ACVA is proud to announce the launch of a new bi-annual, fully-refereed online journal.

ACVA is pleased to announce our participation in the 2011 International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) in Istanbul, Turkey.

A series of invisible sculptures and art installations are invading Melbourne’s public spaces and cultural institutions. The works, by local and international artists, use mobile phones and a purpose-built downloadable app to transform real-world locations into interactive installations.

ACVA has been invited to curate an exhibition of Australian virtual art for ISEA 2011 in Istanbul.

In April this year, Australia's first outdoor mobile 3D augmented reality art show will be staged in locations in Sydney and Melbourne. The show will feature works by local and international artists and is currently looking for submissions.

Emergence Collective interviews Aaron Koblin on the future of art.

• Are there networked aesthetics which can be visually identified?
• How will moving images change in the next 20–30 years?
• What do you think about this word “user-generated content”?
• Do you identify with the current artistic trend to shift away from product towards process?
• What indicators are there of a digital renaissance?

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Another intervention by manifest.AR, and this time they're aiming big.

The international cyberartist group manifest.AR wishes to inform the general public, the President and the Curator of the 54th edition of the Venice Biennial that we are extending the Giardini with an extra pavilion. We will construct this new pavilion using Augmented Reality (AR) architecture and will show a selection of AR artworks from renowned artists working in this contemporary medium and new spatial realm.

Keep up-to-date on announcements here.

The very brief Conflux Festival is over, but its MoMA invasion carries on. Uninvited, and possibly unwanted, the installation of augmented artworks into MoMA will become a common occurrence for cultural institutions. All you need is the location's coordinates.

Glyph participated in ACVA Lab earlier this year. He's been busy with new work, including an installation at IBM's Liquidity Exhibition in SL. Cells – a collaboration with fellow Lab participant Julian Stadon –converts movement data from a real life colony of Protozoa located at Curtain University's Studio of Electronic Art, into an up close and personal exploration of life.

ACVA is pleased to announce the public opening of Connections2 by Aroha Groves. Her installation takes up the whole of our SIM and was shortlisted for the 27th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, receiving a highly commended mark from the judges.