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MediaGuardian Innovation Awards – deadline 5 December 2008
Call them what you like, but we are looking for the ideas that have moved things on across the media landscape in the last year. We’re not interested in the solid or predictable, or work that is safe, comfortable or familiar. The Megas aim to reward work that challenges what exists, and recognise the people who act as a catalyst for change with their forward thinking.
The awards are open to innovative work carried out across any media or a number of media. Entries can be submitted by clients, agencies or individuals from any sector. However, regional and national newspapers are not eligible. The closing date for entries is Friday December 5 2008.
In all categories the judging panel will be looking for innovation in both ideas and methods. The Megas will reward innovations which are ingenious in theory and sublime in application. The future is being built on the innovations of today. Has your work pushed things forward?
For more information and to enter visit mediaguardian.co.uk/awards
Kieron Dennis, ‘Question, Answer, Question’ – a telephone installation
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Kieron Dennis, ‘Question, Answer, Question’
22 November – 21 December 2008
In 1934, the writer, H. G Wells, is said to have complained about telephones being an invasion of privacy. Rather than have news forced upon us as and when, Wells proposed a one-way telephone that would deliver information upon demand. According to historian, John Brooks, Wells was responding to what literary theorist, Avital Ronell, describes as the ‘disconnecting force’ of the telephone: a force that simultaneously disturbs and attracts us to such machines. Brooks suggests that Wells picked-up on that ‘projective trait of the telephone, which is the launching of speech – and speech alone – in the direction of the other in constant demand for immediate readiness.’ It is a demand that is answered by a question, which is at the same time an answer: ‘Yes?’ or ‘Hello?’ As such, answering a telephone becomes a declaration of readiness to receive and engage.
Kieron Dennis’s new work for Telephone, ‘Question, Answer, Question’, reports an incident. The information flows in one direction only, towards the listener: this is an encounter rather than a dialogue. The ‘demand for immediate readiness’ here is one of listening instead of speech.
The information in Dennis’s work seems pressing and urgent, but also somehow distant and disconnected from any specific context. And as much as knowledge is imparted, ignorance is admitted. A series of subtle inversions punctuate the work: subjects speak of one thing whilst, unwittingly, betraying another. Objects and images conjured by work, and that the listener might take to mean one thing, might well have come to mean something quite different.
Telephone is a project that uses a telephone number to present artworks (sound works). Telephone is an exhibition space, like a gallery, but one that offers space as time-duration rather than as physical dimensions. Telephone operates via a standard digital answering machine set to ‘answer only’. Telephone can be called by anyone, from anywhere, at any time (with calls being charged at a standard land-line rate). It makes use of a single telephone line, which means that each individual caller has sole access to the work at any one time: Telephone is not a broadcast.
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Telephone is a project by Claire Davies and Sam Gathercole
email: information.telephone [at] gmail.com
“Lift up your heads, O ye gates” – an appreciation of David Daniels
Newly co-published by Furtherfield and The Hyperliterature Exchange: an appreciation of David Daniels, the great shape-poet, who died in May 2008.
“Daniels is one of those figures who straddles the divide between digital and pre-digital art and literature… His art is about liberation, uninhibited outpouring, spontaneity and fun.”
To read the whole article, go to http://www.hyperex.co.uk/reviewdaniels.php .
A page of tributes to David Daniels (entitled “Tributes to David Daniels by divers hands”) is also being compiled at http://hyperex.co.uk/reviewdanielstributes.php . If you would like to add a tribute of your own (in whatever form you prefer), please send it to edward at edwardpicot.com – a small prize will be sent to the best one received before 1st March 2009.
Eyebeam residencies – deadline 1 December 2008
Eyebeam Residencies: Winter/ Spring 2009
You’ve got big ideas. You’re yearning to join NYC’s art and tech elite. You could use some time and money—not to mention support and inspiration—to create visionary projects. If any of these apply to you, then apply now for Eyebeam’s Winter/Spring 2009 Residency cycle. Residents are granted a $5,000 stipend and 24/7 access to Eyebeam’s Chelsea facility.
The program term is from February to June with the potential for extension and/or re-application. Residents will be selected from an open call, based on the quality of the work or research being proposed, the availability of the necessary tools and skills to support the work, and in consideration of the overarching research themes and activities of the organization.
About the Residency
Eyebeam residencies support the creative research, production and presentation of initiatives querying art, technology and culture. The residency is a period of concentration and immersion in artistic investigation, daring research or production of visionary, experimental applications and projects. Past initiatives have ranged from moving image, sound and physical computing works to technical prototypes, installations and public interventions. Check out our list of previous residents and their projects/ research here: http://www.eyebeam.org/production/production.php?page=air
For more info on what the residency entails, including answers to FAQs and how to apply, please visit http://www.eyebeam.org/production/production.php?page=calls
Graduate Studies at the MIT Media Lab
Interested in Creative, Cutting-Edge, Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies?
If you are thinking about going to graduate school, passionate about helping people, and interested in shaping the future of technology, consider applying to the MIT Media Lab. The Media Lab has one of the best graduate programs in the US, one that offers unique opportunities to do creative, cutting-edge, and radically interdisciplinary research. It is one of the few places in the world where leading scientists, designers, and scholars — in fields as diverse as robotics, art, neuroscience, and education — work together to revolutionize how humans experience, and can be aided by, technology.
Students come to the Media Lab through the Program in Media Arts and Sciences, and all students receive full financial support (tuition, medical insurance, and a stipend). Each year, the program accepts approximately 35 new graduate students. Student backgrounds range from computer science to psychology, music to graphic design, architecture to mechanical engineering, to name a few.
