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
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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.

Million Dollar Homepage Held for Ransom

A brilliant idea: sell each pixel on your website for one dollar each. Also, beautiful to look at-- a kind of internet ad quilt.
Then after the last pixels sold, a ransom note for $50,000 or else a denial of service attack. The FBI is on the case.

Made by Alex Tew, a 21-year-old student from a small town in England.
Also available, 20 cents a pixel.

Two Classes offered for DAC credit by Rappaport

TOPIC: Video & Audio Strategies for Visual Artist & Multimedia
Art 427 LAB 801 11903
3 cr
1/23-5/11
MW 4:00pm-6:30pm
MIT B43
Rappaport, Mathew J

DESCRIPTION:
Studio art course in which students learn about video and audio as a fine art tool to be used as a medium applied to gallery, installation and environmental works, as a tool for documenting art projects and as elements to be integrated in multimedia works. Students will be taught basic camera use, lighting technique, editing, recording, mixing and distribution.

FORMAT:
Class time will include demonstration, in class work/technical activities, work days and critique. Students will produce a series of short works that include short length creative projects and the documentation of preexisting art projects.

Graduate Students and advanced undergraduate art majors w/o video experience are encouraged to take this course.

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TOPIC: Visibility, Security & Strategies of Control & Resistance
Art 427 LAB 804 25496 cross listed with Fine Art 351 lab 804
3 cr
1/23-5/11
MW 12:30pm-3:15pm
MIT B43
Rappaport, Mathew J

DESCRIPTION:
This course is based on the premise that visual art can be used as a means for processing and visualizing complex ideas and can intersect and inform academic discourse.

Throughout the course we will be exploring systems of social and individual control which are predicated on making one aware that they are being viewed [like video cameras and tvs at the entrance of many retailers] or through the capturing of seemingly invisible information [like web based tracking technologies] and making the process known to influence behavior. We will investigate how theorists and artist frame and respond to these critical issues. Students will respond to this material with individual creative projects. The class will culminate with a collaborative art installation to be presented at the annual Center for International Education conference.

FORMAT:
In general the course is split between seminar style days and studio days. During the seminar periods, students will be required to prepare readings [from the syllabus] and short presentations for in class discussion. The studio days include demonstrations of basic media techniques in digital video, audio and imaging to assist students in developing visual art responses to the material discussed in the readings and seminar periods. Students must attend the conference which is held on campus over a Friday and Saturday late in the semester.

No prior technical experience is required, but curiosity and enthusiasm for a challenging and dynamic work environment are.

Taking the Lead: Women and the Changing Face of Television Drama

From Elana Levine:
University Satellite Seminar Series
Museum of Television and Radio

Taking the Lead: Women and the Changing Face of Television Drama

Thursday, December 8, 2005
7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Bolton B-60

Today’s television landscape is fertile ground for female-led prime-time dramas; a cursory glance at the schedule yields the likes of Veronica Mars, Medium, Commander in Chief, The Closer…

Such was not always the case. In the era before the groundbreaking series Cagney & Lacey, hour dramas with female leads were rare indeed, the occasional escapist fare such as The Bionic Woman or Wonder Woman notwithstanding.

This seminar will trace the evolution of the female-led television drama, from its embattled past to its current ascendancy. What was the rationale for the network’s historical reluctance to launch such shows? What accounts for their current ubiquity? How have audience expectations changed? And where does the genre go from here?

Panel:
Barbara Corday, Cocreator, Cagney & Lacey
Susanne Daniels, President, Entertainment, Lifetime Entertainment Services
Jill Hennessy, Crossing Jordan
Jane Seymour, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
Jenji Kohan, Creator, Weeds

Moderator: Cynthia Littleton, Deputy Editor, The Hollywood Reporter

This seminar is part of the Museum's She Made It initiative.

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.

