Chris Joseph

Second Nature: Call for Papers and projects

Second Nature: The International Journal of Creative Media is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal auspiced by RMIT’s School of Creative Media. Second Nature explores the distinctive particulars of and interconnections between textual, visual, aural and interactive creative research and practices.

The journal’s editorial board seeks papers and online projects for its first issue.

As the journal is multiple-media in focus we welcome contributions from across the field of creative media including creative writers, media and art historians, media practitioners and fine artists, architects and architectural theorists and historians, curators, museum professionals, scientists, cultural and media theorists, archivists, technologists, software developers, educationalists, philosophers and any others who have a stake in the understanding and future developments of creative media. Projects might include web-based interactives, net-art, games, suites of 2D imagery, video and sound works, fiction, critical and non-fiction writing. Both projects and papers will be peer-reviewed.

Deadline:
15th June, 2008: Expressions of interest
30th August, 2008: Papers and projects

Issue 1.
Role Models
The inaugural issue of Second Nature will examine creative practice as a contested site of inscription. It will challenge traditional
concepts of the creator’s role as one of ‘writing’ the world that, despite continual challenges to its hegemony, persists in the popular imagination. Whilst past challenges from cultural theorists have remained largely theoretical in approach, new developments in technologies and communications are rapidly changing the creative landscape. ‘Creativity’ and ‘innovation’ are seen as the drivers of future First World economies and the ‘cultural industries’ account for a substantial proportion of First world GNP. Ironically, less and less Government and corporate support seems to be available for independent, creative research.

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Open Call for projects - International Intensive Project Production Workshop, AVLAB 1.0

September 17 - October 1, 2008
Submission Deadline: July 1, 2008

Directed by Javier Duero. Teachers: Francisco López, Hans-Christoph Steiner and a third one to be confirmed. Coordinated by Daniel González Xavier. Venue: Medialab-Prado (Madrid, Spain).

Medialab-Prado issues a call for projects on audio/video to be developed within the framework of the AVLAB 1.0 workshop.

Projects can be presented individually or by groups, and should be related with the following fields: Sound art, live cinema, computer music, circuit bending, audio/video processing in real time, design of hardware-software applications specifically for audio/video, documentation and historical projects, and anthropological and sociological studies.

A maximum of 10 projects to be collaboratively developed will be selected.

Medialab-Prado will cover lodging at a youth hostel in Madrid and flight expenses for the authors of the selected projects.

More information and call guidelines:
http://medialab-prado.es/article/avlab_10

In collaboration with the Center for Contemporary Music Promotion (Centro para la Difusión de la Música Contemporánea) and Experimentaclub08.

NESTA’s flagship conference, The Innovation Edge ( http://www.innovationedge08.co.uk ), was held at the Royal Festival Hall this week. Along with stands displaying the latest NESTA backed ideas and technologies, there were talks from a range of important figures in the world of UK and global innovation and creativity, including Tim Berners-Lee (typically incisive, yet unassuming) and Bob Geldof. I have never been a huge fan of Bob, but he changed my mind with a incredibly lucid and intelligent (bordering on brilliant) 45 minute talk about Africa, globalisation, technology and why we need things to change, now - all without notes, and despite the serious topic, also hugely entertaining.

Gordon Brown turned up after lunch to deliver a short speech. I’ll admit that I was also pleasantly surprised by the PM in person - his TV image certainly doesn’t do him any favours. So here’s his speech. Part of my reason for posting this here (NESTA has posted much better quality event videos here) is to test out a new (to me) free data storage site, humyo.com, which so far seems the most user-friendly and generally well thought-out storage site I’ve come across.

Announcing the Spring 2008 issue of New River Journal

The spring 2008 issue <http://www.cddc.vt.edu/journals/newriver/08Spring/> of the New River Journal has recently been published. The Journal, the oldest literary journal devoted to digital writing, was last year selected by the Library of Congress for inclusion in its Internet Archive, a recognition both of the journal’s lasting value and a guarantee that all issues will be available for as long, at least, as the Library of Congress is in existence.

The New River Journal has for the last three semesters been student-edited under the guidance of Ed Falco, the journal’s founding editor (and recent NEA fellow). This semester marked the first time three students have been involved, with editing duties split between Carrie Meadows, Lauren Jensen, and Weston Cutter, each of whom are MFA students in the English Department at Virginia Tech.

