THE INTER-SOCIETY FOR THE ELECTRONIC ARTS
ISEA NEWSLETTER - JOBS & CALLS

ISSN1488-3635

#79 August - September 2000
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JOB OFFERS
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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>

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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

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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

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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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

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CALLS FOR ARTICLES
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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

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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

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CALL FOR PROJECT
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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

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CALL FOR ARTICLE
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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>

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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"

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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.

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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

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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>

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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


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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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