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SOUNDTOYS. 2003

www.soundtoys.net

We are looking for contributions of audio visual interactive works, net art, interface design, application software, generative music, 3d environments and a submission of papers online. Works may take the form of generative arts, digital audio and multiple user environments. They could be described as "new audio visual experiences", or an experiential audio visual synthesis which explore the parameters of our new media world. This work is for a Soundtoys site update and for selected exhibitions.

The Soundtoys site aims to provide a platform for the very best in audio-visual net artworks to be presented and debated. If you feel that your work will make a valuable contribution to our collective, then please send it in. By partaking you will be fostering the growth of the soundtoys community and gaining respect and recognition for what you do.

Soundtoys has been featured at Sonar, on Sonify, in the Independent, and on English TV. Soundtoys has also been exhibited at international festivals including den Hague film festival in Holland, and Zeppelin in Barcelona. It was also included at the Garage festival in Germany. Soundtoys also organized its own exhibitions which the last was at the ICA in London from June to July 2002. The exhibition called Convergence featured over 100 artists across the globe.

We are seeking new work for the 2003 series of events and for the website.

1. New online audio visual experiences

Works for the Soundtoys Web portal. Send in your latest "new audio visual experience". We are interested in the use of all internet friendly programming technologies eg shockwave, flash, vrml, java etc.

2. Installations.

If you make interactive installations send in 400 words about the work and four images of the work. We are interested in responsive environments, soundspaces, the city as sound.

3. Software artists and Musicians software.

This year we are particularly interested in artists groups/sole artists who generate digital audio-visuals through max/msp and pd. This will be included in a new area, as an expose of new developments by emerging or established software artists. If you make patches or stand alone applications we would like to hear from you. In addition, if you write unique and innovative audio visual applications using any language, we would like you to send it in.

4. Journal.

If you write about new media, digital arts and have something to say , and would like to be in included in the Soundtoys journal, please send us a finished text. We welcome texts, papers or articles related to this medium, for posting in the journal, to help inform and develop the critical debate. Through artists' contributions we aim to explore the parameters of this new media world, and to push the current definitions of new and online interactive music and visually inspired audio visual systems. Works will be included in the soundtoys project and may also be included in our upcoming book.

Application form online.

DEADLINE MARCH 15 2003

SOUNDTOYS.NET
web and info... .... http://www.soundtoys.net
email .......... ..... info@soundtoys.net










arso_proje(c)t#1
A tryptical Info
2003, February

--[opening]-
Medias turns the News to histories. Events are making scenarios by the
journalists
as they must tell a good story. More Narration than any Speech is agreeding
to
captivate the attention of the public. Acting stories and their
chronological performances
in the News work out the mirror of all three the objectives, the
circumstances and the
causes of the human action. In "Time and Narration" the philosopher Paul
Ricoeur
shows how the event happening is confused and anachronistic -without its
beginning,
without its end. In fact Narration would look like a clear and a readable
contribution
to the Real topics.

--[method]-
We ask for a multimedia history looking toward actual events. Mediatic News
or usual
event from your own, could be. This storu will form a narration from the
information of
the elective event according the sort of questions about, then : who? What?
When? How?
Why? Whose? Which objective? And regarding a chronological construction.
Every
period of the narrative performance (from the beginning to the end) would
integrate
all three the iconography, the sounds and the texts.

--[installation]-
Html environment : Please edit your installation into one or several pages
html
linked together, would be .jpg .gif .swf .dcr ans so on ...
Sound files: Mp3 128kbps, 44.1kHz stereo.
One or several persons could conduct together one project.
The contributions will be online in a deda space from arsonore.net
Deadline 2003, March 10th
Please send your compressed Work (.zip or .ace or .rar) to :
arsoprojet@arsonore.net


More Info: icq # 169786854

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Poems that Go (www.poemsthatgo.com) publishes Web-specific new media, hypermedia, and electronic poetry, prose, and short narrative. We are open to all forms of multimedia, computer-generated, and interactive work that include (but are not limited to) HTML, Shockwave, Quicktime, streaming media, Flash, Java, and DHTML content.

We are currently accepting submissions for the upcoming Spring 2003 issues of Poems that Go which will feature Sound Work, poetry that uses audio (found sounds, music, spoken word, etc.) in new and innovative ways.

Submit a query with a brief synopsis of your work, or send your url to ingrid@poemsthatgo.com by March 10, 2003.








