Ada_list May 2009

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by rachel Ruckstuhl-Mann

Kiaora all, my name is Rachel and I am organising the Auckland contingent of Tank Man Tango, a commemoration of the 20th anniversary of Tienanmen Square through the performance of a simple dance performed simultaneously around the world. This is a work created by Deborah Kelly of Sydney, and will be via Skype to other performers in cities around the world I am looking for participants and helpers. It will happen next Thursday night, with a rehearsal on the Wed night. If you are interested, please respond via email or my cellphone on 027 3360431. Thanks! Rachel. -- Rachel Ruckstuhl-Mann 09 3691132 027 3360431

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[Fwd: Creative New Zealand fundign for web based arts projects]

by helen varley jamieson

finally! h : ) Just to let you know that the announcement (below) was posted today on the CNZ wesbite at _http://www.creativenz.govt.nz/Funding/ContestableFunding/FundingforWebsites/tabid/4884/language/en-NZ/Default.aspx_ *Changes to the way we fund websites* We apologise for the delay in publishing the following information. We recognises that the internet and digital technologies are increasingly prevalent activities and Creative New Zealand has a role in supporting New Zealand artists and practitioners to engage with, and use, the internet. From 1 June 2009 the following guidelines will apply to Creative New Zealand’s support for the funding of arts activities that make use of websites:. o Contestable funding will be able to consider proposals to create, promote and/or distribute quality New Zealand art work via a website. Creative New Zealand will also consider proposals to engage in artform development and arts discourse via a website. o Contestable funding proposals that seek to make use of a website will need to conform to standard Creative New Zealand funding eligibility criteria as well as to any specific criteria required by: - a funding body (Arts Board, Te Waka Toi or the Pacific Arts Committee) - a funding pathway (Quick Response, Arts Grants, Arts or Sector Investment) and - an artform specific criteria (see art form sections of the Funding Guide for example music, literature, visual arts, dance, theatre or craft/object arts). o Web based arts projects will be assessed using the same assessment criteria and processes as other contestable funding proposals. o Web based arts projects will be able to seek a contribution towards the same types of costs as other contestable funding proposals - — for example a contribution towards artist fees. o A maximum of $5,000 will be able to be contributed by Creative New Zealand contestable funding towards costs directly related to the placing of work on a website. Costs directly related to the placing of work on a website refers to the: § costs of web page design § purchase of any software required as part of the operation of a website and/or § cost of converting text/sound/visuals into web-appropriate computer code (for example HTML or XTML). CNZ will still be unable to contribute towards the costs of purchasing computer hardware or support the development or distribution of content intended for radio or television broadcast. The effect of these changes are that Creative New Zealand contestable funding will be able to consider contributing to a wider range of web based arts projects through contestable funding. For more information on a particular project please contact a Creative New Zealand Programme Adviser or email Felicity Birch at _felicityb(a)creativenz.govt.nz_ <mailto:felicityb@creativenz.govt.nz> Cheers John McDavitt Strategy Advisor Creative New Zealand PO Box 3806 Wellington New Zealand DDI 04 498 0736 Mob 027 683 9025 Attention: This e-mail and its attachments are confidential and may be legally privileged. Please contact the sender before distributing, publishing or quoting information contained in this email or its attachments. Tihei Mauri ora: He take muna tënei imeera me ana körero täpiri a ka whai mana hoki. Whakapä atu ki te kaitono i mua i tou tä, to whakahuatia körero mai i tënei tuhinga. -- ____________________________________________________________ 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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090909 UpStage Festival - Call for proposals closes 31 May

