Chris, Check out the Royal College of Art's Computer-Related Design department, in the UK good luck! kevin On Sunday, August 25, 2002, at 12:45 AM, chris jones wrote: > dear all, > > i'm an hons. graduate looking for post-grad options in interactive art > in the UK and EU. ideally i'm looking for a course titled 'curating > interactive environments', with a strong theoretic/critical bent, added > to by courses covering history and hands on techno. aspects. > > if anyone has any info. it'd be greatly appreciated. > > thanks, > abacus. > > > > >> From: Beryl Graham <[log in to unmask]> >> Reply-To: "Curating digital art - >> www.newmedia.sunderland.ac.uk/crumb/" <NEW-MEDIA- >> [log in to unmask]> >> To: [log in to unmask] >> Subject: Call for Papers, Banff >> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 09:16:42 +0100 >> >> Dear List, >> >> Please find below a relevant call for papers. Apologies for our recent >> lack of themes for discussion, but rest assured that we'll be back on >> track after the summer . >> >> In the meantime, please do get in touch if anyone would like to >> 'guest' with their own theme, and of course, please feel free to start >> your own discussions related to new media curating. Would anyone, for >> example like to comment on how the new media work in Manifesta and >> Documenta is being presented? >> >> yours, >> >> Beryl Graham >> >> ---- >> >> CALL FOR PAPERS >> >> BRIDGES II: COLLABORATION, COMMUNICATION, CONVERGENCE >> October 4-6, 2002 >> >> The Banff Centre, Banff New Media Institute, & The University of >> Calgary >> in collaboration with the Annenberg Center for Communication at the >> University of Southern California. >> >> The first BRIDGES Consortium was held in 2001 in Los Angeles. It >> brought >> together artists, technologists, and scientists, top experts from >> educational, research and funding institutions and the private >> sector, to >> explore interdisciplinary collaboration between art, culture, >> science and >> technology. At the BRIDGES II Consortium we plan to expand the >> cross-disciplinary realm to include social sciences and humanities >> researchers who are partners in culture and science collaboration. >> This >> year, BRIDGES comes to Canada and will be held at the Banff New Media >> Institute. We hope to make it a truly international event. >> >> As well as a number of keynote speakers, we invite you to join >> BRIDGES II, >> either as the presenter of a paper or to participate in the >> consortium's >> scheduled discussions of collaboration as a form of knowledge and a >> set of >> skills to be identified, studied, and learned. Through a number of >> different session formats, including break-out groups involving all >> consortium delegates, we wish to identify best practices, amplify >> networks, >> and provide a means of communication for those engaged in the >> reality of >> collaborative research. Difference in work styles, priorities, >> language >> usage and invention, communication styles, educational principles, >> institutional frameworks, temperaments, and even fundamental values >> have >> the >> potential to become either obstacles or stimulants to effective >> collaboration. And creating with ever-more complex technology >> requires >> greater specialization as well as better collaboration between >> technicians >> and creators. Issues of access are critical, as we look at >> international >> challenges and regional discrepancies. >> >> We welcome submissions of proposals for 20 minute papers for the >> following >> panels (suggested approaches are given in the questions following the >> panel >> titles, but proposed papers need not be restricted to these areas): >> >> Collaborative Methods: What can we learn from collaboration in >> science, in >> arts, in social sciences and humanities that we can apply across >> these >> disciplinary areas? What can learn from studying the research >> process as >> much as the outcomes of research? >> >> The Ethics of Collaboration: What are the ethics of collaboration >> between >> science and art? Social sciences and art? How can we ensure mutual >> respect? How do projects shift depending on who is leading the >> research? >> >> Policy & Collaboration: What policies exist, are emerging, and are >> needed >> to >> support collaboration? What policies and practices do we need on the >> international front? What assumptions and ideas lie behind >> institutional >> policies? What are the implications for training the next >> generation of >> interdisciplinary researchers? Who is excluded from policy making? >> What >> are the incentives for young researchers and artists to collaborate? >> >> Collaboration & Gender: How is collaboration gendered? Is it read as >> feminine? How does it intrude on science hierarchy? How does it >> intrude >> on >> art hierarchy? Who is blocked from leading projects? What are the >> biases >> surrounding this? >> >> Where Does Art & Science Collaboration fit in a period of Global >> Crisis & >> War: What examples can we draw from history? What circumstances are >> different in today's historical moment? How do developments in new >> technologies inflect our understanding and our experience of global >> crisis >> and war? >> >> Digital Archives & Databases for Collaboration: What are effective >> models >> for networks? What are the access issues? How do we understand >> virtual >> and >> actual presence in the design of archives and/or databases?) >> >> We will also have two showcases: A festival of new media works or >> documentation AND a show and tell of tools that enable collaboration. >> >> ∑ 300-word abstracts for proposed papers >> ∑ one page new media and tools descriptions, with URL's, >> should >> be >> sent NO LATER THAN JULY 22, 2002 to: >> >> Sara Diamond & Susan Bennett >> Convenors, BRIDGES II >> c/o Janet Anderson >> Banff New Media Institute >> The Banff Centre, Banff AB, T1L 1H5 >> Phone: 1-403-762-6282 >> Fax: 1-403-762-6665 >> Email: [log in to unmask] >> >> For further information about BRIDGES II, contact Janet Anderson, >> Project >> Coordinator at the above contact information. >> >> For the results of BRIDGES I, please check our website at: >> www.annenberg.edu/BRIDGES >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: L-Soft list server at JISCMAIL (1.8e) >> To: [log in to unmask] >> Sent: 7/14/02 1:56 PM >> Subject: Rejected posting to [log in to unmask] >> >> You are not authorized to send mail to the NEW-MEDIA-CURATING list >> from your >> [log in to unmask] account. 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It >> brought >> together artists, technologists, and scientists, top experts from >> educational, research and funding institutions and the private >> sector, to >> explore interdisciplinary collaboration between art, culture, >> science and >> technology. At the BRIDGES II Consortium we plan to expand the >> cross-disciplinary realm to include social sciences and humanities >> researchers who are partners in culture and science collaboration. >> This >> year, BRIDGES comes to Canada and will be held at the Banff New Media >> Institute. We hope to make it a truly international event. >> >> As well as a number of keynote speakers, we invite you to join >> BRIDGES II, >> either as the presenter of a paper or to participate in the >> consortium's >> scheduled discussions of collaboration as a form of knowledge and a >> set of >> skills to be identified, studied, and learned. Through a number of >> different session formats, including break-out groups involving all >> consortium delegates, we wish to identify best practices, amplify >> networks, >> and provide a means of communication for those engaged in the >> reality of >> collaborative research. Difference in work styles, priorities, >> language >> usage and invention, communication styles, educational principles, >> institutional frameworks, temperaments, and even fundamental values >> have >> the >> potential to become either obstacles or stimulants to effective >> collaboration. And creating with ever-more complex technology >> requires >> greater specialization as well as better collaboration between >> technicians >> and creators. Issues of access are critical, as we look at >> international >> challenges and regional discrepancies. >> >> We welcome submissions of proposals for 20 minute papers for the >> following >> panels (suggested approaches are given in the questions following the >> panel >> titles, but proposed papers need not be restricted to these areas): >> >> Collaborative Methods: What can we learn from collaboration in >> science, in >> arts, in social sciences and humanities that we can apply across >> these >> disciplinary areas? What can learn from studying the research >> process as >> much as the outcomes of research? >> >> The Ethics of Collaboration: What are the ethics of collaboration >> between >> science and art? Social sciences and art? How can we ensure mutual >> respect? How do projects shift depending on who is leading the >> research? >> >> Policy & Collaboration: What policies exist, are emerging, and are >> needed >> to >> support collaboration? What policies and practices do we need on the >> international front? What assumptions and ideas lie behind >> institutional >> policies? What are the implications for training the next >> generation of >> interdisciplinary researchers? Who is excluded from policy making? >> What >> are the incentives for young researchers and artists to collaborate? >> >> Collaboration & Gender: How is collaboration gendered? Is it read as >> feminine? How does it intrude on science hierarchy? How does it >> intrude >> on >> art hierarchy? Who is blocked from leading projects? What are the >> biases >> surrounding this? >> >> Where Does Art & Science Collaboration fit in a period of Global >> Crisis & >> War: What examples can we draw from history? What circumstances are >> different in today's historical moment? How do developments in new >> technologies inflect our understanding and our experience of global >> crisis >> and war? >> >> Digital Archives & Databases for Collaboration: What are effective >> models >> for networks? What are the access issues? How do we understand >> virtual >> and >> actual presence in the design of archives and/or databases?) >> >> We will also have two showcases: A festival of new media works or >> documentation AND a show and tell of tools that enable collaboration. >> >> ∑ 300-word abstracts for proposed papers >> ∑ one page new media and tools descriptions, with URL's, >> should >> be >> sent NO LATER THAN JULY 22, 2002 to: >> >> Sara Diamond & Susan Bennett >> Convenors, BRIDGES II >> c/o Janet Anderson >> Banff New Media Institute >> The Banff Centre, Banff AB, T1L 1H5 >> Phone: 1-403-762-6282 >> Fax: 1-403-762-6665 >> Email: [log in to unmask] >> >> For further information about BRIDGES II, contact Janet Anderson, >> Project >> Coordinator at the above contact information. >> >> For the results of BRIDGES I, please check our website at: >> www.annenberg.edu/BRIDGES >> >> >> --Boundary_(ID_+7e4vCKyKB1H+IsS4G0jog)-- > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the worldís largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com >