Tapping The Trend – Free Word Centre, London, 13 February 2010
http://www.spreadtheword.org.uk/index.php?id=events&event=816
“Internet and digital technology are transforming – some would say decimating – traditional publishing, whilst online ‘arenas’ are offering writers new ways of creating literature and new routes for reaching audiences. How do writers orientate themselves in this changing landscape? Is the democracy of online publication flattening out editorial standards and jeopardising quality (not to mention the economics of it all)? Does this mean only losers publish on the net? Conversely – how is the internet enabling the most exciting developments in literary form and collaboration?
In a panel chaired by Guardian Books’ Editor Claire Armitstead and including Canongate Books’ digital editor Dan Franklin, Sara Lloyd from Macmillan Publishers and Jason Pegler from Chipmunka Publishing, this event will bring you up to date with the latest thinking. In addition, examples of digital work by Kate Pullinger and commissions by Spread the Word, Open Notebooks and the 24 Hour Book will be on display. The writers will tell us how they used the internet to produce new work and how it has informed their creative practice”
Saturday 13 February
1pm – 5.45pm
Free Word Centre
60 Farringdon Road
London
EC1R 3GA
Train/Tube: Farringdon
£35/£25 (concessions)
‘Count As One’ by Liszkiewicz/Miller in The New River journal
I’ve finally had a chance to look through the latest issue (Fall 2009) of The New River journal ( http://www.cddc.vt.edu/journals/newriver/09Fall/ ), and as usual there are some fantastic works for those interested in new media art and writing. I particularly enjoyed A. J. Patrick Liszkiewicz / Lucas C. Miller’s ‘Count As One’ ( http://www.cddc.vt.edu/journals/newriver/09Fall/liszkiewicz/count/ ), which is a really clever mix of visual poetry and DIY interactivity – allowing the reader/participant to help in the creation of the poem, but also offering the chance to print or publish the poem directly to Liszkiewicz’s Flickr account (see http://www.flickr.com/photos/afeeld/ to see what has been created so far). This is something I haven’t seen before, and a very interesting way to overcome the in-built obsolescence familiar to most interactive digital writing.
Gallery Maskinen call for Machinima – deadline 19 February 2010
Gallery Maskinen would like to invite you to submit your contribution to participate in a Machinima screening on 2 March 2010.
Machinima is the use of real-time three-dimensional (3-D) graphics rendering engines to generate computer animation. The term also refers to works that incorporate this animation technique which includes videos
recorded in computer games or virtual worlds.
Originally a practice that arose from the animated software introductions of the 1980´s demoscene, machinima is today a powerful artistic tool that promote the relationship between art and new technologies with the ability to reinterpret and re-code content from computer games and virtual worlds.
The machinima screening will take place the 2 March 2010 in HUMlab at the Umeå University in the northern part of Sweden. We are interested in any forms of machinima based work and you can contribute with as many works as you like. We prefer that you send the works, for example, via http://www.sendthisfile.com or http://www.yousendit.com to galleri.maskinen [at] gmail.com.
If this is not possible DVDs can be sent to:
Rasmus Albertsen
Glädjens Gränd 2, 0102
90363 Umeå
Sweden
DEADLINE FOR WORK(S) 19 February 2010
NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE OF WORK(S) 24 February 2010
The event will take place at the 2 March 2010 between 5 pm and 8 pm.
Teaching Digital Writing – Phoenix Square Digital Media Centre, Leicester, 23 April 2010
http://www.english.heacademy.ac.uk/explore/events/event_detail.php?event_index=281
Cost: No charge, but we reserve the right to charge a £15:00 non-attendance fee.
Last Date for registration: 14 Apr 10
Event Description:
Digital Writing crosses over Media, Creative Writing, Art & Design and English departments and demand for more higher education courses continues to grow. How are we meeting that demand and how is digital writing being taught? This free, one-day symposium is an opportunity to discuss, debate and sample Digital Writing with leading practitioners and university lecturers.
- How do we teach students to analyse digital writing?
- How do we teach students to create digital writing?
- What are the particular challenges and rewards of teaching and learning this developing genre?
