From difusion at medialab-prado.es Tue Jul 2 14:00:36 2013 From: difusion at medialab-prado.es (=?UTF-8?B?TWVkaWFsYWItUHJhZG8gQ29tdW5pY2FjacOzbg==?=) Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 14:00:36 +0200 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Call for Collaborators | Bodynet - How to make a network of bodies? Message-ID: <51D2C0E4.8090500@medialab-prado.es> Workshop "Bodynet - How to make a network of bodies?" *Call for Collaborators* Call to collaborate in the project development of the *five selected projects * for the workshop**within the European project *METABODY* - */Media Embodiment T?khn? and Bridges of Diversity/*/./ Projects deal with topics such as performances and their relationship with the body, heteronomativity or the blurry boundaries between reality and fiction through technology. Free registration. Dealine: 23 july, 2013. Limited space. Dates: July 24 -31, 2013. Venue: Medialab-Prado in Madrid (Spain) Collaborators' Profile The call is open to the participation of anyone interested. However, due to the type of projects, we are looking also for profiles such as cultural minorities, anthropologists, sociologists, biologists (how to body networks operate in this and other societies and ecosystems), social workers or care specialists (body, means and functional diversity), hackers and developers (how to engage the body in a digital network based on the model of the Brain Talk Communities). List of selected proposals http://medialab-prado.es/article/bodynet_como_hacer_una_red_de_cuerpos_proyectos_seleccionados More information: http://medialab-prado.es/article/bodynet_colaboradores -- Nerea Garc?a Garmendia Medialab-Prado Plaza de las Letras Calle Alameda, 15. 28014 Madrid difusion at medialab-prado.es http://www.facebook.com/MedialabPradoMadrid Twitter: @medialabprado /"Antes de imprimir este documento aseg?rate de que es realmente necesario. ?Gracias por tu colaboraci?n!"/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ned at nedrossiter.org Fri Jul 5 09:46:59 2013 From: ned at nedrossiter.org (Ned Rossiter) Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 09:46:59 +0200 Subject: ::fibreculture:: =?windows-1252?q?New_BA_Digital_Media_in_L=FCneb?= =?windows-1252?q?urg/Hamburg=2C_Germany?= Message-ID: <59BC911D-5696-4798-945F-AF6B4A547CB3@nedrossiter.org> via Mathias Fuchs Subject: New BA Digital Media in L?neburg/Hamburg, Germany Establishing a new bachelor degree in digital media raises particular opportunities at this historical moment, where not only ?social media revolutions? and the latest gadgets from Apple, but also NSA intelligence leaks and the work of databases, algorithms and networks have become central topics of public debate. How can all this be taken into account, without forgetting that these same technologies are also used on a rather mundane level to transform everyday practices of producing, sharing and consuming media content? The Digital Media BA at Leuphana University in L?neburg aims to bring these multiple aspects together: the global and the local, the historical and the contemporary, along with the theoretical and the practical. Students will analyze histories, concepts and methods alongside technical systems and tools that define digital media and its practices. Hands-on introductions to the foundations of programming, databases and networks are provided as well as the critical use of digital media, including video, audio, games, apps or mash-ups. Such a combination of programming, DIY/Maker-Culture and critical theory is essential given the central role of digital technologies in cultural production today. Accordingly, the Digital Media BA merges many different traditions in new ways: German media theory of older and newer generations will (re-)connect with net criticism, and international research on the manifold aspects of our digital cultures, including work from China, India and Latin America. Whether approaches starting from the social or the technological, key starting points from Marx to Luhmann to McLuhan will be introduced and discussed. Students will encounter a highly transdisciplinary version of digital media studies. Theories in computing meet practices in the humanities, and radically critical positions converge with pragmatic issues of career development and future employment. The BA is taught in English. Classes are held in Hamburg and L?neburg, a small town close to Hamburg. Students have the opportunity to complete part of their program abroad, for example at the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong. Teachers are part of the community of researchers at the Centre for Digital Cultures at Leuphana, and students will encounter their research first hand. Fees are very low: ?1580 per year, including free public transport. Applications for this year?s cohort are open until 15th July 2013. If you know someone interested in a Digital Media BA, please forward this information: http://www.leuphana.de/en/college/bachelor/the-major/digital-media.html -- Dr. Mathias Fuchs Ratiborstrasse 18 10999 Berlin, Germany phone: +49 3092109654 mobile: +49 17677287011 http://creativegames.org.uk/ From bbarnet at swin.edu.au Sat Jul 6 08:31:28 2013 From: bbarnet at swin.edu.au (Belinda Barnet) Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2013 06:31:28 +0000 Subject: ::fibreculture:: New book - Memory Machines Message-ID: <1E93F50094947748AABF90E440E64D93EC1536@gsp-ex01.ds.swin.edu.au> My new book "Memory Machines: the Evolution of Hypertext" (Anthem Press UK) is available now for pre-order on Amazon. Anyone interested in a review copy please email me. Cheers, bb http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00DOZAXNC/ref=redir_mdp_mobile?ref_=cm_sw_r_tw_ask_PQipF.1QEAWW2 About the Book ?Belinda Barnet has given the world a fine-grain, blow-by-blow report of how hypertext happened, how we blundered to the World Wide Web, and what other things electronic literature might still become.? ?Ted Nelson, hypertext pioneer ?This is a fine and important book, the first to capture the rich history of ideas and people that led to the World Wide Web. ?Memory Machines? carefully examines what the key figures were trying to do and judiciously explores what they accomplished and how the systems we now use daily sometimes exceed their dreams and sometimes fall embarrassingly short of their early achievements.? ?Mark Bernstein, Chief Scientist, Eastgate Systems ?Walter Benjamin wrote that ?It is not that what is past casts its light on what is present, or what is present its light on what is past; rather...what has been comes together in a flash with the now to form a constellation. ?Memory Machines? is, even for one among its participants, such a constellation of the now.? ?Michael Joyce, Professor of English at Vassar College, New York This book explores the history of hypertext, an influential concept that forms the underlying structure of the World Wide Web and innumerable software applications. Barnet combines an analysis of contemporary literature with her exclusive interviews with those at the forefront of the hypertext innovation. She tells both the human and the technological story, tracing its path back to an analogue device imagined by Vannevar Bush in 1945, before modern computing had happened. ?Memory Machines? offers an expansive record of hypertext over the last 60 years, pinpointing the major breakthroughs and fundamental flaws in its evolution. Barnet argues that some of the earliest hypertext systems were more richly connected and in some respects more flexible than the Web; this is also a fascinating account of the paths not taken. Barnet ends the journey through computing history at the birth of mass domesticated hypertext, at the point that it grew out of the university labs and into the Web. And yet she suggests that hypertext may not have completed its evolutionary story, and may still have the capacity to become something different, something much better than it is today. From iheap at iheap.fr Fri Jul 12 09:30:01 2013 From: iheap at iheap.fr (IHEAP) Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 09:30:01 +0200 Subject: ::fibreculture:: IHEAP Paris - Invisual Studies - Call for Applications 2013 Message-ID: (We thank you in advance for distributing this information) Institut des hautes ?tudes en arts plastiques (IHEAP) Call for Applications 2013 Number of places : 5 Session 2013-2015 The Institut des hautes ?tudes en arts plastiques (IHEAP) offers participants a course of study where they can free themselves from the inherited art history of the 20th century, by investigating crucial issues of art in the 21st century, an ongoing history in which the participants will eventually take part. IHEAP is open to all those who have an interest in singular and extreme practices which currently and sporadically appear in the art world and elsewhere. IHEAP is for those who want to change their artistic practice or professional activity, for those who after several years of art school want to break free of alienated learning, who expect more from a school than a framework for artistic production, for those who reject art as it is commonly practiced, and finally for those who wish to work on essential issues in intimate and experimental conditions. The course of study is completed in two years. The first year is composed of sessions work that mix practice and theorie. The second year is dedicated to the writing of an activity report. Its purpose is to demonstrate the development of the participant's research. IHEAP does not discriminate by age. No specific diploma is required to apply. Study at Iheap is equivalent to a postgraduate degree. The application fee is 75 euros. Tuition is 2800 euros for two years studies. The two steps of the entrance examination at IHEAP: pre-admission and admission. The submission of an application is an online process, according to a simplified procedure via a registration form: http://iheap.fr/en/candidature Deadline for the submission of applications: October 27, 2013 - Institut des hautes ?tudes en arts plastiques (IHEAP) Secr?tariat T?l. : +33 (0)1 4534 3004 Email : secretariat at iheap.fr http://iheap.fr -- Institut des hautes ?tudes en arts plastiques (Iheap) http://iheap.fr T?l. : 0033 (1) 4534 3004 From stephen at melbpc.org.au Fri Jul 12 13:35:54 2013 From: stephen at melbpc.org.au (stephen at melbpc.org.au) Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 11:35:54 GMT Subject: ::fibreculture:: The Australian Internet Governance Forum (auIGF) Message-ID: <20130712113554.98B0E99D@eagle.melbpc.org.au> 2013 Australian Internet Ambassadors Announced http://www.igf.org.au By Tom Valcanis, 10 July 2013 The Australian Internet Governance Forum (auIGF) is proud to announce a select group of ?ambassadors? who will help lead discussions at its 2013 event in Melbourne, on 16 & 17 October. The auIGF, an initiative of the .au Domain Administration Ltd (auDA), is Australia?s premier annual forum for independent thought leadership on Internet-based policy and practice issues. In a world of increasing complexity regarding the quest for openness vs privacy, and between individual rights vs national security, the auIGF is apolitical and open. It brings together government, industry and community members to discuss policy concerns, exchange ideas and best practices, and help shape the future of the Internet in Australia. The themes discussed at the auIGF inform domestic and international Internet and digital policy and ensure that Australia maintains its voice in a global debate that is just beginning to be felt by all stakeholders. 2012 auIGF was opened by Sen the Hon Kate Lundy and Senator Scott Ludlam and drew support from a wide range of stakeholders including Google, Facebook, the Internet Industry Association (IIA), ISOC-AU, ACCAN and AusRegistry. The 2013 auIGF will be held as a pre-cursor to the global IGF in Bali, Indonesia on 21-25 October. In addition to facilitating discussions at the auIGF, ambassadors will represent the Australian Internet community at this important international forum. The six 2013 auIGF ambassadors are: Jeremy Blackman ? Alannah and Madeline Foundation ?Children online ? protecting vs empowering? Angela Daly ? Institute of Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology ?Digital Intellectual Property in Australia? Peter Walton ? CEO, Infoxchange ?Digital Equality: Narrowing the Participation Gap? John Selby ? Lecturer, Macquarie University ?Does the Internet Need a Delete Button? Should Australia Implement a Right to be Forgotten into its Privacy Laws?? Gunela Astbrink ? Internet Society of Australia ?Implementing DisabilityCare Australia: the importance of providing safe, innovative and accessible services? Miguel Wood ? DataDragon ?Accelerating the growth of the Australian tech startup ecosystem? Registrations for the 2013 auIGF will open in August. -- Cheers people Stephen Loosley Message sent using MelbPC WebMail Server From ned at nedrossiter.org Mon Jul 15 11:46:33 2013 From: ned at nedrossiter.org (Ned Rossiter) Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 12:46:33 +0300 Subject: ::fibreculture:: PhD RA plus 4 postdocs at the Centre for Digital Cultures (Lueneburg, Germany) Message-ID: <8E6001C7-6DCE-4FBA-B617-7E7A1B62A365@nedrossiter.org> Subject: JOBS B: RA (Doc) Position at the Centre for Digital Cultures (Lueneburg, Germany) The ?CDC Research Lab? at Leuphana University Lueneburg is seeking to appoint one research associate at doctoral level (EG 13 TV-L, 75% for three years), starting from 1. September 2013. The new CDC Research Lab is situated in the larger, transdisciplinary, cross-faculty ?Centre for Digital Cultures? (CDC), which ? with its more than 90 international researchers ? bundles research and development activities within digital media at Leuphana University. The CDC Research Lab is funded by the ?Niedersaechsisches Vorab? program, and will host international fellows as well as younger researchers, who work on a research program consisting of four thematic fields: (a) questions of the technological conditions of digital cultures, (b) new forms of cooperation, collectivity and organisation, (c) shifts in political participation and affective control, as well as (d) methodological problems and experiments in the research of digital cultures. The doctoral project of the applicant should be located within the thematic field (b): Digital cultures confront us with new and complex phenomena of sociality, be it in relation to cooperation, collectivity or organisation. Doctoral projects could, for example, situate themselves in the border area between media studies or software studies on the one hand and social anthropology, organisation theory, or sociology on the other. Alternative interpretations of the thematic field (b) are equally welcome. Your tasks: * Independent work on a doctoral project, which contributes clearly to the thematic field of ?re-thinking sociality? (= field b) * Preparation and support of the activities of the CDC Research Lab * Preparation and discussion of research literature * Development of own projects and thematic foci * Conceptual involvement in the organisation of presentations, reading groups and workshops * There is no requirement to teach, but own teaching activities are possible Requirements: * Completed masters degree or equivalent with a clear relation to of the thematic fields of the CDC Research Lab. * Excellent proposed doctoral project fitting the thematic fields of the CDC Research Lab * Familiarity with current methods of the appropriate thematic field * Preparedness to enrol for the doctoral programme at Leuphana University Lueneburg and presence at the CDC Research Lab in Lueneburg For more information how to apply, see http://www.leuphana.