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Message:
hello,

a brief explanation of the extended hiatus: wrist surgery.

a brief explanation of the wrist surgery: too much computers + bone fragment = long term pain

good news is the pain should be gone, and i've regained enough flexibility/strength to type for short durations (though i'm sure my dr. would be pissed if he knew.)

too all of you who sent in calls for work that expired during the hiatus, i apologize, and i hope you understand.

enjoy the calls,

michael

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Position: Assistant Professor in Critical Studies
Institution: University of California - Film & Digital Media Department
Location: Santa Cruz, California
Application deadline: 11/18/2005

If you are interested in more information about the job do not reply to me; rather please email film@ucsc.edu.

The Film and Digital Media Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, invites applications for a tenure-track position in critical studies. Applicants with a scholarly emphasis in international film and/or media are especially desirable; candidates with expertise in other areas of film, television and/or digital media theory and/or history are also invited to apply. Requires Ph.D. in relevant field of study, with demonstrated potential for excellence in innovative research and for excellence in university teaching.

Please refer to the complete job announcement and application requirements at http://www2.ucsc.edu/ahr/employment/bulletin/05-06/700-06.pdf

Candidates should submit letter of application, curriculum vitae, writing samples, syllabi from courses previously taught, three confidential letters of recommendation, and summary of past student evaluations, if available, to Search Committee, Film & Digital Media Department, University of California, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064. Refer to provision #700-06. Postmark deadline: November 18, 2005; position open until filled. UCSC is an EEO/AA Employer.

Enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope if you desire writing samples returned at the end of this recruitment.

Questions regarding the department or position may be addressed to film@ucsc.edu. Further information about the department is available at http://film.ucsc.edu/.

Contact Information:

Job code: #700-06
E-mail: film@ucsc.edu
Web Site: http://film.ucsc.edu
Search Committee
Film & Digital Media
UC Santa Cruz
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064

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The Department of Teledramatic Arts and Technology within the College of Science Media Arts and Technology at California State University Monterey Bay invites application for two tenure track faculty positions.

Successful candidates will be forward thinking, transmedia educators and practitioners. One with primary emphasis in new media practice and theory and one with primary emphasis in digital video and media practice. Both with a strong background in the application of new digital technologies to innovative narrative praxis.

See full job description for New Media here: http://mocha.csumb.edu/uhr/jobs/job_announce.jsp?job_number=FAC2005-0093&req_id=000431

See full job description for Digital Video here: http://mocha.csumb.edu/uhr/jobs/job_announce.jsp?job_number=FAC2005-0093&req_id=000430

Application review begins September 23.

Please direct inquiries to Rob Weiher, Rob_Weiher@csumb.edu, 831.582.3743.

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Two Faculty Positions
Department of Telecommunications
Indiana University, Bloomington

Indiana University‚Äôs Department of Telecommunications seeks two new tenure-track Assistant Professors. Applicants should hold the Ph.D., M.F.A, L.L.M. or other appropriate terminal degree and present a promising program of either (1) scholarly research using social scientific, legal, or historical methods related to electronic media / communications or (2) creative activity in interactive new media. Promising candidates must also be able to teach effectively in one or more of the department‚Äôs undergraduate areas of concentration: Media and Society, Design and Production or Industry and Management. Graduate teaching is also possible.

We offer a B.A. in Telecommunications as well as M.A., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees. Undergraduates can also pursue certificates in New Media and Interactive Storytelling and in Game Studies. There are established M.A. and M.S. programs in Immersive Mediated Environments (MIME). Joint M.S. / M.B.A. and M.S. / J.D. degrees are offered in conjunction with the Schools of Business and Law. Our Institute for Communication Research offers support for faculty research including assistance with stimulus design/creation and data collection using an array of methodologies (psychophysiology, focus groups, personal interviews, and computer-assisted survey/experiment administration). We also have digital audio, video and multimedia production technologies. Salaries, fringe benefits and research and teaching opportunities are consistent with peer Research I institutions.

Current research faculty include experts in media psychology and sociology, media economics, political communication, organizational communication, digital games, and media law, policy and technology. Creative faculty emphasize digital and analog media production and digital gaming and interactive storytelling. While we especially seek people in law and policy, management, media psychology, interactive storytelling, game design, 3D modeling, and international communications, our overall objective is to attract the best applicants in the field, regardless of interests, who either enhance current strengths or extend our reach. More about the positions, the department, and our faculty and programs can be found at http://www.indiana.edu/~telecom/. and http://www.indiana.edu/~icr/index.htm.

