Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Re: [Yasmin_discussions] NEW MEDIA: USER'S BEHAVIOUR, SOCIAL SYSTEMS, AND THE BODY POLITIC

Dear Yasminers,
I also welcome Jordan Crandall who joined the invited Respondents yesterday.

Best,
Ricardo Mbarkho


Biography:
Jordan Crandall (http://jordancrandall.com) is a media artist and theorist based in Los Angeles. He is Associate Professor in the Visual Arts Department at University of California, San Diego. He is currently at work on a multi-platform media work entitled "Showing," which looks at ecologies of display and the construction of the self through stagings, arousals, extensions, and intimacies. He is also at work on a development of assemblage theory that focuses on network ecologies, emergent presencing, and the dynamics of desire. He is the founding editor of the new online journal Version (http://version.org).



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Re: [Yasmin_discussions] NEW MEDIA: USER'S BEHAVIOUR, SOCIAL SYSTEMS, AND THE BODY POLITIC

Dear Yasminers,(http://jordancrandall.com)is a media artist and theorist based in Los Angeles.  He is Associate Professor in the Visual Arts Department at Universityof California, San Diego.  He is currently at work on a multi-platform media work entitled "Showing," which looks at ecologies of display and the construction of the self through stagings, arousals, extensions, and intimacies. He is also at work on a development of assemblage theory that focuses on network ecologies, emergent presencing, and the dynamics of desire.  He is the founding editor of the new online journal Version (http://version.org).
I also welcome Jordan Crandall who joined the invited Respondents yesterday.
 
Best,
Ricardo Mbarkho
 
 
Biography:
Jordan Crandall



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[Yasmin_announcements] APPEL A PARTICIPATION LaptopsRus à toutes les FEMMES VJs

APPEL A PARTICIPATION LaptopsRus à toutes les FEMMES VJs

APPEL A PARTICIPATION LaptopsRus à toutes les FEMMES VJs

Evénement : Festival Vision'R au Centre Mercoeur, Paris, 75011
Date et horaire : Le 11 avril 2009, de 21h à 01h

Nous vous invitons à vous connecter et a vous inscrire pour
l'événement VJ MEETING | REUNION, tournoi live video ouvert aux filles
VJs dans le cadre du Festival Vision'R le 11 avril 2009 à Paris.
Organisé par LaptopsRus, MEETING | REUNION est un espace public de
rencontre entre les artistes performers femmes issues de la génération
laptop, organisé à l'intérieur d'un ring de boxe haute technologie.
A la fois espace de rencontre, performance et battle, nous appelons
les femmes VJs à monter sur le ring pour s'affronter et mixer leurs
images dans un esprit collaboratif et positif.

MEETING | REUNION c'est LA soirée des filles VJs!!!
Nous invitons notamment les VJs pas encore connues du réseau Audio/
Video à nous rejoindre. Jeunes ou plus âgées, d'île de france ou
d'ailleurs, et quel que soit votre expérience en mix video, rejoignez
nous pour construire et faire grandir ensemble un réseau dynamique de
femmes performers.

Please sign on to join us!
http://www.laptopsRus.me

inquiry:
now@laptopsrus.me

Vision'R festival
http://vision-r.org/

LaptopsRus OPEN CALL to all WOMAN VJs

Venue: Vision'R festival at Mercoeur, Paris 11
Playdate: 21:00 -01:00, April 11, 2009

We invite you to sign on and join MEETING | REUNION, a tournament live
performance with woman VJs at Vision'R VJ festival, Paris on April 11,
2009.

Organized by LaptopsRus , "MEETING | REUNIÓN" is an open public
meeting of the laptop generation women live performers in an
electronically updated boxing ring tournament setting. Meeting as
performance, Reunion as tournament , we call for women Vjs to play
with/against each other in collaborative/challenging ways.__

"MEETING | REUNIÓN" is ladies' night out. We invite local woman VJs,
who maybe fresh and unknown in the AV festival circuit, to join us.
Young, old, experienced, not-so-experienced, local, out of town VJs
gather together to build and grow a dynamic woman performer network.

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Re: [Yasmin_discussions] NEW MEDIA: USER'S BEHAVIOUR, SOCIAL SYSTEMS, AND THE BODY POLITIC

Dear Yasminers,
I would first all to congratulate all of you for your active
discussions. As a physicist, I am studying these sort of dynamics
introduced by Ricardo specially financial markets. There is huge
literature in Physics devoted to the so-called "Social Atoms". Following
the same lines, we are organising a big multidisciplinar congress to be
held in Barcelona next 10-12 December. We have just opened the call for
papers. I hope you find it interesting.
All best,
Josep

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Dear colleagues,

Please find attached a call for papers for the three-day conference
"Changing Cultures: Cultures of Change" organised by the EU-funded
research network ATACD, A topological Approach to Cultural Dynamics.

Across disciplines, topological or intensive approaches to the study of
culture treat change as normal and immanent rather than exceptional and
externally determined. In these approaches, cultures are defined by the
possibilities they offer for change rather than by their size, location
or essence. These approaches thus provide a set of tools and concepts to
think about different levels and kinds of change - learning,
transmission, innovation, adaptation, self-organisation and evolution.
This conference asks: what is the potential of topological and other
intensive approaches to culture and space for thinking about change?

Plenary speakers who have confirmed so far include: Rosi Braidotti,
Manuel DeLanda, J. Doyne Farmer, Matthew Fuller, Alex Galloway, Penny
Harvey, Scott Lash, Richard Rogers, Luc Steels, Eyal Weizmann.

There will be special events from graduate students, and for industry
and policymakers. Further information about these will be announced on
the conference page of the ATACD website http://www.atacd.net.

The deadline for paper submissions to the conference is Thursday 28 May
2009. Abstracts with a max length of 300 words will need to be submitted
online in text only format (no diagrams, tables or graphs are
permitted). Full instructions for online submission can be found on the
ATACD website:
<http://www.atacd.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=153&Itemid=40>.


In addition to the call for papers, an e-poster and an application of
interest form are also attached. We would be very grateful if you would
forward this on to your networks. For more information about the ATACD
conference or if you would like to be put on our mailing list please
email atacd@gold.ac.uk.

