Chris Joseph

TRAMPOLINE CELEBRATES 10th ANNIVERSARY WITH A PLATFORM EVENT AND EXHIBITION BY HEATH BUNTING

TRAMPOLINE EVENT
Surveillance City
Thursday 29 November 2007

Trampoline, the East Midlands’ platform event for new media art celebrates its tenth anniversary on Thursday 29 November at Broadway, Nottingham.

Looking back on this decade of new media art, it is clear that digital technologies have become integrated into almost every aspect of everyday life. The theme Surveillance City highlights the critical awareness necessary to cope with an environment where every movement is traceable, recordable and identifiable.

Featuring a dynamic mix of work by regional and international artists including performances, video screenings and installations by Frank Abbott, Michael Pinchbeck, Low Brow Trash and many others.

HEATH BUNTING
The Status Project - An A-Z of The System

* exhibition 29 November - 5 December 2007, opening 28 November, 6pm,
Private View 28th 6pm

* psycho-geographic Walk - 29 Nov, 5pm

Alongside the platform event, Broadway will host an exhibition by internationally renowned artist Heath Bunting from 29 November until 5 December, displaying maps and guidebooks of ‘the system’ that he defines as The Status Project. The artist will use these guides to lead members of the public on a walk through the city, demonstrating the links between the variables that determine our social status, from owning a Tesco Club Card to getting on the Electoral Register.

Collected in an online database, the system offers the potential user absurd combinations in the mode of “I am licensed to keep dangerous wild animals. I am able to write in block capitals AND I am insured for public liability.”

Trampoline, c/o Broadway, 14-18 Broad St, Nottingham, NG1 3AL

Tel: 0115-840 92 72

www.trampoline.org.uk

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Critical Mass Artists Moving Image Commissions 2007: Hypnos.

Threshold Studios offer five production bursaries for experimental film makers, dance videographers and Moving Image Artists to create single screen works that disturb our sleep with incongruities, haunt our dreams with their strange beauty or weave a trance from fractured narratives. The five successful artists will feature on the fifth Critical Mass DVD collection and be screened at festivals worldwide.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 14th December 2007

Contact chiral@thresholdstudios.tv or 01604 250377 for the two page application form and guidelines.

Please feel free to email an outline for feedback before you submit your application

Critical Mass:Kinetica and Critical Mass Hypnos are the third and fifth DVD collections in a series of Artists’ Moving Image works, dance films & experimental narratives. In addition to the five commissions, Artists, Filmmakers & Videographers are invited to contribute suitable completed shorts for possible inclusion.

Critical Mass:Peripheral Visions

Threshold Studios invites Moving Image Artists, Experimental Film Makers & Dance Videographers to send in completed films for possible inclusion in a series of screenings on the Derby & Birmingham BBC Big Screens. There is no fixed deadline. The first screenings will be in October 2007 running through to the end of December 2008.

Critical Mass:Kinetica and Critical Mass Hypnos are the third and fifth DVD collections in a series of Artists’ Moving Image works, dance films & experimental narratives. In addition to the five commissions, Artists, Filmmakers & Videographers are invited to contribute suitable completed shorts for possible inclusion.

The work of underground cinema’s pioneers, contemporary video artists, guerilla film makers and the Critical Mass DVD collections are available from http://stores.ebay.co.uk/threshold-studios or search ebay shops for threshold-studios

PHOENIX - DIGITAL ART EXHIBITION
Call for Submissions

Submissions deadline
FRIDAY 4th JANUARY 2008 - 5pm

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Early in 2008, PHOENIX will begin its digital art exhibition programme - Phoenix Digital. The project will seek to utilise the public spaces available within the Phoenix to present an ongoing exhibition of digital film/artwork to represent both established and emerging talent from the East Midlands and beyond.

Please send a CD or DVD including up to 5 video samples or JPEG images of your work along with a statement and artists CV. Please send your package to PHOENIX (digital submissions PXE101), 21 Upper Brown Street, Leicester LE1 5TE

Please also feel free to email the following address for any further information - digital@phoenix.org.uk

For more information about the PHOENIX please visit our website - www.phoenix.org.uk

I’m off to Canada soon (hurrah!) to present various pieces at this:

The New Screen: Interactive Futures 2007
November 15 - 17, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

http://cfisrv.finearts.uvic.ca/interactivefutures/IF07/

The seventh annual Interactive Futures forum for showing recent tendencies in new media as well as a conference for exploring issues related to technology. The theme of this year’s event is The New Screen.

Interactive Futures 07 will explore new forms of screen-based media from a diverse body of artists, theorists, writers, filmmakers, developers, and educators. Interactive visual environments, screen-based performances, new forms of narrative experiences, web-based environments, and innovative educational models will all be explored in The New Screen.

Featuring: David Hoffos (Lethbridge), Kate Pullinger (London, UK), Fiona Bowie (Vancouver), Mirjam Struppek (Berlin), Lilia Pérez Romero (Mexico City), Peter Horvath (Toronto), Kate Armstrong [Vancouver], KikiT VisuoSonic (Southampton, UK), Don Ritter (Berlin), DJ robot_mixeur (Zurich, Santa Barbara), Jackson 2Bears (Victoria) and much more.

