Chris Joseph

This autumn Phoenix Arts is launching the next phase of Phoenix Digital. This project will use the public spaces available within the Phoenix to present an ongoing exhibition of digital artwork that will showcase work from the East Midlands and beyond. They are looking for submissions from all artists working within digital and new media who are interested in being involved with this exciting ongoing project. Please send a CD or DVD including up to 5 video samples or jpeg images of your work along with a statement and CV to: Phoenix Digital, Phoenix, 21 Upper Brown Street, Leicester, LE1 5TE. Alternatively you can email your submission to digital@phoenix.org.uk. Please also email if you require any further info.

From Sue Thomas:

I’d like to invite your help with my new book project, The Wild Surmise: a study of nature and cyberspace.

I’ve created a blog with five questions about your own experience of nature and how you view it in relation to your online life. I’d be really grateful if you could spare the time to respond to some or all of them. Also, if you know of anyone else who might enjoy the project, either as participant or reader, please feel free to pass the url to them. The site only launched yesterday so it is pristine ground!

Many thanks in advance and I hope you have a moment to contribute. You’ll find info on how to do this at http://travelsinvirtuality.typepad.com/natureandcyberspace/

Last year I interviewed a number of people during the first phase of this research and I’ll be publishing those interviews on the site over the next few weeks. Currently you can read N. Katherine Hayles’ responses here and here’s an excerpt from a conversation with Howard Rheingold:

“Most people know me from cyberspace and assume that I live there. I do spend many hours a day online, but what they don’t know is that my body is sitting outside, with my bare feet in contact with the earth. I don’t know that I could live in any other way.” (interview with Howard Rheingold, 2006)

I hope you have a moment to contribute and look forward to reading your thoughts.

Who we are:
The Present Group is a quarterly art subscription service. Every year TPG subscribers receive four limited edition works from four different contemporary artists. Each work is accompanied by information to help them gain insight into the piece, its creator, and recurring themes in the contemporary art world.

What we are looking for:
Proposals for projects that are reproducible in intent. Each piece can be a limited edition, an artist multiple, or either a part of or a document of a larger work. Our current edition numbers are under 100. We choose based on the piece’s Visual, Conceptual, and/or Experiential interest. The project will be made exclusively through The Present Group. We understand that similar themes and images may be used throughout your other work, however you agree not to create the exact project in the same form again.

Appreciation for Selected Artists:
* $500 (This is an honorarium outside of the costs of creating the work-which we cover)
* 4 of the produced work for your own collection or to sell on your own.
* All the contextual information we create for your piece, including artist info, critiques, and video will remain free on-line as long as TPG exists

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SUBMISSION DEADLINE: AUGUST 25th, 2007. ONLINE SUBMISSIONS AT http://poppingpixels.org/

This year we are looking for digital work that is short and fast (small in file size and quick in linear time). The 2007 exhibits will be held at various airfields in the northern Orkney Isles, home of the “The World’s Shortest Scheduled Flight”.

ACCEPTED FORMAT: .MOV files. Maximum file size: 5MB Maximum Length: 2 MINUTES (approximately equal to the shortest scheduled flight time).

EXHIBITION DATE: OCTOBER 2007

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