Chris Joseph

SHARE AWARD : DIGITAL ART PRIZE 2008

Competition announcement

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Piemonte Share Festival announces the second edition of the Share Prize 2008 for digital art.
The competition jury will award a prize of 2,500.00 euros to the work (published or unpublished) which best represents experimentation between arts and new technologies.
The candidates for the prize (a short list of a maximum of 6 competitors) will be guests at the 4th edition of the Share Festival, taking place in Turin March 2008 at the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti, Turin. In order to be declared winner of the prize, every artist has to take part in the 4th edition of Share Festival, by preparing his or her work of art, to be properly evaluated by jury and public.
The organization is available at offering all the costs regarding the preparation of the 6 selected works as well as travel and accommodation expenses for the artists, and, possibly, the prize itself.
Nomination of 6 candidates for the prize: by November, 2007. The announcement will be published on the following website: www.toshare.it
The winner will be announced in March 2008 during the award ceremony at Share Festival.

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Sandbox, The Centre for Digital and Creative Industries is a new initiative from the University of Central Lancashire that brings together a wide range of skills and expertise to allow the generation of new and collaborative forms of working. Its creative workspace, facilities and research staff will enhance the capabilities of cross disciplinary forms of development and production. Director Professor Simon Robertshaw is leading this new initiative which will be situated in the new Digital Media Factory, Preston, due to open in September 2007.

Initially we wish to make a number of appointments that will build a successful team of research practitioners, facilitators and developers.

The Sandbox itself will be a Centre that will provide two key elements.

+ Firstly a unique combination of interdisciplinary practitioners that develops new digital interactive service innovations in collaboration with and influencing industry culture and communities.

+ Second by providing an innovation environment that will allow companies, cultural organisations to engage, debate, and find solutions through a unique combination of interdisciplinary activity, creative technology and expert facilitation.

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Turnstile - Single Use

Interval is looking for new media art works that respond or relate to the concept of ‘Single Use’.

Turnstile is a new concept in art tourism - an innovative exhibition format developed around the idea that most people only visit an exhibition once.

Turnstile utilises this observation as an approach and redesigns the approach to an exhibition, mimicking an audiences actions and flow.

Turnstile will consist of a series of 4 single-day exhibitions. Each day will see 5 artists install, exhibit and remove their work from the venue. This style of event is new and innovative, responsive to tight schedules and busy lifestyles. The space will be open for preview each evening from 5-9pm, after which the work will be removed ready for the next 5 artists to install. Each day is sub themed, aiming to explore different contextual approaches around the notion of Single Use. The exhibition will take place in a large empty retail space in central Manchester at the end of July.

Interval is looking for media based artworks exploring the field of Single Use, and responsive to one or more of the 4 themes:
Successful Failure
Everything Must Go
Outside of Parallel
Portable Rest

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Closing Date : June 22nd

The dynamic new National Institute for Excellence in the Creative Industries (NIECI) at Bangor University is leading the University’s Creative Industries initiative as part of a substantial investment fostering international excellence.

Applicants must be aiming to achieve, and sustain, research output of international-level excellence.

The Institute would be interested in receiving applications from persons with research interests in one or more of the following areas: creative mobile technologies, publishing, digital interactive media, media translation, creative and critical communication ; however, applicants with other areas of expertise are also encouraged to apply.

The successful candidate will complement this exciting National Institute’s existing strengths, within a multidisciplinary Creative Industries environment. Applicants may have an interest in developing Welsh medium, as well as English medium, research.

The appointment will be made from September 2007 to September 2008 (or soon thereafter), in the first instance, with the idea that the researcher could develop fully-funded external projects that extended this period of appointment.

For more information please contact Professor Graeme Harper at graeme.harper@bangor.ac.uk or Dr Astrid Ensslin at a.ensslin@bangor.ac.uk.

Call for entries
deadline 1 August 2007

http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=23

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CALL FOR ENTRY : Seoul International Film Festival 2007 Net Section

The 8th Seoul International Film Festival is open for entries.

