Ada_list February 2008

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Fwd: [LAA] LAC 2008: live online Now!

by Helen Varley Jamieson

>The 6th annual Linux Audio Conference has begun in Cologne, Germany. It >runs today through March 2nd, 2008. As with each previous year this >year's conference is streamed live over the internet in ogg theora via >icecast. The stream status page can be found at: >http://lac.linuxaudio.org > >This year we are in the unique situation of having a Gigabit link >donated by CITIZENMEDIA: http://www.ist-citizenmedia.org/ They have >asked us to use up as much of their bandwidth as we can so they can see >how well the link performs. Please forward this information widely so >we can help them out. > >This year the core team, Joern Nettingsmeier and myself, are recruiting >volunteers to spread the workload. To that end we have set up a mailing >list and irc channel to coordinate our efforts. If you are here in >Cologne for the conference please consider joining us. If you are not >coming, please enjoy the fruits of our labors by watching the streams >and participating via irc. > >stream team mailing list: http://zhevny.com/mailman/listinfo/lac-streams >general conference chat: #lac2008 on irc.freenode.net >stream team tech talk: #lac2008-tech on irc.freenode.net > > >Thanks, >LAC streamteam > > >-- >This message has been scanned for viruses and >dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >believed to be clean. > >_______________________________________________ >Linux-audio-announce mailing list >Linux-audio-announce(a)lists.linuxaudio.org >http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-announce > -- ____________________________________________________________ helen varley jamieson: creative catalyst helen(a)creative-catalyst.com http://www.creative-catalyst.com http://www.avatarbodycollision.org http://www.upstage.org.nz http://www.writerfind.com/hjamieson.htm ____________________________________________________________

13 years, 5 months

Game off - March on empyre

by Melanie Swalwell

Game off March on -empyre- "Video games are the first stage in a plan for machines to help the human race, the only plan that offers a future for intelligence. For the moment, the insufferable philosophy of our time is contained in the Pac-Man. I didn't know, when I was sacrificing all my coins to him, that he was going to conquer the world. Perhaps because he is the most graphic metaphor of Man's Fate. He puts into true perspective the balance of power between the individual and the environment, and he tells us soberly that though there may be honor in carrying out the greatest number of victorious attacks, it always comes a cropper." - Chris Marker, 'Sunless' Truncated, repetitive, coin-operated nihilism. To a point. The 'insufferable philosophy of our time' is not a single object or symbol, but the array of signs and symbols placed at odds with each other, made to wage a type of war we aren't told how to engage with. We were told that play would desensitise, depoliticise and disconnect us, and now games are presented by the museum as the latest historical and contemporary cultural artefacts. This month on -empyre- brings us the Game. Whether we play or not, whether we live in the moneyed west or not, games occur. Using the rubric of 'game off', our stellar guests will tease out and map intertwined threads of play culture, game art, game theory – interrogating the frictions and fissions of experiential pleasure, avatar uprisings, the game engine medium, collection and archiving, futility and joy. Join Marguerite Charmante, Daphne Dragona, Margarete Jahrmann, Max Moswitzer, Julian Oliver, Melanie Swalwell, David Surman (and maybe Helen Stuckey) in multi-streamed dialogues moderated by Christian McCrea and Melinda Rackham. http:/www.subtle.net/empyre ________________________ Marguerite Charmante is a tagged game figure. She reflects ludically on futility as resistance, toys and game fashion. 2005 she and MosMaxHax co-founded the international association LUDIC SOCIETY to provoke a new discipline on play and cultures. The affiliations club-magazine appears regularly in print. http://www.ludic-society.net Daphne Dragona is a new media arts curator and organiser based in Athens. Recently she has been focusing on game arts and currently she is a co – curator of Homo Ludens Ludens, an exhibition opening in April 08 in Laboral Centro de Arte y Industrial, Gjion Spain. Margarete Jahrmann is professor at the Game Design Department of the University of Arts and Design Zurich and a Ph.D. student of Caiia, School of Computer Sciences and Communications, University of Plymouth. 2003 Jahrmann/Moswitzer received an award of distinction at Prix Ars Electronica and in 2004 at transmediale Berlin. http://www.ludic.priv.at/ Christian McCrea is a writer and theorist from Melbourne, Australia. His work describes the non-virtual aspects of games under the rubric of materialism, namely nostalgia, euphoria, the proscenium of gaming actions and explosive body aesthetics. He works as Lecturer in Games and Interactivity at Swinburne University of Technology. http://www.wolvesevolve.com Max Moswitzer specializes in 3D simulations and artistic server design, Dozent at the Game Design Department of the University of Arts and Design Zurich and the University for Applied Arts in Vienna. Moswitzer co-founded Konsum.net in 1995 and regularly produces interactive applications, online installations, videos and telematic performances http://max.sil.at/ Julian Oliver is a New Zealand born artist, free-software developer, teacher and writer based in Madrid, Spain. Julian has given numerous workshops, exhibitions and papers worldwide. In 1998 he established the artistic game-development collective, Select Parks. http://julianoliver.com Melinda Rackham is Director of ANAT, Australia's leading cultural organisation generating new creativities which bridge science, research, art, industry and culture. She dabbled extensively in multi-user online environments and has an abiding interest in playfulness. http://www.subtle.net Melanie Swalwell is currently developing a suite of projects on the history of digital games in New Zealand, with essays published in the Journal of Visual Culture and Vectors, and forthcoming in Ludologica Retro and Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader. http://melanieswalwell.backpackit.com/pub/1284142 David Surman is Senior Lecturer in Computer Games Design at the Newport School of Art, Media and Design in the green hills of Wales. 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game off / on -empyre-

