Chris Joseph

Update 22 December 2007: Garth Rankin’s documentation of every event from IF07 is now up at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21815811@N03/.

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I’m back from Interactive Futures, and sufficiently recovered to blog a little about what a great event it was! Huge thanks to all the people involved in putting it on, in particular Steve Gibson, Randy Adams and Julie Andreyev, but also all the team at the OpenSpace gallery, and the other artists and speakers who made it such an interesting 3 days. And extra thanks to Randy and Jim Andrews for putting me up before and after the main event, enabling me to see some of the beautiful countryside in that part of the world.

Below are just a few of my event photos - if you are interested in seeing more, all my photos from the trip and event are available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/391/sets/72157603313539200/.

For even more photos and gossip there is an ongoing documentation page on the IF07 site. Christine Wilks (part of our “Devil’s Journal” CD/performance trio) has also written a great report of the event here.

And finally…

here is the online version of Photocollagen, the piece I created at the event with the help of photographer Garth Rankin, that was beautifully projected in the entrance of the OpenSpace gallery… an ever-changing collage of the presenters and artists that attended IF07.

www.ioctsalon.com

Andy Campbell: Dreaming Methods - Digital Fiction

Doors open at 5.30pm for drinks. This event is free and open to the public, however places are limited - email info [at] ioctsalon.com to reserve a seat.

Download the flyer for this event (PDF)

Since the 1990’s Andy Campbell has experimented with the possibilities of writing fiction for the computer screen and, although most people still consider fiction something they’d read from a book, an explosion of blogs, online journals, text-based “web art” projects and the introduction of electronic portable reading devices has generated a new wave of mashed up narrative experiments and intrigued (often confused) audiences. Andy Campbell’s website Dreaming Methods combines fictional narratives with other media such as film, photography, animation and music. The results are highly challenging but compelling reading experiences that explore dream inspired states, the subconscious and the deterioration of memory. Projects are often visually haunting and atmospherically immersive where the text itself floats, mutates and gets entangled with motion graphics creating powerful ‘scenes’ throughout the ‘story’.

Experience recent Dreaming Methods projects on a big screen, including a preview of a new project “Clearance”, an apocalyptic digital fiction created by Andy Campbell and film-maker Judi Alston. The talk will include discussion around the possibilities of new forms of electronic narratives - from full-blown cinematic multimedia to exciting new e-book standards.

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At the Transliteracy Unconference in September 2007 the general consensus was that participants wanted a workshop day in which they could begin to make transliterate objects. The fact that no-one could actually describe what these might be like added an extra frisson to the idea. We have now set a date to try to explore this further.

The first Transliteracy Workshop will take place on Monday 28 January 2008, in the Institute of Creative Technologies at De Montfort University, Leicester. We will begin at 10.30am with coffee and registration and end at 4pm. Beyond that, the structure of the day will be planned by the participants. Lunch will be included and, weather permitting, perhaps an IOCT stroll.

There are a small number of spaces available so we are making them available to readers of this blog on a first-come, first-served basis. If you are interested in attending please email Bruce (bmason01 at dmu dot ac dot uk) or Sue (Sue dot Thomas at dmu dot ac dot uk) as soon as possible to reserve a place.

The question of the materials required to make transliterate objects is obviously an engaging one. Of course we will no doubt be using the digital, but we expect to work with other materialities too, so if you wish to come along we would like to know:
(a) what materials/equipment you will bring to contribute?
(b) what materials/equipment you would like us to try to source, bearing in mind we have a limited budget.

If you can’t attend but are interested in sharing ideas please add some comments to this post and we’ll see if we can find ways to add them into the day.

Transliteracy googlegroup - http://groups.google.com/group/transliteracy?hl=en

Critical Code Studies - http://criticalcodestudies.com

The blog is dedicated to exploring interpretations of computer code within cultural contexts. Rather than focusing primarily on making code function or even the pursuit of “beautiful” code, critical code studies brings in critical theory to examine the ways in which the lines of code reflect, shape, and reproduce our culture including aspects of class, gender, race, sexuality. These criticisms include both the context for the code’s creation and the ways in which it circulates in culture. Rather than one specific lens, CCS names a growing collection of methodologies for making/finding meaning in code.

