From a.munster at unsw.edu.au Sun Jul 4 12:11:21 2010 From: a.munster at unsw.edu.au (Anna Munster) Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2010 20:11:21 +1000 Subject: ::fibreculture:: REMINDER: Maurizio Lazzarato and Angela Melitopoulos - Only Public Talk in Sydney Message-ID: ?the creative class doesn?t exist? Maurizio Lazzarato and Angela Melitopoulos in dialogue on artists, precarity and collective experimentation (In Australia for one public event only) ARTSPACE: This Tuesday July 6, 6pm. FREE EVENT In this evening?s talk between the sociologist and philosopher Maurizzio Lazzarato and the artist Angela Melitopoulos, a space opens up for questioning the current place of artists and of ?creativity? within cognitive capitalism. They discuss the contradiction deep at the heart of creative industries and contemporary cognitive capitalism: the erasure of non-productive time, which is precisely the time required for creation to take place at all. They debate the question, initiated by Marcel Duchamp, of how ?an-artist?, rather than the Artist, might function to open up new ways of feeling, doing and saying and of experimenting with new institutions that might promote different forms of collective creation. Maurizio Lazzarato is a sociologist and philosopher who lives and works in Paris. Among his recent publications are: Lavoro immateriale. Forme di vita e produzione di soggettivita (1997); Videofilosofia. Percezione e lavoro nel postfordismo (1997); Tute Bianche. Disoccupazione di massa et reddito di cittadinanza (1999); Post-face ? Monadologie et sociologie (1999); Puissance de l?invention. La psychologie economique de Gabriel Tarde contre l?economie politique (2002); Les Revolutions du capitalisme (2004). Angela Melitopoulos, is an time-based artist, realizes video-essays, installations, documentaries and sound pieces and curates exhibitions and seminars. Her work focuses on duration and mnemonic micro-processes in documentation. Her work has been shown in many international video and film festivals, exhibitions and museums (Antonin Tapies Foundation Barcelona, Manifesta 7, Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, Whitney Museum New York). Currently she is a research fellow at the Matrix East Lab in the University of East London. This event is jointly hosted by: The Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, Artspace and the Centre for Contemporary Art and Politics, University of New South Wales A/Prof. Anna Munster Deputy Director Centre for Contemporary Art and Politics School of Art History and Art Education College of Fine Arts UNSW P.O. Box 259 Paddington NSW 2021 612 9385 0741 (tel) 612 9385 0615(fax) a.munster at unsw.edu.au From melinda at subtle.net Wed Jul 21 14:22:41 2010 From: melinda at subtle.net (Melinda Rackham) Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:52:41 +0930 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Working with ALife? Call for entries : VIDA 13.0 Message-ID: <9CED6725-5858-4C2C-A040-6BD935A0BB31@subtle.net> Fundaci?n Telef?nica Art and technology Call for entries: VIDA 13.0 At a time when the notion of life is once again located in an uncertain domain, a wide range of artistic initiatives come together to illustrate and investigate this phenomenon; they examine the impact on the collective conscience and the way it is manifested in cultural, technological and social thought. Over the last decade, in the same formal space, VIDA has been bringing together inter-disciplinary projects that respond to this situation. By means of formal strategies that defy the boundaries between existing practices, these projects offer new ways of reflecting on what we understand by life and artificial life. Fundaci?n Telef?nica announces the VIDA 13.0 Art & Artificial Life International Competition, which for the last twelve years has awarded prizes for artistic projects using technological mediums offering innovative approaches to research into artificial life. The projects may be based on systems which emulate, imitate or speculate on the notion of life through current research and technology. These systems may involve attributes of agency and autonomy which display specific behaviour, are dynamic, react to their surroundings and evolve, and which question the frontiers between what is alive and what is not, between synthetic and organic life. As in previous years there are two categories to the competition: FINISHED PROJECTS In this category VIDA 13.0 will award prizes to artistic ALife projects developed after 2008. The sum of 40,000 Euros will be shared between the projects selected by the jury: First Prize: 18,000 Euros, Second Prize: 14,000 Euros, and Third Prize: 8,000 Euros. In addition seven honourable mentions will be awarded. ARTISTIC PRODUCTION