Chris Joseph Electronic writer and artist

Electronic Literature Directory requesting syllabi for E-Lit

Calling for Syllabi: Featuring works and criticism of electronic literature for The Electronic Literature Directory, 2.0. http://directory.eliterature.org

Electronic literature is now an established presence over multiple media, the Web, exhibition venues, conferences, and social networks. Critical texts can be found in numerous online publications and scholars from various fields now approach electronic literature from multiple perspectives. The humanities are ready, it seems, to include electronic literature – or, perhaps, e-lit in the classroom is poised to transform the humanities.

With the relaunch of the Electronic Literature Directory, the ELO provides not only a platform of works but also a forum for critical discussion. As a scholarly resource, the ELD has attracted increasing attention and has recently been featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired Campus Blog ( http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Electronic-Literature/23991/ )

To populate our collections, ELD editors are seeking additional resources. While we have a number of people from the community submitting and writing entries about works of electronic literature on the ELD, we suspect that there are still many projects to discover. We also suspect that syllabi from scholars and artists teaching e-lit will offer a range of works worth highlighting in the Directory. For the e-lit resources section, we wish to offer our audience contextual, theoretical, and critical scholarly writing. Assigned class readings registered in your syllabi may help us identify projects worthy of consideration and inclusion.

Your data will be treated confidentially and will be used solely for the purpose of populating the ELD. Like all materials on the ELD, this information will be protected by our Creative Commons license and marked with the Creative Commons logo.

Please send syllabi and potential works to
Patricia Tomaszek, ptomaszek.usb@googlemail.com

If you have any questions, please contact us, and we’d be glad to provide further details.

Joseph Tabbi
Project Director, Department of English, University of Illinois at Chicago

Davin Heckman
Editorial Director, Associate Professor, English/Communications, Siena
Heights University

Patricia Tomaszek,
Research Assistant, Media Upheavals, University of Siegen

Phoenix Square call for proposals – deadline 20th of each month

The submission guidelines and event checklist for Phoenix Square proposals are now available, as attached. If you have a proposal to submit, please e mail the event checklist directly to me at sgibson@dmu.ac.uk.

We generally review proposals on the last Tuesday of every month. Therefore I suggest you submit proposals to me by the 20th of the month if you wish to be considered at that month’s meeting. Each proposal is reviewed by the Digital Team at Phoenix, including myself, Tom Holley (the Artistic Director) and Chris Tyrer (the Digital Administrative Assistant).

Currently we are looking to fill Cube slots from early 2011 onwards. Cube exhibitions run for six weeks, with one week for setup and one week for teardown. Cube artists are usually expected to present one public talk at Phoenix as well. We also welcome one-off performance proposals for the Screen Lounge. These will be slotted as space is available, but generally they run every second Saturday from 9 pm onwards.

Please be aware that DMU staff and students cannot receive an artist fee for exhibiting or performing at Phoenix. A smallish material budget is available.

Please see http://www.phoenix.org.uk/ for an overview of the venues.

If you have any questions feel free to e mail back.

best,
Steve

Dr Steve Gibson
Senior Research Fellow
Institute of Creative Technologies
De Montfort University
The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH, UK
Mobile: +44(0)759-908-8554
Email: sgibson [at] dmu.ac.uk
Web: www.telebody.ws
Phoenix Square: http://www.phoenix.org.uk/

Calling All Cyberartists: Boston Cyberarts Festival, April 22 – May 8 2011

The next Boston Cyberarts Festival is scheduled for April 22-May 8, 2011. Past Festivals have involved 50 or more organizations, including museums, galleries, dance and music organizations, educational institutions, and others. There are lots of ways you can get involved. If you’re an organization and are considering an art-and-technology-related show for spring of 2011, we’d love to hear from you. If you’re a cyberartist but are not connected with a particular organization, we’ll see if we can help match you up with one.

details: http://www.bostoncyberarts.org/home_join_us.php

Moving Words call for submissions

MOVING WORDS
(edited by Camille Bacos, Jeremy Hight, & Carol Novack)

We are looking for narratives, fictions, word and language games and plays, all sorts of poetic forms, in fragments and entireties. We are looking for visually stimulating presentations, with or without custom-made audio elements, but preferably with. Surprise and delight us!

