Ada_list February 2009

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by helen varley jamieson

What's happening in UpStage at the moment: ******************** *UpStage for Educators: Friday 27 February* UpStage cyberformer vicki smith will be running a walkthru session this Friday at the UnConference, part of the Learning@School conference in Rotorua, NZ. L@S is the annual Information and Communication Technologies Professional Development event for educators, managers, providers and facilitators involved in the compulsory education sector in Aotearoa/NZ. Join in the fun on the Tutorial Stage <http://upstage.org.nz:8084/stages/Tutorial> at 0930 NZ time [find your local time at http://tinyurl.com/bzabbv] ******************** *Next open session: Wednesday 4 March, 8pm NZ time* The next open session in UpStage will take place from 8-9pm NZ time on Wednesday 4 March; find your local time here: http://tinyurl.com/bxk5ea This session will be primarily to announce the call for performances for the 090909 UpStage Festival, taking place on 9 September this year. If you are interested in submitting a proposal, please try to come along to this session. It will be an opportunity to learn about 090909 and the call for proposals, and perhaps to meet potential collaborators. If you can't make the session, the call will be emailed out, there will be information on the web site, and there will be more open sessions. If you are a newbie and want to learn the basics of UpStage, you are welcome to come along to this session but be aware that the focus will be on 090909 rather than teaching you the ropes. You will still be able to get a good idea of what UpStage is and how it works. You can also come along to the walk-thru Vicki is running on Friday 27th (see above). Please reply to this email to request a guest log-in for the open session, which will be held at http://upstage.org.nz:8084/stages/swaray (you can click on this link to enter the stage as audience, without logging in). ******************** *Pilot Installation Project* UpStage is a server-side applcation - you don't install it onto your own computer, but access it via a web browser; the application sits on a central web server. If you want your own UpStage, which you can customise and control who has access to, then you need to install it onto a web server. At the moment, this is possible - but quite difficult. So the focus of our work on UpStage this year is to improve the installer package and documentation for doing this, and develop processes for supported installation. We are applying for funding in New Zealand to do this, and looking for organisations who may be interested in being part of an installation pilot. If your organisation is based in NZ and wants its own UpStage installation, please email helen(a)upstage.org.nz -- ____________________________________________________________ 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 ____________________________________________________________

12 years, 5 months

CFP Writing Intersections | Art.Media.Design

by Sean Cubitt

Writing Intersections | Art.Media.Design http://artmediadesign.synthasite.com/ Melbourne, Australia Swinburne University of Technology,November 18-19, 2009 The fields of Art, Media and Design engage in the creative production of digital and material artefacts that reproduce and resist existing discourses. The text genres that accompany this artefactual creativity also enter into reproductive and contrasting relations with project work. Art.Media.Design | Writing Intersections offers a two day conference space to explore and theorize the theoretical and applied consequences of this text|artefact intersection. We invite faculty, practitioners and students to join us in Melbourne (Australia) to explore these issues. Writing Intersections follows immediately after the Cumulus09 Melbourne (RMIT/Swinburne) Conference and we encourage you to attend both events. Call for Papers (CfP) We invite papers in two broad areas: pedagogy and theory. In the pedagogy stream you will address the practical challenges of writing Art, Media and Design in/for/about Further and Higher Education. In the theoretical stream we invite papers addressing substantive issues for the three fields regarding intersections between writing practices and these fields. All abstracts and papers will be peer reviewed and notification of acceptance, modification and rejection provided to meet DEST requirements. Abstract submissions may be sent to krobertson(a)swin.edu.au or gmelles(a)swin.edu.au. 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