Hello,

Beginning this year, "(dis)junctions: morphing the written word," the University of California, Riverside's 10th annual Humanities Conference, will be hosting film screenings and a discussion panel addressing the concept of "cinetax". This is a great opportunity for filmmakers to present their work in an academic environment. Please forward the following call for submissions to the listserv.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Sarah Caylor and Zina Rodriguez
Film Co-Chairs
(dis)junctions: morphing the written word
University of California, Riverside



To: Department Chairs, Graduate Advisors, faculty, staff, graduate students and other interested parties
Re: Call for Submissions, (dis)junctions: morphing the written word

cinetax

This call for submissions is for a proposed panel and screenings to be held at "(dis)junctions: morphing the written word," the University of California, Riverside's 10th Annual Humanities Conference which will take place April 11-12, 2003.

This is the first year that films will be included in the conference so submissions will largely determine the focus of the screenings. With this in mind we would like to generally focus on films that directly or indirectly comment on the language of film. Themes can include, but are certainly not limited to: interaction between text and image, literary based themes, films that critically address suture, simulacra or memory, film as mechanical production, filmic space and time, film and history, photographic themes, semiotics in film, strategies and themes from Cubism, Dada, Surrealism, etc.

We are primarily looking for short films (1-30 minutes) and encourage videos, documentaries, mockumentaries, political rants, comedies, animated films, infrared, surrealist, deconstructive, minimalist, experimental films, and anything else that is brilliant, creative, unsettling, thought-provoking, strange, or amusing.

We would also like to organize a discussion panel at the conference with directors who are able to attend.

There is no entry fee.

All submissions must be postmarked by March 10.

Preview tapes (on DVD or VHS tapes) along with an abstract, no longer than one page, including contact information and running time should be mailed to:

(dis)junctions, morphing the written word, Cinetax
English Department
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521-0323

*Screenings will be done in DVD, 16mm or Beta formats. If you would like your preview tapes returned, you MUST include a self addressed, stamped envelope. Submissions material will be treated with care, however, we cannot be responsible for loss or damage.

For more specific information on other proposed panels at the conference please refer to the database of calls for papers on English and American Literature and Culture, hosted by the University of Pennsylvania: www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/archive/Graduate/ (look under “CFP: (dis)junctions:..”).

For more information, please visit our web site at: www.english.ucr.edu/gsea/index1.htm, or contact our Film Co-Chairs, Sarah Caylor and Zina Rodriguez .








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Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Stills
Stills is seeking a Curator
to explore and develop exhibition concepts and artists projects relating to the photographic and digital image, within local, national and international contexts
Responsibilities include
- Articulating the context and aims and objectives of Stills' artistic programme through written texts, exhibitions and projects, both independently and in collaboration with partner institutions.
- Initiating and overseeing events, conferences, seminars and public meetings to provide background information and new perspectives on photography and digital media.
- Creating networks and contacts in and outside Scotland that promote knowledge of and interest in Stills' projects and associated artists.
- Providing advice, information and critical texts about Stills' projects and associated artists to external partners, the media, the public, Stills participants and other professionals.

The position is part time (equivalent of 30 % with negotiable working periods depending on demands of the artistic programme). Tenure is limited to two years.
Rok prijave: 14/03/03
 
Kontakt:
Stills
Joanna Shepherd
23 Cockburn St
EH1 2BP Edinburgh
UK
tel: 00 44 131 622 6200
info@stills.org
http://www.stills.org/






Geneva, Switzerland
Datum dogodka: 2003, november 27-29th
University of Geneva
Texts in performance
www.unige.ch/lettres/framo/cernet/colloc...
Abstracts of about 250 words (in English or in French) should reach the organizers by March 31, 2003.

Rationale:

Literary studies have renewed their critical and theoretical language for twenty years in order to question the status of writings and texts from an factual perspective: dynamics, processes, diachronia, genesis, variants, hypertextuality, mobility, generativity, flows, illimitation...

These concepts seek to question the fixed, defined and definitive status of texts among which 19th century works witness the most intense instances of monumentalization: by the intertwined workings of philology, publishing and literary history, works have gained the stability of their inscription, institutions have constructed and instructed the consecration of classics and anthologies have enabled their promotion and distribution.

Ideally confined to pure abstraction and detached from its text (text only), the work of literature can be read today as a function of the fluctuations of its genesis, of the dynamics of its demonstration, of the concrete density of its implementation, and of the event of its performance.

