We are looking for people who are interested to propose and host a project at this event. All projects should use some sort of technology, be situated in the field of media art, and focus on an open and inclusive approach. We are especially interested in projects that either conceive new tools for making art or make use of existing open source/open technology solutions (such as openFrameworks, Arduino, Processing, PD) to create new pieces or performances. Whilst allowing people to access its underlying technology but also engage in a critical reflection on its political, sociological, or art historical contexts.

Each project host can specify his/her own timeline and use of the space for that weekend as well as the expected outcome.

We are happy to receive your short proposal (250 words with a suggested time line), no matter how obscure it might be, by the 22nd of May.

Location: Apiary Studios <http://www.apiarystudios.org>, 458 Hackney Road, E2 9EG London

Transcultural Music Review 16 (2012) will publish a special dossier on the new forms of music in audiovisual media. The dossier will be prepared in collaboration with the research group ‘Musica y medios audiovisuale’ from the Society for Ethnomusicology-SIBE/IASPM-Spain and will be edited by Teresa Fraile, Eduardo Vi’uela, and Maria Edurne Zuazu.

For this dossier, we are particularly interested in the role of music in the emergence of new genres (such as mash-ups, lip-dubs, etc.) and in the transformation of the discursive strategies of the traditional media (film, TV programs, music videos, video games, etc.). The contemporary audiovisual panorama is constantly changing. On the one hand, there is a fruitful interchange between different genres and formats, such as the dialogue between music video, advertising and film; an interchange in which the music is deeply involved. This enables music to take different functions in the discourses of these media, thus transforming them, and at the same time, opens a new palette of expressive resources. On the other hand, the spread and democratization of new technologies has brought about these new musical genres that also imply new forms of consumption and point toward a different aesthetic framework.

Music is now at the core of a boiling, creative audiovisual production where its relationships with image and the other sound elements are not what they used to be, obliging us to rethink our approaches and understanding of the role of music in media.

We welcome contributions that approach these new phenomena and processes, especially those with an interdisciplinary perspective. Some topics include but are not limited to the following:

Music and the blurring of media genres and formats.
Sound art and image (sound installations, etc.).
Music in film trailers.
Audiovisual formats in live performance.
New forms of consumption and technology.
Rockumentaries or ‘making of’ the album, band, etc.
Production of music for and with mobile technology (cell phones, MP3 players, etc.).
New theoretical models for media analysis.

We open the call for submission of articles on this topic. Articles may be written in English, Spanish, French, Italian or Portuguese.

For information on the editorial norms: http://www.sibetrans.com/trans/contributors.htm

Dr. Amparo Lasen Dpto Sociologia I Facultad de Ciencias Politicas y Sociologia UCM Campus de Somosaguas Pozuelo de Alarcin 28223 0034913942899 alasen@cps.ucm.es

free103point9 is pleased to announce the 2011 Distribution Grant for New York State Artists providing support for the distribution of new works in film, video, sound, new-media, and media-installation. Funding is available from free103point9 through a regrant from New York State Council on the Arts Electronic Media and Film Program. Grant awards will assist artists in making works available to public audiences and may include, but are not limited to: moving image and sound works; duplication of preview, screening, distribution, and exhibition copies; promotional materials including documentation and schematics of media-installation and new-media works. The rental or purchase of equipment essential for exhibition/distribution by individual artists is also eligible. Artists may request funding support up to a maximum amount of $10,000.

Successful grantees will also be awarded the opportunity to work with a project mentor who will offer guidance as grantees execute their distribution and exhibition plans. This mentor will have expertise in the grantees’ specific genre of media art.

Note: This grant is for works that have been fully completed between January 1, 2010 and October 31, 2010 only. Grant funds may not be used for production or post-production costs or production deficits.

Applications are submitted electronically through an online application process. Information about past grantees as well as the online application process is available here http://free103point9.org/nysca/

An optional application seminar will take place on Saturday, October 8, 2010 in conjunction with the 2010 Conflux Festival at NYU’s Barney Building in New York City. Contact regrant@free103point9.org with questions.

