This year, Interactive Media students taught by Luciana Parisi and Graham Harwood have been engaging in Moving Forest led by International Artist Shu Lea Cheang. Students have been prototyping for Moving Forest through acts of mass insurgency speculatively planned around the London Olympics.

This remarkable assemblage of interventions comprised operatics based on Matthew Fuller’s libretto, 500 hundred slogans, Pure Data workshops by Marc Widmer & Jonas Ohrstrom (Zurich), prophetic witchcraft from Irational.org’s Kale Brandon and Rachel Baker. Along with input and coordination from Furtherfield.org, The Victoria & Albert Museum, Space studios, London.

We are now accepting applications for the MA in Interactive Media: Critical Theory and Practice, 2012-13, Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths University of London. Apply now!

For futher information about the course, please visit our website

http://www.gold.ac.uk/pg/ma-interactive-media-critical-theory-practice/

(For the Moving Forest Interventions please check the heading: Current Students Projects or http://2012.imiant.org.uk)

or contact me directly.

thank you.

best

Luciana Parisi and Graham Harwood
(http://www.gold.ac.uk/cultural-studies/staff/l-parisi/
http://mediashed.org/)

Deadline: Thursday 1st, March, 2012

Culture Lab and ISIS Arts are excited to be launching their second joint, open call for a Resident in 2012. Proposals are invited from practitioners and researchers from across the spectrum of creative art, design and technology to undertake research in Culture Lab for a minimum of 3 weeks between 1 April – 14 December 2012.

Nortd, Lasersaur, (Culture Lab and ISIS Arts residency artists 2011)

An interest in one of the following topics is desirable but applications are also invited from candidates with other interests:
- Data Visualisation / Interactive Visualisation
- New Ways of Interaction and Communication
- Audiovisual and Sound Interfaces/ Biofeedback Applications
- Digital Fabrication
- Social, Cultural and Ethical Practice of Emerging Technologies

You would have use of Culture Lab’s research facilities and equipment, a fee of £2500 (to include travel, accommodation and materials).

Based at Newcastle University, Culture Lab http://culturelab.ncl.ac.uk, is:
- A centre for creative inquiry in the broadest sense of the term
- A world class research facility for experimentation in interactive media
- A university resource to incubate and facilitate interdisciplinary activity
- A leader in the region’s cultural ecology, providing knowledge for a digital
society.

Based in Newcastle City Centre, ISIS Arts is an artist led, visual and media arts organisation, which runs an international programme of commissions, residencies and events. ISIS Arts’ core ethos is to support artists to facilitate international and inter-cultural exchange and to engage as wide an audience as possible in dialogue with artists and artworks. Actively seeking out and engaging with artists of all backgrounds and cultures to produce work that explores identity and challenges prejudice, creating projects of international relevance and local significance.

What we will provide:
- Access to Culture Lab’s highly sought after research facilities which range from an 8-camera motion capture system to a professional standard recording studio and Digital Fabrication Lab. Access to ISIS Arts studio spaces for visiting artists
- Integration into Culture Lab’s community of research staff and students, and ISIS Art’s regional community of artists and practitioners
- A budget of up to £2500 to offset costs of production, living expenses, travel and accommodation

How To Apply
Please submit, via email, to Sarah Greenhalgh (Sarah.Greenhalgh@newcastle.ac.uk) the following:
- A project proposal (up to 2-sides of A4), detailing residency activities and proposed work plan for minimum 3-week period (which can be consecutive or non-consecutive weeks). Include in this document how the residency will further the artistic/research direction you have proposed, as well as a description of a proposed format for public presentation at the end of the residency.
- A budget detailing your proposed use of up to £2500 residency grant.
- Work sample, submitted via a link to a website (Please do not submit attachments via email).
- The dates you would prefer to undertake the residency.
- A curriculum vitae, outlining recent work, exhibition, performance and research activities.

For full details about this opportunity and how to apply please visit the ISIS Arts website: http://www.isisarts.org.uk/opportunities

Deadline: Friday 17th, February, 2012

Curators: Max Kazemzadeh, Assistant Professor of Media Art & Technology, Gallaudet University and Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Assistant Professor at Parsons MFA in Design and Technology and Parsons School of Art, Design, History, and Theory.

http://wpadc.org/events/calls.html#EM2012Video

Washington project for the Arts is currently accepting submissions open calls as part of Experimental Media 2012. Consisting of an exhibition of interactive installation works, a video screening program, and a series of workshops, Experimental Media 2012 will explore recent developments in the field of art and technology, including the growth of open source software and hardware, the emergence of grassroots do-it-yourself hacker communities, and the increasing ubiquity of networked devices in daily life. While highlighting the creative potential of this new technology, Experimental Media 2012 also seeks projects that explore the broader social and cultural implications of these rapid changes.
Experimental Media 2012: Exhibition Component

Experimental Media 2012: Video Screening
Screening Dates and Locations: Thursday, April 26, 2012 at The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC and Thursday, May 10, 2012 at Artisphere, Arlington, VA
Submission Deadline: Friday, February 10, 2012, 5pm

An open call for video-based artworks to be screened at The Phillips Collection and at Artisphere, in April and May of 2012. From the videos selected for the screening, one work will be awarded the 2012 Kraft Prize for New Media, a cash prize of $750.

