DASH Archives - May 2006

CALCULATIONS in CHI IL .US

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

CHArt 2006 Conference - Call for Papers - Deadline 31 May 2006

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

 

 

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