| Technology, Experimental Art and Media fun in MKE!

| Technology, Experimental Art and Media fun in MKE!

Team Fun: a creative commons community

Greetings friends and colleagues,

I wanted to share with you a local online community for the creative folks of Milwaukee that a group of us has put some energy in developing. We could use your help to infuse some more energy, and to join forces with creative people like you.

www.teamfun.cc (the cc stands for creative commons)

It’s a multimedia and culture forum designed for local artists, musicians, designers, filmmakers, writers, culinary artists and all creative minds alike to post their work (or documentation of their work), share ideas and connect with other creative minds in the Milwaukee area. By connecting people and other creative subcultures around the city, the website’s goal is to help foster free culture and creativity here in Milwaukee while vitalizing a local arts scene.

It’s all about networking!

Creative peoples of Milwaukee: We should work together in order to create our own artistic opportunities here in Milwaukee and help reverse the culture vacuum of L.A. NY and Chicago! Even if you already have your own personal website or blog, I encourage you to register and share some of your work along with a link to your personal website, if only to provide a diversity of places to share your creative works other than facebook!

teamfun.cc is an online community of people who actually care about your work and will be much more likely to provide genuine feedback and lively discussion.

Once again, it’s www.teamfun.cc

Please register and join the fun!

Yours Truly,

Vic Buell
Digital Arts and Culture
Office of Undergraduate Research SURF Fellow
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
@heylittlevic

Digital Arts and Culture Certificate at UW-Milwaukee

Digital Arts and Culture Certificate at UW-Milwaukee
New Digital Arts & Culture website is live and fantastic! Kudos to DAC student and site designer @jrottier #uwm #iamuwm whad'ya think?

http://www4.uwm.edu/letsci/dac/students.cfm

ENG 328 Experimental Literature: Animated Writing

Looking for an exciting and innovative writing course to take this fall? Check out ENG 328!

This course fulfills a practicum elective for the Digital Arts and Culture Certificate.

Questions regarding the course can be directed to Anne Wysocki at awysocki@uwm.edu.

Questions regarding the DAC Certificate Program, contact Marc Tasman at mtasman@uwm.edu.

Media Studies Graduate Colloquium

from Elana Levine

Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies, Media Studies M.A.

Department of Journalism and Mass Communication

The final Media Studies M.A. program colloquium of the semester will be Tuesday, May 10 from 2 - 3PM in Merrill 347. We have three great presentations from graduate students, a preview of their presentations for the International Communication Association conference, http://www.icahdq.org/conferences/2011/ at the end of May. Please join us!

Stacy Blasiola, "Say 'Cheese'! Bloggers and Cameras in Wisconsin Courtrooms"

Weiai Xu, "The Behavior of Internet Censorship in China"

Yoonmo Sang and Jonathan Anderson, "Bloggers' Libel Liability: A Comparative Analysis of South Korea and the United States"

embodied placemaking (part two)

FREE and open to the public

When: Friday, April 29

Where: UWM Campus, Curtin Hall Room 175 (3243 N. Downer Ave)

Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Embodied placemaking occurs on streets, along edges of buildings, and in interiors and plazas. It happens momentarily or persists over days, repeats seasonally or remains a historical memory of an event from the past. Its very ordinariness and ethereality speak of deeply engrained cultural practices and knowledges that are so integral to our experiences and expectations of a city that we never question them.

Our speakers address embodied placemaking from a range of disciplinary perspectives and at multiple spatial and temporal scales. Several explore how buildings and cities can be designed in order to encourage and enhance possibilities of such engagements; others present case studies of such processes in contemporary cities. Several theorize on the cognitive and sensory processes by which individuals make place while others study the politics of embodied placemaking.

