RHIZOME DIGEST: 2.13.08

Feb. 12, 2008

Type: discussion

RHIZOME DIGEST: February 13, 2008 Content: +opportunity+ 1. Lee Wells- Call For VIDEO ART: THE FUTURE WAS THEN ….. SO NOW WHAT? - [PAM] 3rd Annual Last Minute Open Call for New Video 2. Ana Otero- Call for Collaborators: Inclusiva-net workshop 3. Rhizomer- Call for New Media Art: Freewaves HollyWould…Festival of New Media Art 4. Ana Otero- Call for Proposals: HoritzoTV'08 5. Rhizomer- Call For Submissions: MULTIPLACE NETWORK CULTURE FESTIVAL #7 +announcement+ 6. MarkDavid Hosale- Quasar 7. Carlo Zanni- Le Cube, Paris- EDIT: presentation and conference on Games 8. Igmade- JUNK JET- Fanzine for Electronics and Aesthetics +discussion+ 9. Pall Thayer: THIS is // 18 Replies + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 1. FROM: Lee Wells DATE: February 8, 2008 SUBJECT: Call For VIDEO ART: THE FUTURE WAS THEN ….. SO NOW WHAT? - [PAM] 3rd Annual Last Minute Open Call for New Video We invite the community to submit to the [PAM] 3rd Annual Open Call for New Video Art to be included as a featured project at Scope New York at Lincoln Center. Celebrate with us the anniversary of the creation of the Perpetual Art Machine video art project and to commemorate the death of video art legend Nam June Paik. Paik, credited over 30 years ago with coining the phrase ”The future is now”, [PAM] asks what that means today in “THE FUTURE WAS THEN ………. SO NOW WHAT?” homelincoln_center_scope.jpg Submissions will be considered for featured video programs curated by surprise guests, to be presented March 26-30, at this years SCOPE New York International Art Fair, Lincoln Center, New York, NY. Deadline for submissions: Friday February 29, 2008 For those of you that dont know already. [PAM] was originally created for Scope New York in 2006. [PAM] was founded and created by the artists Lee Wells, Chris Borkowski, Aaron Miller and Raphaele Shirley as a one-time collaborative installation and open source web 2.0 research and archive project. [PAM] has since grown into a vibrant and progressive international community of curators, academics, collectors, writers and most importantly the artists who choose video, interactive media and the Internet as vehicles to express themselves in the new century. [PAM]’s unique interactive touch-screen system, allows for the artist and viewer to become an active participant in the curatorial process by allowing visitors to choose from thousands of video works from some of today’s most exciting contemporary emerging video artists. [PAM] has traveled the project to over 10 countries through its installation and special screenings that include the 2nd Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art, ART|BASEL Miami Beach, WRO07 Media Art Biennale, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, and the Lentos Art Museum, in addition to numerous incarnations at Scope Art Fairs over the past 2 years. Recently, [PAM] organized the exhibition “Video Art in the Age of the Internet” at the Chelsea Art Museum. In October, [PAM] will be included in an exhibition at the National Centre of Contemporary Art in Moscow and Yekaterinburg Russia called “Drift” a satellite exhibition to “In Transition Russia 2008” curated by Helene Black and Sheila Pinkel of NeMe. — "If there is any movement or group of artists who have inherited the mantel of Nam June Paik it is this group, although of course they are doing their own thing." - Michael Rush In Memoriam Nam June Paik, 1932–2006 FOR MORE INFORMATION GO TO THE WEBSITE AT HTTP://WWW.PERPETUALARTMACHINE.COM OR EMAIL US AT pam (at) perpetualartmachine.com + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 2. FROM: Ana Otero DATE: February 13, 2008 SUBJECT: Call for Collaborators: Inclusiva-net workshop Medialab-Prado issues a call for all those interested in taking part in the Inclusiva-net workshop, by collaborating in any of the teams that will develop the selected proposals on *digital networks and physical space*, that will be taking place at Medialab-Prado from *March 3 through 14*. If you are interested, please check the selected projects and visit the forum where you can contact authors, ask questions. Online submissions <a rel="nofollow" href="http://medialab-prado.es/article/2_encuentro_inclusiva-net_convocatoria_para_participar_como_colaborador_en_el_taller">http://medialab-prado.es/article/2_encuentro_inclusiva-net_convocatoria_para_participar_como_colaborador_en_el_taller</a> deadline: *February 26* Medialab-Prado will offer accommodation in a youth hostel for 10 collaborators coming from outside Madrid (first-come-first-served basis): don't forget to specify arrival and departure date if your are going to chose this option. More information: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.inclusiva-net.org">http://www.inclusiva-net.org</a> Inclusiva-net Forum: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://forommm.intermediae.es/viewforum.php?id=5">http://forommm.intermediae.es/viewforum.php?id=5</a> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Theatre/Video: Assistant Professor (tenure track to begin August 2008). MFA required, Ph.D. or equivalent professional and academic experience considered. Teaching responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, courses in: acting; voice/diction; on-camera performance; directing; script analysis and script writing; digital video production and editing. Other duties may include directing Theatre/Video productions; collaborating with colleagues on other productions and activities, mentoring students with their creative processes; departmental and institutional support. Qualified applicants must submit letter of interest (include email address if applicable), vita, unofficial transcripts, evidence of teaching effectiveness, recent examples of personal work and at least three letters of reference (to be sent directly by references or confidential placement file) to: Dr. Marilyn D. Hunt, Chair, Department of Communication Studies & Theatre, Missouri Western State University, 4525 Downs Drive, St. Joseph, Missouri 64507. Deadline: December 1, 2007 or until filled. Review of applications will begin immediately. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 3. FROM: Rhizomer DATE: February 13, 2008 SUBJECT: Call for New Media Art: Freewaves HollyWould…Festival of New Media Art OPEN CALL: Freewaves (experimental media art, video, animation, cell videos, wifi events, images for electronic moving signs+) *PLEASE POST/FORWARD* HollyWould… Freewaves' 11th Festival of New Media Arts Submission Deadline: February 29, 2008. Freewaves' HollyWould… festival will take place in October 2008, in the perceived world capital of media on Hollywood Boulevard. We are looking for INTERESTING WORKS THAT REPRESENT AN ALTERNATIVE TO MAINSTREAM MEDIA or directly relate to Hollywood. Selected festival works will be installed in this urban hall of mirrors in screening rooms, art centers, stores, vacant walls intersecting with audiences where they live, recreate and shop. Media art works include experimental videos and films (narrative, documentary, art, animation, etc.), cell phone videos, DVDs, websites, simple installations, wifi events, images for moving signs and silent video billboards. Works from the festival will also appear on television and video-streamed on the Internet with artists' permission. Competitive selection process will be conducted online by a group of international and local curators with a range of specialties and backgrounds. - Work must be completed since January 1, 2005. - Notification of acceptance is in July 2008. - Artists will be paid $100-$200 for selected works. For submission details, online entry form and Hollywood Boulevard photo gallery, see: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://freewavesopencall.org/">http://freewavesopencall.org/</a> Contact: [email protected] and <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.freewaves.org">http://www.freewaves.org</a> Anne Bray Freewaves 6522 Hollywood Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90028 USA + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Film/Video/Theatre: Assistant Professor, (tenure-track position to begin August 2008) – dynamic individual to teach courses in progressive integrated video/film and theatre department with emerging interdisciplinary graduate program in applied media arts. Department requires innovative professional to oversee the technical production of video, film, and live production and assist in curricular development of graduate classes. Required: M.F.A. in film, video, multi-media, theatre or closely related field. Must demonstrate evidence of quality teaching/advising and commitment to undergraduate and graduate education. Applicant must have expertise with cinematography, lighting, sound and live theatrical production. Applicant must also have a working knowledge in the Macintosh environment, including the major non-linear applications utilized in post-production. Applicant will teach courses as needed but must be able to teach film, video and live technical production. Qualified applicants must submit a letter of interest including e-mail address; vita; recent examples of personal work; and at least three letters of reference (to be sent directly by references or confidential placement file) to: Dr. M. D. Hunt, Chair, Department of Communication Studies & Theatre, Missouri Western State University, 4525 Downs Drive, Murphy Hall 207, St. Joseph, Missouri 64507. Deadline: December 1, 2007 or until filled. Review of applications will begin immediately. AA/EOE. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 4. FROM: Ana Otero DATE: February 13, 2008 SUBJECT: Call For Proposals: HortizoTV'08 International meeting of horizontal, community and experimental tv. La Capella, Barcelona May - June, 2008 HoritzoTV is an international meeting of horizontal, community and experimental tv’s broadcasting either on internet or anallogically. HoritzoTV aims to discover and exchange tv projects and to promote the meeting among its protagonists and creators. It will take place in Barcelona including meetings, pannels, live streamings and special events. Analogical or digital tv project doing research on live streaming, working on horizontal interactive tv, enhancing networking and culture exchange all around the world, empowering diversity and creation. You are invited to submit proposals to be broadcasted in HoritzoTV or to come to Barcelona and present them personally during our international meeting. Please contact: Clara Gari [email protected] + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 5. FROM: Rhizomer DATE: February 13, 2008 SUBJECT: Call For Submissions: MULTIPLACE NETWORK CULTURE FESTIVAL #7 MULTIPLACE NETWORK CULTURE FESTIVAL #7 26 April - 3 May 2008 telematic networking / imaginary broadcasting / experimental mobility CALL FOR ENTRIES Multiplace 2008 invites artists and cultural workers to submit events/ performances/ installations/ ideas of a networked character, such as online performances, streaming and radio projects, collaborative networked projects and workshops, or the works accessing the networks within a physical location, urban space or between remote venues. Use of digital technologies is not a crucial requirement. Submitted projects will be proposed to participating venues and organisers. These