Call: PhD Funding Opportunity at the Centre for Music Technology, University of Kent, UK

PhD Funding Opportunity
Centre for Music Technology
University of Kent, UK

September 2008 entry (earlier start date possible)

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and
self-motivated candidate to join our growing department and study
towards a PhD in Music and Technology. The successful candidate will
have the opportunity to significantly contribute to our ongoing
development and gain teaching and demonstrating experience. This
position would therefore particularly suit someone who wanted to
pursue a career in higher education, although this is not a
pre-requisite.

The Centre for Music Technology was founded in 2005 and offers a BSc
programme in Music Technology, with a new undergraduate programme in
Audio Production and Design beginning in September 2008. Further
undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes are under active
development for September 2009. The successful candidate will play a
role in developing the Centre's research profile, in conjunction with
existing members of staff.

The Centre is seeking applications, on a competitive basis, for a
research studentship funded by the University of Kent. Candidates
will study towards a PhD in a topic area that includes but is not
limited to: acoustics and psychoacoustics, sound design, multimedia
and interactivity/interfaces, synthesis and electro-acoustic
composition.

Applications are particularly sought from candidates interested in
expanding upon current departmental research, including the area of
conducting remote psychoacoustic listening tests utilising the
Internet.

The studentship will cover tuition fees at the Home/EU rate plus a
maintenance grant. We anticipate an annual grant of £12,600, adjusted
for inflation. The Studentship will be offered for one year in the
first instance, renewable for a maximum of three years subject to
satisfactory academic performance.

Candidates must hold a good Honours degree (First or 2i) and a
Master's degree in a relevant subject or equivalent. The studentship
competition is open to all postgraduate research applicants. UK, EU
and overseas fee paying students as well as full-time and part-time
postgraduate research students are invited to apply.

For further details, please look at the following link:

http://www.kent.ac.uk/scholarships/postgraduate/departmental/music_technology.html

The deadline for applications is Friday 9th May 2008. If you have
any queries, please contact me via email.

Regards,

--
Dr Paul D Fretwell
Centre for Music Technology
University of Kent at Medway
The Medway Building
Chatham Maritime
Kent
ME4 4AG

tel: +44 (0)1634 888820
www.kent.ac.uk/musictechnology

Call: SYNCH FESTIVAL: MOVING IMAGE CALL FOR ENTRIES

www.synch.gr

SYNCH FESTIVAL: MOVING IMAGE CALL FOR ENTRIES

Deadline: April 30, 2008

Call for entries - Show me the music!

This year the Moving Image section of Synch Festival focuses on the direct relationship between music and image as well as on their interaction in the form of music video. Therefore, we invite you to send your MUSIC VIDEOS of amateur or professional level, based on innovation and experimentation regarding the interaction between music and image. The collected video clips from around the world will be projected during the festival. Our aim is the communication and presentation of different and alternative routes of cinematography and music-image interaction to an international audience. This call is targeted to all of you, amateur and professional directors, creative minds, music bands, artists. It is an opportunity to present your work internationally. So, get off your couch and SHOW ME THE MUSIC!!! Send your entries until April 30, 2008 to the following address.

Address:
Synch Festival C/o Moving Image
P.O BOX 61 382
GR 15125
MAROUSI ATHENS
GREECE

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND AN ENTRY FORM PLEASE VISIT:

SYNCH www.synch.gr
e-mail: musicvideos@synch.gr

Call: Public art wanted for CAFKA.09: Veracity

CAFKA.09: Veracity

http://www.contemporaryartforum.ca/


In this uncertain environment, could it be that our ability to evaluate truth is compromised? How will history be recorded and communicated to future generations? What if the asterisks were missing?

Artistic practice, from realism to minimalism, has an inherently illusory nature; artists frequently use their craft to expose untruths, and just as frequently perpetrate them. For Veracity, CAFKA asks artists to consider the veracity of truth, whether that be through the handling of materials, thematic or conceptual concerns of their practice. Artists may wish to consider the scientific, artistic, political, religious, historical, or experimental implications of an uncertain truth through the veracity of materials and ideas.

We invite proposals for new or existing works that engage with the theme and the public spaces in and around Kitchener City Hall. Works in all media will be considered including sculpture, performance, video, audio, installation, photography, painting, drawing and digital media. Video artists are invited to submit single channel work relating to the theme to be considered for inclusion in a video compilation which will be screened during the Forum.

CAFKA takes art out of the confines of the gallery walls and places it in a civic space to engage and confront the broader public. We offer the public an opportunity to engage with internationally relevant, ambitious, contemporary art. Artists have the opportunity to create work that needn’t adhere to the rules of presenting art within the gallery/museum system.

