DASH Archives - March 2007
Patrick Purcell (1929 - 2007)
From: Paul Brown <paul@PAUL-BROWN.COM>
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 08:00:06 +1000
Patrick Purcell (1929 - 2007) Patrick Purcell died after a short illness on 9th February. Patrick had wide ranging polymathic interests and was an important early contributor to the founding of the Computer Arts Society. He had early recognised the potential importance of computing and computer graphics to the art and design world and used his position as Senior Research Fellow in the Design Research Unit at the Royal College of Art with great flair to bridge the two cultures gap. He was one of that rare breed, a conduit for ideas and a selfless enabler of action. Sensitive to the needs of creative individuals and the institutional challenges of channeling that creativity he built a substantial portfolio of Science Research Council funded projects, no mean feat, at the RCA. I had the good fortune to work with him on these projects throughout the 1970s. Patrick's invaluable contribution to CAS was as enabler of the Society's inaugural exhibition, Event One, at the RCA in 1969. He was the interface for both the RCA and Imperial College. Heroically Patrick persuaded Prof Bill Elliot at IC to loan, and the RCA to accept for a weekend, a PDP7 computer which had to be loaded onto a truck at Imperial College, driven 500 yards to the RCA, unloaded and installed in the Event One exhibition hall. I cherish the memory of Patrick, as always elegant of waistcoat, patrician of demeanour, marshalling the truck driver up the very narrow Jay Mews to the College back entrance. I suspect this was the first computer to penetrate the RCA - and the rest is history. Patrick's remarkable diplomatic skills were further tested when the polystyrene tiles announcing Event One on the outside walls of the College left marks on the stone facade. Oh, the tantrums! But Patrick smoothed it all out. Besides helping at the birth of CAS he midwifed many other major innovations at the RCA. The list includes bringing the DTI's Computer Aided Design Centre's London office into the College. Similarly he brought in the Dept of Environment's CEDAR computer aided building design projects and encouraged the development of the Natural Environment Research Council's Digital Cartography unit. He built strong bridges to Imperial College so that when an internet link was established there it was used to download artwork from Harold Cohen's Aaron drawing system. Joint courses on computing with IC were subsequently established. He provided links to Nicholas Negroponte's Architecture Machine Group at MIT and then went to work with Nicholas in the Media Lab where he contiuned to pursue his many interdisciplinary interests before coming back to his final years at Imperial College. Looking back we can see Patrick's influence on these seminal projects helped change the culture of the time and hastened the coming of the IT revolution. He is sorely missed. The following website has reminiscences: http://sunnybains.typepad.com/patrick_purcell/2007/02/ patrick_purcell.html George Mallen
MediaArtHistories Practice * new low re sidency Course
From: Oliver Grau <oliver.grau@DONAU-UNI.AC.AT>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 22:42:48 +0100
MediaArtHistories Practice low residency Course open for enrolment www.donau-uni.ac.at/mahpractice The new unique program combines a practice-oriented introduction to artistic forms of digital culture with its theory and history. Students are being provided with the possibility for gaining valuable practical experiences and discuss new developments in the field with experts such as Christiane PAUL (Whitney Museum), Prof. Paul SERMON, Monika FLEISCHMANN & Wolfgang STRAUSS (www.netzspannung.org), Christa SOMMERER, Steve DIETZ (Curator of ISEA 2006), Margit ROSEN (ZKM), Edward SHANKEN, Lev MANOVICH or Oliver GRAU. Participants are invited to start on May 18th 2007 with MediaArtHistories Practice. This course consists of two modules of 13 and 11 days suplemented by online training activities. Artists and programmers give new insights into the latest and most controversial software, interface developments and their interdisciplinary and intercultural praxis. Keywords are: Strategies of Interaction & Interface Design, Social Software, Immersion & Emotion, and Artistic Invention. A core theme will be the latest knowledge of Curation, Collection, Documentation and Archiving of Media Art. Experts present their new tools for collective web archives. Excursions to the ZKM and the re:place conference in Berlin are integrated into the curriculum. An internationally unique asset of the program is access to originals from a variety of historical and contemporary image forms. The program offers maximum flexibility in designing education. Should you combine the MediaArtHistories Practice - program with two more theory modules you attain the MASTER OF ARTS. Setting, Location and Technical Facilities The Center for Image Science (CIS) is situated in the beautiful landscape of the Wachau, Austria a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the 1000 year old Goettweig Monastary. The idyllic surroundings, home to first-class wines and food, with a rich and wide variety of cultural events, plus facilities for a wide range of sports, all offer students the highest quality of life. Additional resources for students use: - The Goettweig Monastery's collection of 30,000 prints (15th-20th century). - The Database for Virtual Art (www.virtualart.at), the large pioneering archive of digital art. - The library for European Art History containing 24,000 volumes. - The new Text and Video Database on media art history (www.mediaarthistory.org). - The slide collection with 130,000 original records of European art history, including lost works. Applications for admission are possible NOW! For further information, and application please refer to Sabine Lindner Department for Image Science, Danube University Krems Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Str. 30, A-3500 Krems Tel: +43(0)2732.893.2569 Fax: +43(0)2732.893.4550 sabine.lindner@donau-uni.ac.at www.donau-uni.ac.at/cis MediaArtHistories Practice www.donau-uni.ac.at/mahpractice
