Chris Joseph

International Pixelstorm Award.
Theme of the competition is: Heart Beat.
Deadline for entries is March 31st, 9AM (CET) until Apr 22nd 2008
Entries can be submitted on http://www.pixelstorm-award.ch
contact: mailing [at] pixelstorm-award.ch

LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial is calling for proposals from artists to develop a research and production project at LABoral for two months during 2008.

LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial is an interdisciplinary art centre created in Gijon, in the north of Spain in 2007. Its main objective is to become a research, educational, exhibition and production centre in the area of art, science and technology.

As part of its educational programme LABoral is establishing a new programme of residency offered to artists and creators who are interested in developing research or production within this context.

The objectives of the call for artists in residence are:

- to stimulate dialogue with practitioners within the areas of interest of the centre

- to facilitate research and production projects at LABoral within the Asturian region context

- to investigate the broad possibilities of the convergence of art, science, technology and industrial creation

The call is open to artists interested in the convergent areas of art, science and technology. It is especially offered to creators who are researching notions of knowledge dissemination through the exploration of emergent practices in art, as part of a general trend towards development of hybrid formats and media.

LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial will support one artist in residence for two months which must be completed before January 2009. LABoral can offer financial and technical support as follows:

- Travel costs consisting of return airfare from the artists’ country of residency

- Apartment accommodation for the duration of the residency

- A monthly allowance of 1,500 euros (before taxes)

- Work studio at the art centre, as well as equipment and expertise to support the project

The artist in residence will have the opportunity and will be encouraged to participate in activities such as lectures and workshops during the course of the residency.

The submitted proposals must include a description of the project, objectives, a calendar of activity, biography and CV of the artist, as well as a description of how the project relates to LABoral. This material should not exceed 6 pages. The proposals must be sent by email.

The submission will be reviewed by a committee of experts from LABoral.

Important dates:

- Deadline for applications: 30th May 2008

- Communication of selected artist: 20nd June 2008

- The residency must be completed before January 2009

Contact email for queries: education [at] laboralcentrodearte.org

LABoral Centre of Art and Industrial Creation
Gijon, Spain
www.laboralcentrodearte.org

Turbulence Commission: “iPak - 10,000 songs, 10,000 images, 10,000 abuses”
Curated and Engendered by Ajaykumar
http://turbulence.org/works/iPak

“iPak - 10,000 songs, 10,000 images, 10,000 abuses” (iPak) is a playful, inter-active and participatory art work, that integrates your creativity, the random generation of works by a computer, and art engendered by Ajaykumar. iPak synthesises conceptual innovation, social engagement and therapeutic process: generative art as re-generative force; art-making as a medicine; inspiration emerging from tragedy; and the notion that social factors — such as marginalisation and racism — cause mental illness. Ajaykumar has created the foundation for a ‘polyphonic’ narrative, one created by many stories — yours essentially. You can upload still images, movies, texts, music, sounds, and ideas, to create a dynamic, evolving, relational entity in cyberspace. iPak fully comes into ‘being’ through your participation.

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Sarah Angliss: Thinking beyond the screen and mouse

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, 240KB)

With live demos of Clara 2.0 (a theremin-playing robot doll) and other curiosities, Sarah explores her own approach to digital arts. Her work may use computers and embedded microprocessors - but Sarah aims to create interactive objects with a tactile and convincing quality that extend beyond the computer screen and mouse. Sewer pipes, car park technology and roboticised toys are just some of the items she’s appropriated over the last few years to create novel experiences. Sarah shows some of the thinking that goes into her work and reveals how she shamelessly mines ideas from cognitive science, stage magic, ancient music and other areas to come up with new ideas. She’ll briefly discuss her latest work, inspired by an Edwardian funfair illusion, that’s currently interesting researchers of human perception.

