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Table of Contents: Open Call for Launch Option Berlin Sal Randolph <stfr@earthlink.net> [R]-[R]-[F] Festival - Version 1.0 "[R]-[R]-[F] Festival" <agricola-w@netcologne.de> OSI: Information Program ICT Toolsets "geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl> Feature: French Netart - Update "JavaMuseum" <agricola-w@netcologne.de> Critical Animals - call for papers Barry Saunders <pulse@riseup.net> UNESCO Digital Arts Award -- Deadline July 12th !! oliver grau <oliver.grau@culture.hu-berlin.de> July on -empyre-: Net Blackness with Mendi + Keith Obadike and damali ayo Michael Arnold Mages <marnoldm@du.edu> HASTAC: THE HUMAN DIMENSIONS OF EMERGING SCIENCE AND TECH "geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl> fAf July 03 linda carroli <lcarroli@pacific.net.au> http://meta.am - panorama 2.0 m e t a <meta@meta.am> ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 15:44:47 -0400 From: Sal Randolph <stfr@earthlink.net> Subject: Open Call for Launch Option Berlin +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ OPEN CALL FOR LAUNCH OPTION BERLIN +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ An open call to musicians & sound artists for LAUNCH OPTION BERLIN Musicians and sound artists of all kinds are invited to participate in LAUNCH OPTION BERLIN, a joint project of Opsound and Rocket Shop, which will take place at BueroFriedrich, Berlin, July 22-26, 2003 as part of BueroFriedrich's month-long Open Arch program. LAUNCH OPTION BERLIN is a test site and data gathering center, a 5-day event devoted to discovering, collecting, playing, and listening to the sounds & noises of Berlin. We want to know what Berlin sounds like: Berlin real, Berlin virtual, Berlin dreamt and desired -- from field recordings of Oranienstrasse to the music of underground punk bands, techno tracks and experimental audio files lurking on hard drives. Over the five days of the project and continuing through the internet, LAUNCH OPTION BERLIN will create a network of exchange, a temporary gift economy of sounds inspired by the free software and open source software communities. How to Participate: LAUNCH OPTION BERLIN, is gathering material for an open sound pool of material from, about, or inspired by the idea of Berlin. (We also have a weakness for sounds of, about, & inspired by rockets and rocket launches -- if you have any, we want them). Anyone is welcome to add work to the sound pool, and all material for the pool will be released under a Creative Commons license (the "Attribution-ShareAlike license"), a copyleft license in the spirit of open source software licenses which allows for all kinds of copying, remixing, use, and reuse while retaining an attribution to the original artist. Sound from the pool will be played in the LAUNCH OPTION control center at the BueroFriedrich gallery, mixed into sets by LAUNCH OPTION djs at parties and listening salons, and made available for remix contests and internet distribution through the opsound.org website. To enter your work in the pool visit Deadline: For practical reasons it is advisable to enter your work in the pool as soon as possible, but entries will be accepted up to and throughout the LAUNCH OPTION BERLIN event. In addition, we have many slots for live performances throughout the five-day period. If you can be in Berlin in person during July 22-26 and would like to perform your music or play your sounds, please contact us by email at launch@opsound.org Contact Info: http://www.opsound.org/launch.html launch@opsound.org http://www.rocketshop.net http://www.opsound.org http://www.buerofriedrich.org http://www.creativecommons.org About Rocket Shop: Rocket Shop was founded in 2001 by the artists Roger Frank and Laura Schleussner and featured monthly exhibitions in a store-front project space in Berlin through 2002. Rocket Shop is currently in orbit and currently presents regular exhibitions and events at venues in Berlin and abroad. Reflecting the function of rockets and spaceships as symbols of progress and carriers of collective visions of the future, the exhibition project is not only interested in the visionary function of art. Rocket Shop also supports art as a means of investigating the human aspect and impact of the unending pursuit of technical, social and personal utopias. http://www.rocketshop.net About Opsound: Opsound (http://www.opsound.org) responds to recent upheavals in the music industry by creating an alternative structure for musicians and sound-based artists wishing to share and release music under a copyleft, or