Subject:
2nd anniv -- calls x 51 pt 1
Message:
hello all,
october marks the second anniversary of the calls and opps list. oh how time flies, etc...
i would like to take the moment to encourage you to give a little back. i have switched the donation script so you can contribute directly to my web hosting bill (a new feature added by my service provider).
please make a contribution to support the calls and opps list.
you can do it by clicking here:
http://www.dreamhost.com/donate.cgi?id=752
or give howard dean some money: http://www.deanforamerica.com/ . in this country where we consume everything, buy some politics. or maybe buy some wesley clark. both of them seem like they have a chance. anyone is better than george the second.
okay,
michael
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STUDIO SPACE FOR ARTISTS AND WRITERS
Beacon Cultural Foundation
(Beacon NY)
BEACON CULTURAL FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES
BULLDOG STUDIOS
AFFORDABLE WORK SPACE FOR ARTISTS OF ALL DISCIPLINES
NOW AVAILABLE IN A CLASSIC, TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY FORMER HIGH SCHOOL IN BEACON, NEW YORK
“To visit Beacon now is to visit a place where something more ambitious than commercial desire is beginning to win out, where the productive energy of the future looks promising.”
The New York Times, June 2003
(Beacon, N.Y.) – The Beacon Cultural Foundation announces the launch of Bulldog Studios, a 125,000 square foot former high school now available to artists of all disciplines for rent at affordable prices. Bulldog Studios will provide more than 60 classroom-sized working studio spaces for visual and performing artists, including painters, sculptors, photographers, ceramicists, jewelry makers, graphic designers, architects and theater artists, as well as other individuals involved in arts-related endeavors.
“The coming together in a single facility of artists, cultural and educational organizations, and creative design studios will provide a unique opportunity for creative individuals and organizations to develop relationships that will lead to the development of a vital, sustainable creative community,“ said Sara Pasti, Director, Beacon Cultural Foundation, the cultural organization leading the creation of the studios.
Rental rates for Bulldog Studio space run from $.65 - $1.00 per square foot per month depending on the characteristics of the individual spaces. Spaces with large windows, elevator access, special equipment, for example, will lease for higher rates than those without. Bulldog Studios are located at 211 Fishkill Avenue, Beacon, one block north of Main Street. The studios are an hour’s drive from New York City; a short distance from the Beacon Metro-North commuter rail line; and, near Beacon’s Tallix Foundry.
The building also includes large multi-purpose spaces, including a former auditorium, cafeteria and gym, available on a short-term basis for art-related programs and community activities including exhibitions, theater, music, dance and film presentations. All resident artists and organizations will be required to provide a minimum of four hours a month of public benefit activities, which may take the form of workshop offerings, participation in monthly "open studios" or exhibitions, or internships for local high school students.
The Bulldog Studios is a project of the Beacon Cultural Foundation, a non-profit organization that develops and promotes artistic, cultural and related community programs and activities, and develops facilities that present such programs and activities. In addition to Bulldog Studios, the Beacon Cultural Foundation offers the following programs: Artist-in-Residence, offering short and long-term opportunities for artists to develop new work; and, Beacon Project Space and Bulldog Productions, presenting programs in contemporary art, including exhibitions, films, performance and conversations on art, culture and community issues.
The Beacon Cultural Foundation Executive Director is Sara J. Pasti. Real estate developer William S. Ehrlich is Chairman of the Board of Directors and David A. Ross, former director of the Whitney Museum of American Art and SFMOMA, serves as Board President. The Foundation’s activities and programs are made possible through grants with other support from the Beacon Terminal Associates, William S. Ehrlich, the Schwartz Family Foundation, the LEF Foundation, the City of Beacon, the Beacon City School District, the Dutchess County Arts Council, the Bank of New York, the Holiday Inn/Hampton Inn, individuals and local businesses.
For more information about the Beacon Cultural Foundation and Bulldog Studios please visit www.beaconprojectspace.org or call 845.831.1277.