12 years, 5 months

digital audio - NZ artist's latest online experiments

by Matthew Middleton

Matthew Middleton, Dunedin based recording and performance artist, has released 2 'albums' of digital-audio work online for 2009. One is an Asia-Pacific collaboration utilizing digitaly captured spoken word recordings and electro-acoustic sounds, the other is a suite of ultra-new sound experiments using freely available open-source software packages. As a bonus, Middletons first video work, a single-shot dadaist piece contrasting computer-read word-play and catatonic posing , filmed by Pete Gorman, is laid bare here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrEX0bempWE Release One - Kenji Siratori and Crude - 'Alien Extermination' 'Alien Extermination’ is an international collaboration by two true underground artists - Matt Middleton, from dunedin, New Zealand and Kenji Siratori from Japan. Kenji Siratori is an insanely prolific novelist of the cyber-punk tradition, his work severely deconstructed and laden with terrifying dystopian futuristic imagery. Siratori uses the internet to recruit sound-artists to record material suitable for his vision His contribtion to this album is a selection of spoken word out-takes, which Middleton manipulates at will. This album is soaked in synthesiser, highly treated and at times quite savage. enjoy! http://www.last.fm/music/matt%2Bmiddleton%2B%252F%2Bcrude/Kenji%2BSiratori%… 26%2BCrude%2B-%2BAlien%2BExtermination Release Two - Crude - 'Faux' 1. Beat Tactique (8:26) 2. Video Video Video (9:48) 3. The Nines (5:17) 4. Opiophobicon (9:46) 5. Decade (23:25) 6. yr the blaster (you got rights) (2:26) 7. posit (4:51) `Faux' is the official FREE RELEASE by experimental electronic artist Matt Middleton/Crude for 2009. Based in Dunedin, New Zealand , Middleton has amassed an impressive back-catalogue of works, and every so often a title is released for free via the net. As with the free release from 2008, `syringe/insekt', the album is the first selection of works for the year and will be included in the official Crude release, a data dvdr featuring all videos, blogging, and music recorded by Matt Middleton for 2009, released late December 2009. The style of this album is classic Crude - electro -acoustic works using saxophone, gritty ambient works, bombastic and surreal synth excursions and loose attempts at techno… stream and download: http://www.last.fm/music/matt%2Bmiddleton%2B%252F%2Bcrude/Faux album page: http://crude.co.nz/FAUX2009.html cover art: http://crude.co.nz/images/FAUX%20COVER2.JPG 2009 dvd page: http://crude.co.nz/archive_2009.html crude audio suite 2009: http://crude.co.nz/Audio%20Suite.htm Stay connected to the people that matter most with a smarter inbox. Take a look http://au.docs.yahoo.com/mail/smarterinbox

12 years, 5 months

march 2nd deadline: mobile technology video festival

by Sonja van K

www.festivalpocketfilms.fr www.forumdesimages.fr The 5th edition of Pocket Films Festival : call for entries A camera in the pocket It?s been 5 years that cell phones in France have been equipped with a camera and a screen. In 2005 The Forum des images created the Pocket Films Festival, in partnership with SFR, to explore the potential of this new communications tool as an innovative means of artistic expression now available to the general public. The 5th edition of the Pocket Films Festival is organised by the Forum des images on June 12, 13, 14, 2009, in collaboration with SFR it?s founding partner. Recognized today throughout the world for it?s pioneering effort and expertise in the exploration of audiovisual creation with mobile technologies, the Forum des images opens its call for entries to all creators for the 5th edition of the Pocket Films Festival. Film directors, photographers, artistes, performers and amateurs of new technologies are invited to send their films, made with a video cell phone. The deadline for all entries is March 2nd 2009. Short or feature films, all types are accepted : fiction, documentary, experimental, clips, portraits... Fill out and sign the entry form as well as the rules of the Festival below and send them with your film before March 2, 2009 at : Forum des images Pocket Films Festival 2 rue du Cin?ma 75045 Paris Cedex 01 France Please visit : http://www.festivalpocketfilms.fr/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=91 to download the documents. Films submitted to the selection committee must be made with a pocket camera (video cell phone, digital camera...). The selected films may be shown either on a movie-theater size or pocket-sized screen during the festival. The selection committee is solely responsible for the choice of the screen size for each of the films chosen to participate in the festival. The 5th edition of the Pocket Films Festival is organised by the Forum des images on June 12, 13, 14, 2009, in collaboration with SFR it?s founding partner. www.festivalpocketfilms.fr Sonja van KerkhoffART: www.sonjavank.comBLOG: sonjavank.blogspot.comDESIGN: www.sonjavank.com/designVIDEOS: www.youtube.com/sonjavank BOOKMARKS: http://del.icio.us/sonjavank _________________________________________________________________ Twice the fun—Share photos while you chat with Windows Live Messenger. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/products/messenger.aspx

