[spectre] (fwd) Call for artist residency at FACT/Abandon Normal Devices festival
Call for Entries: European Media Art Network presents European Media Artists in Residence Exchange EMARE + EMARE REGIO 2011 The European Media Art Network provides residencies in England, Germany, France and the Netherlands for European artists With support of the City of Utrecht, the Arts Council of England and the regional municipalities of Saxony-Anhalt in Germany and Centre in France, the European Media Art Network will host up to six European Media Artists in Residence Exchanges within 2011. Europe based Media Artists in the fields of digital media including internet and computer based art, filmmakers, sound and video artists are invited to apply for a two months artist residency at IMPAKT, Utrecht, Netherlands; Bandit Mages, Bourges, France; FACT, Liverpool, United Kingdom or at Werkleitz Centre for Media Arts in Halle, Germany. Students are not permitted, but young artists encouraged. The sub program EMARE REGIO invites also students from the regions of Centre, France and Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. EMARE includes a grant of up to 2.000 Euro, free accommodation, up to 250 Euro travel expenses, access to the technical facilities and media labs and a professional presentation. Entries should include the application form (downloadable from the website), a CV, (audio) visual reference projects documentation (no originals) and a proposal sketch for the project which should be developed within EMARE. Artists with residence in or identity card within Europe can contact one of the following institutions for further details and download the application form here: http://www.emare.eu/content/FINAL_applicationform_emare10-1.pdf Deadline for Applications: 20th of December 2010 (Post Date) http://www.emare.eu/content/FINAL_applicationform_emare10-1.pdf Germany: Werkleitz Gesellschaft e.V. / EMARE Peter Zorn / Schleifweg 6 / D-06114 Halle (Saale) phone: 49 68246-0 / fax: -29 / em...@werkleitz.de mailto:em...@werkleitz.de / www.werkleitz.de/emare http://www.werkleitz.de/emare The Netherlands: Impakt Festival / Arjon Dunnewind / P.O. Box 735 / NL-3500 AS Utrecht / Netherlands phone: +31 30 2944-493 / i...@impakt.nl mailto:i...@impakt.nl / www.impakt.nl http://www.impakt.nl/ France: Bandit-Mages Friche culturelle L'Antre-peaux / Isabelle Carlier / 24rte de la chapelle / 18000 Bourges / France phone: +33 (0)2 48 50 42 47 / e...@bandits-mages.com mailto:e...@bandits-mages.com / www.bandit-mages.com http://www.bandit-mages.com/ United Kingdom: FACT/ Heather Corcoran / 88 Wood Street / Liverpool L1 42Q / United Kingdom phone: + 44 (0)151 707 4438 / fax: + 44 (0)151 707 4425 / heather.corco...@fact.co.uk mailto:je...@fact.co.uk / www.fact.co.uk http://www.fact.co.uk/ Applications should be sent to: FACT/ Heather Corcoran / 88 Wood Street / Liverpool L1 42Q / United Kingdom phone: + 44 (0)151 707 4438 / fax: + 44 (0)151 707 4425 / heather.corco...@fact.co.uk mailto:je...@fact.co.uk / www.fact.co.uk http://www.fact.co.uk/ __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] New MFA in Art and Ecology at the University of New Mexico
New MFA in Art and Ecology at the University of New Mexico Please distribute widely The new MFA program in Art and Ecology at the University of New Mexico is an interdisciplinary, research-based program engaging contemporary art practices. Students develop ecological and cultural literacy with a conceptual foundation and a wide range of production skills, including sculpture, social practice, and digital media. Students in Art and Ecology have the opportunity to work on various collaborative and interdisciplinary projects with departments across UNM and on comprehensive thesis projects integrating community and ecological research. Coursework includes the Land Arts of the American West program, a semester-long travel and place-based arts pedagogy. PARTNERS Sustainability Studies at UNM Landscape Architecture at UNM SEV, Long Term Ecological Research at Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge Centro Artistico y Cultural, El Paso, TX The Center for Land Use Interpretation, Wendover, UT Art + Environment Center, Nevada Art Museum, Reno, NV The UNM Center for Advanced Research Computing (CARC) Fodder Project: A Collaborative Research Farm The American Society for Acoustic Ecology CURRENT AND PAST PROJECTS Paseo del Bosque Ecological Restoration A design partnership with the Army Corps of Engineers on an ecologically-degraded section of the Rio Grande Bosque creating a design to engage art, access, and restoration of the bosque ecosystem. Open Source/Open Culture A learning community in collaboration with the Depatment of Theatre and Dance, the Department of Engineering, the Department of Art and Art History, and other programs at UNM, offering students and faculty an opportunity to develop virtual infrastructure and open source technologies. ISEA2012 Machine Wilderness: The International Symposium for Electronic Art A wide-ranging series of public events highlighting art, technology and environment in conjunction with the prestigious International ISEA Symposium (www.isea2012.org) and created in partnership with 516 ARTS, The Albuquerque Museum, The City of Albuquerque Public Art Program, Creative Albuquerque and others. USDA FoodShed Field Study A summer UNM field program involving Art and Ecology, Sustainability Studies, the Department of Communications and Journalism, the Department of Geography, and the Department of Civil Engineering. Barrio Buena Vista A long-term project in the Buena Vista neighborhood in El Paso, Texas, working with the Centro Artistico y Cultural and the City of El Paso on wetland restoration, a mural series, and an urban pocket park. Clean Livin' A collaboration with Simparch and the Center for Land Use Interpretation on an experimental sustainability project at an abandoned military Quonset in Wendover, UT. Bosque Environmental Monitoring Project Engagement in the monitoring of local bat species and the creation of habitat-promoting sculpture through a coordinated program of volunteer citizen and student groups who gather long-term data on the forest ecosystem located along the Middle Rio Grande. Albuquerque Metropolitan Area Flood Control Agency A series of proposals and implemented projects addressing flood control structures, including detention ponds and wetland trash settlement areas, through art intervention. For more information: http://ae.unm.edu/ To apply: http://art.unm.edu/academics/graduate_programs.html -- Andrea Polli Mesa Del Sol Chair of Digital Media Associate Professor, Art Art History and Engineering UNM Center for the Arts, Bldg 62 MSC04-2570 University of New Mexico ABQ, NM 87131 www.andreapolli.com and...@andreapolli.com skype: andreapolli __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] NK Berlin November Concerts
Friday 12/11/2010 Doors 21:00 Concerts 22:00 PAN presents: FRIEDER BUTZMANN ILIOS VALERIO TRICOLI DAS SYNTHETISCHE MISCHGEWEBE www.pan-act.com Saturday 13/11/2010 21:00 Door 22:00 Concert WEIRD WEAPONS Olaf Rupp acoustic guitar Tony Buck percussion Joe Williamson double bass http://www.emanemdisc.com/E4119.html www.audiosemantics.de “I think the three of us in the trio try to achieve a kind of stillness through density and a certain degree of activity. Like the many complex colours and shadings in a pointillist painting that combine to form an impressionistic image, our playing is often very active and busy, while, in totality, creating a slowly shifting, almost three dimensional texture or soundscape. It could be seen as akin to the optical 3-D pictures that have been popular in the last few years, or the pixels in different resolution of digital photography. Another analogy might be the trio seen as a large quiet organism made up of millions of restless cells all working together to create the whole. I think in this way we achieve a kind of minimal/maximal contrast that I find unique to this trio, one which is certainly different to any other group playing I do.” Tony Buck Thursday 18/11/2010 Doors 21:00 Concert 22:00 Tochnit Aleph Presents: The RITA Oscillating Innards Unexamine The RITA (Canda) Lake Shark Harsh Noise http://bakurita.blogspot.com/ Oscillating Innards (USA) Harsh Noise Rituals Tape Collage Hell http://forcedbloom.com/ http://myspace.com/oxix Unexamine (USA) Brutal Distortion Worship Member of Sissy Spacek + Knelt Rote http://antropofagoateo.blogspot.com/ Friday 19/11/2010 21:00 Doors 22:00 Concert Valerio Tricoli Sean Baxter Duo CLAUDIO ROCCHETTI ANTHEA CADDY MAT POGO Sean Baxter on drums and junk, just like Pateras/Baxter/Brown trio’s most chaotic moment. Valerio Tricoli manipulating the whole racket with his Revox, and other effects. “Sean Baxter assaulted his drums with his trademark mixing bowls, lead pipes, 20 chop sticks, windchimes and at one stage with the floor tom and snare drum itself. All the while Valerio was adding at first subtle echo, which would be pitch bent and warped into otherworldly sounds, eventually building with more ad more echo’s getting more and more warped, eventually self-oscillating into its own instrument, and a beautifully chaotic mess of sound”. SEAN BAXTER Sean Baxter (drumkit and percussion) is an Australian improviser who has forged an international reputation as a bold explorer of percussive possibilities both as a soloist and through his work with the acclaimed avant garde trio, Pateras/Baxter/Brown. Focusing on the use of extended techniques applied to the conventional drumkit, he utilises an arsenal of metallic junk and other percussive detritus to expand the sonic palette of the percussion tradition. His performance aesthetic evokes a variety of sonic practices, ranging from extreme metal and punishing noise to free jazz and the Modernist abstraction of the classical avant garde. In addition to Pateras/Baxter/Brown, he performs regularly with the brutal, free-jazz/grindcore quartet, Embers, and in frequent ad hoc collaborative and solo incarnations. As a soloist, his practice ranges from acoustic junk percussion and extended drumkit technique to feedback noise—creating intense sonic abstraction by utilising the natural, acoustic resonance of the drumkit pushed to extremes. He is also a voracious group improviser, and has collaborated with some of the world’s most adventurous musicians, most recently including: Robin Fox, Kusum Normoyle, Kim Myhr, Lloyd Honeybrook, KK Null, Paul Grabowsky, Han Bennink, Peter Brotzmann, John Wiese, Valerio Tricoli, Lucas Abela, Robbie Avenaim, Carolyn Connors and Marco Fusinato. VALERIO TRICOLI His compositions bridge musique concrète and conceptual forms of sound (i.e. the radical interest in how reality, virtuality, memory relate to each other during the acoustic event): music, as a recorded or as a synthetically-modeled sound, is always hovering between the “here and now” of the event and the shady domain of memory – distant but at the same time present, like a déjà–vu experience. Tricoli plays live music with electronic instruments – most of them analogue – (reel-to-reel tape recorders, synthesizers, microphones, light effects, ultrasonic speakers), however the structure of the device is ever-changing, seeking multiple relations between the performers, the device and the space in which the event takes place. CLAUDIO ROCCHETTI The work of Claudio Rocchetti is a deep plunge into thick sound, investigating its innermost workings. Using a variety of devices such as turntables, audio cassettes, samplers, radios, and microphones, often incorporating other objects and traditional instruments, Berlin-based Rocchetti builds compelling structures that employ sound as sheer matter, mass, and impact. The tarry, mesmerizing hues that characterize his
[spectre] transmediale 2012 and into the future!
