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Content:

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1. nolan AT jobelephant.com: Lecturer, Artist Workshop; Assistant Professor of Media Arts
2. Kevin Hamilton: CFP: Workshop on Methods of Collaboration - CHI 2007
3. ana otero: Re:place 2007 - Call for Proposals
4. ana otero: 12th International Media Art Biennale WRO 07 - International Competition
5. iris mayr: Prix Ars Electronica 2007 - Call for Entries
6. Timothy Weaver: Tenure Track Position Openings (2): Assistant Professor, Electronic Media Arts Design (eMAD), School of Art & Art History, University of Denver
7. pwright AT mica.edu: Video Full-time Faculty
8. curator.resurfacing AT gmail.com: Re-Surfacing: Call for Entries

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9. nat muller: Upgrade! Amsterdam: Degradable - 18 December
10. ana otero: New Media Caucus at the 2007 College Art Conference
11. gloria.sed AT nyu.edu: ITP Winter Show 2006
12. Mariam Ghani: 2006 Longwood Digital Matrix Commissions launch online + offline

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From: nolan AT jobelephant.com <nolan AT jobelephant.com>
Date: Dec 7, 2006
Subject: Lecturer, Artist Workshop; Assistant Professor of Media Arts

SAINT MARY’S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA has the following 2 job openings:
• Assistant Professor of Media Arts
• Lecturer – Artist Workshop (below)

Assistant Professor of Media Arts
Full-time, tenure track, Department of Art and Art History. Teach undergraduate media theory and to provide leadership in curriculum development.

Qualifications:
- Candidates should hold a Ph.D., M.F.A., or other terminal degree in Media Arts or related disciplines, with a record of teaching excellence, research and publication in the field.
- Candidates should be committed to undergraduate, liberal arts education, and are expected to participate in departmental and college service activities.
- Candidates should demonstrate computational proficiency as well as a commitment to research and professional activity at the national and international level and possess knowledge of contemporary art, theory and criticism as it relates to media arts practice.

Salary is competitive with excellent benefits package.

Please visit our website at www.stmarys-ca.edu for complete job details.

Candidates should submit a letter addressing qualifications relative to the responsibilities specified above; a current vitae; artist statement; video, DVD, CD-ROM, or other appropriate media; and the name, address, email, and phone number of four (4) academic references.

Please submit materials to:

Media Arts Search Committee
c/o Professor Anna Novakov
St. Mary’s College of California, Department of Art and Art History
1928 St. Mary’s Rd.
Moraga, CA 94556.

Please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope for the return of your materials.

Candidates who submit names of references should expect that references will be contacted, in confidence, by the College and that credentials will be confirmed prior to hire. Candidates who become finalists will be expected to sign a consent authorizing a broader inquiry.

Consideration of applications will begin on February 1, 2007 and continue until filled.

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LECTURER – Artist Workshop - Department of Art and Art History
School of Liberal Arts
2007 – 2008 Academic Year

Saint Mary’s College invites applications for lecturer and visiting artist workshop proposal in the Department of Art and Art History for the 2007 – 2008 academic year. The Lecturer will be required to teach one (1) four (4) week workshop for three (3) hours each week and all workshops should combine weekly readings with studio art projects. Topics also should address the built environment, sustainable design, social justice, and environmental art. Gender issues, visual literacy or new media practices are highly desirable.

Qualifications: Candidates must possess a Master’s of Fine Arts (MFA) degree and a promising exhibition record in the field and significant knowledge of theory and criticism relating to contemporary visual art practices, along with evidence of teaching effectiveness.

Salary is competitive.

Please visit our website at www.stmarys-ca.edu for complete job details and an online application.

A complete application includes a cover letter (specify preference to teach in the fall or spring semester), on line application, current vitae, one (1) page workshop proposal, artist statement, video, DVD, CD-ROM or other appropriate media and the name, address, email and phone number of two (2) academic references. Please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope for the return of your application materials. Candidates who become finalists will be expected to sign a consent authorizing a broader inquiry. Please forward all application materials to:


Professor Anna Novakov
Department of Art and Art History
Attention search for Visiting Artist Workshop Application
Saint Mary’s College of California
Moraga, CA 94575

The deadline for submitting applications is January 7, 2007.

Saint Mary's College of California is an equal opportunity employer.


Copyright ©2006 Jobelephant.com Inc. All rights reserved.

