Overview of network art projects 2000-2008
 

4-16 Jan 2000	Hot Wired Live Art	Bergen, Norway	Approx. 16 artists; initiated by Amanda Steggell and Per Platou	Two week intensive laboratory for beta-testing new software Keystroke being developed by Waag Society team headed by Sher Doruff. Workshop with a number of artists (approx. 16) from Norway, Germany, Holland, Canada, England and Austria culminated in a 2-day public presentation/live art event. Other existing midi/video/sound/net apps (BigEye, Image/ine, Xpose, vidvox prophet, nato0.55, Rocketfuel (live midi jamming), Apple Speech recognition, icontext (chat/ascii-jamming), ivisit, webcam/html/java stuff, i/cube, MAX) were utilised too. Initiated by Motherboard in collaboration with BEK and Bergen Academy of Fine Art.	W
22-25 Jul 2000	placard #3	Paris (and streams from Brussels, Lisbon and Vienna)		Third edition of the Placard headphone festival.
24-26 Aug 2000	art+communication #4: InterCultural Jamming	Riga	Xchange network		W
14-15 Nov 2000	nato.0+55 workshop	DEAF Festival, V2_, Rotterdam	30 artists	The workshop brought together an international developers community for a two day jam session, culminating in a live public event with online and on-site performances. nato.0+55 is a software package (based on MAX) set to revolutionise the realtime manipulation of video.	W
6-8 Oct 2000	net.congestion	Amsterdam	Concept: Adam Hyde. Editorial/curatorial team: Adam Hyde, Eric Kluitenberg, Honor Harger, David García, Geert Lovink (Reader Editorial), Galit Eilat (Curator of Media Bank).	International festival of streaming media. Three day celebration and critique of the new cultures that have arisen from all forms of micro-, narrow- and broad-casting via the internet collectively known as streaming media. Organised by De Balie, Paradiso, De Melkweg, radioqualia, De Waag, Montevideo/TBA.	W
16-17 Jan 2000	Art's Birthday	Vienna, Belgrade, Nove Zamky, Vancouver, Tokyo, Copenhagen, Winnipeg and more	Many	January 16 - live from Vienna, Belgrade, Nove Zamky with Alien Productions, Subtolerance, LENGOW & HEyeRMEarS. January 17th - 24 hours of live radio broadcast on CITR FM 101.9 FM Vancouver, web-cast by the Western Front/FirstFloor Eastside (Vancouver) with connections to Tetsuo Kogawa and DJ Turbonator in Tokyo, Alarm 112 in Copenhagen, Kunstradio (central command station) in Vienna, and Steve Bates in Winnipeg.	W

27-30 Jul 2001	placard #4	Paris - Vienna	Various	Headphone festival.
4-15 Aug 2001	art+communication #5	Riga	Xchange network	Included Acoustic Space Lab symposium, Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Center, August 4-12.	W
Sep 2001	Hot Wired Live Art 2 - Airwaves	Banff, Canada	Various; initiated by Michelle Teran	Workshop sequel to Hot Wired Live Art (Bergen, 2000).	W
2001-2011	Ballettikka Internettikka	Internet - Moscow - Bergen - TV - Ljubljana - Milan - Belgrade - Berlin - Hong Kong - Dresden	Igor Stromajer and Brane Zorman	Series of tactical art projects which began in 2001 with the exploration of internet ballet. It explores wireless internet ballet performances combined with guerrilla tactics and mobile live internet broadcasting strategies.	W

26-29 Jul 2002	placard #5	Paris - Tokyo	Various	Live streaming 72h headphone festival.	W
17 Jan 2002	Art's Birthday	Vienna, Vancouver, Australia, Taiwan, Canada, U.K., Austria, Italy	Many	24 hours of network radio art connecting The Western Front Grande Lux, CITR-FM 102 in Vancouver, Kunstradio ORF and "devolve into II" (streams from Australia, Taiwan, Canada, U.K., Austria, and Italy). CITR-FM presents 24 hours of non-stop live radio art. All three production studios will be taken over by local audio artists and DJs. The Western Front will present web-cast performances by Steve Heimbecker, Sutrisno Haratana and Heri Dono, followed by a lavish dinner with performative interruptions. Kunstradio ORF will present a web-cast and radio broadcast by Austrian artists satellite footprintshop.	W

