Monday, November 15, 2010

Glimpse. Your Stories From Abroad.

From Sarah Menkedick
Editor in Chief, Glimpse
982 Green St.
San Francisco, CA 94133
sarah[at]glimpse.org
Glimpse.org


A quick reminder that the application deadline for the Spring 2011 Glimpse Correspondents Program is just under two weeks away: November 28, 2010. This is a chance for students, volunteers, teachers, and other travelers to get stories and photography published at a National Geographic supported publication, and get paid for it.

Powered by Matador, and supported in part by the National Geographic Society, the Glimpse Correspondents Program provides talented writers and photographers with a $600 stipend as well as one on one editorial training and support to complete an independent journalistic work based on their experience abroad.

To learn more, visit: http://glimpse.org/correspondents , and please feel free to pass this email along to any other study abroad offices or individuals who might be interested in our program.

I hope to work with your students this Spring! Please don't hesitate to contact me with any questions.

Sincerely,

Sarah Menkedick

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Glimpse believes that independent travelers, particularly those who spend significant time abroad, have a unique and often overlooked opportunity to effect positive change around the world. This begins with bearing witness to place, people, culture, and especially the stories and struggles that might otherwise go unrecorded.

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

University of Iowa Intermedia Program seeks grad students


Student's in the course Media Art Lab projected on the exterior of the Studio Arts Building during Intermedia Open House, November 5, 2010

The University of Iowa Intermedia Program seeks creative, committed
students for its two-year MA | three-year MFA program

Application Deadline: February 1, 2011

Founded in 1968, Intermedia is one of the oldest programs in the United States dedicated to emerging media and interdisciplinary research in the arts. Intermedia emphasizes experimentation, collaboration, and research in New Media, community-based and social practice, experimental writing, installation, performance, social media, sound, video, and other time-based media.

We encourage social engagement and international experience through our collaborations with Iowa City Senior Center Television (ICSC TV) and the University of Rijeka Academy of Applied Arts, and Molekula, a media collective in Croatia. With ICSC TV, Intermedia encourages and assists in intergenerational video production for local television and online distribution. Through Projekt Oko Sokolovo, one MFA student annually is selected for a semester-long residency in Croatia.

Intermedia also works with the Virtual Writing University Experimental Wing, and recently launched the alpha site for XWRI, Experimental Wing Radio Intermedia, an online radio initiative.

Intermedia operates within the School of Art and Art History at The University of Iowa, a large public university with core strengths in the arts. The university is home to the world-renowned Iowa Writer's Workshop, strong departments of dance, music, and theater, and highly regarded studio arts MFA programs. The University of Iowa is located in Iowa City, a vibrant college town of 70,000 that was the third city to be honored with the UNESCO designation 'City of Literature.' The Cedar Rapids/Iowa City area has a total population of 425,000 and is about three and a half hours to Chicago by car or Megabus.

Intermedia offers excellent facilities in the Studio Arts Building, a 250,000 square foot creative warehouse shared by all studio arts programs. All Intermedia students are provided with studio space.

Funding for graduate students is very competitive, and teaching and research assistants are represented by the Committee of Graduate Students, a recognized labor union since 1996. Intermedia make every effort to provide a minimum quarter-time research and teaching assitantships to its graduate students. Its current students all receive support.

For more information on the program, see http://research-intermedia.art.uiowa.edu. For more information on the School of Art & Art History, including images of the Studio Arts building, see: http://www.art.uiowa.edu.

Media Art History 2011 - Rewire

Fourth International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology
Liverpool, 28th September - 1st October 2011
Call For Papers now open - Deadline Monday, January 31st 2011

http://www.mediaarthistory.org

Host: FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool
In collaboration with academic partners: Liverpool John Moores University, CRUMB at the University of Sunderland, the Universities of the West of Scotland and Lancaster, and the Database of Virtual Art at the Dept. for Image Science, Danube University Krems.

Following the success of Media Art History 2005 Re:fresh in Banff, Media Art History 2007 Re:place in Berlin and Media Art History 2009 Re:live in Melbourne, Media Art History 2011 Rewire will host three days of keynotes, panels and poster sessions.

Media Art History 2011 Rewire will increase the voltage and ignite key debates within the internationally distributed network of histories, which takes account of the questions surrounding documentation and methodologies, materiality, and agency. Rewire aims to up the current to illuminate the British contribution to media art, and by looking at our industrial heritage and contribution to the history of computing technologies themselves, we will open the discussion to how these contributions are manifested internationally. Considering the International scope of the histories of media art, science and technology, Rewire is also listed as part of the "McLuhan in Europe" programme, and will take place concurrently with The Asia Triennial in Manchester and Abandon Normal Devices, the North West's festival of new cinema and digital culture which returns to Liverpool in September 2011. The reviewers especially welcome proposals for presentations that resonate thematically with these events.

For the full Call for Papers, and to submit an abstract, please visit:http://www.mediaarthistory.org/rewire

Friday, November 05, 2010

Canada's Biotechnology Strategy: Struggles on the Knowledge Commons Featuring: Wilhelm Peekhaus


From Michael Zimmer, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies
Director, BS in Information Science & Technology Program
Associate, Center for Information Policy Research
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

w: www.michaelzimmer.org

The Center for Information Policy Research (CIPR) in the School of Information Studies announces the following research presentation:

Canada's Biotechnology Strategy: Struggles on the Knowledge Commons

Featuring: Wilhelm Peekhaus, PhD (2010-2011 CIPR postdoc)

November 18th, 2010
Time: 12:15 -1:30
Location: Bolton Hall, Room 521

This talk reports on research that interrogated the various forms of social struggles that have emerged in defiance of the progressive enclosure of agricultural biotechnology within the social factory. An emphasis on the information and knowledge issues embodied in these conflicts, aside from potentially being indicative of the scope of the social factory, holds the promise of cementing an important bridge between Library and Information Studies (LIS), with its concern over information flows and the information cycle, and political economic and public policy disciplines. I contend that the multiple information issues that inhere in biotechnology, ranging from intellectual property concerns in respect of genetic information to the contested nature of regulatory and public biotech discourses, render LIS a wholly apposite discipline within which to situate a critical analysis of this technoscience that goes beyond the current LIS engagement with bioinformatics.

Additional details at: http://www4.uwm.edu/sois/news/events/cipr_peekhaus_111810.cfm