will be conducting weeklong workshops in Computational Arts at two gorgeous locations:

Shakerag Workshop Center, in Sewanee, Tennessee. Workshop in interactive and computational arts and design: June 22-28, 2008.
 
The Anderson Ranch Arts Center, in Aspen, Colorado. Workshop in interactive and computational arts and design: August 4-8, 2008.

These workshops will be [...]


Golan Levin at CAA, Feb. 20th

I will be presenting in the “Electronic and Emergent Media Art” panel at the College Art Association (CAA) Conference in Dallas on Wednesday, February 20th, at 2:30pm. I’ll show artwork created by my students and colleagues in the Electronic Time-Based concentration area of the CMU School of Art, where I teach. I’ll also be available [...]