[spectre] CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - MediaArtHistories
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FIRST INTERNATIONAL MASTER OF MEDIA.ART.HISTORIES (Low residency; English language, open for applications now) The postgraduate program MediaArtHistories at the Department for Image Science offers a two-year low residency leading to an M.A. degree. It conveys the most important developments of contemporary art through a network of renowned international theorists, artists, curators and many others. Artists and programmers give new insights into the latest and most controversial software, interface developments and their interdisciplinary and intercultural praxis. Keywords are: Strategies of Interaction Interface Design, Social Software, Immersion Emotion and Artistic Invention. Using online databases and other aids, knowledge of computer animation, net art, interactive, telematic and genetic art as well as the most recent reflections on nano art, CAVE installations, augmented reality and wearables are introduced. Historical derivations that go far back into art and media history are tied in intriguing ways to digital art. Important approaches and methods from Image Science, Media Archaeology and the History of Science Technology will be discussed. MediaArtHistories MA is based on the international praxis and expertise in Curation, Collecting, Preserving and Archiving and Researching in the Media Arts. What are the conditions necessary for a wider consideration of media art works and of new media in these collections of the international contemporary art scene? And in which way can new Databases and other scientific tools of structuring and visualizing data provide new contexts and enhance our understanding of semantics? Further Information: www.donau-uni.ac.at/dis www.donau-uni.ac.at/mediaarthistories www.virtualart.at www.mediaarthistory.org/pub/mediaarthistories.html www.donau-uni.ac.at/telelectures FACULTY Erkki HUHTAMO, UCLA Lev MANOVICH, UC, San Diego Christiane PAUL, Whitney Museum Jens HAUSER, Paris, Gerfried STOCKER, Ars Electronica Linz Christa SOMMERER Laurent MIGNONNEAU, Art University Linz Paul SERMON, Manchester, UK Jasdan JOERGES, Micromovie, Berlin Steve DIETZ, Director of ISEA 2006 Oliver GRAU, Danube University Edward SHANKEN, UCLA KNOWBOTIC RESEARCH, HGKZ, Zuerich Frieder NAKE, University Bremen Machiko KUSAHARA, Waseda University Monika FLEISCHMANN, Fraunhofer Institute Margit ROSEN, MA, ZKM Miklos PÉTÉRNAK, Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest Sylvia GRACE BORDA, University of British Columbia Martina LEEKER, University Bayreuth Slavko KACUNKO, University Osnabrueck Irina ARISTARKHOVA, Penn State University / Singapore DANUBE UNIVERSITY - located in the UNESCO world heritage Wachau is the first public university in Europe which specializes in advanced continuing education offering low-residency degree programs for working professionals and lifelong learners. Students come twice a year for 2 week blocks to Monastery Göttweig in Austria. With its new modular courses the DEPARTMENT FOR IMAGE SCIENCE at Danube University offers an educational program internationally unique. Without interrupting the career students have the opportunity to learn through direct, hands-on experience, social learning in small groups and contacts with labs and industry. They gain key qualifications for the contemporary art and media marketplace. The Center in Monastery Göttweig, where most MediaArtHistories courses take place, is housed in a 14th century building, remodeled to fit the needs of modern research in singular surroundings. International experts analyze the image worlds of art, science, politics and economy and elucidate how they originated, became established and how they have stood the test of time. The innovative approach at the Department for Image Science is reinforced by praxis-oriented study. APPLICATIONS for the next course start will be accepted until May 7th, 2008 (rolling admissions). Module dates: May 17 - May 27, 2008 Market of Media Art / -Management Preservation of Digital Art Sources of Digital Art and Early Forms of Computer Graphics Historicizing Art and Technology Cybernetics in MediaArtHistory Gender aspects of Media Art Excursion Ars Electronica Center November 24 - December 7, 2008 Introduction to Interfacedesign Locative Media: Augmented Space Digital Tools and their programming From Telematic Images to Micromovies Immersion Emotion Design Function of Knowledge Space Medial performance, theater und opera May 4 - May 15, 2009 Strategy of networks Ambient Intelligence Planning festivals Exhibiting Curating Media Art Exhibiting, Curation and Collection Digital Art Archiving and Preservation interdisciplinary and intercultural work November 2 - November 12, 2009 MediaArtHistories Media Archaeology Media Theory and Theory of multimedia-based systems Theory of perception Visualization Art Science - History of Science Spaces of interaction and their
[spectre] Reminder | Space Time Play, may 2, 2008, NAi Rotterdam
