Chris Joseph

You are invited to create a tasty video based on any written piece (poem, fiction, fusion, or non-fiction) published in Mad Hatters’ Review, Brevity, Drunken Boat, elimae, Jacket, Milk, Unlikely Stories, or Word Riot.

We are calling for a video inspired by a poem, fiction, literary non-fiction, or experimental form, a written work that stimulates you to create a video in response. You may decide to creatively and dramatically interpret and thereby “collaborate” with the author of the work in terms of mood, energy, theme, related imagery, words, “plot,” music, and/or sounds. To collaborate means: “To enter into conversation with another … is to risk what one found or produced in common … One enters into conversation in order to become an other for the other.” — Alphonso Lingus

The primary goal of the First Combination Special Video Contest (”CSC”) is to elicit imaginative and original quality videos that capture the essence of mood/spirit/energy or theme of a literary work published on the Internet. Sponsor Mad Hatters’ Review is a collaborative, multi-new media magazine in which musicians and visual artists interpret written pieces and create new, exciting creations that converse with the writings. You needn’t be a professional videographer to stand a chance at fame and fortune.

For guidelines and rules, terms and conditions covering submissions, copyrights, formats, etc, visit http://www.madhattersreview.com/contest_video.shtml

Following up on “The Los Wikiless Timespedia,” Bunk Magazine (http://www.bunkmag.com) is seeking submissions for two upcoming issues of new media art.

1) Spring-Summer 2009 “The Mad Bunkers Mash” (Humor and Literary)
A mash-up of two stately magazines, the literary giant Mad Hatters review and Bunk Magazine. The mash up issue seeks mashups, mashers, and works to be mashed.

Those Who Wish to Be Mashed: October 1
Those Who Wish to Mash: October 15
Those Who Wish to Mash Their Own: February 1

(Note: that last deadline has been extended)

See the full call here: http://www.madhattersreview.com/submit.shtml

2) Fall-Winter 2009 “Widget Issue” (Humor/Satire)
Send us your widgets. Widgetbox, YourMinis, Google Gadgets, or other portable doodads.
Or send us proposals for widgets for this issue of portable parody and satire.

Proposals due October January 15, 2008
Finished Widgets Deadline July 1, 2008.

Please contact with questions:
Mark C. Marino, Editor, Bunk Magazine.
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Writing Program
University of Southern California
http://WriterResponseTheory.org
http://CriticalCodeStudies.com

The Jeremy Bailey Show at HTTP Gallery.

Private View 7-9pm Fri 19th Sept
Live Performance at 7.30

Open 19 Sept - 19 Oct 2008
Fri-Sun 12noon-5pm

HTTP Gallery
http://www.http.uk.net/

If Jeff Koons had fallen for the Microsoft Help Paperclip rather than vacuum cleaners or La Cicciolina, presumably the result would have looked a lot like: “The Jeremy Bailey Show”.

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“Canadian artist Jeremy Bailey creates cutesy digital interfaces which facilitate computer-aided performances that bring art and technology, techies and technophobes into tension. Fusing an expert knowledge of software design and acclaimed performance and video art skills, Bailey asks his audience to examine their acquiescence to the GUIs (Graphic User Interfaces) that provide the face of contemporary living. More than that, he invites one and all to watch his unique brand of ‘interface-off’.” (Charlotte Frost)

Disillusioned by the “machine ego” that has characterised much technology-driven art practice since computers arrived on the scene, Jeremy Bailey creates digital interfaces through which he plays out a critique of the digital auteur with deadly humour. “The Jeremy Bailey Show” presents many of Bailey’s most recent works including VideoPaint 3.0 and SOS, alongside a new piece commissioned by HTTP and produced during his adjunct residency. This brand new performance work pokes fun at the value placed on “collaboration” in today’s art practice and policy-making. Bailey plans to co-demonstrate, with his audience, new collaborative software that will allow participants to perform office related tasks such as email, word processing, or spreadsheets together while simultaneously composing a visual/musical score with matching choreography. The performance will be staged live at the exhibition opening (Friday 19th Sept 7.30pm) and will be documented for viewing throughout the exhibition.

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VideoPaint 3.0 documents Bailey interacting with his bespoke software that “allows you to paint anywhere, anytime”. Responding to Bailey’s movements and voice, VideoPaint 3.0 lets Bailey draw and tell an irreverent story about a desert encounter between a pink serpent and a green jaguar, all the while being threatened by a “drawing-wiping bomb”.

SOS, a series of short videos made for Canadian television, offers a hilarious user’s guide to a new “visual operating system”, where shapes refer to video files and provide commentary on the system user’s actions.

“The Jeremy Bailey Show” is Bailey’s first solo exhibition in the UK and offers so much more than just “discourse analysis for dummies” (Charlotte Frost). Pop culture, pastiche and a much prettier version of the Paperclip combine, and like any good GUI, make you almost forget the technical wizardry behind them.

Jeremy Bailey received his MFA in Video Art from Syracuse University and an undergraduate degree in Visual Studies from the University of Toronto. He is co-founder of award winning artist video collective 640 480. His work has been described by Filmmaker Magazine as “a one man revolution on the way we use video, computers and our bodies to create art”. Bailey lives and works in Toronto, Canada.

Events at HTTP

Private View 7-9pm
Live Performance at 7.30pm
Your chance to meet Jeremy Bailey in the flesh and view brand new work created especially for the HTTP Gallery audience

Contact:
Lauren Wright, HTTP Gallery
email:laurenATfurtherfieldDOTorg

HTTP Gallery
Unit A2, Arena Design Centre
71 Ashfield Road
London N4 1LD
+44(0)2088022827
Click here for map and location details:
http://www.http.uk.net/docs/gettingto.shtml

Further info about the artist: www.jeremybailey.net/

~ Motion Graphics Festival 2009 Call For Entry ~

3 Ways to Enter!

[ Easy ]
Simply enter a link to a video you think is really good!
http://www.mgfest.com/09/easy/

[ Medium ]
Send us a DVD of a video you made.
http://www.mgfest.com/09/medium/

[ Hard ]
Suggest a presentation topic, performance or installation you would like to deliver.
http://www.mgfest.com/09/hard/

~ Motion Graphics Festival announcing a 5-City Tour in 2009 ~

In its 6th year, MGFest presents a year-long, regionally focused program of events which expands to 5 US Cities: Chicago, Boston, Austin, Atlanta and Washington DC. The 5-city tour focuses on motion design, sound design, and film & video technology by hosting: art showcases, exhibits, workshops, classes, panel discussions, studio tours, theater screenings and industry mixers.

Stay Tuned while periodic updates happen to the Official Website as the Motion Graphics Festival expands:
http://www.mgfest.com/

Festival Sponsorship Opportunities - send us a shout… http://mgfest.com/contact.php …& we’ll reply w/ the Advanced Info Kit