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> From: "INFO SHARE FESTIVAL" <info(a)toshare.it>
> Date: 21 June 2007 12:39:31 AM
> To: <announce(a)fibreculture.org>
> Subject: ::fc-announce:: share prize 2008
>
>
> Competition Announcement: Share Prize 2008
>
>
>
>
> Introduction
>
>
>
>
> Piemonte Share announces the fourth edition of the Festival by
> calling a competition
>
>
>
>
> Piemonte Share Award . See registration form.
>
>
>
>
> Registration
>
>
>
>
> SHARE AWARD : DIGITAL ART PRIZE 2008
>
>
>
>
> Competition announcement
>
>
>
>
> Art. 1
>
> Subject
>
> Piemonte Share Festival announces the second edition of the Share
> Prize 2008 for digital art.
>
> The competition jury will award a prize of ?2,500.00? to the work
> (published or unpublished) which best represents experimentation
> between arts and new technologies.
>
> The candidates for the prize (a short list of a maximum of 6
> competitors) will be guests at the 4th edition of the Share
> Festival, taking place in Turin March 2008 at the Accademia
> Albertina di Belle Arti, Turin. In order to be declared winner of
> the prize, every artist has to take part in the 4th edition of
> Share Festival, by preparing his or her work of art, to be properly
> evaluated by jury and public.
> The organization is available at offering all the costs regarding
> the preparation of the 6 selected works as well as travel and
> accommodation expenses for the artists, and, possibly, the prize
> itself".
>
> Nomination of 6 candidates for the prize: by November, 2007. The
> announcement will be published on the following website:
> www.toshare.it
>
> The winner will be announced in March 2008 during the award
> ceremony at Share Festival.
>
>
>
>
> Art. 2
>
> Aim
>
> The prize aims to discover, promote and sustain digital arts.
>
>
>
>
> Art.3
>
> Entry Conditions
>
> The contest is open to any Italian and foreign artist using digital
> technology as a language of creative expression, in all its shapes
> and formats and in combination with analogical technologies and/or
> any other material (i.e. computer animation / visual effects,
> digital music, interactive art, net art, software art, live cinema/
> vj, audiovisual performance, etc.). Each artist or group can enter
> up to 3 works. Artists who are part of a group participating in the
> contest may also enter up to 3 individual works.
>
>
> Participating entries must be registered on the site www.toshare.it
> using the registration form.
>
>
>
>
> Registration and description of the competition entry forms should
> be either in English or Italian; English is preferred.
>
>
>
>
> Art. 4
>
> Conditions of exclusion
>
>
>
> The competition is not open to:
>
>
>
>
> - Jury members, organising body, their partners or relatives up to
> the sixth degree inclusive
>
> - employees or collaborators of Jury members or announcement committee
>
> - anyone who drew up the competition or any associated document
>
> - any person working as a civil servant in Public Institutions or
> Administrations unless it is specifically permitted by the
> administration of affiliation
>
> - unfinished projects or work
>
>
>
>
> Art. 5
>
> Deadlines
>
> a. Entries must be registered on the site www.toshare.it by using
> the registration form only.
>
>
>
>
> b. Registration must take place by 12.00 pm on 30 September 2007.
> Entries after that date, for whatever reason, will be excluded from
> the competition.
>
>
>
>
> Art. 6
>
> Required documents
>
> Candidates must fill in the on line registration form available at
> www.toshare.it
>
> Applications must contain the following information:
>
> - Title of the work
>
> - C.V. of artist or artists (in case of new groups of artists, each
> member's C.V. is necessary)
>
> - Concise description of the work (max. 150 words).
>
> - URL documents concerning the work itself, where further details
> of the work can be found (see Art. 6bis)
>
> - No material must be sent (paper, DVD, CD, etc) in addition to the
> specific requests of the public notice.
>
>
>
>
> Art. 6bis
>
> Further details on URL document
>
> Every participant must provide further details from those given in
> the information on a specific web site. It must contain:
>
> - Description of the work (max 500 words) explaining the main
> concept and technologies used
>
> - Images (.jpg) and/or video (.avi) and/or audio (.mp3) of the work
>
> - C.V. of artist or artists (in case of new groups of artists, each
> member's C.V. is necessary)
>
> NB: competitors are responsible for the design and costs incurred
> in producing the Web Site regarding the work for the contest.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Art. 7
>
> Selection jury
>
> The jury, meeting in non-public sessions, will select 6 works among
> those presented for the contest within November, 2007. The
> candidates for the prize (a short list of a maximum of 6
> competitors) will be asked to take part in the 4th edition of the
> Share Festival, taking place in Turin March 2007 at the Accademia
> Albertina di Belle Arti, Turin.
