Online MA in Creative Writing & New Media – APPLY NOW FOR AUTUMN 2007 ENTRY
Applications are being considered for Autumn 2007 entry to the Online MA in Creative Writing & New Media at De Montfort University. http://www.dmu.ac.uk/faculties/humanities/pg/ma/cwnm.jsp (applicants)
http://www.creativewritingandnewmedia.com (current students)
The Online MA in Creative Writing and New Media is designed for writers interested in experimenting with new formats and exploring the potential of new technologies in their writing. Whether you write fiction, nonfiction, blogs or hypertext, we will help you develop your individual voice in a supportive and creative atmosphere which is challenging, interdisciplinary and international.
This 95% distance learning course has a unique commitment to the connections between writing and new media and offers an excellent online experience combined with one week’s intensive study at the De Montfort University campus. You will enjoy 1-1 tutorial support, lively workshops with fellow students and the opportunity to create collaborative and interactive projects. The course is designed by Professor Sue Thomas, writer and former Artistic Director of the trAce Online Writing Centre, and Kate Pullinger, acclaimed novelist and new media writer. It has extensive links with important initiatives including DMU’s Institute of Creative Technologies, research into digital narratives and new media writing, and the creative, digital and publishing industries.
Guest lecturers vary each year but in 2006-7 have included Randy Adams, Ronni Bennett, Alan Bigelow, Suw Charman, Christy Dena, Jeannie Finlay, Caitlin Fisher, Chris Joseph (babel), Marjorie Luesebrink, Nick Montfort, Rita Raley, Howard Rheingold, Alan Sondheim, Maurice Suckling, Tim Wright, and others.
Please note that we regret we do not currently offer poetry.
Students may study full-time (1 year) or part-time (2 years)
What kinds of people take this course?
This is our first year but you can read about the Class of 2006 here http://www.hum.dmu.ac.uk/blogs/cwnm/students_2006-7/
***New for 2007***
Faculty of Humanities Writers Scholarship
There will be one award worth £1500 available to students on the Online MA in Creative Writing and New Media. All students holding an offer of a place will be considered on the basis of the writing sample submitted as part of the application for the course.
For more information please contact:
Promotion & Recruitment Centre
Faculty of Humanities
Clephan Building
De Montfort University
The Gateway
Leicester, LE1 9BH, UK
Telephone: + 44 (0) 116 2506470
Fax: + 44 (0) 116 2577199
Email: pghums@dmu.ac.uk
Web:
http://www.dmu.ac.uk/faculties/humanities/pg/ma/cwnm.jsp
http://www.creativewritingandnewmedia.com
Festival Break 2.4 – deadline 1st Feb 2007
Call for applications: Festival Break 2.4
The purpose of the multimedia festival Break is to explore new artistic expressions and contemporary topics and to emphasize emerging poetics whose artistic discourse has not yet been deep-rooted within firmly established standards, criteria and cultural values.
The ninth edition of the festival, Break 2.4, will take place in Ljubljana from the 5th to the 18th of November 2007.
We are currently seeking art projects, from established, mid-career, and emerging artists, that address the theme selected for the festival: Potemkin village.
Definitions of the Potemkin village
-Pretentiously showy or imposing façade intended to mask or divert attention from an embarrassing or shabby fact or condition
-Something that appears impressive but is ineffective and insubstantial
-Any hollow or false construction, physical or figurative, meant to hide an undesirable or potentially damaging situation
-Politically generated appearance that covers a less impressive underside
The application must include the completed application form, supporting material, and a project presentation (visual and/or text) on A4 sheet.
Deadline: February 1, 2007 (postmark)
For more information, please check: http://www.break-festival.org
or contact: info@break-festival.org
For the selection of projects to be realized and presented during the festival Break 2.4, decisions will be made on March 1, 2007. Only successful applicants will be contacted.
Organizer:
From 1997 to 2000, the festival was produced by the Student Organization of the University of Ljubljana and had the primary function of presenting young emerging artists. Since 2001, the festival has been the project of Zavod K6/4, a non-profit institution operating in the area of contemporary art and culture.
