Chris Joseph

Published in

First Monday, Volume 12 Number 12 - 3 December 2007

First Monday has published an article by the PART team at De Montfort University. Transliteracy: Crossing Divides lays out our current thinking about the concept and invites response and comment. Notable as the first peer-reviewed article on the concept, it was written collectively by Sue Thomas, Chris Joseph, Jess Laccetti, Bruce Mason, Simon Mills, Simon Perril, and Kate Pullinger - a supreme effort of collaboration!

Abstract:

Transliteracy might provide a unifying perspective on what it means to be literate in the twenty-first century. It is not a new behavior but has only been identified as a working concept since the Internet generated new ways of thinking about human communication. This article defines transliteracy as “the ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks” and opens the debate with examples from history, orality, philosophy, literature, and ethnography.

Read the full paper here.

Jess Laccetti has prepared a wonderful educational pack for teachers interested in using Inanimate Alice in their lessons - see http://inanimatealice.com/education/ for details and registration, and http://iteachinanimatealice.blogspot.com for Jess’ Educational Alice blog.

Are you interested in sharing your ideas or participating in the Inanimate Alice educational project? If so you are welcome to add the iTeach Inanimate Alice button to your course site or blog. Just copy the code below into your website or blog template:


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*NETWORK VIII by Mark Dixon*
Chieftain Way, Arbury Park, Cambridge, UK

*Dec 16 - Jan 6 2008*
*open to view at anytime (best when dark)*

NETWORK VIII by Mark Dixon is the latest in a series of projects by Neighbourhood Artist, Kirsten Lavers as part of the Public Art Strategy for Arbury Park - a major mixed use housing development of 900+ houses currently in year 2 of construction on the north side of Cambridge, UK

Mark works with mobile phone responsive LED circuits to create magical interactive installations. *NETWORK VIII* has been created especially for the Arbury Park development in collaboration with Kirsten Lavers.

Every currently occupied house (200) in Arbury Park received an interactive “Conversation Star” to hang in an exterior facing window over the festive season. The idea is that their twinkling in response to wireless activity (such as telephone conversations) in each house will create a delicate nighttime network throughout the development site.

Mark has also created a text message responsive light installation in the Arbury Park arts unit on Chieftain Way which magically twinkles a delicate fleeting dance of red lights every time someone txt msgs a completion to this wish ….

* ** “I hope Arbury Park will be …”*

The number to text if you fancy flirting with the work from a distance is
*07788 943502 *(standard rates apply)
but if you can … NETWORK VIII is well worth a visit to interact with sometime over the festive season. All text msgs (except the unneccessarily rude!) will be posted to the website periodically.

please visit http://www.sameanddifferent.net for more info & pics etc.

The John Lansdown Prize for Interactive Digital Art

All those working in interactive digital art are invited to submit for this international prize, awarded annually by the Eurographics Association.

The first prize has a cash value of 750 Euros and there is 250 Euros for the runner-up. The closing date for submission is 18th January 2008.

The criteria for the Award centre on the creative use of the digital medium for interactive art, in any form. The work submitted must have been created within the last two years.

Details of the winning entries from the 2007 and 2006 competitions have been published on the Eurographics Web site, http://www.eg.org/about/awards.

Read more

Another great piece by Katie Haegele discussing Alice as digital literature and pedagogical resource - ‘Art, film or game? ‘Inanimate Alice’ redefines ‘publish’.

NF08: Mosaics will examine the wide array of works that are found within Media Arts. Works for the festival should examine relations of cross-cultural media - through video, sound, electronic music, internet, print, and writing. A mosaic has traditionally referred to art which takes pieces of a part to create a whole. The word has been used in multiple references across literature, media, science, software, video, and religion to describe different constellations of this phenomena. To quote Sean Cubitt, ‘A newly global connectivity creates new arenas for interaction between science, art, and technology, but also creates the preconditions for global crises.’

In recent years many political scientists and economists have discussed the equalizing effects of the internet on global culture. In addition to film, music and visuals and installation art series, NF 08 will be creating shared media pieces connected via the internet and wireless performance. These pieces will have the ability to become part of a larger discourse on all platforms including audio, video, textual, design, locative, and performance. NF will be looking for applications that incorporate artists’ personal work associated with the festivals current programming as well as proposals incorporating this greater participatory project.