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FW: DAC09 - please forward

by Sean Cubitt

------ Forwarded Message From: Simon Penny <penny(a)UCI.EDU> Reply-To: Simon Penny <penny(a)UCI.EDU> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:20:46 -0800 To: <PIRATE(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK> Subject: DAC09 - please forward Dear all, the DAC09 (Digital Arts and Culture) Conference 2009 will occur on the campus of University of California Irvine in mid December, 2009. The website is now up, at: http://dac09.uci.edu Call for abstracts is open until May1. Abstracts should be submitted according to conference themes: - Embodiment and performativity - Mobile/locative/situated/wearable practices - Software/ platform studies - Environment/ sustainability/ climate change - Interdisciplinary pedagogy - Cognition and creativity - Sex and sexuality please spread the word. apologies for cross posting, Simon Penny -- Simon Penny, Professor of Arts and Engineering - University of California, Irvine. http://www.ace.uci.edu/penny Director, DAC09 (Digital Arts and Culture Conference, December, 2009) http://dac09.uci.edu University of California Council on Research 'Humanist at Large' Founding Director - Arts Computation Engineering (ACE) interdisciplinary graduate program. http://www.ace.uci.edu Director -ACTION lab for robotics and embodied interaction Professor - Studio Art, Claire Trevor School of the Arts. Professor - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Henry Samueli School of Engineering. Professor - Informatics, Bren School of Information and Computer Science. Office/Post: Building 522 Room 3000, UCI Irvine, CA 92697-2790 In order to do interdisciplinary work, it is not enough to take a 'subject' (a theme) and to arrange two or three sciences around it. Interdisciplinary study consists of creating a new object, which belongs to no one. Roland Barthes The main point to realise is that all knowledge presents itself within a conceptual framework adapted to account for previous experience and that any such frame may prove too narrow to comprehend new experiences. Neils Bohr. An occasional abject failure, bracing like a cold bath, is a therapeutic chastening for the soul and an excellent antidote to hubris. People, institutions and nations should all have them on a regular basis. Anatol Deuremise, trans A Hardy. Back by popular demand - a condensed version of wit and wisdom from previous sig files - enjoy, or ignore : The difference between theory and practice is greater in practice than in theory - anon. Plans are useless, planning is indispensable. Dwight Eisenhower. Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him. Heinz von Foerster Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist. Kenneth Boulding (ca. 1980) If we can't be free, at least we can be cheap. Frank Zappa If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? Albert Einstein Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein Why are atoms so small? Irwin Schrödinger The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. (attributed to )Edmund Burke Never believe anything until it's officially denied. Claud Cockburn Education is not the filling of a pail, it is the lighting of a fire. W B Yeats Life is like a sewer, what you get out of it depends on what you put into it. Tom Lehrer. Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. Dwight D. Eisenhower Time comes when silence is betrayal. Martin Luther King Those who can not learn from history are condemned to repeat it. Giorgio de Santillana Fools rush in, but he who hesitates is lost. Simon Penny There is a time to laugh, and a time not to laugh, and this is not one of them. (the original) Inspector Clouseau. ------ End of Forwarded Message

12 years, 5 months

[Fwd: Open Video Conference: call for proposals]

by helen varley jamieson

-------------------------------------------------- Please circulate this notice far and wide. *Open Video Conference: call for proposals* *** Submission deadline: March 19 *** We are now accepting proposals for panels, workshop sessions, demo sessions, and other programming for the inaugural Open Video Conference in New York. Join us and over 400 participants during our groundbreaking two-day conference and make your imprint on the online video space. Visit http://openvideoalliance.org/proposals/ to make a submission. Open Video Conference June 19-20, 2009 New York City 40 Washington Square South (NYU Law School) *The Open Video Conference* The conference is a co-production of the Yale Law School Information Society Project, the Participatory Culture Foundation, Kaltura, and iCommons. The conference will feature talks from internet luminaries, panels and discussions, screenings of video art, and demonstrations of the newest internet video technology. We expect more than 400 participants. Here are some goals for the gathering: *1.* Bring together stakeholders in the online video space (video makers, coders, lawyers, academics, entrepreneurs, etc.) for cross-pollination and development of the Open Video movement. *2.* Raise public interest and awareness around the Principles for an Open Video Ecosystem, a community effort to define best practices in online video. *3.* Raise the public profile of video creators and artists working in the online space. *What Types of Proposals are You Seeking?* We are requesting proposals and ideas for panels, presentations, workshops, and other sessions that will address how we can shape online video and the public debates around the medium. Proposals may be intended for the main conference track, or for more focused unconference-style sessions. Proposal topics may be legal, technical, or cultural in focus, though we encourage proposals in all relevant areas. The more complete and fleshed out a proposal, the more likely it will be accepted?but we welcome the submission of all good ideas. We are also seeking submissions of video art to showcase the creative potential of artists in the open video space. To submit a proposal or idea for Open Video, please visit http://openvideoalliance.org/proposals/. The deadline for submissions is March 19, 2009. If you have any questions about the Alliance, the conference, or the submission process, please contact Ben Moskowitz at conference(a)openvideoalliance.org . *Why is Open Video Important?* YouTube and other online video applications are rightly celebrated for empowering end-users; however, online video lacks some of the essential qualities that make text and images on the web such powerful tools for free speech and technical innovation. Email, blogs, and other staples of the open web rely on ubiquitous and interoperable technologies that have low barriers to entry; they are massively decentralized and resistant to censorship or regulation. Video, meanwhile, relies on centralized distribution and proprietary technologies which can threaten cultural discourse and innovation. Open Video is the growing movement for transparency, interoperability, and participation in online video. These qualities provide more fertile ground for bottom-up innovation and greater protection for free speech online. Many organizations are already taking steps to change the nature of video on the web: Mozilla is moving to support open video formats in Firefox, the Participatory Culture Foundation promotes open source and standards in video publishing and distribution, and Wikipedia has increased its focus on the open Theora codec. *About the Open Video Alliance* The Open Video Alliance is a coalition of leading organizations dedicated to fostering the growth of open infrastructure, tools, and standards for the online video medium. Yale Law School's Information Society Project hosted a stakeholder meeting on October 31st, 2008; representatives from nearly 30 organizations convened to discuss common goals for technologists, maker communities, and legal experts. For more information, see http://openvideoalliance.org. _______________________________________________ OVA-Announce mailing list OVA-Announce(a)lists.openvideoalliance.org http://lists.openvideoalliance.org/listinfo.cgi/ova-announce-openvideoallia…