This revision draws considerably on modern and contemporary artistic innovation that has introduced or reactivated in the literary and poetic fields the improvisation of happening, the corporeal and plastic expression of dramatic arts, and the modularity of information systems.

Under the banner title of "texts in performance", the CeRNET invites theorists, critics and text practitioners to reflect on the contemporary mobilization of writing, amidst the traces of its project (drafts, sketches, forewords, and other listings) as well as its recordings and inscription. This very mobilization opens new spaces of manifestation and exhibition/exposition.

Several tasks are to be considered on the research agenda:
First and foremost, to analyze the ways in which authors, critics and theorists have come to reconsider the fixedness of the writing, and to reinfuse dynamics in it.
To map out the different implementation means by which literary texts are transformed into events in order to subject them to critique.
Finally, to assess their consequences on key concepts such as "identity" or "borders" of the literary work.

Key Words:
text performance
text in motion
text genetic, text generation
text spectacular-ization
text dramatification
text as scenario, text scenarization
sound text
visible text
object text
text outside of the text
text improvisation
text variation
text notation

Areas of research:
Various 20th century text experiments represent the first research area in the colloquium.

At the same time, the history of literary production evinces how medieval works, for instance, already moved the text away from the locus where literary traditions relegated it. Further, the study of text reception shows to what extent any literary work is subject to multiple readings that problematize its status as a text.

The CeRNET invites you to submit propositions for presentations that address these novel text spaces from various perspectives, such as literary creation, history, critique and theory.
Rok prijave: 31/03/03
 
Kontakt:
Ambroise BARRAS and Eric EIGENMANN, CeRNET
Dpt de Francais moderne
3, place de l'Université
CH - 1211 Geneva
fax: +41 22 705 7305
cernet@lettres.unige.ch








Hagen, Germany
KARL ERNST OSTHAUS-MUSEUM HAGEN
Karl Ernst Osthaus Prize
Applicants must be at least 35 years old and must already have had at least one exhibition of their own work in a publicly funded institution (museum, art gallery, art society, etc.).
The city of Hagen (Germany) established the Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum back in 1946 in memory of Karl Ernst Osthaus, curator, art communicator and originator of the Folkwang Concept. Starting in 2001, an international competition will be held every two years for the Karl Ernst Osthaus Prize, a cultural award by the city of Hagen, sponsored by the Hagen Sparkasse.

The prize will be awarded by a jury of renowned experts for the best design for an exhibition to be held in the great hall of the Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum. Applicants must be at least 35 years old and must already have had at least one exhibition of their own work in a publicly funded institution (museum, art gallery, art society, etc.). Once the prizewinner has accepted the award, he or she will carry out the design in the Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum. The actual exhibition will be held within a year of the award in cooperation with the museum management; and will be financed with the award money. The monetary award is 25.000 Euro. A catalogue will be published to document both the design and the exhibition itself.

Only those contributions will be accepted which depict details of the proposal within the floor-plan of the Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum supplied together with the application-form. The jury's decisions are final. They cannot be questioned by legal action. In case of damage or loss of material submitted by the applicant the Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum will be liable only if it's mishandling can be proved.

The closing date for entries is March 31, 2003 (postmark deadline). The exhibition of the Karl Ernst Osthaus-Prize 2003 is scheduled for September 21 to November 16, 2003.

Jury: Johann Dieckmann - head of the department of cultural affairs of the city of Hagen, Miran Mohar – artist, Ljubljana, Anne Blümel. – Galerie Lelong Zürich, Prof. Dr. Hubertus Gaßner – Director Museum Folkwang Essen, Marianne Pitzen - artist and director of Women’s Museum Bonn/Berlin, secretary of the jury: Dr. Michael Fehr – Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum.
Rok prijave: 31/03/03
 
Kontakt:
KARL ERNST OSTHAUS-MUSEUM HAGEN
Hochstraße 73
D-58095 Hagen
Germany
fax: +49 (1) 2331 207 402
keom@hagen.de
http://www.keom.de










Skopje, Macedonia
359 Degrees ú Network for Local and Subaltern Hermeneutics
The House ú The Chaos. The Woman and the Destroyed-Home Discourse Re-built
Call for papers
At this stage the organisers are preparing the publication [the No. 9 in the 359 Degrees BOOKS series] consisted of papers and texts related to the topic. The first ones [from the symposium held in Ohrid, Macedonia on September 21, 2002] are already edited. But, as the project provoke larger interest we decided to open this Call for papers for anyone interested to apply with her/is thoughts, remarks, impression on this, for us in the region, rather important topic.