“The New River is one of only a few journals in which the boundaries of digital writing are consistently pushed,” said Carrie Meadows. “Digital writing offers some of the most interesting and unique pieces of literary art—fiction and nonfiction, poetry and work that’s basically genre-less—available, and we’re really proud to be part of the still-developing tradition.”

With five works of digital writing, the latest issue of the New River Journal features work by digital writers both well-established and new to the field. Caren Beilin and Jennifer Smith’s “Animals Are Placebos,” is a collaborative work pairing an explosive new talent in fiction and a sure-handed digital manipulator. Sara Bailey’s “Factography,” is a rich, narrative-driven piece that harkens back to classically linked hypertext stories.

Aya Karpinska’s “fps” is a haunting text experience, allowing the user some measure of control while simultaneously forcing certain aspects of the piece on the reader. The examination of that split in agency—between reader and ‘author,’ or even the piece itself—offers an intriguing view of one of the fundamental aspects of digital writing.

Travis Alber’s “Dandelion Chance” presents itself as something of a mix between digital writing and a more mixed-media, video-based art. Pushing the boundaries of what digital writing might be, Alber’s work presents the reader a cohesive experience of a fractured and fracturing media experience.

Daniel Howe and Feliz Molina’s “Roulette” is a digital work of daring potential, allowing the reader both to ‘create’ the text but also to erase and recreate the text with each mouse click. The establishment and disappearance of the text speaks to the malleable nature of both narrative and the reading experience itself.

“We’ve been really lucky to receive so many interesting, great pieces for the journal,” Lauren Jensen said. “Despite hypertext’s decade-and-a-half past, digital writing is still sort of whatever the writers and artists decide it is.”

New River Journal:
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/journals/newriver/

Contact:
Weston Cutter (wlcutter [at] vt.edu)
Carrie Meadows (carriemeadows [at] vt.edu)
Lauren Jensen (lauryn33 [at] vt.edu)

New on The Hyperliterature Exchange for May 2008: a review of ‘Le Reprobateur/The Reprover’ by Francois Coulon.

“Le Reprobateur… exudes selfconfidence, playfulness and humour; it attempts to do a lot of things at once, and by and large it succeeds in everything it attempts…”

To read the whole review, go to
http://www.hyperex.co.uk/reviewreprobateur.php .

The Hyperliterature Exchange is an online directory and review of new media literature for sale on the Web. More than 120 works are now listed. Please visit and browse at http://hyperex.co.uk .

For the timespan from now and till the 1st of November 2008 we now welcome applications for a residency at the CRIR. In general we grant stays of 2-3 weeks at a time unless the specific project needs a different time frame. We consider applications on a running basis, so the sooner we receive it the better

About CRIR
Christiania Researcher in Residence (CRIR) offers residency for artists and academic researchers with a specific interest in Christiania as a field of study.

Background
The aim of the Christiania Researcher in Residence project is to involve artists, researchers and academics in an open, critical and
reflective dialogue around the free town Christiania in Copenhagen, and to feed new creative and critical thinking into the public realm.

Read more::
http://crir.net

How to apply:
http://crir.net/apply.html

On-line journal Hz (http://www.hz-journal.org) is looking for articles on New Media, Net Art, Sound Art and Electro-Acoustic Music. We accept earlier published and unpublished articles in English.

Please send your submissions to hz-journal@telia.com

Hz is also looking for Net Art works to be included in its virtual gallery (www.hz-journal.org/netg).

Please send your URLs to hz-journal [at] telia.com

Dead-line: 10 June

Hz is published by the non-profit organization Fylkingen in Stockholm. Established in 1933, Fylkingen has been known for introducing yet-to-be-established art forms throughout its history.

Nam June Paik, Stockhausen, Cage, etc. have all been introduced to the Swedish audience through Fylkingen. Its members consist of leading composers, musicians, sound artists, dancers, performance artists and video artists in Sweden.

For more information on Fylkingen, please visit http://www.fylkingen.se/about or http://www.hz-journal.org/n4/hultberg.html

Sachiko Hayashi/Hz

CALL TO ARTISTS
download call to artists (pdf)

M5 & The 86 Collective present: echo — celebrating visionary talent transforming the boundaries in fields of new media.

