From chiarapassa at gmail.com Tue Jun 3 15:44:25 2008 From: chiarapassa at gmail.com (Chiara Passa) Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 12:14:25 +0200 Subject: [Announcements] =?utf-8?q?=22product=22=E2=80=93_Festival_of_Cont?= =?utf-8?q?emporary_Art_Varna=2C_Bulgaria?= Message-ID: "product"– Festival of Contemporary Art Varna, Bulgaria The "product" will take place from June 5th to June 15th 2008 in Varna, Bulgaria. The theme of this year's Festival is "Hope". The festival functions as transmitter and forum between artists and audience, art and institutions creating an atmosphere of confidence. It is designed as a cultural portal where the ideas of authors are to be developed, shared, discussed, and nurtured in workshops, lectures, discussions and performances. The festival is organised by KERA, a group of artists and cultural operators based in Varna – a major seaport on the Bulgarian Black Sea. In 2008, hope will be the leitmotif of the festival. We are looking forward to an exciting programme with contributions from different fields of contemporary art as well as to a series of lectures and an extensive film programme. There will be chance to meet some of the 28 artists and 55 filmmakers from 28 countries (Colombia, United Kingdom, Argentina, Germany, Bosnia, France, Peru, Spain, USA, Bulgaria, Austria, Ireland, Canada, Italia, Switzerland, Mexico, Chile, Japan, Netherland, Turkey, Belgium, Iran, Norway, Korea, China, Finland, Slovenia) and to find out about their artistic positions. Curators team exhibition: Emil Mirazchiev (Bulgaria), Nevan Lahart (Ireland), Rustha Luna Pozzi-Escot (France), Peter Anders (Germany), Michele Fiori (Italia) and Luis Gonzales Toussaint (Mexico), Curator "Some are watching" film program: Martin A. Dege (Germany). We are glad to invite you to this hopeful anniversary of the "product" festival of contemporary art in Bulgaria. KERA AssociationThe Festival Team etualartmachine.com FILMPROGRAM 2008 http://www.product-festival.com/film_08.html videoscreening Block 1 Open call: "about hope" Curator: Martin A. Dege Length: 74.00 minutes OPEN CALL Videoscreening "saw - some are watching" at "product– Festival of Contemporary Art 2008" The paradise garden Hyun-Joo MIN Finnland 2005, 03.38min. How to Fool your Fears Serafina Ouistiti United Kingdom 2007 Room Temperature Zhana Ivanova Bulgaria 2008, 26.14min. Malocchios Puppetshow Serafina Ouistiti United Kingdom 2007 - ohne Titel - Kristin Meyer Germany 2008, 12.45min. 'time is running and say nothing' Antea Arizanovic Slovenia 1988 - 2006, 16.30min. Dad´s Cellar Susan Schmidt und David Buob Germany 2006, 06.34min. Block 2 FAIRPLAY FILM & VIDEO AWARD SELECTION -1- Lugano / Switzerland Organizer: FAIRPLAY FILM & VIDEO Festival www.fairplay-lugano.com Curator: Silvia Anna Barrilà Length: 45.00 minutes Pendule Antonella Kurzen Switzerland / Germany 2006, 00.5min. When I wish upon a star Mai Yamashita & Naoto Kobayashi Japan / Switzerland 2004, 2.2min. Kino Krov Elise Florenty France / Germany 2005, 5.45min. Attica Manon de Boer Belgium 2008 9.55min. Rise Niklas Goldbach Germany 2007 2.22min. Six Apartments Reynold Reynolds USA / Germany 2007 12.00min. Twist Alexia Walther Switzerland / France 2006 11.00min. Block 3 The best of "loyal_rooftops_2007" Organizer: Martin A. Dege www.madege.de/projekte/rooftops Curator: Martin A. Dege "loyal_rooftops_2007" zeigte Videoarbeiten, die soziale Diskrepanzen und unwirtliche Urbanität aufnehmen und sich so zum Festival 'Bürgerstolz & Stadtfrieden - kurz vor der Schließung dieser Freiräume, genau am richtigen Ort und zum richtigen Zeitpunkt positionierten. Talking walls Kristoffer Ardena Spain 2007, 3.44min Time bomb the love Chiara Passa Italy 1998, 5.00min. untitled Fotis Theotis United Kingdom 2004 All the Kings Horses and all the kings Men Marisa Cunningham United Kingdom Zone End Nooshin Farhid United Kingdom 2007, 2.30min. The desreet charm of the bourgeoisie Ron den Daas & Kathy Kenny Canada 2006, 1.00min. follow Andrew Thomas Germany 2007, 3.00min. touch Lieve D'hondt Belgium 2007 Fliessband Sandra Becker Germany 1996-2006, 2.00min .one day, 2000 Martin A. Dege Germany 2000, 2.23min. 25 horses in the room next door Eric Pries Germany 2007 Home Martin Sommer Germany 2007 Rompiendo Nubes Bongore Spain 2006, 1.47min. Nur ich lache Liu Ke China / Germany 2007 Force 2 Peter Borgers Netherland Block 4 "PAM Perpetual Art Machine" Organizer: PAM Perpetual Art Machine - living archive, USA www.perpetualartmachine.com Curator: Lee Wells, Raphaele Shirley, Chris Borkowski and Aaron Miller Length: 83.00 minutes Perpetual Art Machine is a living archive of 21st century international video art, featuring over 1000 videos from more than 700 artists from over 70 countries culminating in an immersive interactive video experience. Created in December 2005 as a collaboration between the artists Lee Wells, Raphaele Shirley, Chris Borkowski and Aaron Miller as a means to democratize the curatorial process by inviting both the artist and the viewer/user to participate through live interactive installations and online through [PAM]'s free community video portal. The artists represented in this program are just but a small cross section of the great artists [PAM] has been lucky enough to work with. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do. Scared at Birth Hackworth Ashley USA 2006 0.5min. Shouting Match George Barber United Kingdom 2004, 4.59min. Hibernation Josephin Böttger Germany 2006, 10.50min. Modern Times Chris Coleman USA 2004, 2.45min. Cloths for a Summer Hotel Cecilie Dahl Norway 2004, 6.36min. False Hope & Invented God G.H. Hovagimyan USA 2006, 2.00min. Read My Lips Stephanie Lempert USA 2005, 1.12min Soon & Sleep Iris Piers Netherland 2006, 7.46min. A Life of Errors Nicholas and Sheila Pye Canada 2006, 14.24min. Star Alexander Reyna USA 2007, 3.21min. Pampering Jaye Rhee Korea 2006, 2.25min. Una Sporca Vacanza Cinzia Sarto Italy 2004, 9.53min. Would you rather it was love Melissa Schubeck USA 2006, 1.35min. Building Endre Tveitan Norway 2006, 1.18min. The Other Lam Mai Kit China 2004, 2.05min. The State of Things Amelia Winger-Bearskin USA 2007, 9.00min. Block 5 "Stay here..." Organizer: Open Space Zentrum für Kunstprojekte – Wien, Austria www.openspace-zkp.org Curator: Gulsen Bal In its focus on a space of possibilities reflected within the realm of 'event' that we inhabit, Stay here... will address the ambivalent relationship with local epistemology in new political understanding of habitual durations rooted in precarious condition of the nomadic 'enclosures' within and against available structures where other worlds are possible. The statement thus spans a discursive field that ranges from hybridity, the "difference and rupture" to the issues of identification within unnameable potentials, with which all political and social questions are opened up. This traces a dynamics between nomadic 'enclosures' and what temporarily traversing them; conducting a journey, which makes long-hidden mystery into the open. Inevitably, this is bound to lead to the idea of "being against in any place", given that it includes both the possibility of belonging to "any" place and the necessity of opposition in "every" place. And these places must be sought. Diglossia Fatih Aydogdu Turkey / Austria 2007, 2.44min. WEST Nada Prlja United Kingdom 2007, 2min. One cannot deny it might just happen Anne-Britt Rage Norway 2007 Block 6 FAIRPLAY FILM & VIDEO AWARD SELECTION -2- Lugano / Switzerland Organizer: FAIRPLAY FILM & VIDEO Festival www.fairplay-lugano.com Curator: Silvia Anna Barrilà Length: 55:52 minutes Voice Over Nevin Aladag Turkey / Germany 2006, 14.0min. Lucía Cristóbal León, Niles Atallah, Joaquin Cocina Chile 2007, 3.55min. Charismatic Fates & Vanishing Dates Sara Rajaei Iran / Netherland 2006 3.20min. The sun shines in Kiev Rossella Biscotti Italy / Netherland 2006, 9.0min. Indocumentado Edgar Endress Chile 2005, 10.0min. -- Chiara Passa chiarapassa at gmail.com http://www.chiarapassa.it http://www.ideasonair.net http://twitter.com/jogador Skype: ideasonair From markcmarino at gmail.com Fri Jun 6 11:43:48 2008 From: markcmarino at gmail.com (Mark Marino) Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 22:13:48 -0800 Subject: [Announcements] =?windows-1252?q?Electronic_Literature_Collection?= =?windows-1252?q?=2C_Vol=2E_2_=97_Call_for_Work?