Application Date: 12/31/03
Sarah Pasti
sarapasti@beaconprojectspace.com
(845)831-1277
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PUBLIC ART OPPORTUNITY
Cultural Affairs Division, Arlington, VA
(Arlington VA)
PUBLIC ART OPPORTUNITY
Arlington Boulevard (Rt. 50)/Courthouse Road & 10th Street
Interchanges Project Request for Qualifications Number 450-03
The Arlington County, Virginia Public Art Program seeks an artist to work closely with a project team comprising engineers, planners and landscape architects, to develop artwork/aesthetic treatments to be incorporated into a major Virginia Department of Transportation project to improve traffic flow at two major interchanges of interstate and local roadways in Arlington County, Virginia.
To download the project description and instructions on how to apply, please visit:
http://www.arlingtonarts.org/cultural_affairs/public_art.html#Artist
Application Date: 10/28/03
Jennifer Riddell, Public Art Projects Curator
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CALL FOR CERAMIC ARTISTS
Perkins Center for the Arts
(Moorestown NJ)
An opprortunity for ceramic artists to expand their professional repertoire through the use of a three chambered wood fired kiln, a partnership project of Perkins Center for the Arts and Appel Farm Arts & Music Center located in Salem County, New Jersey.
Explore the possibilites of wood firing during 3 weekend firings from 1/04 - 5/04. Endless potentional for learning; from glaze experimentation to fire vs. form to the inspiration of working alongside fellow artists.
Submit 6 slides of current work, resume, a one paragragh statement of interest and a self-addressed envelope.
Application Date: 11/01/03
Stacey Harris, Program Director
395 Kings Highway
Moorestown, NJ 08057
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CALL FOR ARTISTS, RESIDENCY
The Art Centre
(Martinsburg WV)
This is an open call for a teaching and working residency. You must reside in NY, NJ, or PA. All media and forms of presentation considered. Time frame of one to six months, from Apr. 1 '05 through Mar. 31 '05. We hope to foster your continued work and development as well. Raise our eyebrows. We are a non-profit org.
Application Date: 10/31/03
The Art Centre 208 S. Queen St. Martinsburg WV 25401 304 263 0224 www.theartcentre.org
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CALL FOR ARTISTS
Old Firehouse Art Center
(Longmont CO)
The Old Firehouse Art Center in Longmont, Colorado is now accepting exhibition proposals for our 2005 exhibit season. Artists in all mediums are encouraged to apply. Interested artists should send an artist statement, resume, a one - two page description of exhibition being proposed, 10 slides (per artist), and a slide list. The slides must be labeled (not with adhesive stickers) with the artist name, title, a mark indicating the top of the slide, and numbered to correspond with the slide list. The numbered slide list must include the artist name, title, medium, date the work was completed, and dimensions (W x H x D). The addition of relevant support materials, such as newspaper articles, is optional. Please do not use staples or binders when organizing individual submissions. Group proposals in binders are fine.
INCOMPLETE SUBMISSIONS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.
Please send submissions with a SASE to PO Box 783, Longmont, CO 80502-0783.
visit www.firehouseart.org for critieria information or to request a prostectus.
Application Date: 12/31/03
Malia Thompson
303.651.2787
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CALL FOR ARTISTS
Wiselephant
(Brooklyn NY)
Wiselephant, a new company that assists artists with getting their work in front of an audience, is looking for artists to be part of their on-going advertising campaign. They need willing artist volunteers to have their pictures taken either in their studios or in real-life situations (i.e., waiting at a bus stop). This picture may then grace the cover of a postcard, banner ad, or print ad. A caption will state the artist's name, what they do, and any web site or link for the artist. It is Wiselephant's goal to help real working artists market themselves as well as to help promote them.
