[NetBehaviour] Reminder Floating Points exhibition

[TOM CORBY]

Dear all, just a quick reminder in the seasonal madness
 it would be lovely to see you at the private view on December 18th.Come and 
have a glass of wine and a chat. Details below.
tom

http://digital-realism.net/296-2/

FLOATING POINTS
Gavin Baily, Tom Corby
Ambika P3, University of Westminster,35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS
Private view:  6.00 pm Friday 18th December
Exhibition Opening hours:  Saturday 19th Dec – Monday 21 Dec,  12.00-6.00We are 
pleased to announce a new exhibition by Gavin Baily and Tom Corby consisting of 
3 screen-based projects and an installation set within P3’s underground 
galleries.The Northern Polar Studies (2015) and Minima, Maxima (2015) are 
premiered, while The Southern Ocean Studies (in collaboration with Dr Jonathan 
Mackenzie 2010), and Cyclone (2005 – 2015) are uniquely shown together for the 
first time. All 4 works employ various forms of climate or meteorological data 
to visually and physically condense the aleatory, hidden and the systemic 
aspects of sites and landscapes as large-scale data animation or installation.
Art has long found ways to make tangible the Earth’s exhalation of atmospheres 
and climates. This exhibition can be seen as part of this tradition, but breaks 
from it by bringing contemporary scientific technologies, data and institutions 
to bear to show how universal concepts of human relations with landscape are 
still  pertinent in a contemporary context of accelerating climate change.  
Additionally, the complex entanglements of the social, material, atmospheric 
and geographic explored throughout these works, extend our feel for landscape 
and also our sense of how time functions in it. Landscape through its 
laminations, layering and morphologies, is conceived in this work as a 
recording device that tracks the Earth’s changing energy signatures. This 
movement of time and matter reimagines environmental terrains as extended 
temporal forms resultant from long-term changes; which we might propose of as 
‘deep time landscapes’.This work has been made in collaboration with the 
British Antarctic Survey, and special thanks goes to Nathan Cunningham, Dr 
Clare Tancell, Professor David Walton, Dr Beatrix Schlarb-Ridley, Professor 
Mike Meredith, and Pete Bucktrout. Funding for this work has been by Arts 
Council England, the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Natural 
Environment Research Council, and the Centre for Research in Education, Art and 
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[NetBehaviour] Floating Points exhibition invite London

[TOM CORBY]

Dear listers, it would be lovely to see you at the private view on December 
18th.Come and have a glass of wine and a chat. Details below.
tom
apologies if doesn't arrive in plain text this email client doesn't seem to 
allow this option.

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FLOATING POINTSGavin Baily, Tom CorbyAmbika P3, University of Westminster,
35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LSPrivate view:  6.00 pm Friday 18th 
DecemberExhibition Opening hours:  Saturday 19th Dec – Monday 21 Dec,  
12.00-6.00We are pleased to announce a new exhibition by Gavin Baily and Tom 
Corby consisting of 3 screen-based projects and an installation set within P3’s 
underground galleries.The Northern Polar Studies (2015) and Minima, Maxima 
(2015) are premiered, while The Southern Ocean Studies (in collaboration with 
Dr Jonathan Mackenzie 2010), and Cyclone (2005 – 2015) are uniquely shown 
together for the first time. All 4 works employ various forms of climate or 
meteorological data to visually and physically condense the aleatory, hidden 
and the systemic aspects of sites and landscapes as large-scale data animation 
or installation.Art has long found ways to make tangible the Earth’s exhalation 
of atmospheres and climates. This exhibition can be seen as part of this 
tradition, but breaks from it by bringing contemporary scientific technologies, 
data and institutions to bear to show how universal concepts of human relations 
with landscape are still  pertinent in a contemporary context of accelerating 
climate change.  Additionally, the complex entanglements of the social, 
material, atmospheric and geographic explored throughout these works, extend 
our feel for landscape and also our sense of how time functions in it. 
Landscape through its laminations, layering and morphologies, is conceived in 
this work as a recording device that tracks the Earth’s changing energy 
signatures. This movement of time and matter reimagines environmental terrains 
as extended temporal forms resultant from long-term changes; which we might 
propose of as ‘deep time landscapes’.This work has been made in collaboration 
with the British Antarctic Survey, and special thanks goes to Nathan 
Cunningham, Dr Clare Tancell, Professor David Walton, Dr Beatrix 
Schlarb-Ridley, Professor Mike Meredith, and Pete Bucktrout. Funding for this 
work has been by Arts Council England, the Arts and Humanities Research Council 
and the Natural Environment Research Council, and the Centre for Research in 
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[NetBehaviour] Free symposium TRANSFORMING DATA: CREATIVE AND CRITICAL DIRECTIONS IN THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES

[TOM CORBY]

Dear people of interest apologies for cross postinghttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/transforming-data-creative-and-critical-directions-in-the-arts-and-humanities-tickets-18860406985 Transforming Data creative and Critical Directions in the Arts and Humanities Free symposium 
24th October 2015, University of Westminster Regent Street This event is free, but please book to secure a placeIn recent years cultural, social and political landscapes have been redrawn as unprecedented amounts of data has entered the public domain. This in turn has posed significant questions cutting across issues of privacy, security, culture and politics, giving birth to new aesthetic, political and social practices. This free one-day symposium brings together an interdisciplinary mix of artists, designers, academics and developers to reflect upon this phenomenon, show work, exchange experiences and signpost important trends. Twitter: #dataTransformations Speakers include  Mark Graham Oxford Internet Institute (OII), University of Oxford.

Mark's research focuses on internet and information geographies, and the overlaps between ICTs and economic development. As an Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the OII, he has published articles in major geography, communications, and urban studies journals, and his work has been covered by the Economist, the BBC, the Washington Post, CNN and the Guardian. Christian Fuchs Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), University of Westminster

Christian is Professor and Director of CAMRI. His research involves social media, internet & society, political economy of media and communication, information society theory, social theory and critical theory. He is the author of numerous publications in these fields, including Digital labour and Karl Marx (Routledge 2014) and Social media: A critical introduction (Sage 2014).

twitter.com/fuchschristian Julie Freeman Artist, Open Data Institute, Queen Mary University of London

Julie’s work spans visual, audio and digital art forms and explores how science and technology changes our relationship to nature, through transforming complex processes and data sets into sound compositions, objects and animations. Based in London, she is a TED Senior Fellow, a co-founder of the Data as Culture art programme at the Open Data Institute (ODI), and a PhD candidate in Media & Arts Technologies at Queen Mary University Hannah Redler Independent Curator

