From Walter.Langelaar at vuw.ac.nz Mon Oct 5 11:50:44 2015 From: Walter.Langelaar at vuw.ac.nz (Walter Langelaar) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 09:50:44 +0000 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Tenure track position in Creative Coding In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: School of Design Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Applications close 18 October 2015 Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Media Design, Creative Coding Victoria University?s School of Design is a leader in the field of design education in New Zealand, with a strong commitment to digital technologies that reflect and support the growth of a vibrant and internationally recognized digital creative sector in Wellington. Join us in training the next generation of media designers and work with our world-class industry partners, such as Weta Digital, PikPok, RESN, and others. The Senior Lecturer role in Media Design focuses on delivering high quality teaching, research, and service in the area of Creative Coding. Applicants should have significant experience in industry-relevant design research and practice, with expertise in the following areas: Generative/procedural graphics, animation, generative/procedural 3D, interactive graphics, parameterized design, computer graphics for augmented reality experiences, stereoscopic/3D film production, computer graphics for game design, and/or computer graphics for film/video production. Additional specialization in other areas is desirable The position requires design expertise first and foremost, to be complimented by other skills or knowledge and must exhibit an understanding of some range of the following approaches and/or software; openGL, openCL, iOS, Python, Processing, C/C++, JAVA, HTML5 Canvas, OpenFrameworks, Blender, Maya, Motion, Flash, Houdini, Shake, Nuke. While a familiarity with industry standard is expected, it is more important that submitted portfolios exhibit an expanded and innovative use of the above studio practices. Candidates should be able to critically address a wide range of design issues and theories relating to current concepts in digital media design practice. Candidates with a Masters or PhD qualification in a relevant field and an established research platform will be given preference for the position. Please include a covering letter, CV, and portfolio of creative work (web based portfolios are preferred). For further information, please contact: Margaret Maile Petty, Head of School, Design at margaret.petty at vuw.ac.nz Applications close 18 October 2015 Victoria University of Wellington is an EEO employer and actively seeks to meet its obligations under the Treaty of Waitangi. For more information and to apply online visit http://www.victoria.ac.nz/about/careers Reference 749 Link: http://www.victoria.ac.nz/about/careers cheers, Walter Langelaar Media Design Lecturer The School of Design // Te Kura Hoahoa Victoria University of Wellington // Te Whare W?nanga o te ?poko o te Ika a M?ui Wellington, New Zealand // Aotearoa p: +64 4 463 5512 e: walter.langelaar at vuw.ac.nz w: http://schoolofdesign.ac.nz From holly.randell-moon at otago.ac.nz Thu Oct 15 00:07:30 2015 From: holly.randell-moon at otago.ac.nz (Holly Randell-Moon) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 22:07:30 +0000 Subject: ::fibreculture:: CFP: Revisiting Audiences: Reception, Identity, Technology Message-ID: Revisiting Audiences: Reception, Identity, Technology 9th ? 10th, June 2016 Second Early Career-Graduate Conference hosted by the Department of Media, Film and Communication, University of Otago, New Zealand Featuring: Associate Professor Sean Redmond (Deakin University, Australia) & Associate Professor Catherine Fowler (University of Otago, New Zealand) Conference conveners: Owain Gwynne and Kevin Fletcher We are surrounded by media texts ? films, television shows, songs, comics, videogames to name but a few. With the growing range of technologies at our disposal, our relationships with media texts and practices are continually evolving, opening up new avenues for inquiry into audiences and reception research. What do these texts mean to us? How do they shape our lives and experiences? Rather than merely receive the texts they encounter, audiences experience texts, not as commodities, but as instances of intense emotional or affective engagement. Texts shape our understanding of the world and the ways we experience it ? they make us laugh, cry, think and dream. They delight and infuriate. They have the power to help us create realities, to relive the past, or to stir us to action and activism. Our everyday interactions with media take many forms and range from identity performance on social media, to nostalgic attachments, and to fandoms. This conference is interested in new ways of making sense of these special relationships between texts and audiences, taking into account how such textual interactions are situated culturally, transnationally and historically. This interdisciplinary conference invites papers to address the ways in which audiences receive, create, engage with and experience texts. Papers that address (but are not limited to) new approaches to the following topics / questions are welcome: ? Youth audiences ? How might younger audiences engage with texts in different ways than older audiences? Does new media affect generational engagement? ? Fandom - What does it mean to be a ?fan? of something? How are different fandoms enacted / performed, including in an academic context? What is the distinction between research and fandom? ? Celebrity culture ? How does contemporary celebrity culture inform industrial shifts in media production and consumption? What are the racialised and geographical dimensions of celebrity and star production? ? Paratexts - How do people take up paratexts (e.g., trailers, prequels, conventions)? How do paratexts construct frameworks of expectations or redefine the meanings of the primary text? ? Relocating moving images ? How are accepted models of viewing and reception changed by the ?relocation? of cinema in art galleries, museums, public and private spaces? ? Audience research and methodologies ? What new research and technological developments are being employed in the study of audiences? How do new technologies such as eye tracking, virtual and augmented reality contribute to reception studies? ? Affective audiences ? How do debates about embodiment and cognition offer new ways of understanding viewer engagement with texts in both domestic and theatrical contexts? How does phenomenological research intersect with moving-image culture? ? Audiences and intellectual property - What is the audience's role in contributing marketing labour to media companies in the contemporary global copyright regime? How do fan-activists use copyrighted texts to promote counter-hegemonic interests? ? Audiences and space - What is the role of space in fandom, cinephilia and telephilia? How do diasporic people engage with texts from the 'homeland'? ? Old versus new media in audience studies ? How does the focus on new media displace the continuing importance of old media for audiences? Does engaging with ?old? media through new media platforms complicate that engagement, and if so how? What do ?new? media forms reveal about ?older? audience practices? The conference is free for accepted presenters and open to interested attendees. There will also be a masterclass led by Associate Professor Sean Redmond on June 8, and a workshop on audience study methodologies by Dr. Rosemary Overell. The masterclass and workshop are also free but are open to a limited number of participants. For more information on the masterclass and the workshop, and how to register, please contact the conference conveners below. Presenters at Revisiting Audiences will be offered the opportunity for a refereed publication in Working Paper Series in the Department of Media, Film and Communication?s flagship journal (http://www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/research/otago040229.html). Please contact the conference conveners with any enquiries and / or expressions of interest. Abstracts of about 200 words with an accompanying bio of no more than 50 words should be submitted as an email attachment in Microsoft Word to the conference email address: mfco_ecg at otago.ac.nz by April 15, 2016. A response to all submissions will be sent by May 1, 2016. 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URL: From maxdovey at gmail.com Mon Oct 26 12:47:39 2015 From: maxdovey at gmail.com (Max Dovey) Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 11:47:39 +0000 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Moneylab#2 Economies of Dissent Message-ID: MoneyLab # 2: Economies of Dissent Strategies and initiatives to defuse the economic crisis MoneyLab#2: Economies of Dissent is a symposium organized by the Institute of Network Cultures on 3 and 4 December 2015 at Pakhuis de Zwijger (Piet Heinkade 179), Amsterdam. MoneyLab#2 is an international symposium hosting artists, activists, programmers and academics who probe, challenge and hack today?s global economy. What political imperatives shape the economy of dissent? What are the different views on the redistribution of wealth and the exchange of value out there? How can we re-design our financial infrastructure? The initiatives on 3 and 4 December Two days of talks, performances and workshops unfurl a raft of financial interventions like visualizations of shadow economies, a guidebook on how to extort money from banks, Robin Hood-style financial hacks, peer-to-peer insurance companies, financial leak platforms, and blockchain initiatives for the commons. A series of hands on workshops will take place throughout the two days to get you familiar with the latest financial alternatives and exchange systems that are defining the economies of dissent. Ascribe will introduce how artists can use the blockchain to regain ownership and copyright over their digital art and CommonEasy will show how de-centralized insurance policies can unify communities for the common good. Artists such as Paolo Cirio will describe how his work dismantles the corruption of offshore tax havens and Silvio Lurusso will talk on the deterministic conditions of crowd funding platforms. Over the two days Moneylab will host over 10 sessions to investigate, uncover and create alternative models of exchange and economic empowerment. The program and speakers The program of MoneyLab#2: Economies of Dissent consists of a combination of panel discussions, presentations, workshops and an art exhibition. *Speakers* include: Brett Scott, Bruce Pon, Cecile Landman, David Golumbia, Eduard de Jong, Enric Duran, Femke Herregraven, Jip de Ridder, Levi Orta, Max Haiven, N?ria G?ell, Paolo Cirio, Paul Radu, Pekko Koskinen, Primavera de Philippi, Rachel O'Dwyer, Robert Boeschoten, Scott Kildall, Silvio Lorusso and Stephanie Rothenberg. *Workshops*: Avenging Money / Negotiating Trust on Crowdfunding platforms / Robin Hood Minor Asset Management / Ascribe / CommonEasy *Topics: *Bringing the Dark Side of Money to Light | Financial Literacy | Artistic Interventions in Finance | Digital Revenue Models in the Arts | Crypto-Currencies and their Future | Tactics for Economic Dissent | Blockchain Technologies and Initiatives | Decentralized Insurance | Digital Currencies | Financial Leak Platforms | Hacking Global Finance | Bank Extortion | Web-based offshore corruption games | Sharia Banking | Ethereum | Exposing Shadow Economies | and much more? Partners Robin Hood Minor Asset Management / CommonEasy / Ascribe Initiators MoneyLab: Economies of Dissent is an initiative of the Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, CREATE-IT Amsterdam Center of Expertise, and the Amsterdam Creative Industries Network of the University of Amsterdam. http://networkcultures.org/moneylab/ Tickets ? 30 per day incl. lunch / ? 60 passe-partout incl. lunch / Students 50% discount, incl. lunch https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/moneylab2-economies-of-dissent-tickets-17047088300 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ned at nedrossiter.org Tue Oct 27 08:53:20 2015 From: ned at nedrossiter.org (Ned Rossiter) Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 18:53:20 +1100 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Digital Infrastructures and Economy, International Symposium & Masterclasses Message-ID: <562F2D70.6090604@nedrossiter.org> Digital Infrastructures and Economy, International Symposium Digital Life Research Program, Institute for Culture and Society Western Sydney University, Parramatta Campus, 3-5 November 2015 http://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/home Event organizers: Ned Rossiter, Juan Francisco Salazar and Liam Magee Summary Digital media technologies of Internet communication and software coupled with supporting infrastructures of storage and transmission have resulted in the production, sharing and distribution of knowledge and culture on scales previously unseen in the history of human life. More recently, the rise of big data analytics associated with sensor technologies and the biometric monitoring of social, urban, industrial and ecological systems has seen the empirical being redefined by algorithmic operations. It is no surprise that finance capital and new economies of exchange are closely tied to many of these developments. Spot rates, for example, are hedged against the delivery times of shipping containers in the maritime industries. Health industries are flourishing with the widespread adoption of consumer self-tracking devices and the scramble for standards designed to subsume life into measures optimised for the sale of medical products. The quantified self has become the exemplary subject around which the design and distribution of a wide array of knowledges across life and labour is organized. Within this maelstrom of change, knowledge