Dear friends and spectrites, as many of you already now, I will be leaving transmediale after my fourth and next edition - 'RESPONSE : ABILITY', which will open Feb 01, 2011 in Berlin! Today we have the distinct pleasure to announce that Kristoffer Gansing will take up transmediale for the 2012 edition of the festival (and hopefully beyond, if the funding stars are well aligned)! Kristoffer is a cultural producer and media researcher based usually in Copenhagen and Malmö, whose PhD project, “Transversal Media Practices” at the K3 School of Arts and Communication (Malmö University) explored the increasing hybridization of old and new media technologies in media art and network culture. Recently he was director of The Art of the Overhead, the world's only festival devoted to the Overhead projector. Concerned with the intersections of media culture, art and everyday life, Kristoffer has also been active as a writer since 1999, contributing to international journals and books including “Sarai Reader 05: Bare Acts”, “Online Territories” and “Place Studies in Art, Media, Science and Technology”. I look forward to passing on the great transmediale tradition to Kristoffer, and to seeing him and everybody else who can make it to Berlin in February for what is shaping up to be a great festival! With greetings to all, Stephen! PS# Don't forget to vote and give feedback for transmediale and drumbeat's new Open Web Award! Check out the finalists #thimbl, #booki and #GML at: https://www.drumbeat.org/open-web-award-finalists-voting artistic director transmediale.11 | 1 - 6 feb 2011 RESPONSE : ABILITY festival for art and digital culture berlin **Early bird tickets on sale beginning November 10** Open Web Award - Vote now! https://www.drumbeat.org/open-web-award-finalists-voting Free Culture Incubator Workshop series on now: http://www.transmediale.de/content/workshop-no-2-open-nov-27th-betahaus transmediale festival archive 1997 - 2009 BETA online! http://archive.transmediale.de/ Celebrate Marshall McLuhan's 100th in 2011! http://www.transmediale.de/en/beyond/McLuhan-2011 Collaborative Futures Book 2 out now! http://collaborative-futures.org/ klosterstr. 68 - 10179 berlin - germany fon +49 30 24749 761 fax +49 30 24749 763 http://www.transmediale.de http://twitter.com/transmediale facebook: transmediale kulturprojekte berlin gmbh aufsichtsratsvorsitzender volker heller geschäftsführer moritz van dülmen amtsgericht berlin charlottenburg, HRB 41312 B __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Andy Warhol: Sublime Superficiality
intertheory an academic press of cultural theory, fiction and criticism Andy Warhol: Sublime Superficiality by Michael Angelo Tata http://intertheory.org/warhol.htm Reviews In his incisive work, Michael Angelo Tata does something like real, complex justice to the implications of Warhol's life and thought. I think you'll find that a really remarkable voice emerges from Tata's writing. If Judge Judy read Hegel! ~ Eve Sedgwick Tata renders Warhol philosophically anew - no small feat among the seriality of Warholia ~ Nicholas Ruiz III ISBN-13: 978-0-9789902-3-7 art theory/philosophy Price: $22 (free U.S. shipping; international orders add $5) Release Date: October 2010 Product Description My idea is that the Romantic notion of the sublime reaches its apex and terminus in Warhol, whose greatest contribution to the tradition of aesthetics has been not so much his ending of art but instead his invention of the postmodern or “POMO” sublime as the outpost and outer limit of sublimity. About the Author Michael Angelo Tata's essays appear in the recent collections Literature of New York and Passage to Manhattan: Critical Essays on Meena Alexander, and his work on Daniel Paul Schreber is included in the anthology Neurology and Modernity. intertheory listserv: Subscribe: intertheory-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Nicholas Ruiz III, Ph.D NRIII for Congress 2010 http://intertheory.org/nriiiforcongress2010.html Editor, Kritikos http://intertheory.org Director, Florida Forum for Social Justice http://intertheory.org/ffsj.htm __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Job Opportunity: Director of Museum of Science Fiction Utopia