1 Mar 2003	Interfacing Realities	DEAF03 Rotterdam - New York City	Michelle Teran, Isabelle Jenniches, Lodewijk Loos, Eric Redlinger, Arjen Keesmaat and Daniel Vatsky	Live transatlantic performance. The project used the software KeyWorx, developed at Waag Society.	W
26 Apr-29 Jul 2003	placard #6	Tokyo - Hannover - Grenoble - Barcelona - Strasbourg - Lyon - Bordeaux - Neufchatel - Leipzig - Hamburg - Marseille - Brussels - Mulhouse - New York - London - Melbourne - Paris	Various	95-day headphone festival.	W
15-18 May 2003	art+communication #6: Media Architecture	Riga	Xchange network		W
17 Jan 2003	Art's Birthday	Vancouver, Vienna, Tokyo, Weimar and others	Many	Audio art broadcasts on radio and the Internet: a performance of "Doves are grey" by Sergej Mohntau at Kunstradio (Vienna); voices and telephone art at Western Front (Vancouver); the very first transmission from Radio Kinesonus (Tokyo); web-radio from PING FM (Weimar, Germany); 24-hours of Radio Art at CiTR FM 102 (Vancouver).	W
Jul 1999-Jan 2003	WireFire	Online and at various locations (Brussels, Amsterdam, New York City, Minneapolis, London, Athens, Dresden, Gent, Venice)	Entropy8Zuper	A weekly internet performance.	W

8 May-11 Aug 2004	placard #7	Various	Various	95 Days Non-Stop Streaming Headphone Festival. Included 23 May: first Italian Placard@Peam2004; 48h streaming event (july 23/24); 7-9 August: Placard #7 Tokyo.	W
15 Apr 2004	Anyware	The Kitchen, New York City and locations in other 13 cities	Various	International realtime networked, collaborative performance. Artists from 14 cities around the world simultaneously broadcast video and audio via the internet and collaborated/jammed remotely with one another.	W
30 Sep-3 Oct 2004	art+communication #7: Trans Cultural Mapping	Riga	Xchange network		W
17 Jan 2004	Art's Birthday	Vancouver, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Montréal, Québec City, Columbus Ohio, Helsinki, Weimar, Vienna, Melbourne, Sydney and Tokyo	Many	Artists from around the world streamed sensor data with the intent of activating robotic devices in various social spaces. Cake was consumed. The data streaming project was developed during Scrambled_Bites - a year long artist residency at the Western Front.	W
29 Mar-8 Apr 2004	Multiplace	Bratislava, Trnava, Zilina, Prague	Many	New media culture festival.	W

2 Jun-4 Sep 2005	le placard #8	Various	Various	Headphone streaming festival. Included: 3-4 Sep: Placard Tokyo. 4 Sep: Rotterdam Headphone Lounge, V2 links up with Le Placard. 10 Sep: London-Poitiers simultaneous stream (State51, London/Goto10, Poitiers).	W
14-17 Jan 2005	Art's Birthday: Permanent Creation (incl. Reverie: noise city)	Western Front in Vancouver, The New Gallery and EMMAX in Calgary, Videopool in Winnipeg, Modern Fuel Gallery in Kingston, Studio XX in Montréal, art@radio in Baltimore, Share New York, Kunstradio in Vienna, MLAB in Helsinki, and Radio Kinesonus in Tokyo	Many	Reverie: noise city is a virtual urban landscape (on the Web). Inside this city, an ever-expanding group of international sound artists will build venues for their work. Reverie imagines an urban landscape that includes a variety of poetic extrapolations on the types of regions that exist in our cities - a merging of Sunset Boulevard, Lower Manhattan, boat houses on the canal, the Surrey Landfill site, and a public botanical garden of the future. Over time, the growing collection of audio art venues will define a structure of neighbourhoods and communities in which artists plan time-based events and engage other inhabitants in collaboration and exchange. There will be an Exchange-Art Festival between all of the artists in the virtual city from Friday, January 14th to Monday, January 17th 2005. This will include on-site performances, concerts, radio-broadcasts and generative audio installations at Western Front, Studio XX, Radio Kinesonus, Kunstradio and other locations around the world.	W
28 Oct 2005	ORBITA[05] Festival	Chile, Sweden and Spain	Rafael Ortega + Pernilla Hägg + Isabel Aranda, María Dominguez Alba + Vicente Pastor, Israel Sánchez; Sara Malinarich (director, Spain), Ximena Narea (curator, Sweden), Kathie Bustos (production, Chile)	International Festival for Action through Webcam.	W
17-24 Apr 2005	Multiplace	Bangalore, Bratislava, Brno, Krakow, Opava, Pardubice, Prague, Providence, Trnava, Zilina	Many	New media culture festival.	W

