Chris Joseph

$5000 MONA Horse Bazaar Prize

MONA (www.mona.net.au) and Horse Bazaar (www.horsebazaar.com.au) are offering the world’s richest prize for the production of panoramic content.

The Mona Horse Bazaar Prize for panoramic content is an open digital art prize for the production of screen-based content that best uses Horse Bazaar’s unique panoramic projection system. The screens are custom-built for the environment and extend for nearly 20 metres around the bar. Casting aside the traditional 4:3 screen format, visual artists are asked to produce digital content at an 8:1 ratio.

The Mona Horse Bazaar Prize aims to cultivate the appreciation and production of panoramic virtual décor.

This is an acquisitional competition; winning pieces will become a part of the MONA art collection.

*Entries close on July 13th*. Submissions will be shown at Horse Bazaar in the lead up to the gala and award night that will take place on Saturday 21st July. Entry is unrestricted and artists are invited to submit multiple entries should they so desire.

International entries are welcome. Feel free to spread the word!

For more information see http://www.horsebazaar.com.au/hbprize.html

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On the 30th June 2007 the light(er)s will go out across England. Like it, tolerate it or loathe it, smoking in pubs, restaurants, even your local greasy spoon will end, and we’d like to ask you to help us document that soon-to-disappear culture.

Taking part couldn’t be simpler, just text pictures or video of your favourite smoking dens to 07725202020 with the key word SMOKE in the body of the text. Alternatively, you can simply email them in to: smokedout@moblg.net

All photographs will be displayed in the Smoked Out moblog gallery at www.smokedout.net

All messages are charged at your standard operator picture-message rate.

Smoked Out is a collaboration between Redeye, the-phone-book Limited and moblogUK.

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Surface Gallery Nottingham call for submissions - Open Show

Surface Gallery is proud to present its annual Open Show for 2007.

The exhibition will be selected from work in all media, to create a diverse and multi-disciplined exhibition.

Two winners will be selected from the Open Show for a two-person exhibition early in 2008 for the chosen artists to showcase their work.
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INTIMACY
Across Visceral and Digital Performance

OPEN CALL FOR PAPERS, POSTERS & PERFORMANCES

INTIMACY Across Visceral and Digital Performance is supported by the AHRC ICT Methods Network, Goldsmiths Graduate School, Goldsmiths Digital Studios, Goldsmiths Drama Department and LABAN.

ABOUT
INTIMACY is a three-day interdisciplinary programme of events made to illicit connectivity, induce interaction and provoke debate between makers, participants and witnesses of works that explicitly address proximity and hybridity in performance. It will feature workshops, seminars, performances, posters, and a 1-day symposium. INTIMACY will employ digital and live art practices as agents, aiming to further practical exploration of and vibrant discourse into notions of intimacy in contemporary performance. It is framed as a forum for artists, scholars, community workers, performers, cultural practitioners, researchers and creative thinkers.

INTIMACY will provide a platform for the discussion of live art/performance practices concerned with displaying intuitive, intimate and visceral relationships between artist and other. It will explore performance practices that engage in intimate encounters, raising issues around bodies of data and flesh; presence as aura and representation; desire as embodied condition and disembodied fantasy; the human and posthuman self. Confirmed contributors include: Johannes Birringer, Kira O’Reilly, Tracey Warr, Janis Jefferies, Amelia Jones, Dominic Johnson, Kelli Dipple, Paul Sermon.
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Interview with Charlie Gere, Christiane Paul, Jemima Rellie

+Commissioned by Rhizome.org+

On March 20th of this year, a vast and promising new space opened in Gijon, Asturias: the LABoral Art and Industrial Creation Centre. Devoted to the exhibition, research, training and production of new art and industrial creation,’ LABoral opened with four exhibitions: GAMEWORLD, EXTENSIONS-ANCHORS, LABCYBERSPACE, and FEEDBACK—the latter of which was organized by Charlie Gere, Christiane Paul, and Jemima Rellie. The three curators bring a tremendous amount of experience to FEEDBACK, a show that is ambitious in both scale and premise. Charlie Gere is Reader in New Media Research in the Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University & Chair of Computers and the History of Art (CHArt); Jemima Rellie is Head of Digital Programmes at the Tate; and Christiane Paul is Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art and director of Intelligent Agent. All have published widely on digital art and new media. Their exhibition breaks down established boundaries between disciplines to present a fresh perspective on art history, one that connects new media to artistic practices not usually seen as historical precursors. This interview was conducted via email after the exhibition opened.

