From liav.koren at gmail.com Sun Sep 27 14:39:27 2009 From: liav.koren at gmail.com (Liav Koren) Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:39:27 -0400 Subject: [dorkbottoronto-blabber] dorkbot info + Fwd: PROGRESSIVE VIDEO FESTIVAL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Message-ID: Hi all. Sorry for the prolonged radio silence -- there still isn't really anything to announce, yet. For some reason it's been unusually hard to get responses to invitations the past couple of months. I'm going to try to nail something down this week, though. In the meantime, if you have a proposal, send it over. Kristin Trethewey, my dorkbot predecessor sends this over, and asks that it be circulated widely. -=-=-=- PLAY WITH FIRE Festival of Video Art, Performance and Design http://playwithfirefestival.wordpress.com/ November 14-21, 2009-New York Venue: Harvestworks, harvestworks.org 596 Broadway, Suite 602, Manhattan, NY Panel Discussions/Workshops/Artist Talks CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Deadline October 15, 2009 If you are an artist or designer who uses video outside ?the box? we want you to participate at Play With Fire! We are seeking submissions for AV performances, installations, panel discussions, VJs, workshops or other video based projects to present or discuss. Please send us a proposal and a description of your history and relationship to video. Weblinks, video or images of your work are also welcome and help us get a better sense of your background. All submissions: playwithfirefestival at gmail.com MORE ABOUT THE FESTIVAL: PLAY WITH FIRE This festival brings together video artists, performers and designers who progress their field by finding new applications for video!? Play with Fire is a platform for discussing the common set-backs and advantages of working with video while celebrating its forms by hosting a series of performances and a competition of live video editing.? Also, learn a new tool for live video manipulation during a demonstration and workshop in Modul8, a software used across disciplines. VIDEO: INTERDISCIPLINARY GLUE Video has found its way into artworks and installations in gallery settings.? It is now an accepted artistic medium, with some galleries dedicated to showcasing these works.? Performances time-based practices have also benefitted from the inclusion of video. Theatre groups and musicians collaborate with video artists and designers developing new elements to these performances. The term, VJ, a live video editor, became popular during the Rave era of the 1980s and 1990s. Since then, these artists face the unique obstacle of being situated in a club setting.? Although this genre has become blurred at the whim of cultural interest and economic incentive, this type of video performance can be an exciting way to engage the public in a setting where they are both performer and audience. Performance designers specialize in spatial design and apply video onto interesting new surfaces. This practice is more often for commercial entertainment or architectural facades. Under the right circumstances these designers create magical live experiences. Even the challenges that face these artists are a part of the reward in pioneering a creative effort. The Play With Fire festival will give practitioners a chance to build a stronger community between these groups who use video in new ways. The festival will also offer a chance for new interest to emerge through demonstrations and workshops, providing a great opportunity for both parties to share in the exploration of video practices. -- www.kristintrethewey.com http://www.playwithfirefestival.wordpress.com NOVEMBER 2009 www.myspace.com/electricblanketartist From liav.koren at gmail.com Sun Sep 27 14:40:33 2009 From: liav.koren at gmail.com (Liav Koren) Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:40:33 -0400 Subject: [dorkbottoronto-blabber] Fwd: NY VIDEO ARTISTS:CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS In-Reply-To: <6a8609ac0909261044jfd7d7c0h99d16258eafa99de@mail.gmail.com> References: <6a8609ac0909250706l16aa1af7td761ea525d3fbe6a@mail.gmail.com> <6a8609ac0909251047u7aa10d0eoedf5d8b0947dd7a2@mail.gmail.com> <6a8609ac0909251050x47127555lf0108517744fd9d2@mail.gmail.com> <6a8609ac0909261044jfd7d7c0h99d16258eafa99de@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Also from Kristin. Please circulate widely. -=-=-=-=- PLAY WITH FIRE Festival of Video Art, Performance and Design November 14-21, 2009-New York Venue: Harvestworks,?596 Broadway, Suite 602, Manhattan, NY http://playwithfirefestival.wordpress.com/ CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Deadline October 15, 2009 If you are an artist or designer who uses video outside ?the box? we want you to participate at Play With Fire! We are seeking submissions for AV performances, installations, panel