Posted by Steve Dietz on February 22, 2007 12:05 PM
Eyebeam
Summer 2007 Residencies
Deadline EXTENDED to March 5
Just check out who has been / is there.
This is the last week to submit an application for Eyebeam's Summer 2007 Residency opportunities. Artists, hackers, designers, engineers and creative technologists are invited to apply to be Residents at Eyebeam, to work for six months on projects or research of artistic endeavor or creative expression. The ideal Resident has experience working with and generating innovative technological art and/or creative technology projects and has a passion for interdisciplinary exchange.
Residents will be selected from an open call, based on the work/research being proposed, the availability of the necessary tools and skills to support them, and in consideration of the overarching research themes and activities of the organization.
The application deadline is March 5, 2007 at 12pm EST.
Posted by Steve Dietz on February 15, 2007 7:08 AM
Art as Mediation
Thursday, February 15, 2007, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
The New School, Michael Klein Room
66 West 12th Street, 5th floor
New York City
Admission: $8, free for all students as well as CAA attendees and New School faculty, staff and alumni with valid ID
Presented on occasion of the College Art Association's 95th Annual Conference in association with the New Media Caucus
Art as Mediation explores how communications and new media are increasingly employed in the arts to engage, connect, and empower global audiences in times of crisis. The panel features artists, theorists, writers, thinkers and critics from different backgrounds, and is moderated by artist Randall Packer.
As ruptures from world crises deepen, more people look to alternative models for exchange and mediation. Technological means have recently surfaced in the arts that successfully bridge social, cultural, and political differences. Different disciplines come into play, in questioning, challenging, and experimenting with social and political change. How do artists, curators, and theorists use telecommunications technology proactively? How do peer-to-peer networks, on-line social spaces, and blogs lead to participation and empowerment? How are artists using electronic systems to reposition the notion of dialogue and to define dialogue as mediation that counters or disrupts stereotypes and dangerous ideologies?
Panelists: Steve Dietz, curator and Director, ZeroOne, San Jose, CA Carin Kuoni, curator and Director, Vera List Center for Art and Politics, New School, New York Drazen Pantic, internet activist, Co-Director, Location One, New York Jon Winet, artist and Professor, University of Iowa
Moderator: Randall Packer, artist, Assistant Professor, Department of Art, American University, Washington D.C., Secretary-at-Large, U.S. Department of Art & Technology
Posted by Steve Dietz on February 13, 2007 7:54 AM
Lynn Hershman Leeson's documentary about the
absurd persecution of Dr. Steven Kurtz and Dr. Robert
Ferrell is generating attention from Utah to Berlin
(http://strangeculture.net), Kurtz and Ferrell are
still awaiting a ruling on relatively minor motion,
with no trial date in sight. However, it is almost
certain the case will go to a full trial, and both men
still face a possible 20 years in jail if convicted.
The case threatens to set dangerous legal and
political precedent by vastly expanding the
government’s reach into our homes and public
institutions, and by intimidating and criminalizing
those engaged in vital public discussion about the
actions of their government. (Please visit
caedefensefund.org for more information.)
Thanks to supporters the CAE Defense Fund
has raised over $250,000 to pay for Kurtz and
Ferrell's defense lawyers. However, since we know
political trials like this are won as much in the
"court of public opinion" as in the court of law, we
need your help more than ever to shine the spotlight
on this precedent-setting case. The CAE Education Fund
has been established to pay for much-needed publicity
and educational materials to do this, and to help
bring thousands of supporters to Buffalo during the
trial.
The CAE Education Fund's first action will be to have
a visible presence at the College Art Association
Conference in NYC this week. If you plan to attend, we
need your help to pass out 500 "Art is Not Terrorism"
buttons and informational flyers. Look for our display
at the ART Space site and the schools' bulletin board.
For more information and how you can help, please
email media(at)caedefensefund.org or call
716-359-3061.