The Art of Securing Distribution: Trends in Documentary Distribution

The Art of Securing Distribution: Trends in Documentary Distribution

Saturday, October 29, 2005, 2:00 p.m. Free & Open to the Public

Von Trier

2235 N. Farwell Ave.

Milwaukee, WI 53202

Distribution in the film industry is currently undergoing an enormous transformation. Our panel discussion series focuses on a specific type of film – the documentary – and examines how changes in distribution have impacted this specific genre. Please join our discussion of distribution to television, fundraising, recent successful trends, and grassroots marketing - from the point of view of a distributor, programmer, and filmmaker. This interactive panel discussion is a great opportunity to meet a dynamic group of industry insiders and discuss this important facet of independent film.

Rebeca Conget, VP Theatrical Distribution, New Yorker Films

Ruth Leitman, Filmmaker – Wildwood, NJ, Alma, Lipstick & Dynamite

Brad Lichtenstein, Documentary Filmmaker – Ghosts of Attica, Safe, Caught in the Crossfire, Almost Home

Mike Maggiore, Programmer and Publicist, Film Forum. NYC

Moderator: Alison Rostankowski, Department of Journalism & Mass Communications at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

Artists and Writers Zoey Beloff and Johanna Drucker

Monday, October 24, 7:30 p.m., MIT B-91
3203 N. Downer Ave.
Visiting Artist Zoey Beloff will present her wonderful and complex multimedia works in the intimate setting of Films’ small theater. (See www.zoebeloff.com/pages/installations.html for a deeper understanding of her work).

Tuesday, October 25, 8:00-9:30 p.m., Curtin 175
3243 N. Downer Ave.
Visiting Artist Zoey Beloff will present a Layton Lecture in which she discusses her work with historical and obsolete film technologies. She creates surreal narratives revolving around the paranormal and implements them using a combination of film, performance and multimedia. Half of the lecture will be devoted to a screening using such techniques.

Friday, October 28, 2:00 p.m., Curtin 175
3243 N. Downer Ave.
Join Johanna Drucker in a discussion about “Aesthetic Provocations in Digital Media.” Johanna has lectured and written extensively on topics related to the history of typography, artists’ books, and visual art. She is also widely respected as a book artist and visual poet.

DVD PUBLICATION CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: "FOLIO" (Japan)

DVD PUBLICATION CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: "FOLIO" (Japan)
Deadline: October 21, 2005; Source: folio

'FOLIO' new DVD international art collaboration.
Linking artists through mobile exhibition

Submission guidelines

WORDS - Includes poetry, prose, scripts, short stories, fiction excerpts. Word Limit 1000 Rich text format
STUDIO Paintings, sculpture, drawings/illustrations, installation, digital art. Maximum of 3 submissions per artist. Images
in JPEG format
PHOTOGRAPHY - 3 images maximum per artist. JPEG files
MUSIC - 3 songs per artist/group. MP3 or MPEG4 format
MOVING PICTURES - Films, animation. Please send stills JPEG and synopsis RTF.
PERFORMANCE - Theatre, dance, spoken word. Please send stills JPEG and synopsis RTF
INDUSTRIAL/ OBJECT DESIGN - Please send photographs in JPEG file.
FASHION- Photos of current collection JPEG

Please submit all work to submitfolio[at]gmail.com

When submitting please put in your sub category in the subject line. If you have a website please also include the url.

Deadline October 21st 2005

Copyright remains with individual artists. Non profit so we can not pay for submissions at this present time. Launch Tokyo Design Festa November 2005.

DACSO Meeting Reminder

The next DACSO meeting is Monday Oct. 3rd at 3:45. Johnston G10

Please bring ideas for guest speakers and workshops.

See you then!

Media and Pedagogy Theorist Gregory Ulmer Visiting UWM

From Jon McKenzie
Asst. Professor of English
Coordinator of Modern Studies:

Media and pedagogy theorist Gregory Ulmer is visiting UWM this week.

On Thursday, 9/29, at 4:00 in Curtin 939, Prof. Ulmer will give an informal
colloquium hosted by the Modern Studies program. He will discuss the distinction between grammatology and deconstruction, creativity as supplement to critique, and how all of these inform his "emerAgency" consultancy project. In an open discussion, he will then apply his consultancy skills to the problematic, "w(h)ither modern studies?"
Everyone is welcome; see pdf.