discussions, VJs, workshops or other video based projects to present or discuss. Please send us a proposal and a description of your history and relationship to video. Weblinks, video or images of your work are also welcome and help us get a better sense of your background. All submissions: playwithfirefestival at gmail.com MORE ABOUT THE FESTIVAL: PLAY WITH FIRE This festival brings together video artists, performers and designers who progress their field by finding new applications for video!? Play with Fire is a platform for discussing the common set-backs and advantages of working with video while celebrating its forms by hosting a series of performances and a competition of live video editing.? Also, learn a new tool for live video manipulation during a demonstration and workshop in Modul8, a software used across disciplines. VIDEO: INTERDISCIPLINARY GLUE Video has found its way into artworks and installations in gallery settings.? It is now an accepted artistic medium, with some galleries dedicated to showcasing these works.? Performances time-based practices have also benefitted from the inclusion of video. Theatre groups and musicians collaborate with video artists and designers developing new elements to these performances. The term, VJ, a live video editor, became popular during the Rave era of the 1980s and 1990s. Since then, these artists face the unique obstacle of being situated in a club setting.? Although this genre has become blurred at the whim of cultural interest and economic incentive, this type of video performance can be an exciting way to engage the public in a setting where they are both performer and audience. Performance designers specialize in spatial design and apply video onto interesting new surfaces. This practice is more often for commercial entertainment or architectural facades. Under the right circumstances these designers create magical live experiences. Even the challenges that face these artists are a part of the reward in pioneering a creative effort. The Play With Fire festival will give practitioners a chance to build a stronger community between these groups who use video in new ways. The festival will also offer a chance for new interest to emerge through demonstrations and workshops, providing a great opportunity for both parties to share in the exploration of video practices. -- www.kristintrethewey.com http://www.playwithfirefestival.wordpress.com NOVEMBER 2009 www.myspace.com/electricblanketartist -- www.kristintrethewey.com http://www.playwithfirefestival.wordpress.com NOVEMBER 2009 www.myspace.com/electricblanketartist -- www.kristintrethewey.com http://www.playwithfirefestival.wordpress.com NOVEMBER 2009 www.myspace.com/electricblanketartist -- www.kristintrethewey.com http://www.playwithfirefestival.wordpress.com NOVEMBER 2009 www.myspace.com/electricblanketartist From timmoody at sympatico.ca Sun Sep 27 16:35:23 2009 From: timmoody at sympatico.ca (Tim Moody) Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:35:23 -0400 Subject: [dorkbottoronto-blabber] dorkbot info + Fwd: PROGRESSIVE VIDEOFESTIVAL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS References: Message-ID: Hi Liav, In the meantime some dorkbot members might be interested in a talk at Ryerson by Nils Roeller moderated by David Rokeby. Nils was here a number of years ago as the kickoff speaker for Digifest. http://imagearts.ryerson.ca/newmedia/index.cfm New Media Lecture Series Nils Roeller - Pure Means - Thinking Instruments and Magnetism in Artistic Production Moderator and Respondent: David Rokeby, New Media Artist, Toronto - Wednesday, October 7, 2009 - 7:30 pm - Ryerson University - Library Building, Room LIB72 - 350 Victoria St (at Gould St) - Admission free. - Doors open at 7 pm arrive early to ensure seating. Presented by the School of Image Arts, New Media Program, and the Ryerson Gallery and Research Centre Pure Means - Thinking Instruments and Magnetism in Artistic Production We live in a magnetic world: refrigerators and thermostats use magnets, the monitors and hard disks of most computers depend on magnets. As an invisible force of nature magnetism has entered the artifacts which build our cultural environment, but we are rarely aware of it. Now, as in antiquity, magnetism challenges perception and is therefore a focus of artistic attention. Nils Roeller presents a short history of the artistic use of magnetic force and the implementation of instruments that enable us to perceive it. He reflects upon the significance of the role played by instruments in the relationship between man, nature and art, while offering examples from the practice of several contemporary Swiss artists. The artistic interest in instruments and magnetism is juxtaposed with an investigation of the fascination for magnetic compasses and other means of