AIGA UWM Driven Design Conference

2nd Bi-annual Design Conference
Saturday, November 3
UW-Milwaukee Student Union
Wisconsin Room Third Level
Registration begins at 8:30 am
Breakfast at 9:00 am
Concluding Reception at Twisted Fork, 6:00 pm

On November 3rd, the design students in the AIGA UWM chapter on campus will hold a design conference. It will feature a range of topics from screen-printing to fashion design to owning a design business and putting on a successful marketing campaign.

See conference and registration information at the AIGA UWM website, http://aigauwm.org
For further information contact Kyle Strash, AIGA UWM Event Coordinator
uwmdrivendesign07[at]yahoo[dot]com

Artist Proposes New Flag

Marc Tasman has spent much of the past year on a campaign to officially
change the design of the American flag to better reflect post-9/11 realities. On Friday October 12, 2007, he will unveil his work,
“Proposal for The New American Flag: Representing a New Constellation” at the Institute of Visual Arts (Inova/Vogel, 3253 N. Downer Ave), as part of an exhibition of work by seven artists who received Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists in 2006. The opening reception, which is free and open to the public, will take place at Inova/Vogel on Friday, October 12, from 6-9 pm and will commence with a flag raising ceremony and parade which features Tasman's three and a half year old son singing The Star-Spangled Banner. Gallery hours are Wednesday-Sunday, noon to 5 pm. The Gallery will also be open on Gallery Night and Day, October 19 and 20.

Tasman’s didactic installation includes videos, posters, maps, letters to government officials, and hundreds of the new American flags ranging in scale from four inches to nine feet. Catalogue essayist Sarah Kanouse writes: “At a cursory glance, Tasman’s flag looks the same as the familiar Old Glory, but subtle changes—nineteen stripes to
reflect the naïveté of September 10, ninety-nine stars on the blue field—clue the viewer that the state of the Union has shifted. Tasman’s flag does more than materialize the supposed historical turning point of September 11, 2001. It makes visible in iconic form the beliefs that justify profound changes in far more significant pillars of our democracy: those civil liberties established in the bill of rights and human rights standards set by international law… Tasman offers it as an
opportunity to reconsider the complex relationship between the nation, its symbols, and its future.”


Pieces of the exhibition are documented at:
http://99starflag.com

A condensed version of the Post story.

Mary Louise Schumacher's Journal Sentinel blog.

JS Online- Prized Possessions.

A Scathing/Glowing Review in the Shepherd Express.

Frontpage Milwaukee post.

The Nation.

UWM Pathervision YouTube-Tasman Flag.

Susceptible to Images.

Yo Gabba Gabba - Behind The Scenes

Inexplicably delightful and hip, Yo Gabba Gabba, began airing a few weeks ago at the end of August on Nick Jr. It's trippy and smart, with its brightly colored furry finger on pulse of the independent and DIY spirit. It was imagined by Chirstian Jacobs and Scott Schultz with the intent of hooking parents and children--it worked. Mike Newman hooked me up with their production blog, Yo Blogga Blogga.

ExxonMobil: Vivoleum is made of People

The Yes Men have presented ExxonMobil's (XOM) new plan to deal with the impending energy crisis at a development conference in Calgary: Vivoleum. By converting human remains of the victims of climate change into fuel, the survivors could live comfortably for years to come. From Pete Sands:
http://www.bittertonic.com/bitter-irene/442/exxon-will-burn-people-for-fuel

McCAW/BUDSBERG at The Soap Factory

Shana McCaw and Brent Budsberg working on the BROKEN DOWN installation in their Milwaukee studio.

McCAW/BUDSBERG COLLABORATIONS
present
BROKEN DOWN
at The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
Opening: June 30, 2007 at 7:00PM

Using theatrical lighting, carefully choreographed fog machines, LEDs and 1:32 scale models, "Broken Down" transforms the decaying boiler room of the Soap Factory into a murky industrial landscape. The focal point of the installation is a small-scale semi truck stopped in the middle of a bridge spanning the space. Viewed from only two portals into the space, "Broken Down" creates an unsettling vignette, set against the hulking silhouettes of defunct industry.