Applicants should submit (1) a cover letter summarizing their qualifications for the position and explaining how they will add to, supplement or complement existing department strengths, (2) a current vita, (3) selected research publications and/or a portfolio documenting recent creative work (as applicable), and (4) evidence of effective teaching. Three letters of recommendation should be submitted directly by recommenders.

Direct questions and applications to Professor Walter Gantz, Chair, Department of Telecommunications, Radio-TV Center, 1229 E. 7th Street, Bloomington, IN 47405-5501. Professor Gantz can be reached by phone at (812) 855-1621, fax at (812) 855-7955 or via e-mail at gantz@indiana.edu.

Start date is August 15, 2006. Review of applications will begin October 21, 2005 and will continue until the positions are filled.

Indiana University is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer. We strongly encourage applications from women and minority candidates as well as from two-career couples.

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Interested in showing your work at A\V? We are currently seeking sound and visual artists to fill our 2005-2006 season. We are particulary interested in integrated sound/visual installation, but welcome proposals for work in any media. The deadline for submissions of proposals for shows January-June 2006 is October 1, 2005.

For more information, please visit our website: http://www.avspace.org/
Online sumbissions form: http://www.avspace.org/submissions.php

About A\V:
Our mission is to reflect the wide range of the contemporary arts today, from photography, painting, and sculpture, to contemporary classical and electronic music, to noise art, multimedia installation, and public art. Equal parts art gallery, concert hall, and computer music studio, we aim to provide an open and flexible space that welcomes a diversity of genres and breaks down the distinctions between high and low art.

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Position for Associate Professor/Assistant Professor in New Media and Interactivity, School of Creative Media

City University of Hong Kong is one of eight higher education institutions directly funded by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region through the University Grants Committee (Hong Kong). It aims to become one of the leading universities in the Asia-Pacific region through excellence in teaching and research. In two studies, City University of Hong Kong is ranked among the top 200 universities in the world, and among the top ten universities in the Greater China region. The mission of the University is to nurture and develop the talents of students and to create applicable knowledge in order to support social and economic advancement. The student population is approximately 23,000 enrolled in over 100 programmes at the associate degree, undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The medium of instruction is English.

The University invites applications and nominations for the post of Associate Professor/Assistant Professor in New Media and Interactivity.

The School was founded in 1998, and since then has developed strengths in media/cultural studies, video production, computer animation and computer graphics. It offers an exciting multi-disciplinary research and teaching environment in which technical and creative faculty collaborate on a variety of projects. Its current priority is to expand and consolidate the digital media emphasis, including computer graphics, computer animation, multimedia and interaction. There are several openings and appointees are expected to undertake teaching and research in the areas of new media and interactivity.

The qualified candidate is expected to work within a wide spectrum of new media and technological platforms. He/She should demonstrate competence in adopting a cross-disciplinary approach in teaching and research in order to contribute creatively and professionally in the School, and for the benefit of the community and the industries.

Areas of focus

Interactive media design and production
Interaction design, ergonomics, human cognition,usability
Game design, production, distribution
Multimedia performance, entertainment design
Pervasive computing, mixed reality, locative media, embedded computing

Courses to be taught

Basic electronics for art students
Mathematics and physics for interactive media
Object-oriented programming for art students
Theories of interactivity
Physical and embedded computing
Pervasive computing
User research in technology deployment
Kinetic and interactive typography
Show control and entertainment design
Game design and production
Image processing, theories and applications
Mixed reality applications
Mobile and locative applications
Spatial design and virtual environment
Network based media
Information design and visualization

Duties
The appointed faculty is required to teach 5 courses in an academic year. He/She is also expected to actively work on research projects which can produce professional, scholarly and creative outputs. Administrative work related to admissions, student matters, facilities, curriculum, industry liaison, etc. will be assigned to the appointee according to his/her expertise and experience.

