From iram at sarai.net Mon Sep 1 10:39:21 2008 From: iram at sarai.net (Iram Ghufran) Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:39:21 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] FWD: Christopher Pinney: Lecture @ JNU Message-ID: <48BB7901.706@sarai.net> Subject: Christopher Pinney: Lecture @ JNU From: "Aarti Sethi" Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:48:23 +0530 To: announcements at sarai.net =============================== School of Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University Presents Designer Discontent and Gandhigiri: Bhagat Singh and M.K. Gandhi in Popular Visual Culture An Illustrated PublicTalk by Christopher Pinney Visiting Crowe Professor, Department of Art History, North Western University, Chicago At the SAA Auditorium Friday 5th September, 4 p.m All are Welcome -- Ranjani Mazumdar Associate Professor Cinema Studies School of Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi 110067 http://www.jnu.ac.in/SAA/ From mitoo at sarai.net Mon Sep 1 11:18:41 2008 From: mitoo at sarai.net (Mitoo Das) Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:18:41 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] Position in South Asian Art History at the University of Washington Message-ID: <48BB8239.6050701@sarai.net> Full time, tenure-track Assistant Professor position in South Asian art history, to begin September 2009. Salary commensurate with qualifications. Applications invited in any area of South Asian art and architectural history. Teach undergraduate and graduate courses, seminars; supervise M.A. and Ph.D. students. Candidate should have Ph.D. in art history; however, candidates in the final stages of completing their dissertation may be appointed on an acting basis. Include curriculum vitae; application letter including research interests; statement of teaching philosophy, experience; course syllabi; three letters of recommendation; dissertation abstract; any publications and/or three dissertation chapters. Materials due December 1, 2008. All University of Washington faculty engage in teaching, research and service. The University of Washington is committed to building a culturally diverse faculty and strongly encourages applications from female and minority candidates. The University of Washington is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. Contact Info: South Asian Art Search Committee Chair School of Art Box 353440 102 Art Building Stevens Way Seattle, Washington 98195-3440 Website: http://www.washington.edu From markcmarino at gmail.com Tue Sep 2 04:27:56 2008 From: markcmarino at gmail.com (Mark Marino) Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 14:57:56 -0800 Subject: [Announcements] CFW: Bunk Magazine and Matt Hatters (October 1+, Spring 2009) Message-ID: <287213f30809011557t135b3faeo5cff1a44b827cba0@mail.gmail.com> 2 Calls for Bunk Works Following up on "The Los Wikiless Timespedia," Bunk Magazine (http://www.bunkmag.com) is seeking submissions for two upcoming issues of new media art. 1) Spring-Summer 2009"The Mad Bunkers Mash" (Humor and Literary) A mash-up of two stately magazines, the literary giant Mad Hatters review and Bunk Magazine. The mash up issue seeks mashups, mashers, and works to be mashed. Those Who Wish to Be Mashed: October 1 Those Who Wish to Mash: October 15 Those Who Wih to Mash Their Own: February 1 (Note: that last deadline has been extended) See the full call here:http://www.madhattersreview.com/submit.shtml 2) Fall-Winter 2009 "Widget Issue" (Humor/Satire) Send us your widgets. Widgetbox, YourMinis, Google Gadgets, or other portable doodads. Or send us proposals for widgets for this issue of portable parody and satire. Proposals due October January 15, 2008 Finished Widgets Deadline July 1, 2008. Please contact with questions: Mark C. Marino, Editor, Bunk Magazine. -- Writing Program University of Southern California http://WriterResponseTheory.org http://CriticalCodeStudies.com From krititeam at bol.net.in Sat Sep 6 16:54:55 2008 From: krititeam at bol.net.in (kriti team (back up)) Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 16:54:55 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] Greetings from Kriti DOCUSHOP: September 2008 Message-ID: <009d01c91013$30700300$3700a8c0@space1> Apologies for cross-posting! Dear friends Greetings! Our monthly mailer comes to you with important dates for your calender, do share other dates that we may have missed so we can add those to our list: 8 International Literacy Day 21 International Peace Day 28 Shankar Guha Niyogi Martyrdom Day We share a selected list of information and communication resources with you in this mailer, details of which can be seen on the blog. Several other titles also available, write in with your orders! 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URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/announcements/attachments/20080906/61e9bab6/attachment-0001.html From turbulence at turbulence.org Mon Sep 8 02:39:47 2008 From: turbulence at turbulence.org (Turbulence) Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 17:09:47 -0400 Subject: [Announcements] Networked_Music_ Review Interview: Jeff Talman Message-ID: <10b301c9112e$10a2ead0$31e8c070$@org> Interview: Jeff Talman By Peter Traub Networked_Music_ Review http://tinyurl.com/5hqygw Jeff Talman's sound installations focus on notions of "self-reflexive resonance", often using no other sound source than the natural ambient resonance of the installation site. His works also have a strong visual component, owing to his dual backgrounds in music and the visual arts. His latest work, "A Play of Flows" premiers on October 23, 2008 at the Galleria Mazzini in Genoa, Italy. Talman was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Sound Art in 2006 and was a recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Award in Computer Arts in 2003. He currently resides in Manhattan. Due to the nature of his pieces, Talman does not provide sound samples on his website - the pieces are simply too site-specific to experience in any other way than first-hand. As such, we will only be providing photos and discussion with this interview. Peter Traub: Before you began creating sound installations in the mid 1990s, you were a more 'traditional' computer music composer and musician. Could you discuss how you made the transition into sound installation work? Was there a particular experience of a space or place that pushed you in this new direction? Jeff Talman: First, let me thank you very much for your interest in my work and this opportunity to go into your well-thought through questions. Many thanks also to Networked Music Review and Helen Thorington and Jo-Anne Green. I've found that interviews can really help tremendously because they put me as an artist outside of myself, so new or different slants to the work may become available. It's is a very welcome kind of refreshment. Read more: http://tinyurl.com/5hqygw In case you haven't visited the site recently, don't miss Peter Traub's interview with Karen Van Lengen (http://tinyurl.com/5rx4hc). All of the Networked_Music_Review Interviews can be found here: http://turbulence.org/networked_music_review/tags/interview/ Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856 Turbulence: http://turbulence.org Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog Networked_Music_Review: http://turbulence.org/networked_music_review Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade New American Radio: http://somewhere.org From markcmarino at gmail.com Mon Sep 8 10:55:19 2008 From: markcmarino at gmail.com (Mark Marino) Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 21:25:19 -0800 Subject: [Announcements] =?windows-1252?q?Electronic_Literature_Collection?= =?windows-1252?q?=2C_Vol=2E_2_=97_Call_for_Work_=289/30/08=29?