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Aspect Magazine Accepting Artwork Submissions for its Fall 2003 Edition
BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 15, 2003
Aspect Magazine is accepting submissions for the fall 2003 edition of its biannual DVD publication featuring artists of the west coast of the United States. With the recent launch of Aspect Magazine, cutting-edge experimental artists finally have a magazine that embraces their mediums. Because the full effect of kinetic, time-based, experienced-based, and installation art usually requires a viewer's presence, traditional print media has proved inadequate in bringing such works to a wider public. Utilizing a multi-media format to showcase these works of new media art, Aspect creates a museum experience in the home or classroom. The first volume of Aspect focuses on artists of the Boston Cyberarts Festival and is available directly from the web site.
Aspectís second volume will feature artists from the west coast of the US. The staff of Aspect is asking curators, art critics, and members of the contemporary art community to help assemble and comment on works for the next issue by submitting a work of art on which they wish to provide audio commentary. Due to the format of the publication, the criteria for selection will include both the qualifications of the commentator and the quality of the video submitted. Audio recordings of the commentary will be assembled after the submissions have been selected.
Submissions should include:
- resume of the commentator
- brief notes outlining the contents of the proposed commentary
- video documentation of a work or small group of works by a single artist
- resume of the artist
- contact information for the commentator
Submissions must be postmarked by August 15, 2003 and sent to:
Aspect Magazine
322 Summer St.
5th Floor
Boston, MA 02210
Submitters will be contacted via email no later than August 30th, 2003. Accepted submissions will require an original or digital copy of the master video documentation.
Contact Information:
Aspect Magazine
322 Summer Street
5th Floor
Boston, MA 02210
617-695-0500
http://www.aspectmag.com
submissions@aspectmag.com
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lounge|lab 2003: XOR - Testing Truth.
This years theme is concerned with the interpretation of truth and the dissemination of fakes.
All works are to be interpreted as being created and used within the framework of a GNU Public License, even if the works have nothing to do with software. For us, all art is open source.
We have attached the lounge|lab application as a pdf, and hope that you take the time to read the description and then put together an application.
Deadline: all entries must be postmarked by July 31, 2003!
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Dear Colleagues
I am writing to invite you to submit a proposal and/or forward this to
anyone whom you think may be interested for the 9PIN residency project that
we will launch with SCAN in September.
Details are below, but if you would like attachments please e-mail me and
let me know. If you would like to discuss the project any further feel free
to get in touch.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Best wishes
Helen Sloan
Helen Sloan
Director
SCAN
C/o ArtSway
Station Road
Sway
SO41 6BA
helen@scansite.org
Telephone+44 (0)1590 682824
Fax +44 (0)1590 681989
Mobile +44 (0)7973 919210
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9PIN
Call for Proposals
Deadline for submissions: August 8 2003
Contents
1. Background to SCAN
2. 9PIN the project and how to apply
3. Related Activities
4. Background on SCAN consortium organisations
5. URLs
9PIN is funded by Arts Council England, South East
1. Background - SCAN
SCAN is a network consortium of 10 organisations in the UK (mainly based in
the South of England) who are working together to promote emergent,
collaborative and experimental practice using new and emergent technologies.
SCAN is committed to identifying new models of production and distribution
of artworks and other cultural products.
SCAN aims to provide an expansive and fertile space for artists,
practitioners, writers, audiences and organisations to engage with its
projects and initiatives. This will be provided through the SCAN website and
through the physical spaces in its member organizations. It is a unique
collaboration and will be a major resource for the development of practice,
projects and ideas.
The organisation was set up in 2001 as a platform for collaboration and
sharing of resources between the consortium members. 2003 sees a new phase
of development within SCAN through the appointment of a Director in January
2003, and the launch of a website and other activities including 9PIN in
September 2003. 9PIN will be pivotal in the development of SCAN and in
defining its role in relation to the consortium members.
Whilst SCAN is driven mainly by new media, it welcomes innovative ideas and
practice that also involve other forms. SCAN provides a network for
practitioners, information and opportunities, training, exhibition and
equipment to support the production of new work and educational initiatives
involving digital arts and/or hybrid practice. It is intended to be a focal
point for a wide spectrum of activity such as critical debate, community and
education projects, on-line journals and communities, collaborative arts
production and project partnerships between the private and public sectors.
SCAN’s current members are:
ArtSway, Sway
Aspex Visual Arts, Portsmouth
Lighthouse, Poole Arts Centre
Mount Pleasant Media Workshop, Southampton
Salisbury Arts Centre
New Greenham Arts, Newbury
Animation Station, Banbury
The Living Archive, Milton Keynes
Platform One, Newport, Isle of Wight
Quay Arts Centre, Newport, Isle of Wight.