>
> The announcement will be published on the following website:
> www.toshare.it
>
> The winner will be announced on March 2008 during the award
> ceremony at Share Festival.
>
>
>
>
> The jury is composed by:
>
>
>
>
> Bruce Sterling (writer and journalist, Austin) - chairman
> Piero Gilardi (artist, Turin)
> Anne Nigten (managing director, v2 e DEAF, Rotterdam)
> Oscar Abril Ascaso (curator Sonar, Barcelona)
> Stefano Mirti (architect, Interaction design Lab, Milano)
>
>
>
> Art. 8
>
> Information
>
> The Contest Information offices are located at Association The
> Sharing premises.
>
> General coordination: Manuela De Caro
>
> tel. +39.011. 588.36.93 faxes: 0039.011.83.91304
>
> manuela.decaro(a)toshare.it
>
>
>
>
> Art. 9
>
> Property and rights concerning projects and selected works
>
> With the registration to the contest, the authors of the winning
> works grant The Sharing Association the right to publish and
> reproduce the works, totally or partly, as part of cultural promotion.
>
>
>
>
> Art.10
>
> Publishing this notice
>
> This notice is made up of three pages and will be published via
> Internet at the following address: www.toshare.it. News will also
> be available via all interested parties.
>
>
>
>
> ? two thousands five hundreds gross taxes and national insurance
> contributions
>
>
> SHARE FESTIVAL
> Experiences in digital art & culture
> Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti
> Torino / 23-28 January 2007
> __________________________
>
> The Sharing
> Via Rossini 3 - 10124
> Torino - Italy
> www.toshare.it
>
>
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Sean Cubitt
scubitt(a)unimelb.edu.au
Director
Media and Communications Program
Faculty of Arts
Room 127 John Medley East
The University of Melbourne
Parkville VIC 3010
Australia
Tel: + 61 3 8344 3667
Fax:+ 61 3 8344 5494
M: 0448 304 004
Skype: seancubitt
http://www.mediacomm.unimelb.edu.au/aboutus/staff/seanc.htmlhttp://homepage.mac.com/waikatoscreen/seanc/http://seancubitt.blogspot.com/http://del.icio.us/seancubitt
Editor-in-Chief Leonardo Book Series
http://leonardo.info
"I'm very sorry and from now on I'm going to pay complete attention
to everything" Paris Hilton
**MEDIA RELEASE - For Immediate Release: I August 2007**
Get on your digital soapbox!
Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) are holding a series of FREE public forums as part of still/open Program during September in Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane as part of their emerging technology labs. The forums are running;
Melbourne 6pm, 5th September 2007 @ Digital Harbour
Perth 6pm, 10th September 2007 @ The Bakery ARTRAGE Complex
Brisbane 6pm, 14th September @ The Judith Wright Centre
The forums will explore recent projects by internationally renown guest thinkers: Alessandro Ludovico (Italy) a publisher, media artist and editor in chief of Neural (http://www.neural.it/), Andy Nicholson (Australia) a free software hacker, new media activist and part of the Engage Media collective (http://engagemedia.org/) and Beatriz da Costa (USA) an interdisciplinary artist and researcher who works with open science (http://www.beatrizdacosta.net/). Creative Commons Australia will open the floor for discussion of Open Source Culture.
Open Source Culture is the growing global phenomenon of creative practices of sharing content for others to rework, reuse and redistribute. It has created a digital collective media culture and cult like following where everyone from teenagers to grannies are getting involved. It has moved from the programming sphere into the general and business communities; the purchase of YouTube for $1.65 billion and MySpace for $580 million by News Corp. and Google highlight just how much value they can have.
