Chris Joseph

Lumen Eclipse, a public media arts project, is currently reviewing work from established and emerging visual artists. We welcome all forms of creativity that move (or don’t) on a screen — film, video, animation, motion graphics. Eight digital works are showcased each month on a pair of large outdoor video displays in a prominent location in Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA, as well as on the project’s online gallery and archive (see: http://www.lumeneclipse.com).

Ideal length of artworks ranges from 2 to 8 minutes.

If interested, please send a link to an online portfolio of your work to the e-mail address listed below, or send a DVD or CD of work to the postal address provided. Each submission should contain a short bio, a Web site, and a contact e-mail address.

For further information please visit www­.lumeneclipse.com .

send material to:
Lumen Eclipse
Attn: Submissions
248 Beacon Street
Somerville, MA 02143

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“Breaking solitude” is a project of Annie Abrahams and (www.bram.org) and panoplie.org.

In this series they propose Web meetings of about 20 minutes long using chat and streaming to experiment new ways of being together. Each meeting starts with a performance of an artist. The entrance of the web-salon is limited to 30 people. People registered on the site of panoplie (it is free) can take part in the chat (English or French) and will have priority over the others, which can nevertheless assist as “voyeurs” within the limit of the places available.

The artists invited in the second season of “Breaking Solitude” are : Florian Fernandez, Aya Karpinska, Igor Stromajer, Anne-James Chaton, MTAA and Helen Varley Jamieson.

“Breaking Solitude” “Second Season” : a series of 6 Net performances between October 29, 2007 and January 28, 2008.

http://panoplie.emakimono.org/index.php/projets/voir/16

PANOPLIE.ORG: WEB MAGAZINE FOR CONTEMPORARY CREATION
Composed by a collective of artists from very different horizons, Web and non Web, the online magazine Panoplie.org aims to be a platform for exchange between artists and Net surfers : Calls for participation, performances, writings and follow-ups of artistic projects and events are mixed to propose an original approach and highlight problematics of art on the Net. In projects like “Why Rock” (2005), “Habiter” (2006 ) and “Robots” (2007), Panoplie.org also treats universal themes in a contemporary way and makes them accessible to a larger public. While collaborating with galleries and official art institutions Panoplie.org helps to discover and instore new artistic practices in the realm of traditional art.

Something to confess? A precious moment to share? iwishicouldshowyou.com for all your private moments made public…

Pip Stafford wants you to open up online. She wants you to divulge your secrets, to share your beautiful moments and see a snapshot of your world. The Tasmanian-based artist is the creator of iwishicouldshowyou.com, an Internet site that is seeking videos made using mobile telephones to create a database of user-made creativity. Stafford is developing the project for the 2008 Next Wave Festival as part of the Kickstart program.

http://www.iwishicouldshowyou.com/

This will be a New Media Exhibition, featuring technology-based artwork that goes beyond the static digital print. Entries may include video, time-based installation, animation, interactive design, robotics, virtual reality, and kinetic sculptural works. This exhibition is open to all artists nationally and internationally working in all areas of New Media.

Juror: Patrick Lichty is a digital intermedia designer, artist, writer, professor and independent curator of over 15 years. He is Professor of Interactive Arts and Media at Columbia College in Chicago, Editor in Chief of Intelligent Agent, an electronics arts/ culture journal based in NYC and is featured in the new documentary by the makers of American Movie, called the Yes Men. Review will be by digital image and DVD only. Any 35mm slides submitted will require an additional fee of $3 per slide submitted. Video and time-based installations should be both PC and Mac compatible. For more information visit the website, download the prospectus, or request one via email or send and SASE to “The Kinetic Image Prospectus”, Target Gallery, 105 North Union St. Alexandria, VA 22314.

DEADLINE: 5th of November 2007
E-mail: targetgallery@torpedofactory.org
Web: www.torpedofactory.org

Zero Gamer exhibition at London Games Festival.

FRINGE: Lounge & Zero Gamer exhibition, London Games Festival.
http://www.http.uk.net/zerogamer/exhibition.shtml

Open: 1pm-6pm, Monday 22 - Friday 26 October
Venue: 01zero-one, Hopkins Street, Soho,
London W1F 0HS
Free to attend.

Zero Gamer looks at games played, unplayed and unplayable, the spectator and the spectacle. Sometimes we just like to watch, and machinima, gameplay videos and spectator gaming events take the activity out of interactivity. Games that play themselves, video documents of in-game performance, game engine experiments and challenging documentaries on gameplay.

The exhibition is co-curated between critical game theorist Corrado Morgana in partnership with HTTP Gallery and Furtherfield.org

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1-3 November 2007 @ University of Sussex
Supported by the Centre for Material Digital Culture, University of Sussex

This workshop, organized by the Digital Culture and Communication section of ECREA, the European Communication Research and Education Association, supported and hosted by this Research Centre, will bring together researchers from all over Europe. The aim of the day is to explore different traditions of new media investigation/theorization within Europe – and to explore ways in which they may usefully be placed in dialogue with each other. In addition workshop attendees will explore possible future activities that may be organized through the ECREA structure – including potential collaboration via European funding (FP7).

Charges: £35 to cover refreshments, coffee and reception. £10 for one day.

Click here for programme details and additional information.

WHOLE BODY INTERACTION: THE DIGITAL FUTURE OF THE HUMAN BODY
John Moores University, Liverpool, 22 - 23 November 2007

Call for Participation
http://lister.cms.livjm.ac.uk/homepage/staff/cmsdengl/AHRC/index.html

The aim of this workshop is to promote critical discussion over virtual, mixed and augmented reality and provide attendees with a critical framework for tackling issues.

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http://www.battleofideas.org.uk/

A two-day festival of social, political and cultural discussion taking place in London, 27-28th October 2007.

The Battle of Ideas is a space where ideas can be argued for and fought over without constraint. Free speech allowed! Included in the 70 debates there is a whole strand of debates about New Technology, including: MySpace generation: Why the hype and hysteria?; Friendship or networking? and Digital Commons Does new technology add up to a new public sphere?

HOW TO BECOME AN ELECTRONIC WRITER
7.30pm, Weston Favell Library
£4

If you don’t know what digital writing or electronic literature is, now is the time to find out. Chris Joseph, Digital Writer-in-Residence at De Montfort University, Leicester, will show new works, highlight best practices and demonstrate how to get started as a digital writer. Learn how to create, promote and make money from computer-based literature and art.

Tickets from Weston Favell Library: 01604 403100 / westlib@northamptonshire.gov.uk.