by helen varley jamieson

*Call for proposals: 090909 UpStage Festival* http://www.upstage.org.nz The third UpStage festival of cyberformance (live online performance) will be held on 090909 (9 September 2009). The call for performance proposals *closes on 31 May 2009*. The 090909 Upstage Festival aims to create a participatory space for collaboration, creation, and for the presentation of current cyberformance. The festival provides a platform (and shares the technichal expertise) to enable artists to experiment with the new medium, and to have their work seen alongside performances by internationally renowned practitioners - in a celebration of the evolution and diversity of cyberformance practices. To submit a proposal, email the following information to info(a)upstage.org.nz: * working title of your cyberformance and 3-4 sentences about it; * names and locations of people involved; * brief background/bios (not more than 300 words each); * preferred time(s), in your local time, for presentation on 090909; * contact email and postal address. Performances can be on any theme or topic; the only rules are it must be no longer than 20.09 minutes, and must be created and performed in UpStage (for information about past festivals and performances, see http://www.upstage.org.nz). The deadline for proposals is *31 May 2009*; selections will be announced on approximately *1 July*. The festival will take place online in UpStage on 090909, with RL ('real life') access nodes at locations around the world, including Oslo, Munich, Istanbul and Wellington. If you are interested in hosting a RL access node, please contact us for further information and technical requirements. Participating artists will be listed and acknowledged on the UpStage web site. We will endeavour to record all the performances and provide participating artists with copies for documentation, however this is dependent on volunteer resources (if you can help with this aspect of the festival, please contact us). UpStage is an open source venue for web-based performance and is licensed under the Creative Commons and GPL. All copyright of artworks remains with the artists; we encourage artists to use Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org/). **Important dates:** *31 May: Deadline for proposals* *1 July: Selection announced* *9 September: 090909 UpStage Festival* Any questions, please email info(a)upstage.org.nz. We look forward to receiving your proposals! Helen Varley Jamieson, Vicki Smith and Dan Untitled 090909 Team http://www.upstage.org.nz -- ******************************* helen varley jamieson UpStage project manager helen(a)upstage.org.nz UpStage a web-based venue for live online performance http://www.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 ____________________________________________________________

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// NZ government licence negotiations with Microsoft break down //

by Julian Oliver

http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/5FA015D542415324CC2575C100804A31 http://nzoss.org.nz/news/2009/g2009-disaster Taxpayers' millions not exported to Redmond. Doesn't end in tears. Chairs, -- Julian Oliver home: New Zealand based: Madrid, Spain currently: Saint Brieuc, France about: http://julianoliver.com

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Two Trains of Thought tour

by Stanier Black-Five

Two Trains of Thought: Stanier Black-Five and Mela live, with guests After recent performances at Dunedin’s Lines of Flight, Lyttelton-based sound artists Stanier Black-Five and Mela make their North Island debuts this month, followed by a special homecoming performance at Lyttelton’s historic Unanimity Lodge. WELLINGTON: Thursday 28th May - Adam Art Gallery - 8pm - free as part of the Sound Check series AUCKLAND with guest, Sam Hamilton: Saturday 30th May - The Wine Cellar - 8pm - $5 LYTTELTON with guest, Bruce Russell: Sunday 7th June - Unanimity Lodge, 6 St Davids Street - 4:30pm - $5 donation The audio work of Stanier Black-Five regularly fuses live electronics with environmental recordings and found sounds – from mesmerising aircraft drones to the pounding rhythms of trains. As well as playing in New Zealand, Stanier Black-Five has taken her visceral performances to the UK and Europe, performing at events such as the London Musicians Collective’s annual festival of experimental music. She runs the Argot Records label and has had her music released internationally. For these events, Stanier Black-Five will develop a dynamic work based on manipulations of port recordings made across the country. Mela is an experimental audio/visual project that revels in the medium-specific properties of a variety of obsolete media. Her performances combine an almost obsessive degree of preparation with random interjections from misbehaving equipment. She sonically and visually investigates the aesthetics of constrained gesture and broken things by layering repeating melodies, gradually effected drones, and suitably unrecognisable beats to create an imperfect but mellifluous musical microclimate. Bruce Russell is an improvising sound artist, who since 1987 has been a member of the Dead C. As a solo artist, Bruce uses tape loops, a vintage electronic organ, and a guitar in ways their makers never imagined. He has also been active as a solo artist, and directed two independent labels, Xpressway and Corpus Hermeticum. He writes essays and criticism for The Wire, artists- catalogues, and other publications. He is currently studying at RMIT towards a doctorate in sound in the School of Fine Art. Sam Hamilton is an Auckland-based sound and film artist, musician, sound recordist, and curator. His tireless exploration of acoustic crevices has led him into the far-flung regions of the Amazonian rain forest, as well as performing and creating installations in the USA, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. Sam has worked with numerous experimental and left field luminaries, from New Zealand’s Phil Dadson to Germany’s Damo Suzuki (ex-Can). _________________________________________________________________ Beyond Hotmail — see what else you can do with Windows Live. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/134665375/direct/01/

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auckland premiere of 'stars' by warwick blair

by warwick celebration

STARS Created by composer Warwick Blair Projections by astronomer/video artist Paul Moss Performance by Indian vocalist Arpita Chanda A 24 hour performance from 10am June 4 until 10am June 5 Galatos – 17 Galatos St, Auckland (off Karangahape Rd). Tel (09) 303 1928. Entry by koha (donation) “Warwick Blair’s STARS is simply the most beautiful way to spend your time.” - Radio One (Dunedin) “If Stockhausen had been a Zen Buddhist he could have been Warwick Blair” – Sunday Star Times Journey through space and time in this remarkable 24-hour work from acclaimed composer Warwick Blair. Astronomy meets Indian gandaharva music and electronica in STARS, a multimedia installation that combines original live and recorded music with a stunning six screen video projection of the heavens. STARS is the result of Blair’s collaboration with video artist and astronomer Paul Moss, and Indian vocalist Arpita Chanda, and will be performed at Galatos (Auckland) on June 4 and 5, 2009 - the International Year of Astronomy. Paul Moss’ pristine video skyscapes will be projected onto six screens on the walls, ceiling and floor of Galatos, creating an immersive, ambient dream-like environment. Audience members are encouraged to come and go throughout the 24-hour performance period (from 10am June 4 until 10am June 5) and experience different parts of the cycle. Blair’s recorded composition plays continuously for 24 hours, and is enhanced by live performances from Arpita Chanda who sings for a proscribed period every three hours. These three-hour sections – known as praharas in the gandharva tradition - have different musical qualities that reflect their specific period of day or night. The video projections, which took Moss over a year to create, show recording of sky at same time of day. Blair’s multimedia approach extends the traditional Indian idea that listening to gandharva music enhances harmony and wellbeing by tapping into the rhythms of the natural world. In creating STARS, Blair, whose work typically blends contemporary classic music with the elements of experimental electronic pop culture, was inspired by the concept of anoraniyan mahatomahiyan, and Polish poet Leopold Staff’s work Evening, which includes lines like ‘I lie on a boat in the evening stillness/Stars above me, stars below me and stars within me.’ ---ENDS---

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[hatam@drfz.de: [spectre] Sound out of Paper with Andrei Smirnov May 21 at NK Berlin]

by Julian Oliver

Tomorrow night, if any of you are in the area.. ----- Forwarded message from "hatam(a)drfz.de" <hatam(a)drfz.de> ----- X-Iris-Envelope-Recipient: <julian(a)julianoliver.com> X-Iris-Envelope-Sender: <spectre-bounces(a)mikrolisten.de> X-Iris-Host: 3559581192/buug.mind.de X-Forward: from <julian(a)julianoliver.com> to <julian(a)selectparks.net> X-Originating-IP: 77.184.138.108 X-URL: http://mail2web.com/ From: "hatam(a)drfz.de" <hatam(a)drfz.de> To: spectre(a)mikrolisten.de Subject: [spectre] Sound out of Paper with Andrei Smirnov May 21 at NK Berlin Reply-To: hatam(a)drfz.de "Sound out of Paper" with Andrei Smirnov May 21 at NK Berlin Russian proto-electronic music from 1930-s and beyond, A presentation and film viewing session of synthesized sound from light called Graphical (Drawn) Sound technique produced in the 1930s recently discovered at the Russian State Film Archive. starting at 21:00 on Thursday May 21, 2009 Location: NK, Elsenstr. 52 2HH, 2Etage myspace.com/enka52 Entrance: Free The technology of synthesizing sound from light called Graphical (Drawn) Sound technique which was invented in Soviet Russia in 1929 as a consequence of the newly invented sound-on-film technology. At exactly the same time similar efforts were being undertaken in Germany by Rudolf Pfenninger in Munich and, somewhat later, by Oscar Fischinger in Berlin. This invention came at least twenty years too early while the World War II was already at the threshold. As a result by late 1930-s the work in this domain effectively came to a halt. Although there were several short articles published in USA by V.Solev (1935), most publications about research and developments in the USSR were in Russian. At the same time the most important documents were never published at all and were circulating in manuscript form. Fortunately many unique archives survived and are collected now at the Theremin Center in Moscow. Over two hours of synthesized music produced in 1930s twenty years before the foundation of electronic music were discovered recently at the Russian State Film Archive. Many of those materials which were never shown before are included in our presentation. http://asmir.theremin.ru/gsound1.htm SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Julian Oliver home: New Zealand based: Madrid, Spain currently: Madrid, Spain about: http://julianoliver.com

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Fwd: Call: The Best of FLash on the Net

by Luke Duncalfe

extended deadline:30 June 2009 -------------------------------- Cinematheque - streaming media project environments http://cinema.nmartproject.net Call for entries \\ Flash & Thunder Flash as a medium and tool for artistic creations // Since the Internet became popular in the late 90'ies of 20th century, the software program "FLASH", once developed and prepared for the commercial market by Macromedia, and now owned by Adobe, represents a vector based developing environment which enables the creator to combine different media and develop vector based animations especially for the Internet. .swf data file extension became a standard for animations online and offline, and Flash video and its .flv file format stands for "videostreaming" on the net. As soon as the Internet started, artists captured it for artistic purposes, and the same is good for certain software used for the net, particularly Flash is predestined for developing artistic creations due to its intuitive use. It became one of the most popular software tools for the net, computer based animations and interactive applications like games. Flash based artworks entered media festivals, even festivals solely based on movies created in Flash are organised. After Cinematheque - streaming media environments - explored in 2007 the capabilities of "Quicktime" as an artistic medium in the comprehensive show \\Slowtime? Quicktime as an artistic medium// - its now the time to explore in 2009 the artistic potential of Flash in its own way in a big online show, as well. // Flash and Thunder Flash as a medium and tool for artistic creations \\ Cinematheque is looking for the best artistic Flash works created since 2000. Please find the regulations and entry form on http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=408 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Cinematheque - streaming media project environments http://cinema.nmartproject.net is a corporate part of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne http://www.nmartproject.net - the experimental platform for art and new media from Cologne/Germany /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

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Astronomical delight: stars shine in soap opera

by ANAT Communications

*Apologies for cross posting Astronomical delight: stars shine in soap opera It may sound like a strange way to explore astronomy, but the formation of the Universe contains complicated storylines that are perfect for a soap opera. This is why artists Nicky Forster and Willoh S Weiland have created their 'online cosmological drama', Void Love. The artists will screen the pilot episode of their sound and video work on 31 May 2009 at Head Quarters, a presentation space for cross disciplinary art practice in Melbourne. Subsequent episodes will be available online. "Surely there is no greater melodrama than the unfolding of the Universe itself," Forster said. Completed during the International Year of Astronomy, Void Love was inspired by research done at Swinburne University of Technology's Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing. The work is the result of a four-month residency based at the centre. The 'Synapse' residencies, presented by the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) in partnership with the Australia Council for the Arts, support intensive partnerships between media artists and scientists in research settings both in Australia and internationally. Void Love will be narrated by Australian recording artist Kamahl. Its plot centres on a woman awakening from a coma to explore what is known and unknown about the formation of the Universe. After basing artwork on astronomy research, Forster and Weiland admitted it was a challenge to understand the breadth of the material. "At first, it was like being on an astrophysics bootcamp," Forster said. "The beauty of astronomy is that regardless of how difficult it gets, it remains endlessly fascinating." Dr Christopher Fluke, Swinburne astronomer and scientific partner on the project, thinks it has enormous potential. "There is a very long history of people telling stories about the night sky, which has motivated many new discoveries in astronomy. Void Love is a great way to continue that tradition." Event details What: Screening of Void Love's pilot episode Where: Head Quarters, 55 High St, Northcote, Melbourne, Victoria. When: Sunday 31 May 2009, 6.00pm to 7.30pm Further episodes will be broadcast online from August 2009. To receive email alerts when episodes become available visit www.voidlove.tv. ___________________________________________________________________ ANAT is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council http://www.australiacouncil.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. If you would like to change your contact details or be added or removed from this list please email anat(a)anat.org.au with 'Subscribe' or 'Unsubscribe' in the subject line.

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Re: [Ada_list] Ada_list Digest, Vol 75, Issue 3