More like, Too Bad about Phil Leotardo

Though I personally found the choice of Journey's Don't Stop Believin' enthralling, and the cut to black inevitable, pragmatic and pregnant with the narrative that Tony Soprano survives, but as a paranoid adrenaliniac, our colleague, Mike Newman differs. He was quoted via his blog, zigzigger on Slate earlier this month about the HBO series finale. Nice work.

At Zigzigger, media studies professor Michael Z. Newman is among the let down, writing it was "[a]n end but hardly an ending. Not artful but arty, and totally unlike the classic novels to which snooty critics would so often compare the show. The show's comedy is typically darker than black, but now it's at our expense."

Memory Palaces

Memory Palaces
an installation of digital prints on found paper
new work by Lane Hall

Exhibition runs June 10 - July 29
Opening Reception on Friday, June 15, 5-7pm

Memory Palaces is a convergence of Homer, Joyce, and Google, along with decades of personal journal entries that artist/writer Lane Hall has mined with the intention of telling stories about memory and forgetting. Memory Palaces interconnects cognitive theory and historically derived memory models. Senility, narcotics, psychotropic drugs and the spirit-world are invoked as meditations upon oblivion, while writing itself is posed as a means for fixing memory to imperfect maps.

The Memory Palace is a mnemonic model which consists of interconnected rooms subtitled Lotus Eaters, Telemachiad, From A Moon With No Planets, Lost Wax, Ars Narcotica, and A Snake Men Fear To Touch.

Queer Zine Art Show

From Milo Miller:
The Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) in conjunction with the Milwaukee LGBT Film Festival and Rhizome Space celebrates QZAP's third year with a film screening and Queer Zine Art Show on Friday, June 22nd in Milwaukee, WI. The 7pm film screening at Woodland Pattern Book Center (720 E Locust St) features queer zine pioneer Bruce La Bruce's "No Skin off My Ass" (16mm on DVD, b&w/sound, 73 min., 1991). Tickets are $2. This seminal and sweet queer punk romance features a Karen Carpenter-loving gay hairdresser who falls helplessly in love with a stray skinhead who he invites into his home. Kicking off after the screening at 8:30pm, the gallery show at Rhizome Space (3172 Bremen St) lifts art from the pages of phenomenal queer zines by artists Miss Schnookum, Lane McKiernan, Cookie Tuff, Sina Shamsavari, Rachael House, Larry Bob, and more.

Excellent Political Art: RUNNING THE NUMBERS

AN AMERICAN SELF-PORTRAIT (2006-2007)
Cell Phones, 2007
60x100"

Depicts 426,000 cell phones, equal to the number of cell phones retired in the US every day. Detail at actual size:

From Nicolas Lampert:
Nicole Schulman sent out this email recommending a show by Chris Jordan-pretty amazing digital images about consumption in the US-the series will be exhibited at the Von Lintel Gallery in New York from June 14th to the end of July.

FUSE

On May 3rd from 10am to 4pm at the UWM Student Union Concourse FUSE will have its 2nd appearance!

FUSE is an annual event that show cases the design abilities of the students in the Graphic Design Program at the Peck School of the Arts, Department of Visual Art by bringing to market innovative products for the residents and visitors of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus community.

We look forward to seeing you!

You can check out all FUSE products at:
http://www.aigauwm.org/Pages/Events/uwmevents.html#


Website designed by Mike Mueller
Email blasts and postcards designed by: Kelly Rippl,
Dan Hagar, Andrew Whitcomb

Throwies in Milwaukee

From Lane Hall and the Evan Roth Throwies Workshop at UWM last Friday.

