Conceptual DAC course Spring 2011

English 253 Science Fiction



In 1901, absurdist playwright Alfred Jarry penned what he called a “neo- scientific novel,” The Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, in which he developed the theory of pataphysics – a “science of imaginary solutions.”

Using some simple ideas derived from Jarry, we will explore how novelists, poets, artists and filmmakers of the past century infused concepts of science and technology with imagination and humor in ways that warp, stretch, and rearrange popular expectations of “sci-fi.” We will read a handful of short novels, as well as novel excerpts, scientific essays, articles, manifestos, websites, and short stories (provided in .pdf format on D2L), covering a range of topics: time travel, quantum physics, alternate realities, cyborgs, and bio-engineering to name just a few.

Questions? Contact instructor: Matt Trease CRT 518 mjtrease@uwm.edu

MTAA-Participatory Performance Group at UWM

From DAC-fac, Nathaniel Stern
http://nathanielstern.com

MTAA: a PowerPoint lecture + some other stuff
Wednesday, 12/08/2010, 7:00pm - 8:00PM
Arts Center Lecture Hall, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Part of the Artists Now! Lecture Series
Free and open to the public


Since 1996, Michael Sarff and Tim Whidden have partnered as MTAA, incorporating participatory performances, group installations, aesthetic decision by popular vote and creative collaborations into their worked.
This talk includes a participatory art work!

More info: http://mteww.com/
Sponsored by Peck School of the Arts
Contact: Michael Passmore, passmom@uwm.edu, 414-229-6052

Glimpse. Your Stories From Abroad.

From Sarah Menkedick
Editor in Chief, Glimpse
982 Green St.
San Francisco, CA 94133
sarah[at]glimpse.org
Glimpse.org

A quick reminder that the application deadline for the Spring 2011 Glimpse Correspondents Program is just under two weeks away: November 28, 2010. This is a chance for students, volunteers, teachers, and other travelers to get stories and photography published at a National Geographic supported publication, and get paid for it.

Powered by Matador, and supported in part by the National Geographic Society, the Glimpse Correspondents Program provides talented writers and photographers with a $600 stipend as well as one on one editorial training and support to complete an independent journalistic work based on their experience abroad.

To learn more, visit: http://glimpse.org/correspondents , and please feel free to pass this email along to any other study abroad offices or individuals who might be interested in our program.

I hope to work with your students this Spring! Please don't hesitate to contact me with any questions.

Sincerely,

Sarah Menkedick

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Glimpse believes that independent travelers, particularly those who spend significant time abroad, have a unique and often overlooked opportunity to effect positive change around the world. This begins with bearing witness to place, people, culture, and especially the stories and struggles that might otherwise go unrecorded.

University of Iowa Intermedia Program seeks grad students

Student's in the course Media Art Lab projected on the exterior of the Studio Arts Building during Intermedia Open House, November 5, 2010

The University of Iowa Intermedia Program seeks creative, committed
students for its two-year MA | three-year MFA program

Application Deadline: February 1, 2011

Founded in 1968, Intermedia is one of the oldest programs in the United States dedicated to emerging media and interdisciplinary research in the arts. Intermedia emphasizes experimentation, collaboration, and research in New Media, community-based and social practice, experimental writing, installation, performance, social media, sound, video, and other time-based media.

We encourage social engagement and international experience through our collaborations with Iowa City Senior Center Television (ICSC TV) and the University of Rijeka Academy of Applied Arts, and Molekula, a media collective in Croatia. With ICSC TV, Intermedia encourages and assists in intergenerational video production for local television and online distribution. Through Projekt Oko Sokolovo, one MFA student annually is selected for a semester-long residency in Croatia.

Intermedia also works with the Virtual Writing University Experimental Wing, and recently launched the alpha site for XWRI, Experimental Wing Radio Intermedia, an online radio initiative.

Intermedia operates within the School of Art and Art History at The University of Iowa, a large public university with core strengths in the arts. The university is home to the world-renowned Iowa Writer's Workshop, strong departments of dance, music, and theater, and highly regarded studio arts MFA programs. The University of Iowa is located in Iowa City, a vibrant college town of 70,000 that was the third city to be honored with the UNESCO designation 'City of Literature.' The Cedar Rapids/Iowa City area has a total population of 425,000 and is about three and a half hours to Chicago by car or Megabus.

Intermedia offers excellent facilities in the Studio Arts Building, a 250,000 square foot creative warehouse shared by all studio arts programs. All Intermedia students are provided with studio space.

