Chris Joseph

http://www.creativityconversation.co.uk

* PLEASE NOTE - THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE *

With Prof. Margaret Boden, Giles Lane, Prof. Richard Coyne, Dr. Claudia Eckert and Frank Boyd.

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John Cayley will speak on ‘Writing on Complex Surfaces’ on Thursday 3rd May at 8.00pm in room 101, 30 Russell Square, London WC1 at 7.30pm.

This event is sponsored jointly by the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre and the School of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.

http://www.ioctsalon.com

UK launch of the Electronic Literature Collection Volume 1
Thursday 17th May 2007, 6.00pm - 7.30pm (doors open at 5.30pm for drinks)

at the Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK (click here for map and directions)

This event is free of charge and open to the public. The first 50 audience members will receive a complimentary copy of the ELC Volume 1.

The Electronic Literature Collection Volume 1 is an anthology of sixty works published by The Electronic Literature Organization and edited by N. Katherine Hayles, Nick Montfort, Scott Rettberg and Stephanie Strickland.

Guests at this Salon will include

- Scott Rettberg (http://retts.net, writer, co-editor of ELC Volume 1, co-founder and first executive director of the Electronic Literature Organization)

And the UK-based writers who feature on the ELC Volume 1, who will show their work and discuss what Electronic Literature means for them:

- John Cayley (http://www.shadoof.net/in/)
- Jon Ingold (http://www.ingold.fsnet.co.uk)
- Chris Joseph (http://www.chrisjoseph.org)
- Kate Pullinger (http://www.katepullinger.com)

“Flaws or no flaws, this is an essential collection. Anyone interested in the field of electronic literature should take the trouble to get it on DVD. Some of this material is priceless, and it may not be available on the Web indefinitely.”
- Edward Picot, The Hyperliterature Exchange

“In the breadth of work contained in it, as well as the innovative way the editors and authors have made it available, this is a generous collection.”
- Tim Wright, Realtime Arts

Links:

- Electronic Literature Collection
- Electronic Literature Organization
- Furtherfield interview with Scott Rettberg of the ELO (writer, co-editor of ELC Volume 1, co-founder and first executive director of the Electronic Literature Organization)
- The Hyperliterature Exchange review of ELCV1 by Edward Picot
- Realtime Arts review of ELCV1 by Tim Wright

Download a flyer for this event as a Word doc (70kb) or a PDF (72kb)

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Recent Grads: Submissions are now being accepted for the 2007 Emerging Artists Exhibition

We are looking for submissions of electronic, interactive and new media work, including works related to artistic genres such as sculpture, installation, video and performance art.

Each year InterAccess’s emerging artist exhibition showcases new media works by Ontario post- secondary graduating students and/or recent graduates. One of six exhibitions launched annually by InterAccess, the emerging artists show aims to provide students with professional experience and exposure.

The exhibition will take place at InterAccess in the main gallery space from June 12 to August 12. Artist fees will be provided for each artist selected. Artists will be responsible for the transportation of their works a week before the opening. The artist is chiefly responsible for installing his or her work, however InterAccess will provide technical assistance.

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Openned 9 takes place on Wednesday 2nd May at 7.15pm in the basement of The Foundry on Great Eastern Street, London EC1 (nearest tube: Old Street). Click here for map.

Confirmed readers:
John Cayley
Michael Weller
Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
Jow Lindsay
Albert Pellicer
James Harvey


John Cayley will be attempting to give the first London showing of imposition at this event. You can read and/or download program notes for impositon at: http://www.shadoof.net/in/imposition/impositionProgNotes.pdf

If anyone definitely plans to go, and is willing to take a laptop with QuickTime installed, please drop John a note and/or read the instructions at http://www.shadoof.net/in/?http://www.shadoof.net/in/imposition/index.html

NEW THURSDAY CLUB on 10 MAY: /CURATING INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTS/

Supported by the Goldsmiths DIGITAL STUDIOS and the Goldsmiths GRADUATE SCHOOL

6pm until 8:30pm, Seminar Rooms at Ben Pimlott Building (Ground Floor, right), Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, SE14 6NW

FREE, ALL ARE WELCOME

Issues of policies have frequently emerged at Thursday Club presentations, specifically in relation to the funding and curation of digital/ media arts, art-science collaborations, and interdisciplinary work in general. So, for the summer term 2007, we invited four
distinguished speakers to take part in a round table discussion addressing the question:

*Is curation as a practice relevant within the field of interdisciplinary work such as digital /media arts, sci-art, and networked arts? If so, what type of curation is appropriate to, and can support such practices?

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for remix_runran, from tictactoe stamps (’s’sang (mueltcoler (divmut))) from remixo from various x & o’s
+ Lysergic Battery Acid from remix rzep comments

flash source: lysergicstampgenerator.fla (92KB)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/

Want to explore the BBC archive?

The BBC is looking for people to join a six-month trial in which 20,000 UK residents will get free access to hundreds of programmes from the BBC archive, including reports of historic events as they happened, ground-breaking documentaries, soaps, action-packed children’s shows, sumptuous dramas, and comedy shows that thrilled the nation.

People who take part in this trial will be required to complete surveys that will help shape future use of the BBC archive.

Upon registering you will be asked to fill out a form telling us about yourself and the way you access the internet. Demand for this trial is likely to be very high so, unfortunately, not everyone who signs up will get the chance to be part of it. If you’re successful, we’ll contact you very soon.

Dance and Drama Research Seminar - Sioned Huws: Dance and Technology

Wednesday 9th May 12- 2pm, Clephan 2.15, De Montfort University, Leicester

Visiting Speaker. Sioned Huws

‘Everywhere In Nowadays’

Dance and Technology? Maybe contemporary dance does not look closely enough at the reality of our evolving times; technology, the impact it has on the body, our physical and social being in the world, this includes media and communication systems. Looking at digital processes of creating dance works (the idea of a ready-made dance), the live experience of interactivity between audience, dancer, sound, video, light and heart beat in a real time responsive environment.

Technology is part of our evolution and contributes to our understanding of the living body in dance.

Biography

Sioned Huws was born in 1965 Bangor, Wales; she’s currently based in London.

Sioned trained at The Laban Centre for Movement and Dance in 1983-86 and performed with Transitions in 1986-87. She started choreographing and performing her solo work in 1988-90 whilst studying at The Merce Cunningham Studios in New York. Since she has choreographed and performed a range of film, installation and dance works in U.K, Europe, USA and has undertaken residencies in Portugal, Belgium, France, Norway, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, Costa Rica, Sardinia and U.K. Her work ranges from solo to large scale productions such as “Cor Meibion” commissioned by the South Bank Centre in 1997. “Dear Body” in 2002 her first collaboration with new media artist Massimiliano Simbula, since they have continued to research and create pieces such as “Forget It” in 2003, a work that explored the associations between dance and media. Continuing an interest in innovative dance works “Passion No Patience” in 2004, was a careful elucidation of human movement through digital technologies. “StillMoving alpha-Vs” opened in Ljubljana in 2005, an Installation-based performance questioning and investigating the complexity of the body in stillness and movement, the work is constantly evolving and mutating every time it’s presented. Sioned and her company are currently touring in the U.K and Europe with a new solo work “You don’t know how to make the first move gracefully” the dancer reflects the fragilities, beauty and incertitude of everyday actions within the support of an interactive environment. “Esther” 2006 a collaboration with actor and director Daniel Evans. Recently the short film ‘Ping Pan’ was screened at Greenwich Dance Agency and Roxy Live Screen, London.

For further information, contact Professor Ramsay Burt. rburt@dmu.ac.uk

Another fascinating post from Jess Laccetti’s blog at Frontline that uses Inanimate Alice as the basis for a lesson on digital literacy. What I find amazing is that Jess has managed to clearly discern and articulate a range of decisions that were made as part of an organic design process: ‘this looks/sounds right’, rather than an explicit ‘this should go here because…’. You always hope that these decisions make narrative and multimedic sense - and a lot of thought goes into them - but it is very encouraging to know that they make some kind of theoretical and pedagogical sense too.

One thought I have when reading the lesson plans is the difference between sound and music… does a distinction need to be made there? What influence does the music have on the narrative compared to the ‘incidental’ sound effects?

Another is the role of Brad: is he real, imaginary? What is the relationship between Alice and Brad? How does he know where Alice’s Dad will be found? (This is difficult to discuss without giving the plot - congrats Jess for managing to avoid that!)