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The Computing Culture research Group is now accepting applications for admission in the Fall of 2004. CCG is an art/technology/activism research group within the MIT Media Lab. Recent projects have included the DJ I Robot Sound System, Government Information Awareness, Critical Cartographies, Doom Monitor, Haptic Opposition, and the Afghan Explorer. Researchers in the group have shown and presented work from Soho to Singapore. The group is accepting several students for the two-year, funded Master of Science program. Applicants from any nation may apply.
Computing Culture is based on the premise that artists can and should invent technologies. We are less interested in using existing technologies for expression than in authoring new ones, ones that might be overlooked by the market or the interests of science and engineering practice. Our research results in specific works of art, but also helps further an understanding of the relationships between art, technology, and cultural production. Some of the strategies that we practice include interventions in contemporary consumer electronics, creating special events for public situations, and applying technical development to cultural agendas that wouldn't normally receive it.
Our emphasis is on physically and spatially embodied (rather than screen-based) projects, and work that engenders technology with significant social agency. Prospective applicants may be trained in either art, humanities, science, or engineering, but should show crossover. For instance, an art or humanities student should ideally be an accomplished programmer, have machining skills, and be able to design and fabricate electronics. An engineering student should have done several art projects, worked with a professional artist, or shown their ability to author radical or unexpected technologies. Those without a combination of technical and critical skills need not apply.
Applications are due December 15th. A portfolio of previous works is required. Information on how to apply may be found at http://www.media.mit.edu/mas/apply.html. More information about the group may be found at our somewhat pathetic web site, http://compcult.media.mit.edu/.
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x x x Deadline Extended x x x
"Life 6.0" Art and A-life competition
Searching for robots, viruses, avatars, algorithms, virtual environments
Sponsored by the Telefonica Foundation, Madrid, Spain
Twenty thousand Euros will be awarded
New deadline: November 7, 2003
Information and application form http://www.vidalife.org
x x x Plazo Extendido x x x
Concurso de arte y vida artificial "Vida 6.0"
Buscamos robots, viruses, avatares, algoritmos o entornos virtuales
Patrocinado por la Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, España
Veinte mil Euros en premios
Nueva fecha límite: 7 de noviembre de 2003
Bases e información http://www.vidalife.org
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FUEL – Call for submissions
For ten days in December 2003 the engine room, Bridgwater and Hunt’s Court,
Taunton will become exhibition spaces for contemporary digital artworks
exploring themes of fuel, warmth, heating and energy in the lead up to
Christmas. Organisers Somerset Film and Video Ltd (SFV) have launched a call
for submissions for the exhibition entitled ‘Fuel’, open to both UK and
international artists. As well as a rotating program of video work there are
opportunities for installations, interactive and/or computer based work.
the engine room is Somerset's newest media centre and the home of SFV,
providing support for a variety of media practice. SFV is a registered
charity, which promotes access to, and education in the moving image across
the county, primarily through production and training. Hunt’s Court in
Corporation Street, Taunton is the former art school building.
Site-specific work is encouraged and supported and any other submissions
must have been completed within the last 2 years. Artists wishing to be
considered should:
--Send completed video work on DVD/VHS/miniDV (max length 15 mins) with
brief biography.
--Send completed sound work on CD/DAT/miniDV/DVD with brief biography.
--Send interactive work on CD-Rom/DVD must be compatible with Windows XP or
Mac OS 9 or above.
--Proposals for new work should be accompanied by brief biography and
selection of previous work (max 5 pieces) on DVD/VHS/miniDV/CD-Rom/URL. If
sending CD-ROM please make sure it is compatible with Windows XP and/or Mac
OS9 or above. If sending URL please send hard copy as websites that are not
viewable during selection time will be discounted.
Send your submission to: FUEL, the engine room, 52 High Street, Bridgwater,
Somerset TA6 3BL, England, and enclose an SAE with sufficient postage if you
would like your work returned. The deadline for submission is 12 noon, 10th
November 2003.
‘Fuel’ is supported by Taunton Deane Borough Council.
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For further information contact
Deb Richardson Administrator The engine room
T: +44(0)1278 433187 F:+44(0)1278 433172 E:
info@somersetfilm.com
Or
Caroline Corfe Community Arts Development Officer
Taunton Deane Borough Council T:+44(0)1823 356356
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As you may know, the University has announced two new professorships in the
OII:
Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation
http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/fp/profigr.shtml
Professor of Society and the Internet
http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/fp/profsocint.shtml
The URLs provide further information about both professorships, but do not
hesitate to contact me should you wish to know more about either post. The
closing date for applications is 24 November 2003. I would greatly
appreciate your help in drawing these new posts to the attention of
prospective candidates.
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First Call for Submissions switch media_ art festival pathiharn electron
[supernatural] - Chiang Mai, Thailand - 6th-30th April 2004
Please forward to interested parties.
switch media chiang mai is an independent, non-profit artists
organization run by an international team with different backgrounds and
skills in art, new media and project-management. switch media is guided
friendly by an international advisory board. In cooperation with
different partners switch media organizes a media art festival in Chiang
Mai, Thailand with the title PATHIHARN ELECTRON [supernatural] from
6th-30th April 2004. The title developed from discussions regarding the
approach to the use of new media (art) - as being different from a
western one. pathiharn electron [supernatural] will evaluate this topic
by asking questions: What is the difference between the visual-graphical
languages of east/west in expressing "supernatural" as in movies,
videos, animations, computer games? What is the difference between
eastern/western cultures of spirituality/supernatural, its
socio-cultural relevance and its expression in new media art? What is
the difference of the socio-cultural impact of digital media (art)
between east/west - is there a ghost in the machine?
The festival will consist of lectures, workshops, video-/digital
art-screenings and exhibitions. It will be mainly focused at the Chiang
Mai University Art Museum but it will also be spread throughout the city
- Chiang Mai "social space", internet cafes, night markets, night
foodstalls, bars, shopping malls, rice fields. An international
conference will close the festival.
We hereby invite interested artists and theorists, organizations and
institutions to participate in pathiharn electron [supernatural]. We
especially invite the neighbouring region.
switch media accepts any form of digital media art - which includes
digital video, sound & music, computer based/generated works,
online-experiments, software, games, asf. As the festival will happen
throughout Chiang Mai we especially look for submissions which can be
used in installations. Deadline for submissions: 15th January 2004. A
team of curators will select the works. Selection results will be sent
out by mail or email in February 2004. switch media will produce a
documentation.
All submissions should be send to:
switch media chiang mai, c/o Chiang Mai University Art Museum,
Nimanhemin Road, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand.
Submissions should include:
1) ID (name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone, fax) and
short CV (max 300 words).
2) CD, VCD, DVD or video-tape of the actual work.
3) Technical requirements & data-format-specifications.
4) If the proposed piece is conceptual, please send a short
description (max 500words).
5) If the proposed piece is an installation, please include a short
description (max 300 words) & an illustration/sketch.
6) If the proposed piece is netbased, please send the URL.
Please, don't send any material by email!
Additional information about the festival pathiharn electron
[supernatural] and the conference will be sent out later. For other
information requests on switch media chiang mai or the unique
opportunities pathiharn electron [supernatural] offers for partners,
supporters, donators please contact switch media chiang mai by email
switchmedia@inter.net, phone +66-53-944846 or +66-53-226461 or fax
+66-53-226461.
Enjoy!
Ratchanok "Nok" Kateboonruang, management assistant, magnok@yahoo.com
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The University of Texas at Dallas
Tenure-track, Open Rank Faculty Positions in Arts and Technology
The School of Arts and Humanities at The University of Texas at Dallas invites applications for three tenure-track positions (rank open) in a new interdisciplinary program in Arts & Technology that focuses on the productive interaction of technology and the creative arts and the humanities. Currently offering the B.A., M.A., and M.F.A. (with plans to add a Ph.D.), the program focuses on the creation, application, and cultural implications of interactive digital content. Successful candidates will have an appropriate terminal degree, evidence of scholarly and/or artistic excellence, commitment to interdisciplinary education, and willingness to help build an innovative academic program that complements the current degrees (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.) of an interdisciplinary school built on three interrelated areas: Literary Studies, Historical Studies, and Aesthetic Studies.
Appointment effective September 1, 2004. Applications in the following areas are sought:
Media Studies (Search 1019):
Expertise in the history, esthetics, ethical implications, and/or philosophy of technological innovation in general and specifically of the new media that have emerged from the convergence of computing and media technologies.
Game Studies and Interactive Narrative (Search 1018):
Expertise in research and production in digital games, interactive narrative or drama, interactive television, virtual or augmented reality, time-based interactive installations, and/or media theory. Preference to candidates who have created original work in interactive genres and who are prepared to teach core digital courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
Computer Animation (Search 1017):
Expertise in computer animation research as well as experience in the design and development of animations for various applications, including games and entertainment, training, immersive research, special effects and/or interactive publications. Experience with MAYA and other professional animation software is required.
Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, three letters of recommendation, and a sample of work (pointer to an online portfolio preferred) to: Academic Search # (see above), The University of Texas at Dallas, P.O. Box 830688, MS AD 23, Richardson, TX 75083-0688. Review of applications will begin December 15, 2003.
Indication of sex and ethnicity for affirmation action statistical purposes is requested but not required. The University is an EO/AA employer and strongly encourages applications from candidates who would enhance the diversity of its faculty.
For information about UTD, see http://www.utdallas.edu
About A&H, see http://www.utdallas.edu/dept/ah
About Arts & Technology, see http://iiae.utdallas.edu
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Enter the Third Place Gallery now if you have new or old digital art work/web sites that is waiting to be rewarded/commissioned. Just log-in and upload/link it and you will be part of the short list for getting 2000 Euro as well as representation in the Swedish art collection at Liljevalchs.
WWW.THIRDPLACEGALLERY.ORG
A PLAYSTATION2 INITIATIVE
New deadline: November 15th
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DNA: art & science - the double helix
The University of South Florida celebrates 50 years of Research
January 22nd - 6:00 - 9:00pm
USF Contemporary Art Museum
USFís Institute for Research in Art (Contemporary Art Museum and Graphicstudio), and the Office of Research, announce an open competition for art and design to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of DNA. A Tampa Bay area committee of arts professionals and scientists will select the participants for the one night only exhibition.
Eduardo Kac - Principal Juror - will speak on the subject of his most recent work "LIFE TRANSFORMATION - ART MUTATION"
Artist Talk & Awards - USF FAH 101
Thursday, January 22nd - 6:00pm
discovery of the century
What Francis Crick and James Watson, discovered in 1953 was the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA. The discovery has stimulated research in the biotechnology industry that has changed the way we live our lives, from the food we eat to the medicines we use. The pair made their discovery on February 28, 1953 at the Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge University in Great Britain. Their results were published in Nature, April 1953.
digital projection display
January 22nd, 7:30 - 9:00pm, Contemporary Art Museum (CAM)
Projected images created by artists, scientists, architects and designers from Florida and beyond will be feature throughout the CAM.
juried electronic exhibition
Submission Guidelines:
All original artwork related to DNA will be considered.
Acceptable formats: 35mm Positive Slide, CD-ROM, DVD, & VHS (NTSC format only). All work must be in Macintosh format.
Submissions must be postmarked or uploaded electronically via the official website no later than November 30th, 2003.
For full submission guidelines, please visit the official website at www.usfcam.usf.edu.
Copy and paste the following link into your browser: http://www.usfcam.usf.edu
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Call for papers
CONSTRUCTED HAPPINESS
The Domestic Environment in the Cold War Era
The Institute of Art History at the Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn
is organising a conference, Constructed Happiness - The Domestic
Environment in the Cold War Era, in 20-21 May 2004.
The divided world of East and West after World War II, was constantly,
either openly or covertly, ready to clash. An important feature of
this rivalry was the promise of happiness; who can build a more
prosperous life for their citizens, either the communist East or the
capitalist West? One of the primary sites for this happiness to appear
was in the home; the private sphere and the domestic environment.
Could these new homes bring the expected happiness?
The conference addresses this politically and ideologically
controversial period from the everyday level through the domestic
environment as one of the central topics in the genesis of modern
architecture. Focusing on the domestic environment of the Cold War era
as a multidimensional social space we will look at the intertwined
network of power relations, islands of private life and the unseen
barriers and prescribed identities that homes contain.
* Building industry and the society
Mass housing and the industrialisation of the building process in the
post-war years was seen as an opportunity for overall improvement of
the living environment. Simultaneously, the private builder carried
out a mass urbanisation outside the confines of the city centres. What
were the differences in regard to the image of the ideal home and
public housing schemes between the East and the West? What were the
different means for financing them?
* Barriers, borders, identities
In addition to seen physical boundaries that define spaces and operate
in houses, homes are structured by unseen orders of social relations,
gender representations and power networks. Together they define the
conventions of the domestic everyday. This leads to questions on the
relationship between the housing industry and its imagined subject, on
the constructed architectonics of the family and the architecture of
the home. Also, what kind of identities, gendered spaces and new
territorialisations evolved in different cultural contexts?