For further information please contact Galen Joseph-Hunter, Executive Director, free103point9: transmission arts

Program: Friday, 25 June, 9am – 1pm : Workshop “Multimedia Art and Performance” (incl. coffee break) with Iñigo Giner Miranda (D/ES) und Philip Auslander (USA)

1 – 2pm : Lunch break

2pm – 3pm: Welcome (Tobias Plebuch, Hermann Danuser, HU Berlin; Emile Wennekes MaM) :: Keynote Helga de la Motte (Technische Universität Berlin, D): “Multi - Intermedialität: Veränderungen des Musikbegriffs”

3pm: Iñigo Giner Miranda (Universität der Künste, Berlin, D/E): Tratado de imagines for Violin, Clarinet and Piano, video images by Iñigo Giner Miranda, Man Ray, Joris Ivens, and Fernand Léger :: Minkyu Kim (Hochschule für Musik, Freiburg, D): Halluzination for Violin, Clarinet and Piano, video images by Peter Weiß

3:30pm: coffee break

4pm – 6pm: Section I: Virtual Worlds (chair: Anno Mungen) :: Melanie Fritsch (Universität Bayreuth, D): “Worlds of Music: Strategies for Creating Music-Based Experiences in Video Games” :: Thorsten Hindrichs (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, D): “From Dungeons & Dragons to Brütal Legend – Virtuality and heavy metal culture” :: Emile Wennekes (Utrecht University, NL): “At the intersection of two worlds: Live concerts within Second Life” :: Michael Liebe (Universität Potsdam, D) / Georg Spehr (Universität der Künste Berlin) / Dennis Mathei (Ruhr-Universität Bochum): “Spiel die Musik”

6pm: Reception

Saturday, 26 June:: 9 – 9:30am: Gianmario Borio / Elena Mosconi (U Pavia / Cremona, I), “The research group Worlds of AudioVision”

9:30am – 12:00pm :: Section II: Performance and Technology I (chair: Emile Wennekes), Irene Kletschke (Universität der Künste, Berlin, D): “Video clip and the Web 2.0″ :: Felipe Hickmann / Pedro Rebelo (Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen’s University Belfast, IRL): “Audiovisual strategies for rendering presence in networked music performance”

10:30am :: Coffee Break

Volker Straebel (Technische Universität, Berlin, D): “Unikat oder Reproduktion. Strategien des Performativen bei medienspezifischen Künstlerschallplatten”

Jens Papenburg / Tobias Plebuch (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, D): “Shaping His Master’s Voice: Post-Production of Classical and Popular Music”

12 –1pm : Lunch break

1 – 2pm :: Keynote Philip Auslander (Georgia Tech, USA): “Jazz Improvisation as a Social Arrangement”

2 – 3:30pm :: Section III: Performance and Technology II (chair: Philip Auslander) :: Knut Holtstäter (Universität Bayreuth, D): “I’ve got the world on a string - der Sänger und die Medien” :: Falk Hübner (Leiden University, NL): “The musician as theatrical performer - a reductionist perspective” :: Lydmila Symonova (Universität Freiburg, D): “Verhältnis vom Sichtbaren und Hörbaren in der Produktion des 1. Zustandes von Wolfgang Rihms Séraphin mit Video-Bildern von Klaus vom Bruch.”

3:30 – 4pm : Coffee break

4 – 5:30pm : Section IV: Politics :: David Kasunic (Occidental College Los Angeles, USA): “Great Expectations: ‘Rickrolling’ and the Obama Presidential Campaign” :: Gayle Wald (George Washington University, USA): “Soul! TV: Music and Media in the Era of Black Power :: James Deaville (Carleton University, CDN): “Zippergate: Music, Television and the American Moral Dilemma.”

Sunday, 27 June, 2010

10 – 12am : Section V: Film I (chair: Tobias Plebuch) ::Alexis Luko (Carleton University, Ottawa, CDN): “For Whom the Bell Tolls: Sound Effects in the Films of Ingmar Bergman” :: Elizabeth McLain (Virginia Polytech, USA): Mediatizing Nature and Culture: Ovchinnikov’s Soundtrack for “Ivan’s Childhood” :: Allegra Kuklowsky (University of Paris IV, Sorbonne, FR): “Opening Credit Sequences in Motion Picture Film Scores: an Examination of Compositional Trends” :: Melissa Wong (University of Cambridge, UK): “All’s Fair in Love and War: Herrmann vs. Addison in the Case of Hitchcock’s Torn Curtain”

12 – 1pm : Lunch break

1 – 2pm : Keynote Michael Saffle (Virginia Tech, USA): “Lisztomania: The Real Musical(ized) Story”

2 – 3:30pm : Section VI: Radio (chair: James Deaville) :: Mauro Fosco Bertola (Universität Heidelberg, D): “Medium und Botschaft: Die musikalische Inszenierung einer „zivilisatorischen Mission“ Roms im italienischen Rundfunk 1929″ :: Kristin Van den Buys, Lien De Cang, Lieselotte Goessens and Katia Segers, (Vrije Universiteit and Erasmus University College Brussels, B): “Linking arts initiative and artistic policy: a history of institutionalisation, financing and artistic programming of the Belgian ‘factory of sounds’ - the National Radio Institute and its orchestra - between 1929 and 1960″ :: Simone Christine Münz (Universität Göttingen, D): “The Role of Music in Radio Broadcasting from the Cuban exile community in Miami/ Florida to Cuba”