Hannah works with international artists and ambitious organisations on projects that bring together art, science, technology, new media and photography. Current projects include working with the Open Data Institute Data as Culture Programme ODI Curator in Residence and working as consultant art curator for the Institute of Physics. From 2005–14 Hannah was Head of the Science Museum Arts Programme, and also between 2011–14 head of the Science Museum's photography gallery Media Space, which opened in 2012. Joanna Boehnert Designer and design theorist, Centre for Research in Education, Art and Media, University of Westminster (CREAM)

Joanna’s research is concerned with visual mapping of climate communication and issues of the emerging green economy. She is currently finishing a book titled Design/Ecology/Politics: Within and Beyond Error for Bloomsbury Academic and is she is founding director of EcoLabs.Tom Corby and Gavin Baily Artists, Centre for Research in Education, Art and Media, University of Westminster (CREAM)

Tom is a Professor of Visual and Interdisciplinary Art at CREAM, and Gavin is Director of Tracemedia (Tracemedia.co.uk), specialists in visualisation, mapping and digital arts. Together they been exploring alternative and critical uses of data since the mid-1990s, with a predominant focus on intersections of the environment and social behaviour. Their data-driven installations and images have been widely exhibited at numerous galleries and museums including at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Victoria and Albert Museum, Tate Online and Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, among many others.Doug Specht Doctoral Researcher and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Westminster

Doug explores how digital media, data and GIS are used in legitimising and codifying local knowledge within the context of International Development. He is also the Director of VOZ, a PGIS platform that supports human and environmental rights through community mapping. He has worked extensively across Latin America and is an editor for the Environmental Network for Central America.Anastasia Kavada Symposium chair, is Senior Lecturer in the Westminster Faculty of Media, Arts & Design at the University of Westminster

She is Co-leader of the MA in Media, Campaigning and Social Change and Deputy Director of the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI). Her research focuses on the links between online tools and decentralised organising practices, democratic decision-making, and the development of solidarity among 

Re: [NetBehaviour] Tom Corby - book in progress on Networked Art - might be of interest

[TOM CORBY]

Just to let people know this was published in 2005Many thanksTomOn 5 Aug 2015 17:27:23, dave miller wrote:https://www.academia.edu/14690946/Network_Art_Practices_and_Positions_Introduction
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[NetBehaviour] PhD scholarships Art and Design University of Westminster

[TOM CORBY]

Please circulate widelyTwo topics, 2 scholarships1 Cultures of MaladyArt and Design PhD Scholarships, University of Westminster, Art, Science, Medicine, practice-based #artscience  #PhD2 Open topic Art and Design PhD Scholarships, University of Westminster  #phdchat #PhD  practice-based Art http://t.co/Me67kDYRex http://t.co/mZLGzDB2M6
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[NetBehaviour] Funded PhD studentships

[TOM CORBY]

Please circulate widely:
Research Studentships in the School of Media, Arts and Design
Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM)
University of Westminster

£16,000 annual stipend plus fee waiver

A number of full-time University of Westminster Studentships are available to 
candidates with either Home or Overseas fee status in any area of Art, Media 
and Communication starting in September 2014.


The Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM) is a leading 
centre for research across the disciplines of visual arts, photography, film 
and digital media. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise CREAM was rated 20% 
4*, 55%, 25% 2*. The Times Higher Education Supplement ranked CREAM in the top 
six art and design departments in the UK and the most highly rated department 
in this field in London.

With 30 research active staff, and 35 doctoral students. CREAM is a leading 
provider of both practice-based and theoretical PhD research in photography, 
film, digital media, ceramics, visual art, art-science relationships and moving 
image work.

Eligible candidates will hold at least an upper second class honours degree and 
a Master’s degree. Candidates whose secondary level education has not been 
conducted in the medium of English should also demonstrate evidence of 
appropriate English language proficiency, normally defined as 6.5 in IELTS 
(with not less than 6.0 in any of the individual elements).

The Studentship consists of a fee waiver and a stipend of £16,000 per annum. 
Successful candidates will be expected to undertake some teaching duties.

Prospective candidates wishing to informally discuss an application should 
contact Dr Tom Corby, cor...@westminster.ac.uk
In doing so they should have ready an outline research proposal specifying a 
research focus.

Further information about our PhD programme can be found here:
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AHR273/research-studentships-in-the-school-of-media-arts-and-design/
http://www.westminster.ac.uk/cream/doctoral-programme

The closing date for applications is 5pm Friday 17 January 2014
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Learn To Draw

[TOM CORBY]

I draw a lot. I mean everyday (especially at the moment). I thank god for the 2 
year art foundation course that put me through life drawing boot camp. It was 
the best educational experience I've ever had. 
I do believe that some people have more drawing ability  than others, but it 
can be taught as a skill of observation and mark-making. Anyone can learn to 
draw proficiently and it used to be a commonplace skill taught at school. 
Best book on the subject if you want to start drawing is:The Complete Drawing 
Course by John Raynes.
It's better than Drawing on the Left Side of the Brain IMHO in terms of 
direct project work to get you going, but it doesn't cover the theoretical 
aspects of drawing as perceptual process. The 2 together would be an ideal 
starting point but be warned that Drawing on the left side is actually 
2 separate books with book 2 being a series of exercises.
Not a learning to draw site but a very nice 
community:http://www.urbansketchers.org/
all the best
tom


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Subject: [NetBehaviour] Learn To Draw
To: netBehaviour for networked distributed creativity 
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Date: Sunday, 15 January, 2012, 17:30

Are there any sites or projects for learning to draw like the learning
to code resources we were discussing recently?

- Rob.
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Re: [NetBehaviour] funding opportunities

[TOM CORBY]

Just to add to Simon's excellent summary, I have it from an excellent source 
that the AHRC budget is just about to be cut by 50%. 
Frankly you're better off buying a lottery ticket.
Grim days.

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Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] funding opportunities
To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity 
netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org
Date: Tuesday, 23 November, 2010, 21:07

thanks for the helpful info Simon, that's very useful  - I think the
Creative Arts Fellowship programme was the one

dave



On 23 November 2010 17:39, Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk wrote:
 The key thing you need to know is that the AHRC only funds research (which
 can include practice based work) undertaken by permanent employees of
 recognised research institutions (Universities, other HEI's and some
 national museums and research institutes). Artists cannot apply. For art
 projects you go to your regional arts council.

 What artists can do is develop something like a Fellowship proposal with
 somebody who is employed in a University. These can be for up to 9 months.
 They require the proposed fellow, who will be hosted by the institution, has
 a PhD or experience equivalent to that (this is undefined but usually means
 something like 6 years professional experience with a track record of
 exhibitions, publications and conference presentations). An early career
 fellowship allows those with less experience (but still of post-doc
 standing) to apply for similar funds - but then these fellows have a mentor.

