[spectre] April 2009 on –empyre-
April 2009 on –empyre- “Creativity and Postmodern Finance, or the Artifice of the 21st Century Global Financial Implosion” Plan on escaping the travails of finance and capital? Sure you do. We are all creative in our orientation toward the artifice of capital. The decision to survive requires employment of the arts of finance and capitalization, regardless of one's subjectivity or preoccupation. 'Creativity,' from the Latin, 'crescere,' means 'I come to be,' 'I increase,' 'I grow and expand,' etc. To be sure, some are endowed in one way or another with more or less of something, creativity notwithstanding. And for certain, some are more creative than others. Out of all this, what ‘comes to be’ as humanity employs the arts of capital in the 21st century? What does our creation obtain? As of late, the human world is preoccupied with artisans of capital and finance, and with good reason. Humanity is fearful that its future, we might say, is being foreclosed upon by the uncontrollable forces of their trade. Many cultural theorists feel that capital is an artifice. Capital is but our creation, they say. So perhaps we need only recreate capital, and its terms, to adjust for its errors, to render an ever better society. Others say capital is the problem in itself. What have we caused to be, to be increased, or expanded upon, that has led us to this spirited place? How does our art, our artifice, from the Latin ‘armus’…art being that which comes from our arm or shoulder…contribute to the problems or solutions of the global meltdown? Who are the artisans? And who is the audience that goads them onward? Our guests: Michael Angelo Tata is the author of Andy Warhol: Sublime Superficiality (forthcoming in 2009). Laurence Rickels is professor of German and comparative literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His books include The Devil Notebooks (2008), Nazi Psychoanalysis (2002) and The Vampire Lectures (1999). Joseph Tabbi is professor of contemporary literature and technology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of Cognitive Fictions (2002) and Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk (1995). He also edits the Electronic Book Review. Jeff Pierce is an independent equity trader based in Canada. He is also the editor of Zentrader.ca Davin Heckman is Assistant Professor of English at Siena Heights University in Adrian, Michigan. He is the author of A Small World: Smart Houses and the Dream of the Perfect Day (2008). Nicholas Ruiz III is a moderator of –empyre-. He is the author of America in Absentia (2008) and The Metaphysics of Capital (2006). He is also the editor of Kritikos. Subscribe to the–empyre- listserv forum here: http://www.subtle.net/empyre/ Many thanks, Nicholas Nicholas Ruiz III, Ph.D Editor, Kritikos http://intertheory.org __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Call for Applications Fall 09 Admiss ions UvA New Media MA
Call for Applications Fall ‘09 Admissions UvA New Media MA The New Media International MA program at UvA has issued a call for applications for students who would like to begin study in Fall 2009. We already have an impressive pool of applicants and encourage additional applications in order to recruit the best incoming class. Please feel free to share with colleagues and friends who may be interested and who would make a valuable contribution to the program. Direct link to the .pdf of the call for applications: http://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl/fall09cfa/ Overview The International M.A. in New Media Digital Culture (NMMA) at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) is accepting applications for the 2009-2010 academic year. The NMMA is a one-year residence program undertaken in English at UvA in the heart of Amsterdam. Students become actively engaged in critical Internet culture, with an emphasis on new media theory and aesthetics, including theoretical materialist traditions and practical information visualization trends. Our permanent faculty are recognized experts in their fields, and committed to their students. The program admits up to forty students per year, classes are no larger than 20 and typically smaller, and the faculty-to-student ratio is 1:8. Curriculum The curriculum has two complementary tracks that all students follow: the theoretical track (New Media Theories and Digital Aesthetics) and the practical-empirical track (Academic Blogging, Digital Research Methods and Information Visualization). The final thesis, a contribution to digital media studies, rounds out the program. 