Ada_list April 2004

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by natsub＠optusnet.com.au

hey stella, good luck, it looks solid and not too ambitious, which means that it will probably work, but may not seduce them! but tell me more about this: > Aotearoa Digital Arts Symposium (hosted by AUT) given your time-line, is this sometime mid next year??? warmest . su ballard

17 years, 5 months

CUBE update

by s brennan

Hi All, I gave my final presentation for the CUBE funding yesterday morning. The judges have made their decision, but the applicants won't find out who has been successful till may/june. I've included the presentation notes, if anyone's interested. I don't know how likely the Hub is to receive funding - I think it's a good idea (of course!), but the competition's emphasis was on ideas that can be self-funding, and making money out of artists is a big ask (and not one that i have a high level of ideological commitment to). any other ideas for revenue generation gladly accepted, however. The idea is to build services and networks onto the ADA list foundations. Here's the bare bones: The New Media Hub will provide practicing artists with access to: technology expertise national and international audiences The Hub provides a focus for resources that already exist – for example within tertiary institutions – building networks to make them available to participating artists. The Hub aims to be the first port of call for individuals, but also for curators and educators seeking an understanding and an experience of New Zealand New Media work. A key focus is expanding the capability to make effective use of existing (and projected) infrastructure. Three key groups of artists the Hub will assist: 1. artists who already situate at least part of their artistic practice on the World Wide Web. It is these artists who most easily fit into the distribution channels and models that currently exist. 2. artists who use the web for promotion and/or distribution. 3.artists who are computer literate, but lack the support or impetus to establish a webspace for themselves The New Media Hub will: facilitate collaboration and mentoring provide access to technology and expertise act as a filtering agent and distribution channel provide credentialing for consumers through professional standards. The New Media Hub will do this by: Creating a critical community The basis of the hub will be a robust website providing discussion – for instance, on emerging channels and technologies, a technical database, notice of exhibitions, conferences, workshops and competitions. This would be linked to other local, national and international arts organizations. It would bear some similarities to the Big Idea website, but be more practitioner and critique focused, rather than employment and news focussed. The website will facilitate online and face-to-face events. Providing technical assistance for artists. The Hub will co-ordinate co-operative skills sharing and facilitate partnering with suitable businesses or not for profits. We will provide access to a community of expertise and coaching on how to produce work for online distribution channels, helping non-digital artists get online. Brokering computer access. Providing access to technology within institutions, the Hub will more fully utilise existing resources. Setting up systems for external users will be one of the hub’s first jobs. Presenting short courses. The Hub will not initially be a training organization, but this will change as membership grows, offering intensive courses – for example, training on the latest software – to enable artists to keep their skills fresh. Supplying consultancy services. Technical advice on such issues as setting up an intranet or equipment purchase is expensive and usually not independent. These services will be differentially priced for institutions and individual artists. Acting as a content access provider. By building and linking a critical mass of online work in one (virtual and mobile) place, the Hub will provide a service to audiences of digital art The Organisation For comparison: The Big Idea operates on twenty hours of editorial work a week. MIC has three full-time employees Artspace has two full-time employees and one on thirty hours a week Initially, the Hub aims for three part-time staff: Editor –This involves research, building the network and content for the site and publicity. Technican - manages technical database and provides assistance to artists during scheduled contact times. This person may also provide training sessions. Manager – Manages equipment access systems, mentoring relationships, marketing and sponsorship. We also anticipate some volunteers Sourcing Our partner, the Auckland University of Technology will assist us by providing: Software Server space IT support A small pilot space Our member artists will provide: Content Feedback Mentoring relationships Promotional activities Most of the Hub’s funds will be spent on spent on wages and salaries. Phases of Development First six months Put together legal for trust and board Establish board Find space Find employees Build website structure, content and community. Establish systems for facilities sharing Second six months Employ manager and technical advisor Full launch at Aotearoa Digital Arts Symposium (hosted by AUT) Secure sponsorships Continued development of website Eighteen months First AGM Rollout in another city – probably Waitakere or Manukau Departure of Stella Brennan from facilitation role Regional comparisons: Australian Network for Art and Technology in Adelaide Dlux Media Arts in Sydney, Multimedia Art Asia Pacific in Queensland the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne An investment in supporting new media art needs to be made now to prevent New Zealand remaining outside this loop. We feel the key risk in this area is the new media sector continuing to be fragmented and ad hoc. ***** some braingum anyhew... best stella

17 years, 5 months

RE: [Ada_list] Audio event and info

by Clare O'Leary -WLG

Hi Check out the Moving Image Centre www.mic.org.nz And also if you are planning to be in nz next may then www.converge.co.nz is looking for ideas for art meets science/tech projects. Clare O -----Original Message----- From: Zoe Drayton [mailto:pippalot@ihug.co.nz] Sent: Thursday, 29 April 2004 9:29 a.m. To: ada_list(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: [Ada_list] Audio event and info > 2. Who are the sort of people I should talk to about securing myself > gigs there? Me and me backpack full of gizmos can trot out a mean > ambient industrial glitchcore mess of improvisational sound... but how > does one go about finding venues in NZ wherein to trot out that kind of > nonsense without getting pelted by rotten cabbage? >Kit, and Zoe (both on this list), and Rosy is a good start Welcome Dan There is an Improv night in Auckland every Monday at the Odeon called Vitamin S that you could check out..I am also forwarding your email onto the peeps below who might be keen to organise something ..... Acroma Presents ( this being the changed name of mpf foundation, ie Rosy Parlane, Richard Francis and Allie McPherson) #7 in an ongoing series of experimental music nights. Birchville Cat Motel (Wellington) Domestic Tinkering Greg Malcolm (Christchurch) Guitar Improvisations. Adam Willetts (Auckland) Guitar, Theremin, Game Controllers. Sunday May 2nd S.C.A.P.A. 74 Shortland St 6pm $5.00 ______________________ Birchville Cat Motel's music is deeply rooted in the New Zealand identity and landscape. The music is littered with recurring themes of isolation and rich desolation, native plants and animals, and location specific instrumentation and titles. His most recent work seeks to discover (or recover) the inherent spirituality of suburban domesticity. To create new, and sacred, sound-icons for lawn mowing, hedge trimming, car-tinkering New Zealand. In terms of its construction, Birchville Cat Motel embodies a collision between superficially disparate musical forms. Hijacking the spiritualised improvisation of free jazz, the compositional grandeur of contemporary classicism, the 'democratic' drone-based format and ritualism of much ethnic and traditional folk music, the liberated new sonic freedoms of hip-hop and electro-acoustic, and the recalcitrant clout of 'hoon-rock' like Black Sabbath, Kneale manages to create an intensely personal and visionary audio-universe that is decidedly dissimilar from any of the sums parts. A 'new' music without a name. Guitarist Greg Malcolm's sound consists of hypnotic evolving melodies that are built upon layered drones (created by mini fans, e-bows and floor guitars). The melodies utilise a variety of tones and sounds created on his unique adapted electric guitar created by New Zealand Luthier Peter Stephens. His compositions and improvisations are specifically designed to accentuate the beauty inherent in the innovations developed within this guitar. Other than the e-bow and fuzz box all sounds are created live and organically by string manipulation techniques. Adam Willetts is an Auckland based artist who works in both improvised music and installation. He performs with a variety of sound sources including guitar, contact microphones and theremin, using game controllers to manipulate live sampling software. _______________________________________________ Ada_list mailing list Ada_list(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/ada_list *********************************************************************************** This e-mail message, together with any attachments, is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the author immediately and destroy this message. Also refrain from copying, disclosing or using the contents in any way. The information contained does not necessarily represent the official view of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise. ***********************************************************************************

