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Call to participate in the 2nd Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards Competition (7000 Euros)

MindTrek Conference
October 7-9, 2008 | Tampere, Finland

DEADLINE: 12th September 2008 16:00

http://www.mindtrek.org
http://www.mindtrek.org/competition/ubi

The Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards is an international competition arranged by MindTrek, Nokia and Tampere Region Centre of Expertise in Ubiquitous Computing, and the NAMU research group.

The purpose of the competition is to encourage makers of digital media to generate ideas and develop new and innovative ubimedia products & services. The entries are expected to take a stand on the following questions, for example:

• How does ubiquitous computing affect media environments?
• What are intelligent media environments like?
• What will the location- and context-aware media services of the future be like?

A few other examples are:
• Pervasive and ubiquitous games
• Ambient installations
• Artistic works related to ubiquitous media and computation
• Business models
• Ambient and ubiquitous media technology
• Ubiquitous and ambient media services, devices, and environments
• Context aware, sensing, and interfaces for ubiquitous computation
• Ergonomics, human-computer interaction designs, and product prototypes
• Software, hardware and middleware framework demonstrations
• Ambient television
• etc.

The total award sum for the Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek competition category is 7 000€. The sum can be awarded to one entry, divided between several entries or not awarded at all if the award criteria set by the jury are not fulfilled.

All ubimedia, ubiquitous, pervasive, or ambient products or product and service concepts which have been finalized during the previous year after 1st January 2007 are eligible to take part in the competition.

How to participate?

Please check out the website http://www.mindtrek.org/competition/ubi for entry forms and actual information.

In case of questions, please contact:

Dr. Artur Lugmayr, artur.lugmayr [at] tut.fi, Tel.: +358 40 821 0558, Skype: lartur

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MEDIA ART HISTORY 09
Re:live
Third International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology
Melbourne 26-29 November 2009

Call For Papers - Deadline 19th December 2008
http://www.mediaarthistory.org

Sponsored by Leonardo and the Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne)

Following the success of Media Art History 05 Re:fresh in Banff and Media Art History 07 Re:place in Berlin, Media Art History 09 Re:live in Melbourne will host three days of keynotes, panels and poster sessions Media Art History 09 - Re:live, a refereed conference, is calling for papers, panels and posters on the histories of digital, electronic and technological media arts. With the theme of Re:live we are especially interested in expanding the range of topics to include sustainability, live arts and the technological arts of life, both organic and non-organic.

How do the media arts change? Through innovation, accident, discovery, mutation or crisis? How did contemporary media arts come to look and sound like they do? What options and potentialities and eccentricities in the history of media have been lost or overlooked or suppressed? What hopes have been realized and which dashed? What is the history of speculation on alternate histories, and how have they altered the course of media art history?

Participants are asked to address at least one the following areas in their abstract:
- histories of the art-science-technology connection in particular works, careers, exhibitions and institutions, especially in national and regional perspective
- histories of biology, the life sciences and bioart in relation to media arts
- histories of the environment, environmental sciences, ideas of sustainability and ecology in the discourses and practices of media arts
- histories of liveness and performance in relation to media arts theory and practice, including network performance, multimedia performance and the relation of media to the histories of theater
- histories of the life of machines, cyborgs, virtual communities and the arts of transmission
- histories of the liveness of real-time arts and art-science-technology collaborations in such areas as earth sciences, meteorology and astronomy
- histories of innovation, accident, discovery, and speculation on alternative futures in media arts

We particularly wish to encourage presentations from and about these histories in the Asia-Pacific region. Proposals are welcomed from artists, curators, arts organizers and researchers in media, art history, performance studies, literature, film, and science and technology studies.

Selected papers from the conference will be published in Leonardo (MIT Press). We are negotiating with academic presses for one or two anthologies from the conference.

Submissions: A dedicated website with updates and online paper submission system is available at http://www.mediaarthistory.org. Abstracts of proposals, panel presentations and posters should be submitted in either text, RTF, PDF or Word formats

Deadline for 200 word abstracts: 19th December 2008. Please submit proposals at
http://moodle.donau-uni.ac.at/relive/openconf.php

Sean Cubitt and Paul Thomas, conference co-chairs.

the museu d’art contemporani d’eivissa and the biennial committee are organizing the 20 biennal d’eivissa, which shall open in autumn 2008 in the museu d’art contemporani d’eivissa and which shall governed by the following rules:

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GRANTS FOR ARTS WRITERS

Online application form will open on Monday, August 4, 2008
Deadline for completed applications is Monday, September 22

http://www.artswriters.org

The Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program announces its third round of grants as part of the Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Initiative.

The online application form will open on Monday, August 4, 2008 and the deadline for completed applications is Monday, September 22, 2008.

The Arts Writers Grant Program recognizes and supports individual writers working on contemporary visual art through project-based grants ranging from 3,000 USD – 50,000 USD. Writers who meet the program’s eligibility requirements are invited to apply for grants in the following categories: articles, short-form writing, and blogs/new and alternative media. (Please note that the program also funds book projects; however, the deadline for applications to this category has already passed.)

