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CALL FOR VIDEOPOEM SUBMISSIONS for the VANCOUVER VIDEOPOEM FESTIVAL

The Edgewise ElectroLit Centre is looking for videopoem submissions for its 2nd annual videopoem festival, the only screening event of its kind in Canada. The Festival is to be held at Video In Studios, Vancouver, BC, Canada in November 2000. We are interested in any original, creative combination of poetry with material on videotape: cinepoems are also acceptable provided they are transferred onto videotape format.

Get public exposure and have your work screened in a premier public venue in this 2nd annual event, produced by The Edgewise ElectroLit Centre! See www.edgewisecafe.org for more info.

Guidelines:
1. Videopoems to maximum of 20 minutes, submitted on VHS format-please inform us of format of original.
2. Include $15 submission fee, ($12 US), cheque or money order payable to The Edgewise ElectroLit Centre.
3. If you do not wish to donate your tape to our archive, please include envelope with sufficient postage to have your tape returned: Canadian postage or International Reply Coupons or $$.
4. Obtain an official Videopoem Submission Application Form by contacting us at the address below, by phone at 604-904-9362, or by email CL_Hamshaw@telus.net, or from our website www.edgewisecafe.org.
5. Provide brief bio, full name, and contact info in a cover letter.
6. Mail a self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE) to: The Edgewise ElectroLit Centre Box 18- 1895 Commercial Drive Vancouver, BC V5N 4A6
7. Deadline July 31, 2000

If accepted into the Vancouver Videopoem Festival, all successful entrants will receive an honourarium, depending on receipt of funding.

Last year the Vancouver Videopoem Festival was the first Videopoem screening event ever held in Canada. This hybrid genre, videopoetry, has received little attention in our country despite being a creative field of growing interest for Canadian artists since the 70's. Vancouver's own Edgewise ElectroLit Centre Society is hosting this annual event where the cutting edge of this medium is explored and presented. Work from Canada and beyond will give local audiences a survey of the accomplishments in videopoetry in the last 20 years.

The Edgewise ElectroLit Centre is a nonprofit society whose mandate is to exploit communications technology to widen the audience of Canadian poetry and to give poetry, multimedia artists and youth the opportunity to use, learn, and create with this technology. Videoconferencing and online publishing are the major technologies that we work with. Our electronic magazine can be viewed and heard at . Poets featured with audio include Adeena Karasick, Wayde Compton, bill bissett and Sheri-D Wilson. Funding for our programs is received from The Canada Council for the Arts, The BC Arts Council, The City of Vancouver, Embedded Spaces, Dowco Computers, and Communicopia.

14th June 2000

Rejection online....

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,

adrian spendlow

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ade01/
The Bay Horse, Marygate, York, UK
8.30 - Free
Every 1st Thursday of the month
Performance Poet Adrian Spendlow
'Meld' with a different musician
July 6th - Cookin On Jazz
with Richard A Thompson
"Smooth and Bluesy - Live and Soul"
August 3rd - Damn Heart
With Julie Ellison
"Individually Unique - Together Entrancing"
September 7th
Dance/Trance/Poetry Fusion with TPI
Also
Starbucks Coffee, Coppergate Walk, York
Sunday 18th June 1 till 4 - Free
Cookin On Jazz
Set to be regular
Adrian is also performing at the following festivals:
Otley Black Sheep, Whitby World Music and the Northern Green Gathering plus lots of community work.

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

Ixion

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:

• Producing a weekly page (for example an instalment of a forking story, the exact content to be discussed)
• Creating ways of encouraging audience participation
• Responding to reader feedback, suggestions and questions, and choosing samples to be published on the web
• Liasing with the Learn-English project team to produce materials to deadlines as agreed

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.

sIgnpOstS:

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:

• have produced original work of high quality and have demonstrable experience of working with writing groups and other relevant bodies in the community.
• demonstrate interest and commitment to exploring work in the radio medium, even though that may not be their main specialisation to date. The final contract may depend on the experience of the writer(s) appointed.

• produce new work in their preferred medium, which should be presentable on radio, as well as collaborating with Radio Sheffield in creating types of interesting and innovative work for local radio.
• devise stimuli or means for on-air and on-the-ground workshops by which other writers might develop new and innovative types of writing/ sound-work for local radio.
• run these workshops in collaboration with Radio Sheffield, Off the Shelf Writing and Reading Festival, and other bodies.
• work on outside broadcasts from writers groups and events and exchange broadcasts with other cities or regions.
• work on publication and/or broadcast of writing by members of Radio Sheffield’s audience
• be lively and enthusiastic as well as sensitive to the kinds of regular listeners that make up the local radio audience

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 26^th

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.

CentreHouse Press

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.

NakedPoetry.com

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
first prize £5,000
second prize £2,500
third prize £1,000
three prizes each of £500
Closing date for entries 30 June 2000

Year Zero One

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:
1/ to promote the furtherance of all forms of arts activity for people living in the Bradford area
2/ to bring together those who share the common objective of advancing the role which the arts can play in the area's social, cultural and economic regeneration.

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

Art Deadlines List

http://artdeadlineslist.com

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

Palimpsest Press

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
poetry with bite

BAC Studio 6 Battersea Arts Centre Lavender Hill Battersea London SW11 5TN
Box office 020 7223 2223 info 020 7924 3410

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
ASCI's third Annual International Digital Art Competition & Exhibition Benefit.
This year's judge is Margot Lovejoy, artist and author of "Postmodern Currents: Art and Artists in the Age of Electronic Media" (1997).