1st Semester: students follow a practical course in academic blogging, led by Internet theorist and tactical media practitioner Geert Lovink. Their entries generate the internationally noted Masters of Media site, which currently has the high authority ranking of 43 on Technorati (http://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl/). The concurrent new media theories course focuses on classic texts by innovators from Alan Turing to Tim Berners-Lee. The final first semester class, Digital Research Methods, trains students in new techniques for studying the Internet (http://www.digitalmethods.net/). 2nd Semester: the student chooses between courses on digital aesthetics or information visualization, the former more theoretically inclined in the traditions of art history and visual culture, and the latter a joint practical-empirical collaboration between designers, programmers and analysts, where the product is an online tool or digital visualization. The course of study concludes with the M.A. thesis, an original analysis that makes a contribution to the field, undertaken with the close mentorship of a faculty supervisor. The graduation ceremony includes an international symposium with renowned speakers. Graduates of the NMMA have gained an analytical and practical skill-set that enables diverse careers in research and practice-related areas that make use of the Internet, including business, government, NGOs, and creative industries that are evolving with emerging new media. Our graduates include Bauke Freiburg, Founder of Fab Channel and Eva Kol, whose MA thesis, Hyves, was published by Kosmos in 2008 and sold over 5000 copies its first year in print. Student Life The quality-of-living in Amsterdam ranks among the highest of international capitals. UvA’s competitive tuition (see below) and the ubiquity of spoken English both on and off-campus make the program especially accommodating for foreign students. The city’s many venues, festivals, and other events provide remarkably rich cultural offerings and displays of technological innovation. The program has ties to organizations including PICNIC, the Waag Society, Mediamatic, Virtueel Platform, Netherlands Institute for Media Art, and other cultural institutions. Students attend and blog, twitter or otherwise capture local events, while commenting as well on larger international issues and trends pertaining to new media. The quality of student life is equally to be found in the university’s lively and varied intellectual climate. NMMA students come from North and South America, Africa, and across Europe and from academic and professional backgrounds including journalism, art and design, engineering, marketing, the humanities and social sciences. Faculty Richard Rogers, Professor and Chair. Web Epistemology. Publications include Information Politics on the Web (MIT, 2004/2005), awarded American Society for Information Science and Technology’s 2005 Best Information Science Book of the Year Award. Founding director of govcom.org. http://www.govcom.org/publications.html Geert Lovink, Associate Professor. Critical Internet theory, Tactical Media. Publications include Zero Comments: Blogging and Critical Internet Culture (Routledge, 2007). Co-founder nettime list (1995 – present); founder, Institute of Network Cultures, 2004. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geert_Lovink Jan Simons,
[spectre] Invitation: La petite église sécu ritaire, exposition du 23 mars au 4 avril.
