Chris Joseph

http://lebusque.com/drawings/thisyear/buy.html

I wouldn’t normally post up things for sale, but this one is a definite exception. It’s a 30″x20″ Poster Print (76cm x 51cm) of Toni Le Busque’s ‘Saucy Bird’. Toni was a student on the Creative Writing and New Media MA at De Montfort, and one of her many talents is creating these amazingly dense and intricate black and white drawings. This is the first one available for buy - I have it on my wall and it looks fantastic. And no, I don’t earn any commission on them! See more of Toni’s work at lebusque.com .

Residency program for Web art production under the artistic direction of
the independent curator Sylvie Parent.

Topic: The Geographical Web or Geoweb

Throughout 2009, Agence TOPO will produce a body of Web works comprising geographic references. Nowadays, the popularity of cartographic and earth visualization tools such as Google Maps and Google Earth has become an increasingly tangible component of how we experience the Web. Moreover, the use of geolocalization systems, such as GPS, is spreading and increasingly present in the digital world. Artists are appropriating these technologies to create travelogues, to reflect on urban space, and to conceive collective psychogeography and locational media projects. Artists interested in this theme, and by the production context offered by Agence TOPO are encouraged to submit their proposals. The projects could also include an “off screen” component, such as performance, installation, exhibition or mobile networks, that complements and expands the Web features and possibilities.

Submission deadline: 15 August
www.agencetopo.qc.ca

CALL FOR PAPERS
The Society for Textual Scholarship
Fourteenth Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference
March 18-21, 2009, New York University

Program Co-Chairs: Andrew Stauffer, Boston University
[astauff [at] bu.edu]; John Young, Marshall University [youngj [at] marshall.edu]

Deadline for Proposals: October 31, 2008

The Program Chairs invite the submission of full panels or individual papers devoted to interdisciplinary discussion of current research into particular aspects of textual work: the discovery, enumeration,
description, bibliographical analysis, editing, annotation, and mark-up of texts in disciplines such as literature, history, musicology, classical and biblical studies, philosophy, art history, legal history, history of science and technology, computer science, library science, lexicography, epigraphy, paleography, codicology, cinema studies, media studies, theater, linguistics, and textual and literary theory. The Program Chairs are particularly interested in papers and panels, as well as workshops and roundtables, on the following topics, aimed at a broad, interdisciplinary audience:

Textual production and the social sphere
Textual cultures
Digital editing and textuality
The production and editing of “minority” texts
Theoretical and practical intersections between textual scholarship and book history
Textual scholarship and pedagogy

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WAND 5 e.V. - ANNOUNCEMENT – invitation for applications
>media space 09 – open space<
Deadline: July 14th 2008

Conditions of Participation

Artist of various fields/disciplines (with or without a degree), age limit: 30, mandatory participation in the project conceptualization workshop (September 2008), installation and opening from January 16th to January 21st 2009.

Wand 5 e.V. is a non-profit association based in Stuttgart, Germany. Promotion and support of independent Film and Media are our purpose and mission. One of Wand 5 e.V.’s key projects is the annual Stuttgarter Filmwinter. This internationally renowned Film festival features short film, experimental film and new media. In addition, one of the associations more important projects is the development of >media-space<, a permanent space which functions as a blank canvas for art media presentations and performances. >media-space< has the aim of playfully combining both tangible space and virtual space in one room. Through the use of new media, social, cultural and economic changes can be critically portrayed and analyzed both seriously and with humor.

For the first time Wand 5 e.V. is announcing an open competition to select the >media space 09< curator team. The selected topics of >media space 09< are “public space-visual space-acoustic space” with no limitations on the means of implementation. The concepts can be presented as theoretical critiques, workshops, performances, sound installations or installations with creative use of space. The purpose of this open competition is to establish a new experimental space >open space< in which young artists can play.

Wand 5 e.V. will put together a team from the pool of applicants who will develop the concept for >media space 09 – open space<. In a 4 day work shop (September 2008), we will bring artists from various backgrounds together. Finally the work will culminate into a combined concept for >media space 09 – open space< and enable each individual participant to expand their own artistic horizons.

The project will be presented to an International audience from January 21st to 25th. Wand e.V. will provide financial, logistics and technical support for the implementation of >media space 09 – open space<. The applicants will need to be in Stuttgart in September 2008 for the conceptualization work shop and from January 16th to 21st for the installation and opening of the project.

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Gallery Aferro Newark NJ USA
www.aferro.org

Tabula Rasa on display September 6 - October 4, 2008 with full color catalog. Curated by Evonne M. Davis.

Deadline July 15, 2008 (This is NOT a postmark deadline.)

Artists working in any and all media are invited to submit existing work, or propose new work, in response to the following:

#1-Tabula Rasa: |?täbyo?l? ?räs?; ?räz?|
an absence of preconceived ideas or predetermined goals; a clean slate.
The human mind at birth, viewed as having no innate ideas.
ORIGIN Latin, literally ‘scraped tablet,’ denoting a tablet with the writing erased.
#2- René Descartes, Aristotle, John Locke
#3- Denying what is obvious.
#4- Nothing is new, nothing is original.
#5 Existentialism and the nothingness of existence, ennui.

Notification of acceptance by August 1. Delivery by August 16.

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**Piksel08: code dreams
december 4-7 2008
Bergen, Norway

How does code dream? What are the dreams of code?

Piksel08 examines the other side of code, an alternative side to a hard-coded reality of work and play. Open hardware and free software project a utopic vision, yet exist within economies of capital, the dream factory of mainstream technology. Within the chance meeting of sewing machine and umbrella on the dissecting table, hardware and software are flattened.

Piksel08: code dreams explores the dreams of this soft machine; bachelors coding for pleasure, reverse engineering paranoiac constructs of the real, automatic coding practice, soft hardware, and everyday magic.

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**open call:

1. Installations

Projects related to the code dreams theme including but not restricted to: reverse engineering, soft hardware, code poetry, novel instruction sets, invisible exploration, ghosted computation…

programmed by and running on free and open source software and/or open/DIY hardware.

2. Audiovisual performance

Live art realised by the use of free and open source software. We specially encourage live coding and DIY hardware projects to apply.

3. Software/Hardware

Innovative DIY hardware and audiovisual software tools or software art released under an open licence.

<<<<<< Deadline - august 15. 2008 >>>>>>

Please use the online submit form at:
http://piksel.no/piksel08/subform.html

or send documentation material - preferably as a URL to online documentation with images/video to piksel08 [at] piksel.no

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http://artabase.net

Artabase is an innovative, Web 2.0, social networking website for the arts that allows Artists and Galleries to promote themselves and their Exhibitions, storing this information in an online database of art history.

The website is still at Beta version, but aims to become the world’s premier art archive.

Art Lovers can use Artabase to out what’s on in Galleries around the world, and to discover new Artists.

Users can sign up for a free user account, then

1. Create a free Artist profile
2. Create a free Gallery profile
3. Upload free Exhibition listings
4. Subscribe to free Arts Opportunities ELists

DIGITAL’08: Imagination On Behalf Of Our Planet
10th International Digital Print Competition/Exhibition to be held at the New York Hall of Science
October 4, 2008 - January 25, 2009
Organized by Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI)

What are the artists, scientists, and technologists of the twenty-first century thinking about our current environmental challenges? Can their artwork imagine new, positive approaches to sustaining life on planet Earth? Can it inspire us to confront the consequences of our current ways of living? Through the almost limitless possibilities of digital image technologies, we invite our competition entrants to examine their environmental concerns, indulge their fantasies, and then share their fabricated/ montaged visions of how a sustainable future might look, which might include new types of hybrid forms: plants, animals, humans, cities, transportation systems, food, etc. Let’s boldly envision on behalf of our planet!

CO-JURORS:
~ Michael John Gorman, Director of the Science Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
~ Cynthia Pannucci, Founder/Director, Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI)

ENTRY DEADLINE: Aug. 10, 2008
GUIDELINES & ENTRY DETAILS:
http://www.asci.org/artikel981.html
JUROR BIOS: http://www.asci.org/artikel984.html

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As we left Moscow on that plane I had no idea where we were going. It turns out my Mum and Dad had no idea either. We moved around. We stayed with friends. It took a while but finally we landed on our feet.

Sort of.

“And now I am going to die!” Attempting to impress my friends on the way home from school, I climb a rickety staircase outside an abandoned factory.

When it collapses beneath me, I hang on by my fingernails and haul myself up onto a ledge. But then I get stuck. There’s no way down. And I can’t go up. The only way out is through the scary factory, half-demolished and very dangerous. Can you help me? Can you find the way out?

My friends (I have friends now - yeah!!)love the stories I create; they want to tell their own, so I came up with a simple little tool to help them. It’s called iStori.es - all you have to do is load up your photos, add some words, music and sound effects and BOOM! you have your own interactive story….in minutes.

If you’re a student, go tell your teacher to check out http://www.iStori.es - it’s very educational! Hehe…

See you in Hometown, Episode 4 on http://www.inanimatealice.com .

Yours - Alice

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First reviews:

“Inanimate Alice serves as both entertainment and a peek into the future of literature as a fusion of multimedia technologies. The haunting images and accompanying music and text weave a remarkably gripping tale that must be experienced to be believed… Get ready for thirty minutes of multimedia bliss.” ( Jay is Games )

“Episode 4 of the super-stylish interactive story Inanimate Alice is out now. If you’ve never experienced it, interactive fiction is part story, part game. I’ve reported on Alice before because I think it’s unique and really beautiful. (Wait till you hear the music. I’m so into it. It’s like the soundtrack for a spooky-cool movie…)” ( Books, Inq. )

“Alice tells her story through moving snapshots, journaled words and haunting music… Alice is beautiful in that we start to forget that it’s a just a game and we began to connect with her, all her fears and hopes, and her joy too.” ( The Cafe in the Woods )

“I’ve just experienced the just-released “Episode 4: Hometown” of the haunting multimedia-interactive story, Inanimate Alice and can say that it is just as enjoyable and unique as the previous three.” ( educating alice )

“Inanimate Alice is a Learning Gem… With the release of Inanimate Alice Episode 4 ‘Hometown’ I am even more convinced that this type of multimedia story is the future of e-reading.” ( Learning Gems )

“Have you caught up with Inanimate Alice yet? It is digital storytelling at its most delicious.” ( CMIS Evaluation Fiction Focus )