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En/na Ricardo Mbarkho ha escrit:
> Dear Yasminers,
>
>
> As you know, tomorrow Wednesday we will start a new discussion on:
> NEW MEDIA: USER'S BEHAVIOUR, SOCIAL SYSTEMS, AND THE BODY POLITIC
>
> The discussion will run through the end of April.
> For the members who just joined, here is again our topic below.
>
> You are all invited to participate,
>
> Best,
> Ricardo Mbarkho
>
> --
>
> Topic:
>
> This discussion deals with how (new) media can affect local behaviours related to creativity and innovation within a socio-political context, and what is the link between politic and the ways that users behave.
> We are interested in exploring how artistic and cultural expression in a given location can be affected by global networked systems, and the interactions with social systems and behaviours. The Intention behind artworks vs. new media as a device for being in touch, so for being creative.
>
> SMS strategies can affect politics and democracy, especially with programs based on mass voting via SMS; depending on the voting results, this social activity can challenge the community isolation versus the fear of dissolution into a more regional or global system.
> Politics uses (new) media when planning and imagining dozens of utopian models for the country; but media power is explored on the other hand by artists who reflect the absurdity of the politic.
>
>
> Virtual social networks maintain difficult relations caused by economical necessities that force families to disperse physically in order to seek living. In this vibrant atmosphere, the identity and belonging convictions are often scrambled by the eclectic media content.
> --
>
> Questions that are raised include:
> - Is (new) media a tool which reinforces people's creativity and how it is expressed in terms of social behaviour?
> - How are democracy and social connectivity via new media related?
> - Are global and local systems two separate entities, or is it about one place?
> - What is the impact of the media content on identity in your socio-politic sphere?
> - How is the economy affecting visual forms of communication?
> - Do artworks emerge from a specific Intention or from media models constrained by business requirements?
> - What new roles do virtual social networks adopt to maintain difficult relations?
>
>
>
> --
>
>
>
>
> Moderator:
>
> Ricardo Mbarkho
>
> Ricardo Mbarkho is an artist and lecturer. He was born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1974. His works and lectures take part in many publications, media, and in education and art institutions and events in Lebanon and internationally. In his work, he often uses new media to tackle questions mainly related to human relations and belonging issues within the socio-political sphere. Ricardo Mbarkho received his Art Diplomas from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts and Ecole Supérieure d'Etudes Cinématographiques, Paris, France and from Institut Supérieur des Beaux-Arts, Beirut. He also completed an exchange study program at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. He teaches art, video, and new media at the Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts, Beirut. Currently, he lives and works in Lebanon and France.
> www.ricardombarkho.com
>
> --
>
> Invited Respondents:
>
>
> Annie Paul
>
> Annie Paul works at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, where she heads the Annie Paul works at the University of the West Indies, Mona , Jamaica , where she heads the Publications Section of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES). She is a founding editor of the journal Small Axe (Duke University Press) and the recipient of a grant from the Prince Claus Fund ( Netherlands ) in support of her book project, Suitable Subjects: Visual Art and Popular Culture in Postcolonial Jamaica. She has also been a contributor to the prestigious Documenta11; the AICA 2000 International Congress & Symposium at the Tate Gallery of Modern Art, London; Meridien Masterpieces, BBC World Service; Dialogos Iberoamericanos (Valencia, Spain); the Guangzhou Triennale and in forums sponsored by Iniva (Institute of International Visual Art, London). Paul is author of the blog Active Voice (http://anniepaulactivevoice.blogspot.com) and
> her website is: http://www.anniepaul.com/
>
> --
>
> Eugenio Tisselli Vélez
>
> Born in Mexico City, 1972. Writer, teacher and programmer. His areas of interest include digital narratives and technology as a tool/medium for social research. His work (installation, performance, software, text and net.art) has been featured in different festivals and exhibitions around the world, and is available at www.motorhueso.net. He is the developer of zexe.net, a mobile communication project for groups in risk of exclusion, initiated by Antoni Abad. He worked as an Associate Researcher at Sony Computer Science Lab in Paris. Currently, he is a teacher and co-director of the Master in Digital Arts at the Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona.
>
> --
>
> Delphine Tonglet
>
> Graduated in History of Art, Delphine Tonglet collaborates with Studio Azzurro, an Italian group of video creation from 2000 to 2008 as responsible for public relations (www.studioazzurro.com). During her collaboration with Studio Azzurro she followed the project "Méditations Méditerranées, a two years production presented as a exhibition dedicated to Mediterranean area interpreted with new technologies language and other productions for exhibitions or museums dedicated to various thematic with a particular attention on territories aspects and visitor's involvement. For Studio Azzurro, she coordinated various research projects financed by European Commission, a first one dedicated to digital libraries (www.brickscommunity.org) and a second one dedicated to multimodal interfaces applied to digital theatre (www.callas-newmedia.eu); She also followed RAMI a Mediterranean project focused on Encounters on Arts and Multimedia
> (http://rami.lafriche.org/). In 2009, she started a new collaboration with yoox.com, a global internet retailing partner for the leading fashion and design brand as coordinator of special projects, multidisciplinary projects related to fashion, culture, design and art.
>
> --
>
> Tereza Wagner
>
> Tereza Wagner an art historian and a UNESCO Senior Programme Specialist dealing with arts and creative issues www.unesco.org. Her graduate and undergraduate degrees are from Paris V University, France, including a doctorate in Anthropology of Contemporary Arts. Former member of UNESCO's Arts and Cultural Enterprise Division, she is now in charge of the co-ordination of cultural events within the Cultural sector of UNESCO. During her career in UNESCO, her work operates within the framework of a professional team of specialists on an international scale: They initiated the UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Arts www.unesco.org/culture/creativity/prize, which includes the new UNESCO Digital Award; and launched an international campaign for film restoration including an international festival of recently restored films; and a programme for the teaching of arts which lead to the creation of the LEA International web site www.unesco.org/lea; and to the
> holding of the first World Conference on Arts Education "Building Creative Capacities for the 21st Century" (March 2006, Lisbon, Portugal). She leaded the DigiArts programme: UNESCO Knowledge Portal http://portal.unesco.org/digiarts, an initiative to promote ICT creative tools and e-Learning among people at school level. She has also published articles on African cinema, African contemporary arts and arts education in specialised magazines.
>
> UNESCO, 7, pl. de Fontenoy 75007 Paris, France
> Tel: + (33) 1 45 68 43 25; Fax: 45 68 55 89
>
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--
Josep Perelló
Despatx 3.11
Departament de Física Fonamental
Universitat de Barcelona
Martí i Franquès, 1
Barcelona E-08028 (Spain)

Tel 0034 934039207 | Fax 0034 934021149
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[Yasmin_announcements] This week moderator

Dear Yasminers,

My name is Guillermo Muñoz. I´m going to be Yasmin moderator during this
week. I would like to invite to every new yasmin members to introduce
him/herself and to describe his/her activities.

In my place, Valencia (Spain), apart from the typical rains season, it is
programed a really interesting meeting/seminars at 24/25 April called
Planetary Collegium. You can see more information at: www.salaparpallo.es

All the best,

Guillermo.
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[Yasmin_discussions] NEW MEDIA: USER'S BEHAVIOUR, SOCIAL SYSTEMS, AND THE BODY POLITIC

Dear Yasminers,


As you know, tomorrow Wednesday we will start a new discussion on:
NEW MEDIA: USER'S BEHAVIOUR, SOCIAL SYSTEMS, AND THE BODY POLITIC
 
The discussion will run through the end of April.
For the members who just joined, here is again our topic below.
 
You are all invited to participate,
 
Best,
Ricardo Mbarkho
 
--
 
Topic:

This discussion deals with how (new) media can affect local behaviours related to creativity and innovation within a socio-political context, and what is the link between politic and the ways that users behave.
We are interested in exploring how artistic and cultural expression in a given location can be affected by global networked systems, and the interactions with social systems and behaviours. The Intention behind artworks vs. new media as a device for being in touch, so for being creative.

SMS strategies can affect politics and democracy, especially with programs based on mass voting via SMS; depending on the voting results, this social activity can challenge  the community isolation versus the fear of dissolution into a more regional or global system.
Politics uses (new) media when planning and imagining dozens of utopian models for the country; but media power is explored on the other hand by artists who reflect the absurdity of the politic.


Virtual social networks maintain difficult relations caused by economical necessities that force families to disperse physically in order to seek living. In this vibrant atmosphere, the identity and belonging convictions are often scrambled by the eclectic media content.
--
 
Questions that are raised include:
- Is (new) media a tool which reinforces people's creativity and how it is expressed in terms of social behaviour?
- How are democracy and social connectivity via new media related?
- Are global and local systems two separate entities, or is it about one place?
- What is the impact of the media content on identity in your socio-politic sphere?
- How is the economy affecting visual forms of communication?
- Do artworks emerge from a specific Intention or from media models constrained by business requirements?
- What new roles do virtual social networks adopt to maintain difficult relations?
 
