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2007 Cassette Jockey World Championships

April 30th, 2007 · -- · Competition opportunity, Music, Performance, Remix, [2]News & Events No comments

*** CALL FOR COMPETITORS ***

CALLING ALL: Cassette Jockies… Retro-Tech Lovers… Magnetic Media Monsters… Circuit Benders… Multi-Media DJs… Walkman Hot-Rodders… we want you at the:

2007 CASSETTE JOCKEY WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

at the Make Magazine Maker Faire!

http://makerfaire.com/cj/

In 2003 at a festival in Chicago, a group of retro-tech geniuses organized The Cassette Jockey World Championships. Like the popular DJ (Disk Jockey) competitions with record-toting DJs showing off their turntable skills, the CJ Championships showcases skills and styles in the venerable world of cassettes. Since CJs were encouraged to hot-rod their own equipment, eviscerated boomboxes, disembodied tape heads, and overclocked Walkmans were the weapons of choice… anything that used the standard cassette as its ammo.

Now, in 2007, we’re hijacking the battle and hauling it to the west coast!

Forget DJs, this is for the CJs: The Cassette Jockey Championship is where YOU can show off your skills as a world-class CJ. This is your chance to show the world what the venerable and once-mighty cassette tape is capable of. The CJ who amazes the judges with their skill, technique, and knowledge will become the 2007 CASSETTE JOCKEY CHAMPION!

The Rules

1. One (1) Cassette Jockey at a time – no teams.

2. Competitors are ENCOURAGED to create or alter their own cassette tape decks/players/recorders/etc. to compete on. However, some stock cassette equipment will be provided at the competition.

3. Standard cassette tapes ONLY – no mini-cassettes or 8-Track tapes.

4. Cassettes used MUST be published, pre-recorded, “store-bought” cassettes for source material – No dubbing of CDs/LPs/8-Tracks/MP3s to tape, home recordings, battle cassettes, or found sounds are allowed.

5. Spliced tapes/tape loops are allowed. (But remember Rule #4.)

6. Live microphone usage and live feedback are allowed.

7. Headphones are allowed (supplied by competitor).

8. Competitors may use no more than six (6) cassette devices.

Competition

Competition will be Saturday, May 19, 2007 at the Maker Faire (admission/ticket required). The competition begins at 1pm with an Elimination Round, with each competitor given three (3) minutes to compete. Each will be scored by a panel of judges based on the criteria described below. The top five (5) scoring Cassette Jockeys will progress to the Final Round at 5pm. During the Final Round, each competitor is given five (5) minutes to compete. As before, each will be scored by the judges. The highest scorer is the winner, and receives a prize package and the title of Cassette Jockey World Champion!

Judging

A panel of judges will score each competitor in each round based on the following criteria:

1. (10 Points) Content. Techniques, musical ideas, and exploitation of the cassette medium.
2. (10 Points) Form. Performance style, transitions, overall set structure.
3. (5 Points) Intangibles. Bonus score for anything else the judge deems worthy.

Entry

For an entry form and up-to-date information about the 2007 Cassette Jockey World Championships, send an email to:

cjchampionships@gmail.com

Entry Fee: $20 (payable at contest; does not include entry to Maker Faire)

a-m-b-e_r and a-m-b-e_r’07 festival

April 30th, 2007 · -- · Art, Festival, [2]News & Events No comments

We are happy to inform you about the establishment of a-m-b-e_r.
a-m-b-e_r is the new association founded by artists and researchers working in the field of art and technology in Istanbul.
Founders of a-m-b-e_r include some of the organizers of TECHNE’06. More information can be found at www.a-m-b-e-r.org.

a-m-b-e_r is an Istanbul based initiative that aims to explore artistic forms of expression at the conjunction of the body and the digital process. It was founded in 2007 as an association by a team of researchers and artists from disciplines such as dance, performance, design, social sciences and engineering. The founders of amber came together in order to create a local discussion and production platform in a Globalized World itself transformed by new technologies.

a-m-b-e_r defines its area of interest through the wording of its subtitle. Body-process arts points to artistic forms that incorporate and exploit the interaction of human bodies and technological processes.

a-m-b-e_r’s objective is to establish a permanent center in Istanbul, which would focus on research, production and education in the field of body-process arts. Simultaneously, a-m-b-e_r seeks to create an international network of artists, researchers and technicians with whom it would continue to work and cooperate. It thus aims to participate in universal art from its local and regional perspective.

