Technology Expanding the Horizon: Call for work

From Marthe Grohman, OSU Art:
Technology strongly affects our existence within and our perceptions of the contemporary landscape. Artists are invited to submit work that examines technology’s relationship to physical and psychological space. Selected work will be exhibited for two weeks in conjunction with a symposium entitled Technology Expanding the Horizon: A Reinterpretation & Investigation of the Landscape scheduled for March 29 & 30, 2007 at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Symposium panelists include Vito Acconci, Heath Bunting, Martha Buskirk, Dmitry Bulatov, Vicki Goldberg, Ricardo Dominguez, Peter Garfield, James Gimzewski, and Erwin Wurm. Selected artist’s work will also be included in an online gallery available through the symposium website.

ELIGIBILITY: Artists in any media are welcome to submit work. New media is encouraged (i.e. digital work, video, sound) and space is available for large installations, projections, or performances. Performances will be scheduled for March 29 & 30, 2007. Emphasis will be placed on work that attempts to collapse the separation between art and environment, and does not necessarily need to be confined to the University Campus. A curatorial committee appointed by symposium administrators will select artwork

Curators: Katie Shannon, Brad Olson, Kisha Swift, Herb Vincent Peterson, Grant Fletcher, Dina Sherman, and Jon Keppel

Hasan Elahi, Tracking Transience

Kim Beckmann-Moegenburg brought this suspected terrorist to UWM last month. I was unable to attend, but the work sounds fascinating-getting naked in front of the FBI with your data body.

The following description is from Mike Salmond's report of the New Media Caucus panel from Siggraph four months back:

Hasan Elahi of Rutgers University presented his on-going project ‘Tracking Transience’. Elahi was once under investigation by the FBI as a suspected terrorist, based purely on his ethnicity and travel habits. As such Elahi now voluntarily records his daily routines via the web, phone and GPS systems; effectively ‘self tracking’ himself as an information weapon against the United States government http://elahi.rutgers.edu/track/

NEW Course

Jewish and Ethnic Narratives and Identities in Media

Spring 2007 MW 9:30-10:45am
Instructor: Marc Tasman



As media becomes more widely distributed and produced by increasing numbers of 'average' citizens, new identities are constructed. Traditional Jewish and ethnic narratives and identities are challenged in this context and controversies often result. We will look at a range of media (photography, television, film, and convergent mediums) including Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat), Sarah Silverman, blackpeopleloveus.com, barmitzvahdisco.com, Seinfeld, Bernie Mac, Dave Chappelle, Margaret Cho, cartoon riots, The O.C., The Simpsons, Roman Vishniak and Edward Curtis.

Collage Filmmaker Lewis Klahr

From Carl Bogner:
Say, if you can be on the campus of UWM tomorrow night, come see filmmaker Lewis Klahr who will be in town to screen his newest collage films. Artful and deftly evocative, his animation (of figures cut out from comic books and vintage magazines, mostly) offers a musically entrancing experience of melancholy laced with the unexpected.

Klahr will be presenting his most recent two works - The "Two Minute to Zero" Trilogy and "Daylight Moon (A Quartet)" Wednesday, November 29 at 6:30pm in the Fine Arts Recital Hall (MUS 175).

Admission is free. The Fine Arts Recital Hall is just north of Kenwood, across the courtyard from Mitchell Hall.

Presented by the UWM Department of Film

Fly Press

Photo by Peter Diantoni

FLY
One Night Only
8:00 PM
Saturday November 18 at the Marcus Center, Vogel Hall.
929 N. Water St.
(414) 273-7206
Tickets $10

Read about it:
MKE
Shepherd Express
Suceptible to Images
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Listen to WUWM's Lake Effect Interview

New Media and Performance

Brought to you by Lane Hall, Director of Graduate studies in Visual Art:

Harrell Fletcher @ 7:00 pm, Curtin 175, Thursday Nov 16, Layton Lecture
Internationally renowned new-media artist Harrell Fletcher gives a Layton Lecture about his particularly democratic form of art-making. Hear Harrell expound upon his multi-platform projects, from “Learning to Love You More” (which was included in a recent Whitney Biennale) to video projection pieces, “people’s exhibitions” and various other public projects. (Co-hosted with the Film Dept).
http://www.harrellfletcher.com/
http://www.learningtoloveyoumore.com/

CARTUNE XPREZ, SLOW DANCE RECYTTAL, HOOLIGANSHIP @ 8:00 pm
Electronic Music Studio (B60 Music Building), Tuesday, Nov 21st
Come see, hear and witness this traveling collective (Peter Burr, Christorpher Doulgeris and Cassandra C Jones) combine their infatuation with over-the-counter digital media and live music/video performance. Explore their obsession with google-mania and over-saturated visual culture. Not to be missed!

Production Assistants needed for FLY

We are looking for production assistants to help with set and prop construction for FLY (Nov 18 at the Marcus Center). If you or anyone you know have time and are willing to help, please contact Brent Budsberg, Scenic Director at babudsberg[at]sbcglobal.net

The dates that you can help are Monday, Nov 6 thru Monday Nov 13 and Wed Nov 15 thru Fri Nov. 17. There will be two blocks of time each day - from 1pm to 5pm and from 7 pm until 10pm. If you are only available during mornings, Brent may be able to shift the schedule to accommodate a morning session.

