Article on digital publishing by Kate Pullinger, The Guardian, 28 February 2008
‘Writers can learn a lot from the Hollywood strike. We deserve a better deal from digital publishing’
Writers of the world arise! It’s time to throw off the shackles of traditional publishing contracts and face a brand new digital future with a brand new set of priorities. Let’s copy or, should I say, learn from our brothers and sisters in Hollywood: don’t let the industry take our digital rights away! Give us our digital dues! In the shift from print to digital, writers are in danger of losing out big time.
Click here to see this post on the Guardian today by Kate Pullinger.
Phoenix Arts, Leicester – The Future of Phoenix
http://www.phoenix.org.uk/detail.asp?ID=3264
The Programme and Operations Directors of Phoenix will present a public discussion on how the company will adapt and change with the coming of the new DMC in 2009.
Cafe Culturel, Leicester – Digital Art
30 years ago we witnessed the dawn of the home computer age. 15 years ago people began to communicate between these machines via email and the web. Now we live in a world where nearly every part of our lives is influenced by digital technology whether at home, at work, or at play.
But how has, and how will, this revolution affect art? Has technology enabled us all to become artists by making easy and cheap what was once neither? Will it allow a new kind of work that was until recently impossible?
By virtue of their duplicatable digital nature, will visual artworks become a tradable commodity available to us all, like music and film? Or will the potential for online distribution render it effectively free, making the life of the professional artist unsustainable?
As a prelude to the commencement of the Phoenix’s Digital Programme join us to discuss these questions at Cafe Culturel on Tuesday March 4th at 6.30pm at the LCB Depot, 31 Rutland Street, Leicester, LE1 1RE.
Cafe Culturel is a free event occurring on the first Tuesday of every month.
On Tuesday April 1st we’ll be discussing April Fools Day and other superstitions and traditions that have survived both religion and
secularism.
http://www.cafeculturel.org.uk/2008/03/digital_art.html
The Futures of Digital Media Arts and Culture – Issue 11 of the Fibreculture Journal
The Futures of Digital Media Arts and Culture – Issue 11 of the Fibreculture Journal
edited by Andrew Hutchison and Ingrid Richardson
http://journal.fibreculture
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The Future is User-Led: The Path towards Widespread Produsage – Axel Bruns
The Aesthetics of the Ambient Video Experience – Jim Bizzocchi
Technology transfer present and futures in the electronic arts – Brian Degger
Art and (Second) Life: Over the hills and far away? – Caroline McCaw
Experience and abstraction: the arts and the logic of machines – Simon Penny
Dada Redux: Elements of Dadaist Practice in Contemporary Electronic Literature – Scott Rettberg
The Past as the Future? Nostalgia and Retrogaming in Digital Culture – Jaakko Suominen
Art against Information: Case Studies in Data Practice – Mitchell Whitelaw
Refugee Week Conference 2008 report
On Feb 15th I attended the Refugee Week Conference 2008 in London, to help me understand more of the issues surrounding the Flight Paths project that Kate Pullinger and I have been working on. The following is a report of the event – all my photos from the day can be seen here.
A summary of findings from the day from the Refugee Week team can be found here.
Richard Orton and Howard Skempton, Leicester, 27 February 2008, 2-3.30pm
Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester
New Media Seminar and Concert Series
And part of DMU’s cultural eXchanges Festival
Wednesday February 27, 2008, 2-3.30pm
Institute of Creative Technologies, The Gateway, Leicester
Richard Orton and Howard Skempton
A discussion between distinguished UK composers Richard Orton and Howard Skempton – just what did happen 40 years ago? An exploration of the early years of British (or English?) experimental music and electroacoustic music – there’s a history to write and rewrite here …. (Simon Emmerson chairs).
Wednesday February 27, 2008, 7-8.15pm
PACE Building, STUDIO 1, Richmond St., Leicester
Concert: Robert Normandeau (University of Montreal)
With Sarah Nicolls, piano
Programme: Spleen (1993), Figures de rhétorique (1997) for piano and electroacoustic sounds, Kuppel (2006), Murmures (2007)
Free! But seats limited – concert nearly full at this time – call 0116-250-6229 to reserve.
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