From s.cubitt at gold.ac.uk Tue Oct 14 10:15:30 2014 From: s.cubitt at gold.ac.uk (Sean Cubitt) Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 08:15:30 +0000 Subject: ::fibreculture:: UK/EU PhD scholarships @ Goldsmiths Message-ID: <92D7CDAE-CC6B-40E6-AFD8-19643D8247CE@gold.ac.uk> The Department of Media & Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London is inviting applications for September 2015 entry to our PhD programme. Goldsmiths is part of a block grant AHRC studentship partnership (with Sussex, Kent, East Anglia, Essex, The Courtauld and the Open University) which means that we will be entering successful applicants to our PhD programmes to a competition for these studentships in the spring of 2015. The funding has been awarded to CHASE (Consortium for Humanities and the Arts South-East England)? a partnership of seven institutions formed to promote excellence in research, postgraduate research training and knowledge exchange in the arts and humanities. Applications will be considered jointly by the partner universities via four panels. Applications will be considered on a competitive basis. For UK students, these awards cover both fees and maintenance and for EU residents awards are on a fees only basis. The funding will cover, professional development opportunities, including the enhancement of media skills and placements overseas or with prestigious arts organisations. If you want to be considered for one of these awards, please note that you need to have been accepted onto a PhD programme by 14 January 2015. This means that for September 2015 entry you will need to have made a formal application to the programme by the end of December 2014 and have had initial contact with us to discuss your proposal by early December 2014. (The consortium will run for several years: we are open to discuss entry in subsequent years with potential candidates) For any enquiries to the PhD programme of the Department of Media & Communications, Goldsmiths please contact the PhD admissions tutor, Dr Richard MacDonald (r.macdonald at gold.ac.uk); and to see staff expertise please consult http://www.gold.ac.uk/media-communications/staff/. Topic areas covered in the CHASE consortium include Digital Arts & Photography History, Theory and Practice Popular Culture Cultural Studies (Policy, Arts Management and Creative Industries) Ethnography and Anthropology Interpreting and Translation Journalism and Publishing Media and communication studies Installation and Sound Art History, Theory and Practice; Film-Based and Time-Based History, Theory and Practice Media: New Media/Web-Based Studies Media: Film History, Theory and Criticism Music Media: Television History, Theory and Criticism Information and Communications Technologies The criteria for selecting the scholarship awards are: - quality of the research proposal -academic achievement / equivalent professional experience (normally first class honours and a distinction at Masters level) - excellent references (potential supervisors can provide one but not both) - demonstrated preparedness for research - including whatever evidence can be provided that they will finish in 3 years - benefit of the research environment to the candidate's research (written with the proposed supervisor) The research proposal should contain the following elements: o key areas/issues of the project, and why you wish to pursue this research; o the research problems or questions you intend to address; o the research context in which those problems or questions are located; o the particular contribution to knowledge and understanding in this area that you hope to make, explaining why the work is important and noting relevance to non-academic beneficiaries, as appropriate; o the methods and critical approaches that you plan to use, and the sources, if appropriate; o how the proposed work relates to what you have studied already; o any ethical issues relating to the research project including how these will be identified and addressed. o how the project will develop over the period of the award. o how the doctoral research relates to your eventual career aims. Sean Cubitt Professor of Film and Television Co-Head, Department of Media and Communications Goldsmiths, University of London s.cubitt at gold.ac.uk Latest publication: The Practice of Light: A Geneaology of Visual technologies form Prints to Pixels https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/practice-light -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rachel.odwyer at gmail.com Tue Oct 14 17:35:39 2014 From: rachel.odwyer at gmail.com (Rachel O' Dwyer) Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 16:35:39 +0100 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Openhere Festival: November 14.11-16.11 Message-ID: ?