Prof. Ulmer is visiting UWM as part of the Department of Film and Conceptual Studies Colloquia, Art in the Age of the Post-Medium Condition, where he will give a talk titled "Electracy: Flash Reason Against the Internet Accident" on Friday, 9/30, at 2:00 in Curtin 175. This talk is open to the public, but those interested in new media, Comp/Rhet, and cultural theory are especially encouraged to attend. A full schedule of this exciting colloquia series can be seen here. More information and examples of Prof. Ulmer's research and teaching experiments, can be found here.

Billboard Liberation

I do (not) apologize for the seemingly progressive, antiestablishmentarist sentiment of the last few blogs of art-works. It just seems that all of the good work is produced by angry, disenfranchised people. This is from The Billboard Liberation Front, whose mission states

emphatically and for all time herein that to Advertise is to Exist. To Exist is to Advertise. Our ultimate goal is nothing short of a personal and singular Billboard for each citizen. Until that glorious day for global communications when every man, woman and child can scream at or sing to the world in 100Pt. type from their very own rooftop; until that day we will continue to do all in our power to encourage the masses to use any means possible to commandeer the existing media and to alter it to their own design.

The above image is from the Lord of War project. Also nice is the Information Architecture entry, which explains how the BLF makes its work.

DACSO Meeting Highlights

Here are the highlights from the last DACSO meeting:

-Elections were held, these are the results
-President -- Aaron Lunderville
-Vice President -- Sam Vanderhoof
-Secretary -- Bridget Gallagher
-Treasurer -- Leah Jee

-A DACSO page will be added to the DAC web site.

-We will have a design contest to "brand" DACSO with a visual image

-We are going to have a small exhibition late this fall, and a larger one in the spring

-We are going to apply for funding to travel to the IDMAA convention in April

-Bring ideas for workshops and guest speakers to the next meeting (3 Oct. 3:45 in G10)

Event Resources Presents Internship

Event Resources Presents
Concert/Marketing - Internship

Event Resources does major concerts on college campuses in the midwest and east coast. Currently we are seeking a marketing intern. This person would learn about how record companies and concert promoters advertise/market concerts. We are looking for someone who is motivated and dependable to work 10-20 hours a week.

Please call or email Scott Ziel at:
Ph: 414-221-0550
Email: scott[at]eventresourcespresents.com


Scott Ziel
scott[at]eventresourcespresents.com
Event Resources Presents
338 N. Milwaukee Street
Suite 302
Milwaukee, WI 53202
Ph: 414-221-0550
Fax: 414-221-0554
www.eventresourcespresents.com

Call for papers: Crossings: A Counter-Disciplinary Journal

Call for papers: Crossings: A Counter-Disciplinary Journal
Issue # 9: The "Work" of Art
DEADLINE: December 1, 2005

The ninth issue of Crossings aims at addressing the ambiguous
relationship between the aesthetic and the ethical. The binary between
ethicism (the notion of art as a guide to morality) and aestheticism
(the notion that art and morality are autonomous spheres) has
historically framed the thinking about art and ethics, but what is at
stake in limiting our thinking to this framework? We invite people to
think beyond and across this gulf and to imagine other possibilities
of art's power.

Assuming that art exercises power in the realms of the social and the
ethical, we may ask the question: what should art do, or what is the
work of art? We know that art can instigate social change, but art's
power may reach further, actually determining the social and the
ethical in some way.

Philosophers have long discussed thought's dependence on the
construction of images, or what might be termed "the imagination".
Given this relationship between thinking and the imagination, are
moral and political philosophy, along with other forms of thinking,
forms of art or literature? What is the transformative power of
image-making in relation to thinking and the construction of a social
reality? Do aesthetics and the imagination hold the radical potential
to burst the solidity of the normative structures of "universal" modes
of perception and fundamentally change the way we construct and relate
to our world and one another? What are the implications of this
complex network that encompasses thinking, the imagination, the
aesthetic, and the political, social, and ethical?

