THE INTER-SOCIETY FOR THE ELECTRONIC ARTS
ISEA NEWSLETTER #83 ATTACHMENT
ISSN1488-3635
#83-attachment September - October 2001
Our newsletter and calendar were compiled prior to the terrible
incidents in the USA. As of this writing, all activity in New
York City below 14th street has been temporarily suspended.
New York City remains one of the cultural centers of the world,
and we anticipate that the majority of events listed here will
take place as planned.
*CONFERENCES/SYMPOSIA/WORKSHOPS/FESTIVALS
*EXHIBITIONS*JOBS*CALLS*LISTS/URLS/NEWSLETTERS
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* CONTENTS *
I. CONFERENCES/SYMPOSIA/WORKSHOPS/FESTIVALS
I.01. 2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GENERATIVE SYSTEMS IN THE
ELECTRONIC ARTS, Australia
I.02. WET AND DRY An international video art program, Australia
I.03. The Sixth Space Arts Workshop, Paris, France
I.04. Electrofringe 2001, Australia
I.05. The Visual Arts in the Digital Age, USA
I.06. International Film Seminars, NY USA
I.07. ELEKTRA in New York, USA
I.08. Immanent Choreographies: Deleuze and Neo-Aesthetics, UK
I.09. Visual Worlds / An Interdisciplinary Conference, USA
I.10. TEI/XML Workshop, Sydney, Australia
I.11. CIMPA, Maastricht, Netherlands
I.12. MUSIC/TECHNOLOGY INTERACTIVITY, Montreal, Canada
I.13. Symposium TransUrbanism, Rotterdam, Netherlands
I.14. Quebec New York 2001, Canada/USA
I.15. WSCG Conference 2002, Pilsen, Czech Republic
I.16. MAAP01 EXCESS - new media festival, Brisbane, Australia
I.17. NEW MEDIA PANEL DISCUSSION, USA
I.18. 8th international conference of ISSEI, UK
I.19. M A X I S, A Festival of Sound and Experimental Music, UK
I.20. "What's Left of Theory?" An Interdisciplinary Conference,
Australia
I.21. NEW MEDIA PANEL DISCUSSION ON SEPTEMBER 23 (Berkeley, CA)
II. EXHIBITIONS
II.1. DOUBLE FEATURE: PAUL KOS AND NAM JUNE PAIK, USA
II.2. DIALOGUE, works by Nan Hoover, Netherlands
II.3. STAD & LAND, Netherlands
II.4. [DPsNtN] = DISPLACED_PERSONS say NOTHING to NOBODY
by Christin Lahr (D), Netherlands
II.5. DIA ROOFTOP SCREENING: DARA BIRNBAUM AND DAN GRAHAM, USA
II.6. dot.nu sound & image, Netherlands
II.7. The Art Tribes, Italy
III. JOBS
III.01. SPONSORS AND VOLUNTEERS SOUGHT FOR SF NEW MEDIA EXHIBITION
III.02. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, Hui No'eau Visual Arts Center, USA
III.03. Rockefeller Fellowships in Black Performing Arts
III.04. Faculty/Program Head in Digital Media Rhode Island School of
Design, Providence, USA
III.05. DIGITISATION ASSISTANT, UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD, UK
III.06. POST-GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES AND
CONTEMPORARY CREATION, Spain
IV. CALLS
IV.01. Call for Proposals for Incubation 2002, UK
IV.02. Call for Participation, World Conference on Educational
Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications, USA
IV.03. CALL FOR ARTICLES, REVIEWS, REPORTS, VISUAL ARTWORKS AND
PERFORMANCES, Body, Space & Technology, UK
IV.04. FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PROPOSALS, CROSSROADS IN
CULTURAL STUDIES, Finland
IV.05. CALL TO ARTISTS: 4TH INTERNATIONAL MEETING OF VISUAL, SOUND
AND EXPERIMENTAL POETRY, Argentina
IV.06. CALL TO ARTISTS: DIGITAL ART CONTEST, USA
IV.07. CALL FOR PAPERS, The Journal SIGNO Y PENSAMIENTO, Colombia
IV.08. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, SITE 2002, USA
IV.09. CALL FOR PROPOSALS, NEW TECHNOLOGY ARTS FELLOWSHIP SCHEME
(PHASE 1), UK
IV.10. call for submissions, S T U D I O 3 0 3, Canada
IV.11. CALL FOR PROPOSALS, Lovebytes - Digital Media Commissions, UK
IV.12. INITIAL CALL FOR PAPERS FOR 2002 CONFERENCE, USA
IV.13. Call for Artists, A Virtual Memorial
IV.14. CALL FOR PAPERS, WORKSHOP: EVERYBODY CAN-CAN AT THE MOULIN
ROUGE, USA
IV.15. CALL FOR PAPERS: Futures of World Literatures and Literacies,
USA
V. LISTS/URLS/NEWSLETTERS, ETC.
V.01. Incubation Archive Now Online
V.02. CDe Hotline
V.03. Book
V.04. Publication
V.05. Article
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I.1
AUSTRALIA
SECOND ITERATION: EMERGENCE: 2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
GENERATIVE SYSTEMS IN THE ELECTRONIC ARTS: Call for Participation.
DATES: 5-7th December
Presented by The Centre for Electronic Media Art (CEMA)
Melbourne, Australia
Call for Papers | Artist & Tech Sketches| Generative Audio & Video |
Generative Art Software
Second Iteration:emergence is the event for anyone with an interest
in the relationship between generative processes, creativity and
artistic practice. The key theme will be emergence: the property of
simple, interacting processes to acquire characteristics and form
beyond those directly attributable to the sum of the individual
components. Second Iteration will investigate the discontinuities
between poeisis and physis, and how these processes influence the
development of creative ideas.
Following on from the highly successful First Iteration (1999), this
year's conference will again be held in Melbourne, Australia.
Second Iteration : topics of interest
Artificial Life
Artificial selection
Cellular automata
Cultural interpretations of generative theories & methodologies
Digital nature
Evolutionary aspects of creativity & creative behaviour
Feedback networks
Genetic algorithms
Learning & knowledge-based systems
Mathematical & generative modelling
Memes
Models of creativity and creative processes
Neural networks
Recombinant media
Rule-based systems
Software artworks
Systems theory
Second Iteration : applications
Architecture
Animation
Computer graphics
Cultural theory
Electronic & computer-based music composition
Evolutionary theory
Software development
Visual, sound & performance art
Virtual environments
Further details including submission dates are available on the
conference website or by email:
ONLINE: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~iterate
EMAIL: iterate@csse.monash.edu.au
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I.2
AUSTRALIA
WET AND DRY
An international video art program, curated by Ian Haig and
Dominic Redfern in association with The Centre for Contemporary
Photography and supported by the City of Melbourne.
Screening at Cinemedia at Treasury Theatre, September 21st
and 22nd of September at 7.30pm, Tickets at the door.
$10 full, $8 concession
Despite video art's 35 year history no event currently exists in
Australia to critically engage with its history and culture. Wet &
Dry will be such an event. It will connect with the dialogue of video
screen culture by presenting videos that are not gallery-based works
simply reconfigured for the screen, but dedicated screen based works
which rethink our relationship with the video art medium.
Wet and Dry will showcase video from the outer edges of the
experimental spectrum. Two curated programs will showcase a cross
section of contemporary international and Australian screen based
video work, much of which has never previously been screened in
Melbourne. The Wet program will explore video works engaging in genre
manipulation, contemporary popular culture and weirdo perversity
whilst the Dry screening will incorporate work that extends and
confronts existing formal discourses within video, challenging the
material limitations of the medium.
The program will consist of new work by established and emerging
video practitioners including George Kuchar, Saddie Benning, Animal
Charm, Steve Doughton, Seoungho Cho, Cassandra Tytler, Klaus vom
Bruch, Doug Henry, Anthony Discenza, Les LeVeque, Joseph Hyde,
Halflifers, plus many more…
For further info, please contact:
Ian Haig: 9443 0138
Dominic Redfern: 9314 0757
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I.3
FRANCE
Rencontres du 13 Avril
In the year 2002 the Sixth "Rencontres du 13 Avril" will be on the
theme "The Collaborative Process in Space Art".
The Collaborative Process in Space Art
The Sixth Space Arts Workshop will examine the dialog between
artists, scientists, and engineers along with the results produced by
interdisciplinary collaboration in space art. Past as well as future
space art projects will be presented and discussed with an emphasis
on promoting new collaborative space art projects between artists,
scientists, and engineers.
We welcome proposals for the Workshop for consideration from artists,
and especially scientists, and engineers who are interested in the
development of space art.
The Workshop will be held in Paris on Sunday, March 17, 2002
The number of persons in this workshop will be limited to invited
participants only.
Richard Clar is coordinating the Workshop program and may be reached
at:
rclar@arttechnologies.com
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I.4
AUSTRALIA
Electrofringe 2001 : 26 Sept-1 October
Electrofringe is an annual festival of digital, hybrid, electronic
and new media arts, now in its fourth year. The festival provides a
series of workshops for young and emerging new media artists, and
critical forums examining the state of new media arts, technology,
and screen culture both within Australia and globally.
It will once again bring together an amalgamation of new media
makers, web artists, gamers,tech-heads, electronic music-makers,
online writers, designers, activists, audio-visual makers, culture
jammers and film and video artists.
Electrofringe is part of This Is Not Art (TINA) which occurs
annually in Newcastle, New South Wales. TINA also includes Sound
Summit, the National Young Writers Festival and the National Student
Media Conference.
People Like Us and some other familiar names will be participating in
Electrofringe, part of the This Is Not Art Festival in Newcastle,
NSW, Australia at the end of this month. Some of us are then staying
on for other gigs in other parts of Australia.
http://www.electrofringe.org
http://www.thisisnotart.org
28 Sept : NEWCASTLE Mission : 8-11pm
MAIN ROOM
Spanky (NSW)
Scientifically Speaking w/ Irene Moon (USA)
Steev Hise (USA)
Evolution Control Committee (USA)
People Like Us (UK)
DOWNSTAIRS
Antediluvian Rocking Horse (VIC)
Wake Up And Listen (NSW)
Sweden (NSW)
29 Sept : NEWCASTLE PAN Building Upstairs : 2pm
Audiovisual Masterclass : A presentation of the work of People Like
Us, followed by a Q&A session. Duration: approx 2 hours
2 Oct : SYDNEY Opera House : Electrolab : 8-11pm
Veren Grigorov & Robbie Avenheim (laptop, sampler & viola)
Kim Moyes, Jeremy Barnett, Scott Saunders(vibes, marimba &
synthesisers)
Matt Hoare, Kim Moye playing the "Thwopper"
Toy Death
Interval
People Like Us
David Shea
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I.5
USA
Digital Age
September 22, 2001
The Visual Arts in the Digital Age, Smith College Museum of Art hosts
a symposium exploring the impact of today's technology on every
aspect of art, from creation to dissemination. Speakers include:
David A. Ross, (SFMoMA) keynote, Lawrence Rinder (Whitney Museum of
American Art), Sara Tucker (DIA Center), Samuel Quigley (Harvard
University), Jennifer Trant (AMICO), Jeremy Blake, artist.