will assist in providing the infrastructure (technical equipment, internet connection, material, staff, etc) for the project (if needed). HOW TO SUBMIT You are welcome to submit your proposal at <a rel="nofollow" href="http://multiplace.sk/submit">http://multiplace.sk/submit</a> There you can also find the current list of submitted projects and ideas. Please note that your submission has to be posted by February 29, 2008. ABOUT MULTIPLACE Multiplace was formed as a result of collective efforts of various organisers and associations from the fields of art and technology in Slovakia and later in Czech Republic, Austria and Europe. Its first activity was Multiplace new media event in April 2002, and since then the festival is organised anually each spring focusing on networked art and culture. In 2004, a civic non-for-profit association Multiplace was founded, which operates on a basis of open organisation. Today, Multiplace plays a crucial role in communication, theory and promotion of media arts in central Europe. ONLINE RESOURCES ON NETWORK ART * Norie Neumark (2005) Relays, Delays, and Distance Art/Activism, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/chapters/0262532859intro1.pdf">http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/chapters/0262532859intro1.pdf</a> (introduction to At a Distance - Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet) * Overviews of network art projects, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://societyofalgorithm.org/networktime/">http://societyofalgorithm.org/networktime/</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://1904.cc/timeline/tiki-index.php?page=communication+art">http://1904.cc/timeline/tiki-index.php?page=communication+art</a> * Networked Performance Blog, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://turbulence.org/blog/">http://turbulence.org/blog/</a> * Networked Music Review, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://http://transition.turbulence.org/networked_music_review/">http://http://transition.turbulence.org/networked_music_review/</a> * <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor-network_theory">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor-network_theory</a> For further information please write to admin at multiplace dot sk <a rel="nofollow" href="http://multiplace.sk">http://multiplace.sk</a> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Organizational memberships with Rhizome Sign your library, university or organization up for a Rhizome organizational membership! Give your community access to the largest online archives of digital art and new media art-related writing, the opportunity to organize member-curated exhibitions, participate in critical discussion, community boards, and learn about residency, educational and professional possibilities. Rhizome also offers subsidized memberships for qualifying institutions with limited access to the Internet. Please visit <a rel="nofollow" href="http://rhizome.org/info/org.php">http://rhizome.org/info/org.php</a> for more information or contact [email protected] + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 6. FROM: MarkDavid Hosale DATE: February 7, 2008 SUBJECT: Quasar Quasar <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.quasarexhibition.com">http://www.quasarexhibition.com</a> Quasar is an immersive light and sound space made from prototype membranes and realized as an interactive light/sound object and comprised of a dense array of interlinked elements describing an intricate three-dimensional structure. The gallery is fitted with sensors that draw real-time data from the installation and the people within the exhibition, which is then synchronized with streamed real-time data of solar activity and nuclear processes provided by SLAC and NASA. This information is then fed back into the object through layers of LED strands, re-visualizing the space in order to create an interactive spatial experience. Jean-Michel Crettaz Aaron Bocanegra, MarkDavid Hosale, Duly Lee Opening Reception Jan. 25th 7-9pm Exhibition Discussion Feb. 15th 7-9pm Southern California Institute of Architecture 960 East 3rd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013 directions: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.sciarc.edu/portal/about/directions.html">http://www.sciarc.edu/portal/about/directions.html</a> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 7. FROM: Carlo Zanni DATE: February 11, 2008 SUBJECT: Le Cube, Paris- EDIT: presentation and conference on Games EDIT: Review no. 7 <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.edit-revue.com/">http://www.edit-revue.com/</a> THE GAME Conference/Demo Le Cube - Paris With Margherita Balzerani, Xavier Boissarie, Eric Chahi, Etienne Clement, Carlo Giordano. ——– Tuesday 19th February - 8.30 pm Le Cube - Art 3000 <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.lesiteducube.com">http://www.lesiteducube.com</a> 20, Cours Saint Vincent 92130 Issy-les-moulineaux (Paris) +33 1 58 88 3000 Free entrance ——- The 7th issue of the EDIT: review is focused on game. Artists and writers will discuss Lara Croft and Second Life, new kind of videogames, playful interactions between museum's visitors and artworks and the importance of game in contemporary art. Etienne Clement stages toys back to life, Carlo Zanni plays with news as if on an Amiga and Xavier Boissarie introduces his "Bandoneon", immersive work exploring a virtual urban universe through a surf board. The conference will give the opportunity to discover the review, meet artists and authors and question the role of game in contemporary art and image by elaborating on the online articles. With Margherita