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Jenny Morgan: Abrasions
January 9th – February 8th, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday January 9th 6:30-10pm
Artist’s Dinner: Friday January 16th 8pm – RSVP Required
224 Roebling Street
Brooklyn, New York 11211
www.likethespice.com
718.388.5388
Mon. Wed. – Sat. 12-8:00 Sun. 12-7:00
Like the Spice is pleased to present Jenny Morgan: Abrasions, a selection of the artist’s recent figurative oil paintings, the artist’s first solo show at Like the Spice and in New York.
In her tensely psychological portraits, all depicting people close to the artist, Jenny Morgan scrapes and sands away the top layers of paint creating wounds that are at once repellant, humanizing and technically masterful. Like drilling down to the molten core of the subjects’ anatomy, the areas that are worn away mark the paintings as more than portraits but also as bodily stand ins, as though if you disturb them, the wounds may open up and start bleeding. It is left to the viewer whether it will be [...]

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The 5th edition of the Mapping Festival is coming!
The dates are set! From May 8th through the 17th 2009 the Mapping Festival in Geneva, Switzerland will retain its focus on VJing by highlighting one of its most progressive forms: taking projection out of enclosed walls and out on to the street.
Facade mapping, travelling, interactive and audiovisual projections. We are counting on you to give life to the streets and buildings of Geneva!
Alongside this added focus we are open to proposals for lectures, workshops, audio visual performances, installations and clubbing nights that have punctuated the Mapping in its preceding years.
Beware the delays to apply are short: you can send us your applications until January 26th, 2009 (letter must be postmarked by that date).
You can download the application form here: http://www.mappingfestival.com/mapping2009/inscriptions
And we also wish you a happy new year 2009 !

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[img]http://vispo.com/huth/images/huthpic.gif[/img]
ENDEMIC BATTLE COLLAGE AND
OTHER 1987 APPLE BASIC POEMS
by Geof Huth

http://vispo.com/huth

Endemic Battle Collage and other 1987 Apple Basic Poems is a suite of
programmed, animated poems by Geof Huth. This work is discussed in Chris
Funkhouser’s landmark book Prehistoric Digital Poetry. Because this early
Huth work is digital and from 1987, it’s been unavailable for many years.
You can view the work as video at http://vispo.com/huth or download an
emulator and view the poems through the emulator. Also included on vispo.com
are writings by Geof Huth about these works and about digital poetry more
generally. And an introduction by me to the project.
This is some of the earliest programmed+kinetic visual poetry created. This
Huth work and bpNichol’s related First Screening at http://vispo.com/bp
exude the sense of excitement Nichol and Huth felt at this incunabular point
in the intersection of visual and digital poetry with the cinematic.
Happy new year to all [...]

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“Ronnieversaire” is how Bibo Bergeron put it, he coined it and I’ll use it forever. Doesn’t it sound great? The above is a parking stub for parking off of Piedmont Avenue–this is today’s. Happy New year, all!
Bon Ronnieversaire! I asked my mother when I was a child the circumstances of my birth on a day when much of the world is looking skyward to the night sky than to any other human being next to them. I have many mixed feelings about this day and my mother’s details of the day were nothing special. She’d gone into labor at sundown and my delivery had obliterated any other detail inside the old navy hospital (my father was not in the navy, it was the closest free hospital to them) in Cavite City until I was smacked into crying wakefulness. Only then did she realize that the fireworks [...]

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http://passivitat-imunitass.blogspot.com/2008/12/gaza-massacre.html

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Contact:Bryan Ghiloni/Andrea Laborde
Co-Directors, Gallery RFD
www.galleryrfd.org
478-237-6873
galleryrfd@gmail.com
December 2008
Call for Submissions
Works on Paper
(Swainsboro, GA) – Gallery RFD seeks submissions for its upcoming exhibition titled Works on Paper.
As a young artist, frequently one’s first exposure with creating art is upon the most familiar of artistic medias, paper. The blank page has challenged, often tormented, and ultimately been overcome by many an artist. From drawings, paintings, photographs, and master prints, to collage, charcoal, and an assortment of contemporary processes, the variety of work offered in this format is vast. Gallery RFD’s upcoming exhibition, Works on Paper seeks any nature of works of art made on, or of, this ever accessible medium.
Submission deadline: Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009, 4 p.m. (EST)
Juror: TBA
Exhibition runs: March 14 – April 4, 2009
Opening Reception: March 14, 2009, 5-8 p.m.

