Via: "xavier cahen pourinfos.org"

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pourinfos.org

Via: "Juliane Fuchs"

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GERMAN VERSION BELOW
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The Faculty of Media at Bauhaus-University Weimar is seeking
applications
for the position of a Junior Professor for
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Experimental Television.
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The position involves teaching and artistic research in the fields of
studi=
o
directing, live-directing, mixing, montage, VJ-collage and television
design. Experimental Television creates new and experimental forms of
televised expressions that establish their own formats and their own
opportunities for performance beyond traditional event and broadcasting
structures.
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This position is subject to the terms and conditions of =A7 50 b of the
Thuringian Universities Studies Act (Th=FCrHG). The successful candiate
will
be employed as a civil servant for a fixed term. The employment contract
is
limited to three years but may be extended for another three years after
a
positive performance evaluation.
Bauhaus-University aims to raise the ratio of women in teaching,
research
and the art field and especially encourages women to submit their
applications. In case of equal qualifications priority consideration will
b=
e
given to candidates with disabilities.

All candidates should send an application letter stating the reference
number M/AP =AD 03/06 together with other relevant documents (CV,
documentation of recent work etc.) to:

Bauhaus Universit=E4t Weimar
Dekan der Fakult=E4t Medien
Bauhausstra=DFe 11
D-99423 Weimar
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Deadline: April 30th, 2006

Via: Inke Arns

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SAVE THE DATE!

HOW I LEARNED TO LOVE RFID
Hartware MedienKunstVerein at the PHOENIX Halle, Dortmund
Public lectures (in English), HMKV, Dortmund, in cooperation with RIXC, Riga
Saturday, May 20, 2006, 10:00 - 18:00

- in English -

The series of lectures brings together approaches
and projects that artistically and critically
deal with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
Technology - a technology that is significantly
being developed and advanced by companies and
research institutes in Dortmund. This technology
which at first glance seems to be a simple
further development of the bar code (well known
from the supermarket) is much more powerful that
the good old bar code technology. RFID tags are
passive radio transmitters, which upon receiving
a minor wireless energy impulse are sending back
the information stored on their memory. Today,
this information can be read already at a
distance of six meters - without the process
getting noticed. In addition, with its unique
identification numbering system, this technology
will allow for a precise identification of every
object worldwide. What will it be like to live in
a world where all the objects constantly will be
talking to each other?

PROGRAM

10:00 Begruessung und Einfuehrung / Welcome and Introduction
Dr. Inke Arns (Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund)
Rasa Smite (RIXC, Center for New Media Culture, Riga)
Francis Hunger (Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund)

11.00 Keynote: Bruce Sterling (Autor, Belgrad / writer, Belgrade)
Bruce Sterling is a science fiction writer who
has, among others, shaped the notion of
“cyberspace" together with William Gibson
(“Neuromancer"). In his blog
http://blog.wired.com/sterling/ he discusses
future technological developments.

12:00 Rena Tangens, padeluun (FoeBuD e.V., Bielefeld)
Rena Tangens and padeluun are the most articulate
and outspoken critics of RFID technology in
Germany. They will speak about their Stop-RFID
campaign, the Metro scandal, the use of RFID in
the context of the World Cup and sketch a future
vision for the use of RFID compatible with
privacy issues.

13:30 Break

14:30 Rob van Kranenburg (Virtual Platform, Amsterdam)
Rob van Kranenburg will speak about RFID and
Pervasive Computing, i.e. how computer technology
increasingly permeates our everyday life. He sees
RFID as an unavoidable logistics technology that
poses the question of social control.

15:30 Dipl.-Ing. Wolfgang Lammers (Fraunhofer
Institut Materialfluss und Logistik, Dortmund)
The Dortmund Fraunhofer Institute is one of the
most significant research centers for RFID
technology in Germany. An overview of its working
areas and current research projects will be given.

16:30 Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits (RIXC, Center for
New Media Culture, Riga) und Honor Harger, Adam
Hyde (radioqualia, NZ/AUS/GB/NL)
Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits will introduce RIXC,
the Center for New Media Culture in Riga and its
activities in the field of Locative Media. Honor
Harger and Adam Hyde (radioqualia) will speak
a.o. about Solar Radio Station, an installation
developed in cooperation with RIXC.