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.
To view 1999 winners: http://www.asci.org/Digital99
For a prospectus and application form: download from http://www.asci.org/digital2000

OR... send a SASE to: ASCI, P.O. Box 358, Staten Island, NY 10301.

INFO: Cynthia Pannucci, Founder/Director of ASCI
PH: New York City (718) 816-9796
ONLINE: http://www.asci.org
EMAIL: asci@asci.org

"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
c/o Festival of Independents
Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema
International House
3701 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
phone 215.895.6594
fax 215.895.6562
email pifva@ihphilly.org

7th February 2000

Bath Virtual Literature Festival Feb 26-Mar 5

http://www.bathlitfest.org.uk

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
A collaborative writing project, in which everyone is invited to take part.
On the Bath Literature Festival website you will see a wonderful, brightly coloured mosaic. Five themes from the real festival have been chosen for each of five tiles – and each tile has behind it 64 pieces waiting to be filled with writing related to the chosen theme…. It could be an anecdote or thought, a snippet of poetry, a short story or just a small fragment of prose. It is easy to contribute – just type your words into the box provided. The themes are:

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
The best conversations happen in the wee small hours. Log on to the ‘After Closing Gallery’ and continue debating the issues arising from the ‘real’ events you have attended by posting up your thoughts and reflections. The ‘real’ festival speakers will also be taking part.

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
Log on and learn to play the games which Jane Austen, her friends and fictional characters, played to while away their gloomy winter evenings. Once you’ve mastered the rules, you can play the games at home – or email your completed riddles back to us to post up onto the Festival website. These authentic games have been drawn up by David Selwyn, an authority on the pleasures and pastimes of Austen’s world. Once you’ve cracked the rules you can make up your own verse games and send them to us for others to try.

The Glass Against The Wall
Over the 9 days of the festival, three poets - John Burnside, George Szirtes and John Kinsella - will be corresponding with each other by email, chatting informally as they grapple with writing for the page and share their ideas and inspiration, their difficulties and distractions. Visit the Festival website to eavesdrop on their conversation as it develops over the nine days of the Festival.

On Sunday March 5^th, 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
Throughout the Festival there will be a virtual-writer-in-residence, Alan McDonald (trAce's next Writer-in-Residence). Alan will be on-line daily to answer your questions about the Mosaics, about writing online – or just to hear what you’ve got to say. Email him at alan.mcdonald@batlitfest.org.uk. You can also meet Alan in the flesh as he works – in Bath Central Library 3:30-6pm on Tuesday 29^th February and in the Click Internet Café 3:30-6pm on Wednesday 1^st March. He will also be on the Babel bus.

Live Events

Friday 3^rd March 8pm Bath University Arts Lecture Theatre
PHON: E: ME - A Hyperfiction Show and Tell

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 4^th March 7.30pm
Mark Amerika in conversation

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 5^th March 4-6pm
Online Debate on Internet Censorship

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.
Co-programmed with LM Online (www.informinc.co.uk), with special thanks to Brendan O’Neill.

Sunday 5^th March, 6pm Bath University Arts Lecture Theatre
Poetry Slam and Online Jam

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 26^th 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 4^th March, 11am – 4pm B&NES Libraries
Children’s Chat Room

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
Alan Gibbons, whose new book, Shadow of the Minotaur is just out – a virtual reality adventure in the world of Greek mythology. Come and talk to him about this or about his Total Football series.
Phil Gates, whose children’s science books include Evolve or Die, Designer Genes and Animal Senses.
Haydn Middleton, who is the author of the Come and Have a Go! Series – all about super-skilled schoolboy footballers ‘Smart’ Luke Green and ‘Cool’ Frederick Dulac.
Celia Rees, whose latest book is called TheVanished and is full of ghost stories.
Jamie Rix who produces comedy shows for television – such as ‘Colin’s Sandwich’ and ‘Not the Nine O’Clock News.
Colin Thompson whose latest books include Future Eden and the picture book, The Last Alchemist. He will be logging on from Australia.

12 noon
Neil Arksey who has written MacB, Result and Brooksie. He also writes for TV programmes such as 6 Teddybears and Kipper.
Terence Blacker, whose books include the incredibly successful Ms Wiz series.

2pm
Michael Coleman, who has written more than 30 books from Hank the Clank to Top Ten Fairy Stories, Weirdo’s War and Flaming Olympics.
John Cunliffe whose latest book is the paperback edition of Postman Pat and the Christmas Baby as well as a book of poetry, Incy Wincy Moo Cow; Postman Pat will be busy delivering letters, but he says that John can answer any questions that children would like to send him - or John can give him a call on his mobile ‘phone if he doesn’t know the answer.
Nigel Hinton, whose latest books include Out of the Darkness and Ship of Ghosts.
Francesca Simon, whose books include the Horrid Henry series, the latest of which is Horrid Henry’s Haunted House.

2.30pm
Adele Geras, who is the author of A Candle in the Dark and Voyage as well as the forthcoming novel for teenagers, Troy.

3pm
Malorie Blackman whose books - including Hacker, Whizziwig (now into its 3^rd TV series), Operation and Pig-Heart Boy - have won numerous awards.
Tamora Pierce, who has written numerous books including the Realms of the Gods series and Circle of Magic: The Magic in the Weaving & The Power in the Storm. She will be logging on from New York.
Kjartan Poskitt who, as well as working in television, has written all sorts of books… cartoon books and maze books, Killer Puzzles and, just in time for the year of numeracy, he has brought out a Murderous Maths series.

