Chris Joseph

Congratulations to Stuart Moulthrop, who has won the 3rd International Digital Literature Award Ciutat de Vinaròs in both Narrative and Poetry categories - official announcement below:

The jury of the 3rd International Digital Literature Award Ciutat de Vinaròs has announced the following awards:

NARRATIVE (2,500 €) to Stuart Moulthrop with the work Deep Surface.

POETRY (2,500 €) ex-aequo to Stuart Moulthrop with the work Under Language and to Isaías Herrero Florensa with the work Universo Molécula.

ESPECIAL MENTION VICENT FERRER to the best work in Catalan language (1,000 €) was awarded to Isaías Herrero Florensa with the work La casa sota el temps.

Premio a Las Artes, Faena Art District, Buenos Aires

Call for Entries — New Projects in All Media

The Award

LEA (Laboratory for Artistic Experimentation) announces the second edition of its prize for the arts. The competition is open to all Latin American artists and its aim is to enable the production of two unique works especially conceived for the “Los Molinos” building of Buenos Aires, a building of historical significance and the future home of the Faena Foundation.

We are looking for artistic projects that interact with the space, the history of the building and/or with the urban context in which it is located, in a manner that is novel, intelligent, and poetic.

The projects may include installations, sculptures, drawings or paintings, videos, new media, sound, or any of their combinations. A portion of the prize will finance the production of the works in this rare opportunity to realize large-scale artistic projects.

Characteristics of the Space:

See PDF files and Word document links on website for:

• Plans and photos of the space
• Plans and photos of the neighborhood and its relationship to the city
• History of the building
• Current state of the building

Prizes

First Prize 100,000 dollars Argentine pesos (approx. USD 32,000)

Second Prize 50,0000 dollars Argentine pesos (approx. USD 16,000).

(For first prize a maximum of 70,000 pesos will be used in the realization of the work, leaving the remainder to the disposition of the artist(s); for second prize a maximum of 35,000 pesos will be used for the work’s production, leaving the rest at the artist(s)’s
disposition.)

The Jury

Carlos Basualdo — Curator, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Okwui Enwezor — Dean of Academia Affaire, San Francisco Art Institute
Jessica Morgan — Curator, Tate Modern
Jury Coordinator: Ximena Caminos

Entry forms, criteria and more information are available at: http://www.lea-fgroup.com

Dates

Entries will be received by mail with all forms and materials included.
Deadline for submission: 15 February 2008
Announcement of prize: March 2008

JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art
http://www.javamuseum.org
released recently the netart feature

“Seven Ways To Say Internet with Net Art” -
curated by Elena Giulia Rossi
http://www.javamuseum.org/2007/index1.html
including works by
Juliet Davis
Reinhald Drouhin
Free Soil (Amy Franceschini, Myriel Milicevic, Nis Rømer)
Molleindustria
Santiago Ortiz
C.J.Yeh
Lorenzo Pizzanelli

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International Workshop on Interactive Digital Entertainment Technologies (IDET 2008)
15 -16 July, 2008, Lanzhou University, China
http://www.hkws.org/events/idet2008

With the significant development of digital technologies in recent years, we are seeing more and more applications of digital technologies, in particular in the entertainment domain. These applications may include computer games, e-learning, interactive TVs and virtual environments. This workshop aims at providing opportunities for researchers and developers to share their experiences and for investors to share their visions in digital entertainment. We call for papers that cover the technology aspect as well as application aspect of digital entertainment, including but not limited to the following topics:

* Realistic and non-realistic rendering, time-critical rendering
* Real-time animation techniques
* Hardware (haptics) and software interfacing techniques
* Content creation, automatic story generation
* Content delivery and streaming technologies
* System and server architectures
* Network and distributed systems technologies
* Applications: games, virtual environments, education, movies, interactive TVs

Paper Submissions

Each paper for submission should be formatted using the template obtained from http://www.hkws.org/events/idet2008/IDETtemplate.doc

It must not be longer than 6 pages in length, including references and figures. Authors should submit their papers using the online paper submission system, which will be available soon.

The workshop proceedings will be published by IEEE.

Important Dates

Full Paper Submission: February 1, 2008
Author Notification: April 1, 2008
Camera-ready Papers due: May 1, 2008

For more information regarding to the conference or paper submission, please check the conference web site or send email to: idet2008@gmail.com

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http://cii.dmu.ac.uk

A conference to enhance creativity, innovation, and productivity, taking place at the The City Rooms in Leicester.

