Call: Vision'R VJ festival

Hi, 4th edition of Vision'R vj festival will happen in 2009 april
Let's send your projects about what is making sense for you.

Vision'R as festival in the terms of fairy everyday life and lights with tools.

Organized by VJs and mediaktivists, Vision'R is a collaborative event made to
support live expressions with visuals and/or sounds representations.

All the propositions that help us to define the limits of our post-disciplinar
practices and our no limit process are welcome (performances, workshops,
talkings...)

As in the past editions, Vision'R's program won't be reflects of entertainment
projects nor corporate ones. Clubbing contents or absences of content, without
self-criticism won't be examined.


Until January 15th, send us your propositions by e-mail only, including :
-photos or videos of the project (showreel) and pictures of you « on stage »
-Artistic description of the project (intention text, theory or critical
content, aims)
-Technical description with stuff you bring, Audio/Video outputs, and what you
need

To send us a dvd of the showreel part, ask about it in the mail you'll send us
with the other required information.


CONTACT : vision-r {at} reseaux-creation. org - {at} stands for @

Best
http://vision-r. org (momentanely off)

Call: Electrofringe 2008 Festival in Australia seeks media artists and workshop leaders

Electrofringe 2008

Sat May 31, 2008
(Timezone: Eastern Time - Montreal)
www.electrofringe.net (map)
Calendar: Audio Calls

Electrofringe 2008 is now calling for proposals for this year’s festival from artists, media makers, curators, researchers, playful experimenters, enthusiasts, writers and producers.

Electrofringe is a five day festival of electronic arts and culture occurring as part of This Is Not Art in Newcastle Australia. Electrofringe is dedicated to furthering the creative use of technology and electronic art forms with focus upon skills exchange and development. In 2008 Electrofringe is also including a residency program in Newcastle during the lead up the the festival to allow for the creation of site specific work.

Electrofringe is seeking proposals in the following program areas:

Artist and Project Presentations, Panels, Workshops, Site Specific Residencies, Special Events, Electro-Online (web based art) and Electro-Screen (single channel video based works).

WORKSHOP, PRESENTATION, PANEL AND RESIDENCY PROPOSALS ARE DUE BY THE 31ST OF MARCH 2008
(please note that Electrofringe cannot assist with travel costs to the festival. If you are interested in presenting at the festival and you live outside of Australia we can assist with letters of support for funding grants)

ELECTRO-ONLINE AND ELECTRO-PROJECTIONS SUBMISSIONS ARE DUE BY THE 31ST OF MAY 2008

Visit the Electrofringe website for details: www.electrofringe.net

Melissa Delaney / Elmar Trefz / Alex White
Directors
Electrofringe
www.electrofringe.net

Festival Dates: 2 October – 6 October 2008

Electrofringe is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts advisory body.

Call: Saskatoon Anarchist Book Fair seeks participants

The 2nd Annual Saskatoon Anarchist Book-Fair is coming, and we need vendors,
workshop facilitators, and volunteers!

The dates have been set as September 28th and 29t h, 2007 at the Cosmo
Senior Citizen's Centre off Broadway, with a potluck supper on Friday the
28th to welcome out-of-towners followed by a party with live music, and a
jam-packed day of book-fair from 10 am to 10 pm on Saturday the 29th. (No
fair on Sunday)

The event will be wheel-chair accessible and all ages, with free admission,
free vegan food, free workshops, and free child-care. Donations will be
accepted at the door to recoup expenses.

If you run a distro, store, collective, or other organization and would like
to register a table to distribute your anarchy-related wares, please try to
confirm with us before September 10th. Tables are free; however we
encourage donations from vendors that profit from the fair to help pay the
bills. If you are travelling from afar, let us know ASAP if you need a
billet (how many people, any allergies, any lifestyle or bedding
preferences) and feel free to ask us about travel subsidies. Also, please
let us know approximately how much table space (square metres) you would
like. Interested parties ask us about adding a non-compulsory $1 Tree Tax
to prices of print materials that we will donate to an appropriate
conservation or reforestation organization (to be determined – any
suggestions?) after the fair.

If you want to lead a free workshop, please get in touch! We are especially
looking for creative and unusual workshop ideas that build community, share
useful skills, are inclusive, and that deal with any of the following:
aboriginal justice, food, community organizing, consensus facilitation,
queer/LGBT issues, feminism, age-ism, social justice, class struggle,
pacifism, armed resistance, permaculture, alternative energy, reducing
consumption, green technology, mental health, science, spirituality,
history/herstory, anarchy in practice/anarchy defined, political theory,
media, language, etc. We can supply electrical outlets,
white-boards/flip-charts, chairs, tables, pens/paper, and quiet space – let
us know what you need. The workshop schedule will be finalized in
September, but let us know right away about any scheduling constraints on
the 29th. Deadline for workshop submissions: September 10th.

If you want to volunteer a couple hours to help out before or during this
fun and busy day, we need you! Let us know before-hand what you enjoy most:
childcare, cooking, cleaning, set-up, take-down, transporting items by bike
or car, planning, or promotion, OR just show up on the day and ask someone
what needs to be done. All contributing efforts are highly valued, and we
encourage drop-in visitors to take a shift washing dishes, sweeping, or
moving tables to lighten the workload for everyone.

More info, including a car-pool registry, coming soon at
saskatoonanarchy.blogspot.com .

Love and solidarity,
The bookfair team

Job: Two archiving jobs available at Studio XX

2 OFFRES D'EMPLOI @ STUDIO XX
2 EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES @ STUDIO XX

[english follows]

2 OFFRES D'EMPLOI @ STUDIO XX

Le Studio XX recherche une technicienne en enregistrement audio et vidéo et une commis à la saisie de données pour Matricules, un projet proposant un registre imagé et documentaire de l'histoire du Studio XX, centre d'artiste féministe engagé dans l'exploration, la création et la critique en art technologique.

À ce jour, le catalogage et le prototype du site Web de la base de données sont achevés et nous complétons maintenant la numérisation des archives, la réalisation du site Web et la production du DVD promotionnel. Cette étape du projet rendra accessibles au public et aux artistes les documents d'archives relatant les activités du Studio XX depuis les dix dernières années et permettra de mettre en place une plate-forme pour la documentation et l'archivage des activités futures du Studio XX.


Description du poste :: Technicienne en enregistrement audio et vidéo

La personne qui occupe ce poste est responsable de la numérisation et la préparation des documents pour le site Web du Studio XX dans le cadre du projet Matricules. La personne idéale est à l'aise dans la manipulation des équipements audiovisuels et informatiques. Le matériel à numériser et/ou à préparer se trouve sur différents supports : cassettes audio, DAT, minidisques, cassettes VHS, cassettes Hi8, cassettes MiniDV, CD, DVD, photos numériques, documents imprimés, fichiers mp3. Chacun des documents doit être catalogué selon un protocole établi durant les précédentes phase du projet. La préparation peut inclure une part de montage vidéo.

Le contrat est d'une durée de 15 semaines à 35 heures par semaine et au taux horaire de 15$ de l'heure. L'horaire de travail peut être discuté. Les tâches affectées à cet emploi doivent être achevées en février 2008.


Description du poste :: Commis à la saisie de données

La personne qui occupe ce poste est responsable d'entrer les documents numérisés et catalogués dans la base de données. Le travail peut inclure le catalogage de documents selon un protocole établi lors des précédentes phases du projet Matricules.

Le contrat est d'une durée de 30 semaines à 15 heures par semaine et au taux horaire de 15$ de l'heure. L'horaire de travail peut être discuté. Les tâches affectées à cet emploi doivent être achevées en février 2008.


Date de réception des dossiers : 15 août 2007
Entrée en poste : 27 août 2007
Envoyez lettre et CV à : webmestre@studioxx.org


2 EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES @ STUDIO XX

The Studio is looking for a technician in audio and video recording, as well as a Data Entry Clerks for Matricules, an archive project on the history of Studio XX a feminist art centre for technological exploration, creation, and critique.

To date, the catalogue and Web site database prototype are complete and we are now preparing to finish digitizing the archives, produce the website and a promotional DVD. This final stage of the project will allow public access to the activities of Studio XX over the past 10 years as well as create a platform for continued archiving of the Studio's future activities.


Job Description :: Audio and Video Technician

This person is responsible for the digitization and preparation of documents for the Matricule project on the Studio's website. The ideal candidate has experience using a variety of audiovisual equipment and has related computer expertise. The material/document that will be digitized/prepared is in different formats: audio cassettes, DAT, minidisk recordings, VHS, Hi8, MiniDV, CD, DVD, digital photos, print documents, mp3 files. Each document must be logged and catalogued based on the protocols established in the first phase of the project. The preparation of material may include some video editing.

