On Thursday 25 September at 6pm computer art pioneer William Latham will give a talk at Metal, Edge Hill Station. Programmed to coincide with the current exhibition at Metal, ‘Botech Compositions: New Work by Macoto Murayama’, William Latham will talk about his artistic practice, blending organic imagery and computer animation software to model the process of evolution. His work brings … Read More
Call for entries – Animation15, 8th Annual UK Schools Computer Animation Competition – deadline 15 March 2015
Animation15 – the 8th Annual UK Schools Computer Animation Competition run by the School of Computer Science at The University of Manchester, has launched! It’s open now, for teacher registration, at http://animation.cs.manchester.ac.uk The competition is open to all UK schoolchildren aged 7-19. Teacher registration is FREE and carries no obligation to submit any entries. All registered teachers will receive FREE … Read More
Call for submissions – New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) – deadline 15 November 2014
Categories: Transmission Art/Radio Art, Electroacoustic Music/Sound Art, Interactive Installation Art Go to http://naisa.ca/opportunities/calls-for-submissions/naisa-general-call-for-submissions/ for full information and on-line application New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) invites artists of all ages and nationalities to submit works on the theme HEAR n o w HERE for consideration in New Adventures in Sound Art’s 2015 programming in Toronto, Canada. Go to https://naisa.ca/naisa-general-submission-form/ for … Read More
The Future of Reading? An Exhibition of Digital Literature at Bank Street Arts, Sheffield, 22 October – 14 November 2014
http://bankstreetarts.com/exhibitions/the-future-of-reading-an-exhibition-of-digital-literature/ Digital literature is written for and read from a computer, and its structure, form and meaning are dictated by and in dialogue with the digital context in which it is produced and received. This exhibition tracks the historical development of digital literature from experimental print antecedents through to pre-web text-based forms and current multimodal incarnations. It includes Interactive Fictions … Read More
‘Introducing Digital Fiction’ public workshop, Local Studies Library, Sheffield Central Library, 14 October 2014, 2.30-4pm
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introducing-digital-fiction-registration-11582107395 If you have little or no experience with digital fiction and would like to learn more about this exciting new way of reading, come to our introductory workshop with Dr. Jen Smith. We’ll read a few stories together, and then we’ll have a chat about what makes them different from traditional printed books. This event is free and open … Read More
Kate Pullinger, ‘Beyond the Book: Digital Fiction’ at The Showroom, Sheffield – 12 October 2014, 2-3.30pm
http://www.showroomworkstation.org.uk/digitalfiction 12 October 2014, 2-3.30pm: Off the ShelfĀ Lecture Kate Pullinger,Ā ‘Beyond the Book: Digital Fiction’. “Showroom 5” at The Showroom. Over the past decade, new hybrid forms of literature have begun to emerge as writers and artists experiment with digital technologies. As well as writing novels and short stories in print, Kate Pullinger has long been involved with thinking about what … Read More
Artist in Narrative Media, Assistant Professor position – University of California, San Diego – deadline 1 November 2014
ARTIST in Narrative Media University of California, San Diego — Department of Visual Arts Assistant Professor, tenure-track, to begin July 1, 2015 Situated within the Division of Arts and Humanities at UC San Diego, the Department of Visual Arts http://visarts.ucsd.edu is committed to academic excellence and diversity among its faculty, staff, and student body. The Department invites applications for a … Read More
Peripheral ARTeries – International Call for Artists – deadline 31 October 2014
Peripheral ARTeries is inviting entries for the competition to find the most interesting emerging worldwide artists in various fine arts disciplines. The contest, on its 6th edition, comes under the sign of collaborative networking, and will once again explore and show current trends and tendencies in Contemporary Art. All we aim to is to encouraging artists to innovate and create. … Read More
V&A Digital Design Weekend – 20-21 September 2014
Saturday 20 ā Sunday 21 September 10.30ā17.00 Free, drop-in, no booking required Take part in a weekend of free events and collaborative making activities exploring physicality and digital value, coinciding with the London Design Festival at the V&A. Event page: http://www.vam.ac.uk/whatson/event/3404/digital-design-weekend-4853/ http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/va-digital-design-weekend-tickets-12772016445 DDW programme: http://www.vam.ac.uk/whatson/media/uploads/files/Digital_Design_Weekend_Programme_-_Online_2.pdf Participants and projects Paolo Cirio, (W)orld Currency This artwork illustrates a global currency through the … Read More
PoetryFilm Equinox: Translation, Transcreation, Punctuation – London, 26 September 2014, 7pm
PoetryFilm Equinox: Translation, Transcreation, Punctuation Friday 26 September 2014, 7pm BFI Screening Room, 21 Stephen Street Free Event (please reserve free tickets here) A special PoetryFilm event celebrating the Autumn Equinox with a programme of short films and poems on the themes of Translation, Transcreation and Punctuation. The full programme will be announced shortly. The screening will take place between … Read More