Mat Rappaport Awarded Howard Foundation Fellowship

Nice work, Mat Rappaport, DAC Faculty

HOWARD FOUNDATION NEWS RELEASE APRIL, 2007

Providence, RI -- The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation, administered by Brown University for the Board of Administration of the Howard Foundation, announced twelve fellowships of $25,000 each for the 2007-2008 academic year. The twelve recipients, representing the fields of Visual Arts, Media Studies and the History of Art and Architecture, were selected from among 237 artists and scholars nominated by administrative officers of colleges, universities, and cultural institutions throughout the country. The 2007-2008 fellows and their projects are:

Visual Arts and Media Studies:

Yizhak Elyashiv, Independent Artist, Adjunct Faculty: Rhode Island College and
Rhode Island School of Design, Landscape – Memory.

Paul Ramirez Jonas, Assistant Professor of Studio Art, Bard College, Clay Library: To be Spoken out Loud.

Pam Lins, Independent Artist and Adjunct Instructor at the Cooper Union School of Art, Please Bear with Us.

Hillary Mushkin, Associate Professor of Digital Media Art & Design, Orange Coast College, As We Go On: A Drawing Series.

Paul Myoda, Assistant Professor, Visual Arts Department, Brown University, 21st Century Architectural Ornamentation.

Carol Prusa, Associate Professor, Department of Visual Art and Art History, Florida Atlantic University, Innies and Outies Unification Series: An Investigation of “Wonderfully Strange Ideas” (Expressed in Domes and Quantum Foam).

Mat Rappaport, Assistant Professor Digital Media, Department of Visual Art, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Office, A Multichannel Video Installation and Performance.

Rigo 23, Independent Artist, Criminal/Victim.

History of Art and Architecture:

Alexander Alberro, Associate Professor, School of Art and Architecture, University of Florida, Periodizing Contemporary Art.

William Gleason, Associate Professor, Department of English, Princeton University, Sites Unseen: Architecture, Race, and American Literature.

Robin Greeley, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Connecticut, Between Campesino and State: the Mexican Avant-garde and Images of the Nation, 1920-1952.

Max Page, Associate Professor of Architecture and History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Priceless: The History and Politics of Historic Preservation.

The Board of Administration announced that fellowships in 2008-2009 will be awarded in the fields of Music, Playwriting and Theatre Studies. See the Howard Foundation website for more information.

Graffiti Research Lab in Milwaukee

From Lane Hall:
Folks,

You don't want to miss Layton Lecture and Visiting Artist Evan Roth on
Thursday, April 19th, 7:30 p.m. at UWM's Curtin 175. (free and open to
the public).

Evan Roth is a media maker interested in uses of technology in popular
culture and the urban environment. He is currently doing some of the most compelling public art projects in the world. He is a founding member of Graffiti Research Lab and a developer of multiple technology hacker applications, including
“throwies.” He is also a senior fellow at the Eyebeam OpenLab, an
open source creative technology research and development lab for the public
domain. (Where, by the way, Intermedia grad alum Paul Amitai also
works.)

You can view his amazing output and viral interventions at the
following sites (but be sure to spend some time at Graffiti Research
Lab!)

http://ni9e.com/
http://graffitiresearchlab.com/
http://research.eyebeam.org/people/evan-roth

++++++++++++++++++++++
Join us on Friday, April 20th at 3:00 in the 3rd floor of Kenilworth for a hands-on "Throwies" workshop! Learn this simple hack that is rocking the internet and engage in thinking about electronic palettes and new forms of interaction within contested public spaces. This event is free, but space is limited, so please sign up at the Grad Office (A255) in the Art Building on UWM campus.

Please contact Lane Hall with any questions.

Therese Quinn and Daniel Tucker

From Nicolas Lampert:

Upcoming Presentation at UWM by Therese Quinn and Daniel Tucker. This event is during Nicolas Lampert's ART 309 class and is open to all. Please inform your
students!

Therese Quinn will present on teaching art education within a social justice framework and Daniel Tucker will present on activist art projects within Chicago.

Wednesday, April 18th 4:00-6:40
MIT 191
EVERYONE WELCOME!

Therese Quinn is an assistant professor of art education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she directs an undergraduate teacher education program. She also works with the Multicultural Arts School, one of four new public high schools built to serve the Little Village/North Lawndale neighborhoods, and serves on the coordinating committee of the Chicago Teachers for Social Justice.
She is a co-editor of the book "Teaching for Social Justice: A Democracy and Education Reader."

