Chris Joseph

Fledgling webjournal Atomic Unicorn is currently accepting unsolicited submissions of net.art and video art for it’s first issue, due out at the beginning of December. Submissions are accepted year round, so anything which misses the cutoff for Issue One will be considered for the next issue. Please check out http://www.atomicunicorn.com/ or e mail editors@atomicunicorn.com for more information.

TRAMPOLINE, YEAR 10

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

29th November 2007, Broadway Media Centre, Nottingham

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: Mon 12th Nov 07
EVENT TO BE HELD ON: Thur 29th Nov 07

Trampoline celebrates over 10 years in new media art

THE THEME: THE SURVEILLANCE CITY

If we are not to be played and lost like Pawns scrabbling on the surface of a chessboard we need to understand the rules of the game we are engaged in.

As developers buy up our city centres for regeneration into ‘desirable properties for the market’, a similar appropriation is taking place within the spectrum that lies above. The air we breathe is itself becoming digital real estate, an intangible landscape carried on radio waves, filling the voids of our cities like Dark Matter.

The new city is coming - a city whose spaces are connected by hidden electronic passages and data crawl-throughs, spaces where our movements are traceable, recordable and identifiable by the litter of data we carelessly drop and the Web 2.0 we unwittingly spin in the chatter of our networks.

Trampoline celebrates over 10 years in new media art in November with a look at how artists are teaching themselves the game plan for this wireless, super conductive urban landscape that is emerging around us.

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for remix_runran, from lines//offonlife <- flesher + flags of the revolution (postscript) + scratchysplatOnji-X
+ Jan Thor + babel testcard

flash source: offonline_MITmix (153 kb)

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
GraphiCon’2008
Computer Graphics and Applications
Eighteenth International Conference
June 23 - 28, 2008
Moscow, Russia
http://www.graphicon.ru/2008/

=== Welcome ===

GraphiCon is the largest international conference on Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, Image and Video processing in the territory of the former USSR annually held in Russian Federation. Following well-established traditions, the 18th event will be hosted by Moscow State University on June 23-28, 2008.

GraphiCon is traditionally organized in cooperation with Eurographics Association.

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http://www.macdowellcolony.org

The MacDowell Colony, the leading artist residency program in the United States, is pleased to announce the establishment of a new fund for artists. Thanks to a generous grant by The Leon Levy Foundation, artists accepted for a MacDowell Fellowship who need additional financial assistance are now eligible for such aid. These grants can be used to cover expenses that continue to accrue while artists are away from home, including rent, utilities, and childcare. Artists may also use the grants to compensate for lost income or in the event an employer requires an unpaid leave to attend the Colony. Equipment and supplies may be addressed by this aid, as well.

The MacDowell Colony, which was founded in 1907, provides Fellowships to more than 250 artists each year across seven contemporary disciplines: visual arts, interdisciplinary art, architecture, film, theatre, literature, and music composition. Set on 450 acres of beautiful woods in rural New Hampshire, MacDowell’s reputation for offering the ideal environment for creative pursuits is
well-established and highly regarded. Past Fellows include such luminaries as Milton Avery, James Baldwin, Leonard Bernstein, Willa Cather, Aaron Copland, Thornton Wilder, and more recently Jonathan Franzen, Bright Sheng, Oscar Hijuelos, Eve Sussman, Qin Feng, and Stewart Wallace, among many others.

Offering 32 private studios designed for the specific discipline of the artist, the Colony also provides meals and separate accommodations. Artists who are accepted to MacDowell through its highly competitive application process are allowed up to eight weeks of undisturbed time and space to pursue their work. The criterion is talent as demonstrated in a work sample that is reviewed by selection panels in each discipline. Application deadlines for the three annual residency periods are January 15th, April 15th, and September 15th.

European Media Art Network presents European Media Artists in Residence Exchange

http://www.werkleitz.de/projekte/emare/index_e.html

EMARE - Grants for European Media Artists to UK, Germany, Bulgaria and the Netherlands

With support of the European Union - Culture 2007-2013 programme the newly established European Media Art Network will host 16 European Media Artists in Residence Exchanges within 2008 and 2009 and organise a final exhibition in 2009 in Halle (Saale) additional to individual presentations.

Europe based Media Artists in the fields of digital media including internet and computer based art, filmmakers, sound and video artists are invited to apply for a two months artist residency at IMPAKT, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Interspace, Sofia, Bulgaria; VIVID, Birmingham England or at Werkleitz Center for Media Arts in Halle, Germany. Students are not permitted, but young artists encouraged. EMARE includes a grant of 2.000 Euro, free accomodation, up to 250 Euro travel expenses, access to the technical facilities and media labs and a professional presentation. Entries should include the application form (downloadable from the website), a CV, (audio)visual reference projects documentation (no originals) and a proposal sketch for the project which should be developed within EMARE. Artists with residence in or identity card within Europe should contact one of the following institutions for further details or visit the homepage.

Deadline: January, 7th, 2008. Application form at www.werkleitz.de/emare

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A nice report by Zuzana Husarova about Kate Pullinger’s recent visit to the Research Institute for Media, Art and Design at the University of Bedfordshire, where she talked about Inanimate Alice, amongst other topics.

The Independent Cinema Office presents:

Developing Audiences For Artists’ Moving Image

Venue: Leicester Creative Business Depot, 31 Rutland Street, Leicester, LE1 1RE

Date: Thursday, 8 November 2007, 10.00am – 4.45pm

Do you want to screen artists’ films at your venue but aren’t sure how to go about it? Do you want to develop an audience for artists’ moving image? Do you want to know how to source artists’ films?

The Independent Cinema Office presents an essential one-day training course aimed at cinemas who want to start or develop an artists’ film programme; mixed arts venues who want to integrate their cinema and gallery more comprehensively; and galleries who are interested in forging links with cinemas.

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A very thoughtful and interesting review of the ELC Vol 1 by John Zuern - Letters That Matter: The Electronic Literature Collection Volume 1.

EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL 2008, OSNABRÜCK

http://www.emaf.de

The motto of the 2008 festival is IDENTITY, reflected in film programmes, lectures and specials. Positioning by the media and artistic self-definitions will be pursued; individual, social and global identities in a rapidly changing world will be explored and queried according to subjective and scientific localisations.

The EMAF is one of the most influential forums of international Media Art. As a meeting point for artists, curators, lenders, gallery owners and an audience of specialists, the festival has had a great impact on the topic and aesthetics of Media Art. Each year the festival offers its visitors a current overview of experimental films, installations, performances, digital formats and hybrid forms, ranging from personal and political subjects or formal experiments to provocative statements.

At the festival an international jury will present the EMAF Award for a trend-setting work in Media Art and the Dialogpreis of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the promotion of intercultural exchange. Furthermore, the jury of the German Federal Association of Film Journalists will award the prize for the best German experimental film.