= Message-ID: <287213f30806052313j6569f87cs41049d2951899736@mail.gmail.com> Hi, Here's a big call: Please, pass this along! Electronic Literature Collection, Vol. 2 — Call for Work The Electronic Literature Organization seeks submissions for the Electronic Literature Collection, volume 2. We invite the submission of literary works that take advantage of the capabilities and contexts provided by the computer. Works will be accepted from June 1 to September 30, 2008. Up to three works per author will be considered; previously published works will be considered. The Electronic Literature Collection is a biannual publication of current and older electronic literature in a form suitable for individual, public library, and classroom use. Volume 1, presently available both online (http://collection.eliterature.org) and as a packaged, cross-platform CD-ROM, has been used in dozens of courses at universities in the United States and internationally, and has been widely reviewed in the United States and Europe. It is also available as a CD-ROM insert with N. Katherine Hayles' full-length study, Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary (University of Notre Dame Press, 2008). Volume 2, comprising approximately 50 works, will likewise be available online, and as a cross-platform DVD in a case appropriate for library processing, marking, and distribution. The contents of the Collection are offered under a Creative Commons license so that libraries and educational institutions will be allowed to duplicate and install works and individuals will be free to share the disc with others. The editorial collective for the second volume of the Electronic Literature Collection, to be published in 2009, is Laura Borràs Castanyer, Talan Memmott, Rita Raley and Brian Kim Stefans. This collective will review the submitted work and select pieces for the Collection. Literary quality will be the chief criterion for selection of works. Other aspects considered will include innovative use of electronic techniques, quality and navigability of interface, and adequate representation of the diverse forms of electronic literature in the collection as a whole. For volume 2, we are considering works of electronic literature in video. Works submitted should function on both Macintosh OS X (10.5) and Windows Vista. Works should function without requiring users to purchase or install additional software. Submissions may require software that is typically pre-installed on contemporary computers, such as a web browser, and are allowed to use the current versions of the most common plugins. To have a work considered, all the authors of the work must agree that if their work is published in the Collection, they will license it under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License, which will permit others to copy and freely redistribute the work, provided the work is attributed to its authors, that it is redistributed non-commercially, and that it is not used in the creation of derivative works. No other limitation is made regarding the author's use of any work submitted or accepted. To submit a work, prepare a plain text file with the following information: * The title of the work. * The names and email addresses of all authors and contributors of the work. * The URL where you are going to make your .zip file available for us to download. The editorial collective will not publish the address of this file. * A short description of the work — less than 200 words in length. * Any instructions required to operate the work. * The date the work was first distributed or published, or "unpublished" if it has not yet been made available to the public. Prepare a .zip archive including the work in its entirety. Include the text file at the top level of this archive, and name it "submisson.txt". Upload the .zip file to a web server so that it is available at the specified location. Place all of the text in the "submisson.txt" file in the body of an email and send it to elc2.elo at gmail.com with the name of the piece being submitted included in the subject line. The Electronic Literature Collection is supported by institutional partners including: Brown University, Literary Arts Program; Center for Program in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania; Duke University, Program in Literature; Hermeneia at the Open University of Catalonia; Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies; nt2; Pomona College, Media Studies Program; UCSB, Department of English; University of Bergen, Department of Literary, Linguistic, and Aesthetic Studies, Program in Digital Culture; University of Dundee, School of Humanities. Institutional sponsorship opportunities are still available. If your organization or academic department is interested in more information, please contact helen DeVinney, Managing Director of the ELO, at hdevinney at gmail.com. Mark Marino, ELO. Director of Communication -- Writing Program University of Southern California http://WriterResponseTheory.org http://CriticalCodeStudies.com From deelited at gmail.com Sat Jun 7 18:05:08 2008 From: deelited at gmail.com (deepti) Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 18:05:08 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] Announcing the Nigah QueerFest '08: www.thequeerfest.com Message-ID: <2617ab630806070535q5bcb779bn37dc563fd3e6c00a@mail.gmail.com> *The Nigah QueerFest '08* *8th-17th August 2008, New Delhi* Following the success of the inaugural festival last year, we are excited to announce the Nigah QueerFest '08 which will be held in multiple venues in Delhi from 8th-17th August 2008. This year, the ten-day celebration of queerness is anchored around August 11th, the date of the first queer protest in Delhi sixteen years ago. The QueerFest remains proud to be entirely funded by individual donations from queer and queerfriendly people from India and abroad in its attempt to continuously expand queer-positive spaces around us. The festival includes a film festival, a photography exhibit, interactive workshops, parties and new publications. All the info you need is on our website: www.thequeerfest.com For submissions, please see these links: Call for films: http://www.thequeerfest.com/Calls08/nqf_filmcall.pdf Call for photo: http://www.thequeerfest.com/Calls08/nqf_photocall.pdf To support us: http://www.thequeerfest.com/Calls08/nqf_supportcall.pdf For updates and announcements, keep checking our website! Cheers Nigah >>Apologies for Cross Posting<< -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Logos Theatre presents Selves, Masks, Performance - The Stage And Beyond A workshop for aspiring performers and for those who want to discover themselves through performance, conducted by artistes from the fields of drama, movement, storytelling, etc. An outline: •Patterns of movement: Threads in space •Breath and voice •Play and playing - ideas, objects and space. •Body sculpts, images, thought tracking, power and hierarchy - conflict and mediation •Associations, images, and imagination. •Improv •Speaking the speech - A physical approach to text. Classical Indian and Greek theatre, Shakespeare, and beyond. •Theatre of the absurd, contemporary performance texts and devised work Feedback from our previous workshops: 'superb and eye-opening' 'very informative and a lot of fun' 'fantastic... very useful. Especially with regard to... realistic conflict resolution' 'insightful and a great learning experience' 'interesting concepts and methods' Dates: June 16th - June 26th. Venue: Abobve Chung Wah, Church Street, Bangalore Workshop timings: 19:00 to 21:30 Fees: Rs. 2,200/- Registration deadline: June 12th. contact: 9880966313/ 9845530323 e-mail: logos.theword at gmail.com Do pass this along -- Logos Theatre In the beginning was the word No. 126, 3rd Main Road, Jayamahal Extension, Bangalore 560046 -------------------------------------------------------- If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all. Since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is 't to leave betimes? Let be. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/announcements/attachments/20080608/ef4f2d47/attachment.html From logos.theword at gmail.com Mon Jun 9 12:09:35 2008 From: logos.theword at gmail.com (Logos Theatre) Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 22:39:35 -0800 Subject: [Announcements] A date with Shakespeare - Shreds and Patches at the Alliance Francaise de Bangalore Message-ID: <33bc2ee60806082339h24283722v8b3826de923b6116@mail.gmail.com> He's there in your morning newspaper... he's there on the TV news... that film you are watching is probably ripped off from one of his plays... you use words coined by him all the time - now meet the man himself: Logos Theatre presents Shreds and Patches based on the works of William Shakespeare Devised and performed by: Arka Mukhopadhyay Alliance Francaise, Vasanthnagar June 13th, 11 AM and 2 PM (for schools/colleges only), 6 PM and 8 PM (open to all) June 15th, 11 AM (for schools/colleges only), 2 PM, 6 PM and 8 PM (open to all) Tickets: Rs.125/- for the 13th and Rs. 150/- for the 15th Available at: Alliance Francaise Cafe and Crossword, Residency Road For bookings call: 9945799224 or 9886765198 For bulk bookings: 9845530323 "...refreshing... "Shreds and Patches" was an innovative and comprehensive whole-hearted performance ... leaving the audience with the fact that even today, there is a little bit of Shakespeare in each one of us." - The Hindu "...commendable" - Mid Day "...riveting performance" - WOW, Hyderabad. A little classical, a little contemporary, a little funny, a little serious, and a whole lot of the Bard -- Logos Theatre In the beginning was the word No. 126, 3rd Main Road, Jayamahal Extension, Bangalore 560046 -------------------------------------------------------- If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all. Since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is 't to leave betimes? Let be. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/announcements/attachments/20080608/410279bf/attachment.html From berlin at bodhiart.com Thu Jun 12 19:10:22 2008 From: berlin at bodhiart.com (BodhiBerlin) Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:40:22 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Announcements] Invitation for BlindStars StarsBlind by Shilpa Gupta Message-ID: <1102132797596.1101864521903.3563.1.130935DE@scheduler> Shilpa Gupta Berlin Invite [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001HuSWhFyY2C1-s1xrvNxHoz3hvLTH_icHeFtanFsdEP1IK1LlAnTVefwskO0iXZ-MgKiqWdCBFwAAon8-FkLYZQbu7487OqObiqB01Q-GpBPdQIhVZPsWNhXdGkWjLdN4zn_gvfP156D19fRSkoRosFz4rb3NycWDa5zxlrj625BzK2ZfH6gAeA==] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ BlindStars StarsBlind Vernissage June 13th, 2008 6 pm at BodhiBerlin 8 pm at Galerie Volker Diehl BodhiBerlin and Galerie Volker Diehl are proud to present the first monograph exhibition in Germany of the eminent media artist, Shilpa Gupta. Both galleries have collaborated with the artist to allow both Berliners and an international audience further access to her particular use of regional and political geography in which she tackles issues that include notions of borders within and in-between media, religion and nations. The work of Shilpa Gupta has been widely shown in the context of major group exhibitions, including the Media City Seoul Biennale in 2004, the Biennales of Sydney, Shanghai, Havana, and Liverpool in 2006, and Lyon in 2007. She has had a number of monograph shows in New York and in Bombay, where her oeuvre has been widely acclaimed and welcomed for its vehement reworking of the mixed media tradition. Her ensemble of works, begun after graduating in 1997 from the B.F.A. Sculpture Program at the prestigious Sir J. J. School of Fine Arts, Bombay, has included the use of interactive mediums fused with traditional sculptural and photographic elements. Performance has also played a major role in demonstrating her ability to contextualise difficult contemporary subjects and subjectivities, including personal space, and the abrupt global relationship to security and alterity: the internal experience of what Jacques Derrida aptly called "difference". BlindStars StarsBlind is an apt title for an exhibition and a book by an artist who uses language in a fragmented form of translation. The works by Gupta talk about region, border, and territory to express themselves in their own kind of historical intention. This exhibition highlights a spectrum of works that help to grasp those concerns that drive her aesthetic and media judgments in the age of global mediation and cultural translation. In an interview with Shaheen Merali, she described her concerns as follows: "Often artists like myself who are working in a so called 'activist' role become branded as activist artists". The role of activism is a driving force for many of her observations as she visually vocalizes her deeply felt concerns for the plight of those who remain speechless and are made silent through disempowering conditions. The crossover between facilitation, production, performance, and gallery practice creates a rich mix that helps render the agonizing cosmopolis of cultural exchange and political discourse. Triggering such mechanisms and positions, Gupta allows us to evaluate the lived and perceived experiences of our realities by bringing together a number of contradictions in the fabric of contemporary life and our notions of freedom. Furthermore, Gupta's leanings towards a more democratising, even socialist, agenda in terms of ideology allows her to remain somewhat skeptical of the role of the market place in the artistic realm. Her works question this contradictory position in both their construction and in their context. In creating a world as her ambition, she helps us to manage the necessary labour in looking at and measuring a strategic globalisation, which is based on disruption, rather than focussing on a crisis state where consumerism seems to be the only measurable form of change. 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URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/announcements/attachments/20080612/a0580c98/attachment-0001.html From iram at sarai.net Wed Jun 18 13:23:37 2008 From: iram at sarai.net (Iram Ghufran) Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:23:37 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] Fwd: The MRC Fellowships Message-ID: <4858BF01.7050304@sarai.net> From: Shohini Ghosh Date: 17 June 2008 9:28:17 AM GMT+05:30 To: CACDelhi at yahoogroups.co.in Subject: [CACDelhi] The MRC Fellowships Reply-To: CACDelhi at yahoogroups.co.in ===================== CALL FOR PROPOSALS The Media Resource Centre, AJK MCRC announces its first round of annual fellowships from August 1, 2008 to January 31, 2009. CATEGORIES: Senior Research Fellowships & Jamia Student Fellowship The MEDIA RESOURCE CENTRE, set up with a grant from the Sir Ratan Tata Trust (SRTT), is devoted to the study, research and contemplation of documentary and contemporary media practices with particular emphasis on film, television, photography and multi-media. The MRC also plans to build an archive of material on Documentary and Asian Cinemas. Both categories of work are defined expansively and include both film and film culture. It plans to house curated film collections in addition to journals, books, monographs and catalogues. Locating itself at the intersection of theory and practice, it plans to offer fellowships, conduct courses, organize public lectures, conferences, seminars, workshops and special screenings. It seeks to complement the hands-on learning experience at the MCRC by creating an intellectually vibrant space for theoretical engagement, research and study. The Fellowships are designed to contribute to the building of the archives and the ongoing research and scholarly work at the MRC. AIM /PURPOSE OF FELLOWSHIPS: The Research Fellowships are expected to contribute to the creation of the Visual Archives as well as engage with the scholarly preoccupations of the MRC. Applicants are encouraged to send in proposals that seek to provide analyses, histories, ethnographies, empirical data and/or critical commentaries on any theme relating to contemporary visual media and documentary cultures. The MRC has a special interest in Documentary film making practices, cultures and activities. Similarly, it is invested in encouraging scholarly work on photographic practices. Therefore, proposals that deal with the above two themes will be given special importance. It is hoped that the written text finally submitted to the MRC will be accompanied by visual material that will substantively enrich the Visual Archive of the MRC. The MRC will grant two categories of Fellowships that is, (1) Senior Research Fellowships and [@15,000 per month] (2) Jamia Student Fellowships [@ 5,000 per month] ============================ CONDITIONS: Ø Applicants are required to be resident in India and should have an account in a bank operating in India. In case of the Senior Research Fellowships, He/She must also be a Pan Card Holder. Ø Applications can only be in English. Ø While the Student Fellowship is available only to students pursuing their Masters Course in Jamia, anyone can apply for the Senior Research Fellowship. There is no age limit. Ø The Fellowship will run from August 2008 to the end of January 2008. The Senior Research Fellowship is extendable to one year based on performance evaluation. Ø The Fellowship Grant will be disbursed in three stages over a period of 6-8 months. The fellows are required to make written submissions every three months on their research progress following which each installment will be released. The last installment would be given after the presentation and submission of the research. Ø Individuals, partners and groups/collectives can apply to a single fellowship, where the grant will be payable to the account of one. Ø A working draft would be expected by the end of December. A detailed research report must be submitted to the MRC at the end of the fellowship. Ø When the Fellowship period comes to an end it is mandatory for all Fellows to make a public presentation at the Media Resource Centre. Ø Although the participation in the fellowship programme does require a substantial time commitment, participants are welcome to pursue their primary occupations in addition to the fellowship research. However, Fellows of the MRC cannot be committed to any other grant or fellowship during the same period. Ø The primary material collected as part of the Fellowship must be submitted at the end of the grant period to the MRC. This should preferably be in a digital form, that is, CDs, DVDs, scans, digital images etc. All material submitted along with the report must be annotated. Ø The MRC may select some the research for publication as monographs if they are of a high academic calibre. Ø Copyright: The Copyright for the research will be shared by both the MRC and the individual scholar concerned. The