Register online: www.smith.edu/artmuseum/symposium
or contact Eva Fierst, 413.585.2777 or techsymp@smith.edu.
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I.6
USA
International Film Seminars
October 5 -8, 2001
International Film Seminars, in association with Integrated
Electronic Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute presents Digital
Flaherty. A four-day interactive seminar addressing contemporary
issues related to the artistic concerns about aesthetics, content
and practice in digital technologies.
Guests include Kevin and Jennifer McCoy, Graham Harwood, Toni Dove,
®™ ark, Paul Vanouse, Tirtza Even, Art Jones, Marisa Bowe, David
Guez, and Dee Dee Halleck.
Registration is limited. Registration Fee: $200 Accommodations and
transportation not included.
For more information www.flahertyseminar.org (212.608.3224)
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I.7
ELEKTRA in New York
Wednesday and Thursday, September 19-20 2001
FUN
Underneath the Manhattan Bridge
130 Madison St
New York, NY 10002
As part of Québec New York 2001 and the Downtown Arts festival,
ELEKTRA is organizing two evening of contemporary digital art.
ELEKTRA is produced by ACREQ, a Montreal-based digital arts festival.
This electronic celebration includes two multimedia events: SPIN by
Jean Piché and FausTechnology by the duo PurForm, composer Alain
Thibault and digital image master, Yan Breuleux. Electronic music
fans will be treated to performances by SAKU (Louis Dufort), Mateo
Murphy, Delage, DJ Nivoc and VJ K-Project (Frederic Beaulieu and
Valérie Leduc).
Over the last few years, Montreal has become one of the premiere
North American hotspots of electronic and multimedia arts. Since
1999, with ELEKTRA, ACREQ has been seeking to cover the greatest
possible range in contemporary electronic music, with excursions into
the world of digital image, multimedia, installation, cybernetics and
robotics. Bringing together contemporary culture and urban electronic
culture, ELEKTRA is a reflection of this new form of artistic
creation that is now sweeping the world.
This is an initiative of Quebec New York 2001 with the help of the
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec.
This event is the New York premiere of ELEKTRA.
Program : 9PM
Digital works for 3 DVD et 3 video screens
SPIN (2000) - Jean Piché
FausTechnology (2000) - PurForm [Alain Thibault/Yan Breuleux]
Live techno performances : 10PM
SAKU - live [Ascend Recordings]
MATEO - live [Ascend Recordings - Turbo Records - District]
DELAGE - live [Ascend Recordings]
DJ NIVOC [Ascend Recordings - SONA]
VJ : K-PROJECT
Downtown Arts Festival - Info : 212.966.8585
http://www.downtownarts.org/elektra.html
Sponsors:
Discreet
Aptilon
Faculty of Music - University of Montreal
Canadian Consulate General in New York
Many thanks to:
Ascend Recordings
Usine C
Orange Music
Guru - Energy Drink
SONA
ACREQ
music technology multimedia
Alain Thibault, artistic director
http://www.comm.uqam.ca/acreq
Tél (514) 524.0208 - Fax (514) 524.7874
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I.8
UK
Deleuze and Neo-Aesthetics
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/programmes/events.htm
Friday 21 September, 10.30 - 18.30
Saturday 22 September , 11.00-18.30 Starr Auditorium
Immanent Choreographies: Deleuze and Neo-Aesthetics
The writings of Gilles Deleuze, and his collaborations with Flix
Guattari, have had a major impact on theory and practice in many
disciplines. This two-day event, a series of presentations and
performances, brings together an international range of contributors
to consider some of the ways in which Deleuze's thought has been
taken up and put to work in different media and art forms.
It sets out to explore the power of Deleuzian neo-aesthetics, and
also its limits. To what extent has it transformed the production and
reception of contemporary art practices? What is at stake,
artistically, politically and philosophically, in the adoption of
Deleuze by such practices?
The conference is divided into six sessions: Manuel De Landa, Andres
Kurg and Helen Stratford on architecture; Alain Badiou, Alexander
Garca Dttmann and Iain Mackenzie on politics/ethics; Cristina
Caprioli and Pascale Criton on music/dance; David Rodowick, Astrid
Sderbergh Widding and Peter Hallward on cinema; Rosi Braidotti, Ian
Buchanan and Dorothea Olkowski on gender/sexuality; Robert Fleck,
Hans Ulrich Obrist and John Rajchman on visual arts.
Tickets 40 (25 concessions)
A collaboration with Staffordshire University
This event will be webcast.
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/programmes/webcasting.htm
The first day of the conference ends with performances, from 19.30,
by musician/sound artists Scanner, Oval and Kim Cascone;
Friday 21 September, 19.30 - 21.30 Starr Auditorium
Scanner + Oval + Kim Cascone Performances by three major contemporary
electronic musicians complement the conference Immanent
Choreographies: Deleuze and Neo-Aesthetics (see above).
In association with The Wire magazine
The music performances will also be webcast, site also includes bio's
on these three musicians.
*****
I.9
Visual Worlds / An Interdisciplinary Conference
26 - 28 October 2001
[Image]For conference information, preliminary program, registration,
and other information, go directly to the conference site,
http://chsc.ucdavis.edu/visualworlds.html
The UC Davis Center for History, Society, and Culture (CHSC)
announces a major interdisciplinary conference, Visual Worlds, to be
held at the UC Davis campus, Friday, October 26 through Sunday,
October 28, 2001. Our premise is that social worlds -- groups of
people bound together by shared norms and practices -- are not only
reflected in but also shaped by visual conventions. Art historian
Erwin Panofsky famously explained how Renaissance linear perspective
operated as a symbolic form that helped organize the social
understanding of a new socioeconomic order. The central premise of
Visual Worlds is that today newly emergent visual forms are similarly
having wide-ranging social, economic, and political consequences.
Visual expression is of particular importance now because it
facilitates cross-cultural communication occurring with globalization
and serves as a catalyst for transforming information into a
commodity, and hence, for the development of the New Economy.
Featured conference speakers include sociologists Darnell Hunt,
Marshall Battani, and Robin Wagner-Pacifici; cultural critics Lauren
Berlant, Jennifer Gonzalez, Constance Penley and Jon Lapointe;
artists Mary Kelly, =90tMark, Andrea Fraser and Allan Sekula, and
intellectual historian Martin Jay.
Conference artists will be featured at a concurrent exhibition at the
UC Davis Nelson Art Gallery and Fine Arts Collection. Conference is
free but pre-registration is required.
UC Davis Center for History, Society, and Culture
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I.10
AUSTRALIA
TEI/XML Workshop
TEI/XML Workshop held in association with Computing Arts 2001:
Digital Resources for Research in the Humanities, a conference at the
University of Sydney 26-28th September 2001
Registration for conference and/or workshop:
http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/Arts/departs/rihss/drrh.html
Starting out with the TEI: an Introduction
One day session, Tuesday 25th September 2001
Cost: $110 full price / $55 concession. Maximum 30 people
Venue: Room 202 (Basser Computing Labs)
Ground Floor Carslaw Building University of Sydney
Presenters: Lou Burnard, Peter Robinson, Matthew Driscoll
This workshop is designed as an introduction to the Text Encoding
Initiative Guidelines for encoding humanities primary texts (the TEI)
and Extensible Markup Language (XML). The workshop will be based
upon workshops conducted at the Oxford Humanities Computing Unit and
the MASTER series of workshops on encoding manuscripts.
For further information contact Creagh Cole
SETIS, University of Sydney Library
c.cole@library.usyd.edu.au
Phone: 9351 7408
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I.11
NETHERLANDS
Connected International Meeting Professionals Association (CIMPA)
CIMPA is pleased to announce that its 2002 conference will be held in
Maastricht, Netherlands on August 25-28. 2002. There will be pre and
post conference trips to Amsterdam, Spain, Belgium, Germany and
Iceland. It will be a joint meeting of the Connected International
Meeting Professionals Association (CIMPA) and the Pacific Asia
Network of Event Organizers (PANEO).
We are now searching for destinations anywhere in the world who are
interested in hosting the 2003, 2004 and 2005 conferences. Potential
bidders may view the meeting specifications at ww.cimpa.org/specs.htm
Each presentor must submit 9 copies of the written proposal and make
a 15-minute oral presentation to the 9-member committee. Presentors
must notify the committee via email at site@cimpa.org by August 5 so
that their presentation may be scheduled.
A Call for Speakers will be sent our shortly. If you wish to receive
this, please email gail@cimpa.org
Information on the annual meeting may be found at
www.cimpa.org/itmicegypt.htm. Attendees are association executives,
meeting planners, seminar organizers, incentive organizers and other
meeting professionals.
SAVE THE DATE:
January 15-20, 2002 - CIMPA Buyers Group to BEDOUK Paris
May 22-25, 2002 - CIMPA Buyers Group to EIBTM Geneva
April, 2002 - International Congress hosted by Thailand Chapter in
Bangkok
For information on the Connected International Meeting Professionals
Association or to sign up for membership, please visit www.cimpa.org
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I.12
CANADA
MUSIC/TECHNOLOGY INTERACTIVITY
Montreal, Canada - Oct. 20 and 26 to 28, 2001
This series of concerts and activities will bring together Quebec and
French composers and performers, whose musical practice include new
technology. Four concerts, two master classes, lectures and
discussions will offer a portrait of the future of this ever-
transforming art.
Oct. 20 - Le violoncelle bien branché, Benjamin Carat, cello with
electronic device
Oct 26 - Mixité et nouvelle instrumentration, Les Temps Modernes
Ensemble
Oct 27 - Métamorphose, interactivité image/son, performer Philippe
Moënne-Loccoz on Irisis video system
Oct 28 - Jeune création électroacoustique française, performer
Philippe Moënne-Loccoz
Master classes: Benjamin Carat, cellist; Les Temps Modernes Ensemble
Lectures: Philippe Moënne-Loccoz, Alain Thibault, Tristan Murail,
composers
Interactivity Music/Technology is coproduced by l'Ensemble
contemporain de Montréal, the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à
Montréal, the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ),
l'Office Franco-québécois pour la jeunesse (OFQJ) and Théâtre La
Chapelle, and supported by Les Entretiens Jacques-Cartier, the Rhône-
Alpes Region and the SPEDIDAM. This major event will be part of
France in Quebec/The Season. Info at the ECM (514) 524-0173 or
www.ecm.qc.ca
INTERACTIVITÉ MUSIQUE/TECHNOLOGIE
20 et 26, 27, 28 octobre 2001
Cette série de concerts et d'activités réunira des compositeurs et
des interpr=E8tes fran=E7ais et québécois dont la pratique musicale
inclut les nouvelles technologies. Quatre concerts, deux classes de
maître et des conférences pour brosser un portrait de cet art en
évolution constante.
20 oct. - Le violoncelle bien branché, Benjamin Carat, violoncelle
avec dispositif électronique
26 oct. - Mixité et nouvelle instrumentration, Les Temps Modernes
27 oct. - Métamorphose, interactivité image/son, Philippe Moënne-
Loccoz, système vidéo Irisis
28 oct. - Jeune création électroacoustique française, Philippe
Moënne-Loccoz, électroacoustique
Classes de maître: Benjamin Carat, violoncelliste; Les Temps Modernes
Conférences: Philippe Moënne-Loccoz, Alain Thibault, Tristan Murail,
compositeurs
Interactivité Musique/Technologie est une coproduction de l'Ensemble
contemporain de Montréal, du Conservatoire de musique du Québec à
Montréal, de la Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ), de
l'Office franco-québécois pour la jeunesse (OFQJ) et du Théâtre La
Chapelle, avec le soutien des Entretiens Jacques-Cartier, de la
Région Rhône-Alpes et de la SPEDIDAM. Cette manifestation est
présentée dans le cadre de France au Québec/La saison.
Information: ECM (514) 524-0173 ou www.ecm.qc.ca
Christine Vauchel, promotion et communications
Ensemble contemporain de Montréal
1908, Panet, #301 - Montreal, QC H2L 3A2 Canada
Tél: (514) 270-2558 (direct)
Fax: (514) 270-5038 (direct)
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I.13
NETHERLANDS
Symposium TransUrbanism: cities enter atmospheric phase
As a sequel to 'The Art of the Accident' (1998) and 'Machine Times'
(2000) V2_Organisation organizes on 29 and 30 November a symposium
entitled 'TransUrbanism'.
Data: Thursday 29 and Friday 30 November 2001
Location: NAI Netherlands Architecture Institute, Museumpark 25,
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Symposium runs: 10:30 a.m. till 5:30 p.m. (doors open at 10:00 a.m.)
Admission: fl. 100, - (2 days), students fl. 65, -
More information and reservations: Marije Stijkel, e-mail
marije@v2.nl or by phone +31(10) 206-7272.
Lectures by: Rem Koolhaas (NL), Knowbotic Research (D/A), Scott Lash
(GB), Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (MEX/CDN), Edward Soja (USA), Lars
Spuybroek (NL), Roemer van Toorn (NL) and Mark Wigley (USA).
The symposium will be moderated by Andreas Ruby (D).
'TransUrbanism' describes how our cities enter the new 'atmospheric
phase'.
The city and her boarders blur. It is no longer a material object of
which one can easily say where it precisely starts or ends. The urban
experience is continued in other media and is echoed by other cities.
Some sort of urban continuity occurs that only condenses and
precipitates here or there in a 'city'. Sometimes quite materially,
sometimes in a very narrative way, sometimes statistic, sometimes
economically, sometimes very visually, but mostly all these together.
Anyhow the city's continuity is in the first place temporal and not
spatial. Spatial continuity as provided by architecture and urban
planning seems to be less important than creating a coherent stream
of experience in the fusion of movement, brands, faces, conversations
and media. It is the living individual, not the urban planning, that
synthesizes all of these media streams.
The city's substance is hardly material/architectural anymore. Public
squares, market places, the layout of streets seem no longer relevant
to how the city is experienced. Also, cities in general no longer
seem to be the subject of individual experience. The urban experience
is a continuous interaction between the city itself, the Internet,
television and magazines. Consumer behavior and lifestyles are all
temporary products of all of these different media concurrently and
especially of how they interact. A lifestyle is the creation of an
uninterrupted atmosphere in which urban elements such as certain
shops and cafés are closely linked to a certain brand of shoes, cars,
clothing and a certain vernacular.
Rather than just attempting to analyze this, 'TransUrbanism' aims at
a conscious practice: how can writers, artists and urban developers
define new methods for inventing our future cities?
This symposium brings together thinkers and doers, theorists and
practitioners, analysts and catalysts. Not as passive contrasts but
as active, mutually influencing ways of putting theory into practice
and of theorizing about what is being practiced.
More information can also be found on: www.v2.nl/2001
Production: a project of Las Palmas International Center for Image
Culture and Media Technology, concept and production by
V2_Organisatie.
Co-financed by: Stimuleringsfonds voor Architectuur
Sponsors: Netherlands Architecture Institute, Vereniging Leliman
Special thanks to: Rotterdam 2001, Cultural Capital of Europe
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I.14
CANADA/USA
For the event Quebec New York 2001, which takes place in New York
State from August 1st until September 12th, and in New York City from
September 13th until October 7th, the Society for arts and technology
(SAT) presents
MONTREAL BRAINWAVE
18 ARTWORKS - 30 ARTISTS
land in New York passing through Lake Champlain and the Hudson River.
After expanding its mandate to include not only production but also
exhibition of artworks and after securing an envious position by
offering to digital artists a unique exhibition space in the heart of
Montreal's cultural corridor, the Society for arts and technology
(SAT) is invited to present original artworks from its artist-in-
residency program during the Quebec New York 2001 event.
Under the title MONTREAL BRAINWAVE, SAT proposes 18 creations
involving over 30 artists. At the forefront of digital culture in
Quebec, SAT brings together 350 artists/researchers who participate
in placing Montreal as a dynamic center of technological innovation.
ARTISTS FROM HERE, PRINCIPAL AGENTS OF INNOVATION OCCUPY 5 LOCATIONS
IN NEW YORK
WORLD FINANCIAL CENTRE
WINTER GARDEN PLAZA
EMBASSY SUITES HOTEL
THE KITCHEN
GALE GATES et al.
THE CLOUD HARP (LA HARPE Ã NUAGES) by Nicolas Reeves, will make a
trip on the Hudson River before being installed outside, on the Plaza
of the World Financial Center, in front of the Winter Garden, on the
shores of the Hudson River. Considered a Trojan Horse of Montreal's
digital culture, this sound sculpture will complete New York's urban
landscape by offering musical compositions orchestrated by the
passage of clouds.
PANOSCOPE 360 by Luc Courchesne will take advantage of this boat trip
to capture surrounding panoramas which upon arrival will be displayed
to the public using a mechanism of the same name as the artwork, and
thus, to recount this adventure in a flow of images at 360=83.
Presented in the Courtyard of the World Financial Center, this
creation offers a pause to the public before entering the grand Hall
of the Embassy Suites Hotel which receives an interactive sculpture
of lights, BEAT BEAM, conceived and realized by Axel Morgenthaler in
collaboration with Marc Lavallée.
Axel is renown internationally for the manner in which he uses and
sculpts light and Marc is a programmer specialized in multimedia
applications. SAT commissioned BEAT BEAM from this team of artists
who are on their second collaboration since creating a monumental
project for the Fort Li=E8dot on the French Island of Aix.
The Kitchen is considered among international circles as a Mecca of
avant-garde art. It is with great pleasure that SAT will present
there the WEB-based interactive installation the SILOPHONE by the
collective [The User]; PORTRAIT Nr.1 by Luc Courchesne, a work dating
from 1989 which has since become a reference in terms of interactive
video; the intriguing and very contemplative JARDIN DES OVELYNIERS
(OU LA LANTERNE AUX ORANGES MÉDITANTES) by Nicolas Reeves, an
installation "of flesh and metal", which allows the user to listen
live to the very slow transformation of biological matter isolated
from the world by micro-sarcophagi made of gold, resin and wax.
Conferences will also be organized in order to facilitate exchanges
between the public and artists belonging to one of New York's hottest
art scenes.
Situated in DUMBO (Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass), GAle GAtes
et al. is directed by a team whose research and exhibition mandate
can be compared to that of SAT. Michael Counts heads this collective
which for the occasion will be coupled to the SAT collective. By
locating its activities there, SAT wishes to offer a mirror-site of
its own space in order to present simultaneously interactive
installations, a number of proposals from the visual arts, and a
series of live events.
Furthermore, Luc Courchesne will install his LANDSCAPE NUMBER ONE in
order to establish a dialogue with SAT's presence on the Island of
Manhattan and to complete a reading of works presented. This
interactive work, filmed with four cameras on Mount Royal in
Montreal, greatly inspired his research in the development of the
PANOSCOPE 360.
Nicolas Reeves will exhibit his COMPUTER ARCHITECTONES, genuine
complex miniature architectures made from synthetic resin, obtained
through the insemination of digitized analog data by virtual
biological cultures. It is this methodology which is the basis for
the CLOUD HARP (HARPES À NUAGES).
The collective [The User] offers an installation and three evenings
of concerts with its now famous SYMPHONY FOR DOT MATRIX PRINTERS.
Joseph Lefévre and Martine Koutnouyan propose a hypermedia version of
their work SHAMAN'S SPACE, which won the Möbius Prize in the Fall
2000.
Patrick Béland, manipulating brushes with the same ease as
technology, will exhibit URBAN PLASTIC PAINTINGS consisting of nine
original works.
The opening and closing evenings, September 15th and October 6th
respectfully, will be opportunities to provoke discussions and
exchanges through the installation of a real playground on the WEB.
Artists from here will occupy Gale Gates while artists from New York
will fill SAT. Dancers, musicians, sound and visual artists will
exchange and manipulate on the WEB chosen pieces for a real party
where live collective creation is at the heart of research.
September 22, WETFISH/MASTERS OF METROPOLIS: the collective Wetfish
will put into original and uncut music a revisited version of
METROPOLIS, the master work of Fristz Lang. Throat singing,
electronic music, cello and other instruments create a dialogue
between "old and new media".
Finally, SAT and its team are very pleased and proud to contribute to
this international event.
SAT (Society for arts and technology)
A place of exchange, research and experimentation, SAT has positioned
itself as a unique transdisciplinary research, production and
exhibition center dedicated to the development of digital culture and
new artistic practices. The SAT brings together a diverse group of
authors, creators and researchers who share in common the fact that
they all use new digital production tools as their main mode of
expression and reflection. A true research and development
laboratory, SAT participates in the emergence of innovative projects.
