THE INTER-SOCIETY FOR THE ELECTRONIC ARTS ISEA NEWSLETTER - JOBS & CALLS ISSN1488-3635 #79 August - September 2000 _______________________________________________________________ ********************** JOB OFFERS ********************** University of Michigan School of Art and Design, Ann Arbor. Full-time teaching position, three courses per semester, e.g.: Introduction to Computers for Artists, Network Art, Multimedia Authoring, etc. One-year appointment. (No committee work, no advising). MFA preferred. Salary commensurate with experience. EOE, AA. For more information, contact: Dr.Bryan Rogers, Dean <blrogers@umich.edu> *************** Merz Akademie Hochschule fur Gestaltung Stuttgart Staatlich anerkannte Fachhochschule University of Applied Arts has the following vacancies as of 1st October 2000: Professor (m/f) Interactive Media We invite applications for a fulltime position in Interactive Media and Virtual Environments. Responsibilities include teaching, research and curriculum development inthe area of digital media arts and design. Candidates should demonstrate critical engagement with theoretical and cultural issues related to the development of the discipline in addition to advanced technical skills in the production of digital media. We are looking for someone who is committed to program development within the framework of international co-operation and third-party financed projects, and shows excellence and innovation through an active professional record. Professor (m/f) Time-Based Media (Video) We invite applications for a fulltime position to teach and develop a curriculum in Digital Video as it relates to Time-Based Media (video, sound, animation). Cross-overs into Interactive Media and Networks are desirable. Responsibilities include development, teaching and supervision of a study program in video, organization and participation in third party projects as well as in international co-operation. Individuals should demonstrate engagement and excellence in practice and research with a critical theoretical approach, have an active professional record, and demonstrate technical skills. Fluency in English is expected. Applications should include letter of intent, CV, documentation of work, addresses of 3 references. Please send your application to the President to arrive no later than 15th September 2000. Merz Akademie Hochschule f?r Gestaltung Stuttgart University of Applied Arts Kulturpark Berg Teckstrasse 58 D-70190 Stuttgart Germany info@merz-akademie.de http://www.merz-akademie.de *************** JOB OFFER Media Center of Art and Design (MECAD) Due to expanding of its activities, MECAD is looking for two people with the following features: 1) Administrative work team To expande our work team the candidate will deal with the organization of cultural events devolopped by MECAD. He/She should have very good oral and written skills in Spanish and English; be aware of contemporary art and be interested in media art, etc.; experience in the organization/curatorial field will be an adventage; computer and textprocessing knowlegde is reguired, etc. 2) Multimedia and Digital Design Area To be in charge of MECADJs web and our on-line productions, and grafic design of the printed material for our activities we are looking for a young digital designer with very good knowlegde of telematic and multimedia work, and gut knowlegde of Spanish as well. Both canditades should be responsible, motivated, hard worker, good team worker, etc. To apply please send the usual documents (CV, software that the candidate is proficient with, etc.) For further information, please contact: Patricia Bofill info@mecad.org *********************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ********************** New England Complex Systems Institute RESEARCH AND EDUCATION PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS NSF Grant for Multiscale Representations Advanced Training Program -- Corporate Seminars One day course, Introduction to Complex Systems Administrative Position -- NSF GRANT FOR MULTISCALE REPRESENTATIONS The National Science Foundation has notified us that we will be receiving a grant to develop a program on multiscale representations. This grant, under the Biocomplexity initiative, will fund our core program, developing the fundamental aspects of multiscale representations, and various applications of multiscale representations in biology, computer science, meteorology, and social sciences. Please contact us if: -You are a student or postdoctoral fellow candidate interested in studies and research developing multiscale representations or applying them to various areas of science and engineering. We are currently particularly interested in individuals with a background in statistical physics methods and computer simulations. -You are affiliated with a corporation or other institution interested in developing partnerships on applications of multiscale representations. - You are an administrator and are interested in a position developing research and education programs. ADVANCED TRAINING PROGRAM IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS We are pleased to announce an individualized Advanced Training Program with research projects in the study of Complex Systems at the New England Complex Systems Institute. This program is designed for those who would like to contribute to research or applications of complex systems concepts and methods. The program is designed for individuals with BA, Masters, or Ph.D. degrees (or equivalent experience) who would like to learn about and work on projects in complex systems under faculty supervision. The program will run like a directed study, or graduate research program, with participation in research group meetings. The program can accommodate flexible in-house and remote study schedule. Research projects can be in a wide range of areas of quantitative or qualitative development and application of complex systems concepts