3:30 – 4pm: Coffee break

4 – 5pm: Section V: Film II (chair: Michael Saffle) : Orlene Denice McMahon (University of Cambridge, UK): “Cellular (Film Music) Composition: Jean-Claude Éloy’s score for Jacques Rivette’s ‘La religieuse’ (1966)” :: Peter Niedermüller (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, D): “Beyond Hollywood. Music, Sound and Signs in David Lynch’s Blue Velvet”

5 - 6pm : Closing discussion

Filament is a festival of new work in performance, visual arts, sound, and media. It highlights EMPAC’s mission to support international and national artists in the creation and production of work via its residency and commissioning programs.

Performances and installations include:

MTAA (NYC): a barn raising driven by audience participation
Hans Tutschku (Cambridge, MA): a 24-channel immersive sound installation
BalletLab (Australia): choreographic hysteria based on cult behavior, embedded in a dense soundscape
Yanira Castro (NYC): a performance ecosystem where sound and dance environments envelop both audience and artists
Early Morning Opera (Los Angeles): evangelistic jumbotron diatribe on the dissolution of national borders
Volkmar Klien (Austria): a 44-channel encore of Start-Ziel-Siege
DANCE MOViES Commission 2009-2010 Premieres: five projects at the intersection of dance and moving image

Filament will also unveil a program of commissioned short-form performance works across the spectrum of dance, theater, music, and the visual arts. Participating artists include: Wally Cardona; SUE-C & Laetitia Sonami; Jen DeNike; Yehuda Duenyas; Sam Hillmer; Miro Dance Theatre; MTAA; Steve Cuiffo, Trey Lyford & Geoff Sobelle

Stay up to date on all Filament news by visiting the EMPAC website: http://www.empac.rpi.edu/

About EMPAC: Founded by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, EMPAC offers artists, scholars, researchers, engineers, designers, and audiences opportunities for creative exploration that are available nowhere else under a single roof. EMPAC operates nationally and internationally, attracting creative individuals from around the world and sending new artworks and innovative ideas onto the global stage.

The conference is programmed for the Printemps des Sciences humaines et sociales of the Maison européenne des sciences de l’homme et de la société de Lille (MESHS), in conjunction with the research project Praticables* and in partnership with EnsadLab, a research laboratory of the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (Paris - France) and Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains (Tourcoing- France).

Engineers are used to creating demonstrators to present, test and improve their products. Artists, on the other hand, rely on exhibitions to present their work. Scientists consider this model of the fine arts exhibition as unfit for their purposes. The question, however, that needs to be addressed is how to rethink the exhibition so that it is no longer conceived as a showcase for finished artworks but as a truly experimental environment for the testing and creation of artistic experiences in collaboration with the audience. In other words, is it possible to combine exhibition and demonstration, genuine artistic experiences with the promotion of technological innovation, balancing artistic and technological aspects to the greatest benefit of both?

*’Practicable’ - The Work of Art as Dispositif: Setting the Stage for Audience. A project funded by the ‘Agence Nationale de la Recherche’ (ANR) and supervised by the MESHS for the Universities of Valenciennes and Lille (Calhiste, Ceac, Geriico laboratories).

Guests:
Peter Lunenfeld*. Professor. University of Los Angeles (USA)

Jean-Louis Boissier. Artist/professor. University Paris 8 and Ecole Nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs/EnsadLab (France)

Étienne Cliquet. Artist.

Thierry Dutoit. Professor. Faculty Polytechnique, Mons (France)

Mieke Gerritzen. Gaphist and ex Head of the Graphic Design Museum, Breda (Pays-Bas)

Laurent Grisoni. Professor. University Lille 1 (France)

Hehe (Helen Evans et Heiko Hansen). Artists 

Atau Tanaka. Artist/Professor. University of Newcastle (England)

Koert Van Mensvoort. Professor. University of Eindhoven (Pays-Bas)

DEMO is conceived and moderated by Samuel Bianchini (University of Valenciennes, laboratory Calhiste and research laboratory EnsadLab) and Jean-Paul Fourmentraux (University Lille 3 an laboratory Geriico).

Programme for « Printemps des Sciences humaines et sociales »: www.meshs.fr

The Festival seeks dynamic creative works from all over the world that are opening up a new era. Please visit the official website for detailed information. A press release (PDF file) can be downloaded from the following address.

