From 1995 to 2003, The Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts hosted the “Art on the Net” project promoting the Internet as a space for artistic expression. After the nine years of “Art on the Net,” we launched a new event called the “Project Netarts.org.” The “Project netarts.org” has been calling on artists around the world to investigate together the relationship between Art, the Internet and the Society.

The Exhibition section of the project will feature recent developments in Internet Art and is open to all forms of creative expression that use the Internet as their primary medium.

Although this project is focused on the latest developments in the field of Internet Art, we are also very interested in considering contributions that reflect the influence of Internet Art production on the wider fields of Media-Art, Digital Art, curatorial practice, digital pedagogy, and online publishing.

2. Call for the nomination.

This year, the artworks for the exhibition and the “netarts.org 2008 prize” will be chosen by our Selection Committee. The members of our committee are;

Mark Amerika, Susan Hazan, Agnese Trocchi, John Hopkins, and You Minowa.

The theme this year is “The Ghost in the Machine.” The members will make their own nominations, but we will accept nominations from the web also. Please send your nomination to us directly from http://www.netarts.org/webmuseum.html.

The prize fee for the top selection will be 100,000 yen.

3. Nomination Form

To nominate, please e-mail the following information to us directly:

1). The URL address of your nomination

2). If you are the copyright holder of the nomination, your name, physical Address, phone number/fax. number, e-mail address are required.

4. The schedule

We will accept nominations by mail from 1st, Aug. 2008 to 15th, Sept. 2008.

The award-winning artwork will be selected by 30th Sept. The exhibition will be launched 15th, Nov. 2008. We will soon announce some physical events to take place in Nov. at the Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo.

For more information, please visit at our website, http://www.netarts.org/.

We are waiting for your nomination.
–
You Minowa
Curator
Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts
http://www.netarts.org/
webmaster [at] netarts.org

The Computer Arts Society celebrates CAS 40 - 40 year of supporting the computer arts

CAS is pleased to announce the launch of its Autumn programme with an afternoon/evening joint meeting with the TESLA Group at UCL. All CAS meetings are free and open to the public though please note an RSVP is necessary for the afternoon session.

The CAS AGM will be held in the break as indicated

Venue University College London, Gower Street - room to be confirmed
Tuesday 2 September 2008

15:00 Registration and coffee
15:15 Murray McKeitch http://tinyurl.com/56o74o
16:00 Peter Bentley http://www.peterjbentley.com/
16:45 Julie Freeman http://www.juliefreeman.co.uk/
17:30 Drinks and refreshments (60 min)
CAS AGM (in parallel - 20 min)
18:30 Peter Zinovieff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Zinovieff
19:30 ~ Pub/Dinner (BYO)

A further announcement will be made with detail of talks and location. Due to catering arrangements an RSVP is required if you intend to attend the afternoon session and break/CAS AGM. The evening talk is open to the public and no RSVP is necessary.

RSVP to Paul Brown - paul [at] paul-brown.com

http://www.computer-arts-society.org

**Digital Fringe is now accepting entries (video, stills or audio) **

Ferret around your hard drives, dig up some gems and have your stuff seen on hundreds of screens

Digital Fringe: Part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival (September 24 -October 12)

Uploaded content will be moderated and tagged by the Digital Fringe team then popped in a video carousel that plays on hundreds of screens around the world.

Digital Fringe plays on home computers and public screens, from grand urban screens to retail television displays, hospitality venues, galleries and other nooks and crannys. This extensive network of screens is seen by thousands of viewers.

http://www.digitalfringe.com.au

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Registration is open for the 5th Research into Practice conference at the Royal Society of Arts in London on 31 October 2008. You can register online at
http://sitem.herts.ac.uk/artdes_research/res2prac/regcgi2008.html

The conference will explore the problem of interpretation in research in the visual and performing arts. The keynote speakers will be W.J.T. Mitchell (Chicago) and Griselda Pollock (Leeds).

THEME

It is characteristic of research outputs, reports and theses in traditional disciplines that they are expressed in unambiguous language. One reason for this is to establish the grounds and argument from which the conclusions derive. Another reason is to be quite clear and explicit about what is being claimed as original by the author for the research. This characteristic has the effect of reinforcing the dominant knowledge models such as “the scientific method”, “empirical methods”, etc. However these models come from disciplines whose aims and objectives may differ from those in the arts and humanities. There has been much discussion about the suitability of such models for the visual and performing arts, which seem to rely on a more pluralistic approach to interpretation which values the fact that different generations and different cultures find their own value in the artefact.

