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Faculty Opening
Head, School of Design

Carnegie Mellon University is inviting applications for the position of Head of the School of Design.
At Carnegie Mellon’s School of Design, we believe design to be a humanistic discipline, the art of conceiving, planning, and shaping products that are made to serve the needs and desires of people. We believe that design will change the world, a world that values the quality of people’s lives in balance with a healthy and sustainable planet. We build on the humanistic, artistic, and scientific strengths of Carnegie Mellon as a leading research university, to identify and address new problems as they emerge.
The person filling this position must be able to work effectively with a wide range of people: faculty, staff, students, alumni, donors, university leaders, parents and friends of the University. The position requires effective decision-making, consultative problem solving, creative management, embracing of new technology, and a high [...]

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[b]New Book[/b]
[b]Artistic Bedfellows, edited by Holly Crawford[/b]
Released 9/28/09 Published by UPA/Roman & Littlefield.

Although the modernist notion of art as autonomous
has been thoroughly contested, the discourse of the
artist as celebrated individual persists. As a counter
to that, this eclectic collection of writings on
‘collaboration as a cultural practice’ starts from the
standpoint that collective approaches have been a
characteristic feature of artistic production
throughout the 20th century and that a rich cultural and
artistic interchange results from shared experience
and dialogue. Informed by contemporary notions of an
emergent ‘relational’ sensibility and participative
forms of social and cultural activity (such as the
worldwide web) the editor, Holly Crawford, brings together a series
of interviews, essays, conversations
[img][img] and remarks on collaboration. International visual
artists, critics, writers and musicians explore a
range of histories, discourses and theories relating
to communal, collective practices including FLUXUS, Zero, GRAV
and SPUR in [...]

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new web3d art project ! participations welcome
[img]http://www.nobox-lab.com/sharedscapes/sharedscapes.jpg[/img]

http://www.sharedscapes.net

sharedscapes – points de vue sur les paysages / points of view on landscapes
SHAREDSCAPES is an experimental shared space, a platform for creatvity, research and self-expression. It welcomes online submissions of texts, pictures and sounds, which will express your definitions of the concept of landscape.
The primary aim of SHAREDSCAPES is to provide a discussion forum for points of view inspired by the concept of landscape. Through the medium of the technological translation of material published online, its secondary aim is to create a 3D space or sculpture in real time. This will crystalise that material, seeking to bring together computer-generated images, chaotic/generative modelling and a “virtual reality” space. Little by little, a virtual landscape will develop. Its composition will not be subject to the physical constraints of a site (in concrete geographical terms) but to the technological exchanges of human beings virtually [...]

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The Georgian mansion of South Hill Park in Bracknell hosts the Sound:Space sound art
symposium on Saturday 1st November 2008, bringing a packed programme of artist talks,
installations and performance to the South East.
The “Kinetic Drawings” installation by innovative sound artist and kinetic sculptor, Max Eastley
acts as the centre piece for this year’s event, with a collection of Eastley’s delicate, kinetic
sound machines occupying our main exhibition space in the Bracknell Gallery, with selected
complimentary exhibitions around the Mansion building.
The list of artists includes Jana Winderen, Ray Lee, a Chris Watson surround sound installation and a live performance from Max Eastley and Peter Cusack.
Discounted accomodation is available with a local hotel, and details of this, plus travel directions and full
programme information can be found on the web at www.sound-space.info
South Hill Park, Ringmead, Bracknell, Berks RG12 7PA
Box Office, tel: 01344 484123 [...]

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A New Net Artwork by [b]Jason Nelson and Davin Heckman[/b].
[b]Endings Eventually End[/b]

http://www.secrettechnology.com/doomcount/endhere.html

is a strange collection of interactive Doomsday Countdowns
where the end days events are fictional oddness galore
and just cause yer grand:
[b]
Strange Hollows: 15 strange uses of black holes[/b]

http://www.secrettechnology.com/blackholes/collider.html

more cheers than cheers allow, Jason Nelson

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pourinfos.org
l’actualite du monde de l’art / daily Art news
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>From Monday, 29 September 2008 to Tuesday 14 October 2008 (included)
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(mostly in french)

@ 001 (29/09/2008)
Call for participation: DIAGONAL – Call workforce, Montreal, Canada.