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Aktuell/files/stellenausschreibung/Doc_Ausschreibung_eng.pdf ===== Subject: JOBS A: Four Postdocs at the Centre for Digital Cultures (Lueneburg, Germany) The ?CDC Research Lab? at Leuphana University L?neburg is seeking to appoint four research associates at postdoctoral level (EG 13 TV-L, 100% for three years), starting from 1. October 2013. The new CDC Research Lab is situated in the larger, transdisciplinary, cross-faculty ?Centre for Digital Cultures? (CDC), which ? with its more than 90 international researchers ? bundles research and development activities within digital media at Leuphana University. The CDC Research Lab is funded by the ?Niedersaechsisches Vorab? program, and will host international fellows as well as younger researchers, who work on a research program consisting of four thematic fields: (a) questions of the technological conditions of digital cultures, (b) new forms of cooperation, collectivity and organisation, (c) shifts in political participation and affective control, as well as (d) methodological problems and experiments in the research of digital cultures. Applications are therefore explicitly encouraged for one of these four thematic fields of the CDC Research Lab. Your tasks: * Preparation and support of the activities of the CDC Research Lab * Development and establishment of your own research projects and problematics; independent publication activities * Participation in drafting and editing of research funding applications * Conceptual participation in design and delivery of conferences, summer schools and publication projects * Assistance with the support fellows and young researchers * Support of outside communication of CDC Research Lab * There is no requirement to teach, but own teaching activities are possible Requirements: * Completed, excellent PhD with a clear relation to one of the thematic fields of the CDC Research Lab from a historical, theoretical or systematic perspective. * Excellent proposed research project fitting one of the thematic fields of the CDC Research Lab * Familiarity with current methods of the appropriate thematic field * Presence at the CDC Research Lab in Lueneburg For more information how to apply, see http://www.leuphana.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Aktuell/files/stellenausschreibung/Postdocs_Ausschreibung_eng.pdf From difusion at medialab-prado.es Mon Jul 22 14:54:33 2013 From: difusion at medialab-prado.es (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Medialab-Prado_Comunicaci=F3n?=) Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 14:54:33 +0200 Subject: ::fibreculture:: =?iso-8859-1?q?CALL_FOR_PROJECTS=3A_Interactivos?= =?iso-8859-1?q?=3F=2713_Nuvem_Autonom=EDas=3A_Rural_Sciences_=28BR=29?= Message-ID: <51ED2B89.8060407@medialab-prado.es> *Call for projects to be developed within the framework of the international workshop Interactivos?'13 Nuvem Autonom?as: Rural Sciences. Call for Projects* Nuvem, in collaboration with Medialab-Prado in Madrid (Spain), issues a call for the selection of 5 residency proposals to be collaboratively developed at the rural hacklab rural of *Visconde de Mau? (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) from September 5 to 20, 2013.* Researches, professionals, and amateurs can submit their proposals on communications, food, drinking, health, energy, transportation or bio-construction from a rural point of view. *Deadline: August* *3, 2013 * **For submissions and more information:* http://nuvem.tk/ * -- Nerea Garc?a Garmendia Medialab-Prado Plaza de las Letras Calle Alameda, 15. 28014 Madrid difusion at medialab-prado.es http://www.facebook.com/MedialabPradoMadrid Twitter: @medialabprado /"Antes de imprimir este documento aseg?rate de que es realmente necesario. ?Gracias por tu colaboraci?n!"/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From andreas.stuhlmann at uni-hamburg.de Mon Jul 22 15:49:47 2013 From: andreas.stuhlmann at uni-hamburg.de (Andreas Stuhlmann) Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 15:49:47 +0200 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Summer School: Repeat, Remix, Remediate! @ University of Hamburg, Jul 29 - Aug 2 Message-ID: <20130722154947.92763ozy7acdwzgb@webmail.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> Dear list members, I want to draw your attention to this event: http://repeat-remix-remediate.com/ Due to a last minute cancellation, one seat became available, interested parties should contact me directly at andreas.stuhlmann at uni-hamburg.de or remediation at uni-hamburg.de Below please find a detailed description & program. Thank you and apologies for cross-posting, Summer School 2013 Hamburg/Germany, July 29 ? August 2, 2013 This year?s Summer School offered by the Research Center of Media and Communication at the University of Hamburg is picking up upon a crucial issue for current media development ? a topic relevant to academia, media practice and media policy: in the age of digitisation, the landscape of media and communications is being increasingly influenced by phenomena that can be viewed as reappropriations of previously published media communications. This Summer School will pursue central questions about the kinds of reappropriated media communications that are being developed and the relationship between ?old? and ?new? shaping them. This repurposing will be analysed from four different perspectives: repurposing as recombination, as reactualisation, as piracy and as plagiarism. Participants We invite PhD students from a wide range of disciplines, including Media and Communication Studies, Sociology, Literature, Linguistics, Economics and Law. Depending on the number of participants, advanced master?s students will also be welcome. Monday 7/29/13 9.30 am | Welcome & Registration 10.15 am | Introduction Repeat, Remix, Remediate: Terms and Concepts Uwe Hasebrink, Andreas Stuhlmann & other members of the RCMC 12.30 pm | Lunch 1.30 pm | Workshop Social Media: Intro Marie Helena Harder, Graduate School for Media and Communication (GMaC) 2.30 pm | Keynote Media and Memory in a Digital Age: Some Questions for Researchers Joanne Garde-Hansen, University of Warwick (UK) 4 pm | Workshop Open Space I 7 pm | Dinner 8 pm | Film Screening Mocracy: Neverland in Me (Christian von Borries, D 2011, 88 Min.) Schanzenstern & 3001 Cinema Tuesday 7/30/13 9 am | Keynote Permanent Reiteration: User Generated Content as RePin, ReTweet, ReShare, ReWhatever Mirko Tobias Schaefer, Universiteit Utrecht (NL) 11 am | Workshop Technology as a Political Subject Christian von Borries, Conductor, Composer, Producer & Director, Berlin (Germany) 12.30 pm | Workshop Social Media Marie Helena Harder, GMaC 1.30 pm | Lunch 3 pm | Workshop Open Space II 4.45 pm | Workshop The Dark Side of Repeat, Remix, Remediate Michel Clement, RCMC & Christian Sommer, Motion Picture Association of America, Berlin (Germany) Evening | Hamburg & Harbour Wednesday 7/31/13 9 am | Lectures Guilty until Proven Innocent: Pirates, Pornographers, Terrorists and the IT Act in India Nishant Shah, Centre for Internet and Society, Karnataka/Bangalore (India) The King Is Dead, Long Live the King: The Ambiguous Role of Copyright in a Digital Society Wolfgang Schulz, University of Hamburg/Hans Bredow Institute 12 am | Workshop(Lunch included) Remediating Hip-hop Culture Marissa Munderloh, University of St Andrews (Scotland) Remixing: A Practical Approach David Hanke, Renegades of Jazz, Producer & Resident DJ Mojo Club Hamburg 2.45 pm | Excursion Content Center ARD News Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) Thursday 8/1/13 9 am | Keynote Play it again... Novelty versus Familiarity as Predictors of Enjoyment and Interest Allison Eden, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL) 11 am | Workshop Social Media Marie Helena Harder, Graduate School for Media and Communication (GMaC) 12.30 pm | Workshop Practical Work 1 pm | Lunch 3 pm | Workshop Open Space III 4.30 pm | Roundtable Discussion Remediation Unchained Joan K. Bleicher, Kathrin Fahlenbrach & Andreas Stuhlmann, Institut fuer Medien und Kommunikation, University of Hamburg/RCMC 8 pm | Reading An Adventure in Sonic Fiction The English Voice of Thomas Meinecke Thomas Meinecke, Writer, Musician & DJ, Berg/Eurasburg (Germany) GOLEM Friday 8/2/13 10.30 am | Workshop Workshop Social Media: Presentation Marie Helena Harder, GMaC 12.30 pm | Workshop I as Text: Remixing in Literature and Music Thomas Meinecke 2 pm | Lunch 3 pm | Workshop Coming to Terms... Conclusion, Final Debate & Examinations Uwe Hasebrink & Andreas Stuhlmann, RCMC 4.45 pm | Farewell & Departure PD Dr. Andreas Stuhlmann Universit?t Hamburg Research Center Media and Communication (RCMC) Graduate School Media and Communication (GMaC) Mittelweg 177 20148 Hamburg +49(0)40.413307.216 From n.tkacz at warwick.ac.uk Fri Jul 26 15:25:37 2013 From: n.tkacz at warwick.ac.uk (nathaniel tkacz) Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 14:25:37 +0100 Subject: ::fibreculture:: academic technologist position Message-ID: our centre for interdisciplinary methodologies is looking for someone with tech skills to help teach and research digital methods: https://atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/jobs.cgi?owner=5062452&ownertype=fair&jcode=1350987&vt_template=1457&adminview=1 please circulate to relevant parties. best Nathaniel Tkacz Assistant Professor Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies The University of Warwick Twitter: http://twitter.com/__nate__ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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