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News Archives 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. Items for inclusion should be sent to trace@ntu.ac.uk 8th & 9th DECEMBER @ PLANET EARTHBEAT 11 Malvern Road, London NW6, UK 9.00 p.m. 'til late A 2-Night Benefit to raise money for two Community Arts Projects in Palestine, helping children and young people on the West Bank to stay sane…to stay alive. nights of poetry
and music to be held on Friday 8th and Saturday 9th December, at the
Planet Earthbeat, 11 Malvern Road, London NW6 5PS. All except a small
amount to cover venue costs will go to the arts projects, both of which
are described in greater detail on page 2 of this letter. Contact Agnes Meadows
Agnesmorgn@aol.com or telephone
020-7833-5828
10th - 12th January
2001 Booking deadline: 11th December 2000 Oxford University's Humanities Computing Unit is pleased to announce three seminars on humanities computing, to be held in Oxford from the 10th to 12th January 2001. They are updated repeats from the summer seminars series that ran in July 2000. The three seminars are: 10th January: Putting
your database on the Web The seminar website at http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/winter/ includes full details of the topics to be covered on each day. Each seminar will give you the opportunity to consult with experts about your research projects, and will also combine practical hands-on sessions with formal presentations. All teaching will be carried out by members of the Humanities Computing Unit and Oxford University Computing Services. Who Should Come? You should come if you work, or plan to work, with digital data, especially in a research context. You should be familiar with the concepts of HTML, and with using the Internet. You will leave with a clear sense of the principles and processes of electronic text and database creation and delivery, and be able to identify those areas where you need to learn more. How Much Will It Cost? Each seminar costs £60 (£30 for members of Oxford University). You can book for any combination of individual seminars. Interested? Booking information and further details are available online, at http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/winter/ or contact Jenny
Newman, Humanities Computing Unit, OUCS, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2
6NN. Tel: +44 (0)1865 273221; fax: +44 (0)1865 273275; Call for papers: "Computer Games and Digital Textualities" http://daec.it-c.dk/cgdt/cfp.html All junior researchers working within the fields of humanities, art, and design are invited to participate in this conference and encourages paper submissions focusing on various aspects of computer games and the understanding and interpretation of digital texts and worlds. Specifically, we welcome papers that seek to build a bridge between abstract theory and concrete studies of recent digital pieces of work. Presentations may be in the form of paper presentations or games and performances making a theoretical point through actual practice. Papers: Individual
papers should be no longer than 25 minutes. Games or performances: please
contact the organizing committee for further Submission format
Games, performances:
a prototype on CD-ROM or online; or a written description of the performance.
Submissions should include a short biography of the presenter and a
list of technical requirements. All proposals must be submitted through
the online submission form at the CGDT web site or sent directly to
the IT University no later than December 15th, 2000.
Joseph Nechvatal: ec-satyricOn 2000 October 26 - December 02, 2000 Universal Concepts
Unlimited announces the opening of "ec-satyricOn 2000 Since 1985, Joseph
Nechvatal has been exploring what he calls the The exhibition consists
of six large computer-robotic assisted paintings Nechvatal’s
stated intentions are to pictorially integrate the occurrence of In encounters with
virtualizing digitization, representations of carnal pulp Joseph Nechvatal
has exhibited his work widely in Europe and the United For further information contact UCU @ 212.727.7575 and/or see artist statement at: http://www.intelligentagent.com/satyricon.html Universal Concepts Unlimited 507 West 24th Street New York, NY 10011
16 November - 2 December 2000 IMPERIAL
SLACKS GALLERY Gene Spill is a group exhibition involving the artists: Stephen Birch Bronia Iwanczak Isobel Johnston Michelle Nikou Suzanne Treister Philipa Veitch Gene Spill is about our movement towards an age redefined by biotechnology: it is an investigation into the reconfigured realities created by genetically modified lifeforms and their interplay within the complex nexus of our ecosystem and our cultural/social beliefs and practices. Gene spill explores the transgression of previous boundaries for a new taxonomy with different relational strategies in a language of morphology, mutation and fusion. 'It is very important to understand that we are crossing species boundaries at will. There is no time in history, that I'm aware of, where flounders mated with tomatoes, where humans mated with mice, where salmon mated with chickens. This is a completely new arena.' -Andy Kimbrell, The International Centrer for Technology Assessment 'Genes are the green gold of the twenty-first century, every bit as important to power in the next era as oil and rare metals and minerals were to the industrial revolution .' - Jeremy Rifkin, head of the foundation of economic trends. What realities can we anticipate as nature's relational complexity becomes substituted by the economic determinism of the bio-industry? How will we revise our theories of Darwin's evolution, long held assumptions about the sanctity of nature and theological- cultural systems around the notion of GOD. We are on the re-playing field of the second genesis and everything we have ever assumed about the definition of life, ourselves andthe meaning of existence itself is about to be radically altered. http://www.projectroom.com/islacks What: The uk's first
celebration of the creative use and abuse of media convergence. Media convergence ( the coming together of computing, television and telecommunications ) promises technical wonders for audiences and producers alike. But, what are it's communication possibilities? Where are the new forms of content? And how can we use it to realise our creative potential? b.tv focuses the creative possibilities of convergence media. Featuring ground breaking ideas and work in: Interactive tv, Interactive gaming on the net, digital film cinema and the net, streaming media: radio and video, tv & net combinations, music and the net, mobile, wap & 3G video phone art, the net & live performance. For information Tel: 0114 225 4615 / 6. E- mail : anything@bluedoor.u-net.com www.theculturecompany.co.uk SHIFT-CTRL: Computers, Games and Art, A major international
interactive exhibition about computer games, the arts, and new technologies,
Atenea is an interdisciplinary journal published annually by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez. It features critical essays, book reviews, and some short fiction and poetry. The editors welcome
submissions based on the following guidelines: 1. Critical essays
(10-18 pages) and book reviews (2-4 pages) written in Revista Atenea,
Box 9010 Address: Faculty
of Arts and Sciences University of Puerto Rico URL: http://ece.uprm.edu/artssciences/atenea/atenea.htm Submissions in English,
French, or Italian should be sent to the attention Special
Discount Buy Three Tickets and get One Free on performances by Prema presents:
Third Angel in Where From Here In November 2000 Third Angel launch their tenth full scale performance project... Where From Here, a peculiar mixed up tale of two people who have manufactured a life that they are now desperate to escape. They have reached the edge. They are not the grown ups that they wanted to be, they don't remember the dreams they once had and they wish that they knew how to carry out a really great murder. All they want is good old fashioned happiness, but that may mean sacrifices that even they are not willing to make. Examining the fundamental basis of truth between individuals, Where From Here explores why we are often driven to lie to those closest to us. Thematically the performances draw on a range of influences from the world the company find around them: the beauty and frustration of everyday life; personal experience and memory; love and friendship; ambition, uncertainty and the desire to be happy. Layered on top of this are elements and stories from contemporary culture: film, art, magazines, television, music, books, going out at the weekend... This is the experience
of living here and now, filtered through the eyes and minds of one of
the most audacious performance companies working in Britain today. Since
1995 Third Angel have developed a distinctive style of performance and
installation work that combines text, movement, character, projected
images, soundtrack, scent and atmosphere. The work is often Third Angel have performed at venues and festivals across Britain and Europe gaining rave reviews for their theatre, installation and film work: their beautifully intimate performance style, ingenious use of technology and visually striking integration of live performance, projected images and original soundtrack. Third Angel have previously performed The Killing Show, Experiment Zero and Hang Up at Prema. For Where From Here,
Co-Artistic Directors Rachel Walton and Alexander Prema presents Non-stop movement, verbal fireworks, dance, visual imagery and music in this compelling fusion of video technology and live action, exploring sex, guilt, and salvation. Winners of the 1999
National Student Drama Festival, imitating the dog are a new, young
company full of poetic potential. Their approach to performance echoes
Forced Entertainment's strategies of aggressive question and answer
sessions and the use of nostalgic lists combined with the physical processes
of Goat Island. But imitating the dog is In Guilty Pleasures
two worlds in collision. A 1930s drawing room drama, in which convention
and good manners prevail and a dingy bathroom where sexual encounters,
dark secrets and strange fantasies are played out. Next to the toilet
a couple fumble while behind the door a girl sits crying as she recounts
unforgivable wrongdoings. Overlooking the others, the technician begins
to struggle with malfunctioning equipment. In the rooms below the lights
flicker, the music miscues and the characters begin speaking in other
peopleís voices. A switchback If you would like
any further information or to book tickets - please Telephone: 01453
860703 DEMO/TEXT
2000 10th October 2000
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Electronic Literature Organisation Directory The Electronic Literature Directory is at http://directory.eliterature.org In its first month
live on the Web, we've gone from 500 works listed in the
The ELO also has
Bulletin Boards at http://www.eliterature.org/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?conf=DCConfID1
My name is Francesco
Franceschi and I am an Italian computer-artist.
POST IDENTITY: CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline: March 1, 2001
_Post Identity_,
a national, fully refereed journal of the humanities, invites submissions
for its Fall 2001 issue. _Post Identity_ takes as its starting point
the belief that to examine the ways in which categories such as race,
gender, nation, and sexuality are constructed by means of powerful
For further information, visit our publication on the web at: http://www.libarts.udmercy.edu/pi/ or email weatherr@udmercy.edu.
Call for Papers: Digital Arts & Culture Conference The fourth international
Digital Arts & Culture Conference will be held in Providence, Rhode
Island, from April 27 to 29, 2001. This conference will explore the
cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural theory and practice of contemporary
digital arts and culture. The conference organizers have issued a "Call
for Papers" and a "Call for Performances" to participate in the conference.
The deadline for submission of proposals is November 1, 2000.
Department for Culture Media and Sport the government's website about the creative industries http://www.culture.gov.uk/creative/ Includes the recommendations of the Internet Enquiry
Now seeking proposals for the ABSOLUT ANGEL grant program. Two development grants. $50,000 each. Awarded to help fund innovative business concepts that marry technology and art. For profit or not-for-profit. Proposals reviewed by a panel of leading technology entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and digital art leaders. Entry deadline 11/30/00. MUST BE 21 YEARS OR OLDER TO ENTER. US RESIDENTS ONLY.
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A T A B A S E OF VIRTUAL ART Specific to the nature of digital art works is that their electronic, physical carriers become anachronistic with quick progression of technological innovation. It is not an exaggeration to say that a full decade of international media art is in danger of being lost. The growing gaps in collecting media art can only be filled again with immense effort. In order to counter the increasing complex of difficulties, and in view of the current active developments, it is necessary to make information readily available as soon as possible. The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
(DFG) supports an initiative of the art history department of the Humboldt-University
in Berlin to build up an international archive of virtual art. A high
capacity Internet database able to accommodate large numbers of users
is being developed in The goal of the project is to provide an overview and to document the development of media art scientifically in support of an ouevre created by artists who are themselves actively engaged in complex international research networks. Materials that are needed for realization of the database:
http://www.arthistory.hu-berlin.de/arthistd/mitarbli/og/og.html more info: Oliver.Grau@culture.hu-berlin.de
Cyberfict is an annual journal (250-300 pages) devoted to computer-related fiction of all kinds--including, but not restricted to, cyberpunk and other futuristic fiction, fiction published on the Internet or on CD-ROM, the use or influence of hypertext in fiction, and fiction-related Internet sites and software.
We will consider any approach related to this broad topic--including criticism of individual or multiple works, profiles of or interviews with authors, descriptions of pedagogical approaches or issues, theoretical studies, interdisciplinary studies, bibliographical articles, notes, book reviews, and reports on related cultural phenomena. We are very open to submissions by graduate students, and, as a special feature, professors may submit groups of undergraduate response essays/book reviews (500-750 words each). We will also publish a limited amount of fiction and poetry related to the topic. We welcome the inclusion of graphics with any submission. We will consider submissions of up to 40 double-spaced pages. The journal is published each February, but we read year round. SASE required for paper submissions; response within 90 days. Submissions should
be addressed to:
E-mail submissions can be sent to martin.kich@wright.edu. We prefer that the submission be attached as a text or rtf file, but WordPerfect, Word, or html files will be accepted. A limited number of the first volume (published in February 2000) are available. Inquiries are very welcome.
The Vancouver Videopoem Festival The Edgewise ElectroLit Centre & Pacific Cinémathèque On Friday and Saturday, November 3 and 4, 2000 the Edgewise ElectroLit Centre is hosting the second annual Vancouver Videopoem Festival at Pacific Cinematheque, Canada's first and only poetry film festival. During this second annual festival, Vancouver's own Edgewise ElectroLit Centre will be presenting videopoems from across Canada and around the world. Our international call for submissions has resulted in a diverse range of work in this fledgling medium. Videopoetry festivals occur in Chicago, San Francisco (known as the Cinepoem Festival) and Roma, Italy. This event is the first of its kind in Canada and provides a much needed venue for the presentation of Canadian work in this hybrid genre, a genre which receives scant attention in our country despite being a creative field of growing interest for Canadian artists since the 1970's. The most innovative treatments are explored and presented. Work from Canada and beyond will give local audiences a survey of the accomplishments in videopoetry in the past twenty years. The selection of works is a broad range of mostly Canadian artists, a smaller amount of international artists to represent the course of the medium's development; a diversity of poetic styles and video strategies and will represent a balance of historical material with contemporary and recently produced material. The goal of the second annual Vancouver Videopoem Festival is to cultivate works, discussion and an audience for this burgeoning art form that integrates poetry and video-like visuals, be they produced by a camera or through computer programming. The EEC aims to develop a forum for defining, legitimizing and nuturing work in this hybrid genre (also known as poetry-film or cine-poetry) and the artists who produce it in Candada. The festival components will include a Poetry and Video Workshop on Thursday, Nov.2 at Video In with Jill Battson and Kurt Heintz, two nights of screenings, a panel discussion and an awards gala recognizing the achievements in this genre in various production and creation capacities. To speak at the festival on the origins of the genre, its forms, and on the artistic and cultural context in which it can flourish, are Alma Lee, Artistic Director of the Vancouver International Writers Festival, poet and author, Micheal Turner, experienced poetry film producers and media artists, Jill Battson of Toronto, ON and Kurt Heintz of Chicago, Il, and the British-born Director of the Cine-Poem Festival, Ian Moore. Kicking off the screenings each night will be erformance poetry by Hilary Peach and Adeena Karasick. Montreal's Ian Ferrier is featured at the Awards Gala on Saturday night. What is a videopoem? A wedding of word and image. The Edgewise ElectroLit
Centre is a nonprofit society whose mandate is to make poetry and new
media accessible to all members of society through educational programs
and electronic forums. We employ communications technology to widen
the audience of Canadian poetry and give poets, multi media artists
and youth the opportunity to use, learn, and create with technology.
Our electronic magazine, the Edgewise Cafe, can be viewed and heard
at Funding for The
Edgewise ElectroLit Centre's Vancouver Videopoem Festival has been received
from the Canada Council for the Arts. Job Vacancy
Arts Education Officer Job Vacancy
An opportunity for a creative individual to work in one of the UK's fondly respected arts venues collaborating with schools, FE colleges, artists and the community. Enthusiasm and commitment are essential and an element of experience and understanding of the field is desirable.
Prema is a unique,
independent arts organisation based in the South West and
is situated in a breathtaking rural setting. The programme offers unparalleled
access to the best cutting edge, high quality, innovative arts across
media in an intimate and creative environment. Prema has a
Salary: £7,000
per annum Hours: 17.5 per
week Application Deadline:
Friday 30th November 2000 For application
details please send an A4 SAE to Prema, South St, Uley, or email gordon@prema.demon.co.uk
Post to commence: January 2001
The Computers and Writing Working Group (CWWG), a group for University of Florida faculty and graduate students who are interested in the field of computers and writing, invites you to participate in its Fall 2000 Virtual Colloquium Series.