Funding for graduate students is very competitive, and teaching and research assistants are represented by the Committee of Graduate Students, a recognized labor union since 1996. Intermedia make every effort to provide a minimum quarter-time research and teaching assitantships to its graduate students. Its current students all receive support.

For more information on the program, see http://research-intermedia.art.uiowa.edu. For more information on the School of Art & Art History, including images of the Studio Arts building, see: http://www.art.uiowa.edu.

Media Art History 2011 - Rewire

Fourth International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology
Liverpool, 28th September - 1st October 2011
Call For Papers now open - Deadline Monday, January 31st 2011

http://www.mediaarthistory.org

Host: FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool
In collaboration with academic partners: Liverpool John Moores University, CRUMB at the University of Sunderland, the Universities of the West of Scotland and Lancaster, and the Database of Virtual Art at the Dept. for Image Science, Danube University Krems.

Following the success of Media Art History 2005 Re:fresh in Banff, Media Art History 2007 Re:place in Berlin and Media Art History 2009 Re:live in Melbourne, Media Art History 2011 Rewire will host three days of keynotes, panels and poster sessions.

Media Art History 2011 Rewire will increase the voltage and ignite key debates within the internationally distributed network of histories, which takes account of the questions surrounding documentation and methodologies, materiality, and agency. Rewire aims to up the current to illuminate the British contribution to media art, and by looking at our industrial heritage and contribution to the history of computing technologies themselves, we will open the discussion to how these contributions are manifested internationally. Considering the International scope of the histories of media art, science and technology, Rewire is also listed as part of the "McLuhan in Europe" programme, and will take place concurrently with The Asia Triennial in Manchester and Abandon Normal Devices, the North West's festival of new cinema and digital culture which returns to Liverpool in September 2011. The reviewers especially welcome proposals for presentations that resonate thematically with these events.

For the full Call for Papers, and to submit an abstract, please visit:http://www.mediaarthistory.org/rewire

Canada's Biotechnology Strategy: Struggles on the Knowledge Commons Featuring: Wilhelm Peekhaus

From Michael Zimmer, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies
Director, BS in Information Science & Technology Program
Associate, Center for Information Policy Research
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

w: www.michaelzimmer.org

The Center for Information Policy Research (CIPR) in the School of Information Studies announces the following research presentation:

Canada's Biotechnology Strategy: Struggles on the Knowledge Commons

Featuring: Wilhelm Peekhaus, PhD (2010-2011 CIPR postdoc)

November 18th, 2010
Time: 12:15 -1:30
Location: Bolton Hall, Room 521

This talk reports on research that interrogated the various forms of social struggles that have emerged in defiance of the progressive enclosure of agricultural biotechnology within the social factory. An emphasis on the information and knowledge issues embodied in these conflicts, aside from potentially being indicative of the scope of the social factory, holds the promise of cementing an important bridge between Library and Information Studies (LIS), with its concern over information flows and the information cycle, and political economic and public policy disciplines. I contend that the multiple information issues that inhere in biotechnology, ranging from intellectual property concerns in respect of genetic information to the contested nature of regulatory and public biotech discourses, render LIS a wholly apposite discipline within which to situate a critical analysis of this technoscience that goes beyond the current LIS engagement with bioinformatics.

Additional details at: http://www4.uwm.edu/sois/news/events/cipr_peekhaus_111810.cfm

New Media Positions at Georgia State University

From Brad Litchenstein, aka @bradleyLbar
New Media Positions at Georgia State University

New Media and Documentary Investigation
Interactive Media Design
Digital Humanities
Digital Music Technology

http://www.cas.gsu.edu/secondcentury_newmedia.html#interact

Media Studies Colloquium Friday Nov 12, 1pm Merrill 347

From Elana Levine

Associate Professor

Director of Graduate Studies, Media Studies M.A.

Department of Journalism and Mass Communication

Just a reminder that we will gather for a Media Studies graduate program colloquium on Friday, Nov. 12 from 1 - 2:15 PM in Merrill 347. Presenting will be:

Weiai Xu, "Exotic Disease or Local Disease? Framing Analysis of H1N1 Swine Flu coverage on Chinese Media"

Dugan Nichols, "The Connected Dots of Waco and Oklahoma City: Media Frames of Timothy McVeigh"

Derek Granitz, "Government Health Care that Never Was: Print News Media Framing of the Public Option During the 2009 Health Care Reform Debate"

All are welcome.