Within the broader context of developments in art and technology, this call seeks video work addressing the ever-increasing flood of information and data in contemporary life and the tendency to make connections and exchange information across disparate fields of thought. These may include but aren’t limited to exchanges and connections that are physical, transmitted, informational, emotional, cognitive, social, political, economic, cultural, chemical, molecular, electric, fluid, sonic, quantum, virtual, or identity-based.

While the Experimental Media Exhibition will feature interactive works that employ technology, artificial, and natural systems to build experiences through manipulating the flow of information, the Experimental Media Video Screening will include works that use video as a medium to similarly explore characteristics of this new landscape of data flow, perception, and exchange between systems, whether human, gestural, cultural, chemical, political, or virtual. READ THE FULL CALL>>

About Washington Project for the Arts
Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide the essential resources to support the creative spirit and success of regional artists. WPA presents contemporary art through imaginative and provocative programs, and connects artists with the community in both traditional and unexpected ways. Since its founding in 1975 by Alice Denney, WPA has showcased the works of thousands of artists and has reached hundreds of thousands of visitors and viewers with its programs and projects. Today WPA stands as the oldest and largest 501(c)(3) artist membership organization in the region and the premier source for excellence in contemporary art. For more information about WPA and its programming, visit www.wpadc.org.

Deadline: Friday 10th, February, 2012

‘Beyond the Material World’

Contact: iaqa@hotmail.co.uk
http://internationalassociationofquantumartists.yolasite.com/

An installation based exhibition which will involve Artists and Scientists working across disciplines exploring parallel worlds, alternative realities, avatars, multiverse, labyrinths, bridges or crossroads between alternatives, daydreams and the world of the imagination, theories from quantum physics or science fiction.

If you are interested in being involved send us an email and we will forward more details. iaqa@hotmail.co.uk

Deadline: Wednesday 29th, February, 2012

A space of hybridity can assimilate potentially any set of concepts. SCANZ2013 3rdNature seeks to develop a fresh space, carrying memes from previous SCANZ events (which have all had an emphasis on environment) and other Intercreate projects that have involved scientists, indigenous peoples and artists working together. We are aiming to build new knowledge and establish legacies around this work, unencumbered by old perspectives and distant categories.

We ignore the environmental crisis at our own peril. Integrating the indigenous perspective, creative environmental and scientific views on the environment is essential for continued human habitation of the planet. From these trajectories it is possible to conceive of a fresh hybrid space, composed of overlapping elements.

We ask tangata whenua, artists, technologists, teachers, environmentalists, scientists, philosophers, educationalists, indigenous peoples, technologists and lecturers to contact us with ideas for talks, discussions, presentations, residency projects, exhibition ideas for gallery space and a botanic garden. And to join us on the weekend of January 1st- 3rd, 2013 at a hui to share knowledge and build resources.

Important Dates:
Early expression of interest: February 12, 2012
Residency proposed dates: Saturday 19 January to Monday 4 February,2013
Symposium proposed dates: February 1-3, 2013

Call
This is a call for project concepts for the fourth SCANZ residency to be held in New Plymouth, New Zealand early in 2013. Planned are: a two week residency and Open Lab beginning with a one night stay over at historic Owae marae, an exhibition at Puke Ariki museum, four projects in a local botanic garden, a Pecha Kucha night and a three day symposium with a presentation evening on the middle night.

3rd NAURE THEMES
This project involves creativity and innovation at the intersection of three critical interfaces:
*Acknowledging the environmental crisis
*Engaging with Maori and indigenous peoples
*Engaging the Sciences and Hybrid Arts

These three intersecting dialogues together provide space for a 3rd Nature, a fresh space for engaging with new knowledge and approaches vital to a sustainable civilisation.

Possible Activities
Exhibition projects – in Puke Ariki Museum
Residency projects at the Western Institute of Technology, Tarinaki (WITT) campus
Projects in Pukekura Park Botanic Garden
Workshops at WITT campus or local environs including the beach and parks
Symposium papers and presentations
Pecha Kucha Night
Open Lab at WITT campus

3rd Nature application process
A two-stage process will be used. The first involves developing a blog by the applicant. If the project concept succeeds at this first stage, a letter of confirmation will be sent to enable fundraising. A first selection of projects is expected by the end of January 2012. The second stage involves a more detailed level of information. Projects that have passed stage one of the processes will be invited to submit more detailed application at a later date, which can include requests for part funding.