These are volunteer positions, but anyone helping will gain invaluable experience working with Milwaukee's premiere installation, performance, theatre, music and dance artists as will as getting your name in the program and a line on your resume as a production assistant for a cutting edge inter-media performance. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Nohl Fellowship Exhibition

Nicolas Lampert's Chicken at Bradford Beach

See the giant chicken tonight at iNOVA
INSTITUTE OF VISUAL ARTS

Third Annual Mary L. Nohl Fellowship Exhibition
October 13-December 10, 2006
Opening reception: October 13, 6-9 pm; gallery talk with Nato Thompson and Jane Simon begins at 6:30 pm.

Inova/Vogel, Vogel Hall, 3253 N. Downer Ave.
Gallery hours: Wednesday-Sunday, 12 noon-5 p.m.
FREE
Information: (414) 229-5070 or arts.uwm.edu/inova

The third annual exhibition of the Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowship recipients features work by Nicolas Lampert, Fred Stonehouse and Jason Yi (Established Artists) and Juan Juarez, Michael Julian, Mat Rappaport and Stephen Wetzel (Emerging Artists). Jane Simon and Nato Thompson, jurors for the 2005 competition, return for the opening night gallery talk (6:30 pm). Watch for talks, performances and screenings by the Nohl fellows throughout the exhibition period.

Super Vision at MCA

Jon McKenzie and I went down to see this last night. Visually compelling. Absorbing. Sharp performances on the subject of our data bodies. I highly recommend it.

The Builders Association & dbox: SUPER VISION
October 12-14, 2006
at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago

Each time you swipe a credit card, chat online, fill a prescription, or make an airline reservation, click by click, you leave a trail of personal electronic information that takes shape as a virtual data body, well recorded and maintained. It never goes away; it’s there for the taking. SUPER VISION is a provocative and often funny look at Digital Age anxieties, using the language and tools of surveillance itself to craft gorgeous illusions about the hidden realms of our instant-access society. Obie Award-winning performance ensemble The Builders Association and dbox, the acclaimed New York digital design studio, were last seen in Chicago with the MCA co-commission Alladeen. This collaboration extends the scope of contemporary theater and of personal identity, using a seamless blend of performance, text, architecture, and digital media to explore the impact of technology on humanity.

Roundtable Discussion
Saturday, October 14, 2 pm, Kanter meeting room; Free
The artists and the public participate in a free-ranging conversation about the topics raised by SUPER VISION.

Free Toast
Friday, October 13
Audience members are invited to a free round of drinks with the artists immediately following the performance. Hosted by The Chestnut Grill & Wine Bar at The Seneca Hotel, 200 East Chestnut. Limited to ages 21 and over; one drink per admission stub.

Milwaukee Street, Milwaukee

Sean Quast, Treasurer for DACSO told me about this:
Milwaukee Street, Milwaukee
October 13, 2006
8:00 PM - 12:00 PM

Did you miss Nauman 101—the party celebrating the work of Bruce Nauman through the work of local artists? Well you have another chance. The Museum and Cedar Block, creator of Nauman 101, collaborate again for Milwaukee Street, Milwaukee—a night of photography, fashion, music, and interactive fun based on the photography of Saul Leiter. Local photographers are given one day to capture the essence of Milwaukee Street using Lomo or Holga cameras. The cameras are deliberately lo-fi and emphasize casual, snapshot photography—perfect for documenting everyday life. Come to the party, see how local artists interperet the work of Leiter into their own street photography.

Sponsored by:

Cost: $7/$5 for members

Location:
MAM

Contact:
MAM
414-224-3200

Bay View Compass Seeks Photo Intern

Photographer

Bay View Compass seeks bright, highly motivated, talented intern an excellent eye and sense of composition and narrative to take photos ranging from portraits (profiles), to live action (news) and stills (features). Requirements: college sophomore, junior, or senior majoring in photojournalism, art and/or photography. Candidate must possess digital camera and be able to upload images to the web.

The Bay View Compass is a two-year old independent, monthly newspaper that provides quality, content rich news, features, and business information. To submit your resume for the above-listed internship, please e-mail: publisher[at]bayviewcompass.com.

Spark Video Screening

Call for submissions. All video, animation, and short film work for monthly curated screenings at Spark Contemporary Art Space in Syracuse, NY. The first deadline is September 25, 2006. The first screening will also be shown at the Everson Museum of Art on October 7 as part of an ongoing film series. Please send submissions to:

Krista Birnbaum
102 Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13224-1210

Visit Spark Contemporary Art Space at http://sparkartspace.com for more information.

SparkVideo Call for Submissions

TERMINAL01 :: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

TERMINAL01 :: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

keywords = generative art, mobility, airport architecture, data visualisation, social exchange, flight patterns, air travel, collaborative networks, mapping

Year Zero One is seeking submissions for Terminal01 (T01), an interactive networked art exhibition to be lauched at Toronto Pearson International Airport in the spring of 2007. T01 will consist of a kiosk housing a touch-sensitive screen, an audio-video output, an embedded web camera, sensors and projection screen. Artists will be invited to create site-responsive computer generated work based on their experience and interpretation of air travel environs, airports, mobility, flight data and networked communities. Emphasis will be given to works with a generative component or works dealing directly with themes relevant to travel (space-time).