Balzerani, Xavier Boissarie, Eric Chahi, Etienne Clement, Carlo Giordano. EDIT: is a bilingual (French/English) review published online 3 times per year, focused on contemporary visual culture and featuring portfolios, interviews, in-depth artwork studies. It has been launched in 2005 by the Tide association. — Tuesday 19th February - 8.30 pm Le Cube - Art 3000 20, Cours Saint Vincent 92130 Issy-les-moulineaux (Paris) +33 1 58 88 3000 Free entrance — >> How to reach Le Cube <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.lesiteducube.com/site/index.php?section=plan_acces">http://www.lesiteducube.com/site/index.php?section=plan_acces</a> >> EDIT: site <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.edit-revue.com/">http://www.edit-revue.com/</a> >> Le Cube <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.lesiteducube.com/site/index.php?section=english_version">http://www.lesiteducube.com/site/index.php?section=english_version</a> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Rhizome Commissions Program In 2009, Rhizome will award seven commissions with fees ranging from $3000-$5000. This year, Rhizome has expanded our scope, formerly focused strictly on Internet-based art to encompass the broad range of practices that fall under new media art. This includes projects that creatively engage new and networked technologies to works that reflect on the impact of these tools and media in a variety of forms. With this expanded format, commissioned works can take the final form of online works, performance, video, installation or sound art. Projects can be made for the context of the gallery, the public, the web or networked devices. This year, all applicants will be reviewed by a selected jury and several awards will be granted through Rhizome's membership in an open, community vote. Proposal submission takes place online. The deadline is midnight on Monday, March 31, 2008. To Download the Call for Proposals and Submit a Proposal, visit: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://rhizome.org/commissions/">http://rhizome.org/commissions/</a> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 8. FROM: Igmade DATE: February 12, 2008 SUBJECT: JUNK JET- Fanzine for Electronics and Aesthetics JUNK JET [flash=]Last 30 Copies Jubilee[/flash] Junk Jet is a fanzine, a collaborative format set up to discuss subversive and hoaxing pirate works on topics of electronic media and aesthetics. It is both an online publication, exploiting all possibilities of multimedia, and an extravagant lo-fi paper publication on a non-commercial scale. Junk Jet has established an open platform for artists, media theorists, and others to take part in an aesthetic and futile battle against conventional use of modern media. From radio to computer it has collected significant works subverting, boarding or even breaking technological systems, for aesthetic purposes, curiosities, and instincts. Or just for fun. Junk Jet offers an interlinking base for those medial Don Qichottes, who set their hands on electronic devices constructed as black boxes by technological industries. It is these users, who hit mainstream practice, as they not only extend the boarders of custom, by using electronic devices in a way they were not intended, but also as they tunnel common aesthetics and functions, determined by technological dispositives. In this, Junk Jet deals with tinkering (bricoler, basteln), with forms and found objects, with theories and (small) narratives, with fashions and styles, and of course with computers and other electronic devices. It is about exploring do-it-yourself works, accidental outcomes, deviant and normal aesthetic forms that result from misused media, subverted customary tools, and jammed common practices. It is about cultivating an anti heart by “introducing noise to signal”: by distorting the digital hype and collapsing the technological seduction. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://junkjet.net">http://junkjet.net</a> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 9. FROM: Pall Thayer DATE: February 1, 2008 SUBJECT: THIS is <a rel="nofollow" href="http://current.com/items/88830919_time_stops_at_grand_central">http://current.com/items/88830919_time_stops_at_grand_central</a> awesome. + 18 REPLIES + Pall Thayer reposted a link to Frozen Grand Central by Improv Everywhere, a performance where over 200 participants freeze for five minutes within the main concourse of Grand Central Station. Discussion of the project followed. For full discussion, visit: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://rhizome.org/discuss/view/30235">http://rhizome.org/discuss/view/30235</a> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Rhizome.org is a 501©(3) nonprofit organization and an affiliate of the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Rhizome Digest is supported by grants from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Rhizome Digest is filtered by Ceci Moss ([email protected]). ISSN: 1525-9110. Volume 13, number 7. Article submissions to [email protected] are encouraged. Submissions should relate to the theme of new media art and be less than 1500 words. For information on advertising in Rhizome Digest, please contact [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this list, visit <a rel="nofollow" href="http://rhizome.org/unsubscribe.php?lists=digest">http://rhizome.org/unsubscribe.php?lists=digest</a>. Subscribers to Rhizome Digest are subject to the terms set out in the Member Agreement available online at <a rel="nofollow" href="http://rhizome.org/info/29.php">http://rhizome.org/info/29.php</a>. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +