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> From: "INFO SHARE FESTIVAL" <info(a)toshare.it>
> Date: 21 June 2007 12:39:31 AM
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> Subject: ::fc-announce:: share prize 2008
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> Competition Announcement: Share Prize 2008
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> Introduction
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> Piemonte Share announces the fourth edition of the Festival by
> calling a competition
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> Piemonte Share Award . See registration form.
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> Registration
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> SHARE AWARD : DIGITAL ART PRIZE 2008
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> Competition announcement
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> Art. 1
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> Subject
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> Piemonte Share Festival announces the second edition of the Share
> Prize 2008 for digital art.
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> 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 (published or unpublished) which best represents experimentation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.
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> 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".
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> Nomination of 6 candidates for the prize: by November, 2007. The
> announcement will be published on the following website:
> www.toshare.it
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> The winner will be announced in March 2008 during the award
> ceremony at Share Festival.
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> Art. 2
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> Aim
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> The prize aims to discover, promote and sustain digital arts.
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> Entry Conditions
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> 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.
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> Participating entries must be registered on the site www.toshare.it
> using the registration form.
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> Registration and description of the competition entry forms should
> be either in English or Italian; English is preferred.
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> Conditions of exclusion
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> The competition is not open to:
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> - Jury members, organising body, their partners or relatives up to
> the sixth degree inclusive
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> - employees or collaborators of Jury members or announcement committee
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> - anyone who drew up the competition or any associated document
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> - any person working as a civil servant in Public Institutions or
> Administrations unless it is specifically permitted by the
> administration of affiliation
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> - unfinished projects or work
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> Art. 5
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> Deadlines
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> a. Entries must be registered on the site www.toshare.it by using
> the registration form only.
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> 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.
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> Art. 6
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> Required documents
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> Candidates must fill in the on line registration form available at
> www.toshare.it
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> Applications must contain the following information:
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> - Title of the work
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> - C.V. of artist or artists (in case of new groups of artists, each
> member's C.V. is necessary)
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> - Concise description of the work (max. 150 words).
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> - URL documents concerning the work itself, where further details
> of the work can be found (see Art. 6bis)
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> - No material must be sent (paper, DVD, CD, etc) in addition to the
> specific requests of the public notice.
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> Art. 6bis
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> Further details on URL document
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> Every participant must provide further details from those given in
> the information on a specific web site. It must contain:
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> - Description of the work (max 500 words) explaining the main
> concept and technologies used
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> - Images (.jpg) and/or video (.avi) and/or audio (.mp3) of the work
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> - C.V. of artist or artists (in case of new groups of artists, each
> member's C.V. is necessary)
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> NB: competitors are responsible for the design and costs incurred
> in producing the Web Site regarding the work for the contest.
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> Selection jury
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> 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.
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> The announcement will be published on the following website:
> www.toshare.it
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> The winner will be announced on March 2008 during the award
> ceremony at Share Festival.
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> The jury is composed by:
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> 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)
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> Art. 8
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> Information
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> The Contest Information offices are located at Association The
> Sharing premises.
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> General coordination: Manuela De Caro
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> tel. +39.011. 588.36.93 faxes: 0039.011.83.91304
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> manuela.decaro(a)toshare.it
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> Art. 9
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> Property and rights concerning projects and selected works
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> 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.
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> Art.10
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> Publishing this notice
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> 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.
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> ? two thousands five hundreds gross taxes and national insurance
> contributions
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> SHARE FESTIVAL
> Experiences in digital art & culture
> Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti
> Torino / 23-28 January 2007
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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
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Editor-in-Chief Leonardo Book Series
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"I'm very sorry and from now on I'm going to pay complete attention
to everything" Paris Hilton
heyho
it seems isea2008 has just extended its deadlines for conference papers
etc. the site is up at http://www.isea2008.org
anyone keen for putting any proposals forward? themes include:
locating media
wiki wiki
ludic interfaces
reality jam
border transmissions
i think the board are keen for more nz participation so anyone
interested?
adam
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adam hyde
'free as in media'
~/.nl
http://www.flossmanuals.nethttp://www.simpel.cchttp://www.radioqualia.net
hi everyone,
next week we have the first wednesday of the month, the 5th, so we
will be in UpStage for the regular walk-through at 9pm NZ time - find
your local time here: http://tinyurl.com/3e2uwt.
as usual we'll be meeting on the Swaray stage,
http://upstage.org.nz:8084/stages/swaray. if you want to come as
audience, just click on the link. if you'd like to log in as a
player, please email me for a log in. the walk-through is an
opportunity for you to learn about how UpStage works, have a play,
and chat about the 070707 festival and the shows that have been
performed again since.
speaking of which, the next 070707 show to get a second airing is
"the old hotel", which will also be performed on the 5th, but at 9pm
UK time; find your local time here: http://tinyurl.com/2kbsfa.
