Chris Joseph

Exploring “A Million Penguins” - Order and Chaos in a wiki novel
Institute Of Creative Technologies Research Seminar by Bruce Mason
De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
IOCT Lab, Wednesday April 23, 2008 4:30-5:30pm
This seminar is free and open to the public.

In February 2007, DMU and Penguin Publishing collaborated to host the world’s first wiki novel - “A Million Penguins” - using the same software that runs Wikipedia. Over a five week period nearly 1,500 people signed up to edit the novel, over 11,000 edits were made and it was viewed over 500,000 times leading the CEO over Penguin Publishing to muse that it was maybe the “most written novel in history.”

In this seminar, Bruce Mason will outline the results of a research project held at the Institute Of Creative Technologies (IOCT) which investigated the social behaviour that unfolded during the writing of “A Million Penguins.” What kinds of collaboration, conflict and compromise occurred and what did it tell us about future online writing possibilities? Did a sense of community arise or did we see nothing but chaos and vandalism?

The seminar will not require any particular knowledge of wikis or online writing.

About the presenter

Bruce Mason is an IOCT Post-Doctoral Research Fellow specialising in social research and web2.0 activities. He previously worked at DMU with Professor Sue Thomas on an Arts and Humanities Research Council Funded Project (http://www.ioct.dmu.ac.uk/tnn/) that investigated the potential for folksonomy in academic research.

About A Million Penguins

A Million Penguins is a collaborative online novel, a wiki which was open to anyone in the world to write and edit. The project ran from 1st Feb to 7th March 2007, was organised by Kate Pullinger (http://www.katepullinger.com) of De Montfort University and Jeremy Ettinghausen of Penguin, with Sue Thomas, Professor of New Media at De Montfort and an editorial team of students enrolled on De Montfort’s Online MA in Creative Writing and New Media.

Further Information

To find out more about the seminar, please see the IOCT Blog at http://tinyurl.com/3yktnj or the IOCT events page (http://www.ioct.dmu.ac.uk/events.html). Alternately, please contact Bruce Mason directly by email (bmason01 [at] dmu.ac.uk) or phone (07981 090566).

The IOCT lab is situated at 1 The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH. Directions to the IOCT can be found online at http://www.ioct.dmu.ac.uk/contact.html

Registration is now open for the NLab Social Networks Conference, 19-20 June 2008 at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK http://www.nlabnetworks.com

- Explore the benefits of social networks for your business
- What is a social network and how can it generate wealth for your business?
- How can social networks increase creativity and why is that important?
- How will social networks affect the future of your company?
- What can you do right now to benefit your business?

Speakers include Andrea Saveri, Institute for the Future, Palo Alto and Steve Clayton, Microsoft UK
plus
Jim Benson, Modus Cooperandi - Roland Harwood, NESTA - Shani Lee, NLab - Chris Meade, Institute for the Future of the Book - Toby Moores, Sleepydog - Vijay Riyait, iQubed - Sue Thomas, De Montfort University - Ken Thompson, and more to be announced…

Conference Fees
* £125 inc VAT Full Price (2 days + conference dinner on Thursday evening)
* £105 inc VAT (2 days only, no concessions)
* £65 inc VAT (1 day only, no concessions)
* £95 inc VAT Concession* (2 days + conference dinner on Thursday evening)

*Concessionary rates are for students, DMU staff, senior citizens and those in receipt of income-related benefits. Proof of status is required. If you are in any doubt regarding your eligibility, please email dmccc [at] dmu.ac.uk

East Midlands businesses can apply now for a free bursary place.

Find out more and register online at http://www.nlabnetworks.com

DOLORES – Residency

The DOLORES residency and work stipend is a joint project of Domagk Kunstunterstützung e.V. (Domagk art support association) and lothringer13/laden, a city-run art space promoting experimental fine arts and processual/ interdisciplinary projects. We offer a two-months residency in Munich for foreign artists.

E-mail-application deadline: April 27th, 2008

The purpose of DOLORES is to connect experimental art, to create international dialogue and networks. It is an opportunity to realize a project of his/her choice in the local context of Munich.

The residency-term is August 1st, 2008 - September 30th, 2008. Doku e.V. and lothringer13/laden will provide a mini-apartment and a two-months public transport ticket for Munich. In addition, the lothringer13/laden show room is available for studio work and a 10-day solo-exhibit (including a 500.- EUR project-budget, PR and opening event) by the resident at the end of September 2008.

Preconditions:

Applicants must not live in Germany at the date of their application and need to have foreign citizenship. Applicants must not profit from other stipends in Munich at the time of application and during residency (August/September 2008).

Applicants for DOLORES should hold a degree in Fine Arts (or equivalent education). There is no age-limit. Experimental and media-based artistic strategies, such as performance, net-art, installation, are preferred, but not required.

