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3DVisA Award 2007 deadline extended

From: Anna Bentkowska <anna.bentkowska@KCL.AC.UK>

Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 15:10:05 +0100

3D Visualisation in the Arts Network Student Award 2007

Call for Submissions

The JISC 3D Visualisation in the Arts Network (3DVisA) invites submissions to the 3DViSA Student Award 2007 for an essay on the innovative application of 3D computer graphics to any area of study in the Arts and Humanities. This award will be made to an undergraduate, postgraduate or Ph.D. student who has been registered within the last twelve months at a college or university in the United Kingdom.

The winning essay will be published by 3DVisA and the author will receive a bursary of up to £300, sponsored by the AHRC ICT Methods Network, to attend a UK conference of his or her choice. The 3DVisA Student Award is also sponsored by Intellect and Prestel publishers: the winner will be able to choose an annual subscription to a journal published by Intellect, and there will be book prizes for the winner and two runners up courtesy of Prestel.

The completed essay and application form must be submitted electronically by 15th November 2007. The winner will be announced by 14 December 2007 and the winning essay published in the 3DVisA Bulletin in March 2008.

Further details are available at http://3dvisa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/student_award_call.html

 

 

________________________

Dr Anna Bentkowska-Kafel

JISC 3D Visualisation in the Arts Network (3DVisA)

Centre for Computing in the Humanities

King's College London

Kay House, 7 Arundel Street

London WC2R 3DX, UK

 

Tel: +44(0)20 7848 1421

 

anna.bentkowska@kcl.ac.uk

 

3DVisA www.viznet.ac.uk/3dvisa

The London Charter www.londoncharter.org

CHArt publications@chart.ac.uk

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland www.crsbi.ac.uk

 

3D Visualisation in the Arts Network Student Award 2007

Call for Submissions

The JISC 3D Visualisation in the Arts Network (3DVisA) invites submissions
to the 3DViSA Student Award 2007 for an essay on the innovative application
of 3D computer graphics to any area of study in the Arts and Humanities.
This award will be made to an undergraduate, postgraduate or Ph.D. student
who has been registered within the last twelve months at a college or
university in the United Kingdom.

The winning essay will be published by 3DVisA and the author will receive a
bursary of up to £300, sponsored by the AHRC ICT Methods Network, to attend
a UK conference of his or her choice. The 3DVisA Student Award is also
sponsored by Intellect and Prestel publishers: the winner will be able to
choose an annual subscription to a journal published by Intellect, and there
will be book prizes for the winner and two runners up courtesy of Prestel.

The completed essay and application form must be submitted electronically by
15th November 2007. The winner will be announced by 14 December 2007 and the
winning essay published in the 3DVisA Bulletin in March 2008. 

Further details are available at

http://3dvisa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/student_award_call.html 

 

 

________________________

Dr Anna Bentkowska-Kafel

JISC 3D Visualisation in the Arts Network (3DVisA)

Centre for Computing in the Humanities

King's College London

Kay House, 7 Arundel Street

London WC2R 3DX, UK

 

Tel: +44(0)20 7848 1421

 

  anna.bentkowska@kcl.ac.uk

 

3DVisA   www.viznet.ac.uk/3dvisa

The London Charter   www.londoncharter.org

CHArt   publications@chart.ac.uk

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland
 www.crsbi.ac.uk
CHArt Conference 2007 - Reduced Rate Deadline 12 October 2008

From: Hazel Gardiner <hazel.gardiner@KCL.AC.UK>

Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 15:47:23 +0100

Dear Colleagues,

 

In case you haven’t had a chance to book, this is a reminder that the reduced conference fee for CHArt is still available, but don’t forget to submit your booking form before 12 October.

 

The booking form and conference abstracts are available on the CHArt website (www.chart.ac.uk).

 

We hope to see you at CHArt 2007!

 

With all good wishes.

 

Hazel Gardiner

CHArt

 

………………………………………………………..

 

DEADLINE FOR REDUCED CONFERENCE RATE - 12 OCTOBER 2007

 

CHArt TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL CONFERENCE – BOOKING NOW OPEN!

 

DIGITAL ARCHIVE FEVER

Thursday 8 - Friday 9 November 2007, Birkbeck, University of London.