Make a blog
Blog sections (compulsory): Project description (500 words max); Image; Relevance (max 500 words); Outputs; CV and bio (one page). You can add pages to an existing blog, but it MUST have the sections described below.
Email the blog address to ian.clothier@intercreate.org with the subject ‘Third Nature application’.

1. Project description
Write a project description (max 500 words) of your proposed work for SCANZ 2013 3rd Nature.

2. Image
Provide a high quality image. The blog site may restrict you to 800 pixels wide. This image can be optimized for the web. The image need not be directly from the proposed project, which may be in development, but it should be representative of your activity working with similar themes. If your application passes the first stage, at a later stage you may be requested for a higher resolution print-ready image.

3. Relevance
In 500 words maximum, explain the relevance of your idea by either discussing your project in relation to one or more of the three themes. -Acknowledging the environmental crisis;Engaging with Maori and indigenous peoples; Engaging with Earth Sciences and the Hybrid Arts
Or:
Discuss the way your project contributes to a fresh space for engaging with new knowledge and approaches important to a sustainable civilisation.

4. Outputs
What are the potential outputs of your project? Select as appropriate: Exhibition, Workshop, Symposium, Presentation Evening, Open. Stating options does not at this stage guarantee acceptance.
There are six places for exhibition at Puke Ariki, the local integrated museum and library, In addition there are four proposed places at a local botanic garden which has botanical and network resources including a data sensor network connected to an Open Mesh box.
The residency will also involve an Open Lab, for residency participants to share and collaborate (interested members of the public are welcome). At this time two workshops are proposed, one involving low cost electronics, and second involving wind powered art.
A presentation evening is planned on the final Saturday of the residency and a three day hui symposium will be held also over the final weekend.
5. CV and bio (one page)

Provide a one to two paragraph biography (in the third person) followed by your selection of career highlights in the form of CV. When copy and pasted, the Bio and CV should not exceed an A4 or US letter page. You can either simply refer to the last few years, or a range of years.

Email the blog address to ian.clothier@intercreate.org with the subject 3rd Nature application.

SCANZ2013 organising team
Ian Clothier – Producer/Director; Nina Czegledy, Trudy Lane, Tengaruru Wineera – Project Executive; Mike Paulin – Art/Science Coordinator; Thilani Nissanga – Administrator.

Deadline: Sunday 12th, February, 2012

School of Arts and New Media (Scarborough campus)

Creative Speech Technology
Creative Technologies and Digital Platforms
Digital Media with Archiving and Heritage
Discourse Analysis
English Literature (18th and early 19th Century, 20th Century, and Gothic)
Live Art, Digital Performance, Applied and Socially Engaged Performance Practices
Music and Technology, Sonic Arts

http://www2.hull.ac.uk/student/graduateschool/pdhscholarships/ukeulist.aspx#FASS

If you have an interest in applying for a PhD Scholarship in any of those areas please don’t hesitate to contact me.

Feel free to circulate this information to relevant channels.

With thanks
Maria X

–
Dr Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka Maria X]

Director of Postgraduate Studies
Lecturer in Theatre and Performance
School of Arts and New Media
University of Hull @ Scarborough
Filey Road, Scarborough
YO11 3AZ
UK
T: +44 (0) 1723 357334

Deadline: Friday 2nd, March, 2012

FILE – Electronic Language International Festival is open for new entries from January 06 to February 29, 2012 to be exhibited in FILE 2012 exhibition. The 13a- edition of FILE in São Paulo will happen between July and August, 2012, in the Art Gallery of FIESP Ruth Cardoso Cultural Center.

Besides exhibition entrance, FILE will receive as well from January 06 to February 29, 2012 proposals for lectures and workshops to participate at FILE Symposium and Workshop 2012. Both events will happen simultaneously during the first week of FILE 2012 exhibition, in São Paulo.

Click here to know the General Regulations of FILE 2012 and access the Registration Forms.–>
http://filefestival.org/

Deadline: Wednesday 29th, February, 2012

the non-profit audiovisual project elmur.net and A.A.A (Abteilung für Alles Mögliche Berlin – Department for Everything Else) are organising a monthly screening of creative videos under the motto “Everything Else”.

Is everything connected to everything else? What is “the other” and what is “me”? Is it another language, culture or point of view? Is it something I am not interested on, or may I just not know about it? Is the everything else weird, mysterious, distant or ignored? Or beautiful, curious and inspiring? Is is out there? Or, is it inside? What is it that, we call the “Everything Else”?