From this year on, a-m-b-e_r will be regularly organizing a-m-b-e_r body-process arts festivals as part of its activities.
a-m-b-e_r’07 body-process arts festival will take place in between 9-17 November, 2007 in Istanbul.
The theme of a-m-b-e_r’07 is “voice and survival”.
You can find more information at www.a-m-b-e-r.net.

Regards.

ekmel ertan, on behalf of a-m-b-e_r
eertan@a-m-b-e-r.org
+90.0532 4738971
www.a-m-b-e-r.org

OPEN CALL for ctrl_alt_del

April 30th, 2007 · -- · Competition opportunity, [2]News & Events No comments

project-ctrl-alt-del.com/opencall_07.htm
project-ctrl-alt-del.com

In 2007, ctrl_alt_del will be realized by NOMAD in corporation with Istanbul Technical University – MIAM and Kadir Has University. The base of the project will be Kadir Has University which is located on Golden Horn. This year ctrl_alt_del will include Opening Concert, Performance Series (live), Workshops, Panels, Presentations, Open Call, Field Studies/Workshops, Exhibition, Radio Programmes, Publication and CD release. The theme of ctrl_alt_del in 2007 will be “remote orienteering”. As the first dedicated sound art festival in Turkey, ctrl_alt_del enjoyed a great deal of international publicity in 2003 and 2005. For the third ctrl_alt_del to be held in September 2007, we are now looking for interesting, provocative, subversive, experimental and sophisticated works. 5 pieces will be selected by the jury and will be presented during ctrl_alt_del.

JURY
Georg Dietzler
Paul Devens
Murat Ertel
Hassan Khan
Scanner
Eran Sachs
Istanbul Technical University – MIAM (Pieter Snapper and Can Karadogan)
NOMAD (Emre Erkal, Erhan Muratoglu, Basak Senova)

THEME
The practice of “remote orienteering” suggests generating content and schematics in our conduct. Equally applicable for radical means of urban subversion, “remote orienteering” is the key process which the entries of ctrl-alt-del should be directed.

The pieces are asked to be compliant with the following subjects in order to create an intellectual climate of comprehension and discussion:

1. sounds for orientation, or sound as orientation.
2. distant sounds or sound in spatial contexts
3. sound and cultural subversion

SUBMISSION MATERIALS
1. Two audio CD’s (original and a copy) of only ONE piece is the format of the submission. Piece will not be more than 4 minutes long. Projects which rely on specific visual documentation can be submitted on a DVD, but in any case clip should not be longer than 4 minutes.
2. The name of the participant and the name of the piece(s) should be written on this CD with a permanent marker.
3. An A4 size page with name, address, e-mail and telephone number of the participant, and the names of the piece will be submitted.
4. An optional, separate A4 size page with a description, clarification or reflection could be submitted depending completely on the desire of the participant. These optional documents will not be used for evaluation, but they could be used in later stages.

The works should be at the below mailing address before the 29th of June, 2007: Basak Senova PK 16 Suadiye 34741 Istanbul, Turkey

ANNOUNCEMENT
Selected works and their owners will be announced in August 2007 on the NOMAD website:
http://www.nomad-tv.net/

All of the submitted material will be kept in NOMAD archive.

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http://project-ctrl-alt-del.com/opencall_07.htm
http://project-ctrl-alt-del.com
http://nomad-tv.net
info@nomad-tv.net

www.axisweb.org/dialogue – Call for Submissions

April 28th, 2007 · -- · Research Opportunity, Resource, [2]News & Events No comments

Axis www.axisweb.org is the UK’s online resource for information about contemporary art and artists. The website includes a directory of over 2400 current practising artists in the UK and a series of programmes designed to keep you up-to-date with current developments in contemporary British art.

