Chris Joseph

On-line journal Hz (www.hz-journal.org) is looking for articles on New Media, Net Art, Sound Art and Electro-Acoustic Music. We accept earlier published and unpublished articles in English. Please send your submissions to hz-journal@telia.com

Hz is also looking for Net Art works to be included in its virtual gallery (www.hz-journal.org/netg). Please send your URLs to hz-journal@telia.com

Deadline: 25 May, 2007

Hz is published by the non-profit organization Fylkingen in Stockholm. Established in 1933, Fylkingen has been known for introducing yet-to-be-established art forms throughout its history. Nam June Paik, Stockhausen, Cage, etc. have all been introduced to the Swedish audience through Fylkingen. Its members consist of leading composers, musicians, dancers, performance artists and video artists in Sweden.

For more information on Fylkingen, please visit http://www.fylkingen.se/about or http://www.hz-journal.org/n4/hultberg.html

Media Art Friesland Festival 2007: Call for submissions

We invite you to send your works in the areas of film, video, DVD, CD-ROM & Internet project, installation, performance and workshop.

WHO: Artists and students Fine Art working with audiovisual and new media.

WHAT: Media Art Friesland Festival 2007 is the 11th edition. It’s is the international platform for audiovisual arts, as video, film, new media, sound, installations and internet in the north of the Netherlands.

WHERE: The main locations are Leeuwarden, Drachten, Beetsterzwaag and Groningen.

WHEN: 20 - 30 September 2007

TO APPLY: submission guidelines and entry form online: http://www.mediaartfriesland.nl/entryform2007.pdf

DEADLINE: 1 June 2007

MORE: Please visit our website at www.mediaartfriesland.nl

On Thursday 17th May the Department of Computing at Imperial College London is hosting a Games and Media Event, where invited speakers from the games industry as well as academics working on games-related projects will give a day of talks, demos and poster presentations about their work. This annual event is an exciting opportunity for industry, academia and students to meet and share the technical challenges, solutions and future possibilities facing game developers.

Here below find the detailed programme of the day, also available on www.doc.ic.ac.uk/game.

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The Institute for the Future of the Book is pleased to announce a new edition of the “networked book” Gamer Theory by McKenzie Wark. Last year, the Institute published a draft of Wark’s path-breaking critical study of video games in an experimental web format designed to bring readers into conversation around a work in progress. In the months that followed, hundreds of comments poured in from gamers, students, scholars, artists and the generally curious, at times turning into a full-blown conversation in the manuscript’s margins. Based on the many thoughtful contributions he received, Wark revised the book and has now published a print edition through Harvard University Press, which contains an edited selection of comments from the original website. In conjunction with the Harvard release, the Institute for the Future of the Book has launched a new Creative Commons-licensed, social web edition of Gamer Theory, along with a gallery of data visualizations of the text submitted by leading interaction designers, artists and hackers. This constellation of formats — read, read/write, visualize — offers the reader multiple ways of discovering and building upon Gamer Theory. A multi-mediated approach to the book in the digital age.

http://web.futureofthebook.org/mckenziewark/

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
EXHIBITION OPPORTUNITY - E32: EVERY THIRD TUESDAY @ LOTUS

http://e32.hitart.com/

E32 is looking for Group Shows and Art Videos to be presented on a dual vision projection screen in the window of Lotus, a popular Lower East Side bar. The work will be seen on the sidewalk of this highly pedestrian trafficked corner on the Friday and Saturday nights preceding the Third Tuesdays. On Third Tuesdays the projections will include an artist’s talk, all welcome.

For consideration, upload your three - eight person Group Show to MySpace or Fotki. Upload your three minute art video to YouTube or Motionbox .

If chosen your Group Show will be made into a three minute film with text panels showing the artist, title, media, etc. Narration or music can be included.

Artists videos, if chosen, must be mailed in on a data CD.

http://www.futuresonic.com/

Urban festival of Art, Music and Ideas.

Featuring a sensational line-up of performances, exhibitions and events across Manchester city centre featuring over 30 major events, and more than 300 inspirational artists from around the world, crammed into 3 days of sounds, sights and delights.

for remix_runran, from codeman’s point + The codeman caught… <- codeman (movie version), codeman, dotmatricks, point taken, picasso’s point, Alphalaxis

flash source: cp_technoexhaustionmix.fla (242KB)

The festival began this weekend, and Kyle Chayka has written about it in The Tufts Daily, with a small quote from me and mention of my work Eisenstein’s Monster that is featuring at the festival.

Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art announces an open call to video artists seeking to exhibit work in a new emerging artists exhibition. Artists producing museum quality work are encouraged to submit samples in DVD format. Shorter videos (less than 20 minutes) work best in these spaces, but, if viewers can walk in and see the video at any point and it can still be understood, longer running times are acceptable. The exhibition will feature six works to be screened in our Installation galleries. Each space is 9×10 feet and is large enough to house a single-channel projected video or up to three channels on monitors. Please mail submissions to Adam McCoy, Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, 1200 Forrest Park Dr., Nashville, TN 37205. Include a CV, artist statement, and self-addressed stamped envelope if you would like your work returned. The deadline for submissions is July 1, 2007. Notification letters will go out in August, and the exhibition will run from October 6, 2007 through April 6, 2008.

The museum has exhibited video works from across the world since the galleries were established in 1998. Supported by a grant from the Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, this program is one of the first and most prominent video exhibition programs in the southeastern United States. Past shows have included such established video artists as Gary Hill, Yoko Ono, Gary Simmons, Bill Viola, William Kentridge, Pipilotti Rist, and Zhang Huan. In addition, emerging artists such as Kristin Lucas, John Pilson, Jefferson Pinder, and Harell Fletcher have also exhibited at Cheekwood.

A nice BBC news article today celebrating the silver anniversary of my first (and still favourite) home computer, the Sinclair Spectrum. Sir Clive naturally gets a mention, but great that they also talk to Rick Dickinson, responsible for the aesthetic design of the machine:

“Everything was cost driven. The design was the face of the machine.

“All the Sinclair products have a very minimalist, very Bauhaus approach - there’s no unnecessary detail, or superfluous featuring. They are very elegant.”

More nostalgic speccy discussions at Slashdot.