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Archive: August, 2007
Identity and Appropriation
Inter-disciplinary Perspectives on Russia and Cinema
Queen Mary, University of London
Saturday 10th May 2008
As Andrei Tarkovsky’s Ivan’s Childhood won the 1962 Golden Lion in Venice, From Russia with Love was filling the cinemas of the Western world. While Russian films have won a total of four Oscars in the history of the award, David Lean’s 1965 Doctor Zhivago alone won five, and Warren Beatty’s Reds three. Although in the hundred years of its existence, from the silent days onwards Russia has had a distinct and innovative cinema, foreign audiences have received their most influential images of Russia and “Russianness” from Hollywood through non-Russian actors.
The purpose of this conference is to explore the tensions between Russian cinema’s own explorations of identity and more popularly consumed representations of Russians and =91Russianness=92 in Western cinema.
Abstracts for papers are requested on the theme of images of Russianness in any area of Film Studies, including those working across disciplines, for example in comparative literature, music, history and gender studies.
Possible subjects for papers include:
Russian History on Screen Russian Literature on Screen Reception of Russian Film Abroad Images of Russian masculinity and femininity Russian filmmakers and filmmaking Representation of Crime, violence and the Mafia Russian Music and Dance in Film Depictions of Religion and religiosity
The conference will be introduced by Dr Jeremy Hicks, QMUL, author of Dziga Vertov: Defining Documentary Film.
The keynote speakers will be Professor James Chapman of the University of Leicester (author of Licence To Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bond Films) and Professor Julian Graffy of SEES-UCL, prominent historian of Russian cinema.
Abstracts (maximum 250 words) should be emailed to=20
russiaonscreen@hotmail.co.uk
to arrive by January 1st 2008.
For further details, please contact: Lucy Bolton and Miranda Shaw
(Queen Mary, University of London),
at russiaonscreen@hotmail.co.uk
The Denver Art Museum offers an outstanding opportunity to a dynamic, creative and entrepreneurial individual who is passionate about photography. The new Associate Curator will establish and direct the department of Photography and Media Arts and raise it to regional and national prominence.
In 1922, the Denver Camera Club was founded as a branch of the Denver Art Museum; photography has been exhibited regularly at the museum since that time. The museum’s photographic holdings currently encompass over 7000 works, including the renowned Wolf Collection of 19th Century American landscape photography, and extensive holdings of work by Edward Curtis, David Francis Barry, and John Hillers. The twentieth century collection includes works by Bauhaus artist Herbert Bayer, Man Ray, Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Clarence White, Laura Gilpin, Robert Adams, Diane Arbus and a distinguished group of Czech avant-garde photographers. Contemporary artists include Lucas Samaras, Bernd and Hilla Becher, John Baldessari, Yasumasa Morimura and a host of artists who push the boundaries of electronic media arts. The new curator is expected to assess and refine the existing collection, and establish future collecting priorities. Important responsibilities include organizing original photography exhibitions and curating rented shows, researching and publishing the collection, and collaborating with collectors, patrons and cultural organizations to generate engaging public programs.
The successful candidate for this position will have a strong national network of professional colleagues, collectors and dealers, and must be willing to travel. A thorough historical and technical understanding of photography as an artistic medium is essential. A substantial record of exhibitions and publications, and strong fund-raising and public speaking abilities are also necessary. A demonstrated record of successful collaboration with curatorial colleagues, conservators, educators, designers and other museum professionals is expected.
Requirements:
Three or more years as a curator, or equivalent professional experience.
M.A. or M.F.A. required, Ph.D. preferred.
Ability to work collaboratively with a wide range of individuals both inside and outside the museum.
This is a full time benefited position. Please send a letter of interest, Curriculum Vitae, and a list of references (with contact information) to the Denver Art Museum, 100 W 14th Ave Pkwy, Denver CO, 80204 Attn: Human Resources Coordinator or fax to 720-913-2768. Closing date: October 15, 2007
Saturday, September 22nd, 2PM – 4:30PM
RSVP to receive meeting location: info@ikatun.com
A mobile discussion with Marie Cieri & Andi Sutton.
What risks do we take in seeing a place from perspectives other than our own? What risks do we take if we don’t? What are the challenges for artists who address issues of race and class, or of personal identity and belonging, who use a dialogue-based public creative process to explore these issues? What are the ethics of an art practice that tackles geography and difference and how do these ethics change when applied to micro or macro-political art?