If you are interested in being a part of this campaign, contact:
jason@wiselephant.com
718-625-9258
visit us at: www.wiselephant.com
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ARTS TEACHER FELLOWSHIP
Surdna Foundation
(New York NY)
The Surdna Foundation invites arts teachers from specialized, public arts high schools to apply for funding for artistic development through its Arts Teachers Fellowship Program. The program offers teachers the opportunity to immerse themselves in their own creative work, interact with other professional artists, and stay current with new practices. APPLY NOW
Application Date: 11/24/03
surdnafellowship@mindspring.com
Telephone: 212-557-0010 ext. 256
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FENWAY ARTISTIC MARKERS
UrbanArts Institute
(Boston MA)
Boston, MA -- The Fenway Alliance, a consortium of academic, cultural, and arts organizations working collaboratively to enhance the cultural, environmental, and economic vitality of the Fenway area, is inviting professional artists to submit qualifications for a project to create artistic markers in the Fenway Cultural District. The Fenway Alliance project is to create artistic markers for the Fenway Cultural District that identify this as a distinctive, culturally rich area of Boston that is diverse, lively, and welcoming to both residents and visitors. The Fenway Alliance has received a grant from New England Foundation for the Arts to begin planning these artistic markers. UrbanArts Institute at Massachusetts College of Art is administering the call to artists for this stage of the planning process. Selected artists will be paid $800 to create full proposals for the artistic markers. Commissioned artists will be expected to work with community and Boston Department of Public Works in the construction and installation of artistic markers. The artistic markers will first be installed along Huntington Avenue/ Avenue of the Arts. There is $300,000 for construction and installation along Boston’s Avenue of the Arts; installation on other streets in the Fenway Cultural District will be dependent upon additional funding. This project is limited to artists located in Massachusetts.
Key Objectives for the Artistic Marker:
Identify and unify the Fenway Cultural District
o highlight cultural and educational character of neighborhood
o distinguish the District as a lively, diverse, hip cultural destination
o High quality and artistic merit—elegant
o Reflect diversity of Boston
o Be artistically and visually interesting—bold
o Easily replicable, artistic markers will need to be compact and fabrication simple enough to fit in multiple locations
o work will first be installed along Huntington Ave, and then throughout the rest of the District with the goal to invite visitors and residents to walk, look around, and discover more of the District
o have universal appeal—interesting, safe and accessible for people of all ages, perhaps include a fun element for children
o encourage people to slow down and look around-- create interest in the middle of long blocks and make people feel welcome and safe at night
o Could have a lighting element
o Sensitive to a variety of pedestrian needs, especially elderly, disabled and children
Interested artists should contact the UrbanArts Institute at Massachusetts College of Art. If you are an artist already represented in the UrbanArts Artist Registry, simply drop us a note (fax or email acceptable-no phone calls) to let us know that you would like to be considered for this project.
If you are NEW to the UrbanArts’ registry, we invite you to submit your materials for consideration. Please send:
o Resume with current contact information.
o Up to sixteen clearly labeled slides of relevant past work (leave top row of slide sheet empty).
o A corresponding annotated image list with title, media, dimensions, location, brief description and date of the work, project budget, and project partners, if any.
o Additional support material, including press clippings or other relevant information on past projects.
No faxes or emailed entries will be accepted. Materials will not be returned. Submissions will become part of the UrbanArts Institute’s Artist Registry for consideration in future projects. Please do not send proposals at this stage.
Application Date: 10/31/03
Christina Lanzl, Registry/Project Coordinator
ATTN: Fenway Markers
UrbanArts Institute at Massachusetts College of Art
621 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115-5801
Tel: 617-879-7973
Fax: 617-879-7969
Email: christina.lanzl@massart.edu
Web: www.urbanartsinstitute.org
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CDS/HONICKMAN BOOK PRIZE IN PHOTOGRAPHY CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY STUDIES
Center for Documentary Studies
(Durham NC)
Deadline: September 10, 2004
The Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography is a biennial prize of $3,000 in grant money, inclusion in a traveling exhibition, and most importantly, the publication of a book of photography to be published by Duke University Press in association with Lyndhurst Books of the Center for Documentary Studies. Maria Morris Hambourg, Curator of Photography at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, will judge the entries and write an introduction for the book.