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Artists immerse and collaborate with people in coastal communities to build large-scale bamboo installations on the beach. Two new sections will be opened for 2011 BBIEAF – multimedia/video art and public furniture. Please check out website at www.bbieaf.org

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My storywriter friend Nykko just opened an official french blog concerning the Elsewhere Chronicles (international name for “les Enfants d’ailleurs”). You’ll find there sketches, drawings, previous unreleased materials, news, and a “behind the scenes” of the making of book 4 (due for November 2009 in France). You’ll find it HERE. (french language, but lot of pictures, so don’t be afraid)
Second blog dedicated to te Elsewhere Chronicles is the unofficial blog for the US release of the series (due for next spring, we’ll talk about that in a few months) hosted by Lerner’s editor Carol Burrell herself (thanks for that good job on it Carol). GO THERE !

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Are you new at TCH? Click the section headings at the top of the site to view our random archive.

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Are you new at TCH? Click the section headings at the top of the site to view our random archive.

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netEX: calls & deadlines –>January 2009
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[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
newsletter contents
New Year greetings
calls & deadlines
04 Calls: 2008/2009 deadlines internal
18 Calls: January 2009 deadlines external
9 Calls: ongoing external/internal
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Happy New Year!
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netEX and the team of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
wish their friends all over the world
a Happy and Peaceful New Year 2009
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Calls & deadlines
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2009: deadline internal
Deadline 2 March 2009
Cinematheque – streaming media project environments
call: Flash & Thunder -
Flash as a medium and tool for artistic creations

http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=408

Deadline 2 March 2009
VideoChannel – video project environments
call: One Minute Videos

http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=447

2008 deadlines: internal
extended deadline: 31 December 2008
JavaMuseum – Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art
call: Netart Features 2009

http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=329

extended deadline: 31 December 2008
SoundLAB VI – soundart for
soundPOOL – sound compositions – a challenge for imagination

http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=242

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January 2009 deadlines: external
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31 January
Web as Culture – Symposion Giessen/Germany

http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=439

30 January
Internet based art – festival in Tulsa/USA

http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=438

23 January
Xtend III – Bodies in Flight Digital Media Center Southhill Park Bracknell/UK

http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=448

23 January
The International Guerilla Video Festival Dublin 2009

http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=423

19 January
Application [...]

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Competition ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO: the art of exhibiting art online
Second edition
Open call for proposals by VOCENTO in collaboration with ARCOmadrid 2009 International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid.
VOCENTO and ARCOmadrid announce a competition of ideas to provide art galleries with web solutions responding to the concept of Web 2.0, and to provide opportunities to enhance their online presence and networking potential.
Total award is 15.000 euros.

Description
VOCENTO and ARCOmadrid invite proposals for innovative and experimental online platforms and effective web tools to foster and stimulate the presence, exhibition, communication and management of art on the Internet. The selected proposal will be awarded with a production budget of 15,000 euros (taxes included) to realize the project.
The competition wishes to encourage research in the field of social technologies and artistic practice, and more specifically to identify current needs and provide suitable solutions for art galleries in the context of the Internet. [...]

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http://passivitat-imunitass.blogspot.com/2008/12/idf-ongoing-bloodbath.html

Poderiu

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Inspired by Lev Kuleshov’s film editing experiment in which he spliced footage of an expressionless man with other, presumably emotive vignettes. Audiences believed that the man’s expression changed when he “saw” the edited vignettes- although his expression stayed the same. It is believed that the viewers relate their own feelings to the images and then attribute it to the actor. This is called the “Kuleshov Effect.”
“man wit web cam” examines the Kuleshov effect as it relates to internet video, webcam aesthetics, and memes.

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Wayard-Dream is an interactive Installation, developed from Internet-sourced material. It fictionalizes the participant’s display field, invites them to share their dreams. People may freely fictionalize in this space, share their dream with individual dreamland content they create. They create from the index, and remix their creation, and then it can be released back into the program. In the bodily space, the body constructs a phantom that affects the participant’s body.
Who is dreaming? The user, or the internet itself? In a certain way, both. The program generates a personal moving picture, unique, unpredictable, and forever gone when it is finished, just like dreams. But that dream is made out of pieces taken form the subconscious of the whole net, gathered by some words of the user and the obscure logic of searching algorithms.
The work presents a constructed model of an ever-changing cityscape underscored by electronic music. Participants are invited to [...]

