Chris Joseph

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Open Inaugural Meeting of the Psychogeography Study Group
Phil Smith (Dartington College of Arts): an introduction to psychogeography & a walk

Monday 16 July 2007
IOCT 2.00 - 3.30pm followed by a walk (for 15 people only) 3.30 - 4.00pm.

Please contact Ian Hunter to book a place: iqhunter [at] dmu.ac.uk. Note that the walk is limited to 15 people, so please indicate if you wish to go on the walk as well as attend the meeting.

Phil Smith is a theatre writer, performer, walking artist and teacher. His theatre and libretto work, including over a hundred plays, have been performed in over thirty countries, attended by over two million people. He has taught at the Universities of Plymouth, Winchester and Exeter and at Dartington College of Arts, publishing in Studies In Theatre & Performance, Total Theatre, Performance Research, Reconstruction and Rhizomes. Texts of his solo-performances The Crab Walks (2004) and Crab Steps Aside (2005) will be published in Walking, Writing and Performance: Autobiographical Texts edited by Roberta Mock (Intellect, due 2007). http://www.mis-guide.com/ws/people.html#phil

The DMU Psychogeography is a collaboration between the Institute of Creative Technologies [IOCT] (Prof Sue Thomas), the Faculty of Humanities, DMU (Dr Ian Hunter), and the University of Bradford (Mark Goodall).

Directions to the IOCT http://ioctsalon.com/directions.htm

The Art of Digital Show
http://www.artofdigitalshow.com

*CALL FOR ENTRIES
Entry Deadline: August 15, 2007*

*An international exhibition of digital art at the elegant Lyceum Theatre Gallery
http://www.artofdigitalshow.com/lyceum.html
in San Diego’s historic Gaslamp Quarter*

*Exhibition:* October 6 - November 11, 2007
*Opening Reception:* Saturday, October 6th

*Judge:* Neal Benezra
http://www.sfmoma.org/press/pressroom.asp?do=bio&id=1
Director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, http://www.sfmoma.org

*The Art of Digital Show* is a world-class exhibition featuring all forms of digital art — computer animation, digital painting, digital video art, computer based illustration, digitally manipulated photography, fractals and algorithmic imagery, digital manipulations of traditionally created art, digital montages and collages, mixed media with digital elements, CGI, etc. What is very unique about The
Art of Digital Show is the combining of fine art images in the gallery along with video art. Flat-screen displays in the gallery will be
continuously exhibiting the video art pieces.

*The entry details* can be read in the Prospectus -
http://www.artofdigitalshow.com/prospectus.html. The online entry process is very easy, simply filling out a short registration form and then uploading your digital files. Entry deadline is August 15th at 11:59 pm California Time.

*Entry Fee:* Still images are $25 for the first entry, $10 for each additional entry. Video art is $45 for each entry. There is no limit to the number of entries an artist may enter. Artists who entered any work in the /Art of Digital Show 2006/ or any of our previous /Art of Photography Shows/ will receive a $15 discount towards the /Art of Digital Show 2007./

*$3000 in Awards:*
$1,000 1st Place Award
$ 750 2nd Place Award
$ 500 3rd Place Award
$ 250 4th Place Award
$ 100 (5) Honorable Mention Awards

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Cafe Culturel upcoming event…

Celebrity Culture: How long can it last?

Wednesday July 4th, 6.30pm LCB Depot, 31 Rutland St, Leicester, LE1 1RE

The speakers include Dan Davies, the new editor of Metro East Midlands, and hopefully an expert in celebrity culture from Leicester University…

For more information see below or visit www.cafeculturel.org.uk

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From Luis Silva:

Social bookmarking allows for users to easily store lists of resources (websites, for instance) and have them available to the public, allowing people with the same interests (or not) to share and have easy acess to relevant information on a specific subject. But the most important feature of social bookmarking lies in the categorization of these resources by the users themselves. Tagging is the word that comes to mind. Tagging consists basicly in the possibility these social bookmarking services have of allowing the users not only to bookmark something, but to informally assign tags (relevant keywords) to it, thus creating meta-data about the tagged resources in a collective way, rather than individually, something that can be seen as a second layer of meaning, but determined by the users rather than the original producer of the content. This is what is called folksonomy, a user-generated taxonomy used to retrieve and categorize web content.

The departure idea for this project is thinking of tagging as curating. If tagging creates meta-data about pre-existing content, it can be seen as the creation of a discourse about it. And if that content happens to be an online artwork, tagging both allows for a subjective juxtaposition of art works and the elaboration of a critical discourse about it. Curating then. But this isn’t new. This is regular curating done in a schematic way, using a different tool to get the job done. But since tagging is a social activity in its essence, giving birth to folksonomies, it allows for social curating, with social selection of works and social production of discourse about them. This is what this project intends to be. Rather than traditionally curating a show through tagging the projects with the name of the show, we will be asking people to tag some of their favourite Internet art pieces with a few defined tags and some that they can choose freely. The idea is that this device will then create a folksonomic net art exhibition done collectively by a group of people. It can be seen as a social experiment, aiming at finding out what will that second layer of meaning be like, or if it will work at all. A challenge then. I tag you tag me, or a random folksonomy of Internet art. Let the tagging begin.

I would like to ask you to add content to the show. We’re using a del.icio.us account, so log on to http://del.icio.us/ . the username is I_tag_you_tag_me and the password is ole166. And then tag as many net art pieces as you like, assigning them with tags you find useful or relevant in any way. I have already tagged a few works. You can use the same tagging system I did, or instead, you can use something different, meaningful to you. The choice is really up to you. You can add content or organize it as you consider best. If a work you want to tag is already tagged, assign it with other tags so it reflects what you wanted in the first place.

Hope you have fun helping to create this ever evolving, ever changing, unfinished, unfinishable project.