Best proposals will be served every first Tuesday of the month at A.A.A. in Berlin Mitte – Ackerstraße 18, 10115 – BERLIN (Germany) – MAP
DEADLINE: every month, till september 2012, 7 days before the first tuesday of each month.

To enter the call just UPLOAD your creative video at http://www.elmur.net under your profile section & join the visual conversation among creative citizens from around the world. Be part of it!

A.A.A is an open salon-style format in which we do things and present statements, which we in relation to the “All Other / all others”. Things that we find and put together. We collect ideas, expectations, set pieces and other snippets of a joint reflection on the phenomenon of “All Other / Others” Everybody wellcomed ; )

Images: http://www.flickr.com/photos/elmurnet/
More info: info@elmur.net
http://www.a-a-a.cc/december.html

Deadline: Monday 1st, October, 2012

The residencies are open to Australian artists with a demonstrated interest in science working in any discipline and/or medium. Australian-based residencies of 16 weeks’ duration that take place during the 2012 calendar year will be supported.

To ensure a good fit between the artist and host organisation, a joint application must be submitted. It is the responsibility of the project partners to establish contact and to identify the nature of the proposed collaboration prior to application. Those with existing relationships are strongly encouraged to apply. The Synapse residencies have a creative research focus and it is not expected that they will result in the production of new work. The residencies may also be approached as a platform for testing and informing a more comprehensive, longer-term research project suitable for submission to the ARC Synapse Linkage program.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS IS 5PM, FRIDAY 24th of FEBRUARY 2012

Guidelines, including an application form, can be downloaded from http://www.anat.org.au/2011/11/2012-synapse-residencies-now-open/

For further information please contact:

Vicki Sowry
ANAT Program Manager
Tel +61 8 8231 9037
vicki@anat.org.au

Deadline: Friday 24th, February, 2012

AntiTesi in collaboration with the Superintendence for Cultural and Environmental Heritage of Trapani,, is announcing a Call for Proposals for Sound installations to present at Ex Stabilimento Florio delle Tonnare di Favignana e Formica in Favignana island. This call is connected to the Eighth edition of the Live!IXem festivals of music, sound and electronic arts http://www.ixem.it/live!ixem2011. The aim is to highlight the works of those artists who, involved in an experimental and creative exploration, use sound, integrating it with electronic audio-visual and digital design for Art installations in specific sites. Another aim is to witness the new aesthetic in contemporary art through a new way to conceive and carry out works within (or outside) of architectural spaces. In this regard, the spaces that will host this could not be more appropriate: the former Florio Tuna factory on the island of Favignana in Sicily, the largest of the Mediterranean, which takes its name from a family of entrepreneurs that at the beginning of the twentieth century was the great protagonist in Sicily, the Belle Epoque. The ancient structure located in the largest of the Egadi islands, were obtained after the recent restoration of museum space, a conference room with 400 seats and a guest room.

To make this call even stronger there will be a collaboration between Live!iXem and OpenSound a platform that brings together seven European partners to create a project for cooperation and exchange that puts the sound in the middle of a series of outreach and artistic initiatives.

Open Sound is in fact a Grundtvig project for mobility and partnership in the training supported by the EU through through the agency LLP – Life Long Learning Programme. Thanks to this partnership, Sicily will be the first venue where the festival will converge with some of the major representatives linked to the European art scene and musical sound research. During the festival, workshops will be conducted by some of the guest artists (the access to workshops is free of charge): this will contribute to become familiar with the locations of the former Florio Tuna factory on the island of Favignana.

SUBMISSIONS

We encourage proposals for site specific Sound Installations that will have to be set up in one of the locations of the Ex Stabilimento Florio della Tonnare di Favignana e Formica in Favignana Island Italy. Subscription and participation to the call are free of charge.
It will be necessary to explore the locations through specific preparatory visits during Live!iXem Festival 2011, from 8 to 11 december 2011.

Suggested topics for presentations include, but are not limited to:

Best practices in Sound and architecture
Techniques used for Sound/Art Installation
Sound and environment/Sound ecology
Site specific
Software & network management
History & aesthetic theory of Sound Art/Installation
Teaching & pedagogical strategies
Hardware (audio, interface, computers, loudspeakers)
Software environments & frameworks
Artists/Composers’ perspectives on their own works

For more information and instructions for submissions, please refer to the website http://www.ixem.it/live!ixem2011/callENG.html, or download Call in PDF in english http://www.ixem.it/Call_Live!iXem2011_eng.pdf
Email contact: info@antitesi.org

Deadline: Sunday 26th, February, 2012