From geert at xs4all.nl  Thu Sep  1 09:20:27 2011
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 09:20:27 +0200
Subject: ::fibreculture:: CCCS Symposium: Whats left to say about Celebrity?
	Tuesday 29th November 11am-4.30pm
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    From: Cccs Admin <admin.cccs at uq.edu.au>
> Date: 1 September 2011 1:49:56 AM
> To: "cccsinfo at lists.uq.edu.au" <cccsinfo at lists.uq.edu.au>
> Subject: CCCS Symposium: Whats left to say about Celebrity? Tuesday  
> 29th November 11am-4.30pm
>
> What?s Left to Say About Celebrity?
>
> A symposium presented by the Centre for Critical and Cultural  
> Studies, University of Queensland
>
> Tuesday, November 29, 2011
>
> 11am- 4.30pm
>
> Social Sciences and Humanities Library Conference Room,
> Level 1 Duhig Building  (Bldg 2), St Lucia Campus [See Map]
>
>
> The study of celebrity has become one of the standard teaching areas  
> for media and cultural studies. Where once it might have been seen  
> as an interesting but ephemeral formation, celebrity and the  
> industries which produce it are now recognised as playing a  
> fundamental role in the economies and structures of the contemporary  
> media, as well as supplying an increasing proportion of the  
> content.  Over the last decade as celebrity studies has grown, a  
> great deal of the theoretical ground clearing has been done:  
> teaching programs are established, there is a well supported journal  
> in the field, and celebrity is now a lively field of debate within  
> media and cultural studies.
> Much of the hard work has been done, then, to establish that  
> celebrity demands attention. That said, it is clear that celebrity  
> studies needs to be more than just an anthology of accounts of this  
> or that celebrity, or analyses of those regularly occurring  
> celebrity moments where our interests overlap with those of the  
> mainstream media.  The presentations in this symposium all, in their  
> own way, address the question of what more can we do with the notion  
> of celebrity? The symposium brings together a stellar cast of  
> leading international figures in celebrity studies, together with  
> one of the leading younger scholars making her mark in this field,  
> in order to present their latest work. In papers that indicate the  
> diversity and depth of this field, they each convincingly show that  
> there is indeed much left to be said about celebrity.
>
> Speakers:
> Chris Rojek
> Graeme Turner
> Frances Bonner
> Anthea Taylor
> P. David Marshall
> Sean Redmond
>
> The event is free, and postgraduate students and early career  
> researchers are especially welcome.  In order for us to cater  
> adequately for the event, we need to know the number of participants  
> expecting to attend; consequently, we would like those planning to  
> come to RSVP to Anthea Taylor at the CCCS. (a.taylor8 at uq.edu.au).  
> Program with abstracts will be available on the CCCS website  (www.cccs.uq.edu.au 
> ) shortly.
>



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From a.donovan at australiacouncil.gov.au  Thu Sep  8 02:23:18 2011
From: a.donovan at australiacouncil.gov.au (a.donovan at australiacouncil.gov.au)
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 10:23:18 +1000
Subject: ::fibreculture:: National Cultural Policy Discussion Paper
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National Cultural Policy
Release of Discussion Paper
The development of a new National Cultural Policy for Australia ?
the first in nearly 20 years ? is underway, and you can make a
contribution.

A discussion paper <http://culture.arts.gov.au/discussion-paper>
on the National Cultural Policy is available. The discussion paper is
intended to generate conversation and debate about what a National
Cultural Policy should include, about how it should underpin broader
government priorities (such as Closing the Gap, and the digital
economy) and about how we want it to shape Australia?s future.

You can contribute your thoughts through the Australia Council website
<http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/news/items/2011/ncp>
or if short and sweet is more your style, just add the #artsbiggies
<http://twitter.com/#%21/search/%23artsbiggies>
hashtag into your 140 characters and we'll aggregate a feed of all
your ideas. If you're unsure how to use a hashtag, you can find out
more about it at by visiting our connectarts website -
http://connectarts.australiacouncil.gov.au
<http://connectarts.australiacouncil.gov.au/>
.

You can also contribute directly by having your say directly
<http://culture.arts.gov.au/have-your-say/>
or you can stay in touch and up to date with the release of the
discussion paper <http://culture.arts.gov.au/discussion-paper>
:

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From anat at anat.org.au  Fri Sep  9 09:54:19 2011
From: anat at anat.org.au (Australian Network for Art & Technology)
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 03:54:19 -0400
Subject: ::fibreculture:: ANAT Digest :: September 2011
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Welcome to the ANAT Digest :: 9 September 2011

ANAT News


Filter 77 :: Making Creative Practice Pay
The latest edition of Filter Magazine is now online. Filter 77  
discusses perceptions on the economic value of art and culture - and  
looks at opportunities and business models that creative practitioners  
can utilise to make creative practice pay.
http://filter.anat.org.au


ISEA2011 Istanbul :: 14 - 21 September 2011
The World Is Everything That is The Case
As part of ISEA2011 Istanbul, the 17th International Symposium on  
Electronic Art, ANAT is presenting the exhibition Uncontainable: The  
World is Everything That Is The Case, which explores the migratory  
nature of artistic practice; acting as a global mediation between the  
aesthetics of trade along the peregrine, wandering routes that lead  
towards meaning. ANAT CEO Gavin Artz will be presenting on Trans- 
Disciplinary Teams in the Arts at the Creative Industries panel  
session.  Presentations from ANAT Board Members include Ross Harley on  
Transdisciplinary Studio Practice and Jasmin Stephens onCurating and  
Archiving New Media Art.  ISEA2011 will also feature presentations by  
many ANAT affiliates including  Mari Velonaki, TIna Gonsalves, Sean  
Cubitt,  Kathy Cleland and Danielle Wilde.  ANAT wishes our collegues,  
members and friends an exciting ISEA2011 - we're looking forward to  
hearing all about it!
http://isea2011.sabanciuniv.edu


The Festival of Unpopular Culture :: ANAT Panel Session
Embedding Culture in the Built Environment :: 16 October 2011, Adelaide
Conceived as a kind of fringe to the 2011 Adelaide Festival of Ideas,  
the Festival of Unpopular Culture is an attempt to strip away the  
prejudices that we attach to things like fine art, pop culture, sport,  
"youth", environmentalism and the politics of left and right. ANAT's  
panel discussion - Embedding Culture in the Build Environment - will  
look at processes for embedding culture within green-field and  
repurposed environments and introduce its new project ECHOLOGY: Making  
Sense of Data - a three-year research, development and production  
project focused on real-time data-generated public artworks.
http://www.festivalofunpopularculture.com/


Synapse 6 Blog :: Dr George Poonkhin Khut
'Brighthearts' Project at The Children's Hospital, Westmead
In his Synapse residency, Dr Khut is working alongside Dr Angie  
Morrow, a paediatrician with Kids Rehab at The Childrens Hospital  
Westmead. Together they will pursue research into the development of  
an interactive, multimedia device for children to aid in the relief of  
pain and anxiety associated with undergoing recurrent painful  
rehabilitative and surgical procedures. The 'Brighthearts' Project  
Blog is now online.
http://khut2011.anat.org.au


ANAT Members Survey
Opportunity to tell us what you would like from ANAT
ANAT believes that social media and online environments have caused a  
significant cultural shift, changing how we interact with groups and  
organisations.  We would like to know how and why you are currently  
involved with ANAT and how you would like to see this develop in the  
future.  You can take the survey here.


Industry Highlights

The Digital Culture Public Sphere
Opportunity to Participate in Policy Development in Australia
On the 11th August 2011 Minister Crean released a discussion paper  
seeking public input on aNational Cultural Policy. This consultation  
will help determine a 10 year strategic vision to ensure our arts,  
cultural and creative endeavours resonate with a 21st century,  
globally competitive, internationally celebrated and culturally  
diverse Australia.  The Office of Senator Kate Lundy in collaboration  
with the Office of Minister Simon Crean is running a Digital Culture  
Public Sphere consultation to look specifically at the digital arts  
and industries as well as opportunities for cultural institutions  
around digitisation, public engagement and collaboration. This  
consultation will result in a submission that will be presented  
directly to the Minister as part of the broader National Cultural  
Policy consultation.
http://www.katelundy.com.au



The Darkest Puzzle
Imagine a story that isn?t just set in a fictional story world, but in  
a world that merges and overlaps with your own. Imagine if the  
characters from that story came to life allowing you to exchange ideas  
with them, even meet them. Welcome to the world of Alternate Reality  
Games
http://www.thedarkestpuzzle.com


Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Award 2011 :: Netherlands
Applications due 12 September 2011 for projects December 2011 - May 2012
The Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Award highlights and explores the  
exciting and novel possibilities between design, artistic practice and  
Life Sciences. Inaugurated by the Netherlands Genomics Initiative, the  
Centre for Society and Genomics, and Waag Society, the Designers &  
Artists 4 Genomics Award aims to stimulate emerging designers and  
artists to delve into the world of bio-art, and produce new work in  
close collaboration with the Netherlands most prestigious Genomics  
Centres, for example in the field of sustainability, food, health, bio- 
informatics, agriculture, and safety.
http://www.da4ga.nl/


Expressions of Interest for developing Interactive Play Space
The City of Marion :: Adelaide, South Australia
The City of Marion, in southern metropolitan Adelaide, is interested  
in talking to artists who are working with GIS / mobile phone based  
technology to engage in the development of an interactive play space  
in a regional reserve and other community based projects. For more  
information please contact Marg Edgecombe, Unit Manager, Arts &  
Cultural Development on (08) 8375 6682,  emailmarg.edgecombe at marion.sa.gov.au 
  or Brett Grimm, Landscape Architect, on (08) 74206474, emailbrett.grimm at marion.sa.gov.au

http://www.marion.sa.gov.au


6th International Conference on the Philosophy of Computer Games
29 - 31 January 2011 :: Madrid, Spain :: Abstracts due 1 October 2011
The call to  submit papers to the 6th International Conference on the  
Philosophy of Computer Games is now open. The conference theme is The  
Nature of Player Experience. Over the past decade, the topic of player  
experience has attracted attention from a multitude of disciplines and  
practices focusing on computer games. Accepted papers will have a  
clear focus on philosophy and philosophical issues in relation to  
computer games and will refer to specific examples from computer games  
rather than merely invoke them in general terms. Papers should examine  
the philosophical underpinnings of player experience from a variety of  
perspectives. Some papers may be accepted for alternative forms of  
presentation, such as poster sessions, workshops, or demonstrations.
http://2012.gamephilosophy.org


MediaArtHistory REWIRE Confernece
28 - 30 September 2011 :: Liverpool, UK
The Rewire conference will increase the voltage and ignite key debates  
within the internationally distributed network of histories, and will  
illuminate the global phenomena of media art by discussing new  
paradigms for media art histories including Science and Technology  
Studies and Cybernetics, the connections between such histories and  
those of new technologies and computing, the relations between media  
art and craft, media archaeology, and institutional and curatorial  
responses to media art. Rewire will be supplemented with performances,  
book launches, workshops and special events, and runs concurrently  
with the AND Festival which will be hosted at numerous sites across  
Liverpool.
http://www.mediaarthistory.org


CiSRA Extreme Imaging Competition for Tertiary Students
Enter by 3 October 2011 :: Submit research by 1 November 2011
The CiSRA Extreme Imaging competition focuses on imaging science and  
projects where students make equipment that can produce images beyond  
the boundaries of creative photography and video. It aims to stretch  
the imagination of tertiary students completing a supervised research  
project as part of their studies and we expect projects may cover ?  
but are not limited to - areas such as medical imaging, astronomy or  
image manipulation. The extreme component of this competition could  
relate to the ?where?, the ?what? or ?how? the image is captured and  
manipulated and the prize will be awarded for the equipment or  
technique that most extends the boundaries of imaging.   The prize  
will be awarded for the best student research prize in the area of  
"extreme imaging" and will comprise $5000 for the winning student or  
students and $5000 for their supervisor. A Canon 5D Mark II DSLR will  
be awarded to the runner-up.
http://www.canon.com.au/Extreme-Imaging


Creative Australia Artists Grants
Applications close 10 October 2011
The Inter-Arts Office invites proposals from artists developing  
ambitious new work for its New Art Initiative. This is part of the  
five-year Creative Australia funding program from the Australian  
Government.  New Art Creative Development grants are for artists  
wishing to explore innovative ideas and collaborations to make major  
new artworks possible. In 2011, you can apply for $30,000 to develop  
your art project which might include honing your plans and concept,  
developing a model or prototype, finding partners, and securing other  
sources of funding. This initiative is open to independent artists,  
curators and producers working across all artforms, including dance,  
literature, music, theatre, visual arts, hybrid, digital and  
interdisciplinary art.
http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au


Science Graduates - Stop Explaining and Start Dancing!
2011 Dance Your Ph.D Contest :: Closes 10 October 2011
The dreaded question: ?So, what?s your Ph.D. research about?? You take  
a deep breath and launch into the explanation. People?s eyes begin to  
glaze over?  At times like these, don?t you wish you could just turn  
to the nearest computer and show people an online video of your Ph.D.  
thesis interpreted in dance form?  Now you can. And while you?re at  
it, you can win $1000, achieve immortal geek fame on the Internet, and  
be recognized by Science for your effort.  This year, Dance Your Ph.D.  
is sponsored by TEDxBrussels. The creator of the best Ph.D. dance gets  
a free trip and hotel stay in Brussels to be crowned the winner at the  
TEDx conference on 22 November 2011.
http://gonzolabs.org/dance/


ELO 2012 Electrifying Literature :: Call for Submissions
Deadline 30 November 2011 :: Conference 20 - 23 June 2012
The 2012 Electronic Literature Organization Conference will be held in  
conjunction with a juried Media Arts Show open to the public at the  
Monongalia Arts Center in Morgantown, West Virginia, with an  
accompanying online exhibit to bring works from the ELO Conference to  
a wider audience. ELO 2012 invites titles and proposals of no more  
than 500 words, including a brief description of the content and  
format of the presentation, and contact information for the  
presenter(s).  All proposals will receive peer-to-peer review by the  
ELO and will be considered on their own terms. Non-traditional and  
traditional formats will be subject to the same peer-to-peer review  
process.
http://el.eliterature.org

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From info at mailer.e-flux.com  Thu Sep  8 20:13:32 2011
From: info at mailer.e-flux.com (e-Flux)
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:13:32 -0400
Subject: ::fibreculture:: Texte zur Kunst issue no. 83 out now
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September 8, 2011














TEXTE ZUR KUNST
September 2011 / Issue No. 83 out now
in cooperation with Beatrice von Bismarck

"THE COLLECTORS"

www.textezurkunst.de
Share this announcement on:  Facebook | Delicious | Twitter

Issue No. 83 of "Texte zur Kunst" which will be released at the start  
of the art fair season, addresses the collector. In the past three  
decades, discernible changes in the manner and actions of a certain  
group of collectors have emerged. What characterizes this development  
foremost is the strong focus placed on the collector's personality.  
This appears to be a phenomenon where merely the function of  
collecting as good publicity is at the fore. While collecting art was  
once a philanthrophic venture of the upper class, a new generation of  
male and female collectors?as well as couples?uses their art  
collection to gain political and economic power. While collectors were  
previously hardly known to a broader public, today some of them  
actively stage their activities in the media and seek to attain the  
status of a celebrity. The massive accumulation of private money as a  
result of financial speculation is accompanied by budget cuts in the  
cultural sector. For many museums, cooperative projects with private  
collections often appear to be the only possibility to present  
contemporary art that they can no longer afford. Yet for many  
collectors today, the model of permanently tying their acquisitions to  
a public institution in the form of loans, gifts, or endowments seems  
to have lost its relevance. Instead, they prefer to self-confidently  
found their own, often architecturally striking exhibition venues.  
With issue No. 83 "Texte zur Kunst" critically reflects on the altered  
role of the collector in the way it relates to society.