Deadline: September 10, 2004.
To learn more, go to http://cds.aas.duke.edu/grants/index.html or call (919) 660-3662. Or, for a complete set of guidelines, send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to CDS/THF First Book Prize in Photography, Center for Documentary Studies, 1317 West Pettigrew Street, Durham, NC 27705.
CDS/THF First Book Prize in Photography, Center for Documentary Studies, 1317 West Pettigrew Street, Durham, NC 27705.
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Three Internet/Media Vacancies, Indiana University, Bloomington
The Department of Telecommunications seeks three additional tenureline faculty. One of the hires may be at the associate or full level. Candidates should hold the Ph.D., M.F.A. or other appropriate terminal degree, and present a promising program of (1) scholarly research using social scientific, legal, or historical methods related to electronic media/communications, or (2) creative activity in interactive new media.
The department offers a B.A. in Telecommunications as well as M.A., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees. It features a special program on the graduate level in new media (MIME) and a joint M.S./J.D. degree with the IU School of Law. It also offers an undergraduate Certificate in New Media and Interactive Storytelling.
Applicants should submit: 1) a cover letter summarizing their qualifications for the position, 2) a current vita, 3) selected publications or a portfolio documenting recent creative work, including recent student work if relevant and 4) evidence of effective teaching. Three letters of recommendation should be submitted directly by recommenders.
Deadline: 19 November
Info:
Professor Walter Gantz
gantz@indiana.edu
http://www.indiana.edu/~telecom
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rebel: art
connecting art and activism a german eZine about art and activism looking for collaborators now we¥re planning to create an international print-issue (in german and english) with cd - if there are some guys¥n girls out there who would like to work with us - hey, you¥re welcome. We¥re a collective of students, artists and activists and this is a non-commercial project - so, if you¥re interested email.
Info:
alainbieber@yahoo.de
http://www.rebelart.net
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Extensions: The Online Journal for Embodied Technology
The online journal for embodied technology the Dance and New Media Project at the University of California, Los Angeles, is sponsoring a new and innovative online journal. The journal welcomes submissions from artists and scholars working at the intersection of the body and new technologies for the first issue scheduled to premiere in cyberspace by the new year.
We encourage the submission of interactive sound and visual media Streaming media should be submitted in QuickTime format and no longer than 5 minutes.
Deadline: 31 October
Info:
Extensions: The Online Journal for Embodied Technology
University of California, Los AngelesDepartment of World Arts and Cultures
11000 Kinross Ave, Suite 200
Los Angeles, CA 90095
extensionsjournal@yahoo.com
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Assistant Professorship
The Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine, announces a tenure-track opening for a beginning Assistant Professor in New Media with specialization in the history and critical theory of new media technologies (such as digital imaging, internet, web, and virtual reality), beginning 1 July 2004.
Applicants preferably will have expertise in one or more of the following areas: the relation between new media and visuality (cinematic, televisual, photographic), sexuality, and race. The new media specialist will be responsible for teaching undergraduate core courses on New Technologies and Visuality, Media Theory, and for developing other courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, which would expand the program's current coverage of film and televisual media to include the technological reconfigurations of production, distribution, and reception of mediated images and new interfaces. The new media specialist should have research and teaching emphases and training in histories of technology (optical, telephonic, electronic) and theories of technology and new media and a Ph.D. in an appropriate area.
Applications should include Statement of current research, writing or publication sample, teaching interests, curriculum vitae, two sample course syllabi, and three letters of reference.