17 years, 5 months

Audio event and info

by Zoe Drayton

> 2. Who are the sort of people I should talk to about securing myself > gigs there? Me and me backpack full of gizmos can trot out a mean > ambient industrial glitchcore mess of improvisational sound... but how > does one go about finding venues in NZ wherein to trot out that kind of > nonsense without getting pelted by rotten cabbage? >Kit, and Zoe (both on this list), and Rosy is a good start Welcome Dan There is an Improv night in Auckland every Monday at the Odeon called Vitamin S that you could check out..I am also forwarding your email onto the peeps below who might be keen to organise something ..... Acroma Presents ( this being the changed name of mpf foundation, ie Rosy Parlane, Richard Francis and Allie McPherson) #7 in an ongoing series of experimental music nights. Birchville Cat Motel (Wellington) Domestic Tinkering Greg Malcolm (Christchurch) Guitar Improvisations. Adam Willetts (Auckland) Guitar, Theremin, Game Controllers. Sunday May 2nd S.C.A.P.A. 74 Shortland St 6pm $5.00 ______________________ Birchville Cat Motels music is deeply rooted in the New Zealand identity and landscape. The music is littered with recurring themes of isolation and rich desolation, native plants and animals, and location specific instrumentation and titles. His most recent work seeks to discover (or recover) the inherent spirituality of suburban domesticity. To create new, and sacred, sound-icons for lawn mowing, hedge trimming, car-tinkering New Zealand. In terms of its construction, Birchville Cat Motel embodies a collision between superficially disparate musical forms. Hijacking the spiritualised improvisation of free jazz, the compositional grandeur of contemporary classicism, the 'democratic' drone-based format and ritualism of much ethnic and traditional folk music, the liberated new sonic freedoms of hip-hop and electro-acoustic, and the recalcitrant clout of 'hoon-rock' like Black Sabbath, Kneale manages to create an intensely personal and visionary audio-universe that is decidedly dissimilar from any of the sums parts. A 'new' music without a name. Guitarist Greg Malcolm's sound consists of hypnotic evolving melodies that are built upon layered drones (created by mini fans, e-bows and floor guitars). The melodies utilise a variety of tones and sounds created on his unique adapted electric guitar created by New Zealand Luthier Peter Stephens. His compositions and improvisations are specifically designed to accentuate the beauty inherent in the innovations developed within this guitar. Other than the e-bow and fuzz box all sounds are created live and organically by string manipulation techniques. Adam Willetts is an Auckland based artist who works in both improvised music and installation. He performs with a variety of sound sources including guitar, contact microphones and theremin, using game controllers to manipulate live sampling software.

17 years, 5 months

RE: [Ada_list] more information about ciberart - http://www.ciberart-bilbao.net/home_en.htm

by Brit Bunkley (Staff WG)

Link for more information: http://www.ciberart-bilbao.net/home_en.htm Brit Bunkley Head of Sculpture, Lecturer in Digital Media Quay School of the Arts Wanganui UCOL http://www.quayschool.ac.nz <http://www.quayschool.ac.nz/> http://britbunkley.com/ -----Original Message----- From: Press Ciberart [mailto:press@ciberart-bilbao.net] Sent: Wednesday, 28 April 2004 11:13 p.m. To: ada_list(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: [Ada_list] more information about ciberart Importance: High Hola, os envíamos la lista de los ponentes y artistas que se han acercado hasta Bilbao para participar en Ciber@RT- Bilbao. Si estáis interesados en hacerles alguna entrevista, os podéis poner en contacto con nosotras. Un saludo __________________________ Prensa - Press Marian Gerrikabeitia - Teresa Beneitez Ciber@RT Bilbao 2004 C/ Urazurrutia, 32 48003 Bilbao - Spain Tel: + 94 607 19 20 Fax: +34 94 416 39 37 www.ciberart-bilbao.net press(a)ciberart-bilbao.net ____________________________________________________ Learn real skills for the real world - Apply online at http://www.ucol.ac.nz or call 0800 GO UCOL (0800 46 8265) or txt free 3388 for more information and make a good move to UCOL Universal College of Learning. Enrol with a public institute and be certain of your future ____________________________________________________

17 years, 5 months

more information about ciberart

by Press Ciberart

Hola, os envíamos la lista de los ponentes y artistas que se han acercado hasta Bilbao para participar en Ciber@RT- Bilbao. Si estáis interesados en hacerles alguna entrevista, os podéis poner en contacto con nosotras. Un saludo __________________________ Prensa - Press Marian Gerrikabeitia - Teresa Beneitez Ciber@RT Bilbao 2004 C/ Urazurrutia, 32 48003 Bilbao - Spain Tel: + 94 607 19 20 Fax: +34 94 416 39 37 www.ciberart-bilbao.net press(a)ciberart-bilbao.net