Dialogue is Axis’s free online art journal, generating new critical writing on contemporary art practice. A platform for contrary opinions and broad discussion, each issue prompts and engages in topical debates and critically explores the practice of the artists represented across the Axis website. Dialogue is produced in quarterly editions with essays, interviews, reviews and documented discussions. Future issues will also contain podcasts, audio clips, video clips and an online forum.

Are you an artist / curator / arts professional / writer and keen to contribute to future issues of Dialogue? We are currently looking for features for issues 7 and 8 to be published in October 2007 and January 2008. To be considered for commission all we need from you is a proposal outline (under 500 words) and a CV.

Go to www.axisweb.org/cfp for full submission guidelines.

See past issues of Dialogue online at www.axisweb.org/dialogue

 Issue 1 Economies of Expectation and Exposure, examines how artists’ negotiate and

exploit artworld structures to promote their practice.

 Issue 2 In Search of Research, investigates the different ways in which artists’

research informs their practice.

 Issue 3 Inside the Interview: Exploring the Workings of the Artist Interview highlights

the complex issues, formats and contexts of artist interviews.

 Issue 4 Art into Science into Art considers the distinctions that set art and science

apart.

 Issue 5 Burning Public Art, features a series of discussions about developing projects

in the public sphere.

For more information please contact

Clare Jackson, Editor, Axis, Round Foundry Media Centre, Foundry Street, Leeds, LS11 5QP,

United Kingdom, T 0870 443 0701, F 0870 443 0703, E clare@axisweb.org

Games and Tests Quick Reference from cognitivelabs.com

April 28th, 2007 · -- · Gaming, [2]News & Events No comments

We’re working on a new game, in the mean time – here’s a timesaver.

A reference to a selection of games on our site, for people who already have visited.

Widget: – http://cognitivelabs.com/widgets.htm – Brain exercise for your site

Block breaker – http://cognitivelabs.com/games_blockbreaker.htm

Ball Bounce – http://cognitivelabs.com/ball_bounce.htm

earth game – http://cognitivelabs.com/smallearthtest1.htm

Einstein’s training – http://cognitivelabs.com/alltests.htm

Assessment Games:

Simple Reaction – http://cognitivelabs.com/mydna_speedtest3.htm

Kitty reaction – http://cognitivelabs.com/kittytest1.htm

Perceptual – http://cognitivelabs.com/sightspeedtest.htm
Threshold

Memory Test – http://cognitivelabs.com/cognitive_freetest3.htm

Brain Aging – http://cognitivelabs.com/brainage_part2.htm

All Tests – http://cognitivelabs.com/alltests.htm

(used in scientific studies of the brain and memory, including early detection of changes in memory and attentiveness – and increases in school test scores)