open source structure. Opsound will gather a pool of sound material from artists and encourage the development of both web-based and real-world micro labels to release artists' work. All work will be released under a Creative Commons license which permits free copying and modification (the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license, http:/www.creativecommons.org). In the second phase of operation, over the coming months Opsound will also begin to function directly as a record label in its own right focusing on experimental electronic music. Opsound is a project of artist Sal Randolph. It is one of a series of artworks exploring the idea of social architecture as an art form. Other recent projects include Free Manifesta, The Free Biennial, and Free Words. More information can be found at http://www.highlala.com http://www.opsound.org About BueroFriedrich: BueroFriedrich has existed as a project space for contemporary art in Berlin Mitte since October 1997. BueroFriedrich was founded and is currently directed by Waling Boers. In a climate of intensified commercial and non-commercial exhibition activity, BueroFriedrich positions itself as an intermediary facility for contemporary art. With Open Arch BueroFriedrich presents a month-long series of summer shows, which invite artists and designers from the respective fields of architecture, publications, art and fashion to make use of the exhibition space for a 5-day period. The individual segments are not exhibitions in the traditional sense. Instead groups of artists and designers present projects which encourage interaction and participation on the part of the public. In conjunction with a series of talks, the series intends to generate active communication between the viewers and artists-producers. In some cases, projects will actually require and depend on on-site participation of the visitors. The core idea is to create a communicative space, in which the viewer is actively engaged. http://www.buerofriedrich.org +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ THAT'S ALL TILL NEXT TIME +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ LAUNCH OPTION BERLIN http://www.opsound.org/launch.html launch@opsound.org OPSOUND 648 Broadway, Suite 1005 New York, NY 10012 212-777-1156 http://www.opsound.org info@opsound.org +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ If you'd like to unsubscribe, please reply with unsubscribe in the subject line. Thanks! +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 08:31:15 +0200 From: "[R]-[R]-[F] Festival" <agricola-w@netcologne.de> Subject: [R]-[R]-[F] Festival - Version 1.0 The times of waiting are over, now it is so far!! [R]-[R]-[F] Festival - Version 1.0 www.newmediafest.org/rrf/ is launched online on 2 July 2003 on occasion of the participation in InteractivA '03 - Biennale for New Media Art at Museum of Contemporary Art Merida (Yucatan/Mexico)- 11 July - 28 September 2003 *************************** A short introduction to [R]-[R]-[F] - Remembering, Repressing, Forgetting > >From its structures, [R] - [R] - [F] - Festival is an experimental New Media art project in form of an online festival created, programmed and realized by Agricola de Cologne. Its central subject, abbreviated in the capital letters of the title, is "Remembering, Repressing, Forgetting". A new way of art working is practiced: networking as artworking. Experimental fields of memory are developed by inviting curators from different countries around the globe, eg directors of media festivals or curators specialized in New Media, who have to select a number of artists of their choice according the terms of the project. The dynamic of this ongoing and continously changing project, as it is set up for being presented in festivals and media exhibitions, manifests itself not only in the artistic online environment, especially created for [R] - [R] - [F] - Festival, but also progressing when for each new presentation a new project version is created, including new subject related aspects, new curators and new artists and new visualizations of the connected memory fields. Continuously expanding, these memory fields containing curators and artists of the previous project versions will be always present in the background while slowly a networking universe of collective memory comes up. The project uses the Internet not only as an artistic environment, but primarily also as a communicating medium and a data base which is closely connected to memory and loss of memory, thus the subject of the festival project. The Internet represents not only the