Daniel Tucker is the editor of AREA Chicago - a biannual publication dedicated to researching and networking the art, education, and activist practices within the city of Chicago. AREA Chicago focuses on grassroots projects and has explored the themes of Privatization/Welfare Cuts, Local Food Systems, and social movements that connects local practice with the rest of the globe.

Additionally, AREA Chicago sponsors three related projects: “Infrastructure Lecture Series” dealing with organizational/sustainability issues of activist and
cultural groups and the “Peoples Atlas of Chicago: Sites of Relevance” mapping project which takes the form of workshops designed to create subjective and nontraditional maps of the city about different topics, and "AREA Books Imprint" - our most recent side project launching next year.

Googlization

Saturday, May 12, 2007

The School of Information Studies invites you to the 2007 Ted Samore Lecture featuring Siva Vaidhyanathan.

Siva Vaidhyanathan, a cultural historian and media scholar, is the author of Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity (New York University Press, 2001) and The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System (Basic Books, 2004). Vaidhyanathan has written for many periodicals, including American Scholar, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times Magazine, MSNBC.COM, Salon.com, openDemocracy.net, and The Nation. After five years as a professional journalist, Vaidhyanathan earned a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. He has taught at Wesleyan University, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Columbia University, and is currently an associate professor of Culture and Communication at New York University and a fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities.

Hide House
2625 S. Greeley St.
Bay View, WI 53207

Cocktails 5:00
Buffet Dinner 5:30-6:30
Presentation 7:00

Please RSVP by May 1, 2007

Registration Fee: $20.00 ($10/student)
Registration Form

Contact: UWM - School of Information Studies

Bolton Hall Rm: 510
3210 N Maryland Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53211

Ph: 414-229-4707
Fax: 414-229-6699

International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA) Annual Conference | 2007

From Bendtio Petronio:

International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA) Annual Conference | 2007
Curitiba , Brazil | Oct 10th - 13th

We are pleased to announce IVLA 2007 a forum for addressing and discussing Visual Literacy issues and perspectives from the lenses of theory, research, and practice. This is a partially joint event with the 3rd Information Design International Conference. There will be one overlapping day between the two conferences (October 10). Participants will be eligible to attend both conferences, fully or partially.

The IVLA Conference will take place for the first time in Latin America, in the city of Curitiba , Brazil . Brazil is a country of cultural diversity, visual experiences and colorful beauty, but also a country that faces challenges to build up a socially responsible future in the information era. So, we understand Visual Literacy as a field extending itself beyond frontiers of experience, embracing information, considering culture of human dimension, and celebrating diversity.

Proposals regarding the conference theme Visual Literacy beyond frontiers: information, culture and diversity are especially welcome. However, we will also welcome proposals concerning other visual literacy topics such as:

• Artistic Expressions (topics may include new media)
• Design and Communication
• Cultural Influences, Impacts, and Considerations
• Historic Uses and Approaches
• Ethical, Social, and Philosophical Concerns
• Research, Theories, and Definitions
• Transformative Functions
• Education, Teaching, and Learning
• Societal and Community Issues
• Future Trends and Directions

Marc Tasman at Ann Arbor Film Festival

Thanks to David Dinnell, and apologies for the shameless self promo:

Marc Tasman's video piece, "Who Is Stealing My Signs?" has been programmed into the schedule of films selected for competition at the 45th Ann Arbor Film Festival. The Ann Arbor Film Festival screenings and events take place in the historic Michigan Theater, a restored 1920s movie house in downtown Ann Arbor. Tasman's work will be screened in the Main Theatre, the 1,700-seat auditorium on Saturday night, traditionally the most attended night of the Festival,
March 24th.

This year the Festival received 2000 submissions from more than 25 countries. From these, less than 5% were selected for competition.

The Ann Arbor Film Festival showcases independent and experimental film and video. Established in 1963, this internationally-renowned festival is the oldest of its kind in North America. Each year the festival attracts entries from moving image artists worldwide and screens more than 100 films before audiences during
six days in March.

See the list of the 45th Ann Arbor Film Festival's
Competition Films.

DIGITAL CULTURAL STUDIES POSITION

From Nicholas Mirzoeff:

DIGITAL CULTURAL STUDIES POSITION

Stony Brook University, as part of a major, multi-departmental initiative in Digital Arts, Culture, and Technology, seeks scholars whose focus is digital cultural studies. Desirable areas of specialties include visual culture; new media arts; participatory digital culture; diasporic cultures, globalization and cross-culturally in the digital era; history/philosophy of digital media/art/music/technology; digital narrative, games and gaming.
Responsibilities will include undergraduate and graduate instruction, supervision of student research and writing, dissertation direction, advising, and departmental and University service. The successful candidate will be based in Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies but may also teach in Art or Music as appropriate. We anticipate hiring at the rank of assistant professor. Exceptional candidates may be considered at higher rank. Ph.D. and a record of scholarship and teaching at levels
appropriate to rank are expected. Application review to begin March 20 and
will continue until the position is filled. Send letter of application,
C.V., at least three letters of reference, statement of teaching interests/philosophy, and a representative writing sample to:
Digital Media Search,
Office of the Provost,
407 Administration Building,
Stony Brook University,
Stony Brook, NY 11794-1401.

See also this New Media Art Faculty Position.

Call for Art

From Charles Vestal,
Director of Development
Hunger Task Force, Inc.

Holiday Art Needed for Cards

Calling All Artists


Whether you're a professional or an amateur, an art school graduate or a self-taught genius, Hunger Task Force needs your art for our 2007 holiday cards!

Each year, Hunger Task Force prints three different holiday greeting cards featuring original artwork by local artists. Proceeds from the sale of the cards benefit Hunger Task Force's anti-hunger work. It's a great way to see your artwork mass produced and to help feed hungry families during the holidays. Deadline April 10, 2007. More details at Hunger Task Force

Call for Applications: Residency

The Institute of Quotidian Arts and Letters at Milwaukee (IQALM) is now accepting applications for the Cultural Crisis Studio Program for Individual Artists. This residency was established to bring artists that produce challenging work to Milwaukee to engage with its vibrant arts community. There are no medium restrictions; all work will be considered as long as the form is provocative, engaging and provides a meaningful critique of contemporary culture. The two month long residency will provide the resident artist with a studio and living space as well as opportunities to collaborate with artists and curators working in Milwaukee. Please see http://quotidianarts.tk for more information and application instructions. Preference will be given to applicants form outside the Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Upper-Midwest region of the United States. Deadline for the first residency cycle is March 15.

leisurearts

leisurearts, originally uploaded by marctasman.

"Is the new" is the new next big thing.
Randall wants you to tag this to your del.icio.us account.
http://thediagram.com/6_3/leisurearts.html

Call for Papers, Net(works): Art and Pre-Existing Web Platforms

Call for papers - SECAC 07
Net(works): Art and Pre-Existing Web Platforms

Beyond using the internet as a way to show representations of visual and performance work, artists have been using pre-existing dynamic content web sites as the actual site of the work. One of the first projects of this nature included Keith Obadike selling his blackness on eBay. More recently, Cary Peppermint’s Department of Networked Performance, an educational situation, uses MySpace as its host. The
Gif Show also used MySpace, appropriately, as a parallel site for a curatorial project in real space about the aesthetics of low-bit production. A public art competition and gallery shows have suddenly been popping up in Second Life, a virtual world created by users and inhabited by their avatars, which interact with each other in real-time.
How are artists currently using these and similar spaces? Are these projects considered interventions, or otherwise? Are these spaces appropriate for undergraduate education projects? How do real curatorial spaces intersect with these virtual spaces? What do these spaces, with or without the art world, mean within visual culture contexts? Please propose your presentation as it pertains to any
field - practice, history/theory/criticism, museum studies, and/or education.

Patrick Holbrook, Georgia College & State University

Email: patrick.holbrook[at]gcsu.edu

Proposals are due May 1st, 2007. Conference is October 17-20, 2007 in
Charleston, West Virginia.
http://www.unc.edu/~rfrew/SECAC/annual_conference.html

88Nine Radio Milwaukee

From Jenny Plevin:

Hello wonderful people,

I hope you're well and warm.

As some of you may know, I work (in addition to docUWM) at at 88Nine Radio Milwaukee and we are finally getting ready to launch the station!

As a part of our launch, we've created a survey that will allow us to find out what residents think about our community and the Milwaukee area. This Research will allow us to quickly capture how area residents see the Milwaukee area as a whole. It will be used by Radio Milwaukee in making programming decisions and in its larger objective of community building.

I would like to get our survey in front of as many people as possible, so please take it and pass it along. Surveys are fun!

Here's the page to link to our survey:
http://www.radioformilwaukee.org/spherestudy.html

Thanks!
Jenny

FADO February 2007 posting

From Paul Couillard:

The Fado elist posts approximately once a month with news and information of interest to performance artists and their audiences. Postings include information on current Fado projects and activities, current calls for submission from around the world, and other important information.

FADO E-LIST (February 2007)

INDEX

1. FADO NEWS
2. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY: Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Fine Arts (Toronto)
Deadline:February 15, 2007; Source: Akimbo
3. CALL FOR PROJECTS: AgenceTOPO.qc.ca (Montréal)
Deadline: February 15, 2007; Source: Agence TOPO
4. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: "ANTI Festival" (Finland)
Deadline:February 28, 2007; Source: ANTI Festival
5. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS {PUBLICATION): "Nature and Technology" Locus Suspectus Magazine (Montréal)
Deadline: February 28, 2007; Source: Locus Suspectus
6. CALL FOR PROPOSALS (PUBLICATION): "Canular" la revue esse arts + opinions (Montréal)
Deadline: March 1, 2007; Source: esse
7. CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: "International MFA in New Media" Transart Institute (Austria)
Deadline: March 15, 2007; Source: ARTSERVIS
8. RESIDENCY: "Lower East Side Rotating Studio Program" (USA)
Deadline:March 15, 2007; Source: Artists Alliance Inc.
9. REQUEST FOR COLLABORATORS: "Mehora" Performance art / political campaign (Philippines)
Deadline: mid-March, 2007; Source: Bobby Nuestro
10. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: "Accumulation" The Present Tense (USA)
Deadline: March 21, 2007; Source: The Present Tense
11. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: "Re·Use " New Forms Festival 2007 (Vancouver)
Deadline: April 1, 2007; Source: New Forms Festival
12. RESIDENCY: Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (Dawson City)
Deadline: April 1, 2007; Source: Klondike Institute of Art & Culture
13. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Galerie Sans Nom (Moncton)
Deadline: April 15, 2007; Source: Galerie Sans Nom
14. CALL FOR PAPERS (PUBLICATION): "La Peur" esse arts + opinions numéro 61 (Montréal)
Deadline: April 15, 2007; Source: esse arts + opinions
15. CONGRESS: "Corralling Art - Aboriginal Curatorial Practice in the Prairies and Beyond" (Saskatoon)
Event date: May 17- 18, 2007; Source: TRIBE Inc.
16. RESIDENCY: Elsewhere Artist Collaborative (USA)
Deadline: not given; Source: Instant Coffee
17. CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: PERFURBANCE #3 (Indonesia)
Deadline: not given; Source: performance_art_network
18. REQUEST FOR MATERIALS: Cultural Center of Ministry of Culture (Uruguay)
Deadline: not given; Source: Clemente Padín
19. NEWS: Conservative government cuts international arts promotion budget (Canada)
Source: The Globe and Mail

Invitation to Participate: The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age

From Nan Kim-Paik:

Invitation to Participate

First Draft Posted for Your Feedback, Commentary, Additions, and Examples
http://www.futureofthebook.org/HASTAC/learningreport

"The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age"
Cathy N. Davidson and David Theo Goldberg
A HASTAC Project

Digital Media and Learning Occasional Series
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

We invite your participation in a collaborative project to envision the future of learning institutions. We have posted a first draft of "The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age" on a collaborative editing and feedback tool (
http://www.futureofthebook.org/HASTAC/learningreport). The tool is developed and hosted by the Institute for the Future of the Book (http://www.futureofthebook.org).

We welcome comments, feedback, additions, challenges, and counter-examples. We are especially interested in showcasing current experiments and practices (at your institution or across institutions) that model collaborative, interdisciplinary, and inter-institutional forms of learning. Ideas that enhance, capitalize upon, critique, or incorporate peer-to-peer learning styles that extend the usual boundaries of the
classroom are particularly welcome.

We intend to document innovative practices and to inspire institutional innovation in conception and action-for administrators, policy makers, researchers, teachers, and students (of any age).

In this first, working draft, we lay out premises of "The Future of Learning Institutions". Even at this early stage, we have referenced sources from many fields. We invite you to inform us about other materials-articles, books, websites, blogs, wikis, games-that you find relevant to and compelling for this project.

A progress report will be presented at the first international conference
of HASTAC (pronounced "haystack," an acronym for Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory). This conference, "Electronic Techtonics: Thinking at the Interface", will be held in Durham, North Carolina, April 19-21, 2007. For information about this conference, see www.hastac.org.

All contributions to this project will be acknowledged on a "Collaborators" section of the final report. We thank you in advance for joining us in imaging the future of learning institutions.

Ivy Film Festival, Brown University

Ivy Film Festival, Film + Screenplay Submission Deadlines

Early Deadline: January 24th
Final Deadline: January 31st
www.ivyfilmfestival.com/submit

The Ivy Film Festival’s submissions period is coming to a close!
Submit your film or screenplay online to be considered in the 2007 Ivy
Film Festival. Submissions are accepted early until January 24th, 2007,
with a final deadline of January 31st, 2007. Visit
www.ivyfilmfestival.com/submit to submit your work. This year’s festival takes place April 11-15th at Brown University in Providence, RI.

The Ivy Film Festival encourages the creative efforts of undergraduate
and graduate filmmakers by acting as a quality venue for their work and
by creating opportunities for these filmmakers to learn from one
another and from talented professionals. The festival strives to garner
recognition for student filmmakers by means of a panel of celebrity judges
including: directors, producers, writers, and agents who will view the
top films from the festival.

This year, the festival has partnered with Variety to bring its
visibility to a global level. Each year, awards are sponsored by major
corporations, offering prizes to winners to aid them in their continuous
pursuit of the filmmaking dream. In 2006, the Best Director and Best
Screenplay awards were sponsored by Open Student Television Network (OSTN),
which provided the winners of the respective awards with a new Canon
GL2 digital video camera and a new Apple laptop.

Visit www.ivyfilmfestival.com for submission information, updates and
new information about the festival.

If you have any questions about submissions or the festival, feel free
to email me, Meg Boudreau, at Meghan_Boudreau[at]Brown.edu.

We look forward to receiving your films and screenplays!

Kindly,

Meg Boudreau – Brown ‘08
2007 Ivy Film Festival
Publicity Coordinator
www.ivyfilmfestival.com

Sling presents: "Lantern"

From David J. White aka Agent LeBlanc, Cloudboy:

Sling presents: "Lantern"

Speaker Dust presents: "Noir Condo"

Artasia Gallery and Museum
181 N. Broadway
Historic Third Ward

Take the elevator with the red door to the third floor.

David J. White and Jason Nanna have been working as Sling since January 2006. They have a mutual admiration for psychogeography, experimental film, and indie rock.
This has lead to a busy year of installations, performances and a Mary Nohl fellowship from UW-Milwaukee's venerable Peck School of the Arts for their work with
the time based media collective Done Best Done.
Friday they will present: "Lantern"


Speaker Dust is very private and issues the following statement:
"'Noir Condo' may throw you for a loop.
Expect cream city brick and yellow melting light."