Invitation pour La petite église sécuritaire à Evry Bonjour, Je vous invite a venir visiter la petite eglise securitaire, du 23 Mars 2009 au Samedi 4 Avril. Tous les jours de 14h a 19h sauf le dimanche 29 mars. Pour plus d'information, veuillez consulter le site: http://www.church-of-security.com (dates, lieu, acces, liens, ...) ou http://www.XLRMX.org/ Lieu: Télécom Management SudParis depuis Paris: * En RER Depuis Gare du Nord, Châtelet, Gare de Lyon / 40 min. environ RER D ligne Paris-Melun-Malesherbes Station Bras-de-Fer via Évry-Courcouronnes * En voiture Autoroute A6 direction Lyon / accès par le périphérique extérieur, Porte d’Orléans ou par le périphérique intérieur, Porte de Gentilly ou d’Italie Sortie Évry centre boulevard de l’Europe, puis boulevard de France / prendre à gauche tout de suite après la station Total Parking visiteurs / gratuit surveillé Merci, Philippe. --- Hi, I would like to invite you to visit the little Church of Security, from March 23, 2009 to April 4th. For more information, you can check: http://www.church-of-security.com (dates, location, links, ...) or http://www.XLRMX.org/ Thanks, Philippe. -- Philippe Langlois Email: philippe.langl...@gmail.com PGP Key: 8DAEE244 ___ XLRMX mailing list xl...@lists.tmplab.org http://lists.tmplab.org/listinfo.cgi/xlrmx-tmplab.org __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] ZEMOS98 11th edition: Symposium Expanded Education - 22th - 28th March | Seville, Spain
Symposium Expanded Education http://www.educacionexpandida.org | http://www.zemos98.org The 11th ZEMOS98 International Festival (22th - 28th March | Seville, Spain) focuses on the search for new forms of education that respond to the social and communicational processes arising from the Internet. New digital culture is characterised by networked organisation, collective work, convergence culture, copyleft, etc. The fact that most of these processes haven’t been incorporated into conventional educational systems means that new forms of education aren’t taking place only – or even mainly – within formal schooling, and they are not being led by educational institutions. There are now countless artistic, scientific, communicational and educational projects of a cultural, social, digital and audiovisual nature, and these make up the cutting-edge of 21st century education - an expanded form of education that goes beyond the narrow, traditional institutional, thematic and methodological boundaries. Media literacy merges with science and creativity to generate a third networked culture which places special value on design thinking, laboratories as working spaces, the idea of process rather than instrument, the blurring of boundaries between professional and amateur (the concept of pro-am), innovation as a driving force for knowledge and the commons as a research tool. Education can happen everytime, everywhere. Inside and outside the walls of the academic institution. The context of the digital economy represents a new opportunity to recover the idea of reciprocity in the distribution of forms of knowledge. The inspiration and the touchstones behind this symposium include Paulo Freire’s pedagogy of the question, Ferrer i Guardia’s rationalist schools, the evocative images of Zero for Conduct, political anarcho-syndicalism and anarchist education practices (from Kropotkin to Chomsky), video as a tool for social change, community media, free radio, telestreets and the theatre of the oppressed. The symposium is structured in three main parts: lectures, project presentations and workshops. 1. The lectures will be presented by Jesús Martín Barbero, Brian Lamb and Ronaldo Lemos. They are - from different perspectives - actively involved in developing new educational models for networked, digital culture based on a critical and proactive attitude to traditional educational systems and paradigms. Martín Barbero will present “Educational City: from a society with educational system to a knowledge and learning society”; Brian Lamb will talk about “The urgency of open education: cheap thrills, radical reuse, and feed-frenzied learning”; and, finally, Ronaldo Lemos on “The Future Challenges of Education: Communities, Free Culture and Intellectual Property”. 2. The workshops will allow participants to implement many of the ideas behind the symposium, and allow an opportunity for “learning by doing” in a broader context than that usually offered by academia. If the lectures think in global, the workshops are working on local. The Bank of Common Knowledge is “a pilot experience dedicated to the research of social mechanisms for the collective production of contents, mutual education, and citizen participation”. Platoniq - responsible for this project - will work in a different context they are used to: the “Polígono Sur” in Sevilla, the cheapest site in Europe, very close (a bit more than 1 km.) to the most expensive site in Sevilla (”La Buhaira”). Is it possible to get this neighbourhood self-esteem back reconsidering the value of common knowledge