Does this difference of explicitness between traditional disciplines and the arts mean that their research outputs cannot be compared? What is the status of the outcomes of research in the visual and performing arts in terms of what is known or discovered? Is research in these areas actually trying to achieve something quite different, and if so what? Is the value of research something constructed by the receiver, and if so what would that mean for knowledge-models in the arts? Are its outcomes more contingent than those in other disciplines because of this difference in the role of interpretation by the reader/viewer? Does the scientific method really result in unambiguous interpretation, or conversely is interpretation really so subjective in the arts?

The conference will focus on the theory of interpretation in research in traditional disciplines and on the emerging theory of interpretation in research in the visual and performing arts.

Conference website:
http://sitem.herts.ac.uk/artdes_research/res2prac/confhome.html

The Dreaming Methods website has been redesigned, with a new style, browsing for projects by keywords, categories or appearance, extensive essays and resources section and a growing list of featured digital writing/new media websites.

MindTrek Conference
October 7-9, 2008 | Tampere, Finland

DEADLINE: 12th September 2008 16:00

http://www.mindtrek.org
http://www.mindtrek.org/competition/ubi

The Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards is an international competition arranged by MindTrek, Nokia and Tampere Region Centre of Expertise in Ubiquitous Computing, and the NAMU research group.

The purpose of the competition is to encourage makers of digital media to generate ideas and develop new and innovative ubimedia products & services. The entries are expected to take a stand on the following questions, for example:

• How does ubiquitous computing affect media environments?
• What are intelligent media environments like?
• What will the location- and context-aware media services of the future be like?

A few other examples are:
• Pervasive and ubiquitous games
• Ambient installations
• Artistic works related to ubiquitous media and computation
• Business models
• Ambient and ubiquitous media technology
• Ubiquitous and ambient media services, devices, and environments
• Context aware, sensing, and interfaces for ubiquitous computation
• Ergonomics, human-computer interaction designs, and product prototypes
• Software, hardware and middleware framework demonstrations
• Ambient television
• etc.

The total award sum for the Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek competition category is 7 000€. The sum can be awarded to one entry, divided between several entries or not awarded at all if the award criteria set by the jury are not fulfilled.

All ubimedia, ubiquitous, pervasive, or ambient products or product and service concepts which have been finalized during the previous year after 1st January 2007 are eligible to take part in the competition.

How to participate?

Please check out the website http://www.mindtrek.org/competition/ubi for entry forms and actual information.

In case of questions, please contact:

Dr. Artur Lugmayr, artur.lugmayr [at] tut.fi, Tel.: +358 40 821 0558, Skype: lartur

Rules of the Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards

1. The purpose of the competition
The purpose of the competition category is to encourage makers of digital media to generate ideas and develop new and innovative ubimedia products & services. The entries are expected to take a stand on the following questions, for example:

• How does ubiquitous computing affect media environments?
• What are intelligent media environments like?
• What will the location- and context-aware media services of the future be like?
• How does the notion of ‘content’ change in times of ubimedia?

2. Organizers
The Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek competition is a category of the 2007 MindTrek competition. The category is organized collaboratively by MindTrek, Tampere Region Centre of Expertise in Ubiquitous Computing, New AMbient MUltimedia Group (NAMU)/TUT and Nokia. The award is funded by Nokia and the Tampere Region Centre of Expertise in Ubiquitous Computing.

3. Products qualifying for participation
All Ubimedia products or product and service concepts which have been finalized during the previous year after 1st January 2007 are eligible to take part in the competition.

An example of a suitable competition entry is a finished product, product pilot or demo. No drafts or mere ideas without relevant documentation will be accepted.

The competition rules do not place limitations on the technology used in the products.

In addition to the application or demo, a short English-language description of the concept should be attached to the competition entry. A presentation template for compiling such a description is available on the MindTrek website (downloadable: MS PowerPoint / OpenDocument odp ).

The description should present the key characteristics and benefits of the product or service in a concise and marketing-oriented manner. A short English-language description in text format can also be attached to the entry (1-3 pages).

The jury has the right to reject the participation of an entry if it does not fulfil the participation criteria. All jury decisions are final.

4. Participation
Registration for the competition ends on 12.9.2008 at 16:00.

If the competition entry is delivered to MindTrek via mail, it must arrive at the MindTrek Association’s office in three (3) copies no later than 12.9.2008 at 16:00. If the competition entry is implemented on the internet, its web address must be submitted to MindTrek when registering within the deadline. Late entries will not be accepted.

In addition to submitting the competition entry, participation requires registration using the registration form at the MindTrek website.

All submissions must be in English.

Originals sent to the competition will not be returned, so you should keep a copy for your own use. Post and packaging costs are the responsibility of the entrant.

