Archive for July, 2008
Creating Second Lives: Reading and Writing Virtual Communities, Bangor University, 24-25 October 2008
Early bird registration closes on 31st July for
CREATING SECOND LIVES: READING AND WRITING VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES
Bangor University, 24th/25th October 2008
Mobile Literacy for Africa Manifesto by Alex Smith
A wonderful post by Alex Smith considering the translation of stories into African languages and making them available in mobile formats.
No comments…Africa is a continent of talent, dynamic people and rich resources, at the rate other countries are destroying their environments, we will soon be the most precious continent on earth, provided we take care of what we have. The best way to secure and protect what we have, is to re-vision ourselves as magnificent, is to educate. With technology the children of Africa can make the world their world. In today’s computer/Internet age, reading and writing is key. To use technology the children of Africa must be literate and more, they must be avid readers and great writers, so they can communicate their hearts’ content with scintillating deftness…
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No commentsIOCT Salon (video): Sarah Angliss, 10 April 2008
Sarah Angliss at the Institute of Creative Technologies (IOCT), De Montfort University, Leicester, UK on 10th April 2008. Supported by the Arts Council England.
Thinking beyond the screen and mouse
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 also briefly discusses 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.
Sarah Angliss and Clara 2.0
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.
No commentsJapan Media Arts Festival - deadline 26 September 2008
12th Japan Media Arts Festival is now open for the entry, and we are seeking submissions from you and your friends!
Japan Media Arts Festival has been contributing to the improvement of Japanese culture by recognizing works of excellence in media arts and by providing an opportunity for artists to present their works. It is also very unique festival in the world which takes in the field of art, to entertainment, animation and manga.
We seek dynamic creative works that are opening up a new era, and we eagerly await your submissions.
12th Japan Media Arts Festival Award winning exhibition opens February 4, 2009 at National Art Center, Tokyo,and we are looking forward to seeing you there!
Find the complete call and submission at:
http://plaza.bunka.go.jp/english/festival/2008/
12th Japan Media Arts Festival
4 February – 15 February 2009
Becks Canvas 2008 finalists
Tom Price - http://www.tompricestudio.com/
Simon Cunningham - http://www.simoncunningham.com
Charlotte Bracegirdle - [Saatchi gallery website link]
Background behind Becks Canvas
Contemporary art is a living part of our cultural heritage. Encouraging raw ability and building a broader public appreciation of the diversity and excellence of artistic accomplishment is a vision which Beck’s has long supported.
To this end, we have championed talented artists without compromise for over 20 years. As a bold statement of commitment, Beck’s has given outstanding artistic talent a truly original canvas to work on. Our label. Collaboration over two decades reads like a ‘Who’s Who’ of contemporary art; Gilbert & George, Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst, Tim Head, Sam Taylor-Wood, Jake & Dino Chapman, and Tatsuo Miyajima to name but a few.
The result of these partnerships has not only been the creation of a unique library of contemporary artwork, but also providing a significant platform for emerging artists to reach a greater audience. This year we plan to take the project to a new level by literally placing contemporary artwork in the hands of the public.
2008 sees a landmark for the Beck’s art programme, with the launch of Canvas. For this very special project, we needed a very special partner. The Royal College of Art is a particular kind of ideas factory unlike any other. As the world’s only wholly postgraduate university institution of art and design, the college boasts a global reputation for artistic excellence and an unrivalled creative environment. College alumni and internationally admired artists Tracey Emin, Tim Noble and the Chapman Brothers all created Beck’s labels during the 1990s. Then, as now, Beck’s was striving to support those determined to express themselves creatively. A partnership with the College presents a great opportunity to achieve this goal.
Four young artists have been selected by a panel of judges from the Royal College of Art to showcase their art on the labels of over 27 million bottles to be distributed nationwide from August 2008. The first bottles to receive the new labels will be launched at an exclusive gallery exhibition to be held at the RCA.
In the endless state of motion that is contemporary visual art some elements remain constant, but never static. Beck’s Canvas marks an evolution of our ongoing support for emerging artists and our vision to bring inspiring and challenging artwork to a broader public.
3 commentsInanimate Alice - iStori.es
An award-winning digital novel written by De Montfort University’s Reader in Creative Writing and New Media is to help school children around the UK create their own multimedia stories.
