Video Vortex Reader II :: Call for Contributions — DEADLINE: May 10, 2010.

In response to the increasing potential for video as a significant form of personal media on the Internet, the Video Vortex program examines key issues that are emerging around the independent production and distribution of online video content. With the rise of YouTube and alternative platforms, the moving image on the Internet has become expansively more prominent and popular. As a wide range of technologies is now broadly available, the potential of video as a personal means of expression has reached a totally new dimension. Continue reading

Authoring Software and Platforms for Electronic Literature and New Media hosted by Judy Malloy:

A resource for teachers and students of new media writing, who are exploring what authoring tools to use, for new media writers and poets, who are interested in how their colleagues approach their work, and for readers, who want to understand how new media writers and poets create their work, Authoring Software is an ongoing collection of statements about authoring tools and software. It also looks at the relationship between interface and content in new media writing and at how the innovative use of authoring tools and the creation of new authoring tools have expanded digital writing/hypertext writing/net narrative practice in this vibrant contemporary creative writing field. Continue reading

Goethe-Institut, Cairo presents ARABSHORTS.NET, a web-based project showcasing nine online, curated film programmes by nine curators from the Middle East and North Africa. The project makes use of the vast potential of the Internet as a powerful and alternative platform for the presentation and circulation of independent films beyond the festival circuit and beyond conventional distribution networks. For the first time, viewers can have unlimited access to a large pool of films, and information that they would otherwise not have had the chance to peruse.

Bringing together more than sixty short fictional films, documentaries, animations, video art, experimental films and everything in between, ARABSHORTS.NET presents a multiplicity of perspectives on independent filmmaking featured from the point of view of each curator. Continue reading

Natural Fuse: Usman Haque from Architectural League of New York on Vimeo.

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Art & Education (A&E): Call for Papers — Artforum and e-flux are pleased to announce the launch of the Art & Education Papers archive, a new global platform for sharing and distributing research and knowledge in the field of contemporary art.

A&E Papers aims to exponentially widen the accessibility and reach of art-historical and critical discourse by hosting a free online platform for the publication and exchange of texts on modern and contemporary art. Art historians, students, critics, and artists alike will have the opportunity to gain access to a far greater and more focused readership than conventional publishing allows, while also enjoying unlimited access to a deep archive of scholarly writing by and for Art & Education’s rapidly growing audience, which currently comprises an international network of more than 70,000 visual arts professionals and academics. Continue reading

KAM Workshop 2009 — KERNEL: Shelves :: August 17-27, 2009 at 10:00 am :: Chania, Crete, Greece :: Call for Participation — Deadline: July 20, 2009.

KERNEL constitutes a conceptual and participative platform that has the intention to encourage a dialogue, on the internet but also in physical space, on practices of management of information, of the designing process and of creativity. KERNEL’s research subject is the design of a physical space in an open source-like way. The involvement is realized through designing proposals about in-situ actions that take place in this constructed space and indicate its structure. This is achieved by the processing of the initial idea-design (or by the processing of other participant’s designs) and by the submission of proposals for the construction and the actions that will accompany it through kernel-forum.com. Continue reading

binaryKatwalk:v.02b — Kate Pullinger

Kate Pullinger talks about her project Flight Paths, a Networked Novel made in collaboration with Chris Joseph. Next to her own work, she profiles projects by Caitlin Fisher, Christine Wilks and Renee Turner.

Kate Pullinger works both in print and new media. Her most recent novels include ‘A Little Stranger” (2006), ‘Weird Sister’ (1999) and the short story collection ‘My Life as a Girl in a Men’s Prison’ (1997). Continue reading

Where We Are Now Issue #1: The Aesthetics and Politics of Intimacy :: Launch Celebration and Performance/reading by Jill Magid and Eddie Vas: June 25, 2009; 6:00 - 8:00 pm :: The New School, Vera List Courtyard, 66 West 12th Street, NYC.

Where We Are Now (WWAN) is an open and loosely organized platform with the mission to illuminate, deepen and amplify the discourse around an aesthetic practice with political content in New York City. For the inaugural issue of its online journal, WWAN examines the aesthetics and politics of intimacy through essays, projects, legal cases, and interdisciplinary research by a select group of artists and cultural practitioners. Continue reading

A New “Platform” for Games Research?: An Interview with Ian Bogost and Nick Montfort (Part One) by Henry Jenkins.

Any time two of the leading video and computer game scholars — Ian Bogost (Georgia Tech) and Nick Montfort (MIT) — join forces to write a book, that’s a significant event in my book. When the two of them lay down what amounts to a new paradigm for game studies as a field — what they are calling “Platform Studies” — and apply it systematically — in this case, to the Atari system — this is something which demands close attention to anyone interested in digital media. So, let me urge you to check out Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System, released earlier this spring by MIT Press.

In the interview that follows you will get a good sense of what the fuss is all about as the dynamic duo lay out their ideas for the future of games studies, essentially further raising the ante for anyone who wants to do serious work in the field. Continue reading

MAICgregator is a Firefox extension that aggregates information about colleges and universities embedded in the military-academic-industrial complex (MAIC). It searches government funding databases, private news sources, private press releases, and public information about trustees to try and produce a radical cartography of the modern university via the replacement or overlay of this information on academic websites. This is a necessary activity in light of the contemporary financial “crisis”.

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Firefox extensions (putting aside (sadly) for the moment the regrettable continued use of male language) or add-ons are today presenting a relatively low-barrier entry into the development of web- and browser-based artistic projects. Continue reading