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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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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Ranulph Glanville at the Computer Arts Society, London – 2 December 2008
Ranulph Glanville
No Longer a Shrinking Violet?
2 December 2008 – 6:30 for 7:00
Institute of Archeology – Room 410
University College London, 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY
Nearest tubes: Euston Square, Warren Street & Russell Square
Map: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/intro/UCLmap.htm
The significance of cybernetics in the development of computer arts is apparent in the title of Jasia Reichart’s Cybernetic Serendipity Exhibition, now celebrating its 40th anniversary (which is also the 50th of the Philips Pavilion and the 60th of Wiener’s eponymous book). It featured, prominently, the work of several cyberneticians whose art is currently being very positively re-evaluated (see for instance www.paskpresent.com, and exhibition of work coming out of Gordon Pask’s work and ideas).
Yet 1968 is also often seen as the beginning of the very rapid decline of cybernetics to the point that, by the early 1970s, some were referring to it as dead.
However, 1968 also sees the beginning of a transformation of cybernetics that occurred through the application of cybernetic understandings to the field itself. For convenience, we can take this as initiated by Margaret Mead’s paper “Cybernetics of Cybernetics”. For some reason, this transformation has not received the recognition of the earlier version of cybernetics, or of other, contemporaneous developments. But it is alive, and well, if something of a shrinking violet!
In this talk, I will discuss the development of this so called second order cybernetics, and will present some of the central understandings and concepts. Many of them seem to me to be much more sympathetic to artists and the arts than those of 1968, and to bring an all together much more sophisticated world view, one that is much less mechanistic than the original.
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