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Kate Pullinger will be giving the keynote talk on the first day, entitled ‘From Print to Screen and Beyond: Digital Fiction and the Networked Book’, where she will discuss our forthcoming project ‘Flight Paths’, a ‘networked novel’ which is an experiment in creating a mass-collaborative traditional and/or multimedia fiction from scratch. We’ve only just been awarded some Arts Council funding for this, so it’s exciting to be able to go out there and start talking about it with people for the first time.

Later on the Thursday I’ll be presenting a CD of work together with Randy Adams and Christine Wilks called The Devil’s Rope Journal, that gives a taste of the digital art, sound and poetry mashups that having been happening all year at remix_runran.

Following that will be the first public showing of Episode 4 of Inanimate Alice created by Kate Pullinger and myself. This is the point where I wish for somewhere to hide with a blindfold and headphones! I always find watching premieres of my own work excruciating, particularly in front of large crowds of some of the top digital artists, writers and perfomers in the world. It’s not so much that I’ll be nervous (although obviously I will be!), but rather that by the time of a premiere I’ve already seen the piece literally hundreds of times, and all I can see now are the mistakes and imperfections. However it is always really helpful to get feedback, good and bad, and the episode isn’t due to be officially launched until later in the year, so there will still be a little time to make changes to it on the basis of any particularly negative comments from the IF audience

I’ll also be trying out two things I’ve never attempted before - a screen-based installation piece to be created during the event called Photocollagen, and then some VJing on the Saturday night at the hilariously titled Exploding, Plastic & Inevitable redux event.

Phew! And around all that, a wealth of fascinating lectures, screenings and performances… many thanks to the organisers for their hard work in putting together such a fantastic schedule.

On 1 November, NewMediafest2007 is launched online.

NewMediaFest2007 is the 1st common festival of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne - www.nmartproject.net - developed, organised and directed by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, founder and director of this global network.

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NewMediaFest2007 consists of 2 components:

1. the online showcase including the common festival interface on –>> http://2007.newmediafest.org

2. NewMediaFest2007 Blog - http://www.newmediafest.org/blog/ which is publishing all news and program schedules.

presentation of the featured festival contributions includes program available as PDF for free download: http://downloads.nmartproject.net/NewMediaFest_2007.pdf

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http://www.banffcentre.ca/bnmi/coproduction/

Program dates: March 1 - 28, 2008
Application deadline: November 22, 2007

The Liminal Screen Co-Production Residency at the Banff New Media Institute provides a unique take on video-based residency programs: a community of like-minded artists, developers, and researchers engaging in a collective critical inquiry into video as a medium.

Liminal Screen invites media practitioners to come to The Banff Centre and experiment, interrogate, and reformulate the art, communications, and distribution of the moving image. If your practice deals with the dynamics of the screen, large or small, this program is for you. Individuals and small groups of collaborators are encouraged to apply.

During the course of four weeks, you will have the opportunity to intensively develop your own project with dedicated production support from the Banff New Media Institute’s in-house technicians, editors, and programmers. You will also receive mentorship and critical feedback about your project from internationally renowned new media artists and producers Kate Rich and Willy LeMaitre.

The total cost for this unique residency program is $1,308 (+tax). Nearly $10,000 of additional in-kind support for each project will be provided by Banff New Media Institute staff and the dedicated studio and production facilities of The Banff Centre’s Creative Electronic Environment.

http://www.computerfinearts.com/Haifa_show/

“NETworking” is the first Israeli museum exhibition devoted to Net Art. It presents 12 works from the Computer Fine Arts collection of Doran Golan. The works included in this show highlight a number of the fundamental qualities that characterize Net Art: the visualisation of data; open-code access and connectivity; hacking and online voyeurism involving critiques of authorities and economic powers; the creation of online behavioural codes and the negotiation of cyberspace from various perspectives.

http://www.cafeculturel.org.uk/2007/11/digital_life_facebook_and_the.html

Digital Life: Facebook, YouTube, & Second Life

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It seems like only yesterday that we caught up with people through chance meetings in the street, and heard the latest gossip down the pub. In fact it almost was! In the last year Facebook has become, for many, an indispensable tool for finding those old school friends, organising birthday parties, unceremoniously dumping your other half, and telling everyone just how much you love Elton John. Elsewhere on the web we find your latest happy slap on Youtube, and people actually living their lives online through Second Life.

But, although compelling, should we be cautious about the depth of our involvement with these new technologies? With reports that children are growing up with advanced communication skills but few social skills, worries about the use of video sharing sites for nefarious means, and concerns about data protection rife, do we find ourselves debasing the mores and rights that underpin our freedom, simply for the sake of convenience? Or are these concerns unfounded and the changes brought by the web for the benefit of all?

Come and discuss what you love and hate about web2.0 at Cafe Culturel on Tuesday November 6th at 6.30pm. At the LCB Depot 31 Rutland Street, Leicester, LE1 1RE

Cafe Culturel is a free event occurring on the first Tuesday of every month.

In Tuesday December 4ths Cafe Culturel we’ll be looking at the developing creative scenes outside of London. Next year we start again in February when we’ll be talking about Comedy.

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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