Open Source Culture aims to empower the user and challenge the power of the media giants. Currently a conflict is occurring between the owners of online "user generated" infrastructures and those who use them. User submitted and generated content often is moderated by the site or organization it is uploaded to, giving absolute control to the powers that be to do as they wish with the content submitted. By its nature Open Source Culture brings up many opinions and questions including; how open is Open Source Culture? Is it user friendly or financially beneficial to the big players? How might artists make use this cultural movement? And [insert your own question here] will be part of the discussion in the still/open forum.
The forums are presented as part of ANAT's emerging technology labs, which are responsible for the hugely successful reSkin program.
For media information and availability of the facilitators for interviews please contact Amanda Matulick on 8231 9037 or communicate(a)anat.org.au or for more information on the forums and still/open please visit www.anat.org.au/stillopen/blog/forums/.
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ANAT is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts http://www.ozco.gov.au its arts funding and advisory body, by the South Australian Government through Arts SA http://www.arts.sa.gov.au and the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments.
Hi everyone,
I'm pleased to be able to forward this announcement about the Early NZ Software Database, a funded project I have been developing this year with colleagues from VUW's NZTronix research team. This is a continuation of my research into early NZ games, which some of you know of. The idea is to develop a database of information about early software that was developed locally -- including games, but also demos, early digital art of all sorts, music, utility programmes, etc etc (we are not ruling anything out). There is a facility to upload assets and source code for sharing, which we hope people will take advantage of.
Please help us by passing the word around to your networks.
Please direct any queries re making entries to Sarah McKenzie, who is managing the technical side of the database - sarah.mckenzie(a)vuw.ac.nz (Sarah works part-time: Tuesdays and Wednesdays).
Many thanks,
Melanie
--
Announcing the online launch of the Early NZ Software Database
The Early NZ Software Database is now live on the NZTronix website http://nztronix.org.nz/main.php.
New Zealand has a rich history of developing computer software locally, yet the current state of knowledge about such software remains sketchy. That's why we are asking people who know something about computing history in New Zealand to pitch in and help to build a database of information on early software.
The project seeks to compile community knowledge about software that was written in New Zealand during the early years of digital computing. Increasingly, it is realized that early software constitutes digital heritage material. In gathering information from the community about this software, the idea is to build a publicly accessible database that can be used to better inform decisions about future software conservation work.
We are particularly (but not only) interested in software that was written for home computers, in the 1980s. It doesn't have to have been published commercially, and we are keen to receive information on amateur, as well as professional, efforts. Read the Main Page: http://nztronix.org.nz/main.php for more background information on the project and what we are after. To contribute what you know, start making a New Entry here: http://nztronix.org.nz/newentry.php You can search existing contributions to the database at: http://nztronix.org.nz/search.php Please email us if you know more about a title which already has an entry.
The website also has the facility to upload content such as images (eg. screenshots, cover art), audio, video, and source code, and to license this content using Creative Commons licences.
Please help us to spread the word about this project. Even if you don't personally know anything about early software, you probably know people who do. You can help us by letting your friends and networks know about the project, and inviting them to contribute.
You can also sign up to receive a quarterly newsletter on our research, by sending an email to: nztronix-subscribe(a)googlegroups.com
--
Dr Melanie Swalwell
Media Studies Programme
School of English, Film, Theatre, and Media Studies
Victoria University of Wellington
New Zealand
melanie.swalwell(a)vuw.ac.nz
VUW homepage http://www.vuw.ac.nz/seft/media-studies/staff/melanieswalwell.aspx
"Cast-offs from the Golden Age" http://www.vectorsjournal.org/issues/03_issue/goldenage/recollection.php
NZTronix, the blog http://www.nztronix.org.nz
hey,
I enjoyed the discussion on energy consumption and laptops very much.
A friend in Leiden (1/2 hr outside amsterdam) runs an organisation
called cleanbits (www.cleanbits.nl). Their aim is to encourage ISPs to
be green. I always thought it was a great idea but I didn't fully
appreciate how good it was until he posted me some calculations he has
done. To paraphrase Rene :
Cleanbits estimates that (based on info provided by Xs4all and IS.nl),
that the average (2U) server uses around 1700 KWh per year.
The reason it is so high is because about 90% of the total energy is
used by the enviroment that hosts the server. This includes lights,
security, cooling, ups charging etc etc
That equates to about 1 ton of CO2 per year.