ideal medium in many ways, but allows above that direct intercultural networking like no other medium. These invited, selecting and participating curators form the basis of Version 1.0 of [R] - [R] - [F] - Festival: *curator: Fran Ilich (Mexico, Mexico) artists: Ivan Monroy-Lopez, kdag, Judith Villamayor, Regina Célia Pinto *curator: Wilton Azevedo (Sao Paulo,Brazil) artists André Vallias, Chris Funkenhouser, Komninos Zervos, Tania Fraga *curator: Anna Hatziyannaki (Athens, Greece) artists: Makis Faros, Dimitris Zouroudis, Babis Venetopoulos Thanasis Beroutsos, Viki Betsou, Joyce Charis *curator: Branca Bencic (Pula, Croatia) artists: Lunar, Zhel, Shirin Kouladije, Elena Stanic, Olja Stipanovic, Karo Jelena Vukotic, Vanesa Turcinhodzic, Petar Brajnovic, Tomislav Brajnovic *curator: Vincent Makowski (Lille, France) artists: AL , Mauro Ceolin , Arthur X. Doyle, Wolf Kahlen, Cyril Rouge *curator: Eugeny Umansky (Kaliningrad, Russia) artists: Jevgeny Palamarchuk, Yuri Vasiliev, Alexey Tschebykin Anatoly Belov, Dmitry Bulnygin , Oleg Lystsov , Eugeny Umansky *Caterina Davinio (Rome-Milan, Italy) selected Panos Kouros, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Christina McPhee *curators: Agricola de Cologne, Melody Parker Carter (both Cologne, Germany) artists: URTICA, Trebor Scholz , Darko Fritz Ruth Catlow, Alex Dragulescu, Fernando Palmeiro, Paul Catanese, Isabel Saij, Tjader Knight Inc., Osvaldo Cibils *Leonard Latiff is the author of the essay published on occasion of [R] - [R] - [F] - Festival. All details and the artistic body of [R] - [R] - [F] - Festival can be found on [R] - [R] - [F] - Festival site: www.newmediafest.org/rrf/ [R]-[R]-[F] - Festival - 'Remembering-Repressing-Forgetting' New Media project in form of an 'online festival' - - conception and realisation by Agricola de Cologne - - copyright © 2003. All rights reserved. www.newmediafest.org/rrf/ General info rrf@newmediafest.org [R]-[R]-[F] - Festival represents the new festival environment of A Virtual Memorial - Memorial project against the Forgetting and for Humanity www.a-virtual-memorial.org which is a corporate member of NewMediaArtProjectNetwork, - the experimental platform for net based art - founded and created by Agricola de Cologne, media artist and New Media curator operating from Cologne/Germany. Thanks to ARTOPOS, Athens/Greece for the co-operation and hosting of the Greek art works curated by Anna Hatziyannakis, Press contacts: press@newmediafest.org ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 15:48:50 +1000 From: "geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl> Subject: OSI: Information Program ICT Toolsets Please pass this announcement to any of your constituents (or lists of constituents) interested in applying for resources to develop software applications for the NGO environment meeting the following qualifications: Request for Proposals Information Program ICT Toolsets July 15, 2003: RFP announced September 30, 2003: Application deadline December 1, 2003: Results announced The Open Society Institute's Information Program is pleased to issue a request for project proposals for its ICT Toolsets initiative. This initiative seeks to advance and support open society principles and practices by funding the development of software tools designed to meet the mission objectives of civil society organizations and actors. Sectors of interest: * human rights * legal services for disadvantaged groups * NGO support * independent news media * anti-corruption * public health (disease and issue-specific) Application categories: * situation/case monitoring (domestic violence, human rights, etc) * case management * knowledge management * advocacy/campaign management * data mining, analysis, visualization * collaboration * metadata management (ontologies, semantic web) * secure communications or web surveillance/censorship monitoring tools Excluded sectors and categories: * administrative tools (e.g. accounting, grant management) * eGovernment software * education and training software Criteria for funded toolsets: * Proposed toolsets must directly contribute to the social missions of civil society organizations and initiatives. Tools developed for commercial applications that can be adapted to promote the mission objectives of civil society organizations will be considered. * A project team may apply for support at any stage of toolset creation; teams in the process of development are encouraged to apply for funds to complete and promote their toolsets. * Given the wide variety of content management systems currently available, proposals