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UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL
The Art Department
3D Animation/Digital Interactive Media
The Art Department at the University of Massachusetts Lowell seeks qualified applicants for a full-time, tenure-track position to teach undergraduate courses in 3D digital animation, interactive digital media and immersive VR photography. The MFA is required as well as an active and growing record of creative and scholarly research, exhibitions and publications. The position appointment is effective September 1, 2005. An interdisciplinary approach to the teaching of 3D animation and interactive media emphasizing conceptually mature sequential narratives is desirable. Applicants must show proficiency in Lightwave, Maya, digital media authoring, video editing and audio, and demonstrate an interest in and an understanding of new media theory and contemporary art and culture. Applicants must also show some experience in Web design and Macintosh lab management. Salary and benefi ts are commensurate with the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor. Responsibilities will include t!
eaching three undergraduate courses per semester, student advising and participation in senior reviews, as well as committee participation at the Department, College and University level. A minimum of three years' teaching in higher education is required and industry experience is preferred. To apply, send a letter of application, resume and portfolio. Please include examples of animation and digital interactive media, examples of student work, teaching philosophy, syllabi, three letters of reference and a SASE and send to: Animation Search Committee, Art Department/UMass Lowell, 71 Wilder Street, Suite 8, Lowell, MA 01854.
Web Artist
The Art Department at the University of Massachusetts Lowell seeks qualified applicants for a full-time, tenure-track position to teach undergraduate courses in Web-based art and design. The MFA is required as well as an active and growing record of creative and scholarly research, exhibitions and publications. The position appointment is effective September 1, 2005. An interdisciplinary approach to the teaching of Web-based media is desirable. Applicants must show a demonstrated proficiency in JTML, CSS, DHTML, JavaScript and Flash, with ActionScript preferred. A thorough understanding of typography, color theory, interactive design principles, and Web strategy experience is required. Applicants must also demonstrate an interest in and an understanding of new media theory and contemporary art and culture. Salary and benefits are commensurate with the rank of Assistant/Associate Professor. Responsibilities will include teaching three undergraduate courses per semester, parti!
cipation in Macintosh lab management, overseeing the art department Web site with student assistance, student advising and participation in senior reviews, as well as committee participation at the Department, College and University level. A minimum of three years' teaching in higher education is required and
industry experience is preferred. To apply, send a letter of application, resume, online portfolio link, other examples of Web-based media, and examples of student work. Also include teaching philosophy, syllabi, three letters of reference and a SASE, and send to: Web Design Search Committee, Art Department/UMass Lowell, 71 Wilder Street, Suite 8, Lowell, MA 01854.
UMASS
University of Massachusetts
Lowell
The University of Massachusetts is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Title IX, H/V, ADA 1990 Employer and Executive Order 11246, 41 CFR60-741 4, 41 CRF60-250 4, 41CRF60-1 40 and 41 CFR60-1,4 are hereby incorporated.
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....here we go again
1. The call
The task of the fourth issue of the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest
is to describe being. This issue of the Journal challenges both the US
government's insistence on unipolar meanings and
neoliberalism's theft-like "open" networks by reclaiming territories
of productivity, emotion, possibility, and the communication of truth.
This issue hopes to reinvent a materialist agenda for creative social
politics by focusing on the real effects of war, and of racism, sexism,
classism and on the ways these attitudes distract us from taking
collective action. The Journal wants to promote a discourse on
resources and the concrete effects that individual and collective
projects and performances have in their own and other's communities. We
do this not to limit our readers' possibilities but to reveal some
common ground so that we all might move ahead, together.
In a time of the abolition of truth with the triumph of compliant
corporate media.
With the abolition of the last social welfare institutions as
neoliberal governments target social security for privatization.
With the abolition of public space and public institutions through
militarization, privatization and the disappearance of public funding.
With the abolition of democracy and civil rights as economic reasoning
trumps discourse on civic values.
We start with the body, the place where one experiences the truthful
pain, hunger, pleasure, discrimination, hope and joy that is generated
by creativity, hegemony, resistance and nature ˆ and look
to communities and other social bodies that experience these same
things. The Journal is interested in collectivizing this sort of
experience while being aware of how slippery truth is. The Journal is
interested in hearing the ways in which these felt truths have been
shared or communicated through dance, sculpture, protest, performance,
painting, conversation, etc... It is interested in how these
personalized truths have forged creative culture that touches people in
real ways.
For better or worse, artists and activists often practice cultural
change without a solid understanding of what should be changed or
where this change might actually happen. It is far too common that we
let our imagination and strategy take flight when confronting
oppression, imagining ourselves and our political potential as
boundless; "we are fragmented subjects in endlessly contingent moments
whose overall aim is to semiotically out-manuever power"this
expenditure of energy, this endless invention, migration, and social
instability- may in truth just be business. Global capitalism tacitly
supports subjects who explore and identify with symbols which draw
people away from the very real objects of either oppression or
liberation. When is this exploration fruitful?. Can we semiotically
out-manuever those in power when the state browbeats media into
reporting the notion that criticism may be tantamount to treason?
From the Civil Rights Movements through the cultural artists of
the Eighties and early Nineties, through SNCC and NOW to ACT-UP and
all the Barbara Krugers, citizens of the first world realize that their
identities are not represented by the state. The articulation of
these situated voices has progressively moved society around single
issues. Recent globalized movements and their associated artists gave
us a glimpse of how coalitions of these identities could, when
carefully (Teamsters and Turtles) or chaotically (the famed 2nd
superpower of the February '03 anti-war marches) mobilized, open up a
broad front to challenge power.
But now may not be the time to prophesize mass movements- not now in an
America that still confuses television coverage for meaningful
communication and sees unaccountable politicians, individual
celebrities and inventive pranksters as effective spokespeople. Not yet
for a movement that is now better signified by exhausted protesters and
singular hero-artists then broad yet localized cultural consensus.
Our task is so important, we must take the time to think small;
building emotional and perhaps economic sustainability into grassroots
efforts. This pace is not a dull affair, it allows for rich,
complicated and poetic relationships and sometimes seemingly pointless
art in the way a late-night house-party can be so much unscriptable
love. The Journal hopes to relay elements of this deep-knowledge and
feeling and then script it out for our next issue.
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2. List of Suggested article titles
The following is a list of suggested articles. This is by no means a
complete list of the the title of articles we are seeking out, they
have been written by collective members to suggest possible directions
for stories. We trust intelligence to propose unique articles related
to our call.
NOTE: We gladly accept ideas that do not specifically relate to the
call for consideration.
NOTE: This is by no means a complete list of ideas for articles.
-My Street's a goldmine!
-Strategic uses of abstract representational aesthetics.
-Neoliberalism in a Neoconservative world... reclaiming an
anti-globalization critique in the time of empire....
-Working with cultural reality (or not).
-The body politic and self medication: the art of distraction.
-Working with local material (ie. geographic, economic, historical)
reality (or not).
-Complex negotiations between groups that have allowed for true
coalitions.
-Tales of synthesis; tactics into strategies.
-Definitions of what a radical cultural agenda would look like.
-Tales of different people and communities...
- how they found themselves at a moment of
need
- what tools they employed
- how they got their boat fixed
- what are their reflections on home repair?
-"I can't speak for the Left" - identity and structural problems with
movement building on the left.
-Responsibly emotional art (or not).
-Articles that discuss and hash out the probelmatics of difference
within the multitude.
-Coalition Building 101.
-Non Hierarchical Movement Building.
-Telling Jesse Helms to Shove it where the Sun Doesnt' Shine
-Reclaiming the artist's place within Secular
Democracy (how do the situationists react, how does "morality" posse
react?).
-A critical evaluation of the tools which have been employed to date.
-Where has culture jamming gotten us?
-What does pranking do?
-When does progressive museum work
(representational or conceptual) shift consciousness?
-Do interventions, like direct action, get
the goods?
-Twelve-step programs for making your body resistant to capitalism:
answering the macro with the micro.
-Dancing a community into action.
-The point of pointlessness.
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3. Specifics
Please send us proposals for article and art project proposals before
January 15th.
Mail proposals to editors@journalofaestheticsandprotest.org
If you have any questions or would like to dialogue with us before
January 15th, please do so.
If your submission is selected, you and an editor will work on the
piece to make it ready for deadline.
We are proud of our intensive editorial process that attempts to bring
out the best ideas and styles from each writer. Please expect an
engaged editorial process which also supports the quality, character
and ideas of your work.
We are a self-funded magazine, we can only pay our writers with
editorial attention and free issues of the journal.
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From: "RAM7"
Call for participation
RAM7 - Models of Collaboration
deadline 15 January 2005
hosted by Minsk Centre for Innovative Practice in collaboration with
CRAC and RAM-Network
RAM7 - Models of Collaboration will take place in Minsk 5-9 March 2005.
Minsk, where is it? Why in Minsk?
Belarus exists in the state of permanent isolation, but whether
isolation in the world of network technologies is possible?
RAM7 will play a role of temporary multi-disciplinary platform where
local and global, hidden and evident, main stream and marginal aspects
of New Media culture will meet. The aim of this workshop is to
stimulate the process of active learning, exchange of ideas,
information and energy between _hidden place_ and Network
Universe.
The starting points are: to provide an opportunity for independent
researchers and practitioners to explore current local problems, and
initiatives; to learn the international experience for modifying
existing situation by analyzing different models of multidiciplinary
collaboration.
The workshop will focus on studying examples of collaboration models,
and will pay more intensive attention on topics related to network
based/self-organized educational attempts and art & science
collaboration.
During RAM7 workshop we plan to test and use mobile phone technologies,
internet-works and more. Presentations and theory lectures will be open
for public.
A program of tutorials will cover topics: working group for
Anti-University development (self-organized educational attempts);
working group for investigation of art&science collaboration; working
group, focusing on experiments in collective authorship.
We need your help and participation. We are looking for internationally
recognized experienced experts willing to share experiences in the next
themes:
- Anti-Universities. Self-organized Educational Attempts
- Art and Science. Organizations, projects, strategies.
- Open source, Social Networking Software
- Theory of collaboration
- Collective authorship- interactive art forms that focus on
relationships between participants.
The participants will have to pay their own travel and accommodation.
Please email to minskram@f-m.fm
Nils Claesson
Tatiana Tushina
Denis Romanovski
Dmitri Plax
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Call for proposals: deadline 15 February 2005
"Don't start from the good old things but the bad new ones." *
The KIOSK Group invites proposals of up to 500 words for new critical writing.
Responses can include but are not limited to: a discussion of recent tendencies in artistic practice; approaches and models for time and temporality; the "new" in new media; modernity and progress; scientific approaches to randomness, complexity and chaos as generators of the new; old as new; critical practice and the "canon" as antithetical to "new"; social practices as new art forms; revolution; utopias and failed utopias; the news; new funding models; repetition and revisiting old ideas again and again; artist-run culture, public museums and galleries and new modes of operating; approaches to change and flux; engaging new audiences.
All proposals will be considered. KIOSK invites participation from all artists, writers and curators, but encourages response from those working in Canada who are at early stages of their careers, with minimal publishing history. Those whose proposals are selected will be invited to contribute a finished manuscript for a publication planned for 2006, contingent on funding. These writers will receive a fee for their contribution.
Please submit on or before 15 February 2005:
* a proposal of up to 500 words detailing your research direction
* a c.v., up to 3 pages, including publishing history if applicable
Email proposals to: (Word attachments preferred) or mail to The KIOSK Group: 1032 Pape Avenue, PO Box 60070, Toronto, Ontario Canada M4K 3Z3.
The KIOSK Group is a project-driven collective that, through its transitory nature, offers possibilities and structures for thinking critically about artistic practice through publication, exhibition, dialogue and more. For more information, visit
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Trampoline is a platform event for new media artwork, currently
being guest curated by the Nottingham based art collective Reactor.
Following the success of the relaunch event on 2 December 2004,
Trampoline are now seeking submissions for the Nottingham and
Berlin live-link event on Sunday 6 February 2005.
Submissions are welcomed from artists working with live-streamed
performance, multi-media installation, digital video, animation,
electronic sculpture or experimental music.
Submissions must include only:
- Completed application form (download from website)
- Brief CV
- Supporting material (DVD, VHS, URL, CD-ROM)
- SAE for return of materials
Please send submissions to:
Trampoline
14 -18 Broad Street
Nottingham
NG1 3AL
For an application form or more information visit:
www.trampoline.org.uk
or email: info@trampoline.org.uk
Deadline for submissions: Friday 7 January 2005
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THAILAND NEW MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2005
Annual International Summit on Creativity in Multimedia & Communication
Bangkok 25-28 February, 2005
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International call for new media artwork submissions [public call]
deadline 5th Jan 2005 [extended]
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Dear Artists, Curators and New Media dept. instructors:
In Feb 2005, MAF05 presents a series of audio-visual programs,
exhibitions,
workshops and seminars that explore the melting of boundaries between
technology and humanity under the topic code: "INTIMACY::DIGITAL SKIN"
International New Media Art submissions in the following areas will be
considered for inclusion in the Festival taking place in Bangkok:
- single and multi-user interactive works (PC only)
- software and generative art (as offline works on CDROM)
- single and multi-screen video art (as mpg files on CDROM / DVD)
- online streaming and live collaborative VJ:DJ performances
- performance art [VJ / DJ / live / stage]
- net art (Online works)
Please file your work submission form online at:
http://thailand.culturebase.org/MAF05 sign_up
Curators and content partners should contact here:
http://thailand.culturebase.org/MAF05/co_curators.php
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* * * NEW * * *
Special "Thai commissioned section" - financial support for Thai
artists
(Only Thai nationals who spent min. last 3 years in the country)
International visiting artists and performers welcome: MAF05 will
provide up to 20 hotel rooms in central Bangkok for international
guest artists arriving in Thailand for the event.
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
SIGGRAPH 2005 ART GALLERY
Submission Deadline: Jan 19, 2005
(No submission fees)
For submission details, visit:
http://www.siggraph.org/s2005/main.php?f=cfp&p=art
The internationally recognized ACM SIGGRAPH Conference is seeking today's most innovative digital artwork for the SIGGRAPH 2005 Art Gallery. The 2005 SIGGRAPH Art Gallery will be content driven. The technology will be in the service of the art.
We are looking for artwork that traces threads through time and space, figurative and abstract, linear and non-linear, moving and still. We are particularly interested in 2D, 3D, and screen-based work that examines how the use of computer graphics relates to the form and content of the artwork. The exhibit will include media such as, new narrative forms, generative works, game art, and book arts as well as 2-D and 3-D media.
We invite Art Papers submissions that engage in critical discourse about digital art and culture.
The submissions will be judged by a pre-eminent group of artists, curators and critics.
The ACM SIGGRAPH Conference will be held in Los Angeles, CA from July 31 – August 4, 2005.
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Dear Sir or Madam,
The Kamiyama Artist in Residence Committee has updated application
guidelines and procedures for KAIR 2005. We will appreciate it if you could
spread words to your fellow artists.
Abstract information
Contact:
Kamiyama Artist-in Residence (KAIR)
100 Hon-noma, Jinryo,
Kamiyama-cho,
Myozai-gun,
Tokushima 771-3395
Japan
T: +81 88 676 1522
F: +81 88 676 1100
E: kyoiku@town.kamiyama.lg.jp or shinyaominami@attglobal.net
W: http://www.town.kamiyama.lg.jp/kair/index_eng.html
Deadline for KAIR 2005: 28 February 2005
In detail please refer to the following website:
http://www.town.kamiyama.lg.jp/kair/index_eng.html
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me.
Sincerely yours,
Shinya Ominami
Public Relations
KAIR
P.S. The following is an article about KAIR 2003 which you may enjoy
reading:
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fa20031231a1.htm
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Shinya Ominami
shinyaominami@attglobal.net
Tel: +81-(0)88-676-0069
Fax:+81-(0)88-676-0016
Mobile: 090-8974-3450
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About sptv.org :
sptv.org is pure diversity. sptv.org is the exact opposite of regular tv. It shows videos and films that have been worth producing, eluding the fate of becoming commissioned cliches. sptv.org thrives on the diversity of a digitalized culture, a large creative resource evident in its content. It creates a non-commercial space outside cheap mainstream programs. sptv.org is a product of Internet culture and will develop accordingly. sptv is a sample of that creative intellectual potential out there - wherever that is. sptv should became the first open source internet Tv. Everybody can join us
and became a broadcaster. The sptv should develop itself in a major network of broadcasters from around the world, where everybody has his broadcast hours.
Deadline:
Ongoing. We are seeking works for our 2004-2005 programming year.
What are we looking for:
- Videos should be short. under 30 min. all types of independent/
non-commercial work is accepted: experimental, documentary, music videos, vj-ing clips, narrative, non-narrative, controversial, political, personal, sexual and so on. Formats accepted: DVD, miniDV, DVCAM, or CD (avi, quicktime, mpeg at a minimum resolution of 640x480). Please include: Synopsis, CV and contact information. all submissions will be addes to the sptv.org archive for possible inclusion in future curatorial projects. Artists will be contacted for permission prior to having their work included in other programs. Unfortunately, Artist Fees cannot be paid at this time.
There are no official entry forms or entry fees.
- Public participation. If there is an event in your city and you want to be seen on sptv.org, contact us, and we can make a live stream or brodcast a recorded version of the event.
- We are also looking for people willing to cooperate in enlarging the
structure of sptv.org. Please contact us at sptv@sptv.org
Send all materials to:
on line: ftp://sptv.org with username: sptv and password: sptv ( we would encourage ftp submission)
or with post:
Daniel Gontz
gestettengasse 19/39
1030 vienna
austria
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Critical Theorist
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA
Assistant Professor. Tenure track beginning 8/05; salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. Specialist in Critical Theory relevant to contemporary art and visual culture, particularly late 20th century and current production in a global context. Required qualifications: position is open to applicants holding a Doctoral degree, or applicants with a M.F.A. (or non-U.S. equivalent) who also demonstrate a record of scholarly research and publication. Promise of scholarly productivity and excellent teaching ability. Preferred qualifications: prior teaching experience beyond graduate assistantship; expertise beyond the U.S. and Western Europe and/or expertise in forms of cultural production beyond traditional genres and contexts of visual art. Duties include: 2/2 course load, a significant portion of which is dedicated to developing and teaching courses specifically for M.F.A. students. To supervise graduate theses (M.F.A. and M.A.). To help support the developme!
nt of both Studio and Art History areas and contribute appropriately in the area of service to the university. To establish and maintain a high level of research activity. Opportunities exist to develop programming in collaboration with the Contemporary Art Museum and Graphicstudio. Dossiers from career placement services are accepted. Please send: 1) letter of application; 2) CV; 3) graduate transcripts; 4) description of teaching philosophy and interests; 5) three sample syllabi (introduction to critical theory and two in areas of specialization); 4) current and future research plans; 5) dissertation samples (including abstract) and/or samples of publications; 6) 3 reference letters, along with names and contact information. Application and materials must be received by February 21, 2005 by 5:00pm EST (January 25 to be considered for a CAA meeting, prefer that reference letters arrive by final deadline). Send application and materials to: Professor Rozalinda Borcila and!
Professor Lou Marcus, Search Chairs, Critical Theory, School !
of Art a
nd Art History, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Ave. FAH 110, Tampa, FL 33620-7350; (813)974-2360 http://www.art.usf.edu AA/EA/EO employer. Women/minorities/Vietnam veterans/persons w/disabilities strongly encouraged to apply. In accordance with Florida law, all meetings/files available to public. International applicants welcome.
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Call for participation: Compact-Impact Night vol. 4 - GAMES
Submission deadline: February 17, 2005
Exhibition dates: April 1-3, 2005
Location: Compact-Impact, located at 21 Avenue B (between 2nd and 3rd st.), New York, NY 10009
Tel: 212.677.0500
Web: http://compactimpact.com
http://vjsputnik.com/compact.html
Compact-Impact Night (CIN) is a notorious new media and design exhibition that promotes the latest ideas and creations in technology, and places them in the design and technology store Compact-Impact for public viewing.
The idea behind the CIN project is to encourage new media artists, designers and technologists to create works beyond the prototyping phase and to give them an outlet for presenting their works to the public; be it art, installation, interior design, product design, space design, web, toys, video manipulation, games, or music.
Compact-Impact has an established technology and design presence in New York for over three years. The CIN project, in the production of Doron and the help of Kiho and Yoshimi, the owners of Compact-Impact, aims at bridging the gap between concept and production by displaying artworks in a retail environment.
The Theme of the coming CIN is Games. By ‘games’ we mean small-scale computer games, Internet-based games, technology oriented toys, electronic gadgets, installation-based games, etc. We will accept all formats of games, in the conditions that they are new media based and are retail oriented. We also welcome all kinds of Prototypes.
Please consider the following factors in your work:
* Exhibition space - Artists are encouraged to visit Compact-Impact during store hours for a closer look.
*The works should be “self contained” as much as possible. The gallery can provide only limited technical assistance:
2 LCD projectors
4 PC’s
9 Flat screen VGA/RCA flat screen monitors
Wireless Web connection
Limited audio and video equipment
Other Special needs could be considered, please use the application form for detailed requests.
Application form
Name of artist(s):
Name of project:
Email:
Cell phone:
Home phone:
Biographical information:
Artist Statement:
Samples of most current and related work:
(This can include: images, media samples, DVD, CD, on-line etc.)
Proposed project:
(This should include: Concept/Context/Use of Technology)
Requirements/Instructions on the Installation and Operation of the Work
Along with your application form please provide relevant material, such as CD, DVD, DV tapes, slides, press releases, printed materials, relevant web links.
Once completed, please send your application form as well as materials to:
Compact Impact
Attn: Doron Altaratz – CIN #4
21 AVENUE B
New York, NY 10009
Applications should be post marked no later than February 17, 2005.
If you have any questions regarding the application process, please email doron@compactimpact.com.
Exhibition
The opening night event will take place on Friday, April 1, 2005. The exhibition will go on throughout the weekend, until Sunday, April 3, 2005.
An on-line website, describing the works and artists will be available as part of the exhibition.