* Islands of private life
The retreat into the private sphere is generally considered as a
strategy for staying outside the reach of the ideological public life.
In the Cold War climate the private sphere acquired significance as a
site of pretended autonomy, of tactical gestures slipping through the
fingers of big politics. Was such a concentration on the private
sphere impelled by political distress or the radically transformed
living environment? Was the private sphere a site for resistance or a
place for escape?
The conference wishes to gather together the different experiences of
the home environment and the everyday during the long period of the
Cold War (1947-1989), to combine different disciplinary understandings
and to bring together scholars from both sides of the former East -
West divide.
Abstracts consisting of the title, text of no more than 250 words and
brief information about the speaker should be submitted by 1 December
2003. Speakers will be notified of the acceptance of their papers by
12th January 2004. Abstracts or queries should be sent, preferably by
e-mail, to:
Prof. Mart Kalm
e-mail: kalm@delfi.ee
Institute of Art History,
Estonian Academy of Art
Tartu mnt.1, 10 145
Tallinn
Estonia
Phone 372 6267 325
Fax 372 6267 328
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http://www.cecip.org
ArtsLink Residencies
Application Deadline: November 5, 2003
ArtsLink Residencies places artists and arts managers
from East/Central Europe, Russia and Eurasia–ArtsLink
Fellows—at U.S. arts organizations for five-week
residencies.
For the November 2003 deadline, ArtsLink will accept
Residencies applications in the categories of visual and
media arts. Artists and managers working in performing
arts and literature may apply in November 2004.
Eligible Countries: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan,
Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia,
Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova,
Mongolia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia and
Montenegro, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Tajikistan,
Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
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CALL FOR ENTRIES, PDX Film Festival,
Deadline: December 15 / late entry Jan 2.
The Portland Documentary and eXperimental Film Festival is a four-day exposition dedicated to showcasing new innovative works of film and video. Focusing on non-narrative works that go against the grain of mainstream entertainment, the PDX Film Festival is looking for artistic, underground, quirky and challenging work that reflects contemporary culture, documents historic oddities, and is otherwise generally unclassifiable.
Find out more at www.peripheralproduce.com
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CALL FOR PAPERS, Cosh Cosh 2004
Proposals for papers and sessions are invited to be considered for presentation at the 2004 meeting of COCH/COSH at the Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Especially welcome are proposals that encourage us to envision - and revise
our image - of the digital in our work, by documenting, exploring, and imagining the emerging or established role of computing in Arts and Humanities disciplines.
Find out more at http://coch-cosh.ca/Congress/2004/cfp.php
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Creative Commons Moving Image Contest
http://creativecommons.org/contest/
Create, or mash-up, a moving image that explains Creative Commons mission,
using your favorite moving image authoring tool, such as Flash, iMovie, or
Final Cut Pro. Entries can contain video, animated images, text, and audio.
We welcome and encourage the use of other people's work, provided that you
have permission or the work is Creative Commons-licensed or public domain.
The entry should be 2 minutes or less. All entries must be licensed under a
Creative Commons license of your choosing by time of entry. Top prizes
include a computer, DV Camera, and an iPod. Deadline for entries is
December 31st 2003. http://creativecommons.org/contest/
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DECEMBER 15 DEADLINE FOR ADOLPH AND ESTHER GOTTLEIB FOUNDATION INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT GRANTS
The Foundation wishes to encourage artists who have dedicated their lives to developing their art, regardless of their level of commercial success. This program was conceived in order to recognize and support the serious, fully-committed artist, and we hope these individuals will consider applying. Ten grants are awarded each year. Applications are reviewed by a panel of five professionals in the arts who have no affiliation with the Foundation. In this program, the following criteria must be met:
MATURITY:
Successful applicants will be able to demonstrate that they have been working in a mature phase of their art for at least 20 years. Artists must work in the disciplines of painting, sculpture, or printmaking.
FINANCIAL NEED:
In addition to the maturity requirement, eligibility for an Individual Support grant is determined by the applicant's current financial need. A financial disclosure page is included in the application which must be completed and signed.
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To Apply: Application forms are available by mail in early September. ONLY WRITTEN REQUESTS FOR APPLICATION FORMS WILL BE HONORED. The Foundation will NOT mail out applications in response to e-mail, telephone requests, or second-party requests. Each applicant must personally request a new application each year.
Send Requests for application forms to:
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Inc.
380 West Broadway
New York, NY 10012
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