For this series,
CWWG has invited noted scholars and artists to work with us through
a variety of electronic means, as we think through the problems and
possibilities of (un)mediated art in the digital age. To consider writing
and digital art simultaneously is to re-consider traditional
Discussions will
take place either in our MOO, Mooville, or on e-mail. To participate
in the virtual colloquium, send a message to majordomo@clas.ufl.edu
with subscribe cwwg-colloquium your e-mail address in the body of
the message. To request a MOO character, send a message to
To see the schedule
of participants, visit our website at Please join us for a lively discussion on composition and digital art.
Includes: NOVEMBER Michael
Spooner and Kathleen Blake Yancey : Christy Sheffield DECEMBER Michael Joyce : Mark Amerika
Job Vacancy: Assistant or Associate Professor, Communications Design The School of Communications Design at the University of Baltimore, a unique liberal arts institution in Baltimore, Maryland, has an opening beginning Fall 2001 for an Assistant or Associate Professor in Hypermedia and Digital Culture. The job listing is available on-line at http://raven.ubalt.edu/jobs.
A new literary website which is looking for ground-breaking prose from urban writers. They will publish four or five new stories (400 words) each month, and all published will be paid £150. Details from Jon Buscall e-literature@projector.se
A lively eZine for book lovers
Website designed for writing collaborative fiction. User accounts, book-marks, different genres, and a unique way of suggesting how popular a story is (to guide people in their reading). All we need now are some good writers who want to join our community! :)
Many of the sites we have seen offer people a chance to collaborate on one or more stories. Prosebush offers that functionality along with some organization into different genres, the ability to look up information on contributors (voluntarily provided), and more. We feel that this will allow different types of writers to use our site (and be a big help to people who just want to read, as well). You can be serious and work on a really interesting story, or you can just have fun. We want to offer something to every person.
E-POETRY, 2001: AN INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL POETRY FESTIVAL
BUFFALO, NY, April 18-21, 2001
E-POETRY, 2001: An International Digital Poetry Festival -- a convocation of digital poets and artists -- will focus on the state of art of digital poetry. http://epc.buffalo.edu/e-poetry/2001/
Issue No. 41 of PIF MAGAZINE, October 2000: Is Online Now at www.pifmagazine.com
We are in the process
of setting up writing competitions in Poetry and Short Stories. We will
be showcasing competition entries online. This is in order to raise
funds for our Mobile Recording Studio project for the
Age categories:
Writing categories: short stories and poems on any christmas theme
Closing date: 15th december 2000
How to enter: you
must register your interest and receive an entrant number by visiting
the site
ENTRY FEES: Under 18 - 50p
per entry
PRIZES Under 18's can
Win .
Over 18's can Win. A Meal For Two.
GUIDELINES We would encourage
writers to visit the site and print off our
CONTACT DETAILS
Tel/Fax 01332 737850
Mob: 07968 669367
MOBY c/o The Horizontal Paul Music Project. P.O. Box 555, Derby, DE1 9WL, UK
Engagés dans une lutte pour la reconnaissance de leur statut d'enseignement supérieur,
LES ARTISTES,
ETUDIANTS, ENSEIGNANTS, TECHNICIENS, THEORICIENS INTERVENANT DANS LES
ECOLES D'ART EN FRANCE
prennent acte du
manque d'engagement du ministère de la culture, de son indifférence
à défendre réellement les revendications qu'il entérine pourtant lors
des réunions de négociation, de son silence atterrant sur la situation
des écoles d'art françaises dans le contexte européen
en inaugurant un programme
"ART ET POLITIQUE"
DÉSORMAIS, TOUS LES COURS, TOUTES LES INTERVENTIONS, DE TOUTES LES ECOLES D'ART EN FRANCE SE FONT HORS LES MURS ET ONT POUR UNIQUE SUJET: "ART ET POLITIQUE" RENDEZ-VOUS LE 9 OCTOBRE, À 14 HEURES SUR LA PLACE DU PALAIS-ROYAL, DEVANT LA COMÉDIE FRANÇAISE Nous invitons tous
ceux qui se sentent concernés, à la présentation de notre 1ère intervention
pour l'année 2000/2001
An open invitation from Charnwood Arts to 'artists' and 'writers' anywhere - anyone who can think, write, talk, scribble, doodle, paint, photograph, video, sing, describe the world around them, the past present or future and their own thoughts. One World Week in Charnwood this year follows the national theme of 'As if People and the Earth mattered' - well yes we do and it does! As an arts and multi-faith, multi-cultural event our local One World Week is a special reminder that difference and dispute need not end in destruction. I am inviting artists and writers anywhere to participate in part of a growing project called 'People Making Places' a project which promotes and emphasises the diversity of human creativity and experience alongside the links we make together which can become communities. This piece of work is called the 'Mountsorrel Mandala' send your pieces of 'earth', 'stones' as writing, songs or pictures to: Charnwood Arts
We would like submissions on the following themes:
We hope that by sending us work you will agree to let us use the work on future web exhibitions and on CD-ROM, in exhibitions and possible publications. Everything we do is non-profit making and for the purpose of extending the benefits of knowledge, enjoyment, awareness and the arts. If you are motivated by profit or if you do not wish for the work to be used in any way at all or without your explicit permission please say so clearly. We are working
off an AppleMac platform so would appreciate submissions in
Electronic and postal submissions welcome. There is no deadline but early submissions are welcomed!
INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS (ICA), LONDON
22 NOVEMBER, 2000 @ 7.30pm.
Friedrich A. Kittler,
Professor at the Institute for Aesthetics at Humboldt Professor Kittler
will be speaking about the relationship between technology
The event is a
spring board to a course the ICA is running in 2001 entitled
DA2 UPDATE/ autumn projects: from Periphery to Afterworld, Viper to Venice Online Vacillations
Online Vacillations - is the Afterworld discussion forum in which issues raised by the Afterworld project are aired and exposed. Stimulated by Maria Natascha Stukkof it is a place which exposes ideas around projects that move between the real and the virtual and that explore changing notions of artistic practice. Other Afterworld events & interventions The Slacker Table, a bar table constructed with an internal computer, a networked utilitarian object for loafers and idlers. Homogenius, a power-point presentation to the business community of Bristol which examines homosexuality and genius. Afterworld Card Game - is a limited edition SWOT game of cards to predict and control your future. You can register on the Afterworld site to collect the limited edition. Plus further projects to come - one per month till Jan 20001
The on-line quarterly magazine of art and literature http://www.btinternet.com/~ixionmag Issue 11 now on-lin Lexikon Publishing Open Poetry Competition Closing Date: 5 January 2001
Lexikon Publishing
is pleased to announce its open poetry competition for
The purpose of
our open poetry competition aims to give the individual poet
Maximum Length
per poem: 60 Lines Entry Fee: £1.50
per poem up to a maximum of 10 poems Judge: Poet and children's writer Celia Warren
Entry form and
guidelines are available from: Lexikon Open Poetry
Competition Lexikon
13th September 2000 Lichfield and District Writers Short Story competition 2000 We're in our sixth
year for the competition and attract entries from just about everywhere.
Fish Annual Short Story Prize First prize, 1000
Irish pounds, Closing date: 30th
November 2000. Open theme. Max. 50000 words Subject: dis/utopia Voyeuristic television programs such as Survivor and Big Brother, coupled with the easy accessibility of information via the Internet and other modern information sources, are a startling echo of the Distopian writings of Orwell and Huxley. Have we succumbed to a Distopian order, or are we simply on a bumpy path to a Utopian world? nasty is currently on the lookout for short academic papers (1000-4000 words) which address multiple facets of Utopia or Distopia. We are especially interested in papers which consider cinematic Distopia such as Metropolis and Brazil, televised voyeurism in the form of Survivor and Big Brother, or postmodern textual Distopia, such as Douglas Copeland's Shampoo Planet. nasty is a peer-reviewed journal, which exists to create a forum for the promotion and dissemination of new, controversial and challenging cultural and academic thought across the humanities. nasty accepts work from all realms of the Humanities, including English language literature, anthropology, history, sociology, women's studies, and cultural studies. At this time, nasty can only accept electronic submissions addressed to kirsten c. uszkalo at submissions@nasty.cx. Recent publications and submission information can be found at http://nasty.cx. kirsten c uszkalo - general editor, nasty Bad Subjects: Politics of Everyday Life CALL FOR PAPERS 2000-2001 Bad Subjects is seeking short, accessible essays relating to the politics of everyday life. Essays should be short (around 3000 words) and should be written in accessible and jargon-free prose. Writing that combines practical issues with theoretical consideration will be especially appreciated. Feel free to query issue editors on essay proposals. Visit the journal at http://eserver.org/bs/ Issue topics for 2000-2001 include: Film Reviews wanted for ejournal Scope, a fully refereed on-line journal of film studies edited by staff and postgraduate students within the Institute of Film Studies at the University of Nottingham, is looking for film reviews of about 1000/1500 words to be included in forthcoming issues. http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/film/journal/submiss.htm Little Magazines has a new URL http://www.little-magazines.org.uk Please update your links and bookmarks. Thanks. Call for papers for next spring's Digital Arts and Culture conference Providence, RI (USA) can be found at http://www.stg.brown.edu/conferences/DAC/ NB: The deadline for submissions is Nov.1st. CreativeStudios Poetry: The Poetry Bulletin Boards http://pub19.ezboard.com/bcreativestudiospoetry Come discuss, post, critique, learn, and admire works in a friendly discussion place. Distance Learning/Internet Conference Call for papers for the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association The Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association and American Culture ssociation are holding the annual meeting on March 7-10, 2001, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at the Sheraton Old Town Hotel for a third year. This is a call for papers for using Distance Learning/Internet as a new alternative teaching method. Last year there were two panels for this topic. I am hoping for more this year to include innovative ideas and practices, showing both successes and problems. Please contact this area chair by November 10, 2000. Check conference website listed under Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association for additional information and registration. (http://www2.okstate.edu/swpca) CFP: Forging Frontiers: Imagination, Technology & Culture DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: November 1, 2000 CALL FOR PAPERS: The Arizona State University Graduate Scholars of English Association (GSEA) and the Department of English are pleased to sponsor the ninth annual Southwest Graduate Literature Symposium, March 2-4 2001, at Arizona State University in Tempe. The conference entitled "Forging Frontiers: Imagination, Technology & Culture" invites you to explore the ways in which different contexts, including but not limited to imagination, technology, and culture, create or engage frontiers. This conference is open to papers on any aspect of literature, film, theater, creative writing, or language studies and pedagogies. We would like to especially encourage panel submissions. Because the theme of the conference is inclusive and interdisciplinary, the following list of questions is one way to begin thinking about how the theme may apply to your own work. The questions are meant to motivate, but not limit, your thinking.
HOW TO SUBMIT: Please submit a one-page blind proposal, in triplicate, by post, email or fax (listed below) by November 1, 2000. Your proposal should be accompanied by a cover sheet clearly indicating your name, address, phone number, email address, institution, and title of proposal. Please direct all
proposals or correspondence to: The New Writer The contemporary UK monthly magazine, The New Writer, has just opened its website at www.thenewwriter.com. This will give an overview of the magazine and its articles and activities. The New Writer not only runs its own competitions for short fiction, poetry and features, weekend workshops, appraisal service, but also provides information on other competitions and markets. The closing date for Prose and Poetry Prizes is 30 November 2000. Contact editor@thenewwriter.com for further information or send 2 first class stamps for an entry form plus free back copy of the magazine to PO Box 60, Cranbrook, Kent TN17 2ZR, UK. The New Writer editor is interested in receiving in-depth articles and features on all aspects of the written word, including interviews and profiles but not introspective pieces (see Guidelines at www.thenewwriter.com for more information). Poetry and short fiction submissions are also covered in these guidelines. launches to ask - is your take on globalisation for real? Petrol prices too high? Why? Globalisation and its many effects is back at the top of the news again and as the IMF/World Bank Prague Summit starts, fantasyworldorder.com launches a 15 question online quiz game to cut through the confusion, hype and spin to get to the real issues on world leaders, activists and NGO's agendas to ask - is your take on globalisation for real? Oxfam and Diageo PLC are project partners. The quiz-game is in four easy stages.
With the short quiz-game- game complete, website visitors will know if their take on global issues is for real. An updated list of all users' final positions will be viewable by all site visitors. A prize worth £250 will be offered to the best fantasy world leader profile entered. For details see www.fantasyworldorder.com/ www.fantasyworldorder.com is a www.consider.net project, supported by New Statesman, Oxfam and Diageo PLC.
