From machleetank at gmail.com Sat Apr 4 01:41:40 2009 From: machleetank at gmail.com (Jasmeen Patheja) Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 01:41:40 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] MAKE YOUR STREET SIGN : DEADLINE MAY 17 In-Reply-To: <277f58b70904031302q527283c0v5da382988a24bba@mail.gmail.com> References: <277f58b70904030758h22d28175rdd7ce27535c90f75@mail.gmail.com> <277f58b70904031126t44bb0885n28f96963e3a4e0d2@mail.gmail.com> <277f58b70904031302q527283c0v5da382988a24bba@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Hello This one's on behalf of Blank Noise-it's an event to create street signs in the city. (details below). best wishes, Jasmeen ----- *Make a street sign* *///////////////////////////////* It can be in any city , street , lane , neighbourhood you want. You could think of signs in buses, parks, night clubs, movie halls, malls and markets- it is up to you to spell out which kind of place you want your sign in. It could even be in sites where women have experienced street sexual harassment- like here . You are welcome to say anything you want. * Guidelines: * 1. we encourage submissions that are affirmative. 2. your submission should include a brief note about which place you want to insert the sign in and why 3. it could be in any language but an English translation is important. 4. It does not need to have text. It could just be visual. 5. It does not need to have visual. It could just be text. 6. It could have both text and visual. 7. You must send us a web friendly jpg/ png/ file, but remember not to throw away the original vector file in case yours is selected for printing! 8. you may be the recruiter- you could involve your local network to work on this. for example- if you are a teacher- this could be a class assignment. If you are in college- you could organize a community of people to work on this. 9. Some of you might have better writing skills than visualization skills, in that case you are welcome to send text for a street sign. Based on the response to this event we might have the option of someone with visual skills partnering with you to make this sign. 10. keep it simple Your street sign will be put on the Blank Noise blog + flickr. 3 signs will be selected to be tried and tested in public. The selected signs could also be printed on t shirts. Deadline: 17th May. 2009 * Sign UP! Be an Action Hero! ////////////////////////////////////////////////* Confirm your participation by emailing us at blurtblanknoise at gmail dot com subject titled SIGN. 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Luke DuBois -- is a data-mining, sonification, and visualization project that uses statistics from the American military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq as source material for an interactive audiovisual composition based around an open-source "score" of events. Using Xenakis' understanding of formalized music as a starting point, DuBois draws upon a variety of statistical data ranging from the visceral (civilian deaths, geospatial renderings of military actions) to the mundane (fiscal year budgets for the war) to generate a dataset that can be used for any number of audiovisual compositions. The intention of the project is to recontextualize the formal stochastic music in the context of real-world statistics, and to provide a compositional and metaphoric framework for creating an electroacoustic music relevant and significant to our time. http://turbulence.org/works/harddata/ R. LUKE DUBOIS is a composer, performer, video artist, and programmer living in New York City. He holds a doctorate in music composition from Columbia University and teaches interactive sound and video performance at Columbia's Computer Music Center and at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University. He is best known as a co-author of Jitter, a software suite developed by Cycling'74 for real-time manipulation of matrix data. His music is available on Caipirinha/Sire, Cycling'74, and Cantaloupe music. SCHOOL OF PERPETUAL TRAINING -- by Stephanie Rothenberg -- is an ironic edutainment website that exposes the underbelly and not so glamorous side of the computer video game industry. An animated personal trainer leads eager job seekers through a series of webcam game training exercises for outsourced jobs in digital game manufacturing and global distribution. Classic arcade games such as Dig Dug and Space Invaders are redesigned to train job seekers for positions in mineral mining and printed circuit board assembly. Pushing joystick and mouse aside, the webcam interface utilizes motion detection requiring full range of body motion to play. Through the relationship of physical labor for virtual gain, the reality of the actual physical, labor critical to running virtual worlds is made visible. http://turbulence.org/works/perpetualtraining/ STEPHANIE ROTHENBERG'S interdisciplinary practice merges performance, installation and networked media to create provocative interactions that question the boundaries and social constructs of manufactured desires. She has lectured and exhibited in the US and internationally at venues including the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, 2008 Zer01 San Jose, 2004/2008 ISEA; and the Knitting Factory, NYC. Stephanie received