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RHIZOME DIGEST: 12.16.05

RHIZOME DIGEST: December 16, 2005 Content: +opportunity+ 1. Amy Alexander: UC San Diego - Temporary Lecturer Positions +work+ 2. Eric Dymond: The Doorway Google Earth +announcement+ 3. Kate Armstrong: Upgrade Vancouver//with Jeremy Isao Speier 4. Marisa Olson: We Are All Together @ Artists Space 5. rick silva: 24 Hour Count: "a blog jam" 6. Gabriella Giannachi: Performing Presence: from the live to the simulated 7. shawn brixey: DXARTS Ph.D. Program, Applications Due Feb 3, 2006 8. 0100101110101101.ORG: United We Stand + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Rhizome is now offering Organizational Subscriptions, group memberships that can be purchased at the institutional level. These subscriptions allow participants at institutions to access Rhizome's services without having to purchase individual memberships. 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From: Amy Alexander <plagiari@plagiarist.org> Date: Dec 10, 2005 6:30 PM Subject: UC San Diego - Temporary Lecturer Positions VISUAL ARTS DEPARTMENT, University of California, San Diego We anticipate openings for temporary Lecturer positions in art history/criticism (Western and Non-western), photo history, film history, studio art (painting, sculpture, drawing, and hybrid practices), computing in the arts, digital editing, film, video, photography, performance. Appointments will likely be part-time, possibly full-time, from one quarter up to one year, with the possibility of renewal. Positions available beginning the 2006/2007 academic year contingent upon funding. MFA and PhD preferred, but ABDs considered. The successful candidate will demonstrate excellence in teaching and scholarship and/or professional recognition. Salary commensurate with qualifications and experience and based on published UC pay scales. Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, names of three references (do not send letters of recommendation and/or placement files), and evidence of work in the field. This evidence may be in the form of slides, tapes, publications and/or public lectures and should be accompanied by return mailer and postage. Applications should be received by February 15, 2006 and addressed to: Search Committee (POOL-S-06/07) Department of Visual Arts (0327) University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0327 Please reference position number POOL-S-06/07 on all correspondence. UCSD is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer with a strong institutional commitment to the achievement and diversity among its faculty and staff. Proof of U.S. citizenship or eligibility for U.S. employment will be required prior to employment (Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986). + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 2. From: Eric Dymond <dymond@idirect.ca> Date: Dec 14, 2005 10:16 PM Subject: The Doorway Google Earth The doorway earthwork can be seen via Google Earth at <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <kml xmlns="<a rel="nofollow" href="http://earth.google.com/kml/2.0&quot">http://earth.google.com/kml/2.0";</a>;> <Placemark> <name>The Doorway</name> <description>The physical location of the web art work, the doorway. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.edymond.com/artseen/door1.htm">http://www.edymond.com/artseen/door1.htm</a></description> <LookAt> <longitude>-80.00870504870713</longitude> <latitude>43.79352147953756</latitude> <range>630.3109979082278</range> <tilt>1.98429132367055e-010</tilt> <heading>-0.006022417027049802</heading> </LookAt> <styleUrl>root://styleMaps#default+nicon=0x307+hicon=0x317</styleUrl> <Point> <coordinates>-80.00882280146587,43.79348746953154,0</coordinates> </Point> </Placemark> </kml> you can download the kmz file from: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.edymond.com/The_Doorway.kmz">http://www.edymond.com/The_Doorway.kmz</a> (requires the Google Earth plugin) The earthwork is zoomable and still intact. Eric Dymond Dec 13, 2005 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Support Rhizome: buy a hosting plan from BroadSpire <a rel="nofollow" href="http://rhizome.org/hosting/">http://rhizome.org/hosting/</a> Reliable, robust hosting plans from $65 per year. Purchasing hosting from BroadSpire contributes directly to Rhizome's fiscal well-being, so think about about the new Bundle pack, or any other plan, today! About BroadSpire BroadSpire is a mid-size commercial web hosting provider. After conducting a thorough review of the web hosting industry, we selected BroadSpire as our partner because they offer the right combination of affordable plans (prices start at $14.95 per month), dependable customer support, and a full range of services. We have been working with BroadSpire since June 2002, and have been very impressed with the quality of their service. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 3. From: Kate Armstrong <kate@katearmstrong.com> Date: Dec 11, 2005 6:58 AM Subject: Upgrade Vancouver//with Jeremy Isao Speier It's that time again! At the Upgrade on Wednesday, December 14th at 8pm we will be hearing from Jeremy Isao Speier. After the talk we'll adjourn to the Whip Gallery [209 east 6th avenue] for a little holiday drink. Join us for the last Upgrade of 2005! In his work Isao Speier manufactures objects using obsolete technologies, creating new art forms and visual models. Isao Speier will talk about his kinetic sculptures, which work with rudimentary technology and explore the science of motion, space and time, and about the process of working with electro - mechanical bodies of motion. He will also talk about his background in film and painting, and show work from his installation, Kinetics. Jeremy Isao Speier is a graduate of The Emily Carr College of Art & Design. A Japanese-Canadian, Speier is an interdisciplinary artist who works in film/video, new media, kinetic sculpture and sound, painting and assemblage and installation. He is a Vancouver based artist and his work has been exhibited in Canada in various group or solo exhibitions, including at: The Red Head Gallery, Latitude 53, Access Artist Run Centre, Vancouver New Music, p | m Gallery, Helen Pitt ARC, The Ministry of Casual Living, Gallery 101, The Western Front. When: Wednesday, December 14th at 8pm Where: Western Front, 303 East 8th Avenue, Vancouver, Canada FREE! Everyone welcome. URL: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.katearmstrong.com/upgrade/vancouver/">http://www.katearmstrong.com/upgrade/vancouver/</a> On NowPublic: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nowpublic.com/node/24813">http://www.nowpublic.com/node/24813</a> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 4. From: Marisa Olson <marisa@rhizome.org> Date: Dec 12, 2005 11:43 AM Subject: We Are All Together @ Artists Space Dear New York-area Rhizome readers, I'd like to invite you to a show I've curated at Artists Space (artistsspace.org), called "We Are All Together: Media(ted) Performance," as part of their Empty Space with Exciting Events, in conjunction with the Performa 05 biennial. (Yes, it's a mouthfull…) The artists are Sabrina Gschwandtner + Cat Mazza, MTAA, Kate Pocrass, Chris Sollars, and Lee Walton, and they are each showing work that involves some sort of mediation–with viewers, computers, etc. The 'band night' -slash- opening is this Weds (12/14) and Släang (aka Hector Ducci) will give an a/v performance 7-9ish… While most of the works involve internet-based collaboration, others involve offline mediation within social networks. Thinking about the similarities and differences within these two modes of production has been an interesting process. I know that, on this list, we've been discussing the ever-so-slightly increasing popularity/acceptance of new media; yet, it's interesting to consider how the discourses of networks, platforms, codes, protocols, and interfaces have carried themselves over to (or perhaps been imported from, if not reciprocated) offline representations… Anyway, Artists Space is in Soho at 38 Greene, at Grand. It would be great to see you there! Marisa + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Rhizome ArtBase Exhibitions <a rel="nofollow" href="http://rhizome.org/art/exhibition/">http://rhizome.org/art/exhibition/</a> Visit "Net Art's Cyborg[feminist]s, Punks, and Manifestos", an exhibition on the politics of internet appearances, guest-curated by Marina Grzinic from the Rhizome ArtBase. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.rhizome.org/art/exhibition/cyborg/">http://www.rhizome.org/art/exhibition/cyborg/</a> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 5. From: rick silva <rick@ricksilva.net> Date: Dec 14, 2005 4:40 AM Subject: 24 Hour Count: "a blog jam" BOULDER - SCOTTSDALE - SYDNEY - WWW 24 HOUR COUNT "a blog jam" The 24 Hour Count is a multi-media blog band made up of Colorado artists Mark Amerika, Rick Silva, and Nathaniel Wojtalik. For this newly commissioned 24-hour online blog performance, the artists will use a variety of media including the Internet, mobile phones, digital video and photo cameras, mini-disk recorders, musical instruments, and many computer software programs to improvisationally remix, interpret, and respond to current events while filtering their "digital readings" through the prism of Count Lautréamont's "Songsof Maldoror," a classic French text written in the 19th century and whom the Surrealists adopted as the progenitor of their significant 20th century movement. Sponsored by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, the Alt-X Online Network, and the TECHNE lab at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the artists performing this distributed multi-media blog performance will be located in three different locations: Sydney, Australia, Boulder, Colorado, and Scottsdale, Arizona. The event starts at December 17th 14:00 MST/Arizona 16:00 EST 21:00 London 22:00 Berlin December 18th 08:00 Sydney For 24 hours straight, the three distributed artists will use the same blogging website as the virtual location for their ongoing multi-media jam session. The performance will coincide with the opening of the SOUTHWEST.net:Techno show in Scottsdale, and a living archive of the blog jam site will remain online both in the gallery through May 14, 2006, and on the web throughout the duration of the exhibition and beyond. For more project info: www.djrabbi.com/24 For more exhibition info: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.smoca.org/exhibit.php?id=98">http://www.smoca.org/exhibit.php?id=98</a> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Rhizome.org 2005-2006 Net Art Commissions The Rhizome Commissioning Program makes financial support available to artists for the creation of innovative new media art work via panel-awarded commissions. For the 2005-2006 Rhizome Commissions, eleven artists/groups were selected to create original works of net art. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://rhizome.org/commissions/">http://rhizome.org/commissions/</a> The Rhizome Commissions Program is made possible by support from the Jerome Foundation in celebration of the Jerome Hill Centennial, the Greenwall Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Additional support has been provided by members of the Rhizome community. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 6. From: Gabriella Giannachi <g.giannachi@exeter.ac.uk> Date: Dec 14, 2005 9:15 AM Subject: Performing Presence: from the live to the simulated Performing Presence: from the live to the simulated A major AHRC-funded project managed by Nick Kaye (Exeter), Gabriella Giannachi (Exeter), Michael Shanks (Stanford), Mel Slater (UCL). Advance notice of public performance workshops Performing Presence is a major, AHRC-funded international collaborative research project running for four years from 1st September 2005. The project brings together leading researchers from Drama, Archaeology, and Computer Science, in collaboration with internationally known performers and artists, to advance an understanding of the performer's presence in live, electronically mediated and simulated performance. Integral to the Performing Presence project is the Presence Project Collaboratory, a state-of-the-art collaboratively authored web environment hosted by Stanford University at <a rel="nofollow" href="http://presence.stanford.edu/">http://presence.stanford.edu/</a> Our Exeter project website is at <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.projects.ex.ac.uk/performing-presence/">http://www.projects.ex.ac.uk/performing-presence/</a> Between February and June 2006, the Centre for Intermedia in the Department of Drama at Exeter University we will be hosting six public one-day practice-research workshops for a public audience conducted by leading theatre and performance artists. The workshop series will explore theatrical practices that engage with performer-presence and range across multi-media performance, storytelling, intercultural performer practice, performance art, site-specific theatre and psychophysical performance. All our workshops are free and open to a public audience. Tim Etchells: 15 February 2006, 12.30-4.30. Tim Etchells is Artistic Director of Forced Entertainment, one of the UK's most influential companies working across performance, installation and media. Phillip Zarrilli and Klaus Seewald: 1st March 2006, 12.30-4.30. Phillip Zarrilli is internationally recognised for training actors using a psychophysical process combining yoga, especially Hatha Yoga, and the Asian martial arts Kalarippayattu and Tai Chi Ch'uan. He is professor of Performance Practice at Exeter. Phillip Zarrilli will conduct this workshop in collaboration with Klaus Seewald of Theatre ASOU, Graz, Austria, whose work has been shown widely across Europe and South America. Mike Pearson and Mike Brookes: 8 March 2006, 12.30-4.30. In a series of performances since 1999, Mike Pearson and Mike Brookes have explored and studio-based practice as a mediation and transposition of specific sites and events. Vayu Naidu: 22 March 2006, 12.30-4.30. With Vayu Naidu Company, Vayu Naidu's work explores and articulates the presence of the narrative storyteller, transposing RASA, 'the essence of performance,' toward the creation of performer presence Details of how to reserve a place are available from <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.projects.ex.ac.uk/performing-presence/events.php">http://www.projects.ex.ac.uk/performing-presence/events.php</a> Further workshop dates and details of individual workshops will be announced in the New Year. Performing Presence also receives support from Exeter University, Stanford University and University College London. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 7. From: shawn brixey <shawnx@u.washington.edu> Date: Dec 14, 2005 4:35 AM Subject: DXARTS Ph.D. Program, Applications Due Feb 3, 2006 Ph.D. Program in Digital Arts and Experimental Media University of Washington <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.washington.edu/dxarts">http://www.washington.edu/dxarts</a>. The Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) at the University of Washington in Seattle is seeking strong applications for its new path-breaking Ph.D. program. DXARTS is an autonomous degree granting Center in the College of Arts and Sciences at the UW. The new Ph.D. program embraces an expansive range of digital and experimental arts practice and research across multiple disciplines. Faculty and students in DXARTS work both in established areas of experimental arts such as Digital Video, Physical Computing, Mechatronics, Computer Music and Sound Art, Computer Animation, Telematics, etc., as well as pursue innovative areas of arts research and creative context that have no media allegiance or historical precedent. Creative work underway in DXARTS draws from all combination of arts and sciences, and actively seeks the invention of completely new domains of arts practice. The deadline for receipt of complete applications for the Ph.D. program is February 3rd, for Fall 2006 admission. Though DXARTS highly encourages applications from all interdisciplinary fields of experimental arts practice, special attention will be focused this application cycle to artists whose backgrounds include instrests and strong skill sets in, computer programming, data acquisition, 3-D modeling, cnc machining, rapid prototyping, mechatronics, robotics and networked environments. International students should apply as soon as possible due to the extra administrative time needed to process these applications. For more information about DXARTS including a complete description of the Ph.D. program, instructions