 
 
--
 
 
 
 
Moderator:
 
Ricardo Mbarkho
 
Ricardo Mbarkho is an artist and lecturer. He was born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1974. His works and lectures take part in many publications, media, and in education and art institutions and events in Lebanon and internationally. In his work, he often uses new media to tackle questions mainly related to human relations and belonging issues within the socio-political sphere. Ricardo Mbarkho received his Art Diplomas from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts and Ecole Supérieure d'Etudes Cinématographiques, Paris, France and from Institut Supérieur des Beaux-Arts, Beirut. He also completed an exchange study program at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. He teaches art, video, and new media at the Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts, Beirut. Currently, he lives and works in Lebanon and France.
www.ricardombarkho.com
 
--

Invited Respondents:
 

Annie Paul

Annie Paul works at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, where she heads the Annie Paul works at the University of the West Indies, Mona , Jamaica , where she heads the Publications Section of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES). She is a founding editor of the journal Small Axe (Duke University Press) and the recipient of a grant from the Prince Claus Fund ( Netherlands ) in support of her book project, Suitable Subjects: Visual Art and Popular Culture in Postcolonial Jamaica. She has also been a contributor to the prestigious Documenta11; the AICA 2000 International Congress & Symposium at the Tate Gallery of Modern Art, London; Meridien Masterpieces, BBC World Service; Dialogos Iberoamericanos (Valencia, Spain); the Guangzhou Triennale and in forums sponsored by Iniva (Institute of International Visual Art, London). Paul is author of the blog Active Voice (http://anniepaulactivevoice.blogspot.com) and
her website is: http://www.anniepaul.com/
 
--
 
Eugenio Tisselli Vélez
 
Born in Mexico City, 1972. Writer, teacher and programmer. His areas of interest include digital narratives and technology as a tool/medium for social research. His work (installation, performance, software, text and net.art) has been featured in different festivals and exhibitions around the world, and is available at www.motorhueso.net. He is the developer of zexe.net, a mobile communication project for groups in risk of exclusion, initiated by Antoni Abad. He worked as an Associate Researcher at Sony Computer Science Lab in Paris. Currently, he is a teacher and co-director of the Master in Digital Arts at the Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona.

--

Delphine Tonglet
 
Graduated in History of Art, Delphine Tonglet collaborates with Studio Azzurro, an Italian group of video creation from 2000 to 2008 as responsible for public relations (www.studioazzurro.com). During her collaboration with Studio Azzurro she followed the project "Méditations Méditerranées, a two years production  presented as a exhibition dedicated to Mediterranean area interpreted with new technologies language and other productions for exhibitions or museums dedicated to various thematic with a particular attention on territories aspects and visitor's involvement. For Studio Azzurro, she coordinated various research projects financed by European Commission, a first one dedicated to digital libraries (www.brickscommunity.org) and a second one dedicated to multimodal interfaces applied to digital theatre (www.callas-newmedia.eu); She also followed RAMI a Mediterranean project focused on Encounters on Arts and Multimedia
(http://rami.lafriche.org/). In 2009, she started a new collaboration with yoox.com, a global internet retailing partner for the leading fashion and design brand as coordinator of special projects, multidisciplinary projects related to fashion, culture, design and art.
 
--
 
Tereza Wagner
                                               
Tereza Wagner an art historian and a UNESCO Senior Programme Specialist dealing with arts and creative issues www.unesco.org. Her graduate and undergraduate degrees are from Paris V University, France, including a doctorate in Anthropology of Contemporary Arts. Former member of UNESCO's Arts and Cultural Enterprise Division, she is now in charge of the co-ordination of cultural events within the Cultural sector of UNESCO. During her career in UNESCO, her work operates within the framework of a professional team of specialists on an international scale: They initiated the UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Arts www.unesco.org/culture/creativity/prize, which includes the new UNESCO Digital Award; and launched an international campaign for film restoration including an international festival of recently restored films; and a programme for the teaching of arts which lead to the creation of the LEA International web site www.unesco.org/lea; and to the
holding of the first World Conference on Arts Education "Building Creative Capacities for the 21st Century" (March 2006, Lisbon, Portugal). She leaded the DigiArts programme: UNESCO Knowledge Portal http://portal.unesco.org/digiarts, an initiative to promote ICT creative tools and e-Learning among people at school level. She has also published articles on African cinema, African contemporary arts and arts education in specialised magazines.
 
UNESCO, 7, pl. de Fontenoy 75007 Paris, France
Tel: + (33) 1 45 68 43 25; Fax: 45 68 55 89   
 
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Monday, March 30, 2009

[Yasmin_discussions] ARTISTS AS INVENTORS, art as invention

Dear Robert, Roger and All,

I am glad to have participated in this dicussion "Artists as
Inventors" throughout this month. I am sorry for my poor
English and that I could not comment directly on the first
10 questions given by Robert and Roger.

As my closing statement, I would like to come back to the
well-known old fact that art (ars) and technology (techne)
were the same word in their origine and had the same meaning
before the modern period. Leonard da Vinci considered
painting science. Today the meanings of these two words
differ each other, but not in total. I think the core of art
and the essence of technology are sometimes very similar even
today, which might be the reason why this topic "Artists as
Inventors" was so deep and so interesting, and why I have
been persisted in the idea "art as invention / invention as
art" till the last.

Best wishes,

Hideki Nakazawa
http://aloalo.co.jp/nakazawa/
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[Yasmin_announcements] Fwd: CEMA call for admissions

The Center for Experimental Media Arts (CEMA) at the Srishti School
of Art Design & Technology (Bangalore, India) seeks artists, hackers,
writers, engineers and scientists of all variations to enroll in the
advanced diploma in Experimental Media Arts.  Students will join the
CEMA lab for 2.5 years and work with artists in residence and Srishti
faculty on collaborative and individualized transdisplinary research.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis until the beginning of
the semester.

The fall semester begins in Bangalore, in July.
For more information about the lab and the advanced diploma visit:
http://cema.srishti.ac.in/
Prospective students can find out how to apply here: http://
cema.srishti.ac.in/content/admissions

Questions should be directed to gabriel@srishti.ac.in

FAQ for APPLICANTS:

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

Q: What kind of undergraduate (UG) degree do I need?

Students who have completed a degree in the Arts, Architecture,
Science, Engineering, Humanities, Law, Social Sciences or Business
are eligible for entry. If the candidate has not completed a UG, 2-4
years of professional experience may be considered as an equivalent
to UG. All others are considered on a case by case basis. There is no
age requirement for entry into the program. The requirements for
applying to the program are:
1. an application form with personal statement
2. A portfolio of work and / or writings.
Appropriate candidates will be invited for a personal interview.

Q: What type of students do you accept?

Successful candidates for the Advanced Diploma in Experimental Media
Arts will have a variety of interests and accomplishments. We do not
expect all candidates to have formal training in the visual or media
arts, but candidates should express an interest in creatively
engaging topics using experimental media arts as a medium of
investigation. In the past students have arrived at the lab and begun
work in areas such as Physical Computing, Bio-Arts, Participatory
Design, and Tactical Media. Successful candidates demonstrate
combinations of curiosity, self-direction, open-mindedness and maturity.

Q: What should be in my portfolio?

Candidates for entry into the CEMA advanced diploma may have a
variety of achievements in art and non-art background. Although not
all candidates will have a proper visual art portfolio we require a
portfolio of work or accomplishments. This portfolio may include
anything from published scientific papers to poetry, blogs or
documentation of political activism. We know that candidates have a
variety of interests and backgrounds and the portfolio is an
opportunity to share those with the selection committee.

Q: Are international students allowed to apply?

Yes. Srishti is an international institution. All course work at
Srishti is conducted in English. We have many students, faculty and
visitors from around the world. If you are not from India and have
questions about studying and living in India please contact us by
email and we will be happy to answer your questions.

THE ADVANCED DIPLOMA PROGRAM

Q: What will I learn at the lab?

It is expected that students in the Advanced Diploma in Experimental
Media Art will:

produce creative work | bring their work to the world through
exhibition and distribution | develop collaborative strategies for a
variety of situations | increase their global network of individuals
and organizations through internships and participation in e-
communities | engage with local organizations and communities in and
around Bangalore | engage in critical reflection of their work and
the work of their peers | articulate verbally and in text the social,
political, and technological implications of their creative work |
develop an ethical framework for their creative work

Q: How much does the program cost?