Futurelab @ BETT 2007
BETT 2007
10-13 January 2007, Olympia, London
Key Futurelab events
* Wed 10 Jan, 16:15. Seminar W17 – Mobile learning: breaking down the barriers (Lyndsay Grant and Tash Lee)
* Thurs 11 Jan, 11:00. Keynote T3 – Education in the digital age: transformation and social justice (Keri Facer)
* Fri 12 Jan, 14:00. Seminar F14 – Games for learning: cutting through the hype (Tim Rudd and Mary Ulicsak)
* Sat 13 Jan, 12:00. Presentation at the Partnerships for Schools (BSF) stand D62 – Re-imagining learning spaces (Dan Sutch)
Futurelab stand – J6 (National Hall ground floor)
Visitors to the Futurelab stand at BETT 2007 will be motivated to make learning inspiring, enjoyable and, above all, an engaging experience. With a range of innovative educational resources and research on display, including a number of publications to support games for learning, Futurelab will be illustrating its pioneering approach to transforming the way people learn. Personalised learning, learning spaces and social and collaborative learning will all be given the Futurelab treatment at this year’s BETT…
Personalised learning
What does personalisation mean in practice? Futurelab’s innovative work offers both inspiration and practical guidance. Collect a copy of our new ‘Learner Voice’ handbook which draws on examples, case studies and research to provide ideas for promoting the voices of learners and considering the role that technology could play.
Visitors to stand J6 can obtain an update on Enquiring Minds (www.enquiringminds.org.uk), Futurelab’s programme to pioneer personalised learning in practice. Now in its second year, the project works at Key Stage 3 with schools across the UK to develop and trial a curriculum which will equip young people with the skills and tools required for the 21st century.
Also on display will be Fizzees, a prototype technology that motivates young people to manage and monitor their own health by caring for a ‘digital pet’. Only by eating healthily and taking exercise, will students be able to nurture their pet and encourage it to grow.
Transforming learning spaces
Building Schools for the Future is providing an opportunity to re-imagine the spaces in which we learn and to examine what we want our schools to be in the future. We need to ensure that new buildings and infrastructure fulfil learners’ needs now and in the future by using new technologies and innovative practices to engage learners.
Innovative projects from Futurelab on display include:
* Create-A-Scape. Many young people love to be outdoors, to learn through experience and to use state-of-the-art mobile technology. This free resource brings all of these elements together to enable them to learn while exploring their surroundings. The Create-A-Scape website (www.createascape.org.uk) contains free software and other supporting resources which enables learners and teachers to create their own learning ‘experiences’.
* Fountaineers. An interactive water fountain which is being co-designed by pupils and staff in a primary school in Bristol. As people pass by, the intelligent fountain will respond to their behaviour in different ways using programs created by the children. In both its design and use, the fountain will enable children and adults to engage with, and learn from, their environment.
Also discover Futurelab’s new report on taking a unique approach to transforming learning spaces called ‘What if…? Re-imagining Learning Spaces’ and collect your own copy of the recently published handbook on learning with handheld technologies.
Social and collaborative learning
Learners derive enormous benefit from working with others. The emergence of social software such as internet discussion forums, online games, blogs and wikis can enable new approaches to communication and collaboration in education. Futurelab’s recent report on ‘Social Software and Learning’ explores the relationship between social software and the personalisation of education.
Prototypes to encourage social and collaborative learning on display at the Futurelab stand include:
* World Power League. A website that helps young learners to reflect on what is meant by the concepts of citizenship and politics by enabling students to vote for people they wished had more power. Because the World Power League can contain people from all walks of life – including the students themselves – it shows that politics is not just about governments, but the relationships between people in their daily lives.
* MobiMissions. An innovative mobile phone game, played while out and about in your local community, which supports collaboration.
This year at BETT, we encourage you to become more social and collaborative, with the launch of FLUX – a blog, hosted by Futurelab, which offers the space to discuss and debate the latest in innovation and education.
More information about BETT 2007
BETT is the world’s leading educational information and communications technologies (ICT) event, attracting 600 educational suppliers and over 28,000 visitors, and bringing together the global teaching and learning community for four days of innovations and inspirations. Go to www.bettshow.co.uk for full details and to register online (free).
EGOART Art Prize – deadline 31st Jan 2007
EGOART PRIZE 2006
Call for entries
The art group Egoart (Viktor Freso, Lukas Harustiak) launches its annual Egoart Art Prize for the 4th time.
Apply until the 31st of January 2007 and win 1000 Euro.
The finalists of the prize will be exhibited in a chosen gallery during the year 2007.
