Chris Joseph

Lecturer in Digital Media, School of Arts and Cultures (working closely with the Culture Lab),
GBP29,139 - 36,911 per annum (pro rata if 0.5 FTE - Full Time Equivalent)

Newcastle University is continuing its substantial investment in Digital Media with the appointment of a Lectureship in Digital Media. The lectureship will be based in the School of Arts and Cultures and work closely with staff in Culture Lab. We are seeking to appoint a creative practitioner who has a strong, preferably international, profile in any field of Digital Media research and who has an interest in working across disciplinary boundaries. The post will help to stimulate and develop interdisciplinary agendas in both teaching and research being developed in Digital Media across the School, Faculty and University. You will have particular
responsibilities for teaching on a new Digital Media MA planned to commence in 2008.

Working closely with the newly appointed Chair of Digital Media, the post will contribute to the University’s fostering of ground- breaking, practice-based research through innovative research agendas and projects. You will be expected to apply for, and attract external research funding (for example from research councils and industrial sources) at local, national and international level.

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“Many of the most vehement advocates of new technology in education, as an alternative to books, are frankly advocating a novel species of illiteracy.”

… that’s right, another pointed (and yet pointless) either/or argument against the death of books from Alan Wall, an Oxford-educated writer and teacher of creative writing. No mention of those who advocate technology in education - or creative writing - as a supplement to books, and whether (perhaps) this represents advocacy of a transliteracy.

Read the original article and join the conversation at http://www.readysteadybook.com/Article.aspx?page=adefenceofthebook

for remix_runran, from hair by bunchofpants (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 license) + la cicciolisa

flash source: hair.fla [328KB]

“I want it long, straight, curly, fuzzy
Snaggy, shaggy, ratty, matty
Oily, greasy, fleecy
Shining, gleaming, streaming
Flaxen, waxen
Knotted, polka-dotted
Twisted, beaded, braided
Powdered, flowered, and confettied
Bangled, tangled, spangled, and spaghettied”
- Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical, by Rado/Ragni

Ars Electronica 2007
GOODBYE PRIVACY
5. - 11. September 2007
Linz, Austria

A new culture of everyday life is now upon us, bracketed by the angst-inducing scenarios of seamless surveillance and the zest we bring to staging our public personas via digital media. One in which everything seems to be public and nothing‚s private anymore. Panopticon or consummate individual freedom of expression? At symposia, exhibitions, performances and interventions, the 2007 Ars Electronica Festival will delve into what the public and private spheres have come to mean and the interrelationship that now exists between them. And while this is happening, the issues and themes under scrutiny, the discourse venues and even the framework of the Festival itself will blend into a fleeting illusion as it becomes impossible to differentiate between virtual and real spaces and avatars come to life. For almost a week, all of Linz will morph into Second City.

For program details, go to www.aec.at/privacy

Sidebrow (http://www.sidebrow.net) — an online & print journal dedicated to innovation & collaboration — seeks fiction, poetry, art, essay, ephemera, found text, & academia, as well as creative response to current posts and ongoing projects.

Submissions to Sidebrow are evaluated both as stand-alone set pieces & as points of departure for establishing multi-authored/multi-genre works. Submissions that re-imagine, depart from, or explore the interstices between posted pieces are highly encouraged. To facilitate this, Sidebrow has relaunched Pasteboard (http://www.sidebrow.net/2006/pasteboard), a frequently updated catalog of prompts that highlight potential resonances among posted pieces in hopes of stirring response.

A new website for writers has been launched by the Literature Network. Literature East Midlands gives comprehensive listings of the region’s distinctive festivals and live literature events, news and information, an A-Z of published writers resident in the region, useful directories and signposts, listings for writing groups and networks, plus details of opportunities to get involved with literature projects and professional development available near you. The site will grow and change reflecting how the region’s literature communities continue to develop, so visit regularly to find out what’s new!

http://www.literatureeastmidlands.co.uk/

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391.org dadacast #12

14m41s. By By 391.org, Justynn Tyme, Arion Baronowski, Seki Setake, Ytii, MoK, babel and zedex.

391.org - 391 Countdown (0:00 - 0:16)
Justynn Tyme - Picnic With Uncle Part 1 (0:16 - 2:31)
Arion Baronowski - Volga (2:31 - 5:42)
Seki Satake - Country Slo (5:42 - 6:06)
Ytii - QUUUDULC (6:06 - 7:40)
MoK - I Love To Say Da-Da (7:40 - 11:05)
babel - Soar River Swans (11:05 - 12:51)
zedex - The Ubiquitous Presence of Love (from the Jill Belief Suite) (12:51 - 14:41)

For more Dada-related podcasts and visuals visit http://www.391.org/broadcast

www.cafeculturel.org.uk

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Music is an art form that touches everyone in the world. We use it to map our lives. It stirs passions responsible for bringing people together or keeping them apart. But what are the properties of music that make it so important to us? Is it even the music itself that most of us care about or is it just a social tool to give us a common reference point?

U2, Sting, Phil Collins… James ?Effing? Blunt?

At some point we make a decision to stop listening to just anything and start making choices. But how are our tastes shaped? How influential are those around us, the media, and the big labels in defining which music we love and which we hate? What makes certain musicians so universally praised and others so despised?

As a prelude to Leicester’s premier music festival, the Summer Sundae Weekender, Cafe Culturel will take a look at what makes a good song so very, very good and a bad one so awful.

Join the discussion at the LCB Depot on Tuesday August 7th from 6.30pm

LCB Depot, 31 Rutland Street, Leicester, LE1 1RE

http://www.cafeculturel.org.uk/2007/08/sundae_bloody_sundae.html