The program fees are 125,000 rp. a year. [US$ 3,150] [Euro: 2,170]

Q: Where is the lab located?

The CEMA lab is a part of the Srishti School of Art, Design and
Technology located in Bangalore, India.The School is in the Yelehanka
(New Town) neighborhood, very close to the new International Airport.
The 2.5 year program is an in-residence program, although there are
opportunities for travel to conferences in India and internationally,
and it is expected that students take international internships or
shows during the summer break.


Centre for Experimental Media Arts [Bangalore, India]
http://cema.srishti.ac.in/


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[Yasmin_announcements] [ l'ull cec ] contrueix el teu propi sintetitzador / construye tu propio sintetizador / synth DIY workshop

[ reenvieu a discreció | reenviad a discreción | forward at own discretion ]

hola a tot(e)s,

a continuació us informem sobre el proper taller que hem organitzat.

a continuación os informamos sobre el próximo taller que hemos
organitzado.

below you will find information about a coming workshop we have
organized.

---------------------------------------------

........................ CONSTRUEIX EL TEU PROPI SINTETITZADOR
........................ CONSTRUYE TU PROPIO UN SINTETIZADOR
........................ BUILD YOUR OWN SYNTH

taller / workshop
a càrrec de / a cargo de / by tom bugs [http://bugbrand.co.uk ]

dissabte / sábado / saturday, 18.04.2009, 12:00 - 21:00 hrs.

hangar. passatge del marquès de santa isabel, 40
metro poble nou

preu / precio / price: 50 €

inscripcions / inscripciones / sign up: [ info@lullcec.org ]

+info: [ http://lullcec.org ]

---------------------------------------

Construeix el teu propi sintetitzador amb Tom Bugs

L'objectiu d'aquest taller és introduir als participants a conceptes
bàsics de la electrònica. No és necessari tenir experiència prèvia en
aquesta disciplina.

Els participants construiran un petit sintetitzador amb tres
oscil·ladors, una mescladora, un comparador, controls de saturació i
to, miniamplificador, 13 punts de contacte corporal i sortida de jack
per a connectar-lo a taules de mescles o amplificadors externs. També
conté un control per la reducció de corrent, modificació habitual en
la pràctica del circuit-bending, ja que acostuma a provocar resultats
inesperats en el circuit.

El preu de la matrícula inclou tots els components electrònics
necessaris perquè cada participant pugui construir un sintetitzador
que es podran emportar a casa un cop finalitzat el taller.

Estructura:

- Conceptes bàsics de l'electrònica
- Eines necessàries
- Com soldar
- Els components electrònics del circuit
- Construcció guiada del circuit
- Comprensió del funcionament del circuit
- Discussió i espai per experimentar i modificar el resultat amb l'instructor

organitza: l'ull cec
amb el suport de: hangar
col·labora: new interfaces for performance [ http://newinterfaces.net ]

---------------------------------------

El objectivo de este taller es introducir a los participantes a
conceptos básicos de la electrónica. No es necesario tener experiencia
previa en esta disciplina.

Los asistentes construirán un pequeño sintetizador
con tres osciladores, una mezcladora, un comparador, controles de
saturación y tono, miniamplificador, 13 puntos de contacto corporal y
salida de jack para conectarlo a mesas de mezcla o amplificadores
externos. El diseño del kit también incluye un control para la
reducción de corriente, modificación habitual en la práctica del
circuit-bending ya que acostumbra a provocar resultados inesperados en
circuito.

El precio de la matrícula incluye todos los componentes electrónicos
necesarios para que cada asistente pueda construir un sintetizador que
se podrá llevar a casa una vez finalizado el taller.

Estructura:

- Conceptos básicos de la electrónica
- Herramientas necesarias
- Cómo soldar
- Los componentes electrónicos del circuito
- Construcción guiada del circuito
- Comprensión del funcionamiento del circuito
- Discusión y espacio para experimentar y modificar el resultado con
el instructor

Tom Bugs [ http://www.bugbrand.co.uk ]

Después de haberse iniciado en el mundo de la electrónica a través de
la práctica del circuit-bending (modificación de circuitos de bajo
voltaje) y también construyendo pedales de efectos, en los últimos
años Tom Bugs ha creado una serie muy popular de generadores de sonido
que se pueden adquirir a través de su web. A parte de diseñar
instrumentos para músicos y dispositivos para instalaciones
interactivas, Tom también ha desarrollado un sistema modular para la
síntesis analógica del sonido.``

---------------------------------------

Build your own synth with Tom Bugs

The target of this workshop is to introduce participants to the
practice of electronics.``

Attendees will build a little synthesizer with three oscillators, a
mixer, a comparator, overdrive and tone controls, 13 body contacts, a
miniamplifier and a jack output to further connect it to external
mixers or amplifiers. The kit's design also includes a control for
power starvation, a common modification in the practice of
circuit-bending due to the fact that it tends to provoke unexpected
results in the circuit's output.

The registration price includes all the electronic components needed
in order for each participant to build his own synth and take it home
after the workshop.

Structure:

- Basic electronic concepts
- Tools required
- Soldering
- Electronic components
- Guided construction of the synth's circuit
- Workings & circuitry
- Discussion and time to experiment and modify the resulting synth
with the instructor

---------------------------------------

properament / próximamente / soon:

10.04.2009 ... concert de Tom Bugs amb sobretaula analògica a l'estudi
ozonokids [http://estudiozonokids.blogspot.com/ ]

18.04.2009 ... taller hardware/sintetitzadors DIY amb tom bugs
[http://bugbrand.co.uk/] a hangar

05.05.2009 ... MoHa [ http://www.myspace.com/themoha ]
a la sala monasterio

26.05.2009 ... Freida Abtan [ http://myspace.com/freidaabtan ]

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[Yasmin_announcements] Fw: [iota] Expanded Cinema Symposium at Tate Modern Apr 17 - 19

For interested Yasminers.

Best,
Veroniki

--- Στις Κυρ., 29/03/09, ο/η Rol Murrow <rol.murrow@wolf-aviation.org> έγραψε:

We've been advised that tickets are selling briskly, thus those
interested are advised to book sooner rather than later...

EXPANDED CINEMA:
ACTIVATING THE SPACE OF RECEPTION
17 - 19 April 2009
Tate Modern


Featuring lectures, discussions, performances, projections and
installations, this major international conference presents a
critical appraisal of an expanding field of film and video art
from multi-screen, immersive, performance- based live-projections
through to interactive, digital and virtual reality multi-media
events.

Coined in the mid-1960s by Stan VanDerBeek, but with its origins
in the experiments of early twentieth century avant-garde
filmmaking, media-technologies and performance art, the term
Expanded Cinema identifies a film and video practice which
activates the live context of watching, transforming cinema's
historical and cultural 'architectures of reception' into sites
of cinematic experience that are heterogeneous, performative and
non-determined. Works identified as Expanded Cinema often open up
questions surrounding the spectator's construction of time/space
relations, activating the spaces of cinema and narrative as well
as other contexts of media reception. In doing so it offers an
alternative and challenging perspective on filmmaking, visual
arts practices and the narratives of social space, everyday life
and cultural communication.

Speakers and artists include Mark Barlett, Eugeni Bonet, Cecile
Chich, Noam Elcott, Cate Elwes, Valie Export, Steve Farrer,
Sandra Gibson & Luis Recorder, Anja Gossens, Chrissie Iles, Cindy
Keefer, Ji-Hoon Kim, Liz Kotz, Tamara Krikorian, Mike Leggett,
Malcolm Le Grice, Anthony McCall, Chris Meigh-Andrews. Stephen
Partridge, William Raban, Lucy Reynolds, Lis Rhodes, Tony Sinden,
Yvonne Spielmann, Jonathan Walley, Chris Welsby, Duncan White,
Peter Weibel and Maxa Zoller.