17 years, 5 months

roaming minstrels, and the art of sharing the pain

by dan

Hey folks, i am lurker hidden towards the inappropriate end of this list - to whit, the Australian Capital Territory. So, in August, i get a chance at last to sample the manifold oddities that i have heard discussed on this list, because I will actually be in NZ for once. which leads me to ask two questions, if someone friendly will indulge me: 1. Where do I find out, when i get there, about what is actually happening in the world of electronic sounds and other media so that i can feast my senses upon the scene? 2. Who are the sort of people I should talk to about securing myself gigs there? Me and me backpack full of gizmos can trot out a mean ambient industrial glitchcore mess of improvisational sound... but how does one go about finding venues in NZ wherein to trot out that kind of nonsense without getting pelted by rotten cabbage? (is this kind of post out of place on the list, by the way? I haven't managed to really glean the line of acceptability since I subscribed in the wake of last year's monolake tour...) --dan() On Monday, Apr 5, 2004, at 10:00 Australia/Sydney, ada_list-request(a)list.waikato.ac.nz wrote: > From: zoe drayton <pippalot(a)ihug.co.nz> > Subject: [Ada_list] audio > performances > >> i'd like to pass the mantle onto someone else now .. maybe some of the >> soundies >> could say something about the programme of audio performances >> happening at the >> moment at starkwhite and scapa? kitt? sean? zoe? i'm not sure who's >> responsible... > > Hi all > Thanks for the reminder Luke. > There are audio performances going on, organised by different groups. > > Tonight at SCAPA under mpf foundation (Rosy Parlane, Richard Francis > and > Allie, apologies to Allie for not knowing her last name ) is.... > --- How the Body Works 6, coming soon. You are invited to participate. Create something textual or visual about 'surface', such as: Surface plate (Mach.), a plate having an accurately dressed flat surface, used as a standard of flatness by which to test other surfaces.

17 years, 5 months

alo from rQ

by adam

hi all just a weeee note to say 'opps!' - there was a radio program on last week on rnz about some projects we have done... and i err... forgot to post the info to ada...anyways, if anyone is interested there is a _rough_ mix online at: http://frequencyclock.montevideo.nl/audio/rq_doc1.m3u also there will be another one on this sunday..official rQ blurb is: "Part 2 of the Revolutions per Minute documentary featured an in-depth analysis of r a d i o q u a l i a's recent work with the acoustic sounds of space, which will culimate on the Radio Astronomy project. The documentary explores the work udnertaken at the Acoustic Space Lab symposium, and includes recordings from celestial objects such as the Sun, Jupiter and Pulsars. It will be broadcast live on National Radio on 25 April 2004." its on sunday at 3pm nz time :) till soon adam Adam Hyde adam(a)xs4all.nl r a d i o q u a l i a http://www.radioqualia.net Free as in 'media' current: http://www.radio-astronomy.net http://www.subtle.net/empyre work: The Streaming Suitcase Streaming Media Consultant contact: email : adam(a)xs4all.nl phone : + 371 938 6752 (Latvia) email to sms : eseter(a)sms.lmt.lv