18:00 Pause

19:00 - 21:00 Solar Radio Station - Live
Installation (also on Sunday May 21, 2006)
The Riga based group Clausthome and VJ Martins
Ratniks (F5/RIXC) will perform live in the Solar
Radio Station. The live audio stream from the
VIRAC radio telescope in Irbene, carrying data
from the sun and from space, will be
electronically enhanced by Clausthome and
interpreted visually by VJ Martins Ratniks.



The lectures take place as a part of the workshop
“How I learned to love RFID" in the framework of
the exhibtion “mit allem rechnen/face the
unexpected. Media art from Estonia, Latvia and
Lithuania".
Cf.: http://www.hmkv.de/dyn/e_program_exhibitions/detail.php?nr=1225

“How I learned to love RFID" is a cooperation
between HMKV (Dortmund) and RIXC (Riga).

Venue:
Hartware MedienKunstVerein at the PHOENIX Halle,
Dortmund - Hochofenstr./ Rombergstr.,
Dortmund-Hoerde

Road description:
http://www.hmkv.de/dyn/e_contact_roaddescription/

URL:
http://www.hmkv.de
http://www.rixc.lv


Supported by:
Kulturbuero Stadt Dortmund, 38. internationale
kulturtage der stadt dortmund / scene: estland
lettland litauen in nrw, Kunststiftung NRW, Der
Ministerpraesident des Landes
Nordrhein-Westfalen, Kultusministerium der
Republik Lettland, Kultusministerium der Republik
Estland, Kultusministerium der Republik Litauen,
Botschaft der Republik Litauen in der
Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Lietuvos Institutas,
dortmund-project, LEG, PHOENIX, Coolibri (media
partner)

Via: Inke Arns

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In cooperation with other partners, Hartware
MedienKunstVerein organises two exhibitions on
the topic of football and globalisation at
PHOENIX Halle Dortmund. From May 5 until July 16,
2006, football fans and art lovers can take a
look behind the scenes of the global game:
“Glamour and Globalisation" (curated by Inke
Arns, Hartware MedienKunstVerein) and “Fanshop of
Glolbalization: Soccer, Space and Economy" (a
project by Bundeszentrale fuer politische Bildung
and raumtaktik, Berlin).

FANSHOP OF GLOBALIZATION:
SOCCER, SPACE AND ECONOMY
A project by Bundeszentrale fuer politische Bildung and raumtaktik
May 5 - 9, 2006, in front of PHOENIX Halle Dortmund
Opening: Thursday, May 4, 2006, 19:00
with: Thomas Krueger, President of Bundeszentrale
fuer politische Bildung; Dr. Friedrich von
Borries, raumtaktik

The “Fanshop of Globalization", a project by
Bundeszentrale fuer politische Bildung and
raumtaktik located in a 12 meter long overseas
container, presents a comprehensive exhibition on
the global economic system. Here, the soccer fan
can get acquainted in an entertaining way with
the economic mechanisms, political backgrounds
and cultural contexts of soccer in the age of
global economy. The five thematic chapters of the
"Fanshop" are added value, migration, corporate
interconnection, cultural identity and social
divide. The exhibition's central elements are
soccer shirts from all over the world, newly
designed and furnished with background
information on the consequences of globalization
as well as visual charts of the functioning of
the global system of soccer. While the “Fanshop"
will be travelling to nine other "World Cup"
cities in Germany, some of its elements will be
on display in the exhibition "Glamour and
Globalisation" at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund until
July 16, 2006.

Artistic directors: Friedrich von Borries / Matthias Boettger


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GLAMOUR AND GLOBALIZATION:
FOOTBALL, MEDIA AND ART
Hartware MedienKunstVerein at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund
May 5 - July 16, 2006
Opening: Thursday, May 4, 2006, 19:00
Eroeffnung: Donnerstag, 4. Mai 2006, 19 Uhr
With: Dr. Gerhard Langemeyer, Mayor of the City
of Dortmund; Dr. Christian Esch, director of NRW
Kultursekretariats and Dr. Inke Arns, artistic
director of HMKV

The Hartware MedienKunstVerein presents fourteen
international media artists that deal with the
five thematic chapters of the "Fanshop of
Globalization" and that broaden these topics in
specific ways: (labour) migration, added value,
interconnection, cultural identity and social
divide.