= Message-ID: <287213f30809072225n78d19d5ej22a4571011773023@mail.gmail.com> Resending this call as a reminder. Please help circulate! Best, Mark Electronic Literature Collection, Vol. 2 — Call for Work (9/30/08) 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 http://eliterature.org From turbulence at turbulence.org Mon Sep 8 18:55:24 2008 From: turbulence at turbulence.org (Turbulence) Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 09:25:24 -0400 Subject: [Announcements] Turbulence Commission: "Wikireuse" by Julia Christensen Message-ID: <10f301c911b6$5c6c20c0$15446240$@org> September 8, 2008 Turbulence Commission: "Wikireuse" by Julia Christensen http://turbulence.org/works/wikireuse CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS For six years, Julia Christensen has been creating a body of work about how communities are reusing abandoned "big box" buildings -- the large, free-standing, warehouse-like buildings made prominent by one-stop-shopping corporations like Wal-Mart and Kmart. In 2004, she made a website about the project at www.bigboxreuse.com. "Wikireuse" both updates this website and invites users to participate in its development. Nodes on a map of the United States catalog big box reuse at geo-coded locations; users can add to the map by sending in information and/or documentation about a reused big box building near them. Articles about big box reuse are also cataloged on the website, so the user can read local accounts in local newspapers from across the country. "Wikireuse" is a 2007 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., (aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made possible with funding from the Jerome Foundation." BIOGRAPHY Julia Christensen is an artist and writer whose work treads the fine line between art and research. She is the author of "Big Box Reuse", forthcoming from the MIT Press in November 2008. The book is a product of her ongoing investigation of how communities are renovating and reusing abandoned big box buildings. Curated by Astria Suparak, "Your Town Inc.", a solo show of Christensen's work, is at the Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University until November 23, 2008. This fall, Christensen's photographs will also be on display at the Carnegie Museum of Fine Arts as a part of the show "Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes." Christensen also lectures widely. She holds the chair of Luce Visiting Professor of the Emerging Arts at Oberlin College, where she teaches in the Studio Arts and TIMARA (Technology in Music and Related Arts) Departments. For more Turbulence Commissions, please visit http://turbulence.org Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856 Turbulence: http://turbulence.org Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog Networked_Music_Review: http://turbulence.org/networked_music_review Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade New American Radio: http://somewhere.org From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Tue Sep 9 14:57:01 2008 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (soundART) Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:27:01 +0200 Subject: [Announcements] =?iso-8859-1?q?call=3A_soundart_for_SoundLAB_IV?= Message-ID: <20080909112701.8FED544E.4993618B@192.168.0.2> SoundLAB - sonic art project environments http://soundlab.newmediafest.org informs: 1. Call: soundart for SoundLAB VI new extended deadline: 31 December 2008 2. SoundLAB V on Canariasmediafest 2008 ---------------------------------------------- 1. Call for entries: SoundLAB VI - "soundPOOL" - sound compositions - a challenge for imagination - SoundLAB is looking for its 6th edition to be launched in March 2009, sound compositions which represent a real challenge for human imagination All details, the complete call, the regulations and entry form can be found here http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=242 ---------------------------------------------- 2. SoundLAB V - "soundSTORY - sound as a tool for storytelling" - launched in 2007 http://soundlab.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=135 50 soundSTORIES and additional soundart contributions from Spain curated by Ruben Garcia and South Africa curated by Julian Jonker will be presented on Canariasmediafest 2008 - in the section "mediaart" Las Palmas - Gran Canaria/Spain 28 October -1 November 2008 http://www.canariasmediafest.org ------------------------------------------------ SoundLAB - sonic art project environments http://soundlab.newmediafest.org corporate part of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne http://www.nmartproject.net directed by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne Visit also SoundLAB I -V on - http://soundlab.newmediafest.org ----------------------------------------------- From iram at sarai.net Wed Sep 10 09:32:14 2008 From: iram at sarai.net (Iram Ghufran) Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:32:14 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] Fwd: Book Release: Medieval Indian Costume by the late Mrs. Roshen Alkazi Message-ID: <48C746C6.3050404@sarai.net> Subject: Book Release: Medieval Indian Costume by the late Mrs. Roshen Alkazi From: rahaab at acparchives.com To: announcements at sarai.net =================================================== Dear Friends, Please join us for the book release of the late Mrs. Alkazi's second volume on the costumes of India, entitled Medieval Indian Costume. The invitation is attached hereafter. Sincerely, Rahaab Allana Curator, Alkazi Foundation for the Arts. ==================================================== Book release of two volumes Ancient Indian Costume and Medieval Indian Costume by the late Mrs. Roshen Alkazi on Saturday 13th September 2008 at the Triveni Theatre 205 Tansen Marg at 5 pm accompanied by an Exhibition and a Talk by E Alkazi on 'The Stage Costumes of Roshen Alkazi' * Exhibition continues till 22nd August at Art Heritage 205 Tansen marg ND 1 artheritage at gmail.com From iram at sarai.net Wed Sep 10 09:35:47 2008 From: iram at sarai.net (Iram Ghufran) Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:35:47 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] Fwd: exhibition of Paintings & Sculptures Message-ID: <48C7479B.9060801@sarai.net> From: art maestros To: announcements at sarai.net ============================== art maestros Invites you to an exhibition of Paintings & Sculptures by various artists from 17th to 28th Sept. 2008 Time: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at D-3/3 Okhla Industrial Area Phase-II, New Delhi-110020 Kittu Arora #9313959671, #011-40503886 E-Mail Id: kittuarora65 at gmail.com ================================ From logos.theword at gmail.com Thu Sep 11 11:37:11 2008 From: logos.theword at gmail.com (Logos Theatre) Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:37:11 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] Solo Performance Tomorrow - Necropolis: rehearsing Koltes in such times Message-ID: <33bc2ee60809102307r3e1880e6l185dd2ca7c83f1f8@mail.gmail.com> *Maya Gallery of Contemporary Art and Logos Theatre present:* ** *Necropolis: rehearsing Koltes in such times* ** A play by Best of Kolkata Campus Direction dramaturgy and performance: Parnab Mukherjee Inspired from In the Solitude of Cottonfields by Bernard Marie Koltes Additional text: Thangjam Ibopishak, Rajkumar Bhubonsana, Bhaskar Chakraborty, Rabindranath Tagore and Mishing proverbs Collaboration: Gautam Bajoria *At: Maya Gallery of Contemporary Art, 59, Nandidurga Road (Behind the airtel office)* ** *Tomorrow (September 12th), at 18:30* ** *Duration: One hour* ** *Non-ticketed, pay-as-you-wish.