by Melinda Rackham

Game off March on -empyre- "Video games are the first stage in a plan for machines to help the human race, the only plan that offers a future for intelligence. For the moment, the insufferable philosophy of our time is contained in the Pac-Man. I didn't know, when I was sacrificing all my coins to him, that he was going to conquer the world. Perhaps because he is the most graphic metaphor of Man's Fate. He puts into true perspective the balance of power between the individual and the environment, and he tells us soberly that though there may be honor in carrying out the greatest number of victorious attacks, it always comes a cropper." - Chris Marker, 'Sunless' Truncated, repetitive, coin-operated nihilism. To a point. The 'insufferable philosophy of our time' is not a single object or symbol, but the array of signs and symbols placed at odds with each other, made to wage a type of war we aren't told how to engage with. We were told that play would desensitise, depoliticise and disconnect us, and now games are presented by the museum as the latest historical and contemporary cultural artefacts. This month on -empyre- brings us the Game. Whether we play or not, whether we live in the moneyed west or not, games occur. Using the rubric of 'game off', our stellar guests will tease out and map intertwined threads of play culture, game art, game theory interrogating the frictions and fissions of experiential pleasure, avatar uprisings, the game engine medium, collection and archiving, futility and joy. Join Marguerite Charmante, Daphne Dragona, Margarete Jahrmann, Max Moswitzer, Julian Oliver, Melanie Swalwell, David Surman (and maybe Helen Stuckey) in multi-streamed dialogues moderated by Christian McCrea and Melinda Rackham. http:/http://www.subtle.net/empyre ________________________ Marguerite Charmante is a tagged game figure. She reflects ludically on futility as resistance, toys and game fashion. 2005 she and MosMaxHax co-founded the international association LUDIC SOCIETY to provoke a new discipline on play and cultures. The affiliations club-magazine appears regularly in print. http://www.ludic-society.net Daphne Dragona is a new media arts curator and organiser based in Athens. Recently she has been focusing on game arts and currently she is a co curator of Homo Ludens Ludens, an exhibition opening in April 08 in Laboral Centro de Arte y Industrial, Gjion Spain. Margarete Jahrmann is professor at the Game Design Department of the University of Arts and Design Zurich and a Ph.D. student of Caiia, School of Computer Sciences and Communications, University of Plymouth. 2003 Jahrmann/Moswitzer received an award of distinction at Prix Ars Electronica and in 2004 at transmediale Berlin. http://www.ludic.priv.at/ Christian McCrea is a writer and theorist from Melbourne, Australia. His work describes the non-virtual aspects of games under the rubric of materialism, namely nostalgia, euphoria, the proscenium of gaming actions and explosive body aesthetics. He works as Lecturer in Games and Interactivity at Swinburne University of Technology. http://www.wolvesevolve.com Max Moswitzer specializes in 3D simulations and artistic server design, Dozent at the Game Design Department of the University of Arts and Design Zurich and the University for Applied Arts in Vienna. Moswitzer co-founded Konsum.net in 1995 and regularly produces interactive applications, online installations, videos and telematic performances http://max.sil.at/ Julian Oliver is a New Zealand born artist, free-software developer, teacher and writer based in Madrid, Spain. Julian has given numerous workshops, exhibitions and papers worldwide. In 1998 he established the artistic game-development collective, Select Parks. http://julianoliver.com Melinda Rackham is Director of ANAT, Australia's leading cultural organisation generating new creativities which bridge science, research, art, industry and culture. She dabbled extensively in multi-user online environments and has an abiding interest in playfulness. http://www.subtle.net Melanie Swalwell is currently developing a suite of projects on the history of digital games in New Zealand, with essays published in the Journal of Visual Culture and Vectors, and forthcoming in Ludologica Retro and Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader. http://melanieswalwell.backpackit.com/pub/1284142 David Surman is Senior Lecturer in Computer Games Design at the Newport School of Art, Media and Design in the green hills of Wales. He blogs about technology, sexuality, gaming and popular culture at http://www.gaygamer.net.