Ursula Biemann / Angela Sanders and Etta
Gerdes/Jens Sundheim research new forms of
transnational (labour) migration caused by
globalization. While Mieke Gerritzen shows the
"beautiful world" of globalization as an endless
series of colourful adverts and slogans, Ingeborg
Luescher makes two football teams face (and play
against) each other in elegant designer suits. As
in economy only those are on the winning team who
break the rules of the game without getting
caught. In 2003, in a spectacular action the
artists'/activists' group 0100101110101101.org
re-named the historical Karlsplatz in Vienna into
"Nikesquare". For several years now the Yes Men
have appeared as the official representatives of
the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and the
company Dow Chemical. In 2005 they presented the
“Acceptable Risk Calculator" to enthusiastic
managers and unveiled Gilda, the golden skeleton.
In 2001 in their function as "representatives" of
the city of Leipzig Eva Hertzsch and Adam Page
travelled to the venues of the World Championship
of Football in Japan and Korea and had
interesting talks with local representatives. In
a monumental cartographic image mounted on a wall
the group Bureau d'Etudes dissects the capillary
structures and entanglements of global media and
telecommunications ownership, thus displaying
what binds the world's innermost core together.
In his 12-channel video installation focussing on
Galatasaray Istanbul Omer Ali Kazma addresses the
topic of cultural identity. Further works that
deal with football as social phenomenon in
centers and their fringes are by Ulf Aminde,
Martin Brand and RASSIM®. While Brand and Aminde
focus on the social contexts of the game,
RASSIM®'s project points to the economic divide
between first and Second World. The London
Psychogeographical Association explains the rules
of three-sided football which was introduced by
the African football player Luther Blissett.


Participating artists:

0100101110101101.org (I)
Ulf Aminde (D)
Ursula Biemann / Angela Sanders (CH)
Luther Blissett / London Psychogeographical Association
Martin Brand (D)
Bureau d'Etudes (F)
Etta Gerdes / Jens Sundheim (D)
Mieke Gerritzen (NL)
Eva Hertzsch & Adam Page (D/GB)
Omer Ali Kazma (TR)
Ingeborg Luescher (CH)
RASSIM (BG)
The Yes Men (USA)

Curated by
Inke Arns


GLAMOUR AND GLOBALIZATION:
FOOTBALL, MEDIA AND ART
Hartware MedienKunstVerein at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund
May 5 - July 16, 2006
Opening: Thursday, May 4, 2006, 19:00

A project by Hartware MedienKunstVerein
In the framework of medien_kunst_netz dortmund

Curator and artistic director of HMKV
Inke Arns

Managing director of HMKV
Susanne Ackers

Exhibition architecture and technical director of HMKV
Uwe Gorski

Junior Curator
Francis Hunger

Public Relations
Roland Kentrup

A brochure will be published in German and
English containing texts by Inke Arns (IA) and
Francis Hunger (FH).

Short CVs of the artists can be found on HMKV's website.

Generously supported by

Der Ministerpraesident des Landes NRW
Innenministerium des Landes NRW
NRW Kultursekretariat Wuppertal
Kulturbuero Stadt Dortmund
dortmund-project
PHOENIX
LEG
AFAA - Bureau des Arts Plastiques/Franzoesische Botschaft
basis Druck, Duisburg
LAG Soziokultur, Muenster


VENUE
Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV)
at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund
Hochofenstr./ corner of Rombergstr.
Dortmund-Hoerde (this is not a postal address!)
Tel. ++49.231.40 80 279

OPENING HOURS
Wed 11:00 - 17:00
Thu - Sun 11:00 - 20:00

GUIDED TOURS
Each Sunday at 16:00

ADMISSION
4 ¤, reduced 2 ¤

CONTACT
Hartware MedienKunstVerein (office)
Guentherstr. 65
44143 Dortmund
Tel. ++49.231.823 106
Fax ++49.231.88 20 240
info@hmkv.de
www.hmkv.de

Via: "Seth Thompson"

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Wigged Productions in collaboration with curator Humberto Ramirez is
seeking Web-based artists working in video, animation and netart to
contribute projects for an online exhibition addressing the concept
of "EXTRAPOLATIONS" We are particularly interested in works situated
outside of mainstream visual strategies, using anachronism, simulacra,
radical denial, historical revision, nonlinear narratives, humor etc.
The
idea of critique as an oblique activity, tangential and tactical is
central to this project.

In order to submit your work for consideration, please provide your
name, title of project, short synopsis and URL address by email to
extrapolations@hotmail.com, or alternatively send DVD with QuickTime
movie or miniDV by May 25, 2006 with requested information to:

EXTRAPOLATIONS
P.O BOX 1637
BRATTLEBORO, VT 05302-1637

The online exhibition will run from July 1, 2006 through June 15,
2007 and the deadline for submissions is May 20, 2006.

Via: "Steven Clift"

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Democracy & Independence:
Sharing News & Politics in a Connected World

Summit aims to unite media, political, education, technology
sectors in charting the future of journalism

June 29 - July 1, 2006
University of Massachusetts Amherst

For the full details on the conference, see:

http://www.mediagiraffe.org/invite-dowire


If you register for "Tracks 1-5" I've worked out a $50 dollar discount.
For
"Tracks 2-5" the discount is $25. Simply put "DOWIRE"
in the bottom "Optional Information" comment box.

This conference is uniquely positioned to convene those engaged in
politics
and citizen engagement online with a larger gathering of new media and
journalism leaders.

Register from here:

http://www.mediagiraffe.org/invite-dowire


Quick Details

Hundreds of traditional and citizen journalists, political strategists,
educators, bloggers, developers, technology and media researchers will
convene June 29-July 1, 2006 at University of Massachusetts Amherst for
the
first Media Giraffe Project conference.
The Media Giraffe Project, a non-partisan, interdisciplinary research
effort
of the UMass journalism program, is hosting the roundtable summit and
how-to
sessions designed to:

* Consider and recommend answers to changes to the financing and
practice of journalism
* Bridge the gap between new and traditional media
* Show and consider the impact of new media technologies on
journalism and the "public sphere"
* Spotlight emerging business models
* Create new networks of media innovators which bridge traditional
carriers among journalism, education, politics and technology
* Watch and share innovations in media-literacy education.

Who Should Attend

The conference is designed for:

* traditional media strategists, editors and practitioners
* elected officials, political and public-policy strategists
info-tech pioneers and entrepreneurs
* operators of local-news websites and blogs
podcasters and vloggers dealing with news, political and public-
policy issues.
* academic researchers and students
* citizens who want "how-to" knowledge about participatory media
anyone interested in new innovations in web, print, film and audio
news creation, delivery and financing.


Read the full announcement here:

http://www.mediagiraffe.org/invite-dowire

Sincerely,

Steven Clift
Democracies Online
http://www.dowire.org <- Visit the new blog/wiki/groups site.


P.S. With my new DoWire Groups site, I am considering a new "Citizen
Media"
online group (e-mail list/web forum combo). Let me know if you are
interested: clift@publicus.net

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Steven Clift - clift@publicus.net

Web: http://publicus.net
Blog: http://dowire.org/notes
NGO: http://e-democracy.org

Replies to slc@ may be missed.
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Via: "Projekt30"

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Projekt30 would like to invite you to participate in the curating process
of Projekt30's May Exhibition. Please stop by, it only takes a minute,
and it's fun to help curate an art show.

Go to:

http://www.projekt30.com

...and follow the "jury the may exhibition" link. All work will be
online for jurying until April 29, with the results going online on May
1. If you have any questions regarding the process please see the
jurying Frequently Asked Questions located at:

http://www.projekt30.com/juror_questions.html

If you are interested in any of the featured artists for any reason
please feel free to use the "contact this artist" link below their work.

We hope you enjoy the show!

Projekt30:

Projekt30 is an artist run arts organization. It is our mission is to
expose artists to "brick and mortar" galleries interested in presenting
their work. We are expanding the marketing tools available by providing
easy to build websites for emerging artists. We are helping shape the
art world in the twenty-first century by using our public jury system to
encourage broader public interest in the fine arts.








You are receiving this invitation because you have been identified as a
person involved or interested in the arts, either in a personal or
professional capacity. We understand the frustration some people
experience due to unwanted email: IF YOU WOULD NOT LIKE TO RECEIVE FUTURE
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Via: Garrett Lynch

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Collaboration for artists can be one of the most productive endevours.
It produces work by the artists involved which would have unlikely been
produced individually and also obliges the artists to make conceptual
compromises they might not usually have to. It frees up the creative
spirit as each artist realises at a point that they have to let go of
their single vision to accommodate the thinking of the other. The
OTHER is the crucial element in collaboration, it not alone designates
the other artist but also implicates the unseen, inexperienced,
unknowable, unthinkable and inconceivable of the former

Under this framework Garrett Lynch and Frederique Santune would like to
announce the release of three networked performance video
collaborations entitled:

Grimace
C.a.r.n.e.t. . .d.a.b.o.r.d
Looping Portrait #1

Each work was performed live employing multiple digital video cameras
networked and mixed through a camera security system.

Via: "Stoffel Debuysere @ argos"

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argos is looking for an ICT collaborator
As a centre for the arts with a focus on audiovisual media and visual

culture, argos (based in Brussels) keeps close track of digital
evolutions. Both our activities and communication are largely
determined by the potential of new technologies: from online
databases and CRM applications to RAID archiving and VoIP
telecommunication. As audiovisual media are taking on new shapes, the

production and distribution models evolve as well (e.g. High
Definition formats, tapeless video-storage, IPTV, P2P and streaming),

developments with repercussions on the various functions of argos.

argos is looking for a collaborator who can help to steer these
developments in the right direction, both logistically, as with
regards to infrastructure or content. This collaborator will assert
him-/herself to translate the activities of argos efficiently into a
digital environment, investigate the various possibilities, both
receptively and proactively and follow up on the implementations, in
collaboration with the communication team and/or external
collaborators. He or she will make out the link between technology
and content and from that perspective he will think along about the
use and applications of ICT, with regards to communication,
production, archiving, distribution and presentation.

Function content:
Specifically the ICT collaborator will be responsible for the
following aspects:
Management of the network / System Administrator
Following up on and implementing broadband technologies, according to

needs and ambitions (e.g. streaming)
Support to users with regards to hard and software
Following up on the evolutions concerning data control and management

(databases and digital archiving through SAN and backup systems,
VoIP ...)
Management and structural development of the web environment of argos

(hosting, CMS, site, mailing...)
Offering ICT support during productions and exhibition project
Support the translation of conceptual ambitions into projects and
financing.
Reflect proactively on trends and innovations in ICT, web-based
communication, audiovisual media and knowledge policy

Function requirements:
We are looking for an independent and creative team player with
cultural-technological awareness and a proactive attitude
Experience with the design of web environments and Content Management

Systems
Experience with setting up and managing networks
Affinities with the domains of =91audiovisual production=92 and =91media
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art=92
Knowledge of audiovisu

Via: "Subtle Technologies"

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Hello,
Could you please post the following information regarding the Subtle
Technologies Festival.
Thank you.
Angella Mackey

RESPONSIVE ARCHITECTURES: Subtle Technologies 2006 Festival
Toronto, Canada

June 1-4, 2006: Subtle Technologies Symposium
May 30-June 1, 2006: CDRN Parametric Design Workshop
http://www.subtletechnologies.com

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
*Register by May 7, 2006 for discount*

How do responsive systems affect us? Interactive art, scientific
research in complex systems and leading ideas in architecture and
design come together in this 9th annual international forum. We
invite artists, architects, designers, engineers, scientists, and the
general public to join us in this dialogue. Research presentations and
artist talks will be complemented by exhibitions and workshops.
Keynote lecture by Steven Vogel, author of the pioneering text 'Life
in Moving Fluids.' The Symposium is preceded by the Canadian Design
Research Network Parametric Design Workshop.

To register, and for more information visit: http://www.subtletechnologies.com/
Subsidized registration is offered for students and the underemployed.
Interested in volunteering? Contact us at ktrethewey@subtletechnologies.com

Partners: soundaXis, InterAccess Media Arts Centre, Canada Design
Research Network, University of Toronto Faculty of Architecture,
Landscape and Design, University of Waterloo School of Architecture

Supporters: Canada Council for the Arts, Canadian Heritage, Ontario
Arts Council Toronto Arts Council, Bentley Systems Inc.