Chris Joseph Electronic writer and artist

3Feb/110

ARTE Creative – international network for young artists and cultural producers

http://creative.arte.tv – your network for contemporary culture

ARTE has established its name in television over the past two decades as a leader in new forms of audiovisual creativity. ARTE Creative is taking the channel a step further by opening new territory and creating a platform where new narrative forms, authors and producers can thrive. ARTE Creative is an international and interactive network complete with editorial services aimed at young artists, cultural producers and all those who love original and inspirational ideas. ARTE Creative showcases outstanding work from the areas of art, pop culture, design and architecture. The platform encompasses a wide variety of creative fields, from photography, painting, street art, new media, net art and video art to music, advertising, gaming, graphics, product design, web design and typography. Within this online community we are working to develop new editorial formats and to explore uncharted territory where Internet and TV interface. With this platform, ARTE actively fosters creative young talent and is intensifying its collaboration with young artists from all over Europe.

ARTE Creative works together with Europe’s key universities, festivals and institutions, such as:
ZKM: Professor Peter Weibel, Director of the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, presents, once a month, the most outstanding pieces from the Center’s collection. The first showing will be Lenara Verle’s ‘Gridcosm 1000-0000′ (2002). Neuer Berliner Kunstverein/Video-Forum: Marius Babias, the organization’s director, and curator Kathrin Becker present a key work of video art each month. The forum kicks off with ‘Berlin Exercises in Nine Pieces’ (1974/75) by Rebecca Horn. Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst: Arsenal will curate the Forum Expanded section of the Berlinale. Each month, the team will also showcase the best in video art. The first work will be Christine Noll Brinckmann’s ‘Der Fater’ (1986). Transmediale: Artistic Director Stephan Kovats presents interviews, his impressions and behind the scenes glimpses into Germany’s most important media art festival. Digital Arts International: Each month, the international platform Digitalarti examines the most important representatives of net art – including artists such as Mouchette, Calvacreation, Olga Kisseleva and Grégory Chatonsky. Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof: Artistic Director Marie Luise Birkholz presents each month young video artists working with experimental narrative forms. Further partners are: Palais de Tokyo, Ars Electronica Futurelab, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Le Cube, Miami Ad School, Ecole des Gobelins, SupInfoGame, Le Fresnoy, Popakademie, Réseau Art Numerique, Kasseler Dokumentarfilm und Videofest, Atopic, Werkleitz Center for Media Art, Memefest, Festival Temps d´Images, Les Bains numériques, La Gaité Lyrique, State College, Cabinet d´Amateur etc.

And ARTE Creative will build up the biggest virtual group show in history – participating artists are:
Roman Signer, Erwin Wurm, Wim Delvoye, Rebecca Horn, Christian Jankowski, Ubermorgen.com, Swoon, Brad Downey, Elodie Pong, John Wood & Paul Harrison, Aram Bartholl, Ciprian Muresan, Oliver Laric, Guillaume Reymond, Stefan Panhans, Ondrej Brody & Kristofer Paetau, Paul Souviron, Antoine Lejolivet, Evan Roth, Sean Metelerkamp, Alberine Meunier, Roel Wouters, The Wa, Aleksandra Domanovic, Helmut Smits, Jean-Marc Chapoulie, Johannes Post & Julian Scherer, Matze G?rig, Fabrice Hyber, Jean-Marc Chapoulie, Simona Denicolai & Ivo Provoost, Yona Friedman, Matthias Meyer, Bad Beuys Entertainment, Paulina León, Francois Curlet & Michelle Naismith, Judith Hopf & Stephan Geene, Julie Vayssière, A Constructed World, Hein-Godehart Petschulat. Lenka Clayton, Humanic-TV-Spots (f.e. Axel Corti, Otto M. Zykan). ZimmerFrei, Bettina Atala, Nadim Vardag, Dani Gal, Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil, BitteBitteJaja (Roland Rauschmeier & Ulu Braun), John Miller & Takuji Kogo. Pierre Leguillon, Nicolas Aiello, Système, Eric Pries, Ritsche Koch, Maurice Benayoun, Dan Mulloy, Andrew Bruntel, Eran Helelli, Sturla Grovlen, Dennis Knopf, Miltos Manetas, Martin Le Chevallier, Martin Dege, David Wilson, Nina K?nnemann, Davy Force, David Wilson, Erosie, Sebastian Haslauer, Viagrafik, StudioBuro, DAIM, Rick Berkelmans, Merijn Hos, Olivier Cramm, Guillaumit, Roope Eronen, Brecht Vandenbrouke, Siggi Odds, Amandine Urruty, Superoboturbo, Manfred Naescher, Martin Müller, Johan Rosenmunthe, Dennis Duijnhouwer, Ben Rayner, Katarina Soskic/Katapult, Laurent Waechter, Delia Keller, Will Robson Scott, Milos Mali, Slava Mogutin, Sunny Shokrae, Lena Chernyak, Linus Bill, Johan Büsen, Tanya Kernweiss, Tore Rinkveld, Peter Piller, Moritz Herda, Anton Steenbock, Marin Santic, Jorge Soledar, Hannah Ross, Mehryl Levisse, Jana Zornik, Thomas Judisch, Elke Reinhuber, Nathan de Corte, Funa Ye, Berivan Sayici, Márton Medveczky, Linus Dutz, Olivier Cyganek, Maciek Jakóbczyk, Aiko Okamoto, Julian Meisen, Mike Ruiz, Patryk Karbowski, Karel Verhoeven, Meggy Rustamova etc.

JOIN NOW: creative.arte.tv

Suggestions or questions about participating should be sent to the project coordinator Alain Bieber: creative@arte.tv
For press inquiries, please contact Stefanie Krisch: stefanie.krisch@arte.tv

20Nov/100

Call for submissions – Enpipe Line, a 1173km+ long collaborative poem

ENPIPE LINE · Communiqué 1
“Enpipe, v. To block up and/or fill a pipe to bursting.”
—from the Enpipe Line

This Is An Invitation

Enpipe Line is a long poem—1,173 kms long. It is one long line1.
The idea is to go dreams vs. dream in a collaborative poem designed to engulf and overwhelm the structures that allow proposals like Enbridge’s (Northern Gateway Pipelines proposal) to emerge. Broad, no?
Making this poem may take a while. Then again, it may not.
It is certain to take many people.
It will take many visions also.
Already there have been contributions.
These contributions have begun to interact.
How It Works

You send new or existing work (with date and place of creation) to info [at] christineleclerc.com. The work will be measured (300 cm of 12 pt font = 1 km of enpiping2) and posted to this site.
This communique is non-confidential, so please feel free to distribute widely.

There is no submission limit, so please feel free to submit often.

1 Line breaks (if present) will be indicated with a “/” and blank space will be acknowledged.
2 A “Math of the Enpipe Line” communiqué will appear here shortly.

3Oct/100

Artengine (Ottawa) call for electronic art – ongoing deadline

Artengine is a non-profit, artist-run centre in Ottawa, Canada, that fosters democratic and innovative approaches to electronic art and its evolving relationship with society. Artwork submissions may be made at any time to Artengine. Artists are encouraged to read up on Artengine’s mission and mandate before applying. For more information, check out their website. Also keep your eye out for Electric Fields, 3 – 7 November 2010 for five days of installations, audio-visual presentations and new music performances.

3Jun/100

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

15May/100

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/

3May/100

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