The exhibition will take place in and around Kitchener City Hall in September, 2009. Artist Fees paid for Visual and Media Art Projects: CAD $2,000, which is intended to cover all aspects of production & installation including materials and transportation. Video and one-time Performance fees paid in accordance with CARFAC (Canadian Artists’ Representation/le Front des Artistes Canadiens).

All applications must be received by 5:00 pm, July 1, 2008.

Event place: Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Event dates: 2008
Contact

CAFKA
P.O. Box
1122 Kitchener ON
N2G 4G1 Canada
phone: 519.744.5123
veracity@cafka.org

Call: Art+Communication X:S P E C T R O P I A seeks submissions

Art+Communication X:S P E C T R O P I A

http://rixc.lv


Art+Communication X:
S P E C T R O P I A
October 16-19, 2008 in Riga, Latvia.

...Electromagnetic fields are biologically active. Emitting from
every electronic device, electromagnetic fields affect our body and
the living nature. They interact with the natural emissions and
intersect the boundaries of our planet. Invisible and omnipresent,
electromagnetic fields have become ghosts of the modern world...

The 10th edition of the international festival "Art+Communication",
organised by RIXC, will take place in October 16-19, 2008, in Riga,
Latvia. Entitled SPECTROPIA, this year festival exhibition continues
artistic explorations within the invisible space of electromagnetic
spectrum surrounding us.

The festival programme will feature 3-day SPECTROPIA exhibition with
live events, workshops and artists presentations. It will be
accompanied by international conference, performances, film and video
screenings.

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CALL for proposals (for 3-day exhibition with live events):

Artists who think that their work fits the main theme of
"spectropia", are invited send a brief description of the work plus
Links, and other relevant information, to: rixc@rixc.lv
(and/or to: (Rasa Smite))

There are no restrictions, however, we would prefer work which is in process/
performative/ in action, requires artist's assistance and possibly visitor's
participation/ action though the work can be demonstrated as well.

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DEADLINE:

for proposals - April 21, 2008

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CONTACT INFO:

RIXC, Centre for New Media Culture
11. Novembra krastmala 35-201
Riga, LV 1050
LATVIA

tel.: +371-67228478
fax: +371-67228477
e-mail: rixc@rixc.lv

http://rixc.lv

Call: 2008 Fellowship Award at the Kala Art Institute

2008 Fellowship Award at the Kala Art Institute

www.kala.org/fellow/fellow_ap.html (map)

2008 Fellowship Award at the Kala Art Institute
17-03-08 12:55
Age: 18 days


Where: Berkeley, California, USA
When: 2008
Deadline: May 2nd, 2008

Kala's 2008 Fellowship Award competition
www.kala.org/fellow/fellow_ap.html

Eight artists will each receive a Fellowship consisting of:
- a $3,000 cash award
- up to six consecutive months of studio residency at Kala Art Institute
- 24/7 access to Kala?s studio
- exhibition of artwork created during the residency in a group show at the Kala Gallery

Artists producing innovative work in book arts, electronic/digital
media (video, sound, animation, etc.), installation art, photography
and printmaking are encouraged to apply. Applicants will be judged on conceptual creativity, originality and artistic excellence as well as technical knowledge. The Fellowship Competition is juried by a panel including Kala?s Executive Director, Artistic Director, Program Manager and an outside Bay Area arts professional. The Fellowship does not include housing.

Job: Common Weal Community Arts, Inc. seeks a Community Consultant

Common Weal Community Arts Inc., in partnership with the North Central Community Association, is seeking an energetic, self-motivated and experienced individual for the contract position of Community Consultant.

The candidate will assist in creating new opportunities for the community of North Central Regina that will help facilitate, encourage and increase community and cultural involvement and development. The project will promote diversity and support the strengthening of individual and collective identity.

The individual will work with the community to do a cultural inventory and community needs assessment, which will lead to the identification of the community’s wants and needs regarding a prospective artist in residence project and will include detailed goals and objectives. The candidate will also research and determine the financials, support, administrative and artistic mediums needed to support the residency based on the needs of the community.

Qualifications:

The successful candidate will have excellent communication, organizational and research skills, the ability to work both independently and cooperatively with a diverse group of people and to be culturally sensitive. Understanding of the arts and arts issues in Saskatchewan and experience with grant writing is preferred.

Duration: April to June 2008

Application closing date is 4:00 p.m., Friday, April 4, 2008

Apply in writing stating experience and qualifications to:

Common Weal Community Arts Inc.
2431 8th Avenue
Regina, SK
S4R 5J7
Email: ac@commonweal-arts.com

Common Weal Community Arts Inc. is committed to workplace diversity.

Common Weal Community Arts links artists and communities to animate long term and positive social change. Common Weal facilitates the production of participatory arts projects, based on creating partnerships between communities and artists, through a philosophy of inclusion and cooperation, and in order to create opportunities and choices for individuals and communities.

The North Central Community Association’s mandate is to work together with the community of North Central Regina to enhance the quality of life by representing, promoting, developing partnerships and unifying our community and its image through effective communication, programs and services.

This project would not be possible without the support of the Saskatchewan Arts Board, SaskCulture Inc., and the Saskatchewan Lotteries. “The Artist in Residence program provides Saskatchewan communities with access to arts programming, activities, new ideas, and allows artists the opportunity to practice their craft and share their knowledge in communities across the province.” SAB

Call: Studio XX seeks women media artists for residencies and co-productions

Residency and Co-Production Programs at Studio XX

www.studioxx.org

Call for Proposals : Residency and Co-Production Programs at Studio XX

Extended Deadline for 2008-2009 : April 15th.
Projects selection is announced at the end of April of each year.

Studio XX has redefined its Residency and Co-Production Program in keeping with the diversity of approaches that have been brought about by new and multiple methodologies and processes being practiced by artists working with new media and the Web as creative platforms. Residencies are offered each year through three major axes identified below. We've done it in order to offer an improved context within which Québecois and Canadian women artists may conceptualize and create, and to better accommodate the evolving realities of contemporary networked practices.

Residency Program

This year, the residences are theme-free. All themes are eligible for consideration. That said, we favour projects taking into account the Studio's orientation and commitment to open source software.

*NEW*

The Matricules Project Residency
This new category of residency is centered around the use of the Studio XX archives as source material for a proposal. Last year, Studio XX embarked on a major archival project called Matricules which will allow the Studio to post all of its archival material to date online. It is at once an image bank and a depository of all of the Studio's writings and documentary footage to date.

Despite the fact that online access to these archives will only be available as of April 1, this should not prevent you from conceptualizing a proposal. All of the original source material is also available at the Studio. The Matricules Project is comprised of more than 3400 images files, sounds, videos, written critical texts and press releases documenting all our artistic streams: The Femmes Br@nchées Salons, The Artist Residencies, Co-productions and Collaborations, Projects and Special Events, training workshops, the HTMlles Festival, XX Files radio interviews and .dpi articles. The Matricules Project data base allows the user to cross-reference individual artists, events and documents, switching from one event to another. Matricules' main interface offers an image table of contents by event type and by month, providing historical trajectory of the Studio's activities.

This innovative prototype was developed with assistance from Koumbit's Drupal Content Management System (CMS): an open source tool for web site creation. From the beginning, the Matricules project was conceived as an interactive archive allowing users to modify or correct the Studio's written history, where necessary. When the site is completed, it will ultimately be a very powerful archival, presentation and interpretation tool for Studio XX's members.

Virtual Residency
In response to a growing demand by women artists working outside of the Montreal region wishing to explore the different possibilities of on-line and/or networked collaborations, Studio XX is in the process of elaborating the mechanics of Virtual Residencies in order to facilitate the creation of works via other networks.

Open Residency
Open and self-directed, these residencies offer access to women artists wishing to deepen the experimentation phase of projects they are currently developing.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION:

Studio XX favours interdisciplinary approaches and welcomes projects created or directed by women artists or collectives working in collaboration with other professionals. This axis responds to the growing number of trans-disciplinary projects and their inherent technological challenges and complexities. Selected projects must be undertaken using Studio's available resources (equipment, technical knowledge, financial resources).

All submissions are reviewed by a Selection Committee. Selection of applicants is also based on at least two out of the three following criteria:

- Offering significant support and at an important point of the artist's development
- Resonant with Studio XX's priorities in terms of technical experimentation
- Relevant, captivating expression of theoretical, political and/or social engagement

Residencies are eight weeks in length. For accepted proposals, Studio XX offers:

_A $750 artist's fee
_45 hours of technical support ($1125 value)
_Access to the Studio's equipment ($3335 rental value)
_Possibility to participate in certain group workshops ($200-300 value)
_Distinct working space for the artist and her instructor

Studio XX will disseminate the artist's project on its web site, with an artist's presentation to be given within its Femmes br@nchées Salon Series in the year following completion of the project. For participants working from afar, the presentation will take place on-line via streaming or chat. Residencies do not include travel costs and per diem, and the artist is responsible for her living arrangements while in Montreal.

To submit a residency proposal - Online registration :
http://www.studioxx.org/calls/residences_form_e.php

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Co-Production Program

All year long, Studio XX accepts co-production proposals from artists as well as from collectives and artist-organizations. Emerging and experienced artists working with new technologies and curators are invited to submit project ideas including technical specifications.

The Studio provides a Linux lab and Macs, video an digital audio resources. Projects are selected based on quality, the availability of the lab and technical requirements. Co-productions carried out at Studio XX demand full autonomy from the artists on both a conceptual and technical level. These residencies require autonomy on the conceptual and technical level but if necessary, the Studio can provide personalized technical support at the hourly rate of $25. The projects can stretch over a three-month period.

During the residency, the artists will have access to Studio XX's computer, video and digital audio equipment. They will also have access to available space on one of the large bandwidth servers - ideal for network experiments and webcasting - and to a dispatcher for wireless Internet connections. It will be necessary to provide a fixed schedule and to book time in the lab.

It is possible for the Studio to cover certain expenses for co-productions, such as training fees. The productions and co-productions are not housed on our web site but we do direct the artists towards servers that can accommodate their work. Studio XX actively seeks to program artworks produced within the co-productions at events as the Femmes br@nchées Salon series.

To submit a co-production proposal - Online registration :
http://www.studioxx.org/calls/coprods_form_e.php

Ca;;" Netaudio '08 seeks performances, installations, and conference presentations

Netaudio’08


http://www.netaudiolondon.cc/blog/137/call-for-entries

Parts of Netaudio’08 will be programmed through an open call for entries. With this call we would like to give you the chance to put our attention to your creative activities related to the festival theme. Call for entries runs in 3 strands:

* Performance: Are you a musician engaging with digital technologies and the Internet as part of your creative work? If yes please tell us more about what you do. This strand is also open to netlabel heads interested in showcasing artists of their label. Please download the performance-form:
rtf, odt or doc

* Installation: the installation strand covers everything from sonic arts installation to Netaudio related machines and hardware tools – anything that lets our visitors engage with technology & space. Please get back to us with your ideas, concepts and existing projects by filling the installation-form:
rtf, odt or doc

* Conference: Have you got knowledge or skills you would like to share? Please fill in the conference-form for proposals for the festival workshops and discussions:
rtf, odt or doc

Of course you are very welcome submit on more than one strand. Please make sure you indicate this in the forms.

Deadline for this Call for Entries is 14th April 08.

Call: Submissions wanted on the theme of "Dance, Timing, and Musical Gesture"

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Dance, Timing and Musical Gesture
13 - 15 June 2008 University of Edinburgh, Scotland

The Institute for Music in Human and Social Development, in
collaboration with Queen's University, Canada, invites abstracts for
an interdisciplinary, international conference on the topic of Dance,
Timing and Musical Gesture. The aim of the conference is to consider
the temporal dynamics, expressive possibilities and communicative
power of dance and musical movement. The meeting will include talks,
posters, dance workshops and performances and will take place in the
beautiful and culturally vibrant city of Edinburgh. Three student
scholarships are available, covering registration and accommodation.

http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/Research/imhsd/DanceConference2008/index.html

Invited Speakers
Luis "Alien Ness" Martinez (New York City, USA) B-Boying and Hip Hop Culture
Prof. Stephanie Jordan (Roehampton University, UK) Dance Studies
Prof. Merce?de?s Pavlicevic (Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Centre,
UK) Community Music Therapy
Prof. Dee Reynolds (University of Manchester, UK) Dance and
Performance Studies
Prof. Daniel Stern (University of Geneva, Switzerland) Developmental
Psychiatry
Dr. Vicky Karkou (Queen Margaret University, UK) Dance Therapy
Dr. Peter Keller (Max Planck Institute, Germany) Neuroscience of
Movement Dr. Sophia Lycouris (Edinburgh College of Art, UK) Dance
Improvisation Dr. Jessica Philips-Silver (University of Montreal,
Canada) Neuroscience of Dance

Invited Performers and Workshop Leaders
Tricia Anderson (St. Andrews, UK) Choreography and Creative Dance Education
Etch N Sketch (Scotland, UK) B-Boy/B-Girl ?Breaking? Performers
Dr. Shelley Katz & Diana Gilchrist-Katz (ISC at Herstmonceux Castle,
UK) Gesture in Vocal Performance
Me?ta-Me?ta (London, UK) Cuban Jazz Performance

Deadline for abstracts: Monday 7 April 2008 Please send abstracts of
300-400 words to Dr. Nikki Moran (n.moran@ed.ac.uk), indicating your
discipline and your preference for a 15 minute talk, a 30 minute
workshop or a 1 hour poster presentation. For further information,
please contact Dr. Katie Overy (k.overy@ed.ac.uk) or Karen Ludke
(K.Ludke@sms.ed.ac.uk) or see the conference website
(www.music.ed.ac.uk/Research/imhsd/DanceConference2008).