Kate Pullinger writes the pioneering Inanimate Alice interactive story which is available free of charge online and has just launched the latest episode called ‘Hometown’. See: http://www.inanimatealice.com
The UK government body, the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust, has licensed a software tool, iStori.es, which Kate and her colleagues developed to help children write their own multimedia stories.
iStories is available to schools from https://secure.ssatrust.org.uk/eshop/default.aspx?mcid=25&scid=46
Kate said: “iStories is innovative and very simple to use. It’s a digital literacy tool which allows students to combine music, pictures and texts to create their own stories. Many sound and picture resources are supplied and others can easily be imported. It can be used in any story telling context.”
An education pack has also been created by De Montfort University’s (DMU) New Media Researcher, Jess Laccetti, to accompany the series. Educators can download this free resource at http://www.inanimatealice.com/education .
Inanimate Alice is written and directed by writer Kate, who as well as writing novels and short stories teaches for the pioneering online Masters degree in Creative Writing and New Media at DMU, and digital artist Chris Joseph, Digital Writer in Residence at DMU’s Institute of Creative Technologies. It is a series of multimedia, interactive episodes which use a combination of text, sound, images, and games as Alice takes readers/players on a journey through her life from the age of eight through to her twenties.
Alice becomes a games animator; a creator of characters for the most successful games company in the world. The episodes become increasingly interactive and game-like, reflecting Alice’s own developing skills as a game designer and animator.
As well as other awards, Inanimate Alice was recently nominated in the category of Interactive Productions at the 2008 Learning On Screen awards, which are given each year by BUFVC, the British Universities Film and Video Council. It was the only independent production in that category - every single other production nominated was an in-house BBC production.
Inanimate Alice is also being showcased in a range of European languages on a new EU website to promote intercultural dialogue (http://www.interculturaldialogue2008.eu) as part of the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue.
ENDS
Notes for Editors:
For further information or to arrange an interview with Kate Pullinger please contact De Montfort University Press Office 0116 2577021.
Become a Reviewer for Furtherfield.org
Furtherfield receives regular submissions inviting us to feature and review artworks and projects from artists and artist groups from all over the world. We have an excellent team of reviewers working with us. Yet, because we are receiving more innovative and high quality artworks for review than we ever have before, it is not easy keeping up with the workload. So, we need more reviewers.
We are interested in writers who understand and know about (new) media art, net art, software art, social networks, live networked art, live Internet tv, opensource, tactical media, art blogs, net films, media art connected- self institutions, psychogeography, hacktivism, video game culture, activist games, as well as publictions/books, events, projects, exhibitions online and in physical space, and related conferences. And like us, are passionately and critically engaged in investigating the constant shifts and reinvention of the creative, digitally related vista as we know it.
We welcome contributions from all kinds of writers - and are always interested bi-lingual reviewers who are able to introduce/translate work created by artists in non-English-speaking cultures. We also want reviewers who are writing about ‘media art and ecology’ and the contemporary ideas and work coming out of this emergent genre.
If you are interested in becoming a reviewer at Furtherfield and wish to know more and how to join the crew, please contact marc garrett - marc.garrett [at] furtherfield.org
Note: Please do not apply unless you are sure that you are definitely interested.
No commentsCafe Culturel, Leicester - 100 Best Everything, 5 August 2008, 6.30pm
| 5 August 2008 | ||
| 6:30 pm | to | 8:30 pm |
“Bring your own lists”
Ripped, honed, years of preparation, for that moment, when all your competitors are beaten. Yes, its the arts awards season. Booker wil beat Orange, Cannes will beat Oscars, Brat will beat Brit, brave reporters will struggle amongst the fighting to comment on frocks, and at the end, the awards speech…… Amongst the plethora questions come - how can a book be better than another, what makes a film more worthy than another; isn’t it all personal and subjective. Are creative types selling out by seeking prizes? Should art itself not be its own reward? Why mark out of ten? Why not have an award for everything, best thing this year?
Tuesday 5th August 6:30 - 8:30 LCB depot Leicester
No commentsNew interviews on JavaMuseum - Alexander Mouton, Henry Gwiazda
JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art
http://www.javamuseum.org
is happy to publish new interviews on JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project
http://jip.javamuseum.org
Alexander Mouton (USA)
http://jip.javamuseum.org/jipblog/?page_id=98
Henry Gwiazda (USA)
http://jip.javamuseum.org/jipblog/?page_id=99
