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Deadline : 23 June 2007
Dispatx Art Collective is now accepting proposals for full-length
collaborative projects related to the theme in exploration,
Appropriation in Creative Practice.
Contemporary artists regularly appeal to theory and philosophy as
justification, premise, or point of departure. More recently some
artists have begun to incorporate theoretical texts as a material for
their work. This treatment of philosophy, as if it were cardboard or
paint, questions perceived boundaries and dependencies between
theoretical idea and creative practice.
How can theoretical ideation and structure be appropriated by
different creative practices? What effect might this have on the
development of work or on the creative method in general? Crucially,
in what ways can ideas themselves be treated as material substances,
rather than as jumping-off points or conceptual armatures, and does
this alter their influence and status?
Full-length projects make up the majority of the Dispatx collections.
The documentation of their development is made fully visible i
Via: Mason Dixon
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Hello, please pass the word on about this lovely event to anyone you
know who appreciates a good laugh and tearing down borders...
///
C.I.R.C.A. BOREDOM PATROL AND THE CIRCUS OF (IM)MIGRATION!
April 30th to May 13th
Join us for stories, ridicule of fascism, creative resistance, tearing
down walls and building community!
...including Fantastical feats of Fire, Lion Taming, Tight Rope Walking,
Knife Throwing, Burlesque, Theater of the Oppressed, Videos, oh yeah and
clowns too!
Gorgeous illustrations and more silliness here:
http://circasd.org/circus.html
Circus Schedule:
Olympia, WA
Mon, Apr 30, 12pm clowning around at the Red Square at Evergreen State
College, 6-9PM, "Subvert Everything" Skillshare, Evergreen State College
Tues, May 1, 12pm, Sylvester Park, Mayday Carnival
Portland, OR
Sat, May 5th, Bouffon Workshop with Sue Morrison from 10:30am - 3:30pm
followed by CIRCA Boredom Patrol's "Subvert Everything" Skillshare,
4-7pm at Watershed Project, 5060 SE Milwauke St
Bay Area
Mon, May 7, 12pm, Berkeley, Circus Performance,
UC Berkeley Promenade
Tues, May 8, San Francisco, "Subvert Everything" Skillshare, 5-7pm,
Circus Performance, 8-10pm, at Station 40, 3030b 16th St., in the
Mission
http://indybay.org/newsitems/2007/04/23/18404014.php
Wed, May 9, Santa Cruz, Location TBA
Fri, May 11, Los Angeles
Sat, May 12, Tijuana
San Diego
Sun, May 13, 7-9pm, The Rubber Rose, Circus Performance, benefit for the
No Border Camps in Calexico and Mexicali in November, 2007
http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2007/04/125863.shtml
We are Clandestine because the sneaking game is our favorite, especially
when everyone knows your coming.
We are Insurgent because we spend our days mocking racist vigilante
paramilitaries. (aka the minute klan) Our only weapons are feather
dusters, baguettes and bubbles.
We are Rebel because our solidarity knows no borders and because we want
to eat borders like the cookie monster until it crumbles in our laps.
We are Clowns because what else can one be on the edge of the nation
state. Because nothing undermines the border like holding it up to
ridicule. Because since the conquest tricksters have embraced the
contradictions of inclusion and exclusion, creating coherence through
confusion. Because in the face of facism we are fools, both fearsome and
innocent, wise and stupid, entertainers and dissenters, healers and
laughing stocks, scapegoats and subversives.
We are an Army because in the borderlands we are in permanent war – a
war of money against life, north against south, profit against dignity,
to stop the right of mobility, of neo-Colonialism against culture and
tradition.
We are C.I.R.C.A. because we live in the borderlands, always in between,
on the edge of the nation state, mischevously ambiguous.
Look out!!! We're silly, we're angry and we've got grease paint!