Affiliated members and partners are:
University of Portsmouth
London College of Music and Media
University of Plymouth
Oxford Brookes University
Lighthouse Media Centre, Brighton
PVA, Bridport
Please read these notes carefully and ensure that you address the contents
in your proposal.
2. The Project
9PIN (Nine Points of Investigation)
A SCAN consortium project 2003/4
SCAN is looking for artists, writers, creatives and practitioners from all
fields (who may also want to work collaboratively) to respond to and
investigate the environments, landscapes and demographics of the SCAN
network. The Nine Points of Investigation are based around the locations of
the 10 core Consortium Centres all of whom to date are Independent Arts
Organisations. The principle criterion for the 9PIN project is to commission
inventive engagements with the geography and communities of the consortium
locations. Proposals must consider the network as a whole, or in part (two
or more locations), for investigation; a collection of multiple sites to
cross between, travel through, engage with, rather than focusing on a single
location in isolation. Proposals may also want to look at how the SCAN
network operates in relation to other sites and locations globally both
currently and potentially.
The project will take the form of a residency period (between September 2003
and December 2004) to be negotiated with the consortium members and SCAN. It
could be a continuous period or a series of shorter periods. A wide range of
options and timescale have been allowed in order that people can respond to
seasonal change and activities taking place in the 9PIN locations. We expect
the nature of the 9PIN residency to be experimental with a view to
developing outputs at a later stage. This is largely because the consortium
venues are programmed at least two years in advance. However, if applicants
wish to make small interventions in the venues, work in public spaces,
produce publications or have a website presence this may be possible
(subject to discussion with venues).
Dependent on the budgets submitted in the proposals, it is anticipated that
3 - 5 individual or group projects will be selected for 9PIN. It is hoped
that at points these projects will overlap and that, where appropriate, a
dialogue might take place between the different project participants. All
selected projects will be asked send a representative to take part in the
Tactical Media Lab in Portsmouth (and a networked part of Next Five Minutes
festival in Amsterdam) on 21 –23 September, 2003 either as a core
participant or through a presentation of their work (see information below).
The nature of the projects will be defined by the proposals submitted, but
we hope that some projects might have a component that engages with
communities and develops audiences. We also see this project as a way of
learning to cohere or distinguish the consortium organisations each of which
represent very diverse environments and demographics. Finding inventive ways
of mapping these places is likely to be central to the project. Mapping
could take place electronically, socially, through the presence of a
particular material at the locations or a combination of these. These are
initial ideas – we welcome any developments or diversions from these that
might add an interesting approach to 9PIN. It is also hoped that project
representatives will be willing to take part in educational work related to
their projects. An educational component may also be integral to the project
proposal.
This project represents a very significant period of SCAN’s development and
we look forward to receiving proposals of an experimental nature which will
set a precedent for SCAN’s approach to its projects in the future. In the
sections below , there is information on each of the consortium members with
URLs which will give a better idea of the constituent member organisations.
Equipment Resources:
All SCAN member organisations have a G4 Mac and iMac computer with the
following software and peripherals:
Scanner, Digital Camera, Printer, Premier 6, Photoshop 6, In Design, After
Effects, Illustrator, Live Motion, Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Director, Flash
Most machines are still operating on OS9 but some have OS10 available
(Platform One, ArtSway, Aspex, Mount Pleasant Media Workshop)
Some organisations have specific facilities eg Platform One – sound studios
and media suite; Mount Pleasant Media Workshop – media suite and darkrooms;
New Greenham Arts – media suite and artists studios; ArtSway – media suite;
Animation Station – media suite and animation facilities; Lighthouse, Poole
– media suite and darkroom; Living Archive – recording facilities and media
suite
Each organisation offers a variety of spaces such as exhibition galleries,
theatres, cinemas, performance areas, and education rooms. See URLs for a
detailed description of each venue and their programmes.
The SCAN website (available from late September) offers a database driven
web facility with opportunities for on-line forums, studio spaces and stand
alone projects.
This will provide a significant resource for the 9PIN project.
www.scansite.org
Details and How to apply
Length and location: Projects to take place any time from Sept 2003 –
December 2004 for a period specified in the submitted proposal. Please
suggest a timescale and the venues you would like to be resident in, where
appropriate, and we will try to accommodate this. Whilst we realise that
some work can be done remotely or out of the organisations, it is hoped that
project participants will be resident at least for a part of their work at
the agreed locations.
Budget: Projects from £1000 - £6000 to include fees, expenses and
production.
Fees should be calculated on the basis of £150 per day and an allowance for
travel and accommodation should be included with the production budget to a
maximum total budget inclusive of fees of £6000.