Bring bus fare and wear comfortable shoes.
Featuring
Marie Cieri is an assistant professor of social geography and critical cartography at The Ohio State University. Her most recent book is Activists Speak Out: Reflections on the Pursuit of Change in America (2000, Palgrave/St. Martin’s Press, co-authored by Claire Peeps).
Andi Sutton is an artist and curator living in Boston, Massachusetts. Her work explores the potential of applied performance methodology and dialogue-based practice to create alternative models for community. She is currently pursuing this work through the collectively produced National Bitter Melon Council project (www.bittermelon.org) and solo projects.
Platform2 is a series of events that are designed to facilitate dialogue about art & social engagement. Platform2 is organized by iKatun, Jane D. Marsching and Andi Sutton.
The following are online and offline projects which have been circulating in various online communities. They are gathered here in no particular order.
“Metalocative” by Ludmil Trenkov
(Image above)
http://Metalocative.com
Metalocative was created and is maintained by Ludmil Trenkov. Inspired by his thesis research, the online resource aims to showcase and catalog existing tools, systems, technologies, social practices, discoveries and ideas in the area of locative media and its myriad permutations.
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“The Infinity Lab” now on YouTube
www.myspace.com/theinfinitylab
In an attempt to accept and indulge in internet pop culture, artists Katherine Sweetman, Robert J. Sanchez, & Emiko René Lewis-Sanchez have created “The Infinity Lab” to construct videos for your confusion and entertainment. They are on a mission to respond to other YouTube members, gain as many friends a possible on Myspace, and hopefully reach the goal of landing…. some day…. onto YouTube’s “Most Discussed.”
This is not just a press release, but also a call to all those out there, to help TheInfinityLab reach their goal. To do this you can collaborate in one of the many ways:
* Watch at least one to as many of their videos as you can
*Become a YouTube member and rate and comment the videos
*Subscribe to TheInfinityLab’s Channel & become their friend: www.youtube.com/theinfinitylab
*Become TheInfinityLab’s friend on Myspace:
www.myspace.com/theinfinitylab
*Begin a dialogue with TheInfinityLab by creating “Video Responses”
TheInfinityLab Video Links
The Seed of our Origin:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=66c4zxiUsAk
Dr. Hueso provides an Art History Lecture:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Pflzpph5ock
Facial Care Tips from Dr. Niku:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NRvwGBUMGVM
Dr. Cuddles With Cats exposes her love:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Mmq73IVH730
Dr. Niku Challenges the Amazing Atheist on a Transhuman vs. Posthuman Debate:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=hTw9zrbXyxc
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“Erikloyer.com” by Erik Loyer
http://www.erikloyer.com
Announcing the launch of www.erikloyer.com — an interactive design blog. Recently featured on the site was “Swing,” my first animation experiment to support the Nintendo Wii remote, which you can see in action via YouTube video (and possibly even play with on your own computer).
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“viral symphOny” by Joseph Nechvatal
LABEL: IEA
http://www.ubu.com/sound/nechvatal.html
You can now download, for free, the 28 min. viral symphOny mp3 at this
link::
http://www.ubu.com/sound/nechvatal.html
Post-conceptual digital artist and theoretician Joseph Nechvatal pushes his experimental investigations into the blending of computational virtual spaces and the corporeal world into the sonic register. Realtime “field recordings” of the audio manifestations of his custom created computer viruses have been reworked and reprocessed by Andrew Deutsch and Matthew Underwood, resulting in the sonic landscape of the ‘viral symph0ny’. With resonances of Yasunao Tone, Fluxus, Oval, and Merzbow, this 28-minute composition is supplemented by a further 50 minutes of audio, comprising the original raw data field recordings.
- Steven Mygind Pedersen
Institute for Electronic Arts
iea@alfred.edu
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Announcing the release of Video Networks by Garrett Lynch:
http://www.asquare.org/project/videonetworks/
and the collaborative two channel video installation, Dialogues by Garrett Lynch and Frédérique Santune:
http://www.asquare.org/project/videonetworks/dialogues/
Video Networks is a research project consisting of the development of an electronic interface system for enabling the creation of networked or connected video based art works and the works produced with this system.