* ** *Audience limited to twenty* ** *Call: 9880966313, or mail contact at logostheatreindia.org* *Synopsis:* Necropolis is a part of a three part repertoire called The Trilogy of Unrest, the first two being Hamletmachine: Images of Shakespeare-in-us and an installation performance called This room is not my room. The repertoire has toured the north-east, Siliguri, Kolkata, Pune and Mumbai. The touring performance will culminate in the release of a special commemorative edition of Five Issues on Indian theatre and subversions-dedicated to Badal Sircar, Vijay Tendulkar, Bishnu Rabha and Arambam Samarendra *Summary: * Two men meet on the street. They have to make a deal. Or rather they want to make a deal. One has something to sell and the other needs something to buy. The Dealer is unsure what to peddle or would he want to peddle anything in the first place. The Client knows what he has to buy but does not know exactly what to. A cat and mouse game begins between these nameless, faceless, shapeshifters who have to make a transaction which they are not sure why would make. For the next chunk of minutes they indulge in selling and buying of concepts without transacting anything. But they did make a deal. What are they selling? Or rather who is buying? Are technology, displacement, memories of a genocide the new road-map of the new universe. Are we such theoritical creatures that we have lost the power to engage with real issues and provide a balm to the displaced, destitute, fried, barbecued, roasted human-folk.? More often than not we are groping for words to describe routine violence. Routine cases of racial profiling. Of exclusion. Grappling with stereotypes. Cliches. Biases on the basis of human rights. Unethical treatment of animals who become globalised pharma companies? experimental guinea pigs. Biases on the basis of sexual orientation. We are looking at images and we think either they supplement the words or complement them. Is image only a memory tool? Is it just a visual metaphor? Is it just to learn things by heart? By rote? What is a performance? Merely a text or an improvisation or?a series?of theatre exercises which are prescribed as typical workshop methods? The performance probes into the image -word relationship?gets into the rationale of images... What images are we looking at? Nelllie-Morichjhaanpi, Malom, Mokokchung, Arrest of Vinayak Sen in Chattishgarh...What was the process of transforming the "us" into "them".....How are "they" celebrating diversity and "their" culturalness in these times? The performance negotiates these terrains. By the time the performance ends nobody has bought, nobody has sold?yet those two individuals have transformed themselves enough to be probably up for sale if the next set of clients gatecrash into the narrative. *About the Director/ Performer:* An independent media analyst and a performance consultant by profession, Mr. Parnab Mukherjee is one of the leading alternative theatre directors' of the country. He divides his time between Kolkata, Imphal and the Darjeeling hills. Currently, a consultant with a human rights initiative, he has earlier worked for a sports fortnightly, an English daily and a Bengali daily. He is an acclaimed authority on Badal Sircar's theatre and specialises in theatre-for-conflict-resolution and theatre-of-the-campus. He is considered as a leading light in alternative theatre in the country having directed more than 50 productions of performance texts including three international collaborations. He has also performed 12 full length solos which include an acclaimed series of plays on trafficking, HIV and segregation called the River series, and *Foot Hills to Hills, *a?series of plays?with Darjeeling as the living inspiration. Parnab has created a personal idiom of using spaces for theatre exploration. He has extensively worked on a range of human rights issues which include specific theatre projects on anti-uranium project struggles in Jadugoda and Turamdihi, Save Tenzin campaign, rehabilitation after industrial shutdowns, shelter issue of the de-notified tribes, a widely acclaimed cycle of?nine plays against Gujarat genocide, and a range of issues on north-east with special reference to Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958. Four of his major workshop modules:* Freedomspeak*, *The Otherness of the Body*, *Conflict* *as a Text *and *The Elastic Body *have been conducted with major theatre groups and campuses all over the country. He has written five books on theatre *Best of Kolkata Campus: * Best of Kolkata Campus, a non-profit performance company, has completed 15 years of doing dedicated theatre in found spaces and public arena. It has produced a number of young theatre workers who are active in the cultural and audio-visual training arena. It is a loosely formed collective of?individuals who believe that theatre is an important an independent tool of dissent outside the ambit of party politics. Some of the most memorable productions of the group include *Hamletmachine*, *Antigone*, *Raktakarabi-an urban sound opera*, *Bhul Rasta*, *Kasper-dipped and shredded*, *They Also Work*, *River Monologues*, *Dead-Talk series,?Coversations with the dead, Crisis of Civilisation, Shakespeare shorts, Man to Man talk, Inviting Ibsen for a Dinner with Ibsen*?and *And the Dead Tree Gives no Shelter.*? The group also works in the field of installation performances and theatre-of-conflict-resolution and peace studies. It has travelled extensively all over the country doing shows, giving workshops and exploring alternative performance idioms. -- 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/20080911/1d532f45/attachment-0001.html From santhosh.kanipayur at gmail.com Fri Sep 12 11:02:38 2008 From: santhosh.kanipayur at gmail.com (Santhosh Kumar) Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:02:38 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] ViBGYOR 2009 announcement Message-ID: <19d498870809112232k12334643o2aa8f3a3479a9456@mail.gmail.com> Mazhavilmela 4th ViBGYOR International Film Festival Thrissur, February 4-8, 2009 Regional Theatre Campus, Thrissur *celebrating identities and diversity*** We are most happy to announce the 4th Edition of *ViBGYOR Short and Documentary Film Festival*, which will be held from February 4th to 8th, 2009 in Thrissur, Kerala, India. It is a non-competitive film festival held every year in Kerala for the past three years. Documentary, Short Films, Music Videos, Animation, Spots and Experimental films are screened in the Festival. Films of following categories screened there. * * *ViBGYOR Theme Packages* ' Gender and Sexuality ' Dalit Reality ' Indigenous People ' Globalisation ' Nation State ' Fundamentalism v/s Diversity ' Region Focus –*Pakistan* * * *Every year there is a theme as Focus of the year on which a National seminar is conducted and a substantial number of films are screened. This year, * * * *Focus of the Year: Food** * The 5-day Festival is not just a treat of brilliant films on social, political, development and environmental issues, but a meeting place for filmmakers, social activists, film buffs and media students and a campaign space for people's movements as well. It is *an initiative of* the *ViBGYOR Film Collective*, which is an open coalition of various networks and groups, representing indigenous people, dalits, youth, and sexual minorities and addressing issues of war, conflict and peace, human rights, environment and development, culture and media and globalization. * * *ViBGYOR is organized by* Chetana Media Institute, Nottam Traveling Film Festival, Navachitra Film Society, CenSE, GAIA, Moving Republic, Visual Search and others For more information, log on www.vibgyorfilm.com Or contact 9447000830/9446529991/0487-2330830, Email: vibgyorfilmfest at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The 2 channel video attempts to understand how both men and women approach eve teasing and street sexual violence in their daily lives. The show begins on *Sept 14th from noon to 6 pm* *and is on until the 25th of January.