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> From: orlando clairmont MIC <orlando(a)mic.org.nz>
> Date: 28 April 2005 6:23:43 PM
> To: update(a)mic.org.nz
> Subject: THE MIC UPDATE 280405
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> The MIC UPDATE - 280405
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> Well it is a huge update this time, a veritable cornucopia of
> announcements... I hardly know where to begin. Urgent things first.
>
>
> DEADLINES
> 1) Homegrown
> 2) Databook
>
> OPENINGS AND EVENTS
> 3) New World Chaos
> 4) Human Rights Film Festival
> 5) Natural Selection 4
> 6) Sandor Lau online
>
> PROSPECTS
> 7) Public Commission for Grey Lynn
> 8) Moving Image Artist Residency in Brisbane
> 9) AV.06 Expressions of Interest
>
> NEWS
> 10) "Game"
> 11) "Boy"
> 12) European Media Art Festival
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> 1) HOMEGROWN - DEADLINE 30th APRIL
>
> Homegrown. MIC's Short Film Programmes in the NZ International Film
> Festivals.
> You only have a few more days to get those short films in to us. PO
> Box 168030 Newton, AK. Get to it!
> (OK... we'll take them up until Monday at the latest, but don't tell
> anyone else).
> Remember works in progress are accepted, just tell us in detail what
> changes are yet to be made. You won't be marked down for it, but you
> may be selected!
>
>
>
> 2) THE DATA BOOK 2005 - UPDATING ITSELF
>
> The Data Book (NZ's screen production directory) Listing forms for the
> 2005 edition were sent out a while ago.
> They need you to update your details (if you haven't already) and send
> them back to them ASAP (no later than the end of April).
>
> If you haven't been in The Data Book before or haven't received your
> forms please contact:
> Bev Algar, bev(a)profile.co.nz Ph 09-630 1624 extn 376, The Data Book,
> PO Box 5544, Wellesley Street, Auckland.
>
> The 2005 edition will be published in August.
>
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> 3) NEW WORLD CHAOS
>
> An exhibition of art works by 16 different artists, in multiple media,
> providing "positive visions designed to stimulate ways of living
> beyond the boundaries of civilization".
> Opening: Tuesday 3rd May, 5pm - 8pm ArtStation 1 Ponsonby Road.
>
>
>
> 4) NEW ZEALAND HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL
>
> A film festival with a difference – New Zealand’s inaugural human
> rights film festival – is bringing extraordinary films to the big
> screen near you.
>
> With a programme that includes the 2005 Academy Award winning
> documentary, Born into Brothels and the radical, entertaining
> Resistencia – Hip-Hop in Colombia, the New Zealand Human Rights Film
> Festival includes some of the finest documentaries currently touring
> the globe.
>
> Further highlights include high profile British director Ken Loach’s
> dramatic feature, Bread and Roses featuring Adrien Brody (also
> starring in Peter Jackson’s King Kong); and the stunning fictional
> account of the September 11 hijackers, Hamburg Cell, produced by New
> Zealander Finola Dwyer.
>
> Auckland 12-19 May Academy Cinema
> Christchurch 13-15 May Regent on Worcester
> Wellington 25 May -1 June Paramount Theatre
>
> wwwhumanrightsfilmfest.net.nz
>
>
>
> 5) NATURAL SELECTION 4 IS NOW ONLINE
>
> http://www.naturalselection.org.nz
>
> Natural Selection is an Australasian art reviews magazine edited by
> Gwynneth Porter and Dan Arps, and based in Auckland, New Zealand.
> Designed by Warren Olds, it is an online magazine distributed as a PDF
> (96 pages this issue) that people can print out and assemble as a
> craft project.
>
> "We accept unsolicited contributions, but we only run what we think is
> interesting. We encourage writers to interpret the "Australasian art
> reviews" brief as loosely as they wish - from criticism, to discursive
> features, to dialogues, to swell maps - and to not back off being
> nepotistic, poetic, fictional, theoretical, uncertain, epic, lyric,
> microscopic, or out of sight/date."
