From jhuns at vt.edu Mon Feb 7 16:13:07 2011 From: jhuns at vt.edu (jeremy hunsinger) Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 10:13:07 -0500 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Fwd: CALL FOR PAPERS: International Social Theory Consortium (16-17 June, 2011, Cork) References: <7F656E4F97AF014691F210FAC3F5EC2F9459FB27@EMPMAIL.sbu.edu> Message-ID: > Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: International Social Theory Consortium (16-17 June, 2011, Cork) > > > > Please submit abstracts by March 1, 2011 to s.renwick at ucc.ie > > International Social Theory Consortium > 10th Annual Meeting > 16-17 June, 2011 > School of Sociology & Philosophy, > University College Cork, Ireland. > > 'Methods of Theorizing: > Reflective searches for Ways, Ideals and Measures' > > Call for papers: > > > Social theory and method are inextricably bound up with one another, despite the convention of their separation and a recent tendency to differentiate them entirely by emphasizing technical training in particular methods over general education in culture and thinking. But to theorize, whether in Sociology, Philosophy, Politics, Anthropology, or in any cognate field in the Arts, Humanities and Social sciences means not simply to arrange empirical evidence, but also to seek to clarify the Ideals, Standards or Measure by virtue of a way of inquiry that is sustained and methodically pursued, so much so that we may speak of method(s) of theorizing. > Questions of method, or searches for the 'Way', just as the use of the powers of reason, cannot be reduced to a search for means to satisfy given ends, but must incorporate a discussion of the very ends of social and human life, including the question of meaning. Methods of theorizing are thus ways of attending to the world so as to bring into view, contemplate and articulate Standards of beauty, truth and the good life; radiant Ideals that illuminate and make possible an understanding and interpretation of our present practices and institutions, thereby enabling our education and self-transformation in light of such a Measure. > As Weber concludes in 'Politics as a Vocation' "all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible." Theorizing can thus be conceived of as the methodical reaching out for the impossible Measure. But as theoria and methodus have become differentiated we lose sight of the Ways towards recovering our Ideals just at a time when economic crisis, ecological catastrophe and political turmoil threaten to overwhelm us. > Last year's ISTC meeting sought to transcend the cultural turn's differentiation & proliferation of Habermasian, Foucaulian, Eliasian, subaltern, feminist, sub-disciplinary theories, a concern indicating an aspiration towards our recovering re-integrating, holistic methods of theorizing. This year's conference continues this search for renaissance, inviting contributions seeking a reflective balance and harmony amongst the various currents in social & political thought at the fundamental level of theory and method, focus on their relation to the elusive but very real directive Ideals of human existence. > > Papers are invited that speak to the topic from: > > . Classical & contemporary social theory: working with our inheritance > . Methodology of Critical Theory > . Literary methods and Social Theory > . The interpretive tradition, depth hermeneutics & analysis > . The performative aspects of public life > . Media power and image magic > . Psychoanalytic method and social theory > . Phenomenology & hermeneutics > . Epistemologies and philosophies of knowledge today > . Asian philosophies and methods > . Socrates, Plato, and working with the Greeks today > . Political anthropology and reflexive historical sociology > > Convenor: Arpad Szakolczai, Professor of Sociology, University College, Cork, Ireland. > > Please submit abstracts by March 1, 2011 to s.renwick at ucc.ie > > > -- > Timothy W. Luke > University Distinguished Professor > Department of Political Science > 539 Major Williams Hall > VPI&SU > Blacksburg, VA 2406l > voice: 540.23l.6633/6571 > fax: 540.231.6078 > e-mail: TWLUKE at vt.edu > homepage: http://www.cddc.vt.edu/tim/ > OLMA/PSCI: http://www.olma.vt.edu > Center for Digital Discourse and Culture: http://www.cddc.vt.edu > FAST CAPITALISM: http://www.fastcapitalism.com > Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech http://www.stswiki.org/ sts wiki http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. -Pablo Picasso -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From scubitt at unimelb.edu.au Wed Feb 9 06:08:57 2011 From: scubitt at unimelb.edu.au (Sean Cubitt) Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 16:08:57 +1100 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Digital Ligth Conference Message-ID: Digital Light: Technique, Technology, Creation A free symposium, 18?19 March 2011, Melbourne, Australia Elizabeth Murdoch Theatre, The University of Melbourne, Parkville Friday 18 March (2?7pm) & Saturday 19 March (10?6pm) This interdisciplinary symposium invites leading international and Australian figures working with digital light-based technologies to consider the capacities