‘Breathe’ transmedia story revived as recurring event
[From the Breathe team]
First up, we haven’t been sitting back reminiscing about the small attention that was bestowed on Breathe – No! We have been tinkering away, working out the best way to make the entire experience accessible for the
first time.
During the live run of Breathe we screened three films, hosted nine live events, UK Dance Radio broadcast for seven months and you could interact with seven of Breathe characters by phone – day and night.
Every interaction was documented, but many were not screened. We let participants relay stories of their experiences through blogs, chatrooms, email and Twitter – that is what we call ‘Transmedia Storytelling’.
These firsthand stories brought depth, colour and unpredictable excitement to the three week-long interactive experience, as it mapped itself from platform to person.
Breathe is about to be revived as a recurring transmedia experience through a series of events. Each will be “between the full experience and a normal film screening.”
Check out Lewis Murphy of ArgNet’s article on the reviving Breathe:
Help spread the word – the world’s first full transmedia film experience is about to get a second wind! ;)
Updates will be through this announcement list.
Thank you
Breathe Resuscitation Team
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Call for applications: The Patchingzone, Digital Art Lab, Netherlands – deadline 30 June 2010
call for applications: The Patchingzone, Digital Art Lab, Zoetermeer (The Hague area), Netherlands, September 2010 – September 2011
In co-operation with the Centrum voor Kunst en Cultuur – Centre for Arts and Culture- (CKC) and The City Council in Zoetermeer
The Patchingzone is a transdisciplinary laboratory for innovation where Master, doctor, post-doc students and professionals from different backgrounds create meaningful content. In the laboratories the students and researchers work together, supervised by experts, on commissions with creative use of high-tech materials, digital media and / or information technology. Research question: What should the new art courses for the digital generation look like?
details: http://www.patchingzone.net/
deadline: June 30 2010
Call for entries: Rencontres Internationales, Centre Pompidou – deadline 10 July 2010
Call for entries: Rencontres Internationales, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, November 25 – December 4 2010
The call is open to any individual or organisation, for films, video and multimedia cycles, without limit of origin, genre or duration. Proposals are free of charge, without any geographic limitation.
details: http://art-action.org/en_index.htm
deadline: July 10 2010
Call for applications: The Felix Meritis Foundation – deadline 10 July 2010
call for applications: The Felix Meritis Foundation, The Central European Foundation Gulliver Connect. A mobility programme through work placements.
The Central European Foundation (Bratislava) and The Felix Meritis Foundation (Amsterdam) are inviting applications for work placements in 2010. Candidates are arts practitioners with 2-3 years working experience in the field of performing arts, visual arts, (new) media, arts management and film as well as project co-ordination, art development or management at a local/regional level in their country and who want to add an international dimension to their work.
By creating a dynamic network, Gulliver Connect adds a new dimension to the social, artistic and cultural development of Europe and beyond – a stepping stone for future co-operation in the arts. This call for applications is open to those from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia, former Yugoslavian countries, Bulgaria, Romania who wish to apply as a visitor or a host organisation. Bursaries are max. 1500 euro per visitor to cover the costs for travel, accommodation and a daily allowance for a period of 3 – 6 weeks. All applicants will be informed by August 8, 2010. Work placements will take place between September 1 and December 15, 2010.
details: http://www.gulliverconnect.org/en/programme/call-for-application/
deadline: July 10 2010
V&A Poetry 6 month residency (commencing 5 January 2011) – closing date 22 June 2010
Museum Residency: Poetry
£ 7180 (6 month residency)
The V&A has a programme of residencies in the Sackler Centre for arts education. This presents a new opportunity, for poets to have a studio at the V&A for six months commencing 5th January 2011.
Proposals are invited from UK based poets and authors of spoken word who wish to develop their practice through working with the V&A collections and facilities. The Residency provides a unique opportunity to carry out research, make new work and engage with the public through special projects and Open Studio sessions. The V&A is particularly looking for artists and designers for whom engagement with the public is an integral part of their practice.
For further details on the residency and application requirements, please see the full job specification below.
Bursary offered and studio space provided
Closing Date: 22 June 2010
Interviews: 29th July 2010
For a full job specification and to submit your application click here
Call for Proposals: Thanatopolis at I-Park – deadline 5 July 2010
Call for Proposals – Thanatopolis at I-Park
Application Deadline: July 5, 2010
The I-Park Foundation, a not-for-profit international arts community sited within an expansive nature preserve in East Haddam, Connecticut (USA), is seeking creative proposals in the following disciplines:
Music Composition/Sound Sculpture
Visual Arts/Environmental Sculpture
Theatre/Choreography/Performance Art
Landscape/Garden Design
Architecture
Landscape Architecture
Thanatopolis, an alternative memorial park/space in the advanced conceptual phase of its development, is looking for works that harmonize with the long-term goal of the project, which is to re-imagine our cultural and personal relationship to death, memory and memorialization – and to engage the above creative fields to bring about a new, profoundly sacred and evocative landscape/sound-space.
Selected projects will be presented at the Thanatopolis Exhibition on October 2, 2010.
Judging will be by a distinguished panel on the basis of creativity, site-responsive, cultural relevance, feasibility and, perhaps most importantly, efficacy in engaging the issues of death, memory and memorialization.
Those invited to execute their physical, performance or music/sound sculpture pieces for the Thanatopolis Exhibition will receive a creative fee of $2,000 plus a budget for travel, materials and incidental expenses. Applicants invited to exhibit ‘paper’ (un-executable, future, conceptual) projects will receive a creative fee of $700. Additional funding may be available depending on the scope of the individual projects.