ONLINE SUBMISSION

Please Submit Proposals through the online submission form (Requires Flash 8 plugin). Deadline for submissions is December 1st, 2006. Artist fees paid. T01 is curated by Michael Alstad and David Jhave Johnston.

Call for Diaspora Art for "Trans: Visual Culture" Conference

Thanks to Mat Rappaport for this:

Call for Diaspora Art for "Trans: Visual Culture" Conference

A show of diaspora art is being organized in Oct as part of a program of exhibitions that will be run concurrently with the "Trans: Visual culture" conference at UW. The details of the conference are at -
http://www.visualculture.wisc.edu/Conference/trans.html

If you identify yourself as a diaspora artist or work in a diaspora aesthetic, please apply.

There will be 4 or 5 sites with works that speak to the phenomenon of trans-culturation. There will be a good amount of publicity and viewership for participating artists.

We are accepting both emailed and postmarked submissions. All entries should be received by September 30, 2006.

Email submission requirements to: pchowdhry[at]wisc[dot]edu

Submissions must include, as attachments:
upto 5 JPEGS, 640x480
Resume as PDF or Word Document

In the body of email:
Name and contact information
Corresponding image list: Title, Date, Media and Dimensions
Artist statement

For Postmarked submissions:

upto 5 JPEGS on cd, 640x480
Corresponding image list: Title, Date, Media and Dimensions
Name and contact information
Resume
Artist statement

Mail submissions to:
Pritika Chowdhry
114 Meadow Ridge Lane
Madison, WI 53704

Deadline for submissions (received): September 30, 2006

Open Positions: Emerging Media, Visual Culture

Assistant Professor, Cultural Studies of Digital Media and Technology
University of Toronto Mississauga

The Institute of Communication and Culture (ICC) at the University of Toronto at Mississauga seeks applications for a tenure-stream appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor in Cultural Studies of Digital Media and Technology with an emphasis on Visual Cultural and
Communication. The successful candidate will be associated with programs in the
Centre for Visual and Media Culture (CVMC) and in Communication, Culture
and Information Technology (CCIT). Appointment will begin on July 1,
2007.

We are seeking a specialist with an emphasis on emerging media and technologies as well as demonstrated theoretical sophistication in cultural studies of digital media and technology with an emphasis on visual culture and communication.

see 1st comment for how to apply.

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Assistant Professor of Asian New Media, Visual Culture, and Contemporary Art
University of Toronto at Mississauga

The Institute of Communication and Culture (ICC) at the University of Toronto at Mississauga seeks applications for a tenure-stream appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor of Asian New Media, Visual Culture and Contemporary Art. The successful candidate will be associated with programs in the Centre for Visual and Media Culture (CVMC).
Appointment will begin on July 1, 2007.

We are seeking a specialist in the areas of East and/or South Asian new media, visual culture, and contemporary art. Research and teaching interests may include digital arts and technology, the globalization of visual culture, and post-colonialism, among other areas.

see 2nd comment for how to apply.

Deja Vu: (re-)creating web history

This site differs from archive.org's wayback machine-- the dejavu.org emulator lets one look at contemporary sites with vintage browsers. Thanks to LeisureArts, once again.

The Journal of New Media and Culture

It looks like LeisureArts went on a del.icio.us tear tagging peer reviewed journals:
NMEDIAC has adopted the mission of publishing peer-reviewed papers and audiovisual pieces that contextualize encoding/decoding environments and the discourses, ideologies, and human experiences/uses of new media apparatuses. NMEDIAC provides an intellectual canvas where the cultural spaces and experiences of new media are theorized and rigorously explored within both global and local contingencies of the present and past. In particular, we publish articles that attempt inter- and intra-disciplinary research of new media texts and technologies. Works that incorporate either or both humanities and social science approaches to scholarship are welcome.

Also BeeHive Hypertext/Hypermedia Literary Journal

K A I R O S: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy

Town Meeting on the Future of Media

From Jeff Smith, Department Chair:
The Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is a sponsor of a Town Meeting on the Future of Media on Thursday, September 7, 2006, at 6:30 p.m. The event will be held at the Helen Bader Concert Hall in UWM's Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts.

A message from community artist/activist Nicolas Lampert says:
This is an open hearing; that means that anyone can and is encouraged to provide testimony to the commissioners about how well their media serves the community. This is a rare opportunity for people to come and speak to the commissioners of the FCC. Being a commissioner is an appointed position, not an elected one, so it is very rare that they come to public events and open up for discussion and criticism from the public.

From Free Press:
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
How well are your media serving you?

Do you want the media to do a better job covering issues you care about? Do you want more quality journalism? Are you wondering whether a few giant media conglomerates will provide the diverse and independent viewpoints you need?

Now is your chance to tell FCC Commissioners Jonathan Adelstein and Michael Copps how well the media are serving your community. Don’t miss this opportunity to make your voice heard!