Rene did some calculations on the consumption of wikipedia which hosts
approx 350 servers. Cleanbits estimation was this :
* Wikipedia uses approx 600.000 Kwh per year
* equates to 350 tons CO2 per year
* comparable with the yearly CO2 consumption of 17500 trees
* comparable with the pollution caused by an average car that drives 2
million km's per year
adam
--
adam hyde
'free as in media'
~/.nl
http://www.flossmanuals.nethttp://www.simpel.cchttp://www.radioqualia.net
>>Folks,
>>
>>We probably all use google several times a day - here's something
>>to consider:
>>
>>When your screen is white, be it an empty word page, or the Google
>>page, your computer consumes 74 watts, and when its black it
>>consumes only 59 watts. An article about the energy saving that
>>would be achieved if Google had a black screen, taking into account
>>the huge number of page views, worked out at a saving of 750 mega
>>watts/hour per year.
>>
>>In a response to this article Google created a black version of its
>>search engine, called Blackle, with the exact same functions as the
>>white version, but with a lower energy consumption, check it out:
>>
>>http://www.blackle.com
>
>
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helen varley jamieson: creative catalyst
helen(a)creative-catalyst.com
http://www.creative-catalyst.comhttp://www.avatarbodycollision.orghttp://www.upstage.org.nzhttp://www.writerfind.com/hjamieson.htm
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Competition Announcement: Share Prize 2008
Introduction
Piemonte Share announces the fourth edition of the Festival by calling a competition
Piemonte Share Award . See registration form.
Registration
SHARE AWARD : DIGITAL ART PRIZE 2008
Competition announcement
Art. 1
Subject
Piemonte Share Festival announces the second edition of the Share Prize 2008 for digital art.
The competition jury will award a prize of ?2,500.00? to the work (published or unpublished) which best represents experimentation between arts and new technologies.
The candidates for the prize (a short list of a maximum of 6 competitors) will be guests at the 4th edition of the Share Festival, taking place in Turin March 2008 at the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti, Turin. In order to be declared winner of the prize, every artist has to take part in the 4th edition of Share Festival, by preparing his or her work of art, to be properly evaluated by jury and public.
The organization is available at offering all the costs regarding the preparation of the 6 selected works as well as travel and accommodation expenses for the artists, and, possibly, the prize itself".
Nomination of 6 candidates for the prize: by November, 2007. The announcement will be published on the following website: www.toshare.it
The winner will be announced in March 2008 during the award ceremony at Share Festival.
Art. 2
Aim
The prize aims to discover, promote and sustain digital arts.
Art.3
Entry Conditions
The contest is open to any Italian and foreign artist using digital technology as a language of creative expression, in all its shapes and formats and in combination with analogical technologies and/or any other material (i.e. computer animation / visual effects, digital music, interactive art, net art, software art, live cinema/vj, audiovisual performance, etc.). Each artist or group can enter up to 3 works. Artists who are part of a group participating in the contest may also enter up to 3 individual works.
Participating entries must be registered on the site www.toshare.it using the registration form.
Registration and description of the competition entry forms should be either in English or Italian; English is preferred.
Art. 4
Conditions of exclusion
The competition is not open to:
- Jury members, organising body, their partners or relatives up to the sixth degree inclusive
- employees or collaborators of Jury members or announcement committee
- anyone who drew up the competition or any associated document
- any person working as a civil servant in Public Institutions or Administrations unless it is specifically permitted by the administration of affiliation
- unfinished projects or work
Art. 5
Deadlines
a. Entries must be registered on the site www.toshare.it by using the registration form only.
b. Registration must take place by 12.00 pm on 30 September 2007. Entries after that date, for whatever reason, will be excluded from the competition.
Art. 6
Required documents
Candidates must fill in the on line registration form available at www.toshare.it
Applications must contain the following information:
- Title of the work
- C.V. of artist or artists (in case of new groups of artists, each member's C.V. is necessary)
- Concise description of the work (max. 150 words).
- URL documents concerning the work itself, where further details of the work can be found (see Art. 6bis)
- No material must be sent (paper, DVD, CD, etc) in addition to the specific requests of the public notice.
Art. 6bis
Further details on URL document
Every participant must provide further details from those given in the information on a specific web site. It must contain:
- Description of the work (max 500 words) explaining the main concept and technologies used
- Images (.jpg) and/or video (.avi) and/or audio (.mp3) of the work
- C.V. of artist or artists (in case of new groups of artists, each member's C.V. is necessary)
NB: competitors are responsible for the design and costs incurred in producing the Web Site regarding the work for the contest.