http://pourinfos.org/art-35985-tit–DIAGONALE-Appel-d-oeuvre-Montreal-

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@ 002 (29/09/2008)
Various: FIAC 2008 : THE NATIONAL CENTER OF FINE ARTS ACQUIRES OF WORKS FOR THE STATE, CNAP, Paris, France.

http://pourinfos.org/art-35994-tit-Divers-FIAC-2008-LE-CENTRE-NATIONAL-DES

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@ 003 (29/09/2008)
Job: Coordinator for program, L’Œil de Poisson, Quebec, Canada.

http://pourinfos.org/art-35996-tit–Coordonnateur-coordonnatrice-la

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@ 004 (30/09/2008)
Call: artists performers, La Compagnie Luc Amoros, Strasbourg, France.

http://pourinfos.org/art-35980-tit–artistes-performeurs-La-Compagnie-Luc

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@ 005 (30/09/2008)
Call: young video film, call for applications, FIPA de Biarritz, France.

http://pourinfos.org/art-35988-tit–jeune-cr-ation-vid-o-cin-ma-appel-

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@ 006 (01/10/2008)
Call: digital prints, Center for Visual Artists, Centre d’artistes Voix Visuelle, Ottaxa, Canada.

http://pourinfos.org/art-35984-tit–Les-estampes-num-riques-Centre

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@ 007 (01/10/2008)
Call: Production Center DAÏMÕN ·APPEL DE PROJETS, Gatineau, Canada.

http://pourinfos.org/art-35986-tit–Centre-de-production-DA-M-N-APPEL-DE

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@ 008 (01/10/2008)
Call: VISUALIZAR’08: DATABASE CITY, Medialab-Prado, Madrid, Spain.

http://pourinfos.org/art-35987-tit–VISUALIZAR-08-DATABASE-CITY-

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@ 009 (02/10/2008)
Call: BOURSE DU TALENT #36, theme: SPACE – LANDSCAPE – ARCHITECTURE, Magazine Photographie.com, Paris, France.

http://pourinfos.org/art-35983-tit–BOURSE-DU-TALENT-36-th-me-ESPACE-

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@ 010 (02/10/2008)
Call: one minute video, UNE MINUTE 2009, VIDEOFORMES, Clermont-Ferrand, France.

http://pourinfos.org/art-35989-tit–concours-UNE-MINUTE-2009-VIDEOFORMES-

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@ 011 (02/10/2008)
Petition: saving “La Forge de Belleville”, Paris, [...]

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Zack and Miri Make a Porno – TrailerLifelong friends and roommates Zack (Seth Rogen) and Miri (Elizabeth Banks) are facing hard times and a mountain of debt. When the electricity and plumbing get cut off, they seize upon the idea of making a homegrown porno movie for some quick cash, enlisting the help of their friends. The two vow that having sex will not ruin their friendship. But as filming begins, what started out as a business proposition between friends turns into something much more.Directed by: Kevin SmithStarring: Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks, Traci Lords, Ason Mewes, Ricky Mare

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Proud American – TrailerTolerance, freedom, education and personal responsibility, the pillars that make America a truly grand society. Proud American presents five powerful singular stories all of which magnify the themes mentioned above. Our film is an emotional, inspirational, and visual journey depicting America and the everyday Americans who exemplify the best that we can be. Directed by: Fred AshmanStarring: Jonathan Bank, Michael Barretta, Kimberlin Brown

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August Evening – TrailerAugust Evening follows an aging undocumented farm worker named Jaime and his young, widowed daughter-in-law, Lupe, as their lives are thrown into upheaval. Lupe is more of a daughter to Jaime than his own children, and the two try to stick together… but change is inevitable. At the heart of the story is the conflict between generations. Aging parents and grown children have difficulty expressing both their love and mutual disappointment in each other. A father recognizes the unstoppable force of time and must say goodbye to his daughter so she can start her own life. The film is naturalistic in tone, featuring humming cicadas, ethereal music, chicken farms, meaningful glances, and rustling leaves. It includes subtle romance, gentle humor and heartbreaking tragedy, but it should not be depressing. Instead, we concentrate on the Japanese idea of "mono no aware," which is difficult to translate, [...]