to physical, biological and social systems. CORPORATE SEMINARS Educational seminars are available for corporations. These include 1/2 day and full day seminars introducing complex systems concepts and methods and describing their application in a wide range of contexts. ONE-DAY COURSE: INTRODUCTION TO COMPLEX SYSTEMS A one day course, Introduction to Complex Systems, will be offered on Sunday September 24, 2000. This course is appropriate for anyone who would like an introduction to the opportunities that complex systems provides in research and in applications. Several approaches to the study of complex systems will be described, basic concepts will be introduced and implications for the study of biological, social and engineered systems will be discussed. The course will be given at MIT. Tuition: Students $50, Faculty $150, Corporate $500, MIT community attends free. Registration required. ADMINISTRATIVE POSITION AVAILABLE We are interested in hiring an administrative assistant for half or full time work. The offices of NECSI are in Harvard Square. The position includes community development and program coordination, e-mail correspondence and calendar management. Highly effective human interaction and writing skills are essential. Competitive salary. If you are interested in these research and educational programs or the administrative position send an e-mail to office@necsi.org. For more information see http://necsi.org Yaneer Bar-Yam President New England Complex Systems Institute http://necsi.org ******************** CALLS FOR ARTICLES ********************* Cauldron & Net, an electronic magazine of the arts and new media, is currently reading/viewing submissions for vol.II, no.II [from may 1 - september 15, or until journal is full] The guidelines are as follows: my [ideal] conception is: for this to be a showcase of diverse voices of the arts & criticism. i would like the focus to be on the creative process, i.e., i would like the submissions to be of ideas, concepts,notes -- not simply of finished (polished) pieces. the RAW is invited: works that may retain the edge of their (hopefully inspired) inception.this means the desire is for experimental work -- however obscure. nonetheless: the guidelines are very broad as cauldron & net is particularly interested in showcasing the wide variety of the diverse voices which may be found on the Net. that means that [almost] all is invited: literature, poetry, nonfiction [creative or otherwise], hypertext/hypermedia, theory, criticism, reviews, music, photographs of performance or other 'hard-copy' art,experiments, outlines /sketches of ideas, jottings, notes, proposals, research papers, sophistries, etc., etc., etc. quality is really the only criterion [though of course such programmers and computer scientists who have ideas and/or work that a 'wired' laywo/man could grasp are [enthusiastically!] invited to submit also. simultaneous submissions and work that has already been published will be considered, although the preference is for unpublished work. please send all inquiries / submissions as e-mail attachments [as plain text in the body of a mail if you work on a Mac] or URL indications in the body of a mail to: cauldron@studiocleo.com Claire Dinsmore, Editor ************************** UNDERSTANDING THE BALKANS October 13 - October 16, 2000 Hotel Belvi in Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia Organizer (organization and contact person): Contemporary Art Center - Skopje; Melentie Pandilovski - Director Tel/Fax: ++389.91.13.35.41 ++389.91.21.44.95 Mobile: +389.70.217.075, Orce Nikolov 109, 1000 Skopje, Republic of Macedonia http://www.scca.org.mk e-mail: misko@scca.org.mk General Idea of the Conference: The rapid changes that the countries of South-East Europe are confronted with make it a necessity and essential challenge to perform a certain "archaeological cut" through the different heterogeneous layers of the Balkan region. Therefore the international Conference UNDERSTANDING THE BALKANS is conceived as a challenge to examining the alteration stratum of the Balkans concentrating strongly on questions of society, culture, art, and history. Reflections and analysis dedicated to these complex issues will be examined during the Conference. UNDERSTANDING THE BALKANS will in this goal try to focus on examining the intersection of the acquired codes in the social, historical, cultural, we have used on the Balkans in our immediate past as well as in considering the changes through which our societies, and culture, are undergoing over the past decades. The Conference is especially interested in investigating the deeper reasons for on-going conflicts in the region. The Conference will focus on finding ways of concordant common social, political and economic structure to emerge in the new Balkan societies and thus admitting that phone +44 1582 34111 fax + 44 1582 489014 email convergence@luton.ac.uk *********************** CALL FOR PROJECT ************************ Appel d'oeuvres virtuelles Appel d'essais et de reflexions. http://www.chairetmetal.com Chair et Metal est une nouvelle revue electronique qui, au moyen d'essais, d'ouvres virtuelles et de poesie, reflechit à la societe humain/machine dans laquelle nous vivons. Depuis sa creation, au mois de novembre 1999, Chair et Metal a publie des textes de Pierre Ley, Philippe Queau, Joel de Rosnay, Bruce Sterling, Noam Chomsky, Edouard Glissant, Valere Novarina, etc. Des ouvres virtuelles de Catherine Ikam, 12 Notes, Oliver Hockenhull, Diana Domingues, Maurice Clifford, etc. y sont aussi disponibles. Le numero d'automne 2000 de Chair et Metal sera consacre au desir. Desir machine, deesir humain, desir de l'immateriel. Nous invitons tous les artistes, penseurs et ecrivains à nous soumettre leur projet. Conditions de soummission : Les textes devront nous etre envoyes sous format .doc ou .txt, en version Windows si possible, aux adresses suivantes : dyens@chairetmetal.com