16th September 2000 SUB/CON/TEXT
CDROM 2.06 Available: Alan Sondheim (ex-trAce writer-in-residence) I've been working non-stop on putting as much of my work (dealing with literature, psychology, cyberspace, language, sexuality, body, etc.) on one cdrom. The result is sub/con/text (which also includes collabora- tions with Foofwa d'Imobilite, Barry Smyle, Reiner Strasser, Annie Abrahams, and Azure Carter), which is available now. sub/con/text is an enormous mass of material - some of which is available on my website, but most of which will be new to you. The advantage of the cdrom, in any case, is that you can explore it at your leisure, copy out texts and graphics, etc. It's relatively easy to use - you can access the various directories through a browser or any file browser such as Explorer. The cdrom was made on a PC, but because it is only files and directories, I imagine it will open on most Macs as well. Includes: 30 articles, outlines of 8 talks, 345 images (approx.), 6 music tracks (mp3), the full Internet Text (approximately 3800 pages) and additional materials (revised The Case of the Real; Ma, a Novel), 7-8 webpage suites (including Water, Frac, Narcissistic Disturbance, etc.); approx- imately 15 video segments in .avi format and one also in .rm and .asf formats; and 61 tiny programs on basic, perl, or dialog. The sound should be playable on most mp3-compatible players; the video will open in various players as well. The texts are accessible through most browsers at cdrom\network\index.html . The websuites will open in almost any browser as well. The texts and articles are all in text-based ascii format, which means they're readable literally with anything; they're the core of the cdrom. There is a readme_1st.txt which acts as a guide. There is 'adult' material on the cdrom; please keep away from children. I'm asking $10 + $4 shipping and handling; this helps cover the costs of the burner, label, case, disk, and most important, the labor. Please send $14.00 in check, cash, or money order, with a return address, to Alan Sondheim A freelance contracts site including contracts for writers. US on the whole, but a lot of writing contracts can be fulfilled online. The latest edition of Sue Kendrick's WriteLink Newsletter of markets, competitions, jobs and opportunities for freelance writers (mostly UK) is available at http://www.writelink.co.uk
Current funding opportunities for artists and arts groups (UK) are compiled by Alex Burke/FYI -- http://www.nyfa.org/fyi -- at the New York Foundation for the Arts. The Creative Work Fund -- which celebrates the role of artists as problem solvers and the making of art as a profound contribution to intellectual inquiry and to the strengthening of communities -- invites artists and nonprofit organizations to create new art works through collaborations. (in San Francisco or Alameda county, CA) The Creative Work Fund is currently inviting letters of inquiry for collaborations between literary artists and nonprofit organizations (poetry including spoken word, fiction, and creative nonfiction) and between media artists and nonprofit organizations (film, video, radio, sound or video installation, and computer arts)to create new works. These projects may be interdisciplinary. The Fund gives equal consideration to two types of projects: Collaborations between artists and arts organizations and collaborations between artists and non-arts community organizations. (youth, human services, educational, environmental, among others) The deadline for letters of inquiry is November 3, 2000. Responding to several years of declining support for artists and new art works, the Columbia Foundation, Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund, Miriam and Peter Haas Fund, and Walter and Elise Haas Fund launched the Creative Work Fund in September 1994. All four foundations are equal partners in the Fund, but it is administered by the Walter and Elise Haas Fund. Current support for the Fund will continue through 2004. For more information and application details, visit http://www.creativeworkfund.org/ ANGELAKI 6.3 : 2001 General Issue For publication
December 2001 Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities publishes two special (theme) issues and one general issue per volume/year. We are now open to submissions for the 6.3 General Issue. Please send three copies of your MS to Gerard Greenway, managing editor, Angelaki, Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 36A Norham Road, Oxford, OX2 6SQ, United Kingdom. Please mark your mail pack "General Issue 6.3". Please do not e-mail submissions. Angelaki is a peer-reviewed journal. For further information on the journal, notes for contributors, and contents lists, please go to: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/routledge/0969725x.html or email greenway@angelaki.demon.co.uk. dotlit is an online publication produced by the Creative Writing section of the School of Media and Journalism, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane. dotlit features an edited selection of the best new and innovative fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction writing (including biography, fictocriticism and memoir) by young and emerging writers, plus a section of commissioned creative works by established writers. We are particularly interested in publishing works which utilise the potential of this electronic medium, especially hypertext and other interactive and multimedia writing. The first issue went online in early July 2000, and featured contributions by undergraduate and postgraduate Creative Writing students from the Queensland University of Technology, as well as commissioned works by prominent Australian author Michael Wilding and poet Helen Horton. The second issue will be launched in November 2000, and will feature a section of hypertext stories. The September issue of the Artmedia Newsletter (Australia) focussed on electronic books (e-books), with reviews and news. Links to sites for the a variety of reader software and hardware can be found at http://www.artmedia.com.au/links1.htm including Rocket eBook, Softbook, Microsoft Reader, Glassbook reader, Viewer for Word 97/2000, Adobe Acrobat Reader. To subscribe, go to http://www.artmedia.com.au and enter your e-mail address in the Newsletter subscription box. The Technology Watch Group (UK) launched its web site, at http://www.jtap.ac.uk/techwatch, on 4th September 2000. The site will act as the main vehicle for fulfilling its role of informing the HE and FE communities of emerging technologies and of the debate on their significance for the sector. Technology Watch is a Group of JCIEL providing a service on behalf of JISC. It includes Standards Watch, previously under the Standards Group of JCAS and the Technology Watch role of the Web Focus Officer, formerly under JCEI. The web site provides easy access to a broad range of information on trends and developments in C and IT that are relevant to learning and teaching activities of tertiary institutions. The contents will be updated continuously and the coverage will expand as the programme proceeds and as new technologies come in to focus. The main part of the web site will hold reports on the key technologies identified by the Technology Watch Group including those that have been commissioned for the site. These will include reports on technologies, on standards, on the web, on issues for learning and teaching and on issues for e-business. The site will contain news items, debate and information on just about every technology important to education as well as a wealth of links to related sites worldwide. Coinciding with the launch of the web site is the issue of an invitation to tender for writing reports. Technology Watch has identified those technologies that are considered key for the community to know about. The principal way in which it will achieve this is through a tendering process. In order to bring substantive, appropriate information to the community, it will also commission reports, invite contributed reports and search out materials from the education community, from business and from vendors that can be hosted in one site. EXPATRIATE YOURSELF POETRY CONTEST (US) The EXPATRIATE YOURSELF POETRY CONTEST prizes - a round-trip airfare from the US to South America -- are based on 200 entries of $US 10.00 to cover airfare and art acquisition. In the event that the participation required to finance the roundtrip airfare is not achieved, all checks will be returned voided and uncashed to the participants, but art prizes and publication will be awarded. The base prize pool will be used to transport the winner from the US to selected South American cities only; additional transportation costs and expenses will be borne by the winner. If entries exceed the expected 200, funds will be provided for further transportation of the winner and travel expenses as available. If the winner will not be initiating travel in the United States, but rather will be traveling to that country, the prize pool will be used to transport the winner from selected Non-US cities to selected cities in the United States. Copyright remains with the author, although contest winners must share copyrights with Le Chantier. Submissions must be postmarked by November 22, 2000. Mail submissions and make check or money order payable in US funds to: Lawrence Fisher, 805 Treasure Lake, Dubois, PA 15801, USA No email submissions will be accepted. Visit http://www.lechantier.com for details.
AWP GUIDE TO WRITING PROGRAMS (USA mostly) Published by Dustbooks for the Associated Writing Programs (AWP) of the United States, the AWP GUIDE TO WRITING PROGRAMS provides extensive information about writing programs in universities in USA and abroad. Information in each listing includes degrees and programs offered, courses and requirements, faculty, costs and other vital information. Edited by David Fenza of AWP at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, this 300-page guide lists more than 300 programs as well as colonies, conferences and centers. The Official AWP
Guide to Writing Programs Radical science book called "Changing the Universe" http://web.one.net.au/~longhair1/ Premise: 200 years ago when the sciences were established, errors and mistakes due to the acceptance of observational illusions gave birth to the sciences and the scientific mysteries. Using the knowledge of today, we can look back and make the necessary changes to the sciences, however, it means that the sciences will need to be rebuilt from start. The site is 9.6 MB, 250,000 words, (24 chapters, 8 appendixes, glossary, and much information.) The theory up front is an important section, returning the sciences to the aether theory, and a universe over a centillion years old (that is 10 raised to the power 600). The site is so contencious that many scientists are examining the work, trying to find fault. The problem is that this scientific view works and explains the universe. The theory disputes the big bang, gravitational lenses, black holes, worm holes and re-defines relativity. It is fascinating stuff for the science buff. There are experiments to do, and lots of illustrations. As from today, the book site is locked under copyright. any changes must be done through the errata system. The book has been archived by the National Library of Australia, as a work of significant cultural importance 19th July 2000 Lovewords the e-zine is seeking short fiction up to approximately 2,500 words (will consider longer in some cases) geared to "the passions of man." Work can be true romance or anything that deals with love -- for the opposite sex, for a pet, a friend or even a fishing boat. Zine published monthly. Pays $20 American per story. Runs author's bio, photo, e-mail address and URL with story. Visit zine at http://www.lovewords-zine.com or guidelines page at http://cotterark.homestead.com/cotterark.html Trimester Vol., 6, No. 1, 2000, Australia's foremost bilingual Chinese and English literary magazine, edited by Ouyang Yu, is out now in Melbourne, Australia. Support us if you can by purchasing a copy. Make your money order or cheque payable to: Yuanxiang (otherland) Literary Journal P.O.Box 200, Kingsbury, 3083, Victoria, Australia Email your enquiries
at: "It's important to say something that is not confined to it's medium" - Rudi Gernreich
There are undoubtedly songs so finely crafted that they, on their own, pass into literature. Listening to Bruce Springsteen’s "Spirit In The Night", it is easy to believe that it is a short story being sung to a conveniently crafted tune, so perfect in natural cadence is the narration of the first verse. By the time Springsteen’s voice cracks on the phrase "they’re built like light", he is a storyteller more than he is a rock star. It was that very verse of that very song that T. C. Boyle used as a springboard for his short story "Greasy Lake". Writers everywhere admit readily to pulling a song title out of their memory or tape collection to serve as a title for their own story, or even as a prop within the piece itself. In night rally’s special all-fiction second issue, dutch pink and italian blue (a phrase from the Tom Waits’ song "Temptation"), short stories are written within the boundaries of songs themselves. Suggested reading: "From ‘Maggie May’, 1981", by the brilliant Lester Bangs in his posthumous anthology Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung. Suggested listening knows no bounds, from Henry Mancini instrumentals to last year’s one-hit wonder pop morsels (although night rally recommends titles such as Springsteen’s "Greetings From Asbury Park", Steely Dan’s "Katy Lied", and the Violent Femmes eponymous first release). Submissions deadline: October 15, 2000. night rally is a triannual journal based in Philadelphia and publishes short fiction, essays, poetry, art and photography, as well as criticism, literary portraits, and interviews. Issue One of night rally will be available by single-copy sale in September of 2000, and will feature previously unpublished fiction by Fay Weldon, J. Robert Lennon, and selections from the Piccolo Spoleto Fiction Open in Charleston, South Carolina, as well as an interview with author Rick DeMarinis . Go to our support page for more information.In a time where the people who read short stories are often those who write them, night rally serves as both inspiration and manual for the short story writer, and as an accessible source of truth-bearing fiction by both established and avocational authors. the interlocutor is a free, interactive service of the night rally homepage (www.nightrally.org) which will feature a pull-down menu of American and Canadian literary magazines, and "testimonials" from authors who submit to them. Who sticks to their turnaround time? Who edits with grace and style? Who mangles? Who never even returns your stuff, even though you gave them the postage? Stop wasting time, stamps, and hope. the interlocutor can help. The NATOarts board of directors is pleased to announce the opening of NATOarts: A Retrospective, an exhibition of works of art commissioned by NATOarts since 1999. From 14 September to 14 November, 2000, NATOarts: A Retrospective will be on view at the NATOarts exhibition facility at 6 Hubert Street, in downtown Manhattan. Works of art to be included in the retrospective may be viewed on the internet at http://www.natoarts.com. NATOarts is an international arts organization which seeks to promote global security and stability through the exhibition of works of conceptual art. It is governed by a nineteen-member board of directors, with representation from each of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization member states. NATOarts was founded on 4 April 1999, by unanimous motion of the North Atlantic Council, on NATO's fiftieth anniversary (NAC 79:5C, Article three). As an organization operating under article twenty-three of the United Nations 1971 Oslo accords, NATOarts is not affiliated with any sovereign state, but instead is governed by a board of directors subject to international law. For more information, please contact Peter Rom, director of communications. (rom@natoarts.com) RealTime: latest issue now online http://www.rtimearts.com/~opencity Our latest issue is now online featuring FILM, DIGITAL MEDIA and SCREEN CULTURE Got some feedback? Email Kirsten at RealTime, opencity@rtimearts.com Symposium Music, arts and technologies. Toward a critical approach Hello, we are organizing a symposium, please send us proposals for texts or technoromantic artworks. Please send proposals for texts to : Makis.Solomos@univ-montp3.fr Please send proposals for artworks to : sbarron@netcourrier.com Symposium website : http://alor.univ-montp3.fr/XXESUPV/musiques/ The Digital Performance Archive DPA at The Nottingham Trent University is pleased to announce the launch of its new website and specially designed searchable database at http://art.ntu.ac.uk/dpa Amsterdam, October 6 - 8, 2000 The Streaming Media Festival is the result of a collaboration of a broad coalition of Dutch and international cultural organisations, artists and media tacticians. The festival is devoted to new forms of broadcasting and live programming that have emerged around the Internet ("streaming media"). The festival presents and explores the use of streaming media as an artistic and tactical medium, i.e. the points where artistically challenging work and socially relevant content meet. The main venues will be Paradiso, De Balie and De Melkweg, creating a unique festival infrastructure around the Leidse Plein in the heart of Amsterdam. The festival will be a showcase of the most exciting and innovative artistic and tactical streaming media projects from around the globe. The program includes performances, concerts, club events, public presentations and debates, the media-bank a public hands-on walk-in media space, walk-in studio's that give the audience a chance to see the artists and technicians at work and interact with the live programs as they are being made, workshops and seminars. A large part of the festival will actually happen in the media; on the Internet, in local and national radio broadcasts, via cable television, satellite, and any other available trans- national medium. Besides a public event and meeting place, the festival will also provide a platform for a professional exchange of ideas and experiences. Various artistic and tactical communities who work with new media, but who do not regularly meet each other will be brought together. The aim of this meeting point is to give new incentives to these communities, and to create new lasting structures for co-operation and the development of fresh ideas and improved technology in this field. The festival will facilitate a cross-point where representatives of the cultural field and the main-stream industry can meet to learn about each others ideas and exchange mutual experiences. For more information email congestion@balie.nl Stelarc Workshop: Call for Participation Who: artists / cultural producers working in varied artforms including interactivity, performance, robotics, video, multi-media and new technologies. What: applications are sought for participation in a practical workshop by leading electronic performance artist Stelarc. You will have the opportunity to see/experience Stelarc's simulation system, view video footage and work first hand with the artist on individual projects. Held at Troy's Art Center, New York, USA, from 10am - 5pm October 15th or 16th, date to be confirmed. Fee: $90.00, $60.00 for students with valid ID. There is no budget for travel, but limited Scholarships are available towards the workshop fee. Acceptance to the workshop is restricted to a maximum of 20. Participants will be selected on the strength of their application materials. Please indicate if you wish to be considered for a scholarship. Apply: send a statement of interest with contact details and C.V to: Ref: Book/Ends