>
> Contact: editors(a)naturalselection.org.nz
>
>
>
> 6) SANDOR LAU IS NOW ONLINE - WITH GOODIES TO BUY
>
> In the tradition of shamelessly promoting self-promoters - MIC invite
> you to the new and live www.sandorlau.net.
> His BEHAVIOURS OF THE BACKPACKER DVD is available for sale and at
> video shops and retailers nationwide.
>
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> 7) UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY FOR AUCKLAND ARTISTS - BECOME A FOCAL POINT IN
> GREY LYNN
>
> Auckland City is calling for artists to express interest in designing
> a new artistic focal point for Grey Lynn to reflect the different
> cultures in the area and celebrate the artistic talents of the
> community.
>
> The deadline for expressions of interest is Monday 16 May 5pm.
>
> Artists may enter concept designs that include a range of artistic
> responses such as sculpture, multimedia, text-based works, suspended
> artworks, integrated soft and hard landscape, or kinetic/dynamic
> works.
>
> The artwork or artwork features could be used to:
> • communicate the history of the area or surrounding features
> • describe or express the unique identity of the area
> • create areas of interest that stimulate conversation and discussion
> • provide a signal or gateway into the town centre
> • provide an iconic symbol for Grey Lynn.
>
> The artwork will be located within the boundary of the Grey Lynn
> shopping precinct at the intersection of Great North Road and
> Williamson Avenue.
>
> Three artists will be shortlisted and paid $2,000 each by Auckland
> City to develop a concept design. From these three designs, one
> concept plan will be chosen and the successful artist will be paid
> $2,000 to develop detailed drawings and costings. Production and
> installation of the artwork should be completed by July 2006.
>
> Brian McClure, a member of the Grey Lynn Business Association, is
> undertaking fundraising sponsorship to cover the production and
> installation of the artwork, estimated to cost between $75,000 and
> $100,000.
>
> For a copy of the artwork brief, contact the Community Planning
> Administration Officer at Auckland City by phoning (09) 307 7548 ,
> email jennie.atkinson(a)aucklandcity.govt.nz or visit
> www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/whatson/arts/publicart/projects.asp.
>
>
>
> 8) RAW SPACE RESIDENCIES - BRISBANE
>
> Interested in working with artists from all around the world for 4
> weeks? Raw Space is offering 48 artists this opportunity, making it
> Australia's largest artist run residency program. Raw Space
> Residencies is a group residency program where 4 artists can come
> together, share ideas & explore their practice away from the
> day-to-day distractions of life. The group will include 1
> international & 3 Australian artists. The 4 artists will live in our
> residential space & work in our moving image studios in Brisbane,
> Queensland, Australia.
>
> Each artist is required to make at least one screen based moving image
> work during the residency. This new work will then be exhibited in our
> new moving image gallery in the heart of Brisbane City. Artists do not
> need to be a moving image artist to apply.
>
> Raw Space will provide artists with accommodation for 4 weeks, use of
> a moving image studio, gallery hire for a 4-week exhibition,
> production of a final DVD, printing of promotional material, basic
> training, documentation in an online catalogue newsletter & inclusion
> in our bound colour catalogue.
>
> Raw Space will be hosting 12 of these group residencies from June 2005
> to May 2006. For more information & details on how to apply visit our
> website…
>
> www.rawspace.org
>
> Closing date for round one: 6 May 2005
>
>
>
> 9) AV.06: CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
>
> AV.06: the second audiovisual festival
> March 2006
> NewcastleGateshead, Middlesbrough, Sunderland, UK
> http://www.avfest.co.uk/
>
> The AV Festival is a new bi-annual international festival of digital
> art,
> moving image, music and new media convergence which takes place in the
> North East of England. The second AV festival - AV.06 - will take place
> across three cities in the North East of England during the first two
> weeks
> of March 2006. It will examine one of the key issues within creative
> and
> scientific practice - life.
>
> AV.06 will include internationally renowned artists, filmmakers,
> researchers, technicians and musicians as well as emerging
> practitioners.
> Concerts, performances and exhibitions will be complemented by a
> conference
> and an education programme.
