Chris Joseph

12-16 November Mannheim/Germany

For this year’s festival we are looking for artists from the realms of video installation, computer art and the demoscene. The works will be exhibited from November 12th to 19th, 2008, at the same time as the “International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg”. Are you interested to display your works at the B_Side Festival? Then please fill in the order form (pdf) concisely and send it with a CD or DVD to the address indicated in the order form. You can also send an e-mail if you have works ready for download.

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12 international video festival v i d e o m e d e j a
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december 12 - 14 2008 | studio m, novi sad -> serbia
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Deadline: 1 October 2008

Like previous years we are looking for new video art works and short films, media installations, live audiovisual performances, network based projects… In addition, we are very glad to receive proposals from curators and producers/distributors for the non-competitive special screenings. Entry forms are online and it is not necessary to create user account in order to submit entries but we suggest to do so and log in prior submitting. This way you will be able to edit your own submissions and get partly prefilled entries with values from your user account.

entry forms and criteria for submission: http://www.videomedeja.org/entry

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AKADEMIE SCHLOSS SOLITUDE RESIDENCY PROGRAM IS ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR 2009-2011

Deadline: 31 October 2008 (Postmark)

To register and get the application form, please go to the application site

For the twelfth time in 18 years the international residency program Akademie Schloss Solitude – located in Stuttgart, Germany – is granting approx. 65 residency fellowships of three to twelve months in duration for the time period 2009-2011.

International artists are invited to apply from the following disciplines: architecture (architecture design, urban studies, landscape design), visual arts (including performance art and curatorial practice), performing arts (stage design, directing, dramaturgy, playwriting, dance, acting, musical theater, performance), design (visual communication, fashion, costume, product or furniture design), literature (theory/criticism, essay, poetry, fiction, translation), music/sound (sound installation, sound and music composition, sound and music performance) and video/film/new media (including video installation).

Furthermore, scholars, scientists and professionals from the disciplines of the humanities, the natural sciences and economics are invited to apply for a residency fellowship in the art, science & business program.

Persons up to 35 or who have completed a university or college degree within the past five years are welcome to apply. Currently enrolled university or college students (at the time of application) will not be considered for selection. Each fellowship recipient is granted EUR 1000,- per month, in addition to free lodging. There is one juror for each discipline who is responsible for the selection of the fellows.

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3 New Features on Furtherfield.org, Sept 08
http://www.furtherfield.org

FLOSS Manuals - review by Rob Myers
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=317

Digital Stitchings: An Interview with Rachel Beth Egenhoefer by Jess Laccetti
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=316

“Neurotic” - performance at ICA by Fiddian Warman featuring three robots and a number of Punk bands. Reviewed by Rob Myers.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=318

FLOSS Manuals
Recently won the communities award at the New Zealand Open Source Awards on Sept 24th in a ceremony in Wellington, New Zealand. FLOSS Manuals provides manuals for a variety of Free Software. Graphics, video, audio, office, Internet, even GNU/Linux itself. There is an entire section devoted to manuals for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) system. And there is a selection of manuals for web sites including Wikimedia Commons, Archive.org and the FLOSS Manuals site itself. You can read these online or download PDF versions to read or print offline. Some manuals are available in different languages; English, Dutch and Farsi.

Digital Stitchings: An Interview with Rachel Beth Egenhoefer
Rachel Beth Egenhoefer considers her Commodore 64 Computer and Fischer Price Loom to be defining objects of her childhood. She creates tactile representations of cyclical data structures in candy and knitting and is currently researching the intersection of textiles, technology, and the body. Currently Rachel Beth is focusing on new projects. She was an artist in residence at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China (November & December 2007) and worked as an Artist in Residence in the UK at the University of Brighton, Lighthouse Brighton and Furtherfield in London (January-May 2008).

Neurotic by Fiddian Warman
A performance by Fiddian Warman featuring three robots and a number of Punk bands over three nights at London’s Institute of Contemporary Art. Warman and the bands performed for the robots which shared the dance floor with the audience. Powered by hydraulic pistons whose motions simulate the deliberately artless pogo dancing of Punks, the robots activated when the neural net system running on the computer controlling them decided that a band sounded Punk enough to dance to.

Previous features
http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php

The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology is proud to present:

The Fourth International DOCAM Summit
30-31 October 2008
Tanna Schulich Hall (New Music Building)
McGill University
Montreal, Canada

Preceded by the Symposium:

Media in Motion: The Challenge of Preservation in the Digital Age
Co-presented by Media@McGill
29 October 2008
Rooms 832/833 (New Music Building)
McGill University

The fourth annual and international Summit of the DOCAM Research Alliance on the Documentation and Conservation of the Media Arts Heritage will take place on October 30 and 31, 2008, at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. During this two-day conference, which will take place at the Tanna Schulich Hall of the New Music Building, audience members will have the opportunity to learn about the progress of DOCAM’s research and to meet distinguished speakers among whom will be media artist Antoni Muntadas, who will deliver a keynote address. Please note that registration is not required and that admission is free.

For the first time, the Summit will be preceded by the Media in Motion Symposium. Co-presented by DOCAM and Media@McGill, it will take place on October 29, in conference rooms 832/833 of the New Music Building. Admission is free but as space is limited, registration is required by email with Marilyn Terzic at the following address: docam.symposium@mac.com

DOCAM is an international and multidisciplinary research alliance on the documentation and the conservation of the media arts heritage with the main objective of developing new methodologies and tools to address the issues of preserving and documenting digital, technological, and electronic works of art. The project is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) under its Community-University Research Alliances (CURA) program.

Initiated by the Daniel Langlois Foundation, the DOCAM Research Alliance includes some 15 institutional partners, such as the National Gallery of Canada, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Canadian Heritage Information Network, the faculties of many Canadian universities (including McGill, UQAM, Queen’s and Université de Montréal), and international partners such as Leonardo and New York University. DOCAM also brings together more than 20 specialists and researchers in fields such as art conservation and restoration, cataloguing of museum collections, art history, information management, archival science, art documentation and computer science.

To view the conference program, please go to: http://www.docam.ca

Contact information: info [at] docam.ca

An intentionally provocative and thought-provoking article in the Guardian last weekend by Andrew Gallix, http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2008/sep/24/ebooks. I wish I could comment further on this one, but I’m too busy creating the anti-climaxes at the moment to spend a decent amount of time talking about them

I do particularly like Dene Grigar’s comment in the discussion beneath the article:

“Isn’t it a tiny bit ironic that folks reading the Guardian online and seeming so comfortable in its electronic environment may eschew another form of writing that was once only found in print-based contexts?” (Sep 25 08, 3:57pm)

For some earlier and similar discussions see -

• Lit. [r]evolutions : Digital vs print by Jess Laccetti

• Does storytelling change in context of new forms of media? by Katie Haegele
  

• Embrace the Textual Revolution by Chris Meade, and my response to that discussion here
  

• Authors, literature and the screen by James Bridle and my response here
  

• Transliteracy: Crossing Divides, by Sue Thomas, Chris Joseph, Jess Laccetti, Bruce Mason, Simon Mills, Simon Perril, and Kate Pullinger