WordCamp Milwaukee

"WordCamp Milwaukee is a conference that focuses on everything WordPress. WordCamps are informal, community-organized events that are put together by WordPress users like you. Everyone from casual users to core developers participate, share ideas, and get to know each other. WordCamps are open to WordPress.com and WordPress.org users alike."

Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program Open for Submissions

The Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program provides grants directly to individual writers whose work addresses contemporary visual art. The grant program is spearheaded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts as part of its broader Arts Writing Initiative and is administered by Creative Capital . 

The grant program was founded in recognition of both the financially precarious situation of arts writers and their indispensable contribution to a vital artistic culture. 

The program, which issues awards for articles, blogs, books, new and alternative media, and short-form writing, aims to support the broad spectrum of writing on contemporary visual art, from general-audience criticism to academic scholarship. 

To be eligible, an applicant must be an individual; an art historian, artist, critic, curator, journalist, or practitioner in an outside field who is strongly engaged with the contemporary visual arts; a United States citizen, permanent resident of the U.S., or holder of an O-1 visa; at least 25 years old; and a published author (specific publication requirements vary depending on project type category). Please note that work published in college newspapers and undergraduate student-run publications will not be considered toward the published author requirement. 

The program supports approximately twenty to twenty-five projects each year. Grants range from $3,000 to $50,000, depending on the needs and scope of the project. 

For complete guidelines, detailed eligibility requirements, an FAQ, and the online application form, visit the program's Web site. 

Special Silent Film Event FREE

SPECIAL SILENT FILM EVENT.  Wednesday, April 25th at the Oriental Theater.  RSVP deadline, Tues. Apr. 24th. 

Milwaukee Film is excited to partner with UWM’s Center for International Education’s (CIE) conference entitled World Cinemas, Global Networks to host a screening of G.W. Pabst’s silent film, Pandora’s Box (1929), complete with live musical accompaniment by internationally renowned Swedish film score composer, Matti Bye.

Regarded as a classic Weimar film, Pandora's Box follows the life of Lulu (Louise Brooks), whose naïve and uninhibited sexuality create a downward spiral for her promising future. Lulu's incendiary behavior attracts the attention of anyone that encounters her, but ultimately leads to the destruction of those closest to her. This unique event will showcase the tremendously talented Bye, who has performed live accompaniments at the TIFF Silent Film Days in Tromso, Norway; the Cinéma du Panthéon in Paris, France; Silent Film Festival in San Francisco; the Kino Arsenal in Berlin, Germany; the Silent Film Festival in Pordenone, Italy; Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as well as at various other international locations. Bye is regarded as one of the most important Swedish film score composers, with credits that include the Ingmar Bergman documentary Images from the Playground (2009) and Everlasting Moments (2009).

The screening takes place on Wednesday, April 25 at 7 pm at the Landmark Oriental Theatre.
For this special screening, Milwaukee Film is offering up this FREE screening to the general public. You can request up to 2 free tickets and RSVP is mandatory - Just click here to fill out the RSVP form and you're all set. Limited seating is available for non-Milwaukee Film members, so please RSVP by Tuesday, April 24.

Milwaukee Film Festival Call for Entires 2012

The Milwaukee Film Festival has recently opened their Call for Entires for 2012. All submissions are FREE and they welcome all lengths and genres of films.

As a bonus: Filmmakers that reside in Milwaukee, Waukesha, Racine, Kenosha, Ozaukee,  Walworth and Washington counties are also eligible for the Cream City Cinema Award, which includes over $30,000 in filmmaker services.

More info including application, FAQs, and rules and regulations can be found on their website

Pre-Occupy Symposium

Friday, April 13, 2012
1:30 pm Curtin 175

The Pre-Occupy symposium will address how earlier occupations and protests in California and Wisconsin set the stage for current occupations across the globe. The Center for 21st Century Studies contends that this acted as forms of pre-acceleration or incipient movement without which Occupy Wall Street may have never happened.

Speakers include:

George Ciccariello-Maher (Drexel): "From Oscar Grant to Occupy: The Long Arc of Rebellion in Oakland"

Joshua Clover (UC-Davis): "The Coming Occupation"

Dan S. Wang (Columbia College) "Zuccotti Sans Rotunda, or The Uneven Spaces of Occupation"

There will also be a poetry reading by Joshua Clover
Saturday, April 14
7:00 pm Woodland Pattern Book Center
720 E. Locust Street, Milwaukee
FREE

Hasan Elahi

While researching other Digital Arts & Culture communities, I came across Hasan Elahi, a professor at the University of Maryland.

For those of you who don't know Elahi, he is an interdisciplinary media artist with an emphasis on technology and media. Oh yeah, he is also on the US government terrorist watch list. Since being on this list, he started documenting every waking hour of his life. He posts copies of all his debit card transactions showing what he bought, where he bought it, and when. He even keeps a GPS device in his pocket that is connect to a real-time map to show his physical location. The government can go to his website whenever they want to see where he is and what he is doing. He has had hits from the Pentagon, Secretary of Defense, and the Executive Office of the President.

Elahi is taking away the secrecy of his information by disclosing it to the public- therefore taking away its value and making it worthless. He refers to this as using "market sources".

For more information check out Hasan Elahi on the Colbert Report.

Pre-Occupy Symposium

Pre-Occupy Symposium
1:30pm Curtin 175

This symposium addresses how earlier occupations and protests in California and in Wisconsin set the stage for current occupations across the globe. Such pre-acceleration or incipient movement without which Occupy Wall street may never have happened.

In this talk George Ciccariello-Maher, "From Oscar Grant to Occupy: The Long Arc of Rebellion in Oakland", will focus on one central aspect of the pre-occupy Oakland landscape: the 2009-2010 rebellions that shook hands with the murder of Oscar Grant. 

Joshua Clover

"The Coming Occupation"

A brief and partial history, both social and intellectual, of a certain tendency which would take part in the organizing of the 2009-2010 occupations, etc. in the UC system; its origins and its connections beyond UC and California; its political orientation and ensuing implications for strategy and tactics of struggle; and what role all this would play, directly and indirectly, in the formation and existence of Occupy Oakland, particularly regarding its difference from other Occupy venues.

Dan S. Wang

"Zuccotti Sans Rotunda, or the Uneven Spaces of Occupation"

This event is organized by Richard Grusin (C21) and Annie McClanahan (English)

Also...

There is a poetry reading by Joshua Clover

Sunday, April 14, 2012

7:30 pm Woodland Pattern Book Center

720 E. Locust Street, Milwaukee

Cost: Free

For more information please visit: http://www4.uwm.edu/c21/pages/events/abstracts/12spring/preoccupy.html

Timothy Lenoir, "Premediating Neurofutures: Brain-Machine Interfaces and the New New Media"

This Friday Timothy Lenoir will give a talk that will trace lines of convergence among several areas of neuroscience, engineering, and computational media that raise prospects for not only realizing early dreams of human augmentation via man-computer symbiosis, but also of possibly transforming the human being as we know it in radical ways.

He will look specifically at current work in brain-machine interfaces used in therapeutic neuroprosthetics, and will address the research being done in the cognitive neuroscience on the role of affect in decision making, as well as on the leveraging of next-generation social media and smart devices as the "brain-machine" interfaces for measuring, data-mining, modeling, and mapping affect.

Friday, March 30

3:30 pm

Curtin 118

Free and open to the public

Also if you are interested...

Brown bag lunch with Timothy Lenoir

Friday, March 30

12 noon, Curtin 939

Who is Timothy Lenoir? He is he Kimberly Jenkins Chair for New Technologies in Society at Duke University, and is the founder and co-director of GreaterThanGames, which is a multidisciplinary lab at Duke that focuses on the development of transmedia, alternate reality games. Turning Swords to Ploughshares (http://www.virtualpeace.org), a training and simulation game-based learning environment for workers and students in the field of peace and conflict resolution.

Click here for more information.

Peck School of the Arts is looking for a Communications Assistant

Peck School of the Arts is looking for a Communications Assistant. It is an ideal position for recent graduates and is an entry level job.

As a Communications Assistant you will work closely with the Marketing Specialist, Director of Marketing, and Creative specialist to help write material, manage information, track media hits, and build the Peck School of the Arts' social media platform to increase visibility for the school among prospective and currant students and the community at large. The Communications Assistant needs to be a creative writer and a team player with a passion for social media as they will need t o keep the Peck School of the Arts at the forefront of new social media trends.

Other Key activities include: manage, implement and maintain all social media campaigns for School, update and help monitor the school’s website content on a regular basis, implement email marketing efforts, create web pages following CMS system and brand guidelines, design print materials as needed, track online marketing efforts, and perform general office and event management support.


Click here for more details. 

CIE Global Studies Fellows Balloon Launch

Come join UWM, the place of powerful ideas, and this year's Global Studies Fellow at the Center for International Education as they invite you to share your "powerful" ideas during a photo-documented balloon launch. Participants will write their ideas on a balloon that will be launched. The Global Studies Fellows will be there with their ideas and ready to hear yours. Faculty, staff, and students are encouraged to participate in this pubic expression of ideas and also learn from the diversity of intellectual and imaginative work at UWM,

March 27, 2012  

Balloon Launch 2:30-3:30

Garland Hall First Floor

CIE Open House 3:00-4:30

www.international.uwm.edu

Sponsored by UWM's Center for International Education and Organized by the Global Studies Fellows:
Erica Bornstein, Associate Professor of Anthropology
Elena Gorfinkel, Assistant Professor of Art History and Film Studies
Ingrid Jordt, Associate Professor of Anthropology
Lisa Silverman, Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies
Natasha Borges Sugiyama, Assistant Professor of Political Science
Tami Williams, Assistant Professor of Film Studies and English

City of Milwaukee is seeking a Public Relations Supervisor

Under the direction of the Public Information Manager, the Public Relations Supervisor assists in managing the public relations and publications functions of the Public Information Division of the Common Council-City Clerk’s Office.


Deadline: March 30, 2012


More information at: 
http://city.milwaukee.gov/jobs/OfficialAdministrative/PRS

Call for Artists: Screen Capture­

University of Iowa, May 2-8­

From the first moment that fire projected shadows onto the cave wall, people have used various types of screens to exhibit images and information. Today, we live in a society dominated by “screen culture.” We spend our days with screens: working with computers, texting on cell phones, relaxing with television, navigating by GPS, being distracted by moving billboards, and going to the movies. The ubiquity of screens in our lives obscures how different types of screens actually operate, both technologically and culturally. This exhibition explores the evolution of this screen culture and its myriad possibilities in transmission.

Screen Capture will present artwork that utilizes and explores the development of the screen as a platform for exhibition. This encompasses both low-tech and high-tech methods for transmitting images to a viewer via a “screen,” from flashlights, shadow puppets, and slide projectors, to computer monitors, cell phone screens, and large scale film projection. We encourage submissions from all artists using a screen to exhibit their work, and welcome artwork that pushes the boundaries with new and creative interpretations of the format.

The curators also welcome proposals for a very special BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer) event on the closing night of the exhibition. Participants in this salon-style event are asked to bring their own mode of projection. For more information on BYOB and its initiator, Rafael Rozendaal, see www.byobworldwide.com.

This exhibition runs May 2 through May 8 in the Media Theater in Art Building West on the University of Iowa Campus.

Submissions must be received by email March 31, 2012 and include:

·      A project description of no more than 250 words

·      Note if you are applying to the exhibition, BYOB event, or both.

·      List of tech needs; please note if you can provide your own equipment.

·      1-2 page CV/resume

Digital support materials, such as URLs (preferred), images, and video files sent by email. Larger submissions may be sent using an online file transfer service such as DropSend.

Notification by April 11 and confirmation required by April 20. Work must be delivered by April 30.

Curated by students in Media Art Lab, a course in the School of Art and Art History at the University of Iowa.

Call for Submissions: DAC Student Work

The Digital Arts and Culture program at UWM is accepting submissions of work by students in DAC practicum courses for exhibition, publication and exposure on the DAC.NET blog and social networks.

Please send an email to dac-submit@uwm.edu that includes:

• A brief bio (~150 words or less)
• A link(s) to your public profile for social media or website

Attach or send links to media of up to three:

• Images (jpegs, up to 16MB)
• Videos - under 5 minutes per video please (link)
• Audio or sound pieces - Up to 10 minutes in length (link or mp3)
• Written creative work or reviews of films, television, art exhibitions, games, music or other digital media.

For each piece, please include:

• Artist or artists' name(s)
• Title
• Course name and number (JAMS 336)
• Course Instructor
• Year and Semester (Fall 2001)

This is an excellent opportunity for students to gain exposure and showcase their work for use as clips in their portfolio. Please submit all materials to dac-submit@uwm.edu.

File format for still images: To conform to our viewing format, each still image file may be no larger than 16 MB. Do not format images in any presentation program (e.g., PowerPoint, Keynote), or include composite images (more than one work per file). Please send still image files may be sent in jpeg format.

Submission format for videos, moving images, or audio: Please post the time-based file to a sharing site such as YouTube or Vimeo and provide the link. Videos should be no longer than five minutes in length. Please be aware that if you remove the video from YouTube or mark it as "private," it will not be viewable by the exhibition committee.

Please note that submission of materials and links to materials will be considered as your consent for Digital Arts and Culture to reproduce and distribute your materials.with attribution to you, the artist.

UW's Kleinman to Deliver Commercialization of Higher Education Talk Friday at UWM

UW-Madison Professor in Community and Environmental Sociology Daniel Kleinman will deliver a talk at UW-Milwaukee this Friday called "Uneven Commercialization: Contradiction and Conflict in the Identity and Practices of American Universities."  The discussion focuses on the "widespread claims about the commercialization of higher education," which Kleinman argues are "overbroad."

Kleinman focuses on two measures in his talk, "the treatment of students as consumers and the use of strategic planning by academic administrators."  He also indicates that commercial practices vary based on factors like differing institutions, time, and social position.

The talk will be hosted by the Center for 21st Century Studies and will be held at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, December 2, 2011 in Curtin Hall room 118.  The event is free and open to the public.  Additionally, those who cannot attend may view the talk live on the C21 Ustream channel.

For more information, refer to the Center for 21st Century Studies site.

Tomorrow at UWM: Geography/GIS Symposium

A “Geography/GIS Symposium” will be held at UW-Milwaukee on Thursday, November 17 at the Golda Meir Library on campus.  The event is sponsored by the UWM Department of Geography.


The schedule of events for Thursday has two prominent scholars in the geography field hosting talks in the afternoon.  At 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Professor John P. Wilson (University of Southern California) will discuss "The Spatial Sciences, Society, Environment and Health."  Distinguished Professor Mei-Po Kwan (Ohio State University) will host "On Linking Health and Geography" at 2:30 p.m. Thursday.


The symposium continues Friday, November 18 with a general meeting for students, faculty, and staff who are interested.  This meeting will be held at 2:30 p.m. in Bolton Hall, room 262 on the UWM campus.


See the Geography/GIS Symposium site for more information.

"The Framing Years" Talks Policy in the Early Internet Years

Sandra Braman, professor in the UWM Department of Communications will deliver a talk Friday, November 4 on the issues the designers of the Internet had to think through, such as privacy and intellectual property rights.

In "The Framing Years: Policy Fundamentals in the Internet Design Process, 1969-1979," Braman will discuss how positions on these issues were "framed by conceptualizations of the nature of the network, goals to be served by the network, the nature of the users and uses of the network, and the design criteria that served as policy principles developed during the early years of the design process."

As part of the Center for Information Policy Research's "brown bag research lunch" session, held multiple times throughout each semester, "The Framing Years" will share the stage with other formal and informal discussions Friday.  The goal of these luncheons is to offer a space for faculty, staff, and students interested in information policy and ethics to share both finished and in-progress research.

In addition to other talks, "The Framing Years" will be held in Bolton Hall, room 521 at UW-Milwaukee, 1:30 - 3:00pm on Friday, November 4.

Impressionism Exhibit Opens At Museum

The "Impressionism: Masterworks on Paper" exhibit opened today at the Milwaukee Art Museum, and will be open until early January 2012. The exhibit features over a hundred "drawings, watercolors, and pastels by many of the greatest artists in the history of Western European art—Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec," according to the announcement on the Museum's website.

An interesting inclusion in the exhibit is Renoir's Bathers with Crab, primarily due to the nature by which the museum acquired the piece: through a Super Bowl bet.  In a "gentleman's wager" with the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Milwaukee Art Museum won the rights to borrow the Impressionist piece when the Green Bay Packers beat the Pittsburgh Steelers in February.

"Impressionism: Masterworks on Paper" is open starting today through January 8, 2012 at the Milwaukee Art Museum.  For information on admission, visit the museum's website.

Morgan Spurlock to visit UWM

Award-winning writer, director, and producer Morgan Spurlock will visit UW-Milwaukee October 19 as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series.  The Super Size Me director will deliver The Greatest Lecture Ever Told in the UWM Union Wisconsin Room, shining the "the definitive light on our branded future."

Spurlock will showcase his latest documentary, The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, which was funded on $1.5 million in product placement from a variety of corporations.  The catch is that Spurlock details those same corporations in the documentary, which is about - what else - product placement in the media.  According to The New York Times, Spurlock made about 600 cold calls to companies to fund the documentary, with many pleas shown in the film.

The event will be held Wednesday, October 19 at 7:00 pm, with advance ticket prices ranging from $5 for UWM students to $12 for general public, available at the UWM Bookstore.  For more information on the lecture, visit UWM Sociocultural Programming's event calendar.

Couto Bros + Mural = FUN |

For the Milwaukeeans who are still sour because of an $800,000 public art project that was scrapped recently, or because of a bronze erection of Henry Winkler that cost the tax payers approximately $85,000, you can now quit your pissing and moaning because there's a new artistic spectacle in town that even Scott Walker would be proud of.

Like a phoenix rising from the ashes of Milwaukee's early days of industry and drab brick buildings, a brilliantly colored mural rises 30 feet above Walker's Point for all to see and enjoy.

Now guess how many dollars this public art piece is going to cost the tax payers:

Zero.

read Vic Buell's full article here:

Couto Bros + Mural = FUN |

| Technology, Experimental Art and Media fun in MKE!

| Technology, Experimental Art and Media fun in MKE!