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A Computer in the Art Room: the origins of British computer arts 1950-80
by Catherine Mason

with a Foreword by Professor Clive Richards, Coventry School of Art & Design

published by JJG: 2008

This book uncovers the little-known history of early British computer arts. An amazing story, it is hard to comprehend that before the onset of personal computers, propriety software and the internet there was a real struggle for access which touched off an explosion of true British pioneering spirit. The art schools which played a crucial role in fostering these important cross-disciplinary digital collaborations are described for the first time here, along with over 140 illustrations, many not seen in print before.

Based on four years of research and numerous interviews with practitioners, the book introduces British artists in the post-war period who were inspired by science and began to consider the use of computing. They found the requisite technology and expertise at innovative art schools including the Royal College of Art, the Slade School of Art and regional polytechnics. The battle for acceptance may have been won but the provenance of computer arts and its direct links back to cybernetics in the 1950s and 1960s is a unique and previously unpublished period of art history. These pioneers had a real vision of the arts and sciences coming together for greater understanding and creativity on both sides. With the opening chapters titled “White Heat” and “British Art Postwar” the nine chapters conclude with “Computer animation” and include biographical essays on the likes of Roy Ascott, Richard Hamilton, Edward Ihnatowicz, Darrell Viner, Stephen Willats and other protagonists. This develops into a scholarly source book laced with exciting elements of artistic adventure.

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About the author: Catherine Mason began researching the history of British computer arts at Birkbeck, University of London, funded by the UK’s Arts & Humanities Research Council. In 2006 she produced Bits in Motion, a screening of early British computer animation, at London’s National Film Theatre. She has contributed to Futures Past: Twenty Years of Arts Computing published by Intellect, 2007 and White Heat, Cold Logic: British Computer Art 1960-1980, to be published by MIT Press, 2009.

http://www.upstage.org.nz

080808, the second UpStage festival of online performance, will take place on 8 August 2008, featuring 15 performances by artists from around the world.

The foyer has been cleaned and is ready for guests. The performers are busy doing their dress rehearsals and technical checks; the schedule has been finalised and links to the stages will be live from the programme page when 080808 begins in less than 24 hours!

The 080808 UpStage Festival begins at 7pm NZ time on Friday 8 August (find your local time here: http://tinyurl.com/63ovln). Performances begin every half hour (with a few breaks) with the last one starting at 1pm NZ time on Saturday 9 August (http://tinyurl.com/67cu8d).

Audiences: we recommend that you load each stage about ten minutes before the performance time, as some of the stages may take a few minutes to load. Please be patient. If you have problems loading a stage or can’t find where to go, come to the 080808 foyer for assistance. If you can’t get anything to load, restart your browser and try again.

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From Marcus Bastos:

Lately, a number of institutions, based on more or less conventional models, seem to be focusing on fomenting art and culture created with digital, networked and portable devices. This is not a new phenomenon, but there seem to be different approaches, and a variety of unfoldings that shift away from the classic MediaLAB models, as the convergence of art, science and technology no longer seems to be dominant on a field nowadays diverse enough to range from social and educational perspectives to artistic experimentation of all kinds. There are mixed scenarios, on this context, in which digital culture reaches places such as China and India, while mobile and wireless networks adds layers of complexity to our connected society. At the same time open source communities grow, as well as approaches to alternative / recycled devices, and a number of organizations seem to provide air for those developments to consolidate, despite their distance from the corporate agendas. To discuss possible models and perspectives for media centers and net art organizations, representatives from institutions or independent initiatives in Brazil, England and US will share their experiences, aiming to debate differences and similarities as well as possible challenges and / or local peculiarities. How are we reacting to an epoch when, says Ned Rossiter, “there is urgent need for new institutional forms that reflect “relational” processes to challenge existing systems of governance and outmoded representational structures”? - empyre’s guests for this month are Anne Nigten (V2, Rotterdam / Netherlands), Gabriel Menotti (Cinefalcatrua, Vitória / Brazil), Gisela Domschke (MediaLAB MIS, São Paulo / Brazil), Marc Garrett (Furtherfield, London / UK) and Sarah Cook (Eyebeam, New York / US). Later on the month, Amanda McDonald Crowley, also from Eyebeam and already an - empyre - guest on former discussions, will join the debate. To follow the discussion, subscribe to - empyre - @
https://mail.cofa.unsw.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/empyre

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• Consemble is an original, web-based Open Compositions venture launched by Chameleon Lectra on the 14th July 2007.

• A Consemble is a collection of sounds, assembled by a group of people, which are then played using random methods to create an everchanging, online listening experience.

• YOU are invited to listen to the current Open Consembles and then email your own sounds - the ones you think ought to be included in the projects - to build these online, ongoing, indeterminate PMusic compositions.

• Every contributor will be credited and the work will be available, for free, from this website. Anyone may take part - amateurs, professional composers, sound artists, non-musicians etc. - there is no age limit. You may, of course, just want to listen to the pieces as they progress.

• There are a series of project licences (Consemble: A, Consemble: B etc.) - each with its own brief and specifications to guide you; the intention however is to be broad, welcoming and inclusive. Consemble can be understood as a sound art or music project.

• Every person’s contribution is equally important - each sound adds to, and changes the direction of, the Consemble.

Please bear in mind that this work will be available for free to all, including children (so no pornographic sounds etc.) and no copyrighted material—just your own music or sounds.

• The project will be live until at least 31st August 2008 and may well continue beyond.

• Consemble is a licence to compose.

contact: consemble[at]blueyonder.co.uk
www.chameleonlectra.co.uk/Consemble.html

Agence TOPO Montreal
Topic : The Geographical Web or Geoweb

Residency program for Web art production
under the artistic direction of the independent curator Sylvie Parent

Throughout the year 2009, Agence TOPO will produce a body of Web works comprising geographic references. The selection of the works and their critical contextualization will be ensured by the guest curator Sylvie Parent.

Nowadays, the popularity of cartographic and earth visualization tools such as Google Maps and Google Earth has become an increasingly tangible component of how we experience the Web. Moreover, the use of geolocalization systems, such as GPS, is spreading and increasingly present in the digital world. Artists are appropriating these technologies to create travelogues, to reflect on urban space, and to conceive collective psychogeography and locational media projects.

Artists interested in this theme, and by the production context offered by Agence TOPO are encouraged to submit their proposals. The projects could also include an “off screen” component, such as performance, installation, exhibition or mobile networks, that complements and expands the Web features and possibilities.

In order to respect the foreseen deadlines, projects currently under development and those demonstrating a strong commitment from the artists will be given priority. The selected artists and projects will benefit from technical support for a period of 4 to 8 weeks within a residency program that can be spread out over time depending on the artists’ needs and specific project requirements.

The selected artists will have the following benefits:- Production fees
- Access to a computer and audiovisual equipment
- Web design assistance (programming and multimedia integration)
- Organization of a launching event in Montréal (Fall 2009)
- Publication

Submissions / Due date: August 15, 2008
- Project proposal
- Description of technical needs
- Proposed work timetable (Spring – Summer 2009)
- Summary of artistic approach
- Press kit
- Curriculum vitae
- Visual/audiovisual documentation
- A stamped addressed envelope for the return of the documents

We do not accept proposals sent by email or only available through a website

Sylvie Parent
Art Critic and Independent Curator
Sylvie Parent is a freelance curator and writer living in Montreal. Over the last ten years, she has been involved in numerous electronic publications. From 2002 to 2004, she was the French editor of HorizonZero, an online magazine published by the Banff New Media Institute. Before that, she was the chief editor of the CIAC’s Electronic Magazine (1997-2001). Ms. Parent has written texts for many publications and contributed to websites such as Archée, MobileGaze,
The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology, ZeroOne San Jose/ISEA 2006. She curated the Web art component of the Biennale de Montréal 2000. With Valérie Lamontagne, she co-curated Location/Dislocation for the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York in 2001.