SAT is also 14 000 sq.ft. dedicated to research and experimentation
at the heart of Montreal's cultural corridor.
Its role can be summed up as follows:
° Support members in the production of innovative projects;
° Foster exchange and collaborations between artistic and scientific
disciplines;
° Promote its members and their work;
° Provide its members with access to technological resources;
° Encourage debates and theoretical reflection about the application
of new technologies in the arts
Its objectives are:
° Push for the recognition of artists/researchers as primordial
players in the field of
digital technologies;
° Provide Montreal with a transdisciplinary digital culture research
and production centre;
° Play the role of go-between for the cultural, scientific and
industry sectors;
° Facilitate knowledge and know-how transfer;
° Create a public technological showcase window;
° Reserve a privileged place for the new generation
A special invitation to the private sector
If you are a private enterprise and you wish to support our
initiatives, to exchange research mandates, or to validate your
technologies in a unique research context, it will be our pleasure to
meet with you and to organize an encounter with the personnel of our
Art and Industry Bureau of Liaison. This bureau has as mandate to
tailor partnership models including the issuing of donation charity
receipts.
The Society for arts and technology (SAT) is supported by:
- the "Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec"
- the "Fonds de stabilisation et de consolidation des arts et de la
culture du Québec",
- the "Coseil des arts de la Communauté Urbaine de Montréal"
- the Art Council of Canada
Society for arts and technology (SAT)
305 St. Catherine St. West
CP 1083, Succ. Desjardins
Montreal, Quebec
H5B 1C2
Tel: (514) 982-6093
Fax: (514) 842-3795
http://www.sat.qc.ca
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I.15
CZECH REPUBLIC
WSCG Conference 2002- Pilsen (Close to Prague), Czech Republic
The 10-th International Conference in Central Europe on Computer
Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision
http://wscg.zcu.cz February 4 - 8, 2002
Honorary Chair: Jos=82 Encarna=87ao, Fraunhofer-Institute for Computer
Graphics, Darmstadt, Germany
Keynote speakers:
Gabriel Taubin: Signal Processing on Polygonal Meshes, Watson
Research Center, IBM, USA Chandrajit Bajaj: Active Visualization
using PC clusters and Tiled Displays, University of Texas at Austin,
USA
Programme Co-chairs
Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, MIRALab-CUI, Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland
Vaclav Skala, Univ. of West Bohemia, Czech Republic
Deadline for paper submission: October 10, 2001
Contact person: Vaclav Skala - skala@kiv.zcu.cz ,
fax +420-19-74 91 188
PLEASE include your e-mail
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I.16
AUSTRALIA
MAAP01 EXCESS - new media festival
12-14 October 2001
Online, Brisbane Powerhouse and regional partner venues
This year's festival theme "EXCESS" enables an investigation into
artist's extreme positions. Digital culture and the information age
imply an overload of information and possibilities, yet in many
situations intimidate, guide and encourage bland response. It can be
argued that we live in an age where the realities of economic and
social control have lead to a climate where rationalisation prevails.
EXCESS looks toward artworks and artists that push visual and
conceptual limits and seek to celebrate an indulgence in the outer
limits of original aesthetics. While this may sound somewhat Baroque,
EXCESS can equally rebound into the extremes of minimalism, where
excessive and rigorous theories may catapult expression to
extraordinary visual and audio denial. We hope "EXCESS" will vibrate
between the two extremes.
Everyday excess in our popular media culture, film and television
promotes desensitisation and ambivalence to the meaning of excess -
when artists take an idea and push it conceptually we are refreshed
with ways to re-engage with electronic media, to find deeply personal
positions speaking from richly different cultural positions.
The MAAP01 festival program runs in 3 streams:
SEE - includes screening programs curated from China, Korea,
Thailand, Philippines and Australia.
SEEK - interactive exhibition program including Internet, CD-ROM, and
new media installations.
SPEAK - netcast enabled regional forums, training programs, artist
talks and demonstrations.
NEXT MAIL... program highlights, visiting artists and website
updates!
Don't forget that if you collect ALL the Maap Mail clues found at
<http://www.maap.org.au>www.maap.org.au in the lead up to the
festival, and e-mail them back to us you can go into the draw to WIN
DREAMWEAVER 4.0 and FLASH 5.0!!!
12-14 October, 2001
Online Festival: <http://www.maap.org.au>www.maap.org.au
Festival: Brisbane Powerhouse, New Farm Q AUSTRALIA
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I.17
NEW MEDIA PANEL DISCUSSION ON SEPTEMBER 23 (Berkeley, CA)
Sunday, September 23rd
Panel
Pacific Film Archive Theater
2575 Bancroft @ Bowditch
12:30-2:00pm
Reception
Berkeley Art Museum
2626 Bancroft
2:00-3:00pm
Admission: free; seating limited: first come, first seated
NEW MEDIA(tors)--The Social Life of New Media Art
Co-organized by the UC Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive and
Gen Art SF, and sponsored by Ground Zero, a discussion among new
media artists about their role in society and the new economy.--The
featured speakers mediate the fine line between artist and scientist,
scholar, philosopher, or entrepreneur. The artists and audience will
consider the effects of network culture on the creation,
interpretation, collection, and preservation of contemporary visual
art.
Participants: Shawn Brixey, artist & director, Center for Digital Art
and New Media Research, UC Berkeley; Alex Galloway, artist & director
of technology & content @ Rhizome.org; Lynn Hershman, artist &
professor, media arts, UC Davis; Jason Lewis, artist & founder, Arts
Alliance Laboratory & The Thought Shop; Moderated by Richard
Rinehart, artist & director of digital media, Berkeley Art Museum,
instructor, digital media, UC Berkeley.
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I.18
UK
8th international conference of ISSEI
At the 8th international conference of ISSEI (International Society
for the Study of European Ideas), to be held in Aberystwyth, July 22-
27, 2002, of which I am co-chair and local organiser, I will be
offering a workshop (i.e., panel) on
Consciousness, Literature and the Arts.
The peer-reviewed web-journal Consciousness, Literature and the Arts
(CLA) [URL: http://www.aber.ac.uk/tfts/journal] was launched in April
2000 and has published 5 issues to date.
This workshop will give an opportunity to past, current and
prospective contributors to meet with current and prospective members
of the editorial board to engage in a lively discussion of the
relationship between the various aspects of literature and the arts
and human consciousness
Workshop participants are invited to familiarise themselves with
publications in CLA to date, and to send abstracts of proposals to me
at the address below.
Papers presented at the workshop will be considered for publication
in CLA.
Dr. Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe
Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe
University of Wales Aberystwyth
Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies
Parry Williams Building
Penglais Campus
Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 3AJ
Tel ++44 1970 622835
Fax ++44 1970 622831
Consciousness, Literature and the Arts
http://www.aber.ac.uk/tfts/journal
ISSEI 2002 Conference
http://www.aber.ac.uk/tfts/issei2002
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I.19
UK
A Festival of Sound and Experimental Music
Organized by MAXIS
April 12th - 14th 2002
Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, England, UK.
Keynote / Works
By Invitation / Open Call - Innovative, Alternative and X-
disciplinary
Approaches in Sound - People, Process, Product and Place.
Format
Lectures, Workshops, Exhibition, Live Performance, Academic Papers,
Project
Reports, New Products, Machinations, Installation, Film.
Fees
Weekend Festival Ticket (with publication) £75.00 (UK Pounds
Sterling)
Website
www.maxis.org.uk
*****
I.20
AUSTRALIA
"What's Left of Theory?"
An Interdisciplinary Conference, 8th - 10th December 2001, The
University of Tasmania, Hobart.
Speakers include: Fredric Jameson, Reda Bensmaia, Tom Conley, Horst
Ruthrof, Eugene Holland, Claire Colebrook, Andrew Benjamin, Verena
Conley, John Frow, Alberto Moreiras, Andre Pierre Colombat.
More information at
http://hyperion.humsoc.utas.edu.au/efgj/home.html>http://hyperion.hum
soc.utas.edu.au/efgj/home.html
Deadline for abstracts: October 20 2001.
Enquiries Ian Buchanan, School of English and European Languages and
Literatures, The University of Tasmania. I.Buchanan@utas.edu.au
*****
I.21
NEW MEDIA PANEL DISCUSSION ON SEPTEMBER 23 (Berkeley, CA)
Sunday, September 23rd
Panel
Pacific Film Archive Theater
2575 Bancroft @ Bowditch
12:30-2:00pm
Reception
Berkeley Art Museum
2626 Bancroft
2:00-3:00pm
Admission: free; seating limited: first come, first seated
NEW MEDIA(tors)--The Social Life of New Media Art
Co-organized by the UC Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive and
Gen Art SF, and sponsored by Ground Zero, a discussion among new
media artists about their role in society and the new economy.--The
featured speakers mediate the fine line between artist and scientist,
scholar, philosopher, or entrepreneur. The artists and audience will
consider the effects of network culture on the creation,
interpretation, collection, and preservation of contemporary visual
art.
Participants: Shawn Brixey, artist & director, Center for Digital Art
and New Media Research, UC Berkeley; Alex Galloway, artist & director
of technology & content @ Rhizome.org; Lynn Hershman, artist &
professor, media arts, UC Davis; Jason Lewis, artist & founder, Arts
Alliance Laboratory & The Thought Shop; Moderated by Richard
Rinehart, artist & director of digital media, Berkeley Art Museum,
instructor, digital media, UC Berkeley.
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EXHIBITIONS
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II.1
USA
DOUBLE FEATURE: PAUL KOS AND NAM JUNE PAIK
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco, CA USA
Double Feature is an exhibition series that places two artists'
projects in dialogue, thereby revealing affinities and unexpected
associations. This second presentation features early examples of
video sculpture by two key figures in the sphere of media arts: Tokyo
Rose, 1975-76, by Paul Kos and Egg Grows, 1984-89, by Nam June Paik.
Both of these works are part of the SFMOMA permanent collection and
will be on view for the first time in over a decade.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS FEATURE CLICK THE LINK BELOW
OR COPY AND PASTE INTO YOUR BROWSER WINDOW:
http://www.absolutearts.com
*****
II.2
Netherlands
DIALOGUE
works by Nan Hoover
25 August - 29 September
opening August 24, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Video installations, photos, drawings and sculptures
In the exhibition DIALOGUE, works by Nan Hoover, the Netherlands
Media Art Institute, Montevideo/Time Based Arts demonstrates the
diversity of Nan Hoover's oeuvre.
Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst
Montevideo/Time Based Arts
Keizersgracht 264
NL 1016 EV Amsterdam
T +31 (0)20 6237101
F +31(0)20 6244423
E info@montevideo.nl
http://www.montevideo.nl
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II.3
Netherlands
STAD & LAND
25 August - 23 September
Helpmancentrale, Groningen
Video project in collaboration with Stichting De School, Groningen.
More information www.blue-moon.nl (Dutch text)
*****
II.4
Netherlands
[DPsNtN] = DISPLACED_PERSONS say NOTHING to NOBODY
by Christin Lahr (D)
Opening: Friday 21st September 2001, 17.30 hours
Open: Friday 21st September 2001 till Sunday 14th October 2001, Tue-
Sat 12.00 - 18.00 hours, Sun 12.00 - 17.00 hours, closed Monday
Location: Werkstad Las Palmas, Wilhelminakade, Rotterdam and realtime
on-line participation www.v2.nl/lahr
DISPLACED_PERSONS is a computer-controlled interactive environment in
Werkstad Las Palmas, and is linked to the Internet. The installation
focuses on human communication and the tensions and overlap between
physical and virtual spaces, physical non-action versus virtual
action, and the interplay between watching and being watched.
Inside a room 8 loudspeakers emit a computer-generated multi-vocal
conversation. The moment someone enters the room, sensors register
movement and cause the voices to abruptly break off. This sudden
entry is viewed as an intrusion on the conversation, and the latter
will only resume when either everyone has left the room or remains
completely motionless as a group.
Web users can control 6 surveillance cameras and switch between
different angles in order to follow the behaviour of the visitors.
These video "cuts" are immediately projected on a screen outside of
the room, and figure as direct testimonies of the clicking behaviour
of the users. In addition, the exhibition visitors can be addressed
via the loudspeakers through a chatbox with speechsynthesis on:
www.v2.nl/lahr
Producers: V2_Organisatie (part of Las Palmas), Eendrachtsstraat 10,
3012 XL Rotterdam and Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes Rotterdam,
Westersingel 9, 3014 GM Rotterdam.
With the kind support of: Las Palmas, International Centre for Visual
Culture & Media Technology, Rotterdam 2001, Cultural Capital of
Europe, Rotterdam 2001, Werkstad in Las Palmas, SkyberNet, Luna.nl,
Martin Behaim-Haus Foundation.
*****
II.5
EAI Announces September Screening Events in 30th Anniversary Series
DIA ROOFTOP SCREENING: DARA BIRNBAUM AND DAN GRAHAM
Friday, September 21, 7:30 pm
Dia Center for the Arts
548 West 22nd Street New York
Dia Center for the Arts and Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) proudly
celebrate the video works of Dara Birnbaum and Dan Graham with an
open-air screening at Dia's Rooftop Urban Park Project, on September
21, 2001.
This unique screening event will feature individual works by each
artist, as well as a collaborative work by Birnbaum and Graham. The
program recontextualizes the works of these two highly influential
and provocative artists, considering resonances between their video
works, and points of departure and difference. The artists apply
distinctive strategies to analyze the social function and meaning of
popular culture, architecture, public and private space, and mass
media.
The program includes the premiere of Birnbaum's "Attack Piece," an
installation that was originally produced in 1975 and recently
restored through EAI's Preservation Program; a collaborative work by
Birnbaum and Graham that analyzes local TV news; seminal tapes by
Birnbaum that critique popular culture; works by Graham that
investigate cultural phenomena, including his 1983 document of
Hardcore band Minor Threat; and rarely-seen short commissions by
Birnbaum.
This open-air event will take place within the context of the Rooftop
Urban Park Project at Dia, a project by Dan Graham that includes his
architectural pavilion, "Two-Way Mirror Cylinder Inside Cube."
Electronic Arts Intermix, a nonprofit media arts organization, is a
leading resource for artists' video and interactive media. Founded in
1971, EAI serves artists, educators, curators, and diverse audiences
through a wide range of programs, including the distribution of an
international collection of artists' video, ranging from historical
works of the 1960s to new works by emerging media artists.
For more information about Electronic Arts Intermix, please visit
EAI's website at http://www.eai.org
Electronic Arts Intermix
542 West 22nd Street
New York, NY 10011
http://www.eai.org
info@eai.org
*****
II.6
Netherlands
Paradiso and V2_ present
dot.nu sound & image
live performance:
René Beekman (images) and Xavier van Wersch (sound)
video:
'Silent Movie for a Listening Eye' by Jon Wozencroft (Touch Records)
'Temporary Broadcasts' by Robin Rimbaud (alias Scanner)
Thursday 13 September 2001
location: Paradiso, Weteringschans 6-8, Amsterdam
doors open: 8 pm, start: 8.30 pm
admission: =83 20,= (includes membership fee)
Friday 14 September 2001
location: V2_Store, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam
doors open: 8 pm, start: 8.30 pm
admission: =83 15,=
On Thursday 13 and Friday 14 September 2001 the third edition will be
presented of dot.nu sound & image, a joint initiative by Paradiso
(Amsterdam) and V2_ (Rotterdam).
As usual the programme consists of a unique collaborative effort by a
musician ('sound director') and a visual director, exploring the
relationship between images and sounds. The collaboration will result
in a completely original co-developed image-and-sound performance
that is prepared at V2_ in Rotterdam during the week before the
presentation. For the next edition of dot.nu sound & image visual
artist René Beekman and musician/electronic music expert Xavier van
Wersch have been invited to join forces.
In addition to this live performance two videos will be shown in
which the relationship with music/sound is the main theme. 'Silent
Movie for a Listening Eye' is a new video by English graphic designer
Jon Wozencroft. 'Contemporary Broadcasts' is a video compilation of
works that relate to British musician Robin Rimbaud, aka Scanner.
René Beekman (NL):
Beekman (1968) works as visual director in video and is also the
author of a number of articles that explore the relationship between
image and sound in the digital age. Some of his sound pieces have
been released on CD.
Having finished his education at the AKI Art Academy in Enschede,
Beekman then went to IRCAM in Paris, among other places. IRCAM has a
reputation as a leading institute in the field of innovative
technology that facilitates a steadily increasing integration of
image and sound. Here, Beekman was introduced to software like
Max/MSP and 'nato' that allows a direct interaction between image and
sound. Images directly trigger sounds, and vice versa. As a visual
director Beekman's choice of imagery is guided by more or less
'musical' principles. 'I choose my images like a composer chooses
instruments for their timbre, harmonics and spectrum'. (source:
lecture 'Composing Images' by Beekman, published in Lier en Boog,
volume 15, Series of Philosophy of Art and Art Theory).
Xavier van Wersch (NL):
Xavier van Wersch (1976) last year obtained a degree in Sonology at
the Koninklijk Conservatorium (Royal Academy of Music) in The Hague
after having first studied philosophy and visual arts. In addition to
being a performer, instrument builder and maker of installations and
tape pieces, Van Wersch has a fascination for unstable systems that
seem to have an uncontrollable life of their own. Among other things,
Van Wersch developed the 'scream box' (a name referring to STEIM's
legendary 'kraakdoos' (crackle box)) in an attempt to build a lively
instrument that offers a more direct and more physical control over
sound material than do traditional synthesizers. He also developed
the ever expanding '220 volt network', an installation in which the
audience, by walking on a surface, triggers an electric brain thereby
activating all sorts of noisily operating devices. Under the name
'Szohrgïr' Van Wersch (together with Dave Krooshof) is also involved
in creating electronic dance music. His tape composition Odysseia has
been recently released as a CD by BV Haast Publishers.
Jon Wozencroft (UK):
London based graphic designer Jon Wozencroft is one of the co-
founders (together with historian Mike Harding) of the music
publishing company Touch that this year celebrates its twentieth
anniversary. From its first publications in 1981 Touch has both
stimulated the imagination and challenged the eardrums of listeners
with editions that go beyond traditional conventions of what is
supposed to be music. Touch's extraordinary packaging has always been
the work of Wozencroft who, besides working as a teacher, is
associated with the experimental typographical publication FUSE. At
the recent Sonar Festival in Barcelona Wozencroft designed the
exhibition 'Invisible if only=85'. Dot.nu will be presenting a new
video work by Wozencroft, entitled 'Silent Movie for a Listening
Eye'.
Scanner (UK):
'Temporary Broadcasts' is the title of a video compilation of various
works relating to the British musician Scanner, the alias of Robin
Rimbaud. These videos were produced in collaboration with the
multimedia collective Dfuse and director Katarina Matiasek. The
synthesis between sound and the images associated with it play an
important role in this compilation. Many of the images were shot
while traveling or at least originate from travels, in the same way
as Rimbaud himself has been making 'audio snapshots' for years now.
More information can be found at: http://www.v2.nl/dotnu
Dot.nu can also be seen live via the website http://www.v2.nl/live
Produced by V2_Organisatie (part of Las Palmas), Eendrachtsstraat 10,
3012 XL Rotterdam and Paradiso, Weteringschans 6-8, 1017 SG Amsterdam
With financial support of:
Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, VSB Fonds, Stichting fonds voor de
podiumkunsten, Thuiskopie fonds, Culturele Zaken, gemeente Rotterdam,
ministerie van OC&W, Luna Internet.
With thanks to:
Rotterdam 2001, Culturele Hoofdstad van Europa
*****
II.7
Italy
Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna di Roma
V. Reggio Emilia 54 - Roma
In the contest of the exhibition "The Art Tribes" (Achille Bonito
Oliva general curator) at the Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna of
Rome (V. Reggio Emilia 54 ) will be presented a technopoetry section
(videopoetry, computer and web poetry) curated by Caterina Davinio
and Karenina.it
More than 40 artists from all over the world will show their
experimental works in video, CD and web September 11 since 6:00 PM.
Follow the link to read the programme:
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Lights/7323/tecnopoetry.html
The new address is:
Davinio Art Electronics
V. Sassi 10 - 23900 Lecco
Tel e fax 0341 282712
Redaction on line: clprezi@tin.it
Director: davinio@tin.it
KARENINA.IT (poesia in funzione fàtica)
http://www.geocities.com/biennale2001/
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JOBS
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III.1
SPONSORS AND VOLUNTEERS SOUGHT FOR SF NEW MEDIA EXHIBITION (SF)
NewFangle 2001 is curated by Jeanne C. Finley, artist & professor,
CCAC; Skawennati Fragnito, artist and independent curator; Lynn
Hershman, artist and professor, UC Davis; Jason Lewis, artist and
founder, the Thought Shop; and Benjamin Weil, media arts curator at
the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The show is chaired by
artist Greg Niemeyer and critic Marisa S. Olson.
