International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA) Annual Conference | 2007

From Bendtio Petronio:

International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA) Annual Conference | 2007
Curitiba , Brazil | Oct 10th - 13th

We are pleased to announce IVLA 2007 a forum for addressing and discussing Visual Literacy issues and perspectives from the lenses of theory, research, and practice. This is a partially joint event with the 3rd Information Design International Conference. There will be one overlapping day between the two conferences (October 10). Participants will be eligible to attend both conferences, fully or partially.

The IVLA Conference will take place for the first time in Latin America, in the city of Curitiba , Brazil . Brazil is a country of cultural diversity, visual experiences and colorful beauty, but also a country that faces challenges to build up a socially responsible future in the information era. So, we understand Visual Literacy as a field extending itself beyond frontiers of experience, embracing information, considering culture of human dimension, and celebrating diversity.

Proposals regarding the conference theme Visual Literacy beyond frontiers: information, culture and diversity are especially welcome. However, we will also welcome proposals concerning other visual literacy topics such as:

• Artistic Expressions (topics may include new media)
• Design and Communication
• Cultural Influences, Impacts, and Considerations
• Historic Uses and Approaches
• Ethical, Social, and Philosophical Concerns
• Research, Theories, and Definitions
• Transformative Functions
• Education, Teaching, and Learning
• Societal and Community Issues
• Future Trends and Directions

Marc Tasman at Ann Arbor Film Festival

Thanks to David Dinnell, and apologies for the shameless self promo:

Marc Tasman's video piece, "Who Is Stealing My Signs?" has been programmed into the schedule of films selected for competition at the 45th Ann Arbor Film Festival. The Ann Arbor Film Festival screenings and events take place in the historic Michigan Theater, a restored 1920s movie house in downtown Ann Arbor. Tasman's work will be screened in the Main Theatre, the 1,700-seat auditorium on Saturday night, traditionally the most attended night of the Festival,
March 24th.

This year the Festival received 2000 submissions from more than 25 countries. From these, less than 5% were selected for competition.

The Ann Arbor Film Festival showcases independent and experimental film and video. Established in 1963, this internationally-renowned festival is the oldest of its kind in North America. Each year the festival attracts entries from moving image artists worldwide and screens more than 100 films before audiences during
six days in March.

See the list of the 45th Ann Arbor Film Festival's
Competition Films.

DIGITAL CULTURAL STUDIES POSITION

From Nicholas Mirzoeff:

DIGITAL CULTURAL STUDIES POSITION

Stony Brook University, as part of a major, multi-departmental initiative in Digital Arts, Culture, and Technology, seeks scholars whose focus is digital cultural studies. Desirable areas of specialties include visual culture; new media arts; participatory digital culture; diasporic cultures, globalization and cross-culturally in the digital era; history/philosophy of digital media/art/music/technology; digital narrative, games and gaming.
Responsibilities will include undergraduate and graduate instruction, supervision of student research and writing, dissertation direction, advising, and departmental and University service. The successful candidate will be based in Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies but may also teach in Art or Music as appropriate. We anticipate hiring at the rank of assistant professor. Exceptional candidates may be considered at higher rank. Ph.D. and a record of scholarship and teaching at levels
appropriate to rank are expected. Application review to begin March 20 and
will continue until the position is filled. Send letter of application,
C.V., at least three letters of reference, statement of teaching interests/philosophy, and a representative writing sample to:
Digital Media Search,
Office of the Provost,
407 Administration Building,
Stony Brook University,
Stony Brook, NY 11794-1401.

See also this New Media Art Faculty Position.

Call for Art

From Charles Vestal,
Director of Development
Hunger Task Force, Inc.

Holiday Art Needed for Cards

Calling All Artists


Whether you're a professional or an amateur, an art school graduate or a self-taught genius, Hunger Task Force needs your art for our 2007 holiday cards!

Each year, Hunger Task Force prints three different holiday greeting cards featuring original artwork by local artists. Proceeds from the sale of the cards benefit Hunger Task Force's anti-hunger work. It's a great way to see your artwork mass produced and to help feed hungry families during the holidays. Deadline April 10, 2007. More details at Hunger Task Force

Call for Applications: Residency

The Institute of Quotidian Arts and Letters at Milwaukee (IQALM) is now accepting applications for the Cultural Crisis Studio Program for Individual Artists. This residency was established to bring artists that produce challenging work to Milwaukee to engage with its vibrant arts community. There are no medium restrictions; all work will be considered as long as the form is provocative, engaging and provides a meaningful critique of contemporary culture. The two month long residency will provide the resident artist with a studio and living space as well as opportunities to collaborate with artists and curators working in Milwaukee. Please see http://quotidianarts.tk for more information and application instructions. Preference will be given to applicants form outside the Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Upper-Midwest region of the United States. Deadline for the first residency cycle is March 15.

leisurearts

leisurearts, originally uploaded by marctasman.

