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

Garden of Delight

2008 Yeosu International Art Festival (South Korea)

30 August - 20 September 2008

is looking for soundart works from artists from all over the world.


The complete call and entry rules can be found on

http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=337

Call for Entries transmediale 2009

transmediale.09 - DEEP NORTH
festival for art and digital culture berlin
27 January - 1 February 2009

club transmediale.09 - STRUCTURES
festival for adventurous music and related visual arts
23 - 31 January 2009


_Call for Entries_

:: Deadline: 5 September 2008
:: Award Ceremony: 31 January 2009

Find the complete call and submission form for download at:
http://transmediale.de/09/pdf/tmctm09_call_for_entries


*transmediale.09 - DEEP NORTH & club transmediale.09 - STRUCTURES*

As leading international festivals for art and digital culture as well as
adventurous music and related visual arts, respectively, transmediale and club
transmediale are calling for submissions to the transmediale Award competition
and the Vilem Flusser Theory Award.

*transmediale* presents and pursues the advancement of artistic positions
reflecting on the socio-cultural, political and economic impact of new
technologies. It seeks out artistic practices that not only respond to
scientific or technical developments, but that try to shape the way in which we
think about and experience the technologies which impact virtually all aspects
of our daily lives. As such, transmediale understands media technologies as
cultural techniques that need to be embraced in order to comprehend, critique,
and shape global societies.

*club transmediale* (CTM) is a prominent international festival dedicated to
contemporary electronic, digital and experimental music, as well as the diverse
range of artistic activities in the context of sound and club culture. CTM
presents projects that experiment with new aesthetic parameters and new forms
of cooperation, develop possibilities for informational and economic
self-determination, and reflect on the role of contemporary music against the
backdrop of technological and social transformations.

For the 2009 edition, the festivals have each set a specific thematic focus.

transmediale.09 - *DEEP NORTH* peers beyond the evolving alarmist scenarios of
catastrophe prevalent in the often contradictory global warming debate.
transmediale.09 shifts this focus to the global artistic, cultural, societal
and philosophical consequences that the presumed imminent collapse of the polar
ice barrier may trigger. Are we about to reach another historically succinct
moment of unavoidable and cataclysmic change - a point of no return leaving in
its wake uncontrollable global transformations? Does climate change elicit
cultural change, a shifting of extremes or a collapse in established, systemic
and network norms? *DEEP NORTH* becomes not a fixed location, but a paradigm
transforming loss, scarcity, inertia and rivalry into urgent and revealing
states of being and expression.

With *STRUCTURES* - Backing-Up Independent Audio-Visual Cultures, club
transmediale.09 presents projects that spring from the critical,
interdisciplinary and experimental practice at the intersections of sound and
other art forms. In recent years, a new breed of hybrid projects and
initiatives that merges experimental audio and media cultures has developed in
the convergence-zone between pop culture, science, arts and media technologies.
This still remains primarily the domain of committed individuals and small,
self-organised groups or networks that, often in the most precarious of
circumstances, provide the supporting platform for these new artistic
articulations and experiments. In its 10th year, CTM looks into the current
state and potential development opportunities of these independent structures.

Together, transmediale and club transmediale invite the submission of works and
projects that respond to these challenges and embody contemporary notions of
art that embrace, question and enrich digital culture. Submissions of art works
for both festivals participate in the *transmediale Award* 2009 while
theoretical abstracts, papers and critical artistic positions are invited for
the *Vilem Flusser Theory Award* with prizes totaling ca. 10.000 EURO.


transmediale is a project of Kulturprojekte Berlin in cooperation with Haus der
Kulturen der Welt :: club transmediale (CTM) is a project of DISK - Sound &
Image Initiative e.V. :: transmediale is funded by the German Federal Cultural
Foundation :: CTM is funded by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds.

C I M A T I C S\ 08AV \F E S T I V A L

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS. DEADLINE: JULY 31.2008

The call for submissions is now open!

Cimatics - Brussels International Festival for Live Audiovisual Art & VJing - invites all artists, creatives and producers to send their submissions for the next Cimatics festival.

Cimatics\08AV\Festival takes place from 13th - 15th November 2008 at various locations in the centre of Brussels.

The 6th festival edition will again bring an extensive overview of what's currently taking place at the crossroads of media, art, music and technology. Extra attention will be paid to the central theme 'Data Visualization'.

Deadline for submissions: July 31st 2008.

To submit your project go to Call for Submissions

For further information, contact us at info@cimaticsfestival.com

call for works, FrammentAzioni

You can find below the call for works for "FrammentAzioni", the contemporary music project dedicated to composers coming from all over the world.

Entry is free.

The deadline is on August 31th 2008.


With the intent to promote contemporary music, TEM - Taukay Edizioni Musicali inviting composers to submit recorded works 60 seconds or less in length (works may be less than 60 seconds in length, but may not exceed 60 seconds).
The most interesting compositions (50/60 works) will be selected to be played continuously in a concert during the "Contemporanea" festival in October in Udine (Italy) and broadcasted from Taukay Web radio, the first Italian web radio station entirely dedicated to contemporary music. (http://radio.taukay.it)
Over the sequence the dance company "Arearea" will present an expressly dedicated choreography.

