Banff New Media Institute launches webcast for Refresh! conference on new media art, science, technology

In late September, more than 200 new media practitioners from around
the world gathered at the Banff New Media Institute (BNMI) at The Banff
Centre for the first Refresh! international conference on the history
of media art, science, and technology. Today marks the launch of an
educational resource for new media artists, researchers, historians and
students across the globe - access to the Refresh! conference online:

http://www.banffcentre.ca/bnmi/programs/archives/2005/refresh/

Visit this comprehensive archive to watch and listen to discussion on
the relationship between new media and the disciplines of art history,
anthropology, computing sciences, media studies, and other intercultural
contexts.

FEC Opinion -- Press Exemptions for Blogs

From Fired Up!
FEC Issues Advisory Opinion On Fired Up! LLC: Victory For Free Speech
Submitted by Roy Temple on Thu, 11/17/2005 - 11:00am. Media | Regulation of Blogs And The Internet

"By a unanimous vote, the FEC today issued Advisory Opinion 2005-16 which concludes that the Fired Up! Network of blogs qualifies for the "press exception" to federal campaign finance law. The Commission adopted the draft opinion without revision."

The AO states in relevant part:

Fired Up qualifies as a press entity. Its websites are both available to the general public and are the online equivalent of a newspaper, magazine, or other periodical publication as described in the Act and Commission regulations.

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The Commission concludes that the costs Fired Up incurs in covering or carrying news stories, commentary, or editorials on its websites are encompassed by the press exception, and therefore do not constitute "expenditures" or "contributions" under the Act and Commission regulations.

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Brett Bloom of Mess Hall, Temporary Services

From Lane Hall
Director, Graduate Studies
Visual Art Department
Peck School of the Arts
UW Milwaukee

This is another "must see" event: I just saw Brett Bloom's work at the
Smart Museum in Chicago in the "Beyond Green" exhibition, and heard Brett speak briefly at Mess Hall (chicago). He is doing some incredible work within an activist framework, and is involved with the collective Temporary Services. He is a very interesting and intense guy.

This event is coordinated by Nicolas Lampert, who has graciously
opening it up to all of us. (Thanks, Nicolas!)

Date: Thursday, Nov 10
Time: 7:30
Place: Bolton B95

Don't miss this one! (Key words: Hactivist, Activism, Collectives,
Environmental Art, Relational Art, Urban Farming, Civic Space, Social
Archives)

Brett Bloom, a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago will present at 7:30pm in Nicolas Lampert's Art 309 seminar "The Culture of Nature" in Bolton Hall (B95)on Thursday, Nov. 10th. Brett works collaboratively with the group Temporary Services which explores how art can function outside of a traditional gallery and within a constructed social setting. (www.temporaryservices.org). He is also the co-author of "Making Their Own Plans/Belltown Paradise" - a book on recent environmental art practises.
Students/faculty/friends outside of our class are welcome to attend this event from 7:30pm - 9:30pm.

Heidi Brush- Consuming the Spaces of Global Tourism

Prof. Heidi Brush
Department of Journalism and Mass Communication
UW-Milwaukee

Global Studies Colloquium
Thursday, November 10, 2005
12:30-1:30 pm
Center for International Education
Garland Hall 104

This talk traces the pathways of the emerging figure of the global consumer-tourist, paying particular attention to the /spaces/ which both create and foster specific pathways and experiences while excluding others. The speaker compares the figure of the tourist with other metaphors of today's mobilities: migrant, pilgrim, nomad and traveler. Overall, this talk offers a critical cartography of the spatial practices of the contemporary global tourist.

This presentation is free and open to the public.

For more information, contact:
Nan Kim-Paik
Academic Programs
Center for International Education
UW-Milwaukee
Tel: (414) 229-2976
Email: nkim-paik[at]cie.uwm.edu

UNESCO links

The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization has a DigiArts portal aimed at researching and disseminating different practices in the field of art, design, multimedia and music through diversified networks. Another page provides information on institutions, including research centres and educational institutions, engaged in interdisciplinary area of arts, science and technology in the USA.

IDMAA call for papers and works of art

The International Digital Media and Arts Association and the Miami University Center for Interactive Media Studies (Ohio) partner to present CODE – an examination of the many codes that drive the digital media and arts world. The conference takes place on April 6–8, 2006 and will be held on the campus of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
The website of the iDMAa+IMS 2006 Conference includes the Call for Papers as well as the Call for the iDEAs Exhibition.

N. Katherine Hayles Lecturing at UWM

What Does Autonomy Mean in the Age of Nanotechnology?
Body Boundaries and Recursivity in `The Diamond Age’"
a lecture

Friday, November 4
3:30 pm
CRT 175

N. Katherine Hayles is the John Charles Hillis Professor of Literature at UCLA. Literature and science of the 20th century, electronic textuality, modern and postmodern American and British fiction, critical theory, and science fiction rank among her fields of expertise. She is the author of many articles and books, including How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics (Chicago, 1999), Writing Machines (MIT, 2002), and My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts (Chicago, 2005).

For more information: Please visit www.21st.uwm.edu, call 414. 229.4141, or e-mail kkramer@uwm.edu

Sponsored by: Lecture co-sponsored by the Center for 21st Century Studies, College of Letters & Science, with support from the Graduate School, as well as the Eta Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, and the Department of English , University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.