All forms of art are open for discussion. We invite essays from
practicing artists in all mediums, in addition to scholars from
various fields.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
Aestheticizing politics and politicizing art
Journalism
"Body Art": Piercing, Tattoos, Body Building
Happenings
Politically "committed" literature
Indigenous art
The instrumentalization of art
Art and violence
The institutionalization of art
Art and revolution
Ethics as art/Art as ethics
Art and pornography
Info-tainment
Fetishism
Testimonial
Art and authenticity
Exposure to alterity or the political through art
Myth
The art market
Photography
Grafitti
Performance art
Image-making and thinking
Religion and popular literature
The gesture of art's work in relation to language
Protest art forms
Pedagogical possibilities: Art and the ethical in the classroom

Submissions should be in MSWord or WordPerfect format, double-spaced,
and conform to the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, endnote
citation format. Hard copy manuscripts should be submitted in duplicate
and should be accompanied by a disk version (IBM compatible 3 1/2"
disk). Manuscripts will not be returned unless accompanied by a
self-addressed, stamped envelope. A style sheet is available in Adobe
Acrobat format on-line at: http://crossings.binghamton.edu/style.pdf.

Additional information can be found at: http://crossings.binghamton.edu

Send all manuscripts and inquiries by December 1, 2005 to:
Amy Smith at xings[at]binghamton.edu

Or,
Crossings
Department of English
P.O. Box 6000
Binghamton University
Binghamton, New York 13902-6000

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CFP[at]english.upenn.edu
Full Information at
http://cfp.english.upenn.edu
or write Jennifer Higginbotham: higginbj[at]english.upenn.edu
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Political Art

Radical. From Lane Hall:

Dear Folks,

I thought this was a fascinating project - both in its structure and in
the problematic aspects of childhood and agency. Is this a legitimate
way to make "political art?" or is the instigation of power as bad as
the critique?

The Punishment is piece by artistKristofer Paetau.
ThePunishment.pdf

DACSO open meeting

All are invited to the upcoming meeting of the newly formed Digital Arts and Culture Student Organization on Monday, September 19 at 3:45 pm in
Johnston Hall, G24.

There will be cookies, and items to be discussed will be upcoming exhibitions, travel to the International Digital Media and Arts Association Conference, Elections, and Designing Publicity Posters.

If you are teaching a class related to Digital Arts and Culture, please announce to your classes. If you are a student, please ask the teacher if you could make this announcment. Or send this blog as an email to interested parties by clicking on that little envelope below this post.

DACSO approved

The Digital Arts and Culture Student Organization was officially approved by the Student Association Senate in July. Founding members Aaron Lunderville and Leah Jee were at the meeting where they spoke on behalf of the group whose purpose is to promote educational and professional advancement in the general fields related to Digital Arts and Culture. "I'm excited about the opportunity to bring creative students from all areas of the University together to create and share their work," said Bridget Gallagher, another founder.
"Now we have the possibility of bringing media professionals to UWM to share their expertise and experiences with the students," added Lunderville.
Anyone interested in DACSO should contact dacsoboard@uwm.edu.

Raking the Muck left by Katrina

Some of my favorite items in the media now are Kanye West's performance on live TV on NBC's Concert for Hurricane Relief, the captions accompanying the photo's that he described, and current.tv's blog entry entitled citizen rescue, maintained by Robin Sloan.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

The Milwaukee Divide

The Union Art Gallery is located at 2200 East Kenwood Boulevard on the Campus level is free and open to the public. The gallery will be open for Gallery Night from 11am-9pm on Friday and 11-3pm on Saturday.