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congrats

by adam hyde

excellent ADA symposium in chch... congrats to all involved. it was a really nice flow of ideas and the proceedings were smooth and open Young Hae Chang Heavy Industries were an inspired choice for the sunday keynote looking forward to the next one! adam -- Adam Hyde "Free as in Media" http://www.xs4all.nl/~adam

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ADA Symposium makes the blogging big time!

by Zita Joyce

Hi ADA There's lots to say and catch-up about from the ADA symposium, which was (I think) a great success and a lot of fun... But before I get my brain back into gear about it, here's an awesome bit of serious cred thanks to the lovely Emma Hart who spoke in the 'networks and communities' session on the saturday morning. I stalked her off the Public Address blog comments thread to invite her along, and she has just completed the circle with a guest blog post on PA about the symposium itself. That's prety awesome.... Thanks Emma! : ) Zita Community Modelling with DAS | Feb 29, 2008 11:20 GUEST: Emma Hart skips the cricket for art Back in January, I had plans for the 22nd of February. My partner and I were ditching the kids and heading to the one-dayer to watch the Black Caps spank England. It was cricket: there was bound to be some kind of spanking. That was before I got an email... http://publicaddress.net/default,4836.sm

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Fwd: Call for Entries - FILE Sao Paulo (last days!!)

by Helen Varley Jamieson

> >FILE 2008 FILE - Electronic Language International Festival - is open to >entries for its ninth edition, that will be held at SESI Paulista's cultural >space, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in the period of August 04 to August 31, 2008. >Submissions are free and open to artists, professionals, researchers and >students of new media. > >In the last eight years, FILE has shown what's been happening in the global >networks related to digital and electronic arts, becoming a reference for >the world new media scene. It has exhibited web art, net art, artificial >life, computer animation, virtual reality, soft art, games, interactive >movies, digital panoramas and electronic art installations and robotics, >through interactive and immersive rooms. > >FILE SYMPOSIUM has become a meeting point in the city of São Paulo, >proposing discussions and tackling the electronic-digital culture in its >relations to art, science and technologies. > >FILE HIPERSÔNICA, the festival's sound branch, is on it's 6th edition and >intends to elaborate connections between the world of images and sounds. >Sound installations and live performances will be presented by groups and >collectives, comprising both erudite and pop electronic music, but also >electronic compositions, sound poetry, transmission art, video music and >sonic landscapes, as well as Djs and VJs presenting their sets through >specific apparatus and installations with experimental and immersive >projections. > > >www.file.org.br ><http://www.file.org.br/file2008entries/eng/home.htm> -- ____________________________________________________________ helen varley jamieson: creative catalyst helen(a)creative-catalyst.com http://www.creative-catalyst.com http://www.avatarbodycollision.org http://www.upstage.org.nz http://www.writerfind.com/hjamieson.htm ____________________________________________________________

