The Goethe Satellite: Orbiting Art throughout Vancouver

September 7- October 17, 2012 – IRL (online slang for “in real life”) focuses on networked/online work that manifests itself in the physical gallery space. Curated by Sarah Todd, this exhibition brings together seven artists from Berlin, Stuttgart, Toronto and Vancouver to investigate the spatial and phenomenological possibilities of contemporary Internet- oriented art practice.

October 12 – 14, 2012 – Street artists in three cities team up with curators Jesse Scott and Mirae Rosner and the Graffiti Research Labs in Canada, Germany and Korea to develop a telematic system that allows real-time digital graffiti. Artists collaborate, share and discuss issues surrounding open source software, digital arts and urban intervention. PWN The Wall includes partnerships with Emily Carr University, W2 Community Media Arts and the Berlin/Seoul-based PLATOON.

November 1 – 3, 2012 – RAW DATA is a major collaborative interdisciplinary project between international artists and physicists. Organized by Dr. Margit Schild, Ingrid Koenig, and Elvira Hufschmid in association with Emily Carr University, artists will work with TRIUMF, Canada’s national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics, to produce research and artwork that will be exhibited in Vancouver.

Spring 2013 – Infusing the public space of Vancouver, a series of four 48-hour Weekenders will invite the public to co-create contemporary rituals: performative social situations that aim to embody a radical re-imagination for a creative connected society. The project by Zoë Kreye and Catherine Grau is based on international action research conducted in Berlin, Udalpur, and Varanasi, India during 2012.