 There use to be a Creative Arts Fellowship programme but that was
 discontinued last year. Bummer. It was a brilliant programme and probably
 the one you have been told about.

 Best

 Simon


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 Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:01:22 +
 To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
 netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org
 Subject: [NetBehaviour] funding opportunities

 The other day someone told me about the AHRC and that they have grants
 for digital art. It struck me that this could be a solution to my
 problem of doing part-time jobs to make ends meet, which leaves me
 tired and without enough time for creative work.

 To get funding to concentrate on creative work sounds perfect. Or is
 it? Seems to me the funding gives you credibility as well as money.

 Here's the AHRC website:
 http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/FundingOpportunities/Pages/default.aspx

 Does anyone on this list have experience of doing this?
 Is it very difficult to get funding? Do you have to be very established?

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Re: [NetBehaviour] Is Art Knowledge?

[TOM CORBY]

It's an interesting paper, but I think you'd really have to start with a 
thorough definition of knowledge.

Art does provide a way of knowing the world, it does through different routes 
to other forms of practice (e.g. Science) but it does ultimately produce 
knowledge. Bateson always said that art produces sensory knowledge that 
ultimately leads to cognitive knowledge. It's a useful distinction and one 
that would seem to overlap with Kant's ideas of the purposiveness or otherwise 
of the art experience (i.e. in my limited understanding, what is the function 
of the artwork as a generator of experience as opposed to a scientitic artefact 
that also seeks to produce insight into the world).




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Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Is Art Knowledge?
To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity 
netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org
Date: Wednesday, 14 April, 2010, 23:56


I was lucky enough to have Steve Scrivener teach a module on my MA before he 
moved from Coventry University. Really nice chap and he presented some really 
interesting ideas about art research, some of which I see in this paper.





On 14 April 2010 23:37, Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk wrote:






Check out Practice-led Research, Research-led Practice in the Creative Arts 
(2009) as a starting place.



Also Scrivener (2002): The art object does not embody a form of knowledge. 
Working Papers in Art and Design 2, 
http://www.herts.ac.uk/artdes/research/papers/wpades/vol2/scrivenerfull.html




Good luck



Simon





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From: Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org

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Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:44:12 +0100

To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity 
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Subject: [NetBehaviour] Is Art Knowledge?



Are there any good arguments for or against the idea of art as a

kind/form/branch of knowledge? I'm after [citable] references to

philosophical or theoretical authorities, if anyone knows of any.



This isn't homework, it's research. ;-)



Thanks.



- Rob.

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Re: [NetBehaviour] Most students use Wikipedia, avoid telling profs about it.

[TOM CORBY]

I agree with Simon, for academic purposes you of course need a more substantial 
source than an encylopedia to substantiate any argument or hypothesis you are 
going to make. 

This isn't to do down wikipedia which is an amazing project and an invaluable 
tool to get you going on research projects and point you at the original 
sources of material. 

t.

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Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Most students use Wikipedia, avoid telling profs 
about it.
To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity 
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Date: Friday, 19 March, 2010, 11:52

Re: [NetBehaviour] Most students use Wikipedia, avoid telling profs about it.


Tom is totally right. However, whilst a good proportion of Wikipedia will be 
authored by academics they will not use it as a reference. The same is true of 
the encyclopaedias, many of which are authored and/or edited by the top experts 
in the field. However, as the author’s identity is left anonymous these are not 
considered verifiable sources.



It is no big deal for the student to find a useful reference. Most Wikipedia 
entries cite sources. Many of these sources are accessible on line, through 
Google books, Project Gutenberg or Amazon. If not then there are these places 
called libraries...



Best



Simon





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Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Most students use Wikipedia, avoid telling profs 
about it.



I think most Profs are fully aware that students use Wikipedia.

I would hazard a guess (in fact I wouldn't I know for a fact) that lot 
of the material on there is contributed by profs :)
I think we need to be careful about stereotyping here..

Ruth Catlow wrote:
 if this is really true the profs need to wise-up.
 Wikipedia is a great first stop for research allowing students to do a 
 proper broad sweep to find their subject.
 Its also a useful tool for reflecting on the ways in which knowledge 
 is constructed  (demonstrating concepts such as hierarchies of 
 authority, filtering, peer-review, gate-keeping, competition, 
 contested knowledge etc).

 Ruth


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 Most students use Wikipedia, avoid telling profs about it.

 By Jacqui Cheng.

 Surprise! Most students use Wikipedia at some point during their 
 research on a paper or project, and they usually do so early on in the 
 process. Online peer-reviewed journal First Monday recently published  the 
 findings of its research on student Wikipedia use and said that the 
 service often serves as a starting point for the students who use it,  
 allowing them to gather information for further investigation elsewhere. 
 This is despite the fact that their professors still frown on Wikipedia 
 use—but it seems that students believe what their profs don't know won't 
 hurt them.

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Re: [NetBehaviour] Most students use Wikipedia, avoid telling profs about it.

[TOM CORBY]

 
 
Actually many academics do spend substantial amounts of time contributing to 
Wikipedia and have done since its inception. Wikipedia is also of course a 
great knowledge transfer tool. Like all encyclopedias it offers a very good 
general overview of diverse subject areas and has great reach. It does not 
however produce depth of analysis. It's an encylopedia. It's strength is in 
developing horizontal structures but not so good at digging deep into often 
arcane but nevertheless important subjects. Sadly it's often only academics who 
are interested in researching and publishing these things . I guess we're good 
for something eh ;-)
 
I'm all for collaborative knowledge development both inside and outside of the 
acadamy but lets not throw the baby out with the bathwater. 
 
As Simon has already pointed out, there are already many open publishing 
initiatives and all publically funded UK research will have to be made free at 
the point of access in future and much of it already is. Despite what climate 
change deniers will try to tell you.
 
all the best
 
tom
 
 
 

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From: James Wallbank ja...@lowtech.org
Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Most students use Wikipedia, avoid telling profs 
about it.
To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity 
netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org
Date: Friday, 19 March, 2010, 15:39


From my experience, I'd suggest that nowadays most professors also use 
Wikipedia - they're just sensible enough not to admit this to other 
researchers!

As an open, free, and peer-reviewed (think about what this means) 
information resource, Wikipedia kicks the living hell out of academic 
journals in terms of reach, dissemination and knowledge transfer. It 
challenges the whole structure of academic hierarchy. It might (horror 
of horrors) even suggest that knowledge development and innovation 
happen more quickly and more effectively outside academic institutions 
than inside them.

Ouch, ouch, ouch! Prepare in the next few years to see systematic 
assaults by established academic institutions and their funders on the 
whole concept of open knowledge sharing. But wait... that's happening 
already!

Let's face it, the easiest, and most effective way for academia to 
improve the quality of Wikipedia would be for them to engage with the 
process and edit inaccurate pages. If well informed students and tutors 
spent an hour a week... However, this runs counter to academic 
hierarchies' primary mission, which is to ration (not to encourage) 
dissemination of knowledge to preserve their own business models.

Look at the language in which many academic articles are couched - 
deliberately obfuscated, opaque, incomprehensible. The oft-touted 
suggestion that clarity and comprehensibility are inaccurate or 
imprecise is nonsense - an intelligent writer can make the most 
complex subject seem comprehensible to any reasonably educated reader if 
they so choose.

The ONLY correct answer to dissemination and knowledge transfer is free, 
open online dissemination. The Institute for Network Cultures in 
Amsterdam already does this. Many research funding bodies are gradually 
coming to this conclusion, and making open publication a requirement of 
research funding.

The only catches are that: (i) open publication does not have an easily 
understood income generation model, and (ii) it fundamentally undermines 
academic institutions' claims to be uniquely empowered to develop knowledge.

Best Regards,

James
=

Ruth Catlow wrote:
 if this is really true the profs need to wise-up.
 Wikipedia is a great first stop for research allowing students to do a 
 proper broad sweep to find their subject.
 Its also a useful tool for reflecting on the ways in which knowledge 
 is constructed (demonstrating concepts such as hierarchies of 
 authority, filtering, peer-review, gate-keeping, competition, 
 contested knowledge etc).

 Ruth


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Re: [NetBehaviour] Call for Submissions: Multichannel VariableEconomies Screening Programme Deadline 28th January (Helen Sloan)

[tom corby]

Michael Szpakowski wrote:
 Like so many of the what's the problem? posts this treats the language 
 associated with art theory ( and indeed cultural  social ideas in general) 
 as if it is transparent and uncontested which of course, even on a daily 
 basis ( think party politics, war and peace, healthcare, popular culture), it 
 is absolutely not.
   




 It's a particularly bizarre blindness coming from the very folk who seem to 
 be most enthusiastic about academia* whom one would have thought would have 
 welcomed a question everything approach.
   

 Essentially the argument seems to be that Martin is stupid which strikes me 
 as rude, deeply condescending and untrue. Awkward, yes, and not always 
 entirely clear but let him/her that is without sin...
 michael
   
This is a good old fashioned bit of shit-stirring. Martin has clarified 
his position on this which is great. Given the dogmatic nature of his 
original comments, it's hardly a surprise he got the response he did, 
although I agree we could have done without the graphics.

 * and by academia let me say what I mean -I don't mean teaching in whatever 
 context -like Renee I'm utterly in favour.
* and by academia let me say what I mean -I don't mean teaching 

It's convenient for your argument to separate the two, but not 
reasonable.  Academia produces human and intellectual capital. This 
occurs through teaching and research ( or studio practice) carried out 
by academics...

  Nor do I mean the art school tradition at least up to the 70s. 
Yup great for tiny elite that actually managed to get into these 
paragons of art pedagogy.

I  find the romanticisation of the old art school system hard to 
stomach. Was it really so much better than we have now from a students 
perspective? Aren't we better off now that we have more going to art 
schools despite the obvious resourcing issues?

 I'm referring particularly to developments over the last 30 years or so. I'm 
 amazed that people can be so sanguine about the university research culture ( 
 which has swallowed the art schools) when it is being constantly more 
 colonised by the market  market values - again there are surely deep issues 
 here in the way this affects what constitutes research and indeed art as 
 defined within the academy, which doesn't of course float Zeppelin-like above 
 the rest of society ( 
This is a separate argument. Nobody is denying there are issues in 
academia about how research is framed.  Many ongoing lively debates 
around this issue are directly contributed to by members of this mailing 
list (e.g. simon, corrardo)

It's the relentless misrepresentation and frankly lazy, yes and 
*condescending* characterization (to use your term), of the academy 
that gets peoples goat.

 and I'm very grateful to Rob for the Art and Language quotes which I 
 previously knew nothing about and which both made me laugh and struck me as 
 enormously pertinent). And I'm *not* trying to make some easy or pat argument 
 - I'm saying there are *unanswered and legitimate questions* and there is 
 *room
  for discussion*...


   
As pointed out by Simon, I found the art and language quotes deeply 
ironic given that their practice was largely nourished (and financed) 
within the University of Leeds. Ahem.






 --- On Sat, 1/9/10, mark cooley flawed...@yahoo.com wrote:

   
 From: mark cooley flawed...@yahoo.com
 Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Call for Submissions: Multichannel 
 VariableEconomies Screening Programme Deadline 28th January (Helen Sloan)
 To: netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org
 Date: Saturday, January 9, 2010, 1:45 AM
 Helen,
 Thank you for the generous restatement of a
 perfectly understandable original. Frankly, I wouldn't
 have had the patience. It always amazes me just how bold
 idiocy can be. One would think that an unfamiliar language
 might spark one's curiosity to well...  want to
 learn something rather than be offended at your audacity of
 straying from a 5th grade vocabulary. 
 what excitement a few well placed words can
 create! i've found it interesting that there is often a
 violent reaction to the language of cultural studies or art
 criticism on some lists, but techno jargon is used with a
 badge of pride. i can't imagine that if every time i
 heard some tech speak that i didn't understand that i
 accused the authors of being elitist
 technocrats.
 btw. sounds like an interesting
  show.




   
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Call for Submissions: Multichannel VariableEconomies Screening Programme Deadline 28th January

[tom corby]

So you can't be both? Sorry this is nonsense.

martin mitchell wrote:


 Artists who teach in art colleges unfortunately seem to become academics.

 An individual is either an artist or an academic.


 On 7 Jan 2010, at 23:54, Simon Biggs wrote:

 Most people on this list are artists, including myself. Any academic 
 roles we have are a result of what we have done as artists, not 
 academics. That is part of socio-economics...

 Simon Biggs

 Research Professor
 edinburgh college of art
 s.bi...@eca.ac.uk
 www.eca.ac.uk

 *C*reative *I*nterdisciplinary *R*esearch into *C*o*L*laborative 
 *E*nvironments
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 www.littlepig.org.uk http://www.littlepig.org.uk
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 *From: *martin mitchell martinmitc...@mac.com 
 x-msg://114/martinmitc...@mac.com
 *Reply-To: *NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity 
 netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org 
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 *Date: *Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:39:14 +
 *To: *NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity 
 netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org 
 x-msg://114/netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org
 *Subject: *Re: [NetBehaviour] Call for Submissions: Multichannel 
 VariableEconomies Screening Programme Deadline 28th January

 WHOW..No the complete opposite I'm an artist and not an 
 academic.