leupin@home.com Art Virtuel : Veuillez noter que nous recherchons des oeuvres concues pour le Web utilisant donc des technologies Internet, telles Flash, Shockwave, Java, VRML, etc. Si vous desirez nous soumettre une oeuvre, veuillez nous en faire part en nous envoyant l'URL de votre oeuvre aux adresses electroniques suivantes : dyens@chairetmetal.com leupin@home.com ******************** CALL FOR ARTICLE ********************* Performance Research New Critical Writing for publication in Performance Research Volume 6, Number 1, Spring 2001. Annual ESSAY COMPETITION Subject: Performance Research Essay Competition Performance Research New Critical Writing Annual ESSAY COMPETITION Guidelines Closing Date 30th September 2000 Eligibility: The aim of the competition is to foster original essay writing by emerging writers, artists and graduates and is open to anyone whose work has not been previously published in a peer reviewed journal. Submissions: *Essays should address contemporary performance practice or contemporary investigations of performance practice and its history. *Submissions can be made in the writer's preferred language. * Entries should be 2000-4000 words in length. * Texts should be double spaced and should adhere to PR Writer's Guidlines *Entries should be accompanied by a separate sheet (one side A4) including biography and contact details. *Entries must be submitted on disk (see attached guidelines for formats) and accompanied by one hard copy manuscript. Clancy Pegg (Administrator) Performance Research Market Road Cardiff CF5 1QE UK Selection: The work of all participants will first be read by readers drawn from the Editorial Board of 'Performance Research' and each person will then be assigned an editor for feedback and revision. After revision the essays will considered for publication. While only one essay will be published we hope that the process of working with an experienced reader/writer as editor will be useful in itself. The winning essay will be published in Performance Research Volume 6, Number 1, Spring 2001. Clancy Pegg (Administrator) Performance Research Market Road Cardiff CF5 1QE UK TEL: + 44 (0) 29 20 388 848 FAX: + 44 (0) 870 055 7873 E-MAIL: post@perfres.demon.co.uk WEBSITES: <www.aber.ac.uk> then search for 'Performance Research' <www.tandf.co.uk/journals> *********************** EXCHANGE 2000: Research in Art, Media and Design CALL FOR PAPERS The third 'Exchange' conference will be held on 2nd and 3rd November 2000 at the Watershed Media Centre, Bristol, UK. Two conferences hosted by the Faculty of Art, Media and Design at the University of the West of England, Bristol, in October 1998 and February 1999, brought together researchers from across the UK and European art and design community. This third event will enable participants toexplore current debates, learn about funding opportunities, report on work in progress and join in discussions about the future of research in art, media and design. Presentations are invited for papers, virtual exhibits, and posters on work in progress. Research outcomes, including computer graphics, animation and short films, can be also submitted for the evening screening session. Contributions are invited on work in progress, particularly if they cover current PhD programmes or the work of both new and long-standing research centres. We also welcome contributions on the increasing importance of the digital 'medium' as well as the digital 'tool' in order to include discussion of digital resources for research. All contributors are invited to address the relationship of theory to practice and their particular methodological concerns within art, media and design research. In conjunction with the Watershed Media Centre there will be an opportunity to submit online work, to be shown in the Watershed exhibition gallery and on the WWW prior to, and during, the conference. A catalogue of these works will be listed in the conference documentation and be part of a refereed online conference publication. As part of the conference, visits will be arranged to other cultural centres in Bristol, including @Bristol, Arnolfini Gallery, Create Centre, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol Museum and Art Gallery and Spike Island. Key Dates Dates for submission of proposals 1 September 2000 Notification of acceptance 15 September 2000 Publication of full programme and abstracts 6 October 2000 Deadline for registration 18 October 2000 Conference 2-3 November 2000 Publication of revised papers, summaries and links 1 December 2000 Submission Details If you would like to contribute a paper, or poster on work in progress, please send a proposed title, abstract of up to 500 words and biographical details to the conference organisers by 1 September 2000. If you wish to submit research output in the form of a link to a website, CD-ROM, or work for the screening session, you must also send a technical specification, including duration (if appropriate) and hardware and software requirements. Please send paper or poster on work in progress proposals to Suzette Worden. <suzette.worden@uwe.ac.uk> Please send proposals for a website link, CD-ROM, or work for the screening session to Dew Harrison. <dew.harrison@uwe.ac.uk> Postal Address: Exchange 2000: Digital Media Research Centre Faculty of Art, Media and Design The University of the West of England, Bristol Bower Ashton Campus Kennel Lodge Road Off Clanage Road Bristol BS3 2JT UK Tel: 0117 966 0222 ext 4794 Fax: 0117 976 3946 Further Information For further announcements about the conference, please consult the conference website at: URL: http://www.media.uwe.ac.uk/exchange2000 Or, send request for conference updates to the organisers. The conference fee will be v145.00. The fee includes lunch, tea and coffee on each day, delegate's pack, conference sessions and screenings, and organised visits (bookable in advance). Information on accommodation is available on request from