Submission: Please submit a written project proposal, budget, and supporting
material (eg cvs, slides (6max), CD, DVD, details of urls and printed
material – please ensure that text is compatible with Office 2001 and
software is compatible with OS9.2 Macintosh computer). If you would like to
discuss any aspect of the brief, please contact Helen Sloan, Director, SCAN
01590 682824 or 07973 919210, helen@scansite.org or Andy Robinson, Project
Co-ordinator 9PIN 07739 667734 or andy3471@hotmail.com
Submission deadline: Proposals with documentation of previous work to arrive
by 5.00pm Friday 8th August 2003. We can accept e-mail applications but not
attachments. Please send supporting material by alternative means.
Please send to: 9PIN, SCAN, c/o ArtSway, Station Road, Sway, Hants SO41 6BA
Please include a SAE for return of submitted material (same value of stamp
as for sending)
SCAN will make every effort to respect material supplied for selection but
can take no responsibility for loss or damage.
Selection: Selection will take place on August 12th . The panel will be made
up of representatives of the consortium organisations, Helen Sloan, Andy
Robinson, Tessa Fitzjohn, New Media & Individual Artists Officer, Arts
Council England, South East (tbc) and an independent advisor (tbc).
3. Related Activities
Tactical Media Lab
What is local in a globalised society?
21st – 23rd September 2003
Aspex Gallery and University of Portsmouth
In September 2003 over three days, SCAN, Aspex and University of Portsmouth
will be hosting a Tactical Media Lab (TML) in Portsmouth which is one of a
series of events held as a complement to the Next Five Minutes www.n5m.org
festival based in Amsterdam. This TML is a particularly important one in
that it will be held a week after the fourth festival (Next Five Minutes,
Amsterdam 11 – 14 September, 2003) and will form part of a follow up to the
event. The Portsmouth TML will be held across Aspex Gallery (SCAN consortium
member), University of Portsmouth and on-line.
The purpose of this event is to provide three days of screenings,
presentations, interventions, workshops, networked activities and talks
looking at what defines community and the idea of the local in today’s
culture. A core group of about 20 people will be involved in the whole event
whilst others will take part in presentations, screenings or debates. The
proceedings of the TML will be placed on the SCAN and the Next Five Minutes
websites. The event will provide a lab space for interested parties to
express their views and experiences about the subject area and to develop
ideas for future projects.
The programme is still being finalised and to date we have approached Mike
Stubbs, Julie Penfold and David Garcia as moderators. As other contributors,
we are approaching a number of people including Armin Medosch, Samar Martha,
Martin Reid, Lizzie Sykes, Brand Art, Mette Houlberg, Tina Sotiriadi, Sean
McAllister, and we hope that representatives from the 9PIN projects will at
least make a presentation at the TML if not be involved in a broader
capacity.
Representatives of the group will come from an older people’s reminiscence
project based at ArtSway and facilitated by Mette Houlberg and Lizzie Sykes,
asylum seekers groups and other community groups as well as from the above
list of contributors and staff at University of Portsmouth.
SCAN Launch Event
24/25 September (date & venue to be confirmed)
An evening event to launch the newly created SCAN website (www.scansite.org
- there’s not much to see at the moment but by September we will have
developed it in its first phase) and to introduce the activities of SCAN.
This will be an informal event of sound, music, performance, on-line
activities and refreshments to introduce the SCAN consortium members and the
work of the organisation. 9PIN will be introduced at this event.
4. Background on Consortium Member Organisations:
Websites
ArtSway, Sway, New Forest
www.artsway.org.uk
Aspex Visual Arts Trust / Gallery, Portsmouth
www.aspex.org.uk
Animation Station, Banbury
www.animationstation.co.uk
Living Archive, Milton Keynes
www.livingarchive.org.uk
Mount Pleasant Media Workshop, Southampton
www.mpmw.co.uk
New Greenham Arts, Greenham Common, Newbury
www.greenham-common-trust.co.uk
Platform One, Newport Isle of Wight
www.platformone.org
Lighthouse, Poole Centre for the Arts, Poole
www.lighthousepoole.co.uk
Salisbury Arts Centre, Salisbury
www.salisburyartscentre.co.uk
Quay Arts Centre, Newport, Isle of Wight
www.quayarts.org
SCAN
www.scansite.org
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Here's summer festival The American Living Room Project 2003 is seeking
animated and narrative shorts for the Video Salon (Deadline: July 28th)
The festival supports the development of new works and emerging artists
within a festival setting that makes theater as much a part of everyday
life as watching television. The comfortable living room environment, with
an eclectic mix of comfy easy chairs and plump couches, is a direct
contrast to the fresh, sometimes challenging work presented on stage.
For submission information, please email Victoria Clark,
freightfilmsalon@yahoo.com.