further than inside the school?. A group of theachers from IES Antonio Domínguez Ortiz, platoniq.net, ZEMOS98 and different associations from the Polígono Sur have been working on this idea for 3 months, and will work intensively from 16th to 20th, March. They will present the experience on Wednesday, 25th March in the 11th edition of ZEMOS98 International Festival. In the Andalusian International University, the workshop “Introduction to the theatre of the oppressed” by Julian Boal will put into practise the idea of theatre “as means of knowledge and transformation of the interior reality in the social and relational field”. The Expanded Factory and Approximation to the creative process will complete the programme of workshops in this symposium. 3. The call for projects invited everybody actively working in education to present and discuss their experiences. The Festival has received more than 50 projects from all over the world and the list of selected presentations is available here. All of them are projects working on research process, experimentation, reflection and development of new educational models and learning environments. * more information in PDF: http://tr.im/prog11 * english blog: http://unescochair.blogs.uoc.edu/ -- Pedro Jimenez ZEMOS98 | Gestión Creativo Cultural +34 954 22 74 93
[spectre] Cornelia Sollfrank EXPANDED ORIGINAL | Buchpraesentation 29. Maerz 2009, 16 Uhr
Wir möchten Sie zu folgender Veranstaltung herzlich einladen | We would like to invite you cordially to the following event Buchpräsentation | Book presentation Cornelia Sollfrank EXPANDED ORIGINAL Sonntag, 29. Maerz 2009, 16 Uhr | Sunday, 29. March 2009, 4 p.m. im Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst in Oldenburg | at the Edith-Russ-Site for Media Art in Oldenburg, Germany * Cornelia Sollfrank EXPANDED ORIGINAL Hrsg. von Sabine Himmelsbach für das Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst mit Texten von Jacob Lillemose, Rahel Puffert, Gerald Raunig, Silke Wenk Hatje Cantz Verlag, ca. 144 Seiten, deutsch/englisch, 25 Euro (bis Ausstellungsende am 19.04.09 im Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst zum Sonderpreis von 20,- Euro.) Ende März erscheint anlässlich der aktuellen Ausstellung am Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst (noch bis 19. April 2009) der Katalog Cornelia Sollfrank EXPANDED ORIGINAL. Diese Publikation dokumentiert erstmals das bisherige Œuvre von Cornelia Sollfrank und die in der aktuellen Ausstellung gezeigten Arbeiten. Neben ausführlichen Werkbeschreibungen binden die Texte von Jacob Lillemose, Rahel Puffert, Gerald Raunig und Silke Wenk die Werke in kulturwissenschaftliche Kontexte ein. Cornelia Sollfrank stellt den Katalog am 26. März, um 16 Uhr, nach der öffentlichen Führung durch die Ausstellung im Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst persönlich vor. - A smart artist makes the machine do the work - ein schlauer Künstler läßt die Maschine die Arbeit machen - proklamiert Cornelia Sollfrank. Ihr Projekt net.art generator, eine Kunst generierende Internetmaschine, gilt als Pionierleistung der Netzkunst. Der Philosoph Gerald Raunig wird in seinem Katalogbeitrag die Bedeutung von maschineller Produktion in den Arbeiten von Sollfrank erläutern. Ein weiterer Schwerpunkt ihres künstlerischen Forschens liegt in der Beschäftigung mit unterschiedlichen Formen von Kollaboration sowie Networking und Kommunikation als Kunstformen. Sie war Mitglied der Kollektive frauen-und-technik und -Innen, initiierte das weltweite cyberfeministische Netzwerk Old Boys Network sowie die Mailingliste [echo] für Kunst, Kritik und Kulturpolitik in Hamburg und ist Mitbetreiberin der Internetplattform THE THING Hamburg. Die Kunsthistorikerin Rahel Puffert geht in ihrem Beitrag auf die von der Künstlerin gegründeten Foren und vernetzten Plattformen für Aktion und Arbeit ein. Ergänzend steht im Zentrum des Artikels von Jacob Lillemose das Phänomen der multiplen Autorschaft, also der gemeinsamen Produktion eines künstlerischen Werkes. Der Kulturtheoretiker thematisiert vor allem das Handeln in globalen Netzwerken, das ein Hauptanliegen Sollfranks darstellt. Die Kulturwissenschaftlerin Silke Wenk diskutiert in einem Interview mit Cornelia Sollfrank den Aspekt der Wiederholung im Werk der Künstlerin. Sie bezieht sich dabei auf die aktuelle Werkreihe re-visiting