[Reminder] V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media, presents: *Space Time Play: Gaming in Urban Space * Friday May 2, location: NAi, Museumpark 25, Rotterdam This event will be streamed live at http://live.v2.nl An evening dedicated to computer games, architecture, art activism and urbanism as theorized and practiced by artists, architects and game designers, organized by V2_ in cooperation with Workspace Unlimited. Featuring:** /Matt Adams (UK), Mary Flanagan (US), Workspace Unlimited (BE), Steffen P. Walz (D) and Matthias Böttger (D), //Petr Kazil (NL), Theodore Watson (US), The C-men (NL) with Jeroen Tel a.k.a. Maniacs of Noise (NL)/ www.v2.nl www.workspace-unlimited.org http://happening.nai.nl For more information, please contact Michel van Dartel E [EMAIL PROTECTED] T +31 (0)10 2067272 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Waves: Final Call: Workshop with Martin Howse, Dortmund, 9 - 11 May, 2008
For the German version, please check http://www.hmkv.de/dyn/d_programm_veranstaltungen/ * * * FINAL CALL - only a few places left! DEMONS IN THE AETHER An active, artistic investigation of electromagnetic substance within a constructed environment Workshop with Martin Howse (GB) HMKV at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund May 9 - 11, 2008, daily 12:00 - 19:00 Max. 12 participants, in English, free admission Registration is requested until May 2, 2008, at [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the framework of Waves: The Art of the Electromagnetic Society, HMKV at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund, May 10 - June 29, 2008, opening: Friday, May 9, 2008, 19:00, www.hmkv.de PHOENIX Halle Dortmund Hochofenstr. / Ecke Rombergstr. Dortmund-Hoerde * * * Ether, or Æther (aiqhr, probably from aiqw, I burn, though Plato in his Cratylus derives the name from its perpetual motion - oti aei qei peri ton aera rewn, aeiqehr dikaiwV an kaloito), a material substance of more subtle kind than visible bodies, supposed to exist in those parts of space which are apparently empty. (James Clerk Maxwell. Encyclopaedia Britannica 1875) Presenting a clear sequel to the Maxwell City workshop in Oslo (Atelier Nord, 2007) which investigated a broad spectrum of contemporary concern with electromagnetic phenomena (EM), Demons in the Aether attempts active intervention into the ghosted EM city. The speculative work of James Clerk Maxwell informs both workshops, with the notion of entropy and thus ecology bridging physics and information theory; a clear route from thermodynamics into the digital domain. Equally, under the sign of the aether, Maxwell can well be considered as an essential figure within a contemporary physics of uncertainty. Notions of signal and noise offer clear variables within our own artistic equations, rewriting those of Maxwell, which attempt to make sense, to decode an architecture sketching (in)visibility and a politics of the spectrum. At the same time, these watchwords provide a ready route into primarily physical, active intervention; a reworking of the intentionality of transmission. Across three days workshop participants, the demons in the aether, will both investigate and construct city-wide EM phenomena, exploring and producing an alien architecture of emissions. Simple devices will be built in both instances, translating between audible, physical trace and the aether itself. * * * SCHEDULE Friday, May 9, 2008, 12:00 - 19:00: - Short introduction to electromagnetic [EM] phenomena primarily through demonstration [static electricity, spark transmission, Van Eck phreaking] - Comparison of a few designs for EM sniffer or probe devices within the context of the EM spectrum - Construction by participants of the most simple hardware probe device - First city field trip with constructed probes Saturday, May 10, 2008/Sunday, May 11, 2008, each day 12:00 - 19:00: - Discussion of first field trip findings. Interpretations of recorded material. - Construction and experimentation with simple devices allowing intervention into EM space (wideband transmission, creation of magnetic fields). Investigation of effects on matter. - Second field trip investigating EM architecture and investigation (use of city material as ad-hoc antennas) - Concluding discussion and projection for further artistic work. Enquiries about the workshop, registration until May 2, 2008: Martin Howse, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://1010.co.uk/ Regulations: - free admission to the workshop, but - the participants will have to pay travel and accomodation costs themselves - HMKV recommends the City Hotel Dortmund (http://www.cityhotel-dortmund.de/) or Ruhgebiet (http://www.ruhgebiet.de) For any further information, please contact Hartware MedienKunstVerein Guentherstrasse 65 D-44143 Dortmund T ++49 (0) 231 - 823 106 F ++49 (0) 231 - 882 02 40 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.hmkv.de Exhibition venue: PHOENIX Halle Dortmund Hochofenstr. / Ecke Rombergstr. Dortmund-Hoerde -- Dr. Inke Arns Künstlerische Leiterin / Artistic Director Hartware MedienKunstVerein Güntherstrasse 65 D-44143 Dortmund T +49 - 231 - 823 106 F +49 - 231 - 882 02 40 M +49 - 176 - 430 62 793 www.inkearns.de www.hmkv.de __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
