Fri Aug 19, 2011 05:00

Lincoln, Nebraska
United States of America

While the duration of most human-generated sounds are determined by the information they communicate, musicians and sound artists working at the margins of time have created fascinating works built with sounds of extreme brief- or long-ness, from Iannis Xenakis and Curtis Roads’ micro sounds and punk rock’s energetic brevity to John Cage, Indian ragas, and Justin Bieber’s "U Smile" played at 800%.

"Chopped and Stretched" is a sound art exhibition examining the extremes of duration.  We are looking for sounds that challenge our ideas of scale and time using innovative techniques and technologies to mince, mangle or stretch sounds, resulting in works that are beautiful, alarming, startling, or horrifying.

Accepted works will be played in the gallery on headphones via MP3 players; artists whose work requires a computer or other mechanism for playback are encouraged to contact the gallery before submitting work.  Sound artists, experimental and traditional musicians, and field recordists are encouraged to apply, as are scientists or engineers working with audio.

In addition to the gallery exhibition, Drift Station will release a limited edition compilation CD with all included works (or excerpts in the case of longer pieces).  Participating artists will receive three copies of the CD, including handmade packaging and essays about the exhibition.

Please send the following to choppedandstretched@driftstation.org

+ Your name
+ Location
+ Website of other works (if available)
+ URL to play sound file online
+ A short paragraph explaining how your work relates to the concept of the exhibition

Please note we cannot accept sound files attached to emails or direct download links (such as YouSendIt).  We encourage artists without websites to use SoundCloud, a free online service for hosting streaming audio.

SUBMISSIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY FRIDAY, AUGUST 19th AT 5PM CST.

Started by Angeles Cossio and Jeff Thompson in the summer of 2010, Drift Station acts as a non-traditional curatorial platform for innovative exhibitions, art, music, and performance based in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.

www.driftstation.org

Fri Jun 03, 2011 23:00

Curated by Angeles Cossio & Jeff Thompson  |  June 3-24, 2011  |  Opening Reception: Friday, June 3

A gallery, an email address, and a printer – anything received will be printed and exhibited.

Drift Station Gallery is pleased to announce an open call for "mailto:", an exhibition built around the open portal of an email address.  Beginning immediately, works or messages of any kind can be sent in the body of an email or as an attachment to:

anything@driftstation.org

Emails received through the end of the opening reception will be printed and hung in the gallery.  Drift Station welcomes submissions by artists, writers, scientists, or anyone else interested in participating.

“mailto:” argues for a curatorial practice akin to chaos theory or aleatoric musical composition – that the initiation of a specific but open structure creates unexpected and diverse results.  As the digital files (up until this point infinitely malleable and scalable) reach the printer, they are made manifest as fixed, physical objects; when hung on the gallery wall they each represent a small document in a curatorial process divorced from the geographically-focused perfection of the unique art object.

An electronic catalog will be produced of all emails received and published after the exhibition at our website, including an essay by curator Jeff Thompson.

Spam-bots, start your trawling…

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Started by Angeles Cossio and Jeff Thompson in the summer of 2010, Drift Station acts as a non-traditional curatorial platform for innovative exhibitions, art, music, and performance based in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.

www.driftstation.org

Wed Nov 03, 2010 00:00

United States of America

Instructions for Initial Conditions
Deadline: November 3, 2010
Exhibition: November 5 - 29, 2010

Drift Station Gallery and Parallax Space are pleased to announce a call for artworks for their upcoming exhibition “Instructions for Initial Conditions”. The show will consist of instructions exhibited as artworks, either to be carried out by the audience or realized in their minds. The audience may participate or not; directions can be towards present actions, future gestures, thoughts of past events, or impossible actions; participation can be individual or group.

In Chaos Theory, the initial condition refers to a simple starting point that, when the system is set into motion, is radically transformed into an unpredictable result. Works for this exhibition should describe the initial condition by which an artwork can be made or enacted. The work may use traditional or non-traditional materials, be performative or socially integrated, be text- or sound-based, be purely poetic and only to be realized mentally, or in another unforeseen form. The pieces need not be actually realizable; in other words, they can be impossible or purely conceptual.

Guidelines: - Fit on an 8.5 x 11” sheet of paper with at least 1/4” margins; larger images will be scaled down
- Instructions will be printed in black and white on a high-quality laser printer
- You may include your name on your score if desired; a key to the participating artists will be created so signing your work is not required
- Files must be in PDF, Word, Adobe Illustrator, or image file (png, jpg, gif, etc) formats
- Resolution should be high enough to print; files that are too low quality will not be included

Email your instructions to mail@driftstation.org

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Started by Angeles Cossio and Jeff Thompson in the summer of 2010, Drift Station acts as a non-traditional curatorial platform for innovative exhibitions, art, music, and performance based in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. Parallax Space, started by Marissa Vigneault and Bill Graham in August 2010, is an exhibition space in Lincoln, Nebraska, devoted to thematic presentations of contemporary artistic production in a variety of media.

www.driftstation.org
www.parallaxspace.com

Mon May 10, 2010 00:00

United States of America

Data as Art Medium"
CAA Conference 2011
Call for panel discussion proposals

As art making has dematerialized and the world around us is increasingly information-based, using data as another medium for artistic exploration seems not only possible but a cultural necessity.
This panel will explore current approaches being used by artists working with data and the theoretical implications of that work. Since possible data sources range widely from weather patterns to stock-market trends to GPS locations, and the output spans all types of new and traditional media, the goal of this panel is not to hone in on a specific issue but to work as a survey connecting conceptual and critical points within this practice.

Possible lines of inquiry include the relationships between poetics and data; the role of artist-written software; the differentiation of artworks from visualizations; and the historical lineage of artwork made with data. To encourage the most diverse conversation possible, artists, scholars, historians, and all others are encouraged to submit presentations.

For information on submitting, please download the call for participation:
http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/2011callforparticipation.pdf

Send proposals to:
Jeff Thompson
Dept. of Art & Art History
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
120 Richards Hall
Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0114

Or submit as Word or PDF files (with links as needed) to:
jthompson9@unl.edu

Tue Sep 04, 2007 22:19

Sorry, no animated GIF's. This will actually published in the print version of the magazine.