The curators have selected work by some of the Bay Area's most
innovative artists: Tommy Becker, Chris Dorosz, Amanda Hendricks,
Sonja Hinrichsen, Rania Ho, Andy Diaz Hope, Mads Lynnerup, Jill
Miller, and Miguel Nelson.
High-profile sponsorship opportunities are now available for our
third annual new media exhibition of technology-based work by
emerging bay area artists. The two week show runs October 26-
November 20, in the Presidio's Herbst International Exhibition Hall,
with a VIP party and opening reception October 25. Contact Pamela
Coddington: pcoddington@home.com for more details on sponsorship
opportunities.
Gen Art SF also seeks volunteers and a paid gallery-sitter for the
exhibition. Volunteers are needed for installation of art work and
for the opening party. To express interest or obtain a job
description for the gallery sitter position, contact
marisa@concentric.net
*****
III.2
JOB POSTING: EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Hui No'eau Visual Arts Center
Makawao, HI USA United States of America
The Hui No'eau is seeking a Director to lead the premiere multi-
disciplinary visual arts center on the island of Maui. The Hui No'eau
Visual Arts Center on Maui is a nonprofit membership organization
dedicated to providing visual arts education and gallery exhibitions
since 1974.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS FEATURE CLICK THE LINK BELOW
OR COPY AND PASTE INTO YOUR BROWSER WINDOW:
http://www.absolutearts.com
*****
III.3
Announcement of Rockefeller Fellowships in Black Performing Arts
(2002 - 2003) and External Faculty Fellowships (2002 - 2003)
Rockefeller Fellowships in Black Performing Arts
Under a new program of funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, the
Stanford Humanities Centre, in conjunction with the Stanford
Committee on Black Performing Arts, offers fellowships to support
scholars with an interest in the arts whose research examines the
character and global influences of black arts and culture with a
specific focus on performance.
To be eligible, candidates should be at least three years beyond the
receipt of their PhD. Candidates may represent a variety of fields
including anthropology, art and art history, comparative literature,
cultural studies, dance, drama, music, performance studies,
philosophy and religious studies.
Stipend : Between $25,000 and $40,000
External Faculty Fellowships
The fellowship program is primarily designed to offer research
opportunities both to members of humanities departments as
traditionally defined and to other scholars seriously interested in
humanistic issues.
External fellowships fall into two categories : (a) senior
fellowships for well-established for well established scholars and
(b) junior scholars who at the beginning of their fellowship year
will be at least 3 beyond receipt of their PhD and normally no more
than 10.
For 2002-2003, junior Fellows will be offered a stipend of up to
$25,000 and senior up to $40,000.
For further information visit the website at
http://wwwshc.standford.edu
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III.4
USA
Faculty/Program Head in Digital Media
Rhode Island School of Design
Providence , RI 02906
USA
Posted: Jul-12-2001
Applications and nominations are invited for a full-time faculty
appointment to assist in the planning and implementation of a new
interdisciplinary MFA Program in Digital Media and to head the new
program.
This new program has an institutional commitment and an "in
principle" approval from the RISD faculty, awaiting a fully developed
cirriculum for final approval. The Digital Media MFA program will be
housed in the Graduate Studies Division, and the Program Head will
report to the Dean of Graduate Studies. Rank is open to the level of
Full Professor. As proposed this new program will seek to explore and
define the relationship between digital expression an intuitive human
response. It will seek to foster a high degree of media literacy and
adaptability, as well as an awareness of personal and social
implications of the uses of technology within a cultural context. The
goals of the program include the creation of: an interdisciplinary
and interdepartmental environment that will draw students from fine
arts and design backgrounds as well as backgrounds in the computer
sciences; a sound critical educational base in the history and theory
of media and new technolgies; exploratory work focused on individual
and collaborative projects which exhibit a high degree of innovative
visual expression,conceptual clarity, and technical skill;
connections with universities, public and corporate agencies, and
other institutions that might jointly sponsor projects and provide
access to others involved in similar research.
Artists and designers from all visual arts disciplines with
significant experience in digital technology are encouraged to apply.
Applicants should have a master's degree or professional equivalent,
a minimum of two years teaching at the college level, and a
significant professional record as an artist and/or designer. A
letter of application, curriculum vitae, examples (CD, slides, etc.)
of professional work and the work of students, the names of three
references and SASE should be sent to:
Ms. Rebecca Paiva,
Search Secretary, Academic Affairs Office,
Rhode Island School of Design,
2 College Street, Providence, RI. 02903.
USA
Review of applications will begin November 4 and continue until
position is filled . Starting date is as soon as possible. Rhode
Island School of Design is an equal opportunity employer Women and
minorities are encouraged to apply. RISD does not discriminate on the
basis of race, religion, color, sex age, national or ethnic origin,
sexual orientation or disabilty.
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III.5
UK
UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
DIGITISATION ASSISTANT
Department of History
Applications are invited from graduates for this post as part of the
exciting and innovative Cistercians in Yorkshire project, funded by
the New Opportunities Fund. This project will create an interactive
web-based learning package exploring Yorkshires medieval Cistercian
abbeys through 3D reconstructions of their buildings and linked text
pages. The appointee will create the three-dimensional models;
digitise images of the abbeys; and be involved with the other members
of the project team in creating the learning package. Applicants
must have experience in computer based drawing or modelling and an
interest in History is desirable. The post is tenable for three years
from 1 November 2001 or as soon as possible thereafter.
Salary: 17,451 19,486
Closing date for applications: 28 September 2001
Reference Number: RW2426
The post is full-time and based in the Universitys Humanities
Research Institute.
Details on how to obtain further details and how to apply for the
post can be found at http://www.shef.ac.uk/jobs/acadjobs/apply.html
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III.6
SPAIN
POST-GRADUATE DIPLOMA (CONTINUING EDUCATION) IN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES
AND CONTEMPORARY CREATION
Organization: MECAD\Media Centre d'Art i Disseny de la
Escola Superior de Disseny ESDI
Date: October 15 to December 4 , 2001
Pace: Passeig de Grcia, 114, pral., Barcelona - Spain
For information contact:
mecad@mecad.org
http://www.mecad.org/fc.htm
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CALLS
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IV.1
Call for Proposals Incubation 2002
Call for Proposals for Incubation 2002 to be held on 19-21 July
2002 at The Nottingham Trent University, UK
We are pleased to invite proposals for Incubation2, the leading
international conference on Writing and the Internet. For our second
conference we continue our focus on the role of the internet and
telecommunications and particularly invite contributions that address
the way new media create new potentials and re-define the acts of
writing and reading. We welcome proposals on all aspects of new media
and writing, especially by those whose work is based in new media, on
or off the internet. http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/incubation/
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IV.2
ED-MEDIA 2002
Call for Participation Deadline: October 29th
www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/call.htm
World Conference on Educational Multimedia,Hypermedia & Telecommunications
June 24-29, 2002 * Denver, Colorado USA
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Submission Deadline: Oct. 29, 2001
Organized by Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)
www.aace.org
INVITATION:
ED-MEDIA 2002--World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia
& Telecommunications is an international conference, sponsored by the
Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).
This annual conference serves as a multi-disciplinary forum for the
discussion and exchange of information on the research, development,
and applications on all topics related to multimedia, hypermedia and
telecommunications/distance education.
ED-MEDIA, the premiere international conference in the field, spans
all disciplines and levels of education and attracts more than 1,000
attendees from over 60 countries. We invite you to attend ED-MEDIA
2002 and submit proposals for presentations.
All presentation proposals are peer reviewed and selected by three
reviewers on the respected international Program Committee for
inclusion in the conference program, proceedings book, and CD-ROM
proceedings.
For Call for Presentations, connect to:
www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/call.htm
All authors MUST follow the submission guidelines and complete the
Web form at:
www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/submitguide.htm
For Presentation and AV Guidelines, see:
www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/PresenterLounge
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IV.3
CALL FOR ARTICLES, REVIEWS, REPORTS, VISUAL ARTWORKS AND PERFORMANCES
Body, Space & Technology is an on-line interdisciplinary, innovative
refereed journal that welcomes submissions from all aspects of
contemporary arts and new technologies. As well as articles and
reviews of books we are actively seeking reviews of performance and
visual art. We would also like reports on related conferences,
symposia and events.
Please see URL below for previous issues
URL: http://www.brunel.ac.uk/depts/pfa/
or http://www.brunel.ac.uk/depts/pfa/bstjournal/
**The Journal supports interactive sound and visual media**
Deadline for submissions 12 October
Send articles, reviews and reports to philip.stanier@brunel.ac.uk
Send visual artworks and performances to barry.edwards@brunel.ac.uk
For further enquiries please contact either of the above
For the Jeremiah Project, please see URL:
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/~emstvvr/projects/jeremiahanim.html
Brunel's Department of Performing Arts new on-line Journal:
Body, Space & Technology
URL: http://www.brunel.ac.uk/depts/pfa/
or http://www.brunel.ac.uk/depts/pfa/bstjournal/
A journal covering a diversity of critical research across a range
of contemporary art's practices in relation to the body, space or
technology
Dr Sue Broadhurst
Department of Performing Arts
Brunel University, West London, UB8 3PH, UK
Tel: 01895 274000 x 4489, Fax: 01895 816224, Mob: 07932 038253
Email <susan.broadhurst@brunel.ac.uk> or <sbroadhur@hotmail.com>
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IV.4
Finland
CROSSROADS IN CULTURAL STUDIES
Fourth International Conference
June 29 July 2, 2002, Tampere, Finland
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PROPOSALS
After the extremely successful Crossroads 2000 in Birmingham, UK, our
plan was to continue the international tour of the Crossroads
conference site. Unfortunately, we did not manage to get the next
conference organized either in Amsterdam or elsewhere. Therefore, the
next international biannual Crossroads in Cultural Studies conference
will again take place in Tampere, Finland, where it first started in
1996.
Speakers will include
Henry Giroux * Akhil Gupta * Anu Kantola * David Morley
Janet Wolff * Shunya Yoshimi * Ming-Bao Yue
The mission of the Crossroads conference is to provide an open forum
for all topics that interest the diverse international cultural
studies community; to make contacts, exchange views and gain
inspiration from each other. We encourage international participation
from different countries, disciplines and cultural backgrounds, and
from a wide range of research areas. In that way, the conference will
also show where cultural studies is going next.
To succeed in this, we especially encourage you to send us session
proposals. You may propose a session with a complete list of
participants, or just send us the title and session abstract, so
people can see it advertised and contact you with their paper
proposals. To learn more about the Crossroads conference and how to
participate, just visit our web site at
http://www.crossroads2002.com
On the Crossroads conference web page you can also join the
crossroads2002 discussion group, where ideas about session themes can
be exchanged and developed.