>
> AV.06 will feature:
>
> - new commissions of film, digital arts, music and games
> - outdoor projects which will transform landmark public buildings
> or spaces
> - live performance events at the Sage Gateshead and other concert
> venues
> - a major strand of activity focussing on computer games
> - a screening programme
> - exhibitions and installations
> - an international conference
> - an education programme of workshops, seminars and lectures
> - a programme of club events and parties
> - a radio station broadcasting on-air and online
> - digital projects for the region's public transport system
>
> AV will be commissioning new works especially for the festival, as
> well as
> presenting creative work which has already been produced. AV is now
> calling for expressions of interest from artists, filmmakers,
> musicians,
> DJs, VJs, designers, games developers, theorists, technologists,
> scientists, philosophers and others interested in this field.
>
> Deadline for Expressions of Interest: 27 May 2005
> http://www.avfest.co.uk/interest.html
>
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> 10) GOOD NEWS FOR TWO SHORT FILMS: "GAME"+ "BOY"
>
> “Game”, a short film produced by Dunedin-based Good Company Arts, is
> one of nine Digital Short Film finalists in the Roma Independent Film
> Festival 2005. “Game” is also one of ten finalists in the moving image
> category of the Vodafone Digital Art Awards (www.vodafone.co.nz/vdaa),
> to be announced in May. It comes from the same creative hub as last
> year’s internationally award-winning “Figure[s] of Speech” (Best Video
> Creacion Canariasmediafest, Spain).
>
> Directed by Daniel Belton, “Game” features the work of Dunedin artists
> Jac Grenfell, Juliet Fay, Richard Huber, Donnine Harrison, Peter
> Belton, Nigel Jenkins, and more. Playwright and actor Richard Huber is
> the main character in the film. It’s the story of a man with a gamey
> leg, who finds himself in a futuristic hospital where the patients
> play with geometry and holographics as a means to curing their
> ailments.
>
> “It’s a funky film about healing,” Daniel Belton says. “It’s quite
> sci-fi, mysterious, kinetic, visual - and a lot of fun... we’re all
> thrilled to have this recognition and what’s important for me is that
> the film is being recognised locally as well as internationally.”
>
> “Game” was made with the support of a grant from the Screen Innovation
> Production Fund, Dunedin City Council and the Community Trust of
> Otago.
>
> www.jacdaniel.net
>
>
>
> 11) BOY WINS BEST - From Homegrown to the World.
>
> Auckland film director Welby Ings’ first short film "Boy" has won Best
> Short Narrative Film at the 2005 Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose,
> qualifying it for consideration for next year’s Academy Awards. We are
> particularly proud as "Boy" screened in last years Homegrown
> selection.
>
> Produced by Nic Finlayson for Room 8 Productions, the silent short
> film tells the story of a young male prostitute living in small-town
> New Zealand, who tries to expose the truth behind a fatal hit-and-run
> accident.
>
> The 2005 Cinequest Film Festival, which represented films from 40
> countries, included 1202 short films in its programme.
>
> “I approached Boy as a typographer and illustrator, not as a
> filmmaker. That in itself was unconventional,” Ings said. “The result
> is a visually intense film that deals with an aspect of New Zealand
> society seldom discussed. I really wanted to offer something new to
> film and its success vindicates the approach I took.”
>
> Boy has been selected for the American Short Film Archive 100, which
> is managed by the University of Nevada and contains what are
> considered to be the world’s 100 most significant short films.
>
> More information and stills from Boy can be downloaded from
> www.boyshortfilm.co.nz
>
>
>
> 12) EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL FINISHED
> OSNABRUECK
> 20 - 24 April 05
>
> For the 18th time, one of the greatest European multimedia events took
> place in Osnabrueck, from 20 to 24 April: over a period of
> five days, the EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL (EMAF) presented current
> trends and the latest developments in international media art.
>
> As an international forum for experimental films and videos,
> performances, multimedia installations, DVD and Internet projects, the
> EMAF introduced both creative newcomers and renowned artists, check
> out what they got up to at:
>
> www.emaf.de
>
>
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FYI...
