From mitoo at sarai.net Wed Aug 4 12:50:40 2010 From: mitoo at sarai.net (Mitoo Das) Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:50:40 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] SURFACE/6 Younger Poets & Chapbook Launch Message-ID: <4C5914C8.9040208@sarai.net> Sarai-CSDS City As Studio & Sarai Media Lab Presents: SURFACES / 6 Younger Poets & Chapbook Launch Monday August 9 - Sarai Cafe - 6 PM Featuring readings in Hindi and English by: Geet Chaturvedi Giriraj Kiradoo Monica Mody Nabina Das Nitoo Das Rahul Soni Vyomesh Shukla (Event arranged in collaboration with Pratilipi, a bilingual online literary magazine.) The evening will also include a short discussion around innovation in poetry editing and publishing and launch of a special limited edition chapbook, made together with the visual artists of Sarai's City As Studio fellowship, featuring some of the poems that will be read. About the readers: Poet and fiction writer Geet Chaturvedi has published five books including two translations. He is Editor (Magazines), Dainik Bhaskar. Poet and translator Giriraj Kiradoo co-edits the bilingual journal Pratilipi: http://pratilipi.in/ Born in Ranchi, Monica Mody just received her M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Notre Dame where she won the 2010 Nicholas Sparks Prize. Her poetry has appeared in Wasafiri, Pratilipi, nthposition and elsewhere. Nabina Das's first novel, Footprints in the Bajra, was published this year by Cedar Books. She is a poet, fiction writer and India editor for the literary journal Danse Macabre. Nitoo Das teaches English at Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi. Her first collection, Boki, was published by Virtual Artists Collective, Chicago, in September 2008. Rahul Soni is a writer, editor and translator "of no fixed address". He co-edits the bilingual journal Pratilipi and works with Writer's Side ( www.writersside.com ) among other things. Vyomesh Shukla has published a poetry collection and is editor of a magazine, Samas. From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Thu Aug 5 12:46:44 2010 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (artNET) Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 09:16:44 +0200 Subject: [Announcements] =?iso-8859-1?q?Call_for_netart=3A_JavaMuseum_2010?= =?iso-8859-1?q?_-_Celebrate!?= Message-ID: <20100805091644.C572AFF7.3DB94FD8@192.168.0.3> Call for proposals deadline 1 September 2010 Celebrate! 2010 - 10 Years JavaMuseum - JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2010, but that's not all --> in addition [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne will be celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2010, as well. On this occasion, JavaMuseum is realising a big show online, entitled: "CELEBRATE!" which started on 1 January 2010 already - http://2010.javamuseum.org Founded in 2000 and active since 2001 as a corporate part of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork:||cologne, JavaMuseum is one of the relevant platforms for Internet based art on the net. Under the direction of Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, JavaMuseum realised more than 20 showcases and competitions of netart in a global context between 2001 and 2009 and is hosting a comprehensive collection of netart since 2000 including more than 400 artists and 1000 art works. In 2006, JavaMuseum launched - JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project containing meanwhile more than 80 interviews with expersts and artists in the fields of digital and electronic art. On occasion of its 10th anniversary, JavaMuseum is planning to complete until the end of 2010, the netart show, entitled: Celebrate! in order to celebrate netart as an exciting, but anyway widely underestimated art genre, yet. This represents the best reason for inviting artists active on the fields of new, digital and electronic media to submit their latest or their older netart art projects which may originate from the years 2000-2010. Please find the details, regulations and entry form on http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1428 -------------------------------------------------------- JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art http://www.javamuseum.org and JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project http://jip.javamuseum.org are corporate parts of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne the experimental platform for art and new media from Cologne/Germany info[at]nmartproject.net From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Mon Aug 9 13:35:44 2010 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (nmf2010) Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:05:44 +0200 Subject: [Announcements] =?iso-8859-1?q?Program_-_Week_33_-__NewMediaFest?= =?iso-8859-1?q?=272010?= Message-ID: <20100809100544.9D6D3B52.D850F49F@192.168.0.3> NewMediaFest'2010 ----------------------------------- program- week 33 --> 09 - 15 August 2010 http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=987 ----------------------------------- 1. ----------------------------------- Feature of the Week 33 - http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=978 JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art re-launches in the framework of NewMediaFest'2010 the retrospective netart show of the late - Tiia Johannson - a pioneer of netart who died in 2002 only 36 years old. ----------------------------------- 2. ----------------------------------- Feature of The Month August 2010 http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=967 VideoChannel Cologne launched on 2 August 2010 --> [self] ~imaging v.4.0 artists portraying themselves in film & video now the series is complete including 100 artists films ----------------------------------- 3. ----------------------------------- VIP - VideoChannel Interview Project ---> http://vip.newmediafest.org/?p=440 is pleased to release the new interviews with Francesca Fini (Italy) - Toban Nichols (USA) Maria Canas (Spain) - Benjamin Rosenthal (USA) Ellen Lake (USA) - James Woodward (USA) Alexander Mouton (USA) ----------------------------------- 4. ----------------------------------- VideoChannel Cologne --> is re-launching during the week 33 Videoart from Puerto Rico curated by Heidi Figueroa-Sarriera & Marianne Ramirez-Aponte (Puerto Rico) including videos by --> Rafael Alcala, Welmo E.Romero Joseph, Carlos Ruiz-Valarino & Videoart from Malaysia curated by Roopesh Sitharan including videos by Tan Chui Mui & Liew Seng Tat Find all details on --> http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=987 ----------------------------------- NewMediaFest'2010 10 Years [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne global heritage of digital culture 1 January - 31 December 2010 http://2010.newmediafest.org director and chief curator: Wilfried Agricola de Cologne 2010 [at] newmediafest.org -----------------------------------