 

PROGRAMME

Museums, galleries, archives, libraries and media organisations such as publishers and film and broadcast companies, have traditionally mediated and controlled access to cultural resources and knowledge. What is the future of such ‘top-down’ institutions in the age of ‘bottom-up’ access to knowledge and cultural artifacts through Web 2:0 technologies. Will such institutions respond to this threat to their cultural hegemony by resistance or adaptation? How can a museum or a gallery or, for that matter, a broadcasting company, appeal to an audience which has unprecedented access to cultural resources? How can institutions predicated on a cultural economy of scarcity compete in an emerging state of cultural abundance? The twenty-third CHArt conference will reflect upon these issues.

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKER – Dr Charlie Gere, Director of the Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University and Chair of CHArt.

 

THURSDAY 8 NOVEMBER

 

SESSION 1 –

New media and Web 2.0 Challenges for Cultural Organisations.

Eva Moraga, Madrid, Spain.

 

‘Immersion’ An Interactive Archive of Sound Art.

J Milo Taylor, London College of Communication, London, UK.

 

SESSION 2 –

Virtually the ‘real thing’? Changing definitions of authenticity in the display and interpretation of a virtual artefact.

Tara Chittenden, the Law Society, London,UK.

 

A Visual Arts Perspective on Open Access Institutional Repositories.

Jacqueline Cooke and Dafna Ganani-Tomares, Goldsmiths College, University of London,UK.

 

SESSION 3 –

ArtPad: A Collection. A Connection. 

Melanie Kjorlien and Quyen Hoang, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

 

Your Paintings: Institutions, Identities and Interactions

Bridget McKenzie, Flow Associates, London, UK; Jon Pratty, 24 Hour Museum, Brighton. UK.

 

SESSION 4 – 

Transforming the Methods Network: Where’s My Community Dude?

Neil Grindley, JISC, London, UK; Torsten Reimer, AHRC ICT Methods Network, London, UK

 

Saatchi ‘Your Gallery’ Website’s Problems and Potentials.

Ana Finel Honigman, University of Oxford, UK.

 

 

FRIDAY 9 NOVEMBER

 

SESSION 5 – 

Merlin on the Web: the British Museum Collection Database goes public.

Tanya Szrajber, Head of Documentation, The British Museum, UK.

 

Designing the Electronic Archive: Archive Fever and the Archival Economy of Getty Images Online Operations.

Doireann Wallace, Dublin Institute of Technology, Eire.

 

SESSION 6 –

Marketing Visual Culture:  Liberty Fabrics’ Digital Archive

Anna Buruma and Peter Taylor, Liberty, London, UK.; Annette Ward, University of Dundee, UK. 

 

Art Criticism 2.0? 

Stijn Van De Vyver, Ghent University, Belgium.   

 

 

SESSION 7 –

From Information to Knowledge: An Unfinished Canadian Case Study.

Sarah Parsons, York University, Toronto, Canada.

 

Understanding Value and new space:  The Key to Effective Provision of and Engagement with Digitised Cultural Resources.

Heather Robson, School of Arts and Social Sciences, Northumbria University, UK.

 

SESSION 8 –

Curation in the Digital Age.

Janis Jefferies, Goldsmiths Digital Studios, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK.

 

Computer Art Then and Now: Evaluating the V&A’s Collections in the Digital Age.

Douglas Dodds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK.

 

DEMONSTRATIONS:  To be announced

 

The booking form is available online on www.chart.ac.uk.  Bookings made before 12 October 2007 will be entitled to a discount.  Conference fees (pounds sterling) - include coffee/tea breaks and lunch.  Send bookings to: Francesca Franco, CHArt, c/o CCH, Kings College London, Kay House, 7 Arundel Street, WC2R 3DX,  fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980, francesca.franco@courtauld.ac.uk (please use the subject heading CHArt Conference 2007 in any email queries).         

                                     

BOOKING

CHArt Member: TWO DAYS £110 (£90 before 12 Oct 2007)

CHArt Member: ONE DAY £70 (£60 before 12 Oct 2007)

Non-member: TWO DAYS £140 (£120 before 12 Oct 2007)

Non-member: ONE DAY £90 (£80 before 12 Oct 2007)

CHArt Student Member: TWO DAYS £65 £45 before 12 Oct 2007)

CHArt Student Member: ONE DAY £45(£35 before 12 Oct 2007)

Student Non-member: TWO DAYS £85 (£65 before 12 Oct 2007)

Student Non-member: ONE DAY £55 (£45 before 12 Oct 2007)

 

 

........................................................ 