her MFA in 2003 from The Department of Film, Video and New Media at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently Assistant Professor of Visual Studies at SUNY Buffalo. PLAZAVILLE -- by G.H. Hovagimyan, with Christine McPhee -- is a new media video artwork based on the classic 1965 movie Alphaville by Jean Luc Godard. Set in 21st century New York City, the scenes from the original Alphaville are re-enacted, interpreted and improvised upon by the artists, actors and videographers. The piece uses the internet as one means of distributing the short video clips. For Pace Digital the scenes will be projected as a randomly assembled movie. http://turbulence.org/works/plazaville/ G.H. HOVAGIMYAN is an experimental artist working in a variety of forms. His work ranges from hypertext works to digital performance art, installations and HD video. CHRISTINA MCPHEE is a media and visual artist whose work reflects on and interprets generative environments at the edge of the urban. She is based in the central coast of California. Current exhibitions include "Twice Upon a Time" at Galerie Andreas Huber Vienna and Silvmernan Gallery, San Francisco. Her new science fiction project "Tesserae of Venus" debuted at Silverman Gallery San Francisco in fall 2008 and in Belfast for the ISEA festival in August 2008. Her work has recently shown at Documenta 12, Lyon Biennial 2007, Bucharest Biennial 3, and Bildmuseet Umea, Sweden. "Hard Data", "School of Perpetual Training" and "Plazaville" are 2008/'09 commissions of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., (aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. They were made possible with funding from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. 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_boston New American Radio: http://somewhere.org From amc at va.com.au Tue Apr 7 05:48:49 2009 From: amc at va.com.au (amanda mcdonald crowley) Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 20:18:49 -0400 Subject: [Announcements] Eyebeam Residency Call Message-ID: Eyebeam Residencies Summer / Fall 2009 You've got big ideas. You could use a little time and money, not to mention support and inspiration, to create a visionary project. Apply now for Eyebeam's Summer/Fall 2009 Residency cycle. Residents are granted a $5,000 stipend and 24/7 access to Eyebeam's state of the art digital design and fabrication studios at their Chelsea facility. About the Residency Eyebeam residencies support the creative research, production and presentation of initiatives querying art, technology and culture. The residency is a period of concentration and immersion in artistic investigation, daring research or production of visionary, experimental applications and projects. Past initiatives have ranged from live animation, sound and physical computing works to technical prototypes, installations and tactical media events. Check out what our current and past residents have been doing here: http:// eyebeam.org/people-residents/residents. The ideal resident will both contribute to and benefit from the collective environment at Eyebeam, and will embrace the spirit of openness shared across the organization: open source, open content and open distribution. To promote collaboration and the sharing of diverse skill sets, Eyebeam has established and continues to encourage the formation of research groups that bring together creative practitioners working at Eyebeam as well as expert external participants. New research often leads to public outcomes including seminars, workshops and exhibition. Research groups currently active at Eyebeam include: • Sustainability • Urban Research • Middle Eastern Research • Open Cultures Artists and creative technologists interested in these research areas are particularly encouraged to apply for 2009 residencies, but we are also open to accepting ideas for emerging areas of research. Eyebeam is also seeking proposals from artists whose practices: a) actively engage different community groups, especially youth; b) focus on open source/culture ideologies, including intellectual property, licensing issues and law; and/or c) investigate sustainable models of food production and consumption and the impact of those models on society. Residents are expected to participate in public events including workshops, demonstrations of research in progress, panel discussions, and online releases, in addition to regularly scheduled open studio events. The program term is from the beginning of August to the end of January. Residents will be selected from an open call, based on the quality of the work or research being proposed, the availability of the necessary tools and skills to support the work, and in consideration of the overarching research themes and activities of the organization. Eyebeam is committed to building a diverse creative environment. We recognize diversity as encompassing personal style, age, race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, language, physical ability, religion, family, citizenship status, socioeconomic circumstances, education and life experiences. We consequently encourage applications from the broadest possible range of artists and creative technologists to all of our programs. To Apply Applications are accepted via our online application system. We