The application must include a proposal for a project to be realized within the residency-term.

During the residency in August/September 2008, we require the artist to participate in an official welcome-event in DOKU e.V. and to produce a solo-exhibition for lothringer13/laden. The resident must not work more than 10 h/week besides his/her artistic work during the residency-term in Munich.

The stipends focus being the dialogue with the host, the candidate’s ability to speak English is a prerequisite. If interested, the resident will be brought into contact with the local art scene (art academy, galleries, museums, artist community).

Procedure:

Artists who meet the above listed requirements are asked to send their digital applications (pdf) until April 27th 2008 to laden [at] lothringer13.de with the code “DOLORES-application” in the subject line of the e-mail. The application (pdf) must include:

1. post and e-mail address, telephone number
2. short text on your motivation (max. 1 page)
3. short CV
4. project proposal for the residency-term and the exhibition/show (ca. 1 page)
5. 3 images of former projects to give an impression of your work

Proposals, which do not fit the form, will not be considered.

The decision of the jury (curators from Doku e.V., lothringer13/laden and Katrin Kaschadt (Kunstraum München) as independent curator) will be announced by the beginning of May 2008.

IOCT Salon: Marc Garrett, 2nd November 2006

Marc Garrett from furtherfield.org at the Institute of Creative Technologies (IOCT) Salon [ www.ioctsalon.com ], De Montfort University, Leicester, UK on 2nd November 2006. Supported by the Arts Council England.

for Interactive Futures 07: The New Screen

Alison - Alison Darcy
Camera - Olivier Choinière

sk-interfaces Closing Event:
stitched-up
29 March 2008
FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool UK

A packed one-day event of live performances, artist talks, experiments and interactive art

stitched-up presents:

Interactive Installation
A rare opportunity to experience artist Paul Thomas’ audio-visual installation Midas.

Future of the Body
A discussion on the future of the body with international artists Eduardo Kac, Atau Tanaka and Paul Thomas.
Followed by an exclusive book signing session with Eduardo Kac of Signs of Life: Bio Art and Beyond.

S.S.S Performance
A distinctive live performance from S.S.S (Sensors_Sonics_Sights) featured artists Atau Tanaka, Cecile Babiole and Laurent Dailleau, transforming The Box into a dynamic environment with visuals and gestural interactive sound.

An offsite cultural experiment, Truth Serum from The Office of Experiments (founded by artist Neal White) will be conducted at a secret venue. Commissioned by The Arts Catalyst in association with FACT. To sign up to the experiment visit: www.artscatalyst.org/projects/biotech/truthserum.html

Interactive Installation, 11.00am-1.00pm: FREE
Future of the Body, 2.00pm – 4.30pm: £4.00 / £3.00*
S.S.S Performance, 8.30pm – 10.00pm: £9.00 / £8.00*
SPECIAL OFFER - All day ticket: £10.00
*(Members & concs)

Download event e-flyer:
http://www.fact.co.uk/images/1images/emailimages/FACT_stitched-up_event.jpeg

Tickets available online visit: www.facttrading.co.uk

The New River journal of digital writing and art announces its new issue of new electronic literature
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/journals/newriver/07Fall/index.html

The Fall 2007 issue includes:

All the News That’s Fit to Print
by Jody Zellen (bio)

The Wave
by Heather Raikes (bio)

Digital Paintings
by Karin Kuhlmann (bio)

A Sky of Cinders
by Tim Lockridge (bio)

Marginalia in the Library of Babel
by Mark Marino (bio)

Semantic Disturbances
by Agam Andreas (bio)

(NON)sense for to from Eva Hesse
by Carrie Meadows (bio)

About New River:

The New River is a journal of digital writing and art. The journal was founded by Ed Falco in 1996, with help from Len Hatfield. To the best of our knowledge, The New River was the first journal devoted exclusively to digital writing and art.

The New River plans to post new issues twice a year, in December and May, and is currently hosted by Virginia Tech’s Center for Digital Discourse and Culture.
Editor: Ed Falco
Managing Editor: Lauren Goldstein

Read more

The Netherlands Media Art Institute is pleased to announce an open call for the summer and autumn 2008 period of its Artist in Residence (AiR) programme.

The AiR programme at the Netherlands Media Art Institute aims to support the exploration and development of new work in digital/interactive/network media and technology based arts practice. The residency provides time and resources to artists in a supportive environment to facilitate the creation of new work. We encourage a cross-disciplinary, hybrid and experimental approach. This is a practice-based residency designed to enable the development and/or completion of a new work. Preferably the production is based on open source software.

The residency period is from 2 to 5 months and located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The starting dates are from June to November 2008.