feminist art, mit der Sollfrank die Ideen feministischer künstlerische Aktionen und Performances in freier Wahl der Medien und Kontextualisierung wiederaufleben lässt. Letztlich nimmt Sollfrank in ihrer Autobiografie Stellung zu Einflüssen und Erfahrungen, die ihren künstlerischen Werdegang prägten. Seit Mitte der 1990er Jahre erforscht die Hackerin, Cyberfeministin, Netz- und Konzeptkünstlerin Cornelia Sollfrank die weltweiten Kommunikationsnetze und überträgt künstlerisch-subversive Strategien der klassischen Avantgarden ins digitale Medium. Dabei ist es ihr besonderes Anliegen, neue Formen von Autorschaft zu erproben, künstlerische Verfahren der Aneignung weiterzuschreiben und Mythen um Genialität und Originalität zu dekonstruieren. Kurz nach Eröffnung des Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst im Jahre 2000 und 2001 war die international bekannte Künstlerin, die zur Zeit in Hamburg, Celle und Dundee (Schottland) lebt, an den Oldenburger Ausstellungen CYBERFEM SPIRIT und UFO STRATEGIES beteiligt. In jüngster Zeit bringt sich Sollfrank mit künstlerischen Beiträgen und Vorträgen in die Copyright-Diskussion ein. 2008 arbeitete sie während ihres einmonatigen Aufenthalts als Stipendiatin am Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst an ihrem neuen Projekt Déjà Vu. First Plagiarism Detection Software for Fine Arts. Neben der Recherche zum Thema Plagiarismus widmete sie ihre Zeit in Oldenburg der Vorbereitung ihrer Einzelausstellung ORIGINAL UND ANDERE FÄLSCHUNGEN, die sich mit der aktuellen Frage nach den geistigen Eigentumsverhältnissen und der Beziehung zwischen Original und Reproduktion auseinandersetzt. Die Künstlerin bezieht sich auf Werke aus Oldenburger Museen, darunter Originale von Horst Jansen ebenso wie Kopien vermeintlicher Rembrandt-Originale, und zeigt exemplarisch die Verwertungskette bis hin zum Verkauf durch ihre Bildagentur http://www.art-content24.de. Cornelia Sollfrank ORIGINALE UND ANDERE FÄLSCHUNGEN 24. Januar bis 19. April 2009 Wir möchten ebenfalls auf folgende Termine hinweisen: Donnerstag, 26. März 2009, 17-20 Uhr Donnerstag, 09. April
[spectre] Fwd: CIANT: Audiovisual workshops for new media, film digital records
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:59:41 +0200 From: Aurélie Besson CIANT aurelie.bes...@ciant.cz Organization: CIANT To: transistor2...@ciant.cz Subject: Invitation from CIANT: Audiovisual workshops for new media, film digital records Dear friends of CIANT, It is our pleasure to inform you about two workshops we have scheduled for May and June 2009. We would be happy if you decide to participate. We would also greatly appreciate if you could please recommend these events in person to your colleagues and friends, or just to post them to your contact lists. Thank you in advance for your kind help and time. MAY 20-23 Preservation techniques for digital and audiovisual records With Richard Wright (UK) from BBC, Dalit Naor (IL) from IBM, Richard Rinehard (USA) from the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in California, Don Foresta (USA/FR), Research artist and theoretician in art, Oliver Grau (DE), Head of the Department at Danube University and other lecturers from 7 countries. In Prague (CZ). JUNE 17-20 during the Arts and Film Festival. Distributed post-production techniques in the field of visual and special effects Workshop with Viktor Antonov (USA/FR/BG): Art director of Half Life 2/designer for Renaissance. In Telc, (CZ) registered on the UNESCO list. http://transistor.ciant.cz/http://transistor.ciant.cz/ Application deadline: APRIL 15 (contact us if you need more time) With greetings, Aurelie Besson CIANT PS: Sorry if you get duplicate version of this mail. __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Symposium Positions in Flux, Amsterdam, 8 May 2009