About Sarah:

Trained in electroacoustics, music and a little evolutionary robotics, Sarah Angliss specialises in creating original sound installations, exhibits and live performances that mix cutting-edge science with vintage sound technology and little known stories from the history of science. An experienced creator of one-off installations and exhibits, Sarah is also a regular performer, particularly known for her skills on the theremin and musical saw.

Regularly featured in the national press, Sarah’s solo and collaborative work exploring infrasonic music, Category 4 diseases, cyborgs, extreme reverb, the uncanny valley, genetic privacy, evolutionary music, dogs in space, hurdy gurdies, Swinging London and a host of other topics has been seen and heard at venues throughout the UK. These include the Brighton Festival, Cheltenham Music and Science Festivals, Final Cut, the Eden Project, Edinburgh International Science Festival, Glasgow Science Centre, London Zoo, South Bank Centre, Science Museum, Soho Theatre, Southwold Pier and Winchester Festival of Art and Mind.

On Radio 4, Roger Highfield described Sarah’s electroacoustic cabaret act at Cheltenham as ‘the most surreal and memorable moment of the festival’. Two of her recent, interactive sound shows, Senster and The Haunt, were shortlisted as ’standout shows’ of Brighton Festival 2006.

Links:

Spacedog UK (owned and run by Sarah Angliss) - www.spacedog.biz

NESTA interview - www.nesta.org.uk/informing/articles/sarah_angliss.aspx

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The IOCT Salon (www.ioctsalon.com) is managed by Chris Joseph, Digital Writer in Residence at the Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University. This residency is funded by Arts Council England: East Midlands.

For further information about the IOCT Salon please email Chris: info [at] ioctsalon.com

Produced by Folly (digital arts agency based in the Northwest of England), www.digitalartistshandbook.org introduces artists to different tools, resources & ways of working related to digital art.

The national Technology Strategy Board has £10 million (nationally) to invest in highly innovative collaborative research in the application of digital technologies. They are looking for proposals to develop new tools, techniques or technologies. Initial expression of interest by 4 April. For full information see www.technologyprogramme.org.uk

PIXILERATIONS [V.5]: Fragments & (W)Holes
A festival of digital media and interactive performance
[part of the FirstWorksProv festival]

October 2 - 12, 2008 in Providence, Rhode Island

CALL FOR WORKS! PIXILERATIONS [V.5] invites artists, musicians and film/video makers to submit work that investigates connections or disparities between fragments and (w)holes.

THE SUBMISSION PERIOD FOR WORK IS APRIL 1- MAY 1, 2008.

Pixilerations is a New Media festival in Providence, Rhode Island that investigates the state of New Media arts through installations, concert performance and film/video screenings. The festival is part of the larger FirstWorksProv festival (www.firstworksprov.org), Providence’s multidimensional fall performing arts festival. Pixilerations is produced by FirstWorks in collaboration with the Rhode Island School of Design, Brown University and MIT.

Now in its fifth year, Pixilerations showcases groundbreaking work in digital music and art. Last year’s festival, Pixilerations [v.4]: story +/- ornament, presented innovative works by over seventy artists from the United States, Germany, France, South Africa and the Netherlands, and featured guest artists Myriam Thyes, Jon Orentlicher, and Skif++.

PIXILERATIONS [V.5] THEME: FRAGMENTS & (W)HOLES

Consciously and unconsciously our world view has been altered by the quantum mechanical view of the world; a world composed of discrete waves and particles. This minute level of physical investigation, developed first by Werner Heisenberg and Max Planck, is one of the means by which we have broken the world down in order to make sense of the whole from its parts. This dissection has been explored through the tools of psychoanalysis pioneered by Freud, Pavlov’s behavioral studies and the recent efforts of
cognitive science to understand human psychology and the latest conjuring of artificial intelligence. Artists have reflected this fragmented world with its mind/body split since the 1900’s with the early collages of Picasso and the psychological works of the Surrealists. The digital realm is developing its own paradigm for separating and putting the world together. How has the fragmentary view created deeper holes, how has it allowed us to see the whole with sharper eyes and minds? How do artists shape their world, with fragments of life or with (w)holistic views?

