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Table of Contents: ISEA2004 - CALL for PROPOSALS Amanda McDonald Crowley <amc@autonomous.org> Impakt Online: "Database Dilemmas" Call for Proposals derek holzer <derek@x-i.net> verybusy.org - center for hardwired arts - News "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Stephan_\=28Spiv\=29_Schr=F6der?=" <mail@spiv.de> Call for proposals - The Israeli Center for Digital Art info <info@digitalartlab.org.il> Impakt: "Database Dilemmas" Commission Call for Proposals "geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl> Call for (creative) contributions Lionello Borean <lionello.borean@nline.it> ISEA2004 / Deadline: August 15th 2003 oliver grau <oliver.grau@culture.hu-berlin.de> Leonardo Announces New Board & Committee Members "LEONARDO (mk)" <isast@well.com> Visitor Center Opens in Washington, DC US Department of Art & Technology <press@usdat.us> 9PIN residency's Andy Robinson <andy@scansite.org> ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 17:41:55 +0300 From: Amanda McDonald Crowley <amc@autonomous.org> Subject: ISEA2004 - CALL for PROPOSALS - Stockholm - Tallinn - Helsinki - August 14th - 22nd, 2004 ************************************************************ ISEA2004: The 12th International Symposium on Electronic Art ************************************************************ CALL FOR PROPOSALS ************************************************************ Deadline: August 15th 2003 ************************************************************ http://www.isea2004.net new media art - media culture research - electronic music - art and science - cultural and social applications for new media - New media meets art, science, research, and popular culture at ISEA2004 in Stockholm - Tallinn - Helsinki. For the first time an event of this scale is being organised between three cities and on the ferry travelling between these three Baltic countries. International participants and local audiences attend thematic conferences, exhibitions, live performances, screenings, satellite events, concerts and clubs. Many events are also interfaced via television, radio, broadband Internet, and mobile networks. We are encouraging: Socially, critically and ecologically engaging work; Projects that bring the creative media to the streets; Projects that are worn on or inside people; Context sensitive work in the museums; Projects that float, dock or sail; Screen based media as it appears in 2004; Sea Fair: technological gizmos for ferry travellers and future media archaeologists to discover; Bridges between club scenes and art venues; Most engaging works from performing arts that engage new media, users, and audiences; Networks to network... Key themes for the event include: Networked experience (Stockholm) Wearable experience (Tallinn) Wireless experience (Helsinki) Histories of the new: media arts, media cultures, media technologies - - all cities Additional themes include: Open source and software as culture (Helsinki) Critical interaction design (Helsinki) Geopolitics of media (Tallinn) Interfacing sound (Helsinki and on the Ferry - in collaboration with Koneisto - check out http://www.koneisto.com for details of this year's Koneisto Festival 24-26 July 2003) We are currently inviting proposals for projects and papers for the exhibitions, conferences and associated programs during ISEA2004. Projects might include: works for exhibition in a gallery; workshops; installations in public spaces; live performance; interfaced screenings; games or shared environments; projects which encourage remote participation - etc. Proposals for the conference can include papers and panels but we are equally interested in workshops and roundtables: discussion formats that encourage participation and exchange of ideas. We are also working with a range of local organisations who may be able to host short and medium term residencies or workshops for artists who are keen to spend a longer time working with local artists and organisations. Information on these opportunities will be regularly added to the web site, so do register to receive updates. ISEA2004 will be an exciting week long event, but we are also interested in providing a space to build long term, sustainable exchange and collaboration. The time on the Ferry will provide a space for less formal dialogue and social intercourse, so feel free to propose workshops and meetings for the exchange of information and ideas. Our over all aim for ISEA2004 is to create an event which is thematically and critically coherent and provides new insight. Please note that ISEA2004 is a forum for artistic, academic, and culturally or socially relevant work that has not previously been presented in international forums (you may have showed/presented it in your local context). All submissions are done via our website using a web form and stored into a database. This procedure allows us to have the proposals reviewed by International Programme Committee (IPC) members. We very much look forward to hearing your ideas! For further information: http://www.isea2004.net info@isea2004.net Our partners for the event are: MAIN ORGANISER: m-cult, centre for media culture in finland http://www.m-cult.org HELSINKI: Exhibition: The Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma http://www.kiasma.fi Conference: Media Centre Lume (University of Art and Design) http://www.lume.fi Electronic music: Koneisto (Festival for electronic music and arts) http://www.koneisto.com STOCKHOLM: Coordinator: CRAC, Creative Room for Art and Computing http://www.crac.org Conference: Moderna Museet http://www.modernamuseet.se and Royal University College of Fine Arts (Stockholm) http://www.kkh.se Exhibition: Färgfabriken http://www.fargfabriken.se Electronic music: Fylkingen http://www.fylkingen.se TALLINN: Coordinator + conference: Estonian Academy of Arts http://artun.ee Exhibition: Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia at The Art Museum of Estonia http://www.cca.ee ISEA2004 is produced in collaboration with ISEA Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts http://www.isea-web.org - -- For further information: http://www.isea2004.net info@isea2004.net ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:55:52 +0200 From: derek holzer <derek@x-i.net> Subject: Impakt Online: "Database Dilemmas" Call for Proposals "Database Dilemmas" Commission Call for Proposals http://www.impakt.nl/online/ Database Dilemmas The third and final theme for this year's Impakt Online commissions will be 'Database Dilemnas'. The deadline for submitting proposals is September 15, 2003. From these proposals, two projects will be chosen for the commission, which will be publically launched on December 1, 2003. Thematic and practical details follow: The process of collecting, structuring and storing information and data is a phenomenon typical of digital times. Obviously, data are the fundaments of almost any digital platform. As an archiving tool, the database seems to be the most dominant form by which to organise and structure information. So far. The obsession with organising and archiving information has also left its traces in contemporary digital art practices. Many artists have discovered the database as a new domain for artistic, social and aesthetic experiments. In the last decade, these artists have been developing several different approaches toward its specific characteristics. Their dilemmas concern, among others, the narrative [how to create narrative from a static collection of data?], the formal/structural [how to change the specific indexical form of the database?] and the socio-political [how to change its character from a closed, controlled system into an open, public one?]. Impakt intends to seek and show projects from artists that explore the phenomenon of data-collections and the particular structure of the database from a critical point of view. What are their poetics, aesthetics and ethics? How do they visualise collections of information in their projects? How do they approach the traditional model of the database? With which aims do they attack, transform and extend its static form and encyclopaedic structure? 'Database Dilemmas' was conceived by Deanna Herst for Impakt Online. Call for Proposals Deadline for Proposals: September 5, 2003 Project Completion Date: November 15, 2003 Launch: December 1, 2003 *Proposals must be written in English, and the project accessible to an English-speaking audience *Proposals should include a project description: - ---description of content - ---details of the technical implementation, including ALL server-side software required - ---rough estimate of total project size in Mb - ---time line - ---relation to the theme *Proposals should also include an artist[s] biography: - ---short CV - ---documentation + URLs of previous projects *Projects should be accessible to users of all three major Operating Systems: Linux, MacOS and Win32. *Previously exhibited projects will be immediately disqualified *Please do not send any unsolicited large attachments [i.e. >400K], as they will not be opened. If you must provide us with large files, please send us a URL or FTP location for them. Impakt will provide webhosting for the project for 1 year, and pay a fee to the accepted artist[s] of EURO 1000. Address for submissions: online@impakt.nl Impakt Festival P.O. Box 735 3500 AS Utrecht The Netherlands http://www.impakt.nl/online/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 23:33:55 +0200 From: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Stephan_\=28Spiv\=29_Schr=F6der?