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General News Please contact the people named in the items below for further information. We accept no liability in connection with the information contained in this list or via the links. See also Competitions and opportunities and Conferences Items for inclusion should be sent to trace@ntu.ac.uk Haikumania | Fathom | BeeHive Hypertext/Hypermedia Literary Journal | Poevisioni Video, Computer & Web Poetry | Radio poem 'Rock Music' | Javamuseum | LENS | Raymond Carver Short Story Award | Inside/Outside | CONNECT: Call for contributions| Dystopia + Identity in the Age of Global Communications | Heroic Goes Online | New Media Projects Fund: UK Arts Council | VERYBUSY.ORG (v.3) | Write For Life Competition | Riding the Meridian Lit [art] ure | Shifting Paradigms: Changes in Children's Literature: CFP | EnterText | Writing Conferences from Shawguides | Technologies of the Self. CFP | Jim Crow Museum | A Poet's Pilgrimage | Karenina.it | Treyf | Independent e-Book Awards | 2001 Hobart City Writers’ Residencies | Audio stories sought | Cuckoo | Beecher Center Digital Art Competition | Poetry Award (US) | Alzheimer's disease | Poetry Contest | i-love-u ezine | (t)here | HAUNTED NEWPORT Short Story Contest | Poetry Life web site | CESTA | UpStarts | Poetry Greece Open Poetry Competition | Currents in Electronic Literacy | dotlit | VIRTUAL MORALITY | John Bird website | GETOUTTHERE.BT.COM’S WRITING ZONE | ~ (the poetry) WORM ~ | PROTOCOLLISION | Exploring CyberSociety II | Website Contract | THE THIRD ASHAM AWARD | Kunsthalle Fridericianum Kassel | Soundtoys | scottishinheritance.com | Primal Multiface | Lit-Net | Lexikon 21st December 2000 I am pleased to be able to present new pages at haikumania. "War Crimes" - now includes Ty Hadman's "Dong Ha Haiku" first published in book-form in 1982. These are powerful haiku coming directly out out of Ty's experience of the Vietnam War. Ty has kindly give haikumania the chance to present these haiku on the web. Haikumania is accepting further submissions that link to pieces already on the War Crimes pages or new pieces linking to the theme. There are also new Ren linking out from Museki Abe's "Storm on The Freeway" piece - Ren of Family Relationships and the Ren of Storms (including new work from Hortensia Anderson) A new link from "Slowdance on Beacon Hill" (The Ren of Tetsudo) is also in place. http://www.haikumaniaren.homestead.com/ Art teaches nothing... "Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life." - Henry Miller, 1891-1980, American author Intellectually curious? Explore the Internet's premier destination for interactive knowledge: FATHOM - a consortium of the world's leading universities, museums, libraries and research institutions. You'll benefit from access to intellectually stimulating, authenticated arts education resources - as well as books and online courses. FATHOM delivers innovative learning directly from the creators of the knowledge themselves. Rich, interesting content that's presented in dynamic, engaging and intuitive formats - content you truly cannot find through any other source on the Internet. BeeHive Hypertext/Hypermedia Literary Journal Volume 3 : Issue
4 : December 2000 now out IN THIS ISSUE... TOWARD ELECTRACY : A CONVERSATION WITH GREGORY ULMER GREGORY ULMER / TALAN MEMMOTT with an introduction by MARK AMERIKA Reasoneon, emerAgency,
fetishturgy -- TIDELAND by M.D. COVERLEY hypermedia contemplation.... The ART
OF M[EZ]ANG.ELLE.ING: CONSTRUCTING POLYSEMIC & NEOLOGY FIC/FACTIONS writing on writing.... TECHNOCRIME and OTHERS by KENJI SIRATORI short, abstract
techno-fiction from Japan RECOMBINANT / CODE POETRY by RE_WORKINPR poetical, textual montage THE ILLUSTRATED RAD / A SHORT HISTORY OF TOOLMAKING by I.B. RAD Radical, illustrated poetic commentary... Poevisioni Video, Computer & Web Poetry Curator: Caterina
Davinio Negli anni Sessanta la linearità del testo poetico era frammentata, decostruita, infranta da un impeto dissacratore, ironico, ludico, dai poeti visivi e performativi. Nello stesso tempo procedeva la ricerca dei pionieri internazionali delle arti elettroniche, ma i due ambiti rimanevano in circuiti separati e la performance poetica vedeva in Italia ancora all'inizio degli anni 90 la centralità del corpo del performer, quando già nell'ambito delle arti visive si parlava di realtà virtuali, di autore collettivo, anche in relazione al web. Ho concentrato negli anni il mio interesse verso quei video e computer artisti, e recentemente autori di CD d'arte e di web art, che cercano un confronto col testo poetico nella sua accezione più ampia: da quello lineare a quello visivo, sonoro, performativo, gettando le basi per un discorso nuovo che m'interessa anche come artista. Gli artisti provengono da esperienze e formazioni diverse: letteratura, cinema, fotografia, arti visive, performance,e, pur nella diversità,contribuiscono tutti a creare quel territorio di confine e contaminazione tra linguaggi che è l'arte contemporanea. (Davinio) http://space.tin.it/arte/cprezi/poevisioni2000catalogo.htm by trAce member and former Wired Poet Elizabeth James, and Jane Draycott ('Prince Rupert's Drop', OUP, 1999) will be broadcast on Christmas Day between 2 and 3 p.m. on LBC Radio (frequency 1152AM for people in the area of London, England) and http://www.lbc.co.uk/ . The