DASH Archives - April 2008
Paul Brown, 'Origins and Emergence - a brief history of the digital arts', Leicester, 1st May 2008, 6pm
From: Chris Joseph <cjoseph@DMU.AC.UK>
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 18:00:49 +0100
Paul Brown - 'Origins and Emergence - a brief history of the digital arts' Thursday 1st May 2008, 6.00pm - 7.15pm http://www.ioctsalon.com/events/paulbrown/ Doors open at 5.30pm for drinks. This event is free and open to the public, however places are limited - email info [at] ioctsalon.com to reserve a seat. Download the flyer for this event (PDF, 150KB) - http://www.ioctsalon.com/events/paulbrown/IOCTSalon_080501_paulbrown.pdf This illustrated presentation will give an overview of the history of the digital arts from their origins in the analogue kinetics and Jazz/Poetry performances of the 1950's to current practice. Key themes like Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Life/Emergence, Computational and Generative, Interaction, Convergence, Communication and Networking will be identified and discussed. In particular the speaker will revisit predictions he made in the late 1980's when he suggested that any new media need a minimum 40 year gestation period which he suggests is now coming to term. He will illustrate this hypothesis by using current web2 manifestations as examples of digital media emerging in their own right in contrast to our previous metaphorical adaptations. About Paul: Paul Brown is an Anglo-Australian artist and writer who has specialised in art, science & technology since the late 1960s and in computational & generative art since the mid 1970s. His international exhibition record spans four decades and includes the creation of both permanent and temporary public artworks. He has participated in shows at major venues like the TATE, Victoria & Albert and ICA in the UK; the Adelaide Festival; ARCO in Spain and the Venice Biennale. His work is represented in public, corporate and private collections in Australia, Asia, Europe, Russia and the USA. From 1997-99 he was Chair of the Management Board of the Australian Network for Art Technology and he is a member of the Editorial Advisory Boards for LEA, the e-journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (MIT Press), and the journal Digital Creativity (Routledge). From 1992 to 1999 he edited fineArt forum, one of the Internet's longest established art 'zines and he is currently Chair of the international Computer Arts Society (CAS) and moderator of the DASH (Digital ArtS Histories) and CAS e-lists. During 2000/2001 he was a New Media Arts Fellow of the Australia Council when he spent 2000 as artist-in-residence at the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics (CCNR) at the University of Sussex in Brighton, England. From 2002-05 he was a visiting fellow in the School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media at Birkbeck College, University of London, where he worked on the CACHe (Computer Arts, Contexts, Histories, etc...) project and he is currently (2005-08) visiting professor and artist-in-residence at the CCNR, University of Sussex where he is working on a project to evolve robots that can draw. He lives on the Sunshine Coast in SE Queensland, Australia. Examples of his artwork and publications are available on his website at http://www.paul-brown.com. ----------- The IOCT Salon ( http://www.ioctsalon.com ) is managed by Chris Joseph ( http://www.chrisjoseph.org ), Digital Writer in Residence at the Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University. This residency is funded by Arts Council England: East Midlands. For further information about the IOCT Salon please email Chris: info /at/ ioctsalon.com . To be notified of future events please join the mailing list on the Salon website. The IOCT Salon is held at and staged by De Montfort University and the Institute of Creative Technologies, and is supported by Arts Council England and the Literature Development Network.