Here are some samples of moving words we love:
http://artport.whitney.org/gatepages/artists/nakatani/new_index.html ;
http://slippingglimpse.org/ ; http://www.yorku.ca/caitlin/waves/ ;

http://nmartproject.net/agricola/mpc/volume6/encoded.html

A comprehensive article about what’s broadly referred to as “electronic literature” may be accessed at http://eliterature.org/pad/elp.html .

Submit up to two works, and please prepare your file/s as follows:
QuickTime movies, h.264, “Fast Start,” 640 x 480 or 720X480 , for 16:9 use max. 720X480 with letter box , Data Rate 2000 kbits/sec. Audio AAC, Stereo, 16 bit, 44.100 kHz, duration no longer than 12 minutes. We accept flash & window media player formats.

Please submit your works directly to our server. For FTP info please send an email to movingwords [at] madhattersreview.com (with “Moving Words Submission” in the subject line) and include the following information (feel free to cut and paste):

1. YOUR name; email address; bio – max 250 words.

2. Name AND exact file name of pieces to be uploaded: i.e. Lucy in the Sky, lucysky2.mov

3. Permission to publish email address in Issue 12. YES ___ NO ___

4. Do you wish to include a bio pic? YES ___ NO ___

Flag Metamorphoses call for Flash animations – ongoing deadline

http://www.flag-metamorphoses.net

Next deadline: March 30, 2010 (and ongoing)

Flag Metamorphoses is a participatory art project – a continuously growing series of animations with many authors: The flags of every nation in the world will transform into each other through flash animations. Between each two flags, scenes appear to show an aspect of the relations between the two countries – an exploration into the meaning of imagery on flags, aiming to create interrelated associations through questioning, reassessing, fluidizing and re-mixing of diverse national iconography. Flag Metamorphoses lays stress on the relations between nations as changing ones. Each artist who creates a flag animation expresses such a relation in his/her own way. You too can contribute!

To find out how to participate, to see Flash flag animations, the list of exhibitions and festivals, and to read the full concept, please visit: www.flag-metamorphoses.net

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LES METAMORPHOSES DES DRAPEAUX

http://www.flag-metamorphoses.net

Prochaine date d’inscription: 30 mars 2010.

Un projet artistique collectif – une série d´animations qui s’ accroît en permanence et à laquelle participent de nombreux auteurs: tous les drapeaux nationaux du monde se métamorphosent et se fondent entre eux dans des animations Flash. Les médias numériques permettent de faire danser les symboles… Les signes visuels vont interrogés sur leur sens, les animations transforment leur valeur, débouchent sur de nouveaux liens. Il s’agit donc d’amplifier les formations visuelles existantes avec des dessins et des figures qui expriment un aspect de la relation du premier pays avec le pays du drapeau suivant.

Appel à la participation de nombreux auteurs: Par la présente, j’invite toutes celles et tous ceux – dans le monde entier – qui sont intéressés par la conception et la création d’une animation pour cette série.
Pour voir des animations, le concept et les conditions pour participer et pour savoir de plus, visitez: www.flag-metamorphoses.net

Sound Around You – participatory project from University of Salford, UK

http://www.soundaroundyou.com

The University of Salford is building a sound map of the UK as part of a new study into how sounds in our everyday environment make us feel.

They are asking people across the UK to use their mobile phones (or another audio recording device if their phone is not compatible) to record 10-15 second clips from different sound environments, or ‘soundscapes’ from a family car journey to a busy shopping centre, and to upload them to our virtual map, along with their opinions of them and why they chose to record it.

Recordings and responses will be analysed by acoustic scientists and significant findings will be reported on this website.