Requirements
The qualified candidate should possess a PhD/MFA or equivalent in the School‚Äôs areas of focus. Teaching experience at university level is essential. A strong and well presented portfolio that can demonstrate the candidate‚Äôs skills and knowledge in the subject areas is required. Successful candidates are expected to have proven track records of strength in the areas of focus, which can be in the form of publication, exhibition records, product development, clients‚Äô reference, etc.

Salary and Conditions of Service

Salary offered will be highly competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Appointment will be on a fixed-term gratuity-bearing contract. Fringe benefits include annual leave, medical and dental schemes, and housing benefits where applicable.

Information and Application

Further information about the posts and the University is available at http://www.cityu.edu.hk, or from the Human Resources Office, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong [Fax : (852) 2788 1154 or (852) 2788 9334/E-mail: hrojob@cityu.edu.hk]. Please send your application enclosing a current C.V. to the Human Resources Office. Please quote the reference of the post in the application and on the envelope.

The University reserves the right to consider nominations, and to fill or not to fill the position.

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ISEA2006THEME: TRANSVERGENCE
http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/transvergence/index.html
Deadline October 3, 2006
This is an invitation by the ISEA2006 Symposium and ZeroOne San Jose:A Global Festival of Art on the Edge to groups and individuals tosubmit proposals for exhibition of interactive art work and projectsreflecting on the thematic of the transvergence.
Creative interplay of disciplines to catalyze artistic, scientific,and social innovation is evidenced by decades of multi-/ pluri-,inter-, and trans-disciplinary discourse and practice. Emphasis on thedynamics subtending this interplay has led to the notion oftransvergence, a term coined by Marcos Novak which overridesdiscipline-bound issues and demands, and serves as the focus of thepresent call. Proposals are sought that address but are not limited tothemes outlined below, challenging the boundaries of disciplines andconventional (art) institutional discourse, and indicating creativestrategies for overriding them. Proposals may consist of art projects,residencies, workshops, standalone conference papers, or groupconference sessions. "While convergence and divergence are allied to epistemologies ofcontinuity, transvergence is epistemologically closer to logics ofincompleteness, to complexity, chaos, and catastrophe theories,dynamical systems, emergence, and artificial life!
. While convergenceand divergence contain the hidden assumption that the true, in eithera cultural or an objective sense, is a continuous land-mass,transvergence recognizes true statements to be islands in an alienarchipelago, sometimes only accessible by leaps, flights, and voyageson vessels of artifice.

TRANSVERGENCE CALL COMMITTEE:
Chair, Sally Jane Norman, Louis Bec, Andy Cameron, Beatriz da Costa,Bojana Kunst, Maja Kuzmanovic, Anne Nigten, Marcos Novak, Ned Rossiter
Timeframe:Announcement August 1, 2005Submissions due October 3, 2005Jurying due December 1, 2005Accepted proposals announced December 15, 2005
http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/transvergence/index.htmlIf you have questions contacttransvergence@yproductions.comSign up for the ISEA2006 mailing list:http://cadre.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/isea2006

-- Steve DietzDirector, ZeroOne: The NetworkDirector, ISEA2006 Symposium +ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edgehttp://isea2006.sjsu.edu : August 5-13, 2006stevedietz[at]yproductions[dot]comhttp://isea2006.sjsu.edu/index.html

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(VersiÛn en espaÒol, abajo)
CALL FOR ENTRIES-->>FIRST VIDEO AND ELECTRONIC ARTS CONTEST-->> TRANSITIO_MX
2005 (M…XICO)

Transitio_mx 2005 International Video and Electronic Arts Festival is a place
for the expression of contemporary artistic creative practices through
electronic media. The main focus of this festival is showing the current
production and research in the field, in function of the constant mobility of
its epistemological, technological, cultural, aesthetic and social
boundaries.
These dissolutions invite us to explore the nature, scopes and conflicts
between, art, technology, sciences and humanities making the Festival a
permanent site for the expression and reflection of the above mentioned
relationships.

This first edition of the Festival has chosen the "Imaginaries in transit:
poetics and technology" as its main theme. The thematic proposes to go deep
into the paradigm that provides of contents and expands technology right from
the poetics or sign's site, rather that emphasizing the research concerning
technological support itself. "Imaginaries in transit: poetics
and technology" seeks to explore the aesthetic and cultural re-signification
modes that accompany electronic art production and research, inviting the
participants of the contest to reflect about production within this context.