Each graduate student works in one of the Media Lab’s 27 research groups under the guidance of a primary research advisor (see http://admissions.media.mit.edu/admissions/research). When you apply, you should specify up to 3 possible advisors whose research interests resonate with your own. To find out more about a particular research group, check out the group’s website.
For more information, see http://www.media.mit.edu/admissions. If you have questions, or would like to arrange a visit to the Media Lab, please send a message to admissions09 [at] media.mit.edu. Also feel free to email me with questions or if you are specifically interested in applying to my group.
Best,
Leah Buechley
Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences (starting January 2009)
Director, High-Low Tech Group
MIT Media Lab
http://www.media.mit.edu/~leah
UpStage open walk-through and swaray – December 3-4
UpStage is an open source web-based platform for live online interactive performance (cyberformance); logged-in players manipulate media (such as graphical avatars, backdrops, web cams, audio, drawing and text) in real time to create a theatrical performance for audience members, who require only a browser and standard internet connection. The audience interact with the players, the performance and each other via a text chat.
There will be an UpStage open walk-through on Wednesday 3 December (or Thursday 4th if you are in the front part of the world), and a Swaray will be held on Thursday 4th December.
The walk-through is for those who are new to UpStage and would like to learn the basic operation and features of the environment.
The Swaray is for those who already have some experience of UpStage, to get together and chat about UpStage, related projects, the concepts behind what we’re doing, and anything else we feel like – such as post 080808 thoughts, and thinking ahead to 090909 …
** Open Walk-through: Wed 3 December, 8pm UK time; Thurs 4 December, 9am NZ time. Find your local time here: http://tinyurl.com/5cu6br and email info [at] upstage.org.nz to request a guest log-in.
** Swaray: Thursday 4 December, 8am UK time, 9pm NZ time. Find your local time here: http://tinyurl.com/5ha5mx.
For more information about UpStage, visit http://www.upstage.org.nz
Athens Video Art Festival – deadline 31 January 2009
Athens Video Art Festival is the official festival of Greece in the field of video art and new media, and covers the demands of people from the complete spectrum of creativity. It is a place of promotion of digital culture and a link between creators and organizations and at the same time an intriguing multi-dimensional event.
Each year Athens Video Art Festival evolves, becomes enriched and sets new goals raising the stake even higher, brings out its academic character and strengthens it through important collaborations and retrospectives, offers motives for creativity and presents the latest international developments in the field of digital media, and communicates them to the public.
Athens Video Art Festival celebrates the completion of five successful years and aims higher than ever. Building on its four previous impressive materializations, it is preparing its most ambitious edition yet, which will take place at “Technopolis”, of the City Of Athens.
To this grand celebration of digital culture, you are invited to participate in the following categories: video art, animation, digital image, web art and installation art.
The call for entries is open to foreign and Greek artists alike.
Postmark deadline: 31st January 2009.
Athens Video Art Festival is organized by the urban non profitable company Multitrab Productions, with the co-organization of the City of Athens and the General Secretariat For Youth.
Extensive information and entry forms can be found at www.athensvideoartfestival.gr
2 Calls for Bunk Works – deadline 1 February 2009
Following up on “The Los Wikiless Timespedia,” Bunk Magazine (http://www.bunkmag.com) is seeking submissions for an upcoming issue of new media art.
Spring-Summer 2009 “The Mad Bunkers Mash” (Humor and Literary)
A mash-up of two stately magazines, the literary giant Mad Hatters review and Bunk Magazine. The mash up issue seeks mashups, mashers, and works to be mashed.
See the full call here: http://www.madhattersreview.com/submit.shtml
Please contact with questions:
Mark C. Marino, Editor, Bunk Magazine.
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Writing Program
University of Southern California
http://WriterResponseTheory.org
http://CriticalCodeStudies.com
OCAD Toronto Digital Futures Initiative Job Postings – deadline 15 December 2008
PLEASE NOTE EXTENDED DEADLINE:
… EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST + CV: DECEMBER 15TH
… FULL APPLICATIONS: MONDAY, JANUARY 5TH
The Ontario College of Art & Design is Canada’s largest independent
university of art, media and design. Located in the Discovery
District of downtown Toronto and at the centre of the city’s dynamic
cultural activities, OCAD has 3500 students and over three hundred
faculty members. Committed to excellence and contemporary approaches
to education. OCAD currently offers 12 programs leading to the BFA
and BDes, and three programs leading to Master’s degrees. It is
building new interdisciplinary programs. The university has
experienced remarkable growth over the past five years and requires
outstanding creative researchers/practitioners and gifted teachers
to join OCAD in an exciting period of institutional development and
opportunity.
Drawing on faculty from across the university and working in
collaboration with a broad range of Canadian and international
private sector and public sector partners, the Digital Futures
Initiative (DFI) is a set of new cross-disciplinary programs,
research, and innovation activities currently being developed at
OCAD. Minors, a major and a suite of graduate programs will provide
learning opportunities in digital art, media and design, linking
this knowledge to emerging technologies with applications in fields
such as art/design and science, sustainability, health and wellness,
accessibility, diversity, and global innovation and business
development. OCAD has launched a research program in many fields of
digital endeavour and related disciplines, and has recently secured
significant funding to begin the construction of a series of
dedicated research laboratories. Faculty cross-appointed in the DFI
will be engaged in all facets of planning and utilization of these
laboratories.
The DFI Program Development and Selection Committee, comprising
representatives from the Faculties of Art, Design, and Liberal
Studies, invites applications for the following six tenure-track
positions:
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