Second Nature: Call for Papers and projects – deadline 15 June 2008
Second Nature: Call for Papers and projects
Second Nature: The International Journal of Creative Media is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal auspiced by RMIT’s School of Creative Media. Second Nature explores the distinctive particulars of and interconnections between textual, visual, aural and interactive creative research and practices.
The journal’s editorial board seeks papers and online projects for its first issue.
As the journal is multiple-media in focus we welcome contributions from across the field of creative media including creative writers, media and art historians, media practitioners and fine artists, architects and architectural theorists and historians, curators, museum professionals, scientists, cultural and media theorists, archivists, technologists, software developers, educationalists, philosophers and any others who have a stake in the understanding and future developments of creative media. Projects might include web-based interactives, net-art, games, suites of 2D imagery, video and sound works, fiction, critical and non-fiction writing. Both projects and papers will be peer-reviewed.
Deadline:
15th June, 2008: Expressions of interest
30th August, 2008: Papers and projects
Issue 1.
Role Models
The inaugural issue of Second Nature will examine creative practice as a contested site of inscription. It will challenge traditional
concepts of the creator’s role as one of ‘writing’ the world that, despite continual challenges to its hegemony, persists in the popular imagination. Whilst past challenges from cultural theorists have remained largely theoretical in approach, new developments in technologies and communications are rapidly changing the creative landscape. ‘Creativity’ and ‘innovation’ are seen as the drivers of future First World economies and the ‘cultural industries’ account for a substantial proportion of First world GNP. Ironically, less and less Government and corporate support seems to be available for independent, creative research.
Call for projects – AVLAB 1.0 Workshop (A/V experimentation) – deadline 1 July 2008
Open Call for projects – International Intensive Project Production Workshop, AVLAB 1.0
September 17 – October 1, 2008
Submission Deadline: July 1, 2008
Directed by Javier Duero. Teachers: Francisco López, Hans-Christoph Steiner and a third one to be confirmed. Coordinated by Daniel González Xavier. Venue: Medialab-Prado (Madrid, Spain).
Medialab-Prado issues a call for projects on audio/video to be developed within the framework of the AVLAB 1.0 workshop.
Projects can be presented individually or by groups, and should be related with the following fields: Sound art, live cinema, computer music, circuit bending, audio/video processing in real time, design of hardware-software applications specifically for audio/video, documentation and historical projects, and anthropological and sociological studies.
A maximum of 10 projects to be collaboratively developed will be selected.
Medialab-Prado will cover lodging at a youth hostel in Madrid and flight expenses for the authors of the selected projects.
More information and call guidelines:
http://medialab-prado.es/article/avlab_10
In collaboration with the Center for Contemporary Music Promotion (Centro para la Difusión de la Música Contemporánea) and Experimentaclub08.
PM Gordon Brown at NESTA, 20 May 2008
NESTA’s flagship conference, The Innovation Edge ( http://www.innovationedge08.co.uk ), was held at the Royal Festival Hall this week. Along with stands displaying the latest NESTA backed ideas and technologies, there were talks from a range of important figures in the world of UK and global innovation and creativity, including Tim Berners-Lee (typically incisive, yet unassuming) and Bob Geldof. I have never been a huge fan of Bob, but he changed my mind with a incredibly lucid and intelligent (bordering on brilliant) 45 minute talk about Africa, globalisation, technology and why we need things to change, now – all without notes, and despite the serious topic, also hugely entertaining.
Gordon Brown turned up after lunch to deliver a short speech. I’ll admit that I was also pleasantly surprised by the PM in person – his TV image certainly doesn’t do him any favours. So here’s his speech. Part of my reason for posting this here (NESTA has posted much better quality event videos here) is to test out a new (to me) free data storage site, humyo.com, which so far seems the most user-friendly and generally well thought-out storage site I’ve come across.