for application, funding, and other particulars, see: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.washington.edu/dxarts/academics_phd_application.php">http://www.washington.edu/dxarts/academics_phd_application.php</a> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 8. From: 0100101110101101.ORG <Propaganda@0100101110101101.org> Date: Dec 15, 2005 10:24 AM Subject: United We Stand 14 December 2005, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE United We Stand 0100101110101101.ORG's fake movie hits the streets of your city …and your mind "United We Stand. Europe has a mission" is the punchy title of the non-existent, fully EU-produced Hollywood-style blockbuster: "A brilliant mix of espionage and sci-fi political stereotypes in which Europe, not the USA, saves the world from impending doom". The project that consists in the invention and promotion of this nonexistent movie is hitting public and media space all over the world through city-scale urban installations and viral communication tactics. Isn't there something odd about this poster? The streets of Berlin, Brussels, Barcelona, Bangalore and New York have been plastered with thousands of posters of this fake movie, in the first stage of a long-term communication strategy that began in late 2005 and will gradually cover the whole media spectrum from blogs to magazines and TV. Full page United We Stand ads have been spotted all over Europe, in magazines devoted to art, youth culture and life styles. More are to come. "I'd heard about this new project - comments Spanish art critic Nilo Casares - but it was only when I saw the poster at the entrance of the European Parliament that I understood what 0100101110101101.ORG meant" "United We Stand" the movie It is the year 2020. With the excuse of halting North Korea's nuclear arms proliferation, the USA has declared war on China - a development long expected by international analysts. "We have a problem. Make that two: America and China", with these words, the European president calls for the intervention of a special Task Force: an undercover emergency team composed of five highly trained individuals only known as the English, the French, the German, the Italian and the Spanish agents. Their mission: to work behind the scenes to resolve the international crisis before it's too late and disarm the two superpowers without resorting to brute force. "The power of the United States is a thing of the past - claims the French Task Force agent - How can you go around like John Wayne in a globalized world, where anything you do affects everything and everyone? In the networked world that we live in, the European model is fated to win". Through international espionage, hi-tech sabotage and after many ups and downs, the Task Force comes close to achieving its aim. But when victory is within their sight, the mission apparently fails. How will Europe resolve the international crisis? The European Dream. Propaganda for the 21st century? United We Stand touches on themes of subliminal art, cultural propaganda and European identity, clashing against expectations and exploding cultural stereotypes. "Everyone remembers Peter Fonda in Easy Rider - says 0100101110101101.ORG's Eva Mattes - nobody is surprised by a leather jacket with an American flag, while the same jacket with a European flag would only make you laugh". Why is the patriotic iconography of the USA commonly accepted, while when it is applied to Europe it completely changes its meaning and actually becomes ludicrous? Like Mattes' previous large-scale work Nike Ground, United We Stand provokes an unexpected wave of collective hallucination where over-identification, falsehood and consequent disclosure are key elements that foster critical thinking and provoke discussion around a topic. "How do people perceive recent geo-political developments in Europe? - asks Nilo Casares - Is the European Dream the human and social project we will have to comply with? The issue is not whether or not people would like to see United We Stand; whether real or fake, this movie is a brilliant representation of the 'zeitgeist'" Public disclosure Since December 10th, Postmasters Gallery in New York has been the first of a series of art venues to host the disclosed side of the United We Stand project. The exhibition will run parallel to the ongoing communication strategy. "We are working simultaneously on this double track, the "fictional" and the "real" - explains Franco Mattes - in this sense, spectators in the gallery who are aware of the multiple layers are passive voyeurs, while the unaware "spectator", or passerby, is actually part of the artwork". About the authors Eva and Franco Mattes - internationally known as 0100101110101101.ORG - are a couple of restless European con-artists who use non-conventional communication tactics to obtain the largest visibility with the minimum effort. Past works include inventing and promoting a nonexistent artist; spreading a computer virus as a work of art; challenging and defeating Nike Corporation in a legal battle for a fake advertising campaign. – To contact Eva and Franco Mattes: Contact @ 0100101110101101.ORG <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.0100101110101101.ORG">http://www.0100101110101101.ORG</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.UnitedWeStandMovie.com">http://www.UnitedWeStandMovie.com</a> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Rhizome.org is a 501©(3) nonprofit organization and an affiliate of the New Museum of Contemporary Art. 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