Von: Susanne Jaschko susa...@nimk.nl Datum: 30. März 2009 11:53:33 MESZ Betreff: Symposium Positions in flux Dear friends and colleagues, I hope to see you at the symposium. If you cannot make it to Amsterdam, there will be a live stream from the symposium. Sorry for cross-postings. All the best, Susanne - Symposium Positions in flux: On the changing role of the artist and institution in the networked society Friday, May 8th, 2009 Organised by Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk), Amsterdam Symposium venue: Trouw Amsterdam Wibautstraat 131, Amsterdam www.trouwamsterdam.nl The symposium 'Positions in flux: On the changing role of the artist and institution in the networked society' will center on some of the major parameters for the current and future development of contemporary art. In particular it will reflect on the aspect of cultural sustainability of art projects, art and technology initiatives and art curating. 'Positions in flux' will give floor to international artists, theoreticians, critics, cultural producers and aims to initiate a truly critical debate. The symposium is designed for a broad audience working in the field of contemporary culture and art, with a desire to understand what comes ahead and how to respond to these changes on an artistic or institutional level. 'Positions in flux' will provide a platform and thinkspace for artists, cultural workers, theoreticians and a broader public to envision the future in our field and to provide us with the necessary information to make choices for a meaningful and sustainable development of society and culture. The three panel discussions follow a clear thematic scheme and try to bring in as much expertise and viewpoints as possible. The panels are interlinked and designed to initiate an ongoing discussion among the participants. The symposium will be streamed from the symposium venue, Trouw Amsterdam. Online audiences will have the opportunity to participate in the debate in the live chat. The results of the debate and its main contributions are reviewed and published online on the new Media Art Platform. www.mediaartplatform.org The symposium is part of the 'Here we are - There we go' programme at the Netherlands Media Art Institute, May 8th - 10th, 2009 which takes place on the occasion of the Institute's 30th anniversary. 'Here we are - There we go' celebrates the Institute's achievements in these thirty years and plans for the future with an inspiring open house weekend of artist talks, performances, installations, tours and a party. 'Positions in flux' is made possible with the kind support of the Mondriaan Foundation. The conference language is English. Speakers and panels Please note that speakers and times are subject to change. 9:00 - 10:00 Registration 9:45 Welcome and Introduction by Heiner Holtappels, director of NIMk 10:00 On the changing role of the artist and institution in the networked society by Susanne Jaschko, curator of Positions in Flux and chief curator NIMk 10.30 - 12.30 Panel 1: Art goes politics In this session we will discuss the potential of art to contribute to global and local problems such as religious conflicts, environmental or social crisis. Or is art constrained to raising awareness only? Should art become an agency for political and social affairs at all? How to successfully implement and conduct art projects in zones of crisis? What does it take to successfully implement and conduct projects in zones of crisis? How far do these projects benefit from the dubious attention of the mass media? Hans Bernhard (AT), artist, UBERMORGEN.COM www.ubermorgen.com Wafaa Bilal, artist (IQ/US) www.wafaabilal.com Knowbotic Research, artist group (DE/CH), artist in residence at NIMk 2008/2009 www.krcf.org Moderated by Chris Keulemans, writer and journalist (NL) (tbc) roadtrip.submarinechannel.com/content/view.jsp? mapid=5986itemid=4897menu=true 12.30 - 13.30 Lunch break 13.30 - 15.30 Panel 2: New territories and cultures of the digital This panel will look at the geographical shift that media culture currently undergoes and that will shape the future of this field. In the past, Europe, North America and Japan were at the forefront of digital production, design, art and technological research. Now that digital technologies become available at lower prices and spread more widely on the globe, new digital communities flourish. This panel looks specifically at new initiatives and bottom-up organisations in other parts of the world such as East Europe, the Middle East, Africa and South America, trying to understand what characterizes these initiatives. In how far do local and national cultures shape digital culture? Do these initiatives share common experiences and challenges, or is there no common ground to be found? Which kind of art arises from these new nodes on the
[spectre] Art-o-thlon, International Championship of Arts
