Chris Joseph

for remix_runran, from it’s vispo for lunch again <- vispoet + Heinz Alaphabet noodles

flash source: visposoup.fla (38KB)

My Eisenstein’s Monster will be part of the exhibition at the DARC – General Direction for Contemporary Architecture and Art and MAXXI - National Museum of the XXI Century Arts (via Guido Reni 2f, Rome), from 4 December until 2 March 2008, with a private opening on 3 December. The show has already had a short review on Rhizome, and was mentioned on the Turbulence Networked_Performance research blog yesterday (though the author has unfortunately reproduced the curator’s ‘Einstein’ typo - which having just read Martin Amis’ Einstein’s Monsters, I do understand!).

Follow this link for the DARC/MAXXI press release for NetSpace: Journey into Net Art: Bodies in Cyberspace (Word doc, 400KB)

http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/electropoetics

In the latest selection from the Electronic Book Review, Associate Editor Lori Emerson brings together both critics and creators of electronic poetry, some of whom established themselves at the very start and many more who are recent entrants in the field of electronic literature. Essays on print poetry as well as born digital poetry help to situate the field in both a trans-disciplinary and trans-national context.

The collection (more than twenty essays in all) includes three review-essays on the Electronic Literature Collection (volume 1), published by the ELO: “How to Think (with) Thinkertoys” by Adalaide Morris; “Letters That Matter” by John Zuern; and “Electronic Literature circa WWW (and Before)” by Chris Funkhouser. New essays on and by Douglas Barbour, Michael Barrett, Greg Betts, Christof Bruno, Charles Bernstein, Stephen Cain, Robert Creeley, Clayton Eshleman, Alan Fisher, Eduardo Kac, Hugh Kenner, Walter Benn Michaels, Jay Murphy, Janet Neigh, Soren Pold, Christopher Nolan, Jaishree Odin, Tom Raworth, Maggie O’Sullivan, Stephanie Strickland, Angela Szczepaniak, Steve Tomasula, and Eugene Thacker.

[from The Electronic Literature Organisation]

Brown’s prestigious Graduate Program in Literary Arts - two years leading to an MFA - is currently accepting one applicant per year as an Electronic Writer. Past incumbents are: Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Talan Memmott, William Gillespie, Brian Kim Stefans, Daniel Howe; Aya Karpinska is in her second year, and Justin Katko started this year. The application deadline for next Autumn’s intake is December 15. Full details on the Literary Arts Programs web site:
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Literary_Arts/graduate_program.htm

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Movement and the Single Screen

This 3-day practical and Inspirational workshop investigates movement and performance within the context of single-screen video practice and is led by artist filmmaker Miranda Pennell.

Participants will explore a range of formal ideas through a combination of screenings, discussions and practical research. In particular, attention will be paid to the specificity of video/film language in its relationship to movement composition and performance, and to the nature of cross-art form dialogue. The emphasis of the workshop is on experimentation and on collaboration.

27th, 28th and 29th January 2008

£80 (There are a small number of bursaries available of up to £50 to assist attendees who are coming from further afield with their travel/accommodation costs)

Picture This,
Corner of Sydney Row & Mardyke Ferry Road,
Bristol BS1 6UU
Tel: +44 (0) 117 925 7010

For further information and an application form, please contact Grace Davies - grace@picture-this.org.uk

Scripted Notion – Call for artists proposals

Scripted Notion is a new Picture This, South West Screen and UK Film Council scheme aimed at developing short, scripted moving image projects. Proposals must be for films which push the boundaries of narrative story telling. Funded through the UK Film Council’s New Cinema Fund and the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation.

Scripted Notion Script Surgeries

3 December 10.30-4.30pm

In advance of the Scripted Notion application deadline South West Screen and Picture This are available for twenty minute surgeries throughout the day. These sessions will be held at South West Screen in Bristol and booking is essential. Email arilda.tymko@swscreen.co.uk

For more information or to apply, please contact Grace Davies on grace@picture-this.org.uk. Application deadline is Monday 7 January 2008.

A podcast of “The Role of Print Scholarly Editions in the ‘Digital Age’”: a Roundtable Discussion held in the Centre for Textual Scholarship, De Montfort University, on 13 Nov. 2007, is available at

http://www.cts.dmu.ac.uk/index.php?id=180

Or visit the CTS home page and click on ‘Podcast’ in the right-hand box.

Participants:

Nigel Wood and Gabriel Egan, Loughborough University

Sukanta Chaudhuri and Abhijit Gupta, Jadavpur University

Paul Eggert, University of New South Wales

Andy Mousley, Takako Kato, Federico Meschini and Peter Shillingsburg, De Montfort University

Call For Applications

Grant Application Form 2008: www.mataderomadrid.com/ayudas

The Arts Area at the Town Hall of Madrid, through its Matadero Madrid project, aims to support initiatives destined to stimulate artistic creation and contemporary thought and strengthen its dissemination and bring it closer to the people.

The Arts Area of the Town Hall of Madrid, through Matadero Madrid will maintain a commitment to dialogue and support with the successful applicants throughout the project.

Modes

For this call, the total available funds are 355.000 euros, distributed in three programmes:

A) Independent Areas Programme: destined for spaces devoted to the production and programming of activities related to contemporary creation.

This mode is for foundation or cultural associations, not-for-profit organisation which maintain permanent spaces in the city of Madrid, open to the public and used mainly for the development and dissemination of artistic creation and contemporary thought.
The grants under this programme will consist of funding and/or institutional support.
The total grants may not exceed 30,000 euros per space.

B) General Programme: destined for the production of work, innovative projects and activities with freely chosen bases and content, and the international promotion of these.

This is open to individuals or groups, foundation or cultural associations, not-for-profit organisations in the area of artistic creation which, independently of nationality and place of residence, work in the city of Madrid.
The grants under this programme will consist of funding and/or institutional support.

The total grants may not exceed 20,000 euros per project.

C) Intermediæ-Matadero Madrid Programme: destined for projects, work production and/or activities which must take place within the Intermediae-Matadero Madrid context (contemporary creation). The fundaments and content of the projects submitted under this mode must be related to the fundamental ideas of Intermediae (see Annex I).

This is open to individuals or groups, foundation or cultural associations, not-for-profit organisations in the area of artistic creation which, independently of nationality and place of residence, work in the city of Madrid.

The projects submitted under this section may receive support of a diverse nature: funding, material and technical resources, spaces for production, exhibition and dissemination for the project, assessment and support for administrative and institutional processes.

The total grants may not exceed 18,000 euros per project.

Conditions

The funds will be granted in accordance with the evaluation of the proposals submitted, within the limits established for each mode.

This call for applications does not oblige the Arts Area to grant the maximum amount available in full.

The activities which take place using the grants made under this call cannot be for commercial purposes nor be publicised in the name of organisations other than the authors and agents thereof.

In the case of beneficiaries of grants under previous editions of this scheme (2006 and 2007), in order to apply for these grants, the relevant activity report must have been presented, in line with the conditions of the relevant year.

Documentation, presentation and deadline

The period for presentation and submission of projects is from 23rd October to 7th December 2007. After this time no application or additional information will be accepted. Applications sent by post, with a postmark dated within this period will be accepted.
The application must be made using the APPLICATION FORM included in this document. This form may be attached to additional documentation as considered necessary by the applicant for consideration of the project. Only one application should be submitted per proposal.

The application form can be obtained via the link included at the end of this document, or in person at MataderoMadrid, Paseo de la Chopera, 14, opening hours Mon-Fri 11:00 to 14:00 and 17:00 to 21:00; or at the Registro del Área de Gobierno de Las Artes, C/ Gran Vía, 24, Planta Baja, Mon-Fri from 9:00 to 14:00.

Each applicant may submit as many projects as considered necessary, and these may submitted under one, several or all modes (A, B, and C).

Projects must be presented:

a. By hand or by post, addressed to “Convocatoria Creación Matadero Madrid 2008” at:
Registro General del Área de Las Artes
Ayuntamiento de Madrid
C/ Gran Vía, 24. Planta Baja, 28013 Madrid
Opening Hours: Mon-Fri 9:00 to 14:00

b. Electronic applications:
(Complete the form under the title “Application Form” and select “Send Application”).
The electronic application can include additional documentation in a compressed file format: .zip .rar .tar or .gz to a maximum of 4 MB. Electronic applications received after midnight on 7th December 2007 will not be accepted
for consideration.

If more than one electronic application is submitted for the same project only the latest version received will be considered.
If the application is made electronically and additional material submitted by post, a printed copy of the electronic application form must be included with the latter.

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Open call

“404 festival” 5th edition

deadline: december 20th 2007

“Astas Romas” calls authors to submit works for the v edition of the “404 festival” / 2008

“Astas Romas” calls international artists and theorists to submit their works for the fifth edition of the “404 festival - art & technology” 2008 on the following disciplines:

Net-art / still image / animation / video / music / audio-visual set / theory / performance / installation

Participation in this festival is open and free for all.

Terms and form: www.404festival.com

TURBULENCE COMMISSION: “THE SHIFTSPACE COMMISSIONS PROGRAM” BY DAN PHIFFER AND MUSHON ZER-AVIV

Turbulence has commissioned ShiftSpace and now ShiftSpace commissions you. Ten development grants of up to $2,000 will be awarded to individuals and collectives using ShiftSpace as a platform to create new “Spaces” and “Trails”.

About ShiftSpace: While the Internet’s design is widely understood to be open and distributed, control over how users interact online has given us largely centralized and closed systems. The web is undergoing a transformation whose promise is user empowerment — but who controls the terms of this new read/write web? The web has followed the physical movement of the city’s social center from the (public) town square to the (private) mall. ShiftSpace attempts to subvert this trend by providing a new public space on the web.

By pressing the [Shift] + [Space] keys, a ShiftSpace user can invoke a new meta layer above any web page to browse and create additional interpretations, contextualizations and interventions — which are called “Shifts”. Users can choose between several authoring tools – called “Spaces” — that allow web users to annotate, modify and shift the content of a page and through ShiftSpace, share that shift with the rest of the web.”Trails” are maps of shifts (shiftspace content) that create meta-layer navigation across websites. These trails might be used as a platform for collaborative research, for curating net art exhibitions, or as a way to facilitate a context-based public debate.

Go to the commissions site (http://turbulence.org/works/shiftspace), watch the introductory video, apply for a grant and help us spread the word.

“The ShiftSpace Commissions Program” is a 2007 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., (aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made possible with funding from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.