Chris Joseph

THURSDAY CLUB, THURSDAY JUNE 25th 2009

Goldsmiths, University of London
Ben Pimlott lecture theatre
7pm start

All welcome and free

Theorizing Performance in Virtual Spaces

The presentation will describe and analyze the theoretical issues for Performance Studies posed by new genres of performance in virtual environments, such as Second Life. We will also demonstrate the technological modifications to Second Life that our team has developed to facilitate a new form of mediated performance and outline the experiments that we have initiated to take advantage of this technology. Utilizing a panel discussion format involving live participants and avatars in Second Life, our presentation aims to shed light on the unique opportunities provided by virtual environments in formulating new approaches to theorizing contemporary performance practices. A fundamental premise of the discipline of Performance Studies is that theory is enlivened and most rigorously tested when it hits the ground in practice. We at Georgia Tech have a particular opportunity to test that premise, because our institution is a meeting ground for technological practice and critical reflection.

The Augmented Environments Lab (AEL) and the Wesley Center for New Media are in the process of developing technological modifications to Second Life that will facilitate a new form of mediated performance, one in which actors and audience share a performance space that is both physical and virtual. We are already planning performances that will take advantage of this technology: these performances will be a negotiation between professional improv artists in the city of Atlanta and technologists here at Georgia Tech.

Members of the team presenting are

Kathryn Farley, Prof. Jay Bolter, Professor Michael Nitsche and grad. student Jenifer Vandagriff.

Web site for the project: http://arsecondlife.gvu.gatech.edu

Call to participate in the 3rd Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards Competition

September 30th – October 2nd, 2009, Tampere, Finland
http://www.mindtrek.org/ubimedia

Competition deadline: August 7th
Award Sum: 7,000 Euros

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 Award 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 2008 are eligible to take part in the competition.
Competition deadline is August 7th

How to participate?
Please check out the website http://mindtrek.org/ubimedia for entry forms and actual information.

In case of questions, please contact:
ubiaward (AT) mindtrek.org
Rules of the Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards

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Extended deadline: 31 August 2009

Cinematheque – streaming media project environments
http://cinema.nmartproject.net

is happy to launch the new call for 2009

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‘The Piano Etudes Project’ A Space for Play.
Review by Les Loncharich.

The Piano Etudes project by Jason Freeman, with Akito Van Troyer and Jenny Lin, is a move towards opening the forbidden city of musical composition. The project is based on piano etudes, musical compositions in which the pianist can rearrange connections between some open form pieces. Site visitors are invited to create their own etudes from four short compositions by Jason Freeman. Each etude is transcribed graphically into something that resembles an organizational chart. Each visual component of the chart has a corresponding audio note pattern. The pitch of a note pattern is roughly indicated by the height of a horizontal bar that is part of the graphic. A site user can select graphic elements and arrange them on a time-line to hear the resulting sound piece. Pieces created on the site can be saved and transcribed into musical notation so that pianists can perform pieces created by site visitors.

http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=352

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Reboot Britain
London
6 July 2009

An economy deep in recession, ever increasing demands on our public services and trust in our political system at an all time low. We face an unprecedented set of challenges: how can we punch through the gloom?

Instead of more pessimism, at this one day event on 6 July, we ask you to work together with us to Reboot Britain.

How can we take advantage of the radically networked digital world we now live in to help revive our economy, rebuild our democratic structures and improve public services?

Confirmed speakers include Martha Lane-Fox, Gillian Tett (author of Fools Gold), Howard Rheingold, Charles Leadbeater, Craig Newmark (craigslist), Sir Michael Bichard (Design Council and Institute for Government), Jon Gisby/Daniel Heaf (Channel 4), Paul Miller (School of Everything), Alan Moore (SMLXL), Lee Bryant (Headshift), Julie Meyer (Ariadne Capital), Andy Hobsbawn (Do the Green Thing), Jon Watts (MTM London), Jeff Saperstein (Creating Regional Wealth), Jim Schuyler (CTO to the Dalai Lama), MT Rainey (Horsesmouth)

New speakers are being added daily. Check out http://www.rebootbritain.com for more

Over 350 people have so far registered for Reboot Britain so far.

If you haven’t already registered you can by here http://rebootbritain.eventbrite.com/

Tickets are been priced according to your ability to pay.