- Mark Harvey
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CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS
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“Abuse: the darker side of human-computer interaction”
An INTERACT 2005 Workshop
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Date: Monday, September 12 (Full day)
Location: Rome, Italy
Submission Deadline: 23 May 2005
Web-site: www.agentabuse.org
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AIMS AND SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP
==============================
Computers are often the subject of our wrath and often, we feel,
with good reason. There seems to be something intrinsic to this
medium which brings out the darker side of human nature. This may
be due to the computer complexity which induces errors and
frustrations in the user (bad interface design), to the human
tendency to respond socially to computers (media equation), or to a
disinhibition effect induced by the interaction with a different
form of information processor, perceived as inferior (master/slave
relationship).
As software is evolving from the tool metaphor to the agent one,
understanding the role of abusive behaviour in HCI and its effect on
the task-at-hand becomes increasingly important. The reaction of
traditional software to abuse is obvious - it should, like a hammer,
ignore it. With the agent model, however, software can be
autonomous and situated. That is, it should be possible to create
software that takes note of its surroundings, and responsibility for
its actions. Conversational agents are a clear case of a software
entity which might be expected to deal with abuse. Virtual
assistants, to take a classic application instance, should not just
provide timely information; a virtual assistant must also be a
social actor and participate in the games people play. Some of
these games appear to include abusive behaviour.
This workshop aims to bring together papers that transcend
disciplinary boundaries. Papers are solicited from researchers and
practitioners who have encountered the occurrence of abuse in HCI
and CMC and given some thought to why and how it happens. Papers
that explore virtual abuse and the abuse of agents as cultural
artifacts are particularly welcome. We hope this will provide a
forum for discussing both the reasons behind aggressive behaviour
and suggestions for how software should deal with abuse.
Relevant topics include but are not limited to
* determinants and correlates of end user frustration
* emotional reactions to computing technology
* emotional interfaces – how to deal with negative emotions
* conversational agents and abusive language
* conflict resolution in face-to-face communication and CMC
* flaming and disinhibition in HCI and CMC
* art on the edge
* relationship of the virtual and the real, the literal and metaphor
* outing, passing, hiding, covering -- how are agents designed to seem
"normal" and what are the assumptions about "being human" that inform
design?
INTENDED AUDIENCE AND WORKSHOP FORMAT
=====================================
The workshop will bring together an interdisciplinary group of
researchers and practitioners in human computer interaction,
computer mediated communication, intelligent virtual agents, game
design, social psychology, cultural critics and art. The program
will feature the presentation of refereed papers, demos and poster
followed by interactive sessions drawn on a number of scenarios
which will be distributed prior to the workshop. A part of the
discussion will concentrate on the definition of a roadmap for
future research.
SUBMISSIONS AND DISSEMINATION
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We seek:
- Position papers (4 pages) reporting on experiences, theories, case
studies and experiments.
- Theoretical papers (4 pages) discussing cultural, artistic,
political, and philosophical issues.
- Demo submissions (4 pages).
- Poster submission (1 page description of the poster or 1 page
sketch of the poster)
Position and theoretical papers as well as demo submissions will be
peer reviewed and should be formatted according to the LNCS (Lecture
Notes in Computer Science) format (templates are available at
Springer-Verlag LNCS Authors’ Instructions page and at
www.Interact2005.org at the Submission page ).
Please e-mail your submission in PDF to
Antonella.de-angeli(a)manchester.ac.uk
(cc pwallis(a)acm.org)
Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings and will be
posted on the web (www.agentabuse.org). Outcomes of the workshop
will be summarised and posted on agentabuse.org, which is intended
to become a dynamic repository for relevant research. If enough
interest is gathered from the participants, we will explore
alternatives such as a special journal issue or a book collection.
IMPORTANT DATES
===============
May 23: submission
June 6: Notification of acceptance
June 10: Registration dead-line for presenters
July 1: camera ready copies
September 12: workshop
REGISTRATION
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Registration will cost 150 Euro before June 10 and 200 Euro after
this date. Participants will register through the conference
website (http://www.interact2005.org/).
