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