17 years, 6 months

Call for submissions: New Forms Festival-Vancouver-Oct 2004

by Cheryl Reynolds

>From web site: http://www.newformsfestival.com/technography_call.htm ________________________________ CALL TO ARTISTS AND RESEARCHERS Deadline: May 14th, 2004 The New Forms Festival is an annual event highlighting emerging forms at the junction of art, culture and technology. It includes performances, panel discussions, workshops, and interactive exhibits on contemporary Media Arts issues. The NFF environment encourages new forms of Media Art to be created, experienced, and understood. NFF04 will be held in Vancouver, BC, from October 8 to 31. The theme is TECHNOGRAPHY: the inscription of culture in technology. NFF04: TECHNOGRAPHY is a forum to explore and embody these inscriptions in the form of artistic expression and discourse. NFF04: TECHNOGRAPHY looks at the ways in which cultures inhabit and transform media spaces and technologies. NFF04:TECHNOGRAPHY will bring together practitioners and theorists from across grassroots, gallery academy and academic contexts and provide a platform for conversations among the diverse voices of contemporary digital regionalism. NFF04: TECHNOGRAPHY programming incorporates the principles found within an ecological model of the cultural sphere: complexity, variety and balance. Like nature, culture is also a changing phenomenon, affected by the ways in which technology inhabits the environment and relates to it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PROPOSALS Artists, scholars, developers and practitioners working in New Media Art are invited to submit proposals for projects, performances, presentations, papers and panels by May 14, 2004. Projects, presentations and performances Proposals are invited for four areas of the festival: the Conference, the Exhibition (digital art, performance, installation, immersive environments, Net.Art), Performance Series (sound art, performance art, live film/AV) and Late Night Events (music, visuals, post-digital, laptop, group performance, screenings). Conference The NFF04 Conference, Old And New Forms, negotiates new global parameters for contemporary media culture, as it charts a post-traditional technography¹ of world Media Arts. The post-traditional is what remains of modernism and postmodernism when modernization is abandoned as an unfinished and unachievable project. While the post-traditional view is clearly meaningful in the post-colonial and developing spheres, Old And New Forms posits that it is equally germane to the global post-industrial scenario as a whole. For more details, see conference details . Gallery Exhibition/Events/Workshops This year the Exhibition (Gallery and Net Art), Performance Series, and Late Night Events will present a range of works that embody and interpret the theme of TECHNOGRAPHY as defined above. Works selected will fall into the following Festival sub-themes or categories: Acoustic ecology Alternative narrative Artificial Reality Collaborative design Cultural Ecology Culturally reflective computing Cyberfeminism Cyborg Fashion Digital Animation Digital Regionalism Electronic Gaming Expanded Cinema Grassroots media culture Immersive Environments Indigenous media initiatives Interaction design Interface Design and Development Live club performance Mediated Movement Networked Art Online communities Online Video Poetics of technology and development Post-media or networked activism Post-traditional Theory Robotics Sacred art and digital technology Sound art Sound Sculpture Technology and embodiment Technology and the natural environment Telematic Performance Wireless and wearable computing Artists and media artwork selected for The New Forms Festival should manifest multiple themes, mediums, and modes of expression, exploring a distinct genre. Some genres should explore collaborative and improvisational components or ³live² artworks, created for the festival. The festival also encourages artworks that are process-oriented, continually evolving and in transformation, which are facilitated through technological and ideological means. All submissions will be reviewed by the Festival Programming Committee and those chosen will be contacted by June 30, 2004. Applications must be submitted via the online form (see below). Incomplete applications will not be accepted. Due to limited resources we are only able to review submissions written in English. Supporting documents: Audiovisual, photographic and written media must be submitted via the online application form (see below). We ask artists/researchers to demonstrate the following: A strong portfolio of media arts pieces that demonstrate their ability and involvement in the New Media Arts community Computer knowledge Basic knowledge of Media Arts processes (e.g. digital audio or video, electronic formats) Strong artistic quality Interest in the themes of the festival We offer: Some computer and tech facilities Technical and organizational assistance Presentation space International dissemination of the work via the Internet Participation in presentations and panels, and in some cases a performance. SEE SUBMISSION RULES HERE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Digitalis 3.5: Ethno-Techno: An Exhibition of Digital Print In collaboration with the New Forms Festival 2004, the Digitalis Digital Art Society (http://www.ddas.ca/ddas) announces Digitalis 3.5: Ethno-Techno: An Exhibition of Digital Print. Our theme Ethno-Techno refers to the convergence of ethnology and technology, or the expression of ethnicity or ethnicities in the form of digital print. Artists are encouraged to play in their own ethnicity or in the ethnicity of other cultures. Subject matter can be related to racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background. Images submitted must have been manipulated in some way by the computer. FOR DIGITALIS ONLY: send all proposals by email with attached images in JPEG format and a short bio to Digitalis curator James K-M at electric(a)telus.net by May 14, 2004. There is no entry fee and the New Forms Festival 2004 will pay return shipping costs. The exhibition will take place October 12 26, 2004 in Vancouver, Canada. --------------- Cheryl Reynolds Director Creative Industries Research Centre Department of Media Arts, Waikato Institute of Technology Hamilton, Aotearoa/New Zealand --------------- --------------- Extension: x7806 Direct dial: +64 7 838 6386 Mobile: +64 21 711 977 Fax: +64 7 858 0227 --------------- --------------- Email: cheryl(a)mediarts.net.nz Post: Department of Media Arts, WINTEC, Private Bag 3036, Hamilton Web: http://www.wintec.ac.nz/creativeindustries --------------- --------------- RAMP Magazine: http://rampmagazine.org/ --------------- RAMP Gallery: http://ramp.mediarts.net.nz/ --------------- SPARK Conference: http://spark.mediarts.net.nz/ ---------------

17 years, 6 months

RE: [Ada_list] TRON lives!

by Emma Bugden

Tessa this is just beautiful. Totally made my day and an inspiration to all of us on this list. :) Cheers, Emma -----Original Message----- From: Tessa Laird [mailto:tessa@fusionanomaly.net] Sent: Wednesday, 21 April 2004 10:23 a.m. To: ada_list(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: [Ada_list] TRON lives! I have absolutely nothing intelligent to add to the Creative Computing debate. I do, however, have a very good URL which goes all the way back to Stella's mention of TRON. You may have already seen this site, in which case, you lead very rich and rewarding lives. If you haven't, I urge you to take a look at it! It takes a long time to download as it's full of pictures, but it is oh, so worth the wait! http://www.ibiblio.org/jmaynard/TRONcostume/ TX _______________________________________________ Ada_list mailing list Ada_list(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/ada_list

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