by Dr Melinda Rackham

hi ada please change my address to melinda(a)subtle.net ta! m On 19/05/2009, at 1:07 PM, ada_list-request(a)list.waikato.ac.nz wrote: > Send Ada_list mailing list submissions to > ada_list(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/ada_list > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > ada_list-request(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > > You can reach the person managing the list at > ada_list-owner(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Ada_list digest..." > > > ADA list Digest Version > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Opening Invitation - (Mark Williams) > 2. Correction: Opening Invitation- He Maumaharatanga (Mark Williams) > 3. [Fwd: [Bl] Visual Artist Residency] (Damian Stewart) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 11:37:09 +1200 > From: Mark Williams <mark.williams(a)nzfa.org.nz> > Subject: [Ada_list] Opening Invitation - > To: Anna Dean <anna.dean(a)nzfa.org.nz> > Message-ID: <A5938A99-07C3-480A-AD37-CA6CA6F393D2(a)nzfa.org.nz> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" > > Dear Friends > > You are invited to the opening of He Maumaharatanga - A Woven Tribute > an exhibition of contemporary Maori weaving by Kohai Grace and the > 1920s archival film which inspired her work. Opening function is > Wednesday 15 April at 5.30pm and will feature a mihi and drinks. > > > > > > > > In accordance with the New Zealand Unsolicited Electronic Messages > Act, the New Zealand Film Archive needs to review your consent to > receiving e-mailed exhibition notices. If you wish to continue > receiving our emails then please do nothing. If you would prefer not > to receive any further emails from the New Zealand Film Archive, then > please reply to this email with ?unsubscribe? in the subject box. > > > Mark Williams > Exhibitions/Project Developer > Nga Kaitiaki O Nga Taonga Whitiahua > The New Zealand Film Archive > PO Box 11449 Wellington > Aotearoa, New Zealand > ph +64 4 384 7647 ext 829 > fax +64 4 382 9595 > http://www.filmarchive.org.nz > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 11:43:01 +1200 > From: Mark Williams <mark.williams(a)nzfa.org.nz> > Subject: [Ada_list] Correction: Opening Invitation- He Maumaharatanga > To: Mark Williams <mark.williams(a)nzfa.org.nz> > Message-ID: <11E8A5E1-3098-4AD5-BDDA-8AD8AF1F14E2(a)nzfa.org.nz> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" > > Apologies, > > Please delete the previous email which stated an incorrect date. It > should read as follows; > > You are invited to the opening of He Maumaharatanga - A Woven Tribute > an exhibition of contemporary Maori weaving by Kohai Grace and the > 1920s archival film which inspired her work. Opening function is > Wednesday 20 May at 5.30pm and will feature a mihi and drinks. > > > > > > > > > In accordance with the New Zealand Unsolicited Electronic Messages > Act, the New Zealand Film Archive needs to review your consent to > receiving e-mailed exhibition notices. If you wish to continue > receiving our emails then please do nothing. If you would prefer not > to receive any further emails from the New Zealand Film Archive, then > please reply to this email with ?unsubscribe? in the subject box. > > > > > Mark Williams > Exhibitions/Project Developer > Nga Kaitiaki O Nga Taonga Whitiahua > The New Zealand Film Archive > PO Box 11449 Wellington > Aotearoa, New Zealand > ph +64 4 384 7647 ext 829 > fax +64 4 382 9595 > http://www.filmarchive.org.nz > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 15:37:27 +1200 > From: Damian Stewart <damian(a)frey.co.nz> > Subject: [Ada_list] [Fwd: [Bl] Visual Artist Residency] > To: Aotearoa Digital Arts <ada_list(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> > Message-ID: <4A122977.9050807(a)frey.co.nz> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" > > residency at the Sonic Arts Research Centre in the UK for artists > working > with 'networked performance' -- may be of interest to the UpStage- > minded... > > deadline soon (30th May) > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [Bl] Visual Artist Residency > Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 06:12:52 +0200 > From: tina frank <tina(a)frank.at> > Reply-To: bl(a)mailman.sil.at > To: bl(a)mailman.sil.at > > > > Hello all, > sorry if you know about this residency already. > Deadline is approaching fast. > > best wishes, > tina > > -------------------- > > > *Visual Artist?s Residency at SARC in 2009* > Call for Proposals > > > The Sonic Arts Research Center (SARC) is offering a 6 Month > residency in > 2009 for a visual artist working with digital technologies. > This residency is co-hosted by the European Culture 2007 project > CO-ME-DI-A (Cooperation and Mediation in Digital Arts) . The > successful > applicant is expected to have a solid grounding in at least one of the > following: Motion Capture, Live video, Opengl, Computer gaming or 3d > modeling. > > The chosen artist will be working alongside the network performance > research team at SARC, developing real-time computer graphics for > network performance, addressing virtual presence and will also > contribute to other CO-ME-DI-A - related events. > > The residency includes travel to CO-ME-DI-A events and an all > inclusive > honorarium of ?10000. The successful applicant is expected to take > residency in Belfast for at least 5 months and collaborate with > CO-ME-DI-A partner CIANT in Prague. > > *Application Process:* > ** > Applicants should include a 2 page CV, links to previous work, and a > short paragraph detailing any experiences in network environments, as > well as a short section in which you should give reasons why you would > like to be considered for this residency. > > The deadline for applications is the 30th May 2009. > > All applications should be emailed to Dr. Franziska Schroeder > (F.Schroeder(a)qub.ac.uk <mailto:F.Schroeder@qub.ac.uk>) as either > word or > pdf documents. DVDs or other materials can be posted to Dr. Franziska > Schroeder. Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen?s University Belfast. > Belfast BT7 1NN > > If you would like to discuss your application please contact Dr. Pedro > Rebelo (P.Rebelo(a)qub.ac.uk <mailto:P.Rebelo@qub.ac.uk>) > > http://www.sarc.qub.ac.uk <http://www.sarc.qub.ac.uk/> > > http://www.comedia.eu.org/ > > > > -- > damian stewart | skype: damiansnz | damian(a)frey.co.nz > frey | live art with machines | http://www.frey.co.nz > >

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