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[b]Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana[/b] and s[b]teirischer herbst festival, Graz [/b]
kindly invite you to the exhibition:

[b]Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša
NAME Readymade[/b]
www.aksioma.org/name
[b]Exhibition curator:[/b] Zdenka Badovinac
[b]steirischer herbst festival[/b]
Forum Stadtpark, Stadtpark1, Graz, Austria
4 – 25 October 2008
[b]Opening:[/b] 4 October 2008 at 3:00 pm
[b]Artists talk:[/b] 5 October 2008 at 5:30 pm

[b]NAME Readymade[/b]
Janez Janša is the name of Slovenia’s economic-liberal, conservative prime minister – and has also been the name of three well-known Slovenian artists since the summer of 2007; officially and with all the papers and stamps required for an official name change. All of their works, their private affairs, in a word their whole life has been conducted under this name ever since.
One year later, they are now analysing the effects of this gesture in an exhibition for the first time. All of the exhibits are immediate products of reality: Janša, Janša and Janša turn the relationship of art and [...]

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“Do something” is a special progress bar that shows in real time the elapsed percents of my life. The start date is of course my birth day, and the “death” date was estimated using the male life expectancy in France (source : CIA World Factbook 2008).
I think this vision of time running is particularly motivating, even though some people may find it depressing.

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AMomentOfSilence.tv is a multi-purpose memorial on the internet, commemorating any event that calls for a space of contemplation. Taken from a moment of silence on television which has been stretched and endlessly looped, AMomentOfSilence.tv works as though all moments of silence have been laid end to end, creating an endless memorial.

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The 2nd International Festival for NanoArt organized by NanoArt21 (http://nanoart21.org) will be hosted in Stuttgart, Germany by NAHVISION Institute for International Culture Exchange, between November 1st and November 30th, 2008. The show is curated by artist/scientist Cris Orfescu (USA) and art professor Dorothea Fleiss (Germany).
18 artists from 8 countries were selected to participate with their works at this invitational event: Geert Lensens (Belgium), Hugh McGrory (Ireland), Teresa Majerus (Luxembourg), Bjoern Daempfling, Dorothea Fleiss (Germany), Han Halewijn (Netherlands), Elena Lucia Constantinescu (Romania), Teja Krasek (Slovenia), Chris Robinson, Cris Orfescu, David Derr, David Hylton, Derek Toomre, Jan Kirstein, Judith Lightfeather, Lisa Black, Siddhartha Pathak, Steven Pollard (USA).
NanoArt is a new art discipline at the art-science-technology intersections. It features nanolandscapes (molecular and atomic landscapes which are natural structures of matter at molecular and atomic scales) and nanosculptures (structures created by scientists and artists by manipulating matter at molecular and atomic scales using [...]

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youtube video, sound, 2′20

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No longer mere distractions cooked-up by programmers as a form of light relief in the early days of computers, video games have evolved into a variety of forms and have had a wide impact on multiple generations. To some extent, the same can now be said of art that addresses video games, the visual complexity and conceptual richness of which has grown with the medium. An exhibition guest-curated by artists Marcin Ramocki and Paul Slocum at Arthouse explores “the history, control mechanisms, political and art-historical implications of electronic games” by surveying both better-known and more emerging practitioners of game-related art, including Cory Arcangel, Michael Bell-Smith, Mike Beradino, Brody Condon, Alex Galloway, JODI, Guthrie Lonergan, Kristin Lucas, Joe McKay, Michael Smith, Eddo Stern, and Keita Takahashi. RESET/PLAY is up through November 2nd and is accompanied by a series of public events that includes a night of video game competitions and [...]

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Carnegie Mellon University is inviting applications for the position of Head of the School of Design.
At Carnegie Mellon’s School of Design, we believe design to be a humanistic discipline, the art of conceiving, planning, and shaping products that are made to serve the needs and desires of people. We believe that design will change the world, a world that values the quality of people’s lives in balance with a healthy and sustainable planet. We build on the humanistic, artistic, and scientific strengths of Carnegie Mellon as a leading research university, to identify and address new problems as they emerge.
The person filling this position must be able to work effectively with a wide range of people: faculty, staff, students, alumni, donors, university leaders, parents, and friends of the university. The position requires effective decision-making, consultative problem solving, creative management, embracing of new technology, and a high level of energy, dedication, and [...]

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Call for participants: “Kisses and break-ups”
“Kisses and break-ups” is documenting the world’s kisses and break-ups, in order to better understand them.
More specifically, we’ve been collecting:
(1) information about the first time participants kissed any one of the people they have kissed; and
(2) information on participants’ break-ups.
The final product will include maps and charts; an interactive website; and free walking tours.
Would you like to help by sharing information on your kisses and break-ups? We hope so!
To view the maps that we’ve created from the data we’ve received so far, click here: http://timdevin.com/knb-maps.html
To learn more about participating, email Tim at kisses.breakups@gmail.com , or click here: http://timdevin.com/knb-participate.html
Thanks!
Tim Devin
www.timdevin.com
www.rise-ind.com

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CLOUDS OF CLOUDS
by Miguel Leal and Luis Sarmento
===========================

http://www.virose.pt/clouds_of_clouds

Clouds of clouds is a random generator of cloud images. Each new cloud is unique and indexed to a particular time (GMT) on a particular day.
Clouds of Clouds was developed in Perl + MySQL. It works over a database of more than 1.000.000 photos of clouds.
Photo information was gathered from Flickr between September 10-13 2008, using Flickr API.
The database will be regularly updated.
Clouds of clouds is a web-based project comissioned for Interact 15 [http://www.interact.com.pt/].
The project was produced between July and September 2008.
hosted by virose.pt
______________________
“This is randomness, and that is altogether different. If absolutely necessary, you can count the stars. A catalogue has been kept of them since Antiquity. But if you ask for a catalogue of the clouds, people laugh at you. There is no such term as cloud, defined as permanent, defined by its borders, by its terms or its terminations. […] [...]

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University of Washington Bothell
Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program
Interdisciplinary Arts (AA2175). Assistant Professor, tenure-track (one full-time position). The Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program at the University of Washington Bothell seeks a practicing artist and scholar working in visual, media, spoken, written, and/or performance arts, and whose research and practice engages with one or more of the following areas: ecology and environmental studies; technology and science; public and community health; ethnic and gender studies; spatial practice and design. The successful candidate will join an interdisciplinary faculty working across the arts, humanities, and social and natural sciences in an integrative curriculum with an emphasis on experiential and community-engaged scholarship and pedagogy. Two-years teaching experience and PhD or other appropriate terminal degree required at time of appointment. Please visit http://www.washington.edu/admin/acadpers/ads/aa2175.html for more detailed information, or e-mail the search committee chair, Professor JoLynn Edwards, at jedwards@uwb.edu. Preferred deadline: 24 October [...]

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[b]netEX: calls & deadlines –>October 2008[/b]
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[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
newsletter contents
calls & deadlines
02 Calls: 2008 deadlines internal
15 Calls: October deadlines external
11 Calls: ongoing external/internal
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Calls & deadlines
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[b]2008 deadlines: internal[/b]
extended deadline: 31 December 2008
JavaMuseum – Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art
[b]call: Netart Features 2009[/b]
[url]http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=329[/url]
extended deadline: 31 December 2008
SoundLAB VI – soundart for
[b]soundPOOL – sound compositions – a challenge for imagination[/b]
[url]http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=242[/url]
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[b]October 2008 deadlines: external[/b]
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31 October
Akademie Schloss Solitude Residency Stuttgrat/Germany
[url]http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=342[/url]
20 October
EMARE – Residency Exchange 2009
[url]http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=358[/url]
20 October
Videologia Festival 2008 Volgograd/Russia
[url]http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=347[/url]
15 October
Phonurgia Nova Awards 2008 Arles/France
[url]http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=389[/url]
15 October
4th International Video Journalist Awards Mainz/Germany
[url]http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=354[/url]
13 October
Futuresonic: Social Technologies Summit Manchester 2009 (UK)
[url]http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=378[/url]
10 October
AGENDA – Current Gallery Baltimore/USA
[url]http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=388[/url]
10 October
Congress: Music & Electronic Technology Sevilla/Spain – call for papers
[url]http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=308[/url]
8 October
Pontino Short Film Fest Latina/Italy
[url]http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=384[/url]
6 October
VIDA 11.0 Awards Telefonica/Spain
[url]http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=321[/url]
5 October
Vizualizar’08 – Database City Madrid/Spain
[url]http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=387[/url]
3 October
Videoformes 2009 – Festival of Video and New Media Clermont-Ferrand/France
[url]http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=339[/url]
1 October
Videomedeja Novi Sad/Serbia
[url]http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=372[/url]
1 October
One Minute Film Festival Amsterdam/NL
[url]http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=331[/url]
1 October
B-Side Festival Mannheim/Germany
[url]http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=364[/url]
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[b]Ongoing calls: external/internal[/b]
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–>Videos for Bivouac Projects Sumter/USA
–>OUTCASTING – web [...]

