Chris Joseph

A great article in the Independent this weekend, with assessments from the agent Clare Alexander, Sue Thomas (Professor of New Media at De Montfort University), authors Tracy Chevalier and Chris Meade, Penguin digital publisher Jeremy Ettinghausen and others.

Chris Meade also gets a great mention in another Independent article - ‘Who’ll be the bestsellers of tomorrow?‘:

Christopher Meade’s multimedia novella, In Search of Lost Tim, meanwhile, uses fictitious blogs (hosted at www.insearchoflosttim.net) and YouTube videos to tell the story of a blogger who is contacted by a boy who claims he lives in the 1960s and is communicating via his “Futurizer”). Young Tim is trying to contact his future self, the political activist and secret agent Lord Tim. It’s a jeux d’esprit, but also, just possibly, the future of fiction.

I have to admit to some favouritism here, as one of my last tasks as Digital Writer in Residence at DMU was to mentor Chris for ‘In Search of Lost Tim’. But I can’t take any credit… he really didn’t need any mentoring from me, to be honest. Well done Chris, it’s a great piece of electronic fiction!

Share Festival announces that the deadline for the online application to Share Prize 09 is moved till the 10th of October 2008.

A short list of no more than six finalists will be announced within November 2008.
The award candidates are invited to participate to the 5th edition of Share Festival in Torino that will be from 24th till 29th march 2009.

A Jury will award a prize of Euro 2,500 to the work (published or not) that best represents experimentation of arts and new technologies.

The jury is:
Andy Cameron (creative director department Interactive Design Fabrica) - president of the jury
Bruce Sterling (writer and journalist, Austin)
Emma Quinn (curator at Institute of Contemporary Arts, London)
Giovanni Ferrrero (president Accademia delle Belle Arti, Torino)
Rosina Gomez-Baez (director Laboral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijon)

Guest curator of Share Festival 2009 is Andy Cameron.

http://www.toshare.it/eng/share-prize

http://vispo.com/mw

A new piece by Jim and the poet Margareta Waterman. It’s intended to be played with and explored - so no further explanations from me!

See NRG unveiled at the IOCT, Tues 23 September 2008

About NRG

It’s 2010 and you have been appointed to lead the new World Energy Directorate, with the power to control international spending and research on energy sources and production. Your decisions will influence the life of billions of humans, countless species and the Earth as a whole. How will your choices change all our lives during the planet’s next forty years of industrial development?

Part environmental game, part multimedia artwork, NRG (short for En-er-gy) is self-sustaining, people-powered installation. No previous knowledge about energy issues is assumed or required, but NRG is intended to stimulate thought and discussion about energy consumption, its links to global warming and the need for the development of lifestyle alternatives.

NRG was created as part of the first Digital Writer in Residence position at the Institute of Creative Technologies (IOCT), De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. It is funded by a Grant for the Arts from Arts Council England.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008 at 11:30 AM (GMT)

Location:
Institute of Creative Technologies
De Montfort University
The Gateway
Leicester, Leicestershire LE1 9BH
United Kingdom

Click for Details and Registration Information

for remixworx, from Choir of the Lake
+ codesmoke (comment 11392)

flash source: brimstone.fla (460KB)

Jeremy Bailey Interview on the Netbehaviour email list
Thursday 11th - 18th Sept 08.

Join Marc Garrett and other Netbehaviourists in a dynamic discussion with artist Jeremy Bailey by subscribing to the mailing list http://www.netbehaviour.org

As the opening of “The Jeremy Bailey Show” at the HTTP Gallery (http://www.http.uk.net) draws nearer, Jeremy Bailey will be joining the Netbehaviour email list to discuss his work with Marc Garrett & other subscribers to Netbehaviour.

The discussion will touch on Jeremy’s influences and ideas about networked performance art, video art, software art, collaborative art, GUI design with reference to his artworks:-

Terraform Dance Party: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNO0l4ppgIY

VideoPaint 3.0: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIideREWJxw

SOS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLcwu3cm7y0

We will also be discussing ‘WarMail’, Jeremy’s latest artwork which incorporates live, audience participation; commissioned specially for the exhibition and to be performed on the opening night.

“WarMail is a sort of email/war/expression hybrid interface. The premise goes something like this…
In the future with intergalactic war occupying such immense space (and birthrates at record lows) it will be impossible to both administrate and defend our interests across solar systems while also having time to get together socially, this software is the probable solution to this inevitable social/production/military readiness crisis. The program allows a group or individual to type out an email by firing missiles at abstract rotating pyramid clusters hovering above a blue planet (apparently habitable). Each hit also registers a musical note which you can use to compose and playback music(culture is a valuable part of any civilization). Herein the group’s collective voice and choreography control the movements and actions of the spacecraft. The group’s actions are also tracked and aided by a red avatar named “skullBot” visible at center.” Jeremy Bailey.

HTTP Gallery - http://http.uk.net
Netbehaviour - http://netbehaviour.org
Furtherfield - http://furtherfield.org
Jeremy Bailey - http://www.jeremybailey.net

Window CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Deadline September 26

Send us your proposal idea, please include all information on the checklist below:

1) Your name, email address, mobile phone number
2) Preferred dates for your show
3) Your proposed show, and how it relates to your practice.
4) Whether your proposed show is Online / Onsite / or both
5) CV
6) Images or other documentation of your work. (JPEG or PDF format is great for images, and for video and audio works we prefer links to websites where we can watch / listen to the work.)

Please email proposals to Nell May ( n.may [at] auckland.ac.nz )

Alternatively, a hard copy can be delivered in person to:
Faculty Reception, National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries,
Conference Centre Building,
Symonds Street, Auckland

We respond to all proposals, but both our Onsite and Online programmes have a limited number of slots.

If you would like more information about Window please don’t hesitate to contact us

Window
www.window.auckland.ac.nz

International Competition for Web Animation on HAFFTube

For the first time the Holland Animation Film Festival 2008 launches an international competition for web animations. The web competition will be open for entries from Monday September 8 onwards.

On HAFFTube you will find a link to the entry form for the web competition. Please read the regulations and note that your film should be uploaded on YouTube before submitting the entry form. HAFFTube will gradually fill up with animated films from all over the world.

The Holland Animation Film Festival will rate the films that have been entered for competition. When we have reached our set limit of 50 films, the voting begins. Every week, films will be voted out to make room for the new entries. Deadline for entries: Wednesday October 22.

An international jury of filmmakers selects the winner out of the final 50 titles.

The winner will be revealed on the opening night of the festival at November 5.

Check www.haff.nl and HAFFTube for more details.

http://research-intermedia.art.uiowa.edu/tirw/vol9n2/

This issue focuses on Instruments and Playable Text. Guest-edited by Stuart Moulthrop, with work by John Cayley, Elizabeth Knipe, Judy Malloy, Nick Montfort, Stuart Moulthrop, and Shawn Rider.

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