For further information or a brochure email info@bathlitfest.org.uk or telephone 01225 – 463 362

1st February 2000

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,
+ Film/Video,
+ Performance Art and
+ Internet/Multimedia (Netart).

http://www.werkleitz.de/realwork
http://www.werkleitz.de/realwork/text_E/service_E.html

19th January 2000

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/

17th February 2000

Call for Proposals: 4th Annual Teaching of Writing Colloquia

Saturday, April 29, 2000: Kent State University Stark Campus, Canton, Ohio

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:
Laurie Delaney
Kent State University Stark Campus
6000 Frank Ave. N.W.
Canton, OH 44720-7599
Phone: (330) 499-9600, ext. 455
Fax: (330) 494-6121
ldelaney@stark.kent.edu

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

7th February 2000

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
Writer: Sue Thomas
Composer: Nick Parkin
Art Director: Rachael Field
Performer: Nenagh Watson

Virtual location
Rm #79291 at LambdaMOO
url: telnet://lambda.moo.mud.org:8888
Directions: connect as a guest and type: @go #79291

Physical Location
The Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton, UK
Box Office: 01902 321321
Tickets for Viewings £2
Tickets for Final Presentation £7 and £5
Viewings: 7.30pm GMT Thursday 3, 10, 17, 24 February
Final Presentation: 7.30pm GMT Tuesday 29 February
Online: 24 hrs a day for the month of February

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.

1st February 2000

Switch

Tthe new media art journal of the CADRE Institute, San Jose State University.

http://switch.sjsu.edu/

1st February 2000

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!

http://www.one38.org/desktop/

1st February 2000

\\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/

1st February 2000

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
mesm.eon <http://rorschach.test.at/mesmeon> performances staged by Matthew Thomas and dj zyzx, the fledgling a p h a. S ia  series, and isolated live episodes such as those organised by Zonar Recordings, has rendered this tide of activity largely invisible.

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
cultural activities taking place at the Telstra Adelaide Festival, Closing the Loop 2000 will research sound experimentation on networks, investigating the effectiveness of techniques for internet based collaboration. The Loop involved is that between two or more active participants, their vectors of transmission aimed at one another, the loop involved leading to a collaborative process.

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
Dutch critic Josephine Bosma observed, "What is most interesting about these experiments is how they connect groups of people over large distances and how they allow for collaboration between different 'scenes' during performances or happenings that are open to an outside audience."

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
significant collaboration be achieved without massive investment in up to the minute hardware, software and connectivity? What tools are readily available for experiments? How can technological hurdles be smoothed without reducing the collaborator to a mere "user?"  Investigating answers to these questions will require CTL2000 to examine the timing of
information flow and effect, to analyse the pace of time in virtual space vs the pace of time in actual space, the mathematics of digital sound, and the physics of the space it virtually crosses.   The manifestations of this research will be presented at a series of performances, beginning in mid-February, and concluding during the Adelaide Festival in March.

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
PATU.  The organisers would like to thank the Media Resource Centre, Ngapartji Multimedia Centre and Virtual Artists Pty Ltd. Biomachines (March 9 - 12) is a co-production of The Performance Space,
Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre and The Adelaide Festival supported by the New Media Arts Fund of The Australia Council, Mawson Institute of TAFE, Port Adelaide and Enfield Council and NSW Ministry for the Arts.

For more information on CTL2000, please contact:
Time's Up:
tim@timesup.org
http://www.timesup.org/

r a d i o q u a l i a:
honor@va.com.au
http://www.radioqualia.va.com.au/

24th January 2000

KARENINA.IT

karenina.IT Experimental Web-Zine
Directed by Caterina Davinio
http://geocities.com/Paris/Lights/7323/kareninarivista.html
includes

Karenina.it for Rome Biennale:
Biennale di Roma. Un grande progetto dedicato alle arti elettroniche, alla televisione di qualità, all'editoria multimediale / Rome Biennale. A great project dedicated to electronic art, television, multimedia publishers di / by Marco M. Gazzano

Karenina.it for Mediaterra 99
Mediaterra 99 / Atene. Un festival dedicato a progetti sperimentali di arti elettroniche dell'area balcanica e del Mediterraneo Mediaterra Festival is an attempt to realize a map of artistic experimental digital & web works of the Mediterranean and Balkan area

Teorie / Theories

• Interactive poems: intersign perspective for experimental poetry di/by Philadelpho Menezes
• La virtualizzazione delle pratiche comunicative: l'ipertesto / Virtualisation Of The Communication Practices: The Hypertext di/by Paolo Ferri
• Scrittura e nuove scienze: Poesia e scienza / Writing and New Sciences: Poetry and Science di/by Gio Ferri

Concorsi / Competitions
"La piazza e il volto"
Concorso a premi per giovani artisti / Competition for young artists
Maquette, film o video, virtual projects for Internet, publications

karenina.IT
is a meeting virtual place, and a site for debate between critics, theories, artists, cultural operators, which realises a map of Italian an international research.

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
Art Electronics and Other Writings
http://space.tin.it/arte/cprezi

20th January 2000

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

http://www.isea.qc.ca/

In INL#75 Online Newsletter, the DECEMBER/JANUARY issue:
EDITORIAL:
Update on ISEA2000 in Paris, France
ISEA NEWS:
Highlights from the Annual General Meeting in Montreal, October, 1999
FEATURE ARTICLES:
Satellite Visions: A Look Back at Cartographies by Bernard Shutze
EVENT REVIEWS:
ArtSci'99 Festival international du nouveau Cinema et des nouveaux Medias de Montreal
NewOp 8: Creation, Voice and New Technology 4e
Manifestation art video art electronique Elektra: a Series of Techno-Electro-Multimedia Events

Plus InformationChatterBox 2.0: Defining Architecture: Defining Information listserv discussion

ISEA2000

Organized by Art3000
Dec. 6-11, 2000
Paris, France
http://www.art3000.com

isea2000@art3000.com
sarah@art3000.com

ISEA/The Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts
Complexe Ex-Centris,
3530 boul. St-Laurent, #305,
Montréal, Québec, H2X 2V1
CANADA
Tel: +1.514.847.8912 *
Fax: +1.514.847.8834 *
email: isea@isea.qc.ca
* http://www.isea.qc.ca

13th January 2000

** Alchemy **

International Masterclass for New Media Artists and Curators

Brisbane, Queensland
May/June, 2000

Applications due: 18 February, 2000

Please contact the Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT) for guidelines and application forms or visit
http://www.anat.org.au/projects/alchemy

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:

• Art and Science Collaborations
• Indigenous artists needs
• A Digital Region?: collaboration and exchange in Asia and the Pacific regions.
• Curatorial Issues for New Media practices
• Performance and Hybrid Art Practices
• Artistic practice and the Internet

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.

13th January 2000

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!
The final deadline is February 28th 2000 ($75 Entry Fee).

Hurry and visit our website at:
http://www.taoslandandfilm.com/ScreenplayContest.html
for more detailed and up-to-date info AND to grab yourself an entry form!

10th January 2000

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:

• à un atelier d'écriture partagée afin de rédiger à plusieurs mains une nouvelle. Par ce travail, nous ambitionnons simplement de créer une oeuvre collective en incitant les plus réservés d'entre nous à prendre la plume - à prendre leur désir pour la réalité - le temps d'un paragraphe. http://www.confetti.org/ecriture/ecrits_partages.html
• à un atelier de réalisation de films à partir d'images reçues (courrier, photographies, films, etc.) dont, chaque jeudi à 22:00 heures, nous vous présentons la réalisation sur le réseau. http://www.confetti.org/atelier_film.html

English translation

5th January 2000

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
dLux media arts
PO Box 306
Paddington
NSW 2021
Australia
(there is no entry fee applicable to d>art 00)

Email: dLux@dLux.org.au

www.dLux.org.au

· selection criteria >>>

• · d>art 00 is open to all Australian and International artists.
• · art works should be new ( preferably completed after 1 January 1999)
• · art works should be innovative | experimental | radical | challenging | unexpected |
• . art works should reach beyond their means and methods of production
• · film / video / sound art works should be less than 15 mins duration (longer works may be considered in exceptional cases)
• · a panel of representatives from the screen / audio arts industries will decide on the final selections

· preview formats >>>

for each work submitted - please send preview materials in ONE of the following formats:

• · film / video work: SP Betacam (PAL only), VHS PAL or NTSC
• · cd-rom: Mac or PC
• · audio tape or cd

Works submitted in other formats will not be eligible for consideration.
Please DO NOT send original master copies. All films must be submitted on video for previewing

· screening formats >>> (n / a cd-rom, web, internet and sound works)
video / animation artists whose work/s are selected for d>art 00 will be asked to provide an SP Betacam version of their work/s which will then be compiled onto an SP Betacam master for screening. filmmakers, if selected must also provide a Pal SP Betacam copy of film, to be included in the d>art 00 touring program. 16mm / 35mm film with optical sound can only be projected at the Sydney screening of d>art 00.

· 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

• once-only fee of AUD150
• · one complimentary ticket to the screening component of d>art 00 in Sydney.
• · exhibition dates / venues >>>
• June 2000 (+ tour) - dates, times, venues to be announced

· 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:

• · AUD20 (for international return postage)
• · AUD7 (for return postage within Australia).

· liability >>>

The artist agrees:

• · to obtain all rights, permissions and clearances in respect to the work/s necessary for her / him to enter this agreement
• · that the work/s contains no libellous or scandalous material and
• · that s/he will keep dLux media arts, the Sydney Film Festival and other d>art 00 exhibiting parties forever indemnified against any possible claim whatsoever made against dLux media arts, the Sydney Film Festival and other d>art 00 exhibiting parties in relation to the work/s.

· copyright >>>

• · Copyright of the work/s remains with the director / creator / producer.
• · Copyright of the event, title, program and notes remains with dLux media arts

· 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

21st December 1999

International Conference on CULTURAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION
(CATaC'00)

CALL FOR PAPERS
Conference Theme: Cultural Collisions and Creative Interferences in the Global Village
12-15 July 2000, Perth, Australia
http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac00/
http://www.drury.edu/faculty/ess/catac00

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:
Communicative attitudes and practices in diverse industrialised countries.
Communicative attitudes and practices in industrialising countries and marginalised communities.
Impact of new communication technologies on local and indigenous languages and cultures.
Politics of the electronic global village in democratising or preserving hierarchy.
East/West cultural attitudes and communicative practices.
Role of gender in cultural expectations regarding appropriate communicative behaviours.
Ethical issues related to new technologies, and their impact on culture and communication behaviours.
Legal implications of communication and technology.

SUBMISSION
All submissions will be peer reviewed by an international panel of scholars and researchers. There will be the opportunity for selected papers to appear in special issues of journals and a book. CATaC'98 papers, for example, appeared in the Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue Electronique de Communication (Vol.8, Nos.3-4, 1998) and will appear in the AI and Society Journal and Javnost (Journal of the European Institute for Communication and Culture.

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:
Full papers 14 February 2000
Short papers 28 February 2000
Notification of acceptance 27 March 2000
Final formatted papers 17 April 2000

PROGRAM
Highlights of the conference program include: discussion forums following technical sessions to focus on research objectives and progresspublic lecture public panels with panelists drawn from conference participants reception in an art gallery featuring a didgeridoo player conference dinner at a winery pre-conference tour and post-conference safari For more information, see the conference web site.

SUBSIDIES
Funding is being sought by the Committee to partially subsidise travel expenses for students and scholars from developing countries. Please contact the Co-Chairs if you wish to apply for a subsidy in the event that funds are available.

VENUE
The venue is the Tradewinds Hotel, Fremantle, Western Australia, located on the Swan River. Fremantle, an atmospheric port of convict-constructed buildings and great pubs, is approximately 20km west of Perth. Perth was founded in 1829 and is the sunniest capital in Australia, and is the most isolated capital in the world. It has a Mediterranean climate, with warm to hot summers and cool winters. The average winter maximum temperature (June-August) is 20C (~70F).

Fay Sudweeks
Senior Lecturer in Information Systems
School of Information Technology
Murdoch University
WA 6150
Australia +61-8-9360-2364 (o) +61-8-9360-2941 (f)
sudweeks@murdoch.edu.au
www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks

21st December 1999

LinguaMOO is 5

FIVE YEARS OLD AND STILL GOING STRONG!
It's pretty amazing to think about that Lingua MOO will be five years old next year. When we first started out in January of 1995 we had no idea where it would take us, and we have been enriched by all those who live and work at Lingua MOO. It is truly a community we are proud to host. So, we want to throw an online bash that reflects the spirit of Lingua MOO at the beginning of our 6th year and a new millennium! Mark your calendars for the party:

When: January 25th, 2000
Where: Lingua MOO (http://lingua.utdallas.edu:7000/)
Time: 10am CST
Attire: Digital 0's and 1's

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!

21st December 1999

GEMISIS Millennium Conference
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

16 - 18 May 2000
Manchester, United Kingdom

THE CONFERENCE
To mark the dawn of the new millennium GEMISIS is organising a major conference in which key research themes will be explored with regard to the design, development and delivery of multimedia services >from which predictions for the future will be extracted. This conference builds upon the previous success of two Technical Symposia, which debated issues primarily concerned with the network infrastructure, but is expanding to encompass the following five key themes:
§ Network infrastructure and technologies
§ Knowledge and content management
§ Human/computer interface technologies
§ Social impact issues
§ Multimedia applications and electronic services

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
Based at the University of Salford, GEMISIS is a multi-million pound collaboration between the University, Cable and Wireless Communications, the City of Salford, City of Manchester and Manchester Training and Enterprise Council. The award-winning project's key objective is to drive the effective development of user driv applications that fully exploit the social, economic and technological benefits of the Information Superhighway. To achieve this special interest groups have been established to oversee the development and delivery of advanced telematics applications fo the education, business, health and government sectors. Evaluation, dissemination of best practice, and the creation of commercially viable services are key deliverables.

CALL FOR PAPERS
Authors are invited to submit by email an abstract not exceeding 1000 words to the conference organisers, Professor Nigel Linge (n.linge@salford.ac.uk) or Professor Bob Wood (j.r.g.wood@salford.ac.uk) by Friday 3rd March 2000. These abstracts will be reviewed and successful authors will be requested to prepare a full paper for publication in the conference digest.

DEADLINES
03/03/2000 Abstracts submission
17/03/2000 Notification of acceptance
05/05/2000 Deadline for paper submission

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
Tel: 0161 278 2519
E-mail: tina.judic@learningpack.com

21st December 1999

Virtual Methodology

5th February 2000
Workshop to be held at CRICT (Centre for Research into Innovation, Culture and Technology), Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UK
Organized in conjunction with the Virtual Society

Programme
The aim of the meeting is to provide a forum for sharing thoughts on the relationship between the new technologies and research methods, and specifically considering whether the new information and communication technologies provide an occasion for rethinking approaches to methodology. Discussion will span both specific problems in applying research methods to online settings and ideas about the methodologies which are appropriate for considering the place of new technologies in society (and society in new technologies).

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.

14th December 1999

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

14th December 1999

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
Tél. : 1 514 288 0811 / Fax : 1 514 288 5021 / email : courrier@ciac.ca

14th December 1999

Two Day Conference: "Dreaming" CFP

Date: 1-2 April 2000
Venue: Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, High Wycombe, Bucks., U.K.
Possible Topics: Dream Landscapes;Virtuality; Visions; Nightmares; Fantasy; Consumerism; Seduction; Dream-Narratives; Halluicnations; Nationalism; Cryonics; Thresholds; The Dead; Pasts; Fetishism; Futures; Stardom.
Submission deadline of 300 word abstract: 21 February 2000.
Contact: Dr.Stephen Speed, Dept.of Arts & Media, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, Queen Alexandra Road, High Wycombe, HP11 2JZ.
E-Mail: Stephen Speed@bucu.ac.uk

14th December 1999

RealTime Australian Contemporary Arts Magazine

http://www.rtimearts.com/~opencity/

Check out the latest: Adelaide Festival and an interview with Robyn Archer
Australian International Documentary Conference in Adelaide
interview with Benedict Andrews
Globalisation and performance
Darwin Festival and Canberra's Fest of Contemporary Arts Voiceovers @ AGNSW
Digital artists: Char Davies and Linda Dement
OPENChannel in Melbourne profiled
WriteSites: Patchwork Girl and hypertext in the curriculum
The Ghost Wife and The Mercenary premiere
UK choreographer Wayne McGregor on Chunky Move's Choreolab
Melbourne Workers Theatre, Sidetrack, Thwack, Cement Garage

14th December 1999

BREAK 21
IV. international festival of independent young artists,
Ljubljana, Slovenia
10-17 May 2000

INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE
- invitation is open from 25 November 1999 to 1 February 2000
- selection will be made by 20 February 2000
- any material sent to the organiser's address before the closing date will be taken into consideration for selection
- any incomplete application or an application received later than the closing date will be rejected
- applicants will be notified of the selection by 5 March 2000
- artists selected to participate at the festival will be refunded travel expenses, three overnight stays and three meals a day
- artists will not receive any payment
- rejected applications will be returned to the sender together with enclosed material two weeks after the selection has been made
- invitation is opened for artists of age under 30 years old

Projects in Visual and Internet Art are being accepted.
Topic: Light
PART ONE: GENERAL INFORMATION
1. Section for which you apply
2. Surname and name of head of the project
3. Address (street, town, and country)
4. Telephone, fax, e-mail
5. Date of birth
6. Other people collaborating on the project
7. Where did you learn of this invitation to participate at the festival?
8. Curriculum vitae (education, scholarships, executed projects, awards, other)
9. Home page Data under points 1 to 7 should be presented on a single sheet of paper, A4 format; the same applies for C.V. (point 8)

. 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

http://www.break21.com

14th December 1999

VII BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER MUSIC
July 17-20, 2000
Brazil

PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS, COMPOSITIONS, TUTORIALS AND PRODUCT
DEMONSTRATIONS
The Sixth Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music saw researchers from various countries discussing their experiences in a friendly and informal atmosphere. The Seventh Brazilian Symposium, chaired by Bernadete Zagonel (bzagonel@rocketmail.com), will be held in Curitiba, the capital of the Parana state, from 17 to 20 July 2000. The Brazilian Symposia are organized by NUCOM, the computer music branch of the Brazilian Computing Society and pride themselves on their intercultural nature and selection policies. Roger Dannenberg (USA) and Leigh Landy (UK) will deliver the keynote speeches. There will be paper presentations, concerts, tutorials and product demonstrations. Researchers, composers,educators, manufactures and all concerned with the interplay between music and technology are invited to submit papers, ompositions,tutorial projects and product demonstration proposals.

*important dates*
--- 25 February 2000 --- closing date for postage of compositions
--- 3 March 2000 --- closing date for postage of papers, tutorials and product demonstration proposals
--- 31 March 2000 --- notification of acceptance of papers
--- 21 April 2000 --- notification of acceptance of compositions, tutorials and product demonstration proposals
--- 21 April 2000 --- closing date for camera-ready papers
*submission of papers*
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Acoustics, Diffusion, Sonorization
• Artificial Life and Evolutionary Music Systems
• Audio Hardware Design
• Audio Signal Processing
  
• Computer Aided Musical Education
• Computer Aided Music Analysis
• Computer-Aided Musicology
• Internet Applications
• Multimedia Integration
• Music Data Structures and Representation
• Music Notation, Printing and Optical Recognition
• The Musicologies of Digital Musics
• Psychoacoustics and Cognitive Modelling
• Real-time Interactive Systems
• Sound Synthesis
• Systems and Languages for Composition

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
paper (avoid self reference etc.). Please send MS Word 97 compatible files as e.-mail attachments to the Chairs, Aluizio Arcela *and* Carlos Palombini: arcela@cic.unb.br and
palombini@usa.net.
By agreement with the Editors, a selection of musicological papers will be published online in the *Electronic Musicological Review* and the *Critical Musicology Journal*, as appropriate. Since online publication is likely in all areas, authors are encouraged to take advantage of hypertext facilities.

*submission of compositions*
The Seventh Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music will seek to highlight the variety of musical styles that come under the computer music heading. Submissions are invited from composers working in all genres within the field. Formats are as follows:
[1] music for tape, 2 to 8 channels;
[2] music for tape or live-electronics with vocal and/or instrumental parts;
[3] algorithmic composition, vocal and/or instrumental.
For [1] send DAT or CD.
For [2] send DAT or CD recording of the electronic part plus full score and, if at all possible, a recording of the full piece.
For [3] send DAT or CD plus full score.
Submission must include:
--- one copy of a brief programme note (10 to 15 lines in English, Portuguese or Spanish);
--- one copy of a short biography (10 to 15 lines in English, Portuguese or Spanish);
--- three copies of all music materials (CDs, DATs and scores).
Please post submissions by air mail to the Chair, Fernando Iazzetta, to whom enquiries may be addressed: iazzetta@usp.br.
Fernando Iazzetta
USP - ECA - Dpto. Musica
Rua da Antiga Reitoria, S/N
05508-900 - Sao Paulo - SP
Brazil

Please, note:
--- identify your CD or DAT with the title of the compositions only, do *not* mention your name;
--- pieces not exceeding 12 minutes are preferred;
--- compositions must have been created no earlier than in 1997;
--- although we cannot guarantee execution of pieces that involve vocal or instrumental forces or that bring extra costs to the event, we shall do our best to work out a solution in consultation with the authors;
--- pieces for more than 2 channels require that the submission of a stereo DAT or CD be followed, if selected, by the multi-track tape. ---
submissions will be deposited in the symposia archive and will not be returned;
--- up to 2 different works may be submitted by composer.

*tutorials and product demonstrations*
Please contact Conrado Silva: conrado@unb.br
Conrado Silva
Universidade de Brasilia
Colina Bl. E Ap. 602
70910-900 Brasilia DF
BRASIL
tel. +55 61 349-8978
fax +55 61 349-0757

For updated information please visit the Symposium website
http://www.eca.usp.br/nucleos/lami/nucom/sbcm2000.html

14th December 1999

MiniNTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF INFORMATICS IN CULTURE
May 22 -27, 2000, Havana, Cuba

The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Cuba and its systems of cultural institutions convoke to the IV INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF INFORMATICS IN CULTURE to be held May 22 through 27 of the year 2000, in the National Conference Center. The event, as part of the VII Convention and International Fair Informatics 2000 has as main objective to continue the exchange of experiences, initiated in the three previous Congresses, regarding informatics applied to art and culture and systems of cultural information as well as propitiating the introduction and exploitation of the communications and the new technologies in this sector.

Topics:
The applications and impact of informatics in the artistic and cultural activities in general are treated in the Congress, such as:

• Impact of Internet in the Cultural Development: Advantages and disadvantages as means of diffusion of the cultural activity.
• The artistic creation and the Informatics.
• Products and Informatic Services in the field of Art and Culture.
• Culture, ethics and informatics in the Digital Era.
• The application of informatics to the processes of work and diffusion of the Cultural Heritage.
• Graphic and informational design in function of the Web Sites.
• Computer as element of work in the graphic design.
• Copyright in the development of the electronic commerce.
• Development of the digital painting at the end of the XX century.
• Informatics and Musical Production
• World Wide Web: Theory and practice in its conception and exploitation.
• Informatic and new technologies. Its influence upon formation progress and development of cultural promoters, artists, and creators.
• The book and its new digital format.
• Multimedia as a new form of artistic and literary expression.
• Electronic commerce for cultural products and services.
• Computerization of the library funds in function of the Society: new services.
• New methods of artistic teaching from the application of informatics.
• A new vision of the Seventh Art through the new technologies.
  

Presentation:
Dateline to produce papers will be on February 29, 2000. The acceptance of the paper will be notified before April 15th of the year 2000.
They should be sent in 3 ½" floppy disk. Microsoft Word for Windows must be used for its making. The paper should be up to 20 pages, with 2,5 cms margin at each side. Font must be Arial 12. Only one file including the summary with no more than 250 words, and the paper content. Software used in the making of graphics and illustrations must be specified. The following information will be at the beginning of the lecture : Title, Authors, Institution, Address, Country, Phones, Fax, e-mail and key words.
Sending procedures:
1.- By e-mail to: artcom@ceisic.cult.cu. The attachments should not exceed 500 KB.
2.- Sending of 3 ½" floppy discs to Organizing Committee postal address, making use of registered mail: CEISIC, Ministerio de Cultura. Calle 4 No. 251 entre 11 y 13, Vedado. CP 10400. Ciudad Habana, Cuba.
Printed paper will be exceptionally accepted, which will be sent to the Organizing Committee postal address by registered mail. the Organizing Committee will notify the reception of the received papers.
Working languages: English and Spanish.

Sponsors: CEISIC, Cuba's Ministry of Culture, ARTEX

For more information go to:
Fernando Blanco Leyva
Executive Secretary
Telephone: 552270
Fax: 334441
E-Mail: artcom@ceisic.cult.cu
http://www.infoarte.cult.cu/info2000

7th December 1999

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:
ART GALLERY A showcase of the best digital work being created, produced, and performed at the beginning of the millennium in all its diversity. How bodies interact with technology to create aesthetic adventures. www.siggraph.org/s2000/cfp/art/index.html
THE STUDIO A working facility where computer graphics artists and technologists can collaborate and produce their creative concepts.
COMPUTER ANIMATION FESTIVAL
CREATIVE APPLICATIONS LAB
PAPERS
PANELS
COURSES
EDUCATORS' PROGRAM
EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
SIGGRAPH TV/Online and more
CHECK OUR WEBSITE FOR DETAILS: www.siggraph.org/s2000/

6th December 1999

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.

3rd December 1999

DAC 2000 Call for Proposals

3rd International Digital Arts & Culture Conference
Bergen, Norway August 2-4, 2000
Sponsored by Department of Humanistic Informatics, University of Bergen, Norway The Norwegian Research Council, SKIKT-program

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'

14th December 1999

LOVEBYTES DIGITAL ARTS FESTIVAL
APRIL 6-8 2000, SHEFFIELD UK
Three days of exhibitions, presentations, live performance, installations, webcasting, cdrom, net.art, digital video.