Town Meeting on the Future of Media
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Thursday, September 7, 2006
6:30 pm

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Helen Bader Concert Hall
Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts
2419 East Kenwood Blvd.

Located between Prospect and Stowell on Kenwood, kitty-corner from the student union. For parking and accessability, see: http://www.uwm.edu/map/map.pdf

View and/or download the flyer here. Join us to learn more about who owns the media in Wisconsin and offer public testimony on the proposed changes to ownership rules. All events are free and open to the public.

Production Assistants Needed

This from Mat Rappaport, Assistant Professor in Digital Media, who is using helicopters and trucks for this.

Dear students who are interested in video/film and art production:

I am looking for production assistants to fill out my crew for a video shoot this Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. One need not volunteer for all days and all times.

> A project description can be found at
> http://meme01.com/projects/span.html

The project is being shown at inova on October 13th as part of the Mary L. Nohl Artist Fellowship Exhibition.

Students interested in helping out should email me at matrapp[at]uwm.edu.

Thanks,

Mat

The World's Highest Resolution Seamless Display Ever Built

From Doreen Maloney, Associate Professor of New Media at the University of Kentucky and Former President, New Media Caucus

The World's Highest Resolution Seamless Display Ever Built
http://www.mersive.com/WorldRecordDisplay.cfm

Mersive Technologies is building the highest resolution, seamless display ever seen by the public. The display is composed of 80 digital light projectors blended into a seamless image containing 60 million pixels. These pixels will be packed into a display that is 27 feet across and 15 feet tall. The resulting 160,000 lumens of brightness will be seen for many city blocks in the heart of downtown Louisville, Kentucky as part of the 4-day International Idea Festival (www.ideafestival.com).

Imagery that has never before been seen at its native resolution will be unveiled as part of the event.

Call for Imagery, Art, and Content

The display will showcase media from artists and content creators across many domains including science, engineering, medicine, gaming, entertainment, and art. We are looking for media that can take advantage of this increased resolution as well as the public nature of the project. Works selected will reflect both technical and conceptual possibilities presented by the future of high-resolution displays.

Content will be edited into a continuous video loop that will display contributions throughout the 4-day event from 8am to 10pm. Accepted contributors will retain the copyright to their material and will receive acknowledgment on the display, on a printed schedule at the event, and at Mersive's website. All electronically contributed content will be deleted at the end of the event.

See Comments for Submission Details:

In War/At War: The Practice of Everyday

From Mat Rappaport via rhizome.org
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

War affects the daily life of all societies, cultures, families and individuals. The result is a climate of war, including the physical, economic, and psychological conditions created by the direct and indirect connection to this kind of violent conflict. We (in the broadest sense) generate and define the everyday, all becoming participants that shape perceptions of daily experience. In War our adjustments to everyday practices and daily life can reflect its radical climate, pointing to the nature of conflict and ones relationship to experience. We adapt. These adaptations vary depending on personal experiences and define one’s relationship to war and inform one’s everyday life.

In War/At War: The Practice of Everyday is an exhibition and series of events that investigates variations on everyday practices, projects, and tactics explored by individuals whom cope, adapt and adjust to War and the climate it produces.

Schedule
September 7, 2006 – Submission deadline
September 14, 2006 – Notification of acceptances
September 28, 2006 – Artwork due at OPENSOURCE
October 5, 2006 7-10pm – Opening reception

Please download the full Call for Submissions (pdf) for information about the exhibitions and our exciting program of events and talks

More about "In War/At War: The Practice of Everyday"

Select Media Festival 5

CALL FOR PROJECTS, WORKSHOPS, VIDEOS AND ART ACTION
Deadline for projects: September 7, 2006
contact: edmar ed(at)lumpen.com
www.selectmediafestival.org

Select Media Festival 5 takes place Oct 13 to Oct 22, 2006 throughout
Chicago.

SMF5: The DIY Academy
We are seeking documentaries, short films, animations, new media projects, workshops, skillshares, presentations and media to share and present.


Select Media Festival features video programs, brand new media, installations, performance programs, street art, public projects as well as experimental and advanced music. Our goal is to share innovative art and technology projects as well as culturally and socially charged work.
The festival is produced by Public Media Institute and Lumpen. It is organized by artists and activists from Chicago.

This years festivals components include:

-The Film/Video Program: Docs, shorts, animation. kick ass work.

-TLVSN: we will be airing and creating cable tv episodes during the festival. You can send us your tv to air on cable access too.

-The Other net and The Brand New Media: Net based and technology driven projects, and the new media channels.

-Performance Program: Live music and performance.

DIY Academy : How to XYZ :: This year we want to share ideas strategies and practical applications for intervention, agitation and public. Workshops, skillshares, presentations and ideas on how to __ the __ are welcome.

Please help us re-ignite dormant forces.

www.selectmediafestival.org


Send material to:
Select Media Festival 5
960 W 31st St
Chicago Il 60608
U$A

Internship Opportunity: QZAP-DAC Partnership

See the comments or the pdf for more details.

