Chris Joseph

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Spring Edition, 2007

Theme: Bits, Bytes and the Rhetoric of Practice: New Media Artist Statements

In this edition of media-N we invite new media arts practitioners to submit personal artist statements and examples of their practice. The commentary (no more than 500 words) should describe the work and contextualize it within the field of new media practice and ideas. In addition, include a short biographical statement (no more than 100 words) at the end of your artist statement.

Event reviews: The editorial board also invites proposals for reviews of exhibitions, events, festivals, conferences, etc. See examples of reviews in the current issue.

[·] Submission deadline: April 30 2007

[·] Paper format and media format for Bits, Bytes and the Rhetoric of Practice: New Media Artist Statements

We seek artist statements of no more than 500 words, with an additional biographical statement of no more than 100 words. Please use a standard word-processing program such as Microsoft Word. PC and Mac versions are both acceptable. You may use italics, boldface, and diacritics, but do not use HTML tags. It is best to send the review as an email attachment in Microsoft Word.Please do not cut and paste the review into the body of an email, as formatting may be lost or changed in the e-mail transmission.

Include no more than 20 examples of artwork (this could be still images, video clips, audio clips, etc, as applicable.) Media Formats: jpeg, avi, swf and additional formats on case by case basis (mov/mpeg/wav/aiff). Be sure to attach these files separately as well as in the body of the text.

[·] Media-N author’s agreement is available from the ‘Copyright Statement’ link

[·] Send manuscripts via email to: Rachel Clarke, Editor in Chief (rclarke@csus.edu)

ART GRANTS FOR 2007

Nowhere is the European burn event held in Spain every July. Details are at http://en.goingnowhere.org .

Art is vitally important to Nowhere, and we want to encourage participant creativity as much as possible. While Nowhere itself is a commerce-free experience, we recognise that the art costs money to produce and bring to the event. 2007 is the second year that we’ve been able to dedicate money to a grant scheme to facilitate projects at Nowhere that will involve and inspire the community.

This year we’ve fed the experience of last year into improving the process. We’re granting at least five times as much money, and we’re starting off several months earlier so you have plenty of time to build once the decisions have been made.

What is art? We’re not just talking about sculptures – at Nowhere art can take any form, unrestricted by fixed definitions. In 2006 we funded large, visible works as well as interactive and performance pieces, and we are open-minded about the kinds of proposals we might assist this year.

The key dates for the 2007 grants process are:

* Up to 12pm on 18th March 2007: applications accepted
* 1st April 2007: grant decisions will be announced
* April-June 2007: advance payments (see below)
* July 2007: release of all remaining grant funds (subject to LNT)

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Never Mind the Polygons #5 will take place in just under three weeks time, at 6.30p.m. on Tuesday the 20th of February. More beered up, games industry panel ranting for your delight, open to everyone involved with the games industry.

Due to the popularity of the last few events, we’ve moved to a swankier venue at Friar Gate Studios, a little closer to the centre of Derby than the Courtyard Pub (Just up the road, in fact: Google map). A free bar has been kindly sponsored by Strawdog Studios.

Polygons #5 will feature Rob Yescombe (Screenwriter, Free Radical Design) and Matt Sansam (Ex-Rebellion Derby and now Founder, Covert Media), along with our two regulars Dan Marchant (Consultant and EM Media) and Iain Simons (Writer and Creative Director, GameCity Festival).

Doors open at the usual time of 6.30, with the event starting proper at 7.00 and wrapping up around 8.30, with plenty of time for drinks and networking after.

This event is part of the Creative Industries Network family.

You can download the flyer here:
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Large PDF (400KB)

If you’ve any questions about it, email David Hayward.

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Creative Commons’ UK film competition “Mix & Mash” in association with Google UK invites short video submissions mixing and mashing digital content. Submissions can be made from the 8th of February to the 10th of March. The winners will be notified by the 12th of March and screened on the 16th of March at the Optronica National Film Theatre in London.

Remixing digital content is the basis for this competition. Digital pictures, sound or films licensed through Creative Commons and Public Domain material need to be used. Entrants can use their creativity to remix the work of others with their own. The result will be a collage of original and re-used material.

Submissions

Submissions can be made under the theme: Britannia Rules / Britannia Sucks

No work should be longer than three minutes.

Films will be made available online under a Creative Commons Noncommercial license.

For terms and conditions, and more details go to: www.MixandMash.cc

A nice review of The Surveys, the project I worked on with David Hume last year (and we hope to get going again at some point… spare time, what a pleasant concept)

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Tuesday, February 06, 2007

The happiness survey

“What we witness in the “Happiness Survey” web site is a visually stimulating version of a survey instead of the orthodox chart survey. Because the main critirea is what makes a person happy, David Hume and Chris Joseph created a colorful panoramic virtual city that is filled with picture bubbles, and each picture symbolizes the contents of the survery question. For instance, we find a house with a phone picture next to it, evidently when you click on the phone the question “do telephones make you happy?” pops up. The site is very nicely designed and it presents a large array of objects. Some objects are more tangible such as a hospital, a cinema, the sun, the moon, rain or snow while others are more abstract such as feelings of pain, pleasure, care or anger. In this virtual city of survey questions there’s almost no wasted space; wherever you point your mouse whether if its the earth, sky, or whatever is in between, you will find a survey bubble associated with that area. It’s a very interesting attempt to transform a survey from a formal document into an enjoyable interactive experience.”