Echo is a curated competition solliciting the most radical examples of work being produced in all fields of new media. The project seeks to expand this dialogue by showcasing original and insightful interpretations of the hyper-reflective relationship between technology and reality. Established through a collaboration between M5 and the 86 Collective, the event will exhibit these efforts in a gallery setting for a limited period of time. A juried panel determines which projects best adhere to the specified requirements.

The selection criteria can include, but is not limited to:
video, animation, installation/interactive components, or content utilizing existing mediums such as sound and photographic footage that have been digitally re-worked

Awards and additional competition details can be found here www.the86collective.com/rules/illinois

Submission Requirements:
1. Participating artists must be 21 years of age or older
2. All video submissions must be submitted in the following format: NTSC 320×240 (letter-boxed at 16:9) and compressed as a quicktime movie. Please Burn to a CD / DVD and mail to the address below.
3. All installation concepts and video stills can be submitted as a pdf not exceeding 3mb if emailed. Installations must have illustrations and or diagrams with dimensions incorporated. Pdf’s can be emailed or mailed to the address below.
4. Please provide an email address and or mailing info so that we may confirm receipt of your work.
5. Include a brief description of the work or concept.
6. Resumes, bios or CV’s are recommended but not required.

Additional Submission Terms:
Your entry must be your own original work which cannot defame or invade publicity rights or privacy of any person, living or deceased, or otherwise infringe upon any person’s personal or property rights or any other third party rights. Further, entries cannot include content that alludes to: over consumption or irresponsible drinking, obscene, offensive, disparaging, dangerous, defamatory, libelous, graphic, inapplicable, or sexually inappropriate images, including, without limitation, those depicting violence, nudity, profanity, employ politics or political themes, Santa Claus, religious themes, gambling or betting or any type of illegal activity. Work may not use or reference famous people, or celebrities. All persons appearing or depicted in the Work must be at least 25 years of age at the time that Work was produced.

Entrants must either (a) own all the intellectual property rights in respect of the design (and the 3-dimensional representation thereof, if applicable) or (b) obtain all relevant permissions from third parties as are necessary to submit the entry and to grant all necessary rights to the Sponsor. Entrants must declare the names of any third parties who may have intellectual property, moral, or other rights in any part of the entry or its design or development. Entrants must be able to demonstrate on demand that that any third party rights have been assigned, licensed, or waived as appropriate. Entrants agree that they will sign any document(s) which may be reasonably requested of them in order to effect the rights mentioned under these terms and conditions; and entrants further agree that they shall procure such documents from any applicable third parties.

Submission Mailing:
M5
845 West Fulton Market St., Suite #302
Chicago, IL. 60607

Email: submissions [at] mfive.org (pdf’s only)
Schedule:
Submissions Deadline: May 30th
Finalists Notification: June 6th
Finals Deadline: June 20th
Exhibit Dates: June 26th - July 2

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Conflux Festival 2008 Call for Proposals

apply and be a part of move, the new media show. the indie pavilion 008 is now open to applicants [http://move2digital.net]

are you digital? are you sure? do you use the new media in a daring way? does your work explore digital dynamics though the results might not show it? are you one of those that can only live connected?

photo(info)graphy /video(info)graphy / code.art / robot-junk /environments/ presence

some of the works will come from guest artists directly invited by us, but the main part of the show will be made up by the chosen applicants.

how to participate in the independent new media move 008

-> digital works from any country made in 2007 onwards are accepted

+ pieces which include dialogues, texts or voiceover should be dubbed or subtitled in spanish.

-> formats:

+ photo(info)graphy
any format not bigger than 20mb when uncompressed (in format.tiff uncompressed)

+ video(info)graphy
film <00h07m00s in any digital format that can be played in a standard dvd player with proper resolution to view on a 42 inches plasma tv

+ code.art
either local, in any of usual executable formats, or online also known as net.art

+ robot-junk
any type of *objects* allowed in a dorkbot [http://dorkbot.org/]

+ environments
as with robot-junk and more

+ presence
anything you can think of which is not mentioned here

-> works can be sent from now until 13 june 2008

-> the organisation will pay for the copyright to the chosen artists for the period of the show.

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