Have a wonderful Gallery Night.
It is going to be frosty.


xtra info:
map

http://myspace.com/slingrecords
http://www.donebestdone.com/
http://www.artasiagallery.com/

Technology Expanding the Horizon: Call for work

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

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

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

Hasan Elahi, Tracking Transience

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

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

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

NEW Course

Jewish and Ethnic Narratives and Identities in Media

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



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

Collage Filmmaker Lewis Klahr

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

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

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

Presented by the UWM Department of Film

Fly Press

Photo by Peter Diantoni

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

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

New Media and Performance

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

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

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

Production Assistants needed for FLY

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

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

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

Thank you.

Nohl Fellowship Exhibition

Nicolas Lampert's Chicken at Bradford Beach

See the giant chicken tonight at iNOVA
INSTITUTE OF VISUAL ARTS

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

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

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

Super Vision at MCA

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

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

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

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

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

Milwaukee Street, Milwaukee

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

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

Sponsored by:

Cost: $7/$5 for members

Location:
MAM

Contact:
MAM
414-224-3200

Bay View Compass Seeks Photo Intern

Photographer

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

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

Spark Video Screening

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

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

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

SparkVideo Call for Submissions

TERMINAL01 :: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

TERMINAL01 :: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

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

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

ONLINE SUBMISSION

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

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

Thanks to Mat Rappaport for this:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For Postmarked submissions:

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

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

Deadline for submissions (received): September 30, 2006

Open Positions: Emerging Media, Visual Culture

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

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

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

see 1st comment for how to apply.

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

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

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

see 2nd comment for how to apply.

Deja Vu: (re-)creating web history

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

The Journal of New Media and Culture

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

Also BeeHive Hypertext/Hypermedia Literary Journal

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

Town Meeting on the Future of Media

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Production Assistants Needed

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thanks,

Mat

The World's Highest Resolution Seamless Display Ever Built

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

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

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

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

Call for Imagery, Art, and Content

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

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

See Comments for Submission Details:

In War/At War: The Practice of Everyday

From Mat Rappaport via rhizome.org
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

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

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

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

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

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

Select Media Festival 5

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

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

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


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

This years festivals components include:

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

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

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

-Performance Program: Live music and performance.

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

Please help us re-ignite dormant forces.

www.selectmediafestival.org


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

Internship Opportunity: QZAP-DAC Partnership

See the comments or the pdf for more details.

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

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

QZAP_DACInternship.pdf

BIOS: The Poetics of Life in Digital Media

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

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

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

DAC/BLOG Nears, Surpasses Ten Thousandth Hit

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

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

Google's "Summer of Code"

From Sandra Braman:

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

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

from Elana Levine

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

ONE HOUR VIDEO

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

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

So, please join us and feel great.

History and Change, International Digital Media Call for Papers

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

Call for Papers Deadline: 2006-08-01

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

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

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

JMC courses for DAC credit

Consider these Fall 2006 courses for DAC practicum credit:

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

Instructor: Tess Gallun

Course Description:

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

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

Instructor: Alison Rostankowski

Course Description:

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

Conference on Openness

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

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

Sandra

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

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

Robert Sengstacke, Civil Rights Photographer

Brought to you by Raoul Deal and Nicolas Lampert:

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

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

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

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

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

Randall Szott: Speculative Cartography and the Praxis of MySpace

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

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

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

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

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

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

Constant Capture

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

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

Fair Use Free Speech Contest

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

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

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

Projecting Off The Wall -- CALL for ART

From the New Media Caucus

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

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

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

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

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

* incorporates computer vision, object tracking and recognition

* utilizes and/or addresses passively sensed environments

* uses active and non-traditional projection techniques

* involves projection onto custom screens, surfaces and objects

* deals with the aesthetics of projected light and digital projection

* engages issues of ubiquitous camera surveillance

* includes real-time projected display of live camera input

* combines multiple projections in innovative ways

* uses projectors and cameras to create immersive and interactive experiences

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

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

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

Submission deadline: May 15, 2006

Exhibition dates: June 18

ProCams

ITP Department, Tisch School of the Arts