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.

Million Dollar Homepage Held for Ransom

A brilliant idea: sell each pixel on your website for one dollar each. Also, beautiful to look at-- a kind of internet ad quilt.
Then after the last pixels sold, a ransom note for $50,000 or else a denial of service attack. The FBI is on the case.

Made by Alex Tew, a 21-year-old student from a small town in England.
Also available, 20 cents a pixel.

Two Classes offered for DAC credit by Rappaport

TOPIC: Video & Audio Strategies for Visual Artist & Multimedia
Art 427 LAB 801 11903
3 cr
1/23-5/11
MW 4:00pm-6:30pm
MIT B43
Rappaport, Mathew J

DESCRIPTION:
Studio art course in which students learn about video and audio as a fine art tool to be used as a medium applied to gallery, installation and environmental works, as a tool for documenting art projects and as elements to be integrated in multimedia works. Students will be taught basic camera use, lighting technique, editing, recording, mixing and distribution.

FORMAT:
Class time will include demonstration, in class work/technical activities, work days and critique. Students will produce a series of short works that include short length creative projects and the documentation of preexisting art projects.

Graduate Students and advanced undergraduate art majors w/o video experience are encouraged to take this course.

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TOPIC: Visibility, Security & Strategies of Control & Resistance
Art 427 LAB 804 25496 cross listed with Fine Art 351 lab 804
3 cr
1/23-5/11
MW 12:30pm-3:15pm
MIT B43
Rappaport, Mathew J

DESCRIPTION:
This course is based on the premise that visual art can be used as a means for processing and visualizing complex ideas and can intersect and inform academic discourse.

Throughout the course we will be exploring systems of social and individual control which are predicated on making one aware that they are being viewed [like video cameras and tvs at the entrance of many retailers] or through the capturing of seemingly invisible information [like web based tracking technologies] and making the process known to influence behavior. We will investigate how theorists and artist frame and respond to these critical issues. Students will respond to this material with individual creative projects. The class will culminate with a collaborative art installation to be presented at the annual Center for International Education conference.

FORMAT:
In general the course is split between seminar style days and studio days. During the seminar periods, students will be required to prepare readings [from the syllabus] and short presentations for in class discussion. The studio days include demonstrations of basic media techniques in digital video, audio and imaging to assist students in developing visual art responses to the material discussed in the readings and seminar periods. Students must attend the conference which is held on campus over a Friday and Saturday late in the semester.

No prior technical experience is required, but curiosity and enthusiasm for a challenging and dynamic work environment are.

Taking the Lead: Women and the Changing Face of Television Drama

From Elana Levine:
University Satellite Seminar Series
Museum of Television and Radio

Taking the Lead: Women and the Changing Face of Television Drama

Thursday, December 8, 2005
7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Bolton B-60

Today’s television landscape is fertile ground for female-led prime-time dramas; a cursory glance at the schedule yields the likes of Veronica Mars, Medium, Commander in Chief, The Closer…

Such was not always the case. In the era before the groundbreaking series Cagney & Lacey, hour dramas with female leads were rare indeed, the occasional escapist fare such as The Bionic Woman or Wonder Woman notwithstanding.

This seminar will trace the evolution of the female-led television drama, from its embattled past to its current ascendancy. What was the rationale for the network’s historical reluctance to launch such shows? What accounts for their current ubiquity? How have audience expectations changed? And where does the genre go from here?

Panel:
Barbara Corday, Cocreator, Cagney & Lacey
Susanne Daniels, President, Entertainment, Lifetime Entertainment Services
Jill Hennessy, Crossing Jordan
Jane Seymour, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
Jenji Kohan, Creator, Weeds

Moderator: Cynthia Littleton, Deputy Editor, The Hollywood Reporter

This seminar is part of the Museum's She Made It initiative.

Banff New Media Institute launches webcast for Refresh! conference on new media art, science, technology

In late September, more than 200 new media practitioners from around
the world gathered at the Banff New Media Institute (BNMI) at The Banff
Centre for the first Refresh! international conference on the history
of media art, science, and technology. Today marks the launch of an
educational resource for new media artists, researchers, historians and
students across the globe - access to the Refresh! conference online:

http://www.banffcentre.ca/bnmi/programs/archives/2005/refresh/

Visit this comprehensive archive to watch and listen to discussion on
the relationship between new media and the disciplines of art history,
anthropology, computing sciences, media studies, and other intercultural
contexts.

FEC Opinion -- Press Exemptions for Blogs

From Fired Up!
FEC Issues Advisory Opinion On Fired Up! LLC: Victory For Free Speech
Submitted by Roy Temple on Thu, 11/17/2005 - 11:00am. Media | Regulation of Blogs And The Internet

"By a unanimous vote, the FEC today issued Advisory Opinion 2005-16 which concludes that the Fired Up! Network of blogs qualifies for the "press exception" to federal campaign finance law. The Commission adopted the draft opinion without revision."

The AO states in relevant part:

Fired Up qualifies as a press entity. Its websites are both available to the general public and are the online equivalent of a newspaper, magazine, or other periodical publication as described in the Act and Commission regulations.

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The Commission concludes that the costs Fired Up incurs in covering or carrying news stories, commentary, or editorials on its websites are encompassed by the press exception, and therefore do not constitute "expenditures" or "contributions" under the Act and Commission regulations.

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Brett Bloom of Mess Hall, Temporary Services

From Lane Hall
Director, Graduate Studies
Visual Art Department
Peck School of the Arts
UW Milwaukee

This is another "must see" event: I just saw Brett Bloom's work at the
Smart Museum in Chicago in the "Beyond Green" exhibition, and heard Brett speak briefly at Mess Hall (chicago). He is doing some incredible work within an activist framework, and is involved with the collective Temporary Services. He is a very interesting and intense guy.

This event is coordinated by Nicolas Lampert, who has graciously
opening it up to all of us. (Thanks, Nicolas!)

Date: Thursday, Nov 10
Time: 7:30
Place: Bolton B95

Don't miss this one! (Key words: Hactivist, Activism, Collectives,
Environmental Art, Relational Art, Urban Farming, Civic Space, Social
Archives)

Brett Bloom, a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago will present at 7:30pm in Nicolas Lampert's Art 309 seminar "The Culture of Nature" in Bolton Hall (B95)on Thursday, Nov. 10th. Brett works collaboratively with the group Temporary Services which explores how art can function outside of a traditional gallery and within a constructed social setting. (www.temporaryservices.org). He is also the co-author of "Making Their Own Plans/Belltown Paradise" - a book on recent environmental art practises.
Students/faculty/friends outside of our class are welcome to attend this event from 7:30pm - 9:30pm.

Heidi Brush- Consuming the Spaces of Global Tourism

Prof. Heidi Brush
Department of Journalism and Mass Communication
UW-Milwaukee

Global Studies Colloquium
Thursday, November 10, 2005
12:30-1:30 pm
Center for International Education
Garland Hall 104

This talk traces the pathways of the emerging figure of the global consumer-tourist, paying particular attention to the /spaces/ which both create and foster specific pathways and experiences while excluding others. The speaker compares the figure of the tourist with other metaphors of today's mobilities: migrant, pilgrim, nomad and traveler. Overall, this talk offers a critical cartography of the spatial practices of the contemporary global tourist.

This presentation is free and open to the public.

For more information, contact:
Nan Kim-Paik
Academic Programs
Center for International Education
UW-Milwaukee
Tel: (414) 229-2976
Email: nkim-paik[at]cie.uwm.edu

UNESCO links

The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization has a DigiArts portal aimed at researching and disseminating different practices in the field of art, design, multimedia and music through diversified networks. Another page provides information on institutions, including research centres and educational institutions, engaged in interdisciplinary area of arts, science and technology in the USA.