Draw with your brain – http://cognitivelabs.com/line_split.htm

Monkey Island – http://cognitivelabs.com/games_monkeyisland.htm

Orange dot game – http://cognitivelabs.com/games_orangedot.htm

Brain Aging – http://cognitivelabs.com/brainage_speedtest.htm

Stackoplis – http://cognitivelabs.com/stackopolis.htm

Vectorball – http://cognitivelabs.com/vectorball.htm

Flower Power – http://cognitivelabs.com/games_flowerpower.htm

Tech Mogul – http://cognitivelabs.com/techmogul_reactiongame.htm

Air Hockey – http://cognitivelabs.com/games_airhockey.htm

Flow – http://cognitivelabs.com/games_spaceescape.htm

Brain dots test – http://cognitivelabs.com/braindots_test.htm

Tetris (sound) – http://cognitivelabs.com/games_Tetris.htm

Chess – http://cognitivelabs.com/chess.htm

Solitaire – http://cognitivelabs.com/games_Solitaire.htm

Indiana Jones – http://cognitivelabs.com/indiana_jones.htm

Letter Rip – http://cognitivelabs.com/games_LetterRip.htm

Lunar Command – http://cognitivelabs.com/games_Lunar_Landing.htm

Kick Ups – http://cognitivelabs.com/games_kickups.htm

Simon – http://cognitivelabs.com/games_Simon.htm

Mission Mars – http://cognitivelabs.com/games_Mission_Mars.htm

Brain Bots – http://cognitivelabs.com/games_brainbotintro.htm

Pharaoh’s Tomb – http://cognitivelabs.com/games_pharaohs_Tomb.htm

Cubitsu – http://cognitivelabs.com/games_cubitsu.htm

Irritating Game – http://cognitivelabs.com/irritation.htm

Rev. Asteroids – http://cognitivelabs.com/reverse_asteroids.htm

Rubik’s Cube – http://cognitivelabs.com/games_rubiks.htm

Think Pink – http://cognitivelabs.com/techmogul_reactiongamepink.htm

Where’s Widget – http://cognitivelabs.com/games_Wheres_the_widget.htm

Firefox Adoption – http://cognitivelabs.com/firefox_vsIE_game.htm

Of course, more to come. See yourself, see others scores, and more.

Jobs in Bristol: Faculty of Creative Arts

April 28th, 2007 · -- · Job Opportunity, [2]News & Events No comments

As one of the largest providers of teaching, research and knowledge exchange in the south of England, the newly constituted Faculty of Creative Arts combines the study and practice of art, design, drama, media, cultural studies and journalism. Bristol has some of the country leading new media organisations, animation companies and broadcasting activity, as well as its own distinctive music and sound industry. The Faculty is seeking to strengthen its distinctive identity as a leader in these fields through a number of appointments in film, new media and animation. ST MATTHIAS CAMPUS
Professor/Reader in Film Studies & New Media 345,658 – 348,923 plus Remuneration Package Ref: L/636/G
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Media & Cultural Studies 325,334 – 339,033 Ref: L/8888/G
Senior Lecturer in Media & Cultural Studies/Film Studies 329,349 – 339,033 Ref: L/577/G
Senior Lecturer in Film Studies & Video Production 329,349 Ref: L/8887/G
BOWER ASHTON CAMPUS
Senior Lecturer in Animation Ref: L/9204/G

Visit our Website to see full details and to complete an on-line application form, or telephone our 24 hour answerphone service on 0117 32 82890 to request documents by post. CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS IS 7 MAY 2007. PLEASE QUOTE THE RELEVANT REFERENCE NUMBER. WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER. University of the West of England
www.uwe.ac.uk/jobs

Indy arts wants you to know about three unusual events coming up at the 50th San Francisco International Film Festival

April 28th, 2007 · -- · Festival, Film, [2]News & Events No comments

* “ARROWS OF TIME” — April 27
A live multimedia performance and mashup of particle physics, philosophy and poetry.

* “MURCH” — April 29
A documentary on film editor Walter Murch (“Apocalypse Now” and many others). Murch himself will be in attendance!

* “NOTES TO A TOON UNDERGROUND: Animation & Live Music” Featuring members of Jet Black Crayon, Xiu Xiu, Good for Cows and other local-music savants.

WIN TICKETS to one of these screenings at the end of this email.

Thanks for your support of independent culture and community!

– Expo for the Artist & Musician

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The 50th San Francisco International Film Festival
April 26-May 10

Tickets and details: http://fest07.sffs.org/

* “ARROWS OF TIME” — World Premiere
Directed and performed by Ken McMullen
Friday, April 27, SFMOMA, 6:30 pm (also 4/29 at McBean Theater)

Imagine a film featuring French philosopher Jacques Derrida, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center physicists, German artist Joseph Beuys, a crime spree flashing forward from 1971 to 2006, and reconstructions of poems by John Milton, Jorge Luis Borges and Fernando Passoa as performed by leading actors such as “Henry and June”’s Maria de Medeiros.

