Chris Joseph

The Faculty of Humanities at De Montfort University offer a range of Masters level courses within the creative industries. Places are still available on:

• Community Arts Practice MA
• Creative Writing and New Media Online MA
• Dance and Professional Practice MA
• Music, Technology and Innovation MA
• New Media Publishing MA

To find out more or to make an application, please contact:
Promotion & Recruitment Centre
T. 0116 250 6470
E. Pghums [at] dmu.ac.uk
W. dmu.ac.uk/humanities

Commissioning Invitation: Leicester Arts and Museums Arts and Crafts Inspiration Box Artwork

Leicester Arts and Museums wish to appoint 3 artists to each create a piece of artwork, which will be included within an Arts and Crafts Inspiration Box. Groups will use this Inspiration Box to inspire the creation of further creative works. The budget available for each of the 3 artist’s commissions is £1000. Closing Date for applications is 12 noon on 25th July. All work must be completed and delivered by 1st September. For full application details, including project brief, E: Henrietta.Mott [at] leicester.gov.uk T: 0116 225 4967 or E: Rebecca.Gumbleton [at] leicester.gov.uk T: 0116 225 4929

Commissioning Invitation: Leicester Arts and Museums Arts and Crafts Inspiration Box Filmmaker

Leicester Arts and Museums wish to appoint a filmmaker to film 3 artists as they create artwork that, together with the short films and further supporting materials, will be included within an Arts and Crafts Inspiration Box. Groups will use this Inspiration Box to inspire the creation of further creative works. The budget available to the film maker is £800. Closing Date for applications is 12 noon on 25th July. All work must be completed and delivered by 1st September. For full application details, including project brief, E: Henrietta.Mott [at] leicester.gov.uk T: 0116 225 4967 or E: Rebecca.Gumbleton [at] leicester.gov.uk T: 0116 225 4929

The IOCT at De Montfort University, Leicester is offering twelve Masters-level studentships for the coming academic year -2009. The studentships are worth £10,000 each and are available to UK and EU full-time students. The course brings together eScience, Digital Arts and Design and Humanities in a way that crosses traditional disciplines and boundaries. The central vision is one of convergence and trans/inter/multi disciplinarity, enabled by the new technologies. Anticipated students would be from a wide range of backgrounds and interested in developing multidisciplinary knowledge and skills in the production of digital media and products. For further details contact Sophy Smith at ssmith05 [at] dmu.ac.uk or have a look at our website at www.ioct.dmu.ac.uk/masters.htm .

http://www.reconstructingmayakovsky.com

If you have a few minutes, I recommend having a look at this wonderful piece of digital writing by Illya Szilak, with animation and graphic design by Pelin Kirca, that fictionally and factually explores one of the most important (and overlooked) writers of the last century.

“Set in the future, Reconstructing Mayakovsky revisits the past to make sense of our chaotic present. Inspired by Vladimir Mayakovsky, the Russian Futurist poet who killed himself in 1930 at the age of thirty-six, the novel imagines a world where uncertainty and tragedy have finally been eliminated through technology.” (Illya Szilak)

Illya uses a variety of medias and methods, including manifestos, texts, animations, podcasts, music, and data visualisations. The result is a engrossing multilayered digital sci-fi/fantasy/biographical ‘novel’, well worthy of the artist who inspired it.

The Digital Screen network around the QUAD building will be a key part of QUAD’s visual arts programme. We are seeking artists working with still or moving images to exhibit on the Digital Screens during Autumn/Winter 2008.

Artists are invited to submit proposals for exhibition on the Digital Screens around the theme of ‘The Age of the Enlightenment’.

The Enlightenment was a period in history that saw the most influential, intellectual and philosophical developments of that age.

We are looking for a broad imaginative response to the theme, which may include references to industry, heritage, mass production, migration, social issues and the economical phenomenon.

This opportunity is open to all artists and curators. Selected proposals will be included on this website and will be profiled as part of the QUAD exhibition programme.

Deadline for submissions: 11th August 2008

see http://www.derbyquad.co.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/digital-screen-submissions for more information.

From Paul D. Miller:

“Sound Unbound is an anthology of writings about contemporary art and digital media that I put together for MIT Press this year. The book just came out, and it has essays and interviews with people as diverse as Brian Eno, Steve Reich, Chuck D, Pierre Boulez, Saul Williams, Jonathan Lethem, Bruce Sterling, Daphne Keller (The Senior Legal Counsel to Google), and even some occasional Nettime contributors like Naeem Mohaimen, Erik Davis and Ken Jordan. The basic idea of the book was to figure out a way to get people out of the deeply Eurocentric discourse around digital media, and to build a bridge between contemporary practice and multimedia theory. One could argue that the book is a manifesto for a kind of fragmentation - contemporary media is rife with what some like to call the ‘logic of addition’. Sampling, collage based narratives, and the basic sense of “urban youth culture” and its cousin, web browsing are two epiphenomena that go with things like ipods, mobile phones, webcams, laptops, satellite television, web 2.0: The dj mix grows like wild plants without deep roots (rhizomes) in the spaces between older forms of mass media (newspapers, film, radio and television). Fox News, NBC, CNN etc compete with Arab satellite channels, bloggers and civil journalism, hypes emerge online, Youtube and Twitter turn everybody into a media producer. But deeply rooted trees are not that easily overgrown. The media have become individualized and fragmented and specialized and opened up. That’s what the book is about. It’s 36 essays and interviews about the culture of paradox we inhabit now. Here’s a remix of the introduction to the audio companion to the book. It’s based on research into Sub Rosa Record’s archive. The audio companion has rare material from Allen Ginsberg, James Joyce, Iggy Pop, Jean Cocteau, Gertrude Stein, Antonin Artaud, Kurt Schwitters and others. The small fragment I’ve included here was written when I was in Antarctica earlier this year shooting a film about the sound of ice.

Check it out!”

Sound Unbound: edited by Paul D. Miller aka Dj Spooky
MIT Press 2008

www.soundunbound.com

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Artists are invited to submit up to 5 works completed after 1 January 2005.
Deadline 31 October 2008.
The complete call, including regulations and entry form can be found here—>
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=329

JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project
http://jip.javamuseum.org

a) Alan Bigelow (USA)
http://jip.javamuseum.org/jipblog/?page_id=93

b). Ethan Ham (USA)
http://jip.javamuseum.org/jipblog/?page_id=94

c) Hyeseung Yoo (South Korea)
http://jip.javamuseum.org/jipblog/?page_id=96

Call for submissions: Pipilotti Remixed!

Throughout her current exhibition running from 27 June until 31 August, FACT would like to invite you to remix Pipilotti.

Pipilotti Rist’s practise can be understood as a constant remix of fantasy and the everyday, creating works that subvert the music video, merging music with the female voice and body through electronicmanipulation.

Whether you are a big fan of Pipilotti’s, a filmmaker, an artist, musician or producer, watch Pipilotti’s video works online then submit your own remix to win…

WHAT TO DO:

1. Take one of Pipilotti’s videos from YouTube, http://images.fact.co.uk/movies or at www.pipilottirist.net, edit it, mix it, play it backwards, chop it up, create your own soundtrack for it, or video yourself performing your own version of it.

2. Upload it onto FACT’s Youtube channel:
www.youtube.com/user/FACTLiverpool

3. Email the web link to your video to: competition [at] fact.co.uk

4. We’ll profile our favourites on the BBC Big Screen

5. Competition winner will be announced on 01 September 2008

Good luck - FACT looks forward to seeing all your entries!

for remixworx. flash source: dystemic.fla (188KB)