Union Art Gallery Director Andrea Skyberg has curated a smart bunch of artists in this exhibition that looks at divisions in Milwaukee. Coming from a myriad of formal and political perspectives the works seem to spark and sparkle- many works use video and invite viewer interaction.
In works like Jeremy Brown's, where any person walking into the space has their moving image projected but eerily divided by a wall that only exists as a digital construct.
Jamal Currie and Steve Wetzel's works uses antennae and video transmitters and receivers to describe an idiosyncrasy in Milwaukee's segregation: Where does Old World Third Street End and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive Begin?
Marc Tasman's video work shows us in surveillance video a string of people trying to steal a John Kerry for President sign. In another video we see the haunting flames that dance as they devour a Bush/Cheney sign while the Music of a Belly Dancer's band plays the theme from Laurence of Arabia. Both videos come projected out of a four foot stack of firewood - atop the pile are the actual embattled signs from the surveillance videos.
Also highly intriguing is Nicholas Lampert's photos of North Avenue as it begins on the western outskirts and sketches all the way to Lake Michigan. Reminiscent of the work of Ed Ruscha, the photos also invoke other famous dividing walls, formerly in Berlin and now in the West Bank. This sixty foot long wall in the gallery, covered by this line of photos shows us the visual culture of the city in unique storefronts and street art.
The entire show is held together by stark panels of statistical data detailing the changes of populations of African American, Latinos, and Whites in Milwaukee.
Powerful. Not to be missed.

Additional artists include:

Jesus Ali
Jenny Plevin & Allison Westbrook
Armando Gallegos
Alisha Dallosto
Eliot White
Michael Maier

Runs through August 5. Open during summer Gallery
Night and Day on July 29th & 30th., with closing
performance on Friday, August 5th from 8-10:30 by
Lyrical Sanctuary (an open mic series that welcomes
poets, artists, and performers to express themselves
before a captive audience).

For more info see
http://www.aux.uwm.edu/Union/events/gallery/e-announcment/Untitled-1.htm
+
http://www.aux.uwm.edu/Union/events/gallery/index.html


From the press release:
The Union Art Gallery at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UAG) is pleased to present the exhibition The Milwaukee Divide from July 8 th –August 5 th , 2005. This exhibition tackles the issues of segregation and separation in Milwaukee through the mediums of video installation, photography, painting and sculpture. The topics of segregation and separation are being interpreted broadly to include racial issues, as well as geographical, political, gender and economic segregation in Milwaukee.

Photography Crime

I can imagine a pastiche of the 1971 film, Dirty Harry, where the alleged lucky feeling punk, who makes Detective Harry Callahan's day reaches for a digital camera instead of a gun. Milo sent me this link that once again poses the conflict between National Security and the essential rights of every American to Express Free Speech and Bear Cameras.

Is Photography Becoming Illegal?

Even though there's no law against it, you may be interrogated the next
time you snap a picture of the Empire State Building.

How Journalists and PR Professionals Use Blogs

A Forum sponsored by PR Newswire in the San Francisco Bay Area highlights how blogs are becoming more influential on mainstream media outlets. One major advantage sited in this forum of blogs over traditional print and broadcast media is the speed and ease of bloggers to correct mistakes online.
Panelist David Whelan, staff writer for Forbes, countered that mainstream media has one big advantage over blogs: "Most blogs are derivative; very few bloggers pick up the phone or look through documents. They do a lot of important analysis and commentary, but mainstream media will do more reporting."

Thanks to Steve Rubel for deriving this before me.

Call for Submissions: Enso and Lorg

From Andrea Fitzpatrick at the National University of Ireland (NUI) in Galway, Ireland.

Enso and Lorg call for work by performance, video & sound artists, dancers, musicians for collaboration at various venues around Galway during the Galway Arts Festival 2005.

Please send samples of work to ensoart[at]yahoo.ie or to
Enso, c/o Artspace,
7-8 Addley Park,
Liosban Industrial Estate,
Galway, Ireland
www.ensoart.com
Closing date: 13th of June 2005

Once Hactivist Hero Now Called Fraud

Spanish University Lecturer Forced to Resign Over P2P -- Now discredited by the Spanish Blogoshpere that gave him his rise, Jose Cortell has come under attack for his crudentials.

Cortell had been teaching about "Intellectual Property" among other subjects in the Polytechnic University of Valencia UPV (Spain) for more than 5 years, when he tried to organize a Conference to defend the legal use of Peer to Peer Networks in Spain. What followed were claims that pressure was applied by the Spanish Recording Industry Association, and even the Motion Picture Association of America to the Deans and Directors at the University for Cortell's resignation. Then the stories of a fake C.V. emerged. See Comments.