5. Award
The total award sum for the Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek competition category is EUR 7,000. The sum can be awarded to one entry, divided between several entries or not awarded at all if the award criteria set by the jury are not fulfilled.

6. Immaterial property rights
The immaterial property rights related to the competition works remain the property of the competitors. The entrants are responsible for ensuring that they have full copyrights to their competition entries and the right to use the works and their elements when participating in the competition.

The material submitted to the award programme remains the property of the author and may not be modified, changed in any way or used in whole or in part for the production of any other work.

7. Evaluation of the entries and the jury
The participating works will be evaluated in the following areas:
- Innovativeness
- Commercial potential
- Entertainment value and/or usefulness and/or artistic merit and creative implementation
- The usability of interactive and context-aware functions and functions utilizing ubiquitous computing in some other manner
- Feasibility (in terms of technology and production)
- Visual implementation and technical functionality

Nokia, Tampere Region Centre of Expertise in Ubiquitous Computing and MindTrek will jointly assemble the jury for this competition category. The jury will comprise at least one member from Nokia, one member from MindTrek and one member from Tampere Region Centre of Expertise in Ubiquitous Computing, and have a minimum of four members in all. In addition to the actual jury, MindTrek’s preliminary jury will take part in the evaluation if required, by carrying out a preliminary elimination.

8. Reference rights
MindTrek has the right to use the competition entries and a mention of the entrants as references in its marketing communications.

MindTrek, Nokia and Tampere Region Centre of Expertise in Ubiquitous Computing have the right to disseminate information about the competition arrangements, competition entries, the awarding of the winners and other details related to the competition in their marketing and advertising, e.g. on the web and in brochures and newsletters.

The submitted works may be used by MindTrek without any restrictions or written permission in all presentations, TV broadcasting, CD/DVD productions, CD/DVD compilations and advertisements (internet, CD-ROM, TV, print).

MindTrek has the unlimited right to use the submitted material for distribution on DVDs and other media, especially the right to distribute the video material to labels and broadcasting companies.

9. Announcement of the results and presentation of the awards
The results of the competition category will be announced and the awards presented at the MindTrek Awards Ceremony. The winners will be announced at Hotel Rosendahl on 8.10.2008 at 5 pm at the MindTrek Awards Ceremony, followed by a press conference. Later there will be the Awards Party at
Yo-Talo to honor the winners of the competitions.

Award nominees will be notified in advance. The presence of the nominees at the MindTrek event in October is strongly recommended.

All nominees are invited to give a half day workshop around the ideas of their nominated project with the students and tutors at Tampere Demo Factory.

10. Compensation of the finalists’ travel and other expenses
MindTrek will pay travel costs up to the sum of EUR 800 per team for a maximum of three invited finalists/teams flying from abroad in economy class. Any Finnish entrants among the finalists will not receive compensation for their travel costs. However, MindTrek will pay for one conference ticket (includes entrance to the MindTrek Awards Party) and one entrance ticket to the MindTrek Awards Party per team for Finnish finalists. MindTrek will not pay compensation for any other possible costs incurred by the entrants due to their participation in the competition.

Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards Jury
Head Of Jury:
• Bjoern Stockleben, RBB , GER

Competition Chair:
• Artur Lugmayr, NAMU group, Tampere Univ. of Technology, FIN

Jury Members (to be completed):
• Riku Suomela, NOKIA , FIN
• Juha Kaario, NOKIA
• Joelle Stemp, Yu Centrik, CAN
• Katri Lietsala Some Lab, Univ. of Tampere, FIN
• Daniel Salber, Joost, NL
• Glen Gebhard, LMU, USA
• Cai Melakoski, TAMK, FIN
• Andreas Holzinger, MBCS Head Research Unit HCI4MED, Medical University Graz (MUG), AUT
• Michael Hausenblas, Johanneum Research, AUT
• Susanne Sperring, Abo Academy, FIN
• Tampere Demo Factory students
• Simon Reymann (TUT), FIN

About the MindTrek Conference

Conference Venue
MindTrek takes place at Hotel Scandic Rosendahl, in Tampere, Finland. The organizer of the conference has booked quota for the conference delegates from this hotel. Please, look for more information on accommodation and registration later from our website. Please note that the accommodation is not included in the participation fee. There is also other accommodation available in Tampere, ranging from modern firstclass hotels to smaller traditional hotels and dormitories. If you select one of these options, you should make the reservations by yourself with that specific hotel.

Further Information
Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards Competition

Artur Lugmayr, Tel. +358 40 821 0558, skype: lartur, artur.lugmayr [at] tut.fi
MindTrek Conference
Jukka Matikainen, +358 (0)40 5336 379, jukka.matikainen [at] mindtrek.org
www.mindtrek.org

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.

1. participants:
+ participation shall be open and free of charge.

2. technical conditions:
+ the biennial, having specialized in graphic work (ibizagráfic), maintains and accepts any printing technique, new technologies or technical innovations in the context of engraving, digital format such as photography, video creation, code, art, etc.
+ all works presented must have been made after 2006.
+ work will be rejected where it is not presented in perfect condition or where, because of the fragility or weak consistency of the material used, it can easily deteriorate.
+ due to technical requirements, for analogical media the work may not exceed 100 x 100 cm.
+ for digital media the following shall be accepted: cds, dvds (pal), vhs’ (pal), urls.

3. time limit, place, form of presentation and return:
+ on working days, from the date of the appearance of this invitation and until 30 october. from 10 am to 13.30 pm and from 6 pm to 8 pm.
+ the delivery of work that can be packed and/or is analogical shall be made in the ajuntament d’eivissa (museu d’art contemporani d’eivissa). plaça d’espanya, 1. dalt vila. 07800. eivissa. (illes balears); o museu d’art contemporani d’eivissa. apartado de correos 251. 07800 eivissa (illes balears), by hand, by post or by courier service. these works must be clearly labelled with their details.
+ all the costs of sending, including customs duties, shall be borne by the sender.
+ deliveries shall not be accepted at the cost of the recipient.
+ a .txt registration file shall be enclosed
+ any work that is not accompanied by the .txt file shall be rejected.
+ the works that you wish to register must include authorisation for the use of material protected by intellectual property rights and copyright where these are included in it.
+ packageable:
++ photography (digital image formats + .txt).
++ infography (digital image formats + .txt).
++ video art (digital video formats + 00h07m00s + .txt)
++ code art + .txt.
+ addressable: send the url + .txt to [mac@eivissa.es]
+ the museu d’art contemporani d’eivissa shall not be liable for loss, retention by the postal or transport service, or for damage that may arise during the delivery of the work or during its return.
+ each work must be valued in euros by its author (for an amount that may not exceed 600 euros).
+ analogical work shall be returned in the same condition and packaging as upon receipt, at the cost of the author.
+ returns shall be requested from the closure of the biennial for those works that have not been selected. and from one year after closure of the biennial for those that have been selected. they may also be taken away personally, with prior notice to the museum. where they are not sought after they will be kept in the museum in the form of a deposit.
+ digital work shall not be returned, whether or not it is selected.

4. exhibition:
+ the selected works, whether or not they receive prizes, shall be exhibited in the museu d’art contemporani d’eivissa or other exhibitions run by the museum and shall remain available to it in deposit, for the period of one year from the closure of the biennial, should it decide to organize other temporary or touring exhibitions of them.

5. panel:
+ this shall be made up of five expert members under the chairmanship of the president of the board of the museum and in his absence by the vice-chairman. his secretary shall be the commissioner of the biennial. the commissioner of the biennial shall determine the works selected and shall resolve all matters not specified herein. the panel shall determine which works receive prizes and any possible honorary mentions and its verdict shall be final. the prizes shall be made public in the act of opening the biennial. the selection of artists shall also be made public.

6. prizes:
+ three prizes have been established, these being first, second and third, which shall consist in the acquisition of the prize-winning works, which shall then form part of the collections of the museum, except in the specific cases of code.art which, because of their special characteristics, cannot be acquired but can win prizes.

7. acceptance of the rules:
+ participation in this invitation implies full acceptance of these rules. for possible complaints, claims shall only be accepted in the first instance before the committee of the ibiza biennial and in the second instance before the ordinary courts for the island of ibiza.
+ the selected artists authorize the use of their names as well as the photographic reproduction of their works, in the catalogue of the biennial, in the mass media and in the programme of activities of the biennial. after one month has expired from the closure of the biennial no claim whatsoever may be brought.

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if file > 2mb; send to nilo dot casares at gmail dot com

if you have any further questions please contact mac [at] eivissa.es

Online application form will open on Monday, August 4, 2008
Deadline for completed applications is Monday, September 22

http://www.artswriters.org

The Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program announces its third round of grants as part of the Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Initiative.

The online application form will open on Monday, August 4, 2008 and the deadline for completed applications is Monday, September 22, 2008.

The Arts Writers Grant Program recognizes and supports individual writers working on contemporary visual art through project-based grants ranging from 3,000 USD – 50,000 USD. Writers who meet the program’s eligibility requirements are invited to apply for grants in the following categories: articles, short-form writing, and blogs/new and alternative media. (Please note that the program also funds book projects; however, the deadline for applications to this category has already passed.)

For guidelines and eligibility requirements, please visit http://www.artswriters.org