Transitio_mx will count with the presence of well known personalities such as
Marina Grzinik, Rafael Lozano Hemmer, Arlindo Machado, Jorge Laferla, PrÌamo
Lozada, JosÈ Luis Barrios, among others. The jury for the First Video and
Electronic Arts Contest will also be made up of important artists and
theoretitians in the electronic arts field. Three prizes will be awarded:
first prize consisting in N$120,000.00, second prize consisting in N$90,000.00
and third prize of N$75,000.00. The previous amounts are in Mexican pesos.

The National Culture and Arts Council, through the Center for Multimedia of
the National Center for the Arts, invites all artists of this field to
participate in the First Video and Electronic Arts Contest that will take
place within the framework of this
Festival from December 6 to 11, 2005.

The deadline for the contest is September 30, 2005. For information on the
required documents, and in order to complete the entry form visit:
http://transitiomx.cenart.gob.mx
or write an email to:Ana Villa (concursoae@correo.cnart.mx)

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3rdfloor Magazine's Call For Art: "Beyond Megaphones and Cosmos"

The role of art in society is typically defined by two extremes. One
believes that art should be political, using aesthetics to further causes.
The other believes that art should be pleasing, an escape from the
difficult and the mundane.

The next issue of 3rdfloor magazine will feature work that resists this polarity of art as propaganda or pacifier. What are you creating that is both substantive and aesthetic? Socially conscious but nuanced? Neither landscapes with bunnies nor ‚Äúculture jams‚Äù?

We welcome artwork of all mediums that address this theme including:
performance, video, printmaking, installation, photography, street art,
mail art and text works. Submission DEADLINE: September 30th.

http://3rdfloorproject.org/submit.html

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Visual AIDS
New York, NY

Postcards from the Edge benefit for Visual AIDS
Deadline: September 30, 2005
No fees

Visual AIDS invites artists to participate in our eighth annual Postcards
From the Edge benefit. We are looking for artists to donate a 4" x 6"
original work on paper for the exhibition and sale. Painting, drawing,
photography, printmaking and mixed media are welcomed. Proceeds benefit the
programs of Visual AIDS. Deadline: Friday, September 30, 2005

Exhibition and sale will be held Monday, October 17, & Tuesday, October 18,
2005 at Robert Miller Gallery. For details visit:
http://thebody.com/visualaids/current/postcards2005.html

To participate, please send a 6" x 9" SASE to:

Visual AIDS
526 West 26th Street #510
New York, NY 10001

Or download submission forms at
http://thebody.com/visualaids/current/postcards2005_artists.html

One entry per artist

Postcards From the Edge is a show and sale of original, postcard-sized
artworks on paper by established and emerging artists. All artworks are $50
and sold on a first-come, first-served basis. The works are signed on the
back and exhibited so that the artists' signatures cannot be seen. While
buyers have a list of all participating artists, they don't know who created
which piece until it is purchased and the signature is revealed. A collector
might end up with a work by a famous artist or one they don't yet know.
Either way, they walk away with a great piece of art while supporting Visual
AIDS important work.

Founded in 1988 , Visual AIDS promotes AIDS awareness through the visual
arts. Two Visual AIDS initiatives, the Red Ribbon and Day Without Art, have
become icons of AIDS awareness. Visual AIDS also supports artists with
HIV/AIDS through direct professional services including free
photo-documentation of artwork, the largest slide library of work by artists
with HIV/AIDS, materials grants to those with low incomes, estate planning
services, exhibition opportunities, professional development, advice and
advocacy. For more information on Visual AIDS programs, please visit
http://www.visualAIDS.org.

For more information contact Visual AIDS at (212) 627-9855 or
info@visualaids.org

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T.V Sky is an artist led initiative based on the displacement of film - overnight projections taking place in window spaces overlooking busy town centers. We are currently gathering film works to show in a variety of British towns - Beginning in Nottingham 17th Oct 05.
Works considered shall be silent, visually striking, and to some extent concerned with invasion of space - be that through media led information onslaughts or something more physically immediate.
To apply - email name, title of film and brief summary (stills if possible) to

tvsky@thenursinghome.co.uk

YOU WILL BE CONTACTED WITHIN 7 DAYS OF YOUR SUBMISSION
Deadline - 01/12/05

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Looking for artwork that deals with the topic of censorship, for a show to be held on the Indiana University of Pennsylvania campus in January 2006. Will accept any media. Please send images of completed work, or plans for installation/performance pieces. Particular interest in work dealing with recent images from Abu Ghraib, the Iraq War, and contemporary mass-media in general.

