Chris Joseph

Artist-in-Residence Call for applications
Deadline: 27/09/08

http://www.kuenstlerstaette-bleckede.de

Since 1979 the Kuenstlerstaette Schloss Bleckede has been seeking to promote young artists who explore innovative positions in the field of contemporary fine art. Today artists, whose work addresses complex aesthetic, cultural or political issues, rarely find the necessary support to realize their ambitious projects. This is why the Kuenstlerstaette Schloss Bleckede wishes to offer these artists the opportunity to develop their work in the course of a residential scholarship of three or six months.

The Kuenstlerstaette Schloss Bleckede offers ideal working conditions. The historic remise of the castle of Bleckede has been restored and transformed into three studios, each of which provides an extensive work space and a comfortable living area. The castle is located in the nature reserve Elbufer Drawehn close to the river Elbe between Hamburg and Lueneburg. Moreover Hamburg and Berlin is within easy reach, both of which have a thriving cultural life. The scholarship includes a monthly grant of Euro 1.400,- , which is made available for up to three scholarship holders at any one time, by the state of Lower Saxony. Previous scholarship winners have included reknown artists like Ulla von Brandenburg, Shannon Bool, Geoffrey Hendricks, Peter Pommerer, Katharina Sieverding, Maki Tamura and Simon Wachsmuth. The residential scholarship will be selected by a jury.

The call for applications is open to all artists of all nationalities. Application forms, criteria and more information are available at http://www.kuenstlerstaette-bleckede.de

Landkreis Lueneburg,
Fachdienst Schule und Kultur
Auf dem Michaeliskloster 4
D-21335 Lueneburg
Phone: +49-4131-26-1360
http://www.kuenstlerstaette-bleckede.de

For further information:
Halle für Kunst Lueneburg e.V.
Phone: +49-4131-402001
info [at] halle-fuer-kunst.de

Call for New Media Art and Online Digital Video: “sticky-content” at FLEFF 2009 (01/11/2009; 30/03–05/04/2008)

The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) is a weeklong festival of film, video, music, new media, gaming, installations, workshops, forums, and discussions that explores the theme of sustainability and the environment within a larger global conversation that embraces a range of political, economic, social, and aesthetic issues, including labour, war, health, disease, intellectual property, software, remix culture, economics, immigration, archives, HIV/AIDS, women’s rights, and human rights.

The online digital media exhibition for FLEFF 2009, sticky-content, takes as its title a popular Internet term for content that gets users to return to web sites or networks, spend time on these sites or networks—and perhaps leave something behind. While stickiness derives from economic theory and incorporated into commercially driven marketing practices, the online exhibition for FLEFF 2009 seeks to redirect and reroute stickiness into the politicized realms of tactical media, open-source and P2P models, experimental coding, user-generated content, interactive and generative interfaces, and reverse engineering. The exhibition calls attention to web-based media that remix and rewire our understanding of environmentalism—media that foregrounds ways that environmentalism affects subjectivities and promotes positive social change.

The curators of sticky-content are looking for submissions of online digital media that explore issues related to the four content streams of this year’s festival: spice, syncopation, toxins, and trade. (See detailed descriptions of content streams below.) Submissions working within the digital divides of the global North and South, of the wired and wireless worlds, are of particular interest. Selected works will be exhibited and archived on the festival’s official web site. We are particularly interested in tactical media, indigenous media, locative media, migratory archives, web-application and video mashups, online computer games, activist video; work that is open source, user generated, and interactive; work designed for mobile screens; work that makes environmentalism—broadly defined—not only sustainable, but sticky!

sticky-content aims to deploy potentially progressive aspects of globalisation, such as digital technologies, networked systems, and wireless communication, as a means to prompt critical discussion on the often repressive aspects of globalisation, including the rapidly accelerating disparity among populations in terms of wealth, power, and access to basic human rights. sticky-content aims to demonstrate that environmentalism is not just about nature, but about our collective experience.

FLEFF 2009 will take place from 30 March to 05 April 2009 in Ithaca (New York), USA; sticky-content will go live on the Web on 30 March 2008.

Visit www.ithaca.edu/fleff/exhibitons/ubuntu/ for the curators’ essay and descriptions of selected works last year’s exhibit ubuntu.kuqala, as well as the 2007 exhibit, Undisclosed Recipients, www.ithaca.edu/fleff07/selected_works.html and www.ithaca.edu/fleff07/exhibitions.html#undisclosed under previous festivals.

Please send links to submissions for specific content streams with a brief bio in an email to *BOTH* Dale Hudson (Amherst College) dhudson [at] amherst.edu *AND* Sharon Lin Tay (Middlesex University) s.tay [at] mdx.ac.uk no later than 01 November 2008.

Only work that can be exhibited online can be considered for this exhibit. Media artists working in offline formats, should contact the festival co-directors, Thomas Shevory shevory [at] ithaca.edu and Patricia R. Zimmermann patty [at] ithaca.edu .

Submissions by employees and students of Ithaca College, Middlesex University (London), and the Five Colleges (Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst) cannot be considered.

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The Division of Humanities at the University of California, Los Angeles, will appoint one Postdoctoral Fellow for the W.M. Keck Foundation Undergraduate Program in Digital Cultural Mapping for a one-year term beginning in the Fall of 2008, with the intent of extending the appointment for up to two additional years. The Fellow must have earned a doctoral degree no earlier than June 2003 and no later than June 2008. The postdoctoral appointment provides $50,000 per annum as combined fellowship and instructional pay prior to tax withholding, as well as standard fringe benefits, a one-time moving allowance of up to $1,500 and a research budget of $1,000. The main task of the Postdoctoral Fellow will be to coordinate and teach in the W.M. Keck Undergraduate Program of Digital Cultural Mapping. The postdoctoral fellow will be appointed in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, the home department of the principal investigator of the Keck Foundation grant. Applicants should have demonstrable excellent communication and organizational skills, an ability to work independently and prioritize assignments, have experience working in a team and developing digital educational materials. Candidates with experience in grant/report writing, proposal preparation, and the use of Geographic Information Systems are preferred. For more information, please visit: http://www.idre.ucla.edu/hasis/keck.

Applicants should send an application letter and a CV, as well as three names of persons who are willing to provide recommendations, by September 30, 2008 to: Kathryn Roberts, Assistant to the Dean of the Humanities at kroberts [at] college.ucla.edu. UCLA is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and minorities are especially encouraged to apply.

Position Description:

The Department of Communication at Miami University seeks two Assistant, Associate or Full Professors starting August, 2009 to research and teach the latest developments in digital/new media and information communication technologies and their application in one or more contexts or areas (e.g., emerging information and communication technologies, including wireless and mobile communications; the relationship between new media or communication technologies and behavior for individuals, groups, social networks or organizations; global media; political economy of media; policy/regulatory issues; web usability; and telecommunications), and provide service to the institution.

The candidates should be able to teach graduate and undergraduate courses in the theory and practice of digital communication. The ability to teach one or more other courses that contribute to any of our three undergraduate programs (mass communication, speech communication, strategic communication) is expected. An interest in undertaking extramurally funded research is desired.

The faculty in the Department of Communication have a tradition of successful involvement in multiple interdisciplinary programs. We value diverse forms of scholarship: inquiry, discovery, creativity and practice. Our undergraduate and graduate programs are rooted in the liberal arts tradition and encourage the application of theory in a variety of contexts. Humanities, social science and/or critical perspectives are welcomed and represented in the Department.

Require: PhD; ability to work in an interdisciplinary collaborative environment; expertise with new media and communication technologies; ability to build or continue building a vital scholarly and/or creative record; and evidence of a successful teaching record.

Qualifications must be commensurate with rank: high quality research and teaching with publications for appointment as Associate Professor; distinguished and ongoing record of both research and teaching that would merit appointment as tenured Full Professor.