The overall topic for the 2008 exhibition period at the NIMk is ‘Democracy’. Please note that this focus is not obligatory and that other proposals are welcome.

The Netherlands Media Art Institute offers an open environment with technical assistance and an active advisory board which will give feedback and support in technical, conceptual and presentation issues. There is access to studio and exhibition equipment, technical support from the Institute’s staff and production help from interns. The technical staff is specialized and has good contacts with programmers of the following software, a.o.: PD/PDP, Blender, Dynebolic, Linux. We expect the artist to have knowledge and insight in the technical realisation of the concept.

It is integral to the mission of the AiR program that artists participate in presenting their work in a public form appropriate to their project. This can include gallery installations, demonstrations of research in progress, panel discussions, on-line projects, or multimedia performances, in addition to open studio events and workshops. For this reason we ask that artists include in their proposal possible examples of how they might like to present their work publicly.

At this moment the Netherlands Media Art Institute provides in travel costs. It doesn’t provide accommodation for artists living outside of Amsterdam.

We prefer applications via the NIMk website, using the application form. See http://www.montevideo.nl/nl/onderzoek/aanvraagform.html

For further information please contact Susanne Jaschko at susanne [at] nimk.nl.

DEADLINE: 15 April

Netherlands Media Art Institute
Keizersgracht 264,1016 EV Amsterdam
http://www.nimk.nl
info [at] nimk.nl
T +31 (0)20 6237101

LOCATION ONE VIRTUAL RESIDENCY PROGRAM – CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Submissions Deadline: May 1
Dates of Residency: June 1-November 4, 2008

Location One presents its first ever “Virtual Residency Project” in the form of a call to artists and other creative individuals with the express purpose of fostering collaboration and creativity across geographical expanses and areas of expertise around the topic of the 2008 US Presidential Election. The goal of this residency to develop a project using such non-F2F (face to face) interfaces such as webcams, email, chat, video, blogs, Second Life, MIDI, skype, walkie-talkie, snail mail, radio or POTS (plain old telephone service), tin cans on string, or any other means of collaboration to develop a project that will be presented at Location One, in advance of the US Presidential election.

Location One will provide an area on its website where the project can develop publically through blogging, video, audio or other means.

Acceptable forms of Submission:

Please send CV, url or any materials to virtualresidency@location1.org by midnight May 1, 2008. Please include a few lines describing why you are interested in a collaborative virtual residency. What kind of work should it be?

26 Greene Street (between Grand and Canal St)
New York NY 10013 - tel. 212.334.3347
Subway: Canal Street stop on N,R,Q,W - 6 - A,C,E
GALLERY HOURS: Tues-Sat 12-6 pm
Website: http://www.location1.org

CALL FOR ENTRY: 2008 the 9th Seoul International Film Festival - Net Section

The 9th Seoul International Film Festival is open for entries. Seoul International Film Festival Net Section is trying to introduce talented visual artists all over the world and their brilliant works and to lead the new audio-visual experiences based on the Internet and New Media.

WHEN: June 5 – August 15, 2008

WHERE: www.senef.net / Mobile and DMB

SEOUL INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE: April 10, 2008

ELIGIBILITY

For the official competition section, only works completed after January 2007 may be submitted to the Festival. Submissions should be creative works produced or adopted through digital technology. There will be no restrictions regarding the genre, length or subject matter of the work and all types of works, including fiction, documentary, experimental work, music video, animation, motion graphic, flash animation, game, web-art, etc. will be accepted.

MATERIALS REQUIRED FOR SUBMISSIONS:

1. Completed application form (can be downloaded from www.senef.net)

2. Preview material

- By Post: DVD / DV6mm / CD / VHS

(Seoul International Film Festival Head Office - Program Dept. of Net Section, 5F Youahn Bldg. 146-23, Samsung-dong, Kangnam-gu, Seoul, 135-090 South Korea)

- By FTP Server (under 300 MB): FLASH / WMV / MOV / AVI / MPEG

* For File-Transferring indications, please email to program2 [at] senef.net

- By E-MAIL: URL address to program2 [at] senef.net

3. Complete script in English (.doc)

4. Photo of the Work (.jpg): more than 300 dpi

5. Photo of the Artist (.jpg): more than 300 dpi

6. Any other publicity materials related to the submitted work (optional)

* Application form and photos can be submitted by E-MAIL.

* Resolution should be more than 640 * 480.

CONTACT

Seoul International Film Festival Head Office - Program Department

5F Youahn Bldg. 146-23, Samsung-dong, Kangnam-gu, Seoul, 135-090 South Korea

Phone: +82-2-518-4332 / Fax: +82-2-518-4333

e-mail: program2 [at] senef.net

www.senef.net