Pertti Alasuutari
Chair of the organizing committee
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IV.5
Argentina
CALL TO ARTISTS: 4TH INTERNATIONAL MEETING OF VISUAL, SOUND AND
EXPERIMENTAL POETRY
Vortice Argentina
Buenos Aires, AR Argentina
Vortice ARGENTINA invites artists to participate in the 4th
International meeting of Visual, Sound and Experimental Poetry. They
are calling for works and projects in all formats: paper, objects,
videos, actions, performances, audiovisuals, audio-
tapes, CDs, Macromedia and PowerPoint works, etc. Theme and
techniques are open to each artist.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS FEATURE CLICK THE LINK BELOW OR COPY
AND PASTE INTO YOUR BROWSER WINDOW:
http://www.absolutearts.com
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IV.6
CALL TO ARTISTS: DIGITAL ART CONTEST
Seybold Seminars
Needham, MA USA United States of America
An independent panel of judges from the digital art community will
choose the winning images from Student and Non Student categories.
These images will be displayed at Seybold Seminars in San Francisco
Sept 25-27, 2001 at the Moscone Convention Center.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS FEATURE CLICK THE LINK BELOW OR COPY
AND PASTE INTO YOUR BROWSER WINDOW:
http://www.absolutearts.com
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IV.7
COLOMBIA
CALL FOR PAPERS
Communication and Memory
The Journal SIGNO Y PENSAMIENTO seeks submissions for issue #39 on
"Communication and Memory". Our journal is specially interested in
two areas: The history of Communication and the media, and the role
of the media in the construction of collective memory.
1. The History of Communication and the media. Articles that explore
communication as an object of study from a historical perspective in
order to analyze the ways in which society and culture have evolved
in their forms of communication. This area may also include articles
on the history of specific media.
2. Memory and the media. Articles that explore the relationship
between the media and the representation and transformation of memory
in society. This area may also articles on analyses and experiences
about the need and possibility of documenting and generating social
"archives" to recover media memory.
All those authors and researchers interested in submitting articles
in this area must send the articles before September 15, 2001. The
articles must have the following requirements:
1. Preference will be given to unpublished material. However, high
quality articles that have already been published may be included. If
that is the case, authors must submit the name of the publication in
which the article has appeared, dates, the editor's address, and the
authorization for reprinting.
2. The articles must be submitted in Spanish. However, articles in
English or Portuguese may be considered. SIGNO Y PENSAMIENTO will
translate selected articles for publication.
3. The articles should be no longer than 30 pages.
4. The articles must be submitted in MLA style.
5. The articles must include a 100-120 word abstract.
6. The articles must be submitted in hard copy (paper) and in
diskette in Microsoft Word program. The former may be submitted
through electronic mail. Any chart, table or graphs must be included
in separate files.
7. The articles must include a separate page with the author's name,
address, telephone number, fax number, e-mail, nationality, brief
listing of recent publications, institutional affiliation, and areas
of interest.
Submissions should be send to:
Prof. Catalina Montoya
Editorial Coordinator
SIGNO Y PENSAMIENTO.
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Facultad de Comunicaci=DBn y Lenguaje
Departamento de Comunicaci=DBn
Transversal 4 # 42-00 Edificio 67 Piso 6
Bogot=B7, D.C., Colombia
South America
E-mail: catalina.montoya@correo.javeriana.edu.co
The Journal SIGNO Y PENSAMIENTO is an peer-reviewed academic
publication of the School of Communication and Language at Javeriana
University (Bogot=B7, Colombia, South America). SIGNO Y PENSAMIENTO is
dedicated to profile advances and debates in theory and research in
communication.
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IV.8
USA
SITE 2002
Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education
International Conference
March 18-23, 2002, Nashville Convention Center, Nashville, Tennessee
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - DEADLINE: OCT. 19, 2001
Co-sponsored by Vanderbilt University
Organized by Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE)
www.aace.org/site and Association for the Advancement of Computing in
Education (AACE), www.aace.org
PROGRAM ACTIVITIES:
* Keynote Speakers
* Invited Panels/Speakers
* Papers
* Institutional Sessions
* Interactive Sessions
* Video Festival
* Demonstrations/Posters
* Corporate Demonstrations
* Tutorials/Workshops
* Roundtables
SITE 2002 is the 13th annual conference of the Society for
Information Technology and Teacher Education. This society represents
individual teacher educators and affiliated organizations of teacher
educators in all disciplines, who are interested in the creation and
dissemination of knowledge about the use of information technology in
teacher education and faculty/staff development. SITE is a society
of AACE.
You are invited to participate in this international forum which
offers numerous opportunities to explore the research, development,
and applications in this important field. All proposals are peer
reviewed.
SCOPE:
The Conference invites proposals from the introductory through
advanced level on all topics related to:
(1) the use of information technology in teacher education, and
(2) instruction about information technology in
* Preservice
* Inservice
* Graduate Teacher Education
* Faculty & Staff Development
Proposals which address the theory, research and applications as well
as describe innovative projects are encouraged.
To submit a proposal you MUST complete the online form at:
http://www.aace.org/conf/site/submitguide.htm
For presentation and AV guidelines, see:
http://www.aace.org/conf/site/PresenterLounge
[snip]
DEADLINES:
Proposals Due: Oct. 19, 2001
Authors Notified: Nov. 2, 2001
Proceedings File Due: Dec. 4, 2001
Early Registration: Feb. 7, 2002
Conference: Mar. 18-23, 2002
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IV.9
UK
NEW TECHNOLOGY ARTS FELLOWSHIP SCHEME (PHASE 1)
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Crucible, Kettle's Yard and the Junction are joining together to
develop a New Technology Arts Fellowship Scheme. The scheme will give
artists access to cutting edge technology through direct partnerships
with technology researchers. The first phase of this scheme will
begin in January 2002 and is intended as a research and development
period. Up to three artists will be selected to work over a three-
month period to establish partnerships and develop proposals for
longer-term projects. We would like to invite applications from
artists with a track record in producing work based on information
and communication technologies, and an interest in exploring
interactivity in partnership with technologists.
Crucible, Kettle's Yard and The Junction believe that interactive
artwork offers new and exciting ways for artists to engage with their
audiences, and we are keen to support its creation and dissemination.
The Fellowship Scheme is intended as a means to bridge the gap
between the research laboratory and the audience. It will enable
artists to draw on and influence developments within the digital
industry. Our aim is to bring together creative individuals from
different fields and nurture synergy between them. Cambridge, as a
recognised international centre for technological innovation,
provides a rich context for such collaboration.
Phase 1 will provide an opportunity for artists to pursue some
exploratory ideas for interactive artwork, and assist us to develop
the framework and funding to support the realisation of longer-term
projects in Phase 2.
For more information and details of how to apply send SAE to:
Kettle's Yard
New Tech
Castle St
Cambridge
CB3 0AQ
or visit www.kettlesyard.cam.ac.uk/newtech
E: newtech@kettlesyard.cam.ac.uk
T: 01223 352124
Deadline for applications
24th September 2001
Interview dates
Week beginning 12th November 2001
Crucible www.crucible.cl.cam.ac.uk
Crucible is a research network within the University of Cambridge.
Its purpose is to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration of
technologists with researchers in the Arts, Humanities and Social
Sciences (AH&SS). The main focus of this collaboration is on design
as a meeting point for widely differing research disciplines.
Crucible activities include the establishment of new research
programmes, training of researchers, input to policy bodies, and
identification of suitable funding sources for research in
interdisciplinary design. Crucible recently hosted a major
conference, convened by the Arts Council of England and the Academia
Europaea. The conference on Collaboration and Ownership in the
Digital Economy (CODE) offered multidisciplinary perspectives on the
nature of ownership and reward
for creative work www.cl.cam.ac.uk/CODE
Kettle's Yard <www.kettlesyard.co.uk>
Kettle's Yard is an exhibition gallery, specialising in contemporary
and 20th century art, and a house with a permanent collection. It is
an institution of the University of Cambridge.
Kettle's Yard has been building a programme of interdisciplinary
exhibitions and events, including the exhibition N01SE (Jan - Mar
2000) curated by artist Adam Lowe and historian of science Simon
Schaffer, and Last Chance to See events which accompany each
exhibition. It currently supports fellowships in the visual arts and
in new music, and encourages experiment and research across art
forms. Kettle's Yard regards the New Technology Arts Fellowship
scheme as a way of extending an understanding of contemporary artwork
into other disciplines.
The Junction <www.junction.co.uk>
The Junction is a performing arts venue in Cambridge with an eclectic
programme of live music, club events, comedy, theatre, dance, live
art and digital art through its digital studio. The Junction has an
excellent track record in producing innovative work with new
technology guided by the combination of youth culture and
performance. The digital programme focuses on the possibilities of
integrating digital technologies in performance and of reaching and
engaging young people. It defines performance as widely as possible,
and strives to be open to the development of the art form through the
impact of technology.
Phase one is with support from Collaborative Arts at the Arts Council
of England
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IV.10
call for submissions
Project
HIGH PERFORMANCE FILM / VIDEO
Studio 303 is looking for artists to participate in the 2nd edition
of Projet/projo. This hybrid experience involving celluloid, magnetic
tape & the human body will take place from February 14 - 17, 2002. We
are seeking short films/videos (10 min. max.), installation pieces
and live performance works. Entries should fall into one of three
categories:
*Live performance integrating projection
(film/video/slides/light/shadow)
*Films and videos for public screening
*Installations involving projection(with or without a "live" element)
The theme for the event is the human body mediated by the camera eye.
Given the event's dates, submissions that address matters of the
heart may receive special consideration.
All disciplines are welcome.
The deadline for submissions is FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2001. Entries
should include a VHS videotape, a concise description of the work
proposed, a brief biography of the artist, and black & white photos
when possible.
Please send or deliver to Studio 303, to the attention of
Projet/projo.
***************
S T U D I O 3 0 3
***************
Dance & Related Arts
Danse et arts connexes
372 Ste-Catherine O.
Montreal Qc H3B 1A2
TEL: 514.393.3771
FAX: 514.393.3154
www.studio303.net
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IV.11
UK
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Lovebytes - Digital Media Commissions
Closing date for proposals: 21 September 2001
Lovebytes Digital Arts Festival and Commissioning Agency are seeking
applications for commissions in the following areas :
:: Film
:: Sound
:: Animation
:: Multimedia
:: Interactivity
:: Installation
:: Publication
:: Project Development
Entry by application form only.