will be hosting a “How To Apply” Forum, in New York City, on April 16 at 7 PM featuring past Eyebeam Resident and recent Residency curatorial panelist Robert Ransick (Bennington College, Vermont) and current senior fellow Steve Lambert (Parsons/The New School and Hunter College). Many of the most frequently asked questions are answered online. Be sure to visit our FAQ for applicants and Equipment Inventory List before you apply. If you have any questions, contact residencyinfo AT eyebeam DOT org. Equipment Inventory List: http://eyebeam.org/get-involved-residencies/equipment-list FAQ for applicants: http://eyebeam.org/get-involved-residencies/faq Go ahead, apply at: http://69.60.21.163/production/onlineapp/join_detail.php? program_id=925081 Requirements Applications received after the deadline of May 15, 2009, will not be accepted. All applications and work samples must be submitted through the online form. No exceptions will be made. Incomplete applications will not be considered. Complete applications must include the following information: • Contact information; • Resume or CV (rtf or pdf doc); • Work samples in the form of URLs or uploaded media; • Answers to all application questions. Please be advised that Eyebeam's online application system allows you to log into your user account to update your application until the final deadline. However, you must enter information into all required fields in order to save your application. -- EYEBEAM 540 W. 21st Street New York, NY 10011, USA http://www.eyebeam.org ///////////////// Founded in 1997, Eyebeam is an art and technology center that provides a fertile context and state-of-the-art tools for digital experimentation. It is a lively incubator of creativity and thought, where artists and technologists actively engage with the larger culture, addressing the issues and concerns of our time. 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From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Thu Apr 9 13:36:31 2009 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (CTQ) Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:06:31 +0200 Subject: [Announcements] =?iso-8859-1?q?call=3A_The_Best_of_Flash_on_the_N?= =?iso-8859-1?q?et?= Message-ID: <20090409100631.95BE96A7.27A79148@192.168.0.3> extended deadline:30 June 2009 -------------------------------- Cinematheque - streaming media project environments http://cinema.nmartproject.net Call for entries \\ Flash & Thunder Flash as a medium and tool for artistic creations // Since the Internet became popular in the late 90'ies of 20th century, the software program "FLASH", once developed and prepared for the commercial market by Macromedia, and now owned by Adobe, represents a vector based developing environment which enables the creator to combine different media and develop vector based animations especially for the Internet. .swf data file extension became a standard for animations online and offline, and Flash video and its .flv file format stands for "videostreaming" on the net. As soon as the Internet started, artists captured it for artistic purposes, and the same is good for certain software used for the net, particularly Flash is predestined for developing artistic creations due to its intuitive use. It became one of the most popular software tools for the net, computer based animations and interactive applications like games. Flash based artworks entered media festivals, even festivals solely based on movies created in Flash are organised. After Cinematheque - streaming media environments - explored in 2007 the capabilities of "Quicktime" as an artistic medium in the comprehensive show \\Slowtime? Quicktime as an artistic medium// - its now the time to explore in 2009 the artistic potential of Flash in its own way in a big online show, as well. // Flash and Thunder Flash as a medium and tool for artistic creations \\ Cinematheque is looking for the best artistic Flash works created since 2000. 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URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/announcements/attachments/20090409/ea1bce98/attachment.html From turbulence at turbulence.org Mon Apr 13 07:49:27 2009 From: turbulence at turbulence.org (Turbulence) Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 22:19:27 -0400 Subject: [Announcements] Turbulence Artists' Studio: "Data_Sea" by Michael Takeo Magruder Message-ID: <001b01c9bbde$47a85dc0$d6f91940$@org> Turbulence Artists' Studios: “Data_Sea” by Michael Takeo Magruder, with Drew Baker and David Steele http://turbulence.org/studios/takeo/ and at Thinktank Planetarium and Futures Gallery (Birmingham, UK) http://www.thinktank.ac/ The televised broadcast of the Berlin Olympics in 1936 was humanity’s first media transmission powerful enough to pass through Earth’s ionosphere and travel into deep space. From that point in time our signals have radiated into the universe, creating an ever-expanding globe referred to as Earth’s Radiosphere. In the 73 years since that defining moment, our communications have reached nearly two thousand other known star systems. “Data_Sea” is a real-time virtual environment based upon this relationship between broadcast media and astronomy. The core geometry of the artwork is directly derived from the actual positions of all catalogued star