Ada_list February 2014

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by Ian Clothier

Hi, Forwarded below is a message from Damian Stewart. What he talks about is one facet of a bunch of issues for media practice. Hi Ian, To my mind the biggest 'problematic of practice' is that work exists primarily in documentation: that the immediacy of experiencing a work in person becomes secondary to the quality of the documentation. Which means, that both a) having a nice camera and a good eye for film editing techniques (or budget to hire someone who does) is more important than the actual work itself, and b) works that film well get more exposure. cheers D

7 years, 5 months

New Director at Audio Foundation

by Admin

Hi All In case some of you haven't heard the news, it is the founder and Director Zoe Drayton's last day at Audio Foundation after 10 years of building and growing AF as an organization and arts infrastructure. Zoe is heading off to study Psychotherapy at AU full-time, but will be still be on the AF Trust Board and doing the accounts for the year. Jeff Henderson will be taking over the helm from Monday onwards and his contact will be jeff(a)audiofoundation.org.nz Welcome to Jeff! Many thanks to Zoe!!

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2014 ADA Artists Tour - Sound Sky workshops as part of the Audacious Festival - Christchurch March 1&2

by Vicki Smith

*2014 Artist tour - {Sound Sky} Trudy Lane and Halsey Burgund* http://www.ada.net.nz/projects/meshcities-artists-tour-2014/ The ADA Mesh Cities Artist Tour 2014 is being facilitated by the creative team Trudy Lane and Halsey Burgund. Trudy and Halsey have been working on the contributory artwork Sound Sky, ADA are supporting their workshops and they're in Christchurch as part of the Audacious festival March 1-2 - this weekend *Sound Sky* Their project *Sound Sky* (http://soundsky.org/) is a new geo-located audio work envisioned for Christchurch, which emerged out of discussions of memory, place and the CEISMIC archive at the first ADA Mesh Cities gathering<http://www.ada.net.nz/meshcities/roundtablelaunch-event-physics-room-30313/> . Partnerships have since formed with the organisationsCEISMIC,<http://www.ceismic.org.nz/> Gap Filler <http://www.gapfiller.org.nz/>, and the Cantabrian Society for Sonic Artists <http://cssa.org.nz/> (CSSA), allowing the project to take a long-term, localised and collaborative approach. Contributed voices of the public of Christchurch-- recalling histories, reflecting on today and planting hopes and dreams for the future -- are the raw materials of the work, which is to be combined with a musical score. It is a large-scale project, which will benefit from widespread participation and community adoption. Artists Trudy Lane (Aotearoa/NZ, http://www.thehouseofwonder.org/) and Halsey Burgund (USA, http://halseyburgund.com) will be presenting the workshop series. The workshops will see participants take part in various stages of the development of the site-specific installation audio-scape *Sound Sky* and also introduce creative practitioners to the open source platform Roundware (http://www.roundware.org/) being used to make the work. Workshop 1 *Christchurch, March 1 and 2, 10.00am--12.00pm.* Held in association with the Audacious Festival of March 1-2. ( http://audacious.org.nz/). This workshop will be combined with a project soft launch with local promotion (flyers, stencils, events), inviting the download and use of the first version of the mobile app, workshops with Audacious audience,and general networking with local Christchurch audiences. *Venue: *Pallet Pavilion, 70 Kilmore Street, Christchurch *Register:* Workshop 1 registration (Saturday) <http://www.ada.net.nz/events/sound-sky-workshop-1-saturday/>*Register:* Workshop 1 Registration (Sunday) <http://www.ada.net.nz/events/sound-sky-workshop1-sunday/> // Aotearoa Digital Arts Network *www ada.net.nz <http://ada.net.nz>*