Images should either be slides/transparencies or digital, preferably JPEG format on CD-ROM. Send minimum of three images, CV, brief statement, and return envelope with postage to:

Dr. Robert Sweeny
115 Sprowls Hall
470 S. Eleventh St.
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Indiana, PA 15705-1087

Submission will also be accepted via email (preferred). Send to: sweeny@iup.edu. Deadline is November 15th, 2005. Accepted work will be due no later than December 15th, 2005.

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Call for Papers

Do we have an Image Problem?
Performance and Media Art caught between Art History and Visual Culture Studies.

The first Media Art Conference in Osnabr?ºck will take place from the 15th to the 17th of May 2006 as a three-day specialist symposium at the University of Osnabr?ºck and is sponsored by Department of Kultur- und Geowissenschaften. It will be held immediately following the 19th European Media Art Festival (EMAF, 10th to 14th May 2006), one of the largest media art events in Europe.

The conference will focus on the growing affinity between art forms produced, experienced and distributed by the media on the one hand and the highly debated iconic or pictorial turn on the other. One of the central issues will be to question whether the recently developed aesthetic terminology can sufficiently deal with the time- and action-oriented art forms of performance and media art.

In addition to a number of distinguished experts invited to present papers, the speakers will include young scholars as well as contributors selected on the basis of the abstracts they submitted to this call for papers.

Enclosed you will find further information concerning the background and objectives of the conference. Please do not hesitate to ask us questions at any time.

We would be very pleased to include you among the speakers or authors for our planned publication.

Topics for Talks and Articles

1. Performance and media art in the context of the contemporary debate between art history and Visual Culture Studies and where art history is positioning itself in relation to Visual Culture Studies, Media Studies and Cultural History.
2. Media art, art history‚Äôs cultural orientation and the scientific modus operandi given the wide range of methodologies and the overlap of genres.
3. Examples of art historical and media studies descriptions and analysis of performance and media art.

In addition to a description of content, the abstracts for papers (c. 400 words) should clearly demonstrate both their relevance to the theme of the conference and their originality.

A publication of the conference findings is planned. All contributions will be considered.

Please submit your abstracts by 30 October 2005 to the EMAC office:

Media Art Conference Osnabr?ºck
Universit?§t Osnabr?ºck
Fachbereich Kultur- und Geowissenschaften
Kunstgeschichte
Katharinenstra?üe 5
49069 Osnabr?ºck
Germany

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----->DORKBOT #3 Wednesday September 21
20.30 at the Gaslab, TU/eindhoven, netherlands

After two successful dorkbots before the summer, DorkbotEindhoven is
starting up again on September 21st.

The purpose of dorkbot is: to give artists/programmers/engineers an
opportunity for informal peer review; establish a forum for the
presentation of new art dorks/ technology/ software/ hardware; help
establish relationships and foster collaboration between people with
various backgrounds and interests.

CALL FOR PROJECTS!

We are looking for arty/techy/dorky people that want to present their
technology-related projects or ideas (in English or Dutch) at Dorkbot
#3, September 21st, or if you can't make it then at Dorkbot #4, on
November 30th.

Some imaginary presentation topics are: a demo of the new motion
tracking software you're writing; playing a video/sound-art you made;
an explanation of how you hacked your game boy to get it to make cool
bleeping noises; trouble shooting your remote-controlled sandwich
making robot; bringing in some dancers you're working with and having
them demonstrate the interface used in your new mind-control ballet;
discussing your approach to electronic sculpture.