* You could also confirm on facebook: http://www.new.facebook.com/editevent.php?picture&eid=24312104661&new&m=1#/event.php?eid=24312104661 We hope to see you there! *Blank Noise Team * > * We thank the Bronx Museum for their support towards the making of this work. **We also thank Akademie Schloss Solitude and Ashoka Innovators for Public.* * * -- http:blog.blanknoise.org http:blanknoiseactionheroes.blogspot.com mob: 0091 98868 40612 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The idea is to make a statement that cyclists should be given their due respect by other road users. Critical Mass is an event held in almost all major cities of the world, usually on the last Friday of every month, wherein a mass of cyclists ride through the streets of the city. The peak hour bicycle ride gives the subtle message to our fellow road users that we too exist. Please give this event the maximum publicity and lets make it a success by ensuring maximum participation. Let us show the city that cyclists of Delhi will demand their rightful place on the streets of Delhi. Let us celebrate cycling!" ================================================== From iram at sarai.net Sat Sep 13 11:10:40 2008 From: iram at sarai.net (Iram Ghufran) Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 11:10:40 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] Fwd: 3rd International Film Water Film Festival In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <48CB5258.4070703@sarai.net> FWD: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > From: > "Water Journeys" > Date: > 12 Sep 2008 15:02:46 -0000 > To: > "waterjourneys" > > To: > "waterjourneys" > > > > > The first wave of the seven > > is the by far the most graceful of them all, > > somewhere between a giggle and a puddle, > > gliding a smile, breaking softly at her toe.(just beneath the hemlines > of her Navajo skirt) > > The first wave of the seven, > > Beguiles me so, > > After the lash of the mighty seventh, > > it channels the moon and proclaims itself, the infinite eight. > > and Splash, it goes. (just beneath the hemlines of her Navajo skirt) > > - Brand Grange (Sand in my Pockets) > > > > > > Voices from the Waters 2008 > > 3rd International Film Water Film Festival > > 13th to 18th September, 2008 > > Jnana Jyothi Auditorium, Central College Campus, Palac e Rd, > > Near Mysore Bank Circle, Bangalore- 560 001. > > > > BANGALORE FILM SOCIETY (BFS), ARGHYAM, SVARAJ - Society for Voluntary > Action Revitalization and Justice, BANGALORE UNIVERSITY, The Alliance > Française de Bangalore, The Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan > Bangalore, MOUNTAINFILM IN TELLURIDE, WATER JOURNEYS, Charter of Human > Responsibilities, IRCSA - International Rainwater Catchment Systems > Association, and Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival at Ithaca > College (FLEFF) > > INVITE YOU TO > > > THE GRAND INAUGURAL > > 13th September 2008 > > 5.00om onwards.... > > > > Invocation: > > > > Raga of River Narmada > > Dir: Rajendra Janglay > > Inauguration: > > Floating of the Lamps by- > > > > Shekhar Kapoor > > Kavitha Lankesh > > > > Inaugural Film > > The Rising Wave > > Dir: Shweta Kishore & Yask Desai > > > > For all further details contact: > > www.voicesfromthewaters.com (schedule, synopsis, history & precise > geography) > > bangalorefilmsociety at gmail.com > > Tel: 9886213516/ 25493705 > > Admission is free. > (Audience is encouraged to break all boundaries, roles, spaces and > most importantly, rules. Like ol’ Brad Grange, troubadour & arch mr. > mischief puts it so well - Splash, it goes.) > > Campaign for the fundamental right to water, > C/o No.33/1-9, Thyagaraj Layout, > Jai Bharath Nagar, > Maruthisevanagar P.O, > Bangalore-560 033. > > "If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water" - Loran > Eisley > > > > > From shuddha at sarai.net Sat Sep 13 12:15:46 2008 From: shuddha at sarai.net (Shuddhabrata Sengupta) Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 12:15:46 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] A New Journal: Message-ID: Dear All, I am forwarding below an announcement for a new journal 'ART & RESEARCH' that was posted recently by Geert Lovink on the Spectre Mailing List, in the belief that it may be of interest to many people on this list. The contents of the journal are freely accessible and downloadable as pdf files.This volume focuses on Ranciere's work on Aesthetics. regards Shuddha ------------------------------------------- ART&RESEARCH A Journal of Ideas, Contexts and Methods Volume 2. No. 1. Summer 2008 (ISSN 1752 6388) http://www.artandresearch.org.uk Art and Research is an artist-led, internationally peer-assessed e- journal of Research in Fine Art Practice, focused upon questions, contexts and methodologies of artistic research and practice. Art & Research aims to serve professional artists and academics, curators and critics, artistic researchers, postgraduate and doctoral research students and undergraduates, and to inform current pedagogical thought in a global context. This issue is focused on the work of French philosopher Jacques Rancière and includes papers from the two-day conference Aesthetics and Politics: With and Around Jacques Rancière co-organized by Sophie Berrebi and Marie-Aude Baronian at the University of Amsterdam on 20 and 21 June 2006. It includes the previously unpublished text of Rancière_s plenary lecture delivered at the conference and a new interview with the philosopher; it also includes a transcript of an exchange with Rancière which followed the papers presented by Stephen Wright and Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield which also appear here. Contents Editorial: Jacques Rancière and The (Re)Distribution of the Sensible: ( Five Lessons in Artistic Research With and Around Jacques Rancière Sophie Berrebi: Everything you wanted to know about Jacques Rancière but were afraid to ask&.. Jacques Rancière: Aesthetic Separation, Aesthetic Community: Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Art Stephen Wright: Behind Police Lines: Art Visible and Invisible Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield: Nowhere is aesthetics contra ethics: (Rancière the other side of Lyotard An Exchange with Jacques Rancière Jacques Rancière and Indisciplinarity, translated by Gregory Elliott Sophie Berrebi: Jacques Rancière: Aesthetics is Politics Audron_ Žukauskait_: Imaginary Identities In Contemporary Lithuanian Art Sean Snyder: Optics. Compression. Propaganda. Michael Rakowitz: The invisible enemy should not exist All of a Sudden: Things that Matter in Contemporary Art: An Interview with Jörg Heiser Dan Kidner: Chris Evans: Socially Awkward Chris Evans: The Freedom of Negative Expression The Phenomenology of Olfactory Perception:( An interview with Clara Ursitti Clara Ursitti: Oxford/Rome Micro Gestures For a New Co-Efficiency in Art: An interview with Andrew Sunley Smith Andrew Sunley Smith: Micro Gestures Brian O'Connell: Ghostly Media: What Would an Invoking Medium Look Like? Sarah-Neel Smith: Nightcomers at the 2007 Istanbul Biennial: ( revolution or counter-revolution? Art and Research is published by: Studio 55: Centre for Research in Fine Art Practice Glasgow School of Art 167 Renfrew Street Glasgow, G3 6RQ http://www.studio55.org.