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From: Kevin Hamilton <kham AT uiuc.edu>
Date: Dec 6, 2006
Subject: CFP: Workshop on Methods of Collaboration - CHI 2007

CFP: *Workshop on Methods and Evaluation in Interdisciplinary
Collaboration*
Computer/Human Interaction Conference, 2007
San Jose, CA

Research into new forms of sociality or critical applications of
technology often requires unexpected and even disjunctive institutional
partnerships. Universities in particular find researchers coming
together around common resources or initiatives who share little in the
way of methods, values, or politics.

How are researchers and practitioners from Art/Design and the Sciences
negotiating and sustaining collaboration today? What differences are
preserved in the process, which ones obscured, which transcended? When
have quantitative and qualitative methodologies successfully co-mingled,
and what do the adherents of each have to learn? Aren't disharmonious
partnerships more likely to be formed in a climate of decreased
resources and increased pressure to demonstrate "creativity" that
produces capital?

This April in San Jose at the annual Computer/Human Interaction (CHI)
Conference, we'll be conducting a workshop on these subjects for a day,
and we're eager to enlist some more participants. The workshop will take
the form of short presentations, large and small-group discussions, with
representatives present from many disciplines.

The context, if you're new to CHI, is a professional conference based
predominantly in scientific discourse. We've proposed this workshop to
CHI as an interdisciplinary team from art and science, and indeed the
conference has seen an increasing amount of designers and artists in
attendance recently.

We'll be focusing on the following specific questions and topics:

1 - How are projects evaluated by interdisciplinary teams? Which
criteria from which constituencies are applied, and to what ends?
2 - What methods of investigation are employed in design processes by
teams composed of diverse practitioners? How are ideas iterated?
3 - When is labor divided based on disciplinary difference? At what
stages in the process are these differences ignored?
4 - When is evaluation and critique incorporated into process, and how?

If your research or practice has led you to navigation of these or
related questions, we invite you to submit proposals for participation
and presentation at this Spring's workshop, on April 27th in San Jose.
Please see the full CFP for more a more detailed explication of this
workshop's goals.

We hope to assemble a group capable of producing applicable methods and
useful processes in the pursuit of research that is interdisciplinary by
necessity, and perhaps not by choice.

DEADLINE: January 12, 2007

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION:
http://orchid.cs.uiuc.edu/HCIandNewMedia/

RELATED LINKS (precedent at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
http://www.art.uiuc.edu/projects/memory
http://www.art.uiuc.edu/projects/mobilemapping
http://orchid.cs.uiuc.edu/people/adamczyk/pvss/
http://orchid.cs.uiuc.edu/

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From: ana otero <ana AT no-afiles.com>
Date: Dec 7, 2006
Subject: Re:place 2007 - Call for Proposals

Re:place 2007
Second International Conference on the Histories of Media, Art, Science and Technology
15 - 18 November 2007
Berlin, Germany

re:place 2007, the Second International Conference on the Histories of Media, Art, Science and Technology, will take place in Berlin from 15 - 18 November 2007 as a project of Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH in cooperation with Haus der Kulturen der Welt. This conference is a sequel to 'Refresh!', the first in this series, chaired by Oliver Grau and produced by the Database of Virtual Art, Leonardo, and Banff New Media Institute, and held at the Banff Center in Canada in September 2005, which brought together several hundred artists, scientists, researchers, curators and theoreticians of different disciplines.

More information about Re:place 2007>> http://leonardo.info/isast/events/replace2007.html

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
re:place 2007 welcomes contributions from established as well as from emerging researchers in diverse fields. The conference will be of interest to those working in, but not limited to, the following areas: art history and theory, literary studies, cultural studies, film and media studies, theatre, dance and performance studies, philosophy, history, gender studies, human-computer interaction, contemporary art, musicology, sound studies, anthropology, sociology, geography, science, technology and society studies, history of science, and history of technology.

The DEADLINE for submissions will be 15 January 2007.

INFORMATION about the submission process>> http://tamtam.mi2.hr/replace

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From: ana otero <ana AT no-afiles.com>
Date: Dec 7, 2006
Subject: 12th International Media Art Biennale WRO 07 - International Competition

WRO Center for Media Art Foundation in Wroclaw, Poland announces an international competition open to any work created using electronic media techniques, exploring innovative forms of artistic communication.
The competition welcomes creators of artistic projects of diverse forms such as screenings (video art, computer animation), installations, objects, performances, multimedia concerts and network projects from all over the world. The main prize is 5000EUR and the total prize money awarded is 8000EUR.