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Call for Proposals- "Massive Change"- Australasia_2008 C-M.TV ; Media Arts Network

by dhyana.beaumont＠gmail.com

C-M.TV Subject: Curating/Call for Proposals- "Massive Change"- Australasia_2008 C-M.TV ; Media Arts Network Call for proposals are as follows: Australasia_2008 C-M.TV: Media Arts Network ; is a curated new media web site in the context of global change. Proposal Australasia_2008 is 'glocal' responses to events that are happening around the world. From a 'local' viewpoint to a 'global' distribution feed. Current issues around forms of change that are effecting the planet: carbon counting, climate change, social networking, weather and 'live' data aesthetics… The arena of "Massive Change"- since environmental tipping points are interconnected with other spheres that may have ramifications beyond the environment, into social and political systems- we open up that dialogue with you to interpret and make a proposal. The intent is to seek permission to upload to C-M.TV for broadcasting around the world. We either link back to your web sites where work is already uploaded or have you upload to our server. The artists have total IP/ownership over their own work on C-M.TV. We act as a curated site, as another venue for the access, as a networking membrane and a collective with a similar context. Go to: http://www.critical-mas.tv/indexSPRING.php to the play archive of previously launched cities: New York, Paris, London Specs: 5mb -320 x 240 Quicktime; 'live' data or generative content (self contained root folders); Flash; any other media that is sustainable on play. We review your proposals online or via DVD format. Send us links to review proposals via email: info(a)critical-mas.tv Or Send DVD's to: Marcia Lyons; Producer: C-M.TV Programme Director; Digital Media Design; School of Design; Victoria University of Wellington; New Zealand

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Call for Proposals- "Massive Change"- Australasia_2008 C-M.TV ; Media Arts Network

by Dhyana Beaumont

C-M.TV <http://www.critical-mas.tv/> *Subject:* Curating/Call for Proposals- *"Massive Change"*- * Australasia_2008* C-M.TV <http://www.critical-mas.tv/> ; Media Arts Network Call for proposals are as follows: Australasia_2008 C-M.TV: Media Arts Network ; is a curated new media web site in the context of global change. *Proposal Australasia_2008 *is*'glocal' *responses to events that are happening around the world. From a 'local' viewpoint to a 'global' distribution feed. Current issues around forms of change that are effecting the planet: carbon counting, climate change, social networking, weather and 'live' data aesthetics… The arena of *"Massive Change"*- since environmental tipping points are interconnected with other spheres that may have ramifications beyond the environment, into social and political systems- we open up that dialogue with you to interpret and make a proposal. The intent is to seek permission to upload to C-M.TV<http://www.critical-mas.tv/>for broadcasting around the world. We either link back to your web sites where work is already uploaded or have you upload to our server. The artists have total IP/ownership over their own work on C-M.TV<http://www.critical-mas.tv/>. We act as a curated site, as another venue for the access, as a networking membrane and a collective with a similar context. Go to: http://www.critical-mas.tv/indexSPRING.php to the play archive of previously launched cities: New York, Paris, London Specs: 5mb -320 x 240 Quicktime; 'live' data or generative content (self contained root folders); Flash; any other media that is sustainable on play. *We review your proposals online or via DVD format.* *Send us links* to review proposals via email: info(a)critical-mas.tv Or *Send DVD's to: * Marcia Lyons; Producer: C-M.TV <http://www.critical-mas.tv/> Programme Director; Digital Media Design; School of Design; Victoria University of Wellington; New Zealand <http://www.critical-mas.tv/>