and limitations of contemporary digital processes. How do contemporary digital media imitate, advance or retreat from the achievements of older techniques and devices? Why do accidental artefacts of specific media become desirable outcomes in others? What role do artists and artisans play in redefining technologies through technique? Artists, curators and technologists will explore these questions from diverse angles, each exploring the techniques and technologies used in depicting, recording and projecting digital light. Confirmed speakers: * Geoffrey Batchen (Art Historian, NZ) * Victor Burgin (Artist, UK) * Steve Dietz (Curator, US) * Jon Ippolito (Artist/Curator, US) * Stephen Jones (Artist/Historian, AUST) * Alex Monteith (Artist, NZ) * Christiane Paul (Curator, US) * Jeffrey Shaw (Artist, HK) * Alvy Ray Smith (Computer graphics pioneer, US) * Van Sowerwine (Artist, AUST) * Lynette Wallworth (Artist, AUST) Download the flyer at ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From adrian.miles at rmit.edu.au Mon Feb 14 00:54:33 2011 From: adrian.miles at rmit.edu.au (Adrian Miles) Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 10:54:33 +1100 Subject: ::fibreculture:: PhD Scholarship Melbourne Message-ID: feel free to distribute: THE PROJECT: The Circus Oz Living Archive: developing a model of online digital engagement for the performing arts. The successful applicant will have demonstrated capacity in one or more of the following areas of computer science: information retrieval, image/video processing, web programming and database development. In addition, you will be excited by the prospect of contributing to a multidisciplinary team on a research project with a ?real-world? context. The candidate will work closely with a PhD student in interaction design to cook up some innovative social media/computational outcomes for the project. Plenty more at: http://www.circusarchive.net/blog/2011/02/computer-science-phd-scholarship/ an appropriate closing Adrian Miles School of Media and Communication Program Director B.Comm Honours vogmae.net.au/research/contact-me/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From henk.borgdorff at konst.gu.se Wed Feb 16 10:44:57 2011 From: henk.borgdorff at konst.gu.se (Henk Borgdorff) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 09:44:57 +0000 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Journal for Artistic Research, Issue 0 Launch Message-ID: <1C3653DC028D6D4BA0D711CD0A28D81F26840EFD@GU-MBX01.ad.gumail.local> The Journal for Artistic Research (JAR) is a new international, online, Open Access and peer-reviewed journal for the identification, publication and dissemination of artistic research and its methodologies. With the aim of displaying and documenting practice in a manner that respects the artist's modes of presentation, JAR abandons the traditional journal article format and offers its contributors a dynamic online canvas where text can be woven together with image, audio and video material. The result is a journal which provides a unique 'reading' experience while fulfilling the expectations of scholarly dissemination. The inaugural issue of JAR is released on 17 February 2011. Visit: www.jar-online.net This issue presents work by: Bertha Bermudez, Scott deLahunta, Marijke Hoogenboom, Chris Ziegler, Frederic Bevilacqua, Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Barbara Meneses Gutierrez, Amsterdam Richard Blythe, Melbourne Sher Doruff, Amsterdam Cathy van Eck, Z?rich Mark Fleischman, Cape Town Abhishek Hazra, Bangalore Anders Hultqvist, Gothenburg Daniel K?tter, Constanze Fischbeck, Berlin Tuija Kokkonen, Helsinki Elina Saloranta, Helsinki Sissel Tolaas, Berlin Otto von Busch, Gothenburg Editor-in-Chief: Michael Schwab, London Artistic research is a newly emergent and rapidly evolving field, whose status is still hotly debated. Until now there have only been limited publication channels making it difficult to stay informed about the development of the many topics pertinent to artistic research. JAR aims to provide a focal point that brings together different voices, facilitates discourse and adds to the artistic research community. Part of JAR's mission is to re-negotiate art's relationship to academia and the role and function of research in artistic practice. JAR embraces research practices across disciplines, thereby emphasising the transdisciplinary character of much artistic research. JAR is guided by an Editorial Board that works with a large panel of international peer reviewers from the field of artistic research. JAR is published by the Society for Artistic Research. We welcome submissions for future issues through our Research Catalogue, which will be launched in March 2011. Download this notice in pdf format. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From geert at xs4all.nl Fri Feb 18 09:01:36 2011 From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink) Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:01:36 +0100 Subject: ::fibreculture:: CFP Reminder: Fibreculture Journal: Networked Utopias and Speculative Futures In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi, strange... this reminder was sent all over the place expect the fibreculture list itself. Maybe it is time to close the list. Hardly anyone is using it, in particular the Aussies down under. No Fibreculture, no cry, so it seems. Ciao, Geert On 18 Feb 2011, at 4:13 AM, su b wrote: > Dear All, > A reminder that this call is still open for a few more days, for > abstracts only at this stage, please. > > Special Issue for the Fibreculture Journal: Networked Utopias and > Speculative Futures > Call for Abstracts > > http://fibreculturejournal.org/ > http://fibreculturejournal.org/cfp-special-issue-for-the-fibreculture-journal-networked-utopias-and-speculative-futures/ > ----- > > Please note that for this issue, initial submissions should be > abstracts (200 - 350 words) only. > > Editors: Susan Ballard, Zita Joyce and Lizzie Muller > > abstract deadline: February 20, 2011 > article deadline: May 30, 2011 > publication aimed for: November, 2011 > ----- > > "Since most of history?s giant trees have already been cut down, a new > Ark will have to be constructed out of the materials that a desperate > humanity finds at hand in insurgent communities, pirate technologies, > bootlegged media, rebel science and forgotten utopias." Mike Davis > ?Who Will Build an Ark: The Utopian Imperative in an Age of > Catastrophe? in Telepolis [Germany], 12/11/2008. > > For many centuries the dawn of the new millennium ?the year 2000? > epitomised the future to come. The twentieth century raced eagerly > towards this most dazzling of dates fuelled by the cult of modernity > and the turbo-charged transformations of globalisation and digital > communication. Now, a decade past the threshold of what was meant to > be the future, we look up, blinking, and find ourselves gazing at a > terrifying void. We are living in a time where our present actions are > steadily > destroying our own future. This issue of the Fibreculture Journal > asks, as we struggle to imagine what the next decades may bring, is > this any time to think about utopia? > > The rhetoric of utopia is well-worn territory, explored from one > magnificent boundary to the other, and now requires new treatments > according to the impact of networked cultures and digital media. > Historically, utopian societies are often portrayed as physical > spaces, bordered and isolated in some way from other social > structures. However, the utopian effort to make things better has been > a core activity for networked communities and social groups operating > both on and offline. In the techno-utopian world of the 1990s > communities formed around the emergence of the world wide web. These > moments of intensive thought formed genealogies for our current dreams > of the network. New tools of networked cultures and digital media open > up possibilities for imagining, mapping, reaching towards, narrating, > and critiquing models of the future. In the space between ever-hopeful > techno-futurism and the realities of a world forever changed by the > pursuit of the resources required to fuel it, how can the concept of > networked utopias help us speculate on the future? > > This issue of the Fibreculture Journal brings together studies in > networked communities with novel, historical and creative approaches > to utopia in order to examine the productivity of future-thinking from > our present location. The network may be technical and interpersonal, > a mesh of servers and routers, connectivity, participation, creation, > and support. It may exist in the physical location of its > infrastructure, in a shared no-place of communication, or both. It is > as much a body as an event. What then is the relationship between an > idealistic transcendent no-place, and the embodied realities and > contingencies of the changing world in which our selves and our > technologies are actually located? How have current practices broken > down this opposition between virtual and real? We ask: is it possible > to create more sustainable narratives out of the current moment, and > explore imaginative solutions on the verge of near-future crisis? > > We invite papers that look at the convergence of technology and > foresight; forethought, imaginings, and speculation. We seek research > that explores the future worlds, experiences, technologies, peoples > and events of networked technology. We are romantics dreaming of > wishworlds; networked utopias and connections hovering between time, > place, and being. > > > all contributors and editors must read the guidelines at; > http://fibreculturejournal.org/policy-and-style/ > before working with the Fibreculture Journal > > email correspondence for this issue: > > Susan dot Ballard at op dot ac dot nz > lizzie at lizziemuller dot com > zita dot joyce at canterbury dot ac dot nz > > > > Topics and papers might include discussions of: > > - internet DIY > - experimental communalism (on and off-line) > - economic collectivism > - studies in prototypes > - speculation on alternative futures in media arts > - grass roots community organisation: free software, DIY, > neo-liberalism, survivalist modes > - the technological sublime > - the Internet of Things > - communities and architectures formed around media technologies > - radio