DASH Archives - February 2009

Media Art Scoping Symposium
Vital Signs: Revisited
Media art education at the intersection of science, technology  and  
culture
http://mass.nomad.net.au/

Date: July 4th - 5th 2009
Location: Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia

Call for Abstracts - Deadline 27th March 2009

The media/electronic art scoping symposium seeks to explore the  
current pioneering educators, artists and scientists who have brought  
about the dissolution of boundaries that have traditionally existed  
between the artistic and technological disciplines. The symposium will  
survey the work of media art educators who have developed new  
interdisciplinary curricula, facilities and information technologies.

The symposium aims to add to the media art scoping study via  
collaborating between leading universities in Australia currently  
conducting research and academic teaching and learning programs in new  
media/electronic arts.
The symposium will explore influential theoretical, scientific and  
philosophical pedagogies that have influenced the development of media/ 
electronic arts.

It is the ambition of the scoping project to establish the basis for a  
functional network model. Significantly, the establishment of an  
online historical database and link to the symposium will provide a  
body of information to assist development of appropriate  
infrastructure reflecting an approach to training that is in tune with  
the distinctive characteristics of the discipline area now and for the  
future.

The Mass symposium calls for refereed and non referred papers, posters  
on the following themes
•	media art, media art histories and associated pedagogical strategies.
•	media art in the context of contemporary art education.
•	examples of media art, descriptions and analysis of science, media  
art and culture.
•	creative practice as research in new media
•	media art innovations in teaching and learning

These would be based on the introduction and infiltration of digital  
media, technologies and related pedagogies in disciplines such as Art  
& Design, Architecture, the Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences; as  
well as examples of interdisciplinarity through art-science-technology  
collaborations.

We particularly wish to encourage presentations from and about new  
developments in teaching Media Art. Proposals are welcomed from  
academics, artists, theorist, and researchers in media art, media art  
history, performance studies, literature, film, and science and  
technology studies.

Deadline for 200 word abstracts: 27th March 09. Please submit  
proposals by email to:
Julian Stadon Media Art Scoping Symposium organizer j.stadon@curtin.edu.au
Abstracts of proposals, panel presentations and posters should be  
submitted in either text, RTF, or Word formats.

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******Apologies for cross-posting********

Media Art PhD scholarships at the University of Westminster, London, UK.

Dear people, please forward to those you feel may benefit.


Applications are now being invited for two full-time studentships - each
worth £15,000 a year – in the University’s Centre for Research in Education,
Art and Media (CREAM), in School of Media Art and Design. The scholarships
will start in October 2009 and run for three years. 

The deadline for applications is 5pm, 3rd March 2009 (UK, GMT).

The scholarships encourage both practice-led and theoretical applications
that formulate approaches to art making through new and emerging media.

Scholarship subject areas are outlined below. However we encourage a broad
interpretation of these and would be interested in receiving quality
applications covering a range of related topics including Art and Science
relationships, Interactive Arts, Software Art or any topic that scrutinises
the intersections of art, society, technology and science and/or are
interdisciplinary in nature. 

Visual design applications will also be considered if they develop critical
and innovatory approaches that fit the profile of research at CREAM.

1. Art and Computation: the Aesthetics of Information
Areas include critical and aesthetic approaches to data-mapping,
visualisation, interactive and behavioural arts, robotics, emergence etc.

2. Art on the Web
Areas of art practice include critical and aesthetic explorations of the net
as a site for art, and broad approaches to the idea of the network as a
metaphoric and heterogeneous site that encompasses inter and cross
disciplinary approaches to art making, i.e. practices that weave across
subject domains to create new areas of critical practice and aesthetic object. 

Further information about these topics can be found here:
http://www.wmin.ac.uk/page-17662

Applicants would hold, or expect to be awarded, a 2.1 honours degree or
above and preferably a Masters degree and should, where relevant,
demonstrate English Language competence of at least IELTS 6.5 or equivalent.