for these systems will not be considered unless they respond to a significant, unmet need. * Project proposals should fall between $50,000 and $200,000. * The project proposal should include a support and sustainability strategy beyond the grant period. * Both end-user and developer documentation for the software is required by the end of the grant cycle. Please make sure to include the time and cost for this in the proposal where appropriate. * Each proposal must identify a group of end-users who will test the software before final release. Proposals should clearly detail the expected user population, focusing on the scenarios and circumstances under which the toolset would be best used. * Each proposal must include a detailed budget and timeline. Please be certain to specify appropriate resources for the software?s completion, full testing, and documentation. * Open source projects with an active development community and approved Open Source Initiative licensing are preferred. * Software must be based on Unicode encoding to support localization in non-Latin character sets. * Application development team with prior software development and implementation experience preferred. * Projects that encourage standards compliance and interoperability are preferred. Please be sure to note this in section four of the proposal if applicable. * Projects that have additional funding are preferred. * Toolsets may be desktop, client-server, or peer-to-peer applications. Proposal format: The proposal should be no more than ten pages [2500 words] and include the following information: 1. Sector of interest and application category 2. Abstract/overview (1-2 paragraphs only) 3. Detailed description of project 4. Description of technology involved 5. Description of user group, including expected location(s) and use scenarios 6. Description of civil society application for project 7. Description of team, including countries of origin and previous software development experience 8. Budget/timeline 9. Co-funders (if any) Evaluation: Proposal reviewers will have experience in both software development and deployment and the civil society environment. Grant applicants will be notified of decisions no later than December 1st, 2003. Please send all project proposals to toolsets@osieurope.org by September 30th, 2003. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 11:30:01 +0200 From: "JavaMuseum" <agricola-w@netcologne.de> Subject: Feature: French Netart - Update 16 July 2002. . JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technologies in Contemporary Art (Java=Joint Advanced Virtual Affairs) www.javamuseum.org . It becomes evident also through JavaMuseum's show of French Netart: There are a lot of French artists working netbased in most different ways. . Come and see all of the 39 featured artists, including some new additions: . Otto von Strassenbach, Julie Morel,Valery Grancher Gregory Chatonsky, Cendres Lavy, Christophe Bruno, Pascale Gustin Tamara Lai, Erational, Antoine Schmitt, Xavier Malbreil, Thierry Vendé, jimpunk, Xavier Cahen, Annie Abrahams Emilie Pitoiset, Fred Fenollabbate, Patrick-Henri Burgaud Xavier Leton, Cecile Babiole, Christophe Bruno/ jimpunk, Pascal Nieto Isabel Saij, Ulrich Mathon, Hughes Rochette, Michael Sellam Pascal Bruandet, Blue Screen, Pauline Desormière, Nicolas Clauss Les Riches Douaniers, Gérard Dalmon, Oliver Auber, FiLH, Vincent Makowski, Xavier Makowski, Aurélie Peyront, Philippe Bruneau, Cathbleue, Sylvestre Evrard. . The show can be entered via www.javamuseum.org or also directly via www.javamuseum.org/2003/2nd/frenchfeature/index.html . Flash 6 plug-in/player required and some other plugins as Quicktime, Real and Cortona (3D) ******************************************* JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technologies in Contemporary Art (Java=Joint Advanced Virtual Affairs) www.javamuseum.org info@javamuseum.org corporate member of NewMediaArtprojectNetwork - the experimental platform for netbased art - founded by Agricola de Cologne. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2003 01:16:26 -0700 From: Barry Saunders <pulse@riseup.net> Subject: Critical Animals - call for papers CALL FOR PAPERS: CRITICAL ANIMALS - postgraduates working in the new medias. CRITICAL ANIMALS, an interdisciplinary conference for postgraduate students working critically in the areas of culture, art and communications, would like to hear from postgraduate students interested in delivering a paper at the conference to be held on Wednesday 1st and Thursday 2nd of October 2003 in Newcastle NSW. CRITICAL ANIMALS occurs as part of the This Is Not Art festival which is the largest gathering of young media makers and artists in Australia. CRITICAL ANIMALS is a unique opportunity for postgraduate students to present their work to a diverse and knowledgable audience. The conference invites papers covering all areas of publishing and expression, and welcomes participants from all disciplines. Interested participants are advised to view the This Is Not Art program from 2002 at http://www.thisisnotart.org prior to submitting abstracts to gain insight into the timbre of the event. The program from last year's conference can be found at http://www.octapod.org/newmediaconference The conference format is 30 minute paper, followed by 30 minutes chaired discussion. 500 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday July 25th. Email: anna.poletti@studentmail.newcastle.edu.au Enquiries and suggestions for panel discussions are welcome. CRITICAL ANIMALS is supported by HEAT Magazine and the School of Language and Media at the University of Newcastle NSW. - -- Barry Saunders Coordinator National Student Media Conference 2003 http://studmedia.org 0400 306 063 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2003 21:15:42 +0200 From: oliver grau <oliver.grau@culture.hu-berlin.de> Subject: UNESCO Digital Arts Award -- Deadline July 12th !! Dear friends and colleagues, We are happy to announce the Digital Pluralism - UNESCO Digital Arts Award 2003 at IAMAS Please find our web site and instructions for submissions in 10 languages at: http://www.iamas.ac.jp/unesco_award 1.) AWARD: The award is organized in collaboration between IAMAS Gifu, Japan and the UNESCO Digi-Arts Portal, Paris. The award consists of a 10.000 USD money award & a 6-month artist-in-residence stay at the IAMAS, Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences and the International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences in Ogaki, Gifu Japan. a) Award Money: The total money award of USD10,000 is provided by the Higashiyama Fund set-up and managed by the National Federation of UNESCO Associations in Japan (NFUAJ) and given by the Director-General of UNESCO. In addition, IAMAS provides a 6-months salary for the 1st price winner who will be invited as artist-in-residence to IAMAS. This salary is around 2,100,000 yen (~ 18.000.- USD) for 6 months (the exact amount will depend on the number of years' professional experience that the artist has had, for example, an artist with 2-6 years' experience will receive 350,000 yen per month, totalling 2,100,000 yen for 6 months). The components of the Award are: 1st prize: USD 5,000 & 6 months artist-in-residency at IAMAS 2nd prize: USD 3,000 3rd prize: USD 2,000 b) 6-month Artist-in-Residency at IAMAS IAMAS will welcome the main award winner as artist-in-residence for 6 months. This is intended to give the young artist the chance to work in a very well equipped, high-tech environment where he/she can realise the chosen project and benefit from cultural exchange with IAMAS staff and students. IAMAS will provide the artist with a monthly salary during this time (depending on the numers of years' professional experience up to 2,100,000.- yen for 6 months) as well as travel expenses incurred when joining and leaving IAMAS. Furthermore, IAMAS will rent an apartment for the artist-in-residence. However, the artist is asked to pay for part of the rent. The artist-in-residence will be at IAMAS from October 2003 until March 2004. During this time, the artist will develop his/her work, based on his/her award-winning project proposal. The final artwork will be presented at the 5th World Forum for Media Art and Culture exhibition to be held in Ogaki, Japan in March 2004. This is when the award winner and his/her work will be introduced to the public 2.) HOW TO SUBMIT Project proposals in the field of digital art (including web art, interactive art, media installation, digital music, performance or other media art forms) are accepted. 1. One project proposal per artist is accepted. The official language for all submissions is English. 2. The proposed project must not be an already finished artwork. 3. Total length of the project proposal: 5-7 pages, A4 format. 4. The project proposal must include: title, 500-word abstract, concept of the work, project description, technical description, drawings and set-up plan as well as a timetable for carrying out the work during the 6 months as artist-in-residence at IAMAS. 5. A short biography (2-3 pages, A4) including education, career, exhibition list and list of activities as well as contact address (including telephone number and email address) and 2 passport photos are required. 