Bill Moyers on Media Reform

The National Conference for Media Reform, organized by Free Press convened last week in St. Louis. I picked this up from Grace Hanson, writer for the Utne Reader Online. Be The Media, blogging from the audience, hallways and streets of the conference collected and commented on some pretty substantial content, even some audio files of speeches, including Bill Moyers rousing speech, his first public appearance since leaving PBS six months ago (transcript here). He quotes Jason Miller on corporate corruption of mainstream media "...the real hope [for Journalism] lies within the Internet..."

Tess Gallun's Women Combat Photographers

Documentary filmmaker Tess Gallun, while pursuing her MA in The Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at UWM, is doing some amazing work that draws on her own experiences, as well as the timely subject of Representation of War.

What I like about Tess' work is that it is very active, having an activist quality to it, but the call to action does not seem partisan. This call is to examine closely the experiences, feelings and actions of female photographers shooting (their cameras) in the midst of killing. How do these photojournalists justify their subject/object relationships in very raw situations where death, brutality, compassion, and ambition spill out and pool together in dramatic scenes?

Tune in to find out, Gallun is presenting a paper called Death's Conflicted Responsibility: Female Photojournalists and Front-line Ethics, to the International Communication Association Conference in New York, at the end of the month.

Visual Culture in Music Culture

Louisville based Peter Berkowitz writes music critcism and interviews artists.
He just showed me his blog where his two most recent reviews are of Louisville bands and musical combos named the Photographic, Instant Camera, and VHS or Beta (groovy website).
Berkowitz on Instant Camera:
What gives Instant Camera an edge on similar groups is its ability to draw inspiration from yet another source: hints of the theatrical German cabaret style emerge in the last songs, "Terrorvision" and "Hearing Is Disbelieving."

What I find amazing are these Louisville bands' referncences to Visual Culture and Photography. Louisville is where I came from, and before me, Muhammed Ali, Hunter S. Thompson, and Louis Brandeis. But what is going on down there, now?

Jon Stewart Burns Corporate TV on Blogs

Jon Stewart did a nice bit of scathing news on the news on the news. It's getting hard to see the parody through the truth anymore. In any case, here is the link to the clip describing the lackluster job that mainstream Television News does in reporting from the Blogosphere (from the May 9, 2005 Daily Show).
Thank you Lisa Rein.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: "Open City" Video Pool (Winnipeg)

Paul Couillard maintains this FADO elist with lot of amazing intermedia performance calls:

Artists are invited to submit works for an art exhibition during the 2nd annual Open Source Cultural Exchange called OpenCity, taking place August 17 - 20, 2005 in Winnipeg's Exchange District. We are looking for art in any media which responds to the idea of a Cultural (and Technological) Commons, Free Software, Open Source and the creation of shared-culture alternatives to corporate-controlled culture.

OpenCity believes that creativity always builds on the past, and that unrestricted, unbalanced copyright law wielded by powerful media conglomerates can stifle an artist's transformative re-use of material. If you are making artwork which explores these ideas, submit 10-20 slides, a CD or DVD, video, audiotape or URL, plus a curriculum vitae and a brief artist's statement. OpenCity invites submissions of: New
Media, Experimental Electronics, Video, Performance, Installation, Audio Art, Painting, Sculpture, Digital Art etc. The jury will consist of professional artists and OpenCity programmers.

Artist fees will be paid. Deadline for submissions: June 10, 2005

Send submissions to:
OpenCity Exhibition
c/o Video Pool Inc.
300-100 Arthur Street
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Canada R3B 1H3

Please enclose a self-addressed stamped envelope if you would like your material returned. Only artists selected for the OpenCity Exhibition will be notified. For more information on OpenCity please see http://www.freeculture.ca

Morgan Freeman Wins Control of morganfreeman.com

From Yahoo!News AP:
Arbitrators for the World Intellectual Property Organization ordered the transfer of the domain name to the American actor, who had complained that it was being used in bad faith to divert Internet traffic to a commercial search engine.