OPEN CALL - Locus Sonus Lab

// Open Call
// Locus Sonus Lab is recruting 3 research fellows for the academic year
2007/2008.
// Deadline: September 1, 2007

Locus Sonus is a research group specialized in audio art
(involving the participating schools: Ecole Superieure d’Art
d’Aix-en-Provence, Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Art de
Nice Villa Arson and the Ecole Superieure des Beaux-Arts de Marseille)
in collaboration with CNRS/MMSH/LAMES Laboratory of the University
of Provence .

Locus Sonus experiments and evaluates the innovative and
transdisciplinary nature of audio art forms in a lab-type context.
Locus Sonus is also concerned with the communal, collective or multi-
user aspects inherent to many emerging audio practices, which involve working as a group. This research concentrates on two main themes -
sound in relation to space and network audio systems.
The "Lab" proposes a process combining practical artistic experiment
and critical evaluation within a group context.
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Application Deadline

September 1st 2007
Candidates should be available for interview at the Art School in
Aix-en-Provence, France on September 6th 2007
www.ecole-art-aix.fr

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Selection Criteria

The Locus Sonus is a post graduate programme open to highly
motivated researchers and artists interested in audio practices
Eligible applicants include: art school graduates or university
graduates in art, music, science and technology .

Qualifications and skills:
candidates should posess skills in at least two of the areas listed
below :
- PureData, Max/MSP, etc. (control, synthesis,
sound spatialization, etc.)
- 3D & virtual reality
- Networks (PHP, streaming, LSL, etc.)
- Systems administration & unix/linux
- Electronics (sensors, interactivity, etc.)
- Design & construction, (installation)
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Terms and Conditions

Successfull candidates will receive a monthly salary and will be
expected to take part in
teaching activities in the 3 art schools (seminars, presentations
and workshops..)
Candidates should be available throughout the year and will be
expected to take
up residency in the Aix en Provence / Marseille area.
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Research Programme 2007/2008
Audio 'Extranauts'.
(Contractual agreement between the CNRS & French Ministry of Culture)

"Emerging Practices in Sound and Acoustics Linked to Network
Technologies"

Laboratoire Locus Sonus
http://locusonus.org/
Laboratoire de sociologie LAMES-UMR 6127
http://www.mmsh.univ-aix.fr/lames/

The research programme includes multiple projects, proposed
and developed by Locus Sonus in collaboration with the LAMES
Research group.

These projects result from a continual process of artistic
experimentation
concerning interaction between physical and virtual acoustics,
while taking into account social and geographical factors.
The term "extranaut" is used here to designate the behaviour
of individuals or communities who navigate between online
and offline spaces or activities.
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Locus Sonus Research Lab

Current Fields of Research:

- The permutations of network-based projects in physical space.
(virtual worlds, online performance, installations)
-The emergence and and significance of renewable media (flux) as
artistic forms.
-The impact of mobile technologies on art.

Documents to be downloaded :
http://locusonus.org/ :
- Audio Extranauts program (in French)
- Locus Sonus 2006/2007