Public Realm projects

Collaborative working, with other artists and architects for joint tendering, for public space design including heritage and other environmentally sensitive sites: Jenny Exley Associates, Urban Designers and Chartered Landscape Architects, are looking for creative individuals or companies.

email: jenny@jennyexley.com
initial contact please do not forward images
or call 0845 347 9351

Documenting Fictions

Documenting Fictions Conference

Tuesday 5th April 2011
Lister Lecture Theatre
Bradford School of Arts and Media

Wednesday 6th April 2011
Cubby Broccoli Cinema
Bradford Media Museum

This conference, hosted by the MA Visual Arts at Bradford School of Arts and Media, is concerned with visual representation in all its forms. Abstracts are invited from academics, visual artists, photographers and film makers to contribute to this vibrant and exciting opportunity for discursive discussion. Any subject or topic can be addressed although an understanding of the politics and social responsibility of representation is assumed.

The National Portfolio Funding Programme - ACE

Launch of Programme
The National Portfolio Funding Programme aims to contribution to the creation of conditions in which great art can be made, experienced and appreciated by everyone.

The minimum annual award available is £40,000. There is no upper limit on the level of assistance provided. Supported activities could include attending an arts event, taking part in an arts activity, or creating a work of art.

Assistance is available to support a range of artforms and a range of artistic practice. Artists and arts organisations often work across and between different artform areas. The funding provider groups the organisations it funds into six artfrom areas in order to help consider its investing in different parts of the arts sector. These are: combined arts (which use multiple artforms to achieve their aims), dance, literature, music, theatre and visual arts.

Socially Responsive Design

CoDesign: International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts

Understanding the differences between service design, social
design and social innovation and identifying tools and methods
for designing and evaluating social change

CALL FOR PAPERS

Cabinet: Connection and Collection: Architecture, Design and Education

17 May 2011: Cabinet: Connection and Collection: Architecture,
Design and Education
School of Architecture, Design and Environment, University of
Plymouth and Plymouth City Museum and Archives: Tuesday 17th May
2011

This event, hosted by University Plymouth, and the Design
Knowledge Research Group in partnership with Plymouth City Museum
and Archives is a one-day conference to coincide with an
exhibition in Peninsula Arts Gallery. The symposium will detail
notions of heritage, place-making, museum and university
connections.

Introduction
Is the best defence to funding cuts to accelerate the drive to
think less about museums as places where things are kept, and
more about them as places where interactive learning takes place,
playing a role in a wider civic, social and economic context? Are
we now shifting into an era where we move away from designing for
people and towards designing with people, through active
co-creation, where people are active participants in the process
rather than passive test subjects or observers? And can we go
further towards the emerging practice, towards designing by
people? How can our museums and universities facilitate this?
What can be the radical, contemporary strategies that release the
historical perspectives of the architectures of the museum and
refocus them towards different connections and how can the design
of museums and the design of experiences contribute to this?

The National Portfolio Funding Programme - Launch of Programme

The National Portfolio Funding Programme aims to contribution to the creation of conditions in which great art can be made, experienced and appreciated by everyone.

The minimum annual award available is £40,000. There is no upper limit on the level of assistance provided. Supported activities could include attending an arts event, taking part in an arts activity, or creating a work of art.

arts@leeds Grant Aid Programme

Deadline 14 January 2011
The arts@leeds Grant Aid Programme aims to increase people's access to the arts and enable people to take part fully and with greater confidence, achieving a balance of creative opportunity across the city for the benefit of all communities.

Grants awarded are not generally for more than £1,000. Applicants seeking a larger amount should contact the Senior Arts Development Officer. At least 10% of project costs must be found from other sources. Applications for the total cost of a project will not normally be considered.

Current: An Experiment in Collecting Digital Art

Artist Call: Now open for submissions
Deadline: 17th December 2010
£1000 exhibition fee to short-listed artists; £10,000 acquisition fee for final selection.

An exhibition, acquisition and debate, presented in partnership by the Harris Museum & Art Gallery and folly.
http://current-experiment.org.uk/

The Project:
Artists working in digital media are invited to propose work for a public display at and acquisition by the Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston, as part of 'Current: an Experiment in Collecting Digital Art'.

