RHIZOME DIGEST: 7.19.02

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RHIZOME DIGEST: 7.19.02

RHIZOME DIGEST: July 19, 2002 Content: +opportunity+ 1. karen wong: Studio XX - Calls for Submissions 2. ben: Stuttgarter Filmwinter - Festival for Expanded Media – Call for Submissions +work+ 3. Lew Baldwin: GOODWORLD now at ARTPORT +feature+ 4. Jonah Brucker-Cohen: Bunting's A World Without Borders + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 1. Date: 7.17.02 From: karen wong (programmation@studioxx.org) Subject: Studio XX - Calls for Submissions Studio XX: Call for Submissions 1. Maid in Cyberspace Festival 06 Active Agent / Radicale libre 2. Studio Residencies Thematic Residency: Home 3. Virtual Garden *********************************** 1. Maid in Cyberspace Festival 06 Active Agent / Radicale libre Montreal, February 2003 Deadline for submissions: September 20. 2002 Introduction: In the politico-geographical arena, heavily charged with oppressive discourses, how does one raise courageous and bold voices, voices which dare and act in the drifts of cyberspace? How does one practice resistances, not according to parameters imposed by others, but by those originating from the ingenuity of individuals and networks, based upon a necessary and critical solidarity, and a desire to counter domineering dogmas and regimes? For the 6th edition of the Maid In Cyberspace Festival, and in continuity with its critical investigations on women and their appropriation of technologies, Studio XX focuses on subversive acts by 'intelligent agents' and cultural hackers who strive for original languages in order to redefine the stakes in question. >From such acts come questions on notions and protocols of access, the numerous strategies that women use to invest virtual spaces to impose their own realities. The possibilities evoked in the proposed examinations include programming languages, hacking, frontiers, privilege, open source, accessibility and transgression. There is also question of alternative customs and uses, nonetheless valuable and born out of the economic divide which widens increasingly; localised strategies which mix into the composition of immediate, polymorphic and planetary phenomenas. Living flux and new alliances, mobile in the magma of active data, behind which we discover these operators, resolutely insolent, active agents, radical and free? Artists / Collectives Artists are invited to submit their proposals on-line at www.studioxx.org/maid2003/call_e.html There are no entry fees for this festival. Works will be selected by a jury and artists will be notified subsequently. Studio XX favours interdisciplinary approaches and welcomes proposals by collectives comprised of artists working with other professionals. Independent Curators Studio XX is seeking proposals for curated new media programs inkeeping with the festival's theme. Independent curators are invited to make submissions, accompagnied by a critical essay (500 words maximum). Applications may be submitted on-line at www.studioxx.org/maid2003/call_e.html All projects will be reviewed by a selection committee. For further information: E: festival@studioxx.org Studio XX will be closed for the summer period between July 15th and August 18th, 2002. *********************************** 2. Studio Residencies Deadline: Ongoing Studio XX is accepting applications for creative, self-directed residencies by women artists and collectives working with new medias and technologies. The residencies are 6 weeks in length (maximum) and offer an a unique opportunity to explore and create new works. Artists are invited to submit a completed application form (available on-line July 25th at www.studioxx.org/residence/residency.html ), including a project description, letter of intent and technical requirements. All proposals are reviewed by a selection committee. Thematic Residency: Home Deadline: October 15, 2002 The real relations of women to technology reflect their ongoing rapports to public and political spheres. With electronic progress and the consequent dominance of economic and financial flux, the arena of 'important' work shifts once again to the home, a territory still associated with women. However, if there have been social, cultural and political transformations and a certain disintegration of the frontiers between private and public, how have they manifested themselves in relation to the domestic context? What impacts have these new technologies had in the renegociation of the home's association with public spaces and how are women adapting to these new socio-spatial conceptions? The social dynamics of virtual networks applied to physical conditions (and vice versa), as well as sequential modifications of media spaces are becoming a platform for new artistic, conceptual and communication-based collaborations. What are the emerging definitions and practices of networked communities and prototypical and future lifestyles? In keeping with its annual theme for the year 2002-2003, Studio XX is seeking submissions for residencies which explore notions of home as related to women's and feminist realities. Artists and collectives may apply. It will also be possible for applicants to effect a virtual residency, where they will be allotted a certain amount of server space and a password in order to publish their projects on-line. The residency will take place between January 28 and March 9, 2003. www.studioxx.org/residence/res_thematic.html For further information on residencies: E: programmation@studioxx.org Studio XX favours interdisciplinary approaches and welcomes proposals by collectives comprised of artists working with other professionals. **************************************** 3. Virtual Garden Deadline: September 5, 2002 Studio XX , in conjunction with Les Journées de la Culture, is seeking submissions around the theme of virtual gardens. We are looking for digital works - splash pages, animations (images, text/poetry), CD-Roms, sound pieces. Selections will be presented during the Journées de la Culture - September 27, 2002 - and participants and the public will be invited to view them on-site and on the Web at www.studioxx.org . Submissions may be made on-line at www.studioxx.org/garden/garden.html For further information: E: programmation@studioxx.org U: www.studioxx.org/garden/garden.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Studio XX is Montreal¹s foremost women¹s digital resource centre. Through a variety of creative activities and initiatives, the Studio works with women to demystify and facilitate access to digital technologies, to critically examine their social aspects and to create and exhibit women¹s new digital works. 338, Terrasse Saint-Denis Montreal QC H2X 1E8 www.studioxx.org + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +ad+ **MUTE MAGAZINE NO. 24 OUT NOW** 'Knocking Holes in Fortress Europe', Florian Schneider on no-border activism in the EU; Brian Holmes on resistance to networked individualism; Alvaro de los Angeles on e-Valencia.org and Andrew Goffey on the politics of immunology. More @ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.metamute.com">http://www.metamute.com</a> <<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.metamute.com/">http://www.metamute.com/</a>> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 2. Date: 7.17.02 From: ben (b@punkpixel.com) Subject: Stuttgarter Filmwinter - Festival for Expanded Media – Call for Submissions <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.filmwinter.de">http://www.filmwinter.de</a> English version see below: //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Call for submissions 16. Stuttgarter Filmwinter - Festival for Expanded Media Festival 16.-19. Januar 2003 Warm Up 9.-15. Januar 2003 Filmhaus Stuttgart und andere Orte Die 16. Ausgabe des Stuttgarter Filmwinters wirft ihre eiskalten Schatten voraus: Künstler, Medienschaffende und Filmemacher können bis zur Deadline 1. Oktober 2002 ihre Arbeiten einreichen. In den Sektionen Film/Video und Neue Medien werden Preise in Höhe von ca. 10.000 Euro vergeben. Infos und Regularien sind unter <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.filmwinter.de">http://www.filmwinter.de</a> erhältlich. Anmeldeformulare im PDF-Format können von der Festival-Website heruntergeladen werden. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// 16th Stuttgart Filmwinter - Festival for Expanded Media Festival January 16-19, 2003 Warm Up January 9-15, 2003 Stuttgart Filmhaus and other venues Call for submissions: Artists, media producers, and film makers are invited to submit their work to the Stuttgart Filmwinter. Deadline for entries is October 1, 2002. In the fields of film/video and new media (internet/CD-ROM/media installation) prizes amounting 10.000 Euro will be given. For further information and for detailed regulations please visit our web site <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.filmwinter.de">http://www.filmwinter.de</a> Entry forms in pdf-format are available for download from the festival's web site. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +ad+ Limited-time offer! Subscribe to Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA), the leading electronic newsletter in its field, for $35 for 2002 and receive as a bonus free electronic access to the on-line versions of Leonardo and the Leonardo Music Journal. Subscribe now at: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/LEA/INFORMATION/subscribe.html">http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/LEA/INFORMATION/subscribe.html</a>. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 3. Date: 7.17.02 From: Lew Baldwin (lewb@redsmoke.com) Subject: GOODWORLD now at ARTPORT <a rel="nofollow" href="http://artport.whitney.org">http://artport.whitney.org</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://goodworld.ws">http://goodworld.ws</a> GoodWorld is a 'wrapping' of the Web. Through goodworld.ws the online experience temporarily becomes one large unified piece. In reaction to the onslaught of media and advertising that has sunk web browsing to unimaginable levels in the last several years - and even more so with the news of our pending threats since Sept. 11th, GoodWorld is a cleansing of sorts. An idealistic overture to a utopian vision… or possibly an unsettled dilution of the safe and familiar we've come to expect. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 4. Date: 7.15.02 From: Jonah Brucker-Cohen (jonah@coin-operated.com) Subject: Bunting's A World Without Borders A World Without Borders BorderXing Guide <a rel="nofollow" href="http://irational.org/borderxing">http://irational.org/borderxing</a> The Euro was supposed to make things easier for Europeans. With one currency, travel and commerce are simplified and become ubiquitous. Despite the changeover, questions emerge regarding preserving borders and European national identities. Does one currency compromise cultural and social individualism and traditions? If not, why do physical borders still exist between member states? In the art world, borders have been a pre-occupation among artists working in every medium. From early border artists such as the Border Art Workshop (<a rel="nofollow" href="http://sunsite.wits.ac.za/biennale/catalog/baw.htm">http://sunsite.wits.ac.za/biennale/catalog/baw.htm</a>) protesting the Mexico/US border with mixed-media installations to Denmark's web-based Border Crossing Hitlist (<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nicolette.dk/hitlist">http://www.nicolette.dk/hitlist</a>) that tracks people's border crossing activities, territorial rights have figured prominently in artistic expression. Through border art, questions arise as to how cultural identity transcends physical borders, what psychological obstacles these barriers represent, and how people respond to these both personally, socially, and creatively. On the European side, British techno-artist, Heath Bunting's project, Borderxing guide (<a rel="nofollow" href="http://irational.org/borderxing">http://irational.org/borderxing</a>), attempts to create a virtual map and guide of how to cross European borders without papers. "I have not been [to Europe] that much this year, " admits Bunting, "But I did notice that I was often unsure which country I was in." Instead of having the guide online, the project uses the web as a 'guide to the guide', where the website features a collection of real-world computers that carry the information. Therefore if you want to learn how to border hack, you have to log on, find the closest physical host computer, get out of your chair, and head out. People can volunteer a machine to be a 'host' of the guide, but the computer must be publicly accessible for all. By giving a physical location to the information we take for granted as being online, Bunting has made a digital project that requires movement. "For the sake of elite power, human movement is restricted and information and money mobilized, " says Bunting. "This project intends to suggest the reversal of this whereby humans are encouraged to move and the immaterial is restricted." Ultimately, Bunting's goal is to make land-based borders irrelevant. Even with the growing ubiquity of the Euro, the physical barriers between neighboring states remains an obstacle for tourists and citizens. Borderxing guide is a first step of social protest against the idea that physical barriers can curtail the spread of culture across distance. If the currency is the same, why isn't the continent unified? Or why not even create a hybrid language that combines every accent? That might be a long shot, but Bunting sees the future of borders as 'information-based borders' where the only difference between countries is the information made accessible to us while inside. -Jonah Brucker-Cohen (jonah@coin-operated.com) + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Rhizome.org is a 501©(3) nonprofit organization. If you value this free publication, please consider making a contribution within your means. We accept online credit card contributions at <a rel="nofollow" href="http://rhizome.org/support">http://rhizome.org/support</a>. Checks may be sent to Rhizome.org, 115 Mercer Street, New York, NY 10012. Or call us at +1.212.625.3191. Contributors are gratefully acknowledged on our web site at <a rel="nofollow" href="http://rhizome.org/info/10.php3">http://rhizome.org/info/10.php3</a>. 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