New Online Exhibition: Aural History
From: Paul Brown <paul@PAUL-BROWN.COM>
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 18:44:57 +1000
British Artists’ Film and Video Study Collection is pleased to announced a new Online Exhibition. ‘Aural History’ is an audio documentary by Maxa Zoller tracing the early history of the London Filmmakers’ Film Co-op, based on audio recordings made by Deke Dusinberre of interviews conducted with key participants in the development of the Co-op. Also new on the website is a summary of the Study Collection's research activities during 2006. Another recent addition to the Study Collection website is the British Artists’ Moving Image Database. This online database builds on the Study Collection's earlier ‘Known Works’ database to include details of where copies of works exist in public collections, it has been developed in association with LUX and funded by the Arts Council England MI:LL (Moving Image: Legacy and Learning) initiative. It will be updated regularly so information about omissions and errors would be gratefully received. For these and details of all British Artists’ Film and Video Study Collection activities including the entire series of Online Exhibitions, catalogues of the collection's holdings, research papers and more, visit the website: http://www.studycollection.org.uk British Artists Film & Video Study Collection Room 203 Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design Southampton Row London WC1B 4AP telephone: 020 7514 8159 ==== Paul Brown - based in OZ Dec 06 - Mar 07 mailto:paul@paul-brown.com == http://www.paul-brown.com OZ Landline +61 (0)7 5443 3491 == USA fax +1 309 216 9900 OZ Mobile +61 (0)419 72 74 85 == Skype paul-g-brown ==== Visiting Professor - Sussex University http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ccnr/research/creativity.html ====
Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007)
From: Paul Brown <paul@PAUL-BROWN.COM>
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 15:10:03 +1000
French philosopher Jean Baudrillard dies The Associated Press March 6, 2007 [] PARIS: Jean Baudrillard, a French philosopher and social theorist known for his provocative commentaries on consumerism, excess and what he said was the disappearance of reality, died Tuesday, his publishing house said. He was 77. Baudrillard died at his home in Paris after a long illness, said Michel Delorme, of the Galilee publishing house. The two men had worked together since 1977, when "Oublier Foucault" (Forget Foucault) was published, one of about 30 books by Baudrillard, Delorme said by telephone. Among his last published books was "Cool Memories V," in 2005. Baudrillard, a sociologist by training, is perhaps best known for his concepts of "hyperreality" and "simulation." ==== Paul Brown - based in OZ Dec 06 - Mar 07 mailto:paul@paul-brown.com == http://www.paul-brown.com OZ Landline +61 (0)7 5443 3491 == USA fax +1 309 216 9900 OZ Mobile +61 (0)419 72 74 85 == Skype paul-g-brown ==== Visiting Professor - Sussex University http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ccnr/research/creativity.html ====
LeRoy White
From: Cynthia Beth Rubin <cbrubin@RISD.EDU>
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 10:25:51 -0500
LeRoy White, an early adopter of digital art-making, died unexpectedly on February 28, 2007. He was 71 years old, and taught at the Rhode Island School of Design (USA) for over 40 years. With a history of exhibitions in sculpture and conceptual art, LeRoy began investigating digital imaging in the mid-1980s. At the Rhode Island School of Design, he was director of the IBM/RISD Fine Arts Imaging Research Project, focusing on how issues of composition and design could be explored with the computer. White exhibited and spoke about his digital images in the first and second Arts and Technology Symposia held at Connecticut College 1986 and 1989 (curated by Cynthia Beth Rubin and David Smalley), and was included in the 1986 exhibition on the Artist and the Computer in Louisville (curated by Roberta Williams), the 1987 exhibition "Hypergraphics VIII" and several other early digital imaging exhibitions. Working with his colleague Bert Beaver, he organized the first digital imaging exhibition in Rhode Island in 1988, at the Bannister Gallery of Rhode Island College. Through this exhibition and his teaching efforts, LeRoy was instrumental in bringing the new field of computer art to a large number of colleagues, and paved the way for the integration of computers into the sphere of fine art. At the time of his death, LeRoy White was working on a series of digital photographs, subtly manipulated and masterfully printed in his own studio. His digital photographs are in the collections of the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Worcester Art Museum, the Rhode Island School of Design Art Museum, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, and the Dayton Art Institute. He was a graduate of the University of Dayton and the Rochester Institute of Technology.