Plus reviews from Berlin, New York, Tel Aviv, Rio de Janeiro, Vienna,  
Paris, Munich, Brussels, Karlsruhe, M?nchengladbach and L?neburg.

Exclusive new artists' editions:
Tauba Auerbach, Monica Bonvicini and Sergej Jensen


ENGLISH CONTENT


PREFACE

NIKLAS MAAK
BETWEEN PINAULT AND PINCHUK. THE NETWORK AND RITUALS OF A NEW  
TRANSNATIONAL SYSTEM OF COLLECTORS

ULF WUGGENIG
ATTACHED BY AN UMBILICAL CORD OF GOLD

IN FAVOUR OF TRANSPARENCY
A ROUNDTABLE CONVERSATION ON COLLECTORS AND COLLECTIONS WITH CANDICE  
BREITZ, PEGGY BUTH, JONATHAN MONK, ANDREAS SIEKMANN;
MODERATED BY SVEN BECKSTETTE

STEFFEN ZILLIG
THE IMAGE OF THE COLLECTOR ? FROM CITOYEN TO CELEBRITY

ANDREA FRASER
L'1%, C'EST MOI

THAT'S A GIVEN!
A SURVEY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PUBLIC MUSEUMS AND PRIVATE  
COLLECTIONS WITH CHRIS DERCON, UDO KITTELMANN, KAROLA KRAUS, CHRISTINE  
MACEL, BARTOMEU MAR?, MATTHIAS M?HLING, BENNETT SIMPSON


PICTURE SPREAD
?ystein Aasan


REVIEWS

TAL STERNGAST
THERE WAS A SECRET BEFORE THERE WAS SOMETHING TO HIDE
On Moshe Ninio, Haim Steinbach and Christopher Williams at Dvir  
Gallery, Tel Aviv

LUKE COHEN
GROUNDBREAKING!
On John Knight at Greene Naftali, New York

SVEN L?TTICKEN
RAIDING THE LIBRARY
On Richard Prince at Biblioth?que nationale de France, Paris

NICOL?S GUAGNINI
!QUE B?RBARA!
On Emily Sundblad at Algus Greenspon, New York


ARTISTS' EDITIONS

TAUBA AUERBACH
"Static 18" & "Static 19", 2011

MONICA BONVICINI
"19 Tonnes For You", 2011

SERGEJ JENSEN
"Untitled", 2011


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From scholzt at newschool.edu  Sun Sep 11 21:44:36 2011
From: scholzt at newschool.edu (R.Trebor Scholz)
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:44:36 -0400
Subject: ::fibreculture:: Fibreculture Digest, Vol 18, Issue 3
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References: <mailman.6.1315554877.15950.fibreculture_listcultures.org@listcultures.org>
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Dear all, 

Some of you might be interested in this event. If you are in North America
in October, swing by The New School.

best,
Trebor
=

CALL FOR REGISTRATIONS

MobilityShifts: An International Future of Learning Summit
The New School in NYC
October 10-16, 2011

The New School presents the second event in its Politics of Digital Culture conference series "MobilityShifts: An International Future of Learning Summit." Comprised of a conference, hands-on workshops, project demonstrations, exhibitions and a theater performance featuring youth and educators from New York City and Chicago, MobilityShifts is a week-long summit in October 2011. MobilityShifts makes unexpected international connections between the theories of Jacques Ranci?re and Ivan Illich, learning projects outside the bounds of schools and universities, mobile platforms, and the Open Web. Stop, reflect, listen, discuss, and build with artists, media scholars, policy makers, students, technologists, teachers, librarians, legal scholars and learning activists from 21 countries.

http://www.mobilityshifts.org
http://mobilityshifts.org/conference/program/

REGISTRATION
To attend MobilityShifts you must register.
The early bird rate ends on September 15th. 

http://www.mobilityshifts.org/register1
http://www.mobilityshifts.org/register1

Participants include: Eduardo Ochoa, Hal Plotkin, Cathy Davidson, Michael Wesch, Oliver Grau,  Mimi Ito, Henry Jenkins, Anya Kamenetz, Geert Lovink, Shin Mizukoshi, John Palfrey, Irit Rogoff, Juliana Rotich, Benjamin Bratton, Katie Salen, Shveta Sarda, Molly Steenson, Elizabeth Losh, Tony Conrad, Lev Manovich, Torsten Meyer, Jan Schmidt, Tomi Ahonen, Beth Coleman, John Willinsky, Siva Vaidhyanathan, Alexander Halavais, Giselle Beiguelman, David Carroll, Tania Bustos, Kate Crawford, Chris Csikszentmihalyi, Sean Dockray, Rolf Hapel, Juan Manuel Lopez Garduno, Daria Ng, Chris Lawrence, Josie Fraser, David Theo Goldberg, Marisa Jahn, Sam Gregory, Shravan Goli, Manu Kapur, Edward Keller, Eric Kluitenberg, Jairo Moreno, Michael Pettinger, Michael Preston, Daniela Rosner, Richard Scullin, Ramon Sanguesa, Elaine Savory, Luis Camnitzer, Nishant Shah, Janek Sowa, Dan Visel, Nitin Sawhney and many others. 
http://mobilityshifts.org/conference/participants

Summit Chair
Trebor Scholz

Co-Chairs: Edward Keller, Elizabeth Losh, Matthew K. Gold, David Theo Goldberg , Karen DeMoss, Sean Dockray
Producer: Jennifer Conley Darling 
Associate Producers: Caroline Buck, Liz Carlson 

Selected workshops: http://mobilityshifts.org/workshops/
(Workshops require an additional reservation at no extra cost).