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FW: ::fibreculture:: Call for Concept Designs: SJ Climate Clock

by Sean Cubitt

------ Forwarded Message From: Joel Slayton <joel(a)well.com> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:32:12 -0800 To: <List(a)fibreculture.org> Subject: ::fibreculture:: Call for Concept Designs: SJ Climate Clock The Climate Clock Global Initiative is seeking ideas from artist-led teams to create a major artwork entitled Climate Clock, which will measure changes in greenhouse gas levels, and be the first in a series of global projects calling attention to climate change. Climate Clock will be an instrument of long-term measurement and will collect data for 100 years. The artwork will be located in downtown San Jose, California, Silicon Valley¹s city center, and will be a collaboration between an artist-led team composed of artists, international and Silicon Valley engineers and other creative professionals who are working with climate measurement and data visualization. It is anticipated that the budget for the construction of Climate Clock will be between $5 and $15 million, depending upon the scope of the final proposal. For a PDF of the call, please visit http://www.sanjoseculture.org/?pid=4500 <http://www.sanjoseculture.org/?pid=4500> and to apply, go to www.callforentry.org <http://www.callforentry.org> , register a username and password, navigate to "Apply to Calls", and search for "San Jose Climate Clock". The Climate Clock Initiative is a collaboration between FUSE: cadre/montalvo artist research residency initiative and the City of San Jose Public Art program in cooperation with ZERO1. Joel Slayton Director, SJSU CADRE Laboratory and FUSE: CADRE/Montalvo Artist Research Residency Prof 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.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/media-communications/ http://homepage.mac.com/waikatoscreen/seanc/ http://seancubitt.blogspot.com/ http://del.icio.us/seancubitt Editor-in-Chief Leonardo Book Series http://leonardo.info

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Fwd: Invitation to the Eclectic Tech Carnival in May.

by Helen Varley Jamieson

>Inviting All Women > >The seventh Eclectic Tech Carnival will be held from Sunday the 25th until >Saturday the 31st of May in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. > >The /ETC is a unique tech skill-share that has been held annually since >2002. The emphasis has always been women sharing their experiences, >knowledge and skills around free software, open hardware and universal >interoperability of systems in a fun way. > >We are calling all women who are interested in the Eclectic Tech Carnival >to register via the following form: >https://eclectictechcarnival.org/register > >Registration closes at 23:59 on 1 April 2008. > >Participate! Whether you want to follow the content of the event or >whether you want to present a workshop, lecture, performance, playlab, >intervention, exhibition, you name it (to a certain degree) at the /ETC >you're welcome. > >In addition to the skill-share program, this year the Eclectic Tech >Carnival will be focusing on a number of specific political issues: the >"life cycle" of hardware - from mining, to labour practices in the >manufacturing industry, to waste management. In addition we will explore >why there seems to be so little public interest in Privacy, or lack of, on >the Net. And what can we learn from the Creative Commons movement? > >The participation fee of /ETC 2008 is as follows: >For all seven days: a sliding scale of 30/60/120 Euros (at your own >discretion). >Per single day: 6 Euros. >The evenings will be open to the public and free of charge. > >Our graded, scaled fee system aims to take into account that women are >from varying contexts. This includes income, country of origin and >personal priorities. > >The registration fee is collected from all participants, contributors and >organisers. It covers, among other things, vegan food for all. > >We cannot accept payment on-line so please be prepared to pay cash, in >Euros when you arrive. > >We have reserved a limited number of beds in a Youth Hostel, which will be >filled on a first come, first served basis. If there are more people in >need of accommodation, we will do our best to find a bed among our friends >and acquaintances in Amsterdam. > >There is a discreet amount of money for those who need a travel grant. >Please keep in mind that we do not reimburse flights but only [cheap] 2nd >class train or bus tickets. One condition is that you need to register >before April 1st 2008. We will look at each request individually. > >Please feel free to contact us at any time starting immediately. > >C o n t a c t : >info2008(a)eclectictechcarnival.org > >The /ETC 2008 is organized by the Genderchangers and EYFA. >www.genderchangers.org >www.eyfa.org > >_______________________________________________ >Etc-int mailing list >Etc-int(a)eclectictechcarnival.org >http://eclectictechcarnival.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/etc-int -- ____________________________________________________________ helen varley jamieson: creative catalyst helen(a)creative-catalyst.com http://www.creative-catalyst.com http://www.avatarbodycollision.org http://www.upstage.org.nz http://www.writerfind.com/hjamieson.htm ____________________________________________________________

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