WE WANT YOUR DIGITAL ORIGINALS! Lovebytes Digital Arts Festival 2000 invites
entries of film, video, multimedia and net art to feature in a substantial exhibition of digital work for exhibition in April 2000.
Deadline: January 14, 1999
If you produce film/video, multimedia or net art this is your opportunity to be seen. If selected, your work will be presented alongside a three day conference which will explore the theme of Digital Originals through critical debate, presentations and workshops.
The Lovebytes Festival is now in its fifth year. This year we will once again present an eclectic mixture of digital art and media including exhibitions, seminars, screenings, specially commissioned artworks, alongside workshops and live performances from some of the World's most innovative digital sound and multimedia artists. All events will be staged in Sheffield's Media and Exhibition Centre
What are we looking for?
We are looking for imaginative uses of computer based media which explore the conceptual and creative aspects of digital processes.
Film and video
Send: shorts, commercials, pop promos, animation, fx, features, student work, films made specially for the internet. All films must have some kind of digital input which is evident in concept or content - this may include, for example, animation, special effects, tricks and transformations and digital post production. We welcome work produced using high-end computers or lo-fi productions made on desk-tops or in back bedrooms.
Multimedia
Send: interactive art, net art, games, student work and educational pieces.
Interactive work can be anything from a 1Mb piece sent in on floppy disc to a CD Rom, DVD or console game.
Web sites and Net Art
Email us your URLs. Supply a GIF pointer / button as attachments and details of browser plug-ins required.
You can download full guidelines and an entry form from
http://www.lovebytes.org.uk/00 Or email or call to request for these to be
sent to you.
Lovebytes Festival
Unit 320 The Workstation
15 Paternoster Row
Sheffield, S1 2BX UK

telephone: +44 (0)114 221 0393
fax: +44 (0)114 279 6522

lovebytes@mail.workstation.org.uk
http://www.lovebytes.org.uk

14th December 1999

That Takes Ovaries!(tm)

Girls and women of all ages and backgrounds in Australia and the UK are encouraged to submit their true stories for a book-to-be entitled:

That Takes Ovaries!(tm)
Bold Females and Their Brazen Acts

Seeking submissions (one paragraph to four pages -- 1000 words max) of anything YOU have *everdone -- little or big -- that was gutsy, courageous, bold, audacious or inspirational. It can be playful, serious, spontaneous, calculated, smart, sexy and/or an example of leadership. It
could be an act that defies sexism and gender stereotyping. Something that, when you think about it today, makes you nod your head with *prideor even with semi-disbelief, and think, "Wow! I did that!"

The book will be a collection of these short first person narratives, to be published by Crown Publishers (division of Random House). (Please note: not all submissions will result in publication)

Include with the submission(s) a 1 sentence description of yourself. Could include (or not): name, age, background (culture, ethnicity, orientation etc.), location, profession, hobbies, most hated/loved things, especially things that relate to your story. Example: Rivka, 35, Jewish, Boston, writer who loves hearing true stories about strong women and gutsy girls!

Contact the editor, Rivka, if you are interested in submitting a story. Send stories preferably via email, with word count, return address, phone & email address:

That Takes Ovaries!
P.O. Box 750095
Arlington Heights, MA 02475-0095
email: redelson@gis.net

7th December 1999

TECHNOLOGY AND THE HUMAN CFP

Second Annual Graduate Student Conference
San Jose State University, San Jose, CA March 18, 2000

We invite you to an interdisciplinary conference to include papers from English, History, Anthropology, Dance, Religious Studies, Music, Communications, Drama, Art History, and other departments.
We are currently looking for proposals that link science and technology with the humanities.
Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:
Cathedrals of Science:
Technology and the Religious Tradition
The Word and Electronic Print:
Textuality / Hypertextuality
Futurism-Science or Cult?
Science Fiction and Scientific Reality
Ethics and Dogma-The Industry Standard
Y2K, Millenial Thought, and the Machine
The Life of Things: How Human Subjects and Inanimate Objects Constitute Each Other
Technology and Gender
Cyberspace and Queer Theory
Globalization, Hypermedia, and the Future of English
Technological Fuelings of Postnationality and Postmodernity
Cyborg Cultures
Science, Logic, and the Questions of Evidence
Utopic / Dystopic Fiction
Individual Voice and Speech Technology
Cinema: Technological Representations, Technological Embodiment

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

14th December 1999

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
This free trial running until the end of January 2000 will give you and your reader friends the perfect opportunity to sample the works of our many and varied contributors completely free of charge. Do let us know what you think of the e-version of Lexikon Magazine as your comments, views and opinions play a vital part in helping our design team shape the overall layout of this much loved and internationally acclaimed publication.

Email: feedback@lexikon-publishing.co.uk

In addition, the magazine is available in standard print, on audio cassette and on 3.5 inch IBM computer disk as wp/doc/txt files.

Submitting Work
We are always on the look out for new writing be it poetry, short fiction, articles, news, reviews and interviews. To find out how to submit your work, visit our website at the above address and click on 'guidelines.'

Payment
At present we are unable to pay all our contributors for their work. The only writers who currently receive payment are those who have been commissioned and those who submit non-fiction material such as articles, special features, etc. However, it is our intention to extend this to poets and authors. Funds raised from the e-version of Lexikon will be used to commission new writing, which hopefully will include the above in the not-too-distant future. The cost of a one year's subscription for the e-version is a mere £4.00 (sterling) which will bring you a total of four magazines over the 12 month period adding up to a veritable encyclopedia giving knowledge and inspiration that so many of our existing subscribers have found helpful in their own successful writing.
This magazine comes with the recommendation of the Arts Council of England, the British Council, and all our subscribers. You'll even find that the magazine includes work by children.

25 November 1999

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:
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation; The British Council; The Scottish Arts Council; The Arts Council of England; The Wellcome Trust and NESTA.

Closing date for submissions is 10 January 2000.

18 October 1999

Riding the Meridian, Sound/Text Hypertext Text/Text

The 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.com

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