This summit builds on two previous events: Mozilla's Drumbeat Festival in Barcelona (2010) and Digital Media and Learning in Los Angeles (2011). MobilityShifts is sponsored by The John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The New School and the Mozilla Foundation. We gratefully acknowledge our partners: American University of Paris, Carnegie Mellon University, Eyebeam Art & Technology Center, Goethe-Institut, HASTAC, Japan Society, MetaMute, Prezi, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, SocialText, UC San Diego?s Sixth College, and University of Pennsylvania.

> 




From BBarnet at groupwise.swin.edu.au  Thu Sep 15 23:59:29 2011
From: BBarnet at groupwise.swin.edu.au (Belinda Barnet)
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 07:59:29 +1000
Subject: ::fibreculture:: Prof Stuart Moulthrop Public Lecture, Melbourne,
	Oct 10
Message-ID: <4E7301E1020000E20007C91E@groupwise.swin.edu.au>

Professor Stuart Moulthrop Public Lecture 

State Library, Melbourne, October 10, 6:30-8:30pm, FREE
Make a Better Door: Or, How Does Digital Humanism Humanize? 
 
 
An interesting image for 2011. 
A player/character in the most recent Portal gameis literally locked out
of her workplace and replaced by a pair of robots. From this resonant
image of the human-computer interface a discussionwill emerge to do with
broader understandings of the digital humanities, mediascholarship, and
electronic literature.  The focus for this approach willbe the question
famously posed by Richard Lanham's: "how do the humanitieshumanize?" 
 
Professor Darren Tofts (Swinburne University ofTechnology) will moderate
a conversation with Professor Moulthrop following hispresentation. 
 
 
Date: Monday 10thOctober, 2011 
Time: 6.30-8.30 pm. 
Venue: Village Roadshow Theatrette
          State Library of Victoria
          179 La Trobe Street Melbourne (Conference Centre, Entry 3) 
 


 
Stuart Moulthrop is Professor of Englishat the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is an electronic literaturepioneer, both as a
theoretician and as a writer, and has published many ofarticles on the
topic of games, network literature and digital media theory.From 1995-99
he was co-editor of the online journal Postmodern Culture and heis a
founding board member of the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO).
Hishypertext Victory Garden (1992) was featured on the front page of the
New YorkTimes Book Review in a (now famous) review by American literary
critic RobertCoover. Moulthrop is also the author of the hypertext
fiction works ReaganLibrary (1999), and Hegirascope (1995), amongst many
others.  
His recent work engages with digital games and itsinterface with media
theory, electronic writing and scandal.  His currentwork in progress is
"Sc4nda1 in New Media," an Arcade Essay thatconverges philosophical
meditation with an actual video game.  It can beaccessed at
http://pantherfile.uwm.edu/moulthro/index.htm. 
 
Professor Moulthrop is a Visiting Research Fellowin the Faculty of Life
& Social Sciences,
Swinburne University of Technology. 
 



Dr Belinda Barnet
Lecturer in Media and Communications
Faculty of Life & Social Sciences
Swinburne University of Technology
John Street, Hawthorn, 3122
Victoria, Australia

Room: SE329
Tel: (03) 9214 8107
Mob: 0403 833 455
http://www.swin.edu.au/sbs/media

Memory is a crazy woman that hoards coloured rags and throws away food. 
-Austin O'Malley




From BBarnet at groupwise.swin.edu.au  Fri Sep 16 00:06:13 2011
From: BBarnet at groupwise.swin.edu.au (Belinda Barnet)
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:06:13 +1000
Subject: ::fibreculture:: Stuart Moulthrop Public Lecture
Message-ID: <4E730375020000E20007C925@groupwise.swin.edu.au>

Sorry, forgot to mention in the last email that this lecture is
co-sponsored by the School of Media and Communication, RMIT. 
 


Professor Stuart Moulthrop Public Lecture 
 
Make a Better Door:
Or, How Does Digital Humanism Humanize? 
 
 
An interesting image for 2011. 
A player/character in the most recent Portal gameis literally locked out
of her workplace and replaced by a pair of robots. From this resonant
image of the human-computer interface a discussionwill emerge to do with
broader understandings of the digital humanities, mediascholarship, and
electronic literature.  The focus for this approach willbe the question
famously posed by Richard Lanham's: "how do the humanitieshumanize?" 
 
Professor Darren Tofts (Swinburne University ofTechnology) will moderate
a conversation with Professor Moulthrop following hispresentation. 
 
 
Date: Monday 10thOctober, 2011 
Time: 6.30-8.30 pm. 
Venue: Village Roadshow Theatrette
          State Library of Victoria
          179 La Trobe Street Melbourne (Conference Centre, Entry 3) 
 


 
Stuart Moulthrop is Professor of Englishat the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is an electronic literaturepioneer, both as a
theoretician and as a writer, and has published many ofarticles on the
topic of games, network literature and digital media theory.From 1995-99
he was co-editor of the online journal Postmodern Culture and heis a
founding board member of the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO).
Hishypertext Victory Garden (1992) was featured on the front page of the
New YorkTimes Book Review in a (now famous) review by American literary
critic RobertCoover. Moulthrop is also the author of the hypertext
fiction works ReaganLibrary (1999), and Hegirascope (1995), amongst many
others.  
His recent work engages with digital games and itsinterface with media
theory, electronic writing and scandal.  His currentwork in progress is
"Sc4nda1 in New Media," an Arcade Essay thatconverges philosophical
meditation with an actual video game.  It can beaccessed at
http://pantherfile.uwm.edu/moulthro/index.htm. 
 
Professor Moulthrop is a Visiting Research Fellowin the Faculty of Life
& Social Sciences,
Swinburne University of Technology
 



Dr Belinda Barnet
Lecturer in Media and Communications
Faculty of Life & Social Sciences
Swinburne University of Technology
John Street, Hawthorn, 3122
Victoria, Australia

Room: SE329
Tel: (03) 9214 8107
Mob: 0403 833 455
http://www.swin.edu.au/sbs/media

Memory is a crazy woman that hoards coloured rags and throws away food. 
-Austin O'Malley




From holly.randell-moon at mq.edu.au  Sat Sep 17 09:08:28 2011
From: holly.randell-moon at mq.edu.au (Holly Randell-Moon)
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 17:08:28 +1000
Subject: ::fibreculture:: Registration Open for Interactive Media Institute
	GAME Conference
Message-ID: <CAJkDHTBZoUEsP1OH0r94PWKGqQ=28ZoL1En5D7wrC4wXnk8x2A@mail.gmail.com>

Apologies for cross-posting

*Registration is now open for GAME: A Three Day Video Games Event**  at *

* *

*Macquarie University Sydney, Australia*



Running from October 27th ? 29th at Macquarie University, North Ryde, Sydney
Australia, *GAME* consists of a free public debate on video game politics
and policy, an academic conference featuring world renowned keynote
speakers *Ian Bogost *(Georgia Institute of Technology) and *Espen Aarseth* (IT
University of Copenhagen), and a games festival.



*Details:*



*Thursday October 27 - The Politics of Play Public Debate*



This public roundtable will discuss the contentious and complex issues
surrounding the content, classification and effect of video games on our
society. Speakers at this roundtable include: Paul Hunt (MLCS Management &
Former Deputy Director of the OFLC), Associate Professor Jeffery Brand (Bond
University), Dr John Martino (Victoria University), Dr Peter Chen
(University of Sydney), representatives of the Australian Classification
Board and more speakers to be confirmed. The debate is free and open to
members of the public.



*Friday October 28 ? Theorycraft*

* *

The study of video games is a recent endeavour, bringing together
disciplines from within the humanities such as media and literary studies
with computer and human sciences. This conference will explore some of the
key developments in contemporary research both internationally and here in
Australia. The keynote speakers for this event are Dr Ian Bogost (Georgia
Institute of Technology) and Espen Aarseth (IT University of Copenhagen).



The conference will feature a final panel, *'The Future of Games'* which
will explore the future of game development including: augmented reality,
social, mobile and casual gaming, and the increasing use of video games in
educational settings.



The cost for entry to *Theorycraft* is $120 standard entry, $50 for
students.



*Saturday October 29 - Game On! Festival Day*

* *

This celebration of video games and gaming culture is open to the public and
will host a range of interactive video game experiences. Play new games,
experiment with alternate reality interfaces, and participate in a Kodu
speed design challenge. Game On will also host a showcase of primary,
secondary and tertiary student design projects as well as information
sessions on gaming in education, studying games design and cyber safety.

*   ***

To register for these events, please visit the Interactive Media Institute?s
website at: http://imi.mq.edu.au/game/



For enquires please contact Holly Randell-Moon at:
holly.randell-moon at mq.edu.au


-- 

Dr. Holly Randell-Moon
Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies
Faculty of Arts
Macquarie University, NSW 2109
Australia
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From ned at nedrossiter.org  Wed Sep 21 04:08:27 2011
From: ned at nedrossiter.org (Ned Rossiter)
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:08:27 +1000
Subject: ::fibreculture:: Doctoral Scholarship - Institute for Culture and
	Society
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Doctoral Scholarship - Institute for Culture and Society
The University of Western Sydney?s newly-formed Institute for Culture and Society (which incorporates the Centre for Cultural Research) invites applications for PhD Scholarships.
 
About the Institute
The Institute for Culture & Society encourages theoretically-directed empirical research on the transformations in culture and society in the global era. The Institute is home to a number of internationally renowned scholars, contributing to the University of Western Sydney receiving the high-est ranking for research quality?well above world standard?in Cultural Studies (as part of the Excellence in Research for Australia 2010).
Headed by Director, Distinguished Professor Ien Ang, and Research Director, Professor Tony Bennett, the Institute for Culture & Society is
especially interested in projects in the following areas:
 
- Cities and Urban Cultures
- Intercultural Dialogue and Transnational Culture
- Institutions, Governance and Citizenship
- Cultural Economy and Globalisation
- Heritage, Environment and Society
- Digital Research and Cultural Transformation
- Australian Cultural Fields
- Culture and Education
 
Candidates with backgrounds in cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, human geography, cultural history, media and communication studies, Asian studies and other disciplines are encouraged to apply. International applications are welcome, although fees may apply.
 
Essential Criteria
- Good Bachelor Honours degree (Class 1 or 2.1), or equivalent qualifications and/or experience
- Research or professional experience in a relevant field of the humanities and social sciences.
 
What does the scholarship provide?
- Tax-free stipend of $32,860 per annum and a funded place in the doctoral degree for domestic candidates. International applicants may have to pay fees.
 
Need more information?
- To discuss a potential project please contact Dr Megan Watkins at m.watkins at uws.edu.au OR Professor Deborah Stevenson at d.stevenson at uws.edu.au
- Contact the Research Training, Policy and Programs Officer, Mrs Sandra Lawrence to discuss enrolment and scholarships: sg.lawrence at uws.edu.au
- Find out more about the research being undertaken in the CCR and ICS at http://www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr
 
How to apply
Submit an application form, research proposal and CV by the closing date. The application form can be downloaded from the web: www.uws.edu.au/research/scholarships
 
APPLICATIONS CLOSE 21 October 2011


From stephen at melbpc.org.au  Thu Sep 22 12:04:29 2011
From: stephen at melbpc.org.au (stephen at melbpc.org.au)
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:04:29 GMT
Subject: ::fibreculture:: Global Voices
Message-ID: <20110922100430.0293F9A9@eagle.melbpc.org.au>

Global Voices is an international community of bloggers who report on 
blogs & citizen media from around the world. http://globalvoicesonline.org

The 'Technology for Transparency Initiative' invites you to join an 
online dialogue on ?Using Technology to Promote Transparency', starting 
today.

There has been an expanding and increasingly global movement of 
technology and digital media projects aimed at promoting government 
transparency, accountability, and public participation in political 
processes. 

After documenting dozens of cases around the world, the Technology for 
Transparency Network documented these transparency projects to gain a 
better understanding of their current impact, obstacles, and future 
potential. Now it is time to start the conversation.

This week we are inviting 11 experts from all over the world, from 
different projects promoting openness, collaboration and transparency, to 
answer questions, comment on interesting topics and discuss the future of 
technology in promoting transparency.

The dialogue is an opportunity to share these case studies and tools with 
the online community, learn from the experiences of practitioners 
implementing these projects, and discuss new ideas, challenges, risks and 
opportunities. 

Join us online from September 21 to share your stories, ideas & resources.

<http://globalvoicesonline.org/2011/09/21/global-online-dialogue-on-
technology-for-transparency/>

About : http://globalvoicesonline.org/about/
        Updated 19 September 2011 14:38 GMT 

Global Voices is a community of more than 500 bloggers and translators 
around the world who work together to bring you reports from blogs and 
citizen media everywhere, with emphasis on voices that are not ordinarily 
heard in international mainstream media.

Global Voices seeks to aggregate, curate, and amplify the global 
conversation online - shining light on places and people other media 
often ignore. We work to develop tools, institutions and relationships 
that will help all voices, everywhere, to be heard.

Millions of people are blogging, podcasting, and uploading photos, 
videos, and information across the globe, but unless you know where to 
look, it can be difficult to find respected and credible voices. Our 
international team of volunteer authors and part-time editors are active 
participants in the blogospheres they write about on Global Voices.

Global Voices is incorporated in the Netherlands as Stichting Global 
Voices, a nonprofit foundation. We do not have an office, but work as a 
virtual community across multiple time zones, meeting in person only when 
the opportunity arises (usually during our Summits). We rely on grants, 
sponsorships, editorial commissions, and donations to cover our costs.

Our Projects

Global Voices is translated into more than 30 languages by volunteer 
translators, who have formed the Lingua project. Additionally, Global 
Voices has an Advocacy website and network to help people speak out 
online in places where their voices are censored. We also have an 
outreach project called Rising Voices to help marginalized communities 
use citizen media to be heard, with an emphasis on the developing world.

Our History

Global Voices was founded in 2005 by former CNN Beijing and Tokyo Bureau 
Chief, Rebecca MacKinnon and technologist and Africa expert, Ethan 
Zuckerman while they were both fellows at the Berkman Center for Internet 
and Society at Harvard University. 

The idea for the project grew out of an international bloggers? meeting 
held at Harvard in December 2004 and it began as a simple blog. (Here's a 
written report and podcast of that meeting).

Global Voices quickly expanded thanks to patronage of the Berkman Center, 
support from Reuters, the MacArthur Foundation, and the energy and 
creativity of our contributors.

Our Primary Goals

At a time when international English-language media ignores many things 
that are important to large numbers of the world?s citizens, Global 
Voices aims to redress some of the inequities in media attention by 
leveraging the power of citizens? media. We believe in free speech, and 
in bridging the gulfs that divide people.

We wish to:

? Call attention to the most interesting conversations and perspectives 
emerging from citizens? media around the world by linking to text, 
photos, podcasts, video and other forms of grassroots citizens? media.

? Facilitate the emergence of new citizens? voices through training, 
online tutorials, and publicizing the ways in which open-source and free 
tools can be used safely by people around the world to express themselves.

? Advocate for freedom of expression around the world and protect the 
rights of citizen journalists to report on events and opinions without 
fear of censorship or persecution.

--

Cheers,
Stephen
"Live curious, ignorance is boring"



From grayson.cooke at scu.edu.au  Mon Sep 26 04:42:35 2011
From: grayson.cooke at scu.edu.au (Grayson Cooke)
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:42:35 +1000
Subject: ::fibreculture:: Transformations CFP: Hyperaesthetic Culture
In-Reply-To: <AEE4AC83-E699-47CE-BFB6-0E150EDB35DB@nedrossiter.org>
References: <AEE4AC83-E699-47CE-BFB6-0E150EDB35DB@nedrossiter.org>
Message-ID: <4E7FE69B.2030801@scu.edu.au>

Dear Colleagues,

Transformations is calling for submissions for Issue 22: Hyperaesthetic 
Culture.

We live in a competitive sensory environment. The marketing of consumer 
goods continually appeals to taste, touch, vision, hearing, and smell, 
compelling other practices to engage our senses in what David Howes 
describes as a 'hyperaesthetic culture'. This environment is saturated 
with alluring and intense sense experience that proliferates as 
technologies such as ultrasonography, satellites and computer 
applications provide access to things previously beyond human 
perception. Bodies are cultivated to be aesthetically appealing and 
optimally available to the senses for commercial, medical and security 
purposes.

This special issue of Transformations will examine sensory regimes and 
the way in which people respond to them. Recent cultural research into 
the senses shows that the relationships and hierarchies between them are 
not static. Varying sensoriums are involved in different understandings 
of the self and its relationship to the world. This is apparent in 
cultural studies projects that implicitly and explicitly integrate 
questions of sensory experience into their investigations.

We invite submissions in the areas of philosophy, critical, cultural and 
media studies, and creative arts research. Possible topics include:

? new technologies of the senses, such as haptic technologies
? the effects of sensory regimes on bodies and minds
? sensory appeal and the persistence of technologically 'outmoded' 
goods, such as vinyl records
? relationships between hyperaestheticism and thought
? sensory adaptation and substitution, such as human echolocation
? ways of making bodies and objects available to the senses, such as 
body scans
? senses other than the traditional five senses, such as proprioception
? new media arts projects incorporating biometric feedback

Abstracts (500 words): due 7 November 2011 with a view to submit by 7 
February 2012.
Abstracts to be forwarded to: Erika Kerruish erika.kerruish at scu.edu.au 
<mailto:erika.kerruish at scu.edu.au>
For submission guidelines go to: 
http://www.transformationsjournal.org/journal/

-- 
Dr Grayson Cooke
Course Coordinator BMedia
(acting) Director of Higher Degree Research Training
School of Arts and Social Sciences
Southern Cross University
PO Box 157
East Lismore NSW 2480
Ph: +61 2 6620 3839
http://works.bepress.com/grayson_cooke/
http://www.transformationsjournal.org




From jhuns at vt.edu  Tue Sep 27 16:23:09 2011
From: jhuns at vt.edu (jeremy hunsinger)
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:23:09 -0400
Subject: ::fibreculture:: cfp cultures in virtual worlds
Message-ID: <FB7F96C0-1CB8-42C5-98F9-D875497A7B43@vt.edu>

Apologies for x-posting, distribute as appropriate -jh

Cultures in virtual worlds

A special issue of the New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia

Guest-edited by Jeremy Hunsinger and Adrienne Massanari

Virtual worlds (VW) embody cultures, their artefacts, and their praxes; these new and old spaces of imagination and transformation allow humans to interact in spatial dimensions. Within these spaces, culture manifests with the creation, representation, and circulation of meaningful experiences.  But virtual worlds are not novel in that regard, nor should we make the mistake to assume that they are novel in themselves.  Virtual experiences have been around in some respect for hundreds of years, and virtual worlds based in information technology have existed for at least 40 years.  The current generation of virtual worlds, with roots over four decades old in studies of virtual reality, computer supported cooperative work (CSCW), sociology, cultural studies, and related topics, provide for rich and occasionally immersive environments where people become enculturated within the world sometimes as richly as the rest of their everyday lives.

We seek research that encounters and investigates cultures in virtual worlds in its plurality and in its richness. To that end, we invite papers covering the breadth of the topic of cultures in and of virtual worlds.

Some possible areas/approaches of inquiry:
	? How culture of virtual worlds affect relationships
	? VW interfaces and culture/s
	? Hidden subcultures/communities in virtual worlds
	? Ages and VW cultures
	? Emic and etic experiences of virtual worlds
	? Producing VW cultures
	? Traditional cultural/critical studies inquiries of VWs
	? Transnational or cosmopolitan cultures in/of VWs
While all forms of scholarship and research are welcome, we prefer theoretically and empirically grounded studies. We seek a Special Issue that exemplifies methodological pluralism and scholarly diversity. The use of visual evidence and representations is also encouraged.   We especially seek pieces that investigate virtual worlds that have received little scholarly attention.
Submission guidelines

This special issue is Guest-Edited by Jeremy Hunsinger (Wilfrid Laurier University) and Adrienne Massanari (Loyola University Chicago). Queries regarding the Special Issue should be directed to them at jhuns@? ?vt.edu and amassanari@? ?luc.edu. The Guest-Editors welcome contributions from both new researchers and those who are more well-established. Submitted manuscripts will be subject to peer review.
Length of papers will vary as per disciplinary expectations, but we encourage articles of around 7000 words (longer articles may be possible, if warranted). Short discussion papers of around 3000 words on relevant subjects are also welcomed as ?Technical Notes?.

Detailed author submission guidelines are available online at
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1361-4568&linktype=44.
Papers must be submitted via the journal?s online submissions system:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tham 

Please indicate that your submission is for the Special Issue on Culture in Virtual Worlds.

The special issue will be published in summer 2012.

Important dates:

November 11, 2011	Paper submission deadline

February 10, 2012	Author notification

May 5, 2012	 Final copy due

Summer 2012	 Publication

jeremy hunsinger
Communication Studies
Wilfrid Laurier University
Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
Virginia Tech


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