Station Rose Presentation & Book Launch at Furtherfield.

Furtherfield is pleased to present the UK Book launch of STATION ROSE: 
20 Digital Years Plus, published by Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg.

Date: Thursday 10 February 2011, 7-9pm
Venue: The Furtherfield Space in London.
http://www.furtherfield.org/events/station-rose-20-digital-years-plus-book-launch
RSVP - Please contact ale@furtherfield.org

Station Rose, pioneers of digital culture, have produced an artist’s 
book which delivers a current description of the situation of media art 
from 1988, when the studio was founded, until 2010. Station Rose (Elisa 
Rose and Gary Danner) are considered to be innovators and visionaries in 
the field of audiovisual art, electronic music, net art and audiovisual 
live performance. The book features audio-visual works, performances, 
installations and Web 2.0 activities and linkings. Part of the book is 
dedicated to the media sculpture LoginCabin exhibited for three months 
in 2009 in the MAK in Vienna.

Furtherfield – online arts community, platforms for creating, viewing, 
discussing and learning about experimental practices at the 
intersections of art, technology and social change.
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Rewire 2011 - Call for Proposals
The Fourth International Conference on the Histories of Media Art,
Science and Technology

Location: Liverpool , UK (Host: FACT, Foundation for Art and Creative
Technology)
Dates: September 28 - October 1, 2011

= >> Due to large number of submissions that continue to come in
towards the last few days before the closing deadline, it was decided to
keep the submissions open until the 17th of February 2011.

submit : www.MediaArtHistory.org 

= >> Media Art History 2011 - Rewire will increase the voltage and
ignite key debates within the internationally distributed network of
histories, which takes account of the questions surrounding
documentation and methodologies, materiality, and agency. Rewire aims
to illuminate the global phenomena of media art. Given Liverpool*s
historic role as a center of British industry and its leadership in
the sector of digital culture, we shall explore the relationship
between the industrial revolution and the information age with respect
to media art around the world. Considering the international scope of
the histories of media art, science and technology, Rewire is also
listed as part of the "McLuhan in Europe" programme, and will take place
concurrently with The Asia Triennial in Manchester and Abandon Normal
Devices, the North West's festival of new cinema and digital culture
which returns to Liverpool in September 2011.The reviewers especially
welcome proposals for presentations that resonate thematically with
these events.

We are looking for original research on:
* Media art history in relation to the biological, biomedical and
ecological sciences
* Colonial experiences and non-Western histories of media art, science
and technology
* How the field of science and technology studies (STS) can offer
useful models for new paradigms for art history
* Writing art history in a technologised and scientific culture,
including the documentation of media art and how it is changed in a
technologised and scientific culture
* Local histories and practices of media art
* Relations between the histories of media art and those of computing
and new technologies
* New paradigms and alternative discourses for media art and media art
history, such as, for example, craft, design, social media, or
cybernetics
* The relations between art, science, technology and industry, both
historically and now
* The heritage of British industry and computing and its global
contributions to media art

= >> Following the success of Media Art History 05 Re:fresh in Banff,
Media Art History 07 Re:place in Berlin and Media Art History 09 Re:live
in Melbourne, Media Art History 11 Rewire will host three days of
keynotes, panels and poster sessions.


=>> Hosted by FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology),
Liverpool. In collaboration with academic partners: Liverpool John
Moores University, CRUMB at the University of Sunderland, the
Universities of the West of Scotland and Lancaster, and the Database of
Virtual Art at the Dept. for Image Science.

Rewire Conference Chair:
Mike STUBBS, FACT

Rewire Conference Co-chairs:
Paul BROWN, University of Sussex
Sarah COOK, University of Sunderland/CRUMB
Colin DAVIES, Liverpool John Moores University
Charlie GERE, Lancaster University
Andy MIAH, University of the West of Scotland
Ed SHANKEN, University of Amsterdam
Laura SILLARS, FACT

International Advisory Committee:
Steven BALL, Tatiana BAZZICHELLI, Stuart COMER, Sean CUBITT, Dieter
DANIELS, Sara DIAMOND, Vince DZIEKAN, Charles ESCHE, Sarah FISHER, Jean
GAGNON, Graham HARWOOD, Erkki HUHTAMO, Nick LAMBERT, Debbi LANDER, Tapio
MAKELA, Chris MEIGH-ANDREWS, Frieder NAKE, Taylor NUTTALL, Steve
PARTRIDGE, Christiane PAUL, Ned ROSSITER, Paul SERMON, Jinsuk SUH, Brett
STALBAUM, Julian STALLABRASS, Atau TANAKA, Andrea ZAPP


MediaArtHistory Board (Conference Series Steering Committee)
Erkki HUHTAMO, Tim LENOIR, Machiko KUSAHARA, Gunalan NADARAJAN, Oliver
GRAU, 
Doug KAHN, Linda HENDERSON, Sean CUBITT, Martin KEMP and Paul THOMAS


= >> forwarded by::
Department for Image Science at Danube University, Austria
Media Art History conference series partner and web-platform home
www.mediaarthistory.org 
www.donau-uni.ac.at/mah 
(mediaarthistories group)
www.facebook.com/?sk=2361831622#!/group.php?gid=36056054067
(rewire group)
www.facebook.com/?sk=2361831622#!/group.php?gid=109013832492013

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; their work, should they wish to submit it to the organising committee, will be considered for the journal.
JAM 2011 will take place in the brand new building of the Film, Theatre & Television department, at the heart of Whiteknights campus. For further details, visit:  http://www.reading.ac.uk/ftt/new-building/ftt-new-build-images.aspx
 
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, extended deadline: Friday 4th March 2011
 
Deadline for Registration: Friday 8th April 2011
Please send a 250-word abstract and a 50-word biographical note for a fifteen-minute paper to Amanda Beauchamp, Tonia Kazakopoulou, Becki Hillman, 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.
 
A limited number of travel bursaries may be available by the department and JAM Conference 2011; please fill in the relevant section on the registration form if you wish to apply. For further details and registration forms please visit the conference website: http://www.reading.ac.uk/ftt/pg-research/ftt-pgrjam.aspx
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.

... no stars visible so we may be back to the usual light
rain and clouds... if these nighttime pinholes pan-out I'll
need to buy a new, stronger waterproof container as this one
has cracked; hopefully an elastic band and plastic-bag
lining will protect the camera from the forthcoming rain...
soon be time for Tapan and the morning-tune recording...
walked around by the observatory; there might be some
activity there on Friday 2 p.m... and then down to Nishi
Hama where there was actually someone swimming (the Japanese
are a hardy yet emotional lot, with lots of nodding
affirmation: even the TV-weather 'snowman' nods his head)
... heard a rooster while walking back so there may be a few
chickens on the island after all... went into the main
grocery store again (first time was to buy a Y200 apple) and
a delivery person rushed-in a little after 11 and left
several box-lunches, and although I had just eaten a big pot
of rice with vegetables I guess I was still hungry, so I
purchased one (Y500 + Y180 for Southern Star [pics #8220,
8221])... looked very intriguing: little contrasting tastes,
including a slice of grilled salmon (where did that come
from!), little egg-things, potstickers, rice (with black
seeds, a blob of red condiment and little green pickles),
noodles, tiny salads... turned-out fairly sunny by mid-day
so I headed to Pemuchi beach and then followed a little path
through a patch of woods that seemed pointless... finally
came back, drank some SS, ate more peanuts, dried squid and
read more of The Year of the Waterless Flood (getting
tiresome, and really not very inventive) in the sun... may
venture out a little later to see what if anything is
happening... the other afternoon I thought I heard a
pop-rock-band practising on the outskirts of town (next to
the tour bus place.)... well the chalkboard in front of the
little cafe/gallery that's been closed ever since I got here
seemed to indicate a performance by vocalist Sizzle Ohtaka
(seems she's commercially successful and recorded her Sugar
Land album here) tonight... but I guess not... have a hard
time figuring what's happening... not usually out/up this
late: the cicadas are incredibly loud by the side of the
road; will probably add that sound as well to the childrens'
concert mix (but will soon run out of insertion points)...
hung my sink-washing (T-shirt, swimwear) out to dry; goats
are now awake and bleating; time to bring the pinhole in; I
don't think my joints will ever get used to sitting on the
floor and I can just barely pass through the doorways
without stooping; when sleeping on the tatami you can
feel/hear the refrigerator; much of the town reflects this
lower centre of gravity: small vehicles, and signs are often
mere inches off the ground, and HD television is perhaps
intended for close-up, floor-based viewing... (excellent)
su-ba-ra-shi... walked down to Nishi (deserted) and the port
but didn't linger due to the smoke from someone burning
something; (unfortuntely the port building which has a nice
noodle stand seems to allow smoking inside)... met M not
long off the ferry from Ishigaki coming to work in the
sugarfields as a beginner she gets Y500/hr she told me
Sizzle performed last weekend :(( and the cafe was normally
closed due to poor business, but promised to tell me about
any future events, including the observatory viewing dates
the Sugarland CD was in the mainsquare giftshop so I bought
it (Y2000; nice sensible packaging) plus a sharp little
white button with kanjii and a map of Hateruma (Y200)...
chopped-down an earlier TV recording-disk into short
segments to make room for more Tapan episodes (don't want
too much LP4 TV)... still not entirely sure that I missed
Sizzle as there wasn't much advance notice if I did, and M
doesn't always understand me... I'll check again tonight
when I go out and record the cicadas... well at Y1500/night
I'm sure not likely to stay indoors, so I ventured out
despite the rain and headed out towards the more
northeasterly jungle tract past the fisherman's place,
turning right instead of left at the little square concrete
building: pumping-station? -- tough-going over wet, loose
coral but some nice ocean views (the sea as a liquid sky),
big collection of found floats and nets (an old windshield
wiper as speargun?), little impromptu shelter with wet-suit,
trails past ancient coral structures and around past the
wind turbines and up by the sacred-well, where it began to
rain heavily; I took shelter under a tree and
travel-umbrella as a tour-bus with _one passenger pulled-up
to glimpse the well and then drove-off without offering me a
ride... I silently, this time, invoked the ancient ruyuku
spirits or at least those of the Hateruma white-goats, most
of whom recognize me by now, to at least deflate his
tires... made a dash for it during a brief lull in the
action just as a fear-monger-nation fighter-jet screamed
overhead: (stolen tax-dollars>> withheld social services>>
utter waste of resources...); then the rain really came
down: eventually took shelter in an unlocked farm-implement
structure where there was an old coin-operated karioke
machine alongside tractors, tools and parts; I confess I
filched a discarded/worn conical bamboo? worker's hat which
(if it survives the flight,) might look good on the wall at
home next to the kenyan basket and bangladeshi fish-trap...
my laundry is of course wet again... sun came back, and I
took some more pics around town, and vistas out to sea which
included the wanton sugarcane (nice crisp, contrasty light
right after the rain; the D-max filter sure looks impressive
in the camera but I don't really trust it, prefer to use
Photoshop later; have introduced a subtle 'bowing'
perspective to some shots)... had a few people suddenly ask
me something but instead of implying that I don't understand
I should just say 'Canada' because what else would it likely
be [do-chi-ra ka-ra ki-mash-ta ka?]; but the peace-sign
seems to suffice for anything... as usual some little
children stare at me but at least they don't demand ID...
bought a big 5kg, this time, bag of rice (Y1800), fresh tofu
(Y160: still warm; already have the fish flakes that go on
top: the tofu van does its rounds about 5:30 p.m.: same
establishment that sells the sashimi I think), tiny little
round snack crackers (Y90), more bottled peanuts (Y310; I'm
saving the empty bottles in a pyramid outside my door),
dried chilis (Y130, to help me get through all that rice),
and another package of dried squid (Y260)... oh, and finally
saw a white eye or mejiro (, ) [web-folder]: much smaller
than I imagined green songbird with eye-ring... the cicadas
weren't nearly as loud this cooler night, suggesting that at
the height of star spangled 80F summer evenings they must be
deafening... tried to record an owl-like call -- it stopped
when I came close, but got several minutes of some insect
that sounds (maybe too much) like an electric buzzer... no
sign of Sizzle... bought what I think is a big leek (Y100;
to go with the tofu) from the sisters' store and I think she
asked me if I recorded sound (forgot my phrasebook I have to
make more of an effort with the language); seems news of
that quirky activity has favourably spread...