Stelarc Workshop Deadline: September 20th. Sorry, late applications cannot be considered. You will be notified of your placement by September 25th. Info: if you have further questions please call Elise Kermani or Caz McIntee at + (518) 276-4829. For further information on Stelarc, the Book/Ends Conference and Rennsselaers Electronic Arts Series, visit: http://www.stelarc.va.com.au/
The Word Hoard invites you to participate in: demo/text 2000 at CragRats when? 21-23 September & 9-14 October 2000 where? ‘CragRats’, in Holmfirth, nr Huddersfield. what? demo/text is about liberating language from books, finding ways for new writers and musicians to perform their work in an unusual but also a professional way. demo/text presents writing as an active, projective art that is intimately related to the other performing arts. Participants are urged at every stage of the process to stretch themselves, explore potential partnerships with musicians and to try ways of working which they may not have had the chance to try before. demo/text gives writers and musicians the chance to experiment and collaborate with new ways of working and new approaches to performance. Each participant creates a new text/music performance piece over a period of a month, through a series of workshops in creative writing, music, work on the voice and stagecraft. The process culminates with a minimum of two public showcases of this new work, promoted by The Word Hoard. demo/text begins with a weekend writing workshop, followed after 3 - 4 weeks by 6 days of devising, which culminate in 2 nights of performance. The writing workshop beings at 6.30pm on a Friday, with a meal and general getting-to-know-each-other session. The next day, Saturday, is devoted to writing, when participants begin to write and compose together, working, in the first instance, from various ideas and tasks that have been given in advance. Then on the Sunday there is an informal readaround/jam session, where everyone comes together to get a picture of work in progress, and to help any musicians involved to get aquainted with the skills needed to work with text. Following this first weekend, there is a break of 3 to 4 weeks, in which participants refine and finish their new text-music pieces. Tutors are on hand at The Word Hoard throughout this time, to help with editing, via phone, fax, e-mail or post. Or, if people can manage it, they can drop in at any time at The Word Hoard office, and get feedback on work in progress. By the time they return they should have a well-worked piece of writing/music, which will form the basis of their performance. There then follow six full days of intense workshop activity, beginning on a Monday. There are group and individual sessions on voice and performance, a further refinement of text and composition, and in-depth sessions with text/music group Sang. In these, participants work on the vocal and physical style of their performance, and work with the musicians to devise appropriate settings for their text. There's time to rehearse, and there are also one-to-one sessions with writing tutors, who are on hand throughout to help participants further polish their text. Finally, the performances take place on the Friday and Saturday. We don't demand that every piece be a finished work; in fact we enjoy the performance of work-in-progress for its spontaneity and excitement. Bed and breakfast accommodation is provided as part of the project fee. There are only 8 places available, which are allocated on a first-come-first-served basis, so it is important to book early. To book, please contact us at The Word Hoard, by e-mail, phone, fax or snailmail, or online via www.cragrats.com It's vital participants commit themselves as early as possible, so their details can be incorporated into our publicity. Participation in the project costs £300 (£260 concessions), which includes 8 nights bed and breakfast accommodation. The price includes 9 days of workshops, plus advice and support throughout the month, and a meal on the first Friday. This year for the first time demo/text will include a minimum of 4 evenings of performance, so that all involved get to perform their pieces at least twice. So far, performances are confirmed at Cragrats on October 13th & 14th and at The Media Centre in Huddersfield on October 17th & 18th. We hope there will be more! If you want more information or want to take part, contact: The
Word Hoard Cheques and Postal or Money Orders should be made payable to The Word Hoard Scott Murfin’s researching oblivion http://www.wordhoard.co.uk/oblivion.html was written as part of demo/text. 14th June 2000 I wonder if your members would be interested in my website, http://www.rejectioncollection.com, the writer's and artist's online source for rejection letters, misery, commiseration and inspiration? Visitors can post letters or sob stories, read about others' successes and failures. Postings are anonymous, laughs and catharsis are free! Thanks for your consideration. cathy@rejectioncollection.com, http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ade01/
DIGITAL ONLINE FILM COMMISSION DA2, the Digital Arts Development Agency, and the Cube Cinema, Bristol, are offering a commission for an artist working with online film. We are looking someone who is interested in making innovative work that pushes the way that the internet can be used for experimental film. We do not require someone who is UK based - communication between the artist and the organisers can be entirely online. We are not looking for people who are digitising work conceived and structured in a conventional linear fashion. We are looking for work which explores the creative possibilities that the Internet and browser based applications can offer. Look at the prototypes recently commissioned by DA2 for its CLICK FORWARD programme to see what we mean. http://www.da2.org.uk DA2 is a commissioning agency supporting experimental work with digital media; the Cube cinema is an artists-run cinema space that interested in using networking and net culture to broaden the cinematic experience. See http://www.cubecinema.com The fee is £2000. The final project needs to be completed by the end of Sept 2000 and as well as shown online will also be premiered at an event at the cube cinema. For more information on how to apply see OPPORTUNITIES at http://www.da2.org.uk Deadline for outline proposals is 23 June 2000. ENTER NOW - exploring human-computer interaction Tuesday 20 June To co-incide with the presentation of Desert Rain with Blast Theory DA2 and Arnolfini Live present a one day seminar: ENTER NOW How do memory, gaming and consciousness play a part in a performance that operates through a complex technical interface? What are the roles of the performer and spectator when the audience become the participants dealing with the computer interface and the performers are mediators? ENTER NOW is a one day seminar in which leading national and international artists, technologists and gamers will look at Desert Rain and other digital performance projects. ENTER NOW is at the Arnofini, Bristol, Tuesday 20 June, 12-5pm TO PARTICIPATE: Places for ENTER NOW are limited to 50 people and are free of charge. We are interested in gathering a balance of attendees working in the sector, from practitioners and producers, covering a range of areas of expertise and interests. We are also particularly interesting in giving artists and producers the opportunity to flag their current initiatives and discuss the issues they raise. If you are interested in attending, please contact Peter Ride The on-line quarterly magazine of art and literature http://www.btinternet.com/~ixionmag Issue 10 now on-line In this issue : the paintings of John McLean; Proust on Chardin; the ceramic sculpture of Sandy Brown; work by five international poets; Gallery featuring the work of four painters; archive of previous issues and links to many art and literary sites. WRITERS IN RESIDENCE – LEARN ENGLISH WEB SITE Wanted: Writers in residence on the web ‘Learn-English’, a web site for learners of English (aged from 8-30), is an exciting new development from The British Council. It can be found at http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish The Learn-English website is a free service which is aimed at learners worldwide to help develop their language skills outside the classroom. As part of this initiative we plan to recruit two Writers in Residence to develop creative writing projects over a period of six months. Each writer will be ‘in residence’ consecutively for three months starting in September 2000. Responsibilities will include:
Experience and skills required: Applicants should be experienced and published writers, ideally with school and English Language Teaching experience. Previous experience of writing for the Internet is not required but you should have an enthusiasm for electronic writing, direct Internet access, and relevant IT skills and equipment. Remuneration: A fee will be negotiated for a three month period For further information contact Hilary Jenkins, Literature Education Manager, Literature Department, The British Council, 11 Portland Place, London W1N 4EJ. Tel. 020 7389 3167. Fax. 020 7389 3175. E-mail: hilary.jenkins@britishcouncil.org You should contact Hilary saying why you would like to apply , with samples of work/teaching materials where relevant, by 30 June, indicating when you would be free to start work (ie. September or January). Decisions will be made by mid July. SHEFFIELD (UK) WRITING DEVELOPMENT PROJECT wishes to appoint a Writer-in-Residence to work with Radio Sheffield for one year to create and broadcast new writing and to work in liaison with Radio Sheffield on writing development. This will build on writing development over the last 3 years undertaken through a Tuesday morning half-hour on-air writing workshop (run by Sheffield writers Ray Hearne and Rony Robinson). Applications for part of the work, or joint applications, may be considered, if this will lead to the production of better quality work. The appointed writer(s) will be expected to:
This residency is part of, and celebrates, the Year of the Artist. Fee: £6,000 for 60 days work. The work to take place from July 2000 to June 2001. Applications: Please send a CV with a covering letter (of no more than 2 sides), indicating what your particular interest in this work would be. In addition please include up to 3 sides of your writing. Send to: Matthew Black, Signposts, c/o 51 Pearson Place, Sheffield S8 9DE. Closing date for applications: June 26th Interviews: will be held in Sheffield on July 7th. Please indicate if this date is not suitable. Signposts strives to be an equal opportunities employer. invites you to visit its new web site - www.agoc81.care4free.net/ CentreHouse Press was formed in 1998, for the initial purpose of publishing the novel Electric Letters Z, by Peter Cowlam, which on its appearance was immediately hailed by the literary world. Plaudits came in particular from literary London—an irony which wasn't lost on all of us here at CentreHouse, since it was specifically the London scene that this astonishing novel held before our gaze. Robert McCrum, writing in the Observer, way back in 1998, had this to say: 'Among the hundreds of books (hardbacks, paperbacks, and proof copies) received by this office in the past several weeks, four have stood out in particular. They are: The Crack in the Tea-Cup by Cynthia Kee; Fatima's Scarf by David Caute; Rachel's Machine by Martin Wagner and Electric Letters Z by Peter Cowlam.' McCrum also had this to say about independent publishing generally—that it now seemed to be '... the customer's best guarantee of ... literary integrity.' This is a view CentreHouse Press would certainly agree with. announces its second issue with a contest: "What is Naked Poetry?". Winner will receive NakedPoetry.com schwag and be published online. Also seeking submissions for Mid-July-August Issue. No payment..but we pimp a lot! See URL for more information: http://www.nakedpoetry.com Daily Telegraph Arvon International Poetry Competition Judges:
Simon Armitage Carol Ann Duffy Allison Pearson announces the launch of Issue #6, the sixth edition of our forum for dialogue about contemporary art practice and digital culture through on-line crital reviews, essays and news. Featured in the current issue is: INTERCOURSE Review of Istvan Kantors lastest installment of the 'File Cabinet Project' at InterAccess Reviewed by Suzanne Farkas SURVEILLANCE A Survey of P.Elaine Sharpes latest exhibtion at the Art Gallery of York Universtiy Essay by Natalie De Vito PANDORAS BOX: Three Cats in a Box with Bots; Convergence/Teleconferencing/Inter-facing and the Delicate Chemistry of Balance Review of Pandoras Box interactive telerobotic exhibition at InterAccess Reviewed by Sasha Wentges HUM Review of Duncan Macdonald and Jessica Thompsons exhibition at the Pekao Gallery Reviewed by Harold Alegria-Ortiz SUBTLE TECHNOLOGIES 2000 News about the upcoming Subtle Technologties Conference which Blurs theboundaries between art and science in an exploration of subtle phenomena and its representations. PING Report on the launch of internet based electronic networking service for the media art community in Toronto and abroad. Bradford Arts Forum, Bradford, UK Arts Forum has two
aims: I seek to establish if there is an interest in setting up a literature/poetry group. And hence the email. I would be grateful if you pass it on to any individual or group who might be interested. I see the group as sharing information, ideas, opinions, and events publicity and perhaps working on projects together and of course regularly feeding reports to the Forum. We could meet not too regularly somewhere or agree to meet up in cyberspace...the choice is ours. However we do it, I feel the group has considerable potential for influencing the development of literature and poetry in Bradford. mailto:joy@utistugu.freeserve.co.uk Medi@terra 2000 International Art and Technology Festival & Symposium NEO [TECHNO] LOGISMs 3 - 7 November 2000 Athens, Greece The International Festival and Symposium Medi@terra, held once a year in Athens, deals with a series of initiatives committed at developing an interdisciplinary digital culture, mainly in the areas of Southeast Europe and the Mediterranean Sea. Medi@terra's main objectives include the development of cross-cultural communication and cooperation among the countries in the emerging field of new media, the creation of common proposals, and the establishment of an electronic network to support the discursive and cultural exchange possibilities provided by digital technologies. For more details please visit: http://www.fournos-culture.gr/festival/2000/Medi2000.html 10th May 2000 Includes writing prizes and competitions mostly open to US citizens only, plus photography and art exhibitions and calls for submissions. Pif magazine Issue No. 36 of PIF MAGAZINE, May 2000 Is Online Now at http://www.pifmagazine.com Summer is here. The sun is rumored to be shining. As we enjoy this precious break from the incessant rain, we offer you another wonderfully eclectic issue of Pif. This month Whit Coppedge talks with Francisco Goldman, the author of "The Long Night of White Chickens", Nick Burton discovers the wonderful world of DVD, and Curt Cloninger examines what it means to be "Southern." Of course, we have the same wonderful fare of new poetry and fiction - along with reviews of the books we've been reading. 26th April 2000 Call for Participation NewMediaArtProject Email from
Agricola de Cologne
A Virtual
Memorial - www.a-virtual-memorial.de
Besides
for contributions of art using visual media, I would be particularly
interested in statements, comments, and articles in connection
with the subject of the project
Remembering-Repressing-Forgetting,
and then
in the questions: the subject and contemporary Australian
art; the subject and in which way do the New Media influence the Australian
contemporary society; but any other aspect in connection with
the subject and a Australian view on it would be welcome,
as well.
A single
text contribution (in English) should be no longer than 500 words).
It is the
idea to create a complex image on different levels of perception.
Further information at the ServiceCentre on www.a-virtual-memorial.de or info@a-virtual-memorial.de Palimpsest Press, an electronic publisher, is now accepting submissions of novels, novellas, and novelettes of all genres (including mainstream/literary). We particularly encourage quirky works of fiction that blur genre boundaries. We pay royalties of 60% of retail price for exclusive electronic rights. For more information and for writers' guidelines, please visit the web site. Apples
and Snakes BAC
Studio 6 Battersea Arts Centre Lavender Hill Battersea London SW11 5TN
the UK's leading company in live poetry and performance presents its Summer season of events. Highlights include; Musical Trip-tych Friday 19 May, BAC, 9pm. Tickets £5/£4 A premiere of two new micro-music pieces written for the Sharp Intake of Music season - Chemalo (Francesca Beard and Piers Satchini) and The Whole Wired World (Nick Constance and Vladimir Miller). Complemented by Love Screams, a second showing of a piece commissioned by nitrobeat. Featuring Malika B. Transformatrix Friday 2 June, BAC, 9pm. Tickets £5/£4 The launch of critically acclaimed Patience Agbabi's new book, Transformatrix, the follow up to the massively successful R.A.W. An exploration of women, travel and metamorphosis set against a backdrop of 90¹s poetry, 80¹s rap and 70¹s disco. With support from Adeola. Island Love Eros meets Caliban Friday 9 June, BAC, 9pm. Tickets £5/£4 Let your soul be gently rocked by the soothing words of Colin Channer - the Bob Marley of words and verse and author of Waiting In Vain, voted Book of the Summer by Time Out; Cy Grant, who has sung the news for the BBC and whose one man show Return To My Native Land has premiered at the National Theatre; and Kwame Dawes, winner of the Forward Prize For Poetry with his piece Progeny of Air. For further information please contact Claire Kirkby @ Apples & Snakes
18th April 2000 ASCI'S DIGITAL 2000 COMPETITION AND EXHIBITION: Call for Work SUBMISSIONS DUE:
31st May. United States Winning works (digital print and art websites) will be included in exhibitions at three venues: Central Fine Arts Gallery in SoHo (July/Aug), the Computer Gallery at the New York Hall of Science (Sept./Oct.), and the Silicon Gallery in Philadelphia (December). Additionally, there
will be an online exhibition at the ASCI website. OR... send a SASE to: ASCI, P.O. Box 358, Staten Island, NY 10301. INFO: Cynthia Pannucci,