6. All submissions must reach IAMAS by postal mail by 12 July 2003. 7. Download and sign the entry form and send it along with your submission by postal mail to IAMAS: IAMAS Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences 3-95 Ryoke-cho Ogaki City Gifu 503-0014 Japan Phone. +81(0)584 75 6600 Fax. +81(0)584 75 6637 unesco_award at iamas.ac.jp 3.) SUBMISSION GUIDELINES · The award focuses on supporting young, talented people involved in media art. · The age limit for submitting artists is 35 years. · The award will be given to project proposals, not to finished artworks. · Project proposals should relate to the theme of the award. · The main award winner's project proposal will be carried out at IAMAS during a special artist-in-residence period provided by IAMAS. · We especially encourage submissions by artists from developing countries. 4.) OBJECTIVES OF THE AWARD In our increasingly diverse societies, it is essential to ensure harmonious interaction among people and groups with plural, varied and dynamic cultural identities as well as their willingness to live together" (UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity, 2 November 2001) But how does technology shape cultural identity and how has it changed the way we live together? Can digital technology promote dialogue between people from different cultures, creating a better, fairer and more peaceful world where cultural diversity and tolerance prevail? And how can an artist's vision and sensibility reflect and contribute to cultural diversity and digital pluralism? These are the questions we want to address through the "Digital Pluralism - UNESCO Digital Arts Award 2003 at IAMAS". We encourage artists to reflect on the theme of cultural diversity, digital pluralism and social interaction, and to send project proposals for a media artwork that considers these topics and that can be realised during a 6-month artist-in-residence period at the Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS) in Gifu, Japan. 5.) JURY An expert jury, representing the 5 cultural regions as well as UNESCO and IAMAS has been assembled. The jury members are: Africa: Ibrahima Ndiaye [Multimedia critic, Professor of Universite Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Senegal] Asia/Pacific: Eliane Ng [Independent curator specialized in contemporary and new media art, China] Latin America/Caribbean: Diana Domingues [Professor and Researcher at the University of Caxias do Sul/ CNPq, Brazil] Europe/North America: Gerfried Stocker [Director of Ars Electronica, Austria] Arab States: Azza El-Hassan [Independent filmmaker, Palestine] IAMAS: Itsuo Sakane [Founding President of IAMAS] Hiroshi Yoshioka [Professor of IAMAS] NFUAJ: Shigeru Okada [Secretary General of the National Federation ofUNESCO Associations in Japan] UNESCO: Tereza Wagner [Deputy team leader for the Digi-Arts Project, Paris Headquarters] External supervisor of the jury: Christa Sommerer [Associate Professor of IAMAS] We are looking forward to receive your project proposals and to welcome you at IAMAS ! Best regards Dr. Christa SOMMERER UNESCO Digital Arts Award 2003 at IAMAS Organizing and Program Committee ================================= Dr. Christa Sommerer Associate Professor IAMAS Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences 3-95 Ryoke-cho, Ogaki-shi, Gifu 503-0014, Japan Tel/Fax: +81-584-75-6806 or -6808 Mobile: +81-90-5880-1801 or +81-90-8957-4524 christa at iamas.ac.jp http://www.iamas.ac.jp/~christa ================================= ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2003 00:37:52 -0600 From: Michael Arnold Mages <marnoldm@du.edu> Subject: July on -empyre-: Net Blackness with Mendi + Keith Obadike and damali ayo - -empyre- takes great pleasure in welcoming three artists whose work explores the politics of race and identity. The plasticity of identity over the internet is a well known phenomenon. Internet utopians exalt in a genderless, colorless society that is available only though a digital medium. However, race remains a inextricably formative part of identity, and plays a central, contextualizing role in the nature of communication and social discourse. In the zealous search for terrorists, racial profiling has become a tool of US security agencies, and more palatable to that nation's population. Skin color has again become an acceptable way to identify those that may pose a threat to the hegemonic culture. Increasingly, the questions that surround stereotyped or commodified