Hazel Gardiner

Senior Project Officer

AHRC ICT Methods Network

Centre for Computing in the Humanities

Kings College

Kay House, 7 Arundel Street

WC2R 3DX

 

+44 (0)20 7848 2013

hazel.gardiner@kcl.ac.uk

www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk

 

Dear Colleagues, 

 

In case you haven’t had a chance to book, this is a reminder that the
reduced conference fee for CHArt is still available, but don’t forget to
submit your booking form before 12 October.

 

The booking form and conference abstracts are available on the CHArt website
(www.chart.ac.uk).

 

We hope to see you at CHArt 2007!

 

With all good wishes.

 

Hazel Gardiner

CHArt

 

………………………………………………………..

 

DEADLINE FOR REDUCED CONFERENCE RATE - 12 OCTOBER 2007 

 

CHArt TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL CONFERENCE – BOOKING NOW OPEN!

 

DIGITAL ARCHIVE FEVER

Thursday 8 - Friday 9 November 2007, Birkbeck, University of London.

 

PROGRAMME

Museums, galleries, archives, libraries and media organisations such as
publishers and film and broadcast companies, have traditionally mediated and
controlled access to cultural resources and knowledge. What is the future of
such ‘top-down’ institutions in the age of ‘bottom-up’ access to knowledge
and cultural artifacts through Web 2:0 technologies. Will such institutions
respond to this threat to their cultural hegemony by resistance or
adaptation? How can a museum or a gallery or, for that matter, a
broadcasting company, appeal to an audience which has unprecedented access
to cultural resources? How can institutions predicated on a cultural economy
of scarcity compete in an emerging state of cultural abundance? The
twenty-third CHArt conference will reflect upon these issues. 

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKER – Dr Charlie Gere, Director of the Institute for Cultural
Research, Lancaster University and Chair of CHArt.

 

THURSDAY 8 NOVEMBER 

 

SESSION 1 – 

New media and Web 2.0 Challenges for Cultural Organisations.

Eva Moraga, Madrid, Spain.

 

‘Immersion’ An Interactive Archive of Sound Art. 

J Milo Taylor, London College of Communication, London, UK.

 

SESSION 2 – 

Virtually the ‘real thing’? Changing definitions of authenticity in the
display and interpretation of a virtual artefact.

Tara Chittenden, the Law Society, London,UK.

 

A Visual Arts Perspective on Open Access Institutional Repositories.

Jacqueline Cooke and Dafna Ganani-Tomares, Goldsmiths College, University of
London,UK.

 

SESSION 3 – 

ArtPad: A Collection. A Connection.  

Melanie Kjorlien and Quyen Hoang, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 

 

Your Paintings: Institutions, Identities and Interactions

Bridget McKenzie, Flow Associates, London, UK; Jon Pratty, 24 Hour Museum,
Brighton. UK.

 

SESSION 4 –  

Transforming the Methods Network: Where’s My Community Dude?

Neil Grindley, JISC, London, UK; Torsten Reimer, AHRC ICT Methods Network,
London, UK

 

Saatchi ‘Your Gallery’ Website’s Problems and Potentials. 

Ana Finel Honigman, University of Oxford, UK. 

 

 

FRIDAY 9 NOVEMBER 

 

SESSION 5 –  

Merlin on the Web: the British Museum Collection Database goes public.

Tanya Szrajber, Head of Documentation, The British Museum, UK.

 

Designing the Electronic Archive: Archive Fever and the Archival Economy of
Getty Images Online Operations.

Doireann Wallace, Dublin Institute of Technology, Eire.

 

SESSION 6 – 

Marketing Visual Culture:  Liberty Fabrics’ Digital Archive

Anna Buruma and Peter Taylor, Liberty, London, UK.; Annette Ward, University
of Dundee, UK.  

 

Art Criticism 2.0?  

Stijn Van De Vyver, Ghent University, Belgium.    

 

 

SESSION 7 – 

From Information to Knowledge: An Unfinished Canadian Case Study.

Sarah Parsons, York University, Toronto, Canada.

 

Understanding Value and new space:  The Key to Effective Provision of and
Engagement with Digitised Cultural Resources.

Heather Robson, School of Arts and Social Sciences, Northumbria University,
UK.

 

SESSION 8 – 

Curation in the Digital Age. 

Janis Jefferies, Goldsmiths Digital Studios, Goldsmiths, University of
London, London, UK.