 On 7 Jan 2010, at 23:28, Simon Biggs wrote:

 You don’t like art?

 Simon Biggs

 Research Professor
 edinburgh college of art
 s.bi...@eca.ac.uk
 www.eca.ac.uk

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 *From: *martin mitchell martinmitc...@mac.com 
 x-msg://114/martinmitc...@mac.com 
 x-msg://79/martinmitc...@mac.com x-msg://79/martinmitc...@mac.com 
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 *Date: *Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:42:10 +
 *To: *NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity 
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 x-msg://79/netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org 
 x-msg://79/netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org 
 *Subject: *Re: [NetBehaviour] Call for Submissions: Multichannel 
 VariableEconomies Screening Programme Deadline 28th January

  Have no idea what  this means ..

  They want some video art that engages current international 
 socio-economic events to put in an exhibition.

 Common sense tells us it's meaningless.

 Just cannot write anymore... this is embarrassing nonsense.

 martin mitchell.



 On 7 Jan 2010, at 17:11, james morris wrote:


 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHoCd1pTJx4feature=PlayListp=5840AC014CA20F89playnext=1playnext_from=PLindex=56
  
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHoCd1pTJx4feature=PlayListp=5840AC014CA20F89playnext=1playnext_from=PLindex=56


 :)

 On 7/1/2010, Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk 
 x-msg://114/s.bi...@eca.ac.uk x-msg://79/s.bi...@eca.ac.uk 
 x-msg://79/s.bi...@eca.ac.uk  wrote:

 Seems clear to me. They want some video art that engages current
 international socio-economic events to put in an exhibition.

 Simon Biggs

 Research Professor
 edinburgh college of art
 s.bi...@eca.ac.uk x-msg://114/s.bi...@eca.ac.uk 
 x-msg://79/s.bi...@eca.ac.uk x-msg://79/s.bi...@eca.ac.uk
 www.eca.ac.uk http://www.eca.ac.uk http://www.eca.ac.uk 
 http://www.eca.ac.uk/

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 From: martin mitchell martinmitc...@mac.com 
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Call for Submissions: Multichannel VariableEconomies Screening Programme Deadline 28th January

[tom corby]

This is a rather unfortunate spat that is now turning to ad hom attacks 
on people.

Systems aren't closed, if there is one thing we've (re)learnt in the 
past 100 years it's this.
BTW. The internet was invented by academics


martin mitchell wrote:
 How odd surely being a part of academia, management systems or a bird 
 sitting on a fence is part of a closeted environment.

 On 8 Jan 2010, at 00:12, brian gibson wrote:

 jesus, mart,
 you are narrow as a sparrow.

 its safe to say simon is an artist, an academic, a human, a 
 descendent of biggs and more.. 
 and this is said without even really knowing the man..
 'a man is either and artist or an academic.'
 what an absurd and dangerous idea.

 get rid of all those boxes in your head.
 life is easier than you think.






 On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 7:03 PM, martin mitchell 
 martinmitc...@mac.com mailto:martinmitc...@mac.com wrote:

 Is this an academic statement:-You need to get out more...

 Spent 7 hours today walking along Lea Valley making digital
 images of snow and ice effects ..

 On 7 Jan 2010, at 23:57, Simon Biggs wrote:

 You need to get out more...

 Simon Biggs

 Research Professor
 edinburgh college of art
 s.bi...@eca.ac.uk http://ac.uk/
 www.eca.ac.uk http://ac.uk/

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 *From: *martin mitchell martinmitc...@mac.com
 *Reply-To: *NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
 netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org
 *Date: *Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:55:00 +
 *To: *NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
 netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org
 *Subject: *Re: [NetBehaviour] Call for Submissions: Multichannel
 VariableEconomies Screening Programme Deadline 28th January

 It was used without any description of a subject matter, I'm not
 a politician or economist merely an artist, on reading had no
 idea about what writer was referring to, I do not read dreadful
 daily papers or listen to office management language which the
 original statement was concerned with, spending as much time
 allowed me aside from basic human needs and desires, in my
 studio creating mostly digital imagery.Sensible an individual on
 this site linked a message to . I'm Singing ... on YouTube
 .. immediately understood idea behind administrative statement.
 On 7 Jan 2010, at 23:41, Simon Biggs wrote:

 It wasn’t Helen who used the term “socio-economic”, it was me.
 Why is that term difficult? It seems clear to me. It evokes
 those aspects of the social that are primarily to do with
 exchange; material and otherwise. I’d be interested to know why
 it might be a difficult term for some people to process, as it
 might help me tune my language in the future. I like to be precise.

 Simon Biggs

 Research Professor
 edinburgh college of art
 s.bi...@eca.ac.uk http://ac.uk/
 www.eca.ac.uk http://ac.uk/

 *C*reative *I*nterdisciplinary *R*esearch into
 *C*o*L*laborative *E*nvironments
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 *From: *martin mitchell martinmitc...@mac.com
 x-msg://96/martinmitc...@mac.com 
 *Reply-To: *NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
 netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org
 x-msg://96/netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org 
 *Date: *Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:34:02 +
 *To: *NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
 netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org
 x-msg://96/netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org 
 *Subject: *Re: [NetBehaviour] Call for Submissions:
 Multichannel VariableEconomies Screening Programme Deadline
 28th January

 It's not the moving image event itself but the nonsensical
 language used to describe ideas you are looking for inside of
 those projected images onto a screen.
 How does one translate into another language part of dogmatic
 statements like 'running past', 'flag up' or 'socio economic'
 !

 C.N.A.S.

 On 7 Jan 2010, at 18:14, Helen Sloan wrote:

 Martin and List

 Noone is censored in terms of submitting to this programme. It
 is open to all.

 I was merely suggesting that if  the approach of the programme
 feels uncomfortable, it may not be the right one to be
 involved in.

 If anyone 

Re: [NetBehaviour] Call for Submissions: MultichannelVariableEconomies Screening Programme Deadline 28th January

[tom corby]

 work that differences, if they don't actually
 dissolve , at least take on a less threatening aspect...

 cheers
 michael

  



 --- On Fri, 1/8/10, Corrado Morgana corradomorg...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:

   
 From: Corrado Morgana corradomorg...@blueyonder.co.uk
 Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Call for Submissions: Multichannel
 
 VariableEconomies Screening Programme Deadline 28th January
   
 To: 'NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity'
 
 netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org
   
 Date: Friday, January 8, 2010, 11:05 AM
 Hi,


 I am of the impression that the silver spacesuit and
 jetpacked future has
 arrived and that Mr Mitchell is a very sophisticated
 trollbot!

