Call for Submissions – Shortness, Tate Modern – deadline 20 March 2009
Call for Submissions – Shortness, Tate Modern.
shortness – a very short conference and a very long dinner
Tate Modern, London, 20 June 2009
Deadline Friday 20 March 2009
This event will bring together practitioners and theoreticians of the humanities, arts and sciences to extol or berate, to discuss, explore and explain shortness in all its spatial and temporal manifestations.
Topics that Shortness aims to cover include: aphorisms, txt msgs, short attention spans, nanophilology, music samples, ephemeral relationships, short narratives, punch lines, orgasms and other short-lived entities and phenomena (insects and fashion).
The conference itself will only last a few hours and will be followed by a very long dinner. Guests will be entertained by short dinner speeches and the whole event will be supplemented by short films and various interventions.
This call invites submissions for presentations or performances of up to 7 minutes to take place during the long dinner. Please note that we cannot cover any expenses incurred nor can we accommodate installations.
Speakers include DJ Spooky, Sadie Plant, Tom Shakespeare, Clare Wigfall and Steven Connor amongst others. The Compère for the dinner will be Nicholas Parsons.
Please send an abstract of no more than 200 words to the organisers and include a short bio of no more than 100 words.
Contact: short.at.tate [at] googlemail.com
Shortness is organised by Irini Marinaki, Konstantinos Stefanis, Ricarda Vidal and Tate Modern Public Programmes in collaboration with The London Consortium and the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study (University of London).
Tate Encounters – Art Museums in Digital Culture – 2-6 March 2009, London, UK
Tate Encounters: Research in Process
Resolutely Analogue?: Art Museums in Digital Culture
Tate Encounters is a collaborative project between Tate Britain, London South Bank University and University Arts London and is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council through the ‘Diasporas, Migration and Identities’ programme.
Tate Britain Duveen Studio
Free, booking required
For tickets, call 020 7887 8888.
Programme B
Monday 2 March – Friday 6 March 2009
- To what extent does the web visitor have agency to ‘act back’ or to ‘author’ their interactions with museum websites?
- How is new media being conceived as an ‘interpretative’ or ‘augmenting’ dimension of the museum experience and with what effects?
- How do museums see and understand the value of the use of personal mobile media within the museum?
These questions have been grouped under the title ‘Resolutely Analogue? Art Museums in Digital Culture’ to signal the tension between change and continuity, between new media enthusiasms and traditional museological practices. Issues such as the use of media in the gallery centered on authority and provenance, ownership and copyright, and user engagement will also be discussed throughout the week’s programme.
polar bear
for remixworx, from [omega polar libido]
flash source/font: polarbear.zip (103KB)
‘A whole library in a wafer-like form’ – interview with Kate Pullinger in Observer, 22 February 2009
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/feb/22/ebooks-technology-internet-downlaods-culture
An article by Kate Kellaway in the Observer (UK) newspaper this weekend that discusses the future of reading/books, and via an interview with Kate Pullinger mentions The Breathing Wall, Inanimate Alice and our upcoming project for the Museum of the Future of History of the Book.
Amusing that this discussion of future literacy has been given a URL that includes the typo ‘downlaods’…
Blackbird call for submissions: video essays – deadline 3 April 2009
Blackbird, an online journal of literature and the arts, is seeking video essays for publication.
Specifically, Blackbird is seeking video essays between two and ten minutes in length (with five to seven minutes being an ideal). Postmark / Email receipt deadline: April 3, 2009.
For more information, including submissions information:
http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v7n2/sub-video_essay.htm
For an idea of our editorial approach, see http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/
You may find the gallery and features sections of particular interest.
Query: blackbird [at] vcu.edu
Media Art PhD scholarships at the University of Westminster, London, UK – deadline 3 March 2009
Applications are now being invited for two full-time studentships – each worth £15,000 a year – in the University’s Centre for Research in Education, Art and Media (CREAM), in School of Media Art and Design. The scholarships will start in October 2009 and run for three years.
The deadline for applications is 5pm, 3rd March 2009 (UK, GMT).
The scholarships encourage both practice-led and theoretical applications that formulate approaches to art making through new and emerging media.
Scholarship subject areas are outlined below. However we encourage a broad interpretation of these and would be interested in receiving quality applications covering a range of related topics including Art and Science relationships, Interactive Arts, Software Art or any topic that scrutinises the intersections of art, society, technology and science and/or are interdisciplinary in nature.
Visual design applications will also be considered if they develop critical and innovatory approaches that fit the profile of research at CREAM.
1. Art and Computation: the Aesthetics of Information
Areas include critical and aesthetic approaches to data-mapping, visualisation, interactive and behavioural arts, robotics, emergence etc.
2. Art on the Web
Areas of art practice include critical and aesthetic explorations of the net as a site for art, and broad approaches to the idea of the network as a metaphoric and heterogeneous site that encompasses inter and cross disciplinary approaches to art making, i.e. practices that weave across subject domains to create new areas of critical practice and aesthetic object.
Further information about these topics can be found here:
http://www.wmin.ac.uk/page-17662
Applicants would hold, or expect to be awarded, a 2.1 honours degree or above and preferably a Masters degree and should, where relevant, demonstrate English Language competence of at least IELTS 6.5 or equivalent.
For more information:
How to apply:
http://www.wmin.ac.uk/page-17527
Eligibility criteria:
http://www.wmin.ac.uk/page-17525
Information on CREAM:
http://www.wmin.ac.uk/mad/page-569
If you need any further information or need to discuss this further please email:
Dr. Tom Corby, Deputy Director, Centre for Research in Education, Art, Media.
corbyt [at] wmin.ac.uk
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