 

Computer Art Then and Now: Evaluating the V&A’s Collections in the Digital
Age.

Douglas Dodds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK.

 

DEMONSTRATIONS:  To be announced

 

The booking form is available online on www.chart.ac.uk.  Bookings made
before 12 October 2007 will be entitled to a discount.  Conference fees
(pounds sterling) - include coffee/tea breaks and lunch.  Send bookings to:
Francesca Franco, CHArt, c/o CCH, Kings College London, Kay House, 7 Arundel
Street, WC2R 3DX,  fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980,
francesca.franco@courtauld.ac.uk (please use the subject heading CHArt
Conference 2007 in any email queries).          

                                      

BOOKING 

CHArt Member: TWO DAYS £110 (£90 before 12 Oct 2007)

CHArt Member: ONE DAY £70 (£60 before 12 Oct 2007)

Non-member: TWO DAYS £140 (£120 before 12 Oct 2007)

Non-member: ONE DAY £90 (£80 before 12 Oct 2007)

CHArt Student Member: TWO DAYS £65 £45 before 12 Oct 2007)

CHArt Student Member: ONE DAY £45(£35 before 12 Oct 2007)

Student Non-member: TWO DAYS £85 (£65 before 12 Oct 2007)

Student Non-member: ONE DAY £55 (£45 before 12 Oct 2007)

 

 

........................................................ 

Hazel Gardiner

Senior Project Officer

AHRC ICT Methods Network

Centre for Computing in the Humanities

Kings College

Kay House, 7 Arundel Street

WC2R 3DX

 

+44 (0)20 7848 2013

hazel.gardiner@kcl.ac.uk

  www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk
Lansdown Lecture - Leonardo and Computer Drawing - 24 October 2007 - London

From: Stephen Boyd Davis <s.boyd-davis@MDX.AC.UK>

Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 18:54:23 +0100

Lansdown Lecture

Lansdown Lecture - Leonardo and Computer Drawing - 24 October 2007 - London

This public lecture is free. All welcome.

 

Summary
+ Leonardo and Computer Drawing

+ Clive Richards of Coventry University

+ Date: Wednesday 24 October 2007

+ Time: 5:00pm for one hour

+ Location: Middlesex University, London, EN4 8HT
Cat Hill Campus: Room 137

Enquiries
Stephen Boyd Davis: s.boyd-davis@mdx.ac.uk

Leonardo and Computer Drawing
Professor Clive Richards will discuss the ingenious ways in which Leonardo solved information design problems in his drawing, and suggest that Computer Drawing systems would benefit from some of Leonardo's insights. The talk is based on a recent article for Information Design Journal (Volume 14, Number 2, January 2006. 93-107)

The speaker
Clive Richards is a doctoral graduate of the Royal College of Art and has had a long association with the Coventry School of Art and Design where he is Associate Dean.

In commercial practice he has worked on technical documentation for the aviation industry, corporate branding for businesses and public institutions, as well as the design of artists’ catalogues and books.

While researching into the application of computer graphics to designing in the late sixties and early seventies he made the first computer animation produced in any art and design school – this was recently celebrated in 2006, alongside the work of other pioneers in the field, at a festival of computer animation held at the National Film Theatre called “Bits in Motion”.

It was this early research that led Clive Richards to be responsible for the introduction of computing into the undergraduate design curriculum and the development of postgraduate studies in this area.

His theoretical work on diagrammatics has also been influential.

Venue
Room 137
Middlesex University
Cat Hill
Barnet
Herts EN4 8HT
United Kingdom

http:// maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=en4 +8ht&ie=UTF8&ll=51.644269,-0.147951&spn=0.007523,0.016308&t=h&z=16&om=1

 

Date and time
Wednesday 24 October at 5pm


 

Stephen Boyd Davis
Reader in Interactive Media
Head, Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts
Middlesex University, Cat Hill, Barnet, Herts EN4 8HT
United Kingdom
Tel 44 (0)20 8411 5072
.............................................................
The Centre's Web Pages are at http:// www.cea.mdx.ac.uk/

DANUBE TELELECTURE : Remixing Cinema : Lev Manovich / Sean Cubitt

From: Oliver Grau <oliver.grau@DONAU-UNI.AC.AT>

Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 18:39:49 +0200

The DEPARTMENT FOR IMAGE SCIENCE  presents: 