Vilnius – European Capital of Culture 2009, Vilnius Academy of Arts Maironio st. 6 Vilnius, Lithuania LT-01124 Contact: Ms. Kornelija Cesonyte +37061029139 i...@artothlon.com www.artothlon.com Dates: Application submission deadline: April 12th (Midnight [24:00 GMT]), 2009 Prospective interview days: May 14th-16th, 2009 Art-o-thlon-TV Show, Studi-o-thlon and Edu-thlon: July-August, 2009 Application http://www.artothlon.com/call/application/ OPEN CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AT ART-O-THLON BACKGROUND: Vilnius – European Capital of Culture 2009 in partnership with the Vilnius Academy of Arts and the Lithuanian Radio and Television are proud to announce an open call for participation in the first ever Art-o-thlon. Art-o-thlon is a multiplatform set of creative and academic events scheduled for July-August in Vilnius, Lithuania and is envisioned as one of the preeminent projects of the European School of Arts as part of the Vilnius – European Capital of Culture 2009 programme. OPEN CALL: The purpose of this call is to invite young artists from all across Europe to come to Vilnius to participate in celebration of the arts. The format of this event is reminiscent of the Olympiad—teams of artists will be competing with other teams for the top prize—however, the spirit of comradeship, embracement of cultural diversity and the joy of unobstructed creativity in an open public framework are the key goals of the programme. This is an open call for young creative souls embracing limelight as a legitimate medium of artistic expression akin to canvas or bronze. We are looking for energetic communicative and not camera shy young artists working in all media and able to create or to perform within the framework of the weekly primetime TV shows broadcasted live on the Lithuanian National Television. The pre-selected artists will be called for an interview (all costs paid by the organisers) upon which the final list of the contestants will be made. Selected candidates will have a chance to participate in a seven-week-long (July-August, 2009) marathon of arts throughout the Vilnius city as well as on a television stage. We envision a friendly competition among 4 teams each consisting of 4 artists, which for the best part of the week will be actively engaged in a thematic creative work developed under the umbrella of Studi-o-thlon, additionally once a week the teams will create live on stage, where tea! m of art critics and historians will air their opinion and the members of the audience as well as wide public will have a chance to vote for their favourites. Art-o-thlon is meant not only as a high-pace fun and energetic environment but also as a publicity boost for the emerging artists serving as a first step in wider recognition. ACADEMIC DETAILS: Academic aspect of the Art-o-thlon will unfold within the framework of Edu-thlon and will take place as a sequence of weekly lectures conducted by the prominent researchers in the field of contemporary arts and culture. Student participants will be entitled to accrue a certain number of academic credits from the Vilnius Academy of Arts. LOGISTICS: Lodgings as well as travel to and from Vilnius will be fully provided by the organizers of the event. Participants will be living in the student quarters of the Vilnius Academy of Arts. As a cultural and non-profitable event, Art-o-thlon oversees a rather modest pool of prizes and limited material resources for the art projects. APPLICATION: The application form is available online on www.artothlon.com/call/application/, and must be filled in and sent online. Please follow the online instructions for filling out the submission form and uploading your portfolio. For more information please contact i...@artothlon.com __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] (fwd) MediaArtLab, Moscow: Media Forum 2009 - call for entries
Call for entries: X Media Forum in the frame of ïïïI Moscow International Film Festival 23-28 June 2009 Organizers: Centre for art and culture MediaArtLab, MediaFest, Moscow Venues: October Cinema hall, GazGallery, Central House of Cinema, Era Foundation Please find everything in: http://www.mediaforum.mediaartlab.ru MediaArtLab Elena V. Rumyantseva, MediaArtLab program director Nikitsky blvd, 12A, of. 736 119019, Moscow Russian Federation cell: + 7 (916) 358 67 52 Tel: + 7 (495) 291 88 93 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