portrayals of race and ethnicity require satisfactory answers. Please join us at -empyre- for the month of July, to participate in the discussion where artists Mendi and Keith Obadike, and damali ayo explore and debate these issues. - ---- Mendi and Keith Obadike are interdisciplinary artists working with music, live art, and conceptual internet artworks. Their works conduct inquiry into the implications of social and cultural networks as relates to blackness. Other areas of exploration include sex toys, current events, and commodification of race and identity. In August of 2002, they exhibited The Interaction of Coloreds, commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art. At Yale University Mendi and Keith premiered their Internet opera The Sour Thunder, which was commissioned by the Yale Cabaret and will be released on CD by the classical music label Bridge Records. The Interaction of Coloreds http://www.whitney.org/artport/gatepages/august02.shtml Blackness for Sale http://Obadike.tripod.com/ebay.html The Sour Thunder http://blacknetart.com/sour damali ayo is a self-described junk artist--defining junk as "things we once bought (or bought into) and keep around because we are accustomed to their presence." Working from her studio in Portland, Oregon, ayo uses installation, assemblage, sound, paint, fabric whatever it takes to investigate concepts that engage her curiosity as well as social and community issues in the US. Her most recent online work, http://www.rent-a-negro.com/ is a performance work enabled by the internet. - -- Subscribe to -empyre- at: http://www.subtle.net/empyre/ - -- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2003 16:37:07 +1000 From: "geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl> Subject: HASTAC: THE HUMAN DIMENSIONS OF EMERGING SCIENCE AND TECH Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 17:41:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Grid Today grid@gridtoday.com HASTAC: THE HUMAN DIMENSIONS OF EMERGING SCIENCE AND TECH HASTAC (pronounced "Haystack"), the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory, announces the launch of its consortium, a strategic alliance of scientists, humanists, artists, social theorists, legal specialists, and information technology specialists. HASTAC is founded on the belief that the future of cyberinfrastructure must be driven by creative discovery across disciplinary divides because of the profound impact of new technologies on individuals and society. HASTAC scholars and researchers will think transformatively about their disciplines and engage in the design and application of innovative computing and scientific technologies for the humanities, arts, and interpretive social sciences. More than 55 scholars, practitioners, and industry representatives participated in the first meeting of the group at the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI), UC Irvine, on June 5-6, 2003. The resulting action plan calls for research, development, assessment, and application of emerging science and technology solutions. HASTAC representatives are participating in this week's Global Grid Forum in Seattle, Washington, to discuss strategic alliances within the Grid community and take part in the development of the Global Grid Forum Humanities and Social Science Grid Research Group. Topics for the June meeting at UC Irvine included collaboration in high-performance computing, biotechnologies, digital libraries, multimedia, archiving and search technologies, interoperable standards, and systems for virtual communications environments such as visualization caves. Issues of transformation, animation, preservation, and conservation came to the forefront along with the group's vision to create, implement, distribute, and analyze new knowledge and discovery spaces. "The humanities, arts, and social sciences have a very important role at the conceptual, research, and development stage of today's science and technology discovery," said David Theo Goldberg, director of UCHRI. Bringing together the expertise and experience found within HASTAC is critical to the future development of science and technology, and to the engagement of a much broader community. Dan Reed, the director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and Fran Berman, the director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center, both have noted the importance of including the humanities, arts, and social sciences in their centers high-performance computing research, and sent representatives to participate in the June meeting. The founding