=" <mail@spiv.de> Subject: verybusy.org - center for hardwired arts - News Verybusy.org - center 4 hardwired arts ::::::::::::::::::::: :: : .. . . . Urgent Newsletter July 2003 - Verybusy.org nominated for digisax award 03. ======================================================================== == ENGLISH: After years of hard work, verybusy.org your searchengine for netart and mediaart has been nominated for the digisax award 2003 in the category of "education / best interactive online resource". If you like verybusy.org show your support by voting for us and have the chance to win a free notebook. The vote submission is in german but should be easy to handle. Vote here: http://www.digisax.de/nominees/nominees.php?c=3 <http://www.digisax.de/nominees/nominees.php?c=3&sc=2> &sc=2 (left column, last but one row) *************************** DEUTSCH: Nach Jahren erfolgreicher Arbeit wurde verybusy.org die suchmaschine für Netzkunst und Medienkunst für den Digisax Award 2003 in der Kategorie "Bildung / interaktiv bestes Online Angebot" nominiert. Freunde und Nutzer möchten wir bitten für uns zu stimmen. Darüber hinaus wird unter allen Stimmen seitens Digisax ein Notebook verlost. Stimmen Sie hier: http://www.digisax.de/nominees/nominees.php?c=3 <http://www.digisax.de/nominees/nominees.php?c=3&sc=2> &sc=2 (linke Spalte, vorletzte Zeile) Vielen Dank - Thanks, Stephan Schröder / www.verybusy.org <http://www.verybusy.org/> admin staff ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 06:12:43 +0300 From: info <info@digitalartlab.org.il> Subject: Call for proposals - The Israeli Center for Digital Art > This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Call for proposals Deadline 31 August 2003 The Israeli Center for Digital Art Digital ArtLab info@digitalartlab.org.il 16 Yirmiyahu st, Holon 58373, Israel. www.digitalartlab.org.il ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The Israeli Center for Digital Art in Holon was formed in 2001 with the objective of advancing and promoting New-Media art in Israel, as well as to act as a clearinghouse for communications between artists and between artists and the public. The Center is committed both to a dynamic view of the contemporary art and culture spheres, and to publicizing the influence of new technologies on today¹s society. To that end, the Center hosts both Israeli and foreign artists¹ video art, net.art, sound and interactive video exhibits. A special emphasis is put on Cooperative projects between Israeli and foreign artists, and between artists and the community, to bringing digital art works to outlying areas, developing training programs and workshops for school-age children and artists using digital media, artist workshops and more. Out of a desire to catalyze the discourse on the influences of digital technologies on contemporary culture in general and Israeli society in particular, and out of a recognition of the need to create a platform for communications between artists, activists, media people, film makers, and the general public, during the coming year, the center will oversee three projects under the them ³Hilchot Shcheinim³ (Halachot for neighbors) [a reference to the laws of division of property and boundaries codified by the Rambam in his Mishna Torah, a commentary on the Torah]. Hilchot Shcheinim is comprised of three main exhibits, each accompanied by video screenings, lectures, performances and workshops. The exhibits will act as a laboratory for ideas about art and media and the marketplace and exchange, and will examine the manner in which social, cultural and technological changes, influence art and artists. The Hilchot Shcheinim events should be apprehended as an up-to-date source of information that offers a panoramic view of our lives via the combination of the language of art and the tools of contemporary culture, the various media, politics, and the economy. Project I: November 2003 January, 2004 - will focus on the mapping of independent organizations of artists who have found for themselves a place where they can create without relocating to the center, or without being ³directed from above² by the main art hubs. The exhibit features projects run jointly by art centers in outlying areas and projects by artists in adjoining areas that reflect the changes taking place in the art scene as a result of the globalization movement. Preference will be given to artists working in the Middle East. Project II: March- May, 2004 - - will focus on tactics and strategies used by artists, groups of artists, activists, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to create cultural networks and cooperation. The emphasis will be on the ways in which capitalism and the globalization movement shape the media and the use that artists make of media technologies in their work. Project III: September - November, 2004 we will attempt to diagram life in the world of the Empire - Globalization, proposing the Internet as a positive model for globalization. Not only is the Internet a model wherein the countries of the world, giant corporations, political and social organizations, and individuals are equal, but it is a model of a decentralized network without centralized control or enforcement that cannot monitor either the flow of information or number of its ³citizens². Moreover, it is a virtual, apolitical structure with a weak capacity for control that is vulnerable to disruptions, ³street action², and revolts, yet it does not collapse as a result. At Hilchot Schcheinim III, we will attempt to examine how a vision of such a world is conceived of by artists, and what the effects are of such a world on the art realm. Visual artists, media artists, musicians, activists, and collectors are invited to propose projects. Preference will be given to artists working in the Middle East and the Mediterranean. Proposals for projects for project I must be sent by August 31, 2003 along with the accompanying form. Submit to: The Israeli Center for Digital Art Digital ArtLab info@digitalartlab.org.il 16 Yirmiyahu st, Holon 58373, Israel. www.digitalartlab.org.il ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Hilchot Shcheinim Israeli society, most critics agree, is represented by a rich and occasionally contradictory world of images concerning its character, its borders (both political and social), its population makeup, its cultural origins, and its political directions. Thus, for example, Israel is presented in its political discourse by the following attributes, to name just a few: ³The only democracy in the Middle East², ³A country of immigrants², ³A melting pot², ³An armed ghetto², ³A bi-national state², ³A Levantine society², ³A Western island in the East², ³A little America². These images, with their double messages, have a significant impact on Israeli society. They are understood within the context of larger issues that are at the center of public discourse, running deep within the hidden processes shaping the definition and the representation of individuals and groups in the society. Under these conditions, most of the discourse in Israeli society and its cultural sphere deal intensively (even obsessively) with the attempt to understand, explain, and decode the cultural environment. The contradiction and the multiplicity of views in Israeli society and its culture derive their origins from the dichotomy between East and West, between "Ashkenazi" and "Sepharadi". This dichotomy manifests itself on the Israeli art scene in the tension between the "local" and the "universal". Israel exists in the Middle East, a space wherein nationalism and religion play central roles, on the one hand holding onto its national and religious identity, viewing itself from the outside in, and at the same time trying to preserve its acceptance to the world¹s ³Western club² by building a free-market economy, implementing widespread privatization, a near-total adoption of Western cultural symbols, and so forth. In her article ³Eyes Wide Shut: On the Acquired Albino Syndrome on the Israeli Art Scene² (Theory and Critique, vol. 20, 2002), Sarah Hinsky describes the place of the West in Israeli art and culture. >From its earliest days until now, the concept of ³the West² was firmly rooted in the Israeli art scene as a guiding principle and shaping it on the European art scene model. In this sense, the Israeli art scene exists in a tension of two opposing categories: art that tries to be at the same time universal and local, when the ³universal² model is actually European. This affinity is a fundamental force in the Israeli art world, and its origins are identical to Western - Europeans origins of the Zionist movement. The establishment of a Jewish state in the Middle East was perceived by many in the Zionist movement as creating a European ³annex² in the Middle East wherein nationalist and colonialist aspirations could be realized. It is from this perception that the closed attitude of Israeli culture toward the surrounding Arabic culture stems (as well as from the grappling with the culture of Jewish immigrants from Arab lands), resulting in the perception of the latter as inferior. This closed-mindedness has only begun to disperse in the past two decades, allowing the inflow of Eastern-Arab influences, mainly felt in Israeli music, upon which there has been a conspicuous influence, and in which there is much collaboration between musicians from the neighboring countries. Against this backdrop, the Israeli visual arts are preoccupied with conducting a dialog with Western ³power centers² of art, which is perhaps the main reason why an effort is not made today to create a network of exhibits and artist exchange projects with the neighboring countries such as Turkey, Greece, or even Egypt or Jordan. The cultural conflicts described herein can be viewed in a wider context as part of global processes taking place in other regions of the world involving societies, countries, organizations, and individuals undergoing redefinition and creating new paths and meanings for their activities Two main events (up until now) of the new millennium‹or the fact of their being defined as main events‹have been the destruction of the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001 and the war in Iraq, both having sharpened the differences between expectations of a post-nationalist world wherein global power is given priority the Nation State, and the reality of a nation-oriented world in which national rule within conventional borders remains, and in which ethnicity and religion still have a central place in determining the internal and external ³rules of the game² of the individual country. The process of change will slowly affect the familiar world division of East and West, of the free world and the enslaved world, of free-market economy versus a controlled economy, of superpowers, and of a world order that will be rebuilt anew, including a change in relations and agreements between countries, citizens, communities, and neighbors: social, professional, and cultural divisions will alter themselves and be refashioned. Technology has a central role to play in these processes: As it becomes more accessible, it seeps into more and more spheres, influencing more and more aspects of our lives as individuals and as a society. It is superfluous to say that this process is not progressing linearly, but rather is developing at different paces in various places in the world. The process of redefinition in which we find ourselves affects almost every aspect of our lives, demanding reexamination of fundamental concepts and assumptions that up until now were perceived as unassailable. In addition, we must investigate how these changes manifest themselves in art, and in the relationship between art and society. What is the place of art in the globalization process and the world that it is creating? Which strategies have artists chosen for coping with these changes? These issues have emerged in the local-Israeli context, and stemming from a desire to create a link with other outlying areas in which similar conflicts are taking place, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, through Hilchot Shcheinim, will examine them in the coming year. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++ The Israeli Center for Digital Art Digital ArtLab 16 Yirmiyahu st, Holon 58373, Israel. www.digitalartlab.org.il T. + 972 3 5568792 F. + 972 3 5580003 ________________________________________________________________________ 1. Type of work/project 2. Title 3. General Details Organization/Institution ________________________________________________________ Name ________________________________________________________ Street ________________________________________________________ Zip Code City _________________________ ________________________ State Country _________________________ ________________________ Tel Fax _________________________ ________________________ E-mail URL _________________________ ________________________ 4. Media (VHS, S-VHS, PAL, NTSC, SECAM)___________________________ Digital (Mini-DV, CD-ROM, DVD, Floppy, Zip) ____________________ Operation System (Windows, Linux, MacOS, Other) _______________ An Internet Project at http://__________________________________ System Requirements (software, hardware)______________________ Other Media ______________________________________________ 5. Production Country of production ________________ Year ______________ 6. Additional Materials Please add additional materials and mark here: Description ____ Documentation ____ Photographs ____ Costs/Budget ____ CV ____ Other ____ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 11:48:01 +1000 From: "geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl> Subject: Impakt: "Database Dilemmas" Commission Call for Proposals "Database Dilemmas" Commission Call for Proposals http://www.impakt.nl/online/ Database Dilemmas The third and final theme for this year's Impakt Online commissions will be 'Database Dilemnas'. The deadline for submitting proposals is September 15, 2003. From these proposals, two projects will be chosen for the commission, which will be publically launched on December 1, 2003. Thematic and practical details follow: The process of collecting, structuring and storing information and data is a phenomenon typical of digital times. Obviously, data are the fundaments of almost any digital platform. As an archiving tool, the database seems to be the most dominant form by which to organise and structure information. So far. The obsession with organising and archiving information has also left its traces in contemporary digital art practices. Many artists have discovered the database as a new domain for artistic, social and aesthetic experiments. In the last decade, these artists have been developing several different approaches toward its specific characteristics. Their dilemmas concern, among others, the narrative [how to create narrative from a static collection of data?], the formal/structural [how to change the specific indexical form of the database?] and the socio-political [how to change its character from a closed, controlled system into an open, public one?]. Impakt intends to seek and show projects from artists that explore the phenomenon of data-collections and the particular structure of the database from a critical point of view. What are their poetics, aesthetics and ethics? How do they visualise collections of information in their projects? How do they approach the traditional model of the database? With which aims do they attack, transform and extend its static form and encyclopaedic structure? 'Database Dilemmas' was conceived by Deanna Herst for Impakt Online. Call for Proposals Deadline for Proposals: September 5, 2003 Project Completion Date: November 15, 2003 Launch: December 1, 2003 *Proposals must be written in English, and the project accessible to an English-speaking audience *Proposals should include a project description: - ---description of content - ---details of the technical implementation, including ALL server-side software required - ---rough estimate of total project size in Mb - ---time line - ---relation to the theme *Proposals should also include an artist[s] biography: - ---short CV - ---documentation + URLs of previous projects *Projects should be accessible to users of all three major Operating Systems: Linux, MacOS and Win32. *Previously exhibited projects will be immediately disqualified *Please do not send any unsolicited large attachments [i.e. >400K], as they will not be opened. If you must provide us with large files, please send us a URL or FTP location for them. Impakt will provide webhosting for the project for 1 year, and pay a fee to the accepted artist[s] of EURO 1000. Address for submissions: online@impakt.nl Impakt Festival P.O. Box 735 3500 AS Utrecht The Netherlands http://www.impakt.nl/online/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 02:15:22 +0200 From: Lionello Borean <lionello.borean@nline.it> Subject: Call for (creative) contributions >=20 >=20 >=20 > Plug'n'Pray - 'Pray by wire' gallery > CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS >=20 >=20 > PRAY BY WIRE hunts for photos and pics taken from real life that illustra= te > this curious (see below), and at the same time widespread, relationship. = The > images can be personal interpretations of this phenomenon or straightforw= ard > documentary. They can be ironic or they can just portray objects and > memorabilia. The content is up to you, but please remember that we will o= nly > accept photos, so no computer art please. >=20 > ----------------------------------- >> High-tech religion and religious technology. When wired belief becomes a >> religious asset. Find out how new media and technology interact and inte= rlace >> with religion and superstition. Discover how technology (both high- and = low-) >> helps and supports religion.=A0 > ----------------------------------- >=20 > An image gallery / exhibition is one of the initiatives we want to realiz= e to > promote the Plug'n'Pray site, English version (online from September 2003= ). > This project aims at gathering works and contributions from all over the > world, with the idea of setting up a dedicated site and organizing an > international exhibition in London and Amsterdam, during Spring 2004. >=20 >=20 > follow --> http://www.plug-pray.org/wired.htm > Lionello Borean + Chiara Grandesso > usine de boutons (padova) italy >=20 >=20 > --------------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.plug-pray.org > Plug'n'Pray: scegli la religione che pi=F9 ti conviene >=20 > commenti, complimenti e rimproveri, e le novit=E0 del sito su > http://www.plug-pray.org/ITA/News.html > --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 13:02:44 +0200 From: oliver grau <oliver.grau@culture.hu-berlin.de> Subject: ISEA2004 / Deadline: August 15th 2003 - Stockholm - Tallinn - Helsinki - August 14th - 22nd, 2004 ************************************************************ ISEA2004: The 12th International Symposium on Electronic Art ************************************************************ CALL FOR PROPOSALS ************************************************************ Deadline: August 15th 2003 ************************************************************ http://www.isea2004.net new media art - media culture research - electronic music - art and science - cultural and social applications for new media - New media meets art, science, research, and popular culture at ISEA2004 in Stockholm - Tallinn - Helsinki. For the first time an event of this scale is being organised between three cities and on the ferry travelling between these three Baltic countries. International participants and local audiences attend thematic conferences, exhibitions, live performances, screenings, satellite events, concerts and clubs. Many events are also interfaced via television, radio, broadband Internet, and mobile networks. We are encouraging: Socially, critically and ecologically engaging work; Projects that bring the creative media to the streets; Projects that are worn on or inside people; Context sensitive work in the museums; Projects that float, dock or sail; Screen based media as it appears in 2004; Sea Fair: technological gizmos for ferry travellers and future media archaeologists to discover; Bridges between club scenes and art venues; Most engaging works from performing arts that engage new media, users, and audiences; Networks to network... Key themes for the event include: Networked experience (Stockholm) Wearable experience (Tallinn) Wireless experience (Helsinki) Histories of the new: media arts, media cultures, media technologies - - all cities Additional themes include: Open source and software as culture (Helsinki) Critical interaction design (Helsinki) Geopolitics of media (Tallinn) Interfacing sound (Helsinki and on the Ferry - in collaboration with Koneisto - check out http://www.koneisto.com for details of this year's Koneisto Festival 24-26 July 2003) We are currently inviting proposals for projects and papers for the exhibitions, conferences and associated programs during ISEA2004. Projects might include: works for exhibition in a gallery; workshops; installations in public spaces; live performance; interfaced screenings; games or shared environments; projects which encourage remote participation - etc. Proposals for the conference can include papers and panels but we are equally interested in workshops and roundtables: discussion formats that encourage participation and exchange of ideas. We are also working with a range of local organisations who may be able to host short and medium term residencies or workshops for artists who are keen to spend a longer time working with local artists and organisations. Information on these opportunities will be regularly added to the web site, so do register to receive updates. ISEA2004 will be an exciting week long event, but we are also interested in providing a space to build long term, sustainable exchange and collaboration. The time on the Ferry will provide a space for less formal dialogue and social intercourse, so feel free to propose workshops and meetings for the exchange of information and ideas. Our over all aim for ISEA2004 is to create an event which is thematically and critically coherent and provides new insight. Please note that ISEA2004 is a forum for artistic, academic, and culturally or socially relevant work that has not previously been presented in international forums (you may have showed/presented it in your local context). All submissions are done via our website using a web form and stored into a database. This procedure allows us to have the proposals reviewed by International Programme Committee (IPC) members. We very much look forward to hearing your ideas! For further information: http://www.isea2004.net info@isea2004.net Our partners for the event are: MAIN ORGANISER: m-cult, centre for media culture in finland http://www.m-cult.org HELSINKI: Exhibition: The Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma http://www.kiasma.fi Conference: Media Centre Lume (University of Art and Design) http://www.lume.fi Electronic music: Koneisto (Festival for electronic music and arts) http://www.koneisto.com STOCKHOLM: Coordinator: CRAC, Creative Room for Art and Computing http://www.crac.org Conference: Moderna Museet http://www.modernamuseet.se and Royal University College of Fine Arts (Stockholm) http://www.kkh.se Exhibition: Färgfabriken http://www.fargfabriken.se Electronic music: Fylkingen http://www.fylkingen.se TALLINN: Coordinator + conference: Estonian Academy of Arts http://artun.ee Exhibition: Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia at The Art Museum of Estonia http://www.cca.ee ISEA2004 is produced in collaboration with ISEA Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts http://www.isea-web.org - -- For further information: http://www.isea2004.net info@isea2004.net ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 13:51:32 -0700 From: "LEONARDO (mk)" <isast@well.com> Subject: Leonardo Announces New Board & Committee Members > This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. - --B_3141640295_30375068 Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary="B_3141640296_30426822" - --B_3141640296_30426822 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Leonardo/ISAST=20 Welcomes New Members to Its Governing Board, International Advisory Board, and Leonardo Editorial Board =20 Anne Pfister, Michael Grey, Sundar Sarukkai, Julio Berm=FAdez, and Doug Vakoc= h =20 Leonardo/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology i= s pleased to announce the addition of new members to its Governing Board, International Advisory Board, and Leonardo Editorial Board. Anne Brooks Pfister and Michael Joaquin Grey will join the Leonardo/ISAST Governing Board, a group that consists of prominent figures in the fields o= f art, science, and technology. The International Advisory Board welcomes Sundar Sarukkai from India and Julio Bermudez from Argentina to its ranks o= f art-and-science luminaries throughout the world. Governing Board members meet face-to-face at regular meetings several times a year, whereas International Advisory Board members communicate via email and telephone on an ad-hoc basis. Both groups participate actively in reaching decisions for Leonardo/ISAST. Douglas A. Vakoch will enter service on the Leonardo Editorial Board, a group of experts in the fields of art, science, and technology who determine content for the journal Leonardo. ANNE PFISTER AND MICHAEL GREY JOIN THE LEONARDO/ISAST GOVERNING BOARD Anne Brooks Pfister is entering service on the Governing Board. She holds degrees in biochemistry and molecular biology as well as art history, and i= s currently employed at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley. Pfister=B9s background is in marketing, both for science and arts organizations, and in both the