As well as the formal sessions we have a Reboot Camp taking place simultaneously across the venue which include the following

v Demos present their Progressive Conservatism thinking for public services.
v How are we going to manage doing more for less?

v Learning Without Frontiers: How technology is changing cognitive development, and redesigning our schools for the new age

v WeBank host a peer-to-peer session on new models for lending and borrowing, using Zopa as a case study showing how quickly you can lend or borrow without the middleman

Other sessions include:-

v Innovation Live – Stan Stalnaker, Hub Culture

v Social Innovation Camp Express

v Tim Davies – 50 small hurdles that prevent public bodies from unlocking their knowledge

v Elevator Pitches – online democracy, transparency and participation tools

v Conversing with local government at grassroots level- Hyperlocality and active citizenship

v The Stalemate – where next for the media and politics?

v The future of public service media

v Social x Social

v Busting the Silos – opening organizations for growth

v Practical examples of new financial instruments

We hope you can join us at Savoy Place, London on 6 July

Do contact us if you require any further information

Very best,

Steve

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Steve Moore
Director, www.policyunplugged.org
http://open2gether.com
http://twitter.com/stevemoore4good
0870 366 5280 / 07870515025

for remixworx, from Recycling Bellini + ongoing construction of ‘Kinetica’ building in Hackney, London

flash source/music: towerreconstruct.zip (3.7MB)

Deadline: Tuesday, 1 September 2009
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CologneOFF V -
5th edition of Cologne Online Film Festival
http://coff.newmediafest.org
is planned to be launched in November 2009 under the festival themes

1. Taboo
2. Violence

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Entry
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VideoChannel – video project environments
http://videochannel.newmediafest.org
invites artists and directors for submitting videos/films, i.e. narratives and documentations (max 15 min.)
experimenting with new concepts of transforming artistic contents into moving images, new forms of representing und new technologies

Deadline: 1 September 2009

All entry details and the submission form can be found on netEX – networked experience
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1030

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About CologneOFF
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CologneOFF – Cologne Online Film Festival
http://coff.newmediafest.org ,
founded in 2006 as a new type of mobile film & video festival taking place simultaneously online and physical space in cooperation with partner festivals, is directed by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

The first 4 festival editions
CologneOFF I – “Identityscapes” – 2006
CologneOFF II – “Image vs Music” – 2006
CologneOFF III – “Toon! Toon! – art cartoons and animates narriatives” – 2007
Cologne IV – “Here We Are” – 2008

were presented between 2006 and 2009 in cooperation with festivals in India, The Netherlands, Venezuela, Argentina, France, Serbia, Spain, Poland, Belgium, Turkey, Greece, Mexico, Bosnia-Hercegovia and others

More info on
http://coff.newmediafest.org
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CologneOFF, VideoChannel , VIP – VideoChannel Interview Project and VAD – Video Art Database are dedicated to art forms of film and video in the framework of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
http://www.nmartproject.net
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info [at] nmartproject.net

The Artist in Residence (AiR) programme at the Netherlands Media Art Institute supports the exploration and development of new work in digital/interactive/network media and technology based arts practice. The residency provides time and resources to artists in a supportive environment to facilitate the creation of new work that is produced from an open source perspective. We encourage a cross disciplinary and experimental approach. This is a practice based residency designed to enable the development and completion of a new work.

The ideal candidate will have a broad understanding of contemporary art and theory, as well as media history and visual culture and should have knowledge of requested software, as well as understanding of programming.

The artist’s intention should be to make a new artwork, to be shown in exhibitions and to be distributed by the Netherlands Media Art Institute and others. (We do not demand exclusivity for presentation or distribution.)

For the AiR program 2010 we manly focus on technology and mobility that can change habits and inhabitation of public spaces. Our goal is to explore mobile and portable platforms as innovative creation and distribution systems. Proposals for users participation and interaction by modified excistend devices as phones, iPod, GPS and others are welcome.

If your ideas for a new artwork does not fit into the mentioned demands you still can apply: we are always interested in brilliant ideas.

DEADLINE: 1st September 2009
Please use the application form on our website (Research – AiR) http://www.nimk.nl/
and mail it to heiner [at] nimk.nl

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A brilliantly simple online tool by Apt that asks you what you’ve just finished reading, and from this tells you what you should read next, using data pulled from Amazon and LibraryThing. Read more about the tool at booktwo.org.