piece lasts about 20 minutes, and is constructed as a montage of location recordings of a rock climber, interviews with visitors in an art gallery, poetry, and music. It was commissioned by Independent Radio Drama Productions, and will also be available for a month on their website http://www.irdp.co.uk/ ***CALL FOR ARTISTS*** Identity February 4-6, 2001 California Top scientists and technologists meet artists, philosophers, business leaders, and policy makers to discuss the changing nature of human identity in the face of rapid technological advances. Monterey, California. www.projectlens.org Raymond Carver Short Story Award Carve Magazine is pleased to announce the Establishment of one of the Northwest's Premier Writing Contests: The Raymond Carver Short Story Award at the University of Washington, the only writing contest honoring Raymond Carver founded with the express consent of his widow and estate executor, Tess Gallagher Prize $1000 and
publication in the March 1st, 2001 Edition of Carve Magazine http://www.carvezine.com/sumbissionpage.htm Inside/Outside
European Media Art
Festival presents diverse cross section of media art productions from
internationally renowned artists as well as innovative works from creative
young talents. CONNECT: Call for contributions art.politics.theory.practice New York 'Technology.' Contributions can take the form of short essays, literary prose, poetry and performance texts, short commentaries of a critical or historical nature, informational announcements, interviews, and reproductions of visual art of all genres, including web-based productions. Jargon-free prose with limited citations no more than 3,000 words in length. rsubramaniam@artsinternational.org Dystopia + Identity in the Age of Global Communications Tribes Gallery: 285 East Third Street New York, New York USA 10009 Until Jan 13th. featuring works by: Mark Amerika, Zhao Bandi, Betty Beaumont, Mike Bidlo, Natalie Bookchin, Shu Lea Cheang, Ricardo Dominguez, Christoph Draeger, Laura Emrick, Peter Fend, Joy Garnett, Leah Gilliam, Marina Grzinic, Mark Lombardi, Mark Napier, Carsten Nicolai, Roxy Paine, Zhou Tiehai, Maciej Wisniewski, Gu Wenda http://www.artnet.com/tribes.html Heroic
Goes Online Eastern Touring Agency (ETA) has launched a new online service for people working in the arts. HEROIC is based around easy-to-use discussion groups about the arts and new technology. The first such discussion
is on website design and is hosted by software consultant David Herbert
and Robert Sharl. New Media Projects Fund: UK Arts Council New Media Projects
Fund Supports the production, distribution and promotion of small and
mid-scale artistically challenging new initiatives which are specifically
devised for electronic and networked media platforms, and that are managed
by groups of artists or hosted by arts organisations. This fund is devised
to encourage an approach that is both critical and experimental, and
which expands the potential for new forms of communication and visual
language. Guidelines will be available from February 2001. Deadline
for applications is 18 May 2001. The one and only
searchengine for NETART related projects. 13th December 2000 The Cancer Research Campaign is offering would-be writers the chance to take that first step to literary success and raise funds for vital research, by entering its Write For Life competition. There are two categories to the competition (now in its fourth year) short story and poetry and it is open to everyone over the age of eighteen. There is a small fee of £5 for each submitted piece of work and you can enter as many times as you wish. Not only will the best entry in each category win £1,000 but the finalists' scripts will be scrutinised by celebrity judges who will include best selling author Fay Weldon and Bloomsbury publisher Nicky Thompson. The short stories should be between 1000-2000 words and poems no more than 40 lines. The finalists will be invited to a special reception in London in July 2001. Prizes of £750 and £500 for second and third place in each category will also be awarded. The competition
is open from now until 23 February 2001. Riding
the Meridian -- Winter 2000 -- Lit [art] ure Literature ... what is happening to literature? Only a year ago, web writers were comfortable calling html-code-intensive works hypertext. But now that term seems lacking, incapable of describing the myriad technical approaches available and the creative changes which working in a web-specific medium has wrought. This is what we choose to call lit [art] ure. Classic text poetry to hypermedia presentations and points between: the Work Randy Adams, Michael Basinski, Tom Bell, Charles Bernstein and Susan Bee, Diane Caney, M.D. Coverley, Loss Pequeño Glazier, Diane Greco, Jack Kimball, Amy King, David Knoebel, Dan Machlin, Karen Mac Cormack, Mez, Janet Owen, Mark Peters, Carlyle Reedy, Ernest Slyman, Alaric Sumner, Lawrence Upton, Joel Weishaus Jumpin' at the Diner -- a survey of web-specific literature created by men, curated by Marjorie Coverley Luesebrink with Jennifer Ley -- commentary by Jay David Bolter and Stephanie Strickland Dialogue -- a round
table discussion with Loss Pequeño Glazier, Judy Malloy, Johanna Theory and Practice -- Helen Adam's Sweet Company by Kristin Prevallet A Review of Johanna Drucker's Figuring the Word by Ramez Qureshi Web cover art adaptation