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I’ve Loved You For So Long – TrailerLéa (Elsa Zylberstein) and Juliette (Kristin Scott Thomas) are sisters. Juliette has just been released from prison after serving a long sentence. Léa was still a teenager when Juliette, a doctor, was convicted of the murder of her six-year-old son. Life together isn’t easy to begin with. Juliette has to relearn certain basics. The world has moved on and she often seems confused. Although she may seem cold and distant, her attitude stems more from her being ill at ease. Helped by some, such as the kindly but tactless social worker and her open-hearted but depressed parole officer (Frédéric Pierrot) whose confidante she becomes, Juliette is also rejected by others, particularly employers who throw her out as soon as they find out what she did. But a huge questions hangs over Juliette’s renaissance. Why did she do such a terrible thing [...]

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Synecdoche, New York – TrailerTheater director Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is mounting a new play. His life catering to suburban blue-hairs at the local regional theater in Schenectady, New York is looking bleak. His wife has left him to pursue her painting in Berlin, taking their young daughter Olive with her. His therapist, Madeleine Gravis is better at plugging her best-seller than she is at counseling him. A new relationship with the alluringly candid Hazel has prematurely run aground. And a mysterious condition is systematically shutting down each of his autonomic functions, one by one. Worried about the transience of his life, he leaves his home behind. He gathers an ensemble cast into a warehouse in New York City, hoping to create a work of brutal honesty. He directs them in a celebration of the mundane, instructing each to live out their constructed lives in a growing [...]

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Filth and Wisdom – TrailerMadonna’s directorial debut, FILTH AND WISDOM, is a hilariously sexy tale of three roommates who must delve into mischievous and naughty behavior in pursuit of bigger and brighter futures. A Ukrainian immigrant, A.K. (Eugene Hutz), finances his dreams of ‘trans-continental superstardom’ with his band, Gogol Bordello, by turning tricks as a role-playing cross dresser. As A.K. literally whips the privileged of London into shape, he also secretly pines for the object of his affection, Holly (Holly Weston), an aspiring ballerina looking for her big break while moonlighting as a slippery stripper. Meanwhile, Juliette (Vicky Mclure) steals medicine from her pharmaceutical job in hopes of quenching her dreams of helping Africa’s youth. FILTH AND WISDOM is every bit as erotic and playful as it is poignant and touching, revealing the universal struggles we all face in our pursuits of happiness.Directed by: MadonnaStarring: Eugene Hutz, Holly [...]

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Great surroundings will not camouflage poor programming in movie
theaters. No matter how swanky the theater, if it shows poor movies, we
just won’t go. Which isn’t to say that we have given up on
movie-theater design. We still wish that one day, somewhere, someone is
going to design a decidedly different, interesting and exciting movie
theater.Glimpses of brilliance are visible in the new Light House Cinema (http://www.lighthousecinema.ie/index.php) at Smithfield in Dublin, Ireland designed by Dublin’s award-winning DTA Architects (http://www.dta.ie/)
Of course, you really need to design — and judge — a movie theater so
that it looks and functions best when people are using it. So, having
not paid personal visits to the new Light House, we cannot say for
sure, but the images we have received of the empty space indicate that
the play of light, color and height works exceptionally well here.Light House cinema has been a bit of an institution in Dublin. It
started showing Irish, [...]

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The Visual Communication Quarterly (http://vcquarterly.org) is collecting work for an upcoming publication embracing the theme “interactivity.” We are looking for art work that approaches interactivity from an analog perspective. Works made of paper, projects in which human communication is unmediated by the computer, or any other form of analog interactivity is welcome. As all portfolios printed in the journal, the work will be blind-peer reviewed.
This call for work serves a second purpose: selected works will be on exhibit in Los Angeles during the College Art Association annual conference in February, 2009.
To submit work, send up to five JPEG images of your work (or documentation) with a brief statement of intent to chanson@fullerton.edu by October 28th, 2008. A single zip/archived file is acceptable. Be sure to include your contact information (name, email and phone).

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