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ROAM: A Weekend of Walking

Free, Booking advised: 01509 222 960

Three days of artist led walks and events across Loughborough, including Active Ingredient, Claire Blundell Jones, Duncan Speakman, Tim Brennan, Mark Gwynne Jones, Lottie Child and Tamara Ashley and Simone Kenyon.

Sauntering, shuffling, ambling, rambling. Wandering, striding, strolling, hiking, dawdling, pacing, strutting, stalking - six artists ask audiences to investigate Loughborough afresh. ROAM, a weekend of walking, is the second season of Loughborough University’s exciting new arts programme, RADAR.

On Tim Brennan’s ‘manoeuvre’ (or tactical walk) a guided group will retrace the steps of the infamous Luddites, questioning how history is re-told by tourist trails. Catch a rare glimpse of Clare Blundell Jones as she steers her bizarrely animated US tumbleweed around the town’s streets. Walking with Duncan Speakman is like inhabiting a movie where you get to be the performer; while the set may look familiar, the real-time audio, broadcast through headsets, will transport you somewhere else. In the hands of artists and technologists navigational devices and GPS systems are adding a new dimension to walking. Active Ingredients’ Heartlands is part-game, part-exercise in which hand held mobile devices monitor players’ heart rate, while each competes to out-walk fellow players on a hike around town.

The programme will be further contextualised within the University with a one day symposium bringing together artists, researchers and academics to reflect upon the relationship between arts practice, social sciences and walking. Taking the work presented as part of ROAM as a starting point, discussions will focus upon walking as place-making and walking as ethnographic practice.

Attendance on all walks is free but many of the walks have a limited capacity. To book a place call 01509 222 960 or email radar.info@lboro.ac.uk.

Radar website: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/service/arts/radar

go to: artscanner.org

The first ArtScanner ‘pod’ has been installed in the downstairs bar at The Phoenix in Leicester. It will remain in place throughout March as part of Sean Clark’s involvement in the Phoenix Digital programme. To get your work displayed on the screen simply upload your image to artscanner.org, print out the supplied barcode and place it near the pod. When people scan your barcode they will see your image. To grab people’s attention you can be creative with how you present your barcodes.

Even if you can’t physically visit The Phoenix you can still have your work shown. Any image uploaded is automatically added to the pool of images that are displayed when an unknown barcode is scanned. So, when people scan their shopping they may see your artwork!

The Phoenix pod will be joined by one that will be located at The Depot in Leicester for two weeks from the 17th March. This will be launched as part of a Phoenix Digital event at the depot on Tuesday 18th at 6:30pm. Why not bring your barcodes along and add them to the installation?

now with added semacodes

You can also generate semacodes for any images uploaded to ArtScanner. These can be printed, or displayed on-screen, and read using a mobile phone reader. When your phone recognises a semacode it will load the associated image in to your mobile’s Web browser. Just follow the link under your image’s page to generate the code.

about artscanner

ArtScanner is an infrastructure for producing augmented reality artworks created by Cuttlefish Digital Arts. You can make your own ArtScanner pod with an Internet connected computer and a £20 barcode scanner from eBay. Get in touch if you want to install one in your gallery or public space. It currently supports barcode and semacode tagging of images, but can be configured to work with any media type and tagging system - including RFID tags.

The Online MA in Creative Writing and New Media at De Montfort University is now in its second year. The course, created by writers Sue Thomas and Kate Pullinger, already teaches Fiction and Creative Nonfiction and students commencing their studies in September 2008 will now have the choice of two more modules - E-Poetry and Writing for the Creative Industries. Carolyn Handler Miller, author of Digital Storytelling: A Creator’s Guide to Interactive Entertainment, will teach Writing for the Creative Industries, and Peter Howard, highly-respected poet in both print and the digital, will teach E-Poetry.

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