cfp: Virtual Reality & Museums (collection)
From: Paul Brown <paul@PAUL-BROWN.COM>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:45:39 +1000
Call for Papers Virtual Reality & Museums Deadline: Friday April 27, 2007. Contributions are welcomed for a new book addressing the construction and interpretation of virtual artefacts within virtual world museums and within physical museum spaces. Particular emphasis is placed on theories of spatiality and strategies of interpretation. The editors seek papers that intervene in critical discourses surrounding virtual reality and virtual artefacts, to explore the rapidly changing temporal, spatial and theoretical boundaries of contemporary museum display practice. We are especially interested in spatiality as it is employed in the construction of virtual artefacts, as well as the roles these spaces enact as signifiers of historical narrative and sites of social interaction. We are also interested in the relationship between real-world museums and virtual world museums, with a view to interrogating the construction of meaning within, across and between both. We welcome original scholarly contributions on the topic of new cultural practices and communities related to virtual reality in the context of museum display practice. Papers might address, but are in no way limited to, the following: * Authenticity and artificiality * Exploration and discovery * Physical vs virtual * Representation/interpretation of virtual reality artefacts - as 3D spaces on screen or in a physical gallery * Museum visiting in virtual space * Representation of physical museum spaces in virtual worlds and their relationship to cultural definitions of museum spaces. Please send a proposal of 500-750 words and a contributor's bio by Friday April 27, 2007. Authors will be notified by Thursday May 31, 2007. Final drafts of papers are due by Monday October 1, 2007. Please send your proposal to: Tara Chittenden Room 201 Strategic Research Unit 113 Chancery Lane London WC2A 1PL Or via email: tara.chittenden@lawsociety.org.uk ==== Paul Brown - based in OZ Dec 06 - Mar 07 mailto:paul@paul-brown.com == http://www.paul-brown.com OZ Landline +61 (0)7 5443 3491 == USA fax +1 309 216 9900 OZ Mobile +61 (0)419 72 74 85 == Skype paul-g-brown ==== Visiting Professor - Sussex University http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ccnr/research/creativity.html ====
cfp - Convergence 14.2
From: Paul Brown <paul@PAUL-BROWN.COM>
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 11:16:41 +1000
This is a general call for submissions to Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. Convergence is published by Sage Publications, and is one of the longest-standing journals in new media studies. Regular readers and subscribers will know that, apart from two annual special issues, Convergence publishes two numbers a year which are open to any submissions that fall within our remit. This is an open call for papers for Volume 14, number 2, which will appear in May 2008. For this issue, papers would need to be submitted by 30th May 2007. Papers in areas including the following are welcome Video games Cable and telecomms, Mobile media/content Internet studies Digital/new media art Digital photography VR Control and censorship of the media Copyright/intellectual property New media policy New media industries/institutions New media history New media in cross-cultural/international contexts new media products Digital TV DVD Digital music – recording, production, distribution, file formats/ file sharing Cinema gender and technology Submission details: Electronic submissions are preferred via email (Macintosh Word98 compatible) These should be sent to the editors with the following information attached separately: name, institution and address for correspondence, telephone, fax and email address. Papers should be typed on one side of the sheet with endnotes in accordance with Sage referencing style (see our website at http:// www.luton.ac.uk/Convergence). Refereed articles should be between 5000-8000 words, ‘Debates ‘ pieces should be between 1000-3000 words and Feature Reports should be approximately 4000 words, Authors should also enclose a 50 word biography and an abstract. Proposals for articles or completed papers should be sent to: convergence@beds.ac.uk ***Please note NEW author-date style for Convergence** see www.beds.ac.uk/convergence/callforpapers/instructions Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies Editors: Julia Knight and Alexis Weedon Editorial assistant: Jason Wilson Associate editors: Jeanette Steemers (Europe), Rebecca Coyle (Western Pacific), Amy Bruckman and Jane Singer (North America) Published quarterley. ISSN 1354-8564 Copyright of Convergence articles rests with the publisher Editorial e-mail: Convergence@beds.ac.uk Editorial website: www.beds.ac.uk/convergence SAGE http://con.sagepub.com Jason Wilson Reviews Editor - Convergence Research Institute for Media, Art and Design University of Bedfordshire Park Square Luton Bedfordshire LU1 3JU United Kingdom T +44 (0)1582 489144 F +44 (0)1582 489212 M 07828482604 jason.wilson@beds.ac.uk ==== Paul Brown - based in OZ Dec 06 - Mar 07 mailto:paul@paul-brown.com == http://www.paul-brown.com OZ Landline +61 (0)7 5443 3491 == USA fax +1 309 216 9900 OZ Mobile +61 (0)419 72 74 85 == Skype paul-g-brown ==== Visiting Professor - Sussex University http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ccnr/research/creativity.html ====