*Open*here *14.11-16.11 2014* 3D printed goods, cryptocurrencies, digital sharing ? just some of the disruptive online practices and technologies that are transforming and reshaping our economy. These innovative technologies have impacted the market, enabling new business models, evolving market conditions and transforming economic and social landscapes. However, the commodification and commercial adoption of these disruptive technologies has also raised concerns and questions in terms of access, control and sustainability. How can we develop these practices to not only support a digital commons, but also to support more equitable and sustainable worlds? *Open*here is a 3-day international festival and conference where online practices such as sharing, peer-production and open source meet real world material economies. The program brings together researchers, artists, engineers and activists to critically engage alternative economic models and digital currencies, open source hardware and ecology, and new forms of peer production and sharing happening at the intersection of digital and real world spaces. Sessions include talks, panel discussions, workshops and screenings. *Participants include:* Benjamin Tincq, Brett Scott, Cathal Garvey, Chelsea Rustrum, Denisa Kera, Duncan McCann, Eli Gothill, Gawin Dapper, Geraldine Ju?rez, Graham Barnes Kevin Flanagan, Lana Swartz, Linda Doyle, L?? Smyth, Nigel Dodd, Nora O? Murch?, Peter Hanappe, Rachel O?Dwyer, The Robin Hood Cooperative, Sean Cubitt, Vasilis Kostakis and more. *Topics include:* Alternative Currencies* |* Open Sourcing Finance* |* Open Hardware* |* Distributed Manufacturing *|* Open Source Ecology* | *Peer Production *|* Sharing Economies For more information, program details and to book a place www.openhere.data.ie *Open*here is a joint initiative of (CTVR) The Telecommunications Research Centre in collaboration with the Dublin Art and Technology Association (D.A.T.A) and is supported by the Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin. -- Editor in Chief of Interference A Journal of Audio Culture www.interferencejournal.com www.data.ie Lecturer Department Computer Science Dunlop Oriel House Trinity College Dublin 01 8964243 085 7023779 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: banner2.png Type: image/png Size: 5601 bytes Desc: not available URL: From ned at nedrossiter.org Wed Oct 15 05:24:23 2014 From: ned at nedrossiter.org (Ned Rossiter) Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 14:24:23 +1100 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Digital Humanities 2015 cfp Message-ID: <543DE8E7.1010401@nedrossiter.org> From: Paul Arthur Date: Tuesday, 14 October 2014 5:35 pm To: Paul Arthur Subject: Digital Humanities 2015 cfp -- Digital Humanities 2015: Global Digital Humanities Sydney, Australia, 29 June?3 July 2015 The annual conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) http://dh2015.org The call for proposals for the Digital Humanities 2015 conference is open now, with abstracts for papers, panels and posters due by 3 November 2014. See: http://dh2015.org/cfp/. The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites submission of abstracts on any aspect of digital humanities including, but is not limited to: humanities research enabled through digital media, data mining, software studies, or information design and modeling; computer applications in literary, linguistic, cultural, and historical studies, including electronic literature, public humanities, and interdisciplinary aspects of modern scholarship; digital arts, architecture, music, film, theatre, new media, digital games, and related areas; creation and curation of humanities digital resources; social, institutional, global, multilingual, and multicultural aspects of digital humanities; and digital humanities in pedagogy and academic curricula. DH2015 is the first of the annual international Digital Humanities conferences to be held outside of Europe and North America in its 26-year history, and will be hosted by the Digital Humanities Research Group at the University of Western Sydney, in partnership with the State Library of New South Wales. Bursaries The Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) is pleased to announce that 5 x $500 travel bursaries are available, on a competitive basis, to enable emerging and early career scholars and practitioners from Australia and New Zealand to attend and present their research. There are a further 10 x $1000 iVEC bursaries that have generously been provided for travel from Western Australia. For full details see http://dh2015.org/bursaries/. Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) Bursaries: 5 x aaDH bursaries (value $500 per bursary) will be available, for applicants resident in Australia and New Zealand. Bursaries are primarily intended to support outstanding emerging or early career scholars and practitioners. iVEC Bursaries: 10 x iVEC bursaries (value $1000 per bursary) will be available, on a competitive basis, for applicants resident in Western Australia. Preference will be given to full-time Higher Degree Research students or Early Career Researchers (PhD awarded no longer than five years earlier), but others may also apply. If you wish to be considered for any of the above categories of bursaries, you must first submit an abstract using the online abstract submission system and tick the check box indicating you wish to be considered for a bursary. Once the review process is concluded and the letters of acceptance have been issued in early 2015, applicants for bursaries will be expected to submit a written proposal for bursary funding. Everyone meeting the criteria for each of the bursaries will be eligible, but clicking the box will inform the Awards Committee that you will submit a proposal and will enable us to send you a reminder. Successful applicants will be notified once the rankings of the bursary applications are concluded. ? From johan.soderberg at sts.gu.se Fri Oct 31 01:46:12 2014 From: johan.soderberg at sts.gu.se (=?utf-8?B?Sm9oYW4gU8O2ZGVyYmVyZw==?=) Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 00:46:12 +0000 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Journal of Peer Production #5: Shared Machine Shops Message-ID: <407D780F3E26B94EA7B14343F9986C7C01DCFC3290@gu-mbx07.ad.gumail.local> ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ????? ?????? ???? ?????? ???????????? ??????????? ? ????????????? ??? ?? ?? ????? ????? ? ???? ???????????? ??????? ?? ?? ?? ? ?? ?? ? ??? ????????? ?? ?? ???? ???? ? ??????? ? ? ? ?????? ?????? ? ????? ? ??? ***************************************************************************** ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ***************************************************************************** ===> Journal of Peer Production #5: Shared Machine Shops -- out now! <=== .oO{ http://peerproduction.net/ }Oo. \\ Release: 2014-10-31 // .Public domain!. <*> +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ * Editing: + Maxigas Universitat Oberta de Catalunya + Peter Troxler International Fab Lab Association Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Despite the marketing clangour of the ?maker movement?, shared machine shops are currently ?fringe phenomena? since they play a minor role in the production of wealth, knowledge, political consensus and the social organisation of life. Interestingly, however, they also prominently share the core transformations experienced in contemporary capitalism. The convergence of work, labour and other aspects of life -- the rapid development of algorithmically driven technical systems and their intensifying role in social organisation -- the practical and legitimation crisis of institutions, echoed by renewed attempts at self-organisation. Each article in this special issue addresses a received truth which circulates unreflected amongst both academics analysing these phenomena and practitioners engaged in the respective scenes. Questioning such myths based on empirical research founded on a rigorous theoretical framework is what a journal such as the Journal of Peer Production can contribute to both academic and activist discourses. Shared machine shops have been around for at least a decade or so, which makes for a good time to evaluate how they live up to their self-professed social missions. Here is an executive summary: * Shared Machine Shops are not new. * Fab Labs are not about technology. * Sharing is not happening. * Hackerspaces are not open. * Technology is not neutral. * Hackerspaces are not solving problems. * Fab Labs are not the seeds of a revolution. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ #=================================+ # T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S | #=================================+ # #-------------------+ # EDITORIAL SECTION | #-------------------+ # # * We Now have the Means of Production, but Where is my Revolution? # by maxigas and Peter Troxler # # * Digitally-Operated Atoms vs. Bits of Rhetoric # by Ursula Gastfall, Thomas Fourmond, Jean-Baptiste Labrune and Peter Troxler # # * Critical Notions of Technology: Promises of Empowerment in Shared Machine Shops # by Susana Nascimento # # * Distributed and Open Creation Platforms as Key Enablers for Smarter Cities # by Tomas Diez # # * Fab Labs Forked: A Grassroots Insurgency inside the Next Industrial Revolution # by Peter Troxler # # * Cultural Stratigraphy: A Rift between Shared Machine Shops # by maxigas # #----------------------+ # PEER REVIEWED PAPERS | #----------------------+ # # * Technology Networks for socially useful production # by Adrian Smith # # * The Story of MIT-Fablab Norway: Community Embedding of Peer Production # by Cindy Kohtala and Camille Bosqu? # # * Sharing is Sparing: Open Knowledge Sharing in Fab Labs # by Patricia Wolf, Peter Troxler, Pierre-Yves Kocher, Julie Harboe & Urs Gaudenz # # * Feminist Hackerspaces: The Synthesis of Feminist and Hacker Cultures # by Sophie Toupin # # * Beyond Technological Fundamentalism: Peruvian Hack Labs # and ?Inter-technological? Education # by Anita Say Chan [html] [pdf] # # * Becoming Makers: Hackerspace Member Habits, Values, and Identities # by Austin Toombs, Shaowen Bardzell, and Jeffrey Bardzell # # * Shared Machine Shops as Real-life Laboratories # by Sascha Dickel, Jan-Peter Ferdinand, and Ulrich Petschow # # ... Respect for all the contributors, peer reviewers, and readers! ... # v ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RELEASE PARTY at FSCONS 2014 Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit 2014-10-31 20:00, Renstr?msgatan 6, G?teburg, Sweden Join us at http://irc.indymedia.org #jopp channel !!!