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
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Co-Chairs:
Antonella De Angeli (University of Manchester), UK
Sheryl Brahnam (Missouri State University), US
Peter Wallis (University of Sheffield), UK
Programme Committee
Pamela Briggs (Northumbria University), UK
Alan Dix (Lancaster University), UK
Dirk Heylen (University of Twente), Holland
Graham Johnson (NCR), UK
Catherine Pelachaud (Universite de Paris 8), France
Daniela Petrelli (University of Sheffield), UK
Laurent Romary (INRIA), France
Daniela Romano (University of Sheffield), UK
Oliviero Stock (IRST), Italy
Alistair Sutcliffe (University of Manchester), UK
Sean Zdenek (Texas Tech University), US
Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield), UK
Contact Information.
For information, expressions of interest and/or submission please
contact
Antonella De Angeli
Centre for Human-Computer Interaction Design
School of Informatics, the University of Manchester,
M60 1QD United Kingdom
Antonella.de-angeli(a)manchester.ac.uk
FYI,
- Mark Harvey
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Mainframe Experimentalism: early digital computing and the experimental
arts, edited by Douglas Kahn and Hannah Higgins.
We invite proposals for an interdisciplinary collection on the
encounter of
artists, musicians, poets and writers, and filmmakers working within
avant-garde, experimental and artistically innovative traditions with
mainframe computers and institutionally-bound digital technologies
during
the 1960s and 1970s.
We are interested in three classes of materials: (1) substantive
accounts of
artistic engagements, critical motivations and contexts, institutional
and
collaborative settings within the social, political and cultural
transformations of the period; (2) discussions of representations of
computing during the period by individuals who would be of interest to
artists, and (3) original documents, including unrealized plans.
Topics might include the digital work of John Whitney, Jackson MacLow,
Stan
Vanderbeek, John Cage and Jerry Hiller¹s HPSCHD, OULIPO, among many
others.
The editors have already assembled papers and commitments by Benjamin
Buchloh (Columbia University) on Alison Knowles¹ House of Dust poem,
Hannah
Higgins (University of Illinois-Chicago) on the intermedia aspects of
the
House of Dust, Douglas Kahn (University of California-Davis) on James
Tenney
at Bell Labs, Christoph Cox (Hampshire University) on Alvin Lucier¹s
North
American Time Capsule, Owen Smith (University of Maine) on Dick Higgins¹
Computers for the Arts, and Edward Shanken (Savannah College of Art and
Design).
Please send 600 word proposals for essays of approximately 50,000
characters
(including spaces) and/or publication of documents by July 1, 2005, to
Hannah Higgins <Higgins_at_uic.edu> or Douglas Kahn
<djkahn_at_ucdavis.edu>
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> From: N O T S T I L L A R T [mailto:nsa@improvart.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 3:16 PM
> To: nsa8(a)improvart.com
> Subject: NSA FEST::::CALL for ENTRIES
>
> 10th Annual NOT STILL ART Festival
> :::::::::::::CALL for ENTRIES:::::::::::::
>
> The 10th Annual Not Still Art International Festival of
> abstract and non-narrative electronic motion imaging with
> music and sound design will be held in New York City
> at the Micro Museum in Brooklyn on
> Saturday (full moon) September 17, 2005.
>
> The application form is printable from the website:
> http://www.improvart.com/nsa/
>
> POSTMARK DEADLINE is: JUNE 15, 2005
>
> Please read the technical specifications before
> mailing in your program!
>
> The international exhibition is single channel/time based.
> So we ask that you submit your work on miniDV
> or as an .avi file on a CD-R or DVD-R.
> That way we can curate a sequential program
> for exhibition.
>
> Here's hoping you will be able to attend the Not Still Art Festival
> this year. It's a great party!
>
> The Not Still Art Festival was first organized in 1996
> by video artist, Carol Goss, to provide a forum for video artists
> and electronic animators working in non-narrative forms.
>
> Over the years an amazing range of work has been
> exhibited from distressed single camera video
> to high end 3-D animation. The music and sound design
> spans pure sampling to acoustic instruments.
>
> The festival is organized by artists and is independent of
> governmental and foundation grants -
> i.e. free to exhibit what artists make -
> not what funders think is relevant.
>
> The one exception is the Presentation Funds Grant,
> which Not Still Art has been fortunate enough to receive
> in the past, and redistribute in the form of honorariums
> to attending artists who travel to the festival.
> This grant is provided by the Experimental Television Center with
> funds
> from the New York State Council on the Arts.
>
> We look forward to receiving your programs!
> There is a $25. application fee, which essentially underwrites
> some of the basic expenses of the festival.
> If you live outside the USA and find this fee prohibitive, please
> e-mail us. We are able to convert PAL and SECAM programs
> to NTSC with help from Gala Radovic of GRS Systems
> in NYC.
>
> (if you wish to be removed from this very infrequent list
> please reply with "remove" in the "subject" field.
>
> N O T S T I L L A R T
> http://www.improvart.com/nsa/
> nsa(a)improvart.com
> P.O. Box 496
> Cherry Valley, New York 13320-0496
> USA
>
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This may be of interest...
- Mark Harvey
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General Issue:
HyperRhiz, the peer-reviewed new media satellite site of Rhizomes:
Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledges, is seeking web-based
multimedia contributions for its first issue. HyperRhiz affirms and
extends the mandate of Rhizomes, which is to publish peer-reviewed
works based on or responding to Deleuzian analyses of culture.
The format of contributions may include:
hypertextual presentations/interpretations of critical theory
interactive web installations
rich media documentation of electronic projects
web-based interactive games
animated/code poetry/fiction
web-enabled video documentary
All contributions will be fully refereed by an editorial board.
Accepted contributions will be prepared for web presentation in
conjunction with the technical editors.
Timeline and Guidelines for Submission:
Abstracts or demo materials burned to CD should be sent to the editors
by 15th July, 2005. Preference will be given to projects which are
substantially or fully completed.
Full accepted contributions should be completed and sent to theeditors
by 1st October, 2005.
Submissions should be sent to submissions(a)hyperrhiz.net. All questions
regarding submissions should be sent to Helen Burgess,
editor(a)hyperrhiz.net.
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> From: mic update <subscribe(a)mic.org.nz>
> Date: 15 April 2005 1:29:30 PM
> To: update(a)mic.org.nz
> Subject: HOMEGROWN deadline approaches
>
>
> ~ HOMEGROWN ~
> ~ Deadline 30th April ~
>
> Hello fellow film-makers, teachers, producers and related
> organizations. Homegrown, the premiere showcase of short New Zealand
> film, is almost upon us.
>
> We would like anyone with a film to show, to have the opportunity to
> get their film seen and possibly selected to tour around the country,
> as part of this years International Film Festival. If you have a
> newsletter to your members, a publication that reaches filmmakers, or
> an opportunity to remind your students of the deadline for entries,
> then fantastic... please do. If you have a film yourself, then get it
> in to us!
>
> Works in progress are considered, but please include a detailed
> description of any proposed changes.
>
> Download entry forms and read up on technical requirements at
> http://nzff.co.nz/grids/b_grid-text.asp?id=195&area=30
>
> You can post or drop your entries in to us in Auckland - but don't
> forget WE HAVE A NEW ADDRESS (see bottom for details).
> Yes, the deadline and address information on the entry form IS WRONG,
> well spotted.
>
> And feel free to stick the odd poster on the odd notice board (see PDF
> below).
>
> Cheers,
>
> MIC.
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Sean Cubitt
Screen and Media Studies • University of Waikato • Private Bag 3105 •
Hamilton • New Zealand
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Hey, great notes, Luke. Very clear and detailed (wish you had sat next
to me in some of my uni lectures).
Also, have been meaning to properly say thanks to Zita, Adam, Adam and
Honor for organising Remote and putting together such an enjoyable day.
Pics look great too. Having a record of the event on the web is
fantastic.