For additional festival information, please visit [Link]www.here.org.
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Video-performance Festival INPORT, in Tallinn (Estonia)
Open Call for Submissions
You are invited to take part in INPORT, video-performance and video documentary Festival, in Tallinn, Estonia on the 29. November 2003.
Performance artists all around the world are invited to submit proposals for festival in the following categories:
Video-performance (performances made specally for camera)
Video documentary (video documentations of performances)
Formats accepted: VHS (PAL only), miniDV (PAL only), VCD, DVD
There‚s no limit of lenght, but please don‚t send the masters! There are no official entry forms or entry fees!
Enclosed with the video/videos you must send the following:
Performance artist or group name
Performance title
Performance consept
Performance date, venue, Festival or event where it was first performed
Brief resume of the performance artist
Contact info (e-mail, postal address, etc.)
Deadline: 05.October 2003
No materials will not to be returned, but will be kept in the Festival archive!
Send all materials to:
Gert Hatsukov
Pikk 4-11
Paide
Estonia
All deliveries from international participants must be marked:
„NO COMMERCIAL VALUE ˆ FOR CULTURAL PURPOSES ONLY‰
If you have any questions, please contact: hatsukovg@art.tartu.ee
With best,
Gert Hatsukov (Festival organizer)
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SEPTEMBER 1 EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR d.u.m.b.o. arts center's SHORT FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL
The d.u.m.b.o arts center (dac) is seeking submissions for the SHORT FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL which will be held in conjunction with the Seventh Annual d.u.m.b.o. art under the bridge Festival, October 17-19, 2003. This event is designed to showcase the work of independent and experimental film and video makers living in the greater New York City area.
GUIDELINES: A signed entry form, synopsis, director's biography, and a $15 entry fee must accompany each submission. (See phone number below to obtain entry form) Entries must be submitted on VHS (NTSC format). Acceptable formats for the festival include 16mm, VHS, SVHS, Mini DV and DVD. Only films and videos of 30 minutes or less are eligible. Applicant must be a resident of one of the five boroughs of New York.
ENTRY FEE: $15 in check or money order made out to the d.u.m.b.o. arts center (dac)
SUBMIT ENTRIES TO:
d.u.m.b.o. arts center (dac)
30 Washington Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
FOR RETURNS OF SUBMITTED TAPES: Each submitted video must include a SASE.
NOTE: PLEASE LABEL YOUR VIDEOS WITH NAME AND TITLE
SELECTION AND NOTIFICATION: The festival panel will make a final selection of works after the entry deadline. If your work is selected, you will be notified by mail or phone by September 26, 2003. The exhibition copy of your work (16mm, VHS, etc.) will need to be delivered to the festival office no later than October 6. Entrants are responsible for shipping costs. Please do not use fiber envelopes.
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aUGUST 15 DEADLINE FOR NYSCA GRANT FOR The Distribution Of New York Media Artists’ Work
The New York State Council on the Arts’ Electronic Media & Film Program announces the availability of funding towards the distribution of recently completed independent media arts projects by New York artists. With management assistance from National Video Resources, awards of up to $5,000 will be made on a competitive basis for audio/radio, film, video, computer-based work, and installation art incorporating these media. This funding category was established to help professional artists in the State gain greater exposure for their work.
These awards can be used for distribution expenses such as marketing, dubs/prints, transfers, closed captioning, subtitling, or CD-ROM release costs. Funding decisions will be based on the artistic quality of the work and the relevance of the distribution plan.
Deadline for submission is August 15, 2003 and awards will be announced in December 2003.
Visit www.nysca.org for guidelines and application. For further information contact NYSCA_s Electronic Media & Film Program by: phone 212/741-3993 or email pjarowski@nysca.org
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July 31 Deadline for paper proposals for The State of Play: Law, Games, and Virtual Worlds, November 13-15, 2003
A Conference Sponsored By
Institute for Information Law and Policy at New York Law School and Information Society Project at Yale Law School to be held at New York Law School in New York City.
This interdisciplinary conference will examine the state of play today in an effort to understand the phenomenon of digital games and the virtual worlds they create and to discuss the complex social, psychological, and legal issues to which they give rise.
Call for Papers: The conference organizers are soliciting contributions from scholars and practitioners in all relevant areas of inquiry, including law, design, political and computer science. If accepted, a conference discussion paper (10-15 pgs) will be due by October 15, 2003. Final article drafts will be due by January 1, 2004. Accepted papers will be presented at the conference and published in a special symposium issue of the New York Law School Law Review.
To submit a proposal, please e-mail: Mr. Chun Li, cli@nyls.edu. Please direct any queries to Mr. Li, Program Director of the Institute for Information Law at New York Law School.