Now imagine all these elements as part of a live multimedia performance, edited in real-time into a mind-boggling mix-and- match of content and form. Director and artist Ken McMullen has amassed an impressive array of documentary footage of artists, philosophers and scientists to create an elaborate timeline of ideas, images and sounds that contrasts new discoveries in high-energy physics with other distinct yet overlapping cultural developments in fields such as philosophy, poetry, film and video.

* “MURCH”
Directed by David Ichioka, Edie Ichioka Sunday, April 29, Castro Theatre, 4:15 pm (also screening three other times)

** Walter Murch himself will attend the April 29 screening!

There are film editors, and then there’s Walter Murch, widely considered the world’s greatest cutter for “Apocalypse Now” and “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” to name just two.

“Murch” is an epic sit-down with the man as he discusses his theories on why we blink and what this has to do with cutting film; why he stands while he works (does a surgeon sit, or an orchestra conductor or a butcher?); “A Touch of Evil” (which Murch reedited in 1998 guided by Orson Welles’s detailed 58- page memo written some 40 years earlier); what cooking and editing have in common (adding something bitter to bring out the inherent sweetness of the dish); and more.

* “NOTES TO A TOON UNDERGROUND: Animation and Live Music”
Saturday, May 5, Castro Theatre, 8:30 pm

Featuring 15 animated films made between 1912 and 2005 by six different directors, and with 11 musicians providing live accompaniment, it’s safe to file this program under “This Will Never Happen Again.”

The lineup includes Marc Capelle, Devin Hoff (of Good for Cows), Jason Lytle (of Grandaddy) Ches Smith (of Good for Cows, Xiu Xiu and Ceramic Dog), Jamie Stewart and Caralee McElroy (of Xiu Xiu), Carla Fabrizia (of Gamelan Sekar Jaya), Tommy Guerrero, Monte Vallier and Gadget (of Jet Black Crayon) and avant-garde legend William Winant. These musicians will unveil world premieres of newly composed scores to historic and contemporary animated shorts.

*** WIN FREE SFIFF TICKETS ***

SFIFF has made a pair of tickets for “MURCH” available to the Expo community. We’ll give the tickets to the first person who emails us back and correctly names one other film Walter Murch edited, besides the three listed above. Simply “reply” to this email, or send your response to:

expo_info at artsandmedia.net.

Exhibition Opening: FEEDBACK @ LABoral Art Centre, Spain

April 27th, 2007 · -- · History, Museums, Offline Exhibition, [2]News & Events No comments

http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org
March 30 – June 30, 07

Exhibition website:
http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org/feedback/index_001.html

YouTube video documentation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPMMqcDGJZ8=
http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eabstractmachine%2Enet%2Fblog%2
Fgameworld%2Dfeedback%2Dlabcyberspaces%2F

FEEDBACK is one of the inaugural exhibitions at LABORAL Centre for Art and Creative Industries in Gijon, Asturias, Spain. It is an exhibition focusing on art responsive to instructions, input, or its environment and creates one possible narrative of the history of ‘new media art’. Featuring historical and current art works that are all based on technology and systems of response, the exhibition traces the history of contemporary artistic practice involving digital technologies.

Curators:
Christiane Paul, Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Jemima Rellie, Director of Digital Programmes, Tate, London

Curatorial Advisor:
Charlie Gere, Research Professor in New Media, University of Lancaster

Exhibition Design:
Leeser Architecture

Official opening; 30.3.07

LABORAL Centre for Art and Creative Industries is an exhibition centre specifically focused on the production and exhibition of art, science, technology and creative industries. This interdisciplinary space pays special attention to workshops for vocational and professional training, and to research into the intersection between creativity and new technologies.