The Queer Zine Archive Project and the Digital Arts and Culture program is currently seeking an intern for the 2006-2007 academic year. This is an excellent opportunity for students interested in LGBT history and culture, digital arts, independent publishing, zines, digital archiving, and open source software to earn 6 credits (3/semester) and a small stipend. Attached is the call for applicants. Please pass this on to people in and around UWM that you think might be interested. Though there is no formal deadline, the last day to add classes for the fall semester is September 18th.
Thanks on behalf of the QZAP-DAC Partnership.

Milo Miller
Co-Founder
the Queer Zine Archive Project
http://www.qzap.org

QZAP_DACInternship.pdf

BIOS: The Poetics of Life in Digital Media

This from Randall Szott of placekraft and LeisureArts via Peter Ciccariello
and the Writing & the Digital Life blog:

Announcing BIOS: The Poetics of Life in Digital Media, hosted by the Center for Literary Computing at West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV. September 14-16, 2006.

BIOS: The Poetics of Life in Digital Media is an interdisciplinary symposium on the re-invention of life in digital media. The term BIOS captures capture boundary-crossing and hybridization of human and machine. For the ancient Greeks, BIOS referred to particular forms of life rather than life in general (zoe). BIOS therefore, was the form of life specific to the development of human society and political culture.
Understanding BIOS means understanding how humans adapt nature into culture. In computer science, by contrast, BIOS means something quite different: the basic input output system, the lowest level of code that allows a computer to run. BIOS is burnt into computer hardware and enables the machine to boot and run software programs and media. The two meanings of BIOS resonate with each other as basic requirements for a social system, whether in civic space or in cyberspace.

DAC/BLOG Nears, Surpasses Ten Thousandth Hit

Congratulations to c-24-15-231-167.hsd1.il.comcast.net from the United States who on Monday May 22 at 18:05:48 (6:05 pm) CST 2006 saw the counter on the DAC/BLOG go from four figures to five figures. That's a one with four zeros after it.

Anticipation is growing as the Digital Arts and Culture Blog approaches its ten thousandth (10,000th) hit. The filter style blog which posts events, calls for entries and proposals, courses, and media curiosities was inaugurated on February 24, 2004 by this blogger and program coordinator, Marc Tasman. This is the blog's ninety-ninth (99th) post coincidentally, and by analyzing past tracking results, I expect that the counter will add a digit and roll over next Friday, May 26th, 2006.
However, DAC/BLOG's participation in the popular_project (a del.icio.us and technorati tag, see also PopularProject) may accelerate the hit total. Suspenseful, isn't it?

Google's "Summer of Code"

From Sandra Braman:

It's too late for this year, but this is an annual opportunity for students (who earn $5K if they're chosen to participate) who are interested in further developing their open source skills and want to contribute to open source projects.

The Console-ing Passions International Conference on Television, Audio, Video, New Media and Feminism

from Elana Levine

The Console-ing Passions International Conference on Television, Audio, Video, New Media and Feminism will be held in Milwaukee May 25 – 27, 2006. For program and registration information, please visit our website. Please direct questions to cptv[at]uwm[dot]edu. Hope to see many of you there!

ONE HOUR VIDEO

Wednesday May 17th from 8:00-9:00 pm
ACL 120
________________

Students from Mat Rappaport's Video and Audio Strategies course will
be presenting their short video works. The videos ask important
questions such as " what is an art video anyway?, "why don't men
pluck their beards?", "What does a years worth of butter consumption
look like anyhow?" and "will the world end by media death or nuclear
catastrophe?". Hmm. I want to know, don't you?

So, please join us and feel great.

History and Change, International Digital Media Call for Papers

Thanks, Jeff Smith:
History and Change, International Digital Media Arts Association

Call for Papers Deadline: 2006-08-01

The Journal of the International Digital Media and Arts Association is currently seeking submissions for a special themed issue on History and Changing Paradigms: the Role of Digital Media and Arts in How We View our World. The Journal of The International Digital Media and Arts Association is a quarterly seeking to respond to the rapidly developing field of digital media and arts in a variety of settings-academic, educational, artistic, political, and social. The editorial board
invites original submissions that consider the development, application, and understanding of digital media and arts; the purpose of the journal is promote awareness of this growing field and to prompt discussion about the issues that are a part of our increasingly digital world. In this special issue, we seek work that considers how digital media and arts have been contributing to changes in the ways that people see their world, both literally and conceptually, with a particular emphasis on the "idea" of History.

PLEASE CONTACT SHARON ROSS FOR FULL CALL GUIDELINES AS TO LENGTH, FORMAT.

Sharon Ross
Columbia College Chicago
sross[at]colum[dot]edu

JMC courses for DAC credit

Consider these Fall 2006 courses for DAC practicum credit:

JMC 280(LEC-001): Introduction to Digital Video for Documentary

Instructor: Tess Gallun

Course Description:

This course is for students interested in learning how to create long-format, non-fiction narratives through the use of digital video. Terms and techniques appropriate for working in visual media will be introduced as well as distinct shooting styles and editing approaches for developing a concise documentary-style story. Coursework will encompass learning how to shoot and edit video packages intended for television documentaries, educational videos, and investigative journalism stories. This course will provide practical hands-on training with professional field equipment and non-linear editing software to begin to prepare students for a successful career creating digital video narratives.