Deadline: 15 November
Info:
University of California, Irvine
Professor Akira Lippit
Chair, Search Committee
Department of Film and Media Studies 235 HIB
Irvine, CA 92697-2435
http://www.humanities.uci.edu/filmstudies
alippit@uci.edu
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Global networks after de Landas
The American Comparative Literature Association will host a meeting April 15 to 18 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Global networks after de Landas A Thousand Years of Non-Linear History and Negris Empire Taking its point of departure from two texts; de Landa's A Thousand Years of Non-Linear History, and Hardt and Negri's Empire, proposals should address any of these texts in the context of contemporary issues of globalization. Specific proposals addressing the ways in which these texts transform the concept of networks in a comparative and/or global context are especially welcome. Please send abstracts to both Phillip Armstrong, and Gene Holland.
Info:
Phillip Armstrong and Gene Holland
Ohio Statue University
armstrong.202@osu.edu
holland.l@osu.edu
Department of Comparative Studies
Ohio State University
308 Dulles Hall
230 West 17th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
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Focus on NICA, Yangon
NICA (Networking and Initiatives for Culture and the Arts) NICA is a newly established art center aimed at contributing to development in the fields of culture and the arts. Located in Yangon, Myanmar, the centre is in its founding stage and currently managed by IFIMA (International Forum for InterMedia Art), working directly with local and international artists, writers, educators and trainers to create a platform for mutual sharing and learning across various art disciplines. It will also offer training schemes and educational programs to promote a well-rounded development of arts and cultural practices, focusing on aspects that will range from skill training, studio practice, theoretical studies, to curatorial writing and project management, etc.
A primary objective of the art centre is the development of collaboration, networking and resource-sharing especially between Myanmar arts and cultural practitioners with those from the region, and also from other parts of the world. NICA welcomes interested parties to contact us about possible collaborations and participation in our programs.
'Open Academy 2' is among NICA's planned activities. This event is tentatively scheduled for December 2003 and is planned for Yangon and Mandalay. It will include a symposium and workshops to promote creative exchange, collaborations and resource-sharing among Myanmar artists and foreign participants. This event will build on the achievements of COLLABORATION, NETWORKING AND RESOURCE-SHARING: MYANMAR except on a smaller scale.
NICA will have these four main functions:
:: to nurture artistic and cultural practices; through training and educational programmes, creative workshops, symposiums, seminars, talks, etc;
:: to support the creative and intellectual impulse; through residency programmes, adoption of projects by Myanmar art practitioners etc;
:: to act as a resource and networking centre; for local and international artists, art critics, curators and cultural workers for the purpose of networking, resource-sharing and resource development; and
:: to provide space and organizational support services for arts and cultural activities
NICA's proposed programs are divided into three categories: Residency and Training Programs; International Networking and Resource-sharing Programs and General Programs/Services. Each of the proposed programs in these categories will be carried out independently of each other.
General Programs and Services will include:
:: Art and Educational Activities for Children
:: Facilitation of Local Art Activities
:: Archive and Research Centre
:: Art Consultancy Service
:: Discourse Initiation
:: Publications
:: Collaboration with Local Organisations Across Disciplines
Info:
47, Khaymar Road
San Chaung Township
(adjacent with Kyi Myin Dine Township)
Yangon, Myanmar
Tel: 95 1 510002
nica@yangon.net.mm
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SIGGRAPH 2004 Calls for Participation
ThanX to Computer Graphics World
ACM SIGGRAPH announced SIGGRAPH 2004, the 31st International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, 8 - 12 August at the Los Angeles Convention Center, is seeking contributors to all programs. The Call for Participation is available at http://www.siggraph.org/s2004/cfp/.
"Through our Call for Participation, the SIGGRAPH 2004 committee is seeking pioneers, creators, experts and virtuosos to present their newest achievements in computer graphics and interactive techniques," said Dena Slothower, SIGGRAPH 2004 Conference Chair from Stanford University. "In addition to core topics including rendering, modeling, and animation-where we're seeing exciting new advances in real-time processing, we encourage submissions from new technology and tangential areas such as: human-computer interaction, computer-aided design, computer vision, digital video, robotics, visualization, graphics hardware, and applications such as web graphics, and computer games."