Eu Jin
Eu Jin Chua
BA, BAS, MA (Hons) Auck
Lecturer, Theory
School of Design
Unitec New Zealand
Te Whare Waananga o Wairaka
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echua(a)unitec.ac.nz
very late but some notes from the re:mote festival:
thanks to adam, zita, adam and honor! for coordinating a day of
seminars. first impressions when sitting down were the screens that had
information flowing into the space, and the shadowy i.t. figures of adam
and helen tapping keyboards and chatting away with remote users. it was
like a performance mainframe.
i came a bit late, so if someone wants to send anything else on after
these notes ...
zina kaye sent a video postcard and mentioned http://thelineahead.net/ a
work that uses a radio scanner to listen in on airport traffic control
correspondence, sending this information to led signs like those that
tell you news at city intersections. the work used digital broadcasting
as a bridge between two spaces, networking a hyperlinked go-between that
didn't exist before like an rss feed of news into gallery space.
parellels between the digital information signals in space were
discussed by sally jane norman, another video postcard from a conference
somewhere in england(?), where she discussed the 'advanced puppetering'
of space probes remotely through a command centre, where information
broadcasting is less a send-receive passivity than a method of direct
remote control. i'm reminded of the few times a space probe (horrid
word) has gone out without an element of remote control, like sputnik i,
which sent a screeching sound back to earth to prove to all that the
soviets had arrived in outerspace. and those probes that travel billions
of kms past the point of sending signals back to base, which questions
what happens to the robotoic relationship when the puppet strings
stretch so far they snap. so these are the times when we've lost or
never had remote control of a broadcasting agent.
zina's 'the line ahead' became the inverse of paul woodruffe's prototype
the 'listening post'. his project would involve artists uploading audio
through the internet to a park in mt eden, where it would be listened to
by placing your skull against a pole that's sending the audio signal.
more of a minicast than a broadcast, with information transferred from a
global space to the extreme local internal spaces of body, whereas
zita's was local to potentially global. so between them you got a scope
of the spaces involved in broadcasting, of how the information is found
or made and then what the device is that picks it up transmits it or
receives it, from an fm radio to an ear drum, which space it comes from
and which space it is received, from the gallery to a park.
zina also talked about her process of collaborating remotely, by
syncronising with techs from around the world, which trudy lane later
also talked about with her presentation of the online magazine artefact
http://artefact.mi2.hr/ . the version trudy used at the talk is
http://www.remote.org.nz/pres/lane/index.html . the project's
contributors are based between serbia and new zealand with a kind of
collaborative approach to editorial which seems to work very well.
there have been 3 issues which have dealt with topics around technology
and culture.
ian clothier presented his district of leistavia
http://www.art-themagazine.com/hybridia/index.htm a version made for
remote is at http://www.art-themagazine.com/hybridia/index03.htm which
was an eco environment for a hybrid society. the project involved
taking a poll of how the population of the hybrid space would prefer
to be governed, with meritocracy, "a system of government based on
rule by ability (merit) rather than by wealth or social position",
winning the day, which according to the wikipedia singapore comes
closest to. no mention was made about whether this government would
also ban chewing gum.
eu jin chua introduced ideas around the ethics of broadcasting with a
presentation on laurie anderson's 'dal vivo' where a live image of a
convict locked in jail was telecast overtop of a clay model in a
gallery; a texture being mapped to a mesh. this involved the idea of the
public/private aspect of broadcasting - so again the various spaces this
information comes from and where it is received, but specifically the
polemics of doing so which was mostly absent from the other talks.
similar notions are being debated in nz about whether mps should be
allowed to be filmed while asleep or picking their noses, whether this
is invasive, or whether freedom of information is the most important
thing in all circumstances. i think as it stands we have been denied
watching people sleep which suggests we might have a kakistocracy, some
like tamihere would say a gynocracy.
caro spoke towards the end about the cultural-personal of remoteness. we
were treated to images of her local chippy and green grass, as she asked
what gets left behind in new media / telecasting? i might have this
wrong (so chip in caro if it is), but i understood caro was making the
point that certain forms of information travel well in broadcasting /
telecasting, whereas some information does not make the trip, and we
need to wonder whether those things left behind are perhaps what gives
things their meaning in interaction. which made me ponder what it means
to be in nz and for a large form of your information to be coming
through these channels and technologies. do we understand them
differently because of this, do we miss half the point sometimes? do we
ever critique how our understanding is often translated to a form of
mediacast and whether we notice this. how does our technology force our
attentions? it was a nice note to finish things on.
luke
http://www.pipedreams.net.nz/http://www.window.auckland.ac.nz/
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dLux media arts is now calling for works for the following categories of
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