HASTAC members include the University of California Humanities Research Institute; Duke University's John Hope Franklin Center and Humanities Institute, Maryland Institute for Technology and the Humanities(MITH); Stanford Humanities Lab; Virginia Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities; San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego; National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois; Minority Serving Institutions High-performance Computing Working Group; Creative Commons (an advocacy group supporting flexible intellectual property licensing applications); California Digital Library; and several other major digital archiving and exhibition centers, along with groups with overlapping concerns such as the Coalition for Networked Information, the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage, and industry partners. The group is developing a white paper for the National Science Foundation's cyberinfrastructure initiative. Upcoming HASTAC meetings will be held at the University of Illinois, Duke University, the University of Maryland and Stanford University. HASTAC welcomes the participation from a broad community of individuals and organizations with interests in the interface between science, technology, humanities, arts, and social sciences. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 14:13:10 +1000 From: linda carroli <lcarroli@pacific.net.au> Subject: fAf July 03 fAf July 03 fineArt forum =3D art + technology netnews http://www.fineartforum.org http://www.cdes.qut.edu.au/fineart_online After a short break, fAf returns this month with a full listing of news, events and opportunities in the field of art, science and technology. CURRENT CALLS Check out current calls and job opportunities including: :: trAce=92s TEXTLAB electronic and experimental writers residentialschools :: Videotage seeks video and animation for Hong Kong Screenings :: Webcasting Curator position with the Tate, London :: M/C seeks contributors to the 'joke' issue of M/C Journal AND many more ... Submit your calls, events listings and news items to fAf= at l2.carroli@qut.edu.au or editor@fineartforum.org. http://www.fineartforum.org/Backissues/Vol_17/faf_v17_n07/opps_index.html CYBERTRIBE Continuing in cyberTribe =85 Light One, a series of works by Sydney-based artist, Jonathon Jones. Jones has undertaken research trips and cultural exchanges to Hawai'i and Canada and his work has been exhibited in Australia and overseas including as part of the research archive of the 2002 Adelaide Biennial, conVerge. cyberTribe is curated by Jenny Fraser. http://www.fineartforum.org/Gallery/cybertribe/index.htm CONTINUING IN fAf TEXT :: Alt-X Tenth Anniversary: Mark Amerika, founder and publisher of Alt-X, speaks with Linda Carroli on Alt-X's 10th anniversary. :: Power, Politics and the Internet: Gary Foley explores the future technological possibilities of empowerment or disempowerment from an Indigenous perspective. :: Peer-to-Peer: the collective, collaborative and liberated memory of sound: Alessandro Ludovico explores various aspects of file-sharing in relation to sound. :: State of Theatre Scene in Singapore: Agnes Teh investigates the challenges and obstacles faced by the Singaporean theatre scene today. :: Interdisciplinary Practice/Viewer Experience: Judy Malloy writes about the various facets of Interactive art. :: It's Cool to be Real!: Paul Brown reviews Charlie Gere's Digital Culture. :: Online Animation: YJ Tan asks how has the Internet helped in the distribution of animation?. :: The Language of War Symposium: Dave Brine reports on media responses to reportage on the Iraq War. :: Drawing Shortcuts: Heidi P. Jermyn reviews Jim Leggitt's guide for developing drawing skills using today's technology. :: BORDERPANIC: Tracey Benson interviews BORDERPANIC curators, Deborah Kelly and Zina Kaye :: BORDERPANIC Reader: Linda Carroli reviews the BORDERPANIC Reader. TEXT online at: http://www.fineartforum.org/Backissues/Vol_17/faf_v17_n07/reviews/reviews_in dex.html fAf_15: 15th ANNIVERSARY CDROM fAf_15, fAf=92s commemorative 15th anniversary cdrom is still available and free. On fAf_15, we present the magazine's entire archive as well as specially commissioned and collated new material. fAf_15 is an invaluable resource for researchers, artists, writers and activists in the new media, science and technology fields. To obtain a copy, email fAf at l2.carroli@qut.edu.au with your name and postal address. http://www.fineartforum.org/aboutus/highlights_index.html . . . . . 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