"the old hotel" is a collaboration between artists in the UK,
Australia and New Zealand, and it features an on-site component, on
the site of an old hotel in london, with a proximal audience as well
as the performers and audience in UpStage. read more about the show
here: http://upstage.org.nz/blog/?p=92 and also on director Cherry
Truluck's site: http://www.cherrytruluck.co.uk/. "the old hotel" is
Cherry's final show for her MA at Wimbledon College of the Arts.
the stage is http://www.upstage.org.nz:8084/stages/theoldhotel
i hope you can join us for one or both of these events.
h : )
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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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September 2007 on -empyre- soft-skinned space : "Critical Spatial Practice"
Moderated by Renate Ferro (US) and Tim Murray (US) with Millie Chen
(Canada/US), James Way (Japan/US), Catherine Ingraham (US), Alice Micelli
(Brazil/Germany), Maurice Benayoun (France), Teddy Cruz (US), Markus
Miessen (UK/Germany)
http://www.subtle.net/empyre
Critical Spatial Practice entails the claiming of social responsibility at
the intersections of art, geography, architecture, and activism. How
might critical approaches to space and place empower creativity, enhance
artistic activism, and encourage artistic and collaboration? The
alignment of criticality with cyber configurations of space permits
especially creative configurations of networks, resources, and discussions
whose resulting configurations range from texts and performances to
buildings and installations.
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Moderated by Renate Ferro (US) media artist, Dept. of Art, Cornell
University, and Tim Murray (US), Curator of the Rose Goldsen Archive of
New Media Art, Cornell University
with special guests
Maurice Benayoun (France) is a transmedia artist who explores the
potentiality of various media from video, to virtual reality, Web and
wireless art, public space large scale art installations and interactive
exhibitions. He has designed interactive scenography for large scale
architectural and exhibition projects. He teaches video and new media at
University of Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne).
Millie Chen (Canada/US) is an artist, writer, and curator who teaches art
at the University of Buffalo. Her studio practice in Toronto, Ontario,
and Buffalo, New York, includes a project of sonic-video installation
based on river journeys down the Yangtze in China and the Niagara in
Canada/USA.
Teddy Cruz (USA) is a Guatemalan-born architect whose work dwells at the
border between San Diego, California, and Tijuana, Mexico, where he has
been developing a practice and pedagogy that emerge out of the
particularities of this bicultural territory.
Catherine Ingraham (US) is Professor of Architecture in the Graduate
Architecture department at Pratt Institute in New York City, a program for
which she was Chair from 1998-2005. Her numerous publications on the
theory and history of architecture include her books, Architecture,
Animal, Human: The Asymmetrical Condition and Architecture and the Burdens
of Linearity.
Alice Micelli (Brazil/Germany) has been developing a body of work focused
on creating unexpected visualizations of extreme political issues. From
Cambodia to Chernobyl, her conceptual videos and installations provide
meanings of their own to narratives from places that are difficult to
reach.
Markus Miessen (UK/Germany) is an architect and writer who leads Studio
Miessen, a collaborative agency for spatial strategy and cultural
analysis. He is the co-author of Spaces of Uncertainty (with Kenny Cupers,
Müller+Busmann), editor with Shumon Basar of Did Someone Say Participate:
An Atlas of Spatial Practice, and co-editor with Basar and Antonia Carver
of With/Without--Spatial Products, Practices and Politics in the Middle
East.
James Way (Japan/US) is an architect, writer, and designer working in
Tokyo. He often collaborates on interactive installations that explore
space and movement.
Please join us at http://www.subtle.net/empyre
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Regards
Melinda
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Dr Melinda Rackham
Executive Director
Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT)
PO Box 8029
Station Arcade
South Australia 5000
ph: 61 8 8231 9037; fax 61 8 8231 9766
http://www.anat.org.au
director(a)anat.org.au
Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) is supported by the Visual
Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and
Territory Governments; the Australian Government through the Australia
Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and the South Australian
Government through Arts SA.
Portable Worlds (Second Edition) - Applications Now Open!
