Chris Joseph

Flight Paths: A Networked Novel
http://www.flightpaths.net

The car park of Sainsbury’s supermarket in Richmond, southwest London, lies directly beneath one of the main flight paths into Heathrow Airport. Over the last decade, on at least five separate occasions, the bodies of young men have fallen from the sky and landed on or near this car park. All these men were stowaways on flights from the Indian subcontinent who had believed that they could find a way into the cargo hold of an airplane by climbing up into the airplane wheel shaft. No one can survive this journey.

“Flight Paths: a networked novel” seeks to explore what happens when lives collide – an airplane stowaway and the woman who witnesses his fall to earth. This project will tell their stories; it will be a work of digital fiction, a networked book, created on and through the internet. Writers Kate Pullinger (http://www.katepullinger.com) and Chris Joseph (http://www.chrisjoseph.org) encourage you to contribute stories, images, sounds, memories, and ideas to this project.

Visit http://www.flightpaths.net to participate in a new kind of writing project that explores the themes of asylum and immigration, open to everyone, online.

The new printed Neural issue in English is available.

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Neural.it celebrates 10 years of activity!
http://www.neural.it/
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[Neural n. 28 contents]
http://www.neural.it/art/2007/12/neural_28.phtml
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. Florian Cramer interviews Jodi, “For us it’s not an error”,
. Casey Reas (interview),
. Glitch explained by Olga Goriounova and Alexei Shulgin
. Ant Scott/Beflix interview.
. ICC Open Space 2007.
. news (Morpho Towers, Spamland, Bloomsday On Twitter, The Word’s slowest Instant Messenger, Spy Box)
. reviews (Gost Storeys, New Media Art, Materializing New Media, Lebensfrische, Monkey_Party)
. centerfold: ‘Muon’ by Chris O’Shea
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. Ryoiji Ikeda unexpected errors in Cyclo,
. Jens Brand (interview),
. news: (Uokand (Tapelake), Cut Chemist video scratching the audience, OSCulator, EarthSpeaker, Ex Pharao)
. reviews: (John Dunca Work 1975-2005, The Topography Of Chance, Elffriede Soundrawing, Camera Lucida, Municipal 44)
. reviews cd: (Andrey Kiritchenko, Merzbow, The Hafler Trio, Yoshio Machida, Test Dept., Quio, Luc Ferrari, Frank Bretschneider, Less-Lethal vol.1, The @C & Vitor Joaquim, Silicon Scally, Burkhard Stangl / Taku Unami, Mem1, Dunaewsky69, Keene, Minimalismo Italiano, Beautiful Schizophonic, The Missing Ensemble, Annea Lockwood, Andy Vaz)
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. Sebastian Luetgert, the Art of Challenging Copyright (interview),
. Perry Honerman, Infringement Series,
. news (Interception, Terminal Air, OpeSourceCinema, Dialstation, Missing Persons).
. reviews: (Privacy On The Line, Gamer Theory, Abstract Hacktivism, From Counterculture to Cyberculture, The Class
of the New)
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“Bluedolph the blue-nosed reindeer
Didn’t have a shiny nose…”

A mildly anti-festive animated parable about one of the less successful reindeers. In Flash, with sound (and sprigs of holly). Happy Christmas!

http://www.edwardpicot.com/bluedolph/

Ben Mathis ( http://www.poopinmymouth.com ) is a games artist who has worked on ten titles since 2003 including Ghost Recon 2, Tony Hawk Project 8, and Hellgate London for various studios. He will be talking about his experiences within the games industry, a highly collaborative field, and what he has learnt of the creative process from this.

Wednesday 12th December, 2007, in the Queens building
Room Q1.10
5.00pm – 6.30pm

We recommend you reserve a place in order to avoid disappointment. This can be done through the website at www.creativityconversation.co.uk

The Creativity Conversations are organized by Creativity East Midlands (CREEM) - http://creem.dmu.ac.uk/

CREEM is a network of researchers and practitioners based in the Institute of Creative Technologies at De Montfort University but extending into the wider community. CREEM network participants come from a wide range of disciplines but share a common interest in creativity and innovation. We are investigating the terms used to describe creativity and innovation with the aim of developing a common language that works across different disciplines, and are looking at how creativity can enhance innovative practice.

Creativity Conversations are supported by NLab - www.narrativelab.org
CREEM is funded by AHRC, Arts Council England, DTI and ESRC through the Nature of Creativity scheme.