orientates itself across public and private institutions, unbound from the university and its attendant ecologies of knowledge production. But while users have come to play a central role in the reorganization of how knowledge is created, distributed and valorised, their influence on the infrastructures structuring and sustaining these knowledges has been especially limited. At the same time, the infrastructural dimension of digital economies is receiving increasing attention, from the shift to low-latency networks and centralized storage systems to the logistical technologies ensuring the synchronization of networked activities. Within such contexts, it makes sense to move outward from the user, now situated and redefined as a node of multiple infrastructures. Yet rather than focusing on this networked self, or the urban equivalent of Sassen?s global city, this international symposium maps these overlapping infrastructures that constitute users as a new kind of economic and epistemological subject. Such an undertaking is no longer a matter of making visible the invisible. What needs to happen is an exploration of how the digital economy changes the way we understand and constitute infrastructure. To effectively address such concerns, the need to develop a conceptual idiom capable of comprehending the scope of digital infrastructures and their economies becomes all the more apparent: from anonymous grassroots activists in support of independent media to hackers able to control industrial infrastructures, from the anonymity of high-frequency trading that complicates the analyses of financial crises to the anonymity of users who prefer to cooperate in their exodus from the world of corporate communications infrastructures. Cutting across sociology, media theory, cultural research, anthropology, science and technology studies, economic geography, computer science, urbanism and design, this two-day international symposium and masterclasses address topics such as the following: - Media infrastructures - Cultural infrastructures - Logistical infrastructures - Management infrastructures - Knowledge infrastructures - Finance infrastructures - Transactional infrastructures - Health infrastructures - Human rights infrastructures - Polar infrastructures - Post-planetary infrastructures Participant numbers for both events are limited, so please be sure to register (details below). Registration is free. Digital Infrastructures and Economy Masterclasses 3 November 2015 Venue: EB3.17 Parramatta South 10.30-12.30 ? Tom?s Arizt?a, Universidad Diego Portales ?Researching Knowledge Making Practices in Market Settings: From Creative Spaces to Digital Infrastructures? Register for this masterclass at: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/masterclass-with-tomas-ariztia-tickets-19245340331 http://tinyurl.com/o4sbtoh 2-4pm ? Akseli Virtanen, Robin Hood, Robin Hood Minor Asset Management Cooperative ?Finance as a Place of Creation: Hacking Finance Capital with Parasitical Algorithms? Register for this masterclass at: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/masterclass-with-akseli-virtanen-tickets-19245415556 http://tinyurl.com/qeb3qst Digital Infrastructures and Economy International Symposium 4-5 November 2015 Day 1: EZ.G.36, Female Orphan School (Westwing), Parramatta South Day 2: EB3.17, Parramatta South Register for the symposium at: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/digital-infrastructures-and-economy-international-symposium-tickets-19245875933 http://tinyurl.com/oaolqze Program 4 November ? Symposium Day 1 10am ? coffee/tea, registration 10.20-10.30am ? Welcome: Professor Paul James, Director, ICS 10.30am ? Introductory comments: Ned Rossiter, Liam Magee, Juan Francisco Salazar 10.45-12.15 ? Mark Burry, ?Gaud?, Cerd? and Big Data: Pre and Post Digital Infrastructure Challenges and Opportunities? 12.15-1.15 ? lunch 1.15-2pm ? Tanya Notley, ?Satellites as Human Rights Infrastructure? 2-3.30 pm ? Justine Humphry, ?Infrastructures of Survival: New Relations of Inclusion and Exclusion in the Digital Reform of Health and Emergency Services? 3.30-4pm ? afternoon tea/coffee 4-5.30pm ? Tom?s Arizt?a, ?Consumer Databases as Practical Accomplishments? 5 November ? Symposium Day 2 10 ? coffee 10.15-11.45am ? Akseli Virtanen, ?Social Architecture for Distributed Capital: Robin Hood 2.0? 11.45am-1.15pm ? Laura Lotti, ?There is no Blockchain without Bitcoin: Toward a New Mode of Accounting (for) in Distributed Networked Economies? 1.15-2pm ? lunch 2-3.30 ? Armin Beverungen, ?Managed by Machines? Enterprise Software, Corporate Power, Algorithmic Management? 3.30-4pm ? afternoon tea/coffee 4-5.30pm ? Juan Francisco Salazar, ?Polar Infrastructures? 