Speakers include: Rachel Breunlin (U of New Orleans), Elizabeth Currid-Halkett (USC), Emanuela Guano (Georgia State), Jennifer Geigel Mikulay (Alverno), Carl Nightingale (SUNY-Buffalo), Janet Zweig (Brooklyn, NY).

embodied placemaking is sponsored by C21 (College of Letters and Science, with the support from the Graduate School, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

Check here for more information: http://bit.ly/9x74db

Samuel Williams Exhibition

This even is FREE and open to the public.

Date: Friday April 1 through June 19

Time: Opening reception: Friday, April 1, 5-8 p.m.

Gallery hours are Wednesday - Sunday, Noon- 5 p.m., open late Thursdays until 8 p.m.

Location: INOVA/Kenilworth

Samuel Williams is a British artist working primarily in sculpture and video. His work tends to focus on limitations of materials and time (for example, his series of 20-second sculptures, made from whatever is at hand within the one-third minute time constraint). For this exhibition, Inova will fully engage Williams' inventive capabilities, and the limitations of his living in a country an ocean away.

For the first time ever, at the beginning of the show the gallery will be empty. Each day the gallery is open (including opening night) throughout the run of the show, Williams will send instructions, via fax, e-mail or telephone, for one sculpture to be made on site. A collection of volunteers, drawn from students in the Peck School of the Arts and the Milwaukee community, will sign on to help realize these works, gradually filling up the gallery at the pace of one sculpture per day that the gallery is open. By the end of the show, if all goes as planned 38 Williams sculptures will occupy the space.

For more information please contact the box office at 414.229.4308.

Paolo Ruffino and the artist collective IOCOSE

The Peck School of the Arts and the Center for 21st Century Studies present "IOCOSE: the future is a reconstruction," a film screening & lecture by Paolo Ruffino from the University of London, about the artist collective Iocoose (http://www.iocose.org/) , at 3 pm, Tuesday, April 12, Curtin 175. See c21.uwm.edu and arts.uwm.edu/artistsnow.

Spring Gallery Night and Day presented by The Historic Third Ward Association

The Downtown Milwaukee Area

Friday, April 15 and Saturday, April 16

FREE Admission to all venues during event hours

Presented by the Historic Third Ward Association, the 23-year-old Gallery Night and Day is the premier art event in Milwaukee for both the experienced art connoisseur and most beginning admirer. An evening of gallery hopping and art viewing begins Friday, April 15 and continues during the day on Saturday, April 16. This Spring, the quarterly event showcases 57 venues throughout the downtown Milwaukee area.

For an easy tour, catch the free Friday Gallery Night Xpress and enjoy a six-stop route which will take you from the Third Ward to East Town and back. The 14-passenger bus makes a continuous loop from 5 to 9 p.m. Friday with stops approximately every 15 minutes.

For a more information and a detailed list of event venues, visit http://ow.ly/4wPl.

New DAC course, English 380 – Media and Society: Game Culture

Stuart Moulthrop
English 380 – Media and Society: Game Culture
Fall, 2011 - Wednesdays 11:00 am – 1:40 pm


This is a first course in the critical study of games, especially videogames, and the culture of participatory media to which they belong. It will introduce the concept of games and play as pat of a meaning-making activity; it will survey forms, conventions, and practices that inform the design and reception of games; it will outline major theoretical trends within the emerging field of Game Studies; it will examine the place of games in contemporary culture, and consider some of the problems and challenges they pose.

The course is intended for students in any major who want to think critically, creatively, and yes, seriously about playful media. This will involve a certain amount of reading and writing (critical evaluation of games, applications and responses to theory), and also a good deal of game play, both in and out of class.

The preliminary syllabus can be accessed at http://www.tinyurl.com/gameCult.

Artists Now! Nate Larson at UW-Milwaukee

Nate Larson, Artists Now! Guest Lecturer
April 6, 2011
7 pm in the Arts Center Lecture Hall on the UWM campus.
FREE and open to the public!


Larson's photographic work uses visual and textual narrative to explore the way that individuals construct meaning in contemporary culture through the lenses of social networking, consumer behavior, organized religion, and other contemporary mythologies.