Art. 7
Selection jury
The jury, meeting in non-public sessions, will select 6 works among those presented for the contest within November, 2007. The candidates for the prize (a short list of a maximum of 6 competitors) will be asked to take part in the 4th edition of the Share Festival, taking place in Turin March 2007 at the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti, Turin.
The announcement will be published on the following website: www.toshare.it
The winner will be announced on March 2008 during the award ceremony at Share Festival.
The jury is composed by:
Bruce Sterling (writer and journalist, Austin) - chairman
Piero Gilardi (artist, Turin)
Anne Nigten (managing director, v2 e DEAF, Rotterdam)
Oscar Abril Ascaso (curator Sonar, Barcelona)
Stefano Mirti (architect, Interaction design Lab, Milano)
Art. 8
Information
The Contest Information offices are located at Association The Sharing premises.
General coordination: Manuela De Caro
tel. +39.011. 588.36.93 faxes: 0039.011.83.91304
manuela.decaro(a)toshare.it
Art. 9
Property and rights concerning projects and selected works
With the registration to the contest, the authors of the winning works grant The Sharing Association the right to publish and reproduce the works, totally or partly, as part of cultural promotion.
Art.10
Publishing this notice
This notice is made up of three pages and will be published via Internet at the following address: www.toshare.it. News will also be available via all interested parties.
? two thousands five hundreds gross taxes and national insurance contributions
Manuela De Caro
SHARE FESTIVAL
experiences in digital cultures
manuela.decaro(a)toshare.it
www.toshare.it
>
>To our readers,
>We have just come out with our 7th issue entitled Ctrl+Shift
>(http://www.ctrlp-artjournal.org/pdfs/CtrlP_Issue7.pdf
><http://www.ctrlp-artjournal.org/pdfs/CtrlP_Issue7.pdf> ) Considering the
>controls and shifts that impact our lives, I invited contributors, artists,
>authors and curators, to speak about straddling places/teetering on the edge
>/being caught in-between; from rural to urban; rooted one moment, uprooted
>the next; between torment and pleasure; between in/out. To be in control is
>to be in charge-to have the ability or authority to manage or direct things.
>Shift literally speaks of a move, a change in position, direction, and
>composition or circumstances.
>
>Contributions to Ctrl+Shift are Alice and Rosy in Wanderland by Estelle
>Cohenny Vallier; To Alif, Gopali and Riham, Another Visa. Pleasure is
>Reduced to This by Mona Bur; Travels through 1001 Nights Cast by Barbara
>Campbell; A Chronicle of My Last Twelve Years by Karla Sachse; In time and
>Space by HERS Group; Out of Time by Adania Shibli; Unfinished Business by
>Jerome Ming; Causality (re)Cycles: A Community-based Recycling Program at
>Smokey Moutain, Metro Manila by Marlyne Sahakian; Options On by Lilian
>Zumkemi.
>
>Please help us disseminate this information to all your friends and
>e-groups. Ctrl+P is published on zero-budget and all our contributors write
>gratis. Your help to get it read by as many readers as possible is reason
>enough to go on publishing Ctrl+P. And if you wish to be in our mailing list
>please email us at ctrl_p_artjournal @ yahoo.com <http://yahoo.com/> .
>
>Thank you and sincerely,
>
>Varsha Nair <shavar(a)loxinfo.co.th>
>Issue Editor
>
>
>------ End of Forwarded Message
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____________________________________________________________
helen varley jamieson: creative catalyst
helen(a)creative-catalyst.com
http://www.creative-catalyst.comhttp://www.avatarbodycollision.orghttp://www.upstage.org.nzhttp://www.writerfind.com/hjamieson.htm
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The large amounts of power used by data projectors in gallery video
installations is something that concerns me, as bulb strengths get
higher and higher to allow images to be shown in daylight conditions
rather than the much maligned "black box".
So far as an interesting alternative I have found the Kinkajou Microfilm
Projectors used in developing nations -
http://www.designthatmatters.org/k2/
Has anyone heard of any developments in energy-efficient data
projectors? Might be dreaming!
Janine