It’s purpose is to explore the potential of creating works which are cinematic in nature yet break away from fixed linear narratives to explore concepts such as montage, collage, mixing, rhythm, looping, non-linearity in combination with simple interactivity in real time.
The first work employing the prototype system, entitled Dialogues, is a two channel video installation conceived and created by artists Garrett Lynch (http://www.asquare.org/) and Frédérique Santune (http://www.saturne-feerique.net/) which explores ideas of exploration, mapping and translation will be followed by subsequent thematic explorations using the interface system.
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“I Tag You Tag Me: a folksonomy of internet art”, by Luis Silva
http://del.icio.us/I_tag_you_tag_me
A project for TAGallery in Vienna, called I tag you tag me: a folksonomy of Internet Art (http://del.icio.us/I_tag_you_tag_me), an ongoing colaboratively curated show/social experiment on folksonomy creation.
The departure idea for this project is thinking of tagging as curating. If tagging creates meta-data about pre-existing content, it can be seen as the creation of a discourse about it. And if that content happens to be an online artwork, tagging both allows for a subjective juxtaposition of art works and the elaboration of a critical discourse about it.
Rather than traditionally curating a show through tagging the projects with the name of the show, we will be asking people to tag some of their favourite Internet art pieces with a few defined tags and some that they can choose freely. The idea is that this device will then create a folksonomic net art exhibition done collectively by a group of people. It can be seen as a social experiment, aiming at finding out what will that second layer of meaning be like, or if it will work at all. A challenge then. I tag you tag me, or a random folksonomy of Internet art. Let the tagging begin.
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“Die Electric†Experiment by Scott Amron
http://www.DieElectric.org/
The “Die Electric” Experiment makes use of AC power plugs and sockets less the flow of Electricity.
Web: www.AmronExperimental.com
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“Aphorisms on Digital Art” by Jogador
http://twitter.com/jogador
Jogador, is happy to announce he starts writing aphorisms on “Digital Art” trough twitter.
Jussi Parikka: Digital Contagions. A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses. (New York: Peter Lang, 2007).
Digital Contagions is the first book to offer a comprehensive and critical analysis of the culture and history of the computer virus phenomenon. The book maps the anomalies of network culture from the angles of security concerns, the biopolitics of digital systems, and the aspirations for artificial life in software. The genealogy of network culture is approached from the standpoint of accidents that are endemic to the digital media ecology. Viruses, worms, and other software objects are not, then, seen merely from the perspective of anti-virus research or practical security concerns, but as cultural and historical expressions that traverse a non-linear field from fiction to technical media, from net art to politics of software. Jussi Parikka mobilizes an extensive array of source materials and intertwines them with an inventive new materialist cultural analysis. Digital Contagions draws from the cultural theories of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Friedrich Kittler, and
Paul Virilio, among others, and offers novel insights into historical media analysis.
Jussi Parikka teaches and writes on the cultural theory and history of new media. He studied cultural history at the University of Turku, Finland, and is currently Visiting Research Scholar in the Seminar for Media Studies, Humboldt University Berlin. Parikka’s homepage is http://users.utu.fi/juspar
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transmediale.08 ˆ Conspire … festival for art and digital culture berlin 29 January – 3 February 2008 and club transmediale.08 – Unpredictable festival for adventurous music and related visual arts 25 January – 2 February 2008
*Invite your Entries to the Transmediale Award 2008*
:: Deadline: 7 September 2007
:: Award Ceremony: 2 February 2008
Please find the complete call and submission form for download at:
www.transmediale.de
*club transmediale.08 – Unpredictable*
club transmediale (CTM) is a prominent international festival dedicated to contemporary electronic, digital and experimental music, as well as the diverse range of artistic activities in the context of sound and club culture. CTM presents projects that experiment with new aesthetic parameters and new forms of cooperation, develop possibilities for informational and economic self-determination, and reflect on the role of contemporary music against the backdrop of technological and social transformations. With ‘Unpredictable’ CTM.08 investigates artistic concepts that imply the surprising and unforeseeable, accidents, mistakes and coincidences as a means to alter the dynamics of creative processes and to discover new aesthetic forms.
www.clubtransmediale.de
Together, transmediale and club transmediale invite the submission of works and projects for the festival 2008. Submissions for both festivals participate in the transmediale Award 2008, for which the jury, comprised of Nicole Gingras, Olga Goriunova, Nat Muller, Wonil Rhee and Florian Wüst will award prizes totalling ca. 10 000 EUR. Abstracts and papers for a proposed Vilém Flusser Theory Award are also being invited.
