kanarinka will make a case for the city of Boston as a liquid during the 2006 CAA conference in Boston as part of a panel entitled: "Interrogating Boston as a Site for Contemporary Art" organized by Dr. Cynthia Fowler and Dr. Dena Gilby. Other panelists include Bill Arning, Jerry Beck, Christina Lanzl, Judith Leeman and Jessica Marks.

DETAILS:

TITLE: Interrogating Boston as a Site for Contemporary Art
WHEN: Friday, February 24, 9:30 AM–Noon
WHERE: Hynes Convention Center, Third Level, Room 312

On Wednesday, Nov 9th, 2005, the Institute conducted research at the opening reception for SOME SORT OF UNCERTAINTY at Massachusetts College of Art in Boston.

Officially part of the exhibition, the Institute's project consisted of telling lies to the public for two hours about what constituted the Institute's project.

LIST OF LIES TOLD BY THE INSTITUTE:

- The Institute installed the show.
- These lights are the Institute's work.
- The Institute's work is on the ceiling - it's up there.
- Each member of the Institute is carrying an artwork in their pocket.
- The Institute's project is to fix the work that is broken (Institute members would move pieces of other artists' work around without permission).
- The Institute put the salt on the pretzels.
- The temperature of the room changes from one side to another. The Institute did this.
- The Institute's artwork is in the bathroom - go look for it.
- The Institute's project is to raise money for a curator fee ( We raised $3.60).
- The Institute is secretly recording your conversations and will podcast them tomorrow. Don't tell anyone I told you this.
- The Institute did a collaborative work with all the artists in the show. The results are distributed throughout this building.
- The Institute pumped oxygen into the air to test what people's reactions would be.
- The Institute claimed credit for other artists' works (one video work by adriana rios, one floor piece by liz nofziger).
- The Institute's piece is in the mailbox labeled 666 and the combination is 12345. Open it to see the work.
- The Institute's work is distributed throughout the entire building - 1 piece in each room.
- The Institute's artwork is in the bathroom. If you go you will find it there.

WHAT: Corporate Commands/In Network: Artist talks with iKatun & Michael Mandiberg

We would like to invite you to join us at the Center for Cultural Studies for an artist talk with a new media artist Michael Mandiberg.

WHEN: Friday, October 28 / 5 PM

WHERE: Oakes Learning Center. UC, Santa Cruz

iKatun is proud to be one of the sponsors and supporters of Glowlab: Open Lab, a psychogeography festival opening at Art Interactive in Cambridge.

The Glowlab: Open Lab festival kicks off this week with a full schedule of walks, workshops and events.

For a complete calendar see:
http://www.artinteractive.org/shows/glowlab/

Advertising is so pervasive in contemporary society that many people just ignore it. Not The Institute for Infinitely Small Things, a collective of artists whose "Corporate Commands" project takes to the streets in Greater Boston and beyond to throw a spotlight on the marketing ploys we've become inured to.

WHEN: Friday July 29th, 4-6pm
WHERE: Arts In Progress, 2201 Washington Street
Dudley Square, Roxbury, MA

Throughout the month of July, the Institute teamed up with youth researchers from the Media Arts Summer Program at Roxbury's ARTS IN PROGRESS to document and perform corporate commands found in their local environment.

A collaborative map of the research conducted by the Institute for Infinitely Small Things will be on display at the Media Arts Summer Program's closing reception on July 29th @ Arts In Progress' Teen Arts Center from 4-6pm.

"CORPORATE COMMANDS: DUDLEY SQUARE" is a research project by The Institute For Infinitely Small Things, in collaboration with Arts In Progress and facilitated by the AIR Satellite Program of the Berwick Research Institute.

Contact us if you wish to join us or just come to Provflux and experience works from over 200 artists from 9 countries.

The Institute for Infinitely Small Things, based in and out of Boston, endeavors to compile authoritative research on this topic, comprising a project called The International Database of Corporate Commands. In the opinion that these commands function within society and public consciousness on a nano level that is virtual and powerful, the white-lab-coated Institute invites researchers from all over the world to upload documentation of corporate commands to their online database.