May Meeting - Parallel Evolution: the Patric Prince Collection and the emergence of SIGGRAPH
From: Paul Brown <paul@PAUL-BROWN.COM>
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 09:37:48 +1000
Please note our May Meeting topic has changed due to speaker cancellation. CAS Meetings are open to the public and are free. Please circulate this invitation to colleagues, students and friends. The Computer Arts Society continues its celebrations of its 40th Anniversary with a presentation about the emergence of the SIGGRAPH Art Show. "Parallel Evolution: the Patric Prince Collection and the emergence of SIGGRAPH as a North American computer arts venue" Nick Lambert, Doug Dodds, Jeremy Gardiner, Lanfranco Aceti and Honor Beddard Tuesday 6 May 2008 6:60 for 7:00; System Simulation Ltd Bedford Chambers, The Piazza Covent Garden London WC2E 8HA, England http://www.ssl.co.uk/content/map.html The Computer Arts and Technocultures Project, a joint venture between Birkbeck and the Victoria & Albert Museum, recently received AHRC funding to research and digitise the Patric Prince Collection of computer art. Birkbeck had already collaborated with CAS and SSL through the CACHe Project and this resulted in CAS's collection of computer art being donated to the V&A. Computer Art and Technocultures is studying the wider area of international computer art as it emerged in parallel with the developing computer graphics industry, especially in conjunction with SIGGRAPH during the 1980s. The interchange between new technologies and artistic practice, and also the opportunities afforded by an art show attached to a major conference, ensured that SIGGRAPH became one of the principle nodes for computer art. Patric Prince was closely connected with the art show and chaired it in 1986. We will consider how her collection connects with the art show (especially the retrospective on computer art she put together in 1986), how new artists and technologies were represented, and whether the situation of computer art has changed since the area was discussed in a special SIGGRAPH in 1989. The members of the Computer Arts and Technocultures team will each examine different aspects of the project, with presenters including Nick Lambert, Doug Dodds, Jeremy Gardiner, Lanfranco Aceti and Honor Beddard. http://www.computer-arts-society.org/ 2008 = CAS 40! ==== Paul Brown - based in OZ Dec 07 - Apr 08 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 ====
Reminder: May Meeting - Parallel Evolution
From: Paul Brown <paul@PAUL-BROWN.COM>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:50:38 +1000
REMINDER CAS Meetings are open to the public and are free. Please circulate this invitation to colleagues, students and friends. The Computer Arts Society continues its celebrations of its 40th Anniversary with a presentation about the emergence of the SIGGRAPH Art Show. "Parallel Evolution: the Patric Prince Collection and the emergence of SIGGRAPH as a North American computer arts venue" Nick Lambert, Doug Dodds, Jeremy Gardiner, Lanfranco Aceti and Honor Beddard Tuesday 6 May 2008 6:60 for 7:00; System Simulation Ltd Bedford Chambers, The Piazza Covent Garden London WC2E 8HA, England http://www.ssl.co.uk/content/map.html The Computer Arts and Technocultures Project, a joint venture between Birkbeck and the Victoria & Albert Museum, recently received AHRC funding to research and digitise the Patric Prince Collection of computer art. Birkbeck had already collaborated with CAS and SSL through the CACHe Project and this resulted in CAS's collection of computer art being donated to the V&A. Computer Art and Technocultures is studying the wider area of international computer art as it emerged in parallel with the developing computer graphics industry, especially in conjunction with SIGGRAPH during the 1980s. The interchange between new technologies and artistic practice, and also the opportunities afforded by an art show attached to a major conference, ensured that SIGGRAPH became one of the principle nodes for computer art. Patric Prince was closely connected with the art show and chaired it in 1986. We will consider how her collection connects with the art show (especially the retrospective on computer art she put together in 1986), how new artists and technologies were represented, and whether the situation of computer art has changed since the area was discussed in a special SIGGRAPH in 1989. The members of the Computer Arts and Technocultures team will each examine different aspects of the project, with presenters including Nick Lambert, Doug Dodds, Jeremy Gardiner, Lanfranco Aceti and Honor Beddard. http://www.computer-arts-society.org/ 2008 = CAS 40! ==== Paul Brown - based in OZ Dec 07 - Apr 08 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: Media in Motion: The Challenge of Preservation in the Digital Age
From: Paul Brown <paul_brown@MAC.COM>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:43:42 +0800
Call for Papers Media in Motion: The Challenge of Preservation in the Digital Age October 29, 2008 McGill University Montreal, Quebec Canada The DOCAM (Documentation and Conservation of the Media Arts Heritage) Research Alliance and Media@McGill invite submissions of abstracts for the presentation of papers at the inaugural Media in Motion Symposium. The interdisciplinary event aims to bring together graduate students across the sciences, humanities, and social sciences in order to explore the many facets of media art preservation. To that end, submissions related to the conference theme, ”The Challenge of Preservation in the Digital Age,” are strongly encouraged. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: - Archival Practices - Challenges of Audio, Film, Video, and Digital Media Preservation - Cultural Influences, Impacts, and Considerations - Cultural Property Law - Digital Preservation and Cultural Memory - Digitization of the Humanities - Effects on Artistic Practices - Ethical, Social, and Philosophical Concerns - Preservation Strategies and Techniques - Future Trends and Directions As the symposium will be held in conjunction with the Annual International DOCAM Summit (on October 30-31, 2008, at McGill University), preference will be given to proposals that address issues related to the alliance’s activities. For more information on DOCAM and its mandate, please visit http://www.docam.ca/en. All presented papers will be considered for publication in an edited volume of the proceedings. Additional information will be provided upon acceptance. Proposals should include a title; the name, affiliation, and e-mail address of the author; an abstract of 300 words; and a brief statement explaining how the paper fits within the research priorities of DOCAM. Submissions in English or French are welcome. Please send proposals by May 31, 2008 to Marilyn Terzic at docam.symposium@mac.com. DOCAM is an international research alliance on the documentation and the conservation of the media arts heritage, initiated by the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology. Its main objective is to develop new methodologies and tools to address the issues of preserving and documenting digital, technological, and electronic works of art. Media@McGill is a hub of research, scholarship, and public outreach on issues and controversies in media, technology, and culture. Based in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University, Media@McGill is supported by a range of sources, most notably a generous gift from the Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation. For more information, please visit http://media.mcgill.ca. ==== Paul Brown - based in OZ Dec 07 - Apr 08 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 ====
Reminder: Paul Brown - 'Origins and Emergence - a brief history of the digital arts', Leicester, 1st May 2008, 6pm
From: Chris Joseph <cjoseph@DMU.AC.UK>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:15:00 +0100
Paul Brown - 'Origins and Emergence - a brief history of the digital arts' Thursday 1st May 2008, 6.00pm - 7.15pm http://www.ioctsalon.com/events/paulbrown/ Doors open at 5.30pm for drinks. This event is free and open to the public, however places are limited - email info [at] ioctsalon.com to reserve a seat. Download the flyer for this event (PDF, 150KB) - http://www.ioctsalon.com/events/paulbrown/IOCTSalon_080501_paulbrown.pdf This illustrated presentation will give an overview of the history of the digital arts from their origins in the analogue kinetics and Jazz/Poetry performances of the 1950's to current practice. Key themes like Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Life/Emergence, Computational and Generative, Interaction, Convergence, Communication and Networking will be identified and discussed. In particular the speaker will revisit predictions he made in the late 1980's when he suggested that any new media need a minimum 40 year gestation period which he suggests is now coming to term. He will illustrate this hypothesis by using current web2 manifestations as examples of digital media emerging in their own right in contrast to our previous metaphorical adaptations. About Paul: Paul Brown is an Anglo-Australian artist and writer who has specialised in art, science & technology since the late 1960s and in computational and generative art since the mid 1970s. His international exhibition record spans four decades and includes the creation of both permanent and temporary public artworks. He has participated in shows at major venues like the TATE, Victoria & Albert and ICA in the UK; the Adelaide Festival; ARCO in Spain and the Venice Biennale. His work is represented in public, corporate and private collections in Australia, Asia, Europe, Russia and the USA. From 1997-99 he was Chair of the Management Board of the Australian Network for Art Technology and he is a member of the Editorial Advisory Boards for LEA, the e-journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (MIT Press), and the journal Digital Creativity (Routledge). From 1992 to 1999 he edited fineArt forum, one of the Internet's longest established art 'zines and he is currently Chair of the international Computer Arts Society (CAS) and moderator of the DASH (Digital ArtS Histories) and CAS e-lists. During 2000/2001 he was a New Media Arts Fellow of the Australia Council when he spent 2000 as artist-in-residence at the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics (CCNR) at the University of Sussex in Brighton, England. From 2002-05 he was a visiting fellow in the School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media at Birkbeck College, University of London, where he worked on the CACHe (Computer Arts, Contexts, Histories, etc...) project and he is currently (2005-08) visiting professor and artist-in-residence at the CCNR, University of Sussex where he is working on a project to evolve robots that can draw. He lives on the Sunshine Coast in SE Queensland, Australia. Examples of his artwork and publications are available on his website at http://www.paul-brown.com. ----------- The IOCT Salon ( http://www.ioctsalon.com ) is managed by Chris Joseph ( http://www.chrisjoseph.org ), Digital Writer in Residence at the Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University. This residency is funded by Arts Council England: East Midlands. For further information about the IOCT Salon please email Chris: info /at/ ioctsalon.com . To be notified of future events please join the mailing list on the Salon website. The IOCT Salon is held at and staged by De Montfort University and the Institute of Creative Technologies, and is supported by Arts Council England and the Literature Development Network.