non-profit and commercial sectors, includin= g experience at KALA Institute, Quantum Dot Corporation, and Onyx Pharmaceuticals. She is active on the Board of Directors of the University Art Museum Council, UC Berkeley, and as a volunteer judge for the Berkeley Middle School Science Fair Program. She is eager to bring a Latino perspective to the Governing Board of Leonardo/ISAST. Also joining the Governing Board, Michael Joaquin Grey is an artist, designer, inventor, and entrepreneur best known for his popular and highly acclaimed educational toy ZOOB. Winner of honors from ID Magazine, Consumer Reports, Dr. Toy, Family Life Magazine, Astra, and the American Toy Institute Award, ZOOB merges genetic engineering with tinker toys. Grey founded Primordial, LLC, which produced ZOOB, and currently serves as President of the Sound of Time, a multimedia editing system. As an artist, Grey has exhibited internationally and won the Golden Nica Award from Ars Electronica. Michael Grey has a long background in combining industrial design, mechanical engineering, entertainment and education. He orchestrate= s collaborative efforts between various educational institutions, including Cal Tech, the Art Center College of Design, and the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Design Institute. Grey has served on the boards of Zero One, ATC, and Eyebeam Atelier, among others. Grey and Pfister join Roger Malina, Chair; Martin Anderson, Treasurer; Mark Resch, Secretary; Mina Bissell; Penelope Finnie; Lynn Hershman; Ed Payne; Sonya Rapoport; Beverly Reiser; Joel Slayton; and Stephen Wilson on the Leonardo/ISAST Governing Board. =20 SUNDAR SARUKKAI AND JULIO BERMUDEZ JOIN THE LEONARDO/ISAST INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD =20 Beginning a term on the International Advisory Board, Sundar Sarukkai is a Fellow in the History and Philosophy of Science Unit, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He receive= d his Ph.D. in Theoretical Particle Physics from Purdue University. Recipient of various fellowships, including the Homi Babha Fellowship and David Ross Fellowship, Sarukkai has been a visiting scholar at MIT and Stanford University. He authored the books Translating the World: Science and Language and the forthcoming The Philosophy of Symmetry. Sarukkai publishes and lectures worldwide in science and philosophy journals and conferences. Sarukkai currently serves as a consultant to a project on the relevance of Gandhian thought to contemporary India. Julio Berm=FAdez, hailing from Argentina, joins the International Advisory Board as an Associate Professor at the University of Utah College of Architecture & Planning. His research and creative work have focused on digital media and the application of architectural concepts to data environments. Berm=FAdez has received international recognition as a design expert on hybrid representations, methodologies, and technologies involving analog and digital systems. Of particular relevance is his invention of CyberPRINT, a virtual reality-based performing art project that brings together dance, choreography, music, engineering, medicine and architecture= . This and other works have been widely published, exhibited, and/or performe= d in the U.S. and elsewhere. Berm=FAdez is currently involved in several interdisciplinary projects dealing with information architecture applied to medicine, finance, process control, and network monitoring. Sarukkai and Berm=FAdez will serve on the Leonardo/ISAST International Advisory Board along with Beverly Reiser, Chair, USA; Mark Beam, Mexico; Annick Bureaud, France; Nic Collins, USA; Nisar Keshvani, Singapore; Christine Maxwell, France; Michael Naimark, USA; Michael Punt, UK; and Rejane Spitz, Brazil. =20 DOUG VAKOCH JOINS THE LEONARDO EDITORIAL BOARD =20 Starting his term on the Leonardo Editorial Board in 2004, Douglas A. Vakoc= h is the Director of Interstellar Message Composition at the SETI Institute, as well as the only social scientist employed by a SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) organization. Vakoch researches ways that different civilizations might create messages that could be transmitted across interstellar space, allowing communication between humans and extraterrestrials even without face-to-face contact. He is particularly interested in how we might compose reply messages that would begin to express the human experience. =20 ABOUT LEONARDO/ISAST Leonardo/ISAST serves the international art community by providing channels of communication for artists, art historians, technologists, scientists, educators, students and others interested in the arts, with an emphasis on documenting the voices of artists all over the world who use science and developing technologies in their work. Leonardo began international publication of its print journal in 1968 and evolved into the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology in 1982 to broaden its exposure of artists who work with science- and technology-based art media. Leonardo/ISAST also functions as an international meeting ground for artists, educators, students, scientists and others interested in the use o= f new media in contemporary artistic expression. Further information may be found at www.leonardo.info * * * ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 09:17:37 -0400 From: US Department of Art & Technology <press@usdat.us> Subject: Visitor Center Opens in Washington, DC - --============_-1153242633==_ma============ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" US Department of Art & Technology Washington, DC http://www.usdat.us press@usdat.us Press Secretary For Immediate Release: July 22, 2003 Visitor Center Opens in Washington, DC "Enter a Citizen, Exit a Revolutionary" WASHINGTON, DC - On August 15th, 2003, the US Department of Art & Technology opens its Visitor Center at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. A special VIP pre-opening event will take place on August 14th, 6:30 - 8:30 pm. The Secretary and his staff, along with military aides and secret service, will be on hand to greet visitors. Curator Paul Brewer will host. Two years ago, following 9/11, the President made a dramatic move to embrace the arts through the creation of the US Department of Art & Technology. The US DAT Visitor Center tells the story of how the Department was formed by artists seeking to reclaim America's Government. The appointment of Randall M. Packer as the Department's first Secretary was one of the most radical decisions made in the history of the White House. Packer's vision for the nation is "to promote cultural growth, improved aesthetic standards for all Americans, and to insure that the artist as visionary, as social revolutionary, has voice in the national dialogue." Only a block from the White House and just a short walk from the nation's historic Mall, the Corcoran Gallery of Art stands as a major center dedicated to the avant-garde. It is a place where culture reflects everyday life and breaks through the illusion established by the spectacle. In choosing the Corcoran as the site of the US DAT Visitor Center, Secretary Packer states, "The Corcoran is a remarkable institution that believes art must be active within the culture, not owned by it. With the museum's close proximity to the White House, we now realize our ideals to reconstruct the environment in order to bring about new behaviors through experimentation and propaganda." The exhibit, with its theme, "Enter a Citizen, Exit a Revolutionary," features a unique collection of tactical media, information panels, and a historical timeline detailing the chronology of the Department and its extraordinary development. Also included is a video promoting the Department's "Experimental Party," featuring speeches and announcements by Secretary Packer, National Chairwoman Roberta Breitmore, avatar-candidate for President Abe Golam, WeTheBlog.org founder Jeff Gates, and the Exquisite Corpse. "We are proud to be able to bring our story to the public's attention," said Tanya Spam, the Department's Assistant Secretary of the Bureau for the Conservation and Preservation of the Suspension of Disbelief, and an independent writer and editor in Washington, DC. The Visitor Center, which will be on exhibit through October 6, 2003, was organized by the US Department of Art & Technology, the Corcoran College of Art & Design, and the White House Office of Appropriations, in cooperation with the National Park Service. In conjunction with the show will be a 24/7 live web broadcast over Tel-SPAN (usdat.us/tel-span), the telematic channel of the US Department of Art & Technology, featuring up-to-the-minute proclamations, rants, remixes, manifestos, and other forms of anarchist entertainment by sound artists DJ Spooky, Rick Silva, Trace Reddell among others, as well as a first glimpse of the Media Deconstruction Kit. The US Department of Art & Technology Visitor Center, located at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 500 17th St., N.W, Washington, D.C. from August 15 - October 6, will be open from 10 am to 5 pm daily. Closed every Tuesday. Extended hours Thursday evenings until 9 pm and for special Situational Events sponsored by the Department. ***** Contact: Press Secretary of the US Department of Art & Technology press@usdat.us The US Department of Art & Technology http://www.usdat.us The US Department of Art and Technology is the United States principal conduit for facilitating the artist's need to extend aesthetic inquiry into the broader culture where ideas become real action. It also serves the psychological and spiritual well-being of all Americans by supporting cultural efforts that provide immunity from the extension of new media technologies into the social sphere. The Experimental Party http://www.experimentalparty.org The Experimental Party - the "party of experimentation" - is an artist-based political party that has been formed to activate citizens across the country in an effort to bring the artists' message to center stage of the political process. This is a political awakening, 'representation through virtualization' is the major political thrust of the Experimental Party, it is the driving force. The Principal Artists are Roberta Breitmore (created by Lynn Hershman), Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Jeff Gates, Abe Golam (from Mark Amerika's Grammatron), Jon Henry (Exquisite Corpse), Randall Packer, and Wesley Smith. Tel-SPAN http://www.usdat.us/tel-span Tel-SPAN is a public service of the US Department of Art & Technology. Its mission is to provide global access to the artistic process in an increasingly cybernated society. Tel-SPAN provides its audience access to live, real-time distribution of broad forms of cultural content, and to other forums where critical artistic issues are discussed, debated and decided - all without editing, commentary or analysis and with a balanced presentation of all radical points of view. Tel-SPAN is sponsored by the Johns Hopkins University Digital Media Center and the Open Source Streaming Alliance. The Principal Engineer is Joe Reinsel. Subject: 9PIN residency's 9PIN Call for Proposals Deadline for submissions: August 8 2003 Contents 1. Background to SCAN 2. 9PIN the project and how to apply 3. Related Activities 4. Background on SCAN consortium organisations 5. URLs 9PIN is funded by Arts Council England, South East 1. Background - SCAN SCAN is a network consortium of 10 organisations in the UK (mainly based in the South of England) who are working together to promote emergent, collaborative and experimental practice using new and emergent technologies. SCAN is committed to identifying new models of production and distribution of artworks and other cultural products. SCAN aims to provide an expansive and fertile space for artists, practitioners, writers, audiences and organisations to engage with its projects and initiatives. This will be provided through the SCAN website and through the physical spaces in its member organizations. It is a unique collaboration and will be a major resource for the development of practice, projects and ideas. The organisation was set up in 2001 as a platform for collaboration and sharing of resources between the consortium members. 2003 sees a new phase of development within SCAN through the appointment of a Director in January 2003, and the launch of a website and other activities including 9PIN in September 2003. 9PIN will be pivotal in the development of SCAN and in defining its role in relation to the consortium members. Whilst SCAN is driven mainly by new media, it welcomes innovative ideas and practice that also involve other forms. SCAN provides a network for practitioners, information and opportunities, training, exhibition and equipment to support the production of new work and educational initiatives involving digital arts and/or hybrid practice. It is intended to be a focal point for a wide spectrum of activity such as critical debate, community and education projects, on-line journals and communities, collaborative arts production and project partnerships between the private and public sectors. SCAN¹s current members are: ArtSway, Sway Aspex Visual Arts, Portsmouth Lighthouse, Poole Arts Centre Mount Pleasant Media Workshop, Southampton Salisbury Arts Centre New Greenham Arts, Newbury Animation Station, Banbury The Living Archive, Milton Keynes Platform One, Newport, Isle of Wight Quay Arts Centre, Newport, Isle of Wight. Affiliated members and partners are: University of Portsmouth London College of Music and Media University of Plymouth Oxford Brookes University Lighthouse Media Centre, Brighton PVA, Bridport Please read these notes carefully and ensure that you address the contents in your proposal. 2. The Project 9PIN (Nine Points of Investigation) A SCAN consortium project 2003/4 SCAN is looking for artists, writers, creatives and practitioners from all fields (who may also want to work collaboratively) to respond to and investigate the environments, landscapes and demographics of the SCAN network. The Nine Points of Investigation are based around the locations of the 10 core Consortium Centres all of whom to date are Independent Arts Organisations. The principle criterion for the 9PIN project is to commission inventive engagements with the geography and communities of the consortium locations. Proposals must consider the network as a whole, or in part (two or more locations), for investigation; a collection of multiple sites to cross between, travel through, engage with, rather than focusing on a single location in isolation. Proposals may also want to look at how the SCAN network operates in relation to other sites and locations globally both currently and potentially. The project will take the form of a residency period (between September 2003 and December 2004) to be negotiated with the consortium members and SCAN. It could be a continuous period or a series of shorter periods. A wide range of options and timescale have been allowed in order that people can respond to seasonal change and activities taking place in the 9PIN locations. We expect the nature of the 9PIN residency to be experimental with a view to developing outputs at a later stage. This is largely because the consortium venues are programmed at least two years in advance. However, if applicants wish to make small interventions in the venues, work in public spaces, produce publications or have a website presence this may be possible (subject to discussion with venues). Dependent on the budgets submitted in the proposals, it is anticipated that 3 - 5 individual or group projects will be selected for 9PIN. It is hoped that at points these projects will overlap and that, where appropriate, a dialogue might take place between the different project participants. All selected projects will be asked send a representative to take part in the Tactical Media Lab in Portsmouth (and a networked part of Next Five Minutes festival in Amsterdam) on 21 23 September, 2003 either as a core participant or through a presentation of their work (see information below). The nature of the projects will be defined by the proposals submitted, but we hope that some projects might have a component that engages with communities and develops audiences. We also see this project as a way of learning to cohere or distinguish the consortium organisations each of which represent very diverse environments and demographics. Finding inventive ways of mapping these places is likely to be central to the project. Mapping could take place electronically, socially, through the presence of a particular material at the locations or a combination of these. These are initial ideas we welcome any developments or diversions from these that might add an interesting approach to 9PIN. It is also hoped that project representatives will be willing to take part in educational work related to their projects. An educational component may also be integral to the project proposal. This project represents a very significant period of SCAN¹s development and we look forward to receiving proposals of an experimental nature which will set a precedent for SCAN¹s approach to its projects in the future. In the sections below , there is information on each of the consortium members with URLs which will give a better idea of the constituent member organisations. Equipment Resources: All SCAN member organisations have a G4 Mac and iMac computer with the following software and peripherals: Scanner, Digital Camera, Printer, Premier 6, Photoshop 6, In Design, After Effects, Illustrator, Live Motion, Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Director, Flash Most machines are still operating on OS9 but some have OS10 available (Platform One, ArtSway, Aspex, Mount Pleasant Media Workshop) Some organisations have specific facilities eg Platform One sound studios and media suite; Mount Pleasant Media Workshop media suite and darkrooms; New Greenham Arts media suite and artists studios; ArtSway media suite; Animation Station media suite and animation facilities; Lighthouse, Poole media suite and darkroom; Living Archive recording facilities and media suite Each organisation offers a variety of spaces such as exhibition galleries, theatres, cinemas, performance areas, and education rooms. See URLs for a detailed description of each venue and their programmes. The SCAN website (available from late September) offers a database driven web facility with opportunities for on-line forums, studio spaces and stand alone projects. This will provide a significant resource for the 9PIN project. www.scansite.org Details and How to apply Length and location: Projects to take place any time from Sept 2003 December 2004 for a period specified in the submitted proposal. Please suggest a timescale and the venues you would like to be resident in, where appropriate, and we will try to accommodate this. Whilst we realise that some work can be done remotely or out of the organisations, it is hoped that project participants will be resident at least for a part of their work at the agreed locations. Budget: Projects from £1000 - £6000 to include fees, expenses and production. Fees should be calculated on the basis of £150 per day and an allowance for travel and accommodation should be included with the production budget to a maximum total budget inclusive of fees of £6000. Submission: Please submit a written project proposal, budget, and supporting material (eg cvs, slides (6max), CD, DVD, details of urls and printed material please ensure that text is compatible with Office 2001 and software is compatible with OS9.2 Macintosh computer). If you would like to discuss any aspect of the brief, please contact Helen Sloan, Director, SCAN 01590 682824 or 07973 919210, helen@scansite.org or Andy Robinson, Project Co-ordinator 9PIN 07739 667734 or andy3471@hotmail.com Submission deadline: Proposals with documentation of previous work to arrive by 5.00pm Friday 8th August 2003. We can accept e-mail applications but not attachments. Please send supporting material by alternative means. Please send to: 9PIN, SCAN, c/o ArtSway, Station Road, Sway, Hants SO41 6BA Please include a SAE for return of submitted material (same value of stamp as for sending) SCAN will make every effort to respect material supplied for selection but can take no responsibility for loss or damage. Selection: Selection will take place on August 12th . The panel will be made up of representatives of the consortium organisations, Helen Sloan, Andy Robinson, Tessa Fitzjohn, New Media & Individual Artists Officer, Arts Council England, South East (tbc) and an independent advisor (tbc). 3. Related Activities Tactical Media Lab What is local in a globalised society? 21st 23rd September 2003 Aspex Gallery and University of Portsmouth In September 2003 over three days, SCAN, Aspex and University of Portsmouth will be hosting a Tactical Media Lab (TML) in Portsmouth which is one of a series of events held as a complement to the Next Five Minutes www.n5m.org festival based in Amsterdam. This TML is a particularly important one in that it will be held a week after the fourth festival (Next Five Minutes, Amsterdam 11 14 September, 2003) and will form part of a follow up to the event. The Portsmouth TML will be held across Aspex Gallery (SCAN consortium member), University of Portsmouth and on-line. The purpose of this event is to provide three days of screenings, presentations, interventions, workshops, networked activities and talks looking at what defines community and the idea of the local in today¹s culture. A core group of about 20 people will be involved in the whole event whilst others will take part in presentations, screenings or debates. The proceedings of the TML will be placed on the SCAN and the Next Five Minutes websites. The event will provide a lab space for interested parties to express their views and experiences about the subject area and to develop ideas for future projects. The programme is still being finalised and to date we have approached Mike Stubbs, Julie Penfold and David Garcia as moderators. As other contributors, we are approaching a number of people including Armin Medosch, Samar Martha, Martin Reid, Lizzie Sykes, Brand Art, Mette Houlberg, Tina Sotiriadi, Sean McAllister, and we hope that representatives from the 9PIN projects will at least make a presentation at the TML if not be involved in a broader capacity. Representatives of the group will come from an older people¹s reminiscence project based at ArtSway and facilitated by Mette Houlberg and Lizzie Sykes, asylum seekers groups and other community groups as well as from the above list of contributors and staff at University of Portsmouth. SCAN Launch Event 24/25 September (date & venue to be confirmed) An evening event to launch the newly created SCAN website (www.scansite.org - - there¹s not much to see at the moment but by September we will have developed it in its first phase) and to introduce the activities of SCAN. This will be an informal event of sound, music, performance, on-line activities and refreshments to introduce the SCAN consortium members and the work of the organisation. 9PIN will be introduced at this event. 4. Background on Consortium Member Organisations: 1) ArtSway (SCAN office location), Sway. A gallery and media suite offering an experimental approach to the production and distribution of art work. ArtSway deals with all media but recently has focused on video and new media and runs a programme of residencies which allow artists to develop their process before exhibiting their work at the gallery. The gallery has an extensive education programme catering for wide audiences and interest groups. ArtSway is situated in the New Forest in a tourist area as well as being part of the commuter belt of London and Southampton. It is the only resource of its type in the heart of the forest and offers real opportunities to study rural surroundings and industries. As it is also near the coast, there are opportunities to look at leisure and fishing industries. The diversity of communities and income brackets in the area is very broad. 2) Aspex Visual Arts Trust, Portsmouth. Aspex is a gallery and resource located close to the Eldon Building of University of Portsmouth which houses the School of Art & Design. It has a commitment to showing experimental and innovative contemporary visual arts in all media and has a strong contextual programme with its gallery. Emerging artists are to be further supported by the organisation through the establishment of an Artists' Resource due to be launched in September 2003. Its programme of solo, group and themed exhibitions concentrate on the work of younger or emerging artists, while Access Aspex, the gallery's small exhibition and project space, focuses on the work of artists based in Portsmouth and the surrounding region. Aspex Gallery's education activities include a programme of gallery talks, together with participatory opportunities such as the Saturday Art Club for 8-12 year olds, and other workshops. Portsmouth is a military town and port and in the current political climate holds a lot of possibility for investigation into military policy and its impact on local communities. It is also of course an urban environment with all the characteristics of such an environment. 3) Mount Pleasant Media Workshop, Southampton MPMW is a photography darkroom and media suite with open access based in Mount Pleasant area of Southampton. The organisation works on projects with community groups, runs courses and provides an equipment resource for the general community. They mainly work with local people but have worked more widely with communities in the Southern Region. They have expressed an interest in working particularly on themes around asylum seekers (a contentious issue in their area), and also have good links with the Afro Caribbean Centre close by with whom they would like to develop their work. Mount Pleasant is in South East the of the city which like Portsmouth is also a port. The activities of the town are less predicated on the military and more on industry and import and export. Southampton is the largest urban conurbation represented by the SCAN consortium. 4) New Greenham Arts, Newbury New Greenham Arts is a young arts centre with a strong focus on creativity and production. They seek to work at the edge of arts and technology, encouraging cross art form working and learning across disciplines. With eight resident visual artists, a resident dance company and drama company the centre is a lively place to work. Currently they have a visiting resident artists Hywel Davies - who is creating a sound installation for what was the control tower of the airbase, and Kevin Todd who is working with a rapid prototyping company based in one of the business units at New Greenham. Performing companies who have been in residence include Kaos, Earthfall and Leikin Loppu. Situated in the midst of a business park which was once one of the world's most notorious cold war sites - the Greenham Common USAF nuclear missile base. The landscape still contains signs of the past including missile silos and buildings complete with bomb shelters and decontamination chambers. By complete contrast the site is in the midst of Greenham Common (ancient common land), which still has a group of commoners who retain their common grazing rights. Also, the town of Newbury like many towns in Hants/Bucks looks affluent but has problems with housing and poverty. 5) Animation Station, Banbury The Animation Station is a local authority run media workshop dedicated to the teaching and promotion of animation and multimedia in the South East region, primarily with young people. It achieves this though in-house workshops, multimedia outreach projects and as a facilitator for local schools, colleges and referral units. It employs and supports artists, animators and musicians to broaden their understanding of collaborative arts and networking. They are currently part of the Oxford Inspires bid for City of Culture 2008. It has six years of developing cutting edge 2D and 3D animation and they hope to develop new opportunities for artists interested in, or wishing to develop. About 10 miles North of Oxford, Banbury is an expanding market and industrial town experiencing growth as a direct benefit of its proximity to the completed M40 motorway linking London to Birmingham via Oxford. It is home to some major industries such as Alcan Booth Industries (aluminium products), and Kraft Jacobs Suchard (coffee and custard). 6) The Living Archive, Milton Keynes The Living Archive is a creative cultural and community development organisation whose Documentary Arts work is inspired by people's memories. They use primarily oral history (but also video and multi-media) to profile individuals and communities mostly in the Milton Keynes area. Using these local lives and events as their starting point they have produced large-scale musical documentary plays, books of local reminiscence, photographic and other exhibitions, CD-ROM's, radio and video documentaries, sculpture events and community textile projects. One of the most interesting uses of these techniques has been in the Archive's work on town planning development and public consultation. Milton Keynes is fifty miles north of London, and is the United Kingdom's fastest growing new town. Change has been a way of life for more than 30 years. A rural population has watched its old landmarks disappear. Newcomers have left their family and friendship support networks behind as they have moved to brand-new housing estates. 7) Lighthouse, Poole Arts Centre Lighthouse, Poole's Centre for the Arts (formerly Poole Arts Centre) is the largest arts centre outside London, consisting of a 1500 seat concert hall, 670 seat theatre, 130 seat studio theatre, 100 seat cinema, gallery, media suite and darkroom, cafe and bars. Now in it's 25th year, Lighthouse offers a wide programme of music, theatre, literature, education, film and visual arts activities and is home to the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. The Exhibitions Programme at Lighthouse aims to highlight the importance of photography and digital media through high quality exhibitions and a complementary community and education programme. Poole is also a port town this time with an emphasis on tourism. It boasts upmarket holiday accommodation as well as ferries and import and export. It is famous for its Poole pottery factory and has a dog track. 8) Salisbury Arts Centre Based in a beautiful listed church building, the Arts Centre runs a programme of small scale touring theatre, dance, literature and music (including rock and world music); a broad range of workshops; a programme of exhibitions; and community arts projects focusing mainly but not exclusively on young people and on users of the health and mental health services. The Centre serves a community where there are issues of rural isolation as well as pockets of urban deprivation. Youth remains one of the centre¹s key target groups. They have also been running an arts in health project based on creative writing in health care settings in the hospital and in the community. The Arts Centre is on the brink of a major refurbishment, during which it will be running its transition programme ŒSalisbury Arts Centre Inside Out¹ using a number of alternative spaces in the community. This will include developing new strands to its work including digital arts / new media, through 9-Pin and other projects. The Centre is keen to include a community engaged element within the 9-Pin project. As part of its Commission Plan for the capital project, the Arts Centre will also be seeking to commission an artist to create a piece of a digital artwork capable of projection from or on to the building, as part of their re-launch in Spring 2005. With its proximity to Stonehenge, Salisbury itself is the target area of many new-agers and there is an interesting relationship between those people and the residents. A number of music festivals have taken place near there notably The Big Chill at Larmer Tree Gardens. 9) Platform One, Newport, Isle of Wight Platform One is a non-profit making organisation specialising in the development and delivery of arts initiatives and training with an emphasis on new technology. Platform One¹s primary aim is to ensure that increasing numbers of young people, and the wider community, are provided with the opportunity to be involved in creative and innovative projects that mix traditional art forms with cutting edge technology. They have recently moved into newly refurbished premises with fully equipped Creative ICT Suite based around 12 iMacs. They have good facilities for working with sound and run formal training initiatives and courses in media and music/music technology. Platform One have strong links with the community including work with young offenders, The Foyer project housing young people who are at risk, Carnival Island initiative, drug issues in Ventnor and the formal education sector. They have good links with the community broadcast stations in the area and have plans to run projects with artists on a rolling basis. They are keen to develop issue based work through new media and technology with an emphasis on issues facing young people not just on the Island but further a field. They have links with Ryde and are interested in exploring the homelessness problem on the IoW in general, the growing problems with drugs in Ventnor, and in advocating links with young people and older people in Newport and the Island in general. In spite of these social issues it should be noted that more than half of the Isle of Wight is recognised as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, while much of the coastline is designated Heritage Coast. 10) Quay Arts Centre, Newport, Isle of Wight. The Quay Arts Centre is the Isle of Wight¹s leading art gallery and venue for live arts events. It is situated in a converted 19th Century brewery warehouse complex located at the head of the River Medina in the centre of Newport. Facilities at the complex include 3 galleries, a 134 capacity theatre, a Crafts Council-listed gallery shop, a popular licensed arts café and numerous workshop spaces and meeting rooms. Quay is a good vehicle for distributing of work made on the Island and they have good links with Platform One. Note: The impressions of the towns and cities are simply observations made from visits, or information appropriated from websites relating to those locations. They are merely a taster of the sort of issues and activities that might be of interest in those places, and not a definitive of the areas that might be addressed. Websites ArtSway, Sway, New Forest www.artsway.org.uk Aspex Visual Arts Trust / Gallery, Portsmouth www.aspex.org.uk Animation Station, Banbury www.animationstation.co.uk Living Archive, Milton Keynes www.livingarchive.org.uk Mount Pleasant Media Workshop, Southampton www.mpmw.co.uk New Greenham Arts, Greenham Common, Newbury www.greenham-common-trust.co.uk Platform One, Newport Isle of Wight www.platformone.org Lighthouse, Poole Centre for the Arts, Poole www.lighthousepoole.co.uk Salisbury Arts Centre, Salisbury www.salisburyartscentre.co.uk Quay Arts Centre, Newport, Isle of Wight www.quayarts.org SCAN www.scansite.org Please also note that there are community TV stations on Isle of Wight (Solent TV), Southampton (Southampton TV) and Portsmouth (Portsmouth TV) ------------------------------ # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net