scholar is free to publish the material while duly and fully acknowledging MRC support through the Fellowship programme. =============================== GUIDELINES FOR APPLICATION The Senior Fellowships: The Proposal for the senior fellowships should be between 1500-2000 words. It should be accompanied by a Statement of Purpose of not more than 1000 words explaining to how the Proposal connects to work previously done Two Letters of Recommendation Student Fellowships: The Proposal for the Student Fellowship should be between 800-1000 words. It should be accompanied by a Statement-of-Purpose. Two Letters of Recommendation of which one should be from a Faculty member in Jamia Millia Islamia. Please Note: All paper work submitted should be typed. Handwritten proposals will not be accepted. Your proposal package should include: Applicant's name, email address, telephone number and Postal Address Category of Fellowship Proposal Work Sample related to the Proposal Work Plan An Updated CV A Self-addressed & stamped envelope ========================= Fellows can submit their applications by post or hand-deliver them to the AJK MCRC at the following address: 'ATTN: FELLOWS PROPOSAL 2008-2009', to SHOHINI GHOSH MEDIA RESOURCE CENTRE AJK MASS COMMUNICATION & RESEARCH CENTRE JAMIA MILLIA ISLAMIA NEW DELHI -110025. Last Date for Proposal Submission: June 30, 2008 Inquiries: mrc.jamia at gmail.com From deelited at gmail.com Wed Jun 18 12:48:49 2008 From: deelited at gmail.com (deepti) Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:48:49 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] Announcing Delhi Queer Pride '08: June 29th: 5:30pm, Regal, CP In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <2617ab630806180018ue96e220j9e9deebd30a30c4a@mail.gmail.com> ***Forward Widely!*** *Delhi Queer Pride '08* This June, for the first time, Queer Pride celebrations will erupt on the streets of Delhi, alongside simultaneous marches in Kolkata and Bangalore! Queer Pride is a celebration. It is about loving who we are, whether lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, hijra or straight, and affirming everyone's right to be respected for their own sexual choices. This year, queer people, friends, and allies take this message to the streets! * 5:30pm Regal Cinema, CP Sunday, June 29th* We'll gather at Regal Cinema on the CP Outer Circle, then parade our pride along the Inner Circle, through Central Park, down Janpath and right to Jantar Mantar, where we will have celebrating, singing, speeches and a candlelight vigil. ********Forward this message widely to your queer friends and straight allies -- lets get everyone to CP!********** **If you want to be out on the street and yet under cover, we will provide masks to cover your face, or bring something along yourself. Nevertheless, please remember this is a public event.** Delhi Queer Pride Commitee is an open forum of city residents. Anyone can join - please email delhiqueerpride at gmail.com to be part of organising Delhi Queer Pride '08. We are also fundraising for the Pride, so email if you want to contribute or volunteer! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/announcements/attachments/20080618/e853d3e6/attachment-0001.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 85929 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/announcements/attachments/20080618/e853d3e6/attachment-0002.jpe -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 79066 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/announcements/attachments/20080618/e853d3e6/attachment-0003.jpe From laa.gallery at inMail24.com Thu Jun 19 01:42:11 2008 From: laa.gallery at inMail24.com (LAA Gallery) Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:12:11 +0300 Subject: [Announcements] Lebanon Now - New Media Art Exhibition. OUVERTURE : Vendredi 20 Juin a 18h a la galerie LAA - Verdun. Message-ID: <3814-22008631820121193@3D> FRANCAIS CI-DESSOUS ------------------------------ "Lebanon Now" New Media Art Exhibition >From 21 to 30 June 2008 Between 11 am and 7 pm (except Sundays) Opening : Friday 20 June at 6 pm LAA Gallery Al Wagf Addurzi Bldg. 2nd floor Verdun Street. Beirut Information: Suzanne Khairallah Mobile : +961 3 756 404 Email : lbaaps at gmail.com The Association of Lebanese Artists presents « Lebanon Now », the art exhibition of the new media. Sponsored by USAID, this exhibition shows works done with the latest technological means. These works question Lebanon today, which is more disconcerting and intriguing than ever. The artists experiment with the binary code and look at Information and Communication Technology from a new perspective. There is no doubt that the sociocultural and the sociopolitical are featured. The artists « tell » their Lebanon through the elements of their numerical world, i.e. images, sound, and words. This event transposes the observer (turned into user) into a new esthetic experiment. It is the long-awaited occasion both by the artists and an art (and technology)-loving public to experience together a form of contemporary art involving not only the observer but also an important team of scientists and computer engineers without whom the new media art would simply be disembodied. The participating artists: Jean-Louis Eddé and Hayla Saab Demelero Type of work: Telepresence device Title: Message not delivered © 2008 Through their « Message not delivered », the two artists build a representation of themselves in society, where elements from their respective lives in relation with their real-life experiences are featured. They deal with the issues of immigration and long-distance relationships through a telepresence system. Charbel Haber and Yara Raffoul Type of work: Audio website Title: 6 O’clock © 2003 The work of these two artists is defined as a leisurely walk that can be perceived in two manners. On the one hand it is a graphic and visual stroll accompanied by music, noises, and sound patches. This same road can also be perceived in the opposite direction: it is the graphic that represents the music. This walk remains a free walk of traditional page layout, proportion, typography, and even readability. Mansour El-Habre Type of work: Experimental website Title: How he lost his right hand finger © 2008 Mansour El-Habre presents a website where the user browses around and collects elements aiming to answer the question: « What did he do to lose his right hand middle finger as a child? ». The reply is attained through a labyrinthine navigation that puts the user in front of numerous disturbing possibilities that question the reality of the civil war of 1975. Rabih Khalil Type of work: Internet Search Engine Title: Lebanon everywhere © 2008 The artist presents a Search Engine under the name “Lebanon everywhere”. It is a letter collector that searches exclusively for the letters composing the word “Lebanon”. In any text appearing on any website, the letters that constitute the word “Lebanon” are automatically selected, reassembled, and displayed. Ricardo Mbarkho Type of work: Digital images Title: Digital visuals from Lebanon © 2008 Ricardo Mbarkho presents « Digital visuals from Lebanon », a series of digital images printed on large format photo papers based on the numerous agreements signed by the Lebanese State since the independence of Lebanon. In order to obtain these images, the artist made the computer “believe” that the files containing the texts of these agreements are image files. The computer calculated the binary code of each text file and generated the corresponding image. The series comprises images of binary codes of texts such as: the Doha agreement, the Taef accord, the Lebanon-Syria Treaty of Brotherhood, Cooperation and Coordination, the tripartite agreement, the Cairo agreement, the national pact, the Lebanese constitution, as well as the word « Lebanon » itself. Nadia Oufrid Type of work: Online theatre Title: Dialogue © 2008 Nadia Oufrid presents an online play entitled « Dialogue ». Once the user is connected to the project’s website, he is greeted by two virtual actors on a virtual stage. They recite texts taken from two URL addresses randomly selected by the system. The user can change the URL addresses to his liking and therefore change the dialogue of the actors, as by drawing from various Lebanese sites (political, artistic, or other). The various emotions that characterize the lines are rendered by the tone of the voice, the noises, and the music. Shawki Youssef Type of work: Online interactive game Title: Construct Lebanon © 2008 Shawki Youssef’s project is an online game on the possibilities of a potential « construction » of Lebanon, based on the daily political speeches. The screen displays the pieces of a puzzle that constitutes the map of Lebanon. The player has to manually assemble the pieces, but his success depends on the choice of the “words” of politicians that are published in newspapers. Some “words” might lead the player to victory and end the game whereas others would lead to a higher difficulty level and thus extend the game’s duration. =========== FRANCAIS ------------- "Lebanon Now" New Media Art Exhibition Ouverture : vendredi, 20 juin, à 18h L’exposition continue du 21 au 30 juin 2008, de 11h à 19h (sauf les Dimanches) A la galerie LAA Imm. Al Wagf Addurzi. 