Tuesday, March 4, 2008

YASMIN-messages Digest 04.03.2008.


Dear  Cris

A  number of Art researcher think There is a certain methodology in their 
practise based  work  process. They also solve an artistic problem.
To do this, they look at previos methods, current altenative technology
and search  back info.

What do you think above?

>On the other hand, if the research is strictly constructed according to
>Laing's prescription (artwork + reflective dissertation) this sounds
>conform to the idea of a professional doctorate, or DArt/DMus/DDes etc.

>The reason why I say this with some confidence is that the
>"practice-based" prescription allows the doctoral student to proceed
>without a great deal of attention to methodology. For me it is
>methodology, or rather the need to take an independent view of
>methodology, that justifies the "Philosophy" in PhD.



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From: chris@chrisrust.net
Subject: Re: To Phd or not to Phd?
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 15:16:18 +0200

Oguzhan questioned my assertion about Laing's "Practice-Based" research being more appropriate for a professional doctorate because it "allows the doctoral student to proceed without a great deal of attention to methodology". Oguzhan points out, correctly, that artists may undertake inquiry through their creative work.

My concern was with Laing's very procedural prescription which describes a superficial process (Artwork + Reflection = PhD) rather than indicating the qualities which would make the work appropriate for PhD. Hence my distinction between a doctoral researcher advancing THE art* rather than advancing THEIR art and my further distinction between accepting a procedural prescription that implies a single methodology and the need for a doctoral student to resolve the question of methodology for themselves, arguably the central issue for a PhD.

*We are in difficulties because of the several possible meanings of the term "art" . Here I mean the art of your discipline as in "the state of the art".  I'll try to use the capitalised "Art" for the artist's discipline.

best wishes from Sheffield
Chris

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Professor Chris Rust
Head of Art and Design Research Centre
Sheffield Hallam University, S11 8UZ, UK
+44 114 225 2706
chris@chrisrust.net
www.chrisrust.net


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From: ayiter@sabanciuniv.edu
Subject: To Phd or not to Phd?
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 15:43:43 +0200

Hi everyone, Here is my two cents worth: I am currently enrolled in a PhD program,   the Planetary  Collegium.  I decided to do a PhD for a very specific reason: I had read a book,   The Telematic Embrace, by Roy Ascott, in which there was a chapter   called "A Groundcourse for Art", which is a revolutionary art   educational methodology that Roy had developed and implemented in the   1960's in England. I was completely fascinated by what he described   and when I read at the very end of Telematic Embrace that Roy actually   had a PhD program (i.e., the Planetary Collegium), I decided to apply.   I had not really considered doing a PhD before that - or not in any   serious way. So, I went to the Collegium with a very specific quest,   which was to study with Roy.  It was very tough going initially, I found that I had to completely   revise my way of thinking, my way of approaching knowledge and also   what I thought I knew and how I had actually acquired that knowledge.   To may utter dismay, I realized that up until then I had based my life   on sets of assumptions. One of the first things I realized was that I   had to change from "assumptions" to a system of "referenced thinking",   to backing up what I knew with what I could cite. I realized to my   complete horror that I was appallingly under-educated and   over-opinionated. In short, It was extremely difficult to shake off 50   years of mislead thinking and mish mashed knowledge acquisition - and   I am SO VERY VERY GLAD I finally seem to have started doing it! Mind   you, I have just barely scratched the surface of my ingrained habits -   but I seem to be slowly getting there...  What else has happened? Well, I have started to learn to write   properly, to be able to put my thoughts on paper in an orderly   fashion. To not to elaborate and/or pontificate! I have always been a   curious person but I seem to have become even more curious...  And what about my artistic practice? Has it suffered? Of course this   is not for me to say, but it seems to me that I have started to become   better at that too somehow! I have not lost my intuition - far from   it. But, I can now back up intuition with knowledge (what little of it   I seem to have attained anyway - but, at least, these days I know   where to look ;-). And also what being involved in a PhD has given me   is the glimmerings of an ability to be able to consider things,   including my own artistic practice, from multiple points of view! And,   that of course, makes the entire artistic/creative process a whole new   ball game...  But, then again, I have really fabulous instructors. True, they have   been relentless at times, in fact more often tha not. I have walked   away from research updates and tutorials feeling like as if every bone   in my body was broken... And I am so very glad and so very thankful to   Roy, Mike (Phillips) and Michael (Punt) for having put me through the   mill the way that they did!!!  So, it is not easy: It involves a full change in life style, a   rethinking of entire sets of values and assumptions, an awful lot of   reading and writing... But, when all is said and done, all you mature   artists out there: Go for it! :) elif http://www.citrinitas.com/