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Summer 2008 (ISSN 1752 6388) http://www.artandresearch.org.uk Art and Research is an artist-led, internationally peer-assessed e-journal of Research in Fine Art Practice, focused upon questions, contexts and methodologies of artistic research and practice. Art & Research aims to serve professional artists and academics, curators and critics, artistic researchers, postgraduate and doctoral research students and undergraduates, and to inform current pedagogical thought in a global context. This issue is focused on the work of French philosopher Jacques Rancière and includes papers from the two-day conference Aesthetics and Politics: With and Around Jacques Rancière co-organized by Sophie Berrebi and Marie-Aude Baronian at the University of Amsterdam on 20 and 21 June 2006. It includes the previously unpublished text of Rancière_s plenary lecture delivered at the conference and a new interview with the philosopher; it also includes a transcript of an exchange with Rancière which followed the papers presented by Stephen Wright and Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield which also appear here. Contents Editorial: Jacques Rancière and The (Re)Distribution of the Sensible:( Five Lessons in Artistic Research With and Around Jacques Rancière Sophie Berrebi: Everything you wanted to know about Jacques Rancière but were afraid to ask&.. Jacques Rancière: Aesthetic Separation, Aesthetic Community: Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Art Stephen Wright: Behind Police Lines: Art Visible and Invisible Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield: Nowhere is aesthetics contra ethics: (Rancière the other side of Lyotard An Exchange with Jacques Rancière Jacques Rancière and Indisciplinarity, translated by Gregory Elliott Sophie Berrebi: Jacques Rancière: Aesthetics is Politics Audron_ Žukauskait_: Imaginary Identities In Contemporary Lithuanian Art Sean Snyder: Optics. Compression. Propaganda. Michael Rakowitz: The invisible enemy should not exist All of a Sudden: Things that Matter in Contemporary Art: An Interview with Jörg Heiser Dan Kidner: Chris Evans: Socially Awkward Chris Evans: The Freedom of Negative Expression The Phenomenology of Olfactory Perception:( An interview with Clara Ursitti Clara Ursitti: Oxford/Rome Micro Gestures For a New Co-Efficiency in Art: An interview with Andrew Sunley Smith Andrew Sunley Smith: Micro Gestures Brian O'Connell: Ghostly Media: What Would an Invoking Medium Look Like? Sarah-Neel Smith: Nightcomers at the 2007 Istanbul Biennial:( revolution or counter-revolution? Art and Research is published by: Studio 55: Centre for Research in Fine Art Practice Glasgow School of Art 167 Renfrew Street Glasgow, G3 6RQ http://www.studio55.org.uk From monica at sarai.net Tue Sep 16 21:48:40 2008 From: monica at sarai.net (Monica Narula) Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:48:40 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] green unplugged Festival Message-ID: <9B319812-B8E7-42CE-AE39-1E3CCC764B6A@sarai.net> FYI --------------------------------------- green unplugged Share your vision, your spirit, your film. Reach audiences across borders with your voice, your consciousness. ABOUT FESTIVAL : Culture Unplugged Studios will be launching 'Green Unplugged' - the festival where we unite to share our voices, not only as film-makers but culture-makers. The festival will facilitate contemplation, connection & celebration of life, culture & nature through cinema. We invite your green & socially conscious films that bring to light nature's demand to wake us to our future - an integrated individual and the human society. Share stories that reveal where we come from, our collective journey leading to our present and contemplating the path beyond. With this, Culture Unplugged wishes to create a global community of conscious creatives and their audiences, to reflect on issues and life experiences in contemporary world – creatives/storytellers wishing to express and exchange primarily through language of film (visual/aural communication), framing the spirit in motion. FESTIVAL DATE : 2008-2009 FESTIVAL PARTNERS : Barrie Osborne (Producer, New Zealand, 7 times - Oscar winner) Michael Pyser (Producer, USA, Several Oscar Nomination) Shekhar Kapoor (Film-maker/Director, India, Oscar Nominated 2007) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------- Last date for receiving of the film 1st week of Novemeber, 2008 If you participate in the festival, you will be contacted shortly prior to the launch of this festival. Post festival, we will be launching a permanent venue with the film archive with intention to promote transformative films and its film-makers on global level. With this venue we intend to create an open & transparent system for film-makers and facilitate dialogue among them, their audiences and other professionals to fertilize social consciousness. For participation kindly fill the online form and send us the film/ DVD . Multiple entries are welcome. Fill the individual form for each film. To submit the form, please visit: www.cultureunplugged.com/submit/ call.html Monica Narula Raqs Sarai-CSDS 29 Rajpur Road Delhi 110 054 www.raqsmediacollective.net www.sarai.net From oishiksircar at gmail.com Thu Sep 18 12:01:48 2008 From: oishiksircar at gmail.com (OISHIK SIRCAR) Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:01:48 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] Infochange Media Fellowships 2008 Message-ID: <62cba67a0809172331v67d0d86ek6b021877fcb72dcc@mail.gmail.com> *Infochangeindia Media Fellowships 2008* *November 1-December 31, 2008* *www.infochangeindia.org* invites applications for its 2008 Media Fellowships. Three fellowships will be awarded to journalists and researchers reporting on a selected topic of research. The topic chosen must be related to social justice/sustainable development in India. *www.infochangeindia.org* (managed by the Centre for Communication and Development Studies) covers a diverse range of issues in the social sector – from environment, poverty, livelihoods, public health, women and child rights, social exclusion, displacement, migration, gender and sexuality to globalisation, trade and development, intellectual property rights, social entrepreneurship and much more. We welcome proposals that uncover and illustrate topical issues and contemporary debates in any of these fields. The final output must combine research and reportage with background, perspective, analysis and, when appropriate, views and information from experts. The fellowship must result in any one of the following outputs: 1. A series of five or more original articles (preferably with photographic documentation) on the proposed subject of research, totalling 7,500 words or more. These are to be submitted and uploaded on *www.infochangeindia.org*. 2. A series of three or more short audio reports – not exceeding 10 mins duration each -- on the proposed subject of research, to be featured in the Audio section of infochangeindia.org. 3. One documentary film (of 10-22 mins duration) or a series of shorts (of broadcast quality, submitted in avi or mpeg formats) on the proposed subject of research, for upload in the Documentary section of infochangeindia.org *(All content researched and uploaded on **www.infochangeindia.org* * may be submitted for publication/dissemination elsewhere one month after upload on our site, provided due credit is given to CCDS and infochangeindia.org as the supporting institution and the website where the material first appeared respectively. Films and audio stories produced as part of the fellowship must likewise carry the required credits to CCDS and infochangeindia)* *Duration* The fellowships will be announced end-October. Fellows are expected to begin work by the first week of November 2008 and complete it by the first week of January 2009. All outputs are required to reach infochangeindia by January 5, 2009. *Eligibility * The fellowship is open to independent journalists and researchers living in India only. Working journalists may also apply, provided their organisations endorse their application and allow them time off for this fellowship If selected. *Last date for submission of applications* All applications must be received by October 3, 2008. *Funding support* The infochangeindia fellowships carry a grant amount of Rs 50,000 (subject to TDS as applicable). 