Application forms and guidelines available from:
http://www.lovebytes.org.uk/guidelines
mailto:guidelines@lovebytes.org.uk
Digital Media Commissions. Lovebytes. Unit 307, The Workstation,
Sheffield. S1 2BX. UK. (Please send an A4 sized first class self
addressed envelope)
Funded by Lovebytes
http://www.lovebytes.org.uk
Yorkshire Arts
http://www.arts.org.uk/directory/regions/york/index.html
The European Regional Development Fund through The Studio of the
North.
http://www.ympa.org.uk/YMPA/funding_page.htm
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IV.12
INITIAL CALL FOR PAPERS FOR 2002 CONFERENCE
The Society for Cinema Studies announces its Call for Proposals for
the 2002 Conference, May 23-26, in Denver, Colorado.
PLENARY: Cinema Studies in a New Media Age
The Society of Cinema Studies was created in recognition of the
social, aesthetic, and economic importance of the cinema to the
history and culture of the twentieth century. As a new century
begins, the medium of "film" has become embedded in the new
technologies that surround it. The discipline of "cinema studies"
was defined around the history and theories of the cinematic and the
perimeters implicit in its name have delimited its objects of study.
In the last two decades, "Cinema Studies" has recognized these
constraints as it expands to include other moving image media --
video, television and (now) computer technologies. The rapid and
global reach of new media -- the internet, television, video, the
digital arts =96 challenge us as scholars and teachers to find new ways
to understand how all media mediate our understanding of culture and
society. As our visual field has been reconfigured by many new
technologies, we view "cinema" on an expanded field of screens and in
an expanded variety of production and delivery formats. We must add
computer screens (and digital technologies), television screens (and
interactive video formats) to our conceptualization of the cinema,
its spectators and its screens.
We look forward to workshop and panel proposals that address issues
raised by the plenary -- as well as those that engage a wide range of
research in film and media studies.
PROCEDURES FOR SUBMITTING PROPOSALS
To present a paper, you must be a member of SCS. Further information
about membership and the conference is available at:
http://www.cinemastudies.org
There is one deadline for submission of proposals: OCTOBER 1, 2001.
All proposals be received by this date and use the standard abstract
form=97as is found at:
http://www.cinemastudies.org/conf.htm
Send to:
Jane Dye, SCS Administrative Coordinator
Society for Cinema Studies
302 Old Science Hall
640 Parrington Oval
University of Oklahoma
Norman, Oklahoma 73019-3060
E-mail FOR INQUIRIES ONLY (proposals may not be submitted via e-
mail), may contact Jane Dye at: office@cinemastudies.org. Please put
SCS PROGRAM in the subject head.
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IV.13
Call for Artists
*Deadline: 30 September 2001*
A Virtual Memorial - Memorial project against the Forgetting and for
Humanity www.a-virtual-memorial.org
is calling for artists
State terror is always directed against the citizens of the own
country.
The victims remain mostly anonymously or are forgotten very quickly.
This however is not restricted to uncivilized, totalitarian systems,
but can be found in countries with the high moral standards of
democratic systems, as well.
The month November is a month of commemorating. Therefore the
subject of this month will be dedicated this year to the victims of
state terror.
A Virtual Memorial invites you to participate in the project
"A Memorial for the victims of state terror"
a project which will be published online
within the "Features of the Month November 2001"
Please submit via email:
*Name (mandatory)
*Address (optional)
*Email (mandatory)
*URL (optional)
*Title of image or text (mandatory):
*Used original medium (mandatory):
**Further mandatory: (maximal) one digital work which goes down to
the subject, the original can be executed in any artistic medium,
web projects may use the common plug-ins Flash or Quicktime..
Image format: .jpg (PC)
Size of image: : maximum 200Kb and 800x600 pixels
Text format: .txt (PC) oder Email.
Text volume: max.500 words
The text should be in English or alternatively bi-lingual English and
any native language.
The Memorial will consist of the composition of the variety of
submissions.
Each submission which hits the conditions will be included.
The project will remain for permanent published on A Virtual Memorial
server.
*Participation is free of charge.*
**Deadline : 30 September 2001*
Please send your submission via email as a single non-zipped file to
november@a-virtual-memorial.org
Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, Editor in Chief
A Virtual Memorial -
Memorial project against the Forgetting and for Humanity
www.a-virtual-memorial.org, info@a-virtual-memorial.org
NewMediaArtProjectNetwork
URLs
www.a-virtual-memorial.org
www.javamuseum.org
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org
www.engad.org
www.agricola-de-cologne.de
www.nmartproject.net
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IV.14
CALL FOR PAPERS
WORKSHOP: EVERYBODY CAN-CAN AT THE MOULIN ROUGE
A film text as "open" as Baz Luhrman's Moulin Rouge invites a number
of theoretical and discursive approaches. This workshop will
consider the film as it relates to authorship, stardom, genre, music,
postmodernism, industry and digitality. Submit proposals or
inquiries to: Christina Lane, Assistant Professor, Motion Picture
Program, School of Communication, 4015 Frances L. Wolfson Building,
University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33143 (305) 284-3657,
clane@miami.edu.
Christina Lane
Assistant Professor and James B. Pendleton fellow
Dept. of Cinema and Photography
244 Roy H. Park School of Communications
Ithaca College
Ithaca, NY 14850
PH (607) 274-7003
FX (607) 274-1664
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IV.15
CALL FOR PAPERS: Futures of World Literatures and Literacies
The Fifth Annual International Red River Conference on World
Literature and the Fifth Annual Great Plains Alliance for Computers
and Writing invite proposals for a joint conference, "Futures of
World Literatures and Literacies:"
April 25-28, 2002
North Dakota State University
Fargo ND, USA
Deadline for submission of proposals: November 30, 2001.
The conference is being sponsored by the Department of English, North
Dakota State University, Fargo ND, 58105. Proposals (300 words) for
RRCWL should be directed to Kevin Brooks; proposals for GPACW should
be directed to Elizabeth Birmingham. Please include your name,
complete mailing address, and e-mail address. Proposals for panels
must include an abstract for each presenter, as well as names,
addresses, and e-mail addresses of all participants. Email and online
submissions are welcome, but please include postal addresses. Send
inquiries to: Kevin_Brooks@ndsu.nodak.edu or
Elizabeth_Birmingham@ndsu.nodak.edu.
The RRCWL and GPACW conferences will run concurrently; sessions
within each conference will run consecutively. Featured speakers will
be shared by both conferences. While we are particularly interested
in proposals that address the conference theme, papers on all aspects
of world literature and computers and writing will be considered.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
* New writers, new readers, re-readings, and new interests in
literary and literacy studies.
* Globalization and its impact on literature and literacy.
* The future of oral and literate traditions.
* The future (of the) human/body/text.
* Neocolonialism, postcolonialism, and the shaping of world
literatures and literacy practices.
* Hybridity, difference, and commonality in global culture and
online.
* Curricular changes and innovations-world literature and electronic
literacy courses in institutional contexts.
* Hypertext, film, new media-what will literature and literacy become
in the future?
* Teaching in the 21st century: pedagogy and practice in world
literature and e-literacies.
* Access to and accessibility of world literatures and technologies
of literacy.
Featured Speakers
Carolyn Guyer is author of the hypertext Quibbling, essays on writing
in the new millennium, co-author with Michael Joyce of Lasting Image,
and co-ordinator of the Mother Millennia Project-an online collection
of stories about mothers from around the world.
Cass Dalglish, Professor of English, Augsburg College, Minneapolis,
and author of Nin, a novel which uncovers and recovers the writings
of women from Sumerian tablets to the World Wide Web.
Geoffrey Sirc, Horace T. Morse Distinguished Teaching Professor in
Composition, University of Minnesota, is author of "Never Mind the
Tagmemics, Where's the Sex Pistols" and many other essays. He works
in composition, broadly defined, especially where art, technology,
voice, and writing intersect. His book, _Composition as a Happening
II_, will be published by NCTE.
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LISTS/URLS/NEWSLETTERS, ETC
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V.1
Incubation Archive Now Online
For three days in July 2000 trAce provided a platform for the most
essential voices on the web today. Writers, critics, theorists and
web-artists came from around the world to speak at Incubation at The
Nottingham Trent University. Incubation Archive is the online record
of this dynamic event. It includes audio, text and electronic
versions of presentations and performances; information about
contributors; a gallery of photographs taken over the three days, and
the background of the conference itself. The Incubation Archive
website was created by Mary Cavill.
http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/incubation/
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V.2
CDe Hotline
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Subscriber or Friend, look here:
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V.3
BOOK
Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and
Technology Steve Wilson (October 2001, The MIT Press, A Leonardo
Book, ISBN 0-262-23209-X)
more info at
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?sid=3D6F0A3301-AE77-
4739-9AF3-70E01A8FAF28&ttype=3D2&tid=3D4244
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PUBLICATION
NEW MEDIA AND THE HUMANITIES: RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS
Edited by Domenico Fiormonte and Jonathan Usher.
2001, Humanities Computing Unit, University of Oxford.
Further info: http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/publications/clip.html
This is the latest publication from the Humanities Computing Unit. It
is a collection of essays exploring the relationship between literary
research and new technology. The essays are drawn from the first
Computers, Literature and Philology seminar, held in Edinburgh on the
7th - 9th September 1998. Copies can be purchased for 18.99 from the
Humanities Computing Unit (http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/). This book is
only available in print.
AVAILABLE:
>From the Humanities Computing Unit for 18.99 plus postage and
packing. Find out more, and print out an order form at
http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/publications/clip.html
Frances Condron, Publications Officer, Humanities Computing Unit,
University of Oxford.
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V.5
Article
Thought you'd like to know that the BBC News on the Web has released
today an article about my work "Netizens, net-fringers and
outsiders", exhibited at the N-Space Art Gallery at SIGGRAPH last month.
Check it out at the BBC News Sci/Tech section:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1517000/1517555.stm
You can also listen to my interview online at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/technology/newsid_1478000/1478157.stm
(as part of the Go Digital new BBC programme)
Rejane Spitz
Electronic Art Unit
Department of Art & Design
PUC-Rio
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Tel: +55-21-2529-9211/ 2529-9418
Fax: +55-21-2529-9211
rejane@rdc.puc-rio.br
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Editors:
Madris Duric, Milo Patiniott, Wim van der Plas (ISEA HQ)
Sources a.o.:
ISEA forum
newmedia Digest
Arts News Mailer
ISEA, Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts
POB 512, 3800 AM Amersfoort, Netherlands
Phone ++31-33-4228923 Fax ++31-33-4228933
isea@isea.qc.ca * http://www.isea.qc.ca