NODE.London [Networked, Open, Distributed, Events. London] brings about a citywide cluster of events to ‘mark the ascension of Media Arts as the popular culture activity for London’. March 2006 will see a month long season of arts projects including talks & workshops, installations and video screenings, software art and music events.

Software Art - Dextro & XXXXX events

There is so much going on, here is a list of projects/works I’ll be hoping to catch a glimpse of. Note – many of the projects are handily clustered at the same venues at the same time.

Clave - Ruairi Glynn - 3 Dimensional interactive datascapes of video and audio.

Stanza’s generative work particularly informed by the structures of the city.

Bits in Motion series - Survey of early computer-generated cinema.

Bodydataspace - Body-reactive interfaces for installation.

Creative Software Forum - Cybersalon and the Digital Research Unit.

B/video_det06 - Dextro - Software video/art.

Dorkfest - 2 days of people doing strange things with electricity.

Evolving Sonic Environments - Robert Davis and Usman Haque.

Exploding Cinema - A programme of digital short films.

Gyphiti - Andy Deck - collaborative drawing project and evolving graffiti wall.

Littoral walk - Pete Gomes - scaling the Madagascan coastline in South London using GPS.

OnedotZero - Explorations in digital moving image.

P*1 [The Plant Project] - Milicee - installation investigating plant biofeedback data.

Pixel Popping Workshops - Looking at the use of obsolete computers in contemporary art practice.

Slub - Generative Music System.

XXXXX events - space for software/computation examining links to theories of endodata, holographic programming + auto-destructive art by way of the embedded dystopia within the history of computation.

Lektrolab Dance Party - celebrating the end of Node.London.