Chris Joseph

The V&A is inviting applications from experienced and established practitioners for a New Media residency in the Sackler Centre for Arts Education, the first in an exciting new programme of residencies.

We are particularly interested in UK based practitioners, who wish to work with the Museum’s spaces and use the facilities in our new Digital Studio with visitors,and who have a track record of development and regular exposure of new work.

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http://www.thyes.com/flag-metamorphoses/

Flag Metamorphoses is an ongoing participatory and collaborative art project curated by Myriam Thyes. The concept is simple - the flags of every nation in the world transforming into each other through flash animations. It’s a great example of an idea that opens up a wealth of possibilities for artistic political comment, and the relationship between two flags/countries as realised through (meta)morphing animations can be understood quickly by viewers in any country. My contribution (by far one of the least accomplished animations in the project, I’m not ashamed to admit!) was the UK Union Jack to the flag of Barbados, representing both the 1966 independence of Barbados from Britain, and my own maternal Barbadian heritage.

There are 26 animations so far, and Myriam has done a wonderful job of getting the project seen at festivals and other screenings (see below), the latest being a showing this month in Tehuacán, Mexico.

Visit the site for more about the project and how to enter your own work.

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NATIONAL CREATION CENTRE NEEDS DIGITAL ARTISTS

Lanternhouse International and folly are working together to provide the perfect creative environment for artists working with technology.
www.lanternhouse.org and www.folly.co.uk

Talented digital artists spanning the whole spectrum of art using sound, the internet, software, film, design, visual art etc – who are looking for the perfect environment in which to develop their work should contact, Ulverston-based, Lanternhouse International.

This pioneering arts company is working with folly to offer a unique environment for digital artists to develop their practice based at The Lanternhouse - an inspirational Creation Centre, a unique, artist designed resource in beautiful southern Lakeland, Cumbria, UK. It is an ideal place to dream, devise and develop new work and explore creative ideas.

Lanternhouse International and folly are enthusiastic about attracting digital artists to be based at this National Creation Centre in Ulverston. It can offer a truly unique, stimulating location, zero-cost work spaces but, most important of all, the buzz of creative exchange.

Folly, a leading digital arts organisation, based in nearby Lancaster is working in partnership with Lanternhouse to ensure that the artists are tied into a network of opportunities and professional development, distribution and technical support.

If you want to find out more just contact Lanternhouse International Creative Director, Stephen Powell, or Executive Director, George Harris on 01229-581127 for a chat or Kathryn Lambert, Creative Director of folly on 01524 388 550

We welcome applications from international artists.

Deadline for submissions 1st September 2007.

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The “Project netarts.org 2007″
http://www.netarts.org/

From 1995 to 2003, The Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts hosted the “Art on the Net” project promoting the Internet as a space for artistic expression. For nine years, this project had been calling on artists around the world to investigate the relationship between Art, the Internet and the Society.

After the years of the “Art on the Net,” we launched a new project called the “netarts.org”. The Exhibition section of the project will feature recent developments in Internet Art and is open to all forms of creative expression that use the Internet as their primary medium.

The selection committee 2007

Mark Amerika, Susan Hazen, Agnese Trocchi, John Hopkins and You Minowa. For further information, please visit at http://www.netarts.org/

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The ‘Rencontres Internationales’ will take place in Paris in November 2007, at the Centre Pompidou, at the Jeu de Paume national museum and in other key locations. The same program will be presented in Madrid in April 2008 and in Berlin in June 2008.

Those three events will propose an international programming focusing on film, video and multimedia, gathering works of artists and filmmakers acknowledged on the international scene along with young artists and not much distributed filmmakers.

Any individual or organisation can submit one or several proposals. Call open to film, video and multimedia, without any restrictions of length or genre. Submissions are free, without any limitation of geographic origin.

All Film and Video Formats:
* Video / Video Art / Experimental Video
* Experimental Film
* Documentary, Experimental Documentary
* Fiction - Shorts to Feature
* Animation
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Installation
Net Art
Performance, Concert

Submit video and film on DVD via postal mail, enclosed with a filled-in ONLINE ENTRY FORM.

Entry forms and information regarding the ‘Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid’ are available on the website.

Since its foundation, The Japan Media Arts Festival has been committed to enabling new means of expression, to honoring artists who have produced works displaying outstanding creativity and, to endeavoring to introduce such creative efforts to as wide an audience as possible.

The Competition is open to both professionals as well as amateurs, commercial and non-commercial works without distinction.

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for remix_runran, from trash + close encounters of the third kind

flash source: trash.fla (238KB)

Mortal Ghost - http://mortalghost.blogspot.com
Podcast - http://lleelowe.com
Blog - http://lowebrow.blogspot.com

I’ve had this one sitting in my inbox for a shocking amount of time now (sorry Lee), and I’ve spent most of that time dithering over whether to post it here or not. I’ll quickly add, that’s not because it’s bad! I definitely recommend it to anyone interested in young adult fantasy. Lee offers a range of formats to experience the novel (blog, pdf or podcasts), and he has released the novel under a Creative Commons license. Both of these elements - the chance to comment directly as the story is posted, and the CC license, suggest he is much more forward-thinking than almost all the big-name authors out there.

I’ve procrastinated on posting because this residency blog is supposed to be about those types of electronic literature that can’t be reproduced in print. But what’s the point of having rules if you can’t break them now and again? Nice one Lee, good luck with the new novel… and I’ll try to be more prompt next time around!

We are looking for articles, essays, graphics, cartoons, cut-up stuff for the next multi-issue of our non-commercial yearbook series “monochrom”. We’ll publish the entire book in English, a fact that might be highly interesting for many monolingual Angloamerican folks.

There is no maximum or minimum length for articles or essays. There is no general topic whatsoever. You write about things you find interesting. Or boring. Your text could be about radical constructivism. Or fish and chips. Or hacking your toilet. Or blowing up Mercury. Or HTML. Or Mormon theology and Battlestar Galactica. You’ll find your topic!

A big section of the publication will be dedicated to reviews. And we review everyhing. Want to review a certain medieval war? Or arctic sea protozoans? Laws of nature? Climate zones? Ways to die? Lava streams? Spam headers? Demonstrations? Sumerian gods? Neon feelings? A crisis? The different types of snow in Stephen King novels? Book shelves in porn movies? Kosher hot dogs? Axiology? Sperm? Johann Sebastian Bach? German officers in American movies who shout “Schweinerei”? Russian oil pumps? Calvinistic prayers? Trash cans in Kansas and/or Lithuania? Anal sex? The Northwest as an ontological entity? Perfect! Go on!

So, please send your suggestions or finished works to mono AT monochrom.at

Deadline is September 15, 2007.
Preferred format for text files: RTF files. Preferred format for graphics: Greyscale JPEGs, maximum quality, 300 dpi.
Please don’t forget to mention your name and snailmail address.

We hope we’ll be able to publish monochrom #26-34 in spring 2008.

From Karla S. Brunet:

I am working on new experimental project: Peculiaris.net, a collaborative moblog that questions identity and self-representation. For that I want your participation, your self-portrait made with mobile camera

It is easy to participate, you just have send your self-portrait photo via mms or email to the website email. Please, see www.peculiaris.net for more information.

Thanks
Karla