Chris Joseph

The Alt-X Online Network, a space “where the digerati meet the literati” and on the Internet since 1993, announces the release of a new Alt-X Press ebook entitled “Illogic of Sense: The Gregory Ulmer Remix” edited by Darren Tofts and Lisa Gye, and designed by artist Joel Swanson of hippocrit.com.

Illogic of Sense: The Gregory L. Ulmer Remix
Edited by Darren Tofts and Lisa Gye
Design by Joel Swanson
http://www.altx.com/ebooks/ulmer.html

Contributors include Niall Lucy, Jon McKenzie, Linda Marie Walker, Craig Saper, Rowan Wilken, Marcel O’Gorman, Teri Hoskin, and Michael Jarrett, with an introduction by editors Tofts and Gye.

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Some “historical” Italian computer poetry pieces, realized and exhibited in the early 90s, now on youtube. For everyone who is interested in computer generated, animated poetry, in the sign of poetry avant-garde, concrete poetry, video-visual poetry e-poetry experimentation.

Author: CATERINA DAVINIO

“DIALOGIE AL METROQUADRO” - ROMA 1992-1994
Featured in VeneziaPoesia 1996 (Nanni Balestrini Curator), and in Palazzo delle Esposizioni of Roma (January 1995, installation in the exhibition La Parola e lo Sguardo). Computer video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCf6opZ2RN4

“NATURA CONTRO NATURA” - ROMA 1996
Featured in the Venice Biennale 1999, Italian Pavillion, Progetto Oreste
(Meeting: Come ci si incontra con i poeti, Emilio Fantin & John Gian Curators).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-jRTNGvjQ4

For further information operators and gallery owners can contact davinio@tin.it

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— Piksel07
— november 15-18 2007

— call for participation
— deadline july 15. 2007

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Piksel[1] is an international event for artists and developers working with open source audiovisual software, hardware & art. Part workshop, part festival, it is organised in Bergen, Norway, by the Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts (BEK) [2] and involves participants from more than a dozen countries exchanging ideas, coding, presenting art and software projects, doing workshops, performances and discussions on the aesthetics and politics of FLOSS & art.

This years event - Piksel07 - continues the exploration of free/libre and open source audiovisual code and it’s myriad of expressions, and also investigates further the open hardware theme introduced at Piksel06.

Piksel07 is done in collaboration with Gallery 3,14[3] which will host this years exhibition. Piksel is organised by BEK and a community of core participants including members of collectives dyne.org, goto10.org, ap/xxxxx, hackitectura.net, riereta.net, drone.ws, gephex.org and others.

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There are two sources of funding for students on the De Montfort University Online MA in Creative Writing & New Media in 2007-8

1. The Institute Of Creative Technologies is offering twelve Masters-level studentships for the coming academic year 2007-2008. The studentships are worth 10,000 GBP each and are available to UK full-time students only. Applications from part-time or overseas students will not be considered. One of these studentships is allocated to the Online MA in Creative Writing & New Media. For details of the award see http://www.ioct.dmu.ac.uk/masters.htm Deadline 6th July 2007

2. There is also a Faculty of Humanities Writer’s Scholarship. There will be one award worth £1500 available to students on the Online MA in Creative Writing and New Media. All students holding an offer of a place will be considered on the basis of the writing sample submitted as part of the application for the course.

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A senior research appointment in the emerging field of digital creativity, to be based in the Institute Of Creative Technologies and the Faculty of Art and Design.

The post will entail a commitment to trans-disciplinary working at the intersection of Computer Science and the Digital Arts and Design. In particular you will address the IOCT themes of Cultural Horizons and Quality of Life.