Public Pages – deadline 2 Feb 2007
Public Pages – CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Public Pages is an exhibition of Text Art and Visual Poetry bringing together contributions from poets, artists and makers of works which explore the visual and cultural impact of the sign and the slogan in public space. Designed as a complement to the academic conference Poetry and Public Language, this exhibition will show works which engage with the placement and displacement of text on the page, that articulate the two-dimensional surface, that integrate visual and textual elements in a composition and consider the page as a public space, addressing a public and entering into public debate.
Public Pages is curated by Mark Leahy
DATES: 26 March -8 April, 2007
Opening reception Friday 30 March
The exhibition invites responses from poets, artists, writers, makers, to the possibilities of the restrictions of a one-page work. The works will be published in digital form on the exhibition website, and a selection will be printed as larger scale works (up to A0 size) to be shown in the gallery spaces of the Portland Square Building at Plymouth University.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Submissions are requested for an exhibition of one page visual textual works that will be shown in conjunction with the conference Poetry and Public Language, at Portland Square Building, Plymouth University and online at www.peninsula-arts.org.uk
Works are welcomed that engage with the placement and displacement of text on the page, that articulate the two-dimensional surface, that integrate visual and textual elements in a composition, and consider this page a public space, as addressing a public, or entering into public debate.
Submissions should be sent in the form of PDF documents of one page (or in files which may be converted to this format). Works will be published on the exhibition website. A selection will be printed in poster form for exhibition in the University of Plymouth buildings.
address for submissions: m.leahy@dartington.ac.uk
closing date: February 2nd 2007
Organising committee for Poetry and Public Language 2007:
Tony Lopez, Anthony Caleshu, John Hall, Mark Leahy
‘Poetry and Public Language 2007’ is a collaborative venture sponsored by the University of Plymouth and Dartington College of Arts, promoted in association with Peninsula Arts
Dr Mark Leahy
Director of Writing
Dartington College of Arts
Totnes TQ9 6EJ
United Kingdom
+44 (0) 1803 861682 ph.
+44 (0) 1803 861666 fax.
m.leahy@dartington.ac.uk
http://www.dartington.ac.uk/pw
Critical Mass Artists’ Moving Image commissions – deadline 19 Jan 2007
Kinetica offers five moving image production bursaries to East Midlands Artists to create single screen works that cut against our assumptions and present us with unexpected interpretations of the Kinetica theme. The five commissioned works will be screened around the world and will feature on the Critical Mass: Kinetica DVD collection of Artists films. This is the third DVD collection in a series of Artists’ moving image works, dance films and experimental narratives.Deadline for applications: Jan 19 2007.
More info/application forms: kinetica@thresholdstudios.tv
T: 01604 250377
Inanimate Alice in the Guardian
If you’ve never heard of the Guardian, it’s a UK national paper, known for having (amongst other things) an excellent coverage of arts and literature. The third episode of Inanimate Alice (‘Russia’) was exclusively released last week on the Guardian website, together with an interview with my collaborating partner Kate Pullinger. The Guardian have done a good job of promoting it, starting with a front page banner on the weekend print paper (I didn’t see it – was away with friends in lovely Dorset without computers, mobile phone reception or newspapers – but apparently Alice was above Tony Blair, which could be a good thing or not). They’ve also placed an attractive Alice banner and link on their main online books page.
As a result of all this our main Inanimate Alice site has naturally received a huge influx of viewers and mailing list members, which hopefully makes future episodes that little bit more likely to happen. The feedback so far has generally been very positive… but at the moment my main feeling is relief that it is finally done and out there! This third episode has occupied a lot of my time in the second half of this year. Not just planning and creating it, but previewing it (at the Edinburgh Interactive Entertainment Festival in August, the Banff Interactive Project Lab in October, and the IOCT Salon with Kate Pullinger last month). It’s a fascinating (and challenging) project to be a part of – but it’s also nice to clear some headspace for new projects.
As I just said to Kate and the Alice producer Ian Harper, I do find it funny how for many people new media can only be validated through the old. I suppose it will always be the way. A good friend of mine who has never looked at my work saw Ep 3 on the Guardian, and that finally persuaded him to check it out. That makes my week – but it’s still unlikely that he’ll ever find his way here or to my other work unless it is splashed in a newspaper or on TV.