The recorded work can be any sound created which can be recorded on CD / DAT / data CD. Live performers are not allowed. The recording can include acoustic instruments, samples, voice, every kind of sound synthesis.
Scores of works are allowed but not required.
It is possible participate with more than one composition.

The call is open to composers of any nationality and of any age.
Previously performed compositions will be accepted.
Works will not be returned.

The following documentation is also required:
- name, surname, address, telephone number, e-mail address, date and place of birth, citizenship.
- composer biography.
- title of the composition.
- a statement agreeing to permit the performance of the composition to be broadcast or telecast and archived without compensation.
- a statement agreeing to the treatment of personal information in accordance with Italian privacy laws.

Printable application form to participate is available from the web site:
http://www.taukay.it

Please submit your work and submission no later than August 31th 2008 to:


Taukay Edizioni Musicali
via del Torre 57/5
33047 Remanzacco (Udine) Italy

The postmark will be deemed to be the date of submission.

You can send your composition as MP3 file to the following address: taukay.webradio@gmail.com
If selected we'll ask you the CD audio of your work.


Selected works will be announced on September 30 th, 2008.

For further information please visit Edizioni Musicali Taukay's web site: http://www.taukay.it
Or contact us by e-mail at: info@taukay.it



Taukay Edizioni Musicali
via del Torre 57/5
33047 Remanzacco UDINE
ITALIA
tel. +39 0432 649244
fax +39 0432 649575
http://www.taukay.it
http://radio.taukay.it

[phonography] call for phonographers in europe

after discussions with others list members and
agreements for a webspace to archive the results,
i am ready to make a preliminary call and proposal
for a direct phonographic action on the guillemins tgv
station in liege, belgium.

background on the site can be read at the heading
"Architecture & Silence"

http://www.futurevessel.com/orphansound/category/feed/

the action(s) consist in recordists arriving at the
station to do their thing. discussion of an exact
timing of the recordings are still open to
individuals' input. the idea is to keep all recordings
an equal length and then to archive them so that at
the site of the archive the listener is able to mix
these together simultaneously or listen discreetly.
although each recordist can add their name on the
project as contributor, each individual phonography
should not be tagged on the site. the objective here
is to take a spectral phonographic reading of the
site: different time periods, different people,
different gear. all approaches should be included
except those not adhering to the agreed upon duration
or which are clearly not phonographies dedicated to
capturing some aspect of this particular site.

the long term scope of the project will eventually
involve sound installations at various points in the
city itself. but this call for phonographers is the
first stage. the objective, at this poiny, is to
deconstruct the objective, unitary, formalist and
visual aspect of the station into aural experiences.
we could call this process a preliminary
devisualization or decomposition.

the first step is to hear the station from multiple
perspectives. the website will renewably re-integrate
these perspectives offering different resultants to
different ears that cannot get to the site themselves
but also construct data resources for ongoing
analysis.

what i call a renewable spectral mix of the
recordings---one that can be experienced not only as
individual time-lined phonographies discreetly is
intended as macrostructure with a view to a historical
and pluralistic particulars.

i offer this partly as my own engagement with my new
living environment but also as a new way to engage
others working in the phonography field, moving in the
direction of a different kind of focused
participational phonography and to build a situation
where reflection upon the results for one site can be
ongoing. the practical apsect of this is related to
the fact that the TGV station is projected as visual
spectacle and this visuality will lead to the
destruction of the surrounding neighborhoods. there is
time however to offer an aural disposition, a
phonographic intervention on the issue before that
happens.

we are seeking support for various levels of the
action but of course the most important is that
phonographers put their own aural prostheses to the
rails as it were.

let me know what you think of all of this.
and if you can, reply to me via

trans.abelard@gmail.com

if you'd like a quicker response from me.

regards,

jeff gburek

j.ff gbk

http://www.futurevessel.com/orphansound

http://www.idiosyncratics.net/netlabel.html

http://www.con-v.org/online.html

http://www.djalma.com

http://www.mattin.org/desetxea.html

[phonography] Call for Submissions: Soundscape Radio, Vancouver Co-op Radio, CFRO 102.7 FM

The Soundscape show on CFRO 102.7 FM, Vancouver Co-operative Radio
(broadcasting online at

http://www.coopradio.org/)

is calling for submissions of experimental sound art suitable for radio, as well as
field recordings and other sound materials suitable for use by the
show programmers for use in live on-air sound collages and mixes. We
especially encourage submissions of completed pieces from Canadian
artists.

Soundscape is a one-hour radio show on CFRO devoted to experimental
sound and radio art, phonography, soundscape composition, and other
related genres. Show formats vary from free-form radio collages to
more conventionally programmed shows featuring individual pieces with
spoken introductions.

Submissions may be in the following formats: CD or links to sound
files online. Submissions may be of any length up to an hour (though
due to Canadian content requirements, only Canadian submissions may be
a full hour in length). PLEASE NOTE: Submitters should indicate (1) if
the submitted work is by a Canadian artist and (2) whether they are
submitting completed pieces or raw material for live manipulation by
the show programmers.

Keep in mind the technical limitations of FM radio. Submissions
featuring large amounts of static, noise, or distortion; silence or
extremes of loud and soft; and extreme high and low frequencies are
unlikely to be broadcast.

Reply off-list for the snail-mail address to which submissions should
be sent. The programmers of Soundscape are looking (and listening)
forward to you submissions.