If you want to giggle with this gaggle in your town give us a jiggly
jingle: circa-sd at riseup d0t net
Past Mission(ary position)s
http://circasd.org/clown-media.html
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> For immediate release
>
> Virginia Tech Launches April 16 Archive
> http://www.april16archive.org/
>
> BLACKSBURG, Va., April 30, 2007 - Virginia Tech's Center for
> Digital Discourse
> and Culture (CDDC) is pleased to announce the launch of the April
> 16 Archive
> (www.april16archive.org). This new online archive assists artists,
> humanists,
> social scientists, and all other scholars who seek, today and in
> the future, to
> develop a better understanding of the violent events of April 16,
> 2007 at
> Virginia Tech. It is also available to the general public of the
> Commonwealth
> of Virginia, the United States of America, and the world at large
> as we come to
> terms with a local, national, and global event that will have
> ramifications for
> years to come. This archive works actively to deploy electronic
> media for the
> collection, interpretation, preservation, and display of stories
> and digital
> objects related to the tragedy of April 16, 2007 and its many
> effects as text,
> image, and sound. Developed in cooperation with George Mason
> University's
> Center for History and New Media (CHNM), this project is receiving
> technical,
> curatorial and administrative support from Virginia Tech students,
> faculty, and
> staff.
>
> The archive will preserve a diverse record of the events
> surrounding April 16,
> 2007 by collecting first-hand observations, photographic images, sound
> recordings, media reports, personal writings, official statements,
> individual
> blog postings, and any other documents that can be stored as
> digital files. In
> addition to local reactions, the archive welcomes responses from
> across the
> globe in any language. Through this archive, we aim to leave a
> positive legacy
> for the larger community and contribute to a collective process of
> healing,
> especially as those affected by this tragedy tell their stories in
> their own
> words. The larger trend exemplified by this project is the "digital
> memory
> bank." Memory banks are being used to preserve the richness of the
> present as
> it transitions to the past, thereby ensuring that the collected
> records can be
> both readily accessible and carefully preserved for future access.
>
> The April 16 Archive welcomes contributions from the Virginia Tech
> community, as
> well as from anyone around the world who wants to share words of
> support or
> reflection following the events of April 16, 2007. The attacks
> happened in
> Blacksburg, Virginia, but they were experienced around the world
> through mass
> media and community ties. The accounts of that day from any site
> across the
> globe are, therefore, very important to the April 16 Archive as it
> documents
> the full impact of this tragic event. For more information, visit
> www.april16archive.org or contact admin@april16archive.org. For media
> inquiries, contact Brent Jesiek, Manager of the CDDC, at (540)
> 231-7614 or
> cddc@vt.edu.
>
> Established in 1998, Virginia Tech's Center for Digital Discourse
> and Culture is
> one of the world's first university based digital points-of-
> publication for new
> forms of scholarly communication, academic research, and cultural
> analysis.
> Virginia Tech's College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences (CLAHS)
> as well as
> the Institute of Distance and Distributed Learning (IDDL) actively
> support the
> Center for Digital Discourse and Culture. The CDDC is also working
> with
> Virginia Tech's newly established Institute for Society, Culture,
> and the
> Environment (ISCE) to develop new scholarly initiatives, such as
> the April 16
> Archive, tied into the practices of rhetoric, representation and
> the public
> humanities.
>
> This story is also posted on the April 16 Archive website:
> http://www.april16archive.org/news/
jeremy hunsinger
Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research,
School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
(www.cipr.uwm.edu)
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A (more-or-less) weekly series of constructivist workshops emphasising
making and connection within the field of the existent.
Upcoming:
5th May: Crouching Table, Hidden Pointer [Pure Data for soundfiles and
live sampling] with Derek Holzer
12th May: Free projects. Discussion and construction of participant's
projects using workshop resources. Details tbc. see:
http://www.1010.co.uk/xxxxx_research_institute.html
May/June projected: GNU Emacs, television transmission, the C
programming language, spectral RF reception and white noise,
rapid-prototyping-realtime-3D, ATmega8 microcontrollers a la Arduino
... or contact if you're interested in leading a related workshop.
