From mitch.goodwin at jcu.edu.au Fri May 11 06:28:35 2012 From: mitch.goodwin at jcu.edu.au (Goodwin, Mitch) Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 21:28:35 -0700 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Call for Artists -:- Screengrab -:- $5000 New Media Arts Award Message-ID: Please circulate to your networks - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -o- Deadline : Monday July 02 -o- -o- 2012 Theme : Control -o- -o- Prize : AUS $5000 -o- S C R E E N G R A B New Media Art Prize \\\ CONTROL /// "Freedom from rust, chained in silicon" - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The 2012 Screengrab New Media Arts Award and associated exhibition is looking for challenging creative works by media arts practitioners working in screen based media to submit works on the theme of CONTROL. ENTRY APP: http://screengrab.info WEB FLYER: http://screenculture.com/screengrab2012.jpg - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2012 Award Theme The contemporary media milieu would suggest an evolving devolution of the traditional notion of the "society of control". The boundaries of enclosures and spaces are no longer the rigid and defined perimeters they once were. The browser, the mobile camera/screen are new enabling simulations the user canexploit to navigate alternative pathways, to experience new modes of expression and to participate in global cultural exchange. This is reflected online and on the street. In our political discourse and our social interactions. And it is most visible when repatriated via the mainstream media and traditional news editorials coupled with wild proclamations of ?new freedoms? accompanied by ?real change?. Yet what has reallychanged? What do these new counter measures look like on the ground? Where do the subversions play out? What new questions are we asking of our environment and of ourselves? In the same evolving moment new far less visible forms of control are emerging that use these very same technological platforms: surveillance networks, social media, data mining algorithms, privacy interventions, sophisticated image gathering techniques and drone technologies. These aggregators of data and network traffic are rapidly translating our private, public and social lives into valuable sets of relational data ? re-writing the notion of identity, weaving new paradigms of control. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The Call Out SCREENGRAB is now entering its fourth year with an international call out for the AUS$5000 New Media Arts Prize and the companion exhibition in August 2012 for short listed applicants. We invite digital practitioners working in screen based media to submit works on the theme of CONTROL. All forms of screen based media are encouraged including multi-channel video, digital illustration, audio sculpture, photography, generative media, 2D & 3D animation. Existing worx and those specifically designed for the award must address the theme of CONTROL to beeligible for the New Media Arts award. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Prize Money: AUS $5000 Artefact deadline: July 2 Exhibition Opening & Award announcement : August 10 Application Form : http://screengrab.info "Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug." - John Lithgow - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - This project is sponsored by James Cook University's School of Creative Arts and the eMergeMedia Space. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - MG2012 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From geert at xs4all.nl Sun May 13 12:11:26 2012 From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink) Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 12:11:26 +0200 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Memefest Festival Theme: DEBT. Deadline May 30th Message-ID: <2F4399E1-C7AC-4F6A-A058-E7A89DC5216A@xs4all.nl> Create your own announcement + Opening reminder 13.05.2012 Memefest Festival Theme: DEBT. Deadline May 30th Memefest Festival of Socially responsive Communication and Art 2012 Memefest www.memefest.org Kevin Lo, Oliver Vodeb Contact memefest at memefest.org Patricia Laboca Phone: 0038640432775 Address www.memefest.org Memefest Slovenska 55b 1000 Ljubljana Slovenija Info Memefest Festival of Socially responsive Communication and Art 2012 Theme is DEBT! Deadline for submissions is May 30th! Share this announcement on: Facebook | Twitter Memefest Festival of Socially responsive Communication and Art 2012 Memefest, an international organization dedicated to promoting new, productive and relevant forms of cultural activism, together with the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane, this year introduces the Memefest/Griffith-QCA award for 'Imaginative Critical Intervention'. This award invites cultural activists, creatives and thinkers from the productive margins of professions, radical theorists, imaginative intellectuals and anyone who is uncomfortable with the status quo and dreams of alternative futures that are more satisfying, just, and sustainable, to submit projects for peer feedback, broader dissemination, and a chance to work collaboratively with other imaginative activists, artists, researchers and intellectuals. Memefest FESTIVAL 2012 theme: DEBT (debt, la dette, ?????, dolg, ?????????????, ????, debito, ????, ?uldo, ???, schuld, deuda, borc ?) You can't evict an idea whose time has come! These words express the nature of the current global movement against the rule of money over life. They belong to the people, the 99%, who are bringing the fundamental urgent issues to the streets, into the media, into the realm of public consciousness, into the schools, universities, jobs, homes and intimate discussions and relationships. These words also express something else. They speak about a state of mind, a focus and a concise articulation of the problem. The idea whose time has come is mainly about three things. First: interventions that create a rupture in the order of things with the goal to redefine our fields of experience and the relationship between being, doing and saying. Second: dialogue. Third: creating new emancipatory social institutions. If communication and art are to play a relevant role in shaping a future worth having, we need to further redirect, reinvent and reimagine our own understanding and the way we think, theorise and practice them both. Debt is not only an opportunity to do so, but also an urgent responsibility. The Friendly Competition Participants are invited to submit works three categories: critical writing, visual communication practice and the participatory art/ communication category Beyond... This year's theme for Visual communication practice and Critical writing is: DEBT. Participants will respond with their work to three carefully chosen texts: I. First written text is taken from the book Debt, the first 5000 years by American social anthropologist David Greaber in which he explains the function of debt in human history, showing that the current situation is not as natural at all as it seems to be. II. Second visual text is taken from the documentary Debtocracy by Katerina Kitidi and Aris Hatzistefanou, who together with economist Samir Amin, philosopher Alain Badiou, sociologist and geographer David Harvey and other guests research the reasons for the crisis in Greece, while also showing how Latino American Ecuador stood up to the IMF and refused to acknowledge legitimacy to their enforced slavery. III. Third is the song No Banker Left Behind by American slide guitar virtuoso, taken from his politically engaged and critically acclaimed album Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down (2011). Category Beyond?: While a lot of subversive writing, communication and art has emerged which challenges the status quo using its own conventions, very few of these initiatives have employed a mode of communication that is not rooted in commercial culture itself. The 'Beyond?' category hopes to bring out new visual and conceptual forms of communication and art which catalyse social change while engaging people as something more than mere consumers. This category draws on the traditions of independent artistic practice in that the entries will have no brief other than to identity and radically address important issues on a deeply felt personal level. However, we expect that, unlike most 'museum' art, it will generate genuine participatory relations with its audience and be able to work outside institutional sites and conventions. Participatory art and communication is the core principle of what we are looking for at Beyond? More about Beyond? here: www.memefest.org/en/competition/beyond_intro/ Awards: The international editorial and curatorial board will select the most convincing works. Among strong traditional awards, which you can see on www.memefest.org, two new awards are introduced this year. 1) The first Griffith-QCA/ Memefest Award for Critical Imaginative Critical Intervention. Best authors of all three categories (critical writing, visual communication practice and Beyond?) will be invited to Brisbane to take part in a special extradisciplinary workshop resulting in a public intervention in the city of Brisbane. 2) Authors of best works in the category: critical writing will be invited to publish their work in the academic peer reviewed journal Zoontechnica zoontechnica.com. Deadline for your submissions is May 30th. Participation is free of charge and there is no age limit or any other restriction. Your work can be submitted online. See more about our Awards here: www.memefest.org/en/competition/awards_2012/ More information on the whole Friendly competition: www.memefest.org/en/competition/intro/ More information on the Festival of Socially responsive communication and Art: www.memefest.org Contact Patricia Laboca: memefest at memefest.org info at e-artnow.org How to create your own announcement with e-artnow Unsubscribe geert at desk.nl from e-artnow e-artnow Za sidlistem 2148/22 Prague 14300 Czech Republic -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: mime-attachment.jpeg Type: image/jpeg Size: 3408 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: mime-attachment.gif Type: image/gif Size: 44033 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: mime-attachment.jpeg Type: image/jpeg Size: 23947 bytes Desc: not available URL: From geert at xs4all.nl Mon May 14 09:22:04 2012 From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink) Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 09:22:04 +0200 Subject: ::fibreculture:: BUILDING AUSTRALIAN CUTURAL STUDIES: THE WORK OF GRAEME TURNER (UQ, August 31 2012) Message-ID: <963CFACB-B4DF-406D-B49A-F5337B1E5B37@xs4all.nl> BUILDING AUSTRALIAN CUTURAL STUDIES: THE WORK OF GRAEME TURNER Friday 31 August 2012 Symposium 2:00 ? 6:00pm Social Sciences and Humanities Library Conference Room, Level 1, Duhig Building (No. 2), St Lucia Campus (Map) Reception 6:00 ? 7:30pm Terrace Room, Sir Llew Edwards Building (No. 14), St Lucia Campus (Map) Professor Graeme Turner has played a key role in the development of Australian cultural and media studies. Throughout his long and distinguished career, his innovative scholarship has had a significant impact on developing this interdisciplinary field in Australia and internationally. He is the author of many publications in popular culture, media studies, celebrity, film theory and more. These books have contributed to the transformation of the humanities and the emergence of new intellectual practices and objects. Graeme has also represented the humanities on numerous government and university committees from the ARC to PMSEIC (Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council) - where he is currently the only humanities representative. His contribution to building improved research support and recognition for the humanities, as well as the legacy of his Cultural Research Network, has been lasting and significant.On 2 September 2012, Graeme Turner will step down from his role as Director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland, before retiring from the University (but not his academic career) in early 2013. The Centre will continue to prosper under the leadership of Professor Gay Hawkins, and Graeme will continue to be based there.This symposium has been planned to allow Graeme?s colleagues to reflect on their engagement with his work, its influence and its impact. Symposium participants include Meaghan Morris, Gay Hawkins, Peter Cryle, John Byron, Anthea Taylor, Stuart Cunningham, Frances Bonner, Tony Bennett, Melissa Bellanta, Anna Pertierra, Melissa Gregg and Mark Andrejevic. Click here for full program details. Attendees are warmly invited to join in the celebratory reception immediately following the symposium. Enquiries Rebecca Ralph, Events Co-ordinator P: (07) 3346 740 E: r.ralph at uq.edu.au W: www.cccs.uq.edu.au/events The University of Queensland QLD 4072 www.uq.edu.au CRICOS Provider Number:00025B From difusion at medialab-prado.es Wed May 23 14:02:01 2012 From: difusion at medialab-prado.es (Medialab-Prado comunicacion) Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 14:02:01 +0200 Subject: ::fibreculture:: =?windows-1252?q?Call_for_Projects_=7C_Interacti?= =?windows-1252?q?vos=3F=9212_Ljubljana=2E_Obsolete_Technologies_of_the_Fu?= =?windows-1252?q?ture?= Message-ID: <4FBCD1B9.6080507@medialab-prado.es> *MEDIALAB-PRADO* ?rea de Las Artes del Ayuntamiento de Madrid Arts Department of the Madrid City Council http://medialab-prado.es* * * * Interactivos??12 Ljubljana. Obsolete Technologies of the Future Call for Projects Ljudmila, Digital Medialab of Ljubjliana, in collaboration with SGMK of Zurich and Medialab-Prado are seeking for proposals for an upcoming workshops in collaborative prototyping which will be hold in Ljubljana (September 5 - 15, 2012) with the participation of advisors, technical assistants. Deadline: June 8, 2012 Call for Collaborators: starting July 2, 2012 Project development(workshop): September 5- 15, 2012 Suggested areas of focus include: * Projects that suggest different usages of existing urban technological infrastructures * Rethinking outdated technologies and recycling the computer and IT wasteland. * Projects which allow people to interact with technology to provoke new ways of perceiving the surrounding, the self, the visual, the material, and stimulate aesthetic experience. * Particular attention will be paid to projects which promote open source communities, collaborative work and collective modes of behavior. * Playing with data - submissions for works, which connect data forms and physically embody data streams, bridging ?on? and ?off? line worlds. * Products and services that provide sustainable solutions for our needs, including the use of open data, data mash ups and remixes. We are seeking proposals for: * Installations (interactive, responsive, generative) * Performances (participatory, gesticular, dance) * Visualisations (moving images, generative, projections, holograms) * Free Software (FLOSS) / Open Hardware / Open Design / Services / Start-ups / Apps / Devices The open call is aimed at designers, artists, engineers, coders, sociologists, architects, city planners, teachers, programmers, psychologists, journalists, environmentalists... or to any other person interested in the theme of the workshop. Complete information and guidelines: http://medialab-prado.es/article/interactivos12_ljubljana_future_obsolete_technologies Advisors: Luka Frelih, Ida Hirsenfelder, Chris Sugrue and Yago Torroja. **Activity within the framework of Studiolab European project: http://www.studiolabproject.eu/ http://medialab-prado.es http://www.sciencegallery.com/ -- Nerea Garc?a Garmendia Comunicaci?n / Press Medialab-Prado Intermediae Matadero Madrid Paseo de la Chopera, 14 28045 Madrid (Temporary Location) Tel. +34 915 177 288 difusion at medialab-prado.es www.medialab-prado.es http://www.facebook.com/MedialabPradoMadrid Twitter: @medialabprado -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: