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.