Angela Cooper: <angela.cooper@uwe.ac.uk> ++ Please forward this email to other colleagues who may be interested in art, media and design research. ++ Dr Dew Harrison Digital Media Research Centre UWE Faculty of Art Media and Design Bower Ashton Campus Kennel Lodge Road Bristol BS3 2JT Tel: 0117 966 0222 ext 4794 Fax: 0117 976 3946 Email: Dew.Harrison@uwe.ac.uk "University of the West of England" ********************** Subject: TECH FLESH - Call for Papers Call for Papers 07/19/00 Editors: Arthur and Marilouise Kroker TECH FLESH The Promise and Perils of the Human Genome Project CTHEORY@Boston College Call for Papers, Event-Scenes, Art Projects Beginning on-line in fall, 2000 and continuing with a spring, 2001 workshop/event at Boston College jointly sponsored by CTHEORY and the Department of Sociology, CTHEORY will examine the simultaneously ethical, social and ideological issues raised by the announcement of the successful conclusion of the first-phase of the Human Genome Project. Widely hyped as a "bible of life" and a "map" to the future of human evolution, the Human Genome Project throws into sharp ethical relief critical social issues raised by this newest phase in eugenic experimentation. Simultaneously speaking in terms of the language of facilitation (post-genetics as about the eradication of disease and the extension of the human life span) and in the language of control (genetic sequencing as the latest pharmaceutical version of the social hygiene movement), the Human Genome Project with its vision of pure genes and designer biology raises again not only the spectre of scientific hubris but also the silent political interests of a potential genetic superclass. Asking the question: the Human Genome Project: for whom and for what? as well as from whom and from what? This issue of CTHEORY will be devoted to a diversity of perspectives on the promise and perils of the Human Genome Project. Not something new, the Human Genome Project may continue a very ancient story: the struggle between two irreconcilable elements in human experience--the unwanted reality of the decay of the flesh, and the long-sought promised land of escape from the organic body to the pure technological body of post-biologics. Between the necessity of bodily corruption and exiting human flesh, that may be the utopia and futility of the Human Genome Project. Terminal Genome Hailed as nothing less than a "historic scientific achievement" and a "technological feat," the so-called "completion" of the map of the human genome - announced this summer in a public conference with U.S. President Clinton - is being compared to the moon landing and the splitting of the atom. The mainstream media, from TIME, to CNN, to the New York Times, have given widespread coverage to this event, highlighting the promises that the genome will lead to a new era of medicine, health care, and the government and corporate sponsored fight against disease. Biotech stocks are rising and falling with a dynamism rarely seen, except in the info-tech sector. As if the floodgates had opened, a whole new breed of gene-based disciplines has come forth as the answer to the problems of disease, mortality, even corporeality. These so-called "post-genomic" sciences, such as proteomics, pharmacogenomics, and bioinformatics, promise a future of "regenerative medicine," in which disease, disorder, and predisposition can be effectively coded out of the genome. Thus the overall effect from the announcement of the genome's completion is that the benefits of the genome are already here; as Jean Baudrillard might have put it, "the post-genomic era has already happened." Because this event has met with only minimal critical response thus far, CTHEORY proposes a heterogeneous grouping of interventionist responses, geared towards the more problematic assumptions and unrevealed desires embedded in the human genome project. Speed-theorists, net.artists, bio-activists, and biotech hobbyists, among many others, are invited to provide an alternative, more critical vision of the genome and its infotech-ideology. This is the tactic of cDNA as a distributed informatic critique. CTHEORY'S cultural sequencing of the Human Genome Project will be edited by Arthur and Marilouise Kroker with Eugene Thacker (Rutgers University) and Stephen Pfohl (Boston College). In 2000-2001, CTHEORY will be edited from Boston College's Department of Sociology. To view CTHEORY online please visit:http://www.ctheory.com/ To view CTHEORY MULTIMEDIA online please visit:http://ctheory.concordia.ca/ * CTHEORY includes: 1. Electronic reviews of key books in contemporary theory. 2. Electronic articles on theory, technology and culture. 3. Event-scenes in politics, culture and the mediascape. 4. Interviews with significant theorists, artists, and writers. CTHEORY is sponsored by New World Perspectives and Concordia University. No commercial use of CTHEORY articles without permission. Mailing address: CTHEORY, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve, O., Montreal, Canada, H3G 1M8. Full text and microform versions are available from UMI,Ann Arbor, Michigan; and Canadian Periodical Index/Gale Canada, Toronto. Indexed in: International Political Science Abstracts/ Documentation politique international; Sociological Abstract Inc.; Advance Bibliography of Contents: Political Science and Government; Canadian Periodical Index; Film and Literature Index. ******************** Soliciting critical papers Subject: essay collection We are soliciting critical papers to be included in a collection on death and the corpse. Essays should investigate events or cultural phenomena that focus on the actual display of corpses in public, for example the German exhibit "Koerperwelten". Of particular interest are works investigating the spectacular aspects of such events. Topics may include but are not limited to: o the real corpse as art, art and the corpse o the aesthetics of death o the corpse as public