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From: palsinag@uoc.edu
Subject: BARCELONA: FEMELEK - Festival comemorativo al Dia de la Dona - 6Y 7 DE MARZO - Convent de Sant Agusti
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 17:09:47 +0200

Mensaje
 
This is a WOMEN AND ELECTRONIC MUSIC Festival to be held in Barcelona this week.
 
Enjoy it if you are in Barcelona these days.
 
Best,
 
 

Pau Alsina
palsinag@uoc.edu
http://www.uoc.edu
http://artnodes.uoc.edu

-----Mensaje original-----
De: derive-bounces@hollyroot.org [mailto:derive-bounces@hollyroot.org] En nombre de eva cruells
Enviado el: viernes, 29 de febrero de 2008 19:39
Para: derive@hollyroot.org; derive-request@hollyroot.org
Asunto: [derive] Fwd: FEMELEK - Festival comemorativo al Dia de la Dona - 6Y 7 DE MARZO - Convent de Sant Agusti



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From: Marise Cardoso <marisecardoso@hotmail.com>
Date: 2008/2/29
Subject: FEMELEK - Festival comemorativo al Dia de la Dona - 6 Y 7 DE MARZO - Convent de Sant Agusti
To:


Hoooooola

Es con enorme placer que os invito al Festival FEMELEK 2008 - la dona i la electrónica, festival que organizo hace tres años y que congrega a mas de 20 artistas mujeres en las áreas de música, visuales, cine, expo.

Te esperamos!!!

SALU2

Marise Cardoso - directora


FEMELEK'08

6 y 7 marzo - jueves y viernes

a partir de las 20:00hs

Centro Civico Convent de Sant Agustí - Calle Comerç 36 - Born - Barcelona

ENTRADA GRATUITA

PROGRAMACIÓN

JUEVES 6/MARZO

CINE y EXPO: SALA CALEIDOSCOPI (entrada por la Plaza de la Academia)

20:00 - 21:30 - CORTOCIRCUITO - muestra de cine itinerante (especial mujeres) - www.myspace.com/cortocircuito
EXPO: NURIA RIUS (LaMono Magazine)

MUSICA Y VISUALES: SALA NOBLE

20:30hs-NIKKA & ALBA (live) - www.myspace.com/albagcorralywww.myspace.com/missnikka66
21:00hs - LAZY DAISIES LADY´s (live)-www.myspace.com/iocasino
21:45hs - ZHANNA (live) - www.myspace.com/zhannaona
22:45hs - CLARA MOTO (live) - www.myspace.com/claramoto
23:30hs - defEt (live) - www.myspace.com/ianahimnia
Transicions: LUCIUS WORKS HERE (live) - www.myspace.com/luciusworkshere
Visuals:XARLENE - www.myspace.com/xarlene

TALLER FOTO INTERACTIVO:  ARCADAS del CLAUSTRO
ESCULTURAS CAPILARES - www.studio-public.org


VIERNES 7/MARZO
MUSICA Y VISUALES: SALA NOBLE
20:30hs - AviiD (live) - www.myspace.com/djiiva
21:15hs - LA FLAMME (live) - www.myspace.com/laflammenocturna
22:15hs - CHINESE CONSPIRACY (live) - www.myspace.com/chineseconspiracy
23:30hs - MAR ABELLA aka M.A. (live) - www.myspace.com/marabella99

Transicions: VINILLETE - www.myspace.com/vinilette
Visuals:- CONTINENT VIRTUEL - www.continent-virtuel.org- VOLATIL - www.myspace.com/volatilvisuals

RETRANSMISIÓ en DIRECTO: RADIO PACA - www.radiopaca.net

FIESTAS DE APERTURA Y CLAUSURA FEMELEK 2008:

APERTURA: MARTES 4/03

N´SISTA, DJIIVA Y INVITADAS
BRAZELONA SESSIONS - SIDECAR
00:30HS - 6€ con consumicion

CLAUSURA: SABADO 8/03

CLARA MOTO Y IANA HIMNIA
FELLINI

FEMELEK 2008

El Femelekes un festival de música electrónica realizado por mujeres que tiene como objetivo fomentar la escena femenina nacional.

Creado el año2006, se realiza los días 6 y 7 de marzo, en conmemoración al Día del amujer, en un lugar emblemático, el Convent de Sant Agustí.

Es,sin duda,el evento de cabecera barcelonés en cuanto a música electrónica y quetiene como protagonista a la mujer, basándose siempre en el eclecticismoy exento de barreras estilísticas.

Promueve el desarrolloy la proyección artística de la mujer, notan sólo durante el período delfestival, sino durante todo el año, con el fin de consolidar la escenaelectrónica de mujeres en Barcelona.

El festival incluirávarios apartados: cine, con la colaboración dela plataforma Cortocircuito, exposiciones, Vj's (video-jockeys)que complementaran las actuaciones en vivo y a las Dj's, y stand parala venta de discos de las artistas.

La 3a ediciondel Femelek, se caracteriza por su eclecticismo y originalidad: desde elcinematismo-afrancesado de La Flamme, la experimentación de la brasileñaDjiiva con su nuevo proyecto solo Aviid, melancolía y emoción en lavoz de la ucraniana Zhanna, son una pequeña muestra del cartel, que iráamenizado por el virtuosismo de Vj's y Dj's.

Desde la primeraedición, el Femelek ha conseguido el apoyo tanto por parte del públicocomo de las artistas con una asistencia de más de miles de personas.

Paramás información contactar en la web:

www.myspace.com/festivalfemelek



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From: palsinag@uoc.edu
Subject: MADRID: Medialab-Prado>>Próximas actividades / Upcoming Activities
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 18:57:27 +0200

 (English below)    <Inscripción abierta>  Taller/grupo de trabajo: Luz, espacio y percepción  Inscripciones hasta el 26 de marzo  Este taller/grupo de trabajo dirigido por Daniel Canogar, Julian Oliver y Pablo Valbuena propone investigar y experimentar con el uso de la luz, la proyección y la percepción visual desde diferentes ámbitos, reuniendo a personas vinculadas a la arquitectura, artes visuales, urbanismo, escenografía, programación, física, óptica, psicología y fisiología de la percepción, etc. Sesiones: 3 de abril, 24 de mayo y 26 de junio (continuará en otoño). Inscripciones hasta el 26 de marzo. [+info]  ----------  <2º Encuentro Inclusiva-net: Redes digitales y espacio físico · Del 3 al 14 de marzo 2008>  Conferencias, mini talleres y comunicaciones   [ENTRADA LIBRE]  Evento multidisciplinar que conjuga taller internacional de proyectos, seminarios, grupo de discusión teórica, presentaciones y minitalleres abiertos al público. Juan Martín Prada, Julian Oliver, Lalya Gaye o Michelle Teran serán algunos de los artistas y expertos de referencia internacional que participarán en el encuentro.   El objetivo es analizar cómo las nuevas tecnologías de localización transforman la forma en que percibimos el espacio físico y geográfico, y su efecto en la comunicación. Esto es, cómo la esfera digital y la física dialogan creando nuevas formas artísticas y de relaciones humanas. En concreto, se trabajará con conceptos como: la web geoespacial y la web geosemántica, la web 2.0 local, place blogging, propuestas de urban markup, las herramientas de cartografía y mapeado open source, locative art y locative gaming. El espacio de trabajo permanecerá abierto de principio a fin.   Martes, 4 de marzo  17:30h Presentación de comunicaciones: · Comunicación: Inteligencia artificial y la semántica del espacio (virtual). Joaquín Borrego Díaz (Grupo SemanticVille) · Mapping Projections: Interactions between the spaces of the map (Sadhna Jain)  19:30h - 21:00h Conferencia de Julian Oliver: CartoFicciones: mapas, imaginario e ingeniería geosocial [+info]   Miércoles, 5 de marzo  11:00h-14:00h Reunión del grupo de debate  17:30h Presentación de comunicaciones: · Eversion and Locative Media (Jeff Knowlton) · Locative Media and Informational Territory (André Lemos) · Invisible Landscapes (Liva Dudareva)  19:30h - 21:00h Conferencia de Lalya Gaye: Locative Audio: Sonido y movilidad en el espacio urbano [+info]   Jueves, 6 de marzo  17:30h Presentación de comunicaciones: · SPIP GIS (Horacio González Diéguez) · Fronteras y territorio en el ciberespacio. Principios métricos para la independencia geolocal en el web (Jesús Moreno Hidalgo) · La Geoweb en el entorno audiovisual del siglo XX: el Geoscope y el Earthscore Notational System (Paz Sastre Domínguez)  19:30h - 21:00h Conferencia de Juan Martín Prada: Net(punto)Geo: La emergencia de la web geoespacial   Viernes, 7 de marzo  11:00h - 14:00h Reunión del grupo de debate   Sábado, 8 de marzo  11:00h - 14:00h Reunión del grupo de debate  17:30h - 21:00h Mini taller con Lalya Gaye: Interaction Design Exercises: Focusing on the User in the Digital-Physical Realm (en inglés) [+info]    Martes, 11 de marzo  17:30h - 21:00h Seminar by Hackitectura (José Pérez de Lama y Pablo de Soto): Acerca de la producción social del territorio cíborg: hackitecturas, wikiplazas y salas de situación [+info]   Jueves, 13 de marzo  5:30h - 21:00h Seminar by Michelle Teran: A Beginner's Guide to Parasitic Behavior [+info]   Viernes, 14 de marzo  19:00h Presentación final de los diez proyectos desarrollados y clausura del encuentro.   http://www.inclusiva-net.org http://medialab-prado.es/article/2_encuentro_inclusiva-net_presentaciones_y_seminarios       (English):   <Open Registration>  Light, Space, and Perception Workshop  Registrations deadline: March 26  This workshop/work group led by Daniel Canogar, Julian Oliver and Pablo Valbuena aims to conduct research and experiments with the use of light, projection, and visual perception in different settings, gathering people from fields including architecture, visual arts, urbanism, stage and set design, programming, physics, optics, psychology, and the physiology of perception. Sessions: April 3, May 24, and June 26, 2008 (to be continued in the Fall). Free online registration's deadline: March 26. [+info]     ----------  <2nd Inclusiva-net Meeting: Digital Networks and Physical Space · March, 3 to 14, 2008>  Lectures, mini workshops and papers presentations   [FREE ADMISSION]  A multidisciplinary event comprising an international project workshop, seminars, a theoretical discussion group, presentations, and mini-workshops open to the public. Internationally known artists and experts taking part in the meeting include: Juan Martín Prada, Julian Oliver, Lalya Gaye, and Michelle Teran.  The aim is to analyze how new location technologies are transforming the way we perceive physical and geographical space, and their effect on communication; that is, how digital and physical spheres dialog, creating new forms of art and human relations. Topics to be addressed include: geo-spatial, geo-semantic, and local 2.0 webs; place blogging; urban markup proposals; open source mapping and cartography tools; and locative art and locative gaming. The work space will be open to the public throughout the entire meeting.    MARCH 4  5:30pm Papers presentations: · Comunicación: Inteligencia artificial y la semántica del espacio (virtual). Joaquin Borrego Díaz (SemanticVille Group) · Mapping Projections: Interactions between the spaces of the map (Sadhna Jain)  7:30pm - 9:00pm Lecture by Julian Oliver: CartoFiction: Maps, the Imaginary and GeoSocial Engineering [+info]   MARCH 5  11:00pm-2:00pm Discussion group meeting  5:30pm Papers presentations: · Eversion and Locative Media (Jeff Knowlton) · Locative Media and Informational Territory (André Lemos) · Invisible Landscapes (Liva Dudareva)  7:30pm - 9:00pm Lecture by Lalya Gaye: Locative Audio: Sound and Mobility in Urban Space [+info]   MARCH 6  5:30pm Papers presentations: · SPIP GIS (Horacio González Diéguez) · Fronteras y territorio en el ciberespacio. Principios métricos para la independencia geolocal en el web (Jesús Moreno Hidalgo) · La Geoweb en el entorno audiovisual del siglo XX: el Geoscope y el Earthscore Notational System (Paz Sastre Domínguez)  7:30pm - 9:00pm Lecture by Juan Martín Prada: Net(punto)Geo: La emergencia de la web geoespacial   MARCH 7  11:00pm-2:00pm Discussion group meeting   MARCH 8  11:00pm-2:00pm Discussion group meeting  5:30pm-9:00pm Miniworkshop by Lalya Gaye: Interaction Design Exercises: Focusing on the User in the Digital-Physical Realm (in English) [+info]     MARCH 11  5:30pm-9:00pm Seminar by Hackitectura (José Pérez de Lama y Pablo de Soto): On social production in Cyborg territory: hackitecture, wiki plazas and situation rooms [+info]   MARCH 13  5:30pm-9:00pm Seminar by Michelle Teran: A Beginner's Guide to Parasitic Behavior [+info]   MARCH 14  7:00pm Final presentation of developed projects   http://www.inclusiva-net.org http://medialab-prado.es/article/2_encuentro_inclusiva-net_presentaciones_y_seminarios    MEDIALAB-PRADO Plaza de las Letras C/ Alameda, 15 · 28014 Madrid 913692303 www.medialab-prado.es Entrada gratuita / Free Admission


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From: mathart@emsh.calarts.edu
Subject: Re: To Phd or not to Phd?
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 20:05:08 +0200

Dear Aleks:

I appreciate what you say, and in response, I am compelled to indulge in some USA-bashing.
I view the situation in the US as precisely the opposite of what you see in the UK, Australia and Canada.
In the 1990's, our Congressmen, Senator Jesse Helms and Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich
castrated the National Endowment for the Arts over the Robert Mapplethorpe catastrophe.
Since that time, individual artists have not been funded.
The economic slaughter has been as complete as rounding up the intellectuals after the Fascists have taken over.

Case in point:    http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2005/06/nasas_first_and.html

"NASA two years ago [2003] tabbed Ms. Anderson to be its first-ever "artist in residence," a position that carried a $20,000 stipend to create and perform a theatrical piece about NASA. ... Last week, continuing his personal battle to rid the federal government of wasteful spending, Rep. Chris Chocola, Indiana Republican, successfully amended the Science, State, Justice and Commerce annual appropriations bill "to prohibit federal funds from being used to employ an 'artist in residence' at NASA."

Congressional Record Excerpt:   ....  [read the rest at http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2005/06/nasas_first_and.html]

It is a cultural war of ideology that American artists have lost.

I have been in residence in the scientific, university community since 2002 and I do not see that the situation there is much better -- however, in science, a Ph.D is REQUIRED to obtain any funding at all.
I have been pursuing art in the form of research since 1987.  http://emsh.calarts.edu/~mathart/SPD_art_state.html
In my observation, obtaining a Ph.D will be required for me to continue this work.
My daily practice of this work will not change.

Sincerely,
-Stewart Dickson, Visualization Research Programmer, Integrated Systems Laboratory  http://www.isl.uiuc.edu/~sdickson
4355 Beckman Institute, 405 N Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL  61801 USA  +1(217)333.3923
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Stewart+Dickson    http://emsh.calarts.edu/~mathart/MathArt_siteMap.html

Aleks wrote:

One of the valuable point in favor to artist engaging in a PhD process, which came out of practice as research conference in Bristol that i attended in 2001, was that professors and post graduate students engaging in the research within arts universities generally do not have much access to research funding. In Vancouver, for example, the arts councils do not like giving funding to university professors (they would rather fund independent artist who do not have regular salary) or funding student's projects  that are related to graduate work. On the other hand there is almost no research funding that specifically supports university based artistic research and other artistic activities (with exception of SSHRC creation grant which was there for 3 years, and which is now discontinued and under review). 

