The most commonly suggestion solution I find for short throw situations is the use of mirrors. I have certainly seen mirrors used successfully many times, and managed to use them myself a couple of times, but my stories are more painful than one might expect.
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http://bentfestival.org/?q=bentny
PERFORMANCES: April 26-28 2007
WORKSHOPS: not yet announced
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http://tranzducer.com
PERFORMANCE: April 27rd 2007 8PM - 11PM

Tranzducer.004 features R. Luke DuBois and friend(s): Local new media celeb + >= 1 special guest(s), Marek Choloniewski: Krazy sensor music from Krakow, Ellis & Aguilar Duo: Bass, percussion and electronics .

Admission is $5.

http://www.voice4vision.org/
DEADLINE: May 15, 2007

The Voice 4 Vision Puppet Festival is accepting submissions for its 4th
Annual puppet festival to be held at Theater for the New City November 29 -
December 9, 2007. The festival features four evening length works created by
New York area artists performed in repertory over two weeks for an adult
audience.

Limited space and a need for short throw projection is a common occurrence with theater and art installations, particularly with touring where you never know what you will end up with, and it’s often not what you thought. Adding to the pain of projecting in small spaces is the fact that most low cost desktop projectors which fall into the price range of small arts institutions are saddled with a medium throw lens. This lens is cheaper to manufacture and keeps the price low, and meets the Business needs which is still considered the largest projector market.
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New York Electronic Art Festival http://www.nyeaf.org/
FESTIVAL: May 12 - June 10 2007

Harvestworks, LEMUR, and NYU Music Technology Program team up with an impressive list including the bulk of NYC’s tech-arts organizations to bring you a month of concerts, panels, workshops, and presentations on and of art and technology with the theam “Music and Robotics”.

Expect more updates of specific events.

Hardware Hacking workshop
WORKSHOP: June 1 - June 4 10am - 5pm

Lead by Nicolas Collins
This is a workshop in hardware hacking for audio applications. The students will open up a range of battery-powered “consumer” technology (radios, electronic toys), observe the effect of direct hand contact on the circuit boards, experiment with the substitution of components, and listen to unheard signals running through the circuit.

Digital Performance: A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation
by Steve Dixon
The MIT Press - A Leonardo Book
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http://artbots.org/2007_phila/
EXHIBITION: April 13 - June 30

ArtBots is an international art exhibition for robotic art and art-making robots.

ArtBots 2007 Philadelphia Participants:

Neil and Iona - Mixed Feelings : Jason Van Anden

Retrospectrum : Yoav Bergner and LoVid ,(Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus)

Misericordiam : Ranjit Bhatnagar
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http://31down.org/performances/CanalStreet.html
Now - October 31

31 Down presents a public interactive artwork that you will may walk by every day without even noticing.

31 Down Radio Theater’s interactive telephone mystery set in the corridors of the Canal Street Subway Station for the NQRW, 6 and JMZ trains.

From ANY public pay phone in Canal Street Station inside of the turnstiles call this TOLL FREE number to begin:

1-877-OR-WHAT-31

1-877-679-4283

http://idmi.poly.edu/pll/hacklab
April Arduino Hacklab
DATE: April 7 2007 10AM - 4PM

Don’t have a partner for Extreme programing, maybe this could be your salvation.
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http://3ldnyc.org/
PERFORMANCE: April 3 - May 5 2007 @ 8PM
3LD Art and Technology Center

Heavy topics with surprising technical magic.
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http://www.thekitchen.org/
PERFORMANCE: April 4 8PM and 10PM $10

Proto-VJ pioneer Joshua White teams up with electronic musicians Delia Gonzalez and Gavin Russom.

White’s legendary Joshua Light Show, which incorporates the liquid light techniques that established his reputation at Bill Graham’s Fillmore East during the late 1960s. Contributing video artists, including Bec Stupak (Honeygun Labs), add contemporary VJ practices into the mix.
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http://amnh.org/programs/
LECTURE: April 18, 2007 7PM $15

How does the emerging reality of human-machine relationships affect our understanding of ourselves? This panel, moderated by Sherry Turkle, MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, will consider this question and the role of art in articulating issues around it. Panelists Aaron Edsinger and Lijin Aryananda, MIT researchers; and artist Pia Lindman will discuss their collaboration.

Since this post was a bit early for the deadline, and in light of the recent posts relating to Isadora I though I would bring this to the top of the list again.
http://www.troikaranch.org/livei.html
APPLICATION DEADLINE: April 9th, 2007.

Live-I (Live-Interactive) Workshop is an intensive seminar for artists who want to explore the use of interactive computer technology in the creation and performance of dance, theater, installation, and related live artworks. The workshop will take place from June 4th through June 15th, 2007 at 3LD Art & Technology Center in New York City.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/02/theater/02eyel.html
“Illusory Characters With Startling Stage Presence”
New York Times article by Steve McElroy on one of 3LD’s current projects “Losing Something”