These questions and others will inform the presentations and discussions.
The event takes place at the state-of-the-art Phoenix Square, in Leicester where delegates will have the opportunity to participate in a hands-on workshop and demonstration. Undergraduate and postgraduate students are welcome.
Confirmed speakers include: Award winning digital novelist – Kate Pullinger, Sue Thomas, Ruth Page and Tim Wright.
Programme: (subject to alteration)
9:30 Registration
Coffee/Tea
10:00 Welcome
Brett Lucas, English Subject Centre
10:10 Presentation
The Transliteracy Research Group
Kate Pullinger & Sue Thomas, De Montfort University
11:00 Panel Presentation & Discussion
Doing Digital Writing
Tim Wright, Digital author
Donna Leishman, Digital author
Respondant TBC
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Panel Presentation & Discussion: Teaching Digital Writing
Digital Writing and Pedagogy: How do We Teach, What Do We Teach?
Matt Hayler, University of Exeter
Designing Narratives and New Media
Will Slocombe, Aberystwyth University
The Next Frontier? Teaching electronic literature in the undergraduate classroom
Ruth Page, Birmingham City University
14:30 Hands-on Workshop and Demonstration
Tim Wright, Digital author
15:30 Keynote Address
Michael Bhaskar, Digital publisher, Serpent’s Tail/Profile Books
16:30 Closing Remarks
Kate Pullinger & Brett Lucas
16:45 Close
New Furtherfield reviews January 2010, inc. ‘We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion’ by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar
Including a great review by Rob Myers of the new book that looks behind one of my all-time favourite pieces of media art, ‘We Feel Fine’ by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar.
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- New articles, reviews & intrviews on Furtherfield.
WE THE USERS – A Review by Pau Waelder.
DIGITAL FOLKLORE Reader. Edited by Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied.
Designed by Manuel Buerger.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=375
GOTO10’s – make art in 2009.
Review by Gabriel Menotti.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=374
Not-so-silly Millie. An Appreciation of Millie Niss (1973 – 2009).
Edward Picot discusses the work of writer and new media artist Millie Niss: “She preferred work which didn’t reach for the hi-tech solution when a lo-tech one would do – work, in other words, which didn’t employ technology for its own sake, and where form was dictated by content rather than the other way round.” Good Bye Millie Niss.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=372
We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion.
Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar
Review of publication by Rob Myers
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=371
More Reviews, interviews & articles:
http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php
If you want to be a reviewer or wish for work to be reviewed on Furtherfield, contact – marc.garrett [at] furtherfield.org
Vinaròs Prize for Digital Literature – deadline 30 January 2009
Vinaròs Prize on Digital Literature.
http://www.hermeneia.net/vinaros_2009/anunci/eng/index.html
The coordinators from the city of Vinaròs, the University of Barcelona, and Laura’s Hermeneia group have extended the deadline for submission till January 30th.
Separate prizes are awarded to narrative and poetry.
Please send your URL submission directly to the HERMENEIA
email: info [at] hermeneia.net
Media Poetry Competition – deadline 31 March 2010
After the real success of its first contest (254 applicants from the whole world, more than 150 realized works) for its eleventh edition (May 2011), the International Poetry Biennial is pleased to announce an International Media Poetry Contest in partnership with Radio Aligre, la revue Poptronics, Le Cube, La Maison de la poésie de Paris, XLR-project.
Works considered “media poetry” are those that place contemporary technologies at the service of poetry, be it within the framework of a performance or in that of a recorded and projectable work. Among the many forms accepted are included videopoetry, digital poetry, multimedia poetry, sound poetry, interactive poetry, and poetic installations in physical space or on the Internet. Works that illustrate a poem will not be considered (these are works that use sound or images to represent or complement a poem, for example). There are no restrictions regarding the form or content of the media poems submitted.
Work presented shall not exceed 15 minutes and can be presented on a personnal web site or on a collective site as YouTube or DailyMotion.