The deadline date for entry submission is 15 February 2007.

Presentation of works selected to the very final along with the international jury announcement of competition results will take place during public screening at the WRO 07 Biennale.

Agenda:
16 - 20 May 2007 competition, special events, symposium;
16 May - 17 June 2007 exhibition

National Museum in Wroclaw, WRO Art Center
http://wrocenter.pl/?go=en/

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From: iris mayr <iris.mayr AT liwest.at>
Date: Dec 11, 2006
Subject: Prix Ars Electronica 2007 - Call for Entries

Prix Ars Electronica 2007 - International Competition for Cyberarts

The 21st Prix Ars Electronica will have a few new features.
The new Hybrid Art category, a new prize for Media.Art.Research, and the integration of Net Vision into Digital Communities are the most visible signs of the intensive work that is being done on the definition of the competition’s categories. As always, the aim is to continually keep the Prix Ars Electronica updated in line with leading-edge developments in the dynamic field of cyberarts.

Prix Ars Electronica 2007
Start of Online Submission : December 8, 2007
Online Submission Deadline: March 9, 2007

Computeranimation / Film / VFX, Digital Musics, Interactive Art, Hybrid Art, Digital Communities, u19 - freestyle competition, [the next idea] grant, Media.Art.Research Award

All details about the categories and the online submission
are available online only at: <http://prixars.aec.at>

Total prize money: 122.500 Euro

Please feel free to forward this to all interested parties.

best regards
Iris

Iris Mayr - Project Manager
Prix Ars Electronica

AEC Ars Electronica Center Linz
Museumsgesellschaft mbH
Hauptstraße 2
A-4040 Linz
Tel. ++43.732.7272-74
Fax ++43.732.7272-674
iris.mayr ( AT ) aec.at
http://prixars.aec.at

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From: Timothy Weaver <tweaver AT biotica.org>
Date: Dec 12, 2006
Subject: Tenure Track Position Openings (2): Assistant Professor, Electronic Media Arts Design (eMAD), School of Art & Art History, University of Denver

Tenure Track Position Openings (2): Assistant Professor, Electronic Media Arts Design (eMAD), School of Art & Art History, University of Denver.

Position #1, Job Title: Assistant Professor, eMAD - Digital Video, School of Art and Art History, University of Denver.

Posting Hiring Range: Competitive
Work Schedule (Days & Hours): 9 months, hours vary
Contact e-mail: rfajardo AT du.edu
Job Summary: Assistant Professor in Electronic Media Arts Design (eMAD). School of Art and Art History, University of Denver. Tenure-track. MFA or equivalent required. We seek an artist/scholar who is critically, theoretically and creatively engaged in the practices and discourses of New Media, with an emphasis in Digital Video and related domains. The successful candidate will demonstrate the potential for excellent teaching and for a national and international scope of practice. Ability to teach at multiple levels and a strong interest in collaborative and/or transdisciplinary teaching is desirable. Some of the responsibilities of the position include teaching five 10-week classes per year in a program that serves undergraduate majors in eMAD, Art, and the interdisciplinary Digital Media Studies program, as well as MFA students in eMAD and MA students in DMS; mentoring and advising undergraduate and graduate students; and actively participating with 14 other faculty member!
s (4 in eMAD) in ongoing curricular development of our BA, BFA, and MFA programs. Classes are taught in two well-equipped Mac studios with up to fifteen students per class. Begin fall 2007. For more information about the program, see www.du.edu/art.
Preferred Qualifications: Teaching and professional experience, strength in theory, active practice in emerging forms. Ability to teach at multiple levels, digital video/motion graphics/time-based media, exhibition record and a strong interest in collaborative and/or transdisciplinary teaching.
Minimum Qualifications: These qualifications refer to education and/or experience. MFA or equivalent required at time of appointment. A demonstrated potential for excellent teaching and for a national and international scope of practice with an emphasis in Digital Video and related domains.
Required Qualifications: These qualifications are mandatory in order to perform the functions of the job (i.e. valid drivers license, certifications.) see above
Job Open Date: 11-15-2006
Job Close Date : Open Until Filled
Job Category: Faculty
Job Type: Full-Time
Appointment Status: Benefited


Position #2 Job Title: Assistant Professor, eMAD - Specialty Open, School of Art and Art History, University of Denver