7 years, 5 months

The problematics of practice currently

by Ian Clothier

Hi ADA'ers, Recently Creative New Zealand has been doing much to obtain statistics from the creative and cultural sector here, particularly with online benchmarking (see http://tinyurl.com/ke3tmjy) and Cultural Segments (http://tinyurl.com/lbuw833). These align really well with audience orientated performing arts, and it would be beneficial for the electronic arts (or media arts, digital media et al) sector here to have statistical and qualitative information to base assumptions on. Both ADA and Intercreate will in the coming year be applying for additional funding, which involves speculating in some way, on the coming 1-3year period. While there is a place for blue sky thinking, it also would be good to get some feedback from you in the sector, that records in some way, your thoughts, preferences and speculations about what is important. Consequently Intercreate has embarked on a process of collecting information, by online discussion, via a survey form and one on one interviews. This is for a period of around a month. We have asked the ADA Board if the online discussion could take place here, and they have approved this. In terms of what we do with the data, we do intend to share it and make it available to those that want it. All cited and survey data will be confidential - names and email addresses are not associated with responses in any way. Consequently I would like to ask a question here. It is rather open admittedly but here it is: What are the problematics of practice currently, as you see them? Ian M Clothier Executive Director Intercreate.org scanz2015:water*peace call http://www.intercreate.org/?p=1092 Like us on Facebook http://tinyurl.com/Fb-Intercreate Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/intercreate Artist Art news http://www.artnews.co.nz/winter-2013-feature/ World Tree Orchestra http://ianclothier.com/worldtreeorchestra/ Haiku robots http://vimeo.com/39573417 Curator Istanbul http://tinyurl.com/isea2011 Albuquerque http://tinyurl.com/wai-albq 3rd nature http://www.intercreate.org/?p=1042 Senior Academic Western Institute of Technology at Taranaki http://www.witt.ac.nz Witt Art Dept http://wittart.co.nz/ Research http://www.witt.ac.nz/About-WITT/Research/Ian-Clothier Academia.edu http://witt.academia.edu/IanClothier Peer review Renew Copenhagen 2013 http://re-new.org/ World Water Day 2014 http://tinyurl.com/water2014 ISEA 2014 Dubai http://www.isea2014.org/en

7 years, 5 months

Digital Art Live call outs

by Nolwenn Hugain-Lacire

Hello, Digital Art Live<http://dal.colab.org.nz/> (DAL) is the only permanent interactive art programme in New Zealand. The interactive space is located in Auckland, at the Aotea Centre. This year we have three unique call outs for artists: 1- As announced previously by Vicky, DAL is collaborating with ADA to invite creative practitioners to create an interactive installation for Auckland related to the ADA symposium theme Space : Network : Memory. 2- DAL is also seeking expression of interest for artists interested in collaborating with the collective BoDig<http://www.bodig.org/‎> in Turkey and the digital centre Lieu Multiple<lieumultiple.org/‎> in France to create an unique interactive experience for the First World War commemoration. 3- For the fourth year, DAL invites students to present their work. This year, we are collaborating with DigitalNZ<http://www.digitalnz.org/‎> to encourage students in their use of openly licensed content. All information about curatorial statement, deadline, artists fee, technical specification are available on DAL website<http://colab.aut.ac.nz/dal/getting-involved/>. For any question, please contact me at nolwennh(a)the-edge.co.nz We look forward to receiving innovative and creative proposals from the New Zealand artists. NOLWENN HUGAIN-LACIRE Digital Art Live Coordinator | THE EDGE & Colab | colab.aut.ac.nz/dal/<http://colab.aut.ac.nz/dal/> Signal Coordinator | THE EDGE | www.the-edge.co.nz/signal.aspx<http://www.the-edge.co.nz/signal.aspx>‎ Working days: Mond to Thur DDI +64 9 307 5446 Level 4, Aotea Centre, 50 Mayoral Drive, Auckland 1010 PO Box 5749, Wellesley Street, Auckland 1141, New Zealand