The SIGGRAPH 2004 Call for Participation is looking for both first-time and veteran contributors in three areas: presentations, experiences, and services. The presentations are Courses, Educators Program, Panel & Special Sessions, Posters, Papers, Sketches, and Web Graphics. The experiences are Art Gallery: Synaesthesia, Computer Animation Festival, and Emerging Technologies. The call also seeks volunteers and support for service areas: GraphicsNet, International Resources, and Student Opportunities.
Posters provide a unique venue for research that is still formative or of tributary value to presentations in the Papers or Sketches programs, including:
- Ideas that are interesting and valuable, but of interest to a niche audience.
- Incremental results that are important but don't comprise a full paper by themselves.
- Preliminary results in which the full course of an experiment has not yet been run.
- Partial results that demonstrate proof of concept but have not yet solved all problems.
- The latest new results that weren't available in time for the earlier deadlines.
Poster sessions also provide a unique style of presentation. Unlike the one-way lecturing of Papers and Sketches presentations, poster sessions allow informal personal interaction between presenters and attendees. This is particularly valuable for new research, because it allows contributors to receive feedback and ideas in the early stages of their work. The Poster submission deadline is set later than other submission deadlines to allow maximum opportunity to present your graphic gems. See www.siggraph.org/s2004/cfp/posters for submission information.
The popular 5k award competition for excellence in web design and production will be part of the SIGGRAPH 2004 Web Graphics program. The 5k competition challenges web developers to create the most innovative and stimulating work possible in less than 5,120 bytes. Entries can include virtually any client-side technology in use on the web, including Flash, DHTML, Java, SVG, X3D, and weirder things that you need plug-ins for. For details, see www.siggraph.org/s2004/cfp/web.
By its very nature, SIGGRAPH attracts an exclusive group of buyers from around the world, across all facets of this expanding technology. Much of the research in computer graphics is exploding into everyday products that are vital in today's technology-hungry culture, both on the job and at leisure. Organizations that offer products and services used in computer graphics and interactive techniques will participate in the SIGGRAPH 2004 Exhibition, 10 - 12 August.
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After Social Construction: Technology, Knowledge and Society
ThanX to ACTLAB
A Special Issue of _Social Epistemology_
500 word proposals due: 1 December 2003
Submission Deadline: 1 March 2004
Issue Editors Jonathan Sterne and Joan Leach
Formatted .html and .pdf calls available at http://www.pitt.edu/~jsterne/asc.html.
As promoted by Bruno Latour, Wiebe Bijker, Trevor Pinch, and many others, social construction of technology (SCOT) approaches have been a major force in technology studies. They have offered vital alternatives to positivistic and deterministic conceptions of technology; rich notions of human and technological agency; and new objects and approaches for the cultural, historical and philosophical approaches to technology. At the same time, critics have charged that SCOT does nothing more than repeatedly discover that it objects are "socially constructed."
As the approach becomes more established in technology studies, and as authors like Ian Hacking challenge the limits of the SCOT paradigm, we want to know what comes next. Is this a moment to find the next step after social construction? Or is this a moment where we can build a new social epistemology of technology that presupposes a constructionist paradigm?
For our special issue of _Social Epistemology_, the editors seek two kinds of submissions:
***full length essays (approximately 9000 words) that challenge, extend, rethink or pose robust alternatives to the SCOT approach
***short position papers of no more than 1000 words for a forum on the SCOT paradigm and the future of technology studies.
Visit the _Social Epistemology_ page at Routledge for full style guidelines: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/sepauth.html
Email submissions are preferred, though snail mail is acceptable. Send all submissions and queries to:
Jonathan Sterne
Department of Communication
University of Pittsburgh
1117 Cathedral of Learning
Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA
Email MS Word or .rtf encoded attachments to: jsterne@pitt.edu