Chris Joseph

CALL FOR PAPERS AND WORKS

On behalf of the scientific committee and Prof. Glazier, President of the E-poetry Festival, I am glad to inform you about the 5th edition of the E-Poetry Festival, which will take place in Barcelona in 2009 (May 24th-27th) at the Universitat Obertat de Catalunya (UOC) hosted by the Hermeneia Research Group. E-Poetry is both a conference and a festival. The festival is the most significant digital literary gathering in the field. Authors and researchers worldwide meet and present their researches and works. This will permit researchers to present their latest research and artists to premier their newest works. A selection of the papers will be published after the conference following the peer review system and we will also like to publish proceedings of the conference. Artistic events will take place at key Barcelona venues such as the Barcelona Center for Contemporary Culture (CCCB: http://www.cccb.org/en/), providing authors the opportunity to present their works to a public curious about new literary and artistic trends employing technology and communication during the Setmana de la Poesia, that is also sharing a part of our artistic program.

Katherine Hayles (UCLA), Roberto Simanowski (Brown University) and Jean Clément ( Université Paris 8 ) have already accepted to be key-note speakers. The UOC’s research group Hermeneia with the collaboration of Electronic Poetry Center (University of Buffalo) and the Laboratoire Paragraph (Univ. Paris VIII) will organize the event. You are invited to submit original papers (not presented in other conferences) and works for the Conference & the Festival.

Please do not hesitate in contacting us for any further information you may require.

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http://www.interact.com.pt/en/ed15/interfaces/techno-art-poetry

tank.tv 1st International Call for Submissions - Solo Shows on www.tank.tv

tank.tv is inviting submissions from artists who wish to be considered for two week solo exhibitions on www.tank.tv.

In 2009 tank.tv will be hosting an ambitious series of solo shows from established and emerging artists working with the moving image. We would like to allocate 3 of these shows to artists who respond to a series of three open calls for entries. You must have a body of work consisting of at least 10 moving image pieces that are ready for exhibition and which run no longer than ten minutes (although we are happy to consider excerpts from longer pieces). We will consider all forms of moving image work and welcome submissions from artists working at any stage of their careers, of all nationalities.

The first selected artist will have a two week online show early in 2009 and be part of our external events programme which will be toured to galleries and institutions internationally.

1st Deadline: 10th December 2008.

Please submit examples of work as Quicktime files or on mini DV to:
tank.tv / Solo Show
2nd Floor Princess House
50 - 60 Eastcastle Street
London, W1W 8EA
UK

If you have any questions about this opportunity then please get in touch with Alice O’Reilly, alice [at] tank.tv.

Words the Dog Knows contains new (novel) iterations of texts originally written for three different web-based electronic literature projects:

in absentia: http://luckysoap.com/inabsentia
Entre Ville: http://luckysoap.com/entreville
How I Loved the Broken Things of Rome: http://luckysoap.com/brokenthings

Words the Dog Knows also contains line drawings and handwriting and text-message dialogue.

It is published by Conundrum Press (Montreal). For more information, please visit: http://luckysoap.com/stories/wordsthedogknows.html

J. R. Carpenter
http://luckysoap.com

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Janis Jefferies & Liliane Lijn in conversation

Date: 11 December 2008
Location: Seminar Rooms, Ben Pimlott Building
Time: 18:00 - 20:00

Liliane Lijn’s work as an artist is primarily concerned with light in its relation to matter. Lijn believes that as an artist, she explores the outside world with one eye and the inner with another, world and self, matter and consciousness. Her work is both mathematical in its use of geometric forms while simultaneously involving archetypes and a continuing obsession with time and memory. As the result of an ACE, NASA, Leonardo Network Fellowship, she has in the last two years been able to work with Aerogel, the fragile and ethereal material used by the NASA Stardust Project to capture both coma and interstellar dust. She describes her recent work as a metaphorical dialogue with Stardust Project Director Andrew Westphal and his quest in search of ‘cosmic fossils’. An exhibition of her recent work Stardust was shown at Riflemaker gallery in London.

www.lilianelijn.com

LILIANE LIJN was born in New York City, studied Art History and Archeology in Paris and lives in London. Her work has been exhibited internationally since the 1960’s and is represented in numerous important collections, including MOMA, Art Institute of Chicago, Tate Gallery, Victoria & Albert Museum and the British Museum.

JANIS JEFFERIES is Professor of Visual Arts in the Dept. of Computing at Goldsmiths, Artistic Director of the Goldsmiths Digital Studios and Director of the Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre in Textiles.

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THE THURSDAY CLUB IS ORGANISED BY GOLDSMITHS DIGITAL STUDIOS AND SUPPORTED BY GOLDSMITHS GRADUATE SCHOOL AND THE DEPT. OF COMPUTING

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John Lechte
A Digital Aesthetics: Is it Possible?

Date: 4 December 2008
Location: Seminar Rooms, Ben Pimlott Building
Time: 18:00 - 20:00

The first part of the paper will examine some of the key issues surrounding the nature of aesthetics. In particular, reference will be made to Kant and beauty, as well as to experience and artistic experimentation as this is manifest in examples of digital, visual art.

The second part of this paper will discuss the work already done on aesthetics and the digital image by Mark B.N. Hansen, especially in his books New Philosophy for New Media and Bodies in Code. Paul Crowther’s theory of the ontology and aesthetics of the digital image will also be considered, as it raises the issue of whether the ontology of the digital image is compatible with any kind of aesthetics.