All applicants must send vita, three letters of recommendation, samples of scholarly work, evidence of teaching effectiveness, and a cover letter discussing qualifications, research agenda and teaching philosophy to:

Search Committee Chairperson
Department of Communication
Miami University
Oxford, OH 45056

Contact phone number is 513-529-7472. E-mail contact is gshulman [at] muohio.edu. Screening of applications will begin November 15 and continue until the positions are filled. Miami University is an EOE/AA employer with smoke-free campuses. For information regarding campus crime and safety, visit www.muohio.edu/righttoknow. Hard copy upon request.

The New River is a journal of digital writing and art, created and edited by Ed Falco. The managing editors for the Fall ‘09 issue, Manisha Sharma and Nick Kocz, are interested in receiving submissions of original and unpublished digital writing and art that merges place, history, and culture. However, we are open to considering other pieces as well. Surprise us!

Please check The New River’s submission guidelines for further information (http://thenewriver.us). The deadline for consideration for our Fall ‘08 issue is November 5, 2008. If accepted, you will be asked to upload all files to our server so we can host it locally. If you have any questions, feel free to email us. To view the Spring 2008 issue, as well as archives, visit us at http://www.thenewriver.us

The MA - Art in the Contemporary World graduate exhibition of Áine Macken and Oonagh O’Brien.

Opening hours,
Friday, 12pm - 8pm
Saturday, 10am - 6pm
6pm Saturday Film Screening ‘Sans Soleil’

Coming to completion of a dual purpose masters, combining that of theory and practice, Áine Macken and Oonagh O’Brien will present to you anamalgamation of the various brain activities with which they have become occupied over the past twelve months and reveal, for public view, a visual thesis. Held in the Digital Hub space, this show will interrogate aspects of visuality that of the persistence of vision within everyday life, and the absurd activities and imagery that keep ones mind occupied throughout the day.

The show’s title, taken from Jacques Ranciére’s “The Future of the Image”, relates to the movement beyond dialectical and symbolic modes of representation of montage in order to consider a more homogenous, or polemic as the case may be, approach to appropriation, mystery, conflict, in an effort to reveal the “seamless fabric of co-presence – the fabric that at once authorizes and erases all the seams; constructing the world of ‘images’ as a world of general co-belonging and inter-expression.” An investigation into the quality, materiality and classification of an image, this show will amaze you. Definitely. You should come.

Individual Information on each artist;

Oonagh O’Brien is currently a Kildare based artist. At present her work concentrates on looking at the moment when an image becomes a moving image. The basis for this lies in early visual experiments such as those by Eadweard Muybridge in the 19th century. It is interesting to note through these works, how such moving images walk the line between artwork and experiment. One of the most interesting terms to evolve from visual experiments of this period is the Persistence of Vision. O’Brien’s work focuses on the existence of such terminology and its place in current visual technologies. She is therefore working with strobe lighting, at night creating scenes reminiscent of early representational research. Therein lies an interest in trying to capture a later day movement with present day technology. Scenes and situations caused by working in such a way heighten awareness of the presence of the viewer as voyeur and roles become mixed with those of surveillance.

Áine Mackens mischievous and playful approach to image sourcing and making led her to this current body of work, which is an interrogation of Internet imagery. With the widespread creation of Internet personas through social networking websites, her work largely focuses on expression and emotion through image making, considering what it is that makes an image recognizable as an emotive expression. Working primarily with watercolour, she has pushed the media to consider both its failures as a medium, and that of the imagery from which it is sourced, leading to points of complete erasure for some of the resulting imagery. Juxtaposing images of people climaxing with those in grief, beauty queens being crowned with victims of atrocities, her aim is to question the nature of the painting as beautiful object, and to instigate thought of the fact that liquid can form to create a representation of an emotion.

Please contact
www.oonaghobrien.com
www.ainemacken.com
www.digitalhub.com

The Computer Arts Society is pleased to announce its October meeting. This event is free and open to the public - please forward this invitation to friends and colleagues.