Posting Hiring Range: Competitive
Work Schedule (Days & Hours): 9 months, hours vary
Contact Email: rfajardo AT du.edu
Department: Art & Art History
Job Summary: Assistant Professor in Electronic Media Arts Design (eMAD), School of Art and Art History, University of Denver. Tenure-track. MFA or equivalent required. We seek an artist/scholar who is critically, theoretically and creatively engaged in the practices and discourses of New Media. Specific specialty is open. The successful candidate will demonstrate the potential for excellent teaching and will have a creative practice that complements existing program strengths in digital video art, expanded cinema, biomedia, socially conscious games, and typography. The candidate must show potential for a national and international scope of practice. Strong interest in collaborative and/or transdisciplinary teaching is desirable. Some of the responsibilities of the position include teaching five 10-week classes per year in a program that serves majors in eMAD, Art, and the interdisciplinary Digital Media Studies program, as well as MFA students in eMAD and MA students in DMS!
; mentoring and advising undergraduate and graduate students; and actively participating with 14 other faculty members (4 in eMAD) in ongoing curricular development of our BA, BFA, and MFA programs. Classes are taught in two well-equipped Mac studios with up to fifteen students per class. Begin fall 2007. For more information about the program, see http://www.du.edu/art.
Preferred Qualifications: Teaching and professional experience, a creative practice that complements existing program strengths in digital video art, expanded cinema, biomedia, socially conscious games, and typography. Ability to teach at multiple levels and a strong interest in collaborative and/or transdisciplinary teaching.
Minimum Qualifications: These qualifications refer to education and/or experience.
MFA or equivalent required at time of appointment. A demonstrated potential for excellent teaching and for a national and international scope of practice.
Required Qualifications: These qualifications are mandatory in order to perform the functions of the job (i.e. valid drivers license, certifications.) see above.
Job Open Date: 11-15-2006
Job Close Date: Open Until Filled
Job Category: Faculty
Job Type: Full-Time
Appointment Status: Benefited

Special Instructions to Applicants: All applicants must complete the on-line application (http://www.dujobs.org) where you must also upload your cover letter and CV (including software proficiencies). Please send teaching philosophy, artist's statement, documentation of own and students' work (URL, video, DVD, CD-ROM), SASE (if there are materials you want returned), and have 3 letters of recommendation sent directly to eMAD Search Committee, University of Denver, School of Art and Art History, 2121 East Asbury Avenue, Denver, Colorado 80208. For best consideration, apply by December 15, 2006. The University of Denver is committed to enhancing the diversity of its faculty and staff and encourages applications from women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans. DU is an EEO/AA employer.

Additional background information available online>>
University of Denver website at:
http://www.du.edu
DU School of Art & Art History profile at:
http://www.du.edu/art
DU SAAH eMAD program information at:
http://www.du.edu/art/programs/emad
DU Digital Media Studies program information at:
http://dms.du.edu
Human Resources and reference information online>>
DU Human Resources website at:
http://www.dujobs.org

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From: pwright AT mica.edu <pwright AT mica.edu>
Date: Dec 13, 2006
Subject: Video Full-time Faculty

Position:
Full-time opening in Video. The Video Department of Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) invites applications for this continuing full-time position with a multi-year renewable contract in a non-tenure institution.

Begins:
Fall 2007. The College seeks an experienced video/ film artist to teach production and post-production on a variety of levels at an art school nationally known for its dedication to teaching excellence, a rigorous liberal arts curriculum and both traditional and new studio technologies. The full-time teaching load will consist of eighteen credits per year, which normally will be assigned as three courses per semester. The selected individual will also be required to participate in all aspects of departmental operations and institutional governance including advising, institutional and departmental committee service and scheduled departmental and student activities. The successful candidate will demonstrate a thorough technical and conceptual knowledge of video and/or film production and post-production. An additional knowledge of installation, interactive media, internet, sound and/or 2D/ 3D animation is encouraged. An MFA degree or equivalent professional experience; strong record of professional excellence as demonstrated by a body of work and related activities, and a personal commitment to teaching on a college level are required. Teaching experience on a college-level beyond graduate assistantships is preferred.

Salary:
Commensurate with experience and college policy; Excellent benefits package.

Apply:
The College will review applications as received. Although materials received before January 17, 2007, are best assured of receiving full consideration, the position will remain open until filled. All inquiries, nominations and applications will be held in the strictest confidence.