"Is the new" is the new next big thing.
Randall wants you to tag this to your del.icio.us account.
http://thediagram.com/6_3/leisurearts.html

Call for Papers, Net(works): Art and Pre-Existing Web Platforms

Call for papers - SECAC 07
Net(works): Art and Pre-Existing Web Platforms

Beyond using the internet as a way to show representations of visual and performance work, artists have been using pre-existing dynamic content web sites as the actual site of the work. One of the first projects of this nature included Keith Obadike selling his blackness on eBay. More recently, Cary Peppermint’s Department of Networked Performance, an educational situation, uses MySpace as its host. The
Gif Show also used MySpace, appropriately, as a parallel site for a curatorial project in real space about the aesthetics of low-bit production. A public art competition and gallery shows have suddenly been popping up in Second Life, a virtual world created by users and inhabited by their avatars, which interact with each other in real-time.
How are artists currently using these and similar spaces? Are these projects considered interventions, or otherwise? Are these spaces appropriate for undergraduate education projects? How do real curatorial spaces intersect with these virtual spaces? What do these spaces, with or without the art world, mean within visual culture contexts? Please propose your presentation as it pertains to any
field - practice, history/theory/criticism, museum studies, and/or education.

Patrick Holbrook, Georgia College & State University

Email: patrick.holbrook[at]gcsu.edu

Proposals are due May 1st, 2007. Conference is October 17-20, 2007 in
Charleston, West Virginia.
http://www.unc.edu/~rfrew/SECAC/annual_conference.html

88Nine Radio Milwaukee

From Jenny Plevin:

Hello wonderful people,

I hope you're well and warm.

As some of you may know, I work (in addition to docUWM) at at 88Nine Radio Milwaukee and we are finally getting ready to launch the station!

As a part of our launch, we've created a survey that will allow us to find out what residents think about our community and the Milwaukee area. This Research will allow us to quickly capture how area residents see the Milwaukee area as a whole. It will be used by Radio Milwaukee in making programming decisions and in its larger objective of community building.

I would like to get our survey in front of as many people as possible, so please take it and pass it along. Surveys are fun!

Here's the page to link to our survey:
http://www.radioformilwaukee.org/spherestudy.html

Thanks!
Jenny

FADO February 2007 posting

From Paul Couillard:

The Fado elist posts approximately once a month with news and information of interest to performance artists and their audiences. Postings include information on current Fado projects and activities, current calls for submission from around the world, and other important information.

FADO E-LIST (February 2007)

INDEX

1. FADO NEWS
2. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY: Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Fine Arts (Toronto)
Deadline:February 15, 2007; Source: Akimbo
3. CALL FOR PROJECTS: AgenceTOPO.qc.ca (Montréal)
Deadline: February 15, 2007; Source: Agence TOPO
4. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: "ANTI Festival" (Finland)
Deadline:February 28, 2007; Source: ANTI Festival
5. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS {PUBLICATION): "Nature and Technology" Locus Suspectus Magazine (Montréal)
Deadline: February 28, 2007; Source: Locus Suspectus
6. CALL FOR PROPOSALS (PUBLICATION): "Canular" la revue esse arts + opinions (Montréal)
Deadline: March 1, 2007; Source: esse
7. CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: "International MFA in New Media" Transart Institute (Austria)
Deadline: March 15, 2007; Source: ARTSERVIS
8. RESIDENCY: "Lower East Side Rotating Studio Program" (USA)
Deadline:March 15, 2007; Source: Artists Alliance Inc.
9. REQUEST FOR COLLABORATORS: "Mehora" Performance art / political campaign (Philippines)
Deadline: mid-March, 2007; Source: Bobby Nuestro
10. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: "Accumulation" The Present Tense (USA)
Deadline: March 21, 2007; Source: The Present Tense
11. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: "Re·Use " New Forms Festival 2007 (Vancouver)
Deadline: April 1, 2007; Source: New Forms Festival
12. RESIDENCY: Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (Dawson City)
Deadline: April 1, 2007; Source: Klondike Institute of Art & Culture
13. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Galerie Sans Nom (Moncton)
Deadline: April 15, 2007; Source: Galerie Sans Nom
14. CALL FOR PAPERS (PUBLICATION): "La Peur" esse arts + opinions numéro 61 (Montréal)
Deadline: April 15, 2007; Source: esse arts + opinions
15. CONGRESS: "Corralling Art - Aboriginal Curatorial Practice in the Prairies and Beyond" (Saskatoon)
Event date: May 17- 18, 2007; Source: TRIBE Inc.
16. RESIDENCY: Elsewhere Artist Collaborative (USA)
Deadline: not given; Source: Instant Coffee
17. CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: PERFURBANCE #3 (Indonesia)
Deadline: not given; Source: performance_art_network
18. REQUEST FOR MATERIALS: Cultural Center of Ministry of Culture (Uruguay)
Deadline: not given; Source: Clemente Padín
19. NEWS: Conservative government cuts international arts promotion budget (Canada)
Source: The Globe and Mail