phenomenon o corpses and freak shows o anatomy and the public, public anatomy o ethical questions Please send abstracts (2 pages) by 09/30/2000 to: Eva Tettenborn Binghamton University, SUNY Department of English PO Box 6000 Binghamton, NY 13902-6000 or e-mail abstracts to bg25201@binghamton.edu (please do not send attachments) The deadline for the completed paper is 11/30/00 ***************************** NETMAGE: creative and innovative images on media, arts and communication first international festival, Bologna (Italy) 23 November-3 December, 2000. Netmage was developped by the LINK PROJECT in Bologna, an independant organisation created in 1994 that has the aim of developing, in Italy, a network of productive exchanges in different fields that belong to cultural experimentation such as music, performings arts, visual film and electronic art and comunication. Up to now, the LINK has developed and has helped the growth of centers for international cultural experimentation in Italy. The Competition The aim of the competition is to gater works belonging to differents fields, and differents nature, for instance film production, work and video and television formats, multimedia products, web projects, installations and live performances, mixed-media, all in order to reconstruct a panorama of international new production. Netmage, first Italian international festival dedicated to creation connected to new technologies proposes an international competition. Adelaide Ronchi Email: <netmage@linkproject.org> ********************* Call for artists: Internet-based group Exhibition in Matsumoto, Japan Work exploring communication, development, environment and art will be presented in Matsumoto, Japan via the Internet The Post Contemporary Art Committee announces a call for artists for an exhibition that will take place in November of 2000 in a small house formerly used as a post office which is now awaiting demolition in urban Japan. Participation in this exhibition will place on the Internet. Artists will explore themes such as digital vs. analog, the past and future of human communication, and dust & the obsolete. The exhibition is being organized by installation artist and Fukashi Gallery member Shin-Ichi Tanigaito. The exhibition will take place in Matsumoto, Japan November 1-30, 2000. Work in any media or format will be considered, but web presentation (creation of website, hosting, etc) is the artist's responsibility. For more information, please visit http://www.cistern.com/fukashi/page13.html or e-mail the Post Contemporary Art committee Office at tanigait@seagreen.ocn.ne.jp You are welcome to send URLs referencing examples of work, but please do not send unsolicited image attachments. *************************** OPEN CALL Paris/Berlin International Meetings Paris/Berlin International Meetings 51, rue Montorgueil - 75002 Paris Tel : ++ 33 1 40 26 66 34 Fax : ++ 33 1 42 33 36 44 horscircuit@ensba.fr http://campus.ensba.fr/horscircuit Paris/Berlin International Meetings #4 : CALL FOR ENTRY The next International Paris/Berlin Meetings will take place in Paris in December 2000 and in Berlin in may 2001. Call for entry is open for film cycles, 35 mm, 16 mm, super 8, and video, with any restrictiction for length or type ; and for installation, performance, multimedia creation and sound creation. experimental film > fiction > documentary > video art > experimental video > animation movie > super 8 / 16 mm / 35 mm / video > short length / middle lenght / long lenght > sound installation > cinema installation > video installation > multimedia installation > action > performance > intervention > debate > interactive writing > network action > forum > real time > cZdZrom > art on ligne > sound creation > lecture > sound poetry > experimental music > concert projection Deadline for proposals : September the 30th, 2000 FOR ALL PROPOSITION SENDING: Paris/Berlin International Meetings 51 rue Montorgueil 75002 Paris France FOR ALL INFORMATION: Web site: http://campus.ensba.fr/horscircuit Email: horscircuit@ensba.fr Tel: +33 1 40 26 66 34 Fax: +33 1 42 33 36 44 Paris/Berlin International Meetings #4 : PRESENTATION ********************** International Multimedia Urban Arts Festival CIVC Pierre Schaeffer Artistic Co-ordination : Anne Roquigny Email: <ar@cicv.fr> Communication/Press Accreditation : Eric Prigent Email: <eric@cicv.fr> URL: <http://www.cicv.fr> <http://www.nuits-savoureuses.net> INTERFERENCES: Interstices, collisions, fusions The CICV Pierre Schaeffer is launching a Worldwide Call for Projects for the International Multimedia Urban Arts Festival which will take place from December 14 to 23, 2000 at Belfort in France. 50 artistic projects will be selected and three prizes of 100,000 French Francs will be awarded by an international jury. *********************** DIGITAL SPACE 2 CALL FOR ENTRIES DSP 2 Commissions are now available of up to v3000 (ukp) for artists working with sound and interactive media. For guidelines and application forms send an email to: mailto:dsp2@lovebytes.org.uk or go to http://www.lovebytes.org.uk/dsp2guide.html DSP 1 is now available in a double CD+CDROM containing new work by 25 artists working with digital sound and interactive media (see below for details). v11.99 +p&p from http://www.lovebytes.org.uk/dsp DSP 2 Lovebytes are now accepting entries of the second round of 'Digital Space' commissions. The programme aims to support the creation of innovative and expressive new work in sound based multimedia. So if you feel that you are working outside the mainstream on a course into unknown territories then we invite you submit a proposal for a commission. This may take the form of a sound based work, interactive multimedia publication, a live performance or an installation. The goal of the project is to provide a platform for artists who are defying the boundaries and constraints of music, visual art and computer programming. For guidelines and application forms