24-26 Aug 2006	art+communication #8: Waves	Riga			W
3 Jun-21 Oct 2006	le placard #9	Canada - Slovakia - Sweden - France - Finland - Belgium - Japan - Germany - Switzerland - US - Netherlands..	Various	Included: 4-7 Aug: the 72-hours non-stop 'grand placard', La Generale, Paris. DOCUMENTARY VIDEO about placard #9: http://public-access.org/archives/264	W
14-18 Jan 2006	Art's Birthday: TransDadaExpress, The 90th Anniversary of Dada	Western Front in Vancouver, Video Pool Inc. in Winnipeg, Kunstradio Vienna, Ars Acustica Group, NoiseCity Helsinki, Studio XX in Montreal, Radio Kinesonus in Tokyo, Radio Grenouille in Marseille, Glee Club in New Brunswick, CKLN FM in Toronto, Czech Radio	Many	Global network exchange. Radio, satellite, streaming, breakfast, dinner, parties, cake.	W
2006-2007	Intact Project	Paris - Asturias; Paris - Asturias - Cuenca; Santiago de Compostela; Paris - Cuenca	Sara Malinarich (initiator), Manuel Terán and Alexandre Berthier (coordinators), and others		W
21-30 Apr 2006	Multiplace	Bratislava, Trnava, Žilina, Košice, Brno, Praha, Hainburg, Wien, Glasgow, Káhira, Providence	Many	New media culture festival.	W

2007	æther9	Performances at various events	Many		W
31 May-10 Jun 2007	art+communication #9: Spectral Ecology	Riga			W
Jan-Dec 2007	placard #10	Various	Various	Included: 29-31 Mar: Placard at Pixelache festival, Helsinki. 10-12 Aug: Privatelektro Headphone Festival IV, Leipzig.	W
14-20 Jan 2007	Art's Birthday: 100 Years of Radio – The Return of Wireless Imagination	Vancouver, Prague, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Vienna, Antwerp, Berlin, Montréal, Tokyo, Hainburg, Toronto, Brussels, Belfast, Valencia and others	Many	Global network exchange. Radio, satellite, streaming, breakfast, dinner, parties, cake.	W
2006-2007	Intact Project	Paris - Asturias; Paris - Asturias - Cuenca; Santiago de Compostela; Paris - Cuenca	Sara Malinarich (initiator), Manuel Terán and Alexandre Berthier (coordinators), and others		W
13-22 Apr 2007	Multiplace	Brno, Prague, Budapest, Kielce, Cluj, Bratislava, Kosice, Trnava, Zilina, Providence	Many	Network culture festival.	W

16-18 Jan 2008	Art's Birthday: Forever Young - The Future of Pop	Tokyo, Bangalore, Paris, Marseille, Antwerp, Vienna, Bratislava, Calgary, Vancouver, Hamilton Ontario, Kingston Ontario, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, and others	Many	Global network exchange. Radio, satellite, streaming, breakfast, dinner, parties, cake.	W

Resources:
* Annemarie Chandler and Norie Neumark (eds) (2005) At a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet. Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press.
* Adrian Voight (2007) Communication Art Timeline. http://1904.cc/timeline/tiki-index.php?page=communication+art
* Inke Arns Interaction, Participation, Networking: Art and Telecommunication http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themes/overview_of_media_art/communication/
* etc