JMC 660 Advanced Documentary Journalism (Prereq: jr st.)

Instructor: Alison Rostankowski

Course Description:

This course is for students interested in learning how to produce a broadcast quality documentary fit for television or film festival entry. Student documentaries produced in this class have aired on Milwaukee Public television, screened at the Board of Regents Meeting and won the top prize at the Detroit Documentary Film Festival. This course focuses on how to research, produce, direct and write non-fiction narratives. The course instructor will guide you through the creative process, help shape your idea into a narrative, and introduce you to the many skills that a professional storyteller needs to master out in the “real world.” You will learn how to pitch an idea for a show, how to interview subjects, and discover important techniques for writing an engaging script. Students will also be introduced to in-depth hostorical research techniques, and licensing music and archival footage.

Conference on Openness

From Sandra Braman:
This conference is coming up in Chicago -- it's free to students (just register as a helper), near-by, and has some pretty amazing people attending even if I am too.

http://numenor.lib.uic.edu/fmconference/

Sandra

Held at
University of Illinois at Chicago
Behavioral Sciences Building, Room 250
1007 W. Harrison
Chicago, Illinois, USA
60607-7140

May 15 - 17, 2006
FM10 Openness: Code, Science and Content is convened by the volunteer-run journal First Monday (http://www.firstmonday.org), the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) University Library and the Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT) located at the University of Maastricht, the Netherlands, and now a United Nations University Research and Training Centre. The UIC Library has provided a home for First Monday, including its Web server, since 1998, and provides the venue, logistical and content support for this conference. MERIT hosted the first First Monday conference in Maastricht, November 2001, and provides support for the content of this conference.

Robert Sengstacke, Civil Rights Photographer

Brought to you by Raoul Deal and Nicolas Lampert:

Robert Sengstacke, Monday, April 24th
2:00pm - 3:15pm
ACL 120

Robert Senstacke’s photographs over the past fifty years have received national as well as international recognition and acclaim. He was the head photographer and photo editor at the Chicago Defender, one of the most important and influential African American papers in the country. During the Civil Rights Movement, Sengstacke documented the movement in the South and in Chicago. The New York Times in 1987 during a review of his work defined him as "one of the most significant photographers of the Civil Rights generation."

His photographs of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. have been featured in numerous exhibitions and books. Stanford University's History Department selected 100 of Sengstacke's photos that were used to chronicle the life and times of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Other Sengstacke works have been exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution, the DuSable Museum of African-American History, the Museum of Science of Industry, Spellman College, the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Circle Campus the University of Illinois Urbana campus, and the University of Minnesota.

Other works have appeared at the renowned Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The Schomburg Center, now part of the New York City Public Library system is a repository of 50 of Sengstacke's King photographs. Sengstacke is also noted as the first African-American photographer from Chicago to have a major exhibition to appear in Chicago's Loop at the main branch of the Chicago Public Library in 1969.

Sengstacke's work as a photographer has led him to travel the world over. His development as a photographic artist would forever be changed by his experience. The rich cultural influences of ancient societies of Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and Jamaica would add a world-perspective and insight that further hone his craft. Outside of his work at the Chicago Defender, Sengstacke was Muhammad Speaks first non-Moslem staff photographer. He has also been an artist-in-residence at Fisk University and the General Manager and the Publisher of the Memphis Tri-State Defender.

Randall Szott: Speculative Cartography and the Praxis of MySpace

Digital Arts and Culture
Colloquium
Thursday April 27, 2006
Merrill Hall 131
3:30 pm

How MySpace, Blogger, Amazon, Ebay, Google Maps, and del.icio.us are driving cultural production and inspiring new forms of resistance.

Randal Szott is the founder of LeisureArts: an infra-institutional practice engaged with various forms of ephemeral, convivial, and quotidian cultural production; and the director of placekraft: an interdisciplinary research module devoted to generating and studying: tactical urbanism, speculative cartography, ephemeral/vernacular architecture, and itinerant practices.

Projects produced by these units take the form of curatorial endeavors, lectures, reading groups, performances, interventions, written reports, web authoring, and more. They have a shared interest in making their activities public in varied contexts: institutional, anti-institutional, and non-institutional.

Concept Trucking, Szott's recent project, is an on-line exhibition platform that engages the social networking site MySpace.

SPONSORED BY DAC AND THE
SCHOOL OF VISUAL ART
GRADUATE STUDIES
LAYTON FUND

Constant Capture

21-22 April 2006 - Hefter Conference Center
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Organized by Lane Hall, Jon McKenzie and Patrice Petro, "Constant Capture: Visibility, Civil Liberties, and Global Security" will investigate the role of visual media and imaging technologies in two interrelated areas: the policies and practices of global security and the struggle for civil liberties around the world.

Fair Use Free Speech Contest

Fair Use Free Speech
A University Film and Video Association Film Contest $1000 Prize
Deadline, May 6, 2006
Download the flyer and get the entry form.