UWM's Department of Art & Design continues its Artists Now!, Wednesday evening lecture series designed for a broad audience with an interest in contemporary visual art. It presents a diverse group of artists working across traditional, hybrid and emergent disciplines.

Calling All Artists!

The UWM Planetarium is now accepting space-themed artwork for an upcoming benefit event hosted by The Manfred Olson Planetarium.

Requirements

Subject: Space-themed

Medium: Any

Please include artist name, email, and title of work.

Submissions are due by April 1 at 5:00 p.m. to Physics room 148.

For further questions or to submit work, please email RLHEBEIN[at]uwm[dot]edu.

Labor Dollars and Mythic Tractors March On Madison

From Lane Hall:

Madison was oh, so cold, but pretty amazing. I have posted a diary on
Kos, a reflection on tractors and spectacle.

I hope you enjoy it, and hope to see all of you on the streets, in the
rallies, and at the recalls. (Nice photo diary on Kos by "Kodiak54" if
you want to see some good pix)

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/03/13/955895/-Mythic-Tractors-March-On-Madison

Best,

Lane

Michael Wesch Digital Ethnography, Today

Michael Wesch will be on campus today for a Digital Future address (remarks are at 3pm in the Zelazo Center Bader Concert Hall; reception/small group discussion is at 4:15 in Zelazo 250).
See http://www4.uwm.edu/acad_aff/digitalfuture/events/wesch.cfm
Also see his video, The Machine is Us/ing Us http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE


Dr. Michael Wesch
Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Digital Ethnography
2008 U.S. Professor of the Year
Kansas State University


Dubbed "the explainer" by Wired magazine, Michael Wesch is a cultural anthropologist exploring the impact of new media on society and culture. After two years studying the impact of writing on a remote indigenous culture in the rain forest of Papua New Guinea, he has turned his attention to the effects of social media and digital technology on global society. His videos on technology, education, and information have been viewed by millions, translated in over ten languages, and are frequently featured at international film festivals and major academic conferences worldwide. Wesch has won several major awards for his work, including a Wired Magazine Rave Award, the John Culkin Award for Outstanding Praxis in Media Ecology, and was recently named an Emerging Explorer by National Geographic. He has also won several teaching awards, including the 2008 CASE/Carnegie U.S. Professor of the Year for Doctoral and Research Universities.

Watershed: Art, Activism, and Community Engagement

Watershed: Art, Activism, and Community Engagement
January 28 - February 25
Opening Reception, Friday, January 28th, 5-8pm
Artist Talk: Betsy Damon, February 3rd, 7pm
Guest Presenters: Every Thursday in February at 7pm

From Lane Hall:
The Union Art Gallery is having it's first show of the semester, Watershed: Art, Activism, and Community Engagement which opens the first Friday of school, January 28th, at 5 pm. I hope you can make it to the opening. I have a number of collaborative pieces in the exhibition: an intervention at Sweetwater Organics filmed this last summer (Hall/Moline), a projection of micro/macro water life (Moline/Strickler/Hall) and an 18 x 20 foot chalkboard piece, titled "Basin" where I developed my ongoing graphical notation responses into a large flow diagram of water related issues, from privatization to invasive species: a new collaboration (Hall/Deal/Lampert) that I am really excited about. The show also includes a terrific installation by Visual Art prof Colleen Ludwig, and an elegantly functional aquaponic unit developed by Sweetwater, as well as a rich variety of documented educational and artistic public interventions.

From Colleen Ludwig about her project in the show:
Shiver is an immersive, interactive environment. The title refers to the chill or slight tickle felt on the skin if activated by light touch or closeness. Upon entering the artwork, visitors initiate trickling flows of water. These cling to, and seek paths along, the walls’ minor topographies. A sensor matrix tracks the direction and speed of people’s movement in the room. The information is used to move the curvy, crawling water rivulets along the wall’s surface. The reaction of the water flows gently bring visitors into a conversation with the artwork, encouraging them to move slowly and change perspectives in order to cause the room to react.
Shiver is supported by a Research Growth Initiative Grant and a fellowship from the Center for 21st Century Studies UWM.


About Watershed Exhibition:
Water is the most critical resource on earth. It has traditionally been held in the public commons, but is now being privatized by multinational corporations at a frightening pace. Water has become big business and the struggle over who controls water -- corporations or communities -- will likely define many of the social justice movements, political decisions, and wars of the 21st Century. Watershed: Art, Activism, and Community Engagement, organized by Nicolas Lampert and Raoul Deal, addresses the shifting ecological and political dimensions of water in Milwaukee and the Great Lakes Basin, and relates them to similar issues around the world.

Watershed features installations by Sweet Water Organics, Colleen Ludwig, Lane Hall and Lisa Moline, Raoul Deal, and Nicolas Lampert; Prints by students at the Bruce Guadalupe Middle School and the Walnut Way Conservation Corp in Milwaukee; Films by Laura Klein that document public intervention projects by Nance Klehm, Jesse Graves, Sarah Lewison, Amy Mall and Sherwin Ovid, Tiffany Holmes, Maria Cristina Tavera and Xavier Tavera, Katie Martin Meurer, Jenny Plevin and Al Westbrook, Ximena Sosa and Cristian Muñoz, Deal, and Lampert.

Watershed also features a series of Thursday night presentations in February by Milwaukee-based artists, scientists, and community activists, and a presentation by the Brooklyn-based environmental artist Betsy Damon.

"Out of Respect" Documentary Film Premiere

"Out of Respect" Documentary Film Premiere
February 24, 2011
Milwaukee Art Museum
Lubar Auditorium

Tickets range from VIP to free. Order here. http://www.creamcityfoundation.org/out-of-respect-film-premiere.html

In the Fall of 2009, Reel Life Films and J-Doc, a documentary film-making class at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, began production on a feature-length documentary about Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender homeless young adults in the Milwaukee area. The film, Out of Respect, captures the social resistance and family-neglect that several homeless young adults face, as well as their strength to overcome constant adversity.

From Tess Gallun
Documentary Producer
Journalism & Mass Communication
University of WI-Milwaukee

Hi all,

After a year and a half of production... generous assistance from our department and J-doc students... my documentary feature on LGBT homeless youth is complete.

For more info on youth, here's link to a website created with support from Cream City Foundation: www.outofrespect.org

Kind regards,
Tess

Reel Life Films
reellifefilms[at]wi.rr.com

LIGHT SPILL: A moving image installation- opening reception

LIGHT SPILL by Sandra Gibson + Luis Recoder - Exhibition Opening

Time
Thursday, January 27 · 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Location UW-Milwaukee Art History Gallery
3203 N Downer Ave Mitchell Hall 154,

A moving image installation

Curated by Elena Gorfinkel

Exhibition runs January 27th - February 10, 2011

Gallery Hours: Mon-Thurs 10-4

Artists Statement:
In our installation work, we use projected light to articulate space and time. Film projectors and celluloid are the material base of our constructions in light and shadow, the elemental properties of cinema. These things are deeply imbued with a history of viewership in the dark of the theater. To remove it from darkness is to flood this history and cast a certain illumination upon it. A certain exposure. Light spills in the shifting of film from its native darkness in enclosed chambers (camera obscura) to the uncanny openness and defamiliarized illumination of installation. We are exploring the shift, elaborating the displacement, recasting the light mechanics of a peculiar estrangement of the medium. The art of cinema, yes. But more timely: the becoming cinema of art. That is the coming attraction for us. - Sandra Gibson + Luis Recoder

About the artists:

Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder have exhibited their solo and collaborative performances and installations at the Whitney Museum of American Art (NY), P.S.1 MoMA (NY), The Kitchen (NY), Diapason Gallery (NY), Redcat (LA), Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery (Houston), Ballroom Marfa (Marfa), Robischon Gallery (Denver), ICA (London), Barbican Art Gallery (London), Peter Kilchmann Gallery (Zurich), Viennale (Vienna), KW (Berlin), Hartware Medien Kunst Verein (Dortmund), TENT. (Rotterdam), Palais des Beaux-Arts (Brussels), La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Museu do Chiado (Portugal), RIXC (Latvia), Image Forum (Tokyo). Their work is in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art (NY), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid), Museum of Contemporary Cinema Foundation (Paris), as well as numerous private collections. Gibson and Recoder are based in New York City.

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=181785061844688

Media Law in the Digital Age

If you meet the prereqs, I would substitute this as a DAC conceptual analysis elective.

From Professor David Pritchard
Department of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATION 661
Seminar: Media Law in the Digital Age
Spring 2011
5:00 PM-7:40 PM Mondays 01/24-05/12 MER 347

JMC 661 is designed to help you develop those skills in the context of the fast-evolving world of digital media law and policy. The course is a rigorous one, but if you accept the challenge you will gain a richer understanding of issues that are central not only to the future of the media industries but also to citizenship in the 21st Century.

REQUIRED READING

The readings for JMC 661 are very recent; most were published in the past few months. Required are a book (Keith B. Darrell, Issues in Internet Law, 2011), which you can obtain from http://www.issuesininternetlaw.com/, and a packet of legal materials and periodical articles available by January 18 at Clark Graphics.

English 312 Cinema and Digital Culture for DAC conceptual credit

Wow, check this course out for the Spring, For DAC conceptual credit elective.
  
English 312: Topics in Film Studies
Cinema and Digital Culture
Spring 2011

Instructor: Tami Williams
Office: Curtin 474 (by appt.) or our D2L site “Questions” forum.
E-mail: tamiw@uwm.edu

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

From the kinetoscope to the iPhone, moving image culture has never stopped reinventing or making itself anew. We will examine the nature of "new media" from a wide variety of perspectives: technological, economic, and particularly cultural and aesthetic. We will look at how new media, such as digital photography, video games, virtual reality, and the World Wide Web, refashion earlier media forms, such as cinema, as well as how the latter is itself influenced by emerging media. In addition to the shifts and changes effected by digital technologies in contemporary society, we will consider the place of the Self within the context of new media. To this end, in addition to reading critical texts, students will have opportunities to explore these questions on a personal and practical level, from blogging to video gaming. Class discussions will focus on weekly readings, film viewings and web visits.

There are no prerequisites for this course and you are not required to have any prior knowledge of media studies. However, you are expected to treat the material as a legitimate object of study. We will begin with the premise that film, and digital media offer much more than “entertainment” and, accordingly, a study of these forms is a serious undertaking that requires rigor and diligence.

ENG 417 Procedure and Play for DAC practicum credit

An awesome course that can be substituted for DAC Practicum credits.

Who Should Take This Class:

The class is intended for creative writers and students of literature who are interested in formal experiments in language and media, both current incarnations and historical foundations. While not addressed specifically to digital game culture, this class does stake out the intersection of language and play, where the line between text and game evaporates. An interest in games and interactive media is probably a plus; likewise, any commitment to exploration and experiment, or fascination with form.

There are no technical requirements or pre-requisites. This not a class in programming, computer science, or media design (though it will touch all three). You may benefit from previous study of Web technologies (HTML and CSS), but no such background is assumed. You will write some original code in this class, but you will be able to use existing models and templates. If you find it easier to tackle technical challenges collaboratively, you will have an option to work on some assignments in small groups.

About the Instructor

Stuart Moulthrop joined the UWM faculty as Professor of English in the fall of 2010. He has taught previously at Yale, the University of Texas, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the University of Baltimore, where he co-founded the School of Information Arts and Technologies and helped create an undergraduate program in game and simulation design. An award-winning multimedia artist, Moulthrop serves on the board of the Electronic Literature Organization, the first international advocacy group for born-digital, word-based writing.

See preliminary syllabus here.