Send:
Letter of application and statement of teaching philosophy; CV; list of 3 references w/ address, phone, email; and documentation of professional work on a DVD. All materials must be labeled with candidate’s name and address.

To:
Video/ Film Artist Search; Video Department; Maryland Institute College of Art; 1300 Mount Royal Avenue; Baltimore, MD 21217

MICA is an equal opportunity employer. As an educational institution dedicated to individual development in the visual arts, MICA nurtures, supports, and celebrates diversity in all of its forms including aesthetic, cultural, philosophical, racial, ethnic, gender, sexual orientation, disability status and socio-economic. This requires that the College develop and maintain a diverse community of trustees, administration, staff, faculty, and students; and that diversity is a fundamental philosophic value that informs the content of all of its programs and activities. MICA’s commitment to diversity prepares its graduates to excel professionally and assume leadership roles in a global context.

The College:
over 175 years of providing professional education in the visual arts. Its 1600 undergraduate students work towards a BFA Degree in fifteen visual arts disciplines and its 200 graduate students are candidates for the MFA, MA or MAT Degree in one of ten professional programs. The College is conveniently nestled within the artistic and educational section of Baltimore known as the Mt. Royal Cultural Center. Washington D.C. is located 40 minutes to the south of Baltimore and New York City only 2 ½ hours to the north by train. Visit the College’s website at www.mica.edu

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From: curator.resurfacing AT gmail.com <curator.resurfacing AT gmail.com>
Date: Dec 13, 2006
Subject: Re-Surfacing: Call for Entries

Re-Surfacing
An exhibition in conjunction with the symposium Technology Expanding the Horizon: A Reinterpretation & Investigation of the Landscape

EXHIBITION DATES: March 26th, 2007-April 6, 2007

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Postmarked by January 20, 2007

Technology strongly affects our existence within and our perceptions of the contemporary landscape. Artists are invited to submit work that examines technology..s relationship to physical and psychological space. Selected work will be exhibited for two weeks in conjunction with a symposium entitled Technology Expanding the Horizon: A Reinterpretation & Investigation of the Landscape scheduled for March 29 & 30, 2007 at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Symposium panelists include Vito Acconci, Heath Bunting, Martha Buskirk, Dmitry Bulatov, Vicki Goldberg, Ricardo Dominguez, Peter Garfield, James Gimzewski, and Erwin Wurm. Selected artist..s work will also be included in an online gallery available through the symposium website.

For more information please visit: http://artandtech.osu.edu/simhorizon/

ELIGIBILITY: Artists in any media are welcome to submit work. New media is encouraged (i.e. digital work, video, sound) and space is available for large installations, projections, or performances. Performances will be scheduled for March 29 & 30, 2007. Emphasis will be placed on work that attempts to collapse the separation between art and environment, and does not necessarily need to be confined to the University Campus. A curatorial committee appointed by symposium administrators will select artwork.

SUBMISSION:
1. Completed/Signed Application Form
2. Examples of your Work
Up to 5 Images on a CD OR
No more than 3 minutes of time-based work
(film/video/performance/sound) on DVD
3. Image List on a Separate Page
Include title, date, media/materials, dimensions (include duration for time- based work)
4. Artist..s Statement or Project Proposal
5. Resume/CV
6. $20 entry fee (non-refundable). This must be paid with money order or check, payable to The Graduate Student Council of Art.

RETURN OF MATERIALS: A self-addressed stamped envelope may be included if you would like your application materials returned

NOTIFICATION: Artists will be notified no later than February 15th

CONTACT: curator.resurfacing AT gmail.com

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From: nat muller <nat AT xs4all.nl>
Date: Dec 12, 2006
Subject: Upgrade! Amsterdam: Degradable - 18 December

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Upgrade! Amsterdam: Degradable

When: Monday December 18th 2006 ||20.30 hours
Where: De Melkweg, Theaterzaal, Lijnbaansgracht 234 A, Amsterdam
| free admission |

URL:www.melkweg.nl/upgrade
LIVE stream: www.fabchannel.com
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As the year draws to a close, the last Upgrade! Amsterdam of 2006
ponders the poetics of degradability, focussing specifically on the
aesthetics of things mutable, morphable, and ephemeral.Whether its
Steven Jouwersmas serial destruction of personal memory and momentum
in the DIA-EXIT, or whether its Jelte van Abbemas time and emotion
sensitive font in his VIRTUREAL typewriter, or his bacterial prints in
SYMBIOSIS, these artists show us that the wilful design of
degradability yield surprising outcomes.
The new performance SYNCHRONATOR by Gert-Jan Prins and Bas van
Koolwijk, which combines thecharacteristic visual qualitiesof analogue
and digital techniques concludes the evening.

In sync with the festive season, we serve apple pie and punch!


|| Participants ||
-Steven Jouwersma [new media artist working predominantly with old
media like 8mm film and photo slides. Currently completing an M.A. at
the Frank Mohr Institute]
http://www.mohr-i.nl/content.phtml?768
-Jelte van Abbema [graduated at the Design Academy in
Eindhoven.Fascinated by the beauty and strangeness of nature.Loves
cookies]
http://www.zefir7.nl/archives/gasten/2006_09.php?sender=true
-Bas van Koolwijk [audiovisual artist.His video works can be seen as
an aggressive attack on the illusion of video itself.
http://www.umatic.nl/info_bas.html
-Gert-Jan Prins [electronic improvised music performer. Uses a
self-developed electronic system of radio and transmitter technology]
http://www.gjp.info/

|| Projects ||
Steven Jouwersma | DIA-EXIT
In exchange for apple pie people gave Jouwersma their old slides. After
collecting and watching 40.000 slides he decided to destroy them, and
machine for that purpose: the "DIA-EXIT", installed at the Tschumi
Pavilion in Groningen. Upon pressing a red button a slide projection
appears; another push on the button would cause the slides
destruction.

Jelte van Abbema | Virtureal |Symbiosis
| Virtureal |
Virtureal explores man-machine boundaries by way of a modified old
Remington typewriter, fitted with pressure sensors. The font changes
according to the intensity of the keystrokes, and is susceptible to the
passage of time.
| Symbiosis |
Due to his fascination for growth, van Abbema created prints composed
by bacteria. As time passes, the image is continuously and organically
transformed into something new.

Gert-Jan Prins & Bas van Koolwijk | Synchronator
Since the early years of video art, works have been made which do not
produce a standard TV signal waveform and therefore cannot be directly
recorded or projected with current equipment. For SYNCHRONATOR, Bas van
Koolwijk and Gert-Jan Prins have created their own hardware to overcome
this problem,making use of the characteristic visual qualities of such
techniques.
http://www.gjp.info/synchronator.htm

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Upgrade! Amsterdamis a series of gatherings for and by new media
aficionados, artists, geeks, media makers and breakers, and the
generally curious. Point of departure is the premise: No upgrade
without a downgrade. Upgrade! Amsterdam is organised by Nat Muller &
Lucas Evers, is actively hosted by De Melkweg, and kindly supported by
VSB Fonds and Mondriaan Foundation.

Upgrade! is an international, emerging network of autonomous nodes
united by art, technology, and a commitment to bridging cultural
divides. Since April 1999, a group of new media artists and curators
have gathered in New York City. The first meeting took place at a bar
in the east village with Tim Whidden & Mark River [MTAA], Mark Napier
and Upgrade! founder Yael Kanarek.
http://www.theupgrade.net/

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For the 2005-2006 Rhizome Commissions, eleven artists/groups were selected to create original works of net art.

http://rhizome.org/commissions/

The Rhizome Commissions Program is made possible by support from the Jerome Foundation in celebration of the Jerome Hill Centennial, the Greenwall Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Additional support has been provided by members of the Rhizome community.

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From: ana otero <ana AT no-afiles.com>
Date: Dec 7, 2006
Subject: New Media Caucus at the 2007 College Art Conference

The 95th Annual conference will take place from February 14th to 17th at the Hilton New York in Midtown Manhattan.

Here are a few crucial dates for your calendar:
December 13th is the deadline for Early Bird Registration for the
Conference (this can be done on-line at http://
conference.collegeart.org/2007/register or via mail).

Thursday, February 15, 12:30-2pm, Trianon Ballroom, Hilton NY
New Media Caucus Juried Session:
Panel Title: "Can Geeks be Humanists”
Panel Chair: Marcia Tanner, Independent Curator and Writer, Berkeley,
California

A common perception among artists, curators, art historians, art
critics, and art audiences outside the new media art community is that
artists using contemporary technologies create work that
alienates the viewer and conflicts with the humanist legacy of
Western art and other cultural and aesthetic traditions. This notion is all too often reinforced, superficially at least, by much of the new media work produced.

This panel will address and challenge those assumptions with
presentations by artists whose work and practice consciously extend and amplify humanist aesthetic traditions. In the subsequent
conversation, panelists will be invited to explore the definitions and
appropriateness of those apparently oppositional terms -- “geeks” versus “humanists” -- and consider a third: that of “artist.“ They will discuss those characteristics of new media art that seem to justify the charges against it -- notably in terms of communication with and/or reception by traditional art audiences and critics -- and whether these concerns should matter to anyone now, particularly to the artists themselves.

With some Papers and Panelists:
Intimacy in New Media Art
Andrea Ackerman, artist, theorist, psychiatrist, New York, New York

Claudia Hart, Pratt Institute, New York; Lehman College, City
University of New York

Beyond Functional: Embedding Responsive Art into Human Systems
Sabrina Raaf, School of Art and Design, University of Illinois at Chicago

Animate Objects, and the Evocation of Empathy
John Slepian, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

The Beautiful and the Terrifying
Gail Wight, Stanford University, California

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From: gloria.sed AT nyu.edu <gloria.sed AT nyu.edu>
Date: Dec 7, 2006
Subject: ITP Winter Show 2006

You are invited to attend ITP's end of the semester events!

ITP Winter Show 2006
Sunday, December 17 from 2 to 6pm
Monday, December 18 from 5 to 9pm

A two-day festival of interactive sight, sound and technology from the student artists and innovators at ITP.

http://itp.nyu.edu/show

An oversized Greenwich Village loft houses the computer labs, rotating exhibitions, and production workshops that are ITP -- the Interactive Telecommunications Program. Founded in 1979 as the first graduate education program in alternative media, ITP has grown into a living community of technologists, theorists, engineers, designers, and artists uniquely dedicated to pushing the boundaries of interactivity in the real and digital worlds. A hands-on approach to experimentation, production and risk-taking make this hi-tech fun house a creative home not only to its 230 students, but also to an extended network of the technology industry's most daring and prolific practitioners.

Interactive Telecommunications Program
Kanbar Institute of Film and Television
Tisch School of the Arts
New York University
721 Broadway, 4th Floor, South Elevators
New York NY 10003

Take the left elevators to the 4th Floor
This event is free and open to the public
No need to RSVP

For questions: 212-998-1880
email: itp.inquiries AT nyu.edu
http://itp.nyu.edu/show

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A list of events are here: http://itp.nyu.edu/show

Read on for information about other presentations and performances from our Algorithmic Composition, Live Image Processing and Performance and New Interfaces for Musical Expression classes as well as a video and animation screening.

We look forward to seeing you!

Feel free to pass this message along far and wide.

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From: Mariam Ghani <mariam AT kabul-reconstructions.net>
Date: Dec 12, 2006
Subject: 2006 Longwood Digital Matrix Commissions launch online + offline

*apologies for cross-posting*

New web projects commissioned by the Longwood Digital Matrix from eTeam, Jenny Polak, Mariam Ghani and Mary Walling-Blackburn are now online and linked from http://www.longwoodcyber.org.

The projects were launched last week with the show Longwood Arts Projects: Then and Now, organized in conjunction with Longwood's 25th anniversary celebration. The show is up at Haven Arts in the Bronx through January 12th, 2007 and features work by the 2006 Digital Matrix artists as well as the artists commissioned in 2005 (Manuel Acevedo, Monika Bravo, Gaye Chan, Prema Murthy); artists from the last year of Longwood's Cyber Residency program (William Crow, Nicolás Dumit Estévez, Kenta Furusho, Shih-Chieh Huang, Wanda Raimundi-Ortíz); and artists associated with the early years of Longwood (Fred Wilson, Algernon Miller, Tim Rollins + KOS).

For more information on Longwood, contact program coordinator Juanita Lanzó-Guilbe or curator/director Edwin Ramoran: longwood AT bronxarts.org

To check out the new commissions, visit:

eTeam's International Airport Montello
http://www.internationalairportmontello.com/airport/doku.php

Mariam Ghani's Points of Proof
http://www.kabul-reconstructions.net/proof/

Jenny Polak's Design for the Alien Within
http://jennypolak.com/Alien_Within.htm

Mary Walling-Blackburn's Bonfire Bitumin
http://www.bonfirebitumin.com/

Haven Arts
http://www.havenarts.org/index.php?page=exhibitx

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Rhizome Digest is supported by grants from The Charles Engelhard Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

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