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - MediaArtHistories
From: Image Science <image.science@DONAU-UNI.AC.AT>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:55:41 +0200
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FIRST INTERNATIONAL MASTER OF MEDIA.ART.HISTORIES (Low residency; English language, open for applications now) The postgraduate program MediaArtHistories at the Department for Image Science offers a two-year low residency leading to an M.A. degree. It conveys the most important developments of contemporary art through a network of renowned international theorists, artists, curators and many others. 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. Using online databases and other aids, knowledge of computer animation, net art, interactive, telematic and genetic art as well as the most recent reflections on nano art, CAVE installations, augmented reality and wearables are introduced. Historical derivations that go far back into art and media history are tied in intriguing ways to digital art. Important approaches and methods from Image Science, Media Archaeology and the History of Science & Technology will be discussed. MediaArtHistories MA is based on the international praxis and expertise in Curation, Collecting, Preserving and Archiving and Researching in the Media Arts. What are the conditions necessary for a wider consideration of media art works and of new media in these collections of the international contemporary art scene? And in which way can new Databases and other scientific tools of structuring and visualizing data provide new contexts and enhance our understanding of semantics? Further Information: www.donau-uni.ac.at/dis www.donau-uni.ac.at/mediaarthistories www.virtualart.at www.mediaarthistory.org/pub/mediaarthistories.html www.donau-uni.ac.at/telelectures FACULTY Erkki HUHTAMO, UCLA Lev MANOVICH, UC, San Diego Christiane PAUL, Whitney Museum Jens HAUSER, Paris, Gerfried STOCKER, Ars Electronica Linz Christa SOMMERER & Laurent MIGNONNEAU, Art University Linz Paul SERMON, Manchester, UK Jasdan JOERGES, Micromovie, Berlin Steve DIETZ, Director of ISEA 2006 Oliver GRAU, Danube University Edward SHANKEN, UCLA KNOWBOTIC RESEARCH, HGKZ, Zuerich Frieder NAKE, University Bremen Machiko KUSAHARA, Waseda University Monika FLEISCHMANN, Fraunhofer Institute Margit ROSEN, MA, ZKM Miklos PÉTÉRNAK, Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest Sylvia GRACE BORDA, University of British Columbia Martina LEEKER, University Bayreuth Slavko KACUNKO, University Osnabrueck Irina ARISTARKHOVA, Penn State University / Singapore DANUBE UNIVERSITY - located in the UNESCO world heritage Wachau is the first public university in Europe which specializes in advanced continuing education offering low-residency degree programs for working professionals and lifelong learners. Students come twice a year for 2 week blocks to Monastery Göttweig in Austria. With its new modular courses the DEPARTMENT FOR IMAGE SCIENCE at Danube University offers an educational program internationally unique. Without interrupting the career students have the opportunity to learn through direct, hands-on experience, social learning in small groups and contacts with labs and industry. They gain key qualifications for the contemporary art and media marketplace. The Center in Monastery Göttweig, where most MediaArtHistories courses take place, is housed in a 14th century building, remodeled to fit the needs of modern research in singular surroundings. International experts analyze the image worlds of art, science, politics and economy and elucidate how they originated, became established and how they have stood the test of time. The innovative approach at the Department for Image Science is reinforced by praxis-oriented study. APPLICATIONS for the next course start will be accepted until May 7th, 2008 (rolling admissions). Module dates: May 17 - May 27, 2008 Market of Media Art / -Management Preservation of Digital Art Sources of Digital Art and Early Forms of Computer Graphics Historicizing Art and Technology Cybernetics in MediaArtHistory Gender aspects of Media Art Excursion Ars Electronica Center November 24 - December 7, 2008 Introduction to Interfacedesign Locative Media: Augmented Space Digital Tools and their programming From Telematic Images to Micromovies Immersion & Emotion Design & Function of Knowledge Space Medial performance, theater und opera May 4 - May 15, 2009 Strategy of networks Ambient Intelligence Planning festivals Exhibiting & Curating Media Art Exhibiting, Curation and Collection Digital Art Archiving and Preservation interdisciplinary and intercultural work November 2 - November 12, 2009 MediaArtHistories & Media Archaeology Media Theory and Theory of multimedia-based systems Theory of perception Visualization Art & Science - History of Science Spaces of interaction and their planning Social Software Contact: Sabine Weber, MSc Department for Image Science Danube University Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Str. 30, A-3500 Krems Tel: +43(0)2732 893-2569 sabine.weber@donau-uni.ac.at www.donau-uni.ac.at/dis