navigation in such feature films as Pirates of the Caribbean. The analysis of differing practices regarding the employment of instruments will lead to a discussion of some of the key concepts of Vil?m Flusser's media theory. Dr. Roeller's talk follows the outline of his monographic study on magnetism as a history of mediation and orientation. Nils Roeller is Professor of New Media at Zurich University of the Arts. The main focus of his work is on media and cultural theory, with an emphasis on the epistemology of science and instruments. In the fall of 2009 Dr. Roeller's new book on the history of magnetism will be released: Magnetismus - Eine Geschichte der Orientierung. Paderborn: Fink, Herbst 2009. A prolific writer in print and web publishing, he is also the author of an online site called Journal for Art, Sex and Mathematics: www.journalfuerkunstsexundmathematik.ch ----- Original Message ----- From: "Liav Koren" To: ; ; "Kristin Trethewey" Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2009 2:39 PM Subject: [dorkbottoronto-blabber] dorkbot info + Fwd: PROGRESSIVE VIDEOFESTIVAL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Hi all. Sorry for the prolonged radio silence -- there still isn't really anything to announce, yet. For some reason it's been unusually hard to get responses to invitations the past couple of months. I'm going to try to nail something down this week, though. In the meantime, if you have a proposal, send it over. Kristin Trethewey, my dorkbot predecessor sends this over, and asks that it be circulated widely. -=-=-=- PLAY WITH FIRE Festival of Video Art, Performance and Design http://playwithfirefestival.wordpress.com/ November 14-21, 2009-New York Venue: Harvestworks, harvestworks.org 596 Broadway, Suite 602, Manhattan, NY Panel Discussions/Workshops/Artist Talks CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Deadline October 15, 2009 If you are an artist or designer who uses video outside ?the box? we want you to participate at Play With Fire! We are seeking submissions for AV performances, installations, panel discussions, VJs, workshops or other video based projects to present or discuss. Please send us a proposal and a description of your history and relationship to video. Weblinks, video or images of your work are also welcome and help us get a better sense of your background. All submissions: playwithfirefestival at gmail.com MORE ABOUT THE FESTIVAL: PLAY WITH FIRE This festival brings together video artists, performers and designers who progress their field by finding new applications for video! Play with Fire is a platform for discussing the common set-backs and advantages of working with video while celebrating its forms by hosting a series of performances and a competition of live video editing. Also, learn a new tool for live video manipulation during a demonstration and workshop in Modul8, a software used across disciplines. VIDEO: INTERDISCIPLINARY GLUE Video has found its way into artworks and installations in gallery settings. It is now an accepted artistic medium, with some galleries dedicated to showcasing these works. Performances time-based practices have also benefitted from the inclusion of video. Theatre groups and musicians collaborate with video artists and designers developing new elements to these performances. The term, VJ, a live video editor, became popular during the Rave era of the 1980s and 1990s. Since then, these artists face the unique obstacle of being situated in a club setting. Although this genre has become blurred at the whim of cultural interest and economic incentive, this type of video performance can be an exciting way to engage the public in a setting where they are both performer and audience. Performance designers specialize in spatial design and apply video onto interesting new surfaces. This practice is more often for commercial entertainment or architectural facades. Under the right circumstances these designers create magical live experiences. Even the challenges that face these artists are a part of the reward in pioneering a creative effort. The Play With Fire festival will give practitioners a chance to build a stronger community between these groups who use video in new ways. The festival will also offer a chance for new interest to emerge through demonstrations and workshops, providing a great opportunity for both parties to share in the exploration of video practices. -- www.kristintrethewey.com http://www.playwithfirefestival.wordpress.com NOVEMBER 2009 www.myspace.com/electricblanketartist ........................................................................ .........dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity.......... ......................... http://dorkbot.org ........................... ........................................................................