Speakers:

Margaret Boden: What is Creativity?
Claudia Eckert: How can we be more creative?
Frank Boyd: How does innovation happen?
Toby Moores: How is creativity managed?

Workshops:

Facebook for business
Tools for online collaboration and management
Technology to assist creativity
Techniques for improving creativity

This event is organised and run by Creativity East Midlands and the East Midlands New Tehnology Initiative (NTI) Creative Industries Centre for Knowledge Exchange.

Creativity: Innovation and Industry is supported by the Institute of Creative Technologies and De Montfort University.

The deadline for Visionary Landscapes: Electronic Literature Organization 2008 Conference has been extended to December 16, 2007. The conference website can be found at:

http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/programs/dtc/elo08.html.

The conference takes place from May 29-June 1, 2008 at Washington State University Vancouver in lovely Vancouver, WA. It is sponsored by both the Electronic Literature Organization and WSUV. Speakers include Mark Amerika, Sue Thomas, and John Cayley. A Media Arts Show will be held in conjunction with the conference and will feature art such as digital sculpture, net art, multimedia installations and performances, electronic music, and the like. Workshops in audio production and reading elit are also scheduled.

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.

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.

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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THE THURSDAY CLUB is an open forum discussion group for anyone interested in the theories and practices of cross-disciplinarity, interactivity, technologies and philosophies of the state-of-the-art in today’s (and tomorrow’s) cultural landscape(s).

13 DECEMBER with ALEX GILLESPIE, BRIAN O’NEILL & ROBB MITCHELL
:
Cyranoids…

How can “speaking the thoughts of others” enhance and subvert social interaction both face-to-face and remotely ?

What is a cyranoid ? Cyranoids are people whose speech is being controlled by another person. The term comes from the character Cyrano de Bergerac in Edmond Rostand’s 19th Century play. Cyrano, who is ugly but articulate, helps his handsome but inarticulate friend win the heart of Roxane by providing eloquent and witty prompts from the sidelines. The outcome is that Roxane falls in love with Cyrano’s mind through interacting with the body of his friend. Stanley Milgram, a social psychologist, in the 1970s coined the term cyranoid to describe a person whose utterances were being controlled by a second person, the source, via radio transmission. The cyranoid wears a headset which receives input from a microphone in a different location. The source then speaks into the microphone, and the cyranoid just has to repeat what they hear in their ear. So that the source knows what is going on, the cyranoid also wears a microphone which transmits everything it hears back to the source. In this way one person can control the utterances of another unbeknownst to other people. While the headsets used by Milgram were conspicuous and limited to transmitting verbal data, now, it is possible to use incredibly inconspicuous equipment to transmit both verbal instruction and for the source to receive a video stream of what the cyranoid is seeing. The internet means that the cyranoid and the source can be separated by huge distances, with sources simply ‘logging in’ via the web to a given cyranoid, being able to see and hear what the cyranoid hears and sees, and then being able to transmit thoughts to the cyranoid or living, breathing avatar.

The audiences are invited to participate in a social event cum performance seminar and experience being cyranoids, synchronoids or sources…

ALEX GILLESPIE holds a PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Cambridge. His research concerns the Self and self-reflection and explores the social interactional and cultural basis of the self. He is a Lecturer at Stirling University and, currently, Co-chair of the Organising Committee for the Fifth International Conference on the Dialogical Self.

BRIAN O’NEILL is a clinical psychologist at Southern General Hospital, Glasgow. He is interested in cognitive impairments, the disability they cause and how assistive technology for cognition might provide useful treatments. He also is founding member of Thunder Bug sound system.

ROBB MITCHELL is an artist, curator and events organiser who has exhibited and lectured widely in the UK and abroad, among other venues in: Market Gallery (Glasgow), Edinburgh College of Art, Intermedia Gallery (Glasgow), Galerie Bortiers (Brussels), Artspace (Sydney), FACT (Liverpool), Mediabath (Helsinki), ICA (London), CCA (Glasgow), National Museum of Scotland (Edinburgh), Ars Electronica (Linz) and Eyebeam (NYC).

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Supported by the Goldsmiths GRADUATE SCHOOL and the Goldsmiths DIGITAL STUDIOS

6pm until 8pm, Seminar Rooms at Ben Pimlott Building (Ground Floor, right), Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, SE14 6NW

FREE, ALL ARE WELCOME. No booking required.

For more information check http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/gds/events.php or email Maria X at drp01mc [at] gold.ac.uk

To find Goldsmiths check http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/find-us/