CFP: Digital Resources for Humanities and Arts (DRHA)

DRHA 2011 (Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts) Conference

Connected Communities: global or local2local?

Call for Papers and Performances

The deadline for submissions for papers and/or performances/installations is Monday 31st January 2011.

Applications from Curatorial based papers and panels very welcome !

Sunday 4th September - Wednesday 7th September 2011
University of Nottingham Ningbo, China
(with add on option of Saturday 3rd September in Shanghai)

In 2011 the DRHA conference will explore the new connectivities in societies and cultures which are enabled by the blending of virtual and physical space, the traversing of time and space through the virtual, and the evolution of innovative methodologies. Crossing disciplines and challenging boundaries within the humanities, arts and the creative industries, this conference will examine critically familiar notions of the ‘local’, the ‘global’ and the ‘network’ across the cultural spectrum.

Please see http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cas/digitalresearchinthehumanitiesarts2011/index.aspx for more information. Abstracts should be approx 600 words. All submissions must be on-line.

Co-chairs - DRHA 2011 Judith Still (University of Nottingham) and Ghislaine Boddington (Middlesex University/ body>data>space). Conference Lead - Andy White (Nottingham University, Ningbo, China)

Mourning the Death of Education, Dec 15th 2010

forwarded from marc garrett / furtherfield:

join us for a minute's silence on Resonance FM, mourning the death of
Education Dec 15th, 7-8pm http://tinyurl.com/ya6pzs5

A Collection of Many Problems (In Memory of the Dead Media Handbook)

telharmonium

http://www.conceptlab.com/problems/ && http://www.conceptlab.com/problems/milan/ for the documentation
book available for 7.78$ at: http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/a-collection-of-many-problems-%28in-memory-of-the-dead-media-handbook%29/5486558


from http://net-art.org/node/240:

"A Collection of Many Problems" by Garnet Hertz, extracted out of the Ancient and Modern Philosophers: as, Secrets and Experiments in Informaticks, Geometry, Cosmography, Horologiography, Astronomy, Navigation, Musick, Opticks, Architecture, Statick, Mechanics, Chymistry, Water-Works, Fire-Works, &c. In memory of the Dead Media Handbook.

This book concept is a continuation of Bruce Sterling's Dead Media Handbook proposal (1995), and is influenced by contemporary writings in media archaeology. Its format is inspired by Quentin Fiore's design of Marshall McLuhan's The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects (1967).

Licensing: This bookwork is currently being sold at cost and without profit to the author, and is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License: you are free to share, copy, distribute, transmit, remix and adapt the work.

Graduiertenfeier @ Stift Göttweig, Dec 4th 2010

tomorrow I will be at the Graduiertenfeier @ Stift Göttweig. i wished all of you could be there and we could see each other again. i'll be thinking of all of you && will take you with me in my pocket! many <3!

Olia Lialina, My Boyfriend Came Back From the War

My boyfriend came back from the war from Per Platou on Vimeo.

jon satrom && ben syverson introducing the satromizerOS

Introducing Satromizer OS from Pox Party on Vimeo.

media art and sustainable energy

Energetics and Informatics: the 7th ADA Symposium, Whanganui, December 10-12 2010

The 7th ADA Network Symposium examines the relationship between energy and information in media arts. We ask how sustainable is the technology that supports media art? What new forms of practice are developing at the intersection of energy conservation and production, technology, and art? And how can we balance a global arts practice with the ethical complexities of global air travel, and the social complexities of remote participation?

These issues will be explored through keynote presentations, discussions, artist presentations, workshops, a screening programme and two exhibitions.

The symposium features keynote presentations by internationally renowned sound and media arts theorist Douglas Kahn, and Australian artists Joyce Hinterding and David Haines, and a remote conversation with London-based media artist Graham Harwood, creator of the Coal Fired Computer.

http://symposium10.aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/

taxonomedia project

A Taxonomedia (Consuelo Rozo and Vanina Hofman) interview by Raquel Herrera posted at the new media fix website can be found here.

