Chris Joseph

Beginning in May and extending through the summer, Rhizome will run a series of special features on new books, journal issues, and other writing projects related to new media.

We are currently compiling a list of texts to include and looking for writers who would like to review books, interview authors, contribute curated reading lists, or write thematic essays related to movements in new media, as traced in recent publications.

The resulting bibliography will grow online, over the summer, and will ideally provide a snapshot of contemporary scholarship in new media, while extending into coverage of broader contemporary art practices and issues related to digital culture at large.

These articles will run on our lists, in our Digest, and on our front-page reblog and will be archived in a special Summer of Books
page on Rhizome.org.

Interested writers should email marisa(at)rhizome(dot)org with writing samples. Bibliographic suggestions are encouraged but not required. Authors and publishers should mail texts for potential review to the following address:

Marisa Olson
Editor & Curator
Rhizome at the New Museum
210 Eleventh Ave, 2nd floor
New York, NY 10001
USA

http://www.ioctsalon.com

This event is free of charge and open to the public.

Low Brow Trash

Low Brow Trash (Graham Elstone and Thomas Hall) create contemporary artworks for all arts locations and festivals. The company is dedicated to the use of new media technologies in the creation of the artworks in expressing the ideas and themes of the work. Low Brow Trash is continually exploring new ways to utilise new technology as a creative tool and is expanding the way art is experienced by the viewer or audience by creating work that has an interactive element. Low Brow Trash work with film, computer technology, computer games, insallation and performance/theatre in the creation of their work.

Low Brow Trash’s ‘Model Citizen’

Model Citizen is a site-specific work that is ideally suited to a shopping centre or street. The work consists of a large projected image placed in a shop front/window and the images react to the movements of passers by, by using motion-tracking technology.

The work examines the concept of Model Citizen: are we born to be Model Citizens or are we manipulated into being so? And for some of us where and why does this go wrong? The work uses various reference points in life and transforms these into image statements that are then layered on top of each other to give contrasting views and opinions on the subject. Model Citizen works with layered imagery; a camera registers the movement of the passer by, they are transformed into a projected silhouette, this silhouette in turn becomes a ‘window’ to the second layer of imagery, creating a multi-layered visual language.

A public artwork that has the ‘public’ as the focal point.

Links:

Low Brow Trash - http://www.lowbrowtrash.co.uk

http://www.youtube.com/lowbrowtrash - a collection of documentation of installations and short films created by Low Brow Trash and its members

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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.

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Video Art Festival Miden Call 2007.

Video Art Festival Miden invites all video artists and video creators to participate in this year’s events, which will take place, like the past two years, in public spaces at the Historic Centre of the city of Kalamata, Greece, in July 2007.

In it’s third realization, Festival Miden is supported by Kalamata’s Historic Centre Organisation, The Messinia Chamber of Commerce and the Municipality of Kalamata.

The deadline for the submission of application forms and videos is the 31th of May 2007 (post stamped). Application forms and more information about the festival are posted on the festival’s web site: www.festivalmiden.gr

The festival call is open to every creator (individuals, groups or organizations) of any nationality and background. The proposed video can be of any genre (video art, experimental video, animation, short movie etc.). Preferred duration under 10 min. There is no entry fee.

In its third realization, along with the main program, Festival Miden wishes to present three additional special showcases:
1. experimental animation
2. a tribute to Mediterranean artists as part of a cultural exchange and collaboration between Mediterranean countries.
3. experimental music video clips (the music must be original or accompanied by a copyright release) In this context, please forward this information to any artist whose work fits into these areas.

For any extra information check the festival’s website
www.festivalmiden.gr or contact us at: info@festivalmiden.gr

You can also contact the festival’s team:
Art director: Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos (gd@festivalmiden.gr)
Curators: Gioula Papadopoulou Margarita Stauraki
The new posting may be found at
http://www.bek.no/BEKdot/1174895088

Conflux 2007 will take place in Brooklyn again this September and we want you in it! The call for proposals is at http://confluxfestival.org and has all the information you need on how to participate. The online submission form will be live next week and the deadline for proposals is April 17. It’s a tight deadline, but the submission process is short & sweet and we look forward to receiving your proposals.

The Conflux festival has been described as “a network of maverick artists and unorthodox urban investigators…making fresh, if underground,contributions to pedestrian life in New York City, and upping the ante on today’s fight for the soul of high-density metropolises.” At Conflux visual and sound artists, writers, urban adventurers and the public gather for four days to explore the physical and psychological landscape of the city. For more information about Conflux, check out the Conflux 2006 site at: http://confluxfestival.org/conflux2006/

Please help us get the word out about the call, and see you in September!

Izolenta international digital cinema festival accepts submissions: art video, animation, documentary and fiction digital cinema. Deadline 20 April, 2007.

For more info, please check the festival website: http://www.izolenta.org

Application form to download (MS Word): http://www.izolenta.org/doc/izolenta07_eng.doc

Izolenta will take place in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on 11, 12, 13 May 2007.

The Fourth Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment, 2007

3-5 December 2007
Storey Hall, RMIT University
Melbourne, Australia
http://www.ie.rmit.edu.au/

SUBMISSION DEADLINES:
*Proposals for panels and abstract for individual papers: 30th May 2007

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This is the title and central question of a great article in The Philadelphia Inquirer today, in which the writer Katie Haegele asks some well-considered questions of Sue Thomas from DMU, Scott Lloyd DeWitt (director of the digital media project at the Department of English at Ohio State University) and Robert Coover (a Professor of Literary Arts at Brown University):

…what about the writing experience? Is literary writing for digital media different in a way that matters?
…Does good, old-fashioned storytelling really change just because it is distributed in new forms of media?

Google Will Eat Itself announced that is now fully censored on all Google Search-Indexes worldwide.

The idea behind GWEI is simple:

Google Will Eat Itself generates money by serving Google text advertisments on a network of hidden Websites. With this money GWEI automatically buy Google shares. GWEI buys Google via their own advertisment. Google eats itself - but in the end “we” own it. By establishing this autocannibalistic model we deconstruct the new global advertisment mechanisms by rendering them into a surreal click-based economic model. After this process GWEI hands over the common ownership of “our” Google Shares to the GTTP Ltd. [Google To The People Public Company] which distributes them back to the users (clickers) / public.

Description

Open Ear wish to announce Snd:arc- (Sound and Architecture) a free evening of open air live sound art and visual experimentation, featuring performances by a number of artists including Mr Paul Adams who will be performing with his new audio/visual software Pac / resenv.

The event, one of the first of its kind in the Broadstairs area, will be taking place in the space of the open courtyard at Canterbury Christ Church University at the Broadstairs Campus, Kent, England from 8pm on Friday 11/05/07 (weather permitting or be postponed until Friday the 18/05/07).

Please contact Broadstairs Campus closer to the date to verify that the event will be happening (t: +44 (0)1843 609120, e: broadstairs [at] canterbury dot ac dot uk).

The location

Canterbury Christ Church Broadstairs campus, Kent, England, situated on the east coast of Kent, approximately 30 minutes from Canterbury, opened in 2000 with a wide selection of higher education courses. The campus is committed to the arts and cultural regeneration of the area and regularly host’s events, exhibitions and performances on site.

Directions: http://www.canterbury.ac.uk/broadstairs/about/maps.asp

For further information regarding the event or Open Ear, please see our weblog at: http://openear.wordpress.com/