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Media artists and technicians, come to SHARE in Amsterdam.
On the 17th of January, media artists and technicians will come together for the first SHARE event in Amsterdam. SHARE is an audiovisual jamsession, a place to display your unfinished projects and meet other geeks. We’re hosted by a great little venue in the very center of the city, next to Dam square: http://thegetawaycafe.com
There will be
* 1 PA
* 4 beamers
* 16 laptop spaces
* 64 people (max) at a time
* Free Wifi, 220V and Tapas.
* Max/MSP/Jitter and other programming gurus
* DIY instruments and controllers
* No entrance fee
We are extremely good at improvisation, so let us know if you have installations to display, a short talk to give or one-liner statements to make. We feature an automatic visual jukebox so be sure to bring your muddy pictures, shaky video’s and screenshots of half-finished software.
Location: http://tinyurl.com/7ow3yt
The event will be streamed live on: http://shareamsterdam.com
More info:

http://shareamsterdam.com

http://share.dj

http://thegetawaycafe.com

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This is a writing through a writing of a text that is largely considered unreadable. This text is a random regeneration of John Cage’s Fourth Writing through Finnegans Wake. To create the original text, Cage applied a system of complex rules to James Joyce’s seminal text, Finnegans Wake, to write a series of mesostics spelling “JAMES JOYCE” repeatedly down the page in capital letters. (A mesostic is a poem where a vertical phrase intersects lines of horizontal text). Cage used the same concepts of chance operations and systems based production that he applied to his music compositions, creating a writing free of intention.

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New calls and opps (posted dec. 20-28th) in callsandopps.com, the new website for artists going international, brought to you by a dedicated group of artists.
We read the fine print, we boil the particulars down, we provide you the ability to search, sort and jump to those challenges that are meant for you, for us.
Art » Various/all media
Rijksakademie Residency
Relevant to: Worldwide
Submission Free
Deadline: 01-Feb-2009
Briefly: Each year approximately 25 artists are selected for a residency at the Rijksakademie (in Amsterdam, Netherlands). Admission is initially for a work period of one year (January to December). Whether a second year is considered …

http://www.callsandopps.com/index.php?item/512

Artists-in-Residence in der Villa Strauli Winterthur
Relevant to: Worldwide
Submission Free
Deadline: 31-Jan-2009
Briefly: The Villa Strauli, a residency program in Winterthur (Switzerland), aims to promote stimulating encounters between its artists in residence, the local cultural scene, and an interested general public. Two studios are awarded [...]

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Glowlab presents:
Mark Price, The New Real Fantasy Now
Exhibition dates: January 08–February 01, 2009
Opening reception: Thursday January 08, 6–9pm
Glowlab is excited to announce the first solo exhibition of artist Mark Price, titled The New Real Fantasy Now. Showcasing his bold graphic style, Price’s works on paper present dark scenarios of technological chaos and deconstruction. Moving away from the figurative and into the abstract through innovative original drawings, silkscreen editions, monoprints and wall paintings, Price reveals the anti-celebrity and absent hero: the Non-Character.
The story of The New Real Fantasy Now continues Price’s exploration and critique of economic and social conditions. Infused with a rich visual aesthetic, an introspective geometric landscape is superimposed by highly stylized explosions and cryptic language. Out of the wreckage the Non-Character triumphs, striking its suffocated poses and revealing that nothing exists in the territory of The New Real Fantasy Now.
Concurrently with his Glowlab exhibition, Price will release a [...]

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[b]08 Charter – Call for Freedom of Expression in China[/b]
On December 09, 2008, a group of 303 Chinese writers, intellectuals, lawyers, journalists, retired Party officials, workers, peasants, and businessmen have issued an open letter — the [url=http://www.hrichina.org/public/contents/press?revision_id=85750&item_id=85717]”08 Charter”[/url] — calling for legal reforms, democracy and protection of human rights in China.
Since 9 December the Charter is online and police has interrogated supporters in Beijing, Shanghai, Liaoning, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Hainan, Shaanxi, Hubei and Hunan. Among the signatories, Liu Xiaobo, an intellectual, was arrested on Monday. [url=http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=13971&size=A][read more…][/url]
“Charter 08″ has now been signed by over 5000 intellectuals lawyers, journalists, writers, scholars, artists, including contemporary Chinese artists, Li Xianting, Gao Zhen, Gao Qiang, Liu Yi, Lily X. Yang. As overseas Chinese intellectuals, we are calling for actions and support from global artist communities. Those who want to express their support can send a message to this address: 2008xianzhang@gmail.com
[b]By June 04, 2009, [...]

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[b]08 Charter – Fight for Free Speech in Mainland China [/b]
On December 09, 2008, a group of 303 Chinese writers, intellectuals, lawyers, journalists, retired Party officials, workers, peasants, and businessmen have issued an open letter — the [url=http://www.hrichina.org/public/contents/press?revision_id=85750&item_id=85717]”08 Charter”[/url] — calling for legal reforms, democracy and protection of human rights in China.
Since 9 December the Charter is online and police has interrogated supporters in Beijing, Shanghai, Liaoning, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Hainan, Shaanxi, Hubei and Hunan. Among the signatories, Liu Xiaobo, an intellectual, was arrested on Monday. [url=http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=13971&size=A][…][/url]
“Charter 08″ has now been signed by over 5000 intellectuals lawyers, journalists, writers, scholars, artists, including contemporary Chinese artists, Li Xianting, Gao Zhen, Gao Qiang, Liu Yi, Lily X. Yang. As overseas Chinese intellectuals, we are calling for actions and support from global artist communities. Those who want to express their support can send a message to this address: 2008xianzhang@gmail.com
[color=orange]08 Charter re-addresses the [...]

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CAREER OPPORTUNITY
Title: Assistant Professor – Interactive Entertainment
Location/Department: Entertainment Technology
Compensation: Commensurate with education and experience.
Closing Date: Open until filled with review of resumes to begin 11/24/08
Website: http://portal.cuny.edu/cms/id/cuny/documents/jobposting/027788.htm
POSITION DESCRIPTION AND DUTIES
The New York City College of Technology, C.U.N.Y, Department of Entertainment Technology, invites applications for a tenure-track, full time position in Interactive Entertainment at the rank of assistant professor, beginning in September 2009.
The department offers undergraduate instruction in a variety of disciplines, including lighting, sound, show control, and video systems. New programs in development include emerging media technology, music technology, interactive control, and video production.
The successful candidate will teach courses in several areas including, but not limited to Interactive Media, Entertainment Control Systems, Electricity, Tangible Computing, and Introduction to Entertainment Technology. The Assistant Professor will also be expected to develop, plan, and prepare curricula related to a program track in integrated and interactive entertainment technologies.
QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
Qualifications for the rank of assistant professor [...]

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ANDES SPROUTS SOCIETY (Andes, New York)
CALLING architects, artists, engineers to submit proposal
for sustainable studio/living units at ASsociety’s meadow farmland.
ASsociety farm is looking for design submissions for 3 resident/studio structures for its expanding artist in residency program. 3 free standing structures will house resident artists as well as enhance existing farming activities. ASsociety Resident artists will be engaged in developing media art projects with crossover activities of emergent technologies and organic farming. This call out encourages collaboration between artists, architects and engineers in order to demonstrate and promote unique, functional, and inspiring approaches to sustainable design and post-crash housing techniques.
ASsociety,a NYS not-for-profit entity, works toward the exchange of knowledge and labor of urban gardening and field farming, the sustainability of the land, the emergent media exploration, while engaging artists and the international perspective on eco-bio issues.
to download call out visit

http://www.andessproutssociety.us

more details also on

http://www.andessproutsresidency.wordpress.com

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Call for Artists
This year at SXSW Interactive the Plutopia Party on 16th March 2009 will Focus on “Living Systems Theory.” We are looking for Art in all media that underscores the Integrated and Interconnected nature of all Living Systems from Biological and Cybernetic Organisms to Socio-cultural Networks and International Organizations. We seek to explore:
The Biological Substrata of Technology
Human Machine Interfaces
Biological and Self-Perpetuating Living Art
Viewer Interactive Experiences
Reproduction and Recycling
Holism and Emergence
Convergence and Divergence
Interdisciplinary Analysis
Biological Metaphors for Technological Innovations
From Fiber to Cyber
Complexity and Reductionism
Artists are responsible for transport, installation, removal and sponsorship of their own art. Stipends are not available. Promotional space at the event for sales and artist info will be available. As an official SXSW Interactive After-Party we are offering an outstanding opportunity to display your art to the International Tech, Film and Music Communities.
DEADLINE FOR INTENT TO SUBMIT: January 15th 2009
Contact: art2009 [at] plutopia [dot] org
Leave a brief description [...]

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Interviewing the Crisis
(please spread and participate)

a series of interviews and articles on the financial crisis and on its impact on art, with specific focus on the innovative practices through which people, communities and organizations around the world are starting to confront the changing scenario through technology, innovation, collaboration and activism.
browse here for a short review:

http://www.artisopensource.net/2008/12/26/interviewing-the-financial-crisis/

the articles will be progressively found on ArtsBlog.it
Already published:
- an Introduction to the project

http://www.artsblog.it/post/2749/trilogy-of-crisis-intervistando-la-crisi-unintroduzione

- interviewing the crisis part 1: Helen Thorington e Jo-Anne Green @ turbulence.org

http://www.artsblog.it/post/2748/intervistando-la-crisi-helen-thorington-e-jo-anne-green-di-turbulenceorg-part-1

Soon to follow: Marc Garrett @NetBehaviour/FurtherField/loads_more and Simona Lodi@ToShare
***
We are accepting requests: if you want to publish a point of view or be interviewed for the project, let us know.
The articles will be collected in an online publication.
Articles will be in italian. Interviews will be in Italian and English.
Any help in translating is truly welcome
***
please spread and participate
best,
xDxD.vs.xDxD

http://www.artisopensource.net

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