Surface Gallery Nottingham is actively seeking proposals for their 2008 exhibition programme. All types of work will be considered and selected on individual merit, not on the profile of the artist(s) involved. Surface Gallery accept proposals from groups and curators as well as individuals. If you are interested in working with Surface Gallery, please download a form from www.surfacegallery.org or contact 0115 9348435 or E: admin@surfacegallery.org

CEPA Visiting Practitioner Talks - Helena Goldwater

Wednesday 12th December, 6pm-7.30pm, Studio 2, PACE (Performing Arts Centre of Excellence), De Montfort University, Leicester. Goldwater will talk about her practice discussing her performance art works, her years treading the club and cabaret boards and her paintings. From a Fine Art background, she continues to be interested in the intersection between disciplines and forms, and in shifting the boundaries. She has worked across different performance disciplines as maker, performer, co-deviser and writer and has shown work in galleries, theatres and for site-specific contexts. 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.

Directions to the PACE building and more information about CEPA in general are available on the DMU website: www.dmu.ac.uk/aboutdmu/campuses/maps/leic_campus.jsp

Intellectual Property for Musicians

Wednesday 23 January, 5 – 7:30pm, Institute of Creative Technologies (IOCT), De Montfort University, Leicester.

As the music industry develops new methods of marketing to customers and moves across an increasing number of media platforms, including digital, the issue of copyright remains as crucial as ever. In this new environment, it is important to be aware not only of your legal rights, but also of the different types of deal with which you can licence and assign the copyright in your work, whatever the media, and how contingency planning can help you to control the use of your work more easily. Led by expert speakers from Berryman LLP (Nottingham) this seminar will be of relevance to those composing music for the videogame and ring-tone industries, in addition to traditional composers.

Organiser: ProspectIP in conjunction with Creative Leicestershire. There is no charge for this event. To book a place, please call 0116 207 8931 or email jgill@dmu.ac.uk.

Further information can be found at: www.prospectip.co.uk/training/forthcoming-training-events

CEPA Visiting Practitioner Talks – Simon Vincenzi

Wednesday 23 January, 6pm-7.30pm, Studio 1, PACE (Performing Arts Centre of Excellence), De Montfort University, Leicester. This talk will be given by Simon Vincenzi, director/designer & one half of Bock & Vincenzi who have created dance/theatre works for adults & children. 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. Directions to the PACE building and more information about CEPA in general are available on the DMU website:

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

Call for programmer - Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University, Leicester

An artistic project led by a post-doctoral researcher in the Institute Of Creative Technologies, requires a highly skilled programmer with an expert knowledge of Director, Flash, php, and MySQL databases, to refactor and develop an Interactive Sonic Environment, and extend the application to allow users’ participation and collaboration on the Internet. The programmer should have experience of dynamic rich media web applications, interest and/or experience in working with sound, and be able to follow commercial OOP development procedures.

This temporary position involves 18 weeks of work, spread over 2 years (6 weeks in year one and 12 weeks in year two). In year one, the work will concentrate on the creation of a database and a repository for sound, image and text files, the refactoring and development of the existent multimedia application in Director and/or Flash, and the incorporation of a text tool within the Sound Environment. In the second year, the existent interface will be extended and customised to allow users to experience the environment through dynamic asset selection. Input from the user is expected from a number of sources, and the programmer will need to experiment with on-line real time collaboration, and mobile technology.

If you are interested in applying please send via e-mail a Curriculum Vitae, or ask for further information to:

Dr. Ximena Alarcón
E-mail: XAlarcon[at]dmu.ac.uk

Deadline for applications: January 3rd, 2008

Starting date: January 21st, 2008

http://www.ioct.dmu.ac.uk/projects/ISE.html

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Support materials must be uploaded by 27 February 2008.

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New for SIGGRAPH 2008
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General Submission Preparation
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We have designed the submission process to save you time, dissolve boundaries among traditional programs and afford you the best possible jury evaluation. You can now describe your work once and propose that it be evaluated for multiple presentation formats.

In addition to the typical materials that make up a submission, you must craft and classify your submission in three ways.
1. Submission Areas as defined by our conference themes
2. Submission Categories
3. Presentation Formats

*** Submission Areas *** are themes of high impact to community audiences. Important for SIGGRAPH 2008 are: Complexity and Accessibility, Future History, Global Responsibility, Impact on Society, Professional Development and Education, SIGGRAPH Core, Slow Art, Computer Animation Festival.

For in-depth descriptions of each of these areas follow the right sidebar links on this page http://www.siggraph.org/s2008/submissions/

*** Submission Categories *** will aid in the jury process and help us to cluster your contributions with other similar proposals for best possible evaluation.

For category definitions read here http://www.siggraph.org/s2008/submissions/juried/categories.php

*** Presentation Formats *** allow you to identify the most relevant channels for bringing accepted content to the SIGGRAPH audience. We encourage you to specify as many formats as are appropriate for a given submission.

For presentation format details read here
http://www.siggraph.org/s2008/submissions/juried/formats.php

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