cfp: Media Art History 09 re:live
From: Paul Brown <paul_brown@MAC.COM>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:09:32 +0100
Apologies for cross-posting MEDIA ART HISTORY 09 Re:live Third International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology Melbourne 26-29 November 2009 Call For Papers – Deadline 19th December 2008 http://www.mediaarthistory.org Sponsored by Leonardo and the Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne) Following the success of Media Art History 05 Re:fresh in Banff and Media Art History 07 Re:place in Berlin, Media Art History 09 Re:llve in Melbourne will host three days of keynotes, panels and poster sessions Media Art History 09 - Re:live, a refereed conference, is calling for papers, panels and posters on the histories of digital, electronic and technological media arts. With the theme of Re:live we are especially interested in expanding the range of topics to include sustainability, live arts and the technological arts of life, both organic and nonorganic. How do the media arts change? Through innovation, accident, discovery, mutation or crisis? How did contemporary media arts come to look and sound like they do? What options and potentialities and eccentricities in the history of media have been lost or overlooked or suppressed? What hopes have been realised and which dashed? What is the history of speculation on alternate histories, and how have they altered the course of media art history? Participants are asked to address at least one the following areas in their abstract: - histories of the art-science-technology connection in particular works, careers, exhibitions and institutions, especially in national and regional perspective - histories of biology, the life sciences and bioart in relation to media arts - histories of the environment, environmental sciences, ideas of sustainability and ecology in the discourses and practices of media arts - histories of liveness and performance in relation to media arts theory and practice, including network performance, multimedia performance and the relation of media to the histories of theatre - histories of the life of machines, cyborgs, virtual communities and the arts of transmission - histories of the liveness of real-time arts and art-science-technology collaborations in such areas as earth sciences, meteorology and astronomy - histories of innovation, accident, discovery, and speculation on alternative futures in media arts We particularly wish to encourage presentations from and about these histories in the Asia-Pacific region. Proposals are welcomed from artists, curators, arts organisers and researchers in media, art history, performance studies, literature, film, and science and technology studies. Selected papers from the conference will be published in Leonardo (MIT Press). We are negotiating with academic presses for one or two anthologies from the conference. Submissions: A dedicated website with updates and online paper submission system is available at http://www.mediaarthistory.org. Abstracts of proposals, panel presentations and posters should be submitted in either text, RTF, PDF or Word formats Deadline for 200 word abstracts: 19th December 2008. Please submit proposals at http://moodle.donau-uni.ac.at/relive/openconf.php Sean Cubitt and Paul Thomas, conference co-chairs. Prof Sean Cubitt scubitt@unimelb.edu.au Director, Media and Communications Program Faculty of Arts Room 127 John Medley East The University of Melbourne Parkville VIC 3010 Australia Tel: + 61 3 8344 3667 Fax:+ 61 3 8344 5494 M: 0448 304 004 Skype: seancubitt http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/media-communications/ http://homepage.mac.com/waikatoscreen/seanc/ http://seancubitt.blogspot.com/ http://del.icio.us/seancubitt Editor-in-Chief Leonardo Book Series http://leonardo.info ==== Paul Brown - based in OZ Dec 07 - Apr 08 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 ====