7 years, 5 months

COPY WILDLY exhibition, Wellington

by Birgit Bachler

Dear ADA_list, I'd like to invite you to my first exhibition in New Zealand: My show "Copy Wildly" opens next week Thursday, 13 February 2014, 5.30pm at Toi Pōneke Arts Centre in Wellington. It would be great to meet some of the local ADA_list members, in case you cannot make it to the opening event, I'd be happy to show you around on any other day the show is running - just send me an e-mail, my studio is in the same building as the gallery. Hope to see some of you there! best, Birgit -- COPY WILDLY ‘Copy Wildly’ is a new exhibition by Austrian artist Birgit Bachler featuring a playful electronic spectacle of internet culture, media interventions and data appropriation. The entire content and source code of the show is re-distributed on custom made USB-sticks.' The show is part of this year's Fringe Festival and runs from 14 February - 8 March 2014. The accompanying workshop will be held on Saturday March 8 at 2.00pm in the gallery. Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/441226452670981/ Fringe page: http://www.fringe.co.nz/COPY-WILDLY Toi Pōneke Gallery on Google Maps: http://goo.gl/maps/9Wx9h

7 years, 6 months

ADA Mesh Cities Activities for 2014 and a new Call for Proposals announced

by Vicki Smith

kia ora whanau we hope everyone is having a fun and productive start to the year and would like to invite you to join the 2014 activities planned for the ADA Mesh Cities project *>> ADA Mesh Cities Touring Artists 2014 = Trudy Lane and Halsey Burgund & their project { Sound Sky }* The ADA Board takes great pleasure in announcing the successful applicants for the 2014 Artist Tour are Trudy Lane and Halsey Burgund with their project {Sound Sky} - a geo-located audio work envisioned for Christchurch. Workshop participants will discuss and participate in the project as well as learn about the software *Roundware*. Full details of the workshop tour, dates and how to register, will be coming out shortly, in the meantime background information may be found here: http://www.ada.net.nz/projects/meshcities-artist-tour-2014/ Congratulations Trudy and Halsey! *>> 9th ADA Symposium Space : Network : Memory Auckland September 12-14* Space : Network : Memory is a multi-city symposium that emerged out of the events and transitional architectures of Christchurch, engaging in discussions of urban space, social engagement, memory and speculative futures. Following on from the successful event in Dunedin last year we travel to the other end of the motu and bring you the Auckland event in conjunction with Colab and AUT The 9th ADA symposium would like you to consider; What roles are digital networks playing in our ability to reveal and understand the layers of a city? How does this affect contemporary practices in art, architecture, urban planning and related fields? Further details of the Auckland Symposium and Calls will be posted on the list shortly Background information is here*:* http://colab.aut.ac.nz/dal/getting-involved/ *>> Aotearoa Digital Arts (ADA) network & Digital Art Live (DAL) Call for proposals* ADA in collaboration with DAL announce the latest Call for Proposals for a work to be realised on the interactive screen at The Edge venue in Aotea Square and launched as part of the 9th ADA Symposium Space : Network : Memory Auckland September 12-14 The Call details and the forms for application can be found here: http://colab.aut.ac.nz/dal/getting-involved/ Expressions of interest are due on March 16 2014 = = = *Please visit:* the ADA website www.ada.net.nz and www.ada.net.nz/meshcities for more information on the ADA Mesh Cities Project or email admin(a)ada.net.nz with any questions or suggestions you might have on behalf of the ADA Trust Board kia pai to apopo for Waitangi Day everyone vicki ("

7 years, 6 months

Masters of Performance and Media Arts (MPMA) starts 2014 at AUT University

by Vicki Smith

The School of Art & Design at AUT University, Auckland, is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Janine Randerson to the role of Programme Leader of the new Postgraduate Diploma of Performance and Media Arts and Masters of Performance and Media Arts (MPMA). Janine is joined by an exciting team of specialist staff in performance and media arts such as Greg Bennett (Digital Design), Dr Chris Braddock (Visual Arts), Andrew Denton (Digital Design) and Sue Gallagher (Scenography and Spatial Design). This innovative new postgraduate degree is cross disciplinary and will appeal to people with backgrounds in dance, performance, theatre, visual arts, digital and analogue moving image and sound. - - - Papers in the first year PG Dip include the following: SPACE, IMAGE, SOUND & PERFORMANCE (15 point) EMERGING PARADIGMS OF PERFORMANCE (15 point) PERFORMING BODIES (15 point) INTERACTIVE PERFORMANCE AND MEDIA ARTS (15 point) CONTACT Janine Randerson for further information on: janinedorothyranderson(a)gmail.com - - -

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by Vicki Smith

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