The contract will last 15 weeks at 35 hours a week. The pay is $15/hour. The tasks of this contract must be finished by February 2008.

Job Description :: Data Entry Clerks

The person with this job is responsible for entering the digitized and catalogued documents and materials into the database based on a protocol established in the first phase of the Marticules project.

The contract is for 30 weeks at 15 hours a week. The pay is $15/hour. The contract must be completed by February 2008.


Deadline for applications : August 15, 2007
Job Starts : August 27, 2007
Send in your letter and CV to : webmestre@studioxx.org



Nous reconnaissons le soutien financier du ministère du Patrimoine canadien par l'entremise de la stratégie de Culture canadienne en ligne.


STUDIO XX
Centre d'artiste féministe engagé dans l'exploration, la création et la critique en art technologique.
Feminist art centre for technological exploration, creation, and critique.

4001 Rue Berri, espace 201 . Montréal . Québec . H2L 4H2
tél: 514-845-7934 . fax: 514.845.4941 . www.studioxx.org . info@studioxx.org

Call: Life coding opportunity at xxxxx as part of the Piksel Festival in Norway

xxxxx call 2007

xxxxx call for participation in a speculative 12 hour life coding
event (organising hardware and software) to be held in Mid-November
as part of the Piksel festival in Bergen, Norway.

Deadline for email submission: July 31st 12AM [midnight]

Life coding is a mapping of the descriptive means of hardware and
programming onto the world. In this instance it includes the invention
and construction of models and language to actively describe and code
the event; instructing, structuring, re-structuring and constructing
the 12 hours. Life coding is obviously influenced by the existence of
programming, fiction, scripting and execution.

Participation is not limited to potential forms including:

— performative presentations

— advanced participatory workshops

— actions

— interventions

The above will be assembled into shifts which move between hardware,
interface and (life) code. Proposals should suggest which shift would
be suitable. Proposed topics for shifts include open hardware in
relation to control, the world as interface, material as question of
substance (soft/hard), and the relation of technology, code and
pornography.

Please submit an introduction to your area of research/practice as
well as examples of projects, performances, texts, proposals for
advanced participatory workshops, performative presentations,
actions, interactions, interventions and email your entry to

m@1010.org

Further information on the event:

xxxxx [2007] is proposed and wilfully structured as a 12 hour life
coding event within the context of previous xxxxx activities (Crash
2005, xxxxx 2006), and influenced by Plenum (collaboration with KOP,
2006).

xxxxx [2007] will exist as a major, inspired durational, performative
event allowing for exchange and construction between invited
international participants who truly exist on the bleeding edge of
what could be termed contemporary Crash culture.

xxxxx [2007] expands software and hardware with a wilful emphasis on
construction, an interface between theory and the active entry of
making' in the world.

xxxxx [2007] as event manifests a free software-led, coded structure
of self-organisation, and unique working groups. Although some of
these events will be ongoing (for example several working groups, and
background material), the 12 hours will be assembled by way of
shifts.

http://xxxxx.1010.co.uk
http://crash.1010.co.uk
http://www.1010.co.uk

Call: Vtape seeks curators for "Curatorial Incubator" Project

Vtape's award-winning project The Curatorial Incubator returns!


This year, The Curatorial Incubator, v.5 - VIDEO ANIMATION "What's Up Doc?"
will be a search for animated gems. Artists use animation techniques to
critique the media, to conjure up the spirits, to play with history and look
into the future. Participants in What's Up Doc? hone their curatorial skills
in the media arts through workshops, independent research and writing,
culminating in a public presentation of their selected titles, accompanied
by a fully illustrated publication.


Research phase (July-August) includes: workshops conducted by established
curators, artists and arts professionals specializing in media arts and an
interest in animation,
free access to the vast research facilities on site at Vtape, with over 3500
tapes by 800+ artists and over 2000 articles on video art, and support for
external research in locating previews and screening copies of works.


Presentation phase (Sept 29 - Nov 3, 2007) includes: an exhibition of all
the curated programmes with an introduction by the curator, and a fully
illustrated catalogue of all the programmes with curatorial essays.


Proposals must include: an up-to-date c.v.; a statement of intention (1 page
in total) that outlines your interest in video animation and why you want to
be part of The Curatorial Incubator, v.5 - What's Up Doc? video and
animation; examples of critical writing you have done (published or
non-published); examples of any curatorial or organizational work you have
done.


Please indicate your availability for workshops July 28-29 and/or August
11-12, 2007). NOTE: If you are from outside of Toronto, please indicate how
you would cover the costs of your travel to the workshops (to be held over 1
weekend) and research at Vtape (minimum 1 week). And don't worry; you won't
be held to your original proposal but keep in mind that the jury will need
to get an idea of what kind of work you are going to be searching for.
Surprises are to be expected along the way. That's what research is all
about.


Send applications to:
Lisa Steele, Creative Director, Vtape
401 Richmond St. West, #452, Toronto, ON M5V 3A8
lisas@vtape.org


DEADLINE: July 13, 2007
Info: lisas@vtape.org - www.vtape.org

Free VJing workshops offered in Prince Albert by Carrie Gates and Leeane Berger with Common Weal

VJing 101: An Introduction to VJing with Arkaos

Monday, April 23rd to Friday, April 27th 7:00 - 9:00pm,
at Prince Albert's St. Mary's High School computer science labs

Have you ever wondered how VJs create their artwork? Have you ever wanted to create a custom visual projection to work with a dance or theatre piece? Have you ever tried adding live visuals to a band's performance or a DJ set? We can show you how!

Using Arkaos VJing software, instructors Carrie Gates and Leeane Berger will guide you through a series of fun and focused workshops that will take you from recording and digitizing your own video footage to programming video mixing software to being ready for a live VJ performance.

Workshops take place in the evenings, from Monday, April 23rd to Friday, April 27th 7:00 - 9:00pm, at the St. Mary's High School computer science labs. Since there are limited seats, we ask that you send us a short letter or email by April 17th outlining why you would like to learn more about VJing. Let us know if you have any experience working with video, but beginners are also welcome. Up to ten participants will be selected for this free workshop offered by Common Weal Community Arts, Inc.

Please send your application to:
Judy Mc Naughton
nac@commonweal-arts.com
Common Weal Community Arts, Inc.
1010 Central Avenue
Prince Albert, SK, S6V 4V5
Phone: 960-9020 Fax: (306) 953-4814
www.commonweal-arts.com
Applications received after April 17th will not be considered.

Class YouTube Video Website:
http://www.youtube.com/vjnode



More about the instructors, VJs Leeane Berger and Carrie Gates:

Carrie Gates – VJ Instructor
Carrie Gates' diverse art practices span the realms of VJing, experimental turntablism, sound art, sculpture, performance art, digital media, and the catylization of provocative interactive situations. Her work is unified by a pluralist vision and an appetite for teasing the uncanny from the familiar, critically yet playfully using and abusing any media she encounters. Recently, Gates has been working with creating innovative VJ performances using Max/MSP/Jitter and Arkaos software, sharing her findings with her peers through workshops and artist talks to encourage others to reclaim digital media as a tool for personal artistic expression and social change. Since 1996, she has been performing regularly at electronic music events, noise and experimental music shows, new media festivals, and art galleries. Her performances, compositions, videos, and research work have been shown across Canada as well as in Germany and the USA.

http://www.youtube.com/carriegates
http://www.myspace.com/thesoundsofcarriegates
http://www.notype.com/bricolodge
http://www.vinylinterventions.com

Leeane Berger – Assistant VJ Instructor
As part of a new generation of artists, Leeane Berger is currently working in the discovery, documentation and rediscovery of all things - great and small - that make up everyday living in Saskatchewan. In 2004 Leeane set out with a project to refurbish trash from alleys, sidewalks, parks and dumpsters. This endeavor propelled her into further exploration of salvaged and found materials. Leeane works in a variety of techniques and media in attempt to correlate viewer with surroundings. Using simple electronics to bring motion to a piñata television made from found electrical cords, wire and spray paint to the exploration of substance use in adding texture and depth to her found object paintings, Leeane is on a constant look out for new tools of expression. Working most recently in video, a medium she began working with while briefly attending Concordia University in 2005, has lead to experimentation with video mixing and animation. Her videos have since morphed from canadian video art inspired short-films into grungy expressionistic mixups for teasing and pleasing the eye.

http://www.youtube.com/itrashfish
http://www.myspace.com/printedonrecycledpaper



DOWNLOAD THIS INFO AS A PDF FILE HERE:
http://www.otherartists.com/commonweal/pdf/CW-VJ_Poster-April10-07.pdf