LABORAL is based in Gijon [Asturias] – Spain

http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org/

Optica 2007, International Festival of Video Art

April 27th, 2007 · -- · Competition opportunity, Festival, Video, [2]News & Events No comments

(English version below)

Estimado/a amigo/a,

El propósito de este mensaje es informarte que ya hemos comenzado a trabajar en Optica 2007, Festival Internacional de Vídeo Arte. El objetivo de Optica, evento organizado por el colectivo cultural Interferencias, es la promoción de la cultura audiovisual. Tras la pasada edición, Optica se presenta con fuerzas renovadas, esperando ser uno de los principales puntos de encuentro y diálogo con el vídeo-arte. El Festival se celebrará en la ciudad de Gijón (Asturias, España) del 16 al 18 de Noviembre. Para más información sobre la pasada edición, consultar www.opticafestival.com

Optica 2007 se divide en diferentes secciones: artistas independientes, galerías, sección documental, encuentros con artistas, performances y fiestas.

Nota para galerías.- Optica ofrece la oportunidad de presentar nuevas obras de vídeo-arte de artistas emergentes o consagrados. La participación es gratuita, a través de invitación.

Si estás dentro del mundo del vídeo-arte: artista independiente, galerista, institución, curador/a…, para nosotros sería un placer poder contar con tu participación dentro de nuestro programa. Para ello, nos gustaría invitarte a realizar una propuesta para esta tercera edición.

El plazo para recibir trabajos finaliza el 29 de Junio. Entre todas las obras recibidas, el Jurado del Festival seleccionará cuatro, las cuales serán distinguidas con los premios a las mejores obras de vídeo-arte, Optica 2007.

Galardones Optica 2006:
Premio Artista independiente: Jerry King-Musser (USA)
Premio Sección Galerías: Jan Fabré, galería MAM (Austria)
Premio Especial Optica: Carlos Cid Ruiz, galería Rafael Pérez Hernando
(España)
Premio Especial del Jurado: Mariana Vassileva, galería DNA (Alemania)

Cualquier consulta puede ser hecha vía e-mail a enquiries@opticafestival.com

Gracias por la atención prestada. Un cordial saludo, a la espera de
respuesta.

Optica Festival 2007
www.opticafestival.com

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Dear friend,

The purpose of this message is to inform you that we have already begun to work on Optica 2007, International Festival of Video Art. Optica’ s aim, organized by the cultural collective Interferencias, is the promotion of audiovisual culture. After the past edition, Optica presents with new forces, waiting to become one of the principals join points for the dialogue with the video-art. The Festival will take place in the city of Gijon (Asturias, Spain) from November 16th to 18th. For further information about the last edition, consult www.opticafestival.com

Optica 2007 is divided into different sections: independent artists, galleries, documentary section, meetings with artists, performances and parties.

Note for galleries.- Optica Festival offers the opportunity of presenting new video works by emerging and established artists. The participation is through invitation and it is free of charges.

If you’ re inside the world of the video art: independent artist, gallery owner, institution, curator…, it would be a pleasure to be able to count on your participation in our programme. To that end, we’ d like to invite you to submit a proposal for this third edition.

The deadline for receiving works is 29th of June. Among all the works received, the Festival Jury will select four, which will be awarded with the prizes for Best Video Artworks, Optica 2007.

Optica’ s Awards 2006:
Independent Artist Award: Jerry King-Musser (USA)
Gallery Award: Jan Fabré, Galerie MAM (Austria)
Optica Special Award: Carlos Cid Ruiz, Rafael Pérez Hernando Gallery
(Spain) Jury Special Award: Mariana Vassileva, Galerie DNA (Germany)

General enquiries can be made via e-mail at enquiries@opticafestival.com

Thank you for your attention. Best regards, awaiting your reply.

Optica Festival 2007
www.opticafestival.com

e-artacademy launch with e-flux and photography

April 27th, 2007 · -- · Resource, [2]News & Events, online Project No comments

http://e-artacademy.org/?page_id=71

e-artacademy is an art project dealing with experimental distance teaching & learning of contemporary art via e-mail & internet. Participation is worldwide and free of charge.

We also welcome new professors: in case you have a teaching proposal, please contact us at eartacademy@googlemail.com
Your only remuneration is the joy of teaching contemporary art to more than 60.000 people all over the world.