The conference is part of an AHRC (Arts & Humanities Research
Council) funded project entitled Narrative Exploration in
Expanded Cinema set up by the late Dr Jackie Hatfield. Conducted
by Duncan White and David Curtis, the project - based at the
British Artists Film and Video Study Collection at Central St
Martins, College of Art & Design (University of the Arts London)
in collaboration with Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art &
Design, Dundee - seeks to explore the various histories of
expanded cinema and their impact on the question of narrative,
space and time in experimental film and art practices.

During the three days, there will be opportunities to visit
installations of three landmark British Expanded Cinema
installations:

Steve Farrer, The Machine, 1978-88
Tamara Krikorian, Time Revealing Truth 1983
Lis Rhodes, Light Music, 1975

Visits will be limited to 20 visitors each (admission with
conference ticket only), must be booked, and will last 40 minutes
each. Times for these visits will be:

Friday 17 April and Saturday 18 April at 18.15, 19.00 & 19.45,
and Sunday 19 April at 14.00, 14.45 & 15.30 & 16.15.

Also during the Conference, a videotheque will be available in
the Starr Auditorium Foyer containing documentation of over 70
classic expanded cinema works by more than 30 artists recorded at
two recent Expanded Cinema events in Germany, made available by
the artists and the Expanded Cinema Study Collection of Hartware
MedienKunstVerein Dortmund and Württembergischer Kunstverein
Stuttgart.

Prior to the Conference, during March, the Conference website
will begin to publish a number of papers and interview
transcripts that have been generated by the Narrative Exploration
in Expanded Cinema project during the past 18 months. These will
include Duncan White's interviews with Carolee Schneemann,
William Raban, Guy Sherwin, Peter Weibel, Malcolm LeGrice and
others; and a streamed record of a previous public event, The
Live Record, at BFI Southbank in December 2008.
www.studycollection .org.uk

Organised by Tate Modern and Central St Martins College of Art
and Design (UAL) with support from the Arts and Humanities
Research Council.

...

Friday 17 April 2009
(Starr Auditorium, Level 2)

10.30
What is Expanded Cinema?
Histories; definitions; distinctions

Chair Stuart Comer (Tate Modern)

10.40
Jonathan Walley (Denison University, Ohio)
'Not an Image of the Death of Film': Contemporary Expanded Cinema
and Experimental Film

11.10
Duncan White (Central St Martin's, University of the Arts,
London)
Narrative Exploration in Expanded Cinema

11.40
Mark Bartlett (independent scholar, Oakland, California)
Expanded Cinema, Social Imagistics, and the Fourth Avant-garde of
Stan Vanderbeek

12.10
questions

13.00
lunch

14.00
Topologies of Expanded Cinema
Social space, reception, phenomenology

Chair AL Rees (Royal College of Art, London)

14.10
Chrissie Iles (Whitney Museum of American Art, NY)
On Expanded Cinema and the Moving Image in the Gallery in the
1970s

14.40
Noam Elcott (Columbia University, NY)
Rooms of Our Times: László Moholy-Nagy and Cinema between Theatre
and Museum

15.10
questions

15.30
break

16.00
Cindy Keefer (Center for Visual Music, Los Angeles)
Raumlichtkunst to Vortex: Early Expanded Cinema Experiments of
Oskar Fischinger and Jordan Belson (1926-1959)

16.30
Cate Elwes (artist, Camberwell College, University of the Arts,
London)
The Domestic Spaces of Video Installation

17.00
Stephen Partridge (artist, University of Dundee)
in discussion with William Raban (artist, London College of
Communications, University of the Arts, London)

17.30
questions

18.00
reception

18.15, 19.00 & 19.45
installation viewings

...

Saturday 18 April 2009
(Starr Auditorium, Level 2)

10.20
Performance (ZZZBody)
discourse of the body; live film and video; presence; actions;
happenings

Chair Stephen Partridge (University of Dundee)

10.30
Liz Kotz (University of California, Riverside)
Projecting Cinema Otherwise, via Judson Dance

11.00
Lucy Reynolds (University of East London)
Magic Tricks? The Use of Shadow Play in British Expanded Cinema

11.20
Cecile Chich (independent scholar, Paris/London)
Beyond the Frame / Beyond the Gaze – The Multi-Media Projection
Performances of Maria Klonaris and Katerina Thomadaki

11.40
Maxa Zoller (independent scholar/curator, London/Berlin)
Polish Expanded Cinema: Technology and the Body

12.00
Mike Leggett (artist, University of Technology, Sydney)
Private Performance and Making Art with Video

12.20 questions

13.00
lunch

14.00
Media Environments and Expanded Cinema in the Digital Age
interactive narratives; the digital; virtual arts

Chair Professor Chris Meigh Andrews (University of Central
Lancashire)

14.10
Chris Welsby (artist, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver)
Expanded Cinema: 20th Century Encounters with the Machine

14.40 Eugeni Bonet (independent scholar, Barcelona)
PLAT (Picto-Luminic- Audio-Tactile) : The 'overflowing' cinema of
Val del Omar

15.00
Anja Gossens (ZKM, Karlsruhe)
Future Shock and Time/Energy objects – Expanded Cinema and the
Code in New York

15.20
break

15.50
Ji-Hoon Kim (NYU)
Interfacial Intermedia Art as Digitally Expanded Cinema:
iCinema's Transmedial Narrative Environments

16.10
Yvonne Spielmann (University of the West of Scotland)
Conceptual Synchronicity or Intermedial Encounters between Film,
Video and Computer

16.30
Malcolm Le Grice (artist, University of the Arts, London) in
discussion with Peter Weibel (artist, ZKM)

17.00
questions

18.00
reception

18.15, 19.00 & 19.45
installation viewings

...

Sunday 19 April 2009

(East Room, Level 7)

11.00
Tony Sinden (artist, UK/Greece) in dialogue with Anthony McCall
(artist, NY)

11.30
Valie Export (artist) in conversation with Chrissie Iles (Whitney
Museum of American Art, NY)

12.00
Open Forum - Chair Stuart Comer (Tate Modern)

13.00
lunch

14.00, 14.45 & 15.30 & 16.15
installation viewings

Free screenings
(Starr Auditorium, Level 2)

14.00
Shadow Play and Visual Music
--Tony Hill, Point Source (UK, 1973), performance
--From German Expanded Cinema Pioneers to Light Show Psychedelia,
programme curated by Cindy Keefer (Center for Visual Music, Los
Angeles)
featuring films by Jordan Belson, Charles Dockum, Oskar
Fischinger, Single Wing Turquoise Bird Light Show, and Jud
Yalkut.

15.30
Live Medium
--Stephen Partridge, Monitor (UK, 1975) performance
--Sandra Gibson + Luis Recoder, Untitled (US, 2008) performance;
electric humidifiers; glass and an original score by Olivia
Block.

17.00
UK Multiscreen
--David Dye, Western Reversal (UK, 1973), performance
--Annabel Nicolson, To the Dairy (UK, 1975)
--Malcolm Le Grice, Yes No Maybe Maybe Not (UK, 1967), two-screen

--Ron Haselden, Doityourselfportrai t (UK, 1974), two-screen
--Gill Eatherley & David Crosswaite, Dialogue (UK, 1974),
two-screen
--Tony Sinden, Can Can (UK, 1975), two-screen

...

Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
Bankside, London, SE1 9TG
Nearest Tube: Southwark / London Bridge

Tickets: £30 / £20 concessions
Box Office: 020 7887 8888
Advanced booking strongly recommended

www.tate.org. uk/modern/ film

http://www.studycol lection.org. uk/expanded
We've been advised that tickets are selling briskly, thus those
interested are advised to book sooner rather than later...

