Recruitment Announcement: AV Festival 10 Producer – deadline 18 May 2009
We are looking for an experienced arts producer to take the leading role in the production and delivery of AV Festival 10, which takes place from 5 – 14 March 2010 in Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland and Middlesbrough.
AV Festival is an international festival of electronic arts, featuring visual art, music and moving image. This is a fixed-term contract from approximately early June 2009 to the end of March 2010. The indicative fee is £23,000 – £28,000 pro rata (dependent on experience). You will work closely with the Director of AV Festival on the development of the programme and lead on the delivery of festival exhibitions, performances, publicly-sited installations and other special events across Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland and Middlesbrough.
There have been three successful editions of the festival to date, in 2003, 2006 and 2008. AV Festival has developed into a regular biennial event of international standing and has a strong network of collaborators across the North East of England and around the world. AVANE became a regularly funded organisation (RFO) of Arts Council England in 2008-09 in recognition of its artistic excellence, international profile and regional engagement. With a new Director and Manager in post, the development of a three year business plan, and planning currently underway for AV Festival 10, this is an ideal moment for a creative and dynamic individual to take a leading role in delivering the programme for AV Festival 10.
Closing date: 10am, Monday 18 May – late applications will not be accepted
Interviews will be held in Newcastle on Tuesday 26 May
Download the recruitment pack: http://www.avfestival.co.uk/news/opportunities/producer-av-festival-10
Computer Baroque: defining works in the history of digital moving image
Computer Baroque: defining works in the history of digital moving image – an online exhibition curated by Richard Wright – animateprojects.org until 14 July 2009.
Animate Projects presents Computer Baroque, an online exhibition of films by pioneers of computer animation, hailing from the UK, US, Japan, France, Hungary, Australia and Canada. The programme includes works from the 1980s and 1990s, a period when artists undertook audacious experiments in technique. As curator Richard Wright says, “Artists wanted to push the computer as far as it would go, to create visual transformations that defied previous traditions, to blend image, music and text, and to apply scientific ideas as new sources of inspiration.”
The films range from earlier, technologically progressive works by Karl Sims and William Latham, to the more ironic and satirical works by Shelley Lake and the Butler Brothers. Programme notes and an essay by curator Richard Wright accompany the exhibition.
Turbulence Spotlight: “MAICgregator” by Nick Knouf
Turbulence Spotlight: “MAICgregator” by Nick Knouf
http://turbulence.org/spotlight/knouf/
[Needs Firefox Browser and extension download]
“MAICgregator” is a Firefox extension that aggregates information about colleges and universities embedded in the military-academic-industrial complex (MAIC). It searches government funding databases, private news sources, private press releases, and public information about trustees to try and produce a radical cartography of the modern university via the replacement or overlay of this information on academic websites. This is a necessary activity in light of the contemporary financial “crisis”.
Please visit this post for conversation about the project:
http://turbulence.org/blog/2009/04/20/maicgregator-by-nick-knouf/
BIOGRAPHY
Nicholas Knouf is a PhD student in information science at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. His research explores the interstitial spaces between information science, critical theory, digital art, and science and technology studies. Ongoing work includes “Fluid Nexus”, a mobile phone messaging application designed for activists and relief workers that operates independent of a centralized network, robotic puppetry projects
that engage with psycho-socio-political imaginaries, and sound works that encourage the expression of the unspeakable. Past and current work has been recognized by a number awards, including an Honorary Mention by Prix Ars Electronica in [the next idea] category (2005), the Leonardo Abstracts Service (LABS) for his master’s thesis (2008), a memefest Award of Distinction (2008), and a special transmediale “Online Highlight” (2009). Additionally, his work has been discussed in print and online media, including ID Magazine, the Boston Globe, CNN, Slashdot, and Afterimage.
For more Turbulence Spotlights, please visit http://turbulence.org/spotlight
Review of ‘Art and Revolution – Transversal Activism in the Long Twentieth Century’
Art and Revolution – Transversal Activism in the Long Twentieth Century.
Review by Rob Myers.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=344
“Art and Revolution – Transversal Activism in the Long Twentieth Century” by Gerald Raunig is a book that presents and contextualises artists engagement with revolutionary moments over the last one hundred and fifty years. The history of artists’ involvement with the revolutionary movements of the modern era that it presents is compelling for artists looking for something more than the art market. And the theoretical framework that it uses as the context for this history is surprisingly pertinent to the post-credit-crunch new world order.
More reviews/articles/interviews on furtherfield.org
http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php
Call for entries – Tramuntana – deadline 30 April 2009
OPEN CALL FOR ENTRIES – Last 2 weeks
Please resend if interested.
TRAMUNTANA09 is now calling for proposals. TRAMUNTANA09 invites artists and video creators to send applications to participate in this third edition, which will take place in different spaces at Cadaques (Girona – Spain) in July 2009 (16th, 17th and 18th).
After last year “Four elements” inspired edition, TRAMUNTANA09 focuses on “Magnetisms” and all upcoming artistic interpretations of the concept.
The call is open for:
:::Audiovisual and Multimedia installations
:::Audiovisual live performances
:::Videos (two sections: experimental videos // “Magnetisms” subject videos)
Download the application form at: www.virb.com/tramuntana09
Please fulfil with the information requested and send applications as indicated in each case.
Dateline is 30th April 2009.
For any questions you can mail us at: tramuntana09_at_gmail.com
Thanks.
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