AgenceTOPO.qc.ca
At the Crossroad of Visual Arts, Literature and New Media
Agence TOPO is an artist-run centre dedicated to the creation, dissemination and distribution of independent multimedia works. Founded in 1993 to encourage and promote photographic creation in all its forms of, TOPO now initiates, produces and supports Web art projects while acting as a promoter and distributor of independent art CD-roms, DVD-roms and video DVDs.

Send your projects to
Agence TOPO
Michel Lefebvre, General Director
5455 de Gaspé, suite 1001
Montréal (Québec) H2T 3B3
Canada
T 514 279 8676 –
agence[at]agencetopo.qc.ca
www.agenceTOPO.qc.ca

European Media Art Network presents

European Media Artists in Residence Exchange 2009

The European Media Art Network provides residencies in England, Germany, Bulgaria and the Netherlands for European artists.

With support of the European Union - Culture 2007-2013 programme the newly established European Media Art Network will host 16 European Media Artists in Residence Exchanges within 2008 and 2009 and organise a final exhibition in 2009 in Halle (Saale) additional to individual presentations.

Europe based Media Artists in the fields of digital media including internet and computer based art, filmmakers, sound and video artists are invited to apply for a two months artist residency at IMPAKT, Utrecht, Netherlands; Interspace, Sofia, Bulgaria; VIVID, Birmingham England or at Werkleitz Center for Media Arts in Halle, Germany. Students are not permitted, but young artists encouraged.

EMARE includes a grant of 2.000 Euro, free accomodation, up to 250 Euro travel expenses, access to the technical facilities and media labs and a professional presentation.

Entries should include the application form (downloadable from the website), a CV, (audio)visual reference projects documentation (no originals) and a proposal sketch for the project which should be developed within EMARE. Artists with residence in or identity card within Europe should contact one of the following institutions for further details and application form or visit the homepage:

http://www.werkleitz.de/emare

Deadline: October, 20th, 2008

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*PIXXELPOINT 2008 – International New Media Art Festival*
Nova Gorica (Slovenia), 5th – 12th December 2008

*FOR GOD’S SAKE!*

Curator: Domenico Quaranta, Italy

*Deadline for applications: November 3rd 2008*

Direct link to entry form:
http://www.pixxelpoint.org/entryform2008.pdf

More information:
W: http://www.pixxelpoint.org/
E: pixxelpoint2008[at]gmail.com

You are invited to participate!

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For God’s Sake!

How the media change the way we imagine / represent / honour / curse the divinity

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Simultan04 Festival - Call for video submissions // deadline 10.08.08
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Simultan - Video and Media Arts Festival will take place in Timisoara, Romania between October 23-25, 2008.

Under the theme “Temporary Tactics”, Simultan04 explores a conflict situation, a difficult cohabitation between the independent audio-visual works and the cultural, social and political context in which they are born.

“Temporary Tactics” wishes to highlight time and space connected “speculative” situations, the practice of acting and reacting, of making and creating, in the moment and in response to the stimulus of one’s immediate environment.
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Simultan04 is open for submissions of innovative works which make use of technology in a creative, ingenious way or are based on a peculiar, unusual story. The video section is open to all video artists and not only, who can apply with narratives, experimental videos, animations, movies and motion
graphics.

Those interested may apply with a maximum number of 2 video works, each having a duration that must not exceed 3 minutes.

Terms and conditions, technical details, application form here:
http://www.simultan.org/en/2008/callforentry.htm

The deadline for the submission of works and applications is August 10th, 2008 (postmark)

After the event, a DVD/catalogue will be published, each of the admitted participants will receive the DVD/catalogue by the end of 2008.

no application fee required!

For additional information please contact: Levente Kozma
email: simultan[at]simultan.org, tel: +40-740.300.806

for more details please visit www.simultan.org

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a video review of Simultan03
www.youtube.com/simultanfestival
www.myspace.com/simultanfestival