as a harbinger of things from the future > - technofeminist utopias / cyberfeminism / feminist science fiction > - social/ethical/technological experiments > - the technosublime > - studies in futurism (past/ historical/ present) > - speculation and future imagining > - digital speculative objects, prototypes, thought experiments etc. > - the deficiency of the actual > - the space race > - dystopia > - hope > - cloaning, cloaking and invisibility > - deferring the future > - apocalypse > - curation of/ for the future > - speculative social/ethical/technological experiments ? either real > (lived) or imagined, fictionalised or proposed > - networked community formation or disintegration > - the angel of history ? historical networked utopias > - dreams of ubiquitous connectivity, of communication and connection > - transcendent myths of wirelessness > - Web 3.0, 4.0 5.0? > - re-enactments and wistful thinking > - imaginary museums > - industrial utopias: the Ford Motor company, The Bata shoe factory, > Phillips? forbidden city > - The EPCOT centre > - cold war science fictions > - incomprehensible technologies > - robots > - military research & development > - information design > - open-source cultures and ?free? media > - biospheres > - cities of the future > - optimism and cynicism in post war culture > ----- > > video vortex discussion list > artist responses to youtube > > to change your settings or unsubscribe, please go to: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/videovortex_listcultures.org From simon at littlepig.org.uk Fri Feb 18 10:51:00 2011 From: simon at littlepig.org.uk (Simon Biggs) Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:51:00 +0000 Subject: ::fibreculture:: CFP Reminder: Fibreculture Journal: Networked Utopias and Speculative Futures In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Something for Fibreculture: Knowledge Exchange Associate in Emerging Media Practices Are you interested in how developments in digital media and mobile devices are changing people?s appetite for television, radio and other mass media? We are seeking to appoint a Knowledge Exchange Associate (KEA) as part of the University of Edinburgh?s 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 at ed.ac.uk or Mark.Wright at ed.ac.uk From su.ballard at gmail.com Sat Feb 19 02:51:40 2011 From: su.ballard at gmail.com (su b) Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 14:51:40 +1300 Subject: ::fibreculture:: CFP Reminder: Networked Utopias and Speculative Futures Message-ID: Dear All, A reminder that this call is still open for a few more days, for abstracts only at this stage, please. Special Issue for the Fibreculture Journal: Networked Utopias and Speculative Futures Call for Abstracts http://fibreculturejournal.org/ http://fibreculturejournal.org/cfp-special-issue-for-the-fibreculture-journal-networked-utopias-and-speculative-futures/ ----- Please note that for this issue, initial submissions should be abstracts (200 - 350 words) only. Editors: Susan Ballard, Zita Joyce and Lizzie Muller abstract deadline: February 20, 2011 article deadline: May 30, 2011 publication aimed for: November, 2011 ----- "Since most of history?s giant trees have already been cut down, a new Ark will have to be constructed out of the materials that a desperate humanity finds at hand in insurgent communities, pirate technologies, bootlegged media, rebel science and forgotten utopias." Mike Davis ?Who Will Build an Ark: The Utopian Imperative in an Age of Catastrophe? in Telepolis [Germany], 12/11/2008. For many centuries the dawn of the new millennium ?the year 2000? epitomised the future to come. The twentieth century raced eagerly towards this most dazzling of dates fuelled by the cult of modernity and the turbo-charged transformations of globalisation and digital communication. Now, a decade past the threshold of what was meant to be the future, we look up, blinking, and find ourselves gazing at a terrifying void. We are living in a time where our present actions are steadily destroying our own future. This issue of the Fibreculture Journal asks, as we struggle to imagine what the next decades may bring, is this any time to think about utopia? The rhetoric of utopia is well-worn territory, explored from one magnificent boundary to the other, and now requires new treatments according to the impact of networked cultures and digital media. Historically, utopian societies are often portrayed as physical spaces, bordered and isolated in some way from other social structures. However, the utopian effort to make things better has been a core activity for networked communities and social groups operating both on and offline. In the techno-utopian world of the 1990s communities formed around the emergence of the world wide web. These moments of intensive thought formed genealogies for our current dreams of the network. New tools of networked cultures and digital media open up possibilities for imagining, mapping, reaching towards, narrating, and critiquing models of the future. In the space between ever-hopeful techno-futurism and the realities of a world forever changed by the pursuit of the resources required to fuel it, how can the concept of networked utopias help us speculate on the future? This issue of the Fibreculture Journal brings together studies in networked communities with novel, historical and creative approaches to utopia in order to examine the productivity of future-thinking from our present location. The network may be technical and interpersonal, a mesh of servers and routers, connectivity, participation, creation, and support. It may exist in the physical location of its infrastructure, in a shared no-place of communication, or both. It is as much a body as an event. What then is the relationship between an idealistic transcendent no-place, and the embodied realities and contingencies of the changing world in which our selves and our technologies are actually located? How have current practices broken down this opposition between virtual and real? We ask: is it possible to create more sustainable narratives out of the current moment, and explore imaginative solutions on the verge of near-future crisis? We invite papers that look at the convergence of technology and foresight; forethought, imaginings, and speculation. We seek research that explores the future worlds, experiences, technologies, peoples and events of networked technology. We are romantics dreaming of wishworlds; networked utopias and connections hovering between time, place, and being. all contributors and editors must read the guidelines at; http://fibreculturejournal.org/policy-and-style/ before working with the Fibreculture Journal email correspondence for this issue: Susan dot Ballard at op dot ac dot nz lizzie at lizziemuller dot com zita dot joyce at canterbury dot ac dot nz Topics and papers might include discussions of: - internet DIY - experimental communalism (on and off-line) - economic collectivism - studies in prototypes - speculation on alternative futures in media arts - grass roots community organisation: free software, DIY, neo-liberalism, survivalist modes - the technological sublime - the Internet of Things - communities and architectures formed around media technologies - radio as a harbinger of things from the future - technofeminist utopias / cyberfeminism / feminist science fiction - social/ethical/technological experiments - the technosublime - studies in futurism (past/ historical/ present) - speculation and future imagining - digital speculative objects, prototypes, thought experiments etc. - the deficiency of the actual - the space race - dystopia - hope - cloaning, cloaking and invisibility - deferring the future - apocalypse - curation of/ for the future - speculative social/ethical/technological experiments ? either real (lived) or imagined, fictionalised or proposed - networked community formation or disintegration - the angel of history ? historical networked utopias - dreams of ubiquitous connectivity, of communication and connection - transcendent myths of wirelessness - Web 3.0, 4.0 5.0? - re-enactments and wistful thinking - imaginary museums - industrial utopias: the Ford Motor company, The Bata shoe factory, Phillips? forbidden city - The EPCOT centre - cold war science fictions - incomprehensible technologies - robots - military research & development - information design - open-source cultures and ?free? media - biospheres - cities of the future - optimism and cynicism in post war culture -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From deborah at mic.org.nz Wed Feb 23 10:54:01 2011 From: deborah at mic.org.nz (MIC | Toi Rerehiko) Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 22:54:01 +1300 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Josephine Starrs & Leon Cmielewski Gallery Opening (in .nz) Message-ID: MIC Toi Rerehiko Gallery Opening Friday, 4th March 2011 6:00pm - 8:00pm A Collection of Video and New Media Works By Josephine Starrs and Leon Cmielewski running through 25 March MIC Toi Rerehiko presents... Incompatible Elements is an immersive experience, using video projection soundscape and photographic imagery to explore the complexities of the relationship humans have with the natural environment and their interaction to it. Josephine Starrs and Leon Cmielewski?s video and new media works have been shown extensively in Australia and internationally. Previous installations have explored issues of migration, territorial boundaries, conflict commodities and human displacement. For Incompatible Elements, Starrs and Cmielewski have used pixel manipulation and embed poetic texts into animated satellite images of landscapes at particular risk from global warming. The failure of nations in 2009 to reach an agreement at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen has highlighted the huge gap between the scientific consensus, and the political and public perceptions of the issues. Responding to climate change in ways that are mythical, biblical and chemical, Incompatible Elements questions the urban perception that humans exist apart from, or outside of, the natural environment. MIC | Toi Rerehiko - Media and Interdisciplinary Arts Centre Website: www.mic.org.nz - Email: info at mic.org.nz Telephone: +64 9 379 9922 - Physical location -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: