Chris Joseph

TURN*ON
Artivistic 2009 (Fall)
Montreal, Canada
http://artivistic.org

The world to come is so sexy. We are unstoppable for we are fueled with an incredible urge to embrace the pleasure provided by difference, exchange and freedom. Our actions today are charged with an energy that is animated by the rise of change and a movement that is simply irresistible.

New movements are arising at the intersections of sex, politics and technology. These movements are inspired by, as well as critical of, the long traditions of struggle they stem from, remixing gender bending, sex work (and play), and media activism. From body hacking to the implosion of the service economy, where are we today and what new possibilities can we envision and nurture?

For its upcoming fourth edition, Artivistic is going sexy. Discussing, questioning, and imagining the past, present, future, and infinite possibilities of sex. While keeping issues of power and control in question, we want to turn to the potency of pleasure, curiosity, humor, and desire in order to TURN*ON that which has yet to be thought and experienced differently.

Building on previous generations of gatherings, Artivistic 2009 asks the following questions:

* What kind of world is worth fantasizing about? How can imagination act as a productive tool to think sex with and beyond the body? Fantasy always plays a role in political projects when we imagine the “world we want”, but how does that fantasy become reality? Where does the line blur? What feedback loops are created between what we desire and the lives we live everyday?

* What actually makes resistance irresistible? The different notions of sex, gender and sexuality draw our attention to the task of naming. That task can be appropriated in liberating ways. How do we move away from tired and troublesome terminology in order to create different relationships that unleash new ways of thinking (and relating) and new strategies for political action? How can reimagining sex contribute to a process of decolonization in every sense of the word?

* What are the alternative infrastructures of sex? Sex is everywhere. Everyone talks about sex and this can tend to be polarizing and unproductive. How we address sex might get us somewhere more, say… stimulating, by welcoming the critical analysis of the production and consumption of sex, and an exploration of self-organized, even intimate, initiatives. What new libidinal economies of service and information are emerging with respect to sex work and how can we struggle for the rights of communities forging these new paths?

In line with the self-organized aspect of the upcoming gathering, the Artivistic collective seeks proposals that intervene in the very (infra)structure of the event, welcoming proposals that involve food, space, venue, communications, hardware, software, skill sharing, documentation, dissemination and so on. The gathering further encourages submissions that take on the challenge of collective participation and collaboration, opening onto unconventional praxes and theses of knowledge production.

Artivistic is an international transdisciplinary three-day gathering on the interPlay between art, information and activism. Artivistic emerges out of the proposition that not only artists talk about art, academics about theory, and activists about activism. Founded in 2004, the event aims to promote transdisciplinary and intercultural dialogue on activist art beyond critique, to create and facilitate a human network of diverse peoples, and to inspire, proliferate, activate.

To submit a proposal, please use the online form via: http://artivistic.org

Alternatively, you can send your proposal to: participation [at] artivistic.org

Deadline: 1st November 2008

Questions: info [at] artivistic.org

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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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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

*PIXXELPOINT 2008 – International New Media Art Festival*
Nova Gorica (Slovenia), 5th – 12th December 2008

*FOR GOD’S SAKE!*

Curator: Domenico Quaranta, Italy

*Deadline for applications: November 3rd 2008*

Direct link to entry form:
http://www.pixxelpoint.org/entryform2008.pdf

More information:
W: http://www.pixxelpoint.org/
E: pixxelpoint2008[at]gmail.com

You are invited to participate!

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For God’s Sake!

How the media change the way we imagine / represent / honour / curse the divinity

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www.trickywomen.at

Tricky Women is the first and only festival of animated film that is dedicated exclusively to animation by women. Since 2007 it has been held annually in Vienna each March.

The festival offers an international competition of animated short films realised by female artists and produced in 2007 or 2008. Each filmmaker, producer or distributor may submit as many films as they like. Each film submitted must be accompanied by an entry form and sent on a separate tape or reel. No films entered in prior Tricky Women Festivals shall be admitted.

The deadline for applications for the preliminary selection is 14 November 2008.

Awards:
- Tricky Women Award of the City of Vienna worth 3,650 Euro
- 3-month scholarship in the artist-in-residence programme of quartier21/MQ
- Synchro Film & Video Material Prize worth 1,500 Euro
- Hubert Sielecki Award worth 500 Euro (for Austrian animation)
- Audience Award

Awards and prize monies will go to the directresses of the films.

Click here for more information and submission forms.

Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art presents
Intrude: Art and Life 366

http://www.intrude366.com

Intrude: Art and Life 366 is an ambitious interdisciplinary and cross-cultural public art event organized by the Zendai Museum of Modern Art in Shanghai, China. From January 1st to December 31st 2008, a cultural event will take place everyday somewhere in the city of Shanghai.

One cultural event a day, 366 events a year, Intrude: Art & Life 366 will present global perspectives on art and culture, and bring these closer to the people of the city, intervening in their daily lives by exposing them to exceptional cultural happenings.

In order to present their work differently, artists will explore new concepts, abandoning the pristine white gallery and museum walls so that different cultural experiences can enter the public space.

Intrude: Art & Life 366 was created as a long-term project, continuing beyond the 366 days of events. All of the events will be methodically archived in Zendai MoMA’s archives and presented in the future as touring exhibitions. The Museum also publishes monthly magazines with interviews and essays on the projects to inform a broad range of people on the progress of the project.

Intrude: Art & Life 366 is looking for artists

Intrude:Art and Life 366 is still looking for ambitious and original artists who are willing to intrude in the city of Shanghai. If you have any ideas or projects you’d like to share, don’t hesitate to send us your proposal. All works that can be realized in different public or private spaces (parks, streets, office buildings, shops, squares, etc) as well as internet-based works are welcomed. Artists active in different fields (visual arts, music, theatre, literature, dance, etc.) can submit proposals by filling out the proposal form and submitting it to Zendai MoMA’s Intrude project team.

To download the proposal form please visit http://www.intrude366.com or write to intrude366proposals@gmail.com For more info contact Liz Coppens, Project Coordinator (Curatorial Department) at liz.coppens@gmail.com

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Do you enjoy creating stories websites, drama, or videos?

Then Hyperplay will blow your mind!

This autumn you have the chance to collaborate over the web with 100 young people to create an epic multimedia thriller with scores of stories, countless characters and limitless locations. Not only that, but you will also help transform those stories into a series of performances with the help of talented actors and cutting edge VJ technology. And you can also record your unique play and publish it to the world.

- Use your mobile to add content to the story
- Work with a professional scriptwriter
- Make new friends across Northamptonshire
- Work with Royal & Derngate to create new mini plays
- Learn how to become a Video Jockey
- Create a soundtrack to the Hyperplay world
- Use digital cameras to create your own short film

Do You Want to Play?

If you are aged 13 to 24 and you want to be part of this unique event starting in Sept 08 then do not waste another second! Places are limited.

0785 0707 663
hyperplay [at] northantsyoungwriters.com

For the timespan from now and till the 1st of November 2008 we now welcome applications for a residency at the CRIR. In general we grant stays of 2-3 weeks at a time unless the specific project needs a different time frame. We consider applications on a running basis, so the sooner we receive it the better

About CRIR
Christiania Researcher in Residence (CRIR) offers residency for artists and academic researchers with a specific interest in Christiania as a field of study.

Background
The aim of the Christiania Researcher in Residence project is to involve artists, researchers and academics in an open, critical and
reflective dialogue around the free town Christiania in Copenhagen, and to feed new creative and critical thinking into the public realm.

Read more::
http://crir.net

How to apply:
http://crir.net/apply.html