 For more information:

How to apply:
http://www.wmin.ac.uk/page-17527

Eligibility criteria:
http://www.wmin.ac.uk/page-17525

Information on CREAM:
http://www.wmin.ac.uk/mad/page-569

If you need any further information or need to discuss this further please
email:
Dr. Tom Corby, Deputy Director, Centre for Research in Education, Art, Media.

corbyt@wmin.ac.uk

EASTERN EUROPE SCHOLARSHIP FOR THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL MASTER OF MEDIA ART HISTORY 
(Low residency; English language, international faculty)

The Department for Image Science is pleased to announce a half-tuition scholarship for the Master of Arts (MA) course starting in May 2009!

=> EASTERN EUROPE SCHOLARSHIP FOR MEDIA ART HISTORIES
The scholarship should help artists and researchers from the eastern countries working in the field of conservation, documentation and presentation of media arts or for persons interested in researching this field.


=> FIRST INTERNATIONAL MASTER OF MEDIA.ART.HISTORIES 
(International Faculty, low residency, parallel to employment, English language) 
The postgraduate program MediaArtHistories conveys the most important developments of contemporary art through a network of renowned international theorists, artists and curators like:  Steve DIETZ, Erkki HUHTAMO, Lev MANOVICH, Christiane PAUL, Paul SERMON, Edward SHANKEN, Jens HAUSER, Sean CUBITT, Christa SOMMERER, Gerfried STOCKER, Knowbotic Research, Frieder NAKE, Oliver GRAU and many others. 
http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/studium/medienkunstgeschichte/06318/index.php 
 
Artists and programmers give new insights into the latest and most controversial software, interface developments and their interdisciplinary and intercultural praxis. Keywords are: Strategies of Interaction & Interface Design, Social Software, Immersion & Emotion and Artistic Invention. Using online databases and other modern aids, knowledge of computer animation, net art, interactive, telematic and genetic art as well as the most recent reflections on nano art, CAVE installations, augmented reality and wearables are introduced. Historical derivations that go far back into art and media history are tied in intriguing ways to digital art. Important approaches and methods from Image Science, Media Archaeology and the History of Science & Technology will be discussed. 
 
=> DANUBE UNIVERSITY KREMS – located in the UNESCO world heritage Wachau is the first public university in Europe which specializes in advanced continuing education offering low-residency degree programs for working professionals and lifelong learners.  
 
With its new modular courses the DEPARTMENT FOR IMAGE SCIENCE at Danube University Krems offers an educational program unique in Europe. Without interrupting their career, students have the opportunity to learn through direct, hands-on experience, social learning in small groups and contacts with labs and industry. They gain key qualifications for the contemporary art and media marketplace. http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/studium/medienkunstgeschichte/10365/index.php 

The Center in Monastery Göttweig, where most MediaArtHistories courses take place, is housed in a 14th century building, remodeled to fit the needs of modern research in singular surroundings. International experts analyze the image worlds of art, science, politics and economy and elucidate how they originated, became established and how they have stood the test of time. The innovative approach at the Department for Image Science is reinforced by praxis-oriented study. 

Application documents: 
-	Letter of Motivation
-	Application form 
-	Copies of your certificates
-	Copy of your passport
-	Photo

Application Deadline: 2nd, April 2009

Further Information:
http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/mediaarthistories 
www.virtualart.at 
www.mediaarthistories.org 


Contact:  
Andrea Haberson
Department for Image Science
Danube University Krems
Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Str. 30, A-3500 Krems
Tel: +43(0)2732 893-2569 
andrea.haberson@donau-uni.ac.at  
www.donau-uni.ac.at/dis

Forwarded from Diatrope (see below)

*CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS*

*Images, Technology, and History: A Feature in History and Technology*

Scholars are giving increased attention to images as historical  
evidence.  A new feature in *History and Technology* seeks to analyze  
images relating to technology, with two aims: To more fully integrate  
our understanding of technology into broader historical accounts and  
as a means to reflect on historical method.

At a basic level, images may record a technology's presence in  
history, depicting where, when, and how it was deployed, as well as  
the different social, artistic, and cultural contexts in which it was  
produced and encountered. In addition, images themselves are  
technological products that may act as catalysts, changing the  
paradigms through which we see and apprehend the world.