Therefore, we are inviting anyone interested in this project and topic to be a part with her/is text in the significant series of books published in/from Macedonia. The length of the paper is not limited and the selection process is not designed. These two issues are important for us, since we would like to publish, as much as it is possible, different voices from different parts of the world, since we all share some experiences from the proposed point of view.

The deadline for the papers is March 1, 2003. And, please submit a short descriptive c.v.

The only thing that we are asking for is to send the paper in English and in rtf format.

Below, please, find the project proposal where you can find the basic elements of it. If you are providing interest or if you need some more information, do not hesitate to contact us.

Sincerely,
Nebojsa Vilic

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GENERAL INFORMATION

1. Project name:

THE HOUSE ú THE CHAOS. The Woman and the Destroyed-Home Discourse Re-built

2. Synopsis:

Regional project for critical reading and interpretation of segments from the recent cultural understanding of the destroyed home from a women point of view, based on the specifies and differences of the local cultures in the South-East European region [SEE]. Through practical and theoretical exchange among artists and art and cultural practitioners to achieve recent understanding what are the causes and the consequences of the war and the displacement from the home. To juxtapose the beauty and the cultural heritage of Ohrid with its 19th century urban housing with the usual/practised interpretation of the war-image of the house over-floating the media as a conversation between the had, lost and the re-built home of the woman. The project aims, through painted images and spoken/written words to open the discussion about the building, loosing and re-building of the home. In this case, the meaning and the role of the women in these and such circumstances are expressing important significance. Putting the question in-between the physical and symbolic realm of the home, the project tends to intervene into the stereotypes about the issues of the women at the SEE, trying to improve that she always re-builds what the men will destroy. In that sense, the project seeks for the images from the imagination of the women artists, the ways how they are making, implementing and developing their visions, and, lastly, to enable a female platform for social engagement of these points of view in the ú basically ú masculine society. The artistic and theoretical views, as the organisers are expecting, will enforce the public discussion in the cultural and the social circles around the region.

Fields of interest and research: - Gender, postcolonial and subaltern studies, multicultural and multiethnic discourse, democratisation of the structure of the transitional societies in SEE, inter-regional exchange.

Type of activities: - Workshop, meeting and exchanging point for artists and art and cultural, and social practitioners.

Form of activities: - Open air painting, round table, lectures and discussions.

3. Location: Kaneo ú one of the eldest parts of the city of Ohrid, Macedonia. (The town of Ohrid is under protection of UNESCO). Local contact person: Stevce Kanevce

4. Organisers (organisations and contact persons):
- IKON, Skopje; Ganco Hadzi-Panzov 1, 1000 Skopje ú Macedonia; E: ikon@unet.com.mk; T&F: + 389 2 177072; GSM: +389 70 221609 - Contact person: Mr. Klime Korobar
- NGO 359° ú Network for Local and Subaltern Hermeneutics, Oktomvriska revolucija 12-1/9, 1000 Skopje ú Macedonia; W: members.nbci.com/web359; E: 359net@mail.com.mk; T&F: +389 2 225149, GSM: +389 70 265695; - Contact person: Mr. Nebojsa Vilic, Ph.D.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

Aim
The starting position of the project OThe House ú The Chaos. The Woman and the Destroyed-Home Discourse Re-built is that the female aspects, understanding, role and possibilities in post-war times are extremely important. The cultural tradition at the SEE, denominated and dominated by the prejudice of the males' rights to bring decisions (as a stereotyped image), in these war and post-war times are mirroring and reflecting the actual geo-political situation, as well. The project is aiming to innovate, introduce and promote different critical approaches, kinds of thought and practices based on the actual ideological and political influence on the cultural field through the examples of visual and art-theoretical works/production. It is a regional project that critically re-reads and re-interprets the segments of the actual conditions at the SEE that are based, on the other hand, on the specifies and differences of the local cultures in the SEE region. It is addressed, first of all, to the younger generation of professionals in the filed of visual art and culture.