Founder/Director of ASCI Calling all poetry fans - you will be held to ransom at the Dylan Thomas Centre by a gang of roaming Highwaymen and women who will be coming to Swansea throughout May. Stand and Deliver II, a joint Tþ Llên Literature and Academi event, is another performance poetry festival to be held at the Dylan Thomas Centre and surrounding venues. An eclectic mix of local, national and international readers and performers will be roaming the freeways of Swansea from 5-30 May. We open with Welsh poet, singer and harpist Twm Morys, who is giving a reading of his work on 5 May with fellow Welsh-language poet and musician Tecwyn Ifan. Twm Morys will then be running a workshop in English on 6 May, which will teach budding poets how to use the Welsh poetry form, cynganedd. This is swiftly followed by a fantastic double bill on 9 May, when Jamaican poet and performer Jean 'Binta' Breeze and British-based American poet Michael Donaghy are reading together at the Dylan Thomas Centre. Their work challenges the accepted cultural norms and promises to take you hostage! One event where your riches will be safe is at the Launch of Tessa Waite's exhibition on 11 May. The prints of some of her lyrical paintings are reproduced in poet Richard Gwyn's brand new collection from Parthian Books, Walking on Bones. Although entry is free, our performers may not let you escape before you've bought a copy of the book! Be prepared to be captured by the poetry of Stewart Brown, too, on 17 May. He'll be reading in Dylan Thomas's childhood home, 5 Cwmdonkin Drive. And look out for the ever-roaming Attila the Stockbroker, laying siege on The Chattery in Uplands on 25th May. The resident poet of Brighton and Hove Albion FC will take your money or your life after his entertaining and eclectic blend of "anti-fascist social surrealist" radical performance poetry and music. Local duo 'Absolutely No Dogs' will be in support. Taeogion's Welsh language event, and Ifor ac Ifor's bilingual performance on 20 and 26 May respectively, also promise to be captivating! Stand and Deliver II includes the usual slots for The Grand Poetry Cabaret on 10 May and 'Lissen By Yur' with Newport's Town Poet, the hirsute and hilarious Goff Morgan on 30 May, and then the streets will be safe again! For further details, please contact David Woolley or Jo Furber at the Dylan Thomas Centre. 01792 463980 (enquiries) www.dylanthomas.org 01792 463892 (box office) dylan.thomas@cableol.co.uk 01792 463993 (fax) http://www.twilite20c.va.com.au Twilite20c is a virtual time capsule of people, places and events experienced by imaging artist Megan Jones during 1999. The website is a memory archive of digitally manipulated photographs sequenced as virtual documents of time and reality. These visual impressions reflect an emotional journey through the landscape of experience at the end of the twentieth century. Feedback and Comments Welcome. Produced with assistance from the ACT Government through its Cultural Council. DEAF 2000 - Machine Times (Dutch Electronic Art Festival) Rotterdam, 14 - 26 November 2000 (main festival week: 14-19 Nov) DEAF is an international and interdisciplinary bi-annual festival organised by V2_Organisation in Rotterdam (Netherlands). DEAF presents an exhibition of interactive installations, WWW-sites, CD-roms and live performances, seminars, workshops and an academic symposium, all brought together in relation to a special theme. The event brings together a varied group of visitors, artists and critics from home and abroad. Mute Text Monument to Y2K (Mute #15): We asked our past contributors to select a text fragment which has had a major impact on their personal development. The result? A collective psychogram of the contemporary data dandy, a Frankensteinian monument of the past for the future, a testament to the power of text. Tjebbe van Tijen provides visual commentary. http://www.metamute.com/subs NETMAGE--creative and innovative images on media, arts and communication (first international festival) Bologna (Italy) 23 november - 3 december 2000 The aim of the competition is to gather works belonging to different fields, for instance film production, work in video and television formats, multimedia products, web projects, installations and live performances, mixed-media, all in order to reconstruct a panorama of international new production. info: netmage@linkproject.org At http://www.thejunkies.com/ you can download what we believe to be the world's first, certainly the UK's first, DIY Internet sitcom pilot, about the three stupidest junkies in the world. Stars Sally "Smack the Pony/Notting Hill" Phillips, Peter "Brass Eye" Baynham and Peter "the voice of Darth Maul" Serafinowicz, written by comedy duo Bussmann & Quantick, produced by Jess "Tale of the Dragon" Search. No expense made: it cost £3,500 not £200,000 and involved a lot of economy-sized biscuit tins and no salaries whatsoever. Is an international grouping of writers and artists, now launching a first manifesto into the world. We are sending you a copy of this (intentionally brief) document as a file attachment. Our projects planned for the future include a print magazine, publication of members' books and pamphlets, readings and exhibitions. Our website, which is in development, can be visited at http://www.thenagual.freeserve.co.uk Annual Summer Literary Seminars In St. Petersburg, Russia -- a very unusual writing workshop (all genres) and/or Cultural Lecture Course program (plus regular readings, tours of the city and its environs, and frequent visits with the local writers and artists), featuring some of the finest contemporary American and Russian authors on the faculty and in-residence and held in one of the world's most fascinating and visually-evocative cities. For information, please visit our website: A Forum for Independent Writing: issue 2 now out. Submissions are invited (no payment!) hackwriters@hotmail.com see http://www.hackwriters.com/submissions for more info Proposal for a special edition of the refereed journal _ Text Technology _: "Exploring 'Webtextuality:' What Makes the World Wide Web a Unique Textual Object?" As the World Wide Web has become the most prevalent form of digital publication and expression over the past five years, the question "What is a World Wide Web text?" has become proportionately problematic. _ Text Technology _ is, therefore, interested in publishing an interdisciplinary consideration of the present meanings and problems associated with "webtextuality" in a special issue dedicated to this matter. In particular, _Text Technology_ hopes to receive articles that attempt to define webtextuality by placing it in dialogue with other forms of electronic and traditional text production and analysis. Each submission should in some way address the unique ways that the World Wide Web is used to create, analyze, store or translate texts and meaning. Essays should also specifically address the ways that new textual forms made available by the World Wide Web modify, challenge, or integrate versions of "traditional" and electronic text types including, but not limited to, verbal texts, visual texts, animation and oral/aural texts. Interested
authors--both academic and professional--should submit 2-page
abstracts by May 15th. Authors of accepted papers will be notified
by June 1st. Completed manuscripts are due September 15th. Please
direct all correspondence regarding this special edition to: Visit the ICA website The ICA welcomes Zadie Smith as its new Writer in Residence. The acclaimed young author, whose debut novel White Teeth was described recently by The Guardian as an ‘idiosyncratic and deeply felt epic by a major new talent’ will work with the ICA curators across the whole of our programme. For e-events at the ICA see the website The only urban poetry festival outside of London. Bringing together the best poets available to create a festival that swathes Manchester in poetry and involves a huge array of styles, venues and people. We cater for all tastes. You can take your pick from readings, children's events, slams, workshops or any of the plethora of live events. This year's festival is from the 5th - 14th October. For further information e mail us on mpf@dial.pipex.com, or call 0161 907 0031 Our latest issue is now online <http://www.rtimearts.com/~opencity> featuring FILM, DIGITAL
MEDIA and SCREEN CULTURE FEATURE FESTIVALS PERFORMANCE MUSIC and
SOUND VISUAL ARTS DANCE Got some feedback? Email Kirsten at RealTime, opencity@rtimearts.com I am a Poet and Publisher. I am launching my new website http://www.desmondjohnson.co.uk on 24-04-00. The website will be an online publishing portal, where readers can purchase new books and reprints online, with over 500 New Book Titles and several hundred reprints every year. Using the internet protocol, books will be printed on demand and shipped worldwide within 7 days to anywhere in the world. I will have dedicated pages on What's happening in the world of Literature, Arts and Poetry in the UK. ART ASIA PACIFIC: NEW MEDIA ISSUE #27 ONLINE: www.artasiapacific.com This issue profiles such topical art practices as digital art, video art and installation, computer animation and internet art. Neonlit, which is Time Out's Books site, which also publishes two new short stories every month (and stories can be submitted online). The site also includes thousands of Time Out book reviews. I hope you find it interesting... http://www.neonlit.com Mama Adjua - Mission Statement Introduction Women's Internet portals and trivia seem to go hand in hand: horoscopes, recipes, shopping, agony aunts, blah, blah, blah. Despite the massive expansion in Internet usage, they have continued to define women's presence on the web too narrowly. So why not show what a women's portal could be? Mama Adjua is a platform for you to express your views and beliefs on a huge range of topics and issues. We are including our Mission Statement as we believe you can contribute thought-provoking material such as photography, music, poetry, animations, papers, essays and, most importantly, your stories and experiences. We feel that initiatives such as Mama Adjua should have a web presence immediately! Please ask us for and read our mission statement to find out the benefits of participating, and feel free to distribute it to others. Contact: gill@akwaaba.freeserve.co.uk (information available in English, German and Italian) or ale@fdn.co.uk (information available in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish). The Assoziations-Blaster is a text-network that connects texts through automatic non-linear real-time linking. Anybody can enter new text via the WWW-interface, the Blast-Engine at once establishes links to other related entries. With a growing text database, the Assoziations-Blaster becomes a tool to reveal how all things are related. Visit http://www.assoziations-blaster.de/english/ The Assoziations-Blaster Mk I has been online for over one year in German language. More than 30,000 texts have been entered and an award for internet literature has been won in the meantime Summer Seminars at Oxford's Humanities Computing Unit Oxford University's Humanities Computing Unit is pleased to announce a week-long series of seminars on humanities computing, to be held in Oxford from the 10th to 14th July 2000. The seminars will cater for beginners as well as experienced practitioners. If you want to see how new technologies can help you in your work, to explore new research tools, or to find out about the latest approaches in text encoding, you will find these seminars useful. There are
seven seminars, each lasting a full day: The seminar website at http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/Summer/ includes full details of the topics to be covered on each day. Each seminar will give you the opportunity to consult with experts about your research projects, and will also combine practical hands-on sessions with formal presentations. All teaching will be carried out by members of the Humanities Computing Unit. Who Should Come? You should come if you work, or plan to work, with digital texts or images, especially in a research context. You should be familiar with the concepts of HTML, and with using the Internet. You will leave with a clear sense of the principles and processes of electronic text and multimedia creation and delivery, and be able to identify those areas where you need to learn more. How Much Will It Cost? Each seminar costs 60GBP (45GBP for members of Oxford University). You can book for any combination of individual seminars, and a discount is available if you attend for the full week. (250GBP, or 190GBP for members of Oxford University). Interested? Booking information and further details are available online, at http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/Summer/ Please contact me with any further questions. Jenny Newman, Humanities Computing Unit, OUCS, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Tel: +44 (0)1865 273221; fax: +44 (0)1865 273275; email: Jenny.Newman@oucs.ox.ac.uk 'ONE CULTURE?' THE THEMATICS OF ART, SCIENCE AND CHANGE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY. A One Day-Conference on Saturday 27th May 2000 at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of North London on the relationship of Art and Science and the Depiction of Science in Narrative and Cultural products. CALL FOR PAPERS The often gendered division between art and science, romanticism and utilitarianism, fact and fiction, the split typified between the two cultures of F.R.Leavis and C.P.Snow has persisted for more than two centuries: now perhaps with recent developments in chaos theory, complexity theory and neuroscience in the last twenty to thirty years we find ourselves on the edge of a new scientific revolution in which what counts as science and the rational is shifting or about to change. Are we moving toward talking of one culture and one life-world? Is a new critical sensibility emerging that will affect the nature of study, research and exegetical structures? The conference attempts
to explore a variety of aspects concerned with these themes and
the general relationship of narrative, depiction and theory with
images and knowledge of science. Interdisciplinary, textual
and theoretical contributions are particularly welcome, but clearly
the range of subject areas The range of topics and/or panels might include: Philosophy of Science
This conference is part
of a sequence that takes place during six days in May/June 2000,
a further part of an ongoing successful series of literary and
theoretical events organised by the London Network for Modern
Fiction Studies. The 'One
Culture?' conference is situated near the heart of London at the
University of North London adjacent to underground links minutes
from the research facilities of the New British Library at Euston,
and so offers an ideal opportunity
for the scholar to contribute to the critical and literary
culture Deadline for Submissions: Monday 3rd April 2000 Send to: Dr. Philip Tew
0956 951930 CYBER / SPACE / IMAGE / TEXT The Program in Professional and Technical Communication presents a New Media Series Tina La Porta Diane Greco Christopher Funkhouser
Further Information:
Prix Ars Electronica With the Prix Ars Electronica, the worlds highest prized competition for computer and multimedia art, the ORF in Upper Austria continues its commitment and initiatives for promoting artistic, creative and scientific uses of digital media in the third millennium. Computer artists around the world are once again invited to send their works to Linz to compete for the Golden Nicas, Awards of Distinction and Honorary Mentions. The Prix Ars Electronica 2000 is announced internationally in the categories of .net, Interactive Art, Digital Musics, Computer Animation and Visual Effects, and throughout Austria with the competition cybergeneration - u19 freestyle computing. Works will be selected by five juries of international experts. The category Interactive Art is open to all types of current interactive works in any form: installations, performance, audience participation, virtual reality, multimedia, telecommunication, etc. Criteria for judging the works include the form of interaction, interface design, new applications, technical innovations, originality and the significant role of the computer for the interaction. The total prize money is ATS 1,35 Mio. / EUR 98.110 / US$ 116,379. Please see http://prixars.orf.at for further information, you will find a detailed description of the Prix Ars Electronica and the procedure how to submit your work. Please do not hesitate to contact me Marie Ruprecht if you need help. ruprecht@linz.orf.at convergence, emergence, divergence: a
seminar series exploring the theory and practice of multimedia Wednesday
5th April 2000, 5pm - 6.30pm Wednesday
12th April 2000, 5pm - 6.30pm This seminar series aims to create an arena for discussing and comparing ideas and practices in relation to multimedia. It aims to explore the tensions and issues arising from the convergence, emergence and divergence that characterise multimedia. What is convergent, what is emergent and what is divergent is not necessarily confined to digital products, but also refers to people, skills, markets, ideologies, uses, practices and beliefs. The development in 1999 of a Multimedia Production Centre at the University of East London’s new Docklands campus has formed a physical focus for the debate and discussion in this seminar series. who
should attend? If you are interested in attending the seminar series and/or being included in a mailing list, please send an e-mail to h.m.t.kennedy@uel.ac.uk.
UEL's Multimedia Production Centre Creative Writing 2000 Conference at Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK, 15/16 April 2000 http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cs/english/events/cw2000/intro.htm
d>art 00 dLux media arts presents in June / July, 2000 Sydney, Australia
d>art 00 is dLux media arts' acclaimed annual event. A showcase of inter/national experimental film | video | animation | web | internet | cd rom and sound art works. The d>art 00 screening will once again be shown to capacity audiences at the prestigious Sydney Film Festival with various components installed at other well known venues in Sydney throughout June / July 2000. The program will then tour inter/ nationally. closing date for entries Entries should be received at the office of dLux media arts on or before fri 31 march 2000, addressed to: d>art 00 Email: dLux@dLux.org.au