The value in artists engaging in a PhD process is in articulation of new knowledge that relates to artistic research and activities, which in turn can allow artist-researchers to access to a much brother research funding opportunities and communicate the importance of such activities to a wider scientific audience. The PhD process in part involves learning a highly specialized processes, methodologies and language necessary for articulation of new knowledge, research contributions and outcomes that can be recognized by wider scientific audience. This kind of articulation allows the grater promotion of fine arts and design activities within university research structures.

While this point is highly political, it is nevertheless important. The greater monetary support for artist-researchers that work within university structures would encourage rejuvenate the vide verity  of activities that happen within arts universities. We saw a glimpse of that kind of success with brief SSHRC creation grant support here in Canada.

Aleks


On 1-Mar-08, at 10:33 AM, Chris Rust wrote:


Hello Oguzhan

Actually I'm just plain Professor. Everything I know about doctorates comes from supervising them - a classic example of the way we are pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps, also illustrating the way that the UK moves in a quicker and more risky way than other countries.

best wishes
Chris

oguzhan.ozcan wrote:
Announcing : PHD OR NOT TO PHD ?

Forthcoming: Dates : 3rd March 2008, 14th March 2008

To join the discussion register at : http://www.media.uoa.gr/yasmin

Moderator : Prof.Dr. Oguzhan Ozcan, Director of PhD in Art and Design at Istanbul Yildiz Technical University. http://oguzhan.ozcan.info . YASMIN corresponding editor.

Respondents will include:
Ken Friedman, Kristina Niedderer, Deirdre Barron, Chris Rust John Zimmerman, Basak Senova. All interested persons are invited to participate.

Dates : 3rd March 2008 14th March 2008

"To Phd or not to Phd ? : How to improve research based art practice"

Like scientists, artists are engaged in research activities. However research is carried out in different ways when comparing artists to scientists. During the last 20 years, a number of academic institutions have created PhDs in Art as well as a Practice Based Research Degrees. For a thorough report on this question, please refer to the one written by Professor Stuart Lain, University of Brighton ( http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/research/euindia/knowledgebase/brightonpg/laing.htm ). We would like to invite Yasminers to discuss the broader question of how research education in art should be designed today.

Respodents will include: Prof.Dr.Ken Friedman, Swinburne University of Technology
Dr. Kristina Niedderer.
Dr. Deirdre Barron, Swinburne University Faculty of Design.
Prof.Dr. Chris Rust at Sheffield-Hallam University
Dr.John Zimmerman, School of Design Carnegie Mellon University
Dr. Basak Senova, School of Communication, Kadir Has University


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From: palsinag@uoc.edu
Subject: FW:: ITALY: Immersive artwork : exhibition of scenocosme in March -2
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 20:08:15 +0200