Library trials of useful databases

From Elana Levine

Associate Professor

Director of Graduate Studies, Media Studies M.A.

Department of Journalism and Mass Communication

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Thought you might be interested to know that the UWM Libraries have subscribed to trial versions of a few useful databases for people doing media-related work, namely the Film and Performance Arts databases through Proquest and the Film and Television Literature Index with Full Text. You can access both http://guides.library.uwm.edu/trials. There is a space to enter feedback, which I imagine might encourage the library to subscribe permanently. So please check them out, and write some comments. Would be great to have these resources available to us. I know that I will be encouraging my students to use them, as well, while they still have access.

Elana

List of Digital Arts and Culture Invitees/ Collaborators

Digital Arts and Culture Faculty Collaborators

to be added or removed from this list, please contact mtasman(at)uwm.edu

Anthropology

Thomas Malaby

Art & Design

Heather Warren-Crow

Lee Ann Garrison

Shelleen Greene

Colleen Ludwig

Lisa Moline

Nathaniel Stern

Art History

Jennifer Johung

CEAS > Computer Science

Ethan Munson

Communication

Sandra Braman

English

Gilberto Blasini

David Clark

Lane Hall

Tasha Oren

Pete Sands

Tami Williams

Anne Wysocki

Music

Chris Burns

History

Jasmine Alinder

JMC

David Allen

Elana Levine

Barbara Ley

Michael Newman

Marc Tasman

Sociology

Aneesh Aneesh

SOIS

Elizabeth Buchanan

Thomas Haigh

Michael Zimmer

Artist Clarissa Sligh Oct 19

This just in from Jasmine Alinder, Associate Professor and Co-Coordinator of Public History at UW-Milwaukee.
Sounds like not to be missed.

Photographer and book artist Clarissa Sligh will offer a presentation in the Ettinger Book Artist Series on Tuesday, October 19, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. in Special Collections on the fourth floor of the Golda Meir Library.

Combining photographs, drawings, and texts, Sligh’s installations, alternative photographs, and artist’s books are personal and political reflections of her life experiences as a female African American, beginning at fifteen when she was the lead plaintif in 1955 in Virginia.

Clarissa Sligh’s presence in Milwaukee is a collaboration with Woodland Pattern Book Center, where she will offer a workshop on Sunday, October 17. She will also offer a workshop for selected students at UWM.

For more information on Clarissa Sligh and her work, please visit her website at: http://clarissasligh.com/index.html

From UWM Campus Announcements:
http://www4.uwm.edu/news/announcements/?action0=announcements_detail&item_id=15004

Richard Grusin, C21 talk

Looking forward to Richard Grusin's talk today at 3:30 in Curtain Hall, 175.

DAC blog 3.0

The DAC spheres of intermedia are undergoing an overhaul under the direction of DAC coordinator, Marc Tasman and DAC Program Assistant, Matt Trease. In the meantime, let's ressurect the DAC blog under the new address, digiartsarchive.blogspot.com. CLEAR! cachunk

'Zine and Screen

Coordinator will accept this course for a DAC Practicum elective:
Practice based, creative production + writing


English 414-003
 Special Topics in Creative Writing: ‘zine and screen

F 9:30-12:10
Lane Hall

Course Description

This creative writing workshop will focus upon experimental narrative, including image & text relationships as we work to gain deeper understandings of how media and materials actively construct meaning. Projects will be produced in ‘zine and screen formats. Digital production experience is not required though a readiness to explore diverse creative processes is essential.

Internet Research 10.0 -- Internet: Critical

Internet Research 10.0 - Internet: Critical

The 10th Annual International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)

October 7-11, 2009
Hilton Milwaukee City Center
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

As the Internet has become an increasingly ubiquitous and mundane medium, the analytical shortcomings of the division between the online and the offline have become evident. Shifting the focus to the fundamental intermeshing of online and offline spaces, networks, economies, politics, locations, agencies, and ethics, Internet: Critical invites scholars to consider material frameworks, infrastructures, and exchanges as enabling constraints in terms of online phenomena.

Furthermore, the conference invites considerations of Internet research as a critical practice and theory, its intellectual histories, investments, and social reverberations. How do we, as Internet researchers, connect our work to social concerns or cultural developments both local and global, and what kinds of agency may we exercise in the process? What kinds of redefinitions of the political (in terms of networks, micropolitics, participation, lifestyles, resistant or critical practices) are necessary when conceptualizing Internet cultures within the current geopolitical and geotechnological climate?

To this end, we call for papers, panel proposals, and presentations from any discipline, methodology, and community, and from conjunctions of multiple disciplines, methodologies and academic communities that address the conference themes, including papers that intersect and/or interconnect the following:

* critical moments, elements, practices
* critical theories, methods, constructs
* critical voices, histories, texts
* critical networks, junctures, spaces
* critical technologies, artifacts, failures
* critical ethics, interventions, alternatives.

Sessions at the conference will be established that specifically address the conference themes, and we welcome innovative, exciting, and unexpected takes on those themes. We also welcome submissions on topics that address social, cultural, political, legal, aesthetic, economic, and/or philosophical aspects of the Internet beyond the conference themes. In all cases, we welcome disciplinary and interdisciplinary submissions as well as international collaborations from both AoIR and non-AoIR members.

SUBMISSIONS
We seek proposals for several different kinds of contributions. We welcome proposals for traditional academic conference PAPERS and we also welcome proposals for ROUNDTABLE SESSIONS that will focus on discussion and interaction among conference delegates, as well as organized PANEL PROPOSALS that present a coherent group of papers on a single theme.

DEADLINES
Call for Papers Released: 17 November 2008
Submissions Due: 1 February 2009
Notification: 15 March 2009
For more, see http://ir10.aoir.org/

New Course in Art History

Look at this course description for the Spring for 2009 taught by Jennifer Johung:

ARTHIST 499: The History and Theory of New Media Art
TR 11-12:15
This course introduces students to the history and critical theory of new media artworks, focusing on artists who utilize interactive technologies. The course will outline the history of telecommunications and basic networking technologies as well as the forms and concepts of interaction and participation related to them. We will examine the aesthetic and technological possibilities for artists working within networked environments, exploring a range of projects such as Internet art and immersive installations, hyper-linked environments, telepresence and telerobotics, artificial life and intelligence, mapping and locative media projects using mobile devices such as PDAs, cell-phones, and GPS systems, social networking sites, net activism, and bio and nanotechnology.

Street With A View

Street With A View

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From Lane Hall, purveyor of fine DAC websites.
Note Milwaukee's own genius and hero, Nicolas Lampert wih his Attention! Chicken on the street.

Artists Robin Hewlett and Ben Kinsley invited the Google Inc. Street View team and residents of Pittsburgh’s Northside to collaborate on a series of tableaux along Sampsonia Way. Neighbors, and other participants from around the city, staged scenes ranging from a parade and a marathon, to a garage band practice, a seventeenth century sword fight, a heroic rescue and much more...

Blogger Arrested for Leaking Songs from Unreleased Guns N' Roses Album

From Citizen Media Law Project:

Kevin Cogill, a blogger on Antiquiet, a site that provides "uncensored music reviews and interviews," was arrested August 27, 2008 at his home near Los Angeles on suspicion of violating federal copyright law after he allegedly posted nine songs from the unreleased -- and highly-anticipated -- Guns N' Roses album "Chinese Democracy."

The original complaint charges charges that he "knowingly and willfully distributed a copyrighted work being prepared for commercial distribution, namely nine previously unreleased songs by the band Guns n' Roses, by making the songs available on a computer network accessible to members of the public."

Total Recut Remix Culture Contest

Thanks Elana Levine for the notice via Henry Jenkins' Blog:

Create a short video remix that explains what Remix Culture means to you. Using video footage from any source, including Public Domain and Creative Commons licensed work, we want you to produce a creative, educational and entertaining video remix that communicates a clear message to a wide audience. The video is to be no shorter than 30 seconds and no longer then 3 minutes in duration.

This contest is open to anyone of any age from any part of the world. The judges are Larry Lessig, Henry Jenkins, Pat Aufderheide, JD Lasica, Kembrew McLeod, Mark Hosler and Luminosity.

The contest will begin in May ’08 and will be open for 1 month. Public Voting will begin in June and will remain open for 2 weeks, after which the best 10 videos will be put forward into the final and the Judging Panel will vote on each one. The winner will be announced in July ’08.

Photosynth: Movable, zoomable spaces.

Isral DeBruin sent me this link. Also seen at the World Making Conference last month, presented by Anne Friedberg.
Blaise Aguera y Arcas is an architect at Microsoft Live Labs, architect of Seadragon, and the co-creator of Photosynth, a monumental piece of software capable of assembling static photos into a synergy of zoomable, navigatable spaces.
Too bad (but of course) it's not available for anything but Windows operating systems.