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2007 ANAT emerging technologies mentorship - call for applications

2007-07-26T22:35:12+01:00

2007 ANAT emerging technologies mentorship

ANAT is calling for applications from young and emerging practitioners working with distributed, portable, online, wearable, mobile and emerging platforms to undertake a three-month mentorship with an established practitioner of their choice.

Managed by ANAT, the mentorship is a part of the Australian Government's Young & Emerging Artists Initiative through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

The mentorship provides an opportunity to explore new artistic directions, to expand technical skills and increase knowledge of networks, debates and business practice. Applicants are invited to select a mentor and develop a program of activity spanning a three-month period. The mentorship may be largely a program of skills, development however applicants are encouraged to explore programs which incorporates critical investigation and dialogue, business skills development as well as marketing and exhibition opportunities. Utilising emerging technologies the mentor may be accessed locally, nationally or internationally. Additionally the successful applicant will maintain a blog for the duration of the mentorship hosted on the ANAT server.

Mentorship Proposal

Applicants are required to describe their practice, the mentor they have selected (include an outline of the mentor's practice), what activities will be undertaken during the mentorship, and the short and long-term benefits of the mentorship to the applicant. Applicants may choose to include an A4 page which outlines the structure of the mentorship on a weekly or monthly basis (For Example: Tue–Wed: conceptual development, Thurs: online discussion with mentor, Fri: research exhibition opportunities, undertake book-keeping with mentor etc.). Submissions should not exceed 4 pages in length. Please Note: The proposed mentorship program must be developed in consultation with the mentor.

Mentorship Fees

The mentorship will provide a fee for the mentoree ($7,200 excl GST) and a fee for the mentor ($1,800 excl GST). Note: recipients of the mentorship (the mentoree and mentor) are not precluded from seeking other funding from the Australia Council.

Eligibility

Applicants must be emerging technologies practitioners who are 30 years or under. The mentorship may be either locally, nationally or internationally based. If the mentor is not located in close proximity, you must describe your processes of communication and assessment.

Time Frame

The mentorship will commence any time from August 2007 and be completed by early December 2007. This time frame is negotiable, particularly where it is necessary to undertake the mentorship on a part-time basis. If an alternate time frame is required, applicants must outline the revised dates and the reasons for the alternate time frame.

Assessment

Applications will be assessed by a committee of the ANAT Board. The primary assessment criteria will be the relevance of the proposed mentorship program to the development of the mentoree's practice.

APPLICATIONS CLOSE 3 August 2007

For further information please contact: Gavin Artz ANAT General Manager, manager@anat.org.au, 08 8231 9037, Monday – Friday, 10am – 4pm CST.

http://www.anat.org.au/projects/Mentorships/emergingtechmentorship_000.htm

1st International Congress Art Tech Media

2007-03-11T03:30:04+00:00

visit http://www.artechmedia.net for details

or read the call for submissions at http://www.aliak.com/node/2658

The First International Art Tech Media Congress - call for submissions

2007-03-11T03:21:30+00:00

International Artist Call Art Tech M e d i a 0 7

T h e F i r s t I n t e r n a t i o n a l A r t T e c h M e d i a C o n g r e s s

www.artechmedia.net

Calling on all creatives of the world to participate.
Submissions will be accepted from the following categories:

A
- Video art
- Net-art
- 2D & 3D Computer Animation
- Blog, videoblog
- Creation for mobile platforms
- Digital Music
- Videodance

B
- Digital Communities
- Geospatial storytelling
- Artificial Life, Software art, Transgenic art, Generative art
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In a globalised world, dominated by communication technologies, with
countless questions concerning a future that affects our everyday
life, it is essential to make this analysis and to consider, from
different perspectives, how our polyhedral, altered reality is being
effected by the widespread use of new technology as a support for new
ideas and possibilities that are almost infinite. We need to
investigate how this occurs in different societies and cultures and
to propose models that may go beyond what has been known until now.

The First International Art Tech Media Congress has been set up in
order to reflect upon and analyse questions currently being raised
about art and new technological media within an international context.

Within this context, an intensive debate needs to take place on the
influence and transformations that new media is producing in art,
there needs to be a greater understanding of the foundations for more
effective cooperation between the different sectors linked to digital
art, and proposals need to be devised for the development of national
and international collaborative networks in order to improve
production, research, exhibition and promotion.

Last year, Art Tech Media 06 encounters had been held at nine Spanish
museums, and given the great participation and the opinions
collected, its seems clear that this is an ideal time to celebrate
the First International Art Tech Media Conference. It represents a
great opportunity to hold a transversal debate in order to devise
proposals that will lead to greater and better coordination among the
different sectors of art, aimed at strengthening its development.

www.artechmedia.net/artechmedia06.htm

Art Tech Media 06 headquaters: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina
Sofía, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Unión Fenosa, Presidencia Gobierno
de Canarias, Museo Domus Artium 2002, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte
Contemporáneo Artium, Fundación BilbaoArte, Centro Párraga, Museo de
Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo EsBaluard, Centro de Cultura
Contemporánea de Barcelona.