See links below for details on the submission process and elaboration on the inter-disciplinary and collaborative nature of the Thanatopolis Project.
Application Fee: waived for this project
Application Format: online submission through the I-Park website
Deadline: all submissions must be received by July 5, 2010
Thanatopolis Overview: http://www.i-park.org/Thanos.html
FAQ: http://www.i-park.org/Thanatopolis2010_FAQ.pdf
I-Park Website: www.i-park.org
Detailed Call for Entries, Music/Sound Sculpture: http://www.i-park.org/MusicandSound.html
Questions: contact Agnes Miyuki at Thanatopolis@gmail.com
iPad OpenGL ES workshop – Imperial College, London, 1-2 July 2010
We are thinking about hosting a short iPad OpenGL ES workshop, to be conducted at Imperial College London (South Kensington) on July 1, and repeated on July 2 if numbers dictate (maximum of 12 seats per day).
The workshop will briefly cover the basics of iPad app design but will focus on giving participants a working knowledge of OpenGL ES development for the iPad. It will be of greatest benefit to participants with a working knowledge of iPhone/iPad app development, although this would not be a requirement for attendance.
The workshop will be free and run by a professional instructor. Participants must bring their own Mac laptop with the iPhone SDK 3.2 installed. Participants can also bring their own devices to build to, although this is not a requirement as the simulator that comes with the SDK should be sufficient for following the exercises.
If there is sufficient interest, I can also run an informal session the day before the workshop to ensure that all participants can at least build to their simulator, and demonstrate the anatomy of a Universal iPhone/iPad app through a simple game with AI.
If you would like to attend this workshop, please email me with answers to the questions below:
Regards,
Dr Cameron Browne
Computational Creativity Group
Imperial College London
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1. Preferred date.
2. Level of experience with iPhone/iPad development:
– Have you run an app on the simulator?
– Have you built an app to a device?
3. Level of experience with OpenGL.
4. Would you plan to build to your own device at the workshop?
5. Would you plan to also attend the informal pre-workshop session?
Interview with Danja Vasiliev on Furtherfield – ‘Meat Space and the World Inside the Machine’
Meat Space and the World Inside the Machine.
Marc Garrett talks to Danja Vasiliev about his personal works, ideas and intentions, asking what motivates him to use computers, technology and networks, as well as understand more about the social contexts and implications of his endeavors.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=397
Danja was an Artist in Residence at Furtherfield’s HTTP Gallery space between the 1st March – 9th April 2010. A Russian born computer artist currently living between Berlin and Rotterdam. Working with diverse methods, technologies and materials Danja ridicules the contemporary affection for digital life and questions the global tendency for cyborgination. Danja co-founded media-lab moddr_ in 2007 which is a joint project at Piet Zwart Institute alumni and WORM Foundation. Based in Rotterdam moddr_ is a place for artists and hackers, engaging with critical forms of media-art practice.
The email interview took place a few weeks after his residency. A recent collaborative project that many readers may already know of, by Danja Vasiliev, Walter Langelaar and Gordan Savicic, all part of the moddr.net group is,Web 2.0 Suicide Machine, which lets you delete your social networking profiles and kill your virtual friends. Danja is certainly prolific, he is also collaborating with New Zealander artist, Julian Oliver who is now based in Berlin. This interview unearths some of the ideas and intentions behind Danja’s personal works, asking what motivates him to use computers, technology and networks, as well as understand more the social contexts and implications of his endeavors.
Call for papers: Short Fiction in Theory and Practice – deadline 22 August 2010
Contributions are invited for Short Fiction in Theory and Practice, a new, peer-reviewed journal looking at the short story from a practice-based perspective. Once overlooked by literary critics, and sometimes dismissed as a practice run for the novel novel, the short story is finally receiving due attention as a major art form, and one which is especially suited to the digital age. The journal responds to this resurgence, providing an international forum for the growing number of writers who integrate critical research with their own creative practice. While there are a number of literary magazines publishing short fiction, there are fewer opportunities to discuss its writing and transmission. We are seeking articles which explore the poetics of short story writing, its reading, adaptation and translation; and the place of the short story in a global culture.
While celebrating the uniqueness of short story writing, we will also explore its diversity. We intend to cross generic and disciplinary boundaries, welcoming contributions which explore the connections between short fiction and other means of expression.
Article submissions:
Articles should be between 4000 and 7000 words in length. Topics may include (but are not limited to):
Short story composition, writerly practice and the poetics of short story writing. Transmission and publishing contexts (e.g. the anthology; online publication; the short story and radio; short story
prizes; the role of the editor)
Writing flash fiction, the novella, sequences, cycles and hybrid forms
Sub-genres, e.g. the science fiction short story, the supernatural, crime fiction
Multi-media and hypertext; short stories online
Autobiographical and non-fiction short stories
Oral storytelling
Short story writing and identity, e.g. race, class, gender, nationality
Readings of, and responses to, texts by contemporary short story authors.
Translation and adaptation
The short story and other media (e.g. photography, music)
Political, cultural, social contexts (e.g. the short story as samizdat, postcolonialism and short story writing)
Original creative work will be considered if it embodies or incorporates a substantial element of the writer’s poetics.
Proposals for interviews will also be considered. Please contact the editor in the first instance.
Deadline for Vol. 1: 22nd August 2010.
For submission guidelines and all other enquiries, please contact the
Principal Editor, Ailsa Cox, coxa@edgehill.ac.uk.
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
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