Application: Candidates willing to submit their work to the International of Media Poetry Contest shall express their intention via email before March 31st, 2010. To do so they shall write an email to: media-poesie@biennaledespoetes.fr
The address of the work submitted shall arrive at the Poetry Biennial’s office (11 rue Ferdinand Roussel 94200 Ivry-sur-Seine France) or to the above email address before December 31st, 2010.
A jury made up of ten international artists (see list below) will examine the works and will allot the Media Poetry Prize. The prize will be given to the winner during a special ceremony to be realized during the Poetry Biennial.
The prize winner will be invited to Paris, all expenses paid, for one week during the Poetry Biennial.
Participation in the contest automatically authorizes the Biennial to publicly exhibit submitted works. Unless otherwise specified, the copyright of the works remains with the artists.
Augmented Reality Adbusting, Transmediale 2010 – deadline 26 January 2010
The Artvertiser is looking for artwork to exhibit on urban billboards during Transmediale 2010 in Berlin.
We are seeking interesting 2D artworks that criticise, recontextualize and remix the urban advertisements of Berlin. If you are tired of seeing street advertisements – and want to say something about it – this call is for you!
Rather than painting over billboards directly, The Artvertiser uses a digital technique called Augmented Reality: by looking through our specially engineered digital binoculars, users of the system will see artwork instead of advertisements in the city of Berlin.
Your fully credited work will be presented in video documentation in the main ‘Future Obscura’ exhibition at Transmediale 2010 and also seen during an ‘art walk’ in the streets of Berlin during the festival.
Here are the steps to contributing:
1/ Visit http://www.flickr.com/photos/theartvertiser/sets/72157623233484340/ and pick an advertisement. Alternatively, take a good photo of an advert somewhere in the A|B metro zone of Berlin and work with that.
2/ Using Gimp, Photoshop, a video editor or pen and paper – remix, alter or produce something entirely new that relates to the advert in question.
3/ Mail your work, or a link to to your work, to theartvertiser@gmail.com before January 26th. Be sure to include your artist name and a title for the piece.
PNG, JPEG and AVI movies up to 30 seconds in length are OK. If possible, be sure to send us work in an aspect ratio that is similar to the advert in the image..
Once we have your contribution we’ll take our Billboard Interception Binoculars out on the street and substitute the advert with your work, making a video of the result.
Please visit http://theartvertiser.com for more info about the project, alongside the to-be-confirmed location of the art walk taking place during the festival.
Looking forward!
The Artvertiser Team
Special issue of E-Learning and Digital Media – deadline 1 May 2010
Special issue of E-Learning and Digital Media, Editor Dr. Norm Friesen
Media today are everywhere. From educational gaming through portable e-texts to cell phones ringing in class, it seems we can’t escape. Nor can we live without media; instead, they form a kind of ecology that we inhabit. In addition, media have an epistemological function: they shape both what we know and how we come to know it: “Whatever we know about our society, or indeed about the world in which we live,” as Niklas Luhman observed, “we know through… media.”
Speaking of media in education suggests a range of possibilities that are different from what is suggested by educational technology (electronic, digital or otherwise). Describing computers and the Internet specifically as digital media casts their role not as mental tools to be integrated into instruction, but as “forms” and “cultures” requiring “literacies” or acculturation. In this way, speaking of media in education brings instructional environments more closely together with the world outside. Explorations of these terms and possibilities have been initiated by the likes of Marshall McLuhan, Neil Postman and Elizabeth Eisenstein, and they are also touched upon in research on media literacies. However, more recent theoretical developments and accelerated mediatic change –from blogging through networked gaming to texting and sexting– offer innumerable opportunities for further exploration.
This special issue of E-Learning and Digital Media invites contributions that focus on media, particularly digital media, and their ecological and epistemological ramifications. Specific topics may include:
· School and classroom as media (ecologies) and the changing world outside
· Digital challenges to media literacy and literacies
· Media socialization and media education
· Histories of media and education
· The epistemological character of (new) media
Submissions for this special issue are due May 1, 2010
Length of submissions: generally 6000-8000 words
Further submission and formatting information is available at: http://www.wwwords.co.uk/elea/howtocontribute.asp
Direct comments and questions to: nfriesen[at]tru.ca
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