Chris Joseph

for remixworx. flash source: dystemic.fla (188KB)

transmediale.09 - DEEP NORTH
festival for art and digital culture berlin
27 January - 1 February 2009

club transmediale.09 - STRUCTURES
festival for adventurous music and related visual arts
23 - 31 January 2009

_Call for Entries_

:: Deadline: 5 September 2008
:: Award Ceremony: 31 January 2009

Find the complete call and submission form for download at:
http://transmediale.de/09/pdf/tmctm09_call_for_entries

*transmediale.09 - DEEP NORTH & club transmediale.09 - STRUCTURES*

As leading international festivals for art and digital culture as well as adventurous music and related visual arts, respectively, transmediale and club transmediale are calling for submissions to the transmediale Award competition and the Vilem Flusser Theory Award.

*transmediale* presents and pursues the advancement of artistic positions reflecting on the socio-cultural, political and economic impact of new technologies. It seeks out artistic practices that not only respond to scientific or technical developments, but that try to shape the way in which we think about and experience the technologies which impact virtually all aspects of our daily lives. As such, transmediale understands media technologies as cultural techniques that need to be embraced in order to comprehend, critique, and shape global societies.

*club transmediale* (CTM) is a prominent international festival dedicated to contemporary electronic, digital and experimental music, as well as the diverse range of artistic activities in the context of sound and club culture. CTM presents projects that experiment with new aesthetic parameters and new forms of cooperation, develop possibilities for informational and economic self-determination, and reflect on the role of contemporary music against the backdrop of technological and social transformations.

For the 2009 edition, the festivals have each set a specific thematic focus.

transmediale.09 - *DEEP NORTH* peers beyond the evolving alarmist scenarios of catastrophe prevalent in the often contradictory global warming debate. transmediale.09 shifts this focus to the global artistic, cultural, societal and philosophical consequences that the presumed imminent collapse of the polar ice barrier may trigger. Are we about to reach another historically succinct moment of unavoidable and cataclysmic change - a point of no return leaving in its wake uncontrollable global transformations? Does climate change elicit cultural change, a shifting of extremes or a collapse in established, systemic and network norms? DEEP NORTH becomes not a fixed location, but a paradigm transforming loss, scarcity, inertia and rivalry into urgent and revealing states of being and expression.

With *STRUCTURES* - Backing-Up Independent Audio-Visual Cultures, club transmediale.09 presents projects that spring from the critical, interdisciplinary and experimental practice at the intersections of sound and other art forms. In recent years, a new breed of hybrid projects and initiatives that merges experimental audio and media cultures has developed in the convergence-zone between pop culture, science, arts and media technologies. This still remains primarily the domain of committed individuals and small, self-organised groups or networks that, often in the most precarious of circumstances, provide the supporting platform for these new artistic articulations and experiments. In its 10th year, CTM looks into the current state and potential development opportunities of these independent structures.

Together, transmediale and club transmediale invite the submission of works and projects that respond to these challenges and embody contemporary notions of art that embrace, question and enrich digital culture. Submissions of art works for both festivals participate in the transmediale Award 2009 while theoretical abstracts, papers and critical artistic positions are invited for the Vilem Flusser Theory Award, with prizes totaling ca. 10.000 EURO. Jury members of the transmediale Award 2009 are Annick Bureaud, Paris; Bronac Ferran, London; Juha Huuskonen, Helsinki; Pooja Sood, New Delhi; Christoph
Tannert, Berlin

transmediale is a project of Kulturprojekte Berlin in cooperation with Haus der Kulturen der Welt :: club transmediale (CTM) is a project of DISK - Sound & Image Initiative e.V. :: transmediale is funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation :: CTM is funded by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds.

transmediale :: Klosterstr. 68 :: D-10179 Berlin
tel. +49 (0)30.24749-761 :: fax. +49 (0)30.24749-763
info[at]transmediale.de :: http://www.transmediale.de

www.trickywomen.at

Tricky Women is the first and only festival of animated film that is dedicated exclusively to animation by women. Since 2007 it has been held annually in Vienna each March.

The festival offers an international competition of animated short films realised by female artists and produced in 2007 or 2008. Each filmmaker, producer or distributor may submit as many films as they like. Each film submitted must be accompanied by an entry form and sent on a separate tape or reel. No films entered in prior Tricky Women Festivals shall be admitted.

The deadline for applications for the preliminary selection is 14 November 2008.

Awards:
- Tricky Women Award of the City of Vienna worth 3,650 Euro
- 3-month scholarship in the artist-in-residence programme of quartier21/MQ
- Synchro Film & Video Material Prize worth 1,500 Euro
- Hubert Sielecki Award worth 500 Euro (for Austrian animation)
- Audience Award

Awards and prize monies will go to the directresses of the films.

Click here for more information and submission forms.

Job vacancy: Lecturer in Computing - Co-Director Creative Computing
Up to £44,042pa incl pro rata
Part time (0.5fte)
New Cross, London

Working with the Department of Computing, you will become part of our strategy of continuous growth of interdisciplinary computer science research and teaching. You will lead the creative practice components of this programme, which aims to develop both the creative as well as the technical potential of undergraduates. You will have a background in ivisual art or design with an emphasis on the use of computing and other digital processes and technologies. We will not rule out candidates who have their main creative practice in non-visual areas such as music, but we will expect evidence of expertise in visual-based practices also.

You should have first degree and PhD and/or relevant work experience in the creative industries or in your own creative practice and teaching and workshop experience at undergraduate level. You will be able to demonstrate evidence of a strong background in computing coupled with experience of interdisciplinary research. You will have strong ideas about how to develop the creative practice elements of our undergraduate degrees and clear ideas about how to meet the needs of our student body. The courses you will teach will be developed around the Creative Suite software package so some experience of using this in your own creative practice or in teaching or workshop scenarios would be very welcome.

Please quote ref: 08/118

Closing date: 14 July 2008 by 5.00pm
Interview date: week commencing 28 July 2008

For further information:
Download the full job specification [pdf]

Contact: hr [at] gold.ac.uk, 020 7919 7999