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Colleagues, Please find below a list of opportunities and events related to practice led research and teaching. These can also be found on our facebook site. Joanna Callaghan Chair Practice Section MeCCSA http://www.meccsa.org.uk/practice-section/ http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5516174090 Under the Mask- call for Practice The Practice Section of MeCCSA is supporting a practice stream at the University of Bedfordshire's annual conference "Under the Mask 2011: Perspectives on the Gamer Conference" on 3 June 2011. Please see the call for practice. http://underthemask.wikidot.com/cfp Postdigital Encounters: Creativity and Improvisation Journal of Media Practice Symposium - 24 June 2011. The Practice section will support this event through bursaries for fractional staff, VLs and post-graduates. Hosted by University of the West of England, Digital Cultures Research Centre and Creative Media Research Group. http://postdigi.wordpress.com/2011/03/02/meccsa-sponsors-event/ Researchers' Tales at the BFI National Library. 18 April 2011 - Laura Mulvey and Mark Lewis We are delighted to welcome Laura Mulvey and Mark Lewis to the BFI National Library to look back over their 'rear projection dialogue' and to illustrate how a moment of shared cinephilia fed into their professional work (Mark is an artist and Professor of Art at Central St. Martins, Laura is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Birkbeck College). They will show some favourite extracts from Hollywood films to argue for and - hopefully - illustrate the hidden beauty of this despised filmic device. 6.15pm (for 6.30pm) - 8.00pm BFI National Library, 21 Stephen Street, London W1T 1LN Places (free of charge) are available to individual library members and BFI Members. Prior booking is essential and places are limited. To request a place, please [log in to unmask] or call Nina Bishop on tel. 020 7957 4752. Full details at http://www.bfi.org.uk/filmtvinfo/researchers/tales/ index.html. The Wellcome Trust - Arts Awards (UK) The Wellcome Trust is inviting organisations and individuals to apply for funding through its Arts Awards. The Arts Awards support projects that engage the public with biomedical science through the arts including dance, drama, performance arts, visual arts, music, film, craft, photography, creative writing or digital media. Applications are invited for projects of up to £30,000 through their small & medium-sized grant programme, and for projects above £30,000 through their large grant programme. The aim of the awards is to support arts projects that reach new audiences which may not traditionally be interested in science and provide new ways of thinking about the social, cultural and ethical issues around contemporary science. The scheme is open to a wide range of people including, among others, artists, scientists, curators, filmmakers, writers, producers, directors, academics, science communicators, teachers, arts workers and education officers. The next application deadline for small & medium sized projects is the 28th April 2011, and for large projects is the 25th March 2011. http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/Public-engagement/Funding-schemes/ Arts-Awards/index.htm Funding for Networking and Mobility of Audiovisual Students and Trainers in Europe (UK) The European Commission has announced a new call for proposals under its Media 2007 programme. This call for proposals is open to pan- European consortia of institutes of higher education and/or organisations involved in the audiovisual sector and aims to encourage networking amongst trainers across Europe, in particular the institutes of higher education, the training organisations and their partners in the professional sector and to encourage the mobility of students and trainers in Europe. In particular, this call seeks to support training activities aimed at developing the capacity of future audiovisual professionals to understand and integrate the European dimension in their work, by improving their expertise in the areas of training in economic, financial and commercial management, training in new technologies, and training in script development. The total budget available is €2 million and the closing date for applications is the 29th April 2011. http://ec.europa.eu/culture/media/programme/training/forms/index_en.htm Funding for TV Programmes Raising Awareness about EU Enlargement (UK) The European Commission has launched a new call for proposals aimed at communicating and promoting European Union (EU) enlargement. The main objective of this Call for Proposals is to raise awareness about the benefits and challenges of current EU enlargement towards Iceland, Turkey and the Western Balkans. The European Commission intends to support a limited number of projects likely to have maximum reach/impact in familiarising people in EU Member States with the contemporary situation of candidate countries and potential candidate countries and to increasing public understanding of the EU enlargement process by stimulating an informed public debate. The Call is divided into two lots: · TV programmes (Lot 1) · Awareness-raising actions (Lot 2). The total amount available is €2,500,000. The call is open to entities registered in one of the EU's 27 Member States. The deadline for submission of proposals is the 31st March 2011. http://ec.europa.eu/enlargement/how-does-it-work/grants-tenders/ grants/index_en.htm *Experiments and Intensities* For researching practitioners of performed art across disciplines, the new *Experiments and Intensities* series of publications, supported by Winchester University Press, sends out its first call for works. The series hybridizes qualities of the published book/edited collection, curated online gallery, the ‘cahier’, and the artist’s book to explore research through performed art in the language of the arts. In a world where the notion of publishing is transforming rapidly, we explore that transformation to create a space where sophisticated and challenging artistic dialogue takes place through artistic metaphor beyond the limits of the verbal. For more information on the series, see www.winchester.ac.uk/intensities. The first volume in the series, Ex-trauma: the Opposite of the Traumatic seeks audiovisual contributions (which may or may not be accompanied by writing). The volume asks experimenting researcher- practitioners across disciplines of performed art to respond to a fundamental query in audiovisual format: can we define an ex- traumatic experience, and bring ex-traumas, indeed opposites of the traumatic, into being through performed art? We are particularly interested in responses to this question that go beyond trite notions of 'happiness' or commercial, New Age, stereotypical notions of positivity that have little depth. The traumatic is dramatic. Can the opposite be as dramatic? We are wondering: can an event or experience have an equivalent power to the traumatic but do the opposite? Would such work be engage with Dolan's 'utopian performative' or would it be something quite else? Could it transform the body-mind and leave a permanent, moulding mark in a 'positive' way in the same way that trauma does in a 'negative?’ way? What is the future of the opposite of the traumatic in performed art? The volume will be curated-edited by Annette Arlander (live art/ performance/environmental artist), Theatre Academy of Helsinki, Yvon Bonenfant (vocal/interdisciplinary artist, University of Winchester), and Mary Agnes Covey-Krell (media artist, University of Sussex). This volume will be published, free to user, online, from the site www.experimentsandintensities.com, whose interface is currently being designed. To read the full call for works and for information and due dates, see: http://www.winchester.ac.uk/aboutus/WinchesterUniversityPress/ WinchesterPressSeries/ExperimentsandIntensities/extrauma/Pages/ Extrauma.aspx If you have an idea for a future volume of the Experiments and Intensities series from Winchester University Press, see www.winchester.ac.uk/intensities for information on making a proposal. Open Call - National Media Museum Artist Commissions The National Media Museum is commissioning two artworks for our forthcoming exhibition 'In the Blink of an Eye', which opens in March 2012. This exhibition, which explores themes surrounding the capture and synthesis of movement will offer artists the opportunity to engage with and respond to images and artefacts from our National Collections, including the work of Dr Harold E. Edgerton, Roger Fenton, Tim Macmillan, Etienne-Jules Marey and Eadweard Muybridge. Artist and production fee: £15,000 Application submission deadline: 16 May 2011 For further information and to download submission guidelines visit: www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/movementcommission -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. Membership is open to all who teach and research these subjects in HE institutions, via either institutional or individual membership. The field includes film and TV production, journalism, radio, photography, creative writing, publishing, interactive media and the web; and it includes higher education for media practice as well as for media studies. 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