Careful analyses of images, too, can highlight fundamental problems of  
historical explanation.  In their specificity, images address the  
production of knowledge and culture, as situated in a particular  
moment in time and space.  In their use of conventional codes of  
representation they speak to larger and enfolding social, cultural,  
and political structures.  Images, in concentrated fashion, push us to  
understand the interplay between the empirical and interpretation.

The editors of *History and Technology* invite submissions of short  
essays (approx. 2000 words) that address the visual history of  
technology. Essays should focus on 1-3 visual representations, and  
might approach the images from a variety of different theoretical  
positions.  Possibilities include: the formal or iconographic content  
of the representations; the social and cultural implications of how  
different technologies are represented or who used them; the audience  
and reception of different representations of technologies; the  
history of different media and their technological antecedents; or the  
ways in which technology changed the sensory experience of the world.   
Essays are preferred that discuss the historiographic issues raised  
through the analysis of images.

Please send submissions or queries to Elizabeth Kessler, Image Editor (eakessler1@gmail.com 
) or Martin Collins, Editor (collinsm@si.edu). For more information  
about *History and Technology, *please see the journal website (http://taylorandfrancis.co.uk/journals/titles/07341512.asp 
).
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Paul Brown - based in Germany Jan - Feb 2009
mailto:paul@paul-brown.com == http://www.paul-brown.com
UK Mobile +44 (0)794 104 8228 == USA fax +1 309 216 9900
Skype paul-g-brown
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Artist in Residence, compArt Project - Bremen University
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Science and Heritage research cluster

Understanding Complex Structures: The Conservation, Display and  
Interpretation of Lace and Natural Objects

First Workshop 24th March 2009 at Natural History Museum 'Orientation  
and Agenda-Setting'

This is to alert you the first of three workshops that will look at  
conserving, displaying and re-interpreting complex textile artefacts  
and natural objects.  They comprise a Research Cluster funded by the  
EPSRC/ AHRC Science and Heritage programme to encourage the  
interdisciplinary exploration of the conservation needs, curatorial  
demands and cultural challenges of complex artefacts.

Places are limited, so if you are interested in attending, please  
contact Sabine Hielscher (sabine.hielscher@ntu.ac.uk).  The closing  
date for applications to attend is Monday March 16th.

The cluster activities centre on the lace collections at Victoria and  
Albert Museum (V&A), Nottingham Trent University and Nottingham City  
Museums as well as the collections of botanical, zoological and fossil  
objects at the Natural History Museum.  Despite this focus, the  
outcomes will be relevant to any setting which houses complex  
'difficult' items where the demands of conservation may conflict with  
those of display and the nature of the objects makes interpretation  
and display problematic.

Participants will include conservators, cultural practitioners,  
curators, designers, physicists and technologists, drawn from  
universities, museums, archives and business.  The workshop activities  
will generate research ideas and propose possible solutions to a range  
of practical issues, through presentations, discussion and 'close  
encounters' with objects at the Natural History Museum, V&A,  
Nottingham Trent University and Nottingham City Museums and  
Galleries.  This exchange of skills, experience, resources and  
scientific knowledge will uncover a range of topical and insightful  
research questions to generate further funded research work.

As well as being fundamental to conservation, science can reveal the  
structure of complex artefacts, as well as their full significance as  
part of historic material culture.  Techniques ranging from computer  
animation to non-invasive imaging can reveal structures, and inform  
interpretation.  The workshops may point towards techniques to see  
below surfaces which can feed into representations and computer models  
of structures, as well as new manufacturing techniques and processes  
to radically enhance the display and interpretation of artefacts.

Further information can be found at the project website: http://ntu.ac.uk/science_heritage/ 
.


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Paul Brown - based in Germany Jan - Feb 2009
mailto:paul@paul-brown.com == http://www.paul-brown.com
UK Mobile +44 (0)794 104 8228 == USA fax +1 309 216 9900
Skype paul-g-brown
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Artist in Residence, compArt Project - Bremen University
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