From: jonCates <joncates@CRITICALARTWARE.NET>
Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 16:41:27 -0500
CALCULATIONS: PIONEERS OF COMPUTER ANIMATION THURSDAY MAY 4 @ 6:00 PM Gene Siskel Film Center 164 N. State CHI IL .US $ 9 USD Decades before Hollywood CGI spectaculars, artists worked with computers to create an aesthetic specific to the machine. At IBM, Bell, and in their own home-built labs, they generated visionary spectacles from mathematical precision--complex abstractions, stroboscopic patterns, kinetic rhythms, and volumetric illusions. Tonight's program is a cross-section of films by these early pioneers- from John Whitney's stunning, analog-computer-generated CATALOG (1961, 7 min.) and the pulsating geometry of Lillian Schwartz's ENIGMA (1972, 4 min., archival print) to the dense digital metaphysics of John Stehura's CIBERNETIK 5.3 (1965-69, 8 min., archival print) and the allegorical characters of Peter Foldes' HUNGER (1973, 12 min.). Also on the program: HUMMINGBIRD (Charles Csuri, 1967 10 min.); SUNSTONE (Ed Emshwiller, 1979, 3 min.); CALCULATED MOVEMENTS (Larry Cuba, 1985, 6 min.); POEMFIELD NO. 5: FREE FALL (Stan VanDerBeek, 1966, 7 min.); PERMUTATIONS (John Whitney, 1968, 7 min.). 1961-1985, Canada/USA, 64 min. 16mm. [FRAY] Tonight's show is an instance of [FRAY], a distributed series of screenings, discussions, student initiated projects and a conference. [FRAY] traces intersecting hyperthreads of time, screen and code- based experimental New Media art hosted by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Department of Film, Video, and New Media. [FRAY]: http://fvnm.info/fray CATE: http://www.artic.edu/webspaces/siskelfilmcenter/2006/april/ edge.html
From: Hazel Gardiner <hazel.gardiner@KCL.AC.UK>
Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 14:46:16 +0100
Dear Colleagues, This is to remind you that the deadline for the Call for Papers for the CHArt 2006 Conference approaches. Do send submissions by 31 May 2006. CALL FOR PAPERS - DEADLINE 31 MAY Fast Forward - Art history, curation and practice after media CHArt TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL CONFERENCE, Thursday 9 - Friday 10 November 2006, London venue to be confirmed. Everything is changing. In particular our media are changing and developing in extraordinary and unprecedented ways and with great rapidity. This is particularly true of so-called 'new media', such as the Internet and the World Wide Web, mobile telephony, and digital video. All of these either enable us to do things we did before differently, or more often and more easily, or to do things we could previously barely imagine. This is transforming how we understand and use what we still call 'media', even as we enter a 'post-media' age. More dramatically, these developments are in the process of transforming not just our world, but our very selves, how we understand who we are. We are in the midst of dramatic shifts in terms of the paradigms by which we understand and act in the world. This is being acknowledged increasingly by those working in visual culture, whether in cultural production or cultural heritage, in art practice or in the history of art, in museums, in galleries or in other kinds of arts organisations, in libraries and archives, or in broadcast and media production companies, all of which are facing up to the consequences of rapid technological and cultural change. For the 2006 CHArt Conference we are looking for proposals for papers that deal with the possibilities, challenges and problems of these changes, as they affect visual culture, in areas including (but not limited to): Art Practice; Art History; Museums; Galleries; Curation; Archives; Libraries; Education; Media and Broadcast Production; Cultural Assets Management and Access; Hardware; Software; Theory; Practice Please email submissions (a three hundred word synopsis of the proposed paper with CV of presenter/s and other key figures) by 31 May 2006 to Hazel Gardiner (hazel.gardiner@kcl.ac.uk). Dr Charlie Gere Chair, CHArt CHArt c/o Centre for Computing in the Humanities Kings College, University of London Kay House 7 Arundel Street WC2R 3DX CALL FOR PAPERS - DEADLINE 31 MAY