The Japan Media Arts Festival defines “media arts” not only as arts using digital representations and technologies but also as entertainment genres including animation, manga and games; it has been contributing to the improvement of media arts from Japan by recognizing excellence works and by providing an opportunity for artists to present their works since 1997.

Japan Media Arts Festival Secretariat Office
c/o CG-ARTS
1-11-2 Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0031 Japan
Phone +81-3-3535-3501 Fax +81-3-3562-4840

The Media Art History national conference committee of Austrialia would like to invite you to attend the Re:live the international media art history conference. Over three stimulating days, historians, curators, media artists, creative arts practitioners and theorists at the forefront of their practice will explore the latest research and theories that challenge;

Conference Sessions on the History of :: art-science-technology :: biology :: the environment :: liveness :: the life of machines :: innovation ::

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, 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?

Keynote Presenters :: ZHANG GA :: DOUGLAS KAHN :: LISA GITELMAN

We welcome you to join possible presenters for this extraordinary event: Marianne SCHMIDT, Slavko KACUNKO, McKenzie WARK, Luís QUINTAIS, Daniela Alina PLEWE, Gebhard SENGMUELLER, Morten SONDERGAARD, Andres BURBANO, Audrey SAMSOM, Denisa KERA, Ana PERAICA, Darko FRITZ, Gabriel Menotti GONRING, Andrea GLENIGER, Laura BELOFF, Simona CARACENI, Ingrid HOELZL, Maggie MACNAB, Darren TOFTS, Frederik LESAGE, Lawrence BIRD, Natasha VITA-MORE, Mike LEGGETT, Eva KEKOU, Camille PALOQUE-BERGES, Nigel LLWYD, William HELYER, Mike STUBBS, Gabriella GIANNACHI, Katja KWASTEK, Roger MALINA, Catherine MASON, Lizzie MULLER, Caroline Seck LANGILL, Elena Giulia ROSSI, Martin CONSTABLE, Adele TAN, Danielle WILDE, Brogan BUNT, Mark GUGLIELMETTI, Margaret SEYMOUR, Oron CATTS, Melentie PANDILOVSKI, Ionat ZURR, Jennifer LADE, Stephen JONES, Paul SERMON, Christopher SALTER, Jihoon KIM, Jussi PARIKKA, Allison de FREN, Troy INNOCENT, Jon CATES, Nina WENHART, Susan BALLARD, Leon MARVELL, Rudy RUCKER, Ryszard W. KLUSZCZYNSKI, Daniel PALMER, Zita JOYCE, Lucas IHLEIN, Louise CURHAM, Lissa MITCHELL, Gabrielle Finnane, Cass MEERS, Virginia PITTS, Manosh CHOWDHURY. Francesca FRANCO, Sarah KENDERDINE, Pia EDNIE-BROWN, Anders CARLSSON, Rosana Horio MONTERIO, Suzette WORDEN, Stefano RAIMONDI, Cat HOPE, Jung-Yeon MA, Keiko COURDY, Margit ROSEN, Robrecht VANDERBEEKEN, O. PARASKEVOPOULOU, D. CHARITOS, V. LAMONTAGNE, Mathias FUCHS, Franck ANCEL, Joanna WALEWSKA, Monika GORSKA-OLESINSKA, Robert SWEENY, Caitlin JONES, Ernest EDMONDS, Michael CENTURY, Larissa HJORTH, Kathy Rae HUFFMAN, Jens HAUSER, Mike PHILLIPS, Thomas MICAL, Anne-Marie DUGET, Norman FORD, Helen Mary GRACE, Hector RODRIGUEZ, Ross HARLEY, Tapio MAKELA

Co Chairs Re:live09: Sean CUBITT and Paul THOMAS ::Third International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology

Conference

The main conference will be held at Faculty of VCA and Music, University of Melbourne, featuring keynotes by invited speakers as well as international presenters selected by a peer review process, the selected Keynotes (as listed above) will be held in the evenings at the BMW Edge at Federation Square.

National Committee

Oron CATTS, Edward COLLESS, Eleanor GATES-STUART, Lisa Gye, Ross Rudesch HARLEY, Larissa HJORTH, Kim MACHAN, Leon MARVELL, Anna MUNSTER, Daniel PALMER, Melinda RACKHAM, Darren TOFTS

International advisory board

Andreas BROECKMANN, Berlin; Paul BROWN, London/Cotton Tree; Annick BUREAUD, Paris; Sara DIAMOND, Toronto; Diana DOMINGUES, Caxias do Sul; Timothy DRUCKREY, New York; Oliver GRAU, Krems; Gunalan NADARAJAN, Baltimore; Linda D. HENDERSON, Austin; Erkki HUHTAMO, Los Angeles; Douglas KAHN, Davis; Ángel KALENBERG, Montevideo; Ryszard KLUSZCZYNSKI,
Lodz; Machiko KUSAHARA, Tokyo; Roger MALINA, Paris; W.J.T. MITCHELL, Chicago; Christiane PAUL, New York; Miklos PETERNAK, Budapest, Edward SHANKEN, Amsterdam; Barbara STAFFORD, Chicago; Jeffrey SHAW, Sydney; Peter WEIBEL, Karlsruhe; Steven WILSON, San Francisco

Further information can be found at: www.mediaarthistories.org

Information about other key events connected to Re:live can be found at: www.mediaarthistories.org Super Human symposium: Melbourne 23rd-24th of November http://superhuman.anat.org.au/symposium.html :: Leonardo Education Forum (LEF), Melbourne, 26th of November 2009
http://www.leonardo.info/isast/lef.html (with: Paul THOMAS, Oliver GRAU, Ian CLOTHIER a.o.)

Broadcast Yourself will address the issues of power and control extended by traditional media outlets in contrast with the do-it-yourself attitude pervasive in the tech-savvy younger generation. Symposium panelists will also speak to the impact that radio and television can have in shaping the events of our time; how artists can directly engage, challenge, or subvert the structure and authority of broadcast media; and how our culture is shaped by the actions of individuals and artists.

Speakers will include NPR “On The Media” host Brooke Gladstone, Broadcast curator Irene Hofmann, and Broadcast participating artists Gregory Green, Angel Nevarez and Valarie Tevere of neuroTransmitter, and Siebren Versteeg.

The symposium will accompany Broadcast, a traveling exhibition co-organized by the Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, and iCI (Independent Curators International), New York; circulated by iCI; and guest-curated by Irene Hofmann. The exhibition comes to Pratt Manhattan Gallery from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, and the Contemporary Museum, Baltimore. The exhibition and tour are made possible, in part, with support from the iCI Exhibition Partners.

The exhibition is on view now through May 2, 2009 and features work by Dara Birnbaum; Chris Burden; Gregory Green; Doug Hall, Chip Lord, and Jody Procter; Christian Jankowski; Inigo Manglano-Ovalle; Antoni Muntadas; neuroTransmitter; Nam June Paik; TVTV (Top Value Television); and Siebren Versteeg.

Speaker Biographies:

Overseas Press Club and Peabody award-winner Brooke Gladstone started out in print journalism, writing on defense policy, strip-mining, broadcasting, and cable television. Gladstone joined National Public Radio (NPR) in 1987, working on “Weekend Edition” and “All Things Considered” before covering NPR’s media beat. She helped re-launch the WNYC-produced NPR radio program “On The Media” in 2001, where she serves as host and managing editor.

Guest-curator Irene Hofmann is Executive Director of the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore. Recent exhibitions include “Cell Phone: Art and the Mobile Phone” and “St. Cecilia,” a solo exhibition of works by Joseph Grigely. Hofmann previously served as Curator of Contemporary Art at the Orange County Museum of Art, where she co-curated the 2002 and 2004 California Biennials and the photography and video exhibition “Girls’ Night Out.” She has organized exhibitions and projects with artists such as Kutlug Ataman, Mark Dion, Jason Dodge, Fabrice Gygi, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, and Marjetica Potrc.

Brooklyn native Gregory Green has created controversial work addressing the evolution of various strategies for empowerment, which consider the use of violent and non-violent measures as vehicles for social or political change. Green is perhaps best known for his sculptures that are mechanically complete and potentially functional bombs or missiles, or that provide instruction on how to make large quantities of LSD.

Angel Nevarez and Valarie Tevere, who co-founded neuroTransmitter in 2001, fuse a combination of media forms and sound performance; their work re-articulates radio in multiple environments and contexts—public, exhibition, over the airwaves—and considers new possibilities for the broadcast spectrum as public space.

Siebren Versteeg creates computer-driven video installations that situate the viewer in paradoxical realms where the real and the virtual seem to interconnect. At once humorous and unsettling, his works feed real-time online data culled from CNN, The Associated Press, and internet diaries into video animations with digitally produced sound.

Image above: Gregory Green, M.I.T.A.R.B.U. (Mobile internet, television, and radio broadcast unit), Mixed media with 35-watt pirate FM broadcast system, 100-watt pirate television broadcast system, and internet broadcast system, 2000.