Invitation to Participate: The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age

From Nan Kim-Paik:

Invitation to Participate

First Draft Posted for Your Feedback, Commentary, Additions, and Examples
http://www.futureofthebook.org/HASTAC/learningreport

"The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age"
Cathy N. Davidson and David Theo Goldberg
A HASTAC Project

Digital Media and Learning Occasional Series
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

We invite your participation in a collaborative project to envision the future of learning institutions. We have posted a first draft of "The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age" on a collaborative editing and feedback tool (
http://www.futureofthebook.org/HASTAC/learningreport). The tool is developed and hosted by the Institute for the Future of the Book (http://www.futureofthebook.org).

We welcome comments, feedback, additions, challenges, and counter-examples. We are especially interested in showcasing current experiments and practices (at your institution or across institutions) that model collaborative, interdisciplinary, and inter-institutional forms of learning. Ideas that enhance, capitalize upon, critique, or incorporate peer-to-peer learning styles that extend the usual boundaries of the
classroom are particularly welcome.

We intend to document innovative practices and to inspire institutional innovation in conception and action-for administrators, policy makers, researchers, teachers, and students (of any age).

In this first, working draft, we lay out premises of "The Future of Learning Institutions". Even at this early stage, we have referenced sources from many fields. We invite you to inform us about other materials-articles, books, websites, blogs, wikis, games-that you find relevant to and compelling for this project.

A progress report will be presented at the first international conference
of HASTAC (pronounced "haystack," an acronym for Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory). This conference, "Electronic Techtonics: Thinking at the Interface", will be held in Durham, North Carolina, April 19-21, 2007. For information about this conference, see www.hastac.org.

All contributions to this project will be acknowledged on a "Collaborators" section of the final report. We thank you in advance for joining us in imaging the future of learning institutions.

Ivy Film Festival, Brown University

Ivy Film Festival, Film + Screenplay Submission Deadlines

Early Deadline: January 24th
Final Deadline: January 31st
www.ivyfilmfestival.com/submit

The Ivy Film Festival’s submissions period is coming to a close!
Submit your film or screenplay online to be considered in the 2007 Ivy
Film Festival. Submissions are accepted early until January 24th, 2007,
with a final deadline of January 31st, 2007. Visit
www.ivyfilmfestival.com/submit to submit your work. This year’s festival takes place April 11-15th at Brown University in Providence, RI.

The Ivy Film Festival encourages the creative efforts of undergraduate
and graduate filmmakers by acting as a quality venue for their work and
by creating opportunities for these filmmakers to learn from one
another and from talented professionals. The festival strives to garner
recognition for student filmmakers by means of a panel of celebrity judges
including: directors, producers, writers, and agents who will view the
top films from the festival.

This year, the festival has partnered with Variety to bring its
visibility to a global level. Each year, awards are sponsored by major
corporations, offering prizes to winners to aid them in their continuous
pursuit of the filmmaking dream. In 2006, the Best Director and Best
Screenplay awards were sponsored by Open Student Television Network (OSTN),
which provided the winners of the respective awards with a new Canon
GL2 digital video camera and a new Apple laptop.

Visit www.ivyfilmfestival.com for submission information, updates and
new information about the festival.

If you have any questions about submissions or the festival, feel free
to email me, Meg Boudreau, at Meghan_Boudreau[at]Brown.edu.

We look forward to receiving your films and screenplays!

Kindly,

Meg Boudreau – Brown ‘08
2007 Ivy Film Festival
Publicity Coordinator
www.ivyfilmfestival.com

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.