send an email to: mailto:dsp2@lovebytes.org.uk or go to http://www.lovebytes.org.uk/dsp2guide.html Lovebytes is a non-profit arts organisation, established in 1994 to explore the creative and cultural potential of new technology and to develop a centre for digital arts and multimedia production in Sheffield. The Digital Space Programme is a Lovebytes project funded by the National Lottery's Arts for Everyone Programme through the Arts Council of England and the European Regional Development Fund. DSP 1 DSP1 is a double CD package containing one CD of audio, and one CD-ROM of sound-based multimedia for use on Mac or PC. Featuring work by new and established artists exploring digital sound synthesis, generative music, algorithmic composition, and interactive sound programs. All specially commissioned through Lovebytes as part of an on-going series of sound and multimedia projects and events. Applications were invited through an international open call for entries. Whenever possible the works were created in residence at the Lovebytes Media Lab in Sheffield. ARTISTS IN DIGITAL SPACE: Kim Cascone, Smyglyssna,Adrian Moore, Shawn Bell, Team Doyobi, Hot Snack, Scanner+Tonne, Terre Thaemlitz, R.E. Baker + M.J. Fell, Tom Flemming + Chiara Grandesso, Adrian Ward, Mikko Maasalo, Julian Baker, GMStar Available from independent record stores and art galleries world-wide or via mail order from http://www.lovebytes.org.uk/dsp price v11.99 +p&p Lovebytes is a non-profit arts organisation established in 1994 to explore the creative and cultural potential of new technology and to develop a centre for digital arts and multimedia production in Sheffield. Lovebytes is funded by The European Regional Development Fund, The National Lottery through the Arts Council of England and Yorkshire Arts. http://www.lovebytes.org.uk mailto:info@lovebytes.org.uk t. 0114 221 0393 f. 0114 279 6522 Lovebytes, Unit 320 The Workstation, 15 Paternoster Row, SHEFFIELD. S1 2BX. UK Sponsored by shots DVD magazine http://www.shots.net ************************** The City of Rome presents the GLOBAL JUNIOR CHALLENGE Youth into the digital age Dear Sir, Madam, The City of Rome has launched the GLOBAL JUNIOR CHALLENGE, a world-wide award for the most innovative information technology projects in the field of education and training. The award is open to everybody: students, schools, companies, institutions, private and public organisations and individual citizens that are developping projects aimed at helping children and young adults to get familiar with the new technology. The winning projects will be awarded the 4th December 2000 in Rome at the Campidoglio City Hall by the Head of the Italian State Mr. Carlo Azeglio Ciampi during a ceremony hosted by our Mayor Francesco Rutelli. More than 110 projects from different regions of the world have joined the CHALLENGE up to now. An international jury will select the most innovative projects and the finalists will be invited to Rome to participate to a large exhibition that will take place at the Rome Fair the 4th, 5th and 6th December 2000. Visit our web site WWW.GJC.COMUNE.ROMA.IT and submit your project now !!!!! Best Regards Mirta Michilli GJC coordinator Comune di Roma Lungotevere dei Pierleoni, 1 00186 Roma Tel. +39 06 67103084 Fax. +39 06 69941582 Email : projects@gjc.comune.roma.it ****************************** LIFE 3.0 International Competition - Call for Participation This is a call for submission of art works to the second edition of an international competition on "art and artificial life." We are looking for works in electronic and digital media that cross over with the field of a-life research. Artists whose work uses digital synthesis techniques and whose conceptual concerns are related to synthetic life and artificial evolution, are invited to submit their pieces. The work may employ techniques such as digital genetics, autonomous robotics, recursive chaotic algorithms, knowbots, computer viruses, avatars, evolving behaviours or virtual ecosystems. An international jury (Daniel Canogar, Joe Faith, Machiko Kusahara, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Sally Jane Norman and Nell Tenhaaf) will grant three cash awards, with a first prize of US $5,000 (2nd Prize:$3,500 - 3rd Prize:$1,500), plus seven honorary mentions to the most innovative electronic art projects related to a-life. Furthermore, works that are awarded a monetary prize or selected for an honorary mention will be included in a "Best of LIFE 3.0" video which will be aired on specialty television programs and circulated at festivals worldwide. Assessment will be based on video documentation submitted along with an application form. The deadline for submission is Thursday September 28, 2000. The Life 3.0 International Competition is sponsored by the Fundaci-n Telef-nica in Madrid, Spain. For further submission information and the application form, please see http://www.telefonica.es/fat/vida3 For questions concerning eligibility of entries: Nell Tenhaaf, Artistic Director <tenhaaf@yorku.ca> All other inquiries: Ana Parga : fat@telefonica.es ******************************* En Red O. Electric Songs The call for electronic and electroacoustic works related to Songs is now open. En Red O is preparing three days of reflection on Songs in Electronic and Electroacoustic Music in the Mirador of the Centre de Cultura Contempor^nia de Barcelona, on 13, 14 and 15 November 2000. The results of these three days will be made into an audio CD-ROM including the theoretical contributions and extracts from the works programmed. Three chill-out sessions are planned, one every day, between 11.00 a.m. and 7.00 p.m, providing a platform for submitted electronic and electroacoustic works. produced from materials related to some aspect of Songs. Theory-based meetings will also be held every day, between 7.00 and 9.00 p.m., looking produced from materials related to some aspect of the Songs in Electronic and