transmediale is a project of the Kulturprojekte Berlin in cooperation with Haus der Kulturen der Welt. transmediale is funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation. club transmediale is funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
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conspire …
opens 29 January – 3 February 2008
exhibition 29 January – 24 February 2008
stephen kovats
artistic director – transmediale
festival for art and digital culture berlin
transmediale – Klosterstr. 68 – 10179 Berlin
tel. +49 (0)30.24749-761 fax. +49 (0)30.24749-814
info@transmediale.de – http://www.transmediale.de
Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH, Berlin
Amtsgericht Berlin Charlottenburg, HRB 41312 B
Geschäftsführer: Moritz van Dülmen
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NET-ART, VIDEO-INSTALLATIONS, INTERACTIVE WORKS, GAMES, ROBOTIC PERFORMANCES AND BEYOND.
From August 13 to September 9, FILE – Electronic Language International Festival, promotes its eighth edition at SESI Art Gallery, with installations, performances, screenings, documentaries, and lectures with artists and scholars from 30 countries. With free admissions, FILE offers one of the major events of the kind in Brazil, exhibiting the latest production in world Art & Technology.
contents
1. Issue #5 release! On Speech and talking
2. Upcoming Atlas of Radical Cartography- Journal Press book
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1. Issue #5 release! On Speech and talking
To order a copy, contact editors(at)joaap.org .
Copies will be mailed in early September 2007.
Online version is available at www.joaap.org/5/index2.htm
Our fifth print issue is a 122 page book edited by Cara Baldwin, Marc Herbst and Christina Ulke. It was designed by Jessica Fleischmann and contains a section of color photos!
From the forward:
“Arguably, today the act of social networking is commodified more visibly and materially than ever before…This commodification shoudn’t hinder us to work in relationship to one another and in a social and political context. Social memory with a sense of history and political demands seems to have undergone an accelerated and profound erasure. This rapid memory loss is facilitated by media consolidation and the plundering of public education programs to fund global mercenary actions.â€
With this issue, we look at how cultural production (in art, music, speech, writing, interventions, video, and everyday life) attempt to create culturally based alternatives to oppression and war. Within the context of community and grassroots movements creating meaning for their participants and for broader society, again The Journal looks for ways to create counter-narratives and progressive social movements from the bottom up. From the bottom up- often meaning from a position of people having to do-it-themselves (outside traditional governmental or cultural institutions). This act involves trying to remember shared history, discuss potentially shared values, perform immediately shared ideals, and publicly debate or interrupt suspect truths, and on how it is to be together.
This issue is a collection of transcripts, performance transcripts, speeches, analytical essays, campaign critiques, interviews, email conversations and projects. We are not only presenting critical theory, we are also present to you documents and voices for you to critically investigate.
Articles and Contributions by: Paige Sarlin, Fred Dewey, Stevphen Shukaitis, Emily Roysdon, The Yes Men, Karla Diaz, BLW, Ashley Hunt, Lex Bhagat, Kirsten Forkert, Tiosha Bojorquez Chapela, Jen Hofer, Jason del Gandio, Evan Holloway, Tom McKenzie, Christina Ulke, David Burns, Christine Wertheim, Matias Viegner, Stacy Kranitz, Sesshu Foster, Cara Baldwin, Arturo Romo, Jes Cannon, Matt Dunnerstick, Christopher Russell, Mark Tribe, Jason Flores-Williams, Marc Herbst, Olga Koumoundouros, Rodney McMillian, Renee Coloumbe, Lucas Michael and Daniel Hernandez.
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2. Upcoming Atlas of Radical Cartography- Journal Press book
The Journal Press is proud to announce its second book, to be released this fall.
An Atlas of Radical Cartography edited by Lex Bhagat and Lize Mogel
Find more info about the book:
here: http://www.joaap.org/press.htm
here: http://www.an-atlas.com/
here: http://www.an-atlas.com/donate.htm
GAZING INTO THE 21st CENTURY : CONFRONTING IMAGE NAIVETE
Second international conference on Image Science in Goettweig
April 24th – 26th 2008
www.donau-uni.ac.at/
The DEPARTMENT FOR IMAGE SCIENCE (DIS) at DANUBE UNIVERSITY is pleased to announce the second international Goettweig conference on Image Science.
