Call: Paved Arts seeking Pure Data artists/students

PUREDATA
A collaboration between Artengine (Ottawa) & PAVED Arts (Saskatoon)
with mentors/instructors:
DARSHA HEWITT (OTTAWA)
ALEXANDRE QUILLY (MONTREAL)
IAN CAMPBELL (SASKATOON)

I WANT TO
Invent strange new music
Build a video mixer from the ground up
Make a sculpture connected to the internet
Design a virtual tree that grows
Invent a new kind of drawing
Make sound come out of a painting
Make a video that's different every time it plays
Design a motion controlled camera


This program will provide support for 3-5 artists to learn how to
program in
the puredata programming environment for the creation of projects
involving
real-time audio/video processing. Highly regarded puredata experts
Alexandre
Quilly and Darsha Hewitt will take beginners through a 2 month (May
5-Jun
23) series of weekly workshops to create projects and cover topics such
as
live video mixing, interfacing robotics, interactive sound design, and
sensor interfacing. Participants will meet with the mentors face to
face on
May 5, followed by subsequent web conference meetings. Participating
artists
will receive cost free access to PAVED Arts equipment and technical
support.


Email newmedia@pavedarts.ca or phone 652-5543 or see www.pavedarts.ca
for
more details.

Please include a one page written project proposal.
(NOTE: Participants may have to supply their own equipment depending on
specialization.)

Please enclose CV, Portfolio (DVD, CDROM or other), Project Proposal and
send to:
Laura Margita
Executive Director
PAVED Arts
424 20th St. W.
S7M 0X4

DEADLINE: APRIL 30th, 2007

Callout: Initiative for Electronic Arts at PAVED

*Initiative for Electronic and Digital Arts*
PAVED Arts (Saskatoon)

This is a note to the membership, interested artists, people with both
arts and technical backgrounds about PAVED Arts interest in creating
more activity around the topics of new media arts (specifically the
Electronic and Digital disciplines). We are beginning a three phase
project in that will hopefully increase the awareness and interest among
our membership and Saskatchewan based artists.

"/You don't have to be a Techie!/"

We would like to create an environment where artists in other
disciplines who have an interest in using new technologies can come and
discuss their ideas with our staff and determine what they need to learn
in order to carry them out.

*Trajectory*

1. *feb-march* 1 day Digital/Electronic arts workshops for members and
others
"PAVED Arts technical director will be providing technical support and
hands on workshops for topics such as Beginners Linux, Electronics for
Artists, Digital Imaging and Web based technologies (HTML/Flash). See
website for details http://www.pavedarts.ca."

/Additional Related Events:/
EXHIBITION: Daniel Dugas - MAX/MSP based installation FIB/BID - Opening
Exhibition feb 23rd
ARTIST TALK: Ed Pas - Art and Vectors - Adobe Illustrator in a fine Arts
Practice – Sat Mar 3

2. *may-june*
RESIDENCY: "_Electronic Arts Scholarship Program_"
"Providing support for 3-5 artists to learn how to program in the
puredata environment for creation of projects involving realtime
audio/video processing. Taught by highly regarded puredata experts
Mathieu Bouchard and Darsha Hewitt (Montreal) they will take beginners
through a 2 month series of workshops to create projects and cover
topics such as live video mixing, interfacing robotics, interactive
sound design, and sensor interfacing. Artists will receive access to
PAVED Arts equipment and technical support. A collaboration between
Artengine (Ottawa) & PAVED Arts (Saskatoon)."
WORKSHOPS: Mathieu Bouchard and Darsha Hewitt - Beginners Guide:
Puredata may 5,19,26 jun 2,9,16.

/Additional Related Events:/
ARTIST TALK: Erika Lincoln - Beyond the Skin Effect: Responsive Systems
- may 9
WORKSHOP: Erika Lincoln - DATAin DATAout - "Understanding how you can
manipulate sound and video with MAX/MSP" - may 12
WORKSHOP: Mfanway Ashmore - Hack and Snack - "Creative appliance
hacking" - june 8,9

3. *july-aug-sept *
RESIDENCY(Projected): _Throughput: Digital Electronic Arts Residency_
"Providing support for one regionally based artist to learn about
electronic/digital arts to create an concept that we can bring in to
reality. The artist will receive a artist fee, technical support, use of
paved equipment and travel expenses to go to the 2007 puredata
convention in Montreal, QC."

Callout: PureData Convention seeking papers and demos

PureData Convention '07 - Call for Proposals

* August 21st-26th, 2007, Montréal Canada

* Deadline for artworks/performances and workshops: February 28th 2007
* Deadline for papers: March 31st 2007

http://convention.puredata.org

The PureData Convention Steering Committee is now accepting proposals
for participation in L'oeuvre ouverte (the Open Work), the 2nd
International PureData Convention. L'oeuvre ouverte invites an open
relation between the artwork and the public as well as open attitudes
and practices in the fields of programming, artistic creation and
scientific research. It will bring together artists, developers and
writers who develop, use and reflect on PureData.

The Convention will acknowledge the broad range of artistic and
technical disciplines that make use of the software and will address
questions of openness and accessibility. It will provide a theoretical
and artistic context for the understanding of the aesthetics and
politics of Free / Open Source Software culture.

Selected proposals will reflect varied perspectives and outlooks on
the artistic possibilities of free software and hardware that emanate
from a wide-ranging community. These include, but are not restricted
to connections to art, science and society as well as demonstration of
innovative and intuitive interactions. We encourage a wide range of
submissions from all levels of proficiency with the software as well
as from emergent and diverse PureData communities. Submissions will be
evaluated by peer review committees.

Proposals are sought in the following categories:

Artwork/Performances:
The selected artworks should make use of PureData. All forms of audio
and visual art including real-time interactive works, improvisations
with technology, instrumental/electroacoustic mixes, sound
installations, performances, network art, robotics, software art and
interdisciplinary work are welcome.


Papers and posters:
We are accepting papers that offer varying perspectives on technical,
social, cultural as well as art theory/historical aspects of PureData
or the aesthetics and politics of Free / Open Source Software (FOSS)
culture.

Demos:
Externals, Performance patches, Packages of abstractions, sensors and
physical computing interfaces, etc.

Workshops:
Beginner to advanced level hands-on workshops, installation
help, DIY etc.

::applicants are invited to submit in multiple categories::

please read the application guidelines:
http://convention.puredata.org/guidelines