We, in Taxonomedia, regard documentation as a privileged tool to explain an important artistic production which hardly could be conserved through other kinds of strategies. On the one hand, because of the essentially economic questions we have previously mentioned. The conservation projects that suggest solutions such as emulators and migrations are beyond the scope of most museums and media spaces, and probably their efforts in that direction are not sustainable in the medium or long run. On the other hand, there are expressions within art based on technologies that don’t “allow for their conservation”, and if presented with this situation, the artist’s intention must be respected. Finally, also, through their documentation and subsequent availability, the work might be able to survive as a concept and be recreated in other works. Projects like Variable Media delve into the conservation of the integrity of the work regardless of its medium, clearly considering media art within the field of conceptual art, emphasizing a perspective which many would find inadmissible, but is interesting to us.
(...)

To be able to access this material as it was in this day represents a huge time investment, a specific budget, provided also that the artist wants to work on that again. In some cases this might mean counting on programmers and developers to generate platforms that allow the piece to work seamlessly in current environments. We have translated a paradigmatic case undertaken for the exhibition Seeing Double (Guggenheim Museum) about the work The Erl King by Roberta Friedman and Grahame Weinbren. Examples like these are feasible if there’s an institution like a museum, a specialized archive or a project that might take charge. It is also possible, if the artist was willing to undertake it herself, as could be in the example you mentioned. She might add some ideas to the piece she didn’t include in the past and the technology she might have to use might also alter the particularities of the work. So we can imagine The Intruder might be different if manipulated, although we leave this aspect at the hands of the artist.

Reinterpretation and documentation are ways of contact with many of the previous works, but unfortunately the experience is hardly repeatable.

Artists Re:Thinking Games

re-posted from neural.it:

Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett, Corrado Morgana - 
Artists Re: Thinking Games


FACT/Liverpool University Press, 
87 pages
, 2010, 
English
, ISBN-13: 978-1846312472
Ruth Catlow and Marc Garrett, the two founders of Furtherfield (a collaborative artist-led community and organization dealing with art, technology and social change since 1996) are joined by artist and curator Corrado Morgana in editing this nice compendium of texts about game art. In the Furtherfield tradition the book is centered on artistic practice and is engaged with re-thinking games and their set of expected rules and stereotypes. So a few unedited interviews and texts by a valuable roster of contributors (Mary Flanagan, Mathias Fuchs, Anne-Marie Schleiner, Heather Corcoran, Daphne Dragona, Emma Westecott and David Surman) share quite a few remarkable concepts and topics: from "slow gaming" defined by Corcoran to the "interpassivity" formulated by Fuchs and the freedom of movement in game space discussed by Schleiner. Morgana, in the introduction, tries to frame many of these practices within Situationism and its strategies, including the preeminent and famous détournement. And strategies are undoubtedly essential for game art, so Morgana also points to the hacker approach as the other reference for artists who recombine games technically and conceptually. Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Space Invaders: Art and the Computer Game Environment" at FACT Liverpool (which travelled to the Netherlands Media Art Institute), this book talks about artists who construct non-normative games, and collects a representative selection of the significant game art scene.

ISEA2011 ISTANBUL Call for Papers, Artworks, Panels and Workshops

CALL FOR 90 MINUTE PANEL PROPOSALS FOR ISEA2011 ISTANBUL CONFERENCE

ISEA2011 ISTANBUL dates are September 14 to 21 and the event will coincide with the Istanbul Biennial.
Please note that multiple proposals are acceptable.

Proposals should be submitted by panel chairs or co-chairs who will organize the session including its call for submissions or invitations.


PROPOSALS SHOULD PROVIDE AND ADDRESS THE FOLLOWING:

* A catchy title - you really need to stand out in the sea of information

* Concept for the panel and areas of investigation in the form of an abstract no longer than 350 words

* Keywords (maximum 10)

* Questions the panel will raise

* Specific topic areas presenters could address

* What types of presentation formats will be considered

* If your panel will be invitational, indicate the possible panelists (this is an hypothetical list the reviewers would like to see a sampling of your potential panelists)

* If your panel will have a call for submissions, provide a timetable for the process

* Include Email and Phone Contacts for Chair &/or Co-Chair together with address and affiliation



Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) will provide the best panels proposal with an online platform for discussions (with ISSN: 10714391) leading up to the conference and moderated by the Chair &/or Co-Chair. Please state if you are interested in your proposal to be considered for a LEA Discussion (LEAD).


http://doc.gold.ac.uk/isea2011/ocs/index.php/isea2011/Istanbul