2ème étage Rue Verdun. Beyrouth. Liban Informations : Suzanne Khairallah. Mobile : +961 3 756 404. Email : lbaaps at gmail.com L'Association des Artistes Libanais présente l’exposition « Lebanon Now » d’art des nouveaux médias. Cette exposition sponsorisée par USAID rassemble des œuvres réalisées grâce aux moyens techniques les plus avancés s'interrogent sur un Liban aujourd’hui plus déconcertant, plus intrigant que jamais. Les artistes se livrent à des expériences où le code binaire occupe le devant de la scène, où la Nouvelle Technologie de l’Information et de la Communication est vue autrement. Nul doute que le socioculturel ainsi que le sociopolitique sont à l’ordre du jour. Les artistes « disent » leur Liban à travers les éléments du monde numérique, à savoir les images, le son, et les mots. Cet événement transpose l’observateur (métamorphosé en utilisateur) dans une expérimentation esthétique nouvelle ; il est l’occasion tant attendue, aussi bien par les artistes que par un public qui aime l’art (et la technologie), pour expérimenter ensemble une forme de l’art contemporain où sont impliqués, non seulement l’observateur, mais également une importante équipe de scientifiques et d’ingénieurs informatiques sans lesquels l’art des nouveaux médias est simplement irréalisable. Les artistes participants : Jean-Louis Eddé et Hayla Saab Demelero Type du travail : Dispositif de télépresence Titre : Message not delivered © 2008 A travers leur « Message not delivered », les deux artistes construisent une représentation d’eux-mêmes dans la société, dans laquelle sont mis en scène des éléments de leurs vies respectives qui ont un sens par rapport à leur vécu. Par un système de téléprésence, ils traitent de la question de l’immigration et celle de la relation de couple à distance. Charbel Haber et Yara Raffoul Type du travail : Expérimentation multimédia en ligne Titre : 6 O'clock © 2003 Le travail de ces deux artistes se définit comme une balade qui peut être vue de deux manières. D'un côté, c'est une balade graphique et visuelle accompagnée de musique, de bruits, de nappes de son. Ce même parcours peut aussi être vu dans le sens inverse : c'est le graphisme qui figure, représente la musique. Cette balade reste une balade libre de mise en page traditionnelle, de proportion, de typographie et même de lisibilité. Mansour El-Habre Type du travail : Site Web expérimental Titre : How he lost his right hand finger © 2008 Haber présente un Site Web sur lequel l’utilisateur est invité à surfer afin de rassembler des éléments de réponse à la question : « Il a fait comment pour perdre le majeur de la main droite étant petit ? ». La réponse à cette question se fait par le biais d'une navigation labyrinthique qui met l’utilisateur face à de multiples possibilités dérangeantes qui remettent en cause la réalité de la guerre civile libanaise de 1975. Rabih Khalil Type du travail : Un moteur de recherche sur Internet Titre : Lebanon everywhere © 2008 L’artiste présente un moteur de recherche qu’il baptise « Lebanon everywhere ». C’est un collecteur de lettres, pour ainsi dire, qui cherche exclusivement les lettres composant le mot ''Lebanon''. Dans n’importe quel texte apparaissant dans n’importe quel Site Web choisi par l’utilisateur, les lettres constituant le mot ''Lebanon'' sont automatiquement sélectionnées, rassemblées et affichées. Ricardo Mbarkho Type du travail : Images numériques Titre : Digital visuals from Lebanon © 2008 Ricardo Mbarkho présente une série d’images numériques imprimées sur papiers photo grande taille. Elles sont faites à partir de multiples accords conclus par l’Etat libanais depuis l’indépendance du Liban jusqu’à nos jours. Pour avoir ces images, l’artiste a fait « croire » à l’ordinateur que les fichiers contenant les textes de ces accords sont bel et bien des fichiers images. L’ordinateur calcule ainsi le code binaire de chaque fichier texte pour en générer l’image équivalente. Dans la série, on trouve des images issues des codes binaires de textes comme : l'accord de Doha, l’accord de Taef, Lebanon-Syria Treaty of Brotherhood, Cooperation and Coordination, l’accord tripartite, l’accord du Caire, le pacte national, la constitution du Liban, ainsi que le mot « Lebanon » lui-même. Nadia Oufrid Type du travail : Théâtre en ligne Titre : Dialogue © 2008 Nadia Oufrid propose une pièce de théâtre en ligne intitulée « Dialogue ». Dès qu’on se connecte au site web du projet, se présentent à nous deux acteurs virtuels jouant sur un plateau virtuel. Ils récitent des textes tirés de deux adresses URL choisies aléatoirement par le système. L’internaute peut modifier à son gré les adresses URL et changer ainsi le dialogue des acteurs en puisant dans différents sites, par exemple des sites libanais à l’occasion de cette exposition (politiques, artistiques ou autres). Les diverses émotions dont sont chargées les répliques sont rendues par le ton de la voix, le bruitage et la musique. Shawki Youssef Type du travail : Jeu interactif en ligne Titre : Construct Lebanon © 2008 Le projet de Youssef est un jeu en ligne sur les possibilités d’une éventuelle « construction » du Liban, fondée sur le discours politique quotidien. Sur l’écran, s’affichent les pièces d'un puzzle constituant la carte du Liban. Le joueur devra rassembler manuellement les pièces mais le succès de la manœuvre dépend du choix des « mots » des leaders politiques libanais publiés dans les quotidiens. Quelques « mots » pourraient mener le joueur à la « victoire » et marquer la fin de la partie, tandis que d’autres déclencheraient le passage à un degré de difficulté supérieur, prolongeant ainsi la durée du jeu. ======== From santhosh.kanipayur at gmail.com Fri Jun 20 13:17:28 2008 From: santhosh.kanipayur at gmail.com (Santhosh Kumar) Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:17:28 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] FOREVER YOUNG: ViBGYOR Monthly Screening Message-ID: <19d498870806200047v53965154h1825509b9b8801d5@mail.gmail.com> ViBGYOR Film Collective Monthly Screening Kerala Sahitya Akademy Vyloppilly Hall, Thrissur, Kerala ** *Saturday, June 21, 2008 5.30pm * In connection with the World Music Day * * *Forever Young* India / MiniDV / 2008 / English, Khasi / 75min. Direction, Screenplay & Producer: Ranjan Palit Camera: Ranu Ghosh, Setu & Ranjan Palit Editing: Avishek Ghosh Sound: Suresh Rajamani This film is about 60-year-old Lou Majaw and his band 'Ace of Spades', who have been celebrating Bob Dylan's birthday in Shillong for the last 15years, by holding an annual tribute concert. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/announcements/attachments/20080620/55cd9615/attachment.html From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Sun Jun 22 15:48:35 2008 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (JavaMuseum) Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 12:18:35 +0200 Subject: [Announcements] =?iso-8859-1?q?News_from_JavaMuseum?= Message-ID: <20080622121835.7AB8B045.52AF895E@192.168.0.3> JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art http://www.javamuseum.org News ---------------------------------- 1. New interviews on: JIP. JavaMuseum Interview Project 2. New call for: Netart Features 2009 ---------------------------------- 1. JavaMuseum is happy to publish three new interviews on JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project http://jip.javamuseum.org a) Alan Bigelow (USA) http://jip.javamuseum.org/jipblog/?page_id=93 b). Ethan Ham (USA) http://jip.javamuseum.org/jipblog/?page_id=94 c) Hyeseung Yoo (South Korea) http://jip.javamuseum.org/jipblog/?page_id=96 ------------------------------------ 2. Call for entries: Netart Features 2009 Also in 2009, JavaMuseum will continue its netart features. Artists are invited to submit up to 5 works completed after1 January 2005. The complete call, including regulations and form can be found here---> http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=329 ------------------------------------ JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art http://www.javamuseum.org is a corporate part of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne www.nmartproject.net - the experimental platform for art and new media from Cologne/Germany ------------------------------------ info (at) javamuseum.org From rana at ranadasgupta.com Fri Jun 20 16:47:05 2008 From: rana at ranadasgupta.com (Rana Dasgupta) Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:17:05 +0200 Subject: [Announcements] chimurenga announcement Message-ID: <821C7E7D-B5F8-47FD-A11C-49D241E20485@ranadasgupta.com> Chimurenga 14: Everyone Has Their Indian* Indian traders hit the shores of Africa in 1 AD. We have no concrete proof of this /per se/, but all the search engines think so. The Africans beat them to it, beginning their trips to India (should we say South Asia?) many thousands of years ago ? some of them staying put in exactly the same spot until National Geographic showed up. It's true: even today, in the Andaman & Nicobar Islands, you can spot the carefree "negrito" shooting arrows at government helicopters, surviving deadly tsunamis or roasting the odd tourist for dinner. We are reliably informed that human cargo of a more recent vintage ? the blob of people branded as "Africans in India" and "Indians in Africa" ? are behaving slightly better. Seems like only yesterday that every self-respecting postcolony was calling for socialism and south-south solidarity (think "Stuck in the middle with you" if this last phrase makes you cringe). How things change. Nehru is no more and his big dams are a national nightmare, Nyerere is gone, taking his iron fist with him, the region politely referred to as South Asia is a Godly mess, Bad Bob is Mad Bob, someone dug up all those impolite words that Gandhi hurled at the Natal indigene? and, oh yes, Naipaul finally won the Nobel. Still, third world solidarity warmed the cockles of our coloured hearts and we miss it sorely. Hypocrisy just isn't the same, what with this economically integrated world and all. Circa today: India is the world's favourite market ? 50 million engineers to the backdrop of an ancient culture. Africa is the world's favourite cause ? 50 million problems, and such fascinating wildlife. Put them together and we should have an opera of cinematic proportions. Instead, what we see is mere stock footage; what we hear, the dull drone of conventional foolishnesses volleyed across the Indian Ocean. It is not our intention to quibble with the great minds who've tackled such intercontinental themes before (not solely our intention, at least). Fact is, the present is a foreign country and people do strange things there. And we are unnaturally besotted with foreign countries and strange things. Could it be true that the Mandrax currently hobbling pre-teen South Africa is entirely manufactured in India? Why does the Hausa film look like a low-budget Hindi potboiler? How is it that so many Nigerian footballers play for Bangladesh? Who decided that the lost tribes of Shiva built the foundations of Great Zimbabwe? And were they on Mandrax? Today, there are all kinds of lines criss-crossing the Indian Ocean and they're just as likely to be drawn by governments and tourists as pirates and preachers. (Plus ca change, you might say, but hey, lineage is a line too.) The lines we are interested in are any and none of these and more: all we want is a new conversation. Send your stuff to chimurenga at panafrican.co.za before end of July 2008. * We don't own that phrase ? the leading brain of the legendary Sunday Times uttered it in a fit of worldliness, at the height of the Shaik opera. .................. Cédric Vincent 38 rue de Torcy 75018 Paris tel. +33 (0)1 40 37 19 73 mob. +33 (0)6 77 22 10 84 From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Wed Jun 25 11:06:34 2008 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (artNET) Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:36:34 +0200 Subject: [Announcements] =?iso-8859-1?q?CologneOFF-_deadline_extended?= Message-ID: <20080625073634.7206A7E9.3805EF92@192.168.0.3> Call for entries: extended deadline: Monday, 1 September 2008 --------------------------- CologneOFF IV - 4th edition of Cologne Online Film Festival http://coff.newmediafest.org is planned to be launched in November 2008 under the festival theme: Here We Are! - "memory" and "identity" in an experimental context ---------------------------------------------------- Entry ---------------------------------------------------- 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 extended deadline: 1 September 2008 All entry details and the submission form can be found on netEX - networked experience http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=238 ---------------------------------------------------- About CologneOFF ---------------------------------------------------- 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 3 festival editions CologneOFF I - "Identityscapes" - 2006 CologneOFF II - "Image vs Music" - 2006 CologneOFF III - "Toon! Toon! - art cartoons and animates narriatives" - 2007 were presented between 2006 and 2008 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 ------------------------------------------- This call is released by netEX - networked experience http://www.nmartproject.net/netex . info (at) nmartproject.net From chiarapassa at gmail.com Wed Jun 25 15:12:18 2008 From: chiarapassa at gmail.com (Chiara Passa) Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:42:18 +0200 Subject: [Announcements] "Replicating Architecture" out now! Message-ID: Hello friends & colleagues, I'm glad to announce my last artwork made for a site specific project. Replicating Architecture http://www.chiarapassa.it/replicatingarchitecture.html For the series digital art in public space: "Replicating architecture" is an interactive video installation that I'm developing for a site-specific place. The time is variable. "Replicating architecture" shows how the net art feeds (for example the rhizome news at: http://feeds.feedburner.com/rhizome-art) can influence and reshape an architecture placed in a real urban environment. In fact, through the patch 'RSS Downloader' in Quartz Composer, I can manage the rss feeds received from a web site and convert them into a sort of variable texture that I've constructed and shaped as a dna structure. It is made by aggregated lines connected to a several other patches that determine: phases, amplitudes, light environment, colours, xyz rotations, etc… As the DNA configuration is vertical, I've selected a tower or an obelisk for the projection. In this illusory dimension, infinite lines generating emptiness and distances are "attracted" and skimmed one with the others, fading. Thanks to the Net-Art news, the architecture becomes an essential structure that draws a sort of fluctuating original human structure always in transformation. Best regards, Chiara. -- Chiara Passa chiarapassa at gmail.com http://www.chiarapassa.it http://www.ideasonair.net http://twitter.com/jogador Skype: ideasonair From cahen.x at levels9.com Sat Jun 28 16:19:36 2008 From: cahen.x at levels9.com (xavier cahen) Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:49:36 +0200 Subject: [Announcements] pourinfos Newsletter / from 24-06 to 15-09-2008 Message-ID: <48661740.1040504@levels9.com> pourinfos.org l'actualite du monde de l'art / daily Art news ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >From Tuesday, Juin 24, 2008 through September 15, 2008 (included) ------------------------------------------------------------------- (mostly in french) Dear readers, pourinfos suspend its newsletter until mid-September. Have a pleasant summer 2008! Yours Xavier Cahen for the pourinfos' Team @ 001 (24/06/2008) Call: MAKE ART 2008 - OpenOS, Poitiers, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35880-tit--MAKE-ART-2008-OpenOS-Poitiers- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 002 (24/06/2008) Call: VIDEOFORMES 2009, video competition, Clermont-Ferrand, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35881-tit--VIDEOFORMES-2009-video-competition- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 003 (24/06/2008) Call: Piksel08: code dreams, Bergen, Norway. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35882-tit--Piksel08-code-dreams-Bergen- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 004 (24/06/2008) Residency: Kuenstlerhaeuser Worpswede, Germany. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35883-tit-Residence-Kuenstlerhaeuser-Worpswede- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 005 (24/06/2008) Call: THE OPEN WALL, Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre, Trondheim, Norway. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35884-tit--THE-OPEN-WALL-Trondheim-Electronic-Arts -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 006 (24/06/2008) Exhibition: .fiction DOCUMENTAIRE, 2007.2008, University Paris 8, Saint-Denis, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35894-tit--fiction-DOCUMENTAIRE-2007-2008- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 007 (25/06/2008) Call: RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES SCIENCES & CINÉMAS (RISC), 3rd edition, Marseille, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35886-tit--RENCONTRES-INTERNATIONALES-SCIENCES- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 008 (25/06/2008) Call: One MINUTE 2009, VIDEOFORMES, Clermont-Ferrand, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35887-tit--UNE-MINUTE-2009-VIDEOFORMES- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 009 (25/06/2008) Call: APPEL A PROJETS - DEDALE / CITE INTERNATIONALE UNIVERSITAIRE DE PARIS, Paris, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35888-tit--APPEL-A-PROJETS-DEDALE-CITE -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 010 (25/06/2008) Call fo participation : "Let's fuck, not fight!", wltf-mag, online magazine, Sao Paulo, Brazil. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35889-tit--Let-s-fuck-not-fight-wltf-mag- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 011 (25/06/2008) Call: Cimatics, 08AVFestival, Brussels, Belgium. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35890-tit--Cimatics-08AVFestival-Brussels- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 012 (25/06/2008) Divers : END THE PLAN TO ELIMINATE THE CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY IMAGES (CIC) - SAINT-GERVAIS GENEVA, Switzerland. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35891-tit-Divers-NON-A-LA-LIQUIDATION-DU-CENTRE-POUR -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 013 (25/06/2008) Various: petition "ORPHAN WORKS BILL, Menace on copyrights, capic.org, Toronto, Canada. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35892-tit-Divers-petition-ORPHAN-WORKS-BILL-Menace -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 014 (25/06/2008) Various: Steven Kurtz, ARTIST CLEARED OF ALL CHARGES IN PRECEDENT-SETTING CASE, Buffalo, Usa. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35897-tit-Divers-Steven-Kurtz-ARTIST-CLEARED-OF -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 015 (25/06/2008) Training: workshop of PHOTOGRAPHY DES RENCONTRES D'ARLES, Arles, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35898-tit-Formation-LES-STAGES-DE-PHOTOGRAPHIE-DES -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 016 (25/06/2008) Education: MA Fine Arts, York St John University, United Kingdom. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35899-tit-Formation-MA-Fine-Arts-York-St-John -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 017 (25/06/2008) Education: Cycle professional "Diffusion International, Act, Nantes, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35901-tit-Formation-Cycle-professionnel-Diffusion -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 018 (25/06/2008) Job: flash animators, layout of a series of 2D animation, animation, Blue Spirit, Brussels, Belgium. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35902-tit--animateurs-flash-layout-d-une-serie -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 019 (25/06/2008) Training: Summer Workshops Digital Arts, iMAL, Brussels, Belgium. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35903-tit-Formation-Ateliers-d-Ete-Arts-Numeriques- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 020 (25/06/2008) Call for participation: Folder «FRAGILE», esse arts + opinions, Montréal, Canada. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35904-tit--Dossier-FRAGILE-esse-arts-opinions- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 021 (25/06/2008) Call for participation: "Video Editing with Open Source Tools", Handbook, folly, Lancaster, United Kingdom. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35906-tit--Video-Editing-with-Open-Source-Tools- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 022 (25/06/2008) Residency: residence of Production Art Web TOPO Agency, Montreal, Canada. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35908-tit-Residence-residence-de-Production-d-Art -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 023 (25/06/2008) Publication: Cheap n ° 3, Nantes, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35909-tit--Cheap-n-3-Nantes- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 024 (25/06/2008) Publication: n#11-12 Opus , Opus, review of Sociology of art, Paris, Editions L'Harmattan, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35910-tit--n-11-12-Opus-revue-Sociologie-de-l-art- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 025 (25/06/2008) Publication: N°13 [2008] Art and political review land & work, ENS Cachan, Cachan, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35911-tit--N-13-2008-Art-et-politique-revue -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 026 (25/06/2008) Publication: N°20 of the newspaper, Editions Particules, Paris, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35913-tit--N-20-du-journal-Editions-Particules- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 027 (26/06/2008) Exhibiton: .fiction DOCUMENTAIRE, 2007.2008, University Paris 8, Saint-Denis, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35893-tit--fiction-DOCUMENTAIRE-2007-2008- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 028 (26/06/2008) Various: Survey Commission of exhibition, Cipac, Paris, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35895-tit-Divers-Enquete-commissariat-d-exposition- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 029 (26/06/2008) Education: Cycle professional "Cultural Action and the public relations", Act, Nantes, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35900-tit-Formation-Cycle-professionnel-Action -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 030 (26/06/2008) Call for participation: Call to participate, Bandits-Mages Festival, Bourges, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35905-tit--Call-to-participate-Bandits-Mages -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 031 (26/06/2008) Residency: Call for project residence - Discover & creation, the Méjannes Clap, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35907-tit--Appel-a-projet-residence-Decouverte- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 032 (26/06/2008) Publication: Ari Marcopoulos, Wesley Willis, nieves édition, Zurich, Switzerland. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35914-tit--Ari-Marcopoulos-Wesley-Willis-nieves -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 033 (26/06/2008) Publication: "Pirates!", Number 733-734, revue Critique, Paris, France http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35921-tit--Pirates-numero-733-734-revue -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 034 (26/06/2008) Exhibition: meetings Thursday, June 26, 2008 at the Olympic Cafe, PHOTSOC, International Festival of Photography Sociale in Sarcelles, Sarcelles, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35925-tit--rencontres-jeudi-26-juin-2008-a -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 035 (26/06/2008) Meetings: Seminar "social sciences in society" (sciences sociales en societe) - meeting on Thursday, June 26, 2008: "Social sciences, statistics and cultural policies in France", CERLIS, Paris, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35927-tit--Seminaire-sciences-sociales-en-societe- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 036 (26/06/2008) Meetings: « TALK IS CHEAP » Adel Abdessemed, lecture-performance, Situations of contemporary art, Thursday, June 26, 2008, Musée du quai Branly, Paris, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35932-tit--TALK-IS-CHEAP-Adel-Abdessemed- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 037 (27/06/2008) Exhibition : 2nd Exhibition of Contemporary Art Africain, Brussels, Belgium. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35848-tit--2eme-Salon-d-Art-Contemporain-Africain- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 038 (27/06/2008) Exhibition : The gun with white hair, Museum of Purpose, Blois, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35851-tit--Le-revolver-a-cheveux-blancs-Musee-de -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 039 (27/06/2008) Publication: No. 23 "The fear of images" (La peur des images), La Part de l’Œil, annual review of thought visual arts, Brussels, Belgium. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35915-tit--n-23-La-peur-des-images-La-Part-de -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 040 (27/06/2008) Publication: FILIATIONS, VU MAG I, Editions Filigranes, Paris, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35920-tit--FILIATIONS-VU-MAG-I-Editions -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 041 (27/06/2008) Publication: "You write," (Vous ecrire), Amers Editions, Espace en Cours, Paris, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35922-tit--Vous-ecrire-Amers-Editions-Espace-en -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 042 (27/06/2008) Exhibition: + IF AFFINITÉ 2008, association AFIAC, Village of FIAC, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35926-tit--SI-AFFINITE-2008-association-AFIAC- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 043 (27/06/2008) Meetings: Estefanía Peñafiel-Loaiza, Virginie Poitrasson, June 27, 2008, Galerie Paul Frèches Paris, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35928-tit--Estefania-Penafiel-Loaiza-Virginie -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 044 (28/06/2008) Various: Troc’Art, Jardin d’EOLE, Paris, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35837-tit-Divers-Troc-Art-Jardin-d-EOLE-Paris- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 045 (28/06/2008) Publication: E-formes : visual scriptures on digital media (écritures visuelles sur supports numériques), the direction of Monique Maza and Alexandra Saemmer, University of Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35917-tit--E-formes-ecritures-visuelles-sur -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 046 (28/06/2008) Meetings: travel motionless "le voyage immobile", Saturday, June 28, 2008, Forum des Halles, ARS LONGA, Paris, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35931-tit--le-voyage-immobile-Samedi-28-juin-2008- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 047 (29/06/2008) Publication: new number, web access free devoted to André Gorz, the magazine devices you speak, Paris, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35916-tit--numero-web-en-acces-libre-consacre-a -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 048 (29/06/2008) Publication: DROME 13, egality in omaggio, Roma, Italy. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35919-tit--DROME-13-egalite-in-omaggio-Roma- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 049 (29/06/2008) Publication: "What artistic critique? For a critical function of art at the contemporary age" (Quelle critique artiste ? Pour une fonction critique de l’art à l’âge contemporain), Aline Caillet, Collection L’art en bref, Editions L’Harmattan, Paris, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35923-tit--Quelle-critique-artiste-Pour-une -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 050 (29/06/2008) Publication: La prolifération des écrans / Proliferation of Screens, Presse de l'Université du Québec, Canada. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35924-tit--La-proliferation-des-ecrans- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- http://pourinfos.org l'actualité du monde de l'art / daily Art news Direction de la publication Xavier Cahen, webdesign Loz pourinfos.org est une page d’informations diverses et variées sur l'art contemporain, entendez ici, l’art qui se fait aujourd’hui. Cette lettre d’informations est bihebdomadaire. Contact humain xavier.cahen at pourinfos.org From deelited at gmail.com Sat Jun 28 20:19:57 2008 From: deelited at gmail.com (deepti) Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:19:57 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] Join the Delhi Queer Pride '08: June 29th: 5:30 pm (and see new route info in this mail) Message-ID: <2617ab630806280749i5a424b54x80b0f9c009ef34db@mail.gmail.com> Come join the *Delhi Queer Pride '08* on Sunday 29th June 2008 at 5.30 pm New Meeting Point: We assemble at the corner of Barakhamba Road and Tolstoy Marg, just south of the Metro station on Barakhamba Road, and in front of the Intercontinental Hotel on Tolstoy Marg. We will then march to Jantar Mantar, where we will have celebrating, singing, speeches and a candlelight vigil. **************************************************************************** This June, for the first time, Queer Pride celebrations will erupt on the streets of Delhi, alongside simultaneous marches in Kolkata and Bangalore! Queer Pride is a celebration. It is about loving who we are, whether lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, hijra or straight, and affirming everyone's right to be respected for their own sexual choices. This year, queer people, friends, and allies take this message to the streets! - Forward this message widely to your queer friends and straight allies -- lets get everyone to CP! **If you want to be out on the street and yet under cover, we will provide masks to cover your face, or bring something along yourself. Nevertheless, please remember this is a public event.** Delhi Queer Pride Commitee is an open forum of city residents. Anyone can join - please email delhiqueerpride at gmail.com to be part of organising Delhi Queer Pride '08. We are also fundraising for the Pride, so email if you want to contribute or volunteer! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/announcements/attachments/20080628/ec04d56e/attachment-0001.html From chiarapassa at gmail.com Mon Jun 30 12:24:16 2008 From: chiarapassa at gmail.com (Chiara Passa) Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:54:16 +0200 Subject: [Announcements] "Replicating Architecture" out now! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello friends & colleagues, I'm glad to announce my new site specific installation "Replicating Architecture" http://www.chiarapassa.it/replicatingarchitecture.html For the series digital art in public space: "Replicating architecture" is an interactive video installation that I'm developing for a site-specific place. The time is variable. "Replicating architecture" shows how the net art feeds (for example the rhizome news at: http://feeds.feedburner.com/rhizome-art) can influence and reshape an architecture placed in a real urban environment. In fact, through the patch 'RSS Downloader' in Quartz Composer, I can manage the rss feeds received from a web site and convert them into a sort of variable texture that I've constructed and shaped as a dna structure. It is made by aggregated lines connected to a several other patches that determine: phases, amplitudes, light environment, colours, xyz rotations, etc… As the DNA configuration is vertical, I've selected a tower or an obelisk for the projection. In this illusory dimension, infinite lines generating emptiness and distances are "attracted" and skimmed one with the others, fading. Thanks to the Net-Art news, the architecture becomes an essential structure that draws a sort of fluctuating original human structure always in transformation. Best regards, Chiara. -- Chiara Passa chiarapassa at gmail.com http://www.chiarapassa.it http://www.ideasonair.net http://twitter.com/jogador Skype: ideasonair From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Mon Jun 30 12:40:41 2008 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (netEX) Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:10:41 +0200 Subject: [Announcements] =?iso-8859-1?q?netEX=3A_calls_and_deadlines_-_Jul?= =?iso-8859-1?q?y_2008?= Message-ID: <20080630091041.D5FF6E78.1EBB8C5D@192.168.0.3> netEX: calls & deadlines -->July 2008 ------------------------------------- [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne newsletter contents calls & deadlines 04 Calls: 2008 deadlines internal 20 Calls: July deadlines external 09 Calls: ongoing external/internal ------------------------------------- Calls & deadlines ---> ------------------------------------------------ 2008 deadlines: internal ------------------------------------------------ extended deadline 1 September 2008 !!! CologneOFF IV - 4th Cologne Online Film Festival http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=238 1 September 2008 VideoChannel - video project environments call on the subject "MOTHER" http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=292 31 October 2008 JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art call: Netart Features 2009 http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=329 30 November 2008 SoundLAB VI - soundart for soundPOOL - sound compositions - a challenge for imagination http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=242 ------------------------------------------------ July 2008 deadlines: external ------------------------------------------------ 31 July Short Cuts Cologne - Shortfilm Festival Cologne/Germany http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=333 31 July 12th International Shortfilm Festival Winterthur/Switzerland http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=295 31 July Cimatics AV Festival Brussels/Belgium http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=319 30 July East Silver 2008 Prague/CZ - film documentaries - Central - Eastern Europe http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=304 28 July Experimental 7.0 - experimental film and sonic arts festival Nicosia/Cyprus http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=314 25 July International Kansk Video Festival Kansk/Russia http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=334 19 May Balmoral Scholarship Bad Ems (Germany) http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=298 18 July Onedotzero Festival London/UK http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=307 15 July VI Inter. Electro-acustic miniatures contest Huelva/Spain http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=309 15 July ETC Media Artists Residency http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=320 15 July Artist/curator Resideny - Hotel MariaKapel Hoorn/The Netherlands http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=310 15 July Tabula Rasa - Aferro Gallery Newark NJ New York/USA http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=281 15 July Images Festival Toronto 2009 http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=316 extended deadline 15 July Leonor Hirsch Award - electro-acoustic work & video http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=261 14 July 15th Regensburg Short Film Week 2008 http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=287 14 July International Shortfilm Festival Lille/F http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=216 12 July 7th International Shortfilm Fest Reggio Emilia/Italy http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=266 10 July Worpswede Artists Residency 2009 (Germany) http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=296 7 July 5th Sedicicorto Int. 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