by Ted Warnell Shifting Paradigms: Changes in Children's Literature: Call for papers The Children's Literature Society of the American Literature Association will be hosting two panels at the upcoming ALA 2001 conference, to be held in Cambridge, MA from May 24-May 27. Suggestions for topics include, but are not limited to: the changing role of children within children's literature; changes in audience and author motive when writing children's literature; the role of age and gender in children's literature; how illustration in children's lit has changed; children's literature as a genre, its transformations; the changing role of child as reader and consumer; etc. --one may submit a proposal on any aspect of change within American children's literature, including its texts, its audiences, its reception, its production, its authors, etc. Proposals are due JANUARY 13, 2001. Please send 2 copies of 2-page proposals to: judith.girardi@cgu.edu An interactive interdisciplinary
e-journal for cultural and historical studies and creative work Call for Papers for Spring 2001 EnterText: TEXT TO SCREEN | SCREEN TO TEXT From the dramatisations of classic fiction or the novelisations of blockbuster movies, to the cinematic style of modernist writing or the cinephilia of contemporary novelists, the interface between the written and the visual text has rarely been so busy or such a broad focus of critical interest. Submissions which address the relationship between film or television and the literary or historical text are now invited for issue 2 of this referreed journal. Creative work on this theme is also welcome. Deadline 1 February 2001. For more information
and notes for contributers visit the website EnterText does what
few paper journals do: bring together scholarly writings in diverse
disciplines, together with cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary
pieces, usually on a themed topic. It also, unusually, includes creative
works. Its aim is to foster dialogue and enable Some Writing Conferences from Shawguides WRITING, SITTING, WALKING MEDITATION WORKSHOP-NATALIE GOLDBERG 1/7/01 - 1/12/01 and 1/21/01 - 1/26/01 Locations: Taos, New Mexico Focus: Autobiography/memoir Sponsored by The Mabel Dodge Luhan House http://writing.shawguides.com/TheMabelDodgeLuhanHouse CREATIVITY WORKSHOP 1/27/01 - 1/28/01 Locations: New York, New York Focus: Autobiography/memoir, Fiction, Nonfiction, Playwriting, and Poetry Writing, Drawing, Story Telling and Personal memoir Sponsored by Creativity Workshop: A workshop for writers, artists, and performers to explore the processes of their creative expression and to develop and share work-in-progress. For more information: http://www.creativityworkshop.com/newyork.html More writers' events at the comprehensive listing of (mostly US) writers' conferences at http://writing.shawguides.com/ Technologies of the Self. Call for Papers SCMLA's (Tulsa, 2001) Literature and Psychology session, the title of which is "Technologies of the Self." I'm looking for papers that explore how "technologies" of the self such as memory, identity, sexuation, and subjectivity shape and/or are shaped by our cultural, textual, linguistic, and pedaogical practices. The deadline for the receipt of papers or 500-word abstracts is March 15, 2001, and they should be sent to Becky McLaughlin, Department of English, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL 36688. I invite you to visit the Jim Crow Museum website maintained by Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan. It is a collection of racist images and accompanying text designed to promote anti-racism. The museum is both a real place and a virtual site. We add material monthly. Here is the website address:http://www.ferris.edu/news/jimcrow/index.htm. A Poet's Pilgrimage by Philip Higson Lexikon Publishing, based in North Staffordshire, is proud to announce the launch of a revealing volume of prose-linked poetry by an accomplished North Midland author who is also internationally active in literary and artistic fields. We call this volume 'revealing' because it shows how a poet's life and output can be affected by an immense variety of influences. Some of these were obviously positive, like his two years of blissful country childhood at Keele, or four by the visually seductive Dee at Chester. Others presented themselves in a negative guise, like the thwarting of a schoolboy passion for art, which nevertheless helped to focus his attention on poetry, or the rejection of a romantic proposal he made in Wales which provoked his earthy 'love-revolt' in Liverpool In 1995 this two-part sequence, entitled, Sonnets to My Goddess in This Life and The Next, was published to critical acclaim. M L McCarthy, editor of Candelabrum, described it as "a feast for lovers of poetry, with its sensuous metrical phrasing, its richly inventive imagery, its artful and various rhyme-patterns." Dr Alan Raitt of Magdalen College, Oxford, observed that "the quality of the emotion and the quality of the craftsmanship are equally remarkable." Soon after that, in 1996, it won the David St Thomas Award for a poetry collection and has sold in excess of 1,000 copies. The Poet's Pilgrimage volume introduced in this release is a new departure in that, for the first time, it traces the poet's creative life to its origins beside providing examples of his writing on many themes, and finally bringing the story of the remarkable rapport with his 'Goddess' right up to date. A Poet's Pilgrimage,