Application forms and further details are available from:
The Human Resources Team
De Montfort University
The Gateway
Leicester LE1 9BH
Tel: 0116 250 6433 (24 hour answerphone)

To apply online visit: www.dmu.ac.uk/jobsonline

### AND THEN/somedancers karaoke competition

### AND THEN is a wonderful literary magazine based in New York but with content from all over the world

### The current edition has a little collaboration in it - a song with lyrics by Robert Roth and Carletta Joy Walker and music by Michael Szpakowski

### On this site there is a shockwave movie with a performance of the song and a karaoke backing ( You can toggle between the two with the ’song/karaoke’ button provided. Both are started by pressing the triangular ‘play’ button bottom left. You will need the shockwave plug in for your browser )

### You are invited to do one of two things:

*****(1) Record yourself ( hints for doing this ) or a friend or you & a friend or your hockey team or whatever singing the song to the karaoke backing

*****(2) Transform the song in some way - new lyrics, visuals, as you like really - then do step (1) or record it in some other way, video, audio, whatever…

****THEN…send your finished piece (or a link where I can grab it) to karaoke@somedancersandmusicians.com to be posted on this page.. forever ( if you’re mailing & it’s a big file please mail me first!).

### The deadline is June 20th, although of course if a particularly brilliant one appears soon afterwards we will cheat. The result will be announced as soon after that as we can reasonably manage.

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Some great Alice news this week - Episode 1: China has been awarded an IBM New Media prize at the 20th Stuttgarter Filmwinter ( http://www.filmwinter.de ) . The jury were Olia Lialina, Augustin Gimel and Annett Zinsmeister. Big thanks to them and the Stuttgarter Filmwinter team!

Alan Bigelow’s Webyarns.com has a new story online:

“Lord’s Prayer, The”

This experiment in religion can be seen at http://www.LordsPrayerThe.com

For other stories visit http://www.webyarns.com

Culture East Midlands, the Regional Cultural Consortia for the East Midlands has recently launched a new website supporting rural arts and culture in the East Midlands.

The website http://www.ruralculture-em.org is now live to the public.

The site is there to support the work of people developing cultural activity in rural areas and showcase projects from across the region. The site provides clear information on training and funding opportunities, news and events and signposts organisations that support cultural activity. Detailed case studies from some successful and pioneering projects across the East Midlands are available to download to inform and hopefully inspire more cultural projects in rural areas.

We are still in the process of developing the site’s content so any thoughts you might have when you visit, you can send to us via the contact form on the site, or email to mailto:news@ruralculture-em.org

Isolation is a common aspect of rural life and this site aims to overcome some of those communication barriers by providing an
appropriate and accessible service to those working in culture in the rural East Midlands.

Culture in Rural Development Programme, Culture East Midlands, EMDA

Culture East Midlands, located with EMDA at Apex Court, City Link, Nottingham, NG2 4LA

Artist Talk with Ali Zaidi director of motiroti
Saturday 19 May, 2pm - Free

motiroti is a London based international arts organisation that create and produce original works combining new media, visual and performing arts for intimate as well as public spaces. Their multi-layered projects are led by participation and collaboration.

Join motiroti’s artistic director Ali Zaidi for a talk about the company, the ‘cutout’ installation (now showing at The City Gallery) and his multi-disciplinary, cross cultural practise.

Ali Zaidi co-founded motiroti with Keith Khan in 1996, and is now the company’s main creative drive. Indian by birth, Pakistani by migration and British by chance. These cultural paradoxes contribute to Zaidi’s creative speculation around issues of identity and representation. His background in graphic design, advertising and photography, as well as education, evolved into sumptuous expression of concepts rather than commercial products. Working across diverse art forms, including film, live art, installation and digital technologies, Zaidi creates fresh participatory experiences for new audiences. Zaidi’s work is reflected in all motiroti’s production.

However, he feels particularly close to recent video-triptych cutout. The video unfolds a dialogue between the urban fabric and new cultural influences, and plays with the private sphere, the expression of the human body and public space.

The talk is free but booking is essential, you can book you place by calling The City Gallery sales and information desk on 0116 223 2060.