To find out more about the events within New Forms, please go to http://2007.newformsfestival.com/events/. Programming includes installation, electronic music (techno, dub, live performance, a/v), presentations and film. NF is always looking to expand its partnerships in the local community as well, and is open to new opportunities with ARC’s, Galleries and Collectives. Please contact malcolm@newformsfestival.com with any questions around New Forms Festival 08: Mosaics. Please check online at www.newformsfestival.com for submission form information over the upcoming weeks.

Submission Deadline for NF 08 is March 1st, 2008.

The De Montfort Creativity Assistant is a tool designed by Sascha Westendorf and Keno Buss to help develop creative ideas in a transdisciplinary multimedia context, based upon the thesis that “creativity is an emergent property”. The intention is to first understand the stages that creative people move through in their journeys of exploration, discovery, innovation, and composition. The well-established path from preparation to incubation to illumination and verification is a good starting point, but more elaborate models are needed to guide software design for individual and social creativity support, and to deal with the controversial question of how such creativity support tools can be evaluated.

The De Montfort Creativity Assistant toolkit is available from

http://dmu-ca.ioct.dmu.ac.uk/

where you may find reviews, reports, a guided tour and facilities for feedback/questions.

JavaMuseum -
Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art
www.javamuseum.org

is happy to launch its Christmas edition of net:NET - netart features. Like edition I , also the 2nd edition of net.NET is presenting 7 artists and selected works –>

“D.F. MAZE”, 2006 by Ernesto Rios (Mexico)
“District of Leitavia”, 2004 by Ian M Clothier (New Zealand)
FUSE, 2004 by SoiiZen Art Labs (Taiwan)
“Antroptic”, 2007 by Ethan Ham/Benjamin Rosenbaum (USA/CH)
“Sonic Map of Battersea Park”, 2007 by Gaya Gajewska (UK)
“X_Reloaded”, 2005 by santo_file (Spain/Italy)
“Neue Kathedrale des erotische Elends”, 2004- by Dirk Vekemans (Belgium)

The feature can be accessed on JavaMuseum directly via http://www.javamuseum.org/2007/index5.html or any other feature of the 2007 series on www.javamuseum.org

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Edition I of net.NET, launched on 1 November 2007 is featuring works by
Adele Prince (UK), J.T.Wine (USA), Carlo Sansolo (Brazil)
Les Liens Invisibles (Italy), MEZ (Australia), Konstantia Sofokleous (Cyprus)
Katty Vandenberghe/Chris Diedericks (South Africa)

All net.NET - netart features are also launched in the framework of NewMediaFest2007 - and can be accessed via the festival interface on http://2007.newmediafest.org and http://www.newmediafest.org/blog/

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JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art
www.javamuseum.org
wishes all its visitors and friends in all parts on the globe a Merry Christmas and a Happy, Peaceful New Year 2008 !!

Listen also to the Christmas message “urbi et orbi” by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, director and curator of JavaMuseum, on AgricolaTV - http://tv.agricola-de-cologne.de/blog/

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Rijksakademie Research Residency

http://www.rijksakademie.nl

The Rijksakademie Research Residency in Amsterdam is an international research and production place for talented, professional artists from all over the world. The Rijksakademie is more than a residency. It has extensive technical facilities, a library, artists’ documentation and art collections. In addition the Rijksakademie offers material basic facilities such as a studio, a work budget, mediation with accommodation and grants.

There are some fifty studios where resident artists work for one to two years on research, experiments, projects and production.
Confrontation with diverse cultures and advice by renowned international artists, exhibition makers, theoreticians and technical specialists promote the deepening, expansion and acceleration of artistic practice. Practical experience has revealed that a work period at the Rijksakademie has the greatest effect three to five years after graduation.

Resident artists pursue every medium and technique: painting, drawing, graphics, photography, sculpture, video, film, sound and
digital media. Links with other areas are also explored such as architecture and public space, theatre, music, literature and diverse
scientific disciplines.

Application
Each year approximately twenty-five artists are invited for a residency. Artists can apply for a residency from January to December 2009 by using the online application form. The deadline for application is 1 February 2008.

More information: http://www.rijksakademie.nl

In 2008, re/act, the international student festival for digital media art, takes place for the 4th time. Art and design students from all over the world are given the opportunity to make their works known to a wide audience and to make new contacts with a network of curators, cultural policy makers, gallery owners, professors, students, and the media.

Re/act’s competition addresses students of artistic study programs. An international panel of experts will select the world’s best works from all entries.

Awards go to works from the following disciplines:

- Video Art
- Interactive Art
- Live video & performance
- Game Art

CONDITIONS FOR ENTRY
Deadline: February 1st 2008
The submission form is downloadable at:
http://www.react-festival.com/submit.htm