If you have questions or would like to present your project at the
next Dorkbot contact us at: dorkboteindhovenATdorkbot.org

If you want to stay updated subscribe to our mailing list at:
http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkboteindhoven-announce

Dorkbot Eindhoven is an initiative of Art & Technology Festival STRP
in collaboration with Studium Generale (TU/e).

http://dorkbot.org/dorkboteindhoven

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PANDORA BOX CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Accepting new single-channel art work for

PANDORA BOX: A DVD Collection

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: OCTOBER 1, 2005

PANDORA BOX is part of exhibition programming for

NATIONAL PSYCHE:
Feminine vision, thought, and action during wartime
Feb 24 ˆ Mar 12 2006
The LAB 2948 16th Street San Francisco, CA 94103 USA

DVD only. NTSC/US compatible
Duration: 10 minutes or less
National or International artists. All genders

Art work selections based on exemplary interpretations
of:
curiosity
evil
greed
insanity
jealousy
lust
mischief
plague
sorrow
trouble
hope

Accepting current work only (2004 to present)
Non-linear, Narrative, Documentary or Loop. Please
indicate if Loop

PANDORA BOX DVDs selected by Elliot Lessing, Ellen
Lake, and Heike Liss

Send DVD (2 copies), related info
(date/duration/synopsis/short bio), SASE to:
PANDORA BOX
609 56th Street
Oakland, CA 94609 USA

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MYTHS, MYSTERY AND RITUAL: A PORTAL INTO THE NIGHT, a Celebration of All Hallow's Eve presented by Caladan Gallery. Welcome into the realm of alternative experience. This is a time for relection and the exploration of meaning in the timeless rituals centered around this most mysterious of days. Our ancestors realized the magnetic power of this time in the form of expressions of awe, respect, and awareness - much of this in the form of art. Many of our staff reside in Salem, MA, the All Hallow's Eve Capital of the World, and this exhibition will be listed extensively! Artists working in all media except video are eligible. Deadline is September 20, 2005. One or more artists will be awarded a solo exhibition. Download prospectus (see "Enter Exhibitions") at: www.caladangallery.com OR write to: Caladan Gallery, Box 468, Beverly MA 01915 OR 978-741-7979.

Thanks very much!
Marjorie Kaye
Director
Caladan Gallery
director@caladangallery.com
(978 741-7979

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The San Francisco Independent Film Festival seeks your most delicous, twisted, unique, historical, fictional, subtitled, stop-motion, curious, cadaverous, outsider, outstanding and otherwise brilliantly-executed indie-films and videos.

For more information on submitting your
Features
Shorts
Docs
&
Animation films (35/16mm) & videos (BetaSP/dvd/dv/mini-dv)
for the 8th Annual SF IndieFest (Feb. 2-14, 2006),
check out http://www.sfindie.com .

Head on over to
http://www.sfindie.com/06_App.pdf
to download an entry form. Send it, along with your VHS/DVDs, stills, press kits, entry fee and tidbits to:

SF IndieFest
530 Divisedero St
#183
SF, CA 94117

Entry fee is $20 for shorts (any film less than 50 minutes), and $30 for features.
If you'd care for your entry to be returned, please include a SASE + add $5 to your entry fee.

::::Entries must be postmarked by October 15th, 2005::::

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please see website for more details: http://spark.cla.umn.edu/submissions.html

University of Minnesota School of Music, Noel Zahler, Director
Announces
2006 Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art
Douglas Geers, Director
West Bank Arts Quarter, University of Minnesota Twin Cities Campus
February 22-26

CALL FOR COMPOSERS, ARTISTS, and PRESENTERS
Submission Deadline: September 30, 2005 (postmark)

The University of Minnesota School of Music is proud to present the 2006 Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art, February 22-26. The festival will be held on the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota (USA) and at the Walker Center for Art, Minneapolis. Now in its fourth year, the Spark Festival showcases the newest groundbreaking works of digital music and art. Last year‚Äôs festival included innovative works by over one hundred international composers and artists, including featured guest artists Philippe Manoury and DJ Spooky. Leading scholars and technology specialists also presented papers relating to new technology and creativity. Audiences for the concerts, installations, and lectures last year totaled approximately 2,000 people.

Spark invites submissions of works incorporating new media, including electroacoustic concert music, experimental electronica, theatrical and dance works, installations, kinetic sculpture, artbots, video, and other non-traditional genres.

Spark also invites submission of scholarly papers on technical and aesthetic subjects related to the creation of new media art and music. All accepted papers will be published as part of the Spark proceedings. Please see http://spark.cla.umn.edu/archive.html for a PDF copy of the Spark 2005 proceedings and program.

More information and the online submissions procedure will be posted soon on the Spark 2006 website at http://spark.cla.umn.edu. Questions can be directed to the Spark hosts at sparkfst@umn.edu.