Island 6.0 is now available online!
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Global Islands Project -- ongoing series of multi-media
pdf-ebooks/field-recordings -- a pastoral, pictorial and
phonic elicitation of island parameters. An intensive
examination of small islands and their paradigmatic
solutions to globalism.

Your (Art)world is based on mutual relief at your common
corruption. Maybe some cultures are based on even worse. But
that wouldn't change the bad faith of it and as years go by,
you wake at night in terror of your whole life being an act
of bad faith, where everything is self-interest and nothing
more, where every human interaction is driven by a silent,
even subconscious calculation of some ulterior motive, to
the point that a sea of bad faith has taken over your whole
life, there's no small island left from which you can even
try to build a bridge of good faith, because even that
effort becomes suspect, even good faith is nothing but
self-interested, even altruism is nothing but solipsistic,
even your professed agonizing right here right now is
nothing but a gesture, made to the conscience in order to
assure it that it exists.

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Island 1.0 is Ambergris Caye, Belize
Island 2.0 is Koh Si Chang, Thailand
Island 3.0 is Lamu, Kenya
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Island 5.0 is Isla Mais, Nicaragua
Island 6.0 are The Grenadines, West Indies

Global Islands Project:

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http://www.archive.org/details/global_islands_project_island_5.0
http://www.archive.org/details/global_islands_project_island_6.0

Global Islands Project -- ongoing series of multi-media
pdf-books -- a pastoral, pictorial and phonic elicitation of
island parameters...

Vientos del pueblo me llevan
Vientos del pueblo me arrastran
Me eparcen mi corazon
Ye me aventan la garganta

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Knowledge Exchange Associate in Emerging Media Practices

Are you interested in how developments in digital media and mobile devices
are changing people¹s appetite for television, radio and other mass media?

We are seeking to appoint a Knowledge Exchange Associate (KEA) as part of
the University of Edinburgh¹s involvement in Moving Targets, a three year
knowledge exchange project funded by the Scottish Funding Council. This
project involves a consortium of universities, public bodies and media
companies undertaking knowledge exchange in the area of new models for new
audiences in the creative media industries. You will be one of a team of
three KEAs working on the project.

Based at the University of Edinburgh, the KEA will work across a range of
activities including spending periods of supervised secondment in selected
media companies, leading in workshops, developing new models for the
co-creation of working prototypes, and working with consortium partners
toward new collaborative design and production practices for online and
mobile content. You will also contribute to a pool of expertise in technical
digital media production and distribution.

You will have experience of undertaking practice-based research in media
production or digital media design, an understanding of digital media, and
an interest in emerging online media production methodologies. Experience of
production processes relating to online and mobile distribution, and
innovative media product development are also required. The successful
candidate will possess good organisational and leadership skills, excellent
communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to work
independently.

This post is one of three full-time, three-year KEA positions recruited for
the Moving Targets project at the three participating Institutions;
University of Abertay Dundee, University of Edinburgh, and Edinburgh College
of Art. The duration of the post is 30 months.

SALARY SCALE: £25,001 - £28,983 GRADE: UE06
Deadline for applications: Friday 11 March
For further information please contact Richard.Coyne@ed.ac.uk or
Mark.Wright@ed.ac.uk




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