Chris Joseph

Wicklow County Council’s Per Cent for Art Programme

Wicklow County Council’s Per Cent for Art Programme 2007-2008 seeks applications for eight new commissions in disciplines such as visual arts, literature, music and new media/film. The programme will support a range of artistic expressions, with the intention of supporting innovative approaches to the creation of new work over the two-year period.

At the first stage of the selection process a completed application form, CV, support material and concept proposal is required. Each commission is by open competition and involves a two-stage selection process. The commissioning body aims to encourage applications from a wide range of arts practitioners and particularly encourages those who might not previously have considered undertaking a Per Cent for Art commission.

Deadline Strand 3: 20th April 2007: Music/Literature and New Media/Film

Further details are available on the website or by contacting the Wicklow Arts Office, (0404) 20155, wao@wicklowcoco.ie , www.wicklow.ie

Wicklow County Council, County Buildings, Wicklow Town, Ireland

Jess Laccetti’s excellent post at Frontline Books debunks the classic debate over whether digital books will spell the demise of print.

You can read Julia Bell’s original Guardian post that prompted Jess’ article here.

An E-Mail-Art project on the NetBehaviour email list culminating in an exhibition at the HTTP Gallery in London.

Open Call for contributions from 31st January to 28th February 2007 via NetBehaviour email list: Subscribe here http://www.netbehaviour.org/DIWO.htm
Exhibition at HTTP Gallery, London : http://www.http.uk.net
Initiated by Furtherfield.org : http://www.furtherfield.org
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The Do It With Others (DIWO) E-Mail-Art exhibition aims to highlight the already thriving imaginations of those who use social networks and digital networks on the Internet as a form of distribution. Just like Mail Art, E-Mail-Art bridges the divide between artists and non artists to share a freely accessible form of distribution.

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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 Projektion”. During the Screenings there will be a DJ or Live Music. “loop pool 007” is already the third edition of the project.

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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

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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

 
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 mailto: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