DASH Archives - September 2008

Churchill’s ”geese that laid the golden eggs but never cackled”  The  
Real Codebreakers Return!
This weekend Bletchley Park WW2 Veterans return for their Annual  
Reunion.  Come and meet some REAL Bletchley Park Codebreakers on  
Sunday and join us to celebrate their amazing achievements.  View a  
special display of Churchill Memorabilia, courtesy of the Darrah /  
Harwood Churchill Memorabilia Collection and a Special Exhibition  
commemorating the centennial of “The Social Event of the Season”, the  
marriage on 12th September 1908 of Mr Winston Leonard Spencer  
Churchill to Miss Clementine Ogilvy Hozier at St Margaret’s Church  
(The Parish Church of the House of Commons), Westminster.  Sunday sees  
a very special Churchill Talk by Jim Lancaster ‘Winston Churchill and  
the French language’.

Normal Annual Season Ticket admission prices apply – just £10 or  
less.  Children under-12 FREE.

An Evening with Colossus, Thursday 4th September
The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park invites you to  
'Spend an Evening With Colossus' on Thursday 4 September.  Tony Sale,  
who led the rebuild of Colossus, will be giving a talk at 7pm,  
followed by a demonstration of how Colossus broke the World War Two  
Lorenz SZ42 cipher.  The National Museum of Computing is located in  
Block H at Bletchley Park.  Space is likely to be limited.  For  
booking details see www.codesandciphers.org.uk.

New and Exclusively Available from Bletchley Park!
  Just £4.50

'From Bletchley, With Love', By Mavis Batey (Wartime Bletchley Park  
Codebreaker) £4.50

Tells for the first time the true story of the top secret wartime work  
of Ian Fleming as liaison officer between Naval   Intelligence and  
Bletchley Park.  (An accompaniment to the 'From Bletchley, With Love'  
Exhibition at Bletchley Park)

Ian Fleming’s favourite Churchill quote was, ‘In the high ranges of  
Secret Service work the actual facts in many cases were in every  
respect equal to the most fantastic inventions of romance and  
melodrama. Tangle within tangle, plot and counter-plot, ruse and  
treachery, cross and double cross, true agent, false agent, gold and  
steel,   the bomb, the dagger and the firing party  were interwoven in  
many a texture so intricate as to be incredible and yet true’.

Knowing the enemy’s secrets and keeping your own is a real war  
winner.  In World War 2 codebreaking and the Special Intelligence  
derived from it played a major role in the allied victory in Europe.   
Ian Fleming, NID 17F, acted as liaison officer between Bletchley Park  
and the Director of Naval Intelligence throughout the war.  The brand  
new ‘From Bletchley, With Love’ exhibition at Bletchley Park shows for  
the first time his involvement with the secrets of ENIGMA and ULTRA,  
which he was never able to reveal, but which formed the inspiration  
for the fantasy world of James Bond.  Amongst other fascinating  
Fleming insights, the exhibition and this accompanying book make the  
startling revelation of who was Ian Fleming’s real-life ‘M’.
To Purchase ‘From Bletchley, With Love’, click here.

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RUDOLF ARNHEIM SCHOLARSHIP IN THE FIELD OF MEDIA.ART.HISTORIES

The Department for Image Science is pleased to announce a half-tuition scholarship for the Master of Arts (MA) course starting in Nov. 2008!

> Rudolf Arnheim Scholarship for Media Art Histories:
The Department for Image Science offers this scholarship as an encouragement to concentrate on the further development of the scientific work of the recently deceased art historian and cognition psychologist Rudolf Arnheim and his significance for the history of Media Art.
Closing date for submission: Sept. 30th, 2008.

Further Information:
http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/mediaarthistories
www.virtualart.at 
www.mediaarthistories.org


=> FIRST INTERNATIONAL MASTER OF MEDIA.ART.HISTORIES 
(International Faculty, low residency, parallel to employment, English language) 
The postgraduate program MediaArtHistories conveys the most important developments of contemporary art through a network of renowned international theorists, artists and curators like:  Steve DIETZ, Erkki HUHTAMO, Lev MANOVICH, Christiane PAUL, Paul SERMON, Edward SHANKEN, Jens HAUSER, Sean CUBITT, Christa SOMMERER, Gerfried STOCKER, Knowbotic Research, Frieder NAKE, Oliver GRAU and many others. 
http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/studium/medienkunstgeschichte/06318/index.php
 
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 modern 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. 
 
=> DANUBE UNIVERSITY KREMS – 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.  
 
With its new modular courses the DEPARTMENT FOR IMAGE SCIENCE at Danube University Krems offers an educational program unique in Europe. Without interrupting their 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. http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/studium/medienkunstgeschichte/10365/index.php

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. 

Contact:  
Sabine Weber, MSc.
Department for Image Science
Danube University Krems
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

Forwarded from the New Media Curating e-list (NEW-MEDIA-CURATING@JISCMAIL.AC.UK 
):

hi

as the new tendencies / bit international exhibition is currently  
shown at ZKM,
I thought the following is interesting for some people on this list as  
it
contains a lot of material for the study of kinetic, cybernetic and  
computer
art. there is also an argument contained her about the writing of  
histories and
above all the thesis that this early 'computer avantgard' shows many  
of the
problems which affect media art till today.

Article start:

Since more than 10 years the Croatian media artist Darko Fritz has been
researching the archives of the Museum for Contemporary Arts Zagreb to  
gather
material about the New Tendencies series of exhibitions and events in  
Zagreb,
Ex-Yugoslavia, now Croatia, from 1961 to 1973 and the Bit  
International journal
published by that same art movement. An exhibition in 2007 at Neue  
Galerie Graz
and now at ZKM Karlsruhe shows the works of this important but almost  
lost art
movement, were it not for the effort of Darko Fritz. For the Graz  
exhibition a
little catalogue came out with contributions by Peter Weibel, Jesa  
Denegri and
Margit Rosen. I have data mined those articles and present this  
material in the
manner of a literature review for other researchers to study it and  
draw their
own conclusions. All translations from German are my translations.

Full text: http://www.thenextlayer.org/node/731
http://www.thenextlayer.org/

best regards
armin

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Netherlands Media Art Institute

MONITORING MEDIA ART PRESERVATION // edition 2008-2

Online newsletter on preservation by the Netherlands Media Art  
Institute. Offers 4 times a year information and news about ongoing  
research, presentations and publications dealing with video and media  
art preservation. The newsletter is in English only.

Editor: Gaby Wijers gaby@nimk.nl
Subscribe: preservation@nimk.nl

International symposium
(New) Media Art in Museums: production - keeping - presentation
Rijeka 15 - 17 October 2008
The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka organizes the  
international symposium (New) Media Art in Museums that will be held  
15 - 17 October 2008 at the City Hall in Rijeka.
The aim of the international symposium (New)Media Art in Museums is to  
consider status of (new)media art in museum collections, conditions of  
keeping, protection, modes of exhibiting and all the changes that  
(new)media art introduces into the everyday practice of contemporary  
museums.
more information http://www.mmsu.hr/.

Conference
Media Art in North Rhine-Westphalia: Collections, Conservation,  
Presentation
Düsseldorf 23 October, 2008
Imai - inter media art institute - in Düsseldorf organizes a  
conference about the conservation and ‘restage’ of media-based  
installations in cooperation with the Land Nordrhein-Westfalen and the  
Städtetag Nordrhein-Westfalen.
http://www.imaionline.de/content/view/58/1/lang,en/

Conference
DOCAM's fourth International Summit and symposium
Montreal 29 - 31 October 2008
This year, DOCAM’s fourth International Summit will be held on October  
30 and 31, at McGill University. During the two days of this public  
conference taking place at the Tanna Schulich Hall of the New Music  
Building, audience members will have the opportunity to learn about  
the progress of DOCAM’s research and to meet distinguished speakers  
among whom will be renowned Spanish artist Antoni Muntadas. For the  
first time, the Summit will be preceded by DOCAM’s Media in Motion  
Symposium, which will be held on October 29.
http://www.docam.ca/en/?cat=17

Seminar
Permanence in Contemporary Art - Checking Reality’
Copenhagen 3 - 4 November 2008
A seminar to be held the 3rd and 4th of November 2008, arranged by the  
Conservation Department at Statens Museum for Kunst in collaboration  
with The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark
Statens Museum for Kunst and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts,  
Schools of Visual Arts, will be the organisers of this international  
seminar addressing various critical issues surrounding the  
preservation and exhibition of contemporary artworks. The seminar,  
which will encourage interdisciplinary exchange between museum  
professionals including conservators, art historians, artists and  
others.
http://icom-cc-wg.phpbb24.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=70

Website
Media Matters launches phase 2
A consortium of curators, conservators, registrars, legal advisors,  
and media technical managers from New Art Trust, The Museum of Modern  
Art (MoMA), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), and Tate  
has launched the second phase of Media Matters, an innovative website  
designed to provide international guidelines for the care of time- 
based media works of art (e.g. video, slide, film, audio, and computer- 
based installations).
http://www.tate.org.uk/mediamatters

Project
TAPE project finalized, EPCA closed
The European Commission on Preservation and Access was established in  
1994 to promote the preservation of the documentary heritage in  
Europe. This year, with the finalisation op the TAPE project http://www.tape-online.net 
, the ECPA will bring its work to a close. The website will remain for  
a wile, the mailinglists are closed in July.

Study day
Saving electronic and digital media
A study day for artists and others, Antwerp October 28 2008
Organized by Packed http://www.packed.be/

Netherlands Media Art Institute
Keizersgracht 264
1016 EV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
http://www.nimk.nl

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>
>> FYA
>>
>> hi everybody,
>> >
>> maybe the following is of interest to some of you, this april the  
>> german museum of computer games
>>
>> http://www.computerspielemuseum.de
>> http://www.computerspielemuseum.de
>>
>> applied for a grant with the project KEEP -Keeping Emulation  
>> Environments Portable (there is no website yet).
>>
>> Participants are the national libraries of germany, the netherlands  
>> and france. aim is to preserve computer games using high archival  
>> standards. keeping computer games accessible in libraries/ archives  
>> is seen as an important step towards establishing them as an  
>> artform and exploring and describing them scientifically.
>>
>> contact person is andreas lange, head of the museum of computer  
>> games. further information also at
>> http://futurezone.orf.at/it/stories/308014/>http://futurezone.orf.at/it/stories/308014/ 
>>   (only availble in german)
>>
>>
>> regards
>> Keith Watson
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The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology is  
proud to present:

The Fourth International DOCAM Summit
30-31 October 2008
Tanna Schulich Hall (New Music Building)
McGill University
Montreal, Canada

Preceded by the Symposium:

Media in Motion: The Challenge of Preservation in the Digital Age
Co-presented by Media@McGill
29 October 2008
Rooms 832/833 (New Music Building)
McGill University


The fourth annual and international Summit of the DOCAM Research  
Alliance on the Documentation and Conservation of the Media Arts  
Heritage will take place on October 30 and 31, 2008, at McGill  
University in Montreal, Canada. During this two-day conference, which  
will take place at the Tanna Schulich Hall of the New Music Building,  
audience members will have the opportunity to learn about the progress  
of DOCAM's research and to meet distinguished speakers among whom will  
be media artist Antoni Muntadas, who will deliver a keynote address.  
Please note that registration is not required and that admission is  
free.

For the first time, the Summit will be preceded by the Media in Motion  
Symposium. Co-presented by DOCAM and Media@McGill, it will take place  
on October 29, in conference rooms 832/833 of the New Music Building.  
Admission is free but as space is limited, registration is required by  
email with Marilyn Terzic at the following address: docam.symposium@mac.com

DOCAM is an international and multidisciplinary research alliance on  
the documentation and the conservation of the media arts heritage with  
the main objective of developing new methodologies and tools to  
address the issues of preserving and documenting digital,  
technological, and electronic works of art. The project is supported  
by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) under  
its Community-University Research Alliances (CURA) program.

Initiated by the Daniel Langlois Foundation, the DOCAM Research  
Alliance includes some 15 institutional partners, such as the National  
Gallery of Canada, the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, the  
Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts,  
the Canadian Heritage Information Network, the faculties of many  
Canadian universities (including McGill, UQAM, Queen's and Université  
de Montréal), and international partners such as Leonardo and New York  
University. DOCAM also brings together more than 20 specialists and  
researchers in fields such as art conservation and restoration,  
cataloguing of museum collections, art history, information  
management, archival science, art documentation and computer science.

To view the conference program, please go to: http://www.docam.ca

Contact information: info@docam.ca

---
Sophie Le-Phat Ho
Coordinatrice / Coordinator
Alliance de recherche DOCAM
la fondation Daniel Langlois
              pour l'art, la science et la technologie
T. (514) 987-7177 (4206)
E. slephatho@docam.ca

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1st Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium
Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age
October 24-25, 2008

In partnership with the Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science
(PACHS) and the Chemical Heritage Foundation, the University of
Pennsylvania, Penn Libraries, and the Department of the History and
Sociology of Science are pleased to announce the 1st Annual Lawrence J.
Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age.

This year's symposium examines scientific manuscript book production in
Western Europe, Asia, and the Arabic world before the year 1600.  It
consists of two events: a public lecture hosted by PACHS and the
Chemical Heritage Foundation on Friday, October 24, and a day-long
symposium hosted by the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Penn on
Saturday, October 25.

Public Lecture:  Friday, October 24, 6:00 pm
Archimedes in Bits: The Digital Presentation of a Write-Off

William G. Noel, Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books at the Walters
Art Museum in Baltimore and Director of the Archimedes Palimpsest
Project, will speak on the trials, tribulations, successes, and
surprises in the decade-long project to retrieve the lost texts of
Archimedes, the ancient Greek mathematician, from a 13th-century Greek
prayer book.

The lecture will be held at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, 315
Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA.  The event is free and open to the
public. RSVP at http://www.pachs.net/events/archive/archimedes/

Symposium:  Saturday, October 25
On the Nature of Things:   Modern Perspectives on Scientific Manuscripts

Six scholars will present papers on various topics from medieval
astronomy, alchemy, chiromancy, scientific writing in the Near East, and
the influence of Arabic scientific manuscript production on the medieval
West.  The symposium will conclude with a panel of digital humanities
scholars who will discuss the role of new technologies in advancing our
understanding of this period in the history of science.

The symposium will be held in the Rosenwald Gallery, on the 6th floor of
Van Pelt-Dietrich Library and will include an exhibition of scientific
manuscripts selected from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the
Schoenberg Collection.

The event is free and open to the public, but seating is limited.
Registration by  October 19, 2008 at
http://www.pachs.net/registration/schoenberg

For schedule and program details, see
http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium1_program.html

Speakers include:

Alejandro Garc=EDa Avil=E9s, Universidad de Murc=EDa
Gerhard Brey, Center for Computing in the Humanities, King's College,  
London
Charles Burnett, The Warburg Institute
Marilyn Deegan, Center for Computing in the Humanities, King's College,
London
Gabriele Ferrario, Independent Scholar, Milan, Italy
Menso Folkerts, Institute for the History of Science, Ludwig-Maximilians
Universit=E4t
Monica Green, Arizona State University
Kim Plofker, Union College
Dot Porter, Digital Humanities Observatory, Royal Irish Academy
Michael Solomon, University of Pennsylvania
James Walsh, Indiana University
Dominik Wujastyk, University College, London

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