EXPANDED CINEMA:
ACTIVATING THE SPACE OF RECEPTION
17 - 19 April 2009
Tate Modern


Featuring lectures, discussions, performances, projections and
installations, this major international conference presents a
critical appraisal of an expanding field of film and video art
from multi-screen, immersive, performance- based live-projections
through to interactive, digital and virtual reality multi-media
events.

Coined in the mid-1960s by Stan VanDerBeek, but with its origins
in the experiments of early twentieth century avant-garde
filmmaking, media-technologies and performance art, the term
Expanded Cinema identifies a film and video practice which
activates the live context of watching, transforming cinema's
historical and cultural 'architectures of reception' into sites
of cinematic experience that are heterogeneous, performative and
non-determined. Works identified as Expanded Cinema often open up
questions surrounding the spectator's construction of time/space
relations, activating the spaces of cinema and narrative as well
as other contexts of media reception. In doing so it offers an
alternative and challenging perspective on filmmaking, visual
arts practices and the narratives of social space, everyday life
and cultural communication.

Speakers and artists include Mark Barlett, Eugeni Bonet, Cecile
Chich, Noam Elcott, Cate Elwes, Valie Export, Steve Farrer,
Sandra Gibson & Luis Recorder, Anja Gossens, Chrissie Iles, Cindy
Keefer, Ji-Hoon Kim, Liz Kotz, Tamara Krikorian, Mike Leggett,
Malcolm Le Grice, Anthony McCall, Chris Meigh-Andrews. Stephen
Partridge, William Raban, Lucy Reynolds, Lis Rhodes, Tony Sinden,
Yvonne Spielmann, Jonathan Walley, Chris Welsby, Duncan White,
Peter Weibel and Maxa Zoller.

The conference is part of an AHRC (Arts & Humanities Research
Council) funded project entitled Narrative Exploration in
Expanded Cinema set up by the late Dr Jackie Hatfield. Conducted
by Duncan White and David Curtis, the project - based at the
British Artists Film and Video Study Collection at Central St
Martins, College of Art & Design (University of the Arts London)
in collaboration with Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art &
Design, Dundee - seeks to explore the various histories of
expanded cinema and their impact on the question of narrative,
space and time in experimental film and art practices.

During the three days, there will be opportunities to visit
installations of three landmark British Expanded Cinema
installations:

Steve Farrer, The Machine, 1978-88
Tamara Krikorian, Time Revealing Truth 1983
Lis Rhodes, Light Music, 1975

Visits will be limited to 20 visitors each (admission with
conference ticket only), must be booked, and will last 40 minutes
each. Times for these visits will be:

Friday 17 April and Saturday 18 April at 18.15, 19.00 & 19.45,
and Sunday 19 April at 14.00, 14.45 & 15.30 & 16.15.

Also during the Conference, a videotheque will be available in
the Starr Auditorium Foyer containing documentation of over 70
classic expanded cinema works by more than 30 artists recorded at
two recent Expanded Cinema events in Germany, made available by
the artists and the Expanded Cinema Study Collection of Hartware
MedienKunstVerein Dortmund and Württembergischer Kunstverein
Stuttgart.

Prior to the Conference, during March, the Conference website
will begin to publish a number of papers and interview
transcripts that have been generated by the Narrative Exploration
in Expanded Cinema project during the past 18 months. These will
include Duncan White's interviews with Carolee Schneemann,
William Raban, Guy Sherwin, Peter Weibel, Malcolm LeGrice and
others; and a streamed record of a previous public event, The
Live Record, at BFI Southbank in December 2008.
www.studycollection .org.uk

Organised by Tate Modern and Central St Martins College of Art
and Design (UAL) with support from the Arts and Humanities
Research Council.

...

Friday 17 April 2009
(Starr Auditorium, Level 2)

10.30
What is Expanded Cinema?
Histories; definitions; distinctions

Chair Stuart Comer (Tate Modern)

10.40
Jonathan Walley (Denison University, Ohio)
'Not an Image of the Death of Film': Contemporary Expanded Cinema
and Experimental Film

11.10
Duncan White (Central St Martin's, University of the Arts,
London)
Narrative Exploration in Expanded Cinema

11.40
Mark Bartlett (independent scholar, Oakland, California)
Expanded Cinema, Social Imagistics, and the Fourth Avant-garde of
Stan Vanderbeek

12.10
questions

13.00
lunch

14.00
Topologies of Expanded Cinema
Social space, reception, phenomenology

Chair AL Rees (Royal College of Art, London)

14.10
Chrissie Iles (Whitney Museum of American Art, NY)
On Expanded Cinema and the Moving Image in the Gallery in the
1970s

14.40
Noam Elcott (Columbia University, NY)
Rooms of Our Times: László Moholy-Nagy and Cinema between Theatre
and Museum

15.10
questions

15.30
break

16.00
Cindy Keefer (Center for Visual Music, Los Angeles)
Raumlichtkunst to Vortex: Early Expanded Cinema Experiments of
Oskar Fischinger and Jordan Belson (1926-1959)

16.30
Cate Elwes (artist, Camberwell College, University of the Arts,
London)
The Domestic Spaces of Video Installation

17.00
Stephen Partridge (artist, University of Dundee)
in discussion with William Raban (artist, London College of
Communications, University of the Arts, London)

17.30
questions

18.00
reception

18.15, 19.00 & 19.45
installation viewings

...

Saturday 18 April 2009
(Starr Auditorium, Level 2)

10.20
Performance (ZZZBody)
discourse of the body; live film and video; presence; actions;
happenings

Chair Stephen Partridge (University of Dundee)

10.30
Liz Kotz (University of California, Riverside)
Projecting Cinema Otherwise, via Judson Dance

11.00
Lucy Reynolds (University of East London)
Magic Tricks? The Use of Shadow Play in British Expanded Cinema

11.20
Cecile Chich (independent scholar, Paris/London)
Beyond the Frame / Beyond the Gaze – The Multi-Media Projection
Performances of Maria Klonaris and Katerina Thomadaki

11.40
Maxa Zoller (independent scholar/curator, London/Berlin)
Polish Expanded Cinema: Technology and the Body

12.00
Mike Leggett (artist, University of Technology, Sydney)
Private Performance and Making Art with Video

12.20 questions

13.00
lunch

14.00
Media Environments and Expanded Cinema in the Digital Age
interactive narratives; the digital; virtual arts

Chair Professor Chris Meigh Andrews (University of Central
Lancashire)

14.10
Chris Welsby (artist, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver)
Expanded Cinema: 20th Century Encounters with the Machine

14.40 Eugeni Bonet (independent scholar, Barcelona)
PLAT (Picto-Luminic- Audio-Tactile) : The 'overflowing' cinema of
Val del Omar

15.00
Anja Gossens (ZKM, Karlsruhe)
Future Shock and Time/Energy objects – Expanded Cinema and the
Code in New York

15.20
break

15.50
Ji-Hoon Kim (NYU)
Interfacial Intermedia Art as Digitally Expanded Cinema:
iCinema's Transmedial Narrative Environments

16.10
Yvonne Spielmann (University of the West of Scotland)
Conceptual Synchronicity or Intermedial Encounters between Film,
Video and Computer

16.30
Malcolm Le Grice (artist, University of the Arts, London) in
discussion with Peter Weibel (artist, ZKM)

17.00
questions

18.00
reception

18.15, 19.00 & 19.45
installation viewings

...