Speaker: Nigel Johnson
http://imaging.dundee.ac.uk/people/njohnson/

Title: Interactive art: a practitioner’s perspective

Tuesday 7 October 2008
6:30 for 7:00 pm
London Knowledge Lab - Institute of Education
23 - 29 Emerald St
London WC1N 3QS, England
Tube: Holborn, Russell Square or Chancery Lane
Map: http://tinyurl.com/6h5cds

Nigel Johnson’s individual research and practice since 1978 has been focused within the domain of small and large scale, “real-time” interactive installations, whilst attempting to bring clarity, insight and new understanding where the art - science boundaries meet and overlap. Recent projects include: “G-Vision”, a Scottish Enterprise funded project in collaboration with colleagues from the School of Computing in the development of a vision-based, gesture recognition software application for interactive installations and performance scenarios. Another project, “A-Life”, is a large-scale, real-time, interactive computer installation paying retrospective homage to the early work of John Conway’s “Game of Life”, incorporating elements of artificial life and gaming. It recently won a major award at the Shrewsbury International Exhibition 2007, Batteries Not Included: Mind as Machine in association with the Darwin Summer Symposium. A-Life is currently showing at the CCA (Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow) until September 13th as part of the Alt-w: New Directions in Scottish Digital Culture exhibition. Current collaborative activities include research into the latest developments in “cognitive” software, interactive installations based on RSS data and participating in the European Mobile Lab for Interactive Artists.

Nigel Johnson is a practising artist, researcher and teacher who studied Fine Art at Liverpool Polytechnic from 1976-1979 and Experimental Media at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London from 1979-1981. From 1983 – 1987 he was Lecturer in Fine Art (Sculpture) at Grays School of Art (The Robert Gordon University), Aberdeen. Since 1987 he has held academic positions at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee, including Senior Lecturer in Computer Imaging and was appointed Reader in Digital Arts in 2000. Since 1996 he has been running the practice-led PhD programme within the School of Media Arts and Imaging and appointed Professor and Chair of Interactive Arts in 2007. Nigel exhibits his work widely, both nationally and internationally at galleries and festivals throughout the U.K., Europe, Asia, Australasia and the United States amongst others.

2008 = CAS 40 - 40 years of supporting the computer arts
http://www.computer-arts-society.org
CAS is a British Computer Society Specialist Group

Project: Connecting Across Difference
Organisation: Drake Music in partnership with Furtherfield.org
Role: Visual Media Artist
Approx 9 days
Start date – November 2008
End date – March 2009
Fee 1,700

Application deadline: Midday October 15th 2008

Drake Music and Furtherfield.org are seeking to commission a visual media artist as part of a season of workshops on the theme Connecting Across Difference. The artist will work closely with a composer and a technologist to devise and facilitate a week of workshops with young disabled musicians at the Roundhouse in Camden, London, UK.

This project is part of a larger season of work with to culminate in a mixed media performance at Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood, co-created and performed by all participants in March 2009. With this in mind it is envisaged that the visual work will take the form of a live, generative or recorded video work to be projected as part of the final performance.

This role would suit an accomplished media artist who is excited by the creative possibilities of the crossovers between audio and visual expression and of exchange and collaboration between participants with a range of abilities and experience.

The following skills and experience are highly desirable:

- Strong artistic vision and engagement with new media.
- A good grasp of digital media and working collaboratively.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Experience of working in an outreach/ education setting, ideally with disabled people
- The ability to work creatively, imaginatively, flexibly and appropriately depending on the needs of different individuals and situations

We strongly encourage applications from disabled people as they are currently under-represented in our organisations.

Interested parties should send a CV, and a letter stating how they would contribute to this project along with examples of their work by: midday on the 15th October The full project brief can be
downloaded here: www.drakemusicproject.org

For any queries please contact Miranda Peake -
furtherfield [at] drakemusicproject.org

http://furtherfield.org
http://drakemusicproject.org

++ Updates from VJ Theory project ++

VJ Theory.net intends to develop a community actively discussing and reflecting on philosophy and theory related with Vjing, performed media and realtime interaction.

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