  -----Mensaje original----- De: scenocosme [mailto:date@scenocosme.com]  Enviado el: domingo, 02 de marzo de 2008 16:33 Para: date@scenocosme.com Asunto: Immersive artwork : exhibition of scenocosme in March -2   You can also read this information on this url http://www.scenocosme.com/03_scenocosme_en.htm   Immersive artwork : exhibition of scenocosme in March  In March, we are going to present for the first time in ITALY our immersive artwork SpherAleas (interactive / sound / image installation) at the Share Festival of Torino (Festival internazionale di arte e cultura digitale). Next , we are going to present near Bordeaux our artwork Alsos* (Sound creation comes from light intensity)  On our website, you can have a look to a new short video of our artwork Akousmaflore (Sensitive and interactive musical plants) : http://www.scenocosme.com/akousmaflore_en.htm  Regard's scenocosme : Grégory Lasserre & Anaïs met den Ancxt http://www.scenocosme.com  ========================================================================  SpherAleas: interactive / sound / image installation http://www.spheraleas.com/a_index.htm  SpherAleas is made of a half-spherical structure and of an evolutionary device wich makes man, image ans sound interact thanks to digital tools. The machine becomes the creator's ally to produce pictural and sonorous shapes. This space is ideal for collective performances; it accomodates in its center a constellation of visible shapes, spinning sound loops and luminous vibratory elements. Each participant gives himself up to this sensitive complicity cradled by flows of random emotions, justifying its necessity by the sole intensity of the present meeting. The scenography is designed for complete immersion of the spectator thanks to interactive sensors, a multipoint sound diffusion, a video projection system (180°), within a half spherical membranous architecture.  - Torino (ITALY) : Share Festival / Festival internazionale di arte e cultura digitale : exhibition 11 - 16 March 2008 - Villefontaine - near Lyon (FRANCE) : Nuit de l'image - Cinema Le Fellini : exhibition 3 april 2008 - Taverny - near Paris (FRANCE) : cultural center of Taverny : exhibition 15-16-17 april 2008 ========================================================================   ========================================================================  Alsos* : Sound creation comes from light intensity http://www.scenocosme.com/alsos_e.htm  Like in the tales, the spectator enters inside a fantastic forest, with a flashlight. He discovers a strange vegetation made of luminescent lianas and flowers. The black light transforms space and perceptions. The fluorescent flowers react to the modifications of luminous flows. Each flower connected to varied sonorities generates an universe acousmatic evolving/moving according to the light intensities.  - Gradignan - near Bordeaux (FRANCE) : Médiathèque de Gradignan : exhibition : 18 - 22 March 2008 - Bourgoin-Jallieu - near Lyon (FRANCE) : Electrochoc Festival - Electronic music and digital arts 06 - 11 April 2008 : exhibition at la halle grenette 12 - 19 April 2008 : exhibition at SMAC Les Abattoirs - Saint Laurent de neste - near Toulouse (FRANCE) : La Maison du Savoir : exhibition :8 - 20 April 2008 ========================================================================   ========================================================================  Akousmaflore : Sensitive and interactive musical plants http://www.scenocosme.com/akousmaflore_en.htm  The interactive garden Akousmaflore is a garden composed of living musical plants or flowers, which react to human gestures and light contact. Each plant reacts in a different way to contact or heat by a specific sound. The plant language occurs through touch and the close proximity of the spectator. Our invisible electrical aura acts on the plant branches and encourages them to react. The plants sing when the audience lightly stroke or pass in the immediate vicinity to them. A flower concert is created.  Alliance between nature and digital technology In our artwork, we create hybrids between plants and digital technology. Plants are natural sensors and are sensitive to various energy flows. Digital technologies permit us to have a relationship with plants and sound. We display the effects of random data flow and plant interaction. The data is modified as the spectator meanders around and touch the installation, resulting in a random musical universe. Audience gestures and movements generate sound effects and changes in the texture of the sound.    - Saint Laurent de neste - near Toulouse (FRANCE) : La Maison du Savoir : exhibition : 8 - 20 April 2008 ========================================================================    ======================================================================== scenocosme : Gregory Lasserre & Anais met den Ancxt  (FRANCE) tel : +33 (0)6 61 09 50 52 web : http://www.scenocosme.com ========================================================================


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From: oguzhan.ozcan@ttmail.com
Subject: Re: To Phd or not to Phd?
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 21:37:40 +0200



professors and post graduate students engaging in the research within arts universities generally do not have much access to r! esearch funding.

This problem is not in Canada but also in EU.  

Nevertheless  EU has  realized this prejudice. Especially, in 7th frame, there are  several  new calls for art and culture. Also in  Bologna  Process, There are  several sanctions for  PhD education as a third cycle 

I think  this problem also  drawn from  professor of art and design.  Even they do not know,   there are several research funds nationally and internationally.  

For Instance, Last 5 years,  In Turkey,  Turkish Research Council opens calls  four times  in a year, but  art researchers  ignore to look at these calls. However the situation  is getting changed  day by day. 

Few days ago,  It is announced for  our national university  that our  Higher Education  Council will  allow   research assistantship position to art professors who only get the grant by  the Council.  We  hope attitude in art  research will be changed  by  this policy of sanctions. 

 I am sure  ! same change  happens in Europe and  some where else.

I like to hear  what other Yasmeniers  think?  What  kind  of  policy of sanctions are there  in your  location  for  art research  and PhD education  to improve such  problem

Oguzhan Ozcan
Moderator  for ¨To Phd or not to PhD¨