//<-------------------------------------------------
5th May 2PM. Crouching Table, Hidden Pointer [Pure Data for soundfiles
and live sampling] with Derek Holzer
The Shaolin Temple secret for manipulating recorded sound in Pure Data
lies in the arcane arts of the Table. Seekers of enlightenment will be
shown how to load soundfiles from the harddrive into tables, or capture
live audio from the microphone, so that these sounds can be looped,
stretched, pitchshifted, granulated and mangled. The Way is a long and
dangerous one, and some basic understanding of PD is recommended, but
some of you will triumph!
Time will also be set aside for responding to participants' questions
about their own PD audio projects.
---What to bring:
Essential:
1) Laptop running Linux, OS X or Windows
2) Pure Data Extended installed from:
http://at.or.at/hans/pd/installers.html
3) Soundcard (internal or external, quality a non-issue)
4) Headphones
5) EUR 10 participation fee
Recommended/Suggested:
1) MIDI controller/keyboard
2) Microphone
3) USB Joystick
4) Your own soundfiles (WAV, AIFF format)
5) Your own PD audio projects for feedback
---About the Teacher
Derek Holzer [USA 1972] began working with Pure Data in 2001. Since
then, he has taught and performed with the program across Europe,
North America, Brazil and New Zealand. His work focuses on field
recording, networked collaboration strategies, experiments in
improvisational sound and the use of free software such as
Pure-Data. Holzer has released tracks under the Nexsound, Sirr,
and/OAR and Gruenrekorder labels, and has co-initiated several
internet projects for field recording and collaborative soundscapes
including Soundtransit.nl. He is currently writing a Pure Data
beginner's manual for the FLOSS Manuals project.
http://www.umatic.nl/info_derek.html
http://www.umatic.nl/workshops.html
http://www.flossmanuals.net/puredata (under development, feedback welcome)
//<-------------------------------------------------
Background:
A weekly series of constructivist workshops emphasising making and
connection within the field of the existent.
Workshops led by field-expert practitioners extend over realms of code
and embedded code, environmental code, noise, transmission and
reception, and electromysticism. Workshops solely utilise free
software and GNU toolbase.
Practitioners include Julian Oliver (http://selectparks.net/), Derek
Holzer (http://soundtransit.nl), Jeff Mann (http://jeffmann.com),
Martin Howse (http://1010.co.uk), Fredrik Olofsson
(http://www.fredrikolofsson.com/), superfactory (http://superfactory.biz)
Further planned workshops will cover PD connectivity and hardware, the
Arduino platform, ATmega8 microcontrollers, free software
documentation, VLF reception, radio antenna design, analogue TV
transmission, FPGA design... full details tbc.
Please RSVP m@1010.co.uk to reserve any places or register
interest. Please forward.
xxxxx, pickledfeet, Linienstrasse 54, Berlin 10119
U2, Rosa-Luxemburg-Pl.
U8, Rosenthaler Pl.
Telephone: 3050187482. http://1010.co.uk/workshop.html
//------------------------------------------------->
http://xxxxx.1010.co.uk
http://1010.co.uk
Via: Drew Hemment
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(For those of you in the UK, yes that was our office in flames
on national TV, but no one was hurt, and the show will go on.)
FUTUREVISUAL
10-12 May, Manchester
http://www.futuresonic.com/07/futurevisual.html
A celebration of all things audio-visual on the 40th anniversary of
seminal multi-media events that took place in the halcyon year of
1967. The famous UFO Club, the focus of the 60's London multi-media
scene, is reborn for Futuresonic 2007. Futurevisual brings together
legendary figures from the 1960's with some of the most cutting-edge
AV artists working in the world today.
Via: Mason Dixon
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Full-Time Visiting Interactive Design professor position
University of the Arts Multimedia Department seeks candidates to fill
a visiting designer position as an assistant or associate professor.
Rank and salary will depend upon qualifications and experience.
The Multimedia department is home to UArts’ interdisciplinary
curriculum for designers interested in interactive and installation
design as well as, practical and entrepreneurial applications for the
creative arts. Located in dynamic Center City Philadelphia, this
program focuses on creating young media designers, not limited by
traditional mediums of study and ready to excel in the wide variety
of options open to creative individuals today. The curriculum offers
web design and development, installation art, video and animation,
media theory and research, in addition to easy access to the
University’s programs in liberal arts, music, and graphic design.
Students develop critical thinking and creative problem-solving
skills through a combination of studio practice, academic courses,
and professional development.
For more information about the program: http://cmacweb.org/dept.cfm?
sec=m
For more information about the position: http://uarts.edu/contact/
jobs.cfm
TO APPLY:
Interested, qualified applicants should submit the following to the
University's Office of Personnel Services, Multimedia Search
Committee: Cover letter • Curriculum vitae. • Portfolio with SASE • A
statement outlining your approach to teaching in an interdisciplinary
field. • Names/addresses/phone numbers of three professional references.
Please send required materials to:
The University of the Arts
Interactive Design, Multimedia Search Committee
Office of Personnel Services
320 South Broad Street, Rm. 140
Philadelphia, PA 19102
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Via: "David GUNKEL"
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David Gunkel has published his second book, "Thinking Otherwise: Philosophy, Communication, Technology." The book is part of the Purdue University Press series in Communication and Philosophy and includes chapters on the Matrix films, the digital divide, virtual reality and drug culture, the status of books in the information age, and the moral responsibilities of machines. More information is available at the book's website - http://thinkingotherwise.org
David J. Gunkel
Associate Professor of Communication
Northern Illinois University
http://www.gunkelweb.com/gunkel.html
dgunkel@niu.edu
815-753-7004
Via: Jeremy Hunsinger
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(Apologies for crossposting, please distribute as appropriate -jh)
Call for Papers/Participation
Please join us in a workshop on learning and research in Second Life
(R) on October 17, 2007 in Vancouver at Internet Research 8.0 (http://
wiki.aoir.org/index.php?title=About_IR8.0)
Paper Deadline August 15th.
Second Life(R) is a 3d virtual environment created by Linden Lab
which has captured the attentions of researchers and teachers from
around the world from a variety of disciplines.
This workshop aims to improve the understanding of Second Life as a
Learning and Research environment. It will bring 35 researchers
together to collaborate, discuss and workshop diverse topics related
to research and learning in Second Life. We will pursue a full-day
schedule in which participants will discuss their work and interests
on four different topics: learning in Second Life, integrated
learning, the contributions of research to the community and ethical
research methods. How can we better enable learning in this sphere?
How can we better enable research?
As a highlight, Robin Linden will give a talk to the group, and
members of Linden Lab will likely participate throughout the day.
We encourage researchers to submit papers and short biography to
slworkshop@tmttlt.com which will be selected and distributed amongst
participants before the workshop. First invitations will be offered
to those who provide full papers for consideration.
These papers have two purposes: first is to provide a common platform
for understanding our research and teaching and second submitted
papers may be considered for publication in an edited volume being
produced in relation to the workshop, or possibly in peer reviewed
publication derived from the workshop (these are currently under
discussion).
Subsequent invitation will be made based upon research/teaching
statement and biography. If you are interested in participating,
please send an email containing your information to
slworkshop@tmttlt.com.
Decisions will be made by September 1st, barring incident. There is
a limit of 35 participants at the physical meeting; the event will be
simulcast into Second Life.
We welcome professionals, faculty and graduate students to participate.
This workshop is sponsored by Linden Lab creators of Second Life and
is organized by Jeremy Hunsinger and Aleks Krotoski. Free lunch,
coffee breaks and the room is included in participation.
jeremy hunsinger
Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research,
School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
(www.cipr.uwm.edu)
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