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Fwd: Reminder - Prix Ars Electronica 2009 - Call for Entries

by Luke Duncalfe

For the 23rd time, Prix Ars Electronica, the foremost international prize for computer-based art, calls for entries. Online Submission Deadline: March 6, 2009 (Please note a special Submission Deadline for the Media.Art.Research Award: February 20, 2009) Categories: Computer Animation / Film / VFX, Digital Musics, Interactive Art, Hybrid Art, Digital Communities, [the next idea] Grant, Media.Art.Research Award, u19 - freestyle computing (Austrian only) Total prize money: 122.500 Euro All details about the categories and the online submission are available online at: http://prixars.aec.at We would like to ask you to help us 'spread the word' in your community by circulating the information as widely as possible. We also would be very glad if you could help us identify some projects, which in your opinion should participate in the competition. Please nominate such project for the competition via our website: http://www.aec.at/prix_nominate_en.php Please feel free to forward this to all interesting/ed parties. If you need any further information or support, please do not hesitate to contact us: info(a)prixars.aec.at With best regards, The Prix Ars Electroncia Team 2009 Ars Electronica Linz GmbH Hauptstraße 2-4 4040 Linz, Austria Telefon: 0043-732-7272-79 Fax: 0043-732-7272-674 E-Mail: info(a)prixars.aec.at http://prixars.aec.at If this e-mail has been sent to you by mistake or if you’d like to have your name removed from our mailing list, please send an e-mail with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line to the following address: info(a)prixars.aec.at

12 years, 5 months

Haiku robots invitation

by Clothieri

Hi, In two weeks, on Friday 27th Feb at 6.30pm, the exhibition 'Taranaki Culture: fresh out of the box' opens at Puke Ariki in New Plymouth, Aotearoa New Zealand. There is a formal blessing ceremony at 6am that morning. The show includes the work 'Haiku robots' which was developed at the Western Institute of Technology at Taranaki with the support of a research grant, and collaborators Andrew Hornblow and Julian Priest. Murali Bhaskar, Mike Fenton, Robin Petterd, Shane Gibbons of Sign Design and Biggie Smith of Sirocco all contributed. Please accept this message as an invitation to attend the opening. The museum needs to know numbers for catering so if you are intending to come please let me know. During workshops and at Puke Ariki, the robots have generated: 1. red sigh is shy 2. knit bawdy bike epic 3. no hash blimp end fly our joys oxide ha Regards Ian Clothier This communication - including any attachments - may contain legally privileged information, and is confidential to the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient you should delete the communication and contact the sender immediately. If you have received this e-mail in error, you must not read, copy, disseminate, distribute or otherwise use or disclose any part of this communication, or any information on matters or persons to which it refers. WITT reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications sent through its network.

12 years, 5 months

brrrrr from Canada : Re/Sense blog

by Raewyn Turner

Hi all, thanks to the SCANZ residency, we're developing our collaborative work, RE/SENSE at The Banff Centre for the Arts 9-22Feb....we've started a blog: www.resenseresense.blogspot.com also, http://www.banffcentre.ca/bnmi/news/archive/2009/fleck-fellow.asp cheers Raewyn Turner and Diana Burgoyne

12 years, 5 months

good work

by adam hyde

good work scanz :)))) looks like it was another successful event for those that are interested, the FM FLOSSify 1 is complete : http://en.flossmanuals.net/about adam -- Adam Hyde Founder FLOSS Manuals German mobile : + 49 15 2230 54563 Email : adam(a)flossmanuals.net "Free manuals for free software" http://www.flossmanuals.net/about

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