50% of this amount will be disbursed on selection, to fund travel and research expenses. The balance will be released on successful completion of the project, submission and acceptance of stories/films. Infochangeindia reserves the right to ask for revisions in articles/documentaries submitted until its standards for upload are met. Grants will be withdrawn and the advance refunded by the fellow if the fellow fails to complete and submit her/his project on deadline or if the quality of the work submitted is not acceptable. The decision of the editors/editorial board of *www.infochangeindia.org*on the quality of submissions will be final. *Application procedure * All applications must be accompanied by 1. A detailed proposal (not exceeding 1,000 words) clearly stating the subject to be researched, the applicant's perspective on this subject, and expected output in terms of X number of articles etc. 2. Travel likely to be undertaken for the research, with an estimated budget. 3. CV of the applicant. 4. Three samples of published work by applicants from the print media. At least one sample of broadcast/telecast work on CD by applicants from the electronic media. If any of these are in regional languages, they must be accompanied by a summary of their contents in English. 5. Working journalists submitting applications must enclose a letter from their editor stating that they endorse the application and will allow the fellow time off for the research if selected. 6. One letter of recommendation from a writer/editor/academician or other appropriate referee endorsing the applicant's interest/expertise in the chosen subject of research and the candidate's ability to successfully complete the project. *Address to send applications to* Applications may be addressed to *Infochangeindia Media Fellowships* Centre for Communication and Development Studies (CCDS) 301, Kanchanjunga Building, Kanchan Gully Off Law College Road, Pune 411 004 Telephone: 020-26852845/30222156 Applications not accompanied by CDs may be sent by email to * infochangefellowships at infochangeindia.orgThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it * and CC * infochangefellowships at gmail.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it * to provided all scanned material is clearly legible and all attachments are zipped into a single file. -- OISHIK SIRCAR Scholar in Women's Rights Faculty of Law, University of Toronto oishiksircar at gmail.com oishik.sircar at utoronto.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/announcements/attachments/20080918/2212b407/attachment.html From mitoo at sarai.net Fri Sep 19 11:50:08 2008 From: mitoo at sarai.net (Mitoo Das) Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:50:08 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] Position in Gender and Equity (Asia), UTSC Message-ID: <48D34498.4050609@sarai.net> Gender and Equity (Asia) University of Toronto Scarborough Applications are invited for a tenure-stream position at the rank of Assistant Professor in Gender and Equity with special reference to Asia, Department of Humanities, University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC), to begin July 1, 2009. This is an open-field position in the Global Asia Studies program and Women’s Studies. Special consideration will be given to applicants who are proficient in one or more Asian language and culture area, and who demonstrate a breadth of inter-disciplinary scholarship and commitment to the humanities. The Department particularly encourages applications from scholars who can contribute to interdisciplinary teaching and research and whose work pushes beyond conventional boundaries. The successful candidate will teach undergraduate and graduate courses and will supervise graduate students in his/her area of expertise. The candidate will be expected to share responsibility for framing and teaching broad and specialist undergraduate courses in the Global Asia Studies program and in Women’s Studies. PhD and clear evidence of excellence in teaching and research are required. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. UTSC is a research-intensive faculty within the University of Toronto with an interdisciplinary commitment and a multicultural student body speaking a wide range of languages. The University of Toronto offers the opportunity to teach, conduct research and live in one of the most diverse cities in the world. Additional information on the Department can be found at www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~humdiv/index.html. Applicants should apply online at www.jobs.utoronto.ca/faculty.htm (Internet Explorer and PC required; Job Number 800939). Please ensure that you include a letter of application, a current curriculum vitae, a writing sample and teaching materials. Three letters of reference should be sent directly to Professor William R. Bowen, Chair, Department of Humanities, University of Toronto Scarborough, 1265 Military Trail, Toronto ON, M1C 1A4, Canada. Reference letters and large documents may also be submitted electronically to GASsearch at utsc.utoronto.ca. The closing date for applications is October 27, 2008. The University of Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from visible minority group members, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, members of sexual minority groups, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents of Canada will be given priority. ****Please circulate widely**** From logos.theword at gmail.com Tue Sep 23 13:09:15 2008 From: logos.theword at gmail.com (Logos Theatre) Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:09:15 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] Theatre/ Spoken Word performances in Delhi Message-ID: <33bc2ee60809230039o124da253i5b8eeeb5729d671c@mail.gmail.com> Hello everyone, I am doing several performances of my solo show, Shreds and Patches, as well as two Spoken Word recitals, in Delhi this week. Shreds and Patches will happen this evening at five in the JNU school of arts and aesthetics gallery, tomorrow (24th) at 10:45 in IP college, tomorrow at three in the afternoon in jamia dept. of humanities and on the 26th, friday, in Hindu College at some point of time which is as yet uncertain but is likely to be around twelve noon. This apart, I am also doing two Spoken Word shows. Tomorrow (24th), at nine in the evening at Retro Sushi, Vasant Continental, Vasant Vihar (http://www.new.facebook.com/event.php?eid=37093693851) and the day after, i.e. thrusday (25th) at Mocha, Defence Colony, at 6:30 in the evening. (http://www.new.facebook.com/event.php?eid=41012380750) Do come for any of these, and do pass it on to people in Dilli who might want to come. You can reach me on my number - 09880966313. 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URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/announcements/attachments/20080923/f4ad16d8/attachment.html From j.bonnerjee at qmul.ac.uk Thu Sep 25 14:25:41 2008 From: j.bonnerjee at qmul.ac.uk (Jayani Bonnerjee) Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:55:41 +0100 Subject: [Announcements] Migration, Diaspora and the City, Calcutta, Deadline for abstracts, 1st October Message-ID: <20080925095541.r3dud42f4448wog8@webmail.qmul.ac.uk> Dear All Please note that the deadline for submitting abstracts for 'Migration, Diaspora and City' conference is next week. (1st October, 2008) Thank you. Jayani Bonnerjee Call for papers: Migration, Diaspora and the City, Calcutta Deadline for abstracts: 1st October, 2008 ------------ Migration, Diaspora and the City: Mobility and Dwelling in Calcutta A two-day international conference 12-13th December 2008, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta Convened in collaboration with the Diaspora Cities research team and The City Centre, Queen Mary, University of London This two-day international and inter-disciplinary conference at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, will explore the critical relationships between migration, diaspora and the city, focusing on past and present migrations to and from Calcutta. The conference is convened in collaboration with the