Prix Ars Electronica – deadline 9 Mar 2007
Prix Ars Electronica 2007 – International Competition for Cyberarts
The 21st Prix Ars Electronica will have a few new features.
The new Hybrid Art category, a new prize for Media.Art.Research, and the integration of Net Vision into Digital Communities are the most visible signs of the intensive work that is being done on the definition of the competition’s categories. As always, the aim is to continually keep the Prix Ars Electronica updated in line with leading-edge developments in the dynamic field of cyberarts.
Start of Online Submission : December 8, 2007
Online Submission Deadline: March 9, 2007
Computeranimation / Film / VFX, Digital Musics, Interactive Art, Hybrid Art,
Digital Communities, u19 – freestyle competition, [the next idea] grant,
Media.Art.Research Award
Total prize money: 122.500 Euro
All details about the categories and the online submission
are available online only at:
ARCIPELAGO – International Festival of Short Films and New Images – deadline 5 Feb 2007
::: CALL FOR ENTRIES 2007 :::
Entries are welcome for the Fifteenth Edition of ARCIPELAGO – International Festival of Short Films and New Images, which will be held in Rome from June 15 to June 21, 2007.
Created by 3E-medi@, Arcipelago is the most popular Italian event dedicated to new formats and new trends of international independent cinema.
The following are the competitive sections of the 2007 Edition:
- SHORT WAVES – International competition for short films. Running time must not exceed 30 minutes. All genres are eligible (fiction, documentary, animation, experimental and music video), either on film or video.
- eMOVIE – International competition dedicated to new images. Italian and foreign short films up to 30 minutes are eligible, and must be made on computer and/or shot in any digital format. All genres are welcome.
- SHORT.WEB 7.0 – International online competition. For short films exclusively conceived for diffusion on the Internet or however compatible with a Web distribution. The competition will be held exclusively online and it’s reserved to works of all genres, up to 15 minutes long.
- CONCORTO – National competition for Italian unreleased short films. Running time must not exceed 30 minutes. Films can be on video or film, either fiction or documentary or animation or experimental or music video.
- EXTRA LARGE – National documentary competition. Reserved to Italian documentaries between 30 and 60 minutes long, either on video or film.
- VIDEOROME – Regional video competition. 5 minutes on video on a specific theme – organized in collaboration with Mediateca Roma and the Lazio Region’s Culture Department.
As in past editions, the ITINERARIES section will present the best of the “short” Italian production screened at last year’s festivals.
VHS tapes (or DVDs) and entry forms for the International pre-selection must be sent by February 5, 2007, to the address:
By ordinary mail:
FESTIVAL ARCIPELAGO
c/o Associazione Culturale 3E-medi@
P.O. Box 6154
00195 Rome RM
Italy
By quick mail service or courier
(after January 10 only):
FESTIVAL ARCIPELAGO
c/o Associazione Culturale 3E-medi@
Clivo di Monte del Gallo 22
00165 Rome RM
Italy
PLEASE, NOTE: films must be submitted exclusively through the online entry form, directly from our website www.arcipelagofilmfestival.org, where you can also download the Regulations, in .rtf or .pdf format.
The Regulations sheet can be requested by e-mail as well.
ARCIPELAGO
International Festival of Short Films and New Images
P.O. Box 6154 – 00195 Rome RM
(Italy)
Tel. +39-06-39387246 – Fax +39-06-39388262
e-mail: info@arcipelagofilmfestival.org
web: www.arcipelagofilmfestival.org
Member of the European Coordination of Film Festivals – EEIG
12th International Media Art Biennale WRO 07 Competition – deadline 15 Feb 2007
12th International Media Art Biennale WRO 07 Competition
16 – 20 May 2007, Wroclaw, Poland
12th International Media Art Biennale WRO 07(c) WRO Foundation for Media Art in Wrocław/Poland, announces an international competition open to any work created using electronic media techniques, exploring innovative forms of artistic communication.
The competition welcomes creators of artistic projects of diverse forms such as screenings (video art, computer animation), installations, objects, performances, multimedia concerts and network projects from all over the world.
The main prize is €5000.
The deadline date for entry submission is 15.02.2007.
Presentation of shortlisted works and the international jury’s announcement of the competition results will take place during public screening at the WRO 07 Biennale.
The competition regulations and entry form are available in downloadable format at http://wro07.wrocenter.pl. Requests to receive the regulations and entry form by post can be made at print@wrocenter.pl.
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