>>Verve: The Other Writing<< a visual art project for the Telstra Adelaide Festival 2000 March 3-26 :: vervwriting listserv forum now open:: http://vervewriting.org for full program details and updates 'A lot of people, a lot of instruments' Verve: The Other Writing is a chance to experience some of the other forms of inscription that constitute language, the other that shifts', vitalises and generates change. Verve will exhibit and stage works and practices that consider the array of effects technologies have on the ways we read, write and generate language.Verve is both a celebration and an opportunity to brush against the text, to consider relationships between elements in a multitude of ways. Explore the intersection of writing with the visual arts, music, performance and contemporary digital practices. The project will include performances, exhibitions, lectures and workshops by more than 29 local and international artists, thinkers, writers and musicians. Guests include Bill Seaman (keynote speaker at Ngapartji), Sue Thomas (UK, Director of the trAce Online Writing Community, keynote speaker at Ngapartji), Terri-ann White, Linda Carroli. Performances include an improvised real time conversation that might be called CYBERPIDGIN via cu-see-me with Dr Linda Marie Walker and Dr Gregory L.Ulmer and a rare performance by Stephen Whittington of works by John Cage and EricSatie. Verve: the Other Writing will be held in six venues, with the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia (CACSA) and vervewriting (online) acting as hubs for the program. Access to the website is available at CACSA and Ngapartji Multimedia Centre throughout the Festival. Venues: 1. vervewriting ONLINE http://vervewriting.org/ The online component acts as a guide and extension of the physical spaces for Verve. Apart from extensive information and resources relating to the project you can join the listserv forum, browse the web sites featured there, be part of the generating of a new work, or spend some time perusing the extensive resources on online works that relate to the project. ::vervewriting forum:: The open listserv forum is accessible via email or www and acts a vehicle for the convergence and intensity of ideas generated by verve. The forum is hosted by Linda Carroli and Terri-ann White with guest essayists. Three ways to subscribe: send mail to join-verve@lists.va.com.au send mail with the word 'subscribe' as the subject to verve-request@lists.va.com.au visit http://vervewriting.org/vnu/online.html and subscribe via the web interface. ::websites:: See Sally Pryor's new work "As I May Write" and discover the world of internet audio networks via the vervewriting portal for r a d i o q u a l i a. ::pricklings:: Based on the popluar Noon Quilt at trAce Online Writing Community, the Electronic Writing Research Ensemble's contribution to Verve, 'pricklings', will be an opportunity to write up to 100 words about anything that relates to notions of 'other writing'. If you are lucky enough to be here in Adelaide for the Festival you may want to write with or from a performance, event or exhibition. Those who are logging in from elsewhere can be part of the broadcasted proceedings at Ngapartji or join the list serv. 'pricklings' will make a pattern or a design based on a number of variables, time of submission and the number of words. These variables will determine location on the screen and the 'colour' of your submission. 2. The Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia http://vervewriting.org/vnu/cacsa.html 14 Porter Street, Parkside, open 11am-6pm weekdays and 1-5pm weekends. Peruse the exhibition of artists' books from the Experimental Art Foundation Collection. Sit or lay back, relax and chose a video to watch from a selection by local and international artists and musicians, read photocopies of FLUXUX magazines, or check out the vervewriting online offerings. The room, designed by a collaboration between installation artists Dylan Everett and Peter Harding, features salt sculpture, theatrical lighting effects and comfortable furniture. There is a second Festival show at CACSA. Bill Seaman (USA) presents his tribute to Stephane Mallarme's poem, Dice Thrown Never Will Annul Chance, with a video installation titled, Red Dice. This mesmerising work will show throughout the Festival in the rear gallery. Workshop/Performance Series The gallery will host a 4 day series of afternoon workshops and performances, beginning Tuesday 14 March until Friday 17th March. The series includes: .. Michael O'Donoghue on the translation of hieroglyphics. Junko Banks leads a demonstration and workshop on Japanese calligraphy, (sho). Linda Carroli, Sue Thomas from trAce online writing community and Terri-ann White host a forum on internet writing practices. Performance artist Susie Fraser, and installation artist/writer Mark Stephens read selections of their work. UK multimedia performance artist Kevin Henderson, guest of the Experimental Art Foundation for the Festival speaks on the use of artist books as a medium in his practice. Austrian artists Tina Auer and Wiltrud Hackl present their video collaboration 'drive -in- progress, Austria-Australia' . Simon Robb presents History and Fabrication, based on the writing of boys incarcerated on the 19th century Hulk Fitzjames moored off the coast of Adelaide. The series closes with Libby O'Donovan, singer with Doppio Parallelo's Festival production, 'the last child...' performing a structured jazz improvisation with Belinda Gelhart (violin), Shereen Khemlani (bass) and Jo Kerlogue (visual artist). All session details at http://www.vervewriting.org/vnu/ctimes.html 3. Ngapartji Multimedia Centre. 211 Rundle Street Shifting Ground, Artists Week, Thursday 9 March, 11am - 7pm Broadcast via Quicktime 4 Verve at Ngapartji Multimedia Centre hosts the final day of Artists Week. The event will present an array of elements that constitute writing and reading now, a time increasingly mediated by digital technologies and environments. In keeping with the overall Festival themes, Shifting Grounds is is an on-the-fly consideration of the 'old' in relation to the new'. This calls to mind Gregory Ulmers notion of 'electracy', a literacy suitable for a digital age. An 'electrate' culture would be somewhere between oral and literate cultures. That is, a digital vehicles and modes could afford the chance to invent methods of exchange between cultures and peoples that shifts from linear-alphabetic thinking. The 11am start will begin a great line-up, logon to the broadcast via Quicktime 4. Session details and logon information at http://vervewriting.org/vnu/ngapartji.html Guests include: Gregory Ulmer (USA), theorist and academic and Linda Marie Walker, writer, curator and artist present Cyberpidgin, a conversation via cu-see-me. Victoria Lynn, curator at the Art Gallery of New South Wales introduces Bill Seaman who will talk about his work as a multimedia artist, writer and theorist Sue Thomas, Director of the internationally acclaimed TrAce Online Writing Community (UK) and MOO aficionado will present her thoughts on Living Online. Adele Hann, Event Coordinator for the Media Resource Centre will talk about the history of avante garde filmaking practices in the light of contemporary technologies. Jyanni Steffensen analyses Rosalind Brosdky, a time travelling subject of Anglo/Eastern European/Jewish ancestry. Rosalind is the creation of Australian/UK based digital artist Suzanne Treister. The day closes with a performance by Kenny's Window, a local contemporary classical three piece ensemble well known for their vibrant performances at the Exeter Hotel. Jason Sweeney of <pbxo> will MC. <pbxo> will be streamed local and live during session breaks. 4. Stephen Whittington at PATU (Performing Arts Technology Unit, Adelaide University) World renowned classical and experimental musician Stephen Whittington will perform with piano, text, ladders, video and 16mm film 'The First Meeting of the Satie Society' with text by John Cage and Stephen. The work will include a re-creation of the performance staged by Cage at Black Mountain College, starring Buckminster Fuller, Merce Cunningham, Robert Rauschenberg et al on ladders. details at http://vervewriting.org/vnu/patu.html 5. Artlab Australia Artlab will hold lectures and host tours of its conservation laboratories off Kintore Avenue, behind the State Library. Lectures run for an hour, with each session followed by a one hour tour of the fascinating laboratories. See conservation and archiving practices in process. Preservation issues will be a core theme with examples of conservation treatments, discussion of preservation of information vs. preservation of formats. How important is the conservation of artworks and artifacts in the formation of cultural identities? Lectures include "The Written Word: chemistry of ink and paper", "Materials for Mark-Making" and "Preservation of the Book". details at http://vervewriting.org/vnu/artlab.html 6. Comics @ WORLDSEND 208 Hindley St South Australian based Glen Lumsden and David de Vries will exhibit selections from 'Batman, Legends of the Dark Knight' and 'Phantom, the Ghost Who Walks' and award winning illustrations from the Financial Review. Glen and Davd will talk about the impact of technology and contemporary narratives on their comic art. details at http://vervewriting.org/vnu/comics.html Project
Coordinator: Teri Hoskin web: http://vervewriting.org @: verve@vervewriting.org Verve: The Other Writing has been commissioned by the Telstra Adelaide Festival and is supported by ANAT (the Australian Network for Art and Technology), CACSA (the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia), Ngapartji Multimedia Centre, Artlab Australia and the Electronic Writing Research Ensemble. The Festival is grateful to the Experimental Art Foundation for the loan of works from their Artists Book Collection and the Contemprary Art Centre for the use of their venue. NOT STILL ART FESTIVAL 2000 - NYC Deadline March 15 http://www.improvart.com/nsa/call2000.htm 1.) International Screening
of Abstract & Non-Narrative Electronic Motion FESTIVAL SCHEDULE: European Multimedia Lab MAY 23rd - JUNE 1st 2000 Multimedia Labs have already enabled dozens of creative professionals to develop potentially strong, innovative concepts for interactive media into compelling commercial propositions. Each LAB represents TEN DAYS of intense experimentation and creativity in a relaxed, well-supported and professional environment - a chance to present ideas and explore the practical development of multimedia products for international markets. Multi-disciplinary Participants come from all disciplines - scriptwriting, graphic design, programming, journalism, performance art, theatre, TV production, musical composition and sound recording. International They come from all over Europe: Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Portugal, the UKS All-embracing: And the range of subjects covered is enormous: fiction and non fiction, screen based work and interactive installation, games, Web products, interactive TV programmes, new musical forms and 3D animation work. Commercial: At the end of each Lab, commissioners, publishers and developers active in the European multimedia industry are invited to attend work-in-progress presentations given by the participants, with a view to potential development and investment deals being struck. Multimedia Labs represents,a coming together of diverse talents - a hothouse of multimedia ideas that commercial broadcasters, publishers and developers can benefit from enormously THE 2000 PROGRAMME While we will consider almost any original, creative, interactive digital media project we do have some specific priorities this year:
SUBMISSION OF PROJECTS We'll be shortlisting projects towards the end of March. Submissions should include the following information (while we need information under each heading, you don't have to answer all the questions in each section - they're intended to provide a guide): i)
A SHORT DESCRIPTION OF YOUR PROJECT. How do you imagine the interface? How will the user access the information/content/story and how will they control and navigate through it? ii)
INTENDED MARKET iii)
GOALS FOR THE LAB iv)
INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR TEAM v)
SUPPORTING MATERIAL
DEADLINE:
Please send this information by March 23rd 2000 to: If you would like further information please contact me Frank Boyd (frank@artec.org.uk) or my assistant, Liz Howell (liz@artec.org.uk) at Artec, or Susan Benn at Performing Arts Labs (SusanBenn@compuserve.com) or Lizbeth Goodman at the Institute of New Media Performance Research (l.l.goodman@surrey.ac.uk). t:+44
207 687 6060 http://www.artec.org.uk Freedom Dreams: Politics and Alternative Media on the Net: Call for Review Articles M/C Reviews - An Ongoing Review of Media and Culture would like to invite contributions of review articles for its upcoming feature issue about politics and alternative media online. MCR accepts short and medium-length pieces (500 - 1500 words), favouring ones that are accessible and thought-provoking. We seek contributions from all interested and involved parties including activists, journalists, NGOs, politicians, academics and independent 'netizens'. Critiques, ethnographies and reports (first and third person), reviews of sites, interviews and any other original pieces that shed light on this multifaceted theme will all be relevant. There seems little doubt that the mobilisation and information-sharing of concerned groups and individuals over the Internet played a decisive role in last year's protests against the World Trade Organisation in Seattle. Daily, massive amounts of political information - from action alerts, political propaganda, exposes and alternative media reports to independent research, petitions and press-releases - are circulated through websites, Usenet, and email discussion lists. Alternative video sites show hours of political and protest footage edited from TV; issue-based coalitions are created nearly overnight and local groups post information relevant to their communities. Martin Luther started a social revolution by posting a public message on a door. Yet it was because that message and others were propagated by the then-radical new print media that the Reformation took hold. Are we then, as some suggest, on the brink of a digital political revolution? Are new forms of alliance/participation-based civil society emerging to counter the status quo held in place by representative democracy, corporate plutocracy and the conventional mainstream media? Or are online activists and alternative journalists largely irresponsible purveyors of conspiracy theories? How is mainstream politics adapting to the Net? Will 'e-government' become a reality? Some suggested topics for 'Freedom Dreams' include:
Submission deadline: 27 March, 2000. http://www.uq.edu.au/mc/reviews/
- homepage g.redden@mailbox.uq.edu.au - enquiries and submissions to Guy Redden MA, Department of English, University of Queensland, Qld 4072, Australia | General Editor M/C Reviews BACK
TO THE FUTURE: TWENTIETH CENTURY FUTURISTIC FANTASIES CALL FOR PAPERS: deadline 10 April 2000 The aim of this conference is to analyse twentieth-century culture through its ideas about the future. Although it is expected that the conference will focus to some extent on the literary and artistic imagination, papers from a variety of disciplines and theoretical perspectives are welcomed, and discussion of how the future has been imagined in different media (or across media boundaries) is encouraged. A selection of the conference papers will be published in book form. Papers might include discussion of the following: America; architecture; art; cities; cloning; colonialism; commodification; cyberlit; the environment; escapism; ethics; eugenics; fashion; film; food; gender; genre; the historical-specificity of the future; ideas about the future directed at, or generated by, children; (inter)nationality; the internet; interior decoration; Italian futurism; language; literature; matriarchies and patriarchies; minimalism; monsters; music; politics; primitivism; psychology; the relationship of the future to the modern and the contemporary; Russian futurism; science; science fiction; sex; space; technology; television; time machines; transport; utopias and dystopias. Please
send proposals for papers (500 words), accompanied by a brief CV,
to: Dr Rebecca
Beasley Performance Poetry For a special forum on Performance Poetry at the Midwest Modern Language Association meeting in Kansas City, November 2-4, 2000, poets should submit 3-5 poems, a c.v., and a short performance history. Poets performing the work of others are welcome and encouraged. Submit
the above to: Beth
Ann Bryant-Richards Email submissions are welcome, but please put the necessary materials in the body of your email, not in an attachment. Goals of the forum include introducing performance poetry to an academic audience, giving educators ideas about how to use performance poetry in the classroom, and providing a new venue for performance poets. Participants must become members of M/MLA by June 1, 2000. Call for Entries for Internet-only Film Festival "Streaming Cinema" introduces Internet Artistry to Film Festival Audiences in a Landmark Premiere Program. The Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema (PFWC), in collaboration with The Bit Screen, announces a call for entries for "Streaming Cinema", a ground-breaking exhibition of film, animation and multimedia works created specifically for the Internet. "Streaming Cinema" will be part of this year's PFWC, to be held from April 27th through May 7th, 2000. The "Streaming Cinema" Program will be simulcast on The Bit Screen website (www.thebitscreen.com) while being screened at the Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema. Applications to enter "Streaming Cinema" can be found at http://www.libertynet.org/pfwc/festindies/streamingcinema3.html . The deadline for submissions is March 15, 2000. Entries submitted after March 15, 2000 have no guarantee of being viewed for selection. There is a non-refundable processing fee of $15. For more information, contact: Streaming Cinema Bath Virtual Literature Festival Feb 26-Mar 5 Bath is proud to be the first literature festival to take its events on-line – and there’s all sorts of fun to be had. No technical expertise required – simple instructions guide you through all the online discussions and games, as well as the collaborative writing project… your chance to be published alongside some of the authors who will be taking part in more traditional, earthly events. In addition, the Click Café (19 Broad Street) will be running basic internet courses in the week running up to the Festival – providing you with the perfect opportunity to take part in the future and enjoy yourself along the way. There will be computer terminals offering access to the Virtual Festival throughout Bath and beyond – including the libraries (in Bath and North East Somerset); the Click Café; Wire World in Radstock; Green Park Internet Café; the Guildhall (arrive early and have a look before going to a reading or discussion); and Waterstones. People beyond Bath – including Bath’s twin towns (Alkmaar in Holland; Aix-en-Provence in France; Braunschweig in Germany and Kaposvár in Hungary) – will also be taking part in this truly international festival. Don’t miss out! The
Bath Mosaics
Food Secrets Love Jane Austen Bath Real festival speakers will also be contributing pieces of writing to the mosaic. Working from five further tiles with related themes, for the Babel project, specially commissioned textile and mixed media artist, Alison Harper will turn the virtual tiles into five real works of art – the Bath Mosaic Banners - which will be on display in the Guildhall. Watch her as she works in Walcot Chapel. After the festival, images taken from this real artwork will be posted back up onto the on-line mosaics. From virtual to real and back…. After
Closing A simple form is available on the website – just type your opinions into the box… it’s as easy as that. Jane
Austen’s On-line Winter Games The
Glass Against The Wall On Sunday March 5th, the final day of the Festival, the virtual is brought back down to earth, when the e-mail exchange culminates in a ‘real’ meeting – which John Kinsella joins on-line from the Adelaide Writers’ Festival, in Australia. Come and meet the poets for brunch, at the Click Café, 19 Broad Street, Bath. Virtual
Writer in Residence Friday
3rd March 8pm Bath University Arts Lecture Theatre Spoken-word fiction meets DJ chill room music in Mark Amerika’s latest work, PHON: E: ME - part online novel, part electronic symphony. Amerika is an experimental writer, whose influences include Joyce, Burroughs and Kerouac. He has written both online hypertext fiction (non-sequential writing – which branches, allowing the reader to make his or her own choices) and traditional print fiction. He is also the publisher of Alt-X, which has been described as ‘the literary publishing model of the future’. Amerika flies in from Colorado for the Bath Festival to discuss the future of narrative art in network culture and showcase his two most famous works, Grammatron and – for the first time in Britain - PHON: E: ME. An event for people who enjoy alternative literature or electronic music, or anyone interested in exciting new directions in writing. Tickets £5 (£4 concessions) Saturday
4th March 7.30pm Online writing guru, Mark Amerika showcases his two most famous online works, Grammatron and PHONE: E: ME. He talks to Internet pioneer, journalist and former head of The Guardian’s New Media Lab Bill Thompson about the exciting new directions being taken by online narrative art – which incorporates words, images and music, and blurs the boundaries between writer and reader. Sunday
5th March 4-6pm Some bemoan the internet as being rife with racism, pornography, hate speech and offensive images – but it is the first uncensored medium in history, and you can’t have one without the other. So should we just turn a blind eye to some of the worst excesses? Is it the price we must pay for publishing freedom? Or should there be some form of regulation – to protect children and the vulnerable? Paul Lavin who writes for Internet Magazine; Ruth Dixon of Internet Watch Foundation; Chris Ellison, founder of the cyber rights campaign, Internet Freedom; and Nigel Williams, founder and director of Childnet International will be there to discuss the thorny issues surrounding the ‘space’ which is open to all for the publication and display of the best – and worst - thoughts and opinions. Just
