Monday, August 29, 2005

Vital Source Magazine Looking for Graphics Intern

Vital Source Magazine is looking for a graphics intern for the fall
semester. Applicant must have experience in Adobe suite and be
available 10-15 hours per week. Duties will include, but are not
limited to, creating ads, editing photographs and helping in layout.
The internship is unpaid but Vital does work with all area college and
university internship programs so you will receive credit for your
work.
Please contact esolochek[at]vitalsourcemag.com.

Evan Solochek
Assistant Editor
Vital Source Magazine

P: 414.372.5351
F: 414.372.5356
W: vitalsourcemag.com

MilwaukeeBeacon.com looking for a tutor on Webdesign

"MilwaukeeBeacon is a start-up newspaper with an online presence. At the present time, we are looking for a tutor to teach flash and dreamweaver. Our webmaster is going to school in Florida. So, we need someone in the Milwaukee area. To learn more about us, please check out the website: www.milwaukeebeacon.com. This website will give you an idea. If you are interested in this part-time position, please contact us:

Andrew Shaw
Milwaukee Beacon, Inc.
gtndigital[at]hotmail.com
www.milwaukeebeacon.com
414 535-7804

Compensation is $10.00/hr or $20 per lesson (You decide). We need someone who is located in the Milwaukee area. Finally, we need someone who wants to make a difference with his/her life."

Original URL: http://milwaukee.craigslist.org/art/92066835.html

Monday, August 22, 2005

Robert Moog, Creator of Ubiquitous Synthesizer Dies


There is a really nice audio slide show narrated by Allan Kozinn on The New York Times website detailing the accomplishments of this sound engineer who has influenced music from the Beatles to the Beastie Boys. See his company's website for a simple obituary, and to see the Moog Community.

Friday, August 19, 2005

Student Web Developer Employment Opportunity

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's College of Letters and Science web development team seeks a student web developer. Knowledge of css, xhtml, Dreamweaver, text editors, and Photoshop is required; knowledge of Cold Fusion is also desired. At first the employee would work approximately 12-16 hours a week (approx. half the time maintaining existing sites and half the time developing css for new sites. We would be particularly interested in students with Sophomore or Junior standing who are looking for longer-term work on campus and interested in becoming proficient standards-based web developers.

For more information on applying for the position contact Homer Hruby at
thhruby[at]uwm.edu.

Thursday, August 18, 2005

CALL FOR VIDEOS: INPORT International Video-Performance Art Festival (Estonia)

From Paul Coulliard and FADO:
Performance artists all around the world are invited to send proposals for INPORT, International Video-Performance Art Festival, in Tallinn, Estonia on November 2005.

INPORT would like to bring artists from all around the world closer to Estonian audiences. This is non-profit Festival and unfortunately we have a very small budget so we can only show your video/videos on a single screen. We can't offer artistic fees, accommodation or travel expenses. After the Festival we will produce an on-line catalogue on the Festival web-site (http://www.inport.tk).

Last year we received nearly 260 videos from 19 countries; INPORT Festival presented 36 videos by artists from around the world.

Performance artists are invited to submit proposals for Festival in the following categories:

Video-performance (performances made specially for camera)
Video documentary (video documentations of performances)

Formats accepted: VHS (PAL only), miniDV (PAL only), VCD, DVD

There's no limit of length, but please don't send the masters!

There are no official entry forms or entry fees!

Enclosed with the video/videos you must send the following (with e-mail or CD-R/Word document):
Performance artist or group name
Performance title
Statement of performance
Performance date, venue, Festival or event where it was first performed
Brief resume of the performance artist
Contact info (e-mail, postal address, etc.)

Deadline: 15.September 2005 (postal stamp)

Materials will not to be returned, but will be kept in the Festival archive for the projects in the future and for interested curators and art festival organizers!

Send all materials to:
Gert Hatsukov
(INPORT curator and organizer)
Pikk 4-11
Paide
Estonia

All deliveries from international participants must be marked:
"NO COMMERCIAL VALUE - FOR CULTURAL PURPOSES ONLY"

If you have any questions, please contact: inport.festival@mail.ee

Wednesday, August 17, 2005

FedEx invokes Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) against Unusual Blogger


There is some exciting legal back and forth between FedEx and the Center for Internet and Society Cyberlaw Clinic, who is representing Jose Avila. He built all kinds of furniture for his apartments using only empty FedEx boxes and packing material. His friends encouraged him to document his remarkable work and publish a website, fedexfurniture.com and blog, that chronicles his odyssey . The Big Company didn't like that and tried to bring the wrath of the DMCA on the young artist Jose.