For guidelines and eligibility requirements, please visit http://www.artswriters.org

Becks Canvas 2008 Overview

Becks Canvas UK TV Advert

Simon Cunningham Interview

Tom Price Interview

Riitta Ikonen Interview

Charlotte Bracegirdle Interview

A Computer in the Art Room: the origins of British computer arts 1950-80
by Catherine Mason

with a Foreword by Professor Clive Richards, Coventry School of Art & Design

published by JJG: 2008

This book uncovers the little-known history of early British computer arts. An amazing story, it is hard to comprehend that before the onset of personal computers, propriety software and the internet there was a real struggle for access which touched off an explosion of true British pioneering spirit. The art schools which played a crucial role in fostering these important cross-disciplinary digital collaborations are described for the first time here, along with over 140 illustrations, many not seen in print before.

Based on four years of research and numerous interviews with practitioners, the book introduces British artists in the post-war period who were inspired by science and began to consider the use of computing. They found the requisite technology and expertise at innovative art schools including the Royal College of Art, the Slade School of Art and regional polytechnics. The battle for acceptance may have been won but the provenance of computer arts and its direct links back to cybernetics in the 1950s and 1960s is a unique and previously unpublished period of art history. These pioneers had a real vision of the arts and sciences coming together for greater understanding and creativity on both sides. With the opening chapters titled “White Heat” and “British Art Postwar” the nine chapters conclude with “Computer animation” and include biographical essays on the likes of Roy Ascott, Richard Hamilton, Edward Ihnatowicz, Darrell Viner, Stephen Willats and other protagonists. This develops into a scholarly source book laced with exciting elements of artistic adventure.

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About the author: Catherine Mason began researching the history of British computer arts at Birkbeck, University of London, funded by the UK’s Arts & Humanities Research Council. In 2006 she produced Bits in Motion, a screening of early British computer animation, at London’s National Film Theatre. She has contributed to Futures Past: Twenty Years of Arts Computing published by Intellect, 2007 and White Heat, Cold Logic: British Computer Art 1960-1980, to be published by MIT Press, 2009.

http://www.upstage.org.nz

080808, the second UpStage festival of online performance, will take place on 8 August 2008, featuring 15 performances by artists from around the world.

The foyer has been cleaned and is ready for guests. The performers are busy doing their dress rehearsals and technical checks; the schedule has been finalised and links to the stages will be live from the programme page when 080808 begins in less than 24 hours!

The 080808 UpStage Festival begins at 7pm NZ time on Friday 8 August (find your local time here: http://tinyurl.com/63ovln). Performances begin every half hour (with a few breaks) with the last one starting at 1pm NZ time on Saturday 9 August (http://tinyurl.com/67cu8d).

Audiences: we recommend that you load each stage about ten minutes before the performance time, as some of the stages may take a few minutes to load. Please be patient. If you have problems loading a stage or can’t find where to go, come to the 080808 foyer for assistance. If you can’t get anything to load, restart your browser and try again.

“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

Bill Drummond The 17 (317. REPEAT) - Opportunity to take part

The first major event to launch the new QUAD building ‘The 17’ (317. REPEAT) will take place on August 22nd in Derby’s Market Place and we need your voice! Quad have invited renowned artist and musician Bill Drummond, to create a unique performance piece the performance will involve a cross section of the community currently living or working in the Derby city. We are looking for 100 groups of 17 people from all over Derby who fall into the categories listed on the Quad website: http://www.derbyquad.co.uk/whats-on/other-events/the17

For example you may be a Nurse, Cyclist, Mad Scientist, D.J. or even a Loser! You may be an individual or established group or maybe you just know someone who you think would like to take part. ‘The 17’ is a choir, but you do not have to be able to sing well to take part (in fact you may even be tone deaf). Bill Drummond will be running sessions to record 100 groups of 17 Derby people between 10th June and July 18th. All groups of 17 will be recorded together making one note with their voices for five minutes, they will also have a group photo and a short video portrait will be filmed. The whole session will last for 45 minutes, but you’ll be taking part in a historic and ground breaking project that will be interesting, engaging and fun. The 100 separate sound recordings will be mixed together to create one huge sound piece that will have its one and only performance on the 22nd August and afterwards will be deleted forever! All participants will be invited as Quad’s Special Guests to a private view reception and personal tour of QUAD. The film will show on the BBC Big Screen and inside QUAD, and the photographs will be included in the exhibition inside QUAD and published in a special ‘The 17’ (317. REPEAT) book. For more information on the groups, the project in general or to register your email the17 [at] derbyquad.co.uk or call Alfredo Cramerotti on 01332 295897 or visit www.derbyquad.co.uk. ‘The 17’ (317. REPEAT) is a major QUAD commission by internationally renowned artist Bill Drummond and is supported by Radleigh Homes and BAF Graphics.

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