Sound Around You aims to raise awareness of how our soundscape influences us and could have far reaching implications for professions and social groups ranging from urban planners to house buyers.

Aberystwyth Arts Centre 3 or 6 month residencies – ongoing deadline

http://www.aberystwythartscentre.co.uk/information/artistsinresidence.shtml

Artists’ Residencies at Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales: 3 or 6 months. Applications are accepted at any time; the next selection deadline being in late 2009.

Aberystwyth Arts Centre: www.aberystwythartscentre.co.uk

Funded by the Esmee Faribairn foundation, Artist residences are intended to give artists ‘time out’ to develop their work.

Become a Reviewer on Furtherfield.org

www.furtherfield.org

Furtherfield receives regular submissions inviting us to feature and review artworks and projects from artists and art groups from all over the world. We have an excellent team of reviewers working with us. Yet, because we are receiving more innovative and high quality artworks for review than we ever have before, it is not easy keeping up with the workload. So, we need more reviewers.

What would you be reviewing?

Media art, net art, open source art and projects, software art, D.I.Y groups, culture and related social networks, live networked art, live Internet tv, tactical media, art blogs, net films, media art connected- self institutions, psychogeography, hacktivism, video game culture, activist games, as well as publictions/books, events, exhibitions online and in physical space, and related conferences. You will be expected to receive suggestions for review, as well as choose your own projects of interest.

We welcome contributions from all kinds of writers – and are always interested in bi-lingual reviewers who are able to introduce/translate work by non-English-speaking cultures. We also want reviewers who are writing about ‘media art and ecology’ and the contemporary ideas and work coming out of this vibrant and relevant practice. Also, we want you to share your ideas with us in presenting and supporting a diverse movement that we value.

If like us, you are passionately and critically engaged in investigating and being part of the constant shifts and reinvention of this ever changing and dynamic – fluid and creative practice, you will be with good company. And as you would expect, there is no money in this but you will be part of a team who believes in what they are doing.

If you are interested in becoming a reviewer at Furtherfield and wish to know more about how to join the crew, please contact marc garrett – marc.garrett at furtherfield.org

Note: Please do not reply unless you are sure that you are definitely interested.

Temporary space call for photos of your local kebab place

Temporary space – contemporary art project asks your participation! Simple, just take a photo.

Temporaryspace.org is a contemporary art project run by two Finnish artists, Jonna Johansson and Juan Kasari. Tourism, globalisation and consuming as a cultural phenomenon are the main subjects of the project.

At the moment we are doing a big photo installation, which includes several hundreds of pictures of kebab restaurants around the world. We kindly ask you to take a photo (non professional snapshot) of your local kebab place (from outside) and send it to us. All the pictures will be part of the big installation and all the participants will be mentioned on temporaryspace.org website.

Maximum size of photos 5mb.

temporaryspaceproject [at] gmail.com

more info: www.temporaryspace.org

Artists in Residency, Prague – ongoing deadline

We invite artists from diverse artistic backgrounds: media artists, visual artists, musicians, video artists, hackers, coders, performers, painters … etcetera … who would like to research/develop a project in the Czech republic to apply.

We offer studio/living space (cca 40m2) with Internet and utilities in Trafacka residential building
213/13, Prague Liben. We provide partial support to artists in their research, IT infrastructure, possibility to participate on workshops, and contacts with local artists. We also provide a number of public spaces where artist can organize an event during, or at the end of the residency. These spaces include gallery Trafo, gallery of Technical Academy Library, gallery Skolska 28, Institute of Intermedia, Ekotechnical museum, or castle Popovice 50Km out of Prague.

Applications need to contain at least a written proposal of what you plan to work at during the period of the stay, references of your work, a resume (Curriculum Vitae), and brief overview of your work, exhibitions, or built work. The proposal should be no longer than two pages A4, in English.

The residency period lasts from one to three months.
There is no deadline for submissions, residency is open now until cancellation.
Selection of participants is subject of choice of the Trafacka board.
To submit a proposal, email residence [at] whitelabel.name