By gathering them all in one place and enacting certain slogans in real spaces--a recent flash-mob-meets-teach-in 'microperformance' at a Cingular store produced 10 minutes of literal 'Roll(ing)over'--the institute hopes to produce a better understanding of the ramifications of constant commercial programming.

Kevin McGarry
http://www.rhizome.org

"CORPORATE COMMANDS" is part of the official selection of the Boston Cyberarts Festival. As well as continuing our performances, which you can check out every Saturday at 2pm (stay tuned to the website for exact location), we are showing at a Boston gallery Space 200.

PARTICIPATE IN THE RESEARCH
at Space 200, 200 State Street in downtown Boston, April 23 to May 29, 2005

OPENING RECEPTION
Friday, April 29th, 2005, 6-9PM

Version is a festival that focuses on art, media, technology and politics. Our fourth annual convergence, Version>05 Invincible Desire, is an experiment in navigating emerging or sub cultures. The festival combines the visual and performing arts with activism and creative uses of new technologies. It explores strategies and aesthetics of artistic intervention and political change.

Where are you?

That question used to have a simple answer: I'm in the kitchen. But spurred by sophisticated technology, such as global positioning systems, cellphones, surveillance cameras, and the virtual world of the Internet, the definition of place, and of the body in space, has gotten more layered. Now there are many answers: I'm in the kitchen, at a particular longitude and latitude; reading a blog; on the phone with Grandma. In short -- I'm all over the place.

Call it instinct, but when approached by a group of people dressed in white lab coats, the average man or woman gets uncomfortable. Visibly so. They stumble backwards like they've just received an uppercut from King Hippo. Their eyes go wide like a suburban jog zombie caught in the headlights of a careening Cadillac Escalade. I know this because I've seen it in action.

The Institute for Infinitely Small Things would like to invite you to the first in a series of microperformances designed to investigate corporate commands in public space.

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WHAT: Performance of the Cingular Wireless Command "Rollover" (duration: 10 minutes). Researchers from the Institute will enact the command to "Rollover" in Central Sq. and examine the results. Public walking expedition to find corporate commands to follow after the performance. Wear comfortable shoes.

WHERE: Meet at the "Rollover" poster, Cingular Store in Central Sq.,
Cambridge, MA

WHEN: Saturday, Feb. 26th, 2PM

The International Database of Corporate Commands is a research database open to submissions of corporate commands from researchers around the world. Researchers from around the world can upload text (multi-language support), metadata and photographic documentation of corporate commands in context.

PARTICIPATE HERE: www.corporatecommands.com

WHAT IS A CORPORATE COMMAND?
A Corporate Command is an instruction work, a call to action in the form of an imperative:

"Just Do It"
"Turn on the Future"
"Live without Limits"
"Tap into great taste"
"Think different"
"Ride the light"
"Live Like You Mean It"

It is the hypothesis of the Institute for Infinitely Small Things that these commands, largely and consciously ignored by a public over-saturated with advertisements, function at the scale of the infinitely small. Tiny events that do not disturb one's consciousness or disrupt one's identity as "free" agents, these commands seep under the surface of the individual and lay claim to the territory of the Deleuzian Virtual. Desire, memory, and future potentiality become territories for conquest and tactics for social and political control.

By compiling, tabulating, concretizing and enacting these commands in the International Database of Corporate Commands (IDCC), the Institute for Infinitely Small Things seeks to better understand the mechanisms behind this deployment of power and its larger cultural ramifications.

CRITICAL GIS: Examining the Art of Mapping

EXCERPT:
Is cartography art or science? This is an age-old question that's undergoing
re-examination by a series of cartographically minded artists. It seems that
the swing toward science is being complemented by an emerging swing toward
art.

An example is Kanarinka, a Boston-based artist whose social activities hover
almost equally between the virtual and the physical (Kanarinka is an online
name that has become her regular name). At a recent talk to North American
Cartographic Information Society members in Portland, Maine, Kanarinka,
co-director of the nonprofit collective iKatun (www.ikatun.com), described
three interesting geo-artistic projects that challenge our way of thinking
about time and space. The projects could be called "psychogeographies."

According to geographer David Pinder, these psychogeographies...

FULL ARTICLE: http://www.geoplace.com/uploads/FeatureArticle/0501cg.asp