Seoul International Film Festival Net Section is trying to introduce talented visual artists all over the world and their brilliant works and to lead the new audio-visual experiences based on the Internet and New Media. We sincerely hope you consider this exciting opportunity to show your great endeavors in the digital convergence era.

WHEN : September 6 - December 31, 2007

WHERE : WWW.SENEF.NET

SEOUL INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE : July 13, 2007

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from The Silent Toast by Frederick George Scott, in a dugout on Vimy Ridge, April 1917
+ machinesideout, from machine_language, la cicciolisa and disintegrating cyberbaby
+ scratchysplatOnji-X
+ Landscape with barbed wire

flash source: thesilenttoast.fla (104KB)

Whiteroom Productions Open Event

Showcasing three collaborative projects from De Montfort University students, which are open to see as part of this years Art and Design Degree Show.

Ezal Enteractive, Award winning Pervasive Mobile Game aimed to teach children about Sustainability.

Braunstonegate.com, An online live music video experience which presents live performances of bands around the Leicester area.

Sacred Art of Portrayal, Short film based on a modern Crime Novel by Christopher Brookmyre

Whiteroom Productions

Jack Everard Design Innovation (MA) IOCT Sponsored Student
Jamie Standbridge Photography and video Graduate (BA)
Peter Popham Graphic Design Graduate (BA)
John Hammond Media production Graduate (Bsc)

Friday 15th June 5-30pm until 8-30pm (Teachers, Trade and Industry night)
Saturday 16th June 10am until 5pm

Bureau presents Dave Griffiths, 2nd - 21st July in OUTPOST presents ‘British & European Legs’, Anglia Square Shopping
Centre, Norwich, UK

An invitational project for Outpost Gallery, to coincide with Contemporary Art Norwich 2007.

In his first solo exhibition Dave Griffiths presents a body of filmworks constructed from his tenderly curated database of movie cue-dots. Gleaned over the last two years from digital TV broadcasts, Griffiths’ personal archive represents an ongoing restoration of those fleeting, but critical, time signals that regulate the illusionary changeovers between film reels. Griffiths exhibits recent films - both data-driven and linear, plus three new interactive works that place cue-dots from his collection into outmoded or ephemeral display devices. Archaic, dusty machines, from childhood cinematographic toys and microfiche, are revived to function as both expanded silent-cinema and resource for examination of cinematic remains.

From his archaeological sifting of matinee fragments, Griffiths has created exploratory works around the mechanical, aesthetic and narrative structures of celluloid. By November 2007 the cue-dot collection aims to be publicly accessible online as a resource for art-historical and creative research. These top-corner phrases of found footage provide fertile audio-visual materials with which to spin stories about the cinematic continuum, and hint at human commotion both onscreen and in the projectionist’s booth. Their imminent disappearance, as industrial casualty of digitisation, marks a sea change in cinema history. Griffiths’ depository of near-redundant ‘cigarette burns’ provides a means of remembering cinema’s outgoing physicality, and a method of enquiry into narrative and perceptual processes.

Preview: 6-9pm, Sunday 1st July 2007

Anglia Square Shopping Centre, Norwich, (see websites below for map)
Opening Times: Daily, 12 - 6pm
Admission: Free. Fully Accessible.

www.davegriffiths.info <> www.bureaugallery.co.uk
www.norwichoutpost.org <> www.contemporaryartnorwich.co.uk

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Sarah Jacobs

Sarah Jacobs is a sculptor whose work includes making objects, performance, installation, books on paper, and books in electronic form. She habitually makes use of everyday materials – plasticine and sticky tape, pdfs and powerpoint.

Her ‘Deciphering Human Chromosome 16: Index to the Report’ is an e-book which contains links to around 250 websites collected in the months following publication in the journal Nature of “The sequence and analysis of duplication-rich human chromosome 16″ ( Vol. 432. December 2004). Its contents change over time as the websites change, migrate or disappear. The Index sets fragments collected from the websites against the background of the earlier draft sequence originally published by Project Gutenberg. The solid physicality of the Index contrasts with the ever changing Report although vagaries of the printing process ensure that each copy of the Index is unique.

Sarah will be talking about the interaction between the physical form of her work and its meaning and about the possibilities opened up by making work in electronic form.

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