listen in – or take part by typing in your own opinions. For further
details see the Festival website. Sunday
5th March, 6pm Bath University Arts Lecture Theatre A collaboration between the Virtual Literature Festival, Babel and DA2 Digital Arts Development agency brings a storming evening of ‘real’ and ‘virtual’ poetry slamming – the fast-developing artform of live performance poetry that originated in the USA. The slam in Bath will be partnered by an online jam taking place in Plymouth. The live ‘slammers’ (in Bath) will have their words scratched, scrambled and re-mixed by jammers in Plymouth through special text editing programmes. The resulting soundscapes will then be presented back to the audience in Bath during chill-out periods between rounds of the slam. There will also be a simultaneous broadcast on the world wide web. Be a slammer and bring two poems, courage and burning in your heart, or join the audience that decides who rides and who slides. This event links with a digital slam master class, in collaboration with Poetry Can, on Saturday 26th February. The Online Jam is organized in collaboration with DA2 Digital Arts Development Agency and supported by the University of Plymouth and the European Social Fund. Digital Jam is presented as part of the DA2 programme of digital arts. Saturday
4th March, 11am – 4pm B&NES Libraries Come and join us in the children’s chat-room. Come as yourself or as your favourite storybook character – whether it be Fungus the Bogeyman, something from Goosebumps or Harry Potter. You are bound to meet some interesting friends – as well as some of your best-loved authors. You can also take part in the Puffin Quiz with the chance to win some fabulous prizes. The quiz questions will be posted up in the chat room from 11am and you can send your answers direct from there. Authors who will be there to meet you include: 11am
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noon 2pm 2.30pm 3pm For further information or a brochure email info@bathlitfest.org.uk or telephone 01225 – 463 362 Call for entries for the werkleitz biennale The Werkleitz Biennale (http://www.werkleitz.de/realwork), 1996 Cluster Images, 1998 subfiction) is a border crossing, international forum for media and art with a special focus on new artistic ways of expression and techniques as well as projects with research character. The fourth Werkleitz Biennale "real[work]" will take place 5. - 9. July 2000 in Tornitz, Werkleitz and Calbe/Saale, Germany. Invited curators will select works in the fields of + Visual
Arts, http://www.werkleitz.de/realwork
Call for Submissions: Cauldron & Net Cauldron & Net, an on-line magazine of the arts and new media, is currently accepting submissions to be considered for inclusion in issue #1, Vol. 2 which is slated to go on-line in April of 2000. The guidelines are very broad as Cauldron & Net is particularly interested in showcasing the wide variety of the diverse voices which may be found on the Net. Pretty much all is invited: literature, poetry, non-fiction (creative or otherwise), hypertext/hypermedia, theory, criticism, music, photographs of performance or other 'hard-copy' art, experiments, outlines / sketches of ideas, jottings, notes, proposals, research papers, sophistries, etc., etc., etc. Quality is really the only criterion (though of course such judgments are left to the discretion of a rather opinionated editor). Programmers and scientists who have ideas and/or work that a laywo/man could grasp are welcome to submit also. Simultaneous submissions and work that has already been published will be considered, although the preference is for unpublished work. Please send all inquiries and submissions to the editor: Claire Dinsmore cauldron@studiocleo.com The deadline is March of 2000. For a sample taste, the inaugural edition may be seen at : http://www.StudioCleo.com/cauldron/ Call for Proposals: 4th Annual Teaching of Writing Colloquia Saturday, April 29, 2000: Kent State University Stark Campus, Canton, Ohio We invite you to join us for a day of talking about the teaching of writing. We invite proposals for workshops, roundtables, panels, and individual presentations. Although proposals on composition theory are welcome, we are especially interested in proposals that share actual classroom activities. We invite submissions from high school and college faculty as well as graduate and undergraduate students. This conference has traditionally been a forum to promote the faculty development of part-time and adjunct teachers, so we especially encourage their participation. Suggested topics include but are not limited to: course design, classroom activities, writing and classroom assignments, writing prompts, developmental writing, working with writing centers, working with disabled students, ESL, multiculturalism, diversity in the classroom, text selection, literature for composition, technical writing, business writing, using portfolios, evaluating student writing, computers in the classroom, reading in the writing classroom, writing across the curriculum, research strategies, teaching the research paper. Since this year's conference will be held in conjunction with the KSU Stark Early English Composition Assessment Program (EECAP), we are interested in proposals that explore connections between the teaching of writing at the high school and college levels. Sessions will last one hour, fifteen minutes. Submissions should include your name, job title, address, academic affiliation(s), phone, and e-mail address as well as presentation title, a brief (100-200 word) abstract, and the type of submission (twenty-minute presentation or seventy-five minute workshop, roundtable, or three presenter panel). Please indicate whether your proposal will be aimed primarily at high school faculty, college faculty, or both. In addition, please note if you need special equipment such as an overhead projector, tv/VCR, computerized projection display or if you would like your session scheduled in a computer lab with word processing software or internet capabilities. Mail,
fax, or e-mail your proposal to: Proposal
Deadline: Wednesday, March 1, 2000 If you don't want to present but would like to attend, send your name and contact information to the address above to receive registration information OUTER BODY The New You - a transformative experience for the new millennium. For the month of February, doo-cot will be sealed inside a gestation bubble in the Arena Theatre, and inside that, a virtual room at LambdaMOO. What will emerge? And how will it affect those who observe and participate? You are invited to embrace the change by joining us once a week for five weeks. But be prepared. At the end of it all, doo-cot will be different. And so will you. Director:
Bush Hartshorn Virtual
location Physical
Location Doo-cot's last laboratory residency 'Probe', commissioned by the National Symposium of Electronic Art, was described as: "The interplay between performers, audience, environment, technology and ideas is so cleverly and successfully established that it stays with you long after the performance ends." We look forward to your participation in Outer Body. Switch Tthe new media art journal of the CADRE Institute, San Jose State University. Lo-Fi Desktop Exhibition The Desktop is the reflection of our real selves, whereas art reflects what we consider our reality, the desktop, work area, reflects the aspects of day to day life. To manufacture art out of routine is the goal of this desktop exhibition. Much has been made of our customizable, digital versions of the desktop. This is about your actual desktop, a modern twist. This exhibition is about the by-products of modern living, the ones that we neither pay attention to nor demand our attention. I encourage you all to submit your desktops to one38@one38.org. Simply grab some items from your desktop or workspace and place them on a flatbed scanner... or photograph them and have a friend scan them- or put them in a box and have a friend scan them. Turn your daily routine into art! \\international media\art award 2000 For the eighth time, the Broadcasting company Südwestrundfunk and the Center for Art and Media [ZKM] in Karlsruhe organize an award for the media arts (video, CD-Rom, Internet). From now on, the \\international media\art award will be dedicated to a yearly changing theme - in 2000 this theme will be 'urbanism'. The award will consist of 30 000 EURO for an interactive work, a video art tape, and a special award, bestowed by an international jury. Deadline for entries: 1 MARCH 2000 Information and entry forms are available at: http://www.medienkunstpreis.de/ Internet & Society Conference The third Harvard University Conference on Internet & Society is now open for Registration. Please visit our conference website to register and review our developing program. www.is2k.harvard.edu 1st February 2000 Closing the Loop 2000 Presented by Time's Up, in association with BIOMACHINES and r a d i o q u a l i a A laboratory on sound & gameplay across networks: Adelaide, Australia, February 2000 "When you work with digital sound, when you start to sample and you have sound pieces that can recombine in several circumstances, you very fast get this idea of a pluralistic space of possibilities. As soon as we entered digital technology, we lost the position that we are in control of the result." Gerfried Stocker, Director of Ars Electronica Festival. Sound culture has begun a process of reflecting the permanent flux of the new century. Because of the lower technological thresholds required to manipulate and transmit sound, it has the ability to morph and mutate at the pace of technological and cultural evolution, in a way that the televisual image, can not as yet. On the internet, sound is being used as a way of collapsing geographical boundaries, of extending musical conversations across timezones and cultures, and catalysing new and complex systems of collaboration. An international research and performance project, set to take place in Adelaide Australia, will examine how sound, technology and gameplay can conspire to promote collaboration and inventiveness across networks. Why
Adelaide? Over the past three years a small but uncompromising group
of sound artists
and musicians have overcome the city's [sub]cultural inertia
to produce a series
of inventive and enduring live performances, using a variety
of analogue and digital technologies, including the internet.
Unfortunately though,
the micro-scale of these events, exemplified by the These
innovations have not, however escaped the attention of Austrian media
group, Time's Up
<http://www.timesup.org/>, internationally renowned
for their
pioneering presentations of art and technology. In association
with Australasian
sound collaboration, r a d i o q u a l i a http://www.radioqualia.va.com.au/, and Adelaide Festival
project BIOMACHINES,
Time's Up are siting the latest manifestation of their Closing
the Loop research
series in the city. A precursor to the multivariant Many
techniques have been found to be appropriate in previous investigations.
At pivotal junctures such as the Net.Radio Days conference in
Berlin in June 1998, and OpenX at Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria,
September 1998, assumptions about technology and the hierarchies of
interaction were
able to be examined. In these instances radio and audio projects
on the internet provided an excellent illustration of the collaborative
and networking potential of online working communities. As CTL2000 has amongst its goals the appraisal of such techniques and the collection of these experiences into a coherent form; in some sense a "Net Collaboration HOWTO." Using the twin mediums of sound experimentation and game play, CTL2000 aims to provide a testing ground, research space and performative arena to assess how we can work with the inherent frailties of the format (error messages, buffering, lag, dial prefixes, crashing, busy signals). Are there games that we can play that are not disturbed and distorted by buffering and time delays? The
realities of geographical distance, technological resourcing, tool
development and creative
approaches to transcending technological problems will
be workshopped in the laboratory phase of Closing the Loop 2000.
Issues at stake here
address the problems that are common to the network collaborations
outside large corporate or governmental structures. How can Persons interested in participating in the project are invited to contact the organisers for further information. CTL2000
is produced with the assistance of the South Australian Government
through Arts SA,
the Western Australian Government through ArtsWA, with additional
support from the Australian Network for Art and Technology, and
For
more information on CTL2000, please contact: r a
d i o q u a l i a: KARENINA.IT karenina.IT Experimental Web-Zine Karenina.it for Rome Biennale: Karenina.it for Mediaterra 99 Teorie / Theories
Concorsi / Competitions karenina.IT Karenina.it promotes publications, events and relevant initiatives about non commercial experimental projects. In our pages "Chosen With Care" you are going to find: critical reports, releases, links and information about electronic art, art in the Internet, experimental literature, performative and visual poetry, multimedia, articles about exhibitions, meetings and festivals, editorial news and more. The site realisation (by Caterina Davinio davinio@tin.it) presents hypertext-visual incursions, which bring in the net and combine with telematic communication some techniques typical of the visual poetry. "Karenina.IT" utilises textual and not-textual objects found in the Internet, digital ready made and fragments of virtual reality; in Karenina the acquisition and the transit of the information is act of the performance and net-art opera structure. "karenina.IT" co-operates with "Testuale", Italian literary critic review, and has opened a section called "Imaginary Codes" dedicated to techno-cultures, visions and theories of the Net, in which the same titled fanzine from Rome is published. All the persons interested in our project are asked to diffuse this communication and the site address. English in not our mother language. Who finds some mistakes is asked to send to us a correct version of the texts. People who can translate "karenina.it" Italian pages into English or who can contribute with reports in Italian, English, Spanish or French are welcome! For proposing your reports and give information about: theories, books, meeting, manifestations, links or else write to the art director Caterina Davinio davinio@tin.it Davinio Art Electronics - Archives/Videotheque
/ Rome / Milan The 12hr-ISBN-JPEG Project This project began December 30, 1994. A `round-the-clock posting of sequenced hypermodern imagery from Brad Brace. The hypermodern minimizes the familiar, the known, the recognizable; it suspends identity, relations and history. This discourse, far from determining the locus in which it speaks, is avoiding the ground on which it could find support. It is trying to operate a decentering that leaves no privilege to any center. http://www.teleport.com/~bbrace/12hr-isbn-jpeg.html
ISEA In INL#75 Online
Newsletter, the DECEMBER/JANUARY issue: Plus InformationChatterBox 2.0: Defining Architecture: Defining Information listserv discussion ISEA2000 Organized by Art3000 isea2000@art3000.com ISEA/The Inter-Society
for the Electronic Arts
** Alchemy ** International Masterclass for New Media Artists and Curators Brisbane, Queensland Applications due: 18 February, 2000 Please contact the
Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT) for guidelines and
application forms or visit ANAT will hold an International Masterclass for New Media Artists and Curators for six weeks in May/ June 2000, in association with the new Powerhouse Live Arts Complex in Brisbane http://www.brisbanepowerhouse.org. Artists, curators and theorists will come together to germinate and hothouse their ideas, test their hypotheses, develop new processes and create new works, within the context of an intensive learning environment. The intention is to provide an opportunity for artists and arts practitioners from across Australia and around the world to network, develop new work, devise new forms of collaboration. Participants will be provided with 24 hour access to a lab., exhibition/ installation, performance space and workrooms in the exciting new Powerhouse Live Arts Complex, which also opens in May. Highly experienced curators and artists will provide training and lead workshops for participants, within the context of a critical production site. The makeup and composition of the Masterclass will constantly evolve, as tutors and participants undertake different aspects of the project. The Masterclass will engage with a diverse range of topics: from science discourses to indigenous issues to curatorial practice. Of particular note will be the component of the masterclass dedicated to performance and hybrid practices being developed in collaboration with the New Media Arts Fund of the Australia Council. As the project is intended as a dynamic one, there will be continual opportunities for exchange of ideas. Alchemy will be divided into thematic areas. These themes will not happen in isolation. There will be overlap and confluences between the different areas. Participants will be asked to identify two to three themes which may be of particular relevance to their practice in order to participate in those components of the Masterclass. Themes which will be addressed are:
To culturally contextualise the project, satellite events - combiinge fora with open days - will be held, giving the public and media an opportunity to view the work-in-progress produced by participants. Throughout the Masterclass there will be a focus on skills development and skills sharing. The framework for the masterclass will also address issues of access to local and overseas works and theoretical issues in order to contextualise new media work, particularly within an international framework. In order to take into account the needs of participants, the program for the project will not be finalised until the participants have been identified. ANAT has pioneered intensive skilling programs for artists through its coordination of annual National Summer Schools in computer media since 1989. The schools have provided the catalyst for profound conceptual shifts and directions in practice for participating artists. In 1999 ANAT, for the first time, ran three National Schools: two National Schools for artists (one for Indigenous Australian artists and one with a science / art focus), and one for curators and other artsworkers. Based on ANAT's experience managing these diverse projects and an ever increasing number of enquiries internationally about the possibility of participating in our programs, for 2000 the scope of this concept has been broadened to develop a more interactive and collaborative approach to the Masterclass learning environment and, with the support of the Daniel Langlois Foundation, opened up to international participation. The intention for this project is for it to be very much a people event. We are interested in developing an environment which will encourage the formation of ongoing international collaborations. Please contact ANAT for guidelines and application forms. or visit http://www.anat.org.au/projects/alchemy The masterclass has been generously supported by the Daniel Langlois Foundation, the Australia Council, the Federal Government's arts funding and advisory body and Arts Queensland with additional support from the Government of South Australia through Arts SA, Arts Tasmania and the NSW Ministry for the Arts.
