Chris Joseph
Idea: A loop is a magic moment that never ends: a “perpetual mobile†of visual emotion.
Invitation: You are cordially invited to participate in the loop pool project by “Raum fuer Projektion†(space for projection). We would be very happy for you to create a video loop for this project. Do something new or use material that you have already shot / produced.
Final product: The final product will be a DVD & a Screening Tape with a selection of approximately fifty Video Loops by different Video Artists & Film makers. “loop pool 007†will be released as a DVD and will be shown on different screenings by “Raum fuer Projektionâ€. During the Screenings there will be a DJ or Live Music. “loop pool 007†is already the third edition of the project.
http://www.digitalartweeks.ethz.ch
The DIGITAL ART WEEKS program is concerned with the application of digital technology in the arts. Consisting of symposium, workshops and performances, the Digital Art Weeks program offers insight into current research and innovations in art and technology as well as illustrating resulting synergies in a series of performances during the Digital Art Weeks Festival each year, making artists aware of impulses in technology and scientists aware of the possibilities of application of technology in the arts.
See below for calls for:
- visual art under the theme ‘Digital Mandala’
- sound art under the theme ‘Today’s Ohm: The 60 HZ Hum’
- sound art under the theme ‘Stereophonic Soundscape’
- proposals for open public spaces (works that use any form of networking that either connects performers within the space used or connects them in some form between spaces used)
- digital puppetry (including Digitally Enhanced Puppetry, Waldo puppetry, Motion capture puppetry and Machinima)
- performing artists under the theme ‘Wired Madness’ (wearable technology)
- work that concentrates on the use of sensors systems that take their inputs from the human body and whose outputs are then transmapped to audio or video sources
The Future of Language
New technologies have had a major influence on the way we communicate and use language today: punctutation and capital letters are being dropped in favour of emoticons, letter-number homophones and acronyms. But are email, instant messaging and mobile text messaging degrading the language? This question surfaces in debates among writers, language professionals and academics, as well as among parents and their children.
Panelists will include
- Nadine Fleischer – editor/designer, Wordrobe
- Simon Perril, Poet and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and English at De Montfort University
- Jess Laccetti, Doctoral Researcher and Lecturer at De Montfort University
- Hugo Worthy, Writer and Archivist
- Chris Joseph, Chair
This IOCT Salon is part of cultural eXchanges, an annual event hosted by the Faculty of Humanities at De Montfort University. The week long programme includes lectures, performances, debates, presentations and readings from a diverse body of artists, academics, practioners and those working in the cultural industries. Previous guests have included Janet Street-Porter, Alastair Campbell, Andrew Davies, Corin Redgrave, Matthew Sweeney, Jenny Colgan, Sue Mcgregor, Roy Hattersley, Tony Hawks, Germaine Greer, Jackie Kay and Colin Dexter.
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The IOCT Salon ( http://www.ioctsalon.com ) is managed by Chris Joseph, Digital Writer in Residence at the Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University. This residency is funded by Arts Council England: East Midlands.For further information about the IOCT Salon please email Chris: info /at/ ioctsalon.com . To be notified of future events please join the mailing list on the Salon website.The IOCT Salon is held at and staged by De Montfort University and the Institute of Creative Technologies, and is supported by Arts Council England and the Literature Development Network.
‘Bookmarks’ – Part of the ‘Library’ project at the Civic Quarter Library, Leeds Metropolitan University
For ‘Situation Leeds’ ’07
The bookmark marks an event, a place or space, a pause, a meditation, a moment of resignation, an arrival, departure, necessary ablutions, a thought after thought, peace, unease, looking up and understanding, procrastination, weariness, action, loss, the tyranny of time, a return, an interlude, a tea-break, a bereavement of sorts, shut-eye, down-time, routine, memory, daydreams and a sneeze, and another, and another… you could feel it coming on.
An invitation is extended to produce a series of bookmarks for this project. Each bookmark should be no larger than 21cm x 5cm in a series of at least 20 bookmarks, in any media or material. They should explore the re-circulation of ideas and information, and could incorporate instructions and/or links to other places possibly to activate an action, performance, production, etc. Each submission can consist of a series of identical bookmarks or include a collection of visually separate bookmarks held together thematically. The bookmarks will be put into circulation through the Library spaces of Leeds and an archive held at Leeds Metropolitan University. The archive will document the project and will include an example of each submission with information about the producer/artist/practitioner.
Submission deadline 20 April ’07
The event will take place between 14 – 27 May ’07
Contact Krissie Ireland at dunstkunst@hotmail.co.uk
Submissions to:
‘Bookmarks’ Project,
C/o Krissie Ireland, Room H708,
The Leeds School of Contemporary Art and Graphic Design,
Leeds Metropolitan University,
Civic Quarter,
Leeds,
LS1 3HE
United Kingdom
http://threenineone.com/dadacasts/391_org_dadacast4.mp3
Special Edition: You Know Those Days When You’re Stuck In A Cell Between Two Bored Prisoners With Attention Deficit Disorder Whose Radios Are Only Tuned To State Sponsored Dada Stations That Play The Same Crap Every Day
19m39s. By 391.org featuring music by Escha, Interstitial, St.Lucy-du-Haha and babel.
“Adopt symmetries and rhythms instead of principles. Oppose world systems and acts of state by transforming them into a phrase or a brush stroke… What we are celebrating is both buffoonery and a requiem mass.”
- Hugo Ball, 12/3/1916
“The ‘simultaneous poem’ has to do with the value of the voice… The noises represent the background – the inarticulate, the disastrous, the decisive. The poem tries to elucidate the fact that man is swallowed up in the mechanistic process. In a typically compressed way it shows the conflict of the vox humana with a world that threatens, ensnares, and destroys it, a world whose rhythm and noise are ineluctable.”
- Hugo Ball, 30/3/1916