ISBN 0-9539313-0-7 (pbk) price £6.95. Grandi festival: WRO2000. Tutto il programma. WRO2000@kultura, Wroclaw, November 20th - December 10th, 2000 International exhibition, congress and artistic activities devoted to changes of art, culture and everyday life in the age of digital technology. International Exhibition of Centro Nazionale di Drammaturgia / Rome / Italy Aree intermediali - Intermedia From 17 to 26 November - Fifth Edition Teatro Colosseo (Sala Grande) - Ridotto Colosseo (Sala A, B, C)., Via Capo d 'Africa, 5 Roma Experimental Theatre / Multimedia Performance / International video / Digital video / Videoinstallation / Interactive Installation / Stage / Photography / Poetry Performance / Editorial projects for web / The Italian National Centre of Drama, directed by Alfio Petrini, in the "Vetrina", dedicated to the intermedia, which takes pace in Rome (Colosseo Theatre), presents, together with new pieces of research theatre, a rich program of international video, digital video, interactive installations, multimedia performances. Karenina.it Experimental
http://digilander.iol.it/karenina/
"Oligopoly, like international diplomacy, labor-management negotiations, and so on, is one of the speediest and most thrilling of sports." new from Treyf Books: Games Oligopolists Play http://www.treyf.com/Books/index.html , by Rob Kovitz Can $20 / US $15 Sponsored by the Mystic-Ink Community, the Awards are designed to recognise excellence in electronic books, hypertext and digital storytelling. Contestants must be self-published or published by independent houses, and their entries must have ISBNs and must have been published first as original electronic books. Entries are due December 20. http://www.e-book-awards.com/ 2001 Hobart City Writers’ Residencies These Residencies will support one international writer, plus one published Australian writer, residing in any Australian state or territory outside Tasmania. This program provides each of the successful applicants with a 3-week residency at the Tasmanian Writers’ Centre’s writers’ cottage, in Hobart, Tasmania. The successful applicant will be provided with: economy return airfare to Hobart; 3 weeks’ accommodation at the Kelly Street writers’ cottage, a stipend of $AUD440 as a contribution towards general living expenses; a fee of $AUD760 for conducting two full-day writing workshops. Applications close 31 January 2001. Application forms from Joe Bugden, Director, at writers@trump.net.au or see http://www.fearless.net.au/taswriters/HCCWIRinfo.htm We have a number of audio story content web sites on the internet at various stages of development. At the present time we are totally a small volunteer group of 6 people making everything work. We are always looking for new volunteers to help us in any way. Our primary site is located at http://virtuallyamerican.com and we operate it out of Toronto, Canada. Most of us are Canadian. Please check us out! We also have http:// voicemerchant.com and http://warmweather.com. We are always looking for produced audio stories. 20 tips on getting published A free article "20 VALUABLE TIPS TO GETTING PUBLISHED" is available for posting to your Web site. You may capture the article at: http://www.powernet.net/~scrnplay/20.html Permission to publish is posted at the bottom of the page. Cuckoo is an ongoing itinerant project working gratis with artists and the contemporary art community. (In other words we put on shows in other people¹s galleries.) Our first installment is at the former Archill Gallery in Auckland, Aotearoa (before the Moving Image Centre¹s programme opens there in February), corner Great North Rd and Elgin St, Grey Lynn. The first of four projects this summer there will be: Violet Faigan and Kirsty Cameron, opening 6pm Wednesday 13th December plus a video programme with work by Tessa Laird, Nova Paul, Dylan Rainforth, Yuk King Tan, Ronnie Vaevae All shows in this series will be open from 11am-6pm on the Thursday, Friday and Saturday following the opening. Check our website
at http://www.cuckoo.org.nz Send us your address
and get on the e-mailing list now for updates Beecher Center Digital Art Competition CALL FOR ENTRIES 1st prize $1,000; 2nd prize $500; 3rd prize $250. Work must be original and have been created by using a computer. Artists may submit work as slides or on disk (see URL below for details). Submissions are due Feb 1, 2001. Winning entries will be on display for 6 months at the Beecher Center beginning April, 2001. For information: http://www.fpa.ysu.edu/beecher/callforentries.html OR Beecher Center for Technology in the Arts, @ The butler Institute of American Art, 524 Wick Av, Youngstown OH 44502, USA, OR 330-742-7295 $2500 given annually to honor poet over 40 who has published no more than one book. Submit manuscript of 10 poems max or 20 pages max. Fee $15. For a prospectus send an SASE to: Poetry Society of America, 15 Gramercy Park, New York NY 10003 OR 212-254-9628 Anthology seeks poems about Alzheimer's disease All emotional reactions or relationships to the disease (patient, caregiver, friend or relative of patient) requested. Please send submissions or SASE for guidelines to: Emily Goodman, 378 7th St #3L, Brooklyn NY 11215 OR engood@compuserve.com Society for Creative Writers Poetry Contest Any style or theme. 56 lines maximum. Entry fee $3. http://www.geocities.com/writeron/cont2000.html Feb 28 2001 deadline. new http://www.i-love-u.ch edition out now! December issue 2000: "Asphalt" a magazine with pictures and words, a project published quarterly from New York. Artists are invited to collaborate on ideas close to their personal work. The subjects range from sculpture, photography, screenplays, fashion and poetry to painting or simply travel. Past contributors have included Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Whitley Strieber, Dah Len, Billy Corgan, Yelena Yemchuk, Carter Smith, Alain Kirili, Len Prince, Quentin Crisp, Serge Clément, Marina amena, Matt Roberts, Banu Cennetoglu and Stephen Shames. (t)here hopes to link all art forms through its pages. Painting, theatre, architecture or any other activity that brings beautiful things to life will find a place inside (t)here. BE A PART OF (t)here: HAUNTED NEWPORT Short Story Contest Can you SCARE up a spooktacular story about Newport, Rhode Island? First Prize is $500 plus first-time rights publication of winning entry and public reading during annual Haunted Newport celebration in October 2001. $10 entry fee. Deadline: June 1, 2001. See http://www.hauntednewport.com for submission deadlines. Britain's sharpest
poetry magazine. http://freespace.virgin.net/poetry.life/
18th Open poetry competition £850 of prizes FIRST PRIZE £500 PLUS The
winner will be invited to submit five extra poems for publication as
Poetry Life Recommendations in the magazine PLUS The winning poem will
be published on the Poetry Life web site CESTA's seventh international arts festival of interdisciplinary collaborations August 23 through
August 27, 2001 At our 7th international
arts festival we want you to laugh. We all appreciate a good joke, a laugh, a smile, but not everything is funny to everyone. Humor is as private as it is public, as cryptic as it is ubiquitous. Comedy plays one of the most important, and yet uncelebrated, roles in social definition. We use humor to relieve one and insult another, to identify and exclude. We know our wit can be as healthy as it is dangerous. How do we tell the difference? What do we learn about each other and ourselves when we laugh? For What's So Funny? we ask artists from different cultures and artistic media to collaborate using the humor in their work to discover our boundaries. Which ones can we cross safely? Which ones not? And perhaps most importantly, how can we laugh in the process, and at the results? CESTA's festival themes and parameters of cross-national interdisciplinary collaborations represent the center's commitment to improving communication through creative expression. We base our selection of artists on a review of applications resulting from our annual open call. Applicants request CESTA to connect them with collaboration partners or apply as a pre-formed collaboration group. For What's So Funny? all final festival collaboration groups must contain: 1) more than one
artistic medium Application deadline is January 8, 2001 For an Open Call Application or more information, please contact us at: CESTA Novakova 387, Tabor 39001, Czech Republic tel: +420-361-258-004 email: cesta@mbox.vol.cz http://www.cesta.cz 29th November 2000 Calling all UpStarts! First UK search for social entrepreneurs launches £50,000 award scheme and website. The first ever national search is underway for UpStarts*. The UpStarts Awards offer a total of £50,000 to help social entrepreneurs with the right spirit, energy and attitude to get their projects off the ground. Social entrepreneurs across the country will post their entries on to a especially designed website at www.upstarts.org.uk or by letter. The entry period is November 2000 to May 2001. Entry is free and open to all permanent UK residents. A distinguished panel of judges will decide the three final winners. Paul Boateng MP, Deputy Home Secretary, Charles Leadbeater, author and journalist and David Willetts MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Social Security, are among the judges ready to sift through the many expected entries. Full-time commitment to their winning project is a condition of accepting a winner's award. This is an opportunity for three passionate individuals to change their careers and their lives and the lives of others. The Awards will 'buy' them time and space to focus on their project with all the support and mentoring they need provided by UNLTD, the first UK foundation for social entrepreneurs member organisations. The UpStarts website will also act as an information resource for all entrants with links to social entrepreneur partner organisations who have just pooled their expertise to launch UNLTD. They are:
UpStarts or more
correctly, social entrepreneurs are, "individuals
with a vital force for regenerating their communities. Change of address for Poetry Greece & Open Poetry Competition It is now: Mitropolitou Athansiou 10, Triti Parodos, Corfu 49100, Greece. We have now launched our first Open Poetry Competition to be judged by Roger McGough and the Editors of Poetry Greece, and The Keeley-Sherrard Translation Award for Poetry. to be judged by David Connolly, Jane Assimalopoulos and Saskia Handley.Over One thousand pounds in prize money, deadline February 2001 Currents in Electronic Literacy Currents (ISSN 1524-6493) is now accepting submissions for a special issue — "New Poetics?" — to be published in the Fall of 2001. Completed articles for this issue are due April 2, 2001. The proliferation of new media and multi-media "poetry" in recent years raises important questions related to Currents' interest in the intersections of technology with literary and cultural studies, writing, teaching, and literacy. Among these questions are the following:
In response to these and other relevant questions, Currents is seeking articles on all aspects of this new poetry, including but not limited to those addressing literary, critical, theoretical, authorship, ownership, programming, visual literacy, aesthetic, and teaching issues. We also seek high-quality creative examples of this "New Poetics" which make use of hypertext, hypermedia, multimedia, cybertext, and/or cybermedia. Additionally, prospective contributors are encouraged to call Currents' attention to new work and new sites of work of which we may not be aware for the purpose of suggesting "further readings" to be listed in this special issue. Currents is a biannual electronic journal published by the Computer Writing and Research Lab of the Division of Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Texas at Austin. Currents' purpose is to provide for the scholarly discussion of issues pertaining to electronic literacy, widely construed. In general, Currents seeks work addressing the use of electronic texts and technologies in reading, writing, teaching, and learning in fields including but not restricted to the following: literature (in English and in other languages), rhetoric and composition, languages (English, foreign, and ESL), communications, media studies, and education. While our focus for the Fall 2001 issue will be "New Poetics," we also welcome early submissions on any aspect of electronic literacy for future issues. You can visit Currents' Spring 2000 issue and our archives at http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/currents/. Currents is particularly interested in work which takes advantage of the hypertext possibilities afforded by our World Wide Web publication format, as well as articles concerning the use of emergent electronic technologies. To this end, we gladly accept articles with graphics, sound, and hyperlinks submitted as HTML documents. We ask, however, that such submissions adequately consider reader-access issues. Currents is also pleased to publish essays in more traditional formats. Please submit these essays either in HTML format, Word 97/98 format, or Rich Text Format (RTF). We accept electronic submissions by email at ejournal@lists.cwrl.utexas.edu or at ejournal@babbage2.cwrl.utexas.edu as well as on 3.5" floppy or Zip disks by post sent to the following address: Currents in Electronic
Literacy All submissions
should adhere to MLA style guidelines for citations and documentation,
which may be found online at http://www.mla.org/main_stl.htm.
Currents reserves all copyrights to published articles and requires
that all of its articles be housed dotlit Announcing the release of issue two of dotlit: The Online Journal of Creative Writing The second issue of dotlit: the Online Journal of Creative Writing continues to publish the best new poetry, short prose fiction and creative nonfiction by established and emerging authors. We have, however, significantly extended this range of the most innovative and exciting creative writing into hypertext and multimedia works, and have also introduced a book review section. Our featured commissioned
work, Circus, is a dazzling suite of 104 poems by Melbourne-based author
Antoni Jach. We have suggested a series of links between these poems,
providing readers with a series of possible alternate pathways through
the cycle. Hypertext writing is a central focus of this We are also currently accepting submissions for the next (May 2001) issue. Read issue 1.2 of dotlit now at http://www.dotlit.qut.edu.au/! Morals, Ethics, and New Media; CALL FOR PAPERS This anthology will
examine various ways in which new media affect morals and ethics in
society and culture. Papers should be 20-25 pages, and can be submitted
via e-mail to Mark.Wolf@cuw.edu,
or by mail to Mark J. P. Wolf, Communication Department, Concordia University
Wisconsin, Mequon, WI 53097.
John Bird launches story-based website ABCtales.com is a brand new website and magazine dedicated to the development and exposure of new writing. Brainchild of John Bird, founder of The Big Issue magazine, ABCtales.com aims to encourage story-telling on the web. 'Everybody has a story' said John 'and the purpose behind ABCtales.com is to encourage people to tell theirs. This is a website for everyone, if you're an eager reader, an aspiring writer or simply someone with a story to tell. All you have to do is log on and start writing. All writing is published for free on the site and if it's really good we'll select it for the monthly magazine.' GETOUTTHERE.BT.COM’S
WRITING ZONE IS LAUNCHING DECEMBER 2000... Starting in 2001,
writers can win dream prizes of meetings with agents, authors and publishers.
In addition, together with publishers HarperCollins, getoutthere.bt.com
will also publish regular supplements featuring winners’ work.
Writers should visit www.getoutthere.bt.com
to discover out how to upload work into the following five categories:
poetry, short stories, scripts, journalism and novels (first chapter
or story outline only). ~~~~~~~~ (the poetry) WORM ~~~~~~~ Issue 6 now out of ~~~~~(the poetry) WORM the thinking man's maggot. Issue 7 of ~ (the poetry) Worm ~ is now accepting submissions. If you are reading this you are eligible to submit material. Please send in a couple for consideration to john@ below. Closing date is Friday the 15th Dec. Many of the poets appearing in ~ (the poetry) Worm ~ feature on The Works email forum. You can join in, and it's simple. Just send a blank email to: penninepoetryworks-subscribe@listbot.com The Works provides quality feedback on work-in-progress, plus links, news and general discussion. The Works is not an on-line forum. It uses mailgroup technology. And is free! You can get further
information from john@villarana.freeserve.co.uk
or by Online from November
1st through to December 31st 2000 PROTOCOLLISION can be described as a "work in progress" by Japanese and Dutch webartists, curators, programmers and theoreticians and public. During two months, the website www.protocollision.org - which is created especially for this occasion - will constantly change and expanded with individual and collective sites and textual contributions. Squint is responsible
for the basic site in the form of a database, becoming more layered
as the number of works increase. Initially the participating artists
will develop autonomous websites. These are sites that explore the (im)possibilities
of the medium from various angles, such as: the working of language(generators)
and databases, the (il)logic of searchengines, sound as an interface
and programs as a means of visual communication. Naturally the public also has the opportunity to respond! *PROTOCOLLISION
is presented (live) in* for further information:
Exploring CyberSociety II: Newcastle, UK School of Social, Political and Economic Sciences, University of Northumbria at Newcastle, Call for papers
from the Cyber Society Research Unit Following on the
success of the First Exploring Cyber Society International Conference
at Northumbria University in July 1999, the second International Conference
will focus on disruptive and oppositional currents within cyber-society.
We are interested in such phenomena as computer hacking; the sending
of logic bombs and viruses; denial of service attacks; circulation of
criminal and obscene material, and the co-ordination of real world activities
ranging from organised criminality to legitimate popular protest. The
motivations and concerns behind such activities are, of course, highly
disparate. However, what they share is an attitude of dissent that conflicts
with the benign vision of the 'networked society' and a Papers are invited
under the following themes (though these are not exclusive and any proposal
relevant to the theme of the conference will be
We welcome papers of a theoretical or empirical nature and would particularly like to see as many disciplinary perspectives as possible represented. Call for Papers:
the Deadlines: Abstracts (maximum 500 words) should be submitted by
Friday January 26th 2001. Further details of the conference programme will be provided at our web site http://www.unn.ac.uk/corporate/cybersociety/ Conference Organisers: Graeme Kirkpatrick, Kevin McLoughlin, Lorna Kennedy (Conference Administrator), Peter Francis Please send abstracts
and conference bookings (see attached Booking Form) Artswork, a national youth arts development agency based in Southampton, wishes to invite tenders from parties interested in building and designing a website for the organisation. The deadline for completed tenders is 10 January 2001. The project is funded by a Small Scale Capital Lottery award. For an information pack and brief, please contact: Karen Shaw T: 023 8071 2246
9th November 2000 The UK's most valuable prize for new short stories by women, the third Asham Award, sponsored by Waterstone's, is launched this autumn with prizes totalling over £3,000. The Award was set up by the Asham Literary Endowment Trust in 1996 to commemorate Virginia Woolf's years at Asham House near Lewes, East Sussex. Uniquely among literary prizes, the Asham Award offers its winners publication alongside established women writers. Patricia Duncker, A.L.Kennedy, Elena Lappin, Kate Pullinger and Carol Shields will all feature in the next collection, along with the ten new award winners. The collection will be published by Serpent's Tail in 2002. The judges for the third award are: * Kate Pullinger,
novelist and short story writer Said Pete Ayrton: "The short story is the fictional form of the 21st century. The presence of big name writers in the Asham collections guarantees a readership for the stunning, innovative talents of the prize-winners." Serpent's Tail also published the first two Asham collections: The Catch (1998) and Reshape Whilst Damp (2000). The competition is again being sponsored by Waterstone's which is putting up the prize money. Of the competition, Waterstone's press and publicity manager Jo Humphreys-Davies said "Waterstone's are delighted to be supporting the Asham Award for the third year and to see the Award going from strength to strength” Competition details For further information
contact: Carole Buchan 01273 484400 Kunsthalle
Fridericianum Kassel FLEXIBILITÄTSVERSUCHE
(Rundgang VI) 16:oo h Internetgallery:
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keine Mails mehr von der Museum Fridericianum Mailinglist wollen: tb@documenta.de
