Company Overview: Social Media Club brings together journalists, publishers, communications professionals, artists, amateur media creators, citizen journalists, teachers, students, tool makers, and other interested collaboraters. Essentially the people who create and consume media who have an interest in seeing the ‘media industry’ evolve for everyone’s benefit. We are more than just USERS, we are the reason the tools exist – we are the people who communicate our thoughts and ideas near and far. Join us and let’s shape the future together!
Social Media. This is a global conversation amongst a diverse community of practitioners where the many different people who care about social media can come together to discover, connect, share, and learn.
The idea for Social Media Club originated in the Fall of 2005 with the Web 2point1 BrainJam. This led us to create the non-profit BrainJams organization to promote the idea of unconferences and ad-hoc collaboration to a broader audience of non-geeks. Over the course of the last year, BrainJams has brought us together with people from all over the world. As a result of thousands of conversations since, we realized that the passion we have for Social Media was the real purpose of what we were doing and have now launched this site to begin the conversation about the future of Social Media.
http://www.socialmediaclub.org/
CANADA – CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society would like to invite Canadian independent media artists to submit proposals for an exhibition on the theme “Who will give up their distinctions?” Expanded cinema, new-media and experimental works will be given preference and Cineworks will fully support the exhibition of the chosen work[s] in our studio space for showing during the first part of September 2008.
I am black, white, yellow, red, brown. I am man, woman; young, old. But we are human, simply. How are common distinctions around identity a fruitful creative medium? Is it even ever possible to transcend difference and, if so, why bother? Think about imperatives to declare yourself and the ensuing confusion, but don’t forget how your declarations are received. Is this an age where hybrid identities are usurped by privileged aesthetics? How do hybridity and authenticity intersect? Explore the possibility to simultaneously embrace and transcend our distinctions by asking how much
is enough.
Deadline: 16 June
For submission information go to: www.cineworks.ca/2008/06/16/
Submissions can be sent by post only to the following address:
Who Will Give Up Their Distinctions?
c/o Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society
#300-1131 Howe Street
Vancouver, BC V6Z 2L7
Organized by Lauren Cornell, Director of Rhizome. The New Silent Series will present contemporary art engaged with new technology. The series will include screenings and performances, as well as a critical conversational strand that will bring together leading scholars, artists, critics, and public figures to illuminate the complex interactions between technology, culture, and creative practice. The series will present artists working at the furthest reaches of technological experimentation as well as those responding to the broader aesthetic and political implications of new tools and media.
The New Silent Series takes place every second Friday of the month. Visit www.rhizome.org/events for audio/video documentation and a list of previous events.
Venue: New Museum
235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002
www.newmuseum.org
Friedrich Kittler has been hailed as the ‘Derrida of the digital age’ and his work is indispensable to anyone thinking about technoculture. This landmark event brings one of today’s foremost philosophers of media to Tate Modern for an unmissable opportunity to examine the relationship between culture and technology with a range of leading thinkers and
practitioners. For anyone interested in our complex interactions with the technologies that surround us this event is essential, while for those unfamiliar with Kittler it presents an opportunity to discover the work of the leading figure in the flourishing area of German media theory.
Media Matters is a two-day series of events that comprises: A keynote lecture and performance by Friedrich Kittler with Joulia Strauss and Martin Carle: ‘Preparing the Arrival of the Gods’.
A symposium featuring leading thinkers in the fields of cultural theory, film and the arts including Caroline Bassett, Steven Connor and Alex Galloway. Plus a Q+A with Friedrich Kittler and Anthony Moore.
‘Gramophones, Films, Typewriters’: audio, video and text works by ten international artists Curated by Seth Kim-Cohen.
Event dates:
Friday 27 June, 18.30-21.00
Saturday 28 June 10.30-17.45 and 19.00-20.45
Venue: Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
Tickets are also available for the individual events.
For tickets book online at
:http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/symposia/14733.htm
or call 020 7887 8888.
Flickerfest, Australia’s premiere international and national short film competition is currently calling for entries. The Flickerfest international competition is open to any production available for screening on 35mm. Betacam is also acceptable for the Australian and Documentary Competitions. All films must be under 30 minutes and must have been completed within 2 years of the closing date. Films must be in English or have English subtitles. Due to the competitive nature of the Festival, they favour Sydney premieres and films that have not been broadcast in Australia. Flickerfest is an Academy® accredited festival.
When: 9 -18 January 2009
Where: Bondi Pavilion Queen Elizabeth Drive Bondi Beach 2026 NSW
T: +61293656877
E: coordinator@flickerfest.com.au
Entry Deadlines:
Australia 29 August 2008
International 12 September 2008
Entry forms are downloadable at www.flickerfest.com.au