systems residing within the Radiosphere. Obtained from current astronomical databases such as the Hipparcos star catalogue, these scientific measurements have been translated into a three-dimensional structure constructed in VRML (Virtual Reality Modelling Language). Each star system’s basic properties affect its aesthetic manifestation within the virtual realm. Star type is represented by shape, with normal stars appearing as full spheres, ‘failed’ stars (brown dwarfs) as incomplete spheres and ‘dead’ stars (white dwarfs) as compressed crosses. The stellar nodes are connected to a central spherical body (representing our solar system) by line structures that are coloured according to spectral class of the individual stars. Systems that are known to contain exoplanets are surrounded by concentric ring structures. Live media from the BBC world news service is streamed into the environment. The virtual elements are textured with images from today’s events, while layers of live audiocasts are blended into a persistent soundscape. These mediated reflections of the present are in constant flux, forever shifting as they drift into an endless sea of virtual space. “Data_Sea” is a Thinktank production for the International Year of Astronomy 2009. The project was made possible with funds from Arts Council England and generous support from King’s Visualisation Lab, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College London and ParallelGraphics. BIOGRAPHY Michael Takeo Magruder is an artist and researcher in King’s Visualisation Lab, King's College London. His work uses emerging technologies, including high-performance computing, mobile devices and virtual environments, blending Information Age technologies with modernist aesthetics to explore the formal structures and conceptual paradigms of the networked, digital world. His work has been showcased in over 200 exhibitions in 30 countries, including the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, EAST International 2005, Georges Pompidou Center, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography and Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau. His work also regularly appears in international New Media festivals such as Cybersonica, CYNETart, FILE, Filmwinter, Rencontres Internationales, SeNef, Siggraph, Split, VAD and WRO. His artistic practice has been funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Arts Council England, The National Endowment for the Arts, USA and public galleries in the UK and abroad, as well as by commissions from leading Internet Art portals Turbulence.org and Soundtoys.net. For more Turbulence Artists’ Studios please visit http://turbulence.org/studios 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_boston New American Radio: http://somewhere.org From mitoo at sarai.net Wed Apr 15 12:01:02 2009 From: mitoo at sarai.net (Mitoo Das) Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:01:02 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] Seminar Announcement- CSDS Message-ID: <49E57F26.90306@sarai.net> Tuesday, 21st April, 2009 Sonia Sikka will speak on Secularism and the Hardening of Religious Identity at 3:00 PM in the Seminar Room, CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi – 110 054 The broad thesis of this paper is that practical operation of certain secular paradigms has an undesirable effect on the construction and negotiation of religious identities. This thesis is oriented towards political models that seek to exclude deliberation involving appeals to religion from the public sphere, whether these prescribe the wholesale privatisation of religion as a matter of individual conscience, or offer state recognition to multiple religious communities. While these two procedures are in many respects very different, they both encourage members of religious communities to cordon off a critically important subset of their beliefs and values, and to treat this subset as if it were fixed and unrevisable, intrinsically unsuited to substantive discussion and debate. Such a process contributes to a reification and hardening of religious identities; it contributes, in fact, to the positioning of religious viewpoints as a matter of “identity.” At the same time, the exclusion of religion from educational institutions, and from the public sphere in general, gives rise to a situation in which non-religious citizens are largely ignorant about religion, and unable to see in it anything but foolish superstition and a source of hatred and violence. This view of religion, it is suggested, is both false and unhelpful, serving to reinforce rather than to mitigate the dogmatism of the forms of belief it opposes. Sonia Sikka is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Her primary research interests are in modern European philosophy, philosophy of religion and philosophy of culture. She has written extensively on Heidegger, Nietzsche, Levinas and other authors in the continental tradition of philosophy. Over the past several years, she has also published a series of articles on issues related to cultural identity and pluralism within the thought of J.G. Herder. At present, Dr. Sikka is working on the topic of identity construction, with a particular focus on religious identities. - Rajesh Ramakrishnan Academic Secretary CSDS