An Artist’s Guide for Editing Wikipedia, by Rob Myers
An Artist’s Guide for Editing Wikipedia.
A no nonsense guide to help improve the representation of artists using Wikipedia by Rob Myers.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=350
The collaboratively produced on-line encyclopaedia Wikipedia is becoming an important reference resource for art as well as for its traditional strengths in the sciences and popular culture. To help improve the representation of new media art on Wikipedia, more people who are involved in the field should learn about how Wikipedia works and get involved with editing it. This article is a brief introduction to doing so.
more reviews/articles/interviews on furtherfield:
http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php
transmediale Award 2010 Call for Entries – deadline 31 July 2009
// transmediale Award 2010 //
// Vilem Flusser Theory Award 2010 //
transmediale.10
festival for art and digital culture berlin
03 – 07 February 2010
CTM – club transmediale.10
festival for adventurous music and related visual arts
29 January – 6 February 2010
_Call for Entries_
:: Deadline: 31 July 2009
:: Award Ceremony: 6 February 2010, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Complete call, registration information and online submission form at:
http://www.transmediale.de/en/call2010-main
As leading international festivals for art and digital culture as well as adventurous music and related visual arts, respectively, transmediale and CTM (club transmediale) are inviting submissions to the transmediale Award Competition 2010 and the Vilem Flusser Theory Award 2010. Invited are art works, projects and positions that respond to the challenges of our rapidly changing digital, technological and networked cultures. The transmediale Award seeks innovative, experimental and visionary works across a wide scope of form, process and practice that embrace, question and enrich our understanding and relationship to our immersed media and technologically driven society. Entries that exemplify new and critical forms of digital expression and interaction are encouraged, as are works from countries and regions in which digital art and culture are emergent. Submissions of art works for both festivals participate in the transmediale Award 2010 while theoretical abstracts, papers and research oriented positions are invited for the Vilem Flusser Theory Award, with prizes totaling 10.000 EURO.
3rd transitio_mx festival call for submissions – deadline 19 June 2009
3rd transitio_mx festival
October 2009, Mexico City
In order to support, acknowledge, and promote current research and production in new media art, the Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (CONACULTA) through its Centro Multimedia of the Centro Nacional de las Artes, calls the local and international artistic community to the Third New Media and Art Contest which will take place in the New Media and Art Video International Festival.
The contest is open to any individual, group and association engaged in the production of artwork created with new media technologies, including video art, sound art, net-art, installation, composition, performance and related disciplines.The Third New Media and Art Contest, Autonomies of disagreement, provides a setting of located practices, where disagreement allows for dialogue and exchange in the realms of local and international new media art. This international contest is concerned with acknowledging those distinct technological displacements and art’s current status, bearing a particular emphasis on those artworks whose technological innovations and contributions are supported by means that can be used for creation, stressing above all a critical perspective.
This international contest is concerned with acknowledging those distinct technological displacements and art’s current status, bearing a particular emphasis on those artworks whose technological innovations and contributions are conceived through creative means. The following categories are thus open:
Call for sonic art submissions for EXPO LEEDS – deadline 29 May 2009
Call for Submissions EXPO LEEDS
Submissions are sought in all forms of sonic art including real-time interactive works, improvisation with technology, experimental electronica, instrumental/electroacoustic mixes, acousmatic music, sound installations, noise, environmental sound work, conceptual sound art, performances, internet-based creative work, radiophonic work, sound and image works and cross-arts work. In summary, we welcome submissions of all kinds of work incorporating experimental use of sound as a major element.
Please note that due to the volume of submissions that we receive we cannot return submitted materials.
For all submissions, you will need to:
Fill in our online form
Send examples of your work, either by post or by email
Deadline for proposals: 29 May 2009
http://www.leeds.expofestival.org/index.php?/callforwork/call-for-submissions-/
Call for entries – Screengrab New Media Art Award 2009 – deadline 13 July 2009
Call For Entries
http://www.jcu.edu.au/soca/idc/groups/public/documents/guide/jcuprd_047774.pdf
S C R E E N G R A B 2009
Place | Identity | Space | Community
Theme : Intervention
Increasingly we live in a world which is marked by boundaries and difference. Our actions are categorised and labelled for reference, sign posting and evaluation.
Intervention is the new catchcry of these troubled times and no one is immune whether it be remote indigenous communities, Wall St banks, tropical forests, visual communication, economies of the state, small gatherings in shopping malls, subliminal advertising, ISPs, online discussion forums or pop cultural moments like Facebook and the Sopranos.
Screengrab’s inaugural exhibition and new media arts prize invites practitioners working in screen based media to submit works on the theme of Intervention.
All forms of screen based media are encouraged including multi-channel video, digital illustration, audio sculpture, photography, generative media, 2D & 3D anime.
2009 SCREENGRAB Awards
Open Prize : School of Creative Arts New Media Arts Prize AUS$2000
Tertiary Prize : Focal Press Tertiary New Media Arts Prize AUS$1000 Voucher
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For submission guidelines see our info pack @
http://www.jcu.edu.au/soca/idc/groups/public/documents/guide/jcuprd_047774.pdf
Download an application form @
http://www.jcu.edu.au/soca/JCUPRD_047936
Deadline : July 13 2009
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All submitted works will be considered for the exhibition SCREENGRAB | INTERVENTION
Exhibition officially opens on Friday July 31,
Participants and award winners will be notified by Friday July 24.
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Screengrab is an initiative of the School of Creative Arts [http://www.jcu.edu.au/soca/index.htm] , James Cook university, Townsville Australia.
Further enquiries can be forwarded to screengrab [at] jcu.edu.au
Portable Pixel Playground: Call for artists’ proposals – deadline 3 July 2009
folly, a leading digital arts organisation working in the Northwest of England and online, is delighted to invite proposals from artists/artist groups for our developing project, Portable Pixel Playground, a unique and imaginative environment that offers children and young people alternative play opportunities with art and technology. The playground encourages children to get active, think differently, collaborate and take risks through being exposed to new concepts and challenges created by artists.
Portable Pixel Playground is a modular set of equipment and artists’ commissions for use in public settings such as shopping centres, galleries and railway stations. Portable Pixel Playground encourages young people to use everyday technologies in new and creative ways, providing them with interactive, physical and hands-on new experiences of art and technology.
Submitting a proposal:
Please download the full artists’ brief at http://www.folly.co.uk/click/1408/99
Please send an initial statement of interest of maximum 500 words explaining how you would meet the PPP brief, with drawings/visuals if possible, plus a proposed outline budget, to:
Tor Townley, Portable Pixel Playground Project Co-ordinator
tor.townley ‘at’ folly.co.uk
folly, 6.4.4 Alston House, White Cross, Lancaster LA1 4XQ
+44 (0)1524 388550
Please include an Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form with your proposal, available to download from the folly website. This information will be used solely for monitoring purposes and will be kept in the strictest confidence. You are not obliged to fill in this form, but it will assist us if you do so. It will not be seen by those considering your proposal.
Deadline for proposals: Friday 3 July 2009
Fees and contractual details:
* Each PPP commission will be a collaboration between folly and selected artist(s): artists will work closely with the PPP Project Manager and folly team throughout the development of each commission
* Total artist’s budget for each commission: £4,000 (including fees and materials)
* folly will invest time and funding resources into each commission and the playground over and above each commission fee – to be negotiated for individual projects.
* A separate budget for the transport of artwork will be agreed
* Artist’s travel/expenses: to be discussed and agreed with folly according to location, number of meetings etc
Portable Pixel Playground is supported by the Big Lottery Fund
Landskap med Tranströmer
for remixworx, from Tomas-Transtromer + Landskap med Skolar by Tomas Tranströmer + translation by Malena Mörling + the pallas athena ascension
Flash source: landskapmedskolar.fla (121KB)
pubcode – livecoded music + vjs, London, Friday 29th May
++ PUBCODE ++
The first series of livecoded music events in London.
Live coding is a new direction in electronic music and video, and is starting to get somewhere interesting. Live coders expose and rewire the innards of software while it generates improvised music and/or visuals. All code manipulation is projected for your pleasure.
When:
7pm – 11pm Friday 29th May
Featuring:
Yee-King (spasmic drumming)
slub (ambient skiffle techno)
Click Nilson (slurs, arrows, slurring)
Pixelpusher vs The Cane Toads (dirty pixel raga)
Scott Hewitt (patching things)
Place:
The Roebuck
50 Great Dover Street
London
SE1 4YG
Map:
http://is.gd/CL5G
Door tax:
Free
Tube:
Borough (5 mins walk)
London Bridge (9 mins walk)
More info:
http://toplap.org/uk/
TOPLAP UK gratefully acknowledges financial support from the PRS Foundation.
Feral Trade Café by Kate Rich at HTTP Gallery, London – from 13 June 2009
Exhibition: Free entry
13 June – 2 August 2009
Open Friday-Sunday 12-5
Private View: Saturday, 13 June 16:00–19:00
http://www.http.uk.net/
Feral Trade Café, an art exhibition that is also a working café, opens at HTTP Gallery for 8 weeks during Summer 2009. Serving food and drink traded over social networks, Feral Trade Café by artist Kate Rich (AU) provides a convivial setting from which to contemplate broader changes to our climate and economies, where conventional supply chains (for food delivery and cultural funding) could go belly up.
Feral Trade uses social and cultural hand baggage to transport grocery items between cities, often using other artists and curators as mules. The exhibition includes a retrospective display of Feral Trade products (2003-present), alongside ingredient route maps, bespoke food packaging, video and other artefacts from the Feral Trade network. The café will stock and serve a selection of Feral Trade goods from a menu including coffee from El Salvador, hot chocolate from Mexico and sweets from Montenegro, as well as locally sourced bread, vegetables and herbs. Along with their food and drink, diners will be served waybills detailing the socially facilitated transit of goods to their plate.
Feral Trade Café is the first element of Furtherfield.org’s three-year Media Art Ecologies programme, which aims to provide opportunities for critical debate, exchange and participation in emerging ecological media art practices, and the theoretical, political and social contexts they engage. The café will be host to events, initiated by Furtherfield.org and others, examining issues related to the Feral Trade and Media Art Ecologies projects, including a Media Art Ecologies networking day. Further info and dates (TBC).
On the occasion of the exhibition, Furtherfield.org and HTTP Gallery are pleased to publish a new essay about the Feral Trade project by writer, artist and designer Femke Snelting of De Guezen (http://www.geuzen.org/) (NL), http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=349
About Kate Rich
Kate Rich is an Australian-born artist & trader. In the 1990s she moved to California to work as radio engineer with the Bureau of Inverse Technology (BIT), an international agency producing an array of critical information products including economic and ecologic indices, event-triggered webcam networks, and animal operated emergency broadcast devices. The Bureau’s work has been exhibited broadly in academic, scientific and museum contexts. Restless at the turn of the century, she headed further east to take up the post of Bar Manager at the Cube Microplex, Bristol UK where she launched Feral Trade. She is currently moving deeper into the infrastructure of cultural economy, developing protocols to define and manage amenities of hospitality, catering, sports and survival in the cultural realm. More information:
For more information about the exhibition:
http://www.http.uk.net/exhibitions/FeralTradeCafe/index.shtml
Feral Trade – http://www.feraltrade.org
Kate Rich – http://bureauit.org/data/krcv/
Contact:
Ruth Catlow, HTTP Gallery
email:ruthATfurtherfieldDOTorg
HTTP Gallery
Unit A2, Arena Design Centre
71 Ashfield Road
London N4 1NY
+44(0)7737002879
map – http://www.http.uk.net/docs/gettingto.shtml
Viral video competition – deadline 10 July 2009
Webtel.mobi needs YOU to create a viral video campaign that will spread like wildfire round the web. The combined prize money on offer is £50,000, with prizes per category as well as an overall grand prize. The final winner will be invited to join Webtel.mobi at an Awards Ceremony in Cannes, where the Grand Prize winner will be announced at the Webtel.mobi Cannes Viral Film Festival.
Details of the competition can be found at http://www.zooppa.com/contests/webtelmobi
The competition runs from May 11th through July 10th 2009.
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