5.30-6pm ? Closing panel ? Ned Rossiter Professor of Communication Institute for Culture and Society / School of Humanities and Communication Arts Western Sydney University Parramatta Campus Locked Bag 1797 Penrith NSW 2751 Australia From ned at nedrossiter.org Tue Oct 27 08:53:24 2015 From: ned at nedrossiter.org (Ned Rossiter) Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 18:53:24 +1100 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Masterclasses: Hacking Finance Capital and Digital Ethnography Message-ID: <562F2D74.5010902@nedrossiter.org> Digital Infrastructures and Economy Masterclasses Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University http://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/home 3 November 2015 Venue: EB3.17 Parramatta South 10.30-12.30 ? Tom?s Arizt?a, ?Researching Knowledge Making Practices in Market Settings: From Creative Spaces to Digital Infrastructures? Register for this masterclass at: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/masterclass-with-tomas-ariztia-tickets-19245340331 http://tinyurl.com/o4sbtoh 2-4pm ? Akseli Virtanen, ?Finance as a Place of Creation: Hacking Finance Capital with Parasitical Algorithms? Register for this masterclass at: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/masterclass-with-akseli-virtanen-tickets-19245415556 http://tinyurl.com/qeb3qst Summaries Tom?s Arizt?a, Universidad Diego Portales ?Researching Knowledge Making Practices in Market Settings: From Creative Spaces to Digital Infrastructures? This seminar focuses on discussing some methodological issues regarding doing fieldwork in knowledge spaces in markets. In particular, the seminar will present and discuss some of the strategies and devices I have used in order to deal with challenges that distributed knowledge practices and devices posit to an ethnographic approach. The first part of the seminar will consider a 30-40 minutes presentation of some of the research I have done on knowledge practices (with emphasis on my latter project on data mining/transactional data practices). This will be followed by an open discussion in terms of how to design, think and do fieldwork for researching knowledge in the digital age. Tom?s Arizt?a is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology at Diego Portales University, Chile. His research is concerned with Consumption Studies ? particularly Social Studies of Marketing, Sustainable Consumption and energy ? and Sociology of knowledge. He is particularly interested on how consumers are mobilized in marketing knowledge practices. He has conducted fieldwork in advertising agencies and marketing departments and is currently involved in a three year research project focused on comparing Big Data, Design Thinking and Market Research as different knowledge grammars through which social entities are enacted in markets. Recently he edited the book Produciendo lo social: usos de las ciencias sociales en el Chile reciente (Ediciones UDP, 2012), which explored the connections between social sciences and the production of social worlds.http://www.icso.cl/investigadores/tomas-ariztia-larrain/ Akseli Virtanen, Robin Hood Minor Asset Management Cooperative ?Finance as a Place of Creation: Hacking Finance Capital with Parasitical Algorithms? Robin Hood Asset Management Cooperative is an experiment in the creation of new social and economic forms. It is an algorithmic hedge fund synthetically imitating the emerging conventions of the financial oligarchy at the U.S. stock market, assembled as a cooperative, and operating programs of common equity and protection of the common. In this workshop we try to open up some of the background thinking, some of the things we have learned, the dead ends we have met, and why it has become necessary for Robin Hood to now take on a new and more monstrous form ? as a financial platform of the future. Finance is a place of creation. What new possibilities does appropriating and reengineering financial technologies together with the organizational possibilities of blockchain technology offer for today?s workers, makers, co-creators, peers, crowds becoming new kind of economic operators? Akseli Virtanen is a theorist of new political economy, born in Finland and currently based in Santa Cruz, California. He is a co-founder of Robin Hood Asset Management Cooperative, an activist hedge fund, currently in the process of taking on a new more monstrous form as a financial platform of the future. Akseli?s recent books include Arbitrary Power: A Contribution Towards a Critique of Biopolitical Economy (n-1 Edi??es, forthcoming 2015). http://www.robinhoodcoop.org/