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January 24 -27, 2008

Application Deadline: January 10, 2008 and ongoing as space permits.

The Banff New Media Institute’s Accelerator program, in partnership with Digital Alberta, announces the Story, Character, and Interactivity workshop.

The two-day workshop focuses on how to create successful interactive experiences that rival a movie’s level of depth and engagement. It will offer insight into several exciting topics including narrative in an interactive medium, idea generation and other storytelling techniques.

Key speakers include Gabe Kean from Belle & Wissell Co, Mike Laidlaw and Matt Rhodes from BioWare Corp and Tad Stones from Starz Film Roman Studios (subject to change).

Registration fee, including meals and tuition, is $280.00 CA.

More information

The 22nd Prix Ars Electronica - International Competition for CyberArts is open for entries now!

Prix Ars Electronica 2008
Online Submission Deadline: March 7, 2008
Contact: info@prixars.aec.at

Total Prize Money: € 115.000,-

Categories: Computeranimation / Film / VFX; Digital Musics; Interactive Art; Hybrid Art; Digital Communities; Media.Art.Research Award; u19 - freestyle computing

More details about all categories and online submission are available only online at: http://prixars.aec.at

FILE Labo, the new media laboratory of Electronic Language International Festival, is now launching its first call for project proposals.

If you have an idea and are an artist, a designer, a programmer, an engineer, a scientist, or if you have developed any work for your university or for yourself, and always found it an interesting work, but which ended up in the sidelines, now you can send it to FILE-LABO.

The LABO is a free territory for creation and invention; an independent and collaborative network for the development of art, science and technology, located in São Paulo, at the SESI Vila Leopoldina Cultural Center, and devised under a platform of collaboration among creators and professionals of different areas. There, you will find collaborators from technical, theoretical, and political-cultural areas, who will follow and support the development of your proposal.

Send your project or idea through the proper submission form in the site. Later on, there will be a project selection by a laboratory’s professional commission.

FILE-Labo will prioritize projects and ideas that can really be developed by the laboratory within the maximum period of one year.

http://www.file.org.br/file2008_entriesforms/english/labo_entry.htm

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The more things change ?
The 5th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, March 2008

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Governments come and go. So do coups. The West keeps drawing its ‘roadmaps’, but who’s driving? For some, having no elected government is a terrifying state of affairs. For others, it’s just business as usual.

Change is not impossible. It’s constant. Nothing is permanent. Traditional wisdom ? especially in Buddhism ? says that time is cyclical, a rhythm of renewal and regeneration. But modernity’s clock is ticking. Its history is linear, irreversible, a path towards a different future. Will our history be one of progress, or will it be looped?

Political, social, historical, biological, cosmic? What are the cycles that give shape to contemporary life? Can art interrupt them, or should it work with them, go along with them?

The 5th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival is seeking films and other screen-based work that explores the rhythms and cycles of contemporary life. All genres and styles will be considered, including experimental film and video, documentary, art film, animation, machinima, etc.

Experimental film is not just about technical innovation ? it’s about new voices and new perspectives. It’s about yesterday and tomorrow. It can articulate the furtive connections between the ordinary and the extraordinary, the personal and the public.

BEFF5 is organised by Kick the Machine, Project 304 and the Thai Film Foundation, and is also supported by Multimedia Arts Asia Pacific.

To submit your work, please download the BEFF 5 Entry Form here: http://www.project304.org/beff5/ and send it with your submission to:

BEFF 5, c/o Jim Thompson Art Center,
6 Soi Kasemsan 2, Rama 1 Road, Patumwan, Bangkok 10330 Thailand
Deadline: Friday, 1 February, 2008

For more info please call +66 (0)86 311 6062, or email beff.five [at] gmail.com

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