News:
Fair Use Free Speech :
April 12, 2006 - 10:12 AM
Deadline: May 1

CRITERIA:
- Work must be 5 minutes or less
- Work must be a documentary in any genre, including but not limited to essay, satire, parody, historical, musical, and personal
- It must employ fair use in quoting copyrighted material
PRIZES:
- $1,000 faculty only plus one year membership to UFVA
- $1,000 best co-production between faculty and student(s), plus one year membership to UFVA
- $500 second prize co-production plus one year membership to UFVA
- Winners will be screened at the UFVA Conference in August, 2006 and showcased on the Center for Social Media’s website.
2006 UFVA Conference :
November 28, 2005 - 10:22 AM
August 1-5, 2006
Chapman University

Projecting Off The Wall -- CALL for ART

From the New Media Caucus

In Conjunction with the 4th IEEE International Workshop on “Projector-Camera Systems “ (ProCams 2006)

Co-sponsored by ITP/Interactive Telecommunications Program, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

Recently there has been an explosion of interest in systems that combine digital light projection with cameras and interaction. Projecting off the Wall is a unique art event that will bring together artists, scientists, and the public for a showing of projector-camera art installations and demos, and is sponsored by the Workshop on Projector-Camera Systems. Previous ProCams events have been held in Nice, France (2003) and San Diego (2005), however this is the inaugural ProCams Art Event.

The ProCams workshop involves the worlds leading researchers in projection and interactive display technologies and has had increasing participation from the art community. With Projecting off the Wall, the conference organizers hope to foster connections between art and science that focus on the art as much (or more) than the technology.

We are specifically looking for artworks that include both projectors and cameras as integral elements of a unique viewer experience. This includes work that:

* incorporates computer vision, object tracking and recognition

* utilizes and/or addresses passively sensed environments

* uses active and non-traditional projection techniques

* involves projection onto custom screens, surfaces and objects

* deals with the aesthetics of projected light and digital projection

* engages issues of ubiquitous camera surveillance

* includes real-time projected display of live camera input

* combines multiple projections in innovative ways

* uses projectors and cameras to create immersive and interactive experiences

In addition, outstanding pieces that explore the themes of interactive experiences and immersive displays will be considered.

The show will take place on June 18th at Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway.

Visit www.procams2006.org/artExhibit.html to submit a proposal. Limited funds are available to offset travel and shipping costs.

Submission deadline: May 15, 2006

Exhibition dates: June 18

ProCams

ITP Department, Tisch School of the Arts

7th International Symposium on Online Journalism

The 7th International Symposium on Online Journalism will be held April 7-8, 2006 at the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin.

LeisureArts: Bracketology

My compadre from grad school has pitted his top 64 artist collectives against one another in the big dance.
LeisureArts: Bracketology

Concept Trucking Call for Submissions

Concept Trucking is seeking artists for its 2006 exhibition season. Concept Trucking is an exhibiton space that uses the on-line networking site Myspace as its platform. Artists whose work engages the dynamics or structure of social networking systems are encouraged to submit proposals for upcoming shows. Please limit proposals to 500 words.

Visit:
www.myspace.com/concept_trucking
and send your proposal via the site, or
send a message to placekraft(at)yahoo.com

related links:
leisurearts.blogspot.com
placekraft at radicalcartography
A Collection of Amazon.com Wish Lists

Matthew Burtner at UWM Friday: Interactive Electronic Music

From Chris Burns, Department of Music:
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I'm writing to let you know about Matthew Burtner's visit to UWM on Friday -- his work combines music, performance, and interactive technology in interesting and highly personal ways -- well worth checking out!

-- Friday, 1 pm, Music B40: composer/saxophonist Matthew Burtner talks about his compositional work for the "Metasaxophone" instrument, an acoustic tenor sax augmented with a variety of sensors for the control of electronic sound.

-- Friday, 7:30 pm, Recital Hall: Matthew Burtner recital, featuring the premiere of a new Metasaxophone work "SXrAtch" and works for multichannel sound.

For more information about Matthew's work check out www.burtner.net --

Hope to see you there,

Chris

Inova Exhibition: RUINS

[Art Exhibits] through May 14, 2006. Friday March 10, 2006, 6-9 p.m. opening reception; gallery talk at 6:30 by curator Zhang Zhaohui. Inova Gallery 1, Vogel Hall, 3253 N. Downer Ave.
Zhang Zhaohui has curated an exhibition of new photography and video by 14 Chinese artists. RUINS directly addresses the tension between a rapidly developing and urbanizing society and its traditional history and culture. Zhang Dali, Li Wei, Liu Wei, the Gao Brothers, Liu Jin, Chen Qiulin, Huang Yan, Ma Yongfeng, Xing Danwen, Zhang Wei, Li Luming, Sheng Qi, Cheng Qingqing and Ng Fong Chao pick through the debris of Chinas recent past and consider the possibility of building a new cultural identity on the ruins of that past.

Ideas Festival 2006

2006 IDEAS Festival

The Indiana IDEAS (Interactive Digital Environments Arts and Storytelling) Festival is a juried show of interactive entertainment, 3D, 2D, aural, virtual, and animated creative work to be held April 1, 2006 in the Radio-TV Center, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. This year the festival is accepting entries from all Big 10 states and the states which border Indiana. The show is open to individuals or groups of any age.