Sunday 19 April 2009

(East Room, Level 7)

11.00
Tony Sinden (artist, UK/Greece) in dialogue with Anthony McCall
(artist, NY)

11.30
Valie Export (artist) in conversation with Chrissie Iles (Whitney
Museum of American Art, NY)

12.00
Open Forum - Chair Stuart Comer (Tate Modern)

13.00
lunch

14.00, 14.45 & 15.30 & 16.15
installation viewings

Free screenings
(Starr Auditorium, Level 2)

14.00
Shadow Play and Visual Music
--Tony Hill, Point Source (UK, 1973), performance
--From German Expanded Cinema Pioneers to Light Show Psychedelia,
programme curated by Cindy Keefer (Center for Visual Music, Los
Angeles)
featuring films by Jordan Belson, Charles Dockum, Oskar
Fischinger, Single Wing Turquoise Bird Light Show, and Jud
Yalkut.

15.30
Live Medium
--Stephen Partridge, Monitor (UK, 1975) performance
--Sandra Gibson + Luis Recoder, Untitled (US, 2008) performance;
electric humidifiers; glass and an original score by Olivia
Block.

17.00
UK Multiscreen
--David Dye, Western Reversal (UK, 1973), performance
--Annabel Nicolson, To the Dairy (UK, 1975)
--Malcolm Le Grice, Yes No Maybe Maybe Not (UK, 1967), two-screen

--Ron Haselden, Doityourselfportrai t (UK, 1974), two-screen
--Gill Eatherley & David Crosswaite, Dialogue (UK, 1974),
two-screen
--Tony Sinden, Can Can (UK, 1975), two-screen

...

Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
Bankside, London, SE1 9TG
Nearest Tube: Southwark / London Bridge

Tickets: £30 / £20 concessions
Box Office: 020 7887 8888
Advanced booking strongly recommended

www.tate.org.uk/modern/film

http://www.studycol lection.org. uk/expanded



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Sunday, March 29, 2009

Re: [Yasmin_discussions] the consciousness of bald monkeys and the invention of the self

Dear Ramon, Roger, Derek,

When Roger broached the subject of fiction in relation to invention,
especially science fiction, I am now not surprised that Ramon
Guardans, who raised the topic of the invention of the self today,
commented on it (18 March 2009). Ramon wrote:

"I would say that any invention is at some stage a fiction but not any
fiction materializes into invention. It is when the ideas become
things that the transition or transduction from fiction to invention
occurs, as in thinking a tune and playing it on an instrument or
voice, crafting an image, object or machine. This is probably true in
scientific work too where different optional fictions are tested and
compared."

In a post yesterday, Roger explored human consciousness in response to
a post by Derek Hales. Roger wrote:

"It seems to me that both artists and scientists are indeed in the
story construction business, and as you put it " inventions are the
nexus of the real and the imaginary."

In the context of these topics---the invention of self, "invention" as
"fiction," (human) consciousness, and narrative---it seems fitting to
bring up an old science fiction film titled _Blade Runner_ (1982),
which could be described as a late 20th-century interpretation of
"Frankenstein."

The story is set in the future (Los Angeles, 2019) and poses a
relationship between humans and replicants (bio-mechanical robots that
[who?] are nearly indistinguishable from humans). They are used as
slave labor in "off-world" colonies. The narrative is easy to find
online so I won't waste too much time with it here.

However, the advanced replicants (Nexus 6), began to become a violent
disciplinary problem as they developed their own emotional responses
(the Blade Runner is a kind of police officer who kills or "retires"
them if a problem arises). One experimental replicant was "gifted"
with memories to create more emotional maturity. The tension between
the application of "memory implants" in one replicant (who doesn't
quiet understand that she is not human) and a rogue group of
replicants (who understand their status and seek to extend their lives
by returning to earth to find their creator in an effort to extend
their lives), creates a visceral, interesting conundrum of
authenticity in defining consciousness and personal experience (yes,
desire and the fundamental question of what it means to be a human are
part of this drama.)

The subtext of slavery (robots) tears at a key crisis in non-fiction
human society. In a final sequence, as one replicant watches the Blade
Runner, who is charged with killing him, hang from the ledge of a
building, he says, "Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it?
That's what it is to be a slave." Here "fear" could be interchanged
with "hate." He then saves the Blade Runner's life. (Yes, the idea
that artificial life forms are more humane than humans is a familiar
but still strong narrative device.)

The replicant goes on to describe his own experience as he is about to
"expire" (die), saying, "I have seen things you people wouldn't
believe," and continues to poetically describe memories of
extraordinary personal (otherworldly) experiences that would end with
him. However, the keywords in the dialogue are "you people," which is
coded language that has been used by mostly white people toward black
people (and so-called "others") in the United States. In my opinion,
this inversion of terms, subtly and ironically calls more attention to
their status in relation to one another.

The fact that both the lead characters in this exchange both appear to
be white does not soften the allegory between master and
(mass-produced) slave, at least not for US audiences (it might
actually make it more powerful). While the movie also raises the
interesting question of whether or not that the Blade Runner is actual
human, it more directly describes a system of inequality between
conscious beings.

Keeping in mind this kind of story (and that much has changed since it
was created), the notion that interaction with community members, as
suggested by Simon Biggs, might be a neutral playing field seems
utopian to me---but still possible with better understanding between
people of various statuses and experiences, including ages (young and
old). Maxine Heppner pointed out one aspect of the diversity of our
communities in her striking post earlier today.

On a separate note, Derek, I don't think "problem-solving" is a
difficult term to use in art contexts. I would say that art is
continually involved in a similar process to what you have described.
However, it is more likely to be described in art contexts as
constructions of a dialogue that involves problem-solving and critical
responses.

Best,

Robert Thill

On 3/29/09, Simon Biggs <s.biggs@eca.ac.uk> wrote:
> A model could be proposed where self is apprehended as created through
> interaction between members of communities ­ as such the first act of
> creation is the socially constituted self, from which all other creation
> (and invention) flows. In this context the model of the solitary artist or
> inventor, producing artefacts that embody creativity, is contested as the
> ideal method to achieve creative outcomes. Rather, creativity is proposed as
> an activity of exchange that enables (creates) people and communities.
> Apprehending creativity as emergent from and innate to the interactions of
> people allows a non-instrumentalist view to emerge. Creativity is not valued
> as arising from a perceived need, a solution or product, nor from a
> supply-side ³blue skies² ideal, but rather as an emergent property of
> communities. This avoids the reductivist thinking that so much debate in
> this field evokes, especially when it gets caught up with areas like
> neuro-science.
>
> Regards
>
> Simon
>
>
> On 29/3/09 11:47, "roger malina" <rmalina@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> ramon
>>
>> thank you so much for the addition of "invention of the self" to
>> the discussion on artists as inventors !!
>>
>> it seems to me that the brain is such a "plastic organ" that
>> indeed many things that we take to be part of innate nature
>> actually are the result of our interactions with the artefacts we
>> invent
>>
>> one of the big mysteries in the history of human beings is why
>> it took so long to invent written languages= written languates are
>> a really recent invention in the history of homo sapiens
>>
>> so much of what i consider to be part of "myself' comes not only
>> from my interactions with other people and the world, but with the
>> artefacts we build= what was it like to be a human being before
>> written language and the visual arts were invented ?
>>
>> --
>> Roger Malina is in France at this time
>>
>> IN USA
>>
>> phone 1 510 853 2007
>>
>>
>> When in France I can be reached at:
>> 011 33 (0) 6 15 79 59 26
>> or (0) 6 80 45 94 47
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[Yasmin_announcements] Artists With PhDs

Artists with PhDs - New book by James Elkins

Artists with PhDs
James Elkins

Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Department of Visual and Critical Studies
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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www.amazon.com/Artists-PhDs-Doctoral-Degree-Studio/dp/0981865453

Immediate release

Announcing a new book on the PhD in studio art

The studio-art PhD, or practice-based doctorate, is a hot topic in art
instruction in the US. Other countries have had these degrees for
several decades; in the UK there are up to 2,000 students currently
enrolled in such programs, and there will soon be 10 universities in
Australia that offer the degree. At the moment there are about 10
programs in the US and Canada, and another dozen more under
development. It appears that the PhD in studio art will become the
next MFA--that is, the expected terminal degree for artists who want
to get jobs teaching. In twenty or thirty years' time, it is likely
that every major art school and department will offer the PhD. The
degree is controversial wherever it exists, and there is a fair amount
of resistance to it: there have been some stormy sessions on the
subject at conferences. Most of the formative issues, from grading to
accreditation, remain unresolved.