New River Journal – Spring 2008
Announcing the Spring 2008 issue of New River Journal
The spring 2008 issue <http://www.cddc.vt.edu/journals/newriver/08Spring/> of the New River Journal has recently been published. The Journal, the oldest literary journal devoted to digital writing, was last year selected by the Library of Congress for inclusion in its Internet Archive, a recognition both of the journal’s lasting value and a guarantee that all issues will be available for as long, at least, as the Library of Congress is in existence.
The New River Journal has for the last three semesters been student-edited under the guidance of Ed Falco, the journal’s founding editor (and recent NEA fellow). This semester marked the first time three students have been involved, with editing duties split between Carrie Meadows, Lauren Jensen, and Weston Cutter, each of whom are MFA students in the English Department at Virginia Tech.
“The New River is one of only a few journals in which the boundaries of digital writing are consistently pushed,” said Carrie Meadows. “Digital writing offers some of the most interesting and unique pieces of literary art—fiction and nonfiction, poetry and work that’s basically genre-less—available, and we’re really proud to be part of the still-developing tradition.”
With five works of digital writing, the latest issue of the New River Journal features work by digital writers both well-established and new to the field. Caren Beilin and Jennifer Smith’s “Animals Are Placebos,” is a collaborative work pairing an explosive new talent in fiction and a sure-handed digital manipulator. Sara Bailey’s “Factography,” is a rich, narrative-driven piece that harkens back to classically linked hypertext stories.
Aya Karpinska’s “fps” is a haunting text experience, allowing the user some measure of control while simultaneously forcing certain aspects of the piece on the reader. The examination of that split in agency—between reader and ‘author,’ or even the piece itself—offers an intriguing view of one of the fundamental aspects of digital writing.
Travis Alber’s “Dandelion Chance” presents itself as something of a mix between digital writing and a more mixed-media, video-based art. Pushing the boundaries of what digital writing might be, Alber’s work presents the reader a cohesive experience of a fractured and fracturing media experience.
Daniel Howe and Feliz Molina’s “Roulette” is a digital work of daring potential, allowing the reader both to ‘create’ the text but also to erase and recreate the text with each mouse click. The establishment and disappearance of the text speaks to the malleable nature of both narrative and the reading experience itself.
“We’ve been really lucky to receive so many interesting, great pieces for the journal,” Lauren Jensen said. “Despite hypertext’s decade-and-a-half past, digital writing is still sort of whatever the writers and artists decide it is.”
New River Journal:
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/journals/newriver/
Contact:
Weston Cutter (wlcutter [at] vt.edu)
Carrie Meadows (carriemeadows [at] vt.edu)
Lauren Jensen (lauryn33 [at] vt.edu)
Reproof Reading – The Hyperliterature Exchange, May 2008
New on The Hyperliterature Exchange for May 2008: a review of ‘Le Reprobateur/The Reprover’ by Francois Coulon.
“Le Reprobateur… exudes selfconfidence, playfulness and humour; it attempts to do a lot of things at once, and by and large it succeeds in everything it attempts…”
To read the whole review, go to
http://www.hyperex.co.uk/reviewreprobateur.php .
The Hyperliterature Exchange is an online directory and review of new media literature for sale on the Web. More than 120 works are now listed. Please visit and browse at http://hyperex.co.uk .
Christiania Researcher in Residence (CRIR) – deadline now until 1 November 2008
For the timespan from now and till the 1st of November 2008 we now welcome applications for a residency at the CRIR. In general we grant stays of 2-3 weeks at a time unless the specific project needs a different time frame. We consider applications on a running basis, so the sooner we receive it the better
About CRIR
Christiania Researcher in Residence (CRIR) offers residency for artists and academic researchers with a specific interest in Christiania as a field of study.
Background
The aim of the Christiania Researcher in Residence project is to involve artists, researchers and academics in an open, critical and
reflective dialogue around the free town Christiania in Copenhagen, and to feed new creative and critical thinking into the public realm.
Read more::
http://crir.net
How to apply:
http://crir.net/apply.html
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