How (Strategy)
The project is designed as a series of activities in a period of ten days. In this period through different forms the project is planning to bring interesting and emerging young female artists and art critics from SEE region. There will be several levels of realisation of this event:
o Selection: art critics from the respective countries were asked to propose two women artists; the selection was based on the proposed topics by the organisers and the professional interest of the artists. [It was important that the selected artists were already working with these topics.]
o Open-air workshop for the artists: during the days of stay the invited artists worked and produced up to three paintings/works on the open-air in Kaneo. The works were limited by the technique canvas/frames by painting, assemblage, collages and using of photography only, i.e. the medium carrier is canvas on which above mentioned techniques. The workshop, as an open-air, was opened for the domestic public and the tourists. [According to this, the workshop was kind of open-air exhibition.]
o Round-table: the invited emerging, but relevant, known and experienced art critics and theoreticians were invited to participate in the one-day round-table; the main discussions at the round table were led on the following issues:
- ART IN WAR TIMES
- ART IN THE POST-WAR TIMES
- WAR AS AN INFLUENCE ON THE WOMEN ART IN THE SEE REGION
- WAR AS A REASON FOR ART PRODUCTION
- WAR ú BREAKING POINT OF THE INTERPRETATION OF THE ART
o Open discussions: during the days of the workshop there were open discussions among the artists, including the local interested audience about the actual artistic and cultural scenes in the respective country, based on the proposed topics.
o Portfolios: in the evening hours, the participating artists were asked to do presentations of their work. This was aimed for better information among the artists and the interested visitors (since the presentations were public).
o Exhibition: after the finishing of the work, the last day of the workshop we organised exhibition with the produced works. The exhibition was placed in the Cultural Center The House of Robevci in Ohrid. After this presentation in Ohrid, the exhibition was organised in Skopje in the Cultural Location SiTE ú including one degree gallery.
o Publication: all of the materials [reproductions of the works, papers from the round table and the discussions] will be published in a book from the 3590 BOOKS series; it will be in English, due to the plan and the attempt to spread the results of the project among the broader art, cultural and social community; the content of the publication is as follows:
- Introducing text of the organisers with the explanation of the project;
- Research-paper section with the proposed topics;
- Reproduction section with the art works of the workshop
- Number of b/w reproductions illustrating the lectures and papers;
- Number of b/w reproductions illustrating the activities;

Why
The last several years in the SEE region [especially in the countries of former Yugoslavia] the presence of the war resulted with radical changes in many fields of the social living. [Does not matter are there countries that were not affected by concrete war conditions, all of them passed through a serious re-questioning of many things.] Not only the physical damages, but also, even more, the destruction of the moral values faced serious consequences. Many questions appeared as less important, but much more requested deep and serious, sometimes ú immediate, answers. How to accomplish the former value structures or how to structure now ones ú still are one of the most important questions now a day.
Of course, since nothing will be same after these years, the results of these changes and happenings in region there is a kind of new, different and critical approach towards the social issues, first of all in the field of culture. Activities, production, interpretations ú they were all faced with the question: is there a need of engagement for the art, or it can stays besides these social happenings. Therefore, the projects putts the tasks on practical and theoretical research of the phenomena of the war and its relation with the woman and the phenomenon of the woman as a confronting point of view in relation with the war.
These kinds of interlacing of the term of the woman and of the war positioned in such geo-political conditions of the SEE region are going to act as subjects of the whole project. As a result of this project, it is expected to come to creative, developed and promotive critical state of mind on the question of the post-war women re-building of the destroyed home.

LIST OF PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES, ARTISTS AND ART CRITICS:
Artists = Yugoslavia: Nina Todorovic and Svetlana Volic; Bulgaria: Svetozara Aleksandrova and Dilmana Stefanova; Croatia: Sabina Resic; Slovenia: Polona Poklukar and Ksenija Cerce; Albania: Lumturi Blloshmi and Rajmonda Mato; Bosnia and Herzegovina: Gordana Andjelic ú Galic; Macedonia: Mikica Trujkanovic, Monika Desoska and Zaneta Vangeli.

Symposium participants = Macedonia: Elizabeta Seleva, Ph.D. and Nebojsa Vilic, Ph.D.; Yugoslavia: Stevan Vukovic, Ph.D.; Moldova: Adelina Stefarta, Ph.D.
Rok prijave: 01/03/03
 
Kontakt:
359 Degrees ú Network for Local and Subaltern Hermeneutics
Neboj‰a Viliç
Oktomvriska revolucija 12-1/9
1000 Skopje
Macedonia
tel: + 389 2 22 51 49
359net@mail.com.mk