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GENERAL REGULATIONS Art Tech Media 07 art call

- Works must have been produced after January 1st, 2006.
- The number of submissions is not limited.
- Works may be presented in any language. However, a transcript of dialogues
must be included in either Spanish or English,
- The organization reserves the rights to use parts of the works for
media broadcasting, within the
promotional framework of artechmedia.
- Following the process of selection based on abstratcs, all
participants will be notified in writing of
the result and the required format for the presentationof their work,
preferably on DVD.
- Authors will be responsible for copyright of their works.
- Works selected will be exhibited in artechmedia.
- A electronic catalogue will be produced in Spanish and English,
including all the works.
- Artists with works selected shall agree to assign a copy to
artechmedia, which may be
used in the subsequent exhibitions.
- The organization is not responsible for the content of works in
order to preserve freedom.

Projects:

- Those interested in submitting work in these categories must send a
completed entry form.
- The net-art @blog, videoblog must include the URL address in the entry form.
- A part from the entry form, those interested in taking part in
video art and computer animation
must also send a DVD with their work.
- Digital Music must be sent both in digital format and as a hard copy by post.
- All mail is to be sent to the office central art tech media
Art Tech c/Méndez Nuñez 102, 6ºD. 38001 S/C Tenerife. Canary Island. Spain

DEADLINE: 16th march 2007

SELECTION AND JURY

- Works presented will be selected by a committee of the organization.
- In each category a jury composed of experts will select the works.
- Jury's decision is final, and is not open to appeal.

SELECTED WORKS must include:

- Technical credits.
- Technical requirements for its showing.
- Two colour photographs of every work sent.
- A short biography of author or representative organization.
- A transcript of dialogues in spanish or english.
- All works must include in their front page: the work's title, the
delivery address, and the
data of author or representative organization.
- In case of not providing a correct delivery address, the
organization will not be
responsible for the works.
- Submission of a work implies the acceptance of these regulations.

>registration form> enter
artechmedia@artechmedia.net

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1st International Congress Art Tech Media www.artechmedia.net
8-9-10-11 th may . Madrid. Spain

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identity 2.0

2006-02-09T10:35:03+00:00

I've been watching the identity 2.0 presentations from 2005 oscon and web 2.0 conferences. I'd been meaning to watch more of the presentations from these conferences but hadn't got round to it yet. I came across this again via another site, presentation zen blog, which was talking about different styles of presentations - Dick Hardt from sxip.com (pronounced skip) was recommended as having good presentation style. He in turn borrowed this style from Lawrence Lessig, the well known copyright lawyer and advocate. They both use many slides with short phrases or single words, with a scattering of images and are displayed with a fast pace. It does make the presentation more interesting! - well compared to the traditional powerpoint style anyway. This topic has been on my mind recently - not presentations per se, but events and conferences - as the iDC mail list has been having interesting discussions about the different styles of presentations at digital arts / music / new media conferences. Mostly the conversations have been regarding providing remote connections and contributions for people to attend the conferences remotely either during the conference or after it. Discussions on presentation style came up - different ideas, particularly wrt academics presenting papers and just reading them to the audience when they may have been available prior to the conference, then running out of time for questions. Anyway, I find it interesting as I'm not able to attend all the conferences I'd like to, though I try to attend as many as feasible, but it's really handy to be able to watch a video or listen to audio of the presentations after the conference. I find most of the larger IT based American conferences have video lectures / presentations available - perhaps this is because they have deals with ISPs and video production / distribution people. I think videoblogging could help with this as there's many more people recording video these days, but I suppose it won't be videoblogging as such, but using videobloggers to apply their skills to provide documentation and video on the web. Really useful for online education also!

links for this post:

http://presentationzen.blogs.com/presentationzen/

http://www.identity20.com/media/WEB2_2005/

http://www.identity20.com/

http://www.identityblog.com/

http://sxip.com/

http://mailman.thing.net/pipermail/idc/

holographic data storage

2005-12-17T11:33:17+00:00

I remember reading about holographic storage / crystalline data storage in the mid 90s but back then they could write the data but couldn't read it back off. seems like they've fixed the problems according to the tests run last november. looking forward to the personal device using these to be available.. they've been doing tests with broadcasters for hdtv and the like.

http://www.hiptechblog.com/2005/11/25/maxell-introduces-groundbreaking-h...

http://www.inphase-technologies.com/

[quote]
Maxell Introduces Groundbreaking Holographic Recording Technology
November 25th, 2005 | Posted in Computer Technology by Leon Huang

Maxell Holographic Media

Up to 1.6-terabytes (or 1,600 1638-gigabytes for those who can't count) and transfer rates reaching 120 MBPS (megabytes, not bits!), Maxell's latest holographic technology is a real breakthrough in optical media.

Made possible together with InPhase Technologies, each of these 5¼-inch disks can hold as much data as 63 DVDs. It offers a 50+ years of archive life and is expected to have the lowest cost per gigabyte compared to any other commercial removable storage in the current market.

"Combining high storage densities and fast transfer rates with durable, reliable, low cost media, Holographic technology is poised to become a compelling choice for next-generation storage and content distribution needs," said Liz Murphy, vice president of marketing for InPhase Technologies. "Unlike other technologies that record one data bit at a time, holography allows a million bits of data to be written and read in parallel with a single flash of light. This enables transfer rates significantly higher than current optical storage devices."

- Maxell-USA.com

InPhase Holographic Drive

The first generation of this holographic media will come in only 300-gigabytes of storage capacity, and with a 20 MBPS transfer rate. Scheduled for release in late 2006, this will be one thing pr0n collectors optical storage fanatics will want to look out for.
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"The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices" by al-Jazari (1206)

2005-12-11T05:37:28+00:00

"The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices" was a manuscript written by al-Jazari in 1206 which described automata and mechanical devices used in early Islam. One of the more famous is the "The Elephant Clock" pictured here. Other machines include wine servers. The devices were 'programmed' to be random and unpredictable.
There is an excellent explanation of some of these devices and the book in general @ http://66.244.200.112/D1006Gunalan_Nadarajan.wmv - this is a conference presentation by Gunalan Nadarajan on his paper :
Islamic Automation: A Reading of al-Jazari's The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices (1206)
http://www.banffcentre.ca/bnmi/programs/archives/2005/refresh/lisiten.asp

Professor Noel Sharkey from Sheffield University is building a replica of al-Jazari's automata boat which acts like a programmable drum machine.
[quote]
"Al-Jazari's machine was originally a boat with four automatic musicians that floated on a lake to entertain guests at royal drinking parties. It had two drummers, a harpist and a flautist."
"The heart of the mechanism is a rotating cylindrical beam with pegs (cams) protruding from it. These just bump into little levers that operate the percussion. The point of the model is to demonstrate that the drummer can be made to play different rhythms and different drum patterns if the pegs are moved around. In other words it is a programmable drum machine."
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The guys from pawful.org have been working on a livecoding game called Al-Jazari which is a musical robot livecoding system based on the principles of al-Jazari's automata boat.

view the video demo at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxwLllYchlw
[quote]
"Al-Jazari is written in scheme for fluxus, and continues in the gamepad driven vein of BetaBlocker.
Livecoding for all the family! Only for use at royal drinking parties."
"The language consists of instructions to move and turn the robot, along with conditionals based on the external state (blocked, robot to my left, right etc) and jump instructions to switch between 4 seperate code states. A simple signalling system to allow the bots to communicate is planned."
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Onion Robots website

2005-12-11T05:30:07+00:00

Onion Robotics website contains a great deal of technical, creative and background information on robotics for hobbyists and even those more experienced. Some areas of the site also form a dictionary for some of the terms and concepts used in robotics, electronics, porgramming, Lego building and engineering. visit http://www.orionrobots.co.uk for more details

e-Tech 2004 conference - notes from Tim O'Reilly's killer apps recording

2005-12-11T04:24:34+00:00

O'Reilly killer apps mentioned in the audio recording of e-Tech 2004 from archive.org

social software - harnessing the power of use contributions & user participation:

successful platforms using social software:
- the comparison of amazon.com vs barnesandnoble.com -> amazon.com sell more o'reilly books than barnes & noble

mapping systems:
- mapping data applications; geo-annotations; geo url; geo tagging photographs
- "figuring out how does the real and the virtual penetrate"
- microsoft map point; aol mapquest; yahoo are the three main mapping systems at the moment

software used to mobilise people:
- moveon.org
- largest advocacy organisation in the world
- pointing millions of people at a shared project
- similar to the Dean project (using drupal!)

wikis
word spy - new terms; snapshot of the changes in language and culture; http://wordspy.com/

mobile devices
- pdas, mobile phones
- itunes

http://ia200109.eu.archive.org/1/audio/etech2004-oreilly/etech2004-oreil...

copying files off my ipod to pc hard drive

2005-11-30T07:35:30+00:00

I have an external 120Gb firewire hard drive which has travelled with me from Sydney to UK to Auckland. It's worked really well. Well, until last week when it fell over and now makes horrible clunking noises when it's spinning up. Unfortunately this drive holds my ipod music files - copies of my cds and records that I couldn't bring with me from home. Luckily I'd done a full transfer to my ipod a couple of weeks ago, so the music is intact, but I can't export it back onto a hard drive (planning on buying another 2.5" drive instead of the firewire drive). I just found an article on endgaget about transferring files from your ipod back to hard drive using ephPOD. cool :) now I just have to buy the new drive and try it out.

IEEE Computer Society

2004-06-22T13:47:00+01:00

IEEE computer society website