This book is the first of its kind in the US. It is meant as a
resource to help artists, teachers, administrators, and students
assess and compare the new programs. Part I is a selection of essays
by the best-informed people on both sides of the Atlantic, including
most of the principal players and institutions. Part II is a selection
of excerpts of the PhD dissertations written by people who have
graduated from such programs, so people can see the kind of art and
scholarship the programs produce.

Here are the contents of Part I:

1: Judith Mottram, 'Researching Research in Art and Design'
2: Timothy Emlyn Jones, 'Research Degrees in Art and Design'
3: Henk Slager, 'Art and Method'
4: Mick Wilson, 'Four Theses Attempting to Revise the Terms of a Debate'
5: Victor Burgin, 'Thoughts on 'Research' Degrees in Visual Arts Departments'
6: Timothy Emlyn Jones, 'The Studio Art Doctorate in America'
7: George Smith, 'The Non-Studio PhD for Visual Artists'
8: Hilde Van Gelder and Jan Baetens, 'The Future of the Doctorate in the Arts'
9: James Elkins, 'On Beyond Research and New Knowledge'
10: Charles Harrison, 'When Management Speaks...'
11: James Elkins, ''The Three Configurations of Studio-Art PhDs'

Most of the literature justifying and defining these programs was
written in the UK, although the programs can now be found around the
world. This book has a double purpose: the selection of authors and
artists is intended to span a wide range, showing how the PhD is
implemented in different places; my own contributions are meant as
polemics, because I am unconvinced by the rhetoric of 'research' and
'new knowledge' that continue to frame discussions on the subject. It
seems to me there is an opportunity to reconfigure discussion in the
US, and to remake these programs in a new mold.

New Academia Publishing is a peer-reviewed, print-on-demand
initiative; the books may not show up in bookstores, but they are
always quickly available through Amazon and other outlets.
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Re: [Yasmin_discussions] invention of the self - Closing statement

Roger, Ramon and Yasminers,

A word to say that I was delighted to participate, if only sporadically, to
the Artists as Inventors' discussion, eventhough, it (I) may have felt at
times, somewhat beyond my league. Proof, that we will need to go on
eventually and that we have not, by any means, emptied the subject.

Lately I have been reading a French translation of Alberto Manguel's
«Library at Night» and I would like to sign off with a short excerpt of this
book, with a passage concerning Aby Warburg's edification of his ideal
library, that might catch up, with Ramon's concept of «invention of the
self».

So here's my «free translation» into English of Christine Le Boeuf's French
translation of Manguel's book :

«[Aby Warbug] wished that his intuition end up in scientific laws; he would
have liked to believe that the wonderment and terror linked to art and
litterature constituted steps leading toward the understanding of the causes
and functions [of human thought]. However, he kept coming back to the notion
of memory as desire, and of desire as knowledge. In one of his fragments he
wrote "an artwork is something hostile that moves towards the one who looks
(regarde)." With his library he attempted to create a space in which this
hostility would not only be tamed [...] but thought out with love,
curiosity, respect and admiration, a mirror of his intelligent and inquisite
mind.» Alberto Manguel (2006) «La Bibliothèque la nuit», Nîmes/Montréal:
Actes Sud/Leméac, p. 194.

One might also look into Vera Frenkel's corpus, an artist who has excelled
in ficticious «inventions of the self».
http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=1961
http://www.verafrenkel.com

Best,
Sylvie

----- Original Message -----
From: "roger malina" <rmalina@alum.mit.edu>
To: "YASMIN DISCUSSIONS" <Yasmin_discussions@estia.media.uoa.gr>
Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2009 7:47 AM
Subject: [Yasmin_discussions] invention of the self


> ramon
>
> thank you so much for the addition of "invention of the self" to
> the discussion on artists as inventors !!
>
> it seems to me that the brain is such a "plastic organ" that
> indeed many things that we take to be part of innate nature
> actually are the result of our interactions with the artefacts we
> invent
>
> one of the big mysteries in the history of human beings is why
> it took so long to invent written languages= written languates are
> a really recent invention in the history of homo sapiens
>
> so much of what i consider to be part of "myself' comes not only
> from my interactions with other people and the world, but with the
> artefacts we build= what was it like to be a human being before
> written language and the visual arts were invented ?
>
> --
> Roger Malina is in France at this time
>
> IN USA
>
> phone 1 510 853 2007
>
>
> When in France I can be reached at:
> 011 33 (0) 6 15 79 59 26
> or (0) 6 80 45 94 47
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Re: [Yasmin_discussions] invention of the self

A model could be proposed where self is apprehended as created through
interaction between members of communities ­ as such the first act of
creation is the socially constituted self, from which all other creation
(and invention) flows. In this context the model of the solitary artist or
inventor, producing artefacts that embody creativity, is contested as the
ideal method to achieve creative outcomes. Rather, creativity is proposed as
an activity of exchange that enables (creates) people and communities.
Apprehending creativity as emergent from and innate to the interactions of
people allows a non-instrumentalist view to emerge. Creativity is not valued
as arising from a perceived need, a solution or product, nor from a
supply-side ³blue skies² ideal, but rather as an emergent property of
communities. This avoids the reductivist thinking that so much debate in
this field evokes, especially when it gets caught up with areas like
neuro-science.

Regards

Simon


On 29/3/09 11:47, "roger malina" <rmalina@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> ramon
>
> thank you so much for the addition of "invention of the self" to
> the discussion on artists as inventors !!
>
> it seems to me that the brain is such a "plastic organ" that
> indeed many things that we take to be part of innate nature
> actually are the result of our interactions with the artefacts we
> invent
>
> one of the big mysteries in the history of human beings is why
> it took so long to invent written languages= written languates are
> a really recent invention in the history of homo sapiens
>
> so much of what i consider to be part of "myself' comes not only
> from my interactions with other people and the world, but with the
> artefacts we build= what was it like to be a human being before
> written language and the visual arts were invented ?
>
> --
> Roger Malina is in France at this time
>
> IN USA
>
> phone 1 510 853 2007
>
>
> When in France I can be reached at:
> 011 33 (0) 6 15 79 59 26
> or (0) 6 80 45 94 47
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Re: [Yasmin_discussions] invention of the self

> ramon
>
> thank you so much for the addition of "invention of the self" to
> the discussion on artists as inventors !!
>
> it seems to me that the brain is such a "plastic organ" that
> indeed many things that we take to be part of innate nature
> actually are the result of our interactions with the artefacts we
> invent
>
> one of the big mysteries in the history of human beings is why
> it took so long to invent written languages= written languates are
> a really recent invention in the history of homo sapiens
>
> so much of what i consider to be part of "myself' comes not only
> from my interactions with other people and the world, but with the
> artefacts we build= what was it like to be a human being before
> written language and the visual arts were invented ?

Roger,
This does not have to be such a mystery (ie. what was it like to be a human
being before written language and the visual arts were invented ?)
There are many people today who live in communities where written language
is not present - or at least never used. These communities also tend to live
in environments that have simple technologies and very little if no visual
art (as in art for it's own sake outside of a beautifully crafted object to
use in everyday life). A possible field of interesting study that someone
somewhere-in-our- language-and-image-laden-reality may already be involved
in.
Maxine
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