Chris Joseph

Electronic writer and artist
Archive for October 30th, 2007

Atomic Unicorn call for net.art /video art - deadline 30 November 2007

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.

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Trampoline, Year 10: The Surveillance City - deadline 12 November 2007

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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