Diaspora Cities research team, Queen Mary, University of London and the City Centre. It is funded by The Leverhulme Trust (www.geog.qmul.ac.uk/diasporacities/). Although ideas and lived experiences of diasporas are intrinsically transnational, a wide range of research invokes the nation through material and imaginative connections to a past, present or imagined ?homeland.? Other research focuses on the city primarily as a site of diasporic resettlement. Drawing on research on historical and contemporary migrations to and from Calcutta, this conference will focus on the city as a distinctive location within 'diaspora space' (Brah, 1996) and will address the ways in which the city, as a place of origin, travel, sojourn and resettlement, is a site of territorial and emotional mobility and dwelling. Abstracts are invited from researchers working on past and present migrations to and from Calcutta and on wider conceptual themes concerning migration, diaspora and the city. The conference will address migration within Bengal and India as well as on a transnational scale, and will consider the ideas, experiences and emotions of mobility and dwelling for a wide range of communities within Calcutta and across the Calcuttan diaspora. Conference themes are likely to include: - Histories and geographies of travel and migration to and from Calcutta - Oral histories, images and written accounts of Calcutta in diaspora - Diasporic memories, imaginings and experiences of Calcutta - Transnational practices and the neo-liberal city - Tales of urban mobility and dwelling in life stories, cultural practices and representations - The emotional, embodied and sensory geographies of Calcutta in diaspora - Public and private spaces of diasporic urbanism - Mobility and dwelling in relation to urban modernities, cosmopolitanism and consumption Please send abstracts of up to 200 words by 1 October 2008 to Dr Noah Hysler Rubin: N.Rubin at qmul.ac.uk Thank you -- Jayani Bonnerjee Research Student Department of Geography Queen Mary, University of London Mile End Road London E1 4NS j.bonnerjee at qmul.ac.uk From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Mon Sep 29 18:37:44 2008 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (netEX) Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:07:44 +0200 Subject: [Announcements] =?iso-8859-1?q?netEX=3A_calls_and_deadlines_-_Oct?= =?iso-8859-1?q?ober_2008?= Message-ID: <20080929150744.7BBEB3A6.94939E43@192.168.0.3> netEX: calls & deadlines -->October 2008 ------------------------------------- [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne newsletter contents calls & deadlines 02 Calls: 2008 deadlines internal 15 Calls: October deadlines external 11 Calls: ongoing external/internal ------------------------------------- Calls & deadlines ---> ------------------------------------------------ 2008 deadlines: internal extended deadline: 31 December 2008 JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art call: Netart Features 2009 http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=329 extended deadline: 31 December 2008 SoundLAB VI - soundart for soundPOOL - sound compositions - a challenge for imagination http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=242 ------------------------------------------------ October 2008 deadlines: external ------------------------------------------------ 31 October Akademie Schloss Solitude Residency Stuttgrat/Germany http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=342 20 October EMARE - Residency Exchange 2009 http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=358 20 October Videologia Festival 2008 Volgograd/Russia http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=347 15 October Phonurgia Nova Awards 2008 Arles/France http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=389 15 October 4th International Video Journalist Awards Mainz/Germany http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=354 13 October Futuresonic: Social Technologies Summit Manchester 2009 (UK) http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=378 10 October AGENDA - Current Gallery Baltimore/USA http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=388 10 October Congress: Music & Electronic Technology Sevilla/Spain - call for papers http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=308 10 October Videomedeja Novi Sad/Serbia http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=372 8 October Pontino Short Film Fest Latina/Italy http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=384 6 October VIDA 11.0 Awards Telefonica/Spain http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=321 5 October Vizualizar’08 - Database City Madrid/Spain http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=387 3 October Videoformes 2009 - Festival of Video and New Media Clermont-Ferrand/France http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=339 1 October One Minute Film Festival Amsterdam/NL http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=331 1 October B-Side Festival Mannheim/Germany http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=364 ----------------------------------------------- Ongoing calls: external/internal ----------------------------------------------- -->Videos for Bivouac Projects Sumter/USA -->OUTCASTING - 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the experimental platform for art and new media from Cologne/Germany # info & contact: info (at) nmartproject.net From cahen.x at levels9.com Tue Sep 30 16:10:50 2008 From: cahen.x at levels9.com (xavier cahen) Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:40:50 +0200 Subject: [Announcements] pourinfos Newsletter / 29-09 to 14-10-2008 Message-ID: <48E20232.9080108@levels9.com> pourinfos.org l'actualite du monde de l'art / daily Art news ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >From Monday, 29 September 2008 to Tuesday 14 October 2008 (included) ------------------------------------------------------------------- (mostly in french) @ 001 (29/09/2008) Call for participation: DIAGONAL - Call workforce, Montreal, Canada. http://pourinfos.org/art-35985-tit--DIAGONALE-Appel-d-oeuvre-Montreal- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 002 (29/09/2008) Various: FIAC 2008 : THE NATIONAL CENTER OF FINE ARTS ACQUIRES OF WORKS FOR THE STATE, CNAP, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-35994-tit-Divers-FIAC-2008-LE-CENTRE-NATIONAL-DES -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 003 (29/09/2008) Job: Coordinator for program, L’Œil de Poisson, Quebec, Canada. http://pourinfos.org/art-35996-tit--Coordonnateur-coordonnatrice-la -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 004 (30/09/2008) Call: artists performers, La Compagnie Luc Amoros, Strasbourg, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-35980-tit--artistes-performeurs-La-Compagnie-Luc -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 005 (30/09/2008) Call: young video film, call for applications, FIPA de Biarritz, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-35988-tit--jeune-cr-ation-vid-o-cin-ma-appel- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 006 (01/10/2008) Call: digital prints, Center for Visual Artists, Centre d’artistes Voix Visuelle, Ottaxa, Canada. http://pourinfos.org/art-35984-tit--Les-estampes-num-riques-Centre -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 007 (01/10/2008) Call: Production Center DAÏMÕN ·APPEL DE PROJETS, Gatineau, Canada. http://pourinfos.org/art-35986-tit--Centre-de-production-DA-M-N-APPEL-DE -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 008 (01/10/2008) Call: VISUALIZAR'08: DATABASE CITY, Medialab-Prado, Madrid, Spain. http://pourinfos.org/art-35987-tit--VISUALIZAR-08-DATABASE-CITY- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 009 (02/10/2008) Call: BOURSE DU TALENT #36, theme: SPACE - LANDSCAPE - ARCHITECTURE, Magazine Photographie.com, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-35983-tit--BOURSE-DU-TALENT-36-th-me-ESPACE- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 010 (02/10/2008) Call: one minute video, UNE MINUTE 2009, VIDEOFORMES, Clermont-Ferrand, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-35989-tit--concours-UNE-MINUTE-2009-VIDEOFORMES- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 011 (02/10/2008) Petition: saving "La Forge de Belleville", Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-35991-tit-P-tition-sauver-La-Forge-de-Belleville- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 012 (02/10/2008) Call for participation: Invitation welcome home! # 2, Nantes, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-35998-tit--Sollicitation-welcome-home-2-Nantes- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 013 (02/10/2008) Publication: ETC n#83, « Néoféminismes : Le politique/Neofeminisms : Politics », etc quarterly journal of contemporary art, Montreal, Canada. http://pourinfos.org/art-36003-tit--ETC-n-83-N-of-minismes-Le -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 014 (02/10/2008) Various: Program : ongoing research, presentations and publications dealing with video and media art preservation, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. http://pourinfos.org/art-36011-tit-Divers-ongoing-research-presentations -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 015 (02/10/2008) Meetings: happy conférences saison 08/09, La république Bananiere, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-36017-tit--happy-conf-rences-saison-08-09-La -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 016 (03/10/2008) Meetings: "Des arts de faire dans l'infoware : usages créatifs des applications de service Web" (The arts do in the infoware: creative uses of Web service applications) , 3 october 2008, University Paris 8, Saint-Denis, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-35961-tit--Des-arts-de-faire-dans-l-infoware- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 017 (03/10/2008) Various: rip to Japan, association Archi Voyage Japon, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-35992-tit-Divers-voyage-au-Japon-association-Archi -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 018 (03/10/2008) Publication: BRANCUSI & DUCHAMP, LES HOMMES-PLANS, Pierre BAUMANN, Editions PUP, Aix en provence, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-36002-tit--BRANCUSI-DUCHAMP-LES-HOMMES-PLANS- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 019 (03/10/2008) Publication: Les images et les sons dans les hypermédias artistiques contemporains (The images and sounds in hypermedia contemporary art, correspondence to the merger), de la correspondance à la fusion, de Hervé ZENOUDA, Collection « Champs visuels», Editions l'harmattan, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-36004-tit--Les-images-et-les-sons-dans-les -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 020 (03/10/2008) Meetings: presentation of two recent publications on the radio Friday 3 October 2008, Vendredi 3 Octobre 2008, Librairie Tekhnê 7, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-36012-tit--pr-sentation-de-deux-publications -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 021 (03/10/2008) Meetings: Lecture Series on the architecture of museums, Museum of Modern Art Lille, Lille, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-36014-tit--onf-rences-sur-l-architecture-des -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 022 (04/10/2008) Publication: 3 New Zines, Tal R, Jonas Delaborde, Beni Bischof, Nieves Editions, Zurich, Switzerland. http://pourinfos.org/art-36005-tit--3-New-Zines-Tal-R-Jonas-Delaborde-Beni -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 023 (04/10/2008) Publication: 30 publishers of art books join the Comptoir des independants, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-36006-tit--30-diteurs-de-livres-d-art-rejoignent-le -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 024 (04/10/2008) Call for participation: call for a tribute to Jean Rouch, Jean Rouch International Symposium, 14-20 November 2009, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-36008-tit-Appel-particiapation-appel- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 025 (04/10/2008) Residence: HMC- INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS RESIDENCIES, BUDAPEST, HUNGARY. http://pourinfos.org/art-36010-tit-R-sidence-HMC-INTERNATIONAL-ARTISTS -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 026 (05/10/2008) Call: call for participation - the Adi Prize for Jewish expression in Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel. http://pourinfos.org/art-35979-tit--call-for-participation-the-Adi-Prize -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 027 (05/10/2008) Call: Fellowship Jean-Claude Reynal 2008, Bordeaux, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-35981-tit--Bourse-Jean-Claude-Reynal-2008-Bordeaux- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 028 (05/10/2008) Radio : 'Curated By SilenceRadio' online SilenceRadio.org, ASCRS, Brussels, Belgium. http://pourinfos.org/art-35990-tit-Radio-Curated-By-SilenceRadio-mise-en -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 029 (05/10/2008) Publication : L’ARTISTE ET SES RENCONTRES, Une lecture lacanienne (THE ARTIST AND HIS MEETING, A Lacanian reading), Jean-Pierre Bruneau, Editions L'Harmattan, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-36007-tit--L-ARTISTE-ET-SES-RENCONTRES-Une-lecture -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 030 (06/10/2008) Call: 5th Exhibition of Art in Bry-sur-Marne, Association of Artistes Bryards, Bry-sur-Marne, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-35982-tit--5-me-Salon-d-Art-de-Bry-sur-Marne- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 031 (06/10/2008) Call for participation: Call for Local / Global ", Journal 2.0.1, Rennes, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-35999-tit--Appel-contribution-Local-Global- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 032 (06/10/2008) Residence: Call for submission, Est-Nord-Est, residence artist in contemporary art, Quebec Canada. http://pourinfos.org/art-36009-tit-R-sidence-Appel-dossier-call-for -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 033 (06/10/2008) Meetings: Art & Theory in the 21st Century Lecture Series, Auditorium of the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. http://pourinfos.org/art-36016-tit--Art-Theory-in-the-21st-Century-Lecture -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 034 (08/10/2008) Appel à participation : Phono-Photo # 4, Project on line / Web project, TRACE Label, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-36000-tit--Phono-Photo-4-Projet-en-ligne-Web -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 035 (09/10/2008) Publication: "LA TRANSPARENCE COMME PARADIGME" (Transparency as a paradigm), under the direction of Michel GUERIN, collection "Theorie et pratique des Arts", Editions PUP, Aix-en-Provence, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-36001-tit--LA-TRANSPARENCE-COMME-PARADIGME-sous -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 036 (09/10/2008) Meetings: program of conferences i>Medias 2008/2009, ECM des Carres, Annecy, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-36015-tit--programme-de-conf-rences-i-M-dias -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 037 (10/10/2008) Meetings : Fourth Congress of the High Resolution Photo, IVeme Congrès de la Photographie Haute Résolution : The photograph between reality and representation, 10, 11, 12 October 2008, Bourges, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-36019-tit--IV-me-Congr-s-de-la-Photographie-Haute ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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