25th October 2000 Soundtoys..., the first version has gone live Soundtoys.net ... new audio visual arts site.....version 2000. Soundtoys is a new resource and fun site. This site has just gone live so thanks to the all who have helped make version one such a success. And thanks to all those artists who have contributed, helped, offered advice particularly.....STANZA.TINA LA PORTA.JULIAN BAKER.BRAD TODD.ADE WARD.ANDY GREENWOOD.BETH CAREY.CHRIS YEWELL.TOMOO.ANDY WILSON.CARLA DIANA.MICHAEL TROMMER.JUDSON WRIGHT.SIMON TYSZKO.STEVE CLARK.MIKEY RIGLEY.ROBERT HOCKING.ALLIAX. The site features sound toys and multimedia experiments, generative music and new explorations in interactive media. This site explores the parameters of this new media world. Work produced for the soundtoys site includes immersive sound environment in three d from Stanza and a generative environment from Julian Baker. Many web technologies are explored including shockwave, flash, vrml, java, and offer insights into the diversive and creative nature of the web available to todays artists. Soundtoys also links extensively to sites on the world wide web, and to sites were research into the various areas of sound, music, and audiovisual art may be explored. Soundtoys bring together a new relationship for the creation of music and interactivity and allows the audience some control in the enjoyment of the music. This change in the relationship between the audience and the artist will radically change our aesthetic perception. It is this concept of the individual functioning simultaneously as producer and consumer that underpins the nature of multimedia. The user can choose what they experience, synthesising media in the process. Soundtoys can start to produce code that reproduces our creative output. Generated programmes like super collider allow this. Soundtoys view is that anyone or anything that can be seen to have a relationship with the work is regarded as having some authorial position relative to it. This is a key issue in the new dynamics of interactive multimedia. Soundtoys do exist as art, toys, games, generative music, interactive environments, shockwaves, environments etc. THE FUTURE>>> We are looking for artists, musicians who may want to contribute interactive web sound toys , and texts, to the website/ (see website for more information). As well as exposure through this website the work will be promoted worldwide at festivals. A book and cdrom are are planned, so please contact us and send in material. scottishinheritance.com is an on-line exhibition of picture-poems which reflect upon the scottish landscape. The site has recently been elected by poetry.com as one of the best 60 poetry web sites of the 6000 worldwide poetry sites which have been submitted to their site. The Association of Scottish Literary Studies have identified the site as being of sufficient merit to include alongside the main literary figures of Scottish literature. The exhibition will also be displayed at the Scottish Writer's Museum on Edinburgh's Royal Mile from January - April 2001. La vitrine de la création contemporaine #5 Ce mois-ci, nous avons de nouvelles surprises à vous présenter. Nous avons doublé le nombre des créateurs de notre agenda, car nous avons dû ré-harmoniser cette partie du site. Nous avons décidé
d'abandonner les explosions de fenêtres, et de cesser d'inonder
leurs tableaux. A présent, vous pourrez sélectionner une
liste de créateurs en fonction de différents critères
: thématique, alphabétique et d'autres que nous venons
de rajouter. Nous espérons ainsi que vous surferez plus longtemps
sur nos pages. Enfin, expo4art,
qui rassemble désormais dans sa galerie en ligne une centaine
de créateurs issus des arts plastiques, appliqués, scéniques
et de l'artisanat, en profitera pour présenter le nouveau design
de son site, enrichi de 2 autres rubriques : Si vous souhaitez recevoir gratuitement cette lettre chaque mois, vous pouvez facilement vous ABONNER en cliquant ici: http://www.expo4art.com/Francais/Registre.htm. La vitrine de la création contemporaine www.expo4art.com traite chaque mois de l'actualité de la création. Il est édité par AnaPhiL. Si vous souhaitez
ne plus recevoir d'informations de la part d'expo4art merci de nous
le signaler. The shop window of the contemporary creation #5 This month, we have new surprises to present to you. We doubled the number of creators, because we had to re-harmonize this part of the site. We decided
to abandon explosions of windows, and to stop flooding with pictures.
Now, you will be able to select a list of creators according to different
criteria: thematic, alphabetic and of others that we have just added.
We hope as well as you will surf longer on our pages. Finally,
expo4art, the online gallery will present the new design of our site,
enriched with 2 other categories,: contemporary art, sex, virtual reality, primale experience, VRML... Book Announcement It wanted to give gratuitous diffusion to an investigation book (it is not commercial). It speaks on Philosophy, Psychology, Physics, Biology, History, Art, Aesthetic, Ethical, Politics, Economy and Theology. Have the amiability to distribute to its Web site http://www.geocities.com/FilosofiaCT to the respective departments and professionals. Thank you very much, Eugene M. Tait As well as an up-to-date and comprehensive literature listing for the West Midlands, at the moment Lit-Net has ‘Widdicombe Corner,’ a quick guide to pharmacologically influenced literature from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Irving Welsh, and from this weekend a poem relating to the Hatfield rail crash – both directly accessible from the home poem. You also will see some improvements in how lit-net’s home and events pages are configured. Any comments about these and lit-net gratefully received.
Francis Anderson,
editor of Lexikon and co-ordinator of the Staffordshire Readers &
Writers Festival has asked me to spread the word for ideas, suggestions,
authors, workshops….for next year’s Festival (8th October
to 13th October 2001) If you have any ideas, could you contact Francis
directly editor@lexikon-publishing.co.uk.
You can find out more about this year’s Festival by visiting Lexikon’s
website www.lexikon-publishing.co.uk
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