http://rhizome.org/thread.rhiz?thread=26268&page=1#48766

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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing
School of English, Performance and Historical Studies
Faculty of Humanities, De Montfort University

£27,465 - £39,160pa

An established creative writer with teaching experience, you will contribute to the development and teaching of our lively and innovative creative writing programmes, particularly at undergraduate level. You will be interested in a range of forms and genres, sympathetic to experimentation and able to help students acquire a range of craft and practical skills. Expertise in prose fiction and familiarity with digital/new media writing would be an advantage.

Informal enquiries may be made to:

Dr Philip Cox, Head of School of English, Performance and Historical Studies
E-mail: ptcox@dmu.ac.uk; Telephone: 0116 250 6129

OR Dr Kathleen Bell, Creative Writing Programme Leader
E-mail: kbell@dmu.ac.uk

Please quote reference number: 4414

Closing date: 29 June 2007

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 hours answerphone)

To apply on line visit our website: www.dmu.ac.uk/jobsonline

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The Banff New Media Institute at The Banff Centre Announces Interactive Screen 0.7

Each year the majestic mountain setting of Banff is host to a mix of international and Canadian new media luminaries and rising stars. For 12 years participants have come to Interactive Screen at BNMI to reflect on the current state of new media and the shape of things to come. Interactive Screen 0.7 looks at how interaction design is shaping our everyday life through digital artifacts, for culture, play, work, and the economy.

Interactive Screen aims to stimulate the creation of emotionally powerful, creatively inspired, and economically viable new media in Canada and abroad. Interactive Screen brings together established producers, investors, and policymakers with artists, technologists, and cultural researchers of all horizons. Together they focus on the creative, social, and business impacts of digital content, technologies and networks.

During six days of work and play, participants engage with peers and mentors in inspiring dialogue and collaboration by participating in presentations, panels, workshops, and performances. Participants will come away from Interactive Screen with new projects and alliances, a refined set of skills, and a renewed faith in the cultural power of new media.

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for remix_runran,
from vispoet
+ Mark Strand - “There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.”

flash source: vispoetloop.fla (53KB)

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Groundwork South West is looking to engage contemporary artists/arts groups to work alongside our local trust, Groundwork Devon and Cornwall, with the intention of radically reassessing what current contemporary practice could bring to our work and organisation.

We wish to develop an ongoing programme of contemporary art commissioning, and are keen to work with a wide range of practices including; performance/live art, sound art, video/film, installation, media, sculpture, and everything in-between and beyond. We are looking for artists who reflect our own organisation’s ethos and ideals and who therefore have a critical engagement with some or all of the following; public space (both urban and rural), environmental regeneration and sustainability, individual/community empowerment and participation.

To begin this process, we are calling for expressions of interest for artist(s) in residence. The intention is for the selected artist(s) to engage in a residency period with Groundwork, possibly, although not necessarily, culminating in a new piece of work. Engaging creatively with Groundwork’s staff and community-based projects and the process of working is seen to be as important as a final ‘product’. Rather than prescribe a specific outcome, we want to work in collaboration with the chosen artist’s practice and plan the residency accordingly.

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:::: Call for projects VERSCH festival 2007/2008 ::::

VERSCH is a small festival for innovating media art, electronic music and cross-over. A showcase of installations, performance, live cinema VJ-ing, live music, DJ-ing and cross-over is organized once per two months at the Night theatre Sugar Factory in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. More information at www.versch.org.

The synergy between image and sound in installation or performance form is one of the characteristics of the (audio-visual) projects. New approaches in the form and the position of the performers/ the public towards the work are central. The music doesn’t conform to one style and moves into the direction of eclectic pop/dance, deep-house, minimal and electro. Fresh, accessible compositions and cross-over are the key words.

The Artists can introduce their work to the organization by filling in the entry form correctly. Please add representative project
documentation to your entry.

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