Chris Joseph

http://livecode.access-space.org

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A small festival bringing together cutting edge livecoding musicians and a/v artists from around the UK and beyond. Livecoding is where computer programming becomes a performance art; improvising a performance using the text of a dynamic programming language.

Access Space has commissioned new works specifically for LOSS Livecode and the 2 days will feature performances, workshops, talks and informal presentations. The daytime sessions will include introductory workshops and presentations on cutting edge music and video livecoding environments including Fluxus, IXI Quarks, SuperCollider, Impromptu and ChucK. The evening sessions will feature performances by livecoding pioneers as well as collaborative jamming sessions.

Performers and presenters include; Robert Atwood, Jan Berkel, Oliver Bown, Alberto de Campo, Graham Coleman, Nick Collins, Jamie Forth, Karsten Gebbert, Dave Griffiths, Tom Hall, Martin Howse, Ryan Jordan, Jan-Kees van Kampen, Jonathan Kemp, Craig Latta, Thor Magnusson, Mattin, Alex McLean, Fabrice Mogini, Click Nilson, Fredrik Olofsson, Julian Rohrhuber, Andrew Sorensen, Adrian Ward, Luke Whitmore, Renate Wieser, Matthew Yee-King.

More details of the events can be found at: http://livecode.access-space.org

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24/7: DIY Video Summit
University of Southern California (USC)

Entry Deadline: September 15, 2007 (+ earlier!!)

This three-day event in February 2008 will bring together DIY video creators, activists, policy makers, internet companies, and scholars to celebrate new forms of creative practice. During the event, we will showcase new genres of DIY media, including political remix videos.

Political remix videos are critical or satirical media works focussing on political, social or cultural topics (such as race, class and gender) created by remixing footage from movies, TV shows, commercials and/or broadcast news. Because political remix videos are critical commentaries, they commonly rely on fair use and the First Amendment, and creators do not ask for permission to remix works.

We are looking for innovative and interesting work that represents the best current offerings (made in 2006-2007) or is of historical significance to political remix practice.

A competitive selection process will be conducted by a diverse team of creator/curators. Selected Festival works will be featured in large-scale screenings at USC campus venues, on kiosks and via links on the 24/7 site.

We will primarily screen shorter works (5-15 minutes) and excerpts from longer works.

Please submit your entry online at:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=_2fSIQfEtfNEgp5DwmmdqKcg_3d_3d

For consideration, works should be currently streaming on a public site (youtube, google, yahoo, myspace, etc.) or on your own website. If the work was removed from the web, please note that in the comments section of the online entry form.

There is no entry fee to submit work.

Contact curator Jonathan McIntosh with questions at jonnymcitntosh@gmail.com

Watch political remix video: http://politicalremix.wordpress.com/

The Electronic Arts and Video Festival, Transitio_mx is the most relevant platform in Mexico for the expression and analysis of the contemporary artistic practices with electronic media and the digital culture. The title for the current edition of the festival is Nomadic Borders, making reference to the electronic/media arts through two metaphors: on the one hand, the border as the symbolic site that lies in the limit itself; on the other, the nomadic as an image of what is mobile, that which lacks a specific location. At the nomadic frontier there is no belonging, the communities developed there are always about to be built. From that idea, the conceptual axes of the festival are derived: Communities in Process and Processes in Community. The main objective of the Festival is to support, recognize and spread production and current research around the artistic electronic media, in an inclusive and expansive environment, by means of an exhibition, a symposium and a competition.

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Victory Media Network® invites digital motion artists from around the world to enter its 2nd Annual Juried Arts Competition with over $10,000 in cash prizes. Currently showcasing over 200 digital artworks from artists in 15 countries, Victory Media Network® is an unparalleled space for digital art and film. To be entered into the competition, you must submit your artwork to one of the following categories by August 21, 2007.

FUNNYBONE – Playful animation, fun live action and anything else that gets the whole family laughing. Must be G-rated.

HERE’S THE STORY – Art with a storyline. Fact or fiction, linear or dreamlike, fantastic or realistic, it’s the story that counts.

ART BURN – Art without a storyline. Pure, visually-stunning creativity. Wow us with your eye-popping graphics and computer-generated art.

GOING GLOBAL – Visions and insights from faraway places and cultures. Can either be driven by narrative or purely visual.

FACE THE MUSIC – Music videos and other music-driven motion arts - label or no label.

PICTURE THIS – Independent film shorts, up to 30 minutes in length, about anything, from anywhere. Films will be presented in a festival context. Final submissions must be in HDCam format.

* Please note that all submissions, except those to Picture This, must be less than 8 minutes in length and final submissions will be requested in HD.

For all entry details, please visit http://www.victorymedianetwork.com/page.php?page_id=94

For questions, email info@victorymedianetwork.com

Agricola de Cologne is the master curator and artist behind many large net art collections and exhibitions over the past seven years, such as the [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork], JavaMuseum, the Cologne Online Film Festival, SoundLAB, and the Violence Online Festival - to name a few.

This interview in English or Spanish is by the Argentinian online art platform Plastica Argentina.

“It was evening all afternoon.
It was snowing
And it was going to snow.”

I have now finished recreating all thirteen sections of Wallace Stevens’ famous poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” as short Flash animations; and I’ve also built a crab-apple-tree interface for the whole thing.

For readers who have been following this project since February, when it started, the new sections are numbers 3 (”Autumn winds”), 5 (”Inflections and innuendos”), 8 (”Noble accents”) and 13 (”It was evening all afternoon”).

http://www.edwardpicot.com/thirteenways/

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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