Electroacoustic Music. and Sound Art, with the participation of guest personalities. As of early November, extracts of the works selected will be on show at: http://www.cccb.es/caos/songs and http://usuarios.intercom.es/coclea/songs Works of all aesthetic tendencies will be welcome. The last date for reception of works is 15 October 2000. They must take the form of data CD-ROM - 16 bit, 44.1 Khz- with AIFF, SND (Mac) or Wave (PC) files, CD-Audio and DAT. Postal packages should be sent to: Sonoscop/En Red O CCCB Montalegre, 5 E-08001 BARCELONA Organised by Orquestra del Caos/Sonoscop. C(tm)clea. AMEE. With the collaboration of Arsonal, CCCB and ICUB info: Orquestra del Caos/Sonoscop e-mail : caos@cccb.org tel : 34933064100 Orquestra del Caos/Sonoscop will only respond to text electronic messages. Electronic messages with attached sound files will not be accepted ******************************* CALL FOR PAPERS, MUSIC COMPOSITIONS,PRESENTATIONS, ART WORKS, THEATER, DANCE, SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATIONS AND INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS THE EIGHTH BIENNIAL SYMPOSIUM ON ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY March 1-3, 2001 THEME: FEEDBACK: Perception and Interaction in the Electronic Arts DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: NOVEMBER 15, 2000 The Connecticut College Center for Arts and Technology is pleased to announce The Eighth Biennial Symposium on Arts and Technology, March 1-3, 2001. The symposium will consist of paper sessions, panel discussions, art exhibitions, music concerts, animations, mixed media works, video, dance, experimental theater and scientific visualization. In an effort to demystify the artistic process and create a forum for dialogue, we are encouraging all presenters and artists to attend the symposium and speak about their work. The Center encourages research papers and presentations in the specific area of "FEEDBACK: Perception and Interaction in the Electronic Arts" and in the general areas of Interactivity, Virtual Reality, Cognition, Information Technologies, Applications in Video and Film, Music (composition, performance, theory, interactivity, etc.), Experimental Theater, Compositional Process, Innovative Use of Technology in Education, Computer Simulations of Physical Phenomena, Scientific Visualization and Social and Ethical Issues in Arts and Technology. All submissions should be accompanied by a one page abstract for a presentation about the work and each application should be prepared to attend the symposium and make a presentation (paper, poster session, short talk) about their work. Papers and Presentations: A detailed two-page abstract or complete paper including complete technical requirements should be submitted by email or mail. Upon acceptance, finished papers must be submitted electronically following the specific format of the symposium or in camera-ready form by January 15, 2001: Word, 10-12 font size, 8.5 x 11 sheet. Papers may be grouped in panel format. Complete technical requirements must be included. Papers will be published by the Center. Music Compositions: Works for instruments and tape, or tape alone, or interactive compositions are being solicited. Available instruments are: flute (doubling on piccolo), oboe, clarinet (doubling on bass clarinet), bassoon, trumpet, horn, trombone, percussion (two players), guitar, string bass, piano, voice and strings (2,1,1,1). Works should not exceed 15 minutes in length and should be submitted with accompanying score, where appropriate. Tapes for selection purposes should be on cassette, CD's or DAT. Tapes for performance should be CD, ADAT or DAT. Video works should be 3/4 inch Umatic or 1/2 inch VHS. Musicians, dancers and actors may be available for live performance pieces. All submissions should be accompanied by a one page abstract for a presentation at the symposium about the work. Complete technical requirements must be included. Artworks: Works of computer-generated or computer-aided art, or computer-controlled interactive art are encouraged. Animations, video or other works of computer art on tape will be shown in concert settings and less formal settings throughout the Symposium. All submissions should be accompanied by a one page abstract for a presentation at the symposium about the work. Slides, CD-ROM, or video (VHS) and complete descriptions of works must be included. Art works accepted for exhibition must be received by January 15 for inclusion in the pre-symposium gallery showing, February 5 ? March 5. Complete technical requirements must be included. Dance and Theater Studies: Computer-generated or -aided dance and theater is being solicited for live demonstrations or for videotaped presentations. Specially produced dance or theater videos are of particular interest as opposed to concert tapes or other archival uses of video. Also of interest are proposals for workshops, demonstrations of software for dance or theater notation, choreographic analysis, interactive studies and/or multi-media studies of performance in dance & theater. All submissions should be accompanied by a one page abstract for a presentation at the symposium about the work. Videotapes or complete descriptions of demonstration or workshop proposals should be submitted by the general deadline of November 15, 2000. Tapes for selection purposes should be VHS. Complete technical requirements must be included. Panels: Proposals for panels are encouraged. Proposals should include prospective panelists and should be directed to the theme or new issues in collaborative work, as well as ethical issues in arts and technology. Scientific Visualizations: Submissions are solicited for computer animations and virtual realities used to visualize complex scientific processes. Special emphasis will be given to works emphasizing artistic content or educational modules. Submissions should be on CD-ROM or Zip disk format. All submissions