Touring Portable Intimate Mobile Art
Media Release 28th August 2007
The Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) is seeking
applications for Portable Worlds Second Edition from artists make work
with or for mobile phones. Artworks must be complete or near completion
at the time of application. Applications need to be received by close
of business October 19th 2007.
The Second Edition hopes to attract works that explore notions of
digital community, connection, scale and distance by seeking artwork
that encounters mobile phones and portability in its display or
creation.
The Portable Worlds Second Edition is planned to tour major Australian
regional centres with a view to international exhibition opportunities.
ANAT is currently presenting its first edition of Portable Worlds, a
touring exhibition of Australian Artists working with mobile and
portable devices. The current exhibition focuses exclusively on artists
working for the mobile phone screen, and has toured regional South
Australian venues, to Tanks Art Centre in Cairns and to the
International Pocket Film Festival in Paris.
For application details, assessment criteria and to see works from the
first edition please visit www.anat.org.au/portableworlds. No
development funding is available.
For more information please contact Portable Platforms Project Manager
Sasha Grbich at sasha(a)anat.org.au.
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.
Dear Friends
You are invited to celebrate the opening of 996cctv - two closed
circuit video works by Alex Monteith - this Thursday 30th at 5.30pm
at the New Zealand Film Archive mediagallery.
Internationally renowned surrealist film-maker, documentarian and
artist Alex Monteith presents 996cctv - two closed circuit video
works by Alex Monteith - a video installation based on the iconic
cinema chase scene and the spinning tyre of a speeding vehicle. The
artist and a Ducati 996S will be present.
996cctv - two closed circuit video works by Alex Monteith
Opening celebration
Thursday August 30, 5.30pm
Pelorus Trust mediagallery
New Zealand Film Archive
Special thanks to motomart
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MEDIA RELEASE - 24 AUGUST 2007
DOUBLE VISION IN SECOND LIFE
An extraordinary emerging practitioner is about to embark on an
evolutionary journey of the networked and virtual reality environments
of Second Life. ANAT is providing the opportunity for a young and
emerging artist working with distributed, portable, online, wearable,
gaming, mobile and emerging platforms to undertake a three-month
mentorship with an established mentor of their choice.
We are delighted to announce the mentorship recipient for 2007:
Julian Stadon (Perth) will be mentored by Professors Christa Sommerer
and Laurent Mignonneau, internationally renowned media artists working
in the field of interactive computer installation and at the University
of Art and Design in Linz, Austria where they head the Department for
Interface Culture at the Institute for Media.
Throughout the mentorship Julian will work on developing interactive
augmented reality constructs, created within Second Life, to appear 3D
when viewed through a head mounted display unit in a gallery
environment. Second Life will extend into the physical realm and the
viewer will immerse themselves in these fused spaces through
interaction with them.
Julian's practice investigates the spatial and formal differentiations
between digital and physical environments, utilising virtual and
augmented spaces, in conjunction with natural phenomena to question
notions of identity within these spaces. He has recently completed a
Master of Electronic Arts at Curtin University of Technology, Perth and
has exhibited extensively since 2002.
Julian comments, "utilising the Augmented Reality Tool Kit, I aim to
insert certain coded shapes that, when viewed through head mounted
displays trigger 3D modelled objects to appear as if physically
present. These objects will situate themselves in a whole new space, as
augmented virtuality".
The ANAT emerging technology mentorship enables an emerging artist to
explore new creative directions, to expand technical skills and
increase knowledge of networks, debates and business practice and is
supported as part of the Australian Government's Young & Emerging
Artists Initiative through the Australia Council, its arts funding and
advisory body.
ANAT's Executive Director, Dr Melinda Rackham comments, "this is a
particularly exciting time for the development of art practices within
online worlds like Second Life, which have their own communities,
economies and democratic systems. Artists like Julian, who have grown
up immersed in technology, are now working to both challenge and
enhance those worlds in ways that would not have been possible even a
decade ago. We truly are at the cusp of a new age of virtually
generated creativity".
For more information please contact Gavin Artz, ANAT General Manager on
(08) 8231 9037 or manager(a)anat.org.au.
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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.
