DASH Archives - April 2010

LEONARDO SCHOLARSHIP FOR MediaArtHistories MA awarded to Fran ILICH

>From a field of applicants from twelve countries from four
continents,
Mexican media artist, author, and researcher Fran Ilich Morales
Muñozhas
been awarded the first Leonardo Scholarship in the Media.Art.Histories
MA program at the Department of Image Science at Danube University,
Austria. The jury, consisting of Edward Shanken, Jon Cates and Oliver
Grau selected Ilich from a highly competitive group of candidates
based
on his extraordinary accomplishments, intellectual sophistication,
independent vision, and entrepreneurial spirit.  Ilichis Director of
the
Literature Department at the Centro Cultural de Tijuana, Founding
Director of Possible worlds.org and Founding CEO of Spacebank.  He was
Co-founder and Moderator Nettime-Latino and has contributed essays to
Wired News, Modem.txt, and Al Fin.  His videogame artwork, "Banner"
(with Blas Valdez) was exhibited at 01 San Jose (2009) and ARCO XX,
Madrid (2001).  His Internet soap opera, "Fea y Rebelde" was exhibited
at Documenta 12, Kassel (2007).  He was General Director and Curator
of
the Borderhack! festivals in 2001, 2002, and 2005.


=> LEONARDO SCHOLARSHIP FOR MEDIA ART HISTORIES
The scholarship is planned to answer the critical challenges of the
21st century, which require mobilization and cross-fertilization among
the domains of art, science and technology by supporting the studies
of
a new researcher or artist.


=> FIRST INTERNATIONAL MASTER OF MEDIA.ART.HISTORIES 
(low-residency; English language, international faculty)
The postgraduate program MediaArtHistories conveys the most important
developments of contemporary art through a network of renowned
international theorists, artists and curators like: 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.  

Artists and programmers give new insights into the latest 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,
netart, interactive, telematic and genetic art as well as the most
recent reflections on nano art, augmented reality and wearables are
introduced. Historical derivations that go far back into art and
mediahistory 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. 
http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/mah 


=>DANUBE UNIVERSITY KREMS - located in the UNESCO world heritage
Wachau, 70km from Vienna, is the only public university in Europe
specializing in advanced continuing education by offering
low-residency
degree programs for working professionals and life long learners. Our
students & faculty members come from the USA, Italy, Canada, Syria,
Austria,Mexico, & Hong Kong, among others. Without interrupting their
career, students have the opportunity to learn through direct
experience, social learning in small groups and contacts with labs and
industry. They gain key qualifications for the contemporary art and
media marketplace. 
The Center in Monastery Goettweig, where most MediaArtHistories
courses
take place, is housed in a 14th century building, remodeled to fit the
needs of modern research in singular surroundings. 


=> LEONARDO/ISAST - Leonardo creates opportunities for the powerful
exchange of ideas between practitioners in art, science and
technology.
Through publications, initiatives andpublic forums, Leonardo/ISAST
facilitates cross-disciplinary researchin these fields, seeking to
catalyze fruitful solutions for the challenges of the 21st century.
Among the challenges requiring cross-disciplinary approaches are
establishing sustainable environmental practices, spreading global
scientific and artistic literacy, creating technological equity, and
encouraging freedom of thought and imagination. 

=>LEAF - The Leonardo Education and Art Forum promotes the advancement
of artistic research andacademic scholarship at the intersections of
art, science, and technology.  Serving practitioners, scholars, and
students who are members of the Leonardo community, LEAF provides a
forum for collaboration and exchange with other scholarly communities,
includingthe College Art Association of America (CAA), of which it is
an
affiliate society.

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

Disciplines, Objects and Interdisciplinary Thinking in Art History 1950-2000

Biology, D’Arcy Thompson and the Historical Explanation of 20th
Century Experimental Art Form

Workshop 14th May 2010: 9.30

Department of the History of Art, LittleGate House, St Ebbes

Martin Kemp, Susan Derges, Ellen Levy, Tim Horder, Michael Weinstock,
Matthew Jarron, Assimina Kaniari

Convener: Dr Assimina Kaniari, (Art History, Oxford)

This event is free. To book a place RSVP assimina.kaniari@hoa.ox.ac.uk

Celebrating the 150 years from the birth of Thompson, the workshop
will explore the impact of his conception of form, and ‘acts of
seeing’ first presented in his seminal 1917 book On Growth and Form,
on post-war theories of vision, and the writings of Gombrich and Read,
as well as their figurations in avant-garde art of the 50s (Assimina
Kaniari, Oxford), (Mathew Jarron, Dundee) and their later legacies in
contemporary architectural theory (Michael Weinstock, AA), visual arts
(Ellen Levy), photography (Susan Derges) and science (Tim Horder,
Oxford). Martin Kemp (Oxford) will offer closing remarks and will act
as discussant.

To rethink interdisciplinarity in art history we will adopt Ian
Hacking’s formulation of being “interdisciplinary” as “applying my
discipline in different directions”. Thus in tracing the development
of post war art historical discourses, and their figurations in
avant-garde art, as well as their later legacies in art, architecture
and photography in dialogue with Thompson’s form, we will focus on the
problems, tensions and questions that post-war domains of visibility,
orders of vision and aesthetic hierarchies, fixed in the every day
experience of 1950s modern culture yet drawn from visual cultures
distinct from art, narrowly defined, posed for historical method and
its boundaries in post-war as well as current art historical practices
of revision.[1]
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[1] Ian Hacking, ‘The Complacent Disciplinarian’.
http://www.interdisciplines.org/interdisciplinarity/papers/7

Dr Assimina Kaniari (D.Phil, Oxford)
Academic Visitor
Department of the History of Art
University of Oxford
Littlegate House, St Ebbes, Oxford OX1 1PT, UK
http://www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/staff/visitor/akaniari/index.htm

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OZ Landline +61 (0)7 3391 0094 == USA fax +1 309 216 9900
OZ Mobile +61 (0)419 72 74 85 == Skype paul-g-brown
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Visiting Professor - Sussex University
http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ccnr/research/creativity.html
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Dear all

If you are interested in digitising audio or video recordings and, or would like to know how to restore/remaster deteriorating audio or video recordings then you may be interested in three of our courses which we are running back to back in early May (you can book courses individually if you wish)  


Digital Media Restoration – 11th May

Overview

Analogue media deteriorates at an alarming rate and few digitisation projects can hope to retrieve great signals from aged collections. In order to archive maximum usefulness some basic digital remastering is often required. Fortunately, today's digital tools mean we can easily remove unwanted 'defects' whether hisses and scratches from shellac discs or the distorted colours of old videotapes
N.B. This course covers digital restoration of audio-visual resources only. It does not cover restoration of still images

Digitising Analogue Video Recordings – 12th May

Overview

This workshop will investigate the challenges associated with the preservation of videotapes. Through practical exercises, you will look at how digitising materials to archival standards can both safeguard and help develop a collection. You will also look at the challenge of creating a sustainable digital collection. Quality assurance procedures and best practice will be referred to throughout.


Digitising Analogue Audio – 13th May

Overview

To meet the skills required by libraries, archives and institutions to digitise their existing analogue collections, this course aims to provide a complete introduction to the theory and practicalities of successfully digitising analogue audio resources. The workshop will provide hands-on tuition alongside presenting theoretical knowledge with group discussions of topics surrounding the digital lifecycle, in a digitisation project based context.


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Dave Kilbey, Training Officer and Co-ordinator
JISC Digital Media - A JISC Advance Service

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