Media Lab Melbourne :: Sprint #2 #unconstrained #geekgirl

_Media Lab Melbourne :: Sprint #2: Unconstrained_ 
_Call for projects closes 12 December 2011_ 

Technological frontiers have expanded beyond the ability of an individual to comprehend their complexity. Yet, these frontiers permeate our everyday experiences. How does your smartphone function? How was your toaster made? What tools do you use to earn money? How many different forms of communication do you experience in one day? How well do YOU understand the technology in your life? How well do you need to? Media Lab Melbourne is seeking proposals for devices or services as statements on the complexity of our everyday technology and systems. Successful applications will work with Media Lab Melbourne and collaborators to realise these proposals during a sprint over 9 days beginning on the 21st of January 2012.  As this is a collaborative sprint it is not important what skills you have but how effective your idea is!  Media Lab Melbourne will support projects with technical and production support. Should a person live interstate and wish to attend, we are also able to provide basic travel and accommodation for the duration of the sprint.  Selected participants will be notified on the 16th of December.  At this point there will be a second call for collaborators to assist in the creation of the selected projects. Applicants who are not selected in the initial call are welcome to participate as collaborators. 

http://www.medialabmelbourne.com.au/

ANAT Makerblog now online #fabrication #3D #opensource #geekgirl

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The rapidly evolving fields of personal fabrication, digital manufacturing and 3D printing are changing manufacturing and design - taking it from the factory floor to your work place or home. Desktop 3D printers, open source software and print-on-demand companies are offering artists and creative practitioners opportunities to not only prototype their creations but also to manufacture and sell their work on a scale to suit demand. As part of its ongoing research and development program, ANAT has acquired and assembled a flat-pack desktop 3D printer ” the MakerBot Thing-O-Matic “. ANAT’s Makerblog will document experiments with the Thing-O-Matic, provide information and links about 3D printing and other personal manufacturing techniques and discuss how these technologies are being harnessed by creative practitioners.

http://makerblog.anat.org.au

Center for Chemical Evolution: Seed Grants #artists #evolution #chemistry #geekgirl

Center for Chemical Evolution :: Exploratory Seed Grants for Visiting Artists
Emory University, Atlanta Georgia, USA :: Proposals due 1 December 2011

The Center for Chemical Evolution (CCE) is an NSF and NASA funded, multi-institutional research effort to study the question and determine the origins of evolution. The scientists at CCE are at the forefront of demonstrating that small molecules present in the early earth and its atmosphere react with one another, self-assemble and respond to environmental pressures to form larger molecules that resemble biology’s macromolecules.  With this research, the CCE is able to test the basic theory that formation of these important materials could ultimately have led to evolution.  The central mission of the CCE is to bring this cutting-edge research to the public, to diversify the audience of people interested in chemistry and to use these discoveries to educate and generate excitement about science. The CCE, with the Center for Creative Arts at Emory University is looking to provide seed funds of up to US$3000 to creative and performing artists who are interested in collaborating with CCE scientists to create unique works of art that explore the theme of Chemical Evolution and develop an outreach plan to bring these works of art to diverse audiences.
http://www.centerforchemicalevolution.com

Hokus Pokus :: Michele Barker & Anna Munster :: Performance Space, Sydney #magic #science #art #geekgirl

Hokus Pokus :: Michele Barker & Anna Munster :: Performance Space, Sydney_  _Exhibition 3 – 26 November 2011 ::
Artist & Curator talk 5 November 2011_ 

Hokus Pokus visually references 19th century magic, early cinema and traveling science shows, alluding to the proximity between the history of magic and the genesis of both optical time-based media and the brain sciences. This new interactive artwork examines illusionistic and performative aspects of magic to explore human perception, senses and movement.  A magician appears on 3 separate screens performing tricks that use sleight-of-hand and deception. How the tricks unfold over time and across the screens depends on the participant’s movements and reactions in the space.  The installation continues Michele Barker and Anna Munster’s artistic research into perception, neuroscience and the histories of visual culture and media. It takes inspiration from recent neuroscientific interest in magic as a way of unraveling the relations between vision and movement in human perception. 
http://www.performancespace.com.au/

Ecsite Annual Conference 2012 :: Space and Time, Unlimited #France #science #technology #geekgirl

Ecsite Annual Conference 2012 :: Space and Time, Unlimited_ _31 May – 2 June 2012 :: Toulouse, France ::