should be accompanied by a one page abstract for a presentation at the symposium about the work. Complete technical requirements must be included. GENERAL INFORMATION ON SUBMISSIONS SUBMISSION DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 15, 2000 All music, art, VR, visualization, multi-media installations, workshops, dance and theater submissions should be accompanied by a one page abstract for a presentation about the work. Technical information: Complete technical requirements must be included for all submissions. Please specify platform (MAC, PC-Windows, SGI). Notification: Accepted proposals will be notified by December 22, 2000. Return: Submissions, art works, slides, tapes, scores, videos will only be returned if a self-addressed stamped envelope or packaging is provided. Send submissions to: Center for Arts and Technology Box 5365 Connecticut College 270 Mohegan Avenue New London, CT USA 06320-4196 phone: [860] 439-2001 email: cat@conncoll.edu ************************ MICROCINEMA.COM call for submissons Blackchair Productions' Independent Exposure(tm) Microcinema Program Seattle video and film artist, Joel S. Bachar founded Blackchair Productions in 1992. Due to the overwhelming lack of independent-oriented screening venues, Blackchair Productions began the Independent Exposure Microcinema screening program in 1996. This program, held every month at the Speakeasy Cafe's Backroom in Seattle, has presented the short film, video and digital works of over 400 artists from 91 cities in 39 states and 13 countries. The program has also gained an enviable reputation in the international microcinema network maintained in 60 cities, 20 states and 25 countries from Tacoma to Albuquerque and Barcelona to Belgrade and Bangkok! 2000 is not only the fifth season of Independent Exposure, but it marks the beginning of Blackchair Productions' newest venture, Microcinema.com. Microcinema.com will serve the international film, video, and digital communities and its audiences by leading the Microcinema movement and will promote artists and their works through its international offline and online exhibition and distribution network. Ultimately, Blackchair Productions, through their Distribution through Exhibition efforts, microcinema.com website, and other advocacy efforts, Blackchair Productions hope to expose, promote and distribute the independent video, film and digital arts to the widest audience possible. For those interested, here is our Distribution through Exhibition Information. Blackchair Productions is accepting short video, film and digital- media submissions of 30 minutes or less on an ongoing basis for their monthly screening program called Independent Exposure. 2000 is the fifth year of the program and we want to include you in the show! Artists will be paid an honorarium AND will qualify for a non-exclusive distribution deal, which will include additional license fees for international offline and online sales! We are looking for short experimental, narrative, alternative, avant- garde, humorous, dramatic, erotic, subversive, animation and underground works. Works selected will, in most cases, continue on to national and international venues for additional screenings and may qualify for our DVD/VHS home video compilations as well as Netcasting via our microcinema.com website. Submit a VHS/or S-VHS (NTSC preferred) clearly labeled with name, title, length, phone- number along with any support materials including photos! Due to the large amount of entries, we are unable to return your submission(s). We will get back to you! Send submissions to: Microcinema, Inc., 2318 Second Ave., PMB 313-A, Seattle, WA, 98121, USA. Info/details: 206-568-6051, info@microcinema.com http://www.microcinema.com ************************** Call for Entries - SCAN 20/2000: Small Computers in the Arts Network 20th Anniversary Digital Art Show The SCAN conference is celebrating its 20th year in November 2000 with a symposium and digital art show. Artists are invited to submit digital work in any media (print, Web, video, sculpture, etc.) for the juried exhibition to be held November 3 - 29, 2000 at Silicon Gallery in Philadelphia and in 2001(exact dates TBD) at Silicon Gallery Brooklyn. The theme of SCAN 20/2000 is "SCAN at 20: What Will the Next 20 Years Bring?" and works that address the history of digital art or the imagined future of computers in the arts are particularly welcome. For more information on SCAN and the Call for Entries for the digital art show, please visit http://www.scanarts.com/call_entries.html *********************** autonomousAudio : call for proposals autonomousAudio will be an online event for experimental audio processes and artefacts, artificial sonic agencies and generative systems. Part of dLux media arts' futureScreen 00 event in Sydney, Australia, October-November 2000. autonomousAudio is looking for generative and algorithmic audio, with an emphasis on techniques and concepts from artificial life and complex systems science. Works might include real-time and interactive processes and systems, as well as static compositions; they may be delivered as streams, MP3 downloads, or in any other online, cross-platform format (e.g. Java, Quicktime). While the project will primarily exist online, we also welcome ideas for realspace performances / installations / manifestations in Sydney as part of futureScreen 00. Proposals should be submitted by 1 September. Participation will be confirmed by 1 October. autonomousAudio will be launched in late October, 2000. contact Mitchell Whitelaw : mitchell@symbiotic.org dLux media arts: http://www.dlux.org.au ISEA NEWSLETTER============================================ Editor: Katarina Soukup /Translation: Carina Di Menna, Natalie Melançon Contributors: Patricia Search, Cynthia Beth Rubin, Natalie Melançon ______________________________________________________ ISEA, 3530 boul. 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