CALL FOR PROPOSALS: The HTMlles 10 RISKY BUSINESS #Feminist #festival of media arts and digital culture #gender #geekgirl

 The HTMlles 10
 RISKY BUSINESS
 Feminist festival of media arts + digital culture
 10-18 November 2012

 The 10th edition of the HTMlles will take up the notion of risk. To risk: to gain or to lose (it is uncertain), to expose oneself to a possibility… Risk is a potential. Whether used positively or negatively, the idea of risk implies that of evaluation, action and distribution, and thus, power. While the term “risk” evolved with the development of capitalism, the concept of “risk society” is about twenty years old and has been used by scholars to describe how modern society organizes around the idea of risk, that is, in response to a future (which society should be able to manage). By simply invoking or imagining the future, one immediately engages in risky behaviours. Anything and everything can become risky… Indeed, there exists a global economic and industrial complex organized around monitoring and moderating “risk”, from insurance companies to investment products, as well as technologies and approved, standardized methods of risk assessment and risk management. There are also whole sets of techniques of calculation, “optimization” and social control that rely on the presence of a notion of “risk,” from so-called “at-risk populations” to who are considered “vulnerable,” “suspect” or, increasingly so nowadays, “insolvable.”
 
In such a critical moment, it is perhaps crucial to ask (ourselves) some questions. How does the language of risk articulate itself today? What is at risk today? How can one take risks today? What are the different levels of risk in our various (trans)actions? What is the relationship between risk, technology and power? How is risk both managed and created? How is it distributed? Since when does one  “invest” in one’s future and what does it actually mean? Do “crises” serve to pacify the communities being affected by these “crises”? Who are they? What do artists have to say about these so-called risks and crises? How is making art risky today? Who speaks? To whom and in the name of what?
 
The HTMlles 10 welcomes project proposals from self-identified women, trans and gender non-conforming artists of all origins on the theme of risk, as well as proposals for risky projects…
 
The HTMlles is a feminist festival of media arts and digital culture produced in Montreal by Studio XX, a bilingual feminist artist-run centre for technological exploration, creation and critique. Initiated in 1997, the HTMlles is an international platform dedicated to the presentation of women’s, trans and gender non-conforming artists’ independent media artworks from all facets of contemporary technological creation,  including but not limited to: digital storytelling, cyber art, short film and video art, audio and electronic art, radio art, installation, locative media, 3D animation, game art, augmented reality, electronic publishing, design, bio art, public interventions, community-based practices, performance and interdisciplinary practices.
 
The HTMlles 10 will be a multi-sited festival, which includes Studio XX’s new gallery space, the XX Files radio show, .dpi electronic periodical and Matricules online feminist archive. RISKY BUSINESS will be co-presented with several partner artist centres (to be announced) that focus on either (or both) media arts or feminist practices, in
Montreal. Participants receive honoraria.
 
OPPORTUNITY FOR EMERGING CURATORS: The current call is also open to project submissions by self-identified emerging curators.
 
To submit a proposal to the HTMlles 10, please follow the guidelines and email it to: festival (at) htmlles (dot) net
 
*Deadline: Monday, 2 April 2012*
 
Download submission guidelines  http://www.htmlles.net/2012/Call_HTMLLES_2012_EN.pdf

Santa Fe International New Media Festival – Call for Sumissions #currents2012 #arts #geekgirl

Santa Fe International New Media Festival_ _22 June – 8 July 2012 :: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA :

Call for Sumissions Submissions due 1 February 2012. Digital Dome submissions due 2 March 2012

The 3rd Annual Santa Fe International New Media Art Festival will explore the role of technology and the diverse applicaiotns of New Media in the arts. The Festival will be held in venues throughout Santa Fe including the digital dome facility at the Institute for American Indian Arts. #currents 2012 will also offer panel discussions and workshops and multimedia performances. Submission categories include single channel video, video and sound installations, interative new media, animation, computer/software modulated sculpture, multimedia performance, experimental or interactive documentary video, digital dome projection, art-gaming and web-art. http://www.currentsnewmedia.org/submissionguidel.html

Crochet Sushi #art #sushi #crochet #geekgirl

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Digital Art Commission Call Out: My Big Gay Family #Melbourne #Gay #geekgirl

The City of Darebin is presenting, as part of Midsumma Festival 2012, a celebration of ‘My Big Gay Family’. Expressions of Interest are invited from digital artists to design, develop and prepare for presentation a public projection for the ProjectarT space at Northcote Civic Square between January 15 and February 5, 2012. The selected artist will be paid $2000. What does ‘Big Gay Family’ mean to you?

ProjectarT is a facility to enable the projection of digital art onto the south wall of the Northcote Town Hall overlooking the Civic Square.

To request an artists’ brief or for further information please call (03) 8470 8458 or email Bel Schenk, Arts and Cultural Development Officer.

Expressions of interest are due by 5pm, December 7, 2011.

Source: http://www.darebin.vic.gov.au/eNewsletter/eNewsletter.asp?id=103

The Body is a Big Place #installation #art #Sydney #geekgirl

Installation by Helen Pynor & Peta Clancy
with sound by Gail Priest

The Body is a Big Place by Helen Pynor and Peta Clancy is a new media commission exploring the fluidity between bodily boundaries inherent to the organ transplantation process, the ambiguous boundary between life and death, and the complex and multilayered responses reported by organ transplant recipients.

November 4 – 26
Opening November 3, 6-8
Exhibition open 10am – 5pm
Performances Mon Nov 7 & 21, 5pm (time may vary)
Performance Space
CarriageWorks, Wilson St Eveleigh/Redfern, Sydney, Australia
www.performancespace.com.au

It’s a jungle in here #interactive #Melbourne #geekgirl

It’s a jungle in here, a new interactive artwork by Melbourne artists Isobel Knowles
and Van Sowerwine, explores the boundaries between what’s ok and what’s not in
everyday encounters. Installed at Screen Space from 14 – 29 October, two participants become performers in a drama in which they have little  control. It follows in the footsteps of their 2010 Experimenta Commission You Were In My Dream which won the Premier of Queensland’s National New Media Art Award last year http://www.screenspace.com/screenspace

Network Nerds #Melbourne #geekgirl

MELBOURNE: SIGNAL IS LAUNCHING NEW PROJECT – NETWORK NERDS
Signal is launching it’s new social media program –  Network Nerds. This   project
offers young people the opportunity to work alongside social  media  guru, Craig  Lambie, who will share his knowledge and experience  of social  networking using
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Tumblr  and  beyond. The first Workshop will be held Saturday 22 October 2011 from 11am to 3pm and then every Thursday evening from 5 – 7pm until 1 December 2011. Contact Signal http://melbourne.Vic.au/signal

Professor Stuart Moulthrop Public Lecture – FREE – Make a Better Door: Or, How Does Digital Humanism Humanize? #games #robots #geekgirl

Make a Better Door: Or, How Does Digital Humanism Humanize?

An interesting image for 2011. …

A player/character in the most recent Portal game is literally locked out of her workplace and replaced by a pair of robots. From this resonant image of the human-computer interface a discussion will emerge to do with broader understandings of the digital humanities, media scholarship, and electronic literature. The focus for this approach will be the question famously posed by Richard Lanham’s: “how do the humanities humanize?”

Professor Darren Tofts (Swinburne University of Technology) will moderate a conversation with Professor Moulthrop following his presentation.

Date: Monday 10th October, 2011
Time: 6.30-8.30 pm.
Venue: Village Roadshow Theatrette
State Library of Victoria 179 La Trobe Street Melbourne (Conference Centre, Entry 3)
Australia

Stuart Moulthrop is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is an electronic literature pioneer, both as a theoretician and as a writer, and has published many of articles on the topic of games, network literature and digital media theory. From 1995-99 he was co-editor of the online journal Postmodern Culture and he is a founding board member of the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO). His hypertext Victory Garden (1992) was featured on the front page of the New York Times Book Review in a (now famous) review by American literary critic Robert Coover. Moulthrop is also the author of the hypertext fiction works Reagan Library (1999), and Hegirascope (1995), amongst many others. His recent work engages with digital games and its interface with media theory, electronic writing and scandal. His current work in progress is “Sc4nda1 in New Media,” an Arcade Essay that converges philosophical meditation with an actual video game. It can be accessed at http://pantherfile.uwm.edu/moulthro/index.htm.

Professor Moulthrop is a Visiting Research Fellow in the Faculty of Life & Social Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology. This visit has also been supported by the School of Media and Communication, RMIT and Sydney University.

International Kunst Force – Rebecca Power #Melbourne #femart #geekgirl



A series of ink and watercolour of women in the military. The exhibition uses humor, beauty and satire to explore feminist themes.

Showing at ‘Art at St. Francis’ – 326 Lonsdale St, Melbourne runs until Sept 11th, 2011. Mon – Fri 9-5pm or by appointment.

More info rebeccah@rebeccahpower.com

“My ink and watercolour paintings address feminist issues and explore themes such as archaeology and anthropology. The media is used in such a way as to make the most of the expressive appearance of painterly drips and bleeds creating an ‘other worldly’ or ‘dream like’ quality. I also create special site-specific murals painted directly onto a wall that provides context for my works and reinforce their meanings.” Rebecca Power

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Kaleidoscope of imagination — Mudfest paper-free – student art festival #Melbourne #Uni #geekgirl

Artist Bree O'Dwyer

About

Mudfest is the University of Melbourne’s student arts and drama festival and in 2011 will run from the 18th – 28th August.  Over 21 years Mudfest has grown to become the largest student arts festival in Australia, and the program includes theatre, creative writing, dance, cabaret, visual art, opera, musical theatre, installation and performance and everything in between! The theme for this year’s festival is the ‘Kaleidoscope of imagination’ - celebrating and showcasing the creative and imaginative talents emerging from the University of Melbourne.

The Mudfest student arts and culture festival has grown to encompass all forms of artistic expression since it began in 1990. Presented every two years by the University of Melbourne Student Union, Mudfest nurtures, encourages and supports new and innovative arts practices amongst the students, whilst also providing them with professional and creative development opportunities.

Ten days of unbridled, back-to-back artwork. It’s by the students, for the students. Show us how you see the world.

Mudfest 2011: 18^th- 28^th August.

For tickets, program details and further information visit: http://mudfest.org.au/

http://twitter.com/#!/mudfest2011

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This year Mudfest is also a paper-free festival!!