Submissions due 25 October 2011

Space and time pervade contemporary science and technology; from cosmic exploration to minute nanotechnologies, or the plodding tempo of evolution to the speed of light. Some of the most intriguing scientific inquiry and discovery has, and continues to be, built on principles of space and time.  These two concepts literally and symbolically challenge science centres and museums with endless options and opportunities. Exhibitions and collections, institutional strategising, communications and marketing, education, learning and social presence & time and space have unlimited influence over all facets of our work. The 2012 Ecsite Annual Conference 
will seek to address how science centres and museums can use time and space to communicate science in new and innovative ways to remain relevant to audiences and whether institutional spaces keep up with the times in an unlimited way.  Submit session ideas to the 2012 Ecsite Annual Conference and share your vision of how to make science centres and museums timeless spaces. 
http://www.ecsite.eu/ 
http://www.ecsite.eu/annual_conference/call-for-proposal

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

Media Art History REWIRE Conference #mediaart #rewire #UK #geekgirl

   _MediaArtHistory REWIRE Conference _  _28 – 30 September 2011 :: Liverpool, UK_
  
The Rewire conference will increase the voltage and ignite key debates within the internationally distributed network of histories, and will illuminate the global phenomena of media art by discussing new paradigms for media art histories including Science and Technology Studies and Cybernetics, the connections between such histories and those of new technologies and computing, the relations between media art and craft, media archaeology, and institutional and curatorial responses to media art. Rewire will be supplemented with performances, book launches, workshops and special events, and runs concurrently with the AND Festival which will be hosted at numerous sites across Liverpool. http://www.mediaarthistory.org/

Eyebeam Summer School Art Hack Weekend:: New York #hackers #hackathon #arts #geekgirl

_Eyebeam Summer School Art Hack Weekend _Free Event :: 5 – 7 August 2011 :: New York _

Artists, designers, and developers can join Eyebeam Art & Technology Center and The Creators Project August 5th-7th for Art Hack Weekend, a two-day,
open-source hackathon that celebrates new artistic experiences.  Design, code and prototype projects that re-imagine the way we create, consume, and
interact with media.  The project is interested in exploring how new technological advancements in fields like motion tracking, depth mapping, holographics and 3D visuals, gesture control, augmented reality, projection mapping, and networked environments can be transformed into tools that help change the way we experience and connect with art both on and offline, and/or creating entirely new artistic experiments.

http://eyebeam.org/events/art-hack-weekend

Turing Centenary 2012: Invitation to New Media Artists Call for Expressions #code #geekgirl

Due 29 July 2011

2012 is the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing, the renowned mathematician, code-breaker and computer pioneer. This will be marked by an extensive series of events, which is being coordinated by the Turing Centenary Advisory Committee. As Turing worked at the University of Manchester for the last six years of his life, Manchester is one of the two main centres of this events programme – the other being London, where he was born.

The Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) plans to celebrate the Turing centenary throughout 2012. As Turing was a great innovator, MOSI is keen for its events to feature innovative creative works inspired by Turing and utilising the digital media made possible by the achievements of the early computer pioneers. MOSI invites written expressions of interest in this project which should include a description of the nature of the proposed work, how it links to Turing and the likely hardware requirement.

Contact Pauline Webb
Collections Manager MOSI
p.webb@mosi.org.uk
http://www.turingcentenary.eu/

Splinterfields: Mathematickal Arts #programming #mathematics #textiles #machineart #geekgirl

http://fo.am/mathematickal_arts ///

Start: 2011-07-23 00:00 GMT+2
End: 2011-07-25 00:00 GMT+2

What: Mathematics, Textiles & Computer Programming workshop
When: 23rd – 25th of July 2011
Where: FoAM, Koolmijnenkaai 30-34, 1080 Brussels, Belgium

Mathematician & machine artist Tim Boykett (Time’s Up, AT) and textile designer & educator Carole Collet (Central Saint Martin’s, UK) will lead a 3 day workshop bringing together The Arts of Mathematics, Textiles and Computer Programming.

Mathematickal Arts workshop investigates the tangible, abstract and conceptual threads binding materials and machines in a series of practical and theoretical experiments. Participants will use knots, weaving, sorting algorithms, notation and geometry to explore unfamiliar territories of mathematics or crafts using familiar practices of artistic and technological experimentation.

If you are interested in taking part in this workshop, places are limited, so please send an email to info@fo.am with a brief statement of intent before 12th of July.

“To me the simple act of tying a knot is an adventure in unlimited space. A bit of string affords the dimensional latitude that is unique among the entities [...] another dimension is added which provides an opportunity that is limited only by the scope of our own imagery and the length of a ropemakers coil.”
–Clifford W Ashley, The Book of Knots.

This workshop is a part of Resilients (http://fo.am/resilients) and
Splinterfields (http://fo.am/splinterfields)