Chris Joseph

PLEASE NOTE EXTENDED DEADLINE:
… EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST + CV: DECEMBER 15TH
… FULL APPLICATIONS: MONDAY, JANUARY 5TH

The Ontario College of Art & Design is Canada’s largest independent
university of art, media and design. Located in the Discovery
District of downtown Toronto and at the centre of the city’s dynamic
cultural activities, OCAD has 3500 students and over three hundred
faculty members. Committed to excellence and contemporary approaches
to education. OCAD currently offers 12 programs leading to the BFA
and BDes, and three programs leading to Master’s degrees. It is
building new interdisciplinary programs. The university has
experienced remarkable growth over the past five years and requires
outstanding creative researchers/practitioners and gifted teachers
to join OCAD in an exciting period of institutional development and
opportunity.

Drawing on faculty from across the university and working in
collaboration with a broad range of Canadian and international
private sector and public sector partners, the Digital Futures
Initiative (DFI) is a set of new cross-disciplinary programs,
research, and innovation activities currently being developed at
OCAD. Minors, a major and a suite of graduate programs will provide
learning opportunities in digital art, media and design, linking
this knowledge to emerging technologies with applications in fields
such as art/design and science, sustainability, health and wellness,
accessibility, diversity, and global innovation and business
development. OCAD has launched a research program in many fields of
digital endeavour and related disciplines, and has recently secured
significant funding to begin the construction of a series of
dedicated research laboratories. Faculty cross-appointed in the DFI
will be engaged in all facets of planning and utilization of these
laboratories.

The DFI Program Development and Selection Committee, comprising
representatives from the Faculties of Art, Design, and Liberal
Studies, invites applications for the following six tenure-track
positions:

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InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre in Toronto accepts submissions of original projects from emerging, mid-career and established artists, curators and collectives on an annual basis. Our mission is to expand the cultural space of technology, and we achieve this through diverse activities in our gallery and production facilities. We are seeking proposals for our 1,000 sq. ft. gallery space at Queen and Ossington in the heart of Toronto’s Queen West Gallery district. We support electronic, interactive and new media works which explore this territory in unique critical ways, including connections and cross-over with sculpture, installation, video, site-specific work and performance art.

This year, InterAccess is prioritizing projects which can facilitate ties with the production studio, and artists who can lead workshops in conjunction with their exhibitions. We are selecting works for our 2010 and 2011 programming years. We also encourage artists working with ideas of scale (size, music, the law, lizards?) to submit work for 2010.

Application Deadline: 1 December, 5:00 p.m.

For more information, type the words help and me and put a period in-between them, then the interaccess dot org part.

http://www.interaccess.org/about/calls.php

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KUNSTLERHAUS BUCHSENHAUSEN
INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME FOR VISUAL ARTS AND THEORY
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 2009/2010
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Kunstlerhaus Buchsenhausen invites visual and media artists, art
critics, theorists, and curators to apply for the three fellowship
positions in 2009–2010. The period for which candidates can apply is
September 7, 2009 – July 2, 2010.

[The closing date for submissions is December 5, 2008 (postmark)]

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CODED CULTURES -Exploring Creative Emergences
Binational Festival / Austria - Japan 2009
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: www.codedcultures.net

The team of 5uper.net (www.5uper.net) is happy to announce the CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS for the binational festival »CODED CULTURES - Exploring Creative Emergences«, which is taking place in Austria and Japan in the year 2009 (Austria - Japan Year 2009). The second edition of CODED CULTURES (first edition online at: http://codedcultures.5uper.net) is exploring new artistic practices and creative ability profiles within media integrated project-cultures and digital media related art, focusing on Japan and Europe.

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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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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.

MaMSIE (Mapping Maternal Subjectivities, Identities and Ethics),
School of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London and the
Faculty of Humanities, De Montfort University
Friday, 9 January, 2009

Call for participants
mamsiedmu [at] googlemail.com

This day-long workshop aims to provide an interdisciplinary space to map, debate and discuss configurations of maternal in contemporary literature. It will combine invited keynote speakers with a call for participants. Topics may include:
• the analysis and exploration of developing genres such as the ‘momoir’ and other autobiographical approaches to writing maternal experience and their intersections with auto/biography and life writing as feminist research strategies;
• the politics of the transformation from chick-lit to mum-lit;
• shifting representations of ‘bad mothers’ in literature from the 1970’s to the present;
• assisted reproductive technologies in relation to feminist utopias;
• literary engagements with cloning and the ‘end’ of generation;
• literatures of pregnancy and birth including literatures of ‘failed’ maternity;
• the maternal in digital fiction and other digital genres such as blogging

‘Mums the word’ represents the fourth event in a series hosted by MaMSIE which creates spaces for interdisciplinary conversations about the maternal across different knowledge and practice communities including feminism, psychoanalysis, social science, philosophy, visual and performance art and literature and creative writing. MaMSIE aims to open up and sustain critical debates about the maternal understood in its ethicopolitical, psychosocial, relational and practice dimensions and explore the unique site the maternal occupies at the potent intersection between scientific possibilities, psychosocial practices and cultural representations.

This workshop is designed to provide interdisciplinary spaces for discussion rather than the formal presentation of papers. We are therefore asking prospective participants to submit 250 words describing their work and their interest in the themes of the workshop so that the organizers can group participants into coherent panels and discussion groups.

If you would like to respond to this call for participants, please send your 250-word description to mamsiedmu@googlemail.com by 1 December, 2008.

‘Mum’s the Word’ will take place at De Montfort University, Leicester, on 9 January, 2009. Registration will cost £30/£10 for students. Lunch will be provided.

AHRC workshop on ephemeral media, University of Nottingham, 21-22 July 2009
http://www.ephemeralmedia.co.uk/

The ephemeral media workshop is part of the AHRC’s ‘Beyond Text’ research programme and is designed to facilitate discussion in a small group environment. It can provide travel (up to £100), accommodation, and subsistence costs to all accepted participants. To apply for the workshop, please send a 250 word paper proposal and a short biography highlighting relevant research interests or publications to generalenquiries [at] ephemeralmedia.co.uk by 10th December 2008.

key speakers: Professor John Caldwell (UCLA), Professor William Uricchio (MIT), Charlie Mawer (Executive Creative Director, Red Bee Media)

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No definite dates yet, but the 8th edition of courtisane festival will take place end of april 2009. And here’s the call for entry… You can send your film/project to Courtisane. The submission form and regulations can be found on www.courtisane.be! The submission deadline is 31 december 2008.

MEDIA ART HISTORY 09
Re:live
Third International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology
Melbourne 26-29 November 2009

Call For Papers - Deadline 19th December 2008
http://www.mediaarthistory.org

Sponsored by Leonardo and the Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne)

Following the success of Media Art History 05 Re:fresh in Banff and Media Art History 07 Re:place in Berlin, Media Art History 09 Re:live in Melbourne will host three days of keynotes, panels and poster sessions Media Art History 09 - Re:live, a refereed conference, is calling for papers, panels and posters on the histories of digital, electronic and technological media arts. With the theme of Re:live we are especially interested in expanding the range of topics to include sustainability, live arts and the technological arts of life, both organic and non-organic.

How do the media arts change? Through innovation, accident, discovery, mutation or crisis? How did contemporary media arts come to look and sound like they do? What options and potentialities and eccentricities in the history of media have been lost or overlooked or suppressed? What hopes have been realized and which dashed? What is the history of speculation on alternate histories, and how have they altered the course of media art history?

Participants are asked to address at least one the following areas in their abstract:
- histories of the art-science-technology connection in particular works, careers, exhibitions and institutions, especially in national and regional perspective
- histories of biology, the life sciences and bioart in relation to media arts
- histories of the environment, environmental sciences, ideas of sustainability and ecology in the discourses and practices of media arts
- histories of liveness and performance in relation to media arts theory and practice, including network performance, multimedia performance and the relation of media to the histories of theater
- histories of the life of machines, cyborgs, virtual communities and the arts of transmission
- histories of the liveness of real-time arts and art-science-technology collaborations in such areas as earth sciences, meteorology and astronomy
- histories of innovation, accident, discovery, and speculation on alternative futures in media arts

We particularly wish to encourage presentations from and about these histories in the Asia-Pacific region. Proposals are welcomed from artists, curators, arts organizers and researchers in media, art history, performance studies, literature, film, and science and technology studies.

Selected papers from the conference will be published in Leonardo (MIT Press). We are negotiating with academic presses for one or two anthologies from the conference.

Submissions: A dedicated website with updates and online paper submission system is available at http://www.mediaarthistory.org. Abstracts of proposals, panel presentations and posters should be submitted in either text, RTF, PDF or Word formats

Deadline for 200 word abstracts: 19th December 2008. Please submit proposals at
http://moodle.donau-uni.ac.at/relive/openconf.php

Sean Cubitt and Paul Thomas, conference co-chairs.