Apply for Funding from the AHRC ICT Methods Network =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=96?= Deadline 30 June 2007
From: AHRC ICT Methods Network <methnet@KCL.AC.UK>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:18:04 +0100
Apply for Funding from the AHRC ICT Methods Network – Deadline 30 June 2007 The AHRC ICT Methods Network invites the arts and humanities Higher Education community in the UK to submit proposals for Methods Network activities. Activities may include workshops, seminars, focused workgroups, postgraduate training events and publications. The Methods Network is keen to support both single- and cross-disciplinary proposals and those that encourage new collaborative frameworks between technical specialists and arts and humanities researchers. The primary emphasis is on the use and reuse of digital resources. Proposals for hybrid activities such as workshop/seminar/workgroup combinations are also welcomed, as are proposals for any other activity which falls within the Methods Network remit to support and promote the uses of advanced ICT methods in academic research. Funding of up to £5000 is available for workshops and hybrid activities. Workshops provide training in advanced ICT methods for community members within academic institutions. They engage with issues such as: formal methods in analysis of source data and the creation of technical models; working with multiple technologies; and other matters of vital practical interest to the community. Funding of up to £2000 is available for seminars. These may concentrate on highly-defined topics of interest and also problem areas within the community or may have a more general focus. For information on eligibility and how to apply for funding see the Methods Network website (www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk). Please be aware that all applicants are expected to submit fully-formed proposals with full programme, budget and projected outcome details and with particular emphasis on the research significance of the proposed activity. Applications that fail to provide all required details will not be considered for funding. For further information about submitting a proposal contact Hazel Gardiner (hazel.gardiner@kcl.ac.uk). Forthcoming Methods Network Funded Activities We welcome applications from individuals who would like to attend Methods Network workshops and seminars, but must emphasise that registration is essential for these activities. Participants are also expected to make an active contribution to the activity. Occasionally a Methods Network event will be by invitation only, but all resulting materials, including (where appropriate) podcasts, wikis, training workbooks, reports and publications will be made freely available to the community via the Methods Network website. All enquiries about registration for the Methods Network activities listed below should be sent by email to methnet@kcl.ac.uk. For further information about the following activities see the Methods Network website. Annotating Image Archives To Support Literary Research – A workshop organized by Omer Rana, University of Cardiff. (May 2007) Developing an International Framework for Audit and Certification of Trusted Digital Repositories - A seminar organized by Joy Davidson, HATII, University of Glasgow. (June 2007) New Protocols for Electroacoustic Music Analysis - A workshop organized by Leigh Landy, De Montfort University. (12 June 2007) Data Sans Frontiers: Web Portals and the Historic Environment A workgroup organized by Stuart Jeffrey, ADS/AHDS Archaeology, University of York. (25 May 2007) From Abstract Data Mapping to 3D Photorealism: Understanding Emerging Intersections in Visualisation Practices and Techniques – A workshop organized by Julie Tolmie, 3DVisA, Kings College, University of London. (June/July 2007) Real-time Collaborative Art Making - A workshop organized by Gregory Sporton, University of Central England. (20 July 2007) Space/Time: Methods in geospatial computing for mapping the past – A workgroup organized by Stuart Dunn, AHESSC, Kings College, University of London. (23 - 24 July 2007) Text Mining for Historians - A workshop organized by Zoe Bliss, AHDS History, University of Essex. (17 – 18 July 2007) Opening the Creative Studio – a hybrid activity comprising presentations and workshops, organized by David Gorton, Royal Academy of Music. (10 September - 30 November 2007) INTIMACY: Performing the Intimate in Proximal and Hybrid Environments - a hybrid workshop/seminar activity, organized by Maria Chatzichristodoulou. (22 - 24 November 2007)