Entries must be received by March 8, 2006.

How Little We Know of our Neighbours

From Carl Bogner, Thank you.

Friday, February 24, at 7pm
Woodland Pattern Book Center
720 E Locust St.

another chapter from the history of surveillance:

Rebecca Baron's
How Little We Know of our Neighbours

In London today an average person venturing out on the street can expect to be photographed 300 times. Within the last four years, the number of surveillance cameras in England has quadrupled. There are more surveillance cameras there than in any other country in the world.

In How Little We Know of our Neighbours, Rebecca Baron considers the roles that cameras have played in public space, in England's in particular. She offers a history of the seemingly unstoppable Mass Observation Movement, an eccentric 1930's social science enterprise, born from a marriage of purpose between anthropologists and surrealists, who wanted to document traces of the unconscious in the everyday as a way to create an "anthropology of ourselves."

Baron suggests how benevolent survey and even casual street photography can morph into something more pervasive and stealth: the Mass Observation Movement was later reincarnated as a domestic spying unit during WWII, and eventually emerged as a market research film in the 1950's.

"Mass Observation's history," Baron writes, " is echoed in a range of present-day phenomena from police surveillance to web cams to reality television that point to ways in which our notions of privacy and self-definition have changed."

Show starts at 7pm. Admission $2.

Eisner Museum College Lecture

From Becky Crowder:
Thursday Feb. 16 at 6 p.m. is the first in the 2006 Only At The Eisner college lecture series. Thursday's lecture is titled "So, you wanna be a grown up?" and features a panel of recent college grads talking about how they landed that first job and what's it is like to go to work instead of class. The panel features two Journalism and Mass Communication grads, Tiffany Weber and Brian Stefanik. The cost is $5 and includes pizza and soda.

More information is available at www.eisnermuseum.org.

Call for Participation, Projects, Presentations, Provocations

See comments for more description.
Thank you Mat Rappaport:
Call for Participation // Projects // Presentations // Provocations

Version>06 :: Parallel Cities
April 20- May 6, 2006 Chicago U$A

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: FEB 28, 2005

Version is a hybrid festival focused on emerging discourses and practices evolving between art, technology and social and political activism. Version examines the activities of local configurations and external networks that use visual and conceptual art strategies, innovative social practices, creative uses of new technologies, organizing strategies, emerging activist/artist initiatives, campaigns, public interventions and DIY projects.

Please visit www.versionfest.org for more information or go to
adoptanamerican.com/version06 to use the online submission form.

Alternatively you may mail your proposals to:
Version>06
960 W 31st St
Chicago Il 60608
USA

contact ed(at)lumpen.com for help.

Bad Subjects

From Carol Stabile. Thank you.
"There is a new issue of Bad Subjects up online entitled Intermedia.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with it, Bad Subjects is the
longest continuously-running publication on the internet, having been
online since 1992. This collective publishes accessible cultural
criticism for a monthly audience of over 100,000 readers from around
the world. The 'zine appears approximately 4-6 times a year, and the
website features political editorials, reviews, and links to other
Leftist resources on the net."

Linden Lab Fellowship for Visual and Performing Arts

Thomas Malaby of Anthropology here at UWM passed this on. He studies virtual worlds, and has been looking in particular at Second Life, produced by Linden Lab.

Linden Lab Fellowship for Visual and Performing Arts

I'm very excited to announce that Linden Lab is offering its first fellowship in visual and performing arts for creative innovation in Second Life.

This $4,000 fellowship will provide a young artist with a chance to be free for a semester or summer to explore the use of the digital world of Second Life as an artistic medium. In doing so, we hope that we will see Second Life used to even greater potential in the expressive arts to the benefit of both the Second Life culture and the broader world of art.

I hope that all of you will take the opportunity to visit www.secondlife.com/education for more information, and please let anyone at your university who might be interested know of the March 15, 2006 application deadline. Applications will be reviewed by a panel of distinguished academics, and the fellowship recipient will be announced in mid-April.

Also, please feel free to share this announcement with any colleagues who may have eligible students.

If you have any questions, please just let me know. You can email me at robin[at]lindenlab.com.

Cheers,
Robin

Nam June Paik

Nam June Paik, great electronic media artist of the 20th century, died on January 29.

John Hanhardt
Guggenheim Museum of Art
Senior Curator of Film and Media Arts
Says:

Paik's journey as an artist has been truly global, and his impact on the art of video and television has been profound.To foreground the creative process that is distinctive to Paik's artwork, it is necessary to sort through his mercurial movements, from Asia through Europe to the United States, and examine his shifting interests and the ways that individual artworks changed accordingly. It is my argument that Paik's prolific and complex career can be read as a process grounded in his early interests in composition and performance. These would strongly shape his ideas for mediabased art at a time when the electronic moving image and media technologies were increasingly present in our daily lives. In turn, Paik's work would have a profound and sustained impact on the media culture of the late twentieth century; his remarkable career witnessed and influenced the redefinition of broadcast television and transformation of video into an artist's medium.