=> REMIXING CINEMA: FUTURE AND PAST OF MOVING IMAGES <=
Danube TeleLecture #4: Thursday, Nov 8, 2007 - 7pm CET
Live debate at the MUMOK in Vienna 

Lev MANOVICH, internationally renowned media and art theorist (Russia/USA)
Sean CUBITT, expert in film and media theory (Great Britain/Australia)

Cinema as a visual phenomenon has accelerated increasingly over the last decades. Technical achievements at the material level like new participatory models driven by the melting of Internet, Databases, TV and Cinema are setting new standards and bringing a new dynamic to the black-box of the movie theater.
Remixing, Coding, Remapping, and Recombination of visual manifestations are revolutionizing the narrative form of film - new societal phenomena, like the VJ scene, generate immersive viewing spaces and new forms of moving image distribution. The domain of video, film, computer and net-based installations stands on the threshold of a material revolution: do they bring a new aesthetic?
Revolutionary possibilities in camera and projection techniques offer increasingly faster development cycles that also allow for innovative image languages. New historical perspectives of the cinematic revue coalesce with innovative interpretations of our visual consumer culture and foretell future developments. What can be expected ... what are the consequences? 

Introduction:  Oliver GRAU, Department for Image Science, Danube University 

Danube TeleLecture # 4  from the MUMOK, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna
Time: Thursday, Nov 8, 2007, 7:00pm CET (Start of Streaming)


+ You can attend the event in MUMOK or in realtime over the www +
http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/dis 

After the lectures the audience will have the possibility to ask the speakers questions.
Internet users may join the discussion via e-mail.

=> Sean CUBITT
Current Publications: Projection: Vanishing and Becoming, in: MediaArtHistories (2007); The Cinema Effect (2005); Aliens R Us: The Other in Science Fiction Cinema (2002); Digital Aesthetics (1998); Videography: Video Media as Art and Culture (1993).

=> Lev MANOVICH
Publications: Abstraction and Complexity in: MediaArtHistories (2007); Black Box : White Cube (2005; Soft Cinema - Navigating the Database (2003/5); The Language of New Media (2001)

The Department for Image Science at Danube University Krems created a new format of international lecture and debates on key questions of Image Science and Media Art with high-caliber experts - the DANUBE TELELECTURES. The discussion will be recorded by several cameras and transmitted live over the www. Online viewers can participate in the discussion via email. So far the debates have included: Machiko KUSAHARA, Sarat MAHARAJ, Gunalan NADARAJAN, Christiane PAUL, Paul SERMON, Jens HAUSER...


contact: Wendy Coones, M.Ed.  
Tel: +43 (0)2732 893-2543
Wendy.Coones@donau-uni.ac.at 
http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/dis 

PARTNERS: 
MINISTRY FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH, DATABASE OF VIRTUAL ART, AUSTRIAN BROADCASTING SERVICE LOWER AUSTRIA (ORF NOE)
Computer Art Project Officer vacancy at the V&A

From: Doug Dodds <d.dodds@VAM.AC.UK>

Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:41:04 +0100

*With apologies for any cross-posting*

Computer Art Project Officer 
£ 23701 - 33190 Per Annum Full-time 
(36 hours per week) 

The Victoria and Albert Museum and Birkbeck have been awarded a major grant by the Arts and Humanities Research Council to enable the two institutions to undertake research into the MuseumÂ’s Patric Prince Collection of computer art.  
  
You will be responsible for creating descriptive records for items in the collection, as well as digitising selected material and making the information available to other project staff at Birkbeck and the V&A.   
  
You will have a first degree or equivalent, a proven interest in museum, library or archive documentation and a track record of working in this field, together with experience of creating and/or managing the creation of records for curatorial information systems and related data standards. You will also have excellent interpersonal skills and be computer literate, including a familiarity with digital photography and related software.

The post is available for 27 months full-time equivalent, but could also be undertaken on a part-time basis for up to 33 months.
 
Closing date: 2 November 2007  

For more details see the V&A website at: http://www.vam.ac.uk/jobs 


 

Douglas Dodds
Head of Central Services 
    & Senior Curator, Computer Art
Word and Image Department
Victoria and Albert Museum
South Kensington
LONDON SW7 2RL

Tel     020 7942 2397
Fax     020 7942 2394
Email  d.dodds@vam.ac.uk



The V&A's Word & Image Department incorporates the National Art Library and the Museum's prints, drawings, paintings and photographs collections.



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