 Mr. Mitchell's impossibility of being both artist and
 academic is UTTER
 NONSENSE, I agree Tom

 Troll (Internet)  
 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 Do not feed the trolls and its abbreviation DNFTT
 redirect here. For the
 Wikimedia essay, see What is a troll?.

 In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts
 inflammatory, extraneous, or
 off-topic messages in an online community, such as an
 online discussion
 forum, chat room or blog, with the primary intent of
 provoking other users
 into an emotional response[1] or of otherwise disrupting
 normal on-topic
 discussion.[2]

 We all know what happens to trolls...

 C






 -Original Message-
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 [mailto:netbehaviour-boun...@netbehaviour.org]
 On Behalf Of tom corby
 Sent: 08 January 2010 8:52 AM
 To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
 Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Call for Submissions:
 Multichannel
 VariableEconomies Screening Programme Deadline 28th
 January

 So you can't be both? Sorry this is nonsense.

 martin mitchell wrote:
 
 Artists who teach in art colleges unfortunately seem
   
 to become academics.
 
 An individual is either an artist or an academic.


 On 7 Jan 2010, at 23:54, Simon Biggs wrote:

   
 Most people on this list are artists, including
 
 myself. Any academic 
 
 roles we have are a result of what we have done as
 
 artists, not 
 
 academics. That is part of socio-economics...

 Simon Biggs

 Research Professor
 edinburgh college of art
 s.bi...@eca.ac.uk
 www.eca.ac.uk

 *C*reative *I*nterdisciplinary *R*esearch into
 
 *C*o*L*laborative 
 
 *E*nvironments
 CIRCLE research group
 www.eca.ac.uk/circle/

 si...@littlepig.org.uk
 
 x-msg://114/si...@littlepig.org.uk
 
 www.littlepig.org.uk http://www.littlepig.org.uk
 AIM/Skype: simonbiggsuk



 
 
 
 *From: *martin mitchell martinmitc...@mac.com
 
 x-msg://114/martinmitc...@mac.com
 *Reply-To: *NetBehaviour for networked distributed
 
 creativity 
 
 netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org
 
 x-msg://114/netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org
 *Date: *Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:39:14 +
 *To: *NetBehaviour for networked distributed
 
 creativity 
 
 netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org
 
 x-msg://114/netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org
 *Subject: *Re: [NetBehaviour] Call for
 
 Submissions: Multichannel 
 
 VariableEconomies Screening Programme Deadline
 
 28th January
 
 WHOW..No the complete opposite I'm an
 
 artist and not an 
 
 academic.


 On 7 Jan 2010, at 23:28, Simon Biggs wrote:

 
 You don't like art?

 Simon Biggs

 Research Professor
 edinburgh college of art
 s.bi...@eca.ac.uk
 www.eca.ac.uk

 *C*reative *I*nterdisciplinary *R*esearch into
   
 *C*o*L*laborative 
 
 *E*nvironments
 CIRCLE research group
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 si...@littlepig.org.uk
   
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Call for Submissions: Multichannel VariableEconomies Screening Programme Deadline 28th January

[tom corby]

I have to agree with Simon, it all seems pretty straight-forward to me.
Thanks for posting Helen.

tom




 On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 12:42 PM, martin mitchell 
 martinmitc...@mac.com mailto:martinmitc...@mac.com wrote:

  Have no idea what  this means ..

  They want some video art that engages current international
 socio-economic events to put in an exhibition.

 Common sense tells us it's meaningless.

 Just cannot write anymore... this is embarrassing nonsense.

 martin mitchell.



 On 7 Jan 2010, at 17:11, james morris wrote:


 
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHoCd1pTJx4feature=PlayListp=5840AC014CA20F89playnext=1playnext_from=PLindex=56
 
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHoCd1pTJx4feature=PlayListp=5840AC014CA20F89playnext=1playnext_from=PLindex=56


 :)

 On 7/1/2010, Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk
 mailto:s.bi...@eca.ac.uk wrote:

 Seems clear to me. They want some video art that engages current
 international socio-economic events to put in an exhibition.

 Simon Biggs

 Research Professor
 edinburgh college of art
 s.bi...@eca.ac.uk mailto:s.bi...@eca.ac.uk
 www.eca.ac.uk http://www.eca.ac.uk

 Creative Interdisciplinary Research into CoLlaborative Environments
 CIRCLE research group
 www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/

 si...@littlepig.org.uk mailto:si...@littlepig.org.uk
 www.littlepig.org.uk http://www.littlepig.org.uk
 AIM/Skype: simonbiggsuk



 From: martin mitchell martinmitc...@mac.com
 mailto:martinmitc...@mac.com
 Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
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 Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:50:15 +
 To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
 netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org
 mailto:netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org
 Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Call for Submissions: Multichannel
 Variable
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 Is this another example of administrative gobbledegook ...!

 Have no idear of what you are trying to describe.

 martin mitchell [ artist ].

 On 7 Jan 2010, at 11:25, Helen Sloan wrote:

 Hello

 This is my first post here and it's a call - sorry. I really
 enjoyed the
 Dark Mountain debate and the one that's emerging on Second Life
 so far.

 Meantime, I hope this is of interest and do contact if you want
 more info.

 Happy New Year

 Helen
 Helen Sloan
 SCAN

 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Multichannel 3
 Title: Variable Economies

 Variable Economies provides the theme for the programme of
 works for
 Multichannel 2010. The theme implies the current global
 economic downturn,
 decreased availability of resources influenced by human
 intervention in the
 natural environment, shifts in national and global political
 emphasis, and
 formally in relation to the making of artist film and video.  For
 Multichannel 2010 artists are invited to submit works for
 selection that
 touch upon the themes of the programme in terms of the use of the
 medium/material of film and video.

 Multichannel is a screening programme of artists film and
 video, organised
 and curated by ArtSway and SCAN in ArtSway¹s galleries. The
 programme, which
 previously took place at ArtSway in 2007 and 2008, will once
 again feature
 both established practitioners, as well as ground breaking
 video works by
 artists from across the UK, and around the world. This year we
 are pleased
 to announce that Animate Projects will partner on Multichannel.
 The selection panel for Multichannel 3 is: Gary Thomas,
 Co-director Animate
 Projects; Helen Sloan, Director, SCAN; Peter Bonnell, Curator,
 ArtSway.
 Criteria/ Format of works for selection: Please submit your
 work for viewing
 on DVD. Should your piece be selected, we will ask you to
 supply your work
 as raw uncompressed files preferably on MiniDV, uncompressed
 .mpg or ..avi.
 Duration: We will accept pieces of any duration but please be
 aware that the
 screenings last up to 2 hours and shorter pieces will take
 preference. In
 exceptional circumstances we may be able to consider one-off
 screenings of
 longer pieces. Open to: artists of any age, in any part of the
 world,
 working in the format of film or video.

 Deadline for submitting works: Thursday 28 January 2010
 Selection panel meets: Week beginning 8 February 2010
 Notification of selection result: 26 February 2010
 Exhibition of Multichannel 3 at ArtSway: 2 April - 11 April 2010
 Contact and address to send work: Peter Bonnell, Curator,
 ArtSway, Station
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Internet of Things....Research OpportunitiesonEPSRC funded Project]

[tom corby]

Simon makes some interesting points. This is a fascinating discussion 
and something of real interest to me.

I would question whether art doesn't produce knowledge (about the world 
and about art practice itself). I think art does produce knowledge and 
arguments about the world. The form of this knowledge of course is 
often, but no always different to that produced by science. 

Knowledge of course comes from the greek Gnosis which is a kind of 
experiential, intuitive knowing of the world which many in the arts will 
identify with.

One of the big shifts in recent years induced by the kinds of funding 
research projects discussed in this thread is the requirement for 
artists to document verbalize and make available the knowledge that 
their practice produces outside of the actual experience of the work 
itself. Often in written documents. In my opinion this has been 
beneficial for the research community as it makes this knowledge, 
knowing and insight available and portable. It also helps us develop 
shared languages to discuss our work and experiences which is also to 
the good. It of course shouldn't stand in for the experience of the work 
itself but be seen as complementary to it.

best

Tom Corby

Simon Biggs wrote:
 Hi Yann

 The distinctions you make between art and science are entirely 
 reasonable and I would not disagree. Nevertheless, that doesn’t mean 
 you can’t work with both, between or across them.

 The epistemological distinctions you identify are especially 
 important. Whilst novelty is a given in art the production of 
 knowledge is not. In science it is the other way around – knowledge is 
 default but novelty a far more rare phenomena. Artists doing research, 
 especially those undertaking PhD’s, are well advised to remember these 
 differences. They will be required to produce new knowledge. The first 
 part of that (the novelty) is not something most artists have a 
 problem with. It is therefore the second part (knowledge) they have to 
 take greater care with. That can be very difficult and there is always 
 the danger that in the process of meeting that demand you lose the 
 art. The question of where knowledge lies in art, if at all, is key. 
 But for every artist it is different. It is unsafe to generalise about 
 these things.

 Regards

 Simon

 Simon Biggs
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 edinburgh college of art
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 *From: *yann le guennec i...@x-arn.org
 *Reply-To: *NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity 
 netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org
 *Date: *Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:15:30 +0200
 *To: *NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity 
 netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org
 *Subject: *Re: [NetBehaviour] Internet of ThingsResearch 
 OpportunitiesonEPSRC funded Project]

 Well, i think it will be a bit difficult for me to explain my point of
 view in english... but  let's try...

 At a certain level, this question is about paradigms. Scientific
 research is based on some rules, including the ability to reproduce
 previous obtained and published results. So it is for experimental and
 physical science research, but also for mathematic, biology, et.. a
 researcher should be able to reproduce a demonstration, according to the
 fact that mathematic concepts can not suffer any semantic ambiguity.
 insuch a context, it's quite usefull to cite authors of previous
 experiments as contextual informations, kinf od metadata allowing to
 link works and reseach in a corpus.

 So it is in 'soft sciences', or 'humans sciences' like psychology,
 sociology, etc... concepts, results and experiments have to be
 referenced (authors, years) in order to disambiguate them and compose
 the corpus of the domain.

 All this scientific domains, more or less formal, ...are domains, with
 some kinds of borders, dominant theories, specific concepts, etc...they
 are articulated on reseach paradigms at the epistemic level.

  From my point of view, art (and in a way also design) is 'epistemic in
 itself', it means art generates as many paradigms that are necessary to
 the diversity of forms and expressions. Art is not a domain because it
 does not need to self-reference itself, and does not need to be logicaly
 articulated in a corpus. It can be the case for some kind of practices,
 in some artistics subcategories, but it's not a formal rule for its
 existence.

 So there is a big gap at this level between art + design and science +
 research. I'm also interested in this question, and i saw some people in
 France (mostly in art and design school) are trying sometimes to define
 a field for artistic research or design research, that does not yet
 exist. But if it exist one day, i don't think that it can be initiated
 only on the basis of imported paradigms. I better imagine that art
 practicies are able to propose other paradigms for research and thinking.

 (well, i

Re: [NetBehaviour] Internet of Things....ResearchOpportunitiesonEPSRC funded Project]

[tom corby]

It's an interesting point Paul. In the UK we have funded arts research 
through the AHRC.

I don't believe that academic research does greatly compromise 
creativity or art making. Certainly not in my experience and I've 
received a couple of AHRC grants. In fact this money has enabled me to 
pursue projects that would have been impossible to fund and produce from 
other sources. The money is significantly more than you'd normally 
receive from the UK Arts Council for example (who have their own agendas 
that you have to meet).

 To me it's not possible to talk of an unbridled creativity as separate 
from the social and economic forces that surround it. Economic forces  
distort practice whether it's market mechanisms or government funding. 
When I was a painter in the late 80s and early 90s my gallery used to 
lean on me to produce certain kinds of work that they knew they could sell.

Research council funding in the UK (IMHO) has produced a huge boost in 
the amount of work being made, formal events (conferences etc.) and the 
quality of discourse around contemporary art. For me that's a huge plus.

Sure there are research agendas built into these grants - many of them 
urgent - like climate change that need addressing. Any artist worth 
their salt should be able to work with, against, around and through these.

best wishes

Tom Corby


Pall Thayer wrote:
 unlikely outcomes of uncertain value. It is just that the way academic
 research is funded there is this pressure to prove the economic and social
 value of the probable outcomes well in advance of them coming into being.
 

 This is exactly the problem I have with the art practice as formal
 research trend. It's great that this has opened new avenues for art
 funding but at what price? I fear that this is going to produce a lot
 of boring art that probably sounded interesting on paper but is
 missing the spontaneity that makes some artwork really leap out and
 grab you. Too precisely calculated. Art should, at the very least,
 have strong elements of spur-of-the-moment whim to highlight that
 violent tumultuousness that is unbridled Creativity (with a capital
 C). The academic research approach is always going to involve major
 compromises. The magic happens when just dive in. You'll have plenty
 of time to ask questions and fine tune concepts later. Hmm... how
 about a research project that examines the effects of academic
 institutionalisation on creativity?

 best r.
 Pall

   
 These pressures function to pervert what research is all about
 (finding/creating things you didn't know you might find/create). How can you
 know the value of something that doesn't exist yet? Why does everything have
 to have a value? Many artists and scientists prefer not to be concerned with
 these things. Such considerations are imposed upon them.

 Regards

 Simon

 Simon Biggs
 Research Professor
 edinburgh college of art
 s.bi...@eca.ac.uk
 www.eca.ac.uk
 www.eca.ac.uk/circle/

 si...@littlepig.org.uk
 www.littlepig.org.uk
 AIM/Skype: simonbiggsuk


 
 From: james morris ja...@jwm-art.net
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 netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org
 Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:26:29 +0100 (BST)
 To: netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org
 Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Internet of
 ThingsResearchOpportunitiesonEPSRC funded Project]


 On 25/6/2009, Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk wrote:

 
 recorded and all original material retained for peer assessment. This is
 not
 foolproof (there are plenty of examples of poor science around) but nobody
 has proposed a better system yet. It is unusual for artistic work to be
 undertaken in this context but not novel. Otherâ*˙s have done it. It often
 leads to surprising outcomes, especially for the scientists.
   

 I'm interested to know what the nature of the surprising outcomes are
 for scientists? (Are the artists less surprised by the outcomes?)



 http://www.principlesofnature.net/gallery_of_selected_art_works/the_discreteness_of_infinity_art_science_parallels.htm

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2008/sep/02/darwinscanopy

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Re: [NetBehaviour] boycott etc

[tom corby]

Dear people, watching the discussion on relativism, I thought some of 
you may be interested in

*Moral Relativism* by Steven Lukes - just published.

A good review in THES by Robert Segal:

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26storycode=405451c=1


best

Tom Corby





Simon Biggs wrote:
 But I am a relativist and happy to defend it ;)

 I am also a sceptic and a nihilist (in the precise sense of the term). 
 Any specific position, such as humanism or socialism, any particular 
 theism, involves a belief system of some kind. This removes one’s 
 capacity to consider everything as up for grabs...

 As an artist I feel obliged to question everything. The main fault in 
 Rob’s argument is that it is premised on moral absolutism...at its 
 centre there stands a sacred cow.

 I haven’t seen all the details of the original call to protest against 
 Bloomberg. However, I think he is a valid target. There are also other 
 valid targets. Tony Blair’s work as a so-called mediator in the 
 Middle-East has been so biased he should also be a target – although 
 I’d like to see him done for war-crimes elsewhere first. After that we 
 can throw the book at him for his current hypocrisy.

 Regards

 Simon


 On 20/2/09 18:32, mark cooley flawed...@yahoo.com wrote:

  Do you know what a straw man argument is?
  It's where someone argues
  against a caricature of someone else's argument rather
  than against
  that argument itself. You are doing that here.

 You replied to Simon's criticism of your claim to know truth and
 your reaction was against relativism NOT in support of your claim
 to know truth, but to attack relativism. Simon never brought up
 relativism. That's the straw man you've put up! Defend your own
 argument that somehow you have access to absolute truth rather
 than bashing Simon for something that he didn't say. Simon wasn't
 making a case for relativism he was questioning absolute truth.
 That is not the same thing. One can not believe in absolute truth
 and also NOT be a relativist. It's easy. Much of so-called
 postmodern theory explains the basis for this quite well. You want
 names of authorities - I could list them all day - what difference
 would it make? You'd just quote others to refute it. What's the
 point? It's clear we have different values on these issues.




 Simon Biggs
 Research Professor
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[NetBehaviour] Media Art PhD scholarships at the University of Westminster, London, UK.

[tom corby]

**Apologies for cross-posting

Media Art PhD scholarships at the University of Westminster, London, UK.

Dear people, please forward to those you feel may benefit.


Applications are now being invited for two full-time studentships - each 
worth £15,000 a year – in the University’s Centre for Research in 
Education, Art and Media (CREAM), in School of Media Art and Design. The 
scholarships will start in October 2009 and run for three years.

The deadline for applications is 5pm, 3rd March 2009 (UK, GMT).

The scholarships encourage both practice-led and theoretical 
applications that formulate approaches to art making through new and 
emerging media.

Scholarship subject areas are outlined below. However we encourage a 
broad interpretation of these and would be interested in receiving 
quality applications covering a range of related topics including Art 
and Science relationships, Interactive Arts, Software Art or any topic 
that scrutinises the intersections of art, society, technology and 
science and/or are interdisciplinary in nature.

Visual design applications will also be considered if they develop 
critical and innovatory approaches that fit the profile of research at 
CREAM.

1. Art and Computation: the Aesthetics of Information
Areas include critical and aesthetic approaches to data-mapping, 
visualisation, interactive and behavioural arts, robotics, emergence etc.

2. Art on the Web
Areas of art practice include critical and aesthetic explorations of the 
net as a site for art, and broad approaches to the idea of the network 
as a metaphoric and heterogeneous site that encompasses inter and cross 
disciplinary approaches to art making, i.e. practices that weave across 
subject domains to create new areas of critical practice and aesthetic 
object.

Further information about these topics can be found here:
http://www.wmin.ac.uk/page-17662

Applicants would hold, or expect to be awarded, a 2.1 honours degree or 
above and preferably a Masters degree and should, where relevant, 
demonstrate English Language competence of at least IELTS 6.5 or equivalent.

For more information:

How to apply:
http://www.wmin.ac.uk/page-17527

Eligibility criteria:
http://www.wmin.ac.uk/page-17525

Information on CREAM:
http://www.wmin.ac.uk/mad/page-569

If you need any further information or need to discuss this further 
please email:
Dr. Tom Corby, Deputy Director, Centre for Research in Education, Art, 
Media.

cor...@wmin.ac.uk

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Re: [NetBehaviour] Questions regarding Limited Residency PhDs in NM-related Arts and Humanities

[tom corby]

Dear Patrick

we've just announced 2 Scholarships for Media Art PhDs - which you must 
have seen - at the University of Westminster in the School of Media Art 
and Design.
Slade School of Art (UCL) also takes people on too, I'm not sure if they 
offer scholarships though.

Please let me know if you require any further information about the 
Westminster Scholarships.

Tom Corby





Lichty, Patrick wrote:
 Hi, all.
 I've ben in conversations over here with folks in Chicago about programs out 
 and about that have PhDs in New Media related arts and humanities.
 I know of

 Limited Residency
 Planetary Collegium
 RMIT
 Open University(?)

 Resodency
 RPI
 (One other in the US)

 I want to compile a list for refercne.
 ANy help is appreciated.

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