Chris Joseph

The New Media Fest (Cologne) has now launched its showcase online. Go to http://2007.newmediafest.org to see a selection of animation and new media selected specially for the festival including Toon! Toon! (a selection of 21 short animations), ‘7 Ways to say Internet with Netart’, blogart, Soundart from Spain and South Africa, SIP (SoundLab Interview Project) plus much, much more. . .

BILBAO, SPAIN - TECHNARTE CALL FOR PAPERS

Technarte is an International Conference on Art Technology and has caught the interest of professionals around the world. The upcoming edition of the Technarte International Conference will take place in Bilbao on 24th and 25th April 2008, and aims to present the advantages that Technology offers artists to realise their works of art, as well as to create a suitable environment for the reflection on the relation between both disciplines: Art Technology.

Technarte invites both manufacturers and experts in Art Technology, to share their experiences in some of the proposed themes.

Papers can be sent via the Technarte website or by e-mail to technarte@technarte.org

Deadline: 14th January 2008.

http://www.technarte.org/en/

INTIMACY - Across Visceral and Digital Performance

LAUNCH: FRIDAY 7 DEC., 6:30-11PM @ GOLDSMITHS

INTIMACY is a three-day digital and live art programme made to elicit connectivity, induce interaction and provoke debate between cutting edge artists, performers, leading scholars, respected researchers, creative thinkers and local communities. A culturally urgent series of events, INTIMACY is designed to address a diverse set of responses to the notion of ‘being intimate’ in contemporary performance and as such, in life. INTIMACY invites scholars, researchers, artists and audiences to enable the interrogation and creative exploration of formal, aesthetic and affective modes of performing intimacy now.

Please note: Knowledge East is offering 2 BURSARIES worth 500 GBP each, for student workshop participants who will submit a successful application for an enterprise project inspired by any of the 4 INTIMACY workshops. Grab the chance!

INTIMACY features:

FRIDAY 7 DEC:

One-to-one performances with Adrian Howells and Helena Goldwater @ Home (Booking Required | Limited Capacity)
http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/intimacy/programme.php#friday

Workshops with Prof. Johannes Birringer and Kira O’Reilly @ Laban, Godsmiths campus (Ticketed | Book Now, Limited Capacity)
http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/intimacy/workshops.php

Seminars with Mine Kaylan and Tracey Warr @ Goldsmiths (Ticketed | Book Now, Limited Capacity)
http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/intimacy/seminars.php

Launch with Live Performances & Gigs @ Goldsmiths from 6:30pm. FREE, come along!
Featuring: SUKA OFF, Blind Ditch, Atau Tanaka, Ernesto Sarezale, Adam Overton, Avatar Body Collision, Joe Stevens, Mark Cooley, Leonore Easton & Boris Hoogeveen, Frank Millward, Eva Sjuve & Chantal Zakari
http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/intimacy/programme.php#friday

SATURDAY 8 DEC:

Workshops with Kelli Dipple (ticketed), Alan Sondheim and Prof. Sandy Baldwin (FREE, booking required) @ Goldsmiths and Second Life (Book Now, Limited Capacity)
http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/intimacy/workshops.php

Seminars with Dominic Johnson and Paul Sermon (Ticketed | Book Now, Limited Capacity)
http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/intimacy/seminars.php

Performances with Fran Cottell (booking required), Lauren Goode (booking required), Helena Walsh & Chris Johnston @ Goldsmiths. FREE
http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/intimacy/programme.php#sat

Show & Tell Presentations, Screenings and Posters @ Goldsmiths. FREE, come along!
Featuring: body>data>space, Jaime del Val, kondition pluriel, Nikki Tomlinson, Jan van der Crabben,
Branislava Kuburovic, Lena Simic & Gary Anderson, Clara Ursitti, Jo Wonder, Anna Dimitriu, Anita Ponton, Elena Cologni, Georgia Chatzivasileiadi, Freya Hattenberger, Nancy Mauro-Flude, Eva Sjuve Atau Tanaka, Daniel Agnihotri-Clark, Donna Rutherford, Annie Abrahams & Nicolas Frespech, Michael Pinchbeck & Claudia Kappenberg
http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/intimacy/show-tell.php

Performances @ The Albany. FREE, come along!
Featuring: Martina von Holn (booking required), Michelle Browne, Leena Kela, Sam Rose, Jess Dobkin, Pierre Bongiovanni, Camille Renarhd & Gael Guyon, Mary Oliver, Rachelle Beaudoin, Caroline Smith, Jaime del Val (ticketed).
http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/intimacy/programme.php#sat

Premiere of Suna No Onna by Dans Sans Joux @ Laban. (Ticketed | Book Now, Limited Capacity)
http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/intimacy/programme.php#sat

Intimacy Meal @ The Albany, £10 p/p. Booking required, email Owen: performintimacy@googlemail.com

SUNDAY 9 DEC:

Symposium @ Goldsmiths (Ticketed | Book Now, Limited Capacity)
Featuring: Amelia Jones, Paul Sermon, Tracey Warr, Mine Kaylan, Dominc Johnson, Kelli Dipple, Kira O’Reilly, Johannes Birringer, Adrian Heathfield, Janis Jefferies, Lizbeth Goodman, Jess Dobkin, Simon Jones, Ang Bartram. With performances /events by Adam Overton, Rachel Gomme, Hiwa K. & Anaesthesia Associates
http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/intimacy/symposium.php

ALSO:
7 & 8/12: Urban Workshop with Pierre Bongiovanni, Camille Renarhd & Gael Guyon (Booking Required) FREE
http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/intimacy/programme.php#urban

Throughout: Online Performance by Susana Mendes Silva (booking required); Phone performance by Bernadette Louise; One-to-one event by Chris Dugrenier
http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/intimacy/programme.php#thro

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INTIMACY is co-directed by: Maria X [aka Maria Chatzichristodoulou] & Rachel Zerihan.

The INTIMACY Board are: Prof. Johannes Birringer, Prof. Janis Jefferies, Gerald Lidstone, Prof. Adrian Heathfield, Hazel Gardiner
INTIMACY Across Visceral and Digital Performance is supported by: AHRC ICT Methods Network; Goldsmiths, University of London [Digital Studios, Graduate School, Dpt. of Computing, Dpt. of Drama, Dpt. of Media and Communications, Dpt. of Visual Cultures, Dpt. of Music, Centre for Cultural Studies); Knowledge East; Laban; The Albany and Home.

RESIDENCY IN RIGA , LATVIA: electronic - text + textiles PROJECT

The electronic - text + textiles Project (e-t+t Project) invites applications for its Residency in Riga, Latvia, for the year 2008. The Residency welcomes artists, designers, writers, and theoreticians working within or across of the fields of literature and the arts, in particular textiles related. The e-t+t Project encourages Residents, through a mix of conceptual investigations and material productions, to join in a decades-long project among writers and artists involved in the Alt-X and ebr network. This group has been working consistently, not just to replace one technology with another in literary and arts practices, but to give direction and cultural context to technological change and the electronic disturbance.

TERM
Artists, designers, writers, and theoreticians who submit a short project proposal and are subsequently selected, become residents at the e-t+t Project. The term of a Residency can be as short as a week or as long as several months. During the period of one’s stay, a Resident artist, designer or writer will have exclusive use of a live/work apartment in Riga, access to artists, writers, and culture administrators working in the Baltics, and continuing access to an extensive network of writers, artists, critics, and scholars working in electronic environments worldwide.

Residents will be free to pursue their own or collaborative projects, although we expect that the Resident’s work should appear in some form in ebr (http://www.electronicbookreview.com/) or at the Alt-X site (www.altx.com). Residents will be expected, also, to meet with members of the local arts and literary communities, either informally or by giving a lecture or seminar at the Residence workplace.

The studio is appropriate for ‘tidy’ practices such as writing, collation of information, digital work, visual research, drawing, and small-scale experimentation and production. Larger productions such as weaving, printing, and so forth shall be executed in collaboration with other venues, which will be negotiated on an individual basis.

DEADLINE
Ongoing until Friday, the 21st of December 2007.

CONTACT
For more information about the residency and how to apply please visit www.e-text+textiles.lv

Any further enquires regarding this call please send to:
Anda Klavina at: aklavina@yahoo.com

Wellcome Trust

http://www.rdfunding.org.uk/Queries/ListCharityDetails.asp?CharityID=251

Contact: - Research Administrator
Phone: - 020 7611 8888

Arts Awards: http://www.rdfunding.org.uk/Queries/ListGrantDetails.asp?GrantID=10874%20

Description:

All art forms are covered by the programme: dance, drama, performance arts, visual arts, music, film, craft, photography, creative writing or digital media. Wellcome Trust invite applications for projects which engage adult audiences and/or young people. Projects should have some biomedical scientific input either through a scientist taking on an advisory role or through direct collaboration. Applicants are encouraged to investigate new methods of interdisciplinary working as well as new models of engagement in biomedical science.

Funding :

Funding can be applied for at two levels:

* Small to medium-sized projects (up to and including £30,000) - Funding can either be used to support the development of new project ideas, deliver small-scale productions or workshops, investigate and experiment with new methods of engagement through the arts, or develop new collaborative relationships between artists and scientists.

* Large projects (above £30,000) - This funding can be used to fund full or part production costs for large-scale arts projects that aim to have significant impact on the public’s engagement with biomedical science. They are also interested in supporting high-quality, multi-audience, multi-outcome projects. Applicants can apply for any amount within the above boundaries, for projects lasting a maximum of three years.

Amount : £10K - £50K

Closing Date : 11 January 2008

Duration : 1 year - 3 years

Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie (Karlsruhe) – Audio Visual Extravaganza

Wednesday 5 December 2007

at 6.30pm

Studio 1, PACE Building, Leicester city campus

The concert starts with a brief introduction to Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie. Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie’s (ZKM) work combines production and research, exhibitions, symposia, concerts and events. Ludger Brummer who directs the Institute for Music and Acoustics within the ZKM will perform two new works combining audio and visual media. Dr Bret Battey, Senior Lecturer of Music Technology and Innovation, will also perform his prize winning audio visual work Mercurius.

A drinks reception will follow the concert, on campus, at Trinity House.

Should you wish to attend, please contact Sandra Henry on 0116 250 6077 or email eventsoffice@dmu.ac.uk to book a place.

CEPA Visiting Practitioner Talks, De Montfort University, Leicester:

Scanner

Wednesday 28th November 2007, 6-7.30, PACE Studio 1

How to make art from life (with the help of a few ghosts):

Scanner will present a history of work that has slipped between the borders of performance, installation, music and art, from scanning mobile phone networks, composing a new National Anthem for Europe and collaborating with fashion designers, choreographers, hospitals and the homeless. And how to do all this without drinking tea, coffee, alcohol, meat or smoking.

“He is very experimental because he is searching in a realm of sound which is not usually used for music…he has a good sense of atmosphere.”

Karlheinz Stockhausen - BBC

Biography

Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner is a conceptual artist, writer, and musician working in London, whose works traverse the experimental terrain between sound, space, image and form. Since 1991 he has been intensely active in sonic art, producing concerts, installations and recordings, the albums Mass Observation (1994), Delivery (1997), and The Garden is Full of Metal (1998) hailed by critics as innovative and inspirational works of contemporary electronic music. Committed to working with cutting edge practitioners he has collaborated with Bryan Ferry, Bjork, Radiohead, Laurie Anderson, The Royal Ballet, Mike Kelley, and Douglas Gordon. His work has been presented throughout the United States, Asia, Australia and Europe.

www.scannerdot.com

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We are proud to host Scanner as the first in a monthly series of talks/ presentations given by practitioners and academics in our new CEPA building. Invitees have been chosen for their potential interest across art-forms, and each will talk about their work/ research followed by a Q&A session. It is anticipated that the talks will fall once a month during term on a Wednesday evening at 6pm. The next talk will be given by Helena Goldwater on Wednesday 12th December 2007 at 6pm, PACE Studio 2. (More information to follow)

The talks are open to all and are free. However, we have limited seating which will be offered on a first come first served basis. It is advised that you arrive by 5.30pm to try to avoid disappointment. Once the venue is full we will have to turn you away.

Directions to the PACE building and more information about CEPA in general are available on the DMU website. Please follow these links:

PACE building, Centre for Excellence in Performance Arts, De Montfort University, Richmond Street, Leicester

www.dmu.ac.uk/aboutdmu/campuses/maps/leic_campus.jsp

Centre for Excellence in Performance Arts
http://www.dmu.ac.uk/cepa

If you have any access needs, or would like further information, please do contact Helena Goldwater on hgoldwater@dmu.ac.uk or 0116 250 6487.

http://www.ioctsalon.com

Download the flyer for this event (PDF)

According to the Open Knowledge Foundation, ‘a piece of knowledge is open if you are free to use, reuse, and redistribute it’. This sounds simple enough, but underneath the slogan lie hard decisions about ownership, authority and, inevitably, cost. Those who live by writing may not wish their work to be freely available, while publishers of academic journals argue that changes to the current subscription model will threaten the ability of researchers to share knowledge.

Join Bill Thompson to discuss the nature of knowledge in the network society.

About Bill:

New media pioneer Bill Thompson is a journalist, commentator and technology critic based in Cambridge, England. He has been working in, on and around the Internet since 1984.

He currently has a weekly column which appears in the technology section of the BBC News website, and contributes to other publications both on and off-line, including The Guardian, The Register and The New Statesman. He writes a monthly column for new net users for BBC WebWise, and a technology column for Focus magazine

Bill appears weekly on ‘Digital Planet’ (formerly called ‘Go Digital’) on the BBC World Service and occasionally on other BBC radio and television programmes.

Bill is the editor and systems administrator for the Working 4 an MP website.

He is a visiting lecturer at City University where he teaches Online Journalism in the Journalism Department, and an external editor for openDemocracy.net.

Links:

andfinally.com - Bill Thompson’s home on the web

Working 4 an MP

The Open Knowledge Foundation

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