From wileywiggins at gmail.com Tue Jun 2 18:14:58 2009 From: wileywiggins at gmail.com (Wiley Wiggins) Date: Tue Jun 2 18:15:11 2009 Subject: [dorkbotaustin-blabber] Austin Creative Code Message-ID: <7B275E02-BF68-458E-A935-F785115BD041@gmail.com> Austin Creative Code is an informal group in Austin Texas that helps artists learn to program, and empowers them to build interactivity into their artwork. The group meets monthly and anyone can participate. We are currently working as a group through the basics of the Processing language- http://processing.org Past meetings have included guest speakers and educators by topic. Future topics planned are basic electronics projects using the Arduino open source microcontroller, and audio programming using Supercollider. For more info, visit austincreativecode.net/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotaustin-blabber/attachments/20090608/8fbc1292/attachment.html From chris at infobong.com Mon Jun 15 13:56:40 2009 From: chris at infobong.com (Chris McConnell) Date: Mon Jun 15 13:56:51 2009 Subject: [dorkbotaustin-blabber] Future Places Festival - Call for Submissions Message-ID: Hi All, I'm helping to put on a multimedia festival in Porto, Portugal this fall, and I thought that a lot of CotFG volunteers might have visual or sound work that would fit in well. I thought I would encourage anyone to submit a proposal to this festival taking place in October at a Casa da Musica. The submisssion deadline has been extended to June 22, which I know is only a week away, but some of you may have ideas stirring about. Obrigado, -Chris *Future Places 2009: Digital Media Festival* *October 13 - 17, 2009* *Porto, Portugal* www.futureplaces.org *Due to demand, the deadline is now June 22*. The FUTURE PLACES Festival is an international competition celebrating digital media work. FUTURE PLACES explores the potential of Digital Media when applied to specific cultural and social environments. The festival features exhibitions, conferences, workshops, concerts, performances and parties. We are interested in creative and new languages for interactive and media expression, and their impact on local cultures, society and public space. We want to reach a generation of creators who are breaking conventions. We are addressing this call to those who are blurring the lines not only between disciplines, but also between the real and the virtual and between the commercial, the artistic, and the academic arenas. Mainly, we want to explore the impact of new technologies in ?real life?. How can new technology build local communities, create new identities, new narratives, and new forms of public interaction? Workshops and conference panels will be facilitated by national and international figures in Digital Media; names will be announced in May. The Future Places website will be available by mid-March; the online submission process will begin March 20. *Awards:* First prize: 3000? Second prize: 1000? FUTURE PLACES recognizes the authors of the best works presented at the festival with two cash prizes, and the opportunity to participate in a three-month residential program at the University of Porto and/or at the University of Texas at Austin. The winner will be offered airfare and three months? lodging at the residency site. Eligibility: The submission of entries is open to all those who work in the Digital Media field. No particular nationality or academic affiliation is required. Rules: 1) Projects in any media may be entered. The exhibition is content-based, so submissions will be primarily evaluated for their suitability to the Festival theme: The impact of Digital Media in Local Cultures. 2) Entries should refer to work produced between 2007 and 2009. 3) Any works currently in production may be submitted as rough cuts or drafts. However, if selected, authors must provide work in final form by September 25th, 2009. Works that have been selected but whose authors have not sent work in their final form by September 25th will be excluded from the festival. In the case of installations or performances, ?final form? refers to photos, illustrative of the project. 4) Every submission must include a detailed synopsis of the work (maximum 1000 words) as well as illustrative pictures and/ or video, when appropriate. 5) Submissions must be made online at www.futureplaces.org, which will be accepting entries from March 2009. Emails and postal deliveries will not be considered. More instructions regarding submission of image, video and audio entries will be available on the website. 6) Submissions sent after 11:59pm on June 22, Porto local time, will not be considered. 7) A jury composed by three independent commissioners will select the final projects that will be exhibited and will compete at the festival. 8) The decision of the judges is final. 9) Material submitted to the festival ? even if not selected - will not be returned to the author(s). Material not selected will not be used in any way. 10) The Future Places festival retains the right to display accepted submissions, as well as photographs, sound recordings, and videos of accepted submissions, both online and offline. These displays will be non-commercial, and may be used to promote the festival and its organization. For more information about festival rules and policies, please see the website www.futureplaces.org *Future Places 2009 Submission Schedule:* March 20: Submissions will be accepted at www.futureplaces.org June 22: Submission deadline. All submissions made before the deadline will be acknowledged via email. August 15: Prospective festival entries are informed of acceptance or rejection. September 25: All final supporting materials must be submitted. *For inquiries, please contact* Karen Gustafson: futureplaces.kgustafson@gmail.com F?tima S?o Sim?o: fssimaofp09@gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotaustin-blabber/attachments/20090615/55df76d5/attachment-0001.html