JOHN LECHTE is professor in Sociology at Macquarie University in Sydney, where he teaches in social and cultural theory. He has published widely on continental philosophy, particularly on the work of Julia Kristeva and Georges Bataille, and, more recently, on Bernard Stiegler and the nature of the cinema image. His current research concerns the nature, aesthetics and technologies of the image.

http://www.soc.mq.edu.au/staff_jlechte.html

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THE THURSDAY CLUB IS ORGANISED BY GOLDSMITHS DIGITAL STUDIOS AND SUPPORTED BY GOLDSMITHS GRADUATE SCHOOL AND THE DEPT. OF COMPUTING

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Alexandra Antonopoulou
Once Upon a Time to Ever After
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Dawn Scarfe
Audible Auras

Date: 20 November 2008
Location: Seminar Rooms, Ben Pimlott Building
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Once Upon a Time to Ever After

Are fairytales fiction? Are “true” stories reality? How can we learn through narratives? Alexandra will explore interaction and learning through narratives, which is part of her
PhD research. Her Beauties and Beasts book was shown at the exhibition Blood on Paper in the V&A. Alexandra will also present her interactive cookbook, which connects generations via food.

ALEXANDRA ANTONOPOULOU is a PhD candidate at Chelsea College of Art and Design, The University of the Arts, London

http://thursclubalex.blogspot.com/
http://onceuponalex.blogspot.com/
http://everafteralex.blogspot.com/

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Audible Auras

This presentation considers the artistic practice of using resonance to generate emanations and vibrations from structures, creating ‘audible auras’ around them. It is an attempt to contextualise Dawn’s own practice, which deals with the natural resonances of objects and environments. Dawn will discuss her recent installation ‘Lenses’ (2008), a multi speaker work which uses wine glasses as lenses to focus and propagate sound, and David Tudor’s sonic environment ‘Rainforest Version IV’ (1973). She will consider how these works produce a sense of ‘aura’, how they engage their audience, and what they might be communicating.

Dawn’s research investigates the phenomenal experience of sound from musical and artistic perspectives. She is interested in how we experience our surroundings and creates installations, compositions and performances which encourage audiences to consider details in the process of listening. Her practice is situated between the fields of lo-fi electronic music, installation art and performance. Her main concerns are with the physical effects of sound (vibration, spatiality, relational dialogue with its surroundings), the creation of ‘walk in sound’ (Robin Minard) – immersive environments. Dawn will present Lenses, a multi-speaker installation which explores pitch and resonance.

DAWN SCARFE is a PhD Candidate in Music at Goldsmiths. She has exhibited in a diverse range of places, including the Whitechapel Gallery and Tate Britain (London), Modern Art Oxford, Smeaton’s Lighthouse (Plymouth) and Videotage (Hong Kong).
www.dawnscarfe.co.uk

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THE THURSDAY CLUB IS ORGANISED BY GOLDSMITHS DIGITAL STUDIOS AND SUPPORTED BY GOLDSMITHS GRADUATE SCHOOL AND THE DEPT. OF COMPUTING

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David Littler: Sampler – Culture Clash

Date: 6 November 2008
Location: Seminar Rooms, Ben Pimlott Building
Time: 18:00 - 20:00

Sampler – Culture Clash brings together the worlds of embroidery and dj-ing through the common word Sampler. David and Jason will present work in progress created over the last 8 months through collaborating with embroiderers, dj’s, beat-boxers, performance poets, filmmakers and curators from the V&A and the Embroiderers’ Guild. The aim is to develop new interdisciplinary work mixing stitch, the word, pattern, sound and performance combining both analogue and digital technologies, remaining true to the sampling philosophy of both cultures, to trial, experiment and mix things up. The starting point of the project has been the embroidered textile sampler archives of the V&A and the Embroiderers’ Guild. The research and development of Sampler – Culture Clash has been supported by the Crafts Council through its Spark Plug Curators’ scheme.

David and Jason will give a short presentation on their research to date, including a live performance. Their research has included transposing elements of antique and contemporary embroidery samplers into sound and new written, spoken and stitched word and pattern, through using music software such as Reason, Ableton Live and hardware including AKAI MPC’s.

They would like to collaborate with other members of the Thursday Club to develop a real-time environment mixing analogue and digital technologies where you can turn stitch/image to sound, sound to pattern and back into stitch/image – building an ever changing cycle, manipulated by the creators/performers.

DAVID LITTLER is Director of London Printworks Trust, the UK’s leading resource for experimental printed textiles. Since the age of 16 he has worked as a dj and club promoter and spends far too much money on records. www.londonprintworks.com

JASON SINGH is an International DJ, Beatboxer, Workshop Facilitator, Composer and Visual Artist. He DJ’s extensively around the world and plays a mixture of genres including Electronica, Hip Hop, World, Asian Breakbeat, Reggae, House, Funk and Drum and Bass to name a few.
www.myspace.com/jasonsinghmusic

http://sampler-cultureclash.blogspot.com/

For more information check: http://www.thethursdayclub.net

THE THURSDAY CLUB IS ORGANISED BY GOLDSMITHS DIGITAL STUDIOS AND SUPPORTED BY GOLDSMITHS GRADUATE SCHOOL AND THE DEPT. OF COMPUTING

To find Goldsmiths check http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/find-us/