Thought those of you in auckland fighting to "preserve" your
billboards might like this.
su
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Sabine Niederer <sabine(a)networkcultures.org>
> Date: 20 August 2007 2:10:18 AM GMT+12:00
> To: urbanscreens-l(a)listcultures.org
> Subject: [Urbanscreens-l] "clean city"
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> hi, just wanted to point out this blogpost on creativereview.co.uk
> with beautiful photographs and a short video of Sao Paolo's empty
> billboards after the “Clean City” directive from the city’s mayor,
> Gilberto Kassab, which banned all outdoor advertising, including
> shopfronts: http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/an-anti-
> advertising-advertisement/
> best, sabine
>
A great looking CFP from someone who I remember from the
"Postcolonial-L" listserv days in 1994....
x.d
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Call for Papers: Edited Collection on Digital Embodiment,
Performativity and Globalization
Title: Everyday 3D Lives: Digital Embodiment, Performativity and
Globalization
Editor : Radhika Gajjala
[ http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik ]
In the recent past, there has been much talk of “web 2.0 “ and “web
3D” as new media. Educators and researchers all over the world are
debating the pros and cons of such environments. MMORPGs (Massive(ly)
multiplayer online role-playing games) such as World of Warcraft
(WoW) and online 3D environments for social and economic activity.
Immersive environments such as secondlife are being examined from
multiple disciplinary lenses. This edited will include articles based
in examinations of embodiment, performativity, gender, race, class,
ethnicity, sexuality and globalization critically, and will be open
to multiple disciplinary intersections.
What sorts of convergences, conjunctures and connections emerge in
relation to embodiment, identity and globalization specifically in 3D
environment (such as secondlife) and MMORPGs? Researchers examining
presence and absence or voice and voicelessness are increasingly
mobilized to speak of identities emerging online, while binaries such
as embodied/disembodied and global/local are deployed
unproblematically in both utopian and dystopian viewpoints regarding
the Internet. Performativity begins to shape exposure and privacy.
Thus while claims are being made that the Internet is a “public
sphere” in a Habermasian sense (Poster 1995) corporate privation and
surveillance comes upon us in Internet mediated environments and we
learn to negotiate our speaking within interstices of presences and
absences, cooperation and isolation, community engagement and
individual consumerism. Simultaneously hegemonic structures invested
in particular ideologies of globalization and “free” markets learn to
co-opt diverse identities and voices. Voice thus becomes a strategic
construct in both cases. Notions of voice/voiceless and empowerment/
participation in such instances are appropriated by status quo
discourses and are themselves mobilized for the oppression of the
subaltern (Gajjala, forthcoming 2008).
In the book on “Pedagogies of the Global”, the editor, Arif Dirlik
writes that
"Rather than erase difference by converting all to Euro/American
norms of modernity, however, capitalist modernity, as it has gone
global, has empowered societies once theoretically condemned to
premodernity or tradition to make their own claims on modernity on
the basis of those very tradition to make their own claims on
modernity on the basis of those very traditions, as filtered through
experiences of colonialism, neocolonialism, or simple marginalization
by the forces of globalization "(Dirlik, 2006, 3).
Digital media plays a significant role in aiding these connections
and shaping these re-presentations. I am interested in research that
examines these connections, representations and productions through
critical theoretical lenses based in postcolonial theories, feminist
theories, critical race theories and so on.
500 word abstracts due by October 1, 2007 and full articles of no
more than 8000 words length due by September 2008.
Email me with any queries - radhika(a)cyberdiva.org.
Radhika Gajjala
Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator
School of Communication Studies
302 West Hall
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH 43402
http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhikhttp://www.cyberdiva.org/blog
"the old hotel" was performed at the 070707 UpStage Festival with a
proximal component at a building site in London - the actual site of
a former hotel. This new work leads on from the 070707 performance,
starting with the same story but moving to a different perspective.
Once again on-site and online audiences will be connected in the
performance via UpStage. Here's the official invitation:
You are cordially invited to attend a new work by Cherry Truluck, in
collaboration with artists Suzon Fuks & James Cunningham (Igneous,
Australia), Liz Bryce (E-Studio, New Zealand), director Mark Swetz
and actor Carolyn Goodyear:
'The Old Hotel'
5th September 2007 at 9pm UK time
Find your local time here: http://tinyurl.com/2kbsfa
(duration 1 hour)
at 38-40 Glenthorne Road, Hammersmith, London W6 0LS
or online (please load up before 9pm to avoid disappointment) at
http://www.upstage.org.nz:8084/stages/theoldhotel
see attached flyer for more details or visit www.cherrytruluck.co.uk
'The Old Hotel' is Cherry's final MA Show for Wimbledon College of
Art (http://www.wimbledonma2007.com) and has been made possible
thanks to Strideline Ltd.