3rd Annual Taos Land & Film Screenplay Contest We cordially invite you to participate in our contest Winner will receive not only great coverage and exposure to Hollywood producers,agents & studio executives....but also 5 ACRES OF BEAUTIFUL PRISTINE LAND IN Taos, New Mexico! Don't let this opportunity pass you up! Also note that the winner's script will be optioned by Taos Land & Film Co. for development into a major motion picture. Time is quickly
running out! Hurry and visit
our website at: Confetti Il nous fallait 'fêter' deux morts et naissances irrationelles, celles d'un chiffre, trois fois neuf puis, la seconde suivante, tout autant de fois nul. Mais les chiffres mentent lorsque nous leur donnons la parole, aussi que cette année corresponde à la réalisation de vos désirs. Et puisqu'un confetti ne fait pas une fête, seul. Nous vous proposons de contribuer:
d>art 00 dLux media arts presents in June / July, 2000 Sydney, Australia
d>art 00 is dLux media arts' acclaimed annual event. A showcase of inter/national experimental film | video | animation | web | internet | cd rom and sound art works. The d>art 00 screening will once again be shown to capacity audiences at the prestigious Sydney Film Festival with various components installed at other well known venues in Sydney throughout June / July 2000. The program will then tour inter/ nationally. conditions of entry + general information · closing date for entries>>> Entries should be received at the office of dLux media arts on or before fri 31 march 2000, addressed to: d>art 00 Email: dLux@dLux.org.au
· selection criteria >>>
· preview formats >>> for each work submitted - please send preview materials in ONE of the following formats:
Works submitted
in other formats will not be eligible for consideration. · screening
formats >>> (n
/ a cd-rom, web, internet and sound works) · promotional materials >>> If convenient, please include images (clearly labelled) from your work/s for possible promotional use. Formats: 35mm photo print or slide transparencies (colour or b&w) TIFF, EPS or JPEG files on Mac disks / cd / zip disk only. · exhibition fee paid to artists >>> Artists whose work is selected for inclusion in d>art 00 will be paid a
· program details >>> A program brochure will be printed which will include details of all works selected for d>art 00 (based on the information supplied by the artist on the entry form). A copy of the brochure will be distributed to ALL artists who submit work. · promotion >>> dLux media arts reserves the right to use an audio and / or visual excerpt of the work and / or any image / graphics supplied by the artist and / or reproduce images from the work in order to promote both the work and the d>art 00 event. In such cases, dLux will take all reasonable care to ensure that the artist and work are duly and correctly acknowledged. · return of tapes >>> Preview tapes, cd-roms and promotional materials can only be returned if the cost of return postage is included with entry form. If you wish to have your materials returned, please include a money order for:
· liability >>> The artist agrees:
· copyright >>>
· censorship clearance >>> dLux will apply to the Office of Film and Literature Classification for exemption from classification for all works included in the screen component of d>art 00. A condition for exemption is that admission be restricted to adults 18 years and over. To obtain the exemption a brief description of each work must be submitted by dLux to the Office. Therefore, it is essential that you include with your entry form a clear and unambiguous synopsis / description of your work/s. · dLux archives >>> dLux media arts is committed to the preservation of innovative screen and sound arts. We are dedicating some of our limited resources to this valuable project. The archival materials will be used for research purposes and as an educational and / or promotional resource, and will not be broadcast or sold commercially. Please indicate where shown on Declaration Form if you wish your work/s to be included in the d>art 00 archival collection. · agreement >>> Works can only be accepted for consideration for inclusion in d>art 00 if the above terms are agreed to by the copyright holder of the work/s. Please sign the declaration attached and submit it along with a copy of your work/s, support materials (optional) and a fully completed entry form. · information >>> entry forms, membership details + further information about dLux events please contact : anna davis, project assistant, dLux media arts PO Box 306 Paddington NSW 2021 Australia tel 61 2 9380 4255 fax 61 2 9380 431 International
Conference on CULTURAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION CALL
FOR PAPERS Computer-mediated communication networks, such as the Internet and the World Wide Web, promise to realise the utopian vision of an electronic global village. But efforts to diffuse CMC technologies globally, especially in Asia and among indigenous peoples in Africa, Australia and the United States, have demonstrated that CMC technologies are neither culturally neutral nor communicatively transparent. Rather, diverse cultural attitudes towards technology and communication - those embedded in current CMC technologies, and those shaping the beliefs and behaviours of potential users - often collide. This biennial conference series aims to provide an international forum for the presentation and discussion of cutting-edge research on how diverse cultural attitudes shape the implementation and use of information and communication technologies. The first conference in the series was held in London in 1998. For an overview of the themes and presentations of CATaC'98 and links to the papers, see http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac98/01_ess.html. Original full papers (especially those which connect theoretical frameworks with specific examples of cultural values, practices, etc.) and short papers (e.g. describing current research projects and preliminary results) are invited. Papers should articulate the connections between specific cultural values as well as current and/or possible future communicative practices involving information and communication technologies. We seek papers which, taken together, will help readers, researchers, and practitioners of computer-mediated communication - especially in the service of "electronic democracy" - better understand the role of diverse cultural attitudes as hindering and/or furthering the implementation of global computer communications systems. Topics
of particular interested include but are not limited to: SUBMISSION
Initial submissions are to be emailed to catac@it.murdoch.edu.au as an attachment (Word, HTML, PDF). Submission of a paper implies that it has not been submitted or published elsewhere. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to present the paper at the conference. Important
Dates: PROGRAM
SUBSIDIES
VENUE
Fay
Sudweeks LinguaMOO is 5 FIVE
YEARS OLD AND STILL GOING STRONG! When:
January 25th, 2000 At the party we will unveil a new Lingua MOO five-year anniversary/millennium T-shirt, and hold the annual Lingua Lottery! One lucky winner will receive a T-shirt, and another winner will receive an autographed copy of MOOniversity. So, don't miss it! GEMISIS
Millennium Conference 16
- 18 May 2000 THE
CONFERENCE These themes will be supplemented with focused discussion sessions exploring the future impact of multimedia applications and network technology in the key development sectors of the GEMISIS project. GEMISIS
CALL
FOR PAPERS DEADLINES
Up-to-date information on submission and registration will be posted on the GEMISIS website: www.gemisis.co.uk/html/millennium/millennium.html Tina
Judic Marketing Executive, Learningpack.com Virtual Methodology 5th
February 2000 Programme
There is a web site with more information about the meeting and a registration form at http://www.brunel.ac.uk/depts/crict/vm_over.htm The format will include keynote speakers in the morning and less formal workshop sessions in the afternoon, and is aimed at attracting graduate students as well as more established researchers. UK Art works wanted Artists working with new technologies may be interested in new commissions from the Folly Gallery, working in partnership with Lancaster LitFest. They are looking for artists and writers, who are currently using or exploring the possibilities of new technology and experienced in leading community workshops. They will be working with five community groups and will get £2400 plus additional travel and materials budgets. And they've got a commissioning fund of UKP 9000 for the production of new work, specifically for the LitFest. They want 'innovative and exciting responses to the theme of "Community Identity" and how this relates to new technology'. Submissions by January 21, 2000. Contact Jed Barr (UK) 01524 388550. email: jedbarr@hotmail.com Website: http://www.folly.co.uk/festival2000 (From Dispatches, Newsletter of the UK Arts Boards) Website: http://www.ciac.ca LA BIENNALE DE MONTRÉAL 2000 - CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS La Biennale de Montréal 2000 will present ten works created for the Web and centering on the theme of L'autre monde / Out of this World. The exhibition will gather Web projects that establish an analogy between cyberspace and that unknown, unfathomable space, the other-world of spirits, of the dead, paradise or hell, however designated by particular culture or belief. We invite artists whose Web works relate to this theme to submit their url and any other information regarding their Web project (s). Only artworks specially conceived for the Web will be taken into account. Recent works are desired but "older" works will also be considered. La Biennale de Montréal 2000 will take place from 28 September to 29 October 2000. La Biennale is produced by Centre international d'art contemporain de Montréal. Sylvie
Parent, Curator, Web Art, La Biennale de Montréal 2000, Centre international
d'art contemporain de Montréal C.P. 760, Place du Parc, Montréal, H2W
2P3 Two Day Conference: "Dreaming" CFP Date:
1-2 April 2000 RealTime Australian Contemporary Arts Magazine http://www.rtimearts.com/~opencity/ Check
out the latest: Adelaide Festival and an interview with Robyn Archer
BREAK
21 INVITATION
TO PARTICIPATE Projects
in Visual and Internet Art are being accepted. . For any further information please contact: äOU KULTURA VDOR 21 / BREAK 21, www.break21.com KERSNIKOVA 4 1000 LJUBLJANA tel = ++ 386 061/ 1317 010 extension 226 fax = ++ 386 061/ 319 448 (subject: Vdor 21 / Break 21) Contact persons: Karla éeleznik karla.zeleznik@kiss.uni-lj.si and Joûko Rutar jozko.rutar@kiss.uni-lj.si VII
BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER MUSIC *important
dates*
This
year we are giving particular emphasis to the musicologies (historical,systematic,
ethno, critical etc) of digital musics (computer music,electroacoustic
music, soundscape, techno etc.). Papers reporting ongoing orconcluded
research should be submitted in a preliminary version of no more than
8 pages (Times Roman 12 and 1.5 interline space). Please state clearly
in the front page which of the above headings, if any, best describes
your subject matter. Preliminary submissions in Portuguese will be accepted
on the understanding that their authors will undertake to present the
final version in English. You are kindly requested not to reveal your
identity in your *submission
of compositions* MiniNTERNATIONAL
CONGRESS OF INFORMATICS IN CULTURE Topics:
Presentation: Sponsors: CEISIC,
Cuba's Ministry of Culture, ARTEX CALL FOR ENTRIES : SIGGRAPH 2000 ART GALLERY CFP http://www.siggraph.org/s2000/ Submission info:http://www.siggraph.org/s2000/cfp/art/index.html DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 2ND 5PM PACIFIC STANDARD TIME SIGGRAPH 2000, 23 - 28 July 2000, New Orleans Showcases the Latest Developments in Computer Graphics and Interactive Technologies SIGGRAPH, the world's premier conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques, returns to New Orleans 23 - 28 July 2000. Nearly 30,000 professionals from 75 countries-animators, digital artists, scientists and researchers, web developers, and educators-are gathering to share the best work of the international graphics community and to collaborate on their vision of the technologies in the next century. A comprehensive technical program, three-day exhibition, and special activities focusing on research, art, animation, and interactivity are planned. Siggraph 2000 includes:
Ryoji Ikeda & :zoviet*france: Tour dates: Thur 20 Jan Manchester, Contact Theatre 8.00pm, (ticket prices not yet available) Box office 0161 274 0600 Sat 22 Jan Kendal, Brewery Arts Centre 8.00pm. £10.00, concessions £9.00. Box office 01539 725133
Thur 27 Jan Bristol, Arnolfini 8.00pm. £8.00, concessions £6.00. Box office 0117 929 9191 Sat 29 Jan Brighton, Gardner Arts Centre 8.00pm. £9.00, £7.00 concessions Box Office 01273 685861 This first ever UK tour of sensational Japanese electronic composer Ryoji Ikeda and foremost underground British-based improvising electronic duo :zoviet*france: brings together cutting edge sound and image. Ryoji Ikeda is a sound artist whose work is receiving increasing international acclaim. Ikeda's breathtaking use of tones, pulses and frequencies has featured in a range of critically-acclaimed CD releases. His profile in the UK has risen considerably since he performed with Dumb Type, the highly innovative music/visual theatre/media art group, in a successful run of OR at the Barbican Theatre last year. He has recently been commissioned to create a sound installation for the Millennium Dome. Ikeda's work will be seen and heard in London at the Hayward Gallery in Spring 00 as part of the exhibition Sonic Boom, curated by David Toop. His next CD release, Matrix, on the Touch label [http://www.touch.demon.co.uk], will coincide with the tour. For these performances he collaborates with other Dumb Type members Takayuki Fujimoto, Shiro Takatani and Hiromasa Tomari on spectacular lighting and video projections. :zoviet*france: is a British duo that has built up a large underground fan base for its unique brand of innovative improvised electronic music. Apart from its many recordings (over 20 albums), :zoviet*france: has created soundtracks for contemporary dance productions including collaborations with Saburo Teshigawara, Random Dance and the Norwegian group Zero Visibility, and continues to work with each of these. The group produces far more live work abroad than in the UK and this is the first opportunity for audiences here to see them perform accompanied by still.moving, a video specially commissioned for this tour from artist Ravi Deepres. Deepres also worked with Random Dance on their internationally touring production Sulphur 16, contributing the video and filmic elements to an acclaimed visual design. Between the groups' individual sets will be a one-off collaboration in which :zoviet*france: will respond to and improvise around Ryoji Ikeda's music. 'You can't have missed it; some of the wildest music is coming out of Japan right now. Ryoji Ikeda is one musician willing to dive completely off the edge of the map.' The Wire 'Over the past two decades :zoviet*france: have established themselves as one of the most significant exponents of experimental music in the UK...this prolific and inspiringly inventive project creates achingly beautiful sound experiments flavoured with the merest dash of oxymoronic gentle abrasion, thereby giving their music a vibrantly disturbing quality.' - Live Art Magazine This tour is produced in association with the Contemporary Music Network [http://www.cmntours.org.uk] and is funded by the Arts Council of England. DAC 2000 Call for Proposals 3rd
International Digital Arts & Culture Conference DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS IS MARCH 1. 2000 The third international Digital Arts & Culture Conference will be held in Bergen, Norway August 2-4, 2000. This conference aims to embrace and explore the cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural theory and practice of contemporary digital arts and culture. As we step across the threshold to a new millennium, the DAC conference affords us the opportunity to develop and foster communication and understanding about digital arts and culture across a wide spectrum of cultural, disciplinary, and professional practices. To this end, we cordially invite scholars, researchers, artists, computer professionals, and others who are working within the broadly defined areas of digital arts and culture to join in the DAC discourse community by submitting proposals for presentations to the Digital Arts and Culture conference in the year 2000. Women and people from ethnic minorities are strongly encouraged to send proposals. Presentations may be in the form of scholarly papers or presentations; or performances and installations incorporating electronic and digital technologies and media. Collaborative presentations are encouraged, and to aid our collaborative and cross-disciplinary objective, we are primarily seeking submissions for three main types of sessions: (Single submission per person only, please.) Panels: Should consist of 3-4 presentations around a common theme. Presenters will be given 20 minutes each with time for discussion. Forums: Should consist of 3-6 presenters who will have 8-10 minutes each to deliver position statements on a theme or topic set forth by the forum organizer. Forums are roundtable type events that should accommodate ample time for discussion among panelists and audience. Performances, Installations: Can consist of individuals or groups. Session formats may vary depending upon the presenters' needs and wishes. Please note that we may not be able to supply highly specialized and advanced media or technical support. Individual submissions are also welcome. Proposals should not exceed 500 words in length (panel and forum proposals should include abstracts for each of the proposed presentations in that total). Brief bios for each presenter must accompany the proposals. All proposals must be submitted through the online submission form at the DAC2000 web site on or before March 1. 2000. Notification of acceptance will be given by April 15, 2000. For further announcements and updates about DAC2000 please see the conference web site at http://cmc.uib.no/dac/ , or subscribe to the dac2000 email list. Send an email to majordomo@uib.no with the body text: 'subscribe dac2000' LOVEBYTES
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departments. Please submit a 250 word abstract by January 15, 2000. Papers will be limited to a 20-minute reading time. Discussion panels are encouraged. Send abstracts to: Eve Culver Dept. of English San Jose State University San Jose, CA 95192-0090 orbitz@mindspring.com Lexikon Writing Magazine Good News From Lexikon Publishing Download Your Free Copy of Lexikon Writing Magazine Today This 44 page journal published in the UK by Lexikon Publishing contains work by some of the world's finest contemporary writers. As well as a good mix of articles and news, you'll find that there are a variety of poems and short stories to suit all tastes including: Dance Angel, a short story by David McVey, To An Enterprising Lady, a poem by Dr Philip Higson, plus Was Dickens Mr Dick John Clare?, an article by Stephen Wade. Download your sample copy today by visiting http://www.lexikon-publishing.co.uk and click onto 'Lexikon Magazine' The magazine is available as a pdf document/html and are quoted printable. Feedback
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SCI ART: Call for ideas from partnerships in science and art Can you bring the insights of science and art closer together with an idea that captures the public's imagination? A unique opportunity exists for scientists and artists to research, develop and produce projects that reflect contemporary practice in each discipline. Approximately ten research and development grants (up to £10,000 each) and two production grants (up to £50,000 each) will be made available. Further details can be found on the Wellcome Trust's website at http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/sciart or alternatively contact the SCI ART office at sciart@wellcome.ac.uk SCI ART is a consortium
and is supported by the following organizations: Closing date for submissions is 10 January 2000. 18 October 1999Riding the Meridian, Sound/Text Hypertext Text/TextThe new issue of Riding the Meridian, Sound/Text Hypertext Text/Text is now online at: http://www.heelstone.com/meridian The Sound/Text Hypertext Text/Text issue of Riding the Meridian was conceived to demonstrate just how much the act of being a poet has been influenced by the Internet in terms of creating and distributing new literary efforts. The work some multimedia poets are doing on the Net has strong roots, stretching into the language poetry community -- into the field of early concrete poetry. Alaric Sumner's section on Sound/Text showcases the talents of seminal contributors to those genres, in the work of Bob Cobbing, Lawrence Upton, John Cayley, Caroline Bergvall and Charles Amirkhanian, among others, while Christy Sheffield Sanford and Jennifer Ley have tapped the field of talent in hypermedia, bringing works by writers like Annie Abrahams, M.D. Coverley and Stephanie Strickland, Deena Larsen and Talan Memmott to show the spectrum of work being created in hypertext. Mark Bernstein, president and chief scientist of Eastgate Systems, Inc., talks about the early days of hypertext and the software he wrote to create it, Storyspace. And, as the talents of pure text poets should not be seen to be overshadowed by this internet explosion of visuals and sounds, we've collected a group of text works highlighted by a selection of poems by David Weinstock from his new collection, Physical Findings. CK Tower has interviewed Alan Kaufman to gain insight into the current Spoken Word phenomenon and Chocolate Waters has brought us Realaudio by New York Spoken Word poet, Mark Larsen. trAce Director Sue Thomas and the first trAce Writer-in-Residence, Christy Sheffield Sanford appear in this issue of Riding the Meridian. The round table discussion can be continued at the trAce discussion area editorial contact, Jennifer Ley - anemone@sprynet.co Contact
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