Dear spectres, Please find below an announcement about a job opportunity some of you might find interesting. Maison d'Ailleurs, the museum of science fiction, utopia and extraordinary journeys in Switzerland is looking for a new director. The museum has an extensive collection, beautiful new gallery spaces, and is located in the main square of Yverdon-les-Bains in Switzerland. Their current exhibition is a major retrospective of the work of new media artist, Ken Rinaldo: http://www.ailleurs.ch/index.php?s=enm=10 The museum is seeking a new director, following the appointment of Patrick Gyger as the new director of Le Lieu Unique in Nantes, France. The job announcement is below, in French (the director must speak French) and it is also online: http://www.ailleurs.ch/index.php?s=frm=6blid=127 If you know of anyone who might be interest in this position, please do forward them the announcement. Best wishes, Honor Harger -- About Maison d'Ailleurs http://www.ailleurs.ch Maison d'Ailleurs is a museum of science fiction, utopia and extraordinary journeys in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland. It owns an extensive collection of over 100'000books and objects related to science fiction and utopia. It is also a public museum showing exhibitions by contemporary artists such as Ken Rinaldo, James Gurney, Alejandro Jodorowski and Dave McKean. It also shown major exhibitions by, or about, key historical figures such as H.P. Lovecraft and Mervyn Peake, and curated thematic exhibitions which explore themes such as robotics, biomemisis, futuristic architecture, contemporary utopias and more. The museum also acts as one of the world's most important research and iconography centres for science fiction. In this capacity it worked with the European Space Agency on the Innovative Technologies from Science Fiction for Space Applications http://www.itsf.org/ study and touring exhibition, which analysed space technologies within science fiction literature and cinema. It has also toured many exhibitions internationally. -- directeur/-trice de la Maison d'Ailleurs La Maison d'Ailleurs est un musée de la science-fiction, de l'utopie et des voyages extraordinaires à Yverdon-les-Bains, Suisse (www.ailleurs.ch), qui poursuit une double vocation de musée grand public et de centre de recherche spécialisé. Tâches: Assurer la direction et la gestion du musée, le suivi de la muséologie et des collections, le choix et la programmation des expositions temporaires et des événements. Représenter une institution unique en Europe et en assurer le rayonnement. Profil souhaité: Formation universitaire ou équivalente. Expérience muséale et en gestion de projets. Bonne connaissance du domaine de l'utopie, de la science-fiction et du monde vernien. Capacité à diriger une équipe. Langues : anglais exigé, allemand souhaité. Entrée en fonctions: février 2011 ou à convenir. Cahier des charges disponible sur demande. CV complet, lettre de motivation et prétentions salariales à adresser à: M. Jean-François Thomas, président du Conseil de Fondation de la Maison d'Ailleurs, ch. de la Bâtiaz 38, CH-1008 Jouxtens-Mézery, avec copie par courriel à Mme Nathalie Saugy, Municipale de la culture de la ville d'Yverdon-les-Bains n...@ylb.ch jusqu'au 30 novembre 2010. Les entretiens auront lieu le 18 décembre 2010. p.s. Pour ne plus recevoir de nos nouvelles, il suffit de vous désinscrire à l'adresse: http://ailleurs.ch/index.php?s=frm=17 -- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . honor harger present location: brighton, .uk email: ho...@va.com.au sms: +44 7765834272 - w o r k director of lighthouse: http://www.lighthouse.org.uk - c u r a t i n g guest curator of transmediale.10: http://www.transmediale.de - w e b bio: http://www.radioqualia.net/honor - a r t r a d i o q u a l i a: http://www.radioqualia.net - l i s t e n radio astronomy: http://www.radio-astronomy.net __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] /dev/art/#2
/dev/art/#2 - Meetings, discussions and exchanges between artists and developers, using technologies for arts, hack, performance ... - the 14 of november, from 14h to 18h at BlackBoxe / Paris 17 rue de la Chapelle / 75018 Paris Metro ligne 12 / Station Marx Dormoy or Porte de la Chapelle - 14h00 / 16h00 : Meeting, discussion 16h00 / 16h30 : pause, coffee, tea cookies :'') 16h30 / 18h00 : presentation : Ariadna Alsina Alejandro Olarte performance : Suite électronique pour violon et guitare v2 - next: /dev/art/#3 friday 19 november 19h / 23h at BlackBoxe, 17 rue de la Chapelle 75018 Paris - __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