Never before has the world of images changed so fast, have we been exposed to so many different image forms and never before has the way images are produced transformed so drastically. Images are advancing into new domains: Television became a global zapping field of thousands of channels; projection screens enter our cities, and cell phones transmit micromovies in real time. We are witnessing the rise of the image into a virtual spatial image. Science, politics and entertainment profit from new dimensions in the creation of images and their emotive effects. Since the 60s, the arts and sciences are connected through the fundamental research that media art undertakes, a research whose roots lie in partially unknown traditions.
A multitude of new possibilities in producing, projecting and distributing individual images has led to the formation of new image genres. The spiral movement of image history from innovation, understanding and iconoclasm results in the 21st Century in a global interweaving. These major transformations have hit society to a large extent unprepared and as we gradually start to recognize the demand to address the current knowledge explosion appropriately, we face the challenge to expand our forms of visualization, our “orders and systems of visibility”, and to reflect critically and scientifically on them. While our written culture has produced a differentiated and dedicated paedagogy, our society still lacks a conscious education concerning images – up to a degree that we can speak of visual illiteracy.
A central problem of current cultural policy, aside from poor knowledge on image procedures, stems from serious lack of knowledge about the origins of the audiovisual media. This stands in complete contradistinction to current demands for more media and image competence. The conference therefore explores the thinking space and the utopias, which were initiated by artists again and again – now on the expanded terrain of image science – and searches for the inspirations these new worlds receive from the arts. What influence does the medium have on the iconic character of the image? What chances and challenges do museums and image dealers face with the =93liquidity=94 of the image?
The interdisciplinary conference aims to step up to the challenge of building a “visual inventory”. One goal of the conference therefore is to build cross disciplinary exchange between the Humanities AND the Natural Sciences.
PROPOSALS are welcome to the following topics and fields:
NEW IMAGE FORMS AND TECHNIQUES
(New visualization techniques in Nano-, Bio-, Neurosciences, Architecture, Photography, Digital Collections Management, etc.)
NEW STRATEGIES IN VISUAL ARGUMENTATION
(in the Arts, Sciences and Humanities, Politics, Advertising, Comics, Diagrams & Models, Visual Music, etc.)
NEW PRACTICES OF IMAGE TRANSFER
(Global economy, Tagging, Micromovies, Flickr, Second Life, You Tube, Google Earth etc.)
DEADLINE PROPOSALS : October 21st 2007
Conference Languages: German/English.
PAPERS
One-page abstract or complete paper must be submitted by email. Upon acceptance, complete papers must be submitted by March 21, 2008 as PDF to andrea.kaufmann@donau-uni.ac.at. All rights will remain with the author. Papers will be selected for presentations. Proposals for panel discussions are encouraged and individual papers may be grouped by the Department for Image Science in panel discussion format. Panel proposals should include names of prospective panelists and topics, which should address the general themes of the symposium.
The DEPARTMENT FOR IMAGE SCIENCE is situated near Vienna in the UNESCO World Heritage Wachau, in the Goettweig Monastery. The DIS is housed in part of the fourteenth century castle. It is the platform for the international projects: Database of Virtual Art, Goettweig Database of the Graphic Print Collection, MediaArtHistory.org
ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS OF THE DEPARTMENT
FOR IMAGE SCIENCE (DIS) AND ITS PROJECTS
* DIS * VirtualArt.at * MediaArtHistory.org *
Carl, AIGNER (St. P=F6lten), Roy ASCOTT (Plymouth), Sean CUBITT (Melbourne), Brigitte FELDERER (Wien), Felice FRANKEL (Boston), Beryl GRAHAM (Newcastle), Erkki HUHTAMO (Los Angeles), Douglas KAHN (Davis/California), Martin KEMP (Oxford), Harald KR=C4MER (Bern), Machiko KUSAHARA (Tokyo), Jorge LAFERLA (Buenos Aires), Timothy LENIOR (Duke), Gunalan NADARAJAN (Penn State), Christiane PAUL (New York), G=F6tz POCHAT (Graz), Martin ROTH (Dresden), Wolf SINGER (Frankfurt), Christa SOMMERER (Linz), Paul THOMAS (Western Australia), Wolfgang WELSCH (Jena), STEVE WILSON (San Francisco)