INCENTIVES IN IBEROAMERICA, SPAIN AND PORTUGAL In this category VIDA 13.0 helps to fund artistic ALife projects that have not yet been produced. This is aimed at citizens or residents of countries comprising Latin America, Spain and Portugal. The sum of 40,000 Euros will be shared between the selected projects. The winning projects will be subsequently exhibited at the VIDA Gallery, http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/arteytecnologia/galeriavida/. and may be presented in exhibitions related to art and new technologies organised by Fundaci?n Telef?nica or in which it takes part. DATES Period for submission of projects: from 19th July to 7th November 2010. JURY The works submitted will be examined by an international panel composed of Jos?-Carlos Mari?tegui (Peru), M?nica Bello Bugallo (Spain), Nell Tenhaaf (Canada) Rodrigo Alonso (Argentina), Simon Penny (USA/Australia), Zhan Ga (China) and Francisco Serrano (General Director of Fundaci?n Telef?nica). ENQUIRIES Queries may be addressed to the FAQs section of the website http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/arteytecnologia/ by e-mail to vida at telefonica.es or by calling (0034) 91 584 23 00. From andrew.murphie at gmail.com Wed Jul 21 17:42:19 2010 From: andrew.murphie at gmail.com (Andrew Murphie) Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:42:19 -0400 Subject: ::fibreculture:: =?windows-1252?q?The_Fibreculture_Journal=97new_?= =?windows-1252?q?=27Counterplay=22_issue=97and_FCJ=27s_new_site=97?= =?windows-1252?q?now_online?= Message-ID: Dear Fibreculture Friends, it is with great pleasure that we finally launch our new site, with the issue Counterplay. This is an important moment for the journal, and a great issue! So if you could spread the word that would be great. all the best, Andrew ----- http://sixteen.fibreculturejournal.org/ http://fibreculturejournal.org/ many thanks to Mat Wall-Smith, who has designed and implemented the Fibreculture Journal's new site. He has built a new discussion section that we hope will shift the engagement with the journal. It collects comments on articles into "discussions" at a separate part of the new site. This is called FCJ Mesh - http://mesh.fibreculturejournal.org/ ----- Counterplay Issue Edited by Tom Apperley and Michael Dieter 'The star player is one who modifies expected mechanisms of channeling field-potential. The star plays against the rules but not by breaking them' (Massumi 2002: 77). Unruly innovation is an intrinsic dimension of gaming. To claim that play is not a passive or neutral activity is hardly a groundbreaking observation. However, we believe that the contingent and transformative dynamics unleashed by games demand careful analysis. The fact that play exists in excess of any rules or parameters inevitably leads to controversies and disputes, along with processes of economic valorisation and the extraction of value beyond the shifting boundaries of a game. All of this requires critical discussion and debate. In this special issue, therefore, we have invited responses to the concept of counterplay. Referring to ludic or playful vitality in its most transformative expressions, counterplay speaks directly to the disruptive creation of the new through the reiterations of gaming. ----- *The Fibreculture Journal* is a peer reviewed international journal, first published in 2003 to explore the issues and ideas of concern to both the Fibreculture network. *The Fibreculture Journal* now serves wider social formations across the international community of those thinking critically about, and working with, contemporary digital and networked media. *The Fibreculture Journal* has an international Editorial Board and Committee . In 2008, *the Fibreculture Journal* became a part of the Open Humanities Press , a key initiative in the development of the Open Access journal community. The journal encourages critical and speculative interventions in the debate and discussions concerning a wide range of topics of interest. These include the social and cultural contexts, philosophy and politics of contemporary media technologies and events, with a special emphasis on the ongoing social, technical and conceptual transitions involved. -- "A traveller, who has lost his way, should not ask, Where am I? What he really wants to know is, Where are the other places" - Alfred North Whitehead Andrew Murphie - Associate Professor School of English, Media and Performing Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2052 Editor - The Fibreculture Journal http://fibreculturejournal.org/> web: http://www.andrewmurphie.org/ http://dynamicmedianetwork.org/ fax:612 93856812 tlf:612 93855548 email: a.murphie at unsw.edu.au room 311H, Webster Building -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: