DASH Archives - December 2010

One of the worlds oldest mechanical computers - the Antikythera mechanism recreated in Lego!

 http://newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2010/12/worlds-oldest-computer-recreated-in-lego.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

Best
Paul

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Paul Brown - based in the UK Nov - Feb 2011
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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Synapse Artist-in-Residence - Deakin University
http://www.deakin.edu.au/itri/cisr/projects/hear.php
Honorary Visiting Professor - Sussex University
http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ccnr/research/creativity.html
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please circulate widely 


Nominations are due November 20.  Please use the web form for nominations, and include a short (really short is OK) description of why you are making the nomination, and a link to a web site with the Artist's information.
http://www.siggraph.org/gen-info/contact.php?default=Arts%20Award%20Chair

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The Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art

Description:

The Distinguished Artist Award is awarded annually to an artist who has created a substantial and important body of work that significantly advances aesthetic content in the field of digital art.


Nominations:

Nominations are due by December 20, 2010, sent to Cynthia Beth Rubin, the Awards chair, and should include:
(use form here http://www.siggraph.org/gen-info/contact.php?default=Arts%20Award%20Chair)

	• Name(s) of the individual(s) being nominated (address and/or phone number and/or email address are also appreciated).
	• References to websites with the artist's works and texts when applicable  (multiple references are welcome).
	• Nominator's name, address, telephone number, fax number, and email address.

A statement by the nominator describing the significance of the artist's contributions according to the following criteria: 

(not all criteria have to be met)

	• The Artist has been contributing internationally to the digital arts for more than Twenty (20) years.
	• The Artist has produced important work(s) that is(are) referenced in digital art history/theory papers/books. 
	• The Artist has established an unexplored area in the field of digital art/media art. 
	• The Artist has been advancing the use of digital technologies in creative expression.
	• The Artist has contributed to the history and/or theory and/or practice of digital art through writing and presentations at conferences and symposia.

Nominations are due DECEMBER 20.  Please use the web form for nominations, and include a short (really short is OK) description of why you are making the nomination, and a link to a web site with the Artist's information.

http://www.siggraph.org/gen-info/contact.php?default=Arts%20Award%20Chair

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The ACM-SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art

Description

The Distinguished Artist Award is awarded annually to an artist who has created a substantial and important body of work that significantly advances aesthetic content in the field of digital art.


Nominations

Nominations are due by December 20, 2010, sent to Cynthia Beth Rubin, the Awards chair, and should include:
(use form here http://www.siggraph.org/gen-info/contact.php?default=Arts%20Award%20Chair)

	• Name(s) of the individual(s) being nominated (address and/or phone number and/or email address are also appreciated).
	• References to websites with the artist's works and texts when applicable  (multiple references are welcome).
	• Nominator's name, address, telephone number, fax number, and email address.

A statement by the nominator describing the significance of the artist's contributions according to the following criteria: 

(not all criteria have to be met)

	• The Artist has been contributing internationally to the digital arts for more than Twenty (20) years.
	• The Artist has produced important work(s) that is(are) referenced in digital art history/theory papers/books. 
	• The Artist has established an unexplored area in the field of digital art/media art. 
	• The Artist has been advancing the use of digital technologies in creative expression.
	• The Artist has contributed to the history and/or theory and/or practice of digital art through writing and presentations at conferences and symposia.

Journeys Across Media 2011
Friday 6th May 2011

SPACE IN OUR TIME: EXPLORING THE FRONTIERS OF SCREEN AND LIVE PERFORMANCE SPACE

Journeys Across Media (JAM) 2011 is the 9th annual international conference for postgraduate students, organized by postgraduates working in the Department of Film, Theatre & Television at the University of Reading. It provides a discussion forum for current and developing research in film, theatre, television and new media. Previous delegates have welcomed the opportunity to gain experience of presenting their work at different stages of development in the active, friendly and supportive research environment of Film, Theatre & Television at the University of Reading. This year JAM will be guest-editing the Autumn issue of Intellect’s Journal of Media Practice and in 2012 an associated journal to the conference will be launched, providing further opportunities for new researchers to publish their work and interact with established scholars. 
Non-presenting delegates are also very welcome.

The 9th JAM conference seeks to address issues of space in performance, media and wider society and instigate discussions about space across disciplines, practices and fields of research. 
Space in performance and media is constantly shifting. Emerging technologies and new models of physical spaces have radically shaped our conceptions and experiences of performing, the world and our performing within that world. Artistic experimentation in live performance tests and contests space as a neutral/political/liminal/active zone. Through innovative spatial delineations and/or site specific work, contemporary theatre and performance challenge conventions of text and space, performance and institution and performance and audience. Issues of space are increasingly central to performance studies and the experience of live performance. The growing popularity of companies such as Secret Cinema reflect the importance of the exhibition site for cinema and possibilities for cross-media events. The organisation and handling of space on screen can reveal the conceptual reality of a time, rather than just function as background. Studies of the cinematic screen continue to focus on ideological articulations through oppositions, such as on-screen/off-screen space, interior/exterior, centre/periphery, inclusion/exclusion in space. Meanwhile, televisual spaces continue to change both in terms of on-screen representation and how the television as an object inhabits space, particularly in relation to its online dissemination and the proliferation of products which facilitate its access.

This is a call for postgraduates engaging in contemporary discourses around space to submit papers for the JAM 2011 conference; topics may include, but are not restricted to: 

Cross-disciplinary/inter-disciplinary spaces 
National/International space; Globalisation 
Centrality – Marginality of/in space 
Gendered spaces 
Space and memory 
Critical masses (people in space) 
Space as a character 
Absence/non-place
Time and Space in performance
Architecture and performance
Immersion and illusion in contemporary performance spaces
Space in Contemporary art 
Ownership and accountability 
Ontology of space

CALL FOR PAPERS deadline: Friday 30th January 2011

Please send a 250-word abstract and a 50-word biographical note for a fifteen-minute paper to Amanda Beauchamp, Becki Hillman, Tonia Kazakopoulou, Martin O’Brien and James Rattee, at jam2011@reading.ac.uk. Proposals for practice-as-research presentations/performances are warmly invited; these have to conform to the 15-minute format.

We would appreciate the distribution of this call for papers and wider promotion of this conference through your networks. Journeys Across Media is supported by the Standing Committee of University Drama Departments (SCUDD) and the Graduate School in Arts and Humanities, University of Reading