IDATER Online conference: Graphicacy and Modelling

It is important to establish some foundations for research in graphicacy and consequently contributions are welcome that either discuss an aspect of graphicacy in depth, or its relationship to design modelling. It is hoped to organise a one day conference in December 2010 concerning the online contributions that have been made to the graphicacy debate and publish an IDATER Online Book relating to the collection in early 2011 http://idater.lboro.ac.uk/

We Have Never Had It So Good

INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

An exhibition by guest curator Noëmi Lakmaier at The Pigeon Wing, November 2010.

We Have Never Had It So Good, takes Harold Macmillan’s (UK Prime Minister 1957 – 1963) often misquoted citation ‘most of our people have never had it so good’ as its starting point, and re-contextualises it within the contemporary economic and political framework of the credit crunch and global economic downturn.

During his inaugural address to the conservative party in 1957, Macmillan painted a rosy picture of the economy. A boom in production had lead to an increase in wages and investment. Yet he warned that inflation was the country’s biggest problem of the era.

The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture

Call For Papers:

Intellect is delighted to announce the next journal in our popular culture series, The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture.

This new peer-reviewed journal is the official journal of the Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (Popcaanz). The journal is devoted to the scholarly understanding of everyday cultures and is concerned with the study of the social practices and the cultural meanings that are produced and are circulated through the processes and practices of everyday life. As a product of consumption, an intellectual object of inquiry, and as an integral component of the dynamic forces that shape societies.

Binary - next edition of Stimulus Respond

With the new issue, Master, now online at www.stimulusrespond.com, we are now soliciting contributions for the next edition of Stimulus Respond, called Binary. Contributions might be literally or abstractly related to Binary, and we encourage, as always, creative and experimental approaches to the theme. In congruence with Stimulus Respond's undisciplined approach, we welcome submissions from new and established contributors from within, between, and beyond such fields as cultural studies, anthropology, literary criticism, fashion, creative writing, politics, visual cultures, architecture, theatre, film and screen studies, sociology, media and communications and philosophy.

Book 2.0

Call For Papers: Book 2.0 (http://bit.ly/Bookjournal)

Aims & Scope
Book 2.0 (http://bit.ly/Bookjournal) is a new, interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal which aims to publish articles and reviews on developments in book creation and design, including the latest advances in technology and software affecting illustration, design and book production.

It will also explore innovations in distribution, marketing and sales, and book consumption, and in the research, analysis and conservation of book-related professional practices. Book 2.0 aims to provide a forum for promoting and sharing the most original and progressive practice in the teaching of writing, illustration, book design, book production and publishing across all educational sectors.

Home Made Festival Commissions

Chisenhale Dance Space is seeking to commission three independent dance, movement or live artists (who feel dance, movement or the body holds a key place in their practice) to work with local community groups this autumn. Each community group and artist, through a series of collaborative workshops, will create a piece of work to be shown at the Home Made Festival at Chisenhale Dance Space on the 27th and 28th of November 2010.

Home Made is our, yearly dance festival, funded by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The festival seeks to use dance as a tool to celebrate the diverse heritage, vibrant communities and rich history of our home borough as well as to showcase the dance work that occurs at the space on a daily basis.

Visual Inquiry: Learning & Teaching Art

The mission of Visual Inquiry: Learning & Teaching Art is to provide a forum for engaging the complex, rich and multifaceted process of learning and teaching art. Published three times a year and peer reviewed, the print-based journal will launch its first publication in 2011. The journal highlights the process of creating art, teaching as an art form, engaging art submissions, scholarship in teaching artistry, and the rich traditions of art making and teaching. The call for papers is open to anyone concerned with issues related to learning and teaching art.

The journal seeks a serious yet experimental approach to publication that values the myriad of visual art processes in contemporary culture. Readable to the outsider yet encouraging and challenging to the experienced artist-teacher, the journal will fill a niche in art and art education with a breadth and enthusiasm missing in contemporary art and art education journals.

Visual Reasoning with Diagrams

Special issue of the journal Logica Universalis
We invite submissions to the journal Logica Universalis for a special issue on Visual reasoning with diagrams. The deadline for submission is 15 December 2010*.

Moore/Hepworth - A Collaborative Conference

Call for Papers -

A Collaborative Conference

Henry Moore Institute, Leeds Art Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, The Hepworth Wakefield and Arts Council Collection based at Longside

Friday 3 June and Saturday 4 June 2011

In Spring 2011 focused attention will be given to the work of Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth in Yorkshire. It sees the opening of The Hepworth Wakefield gallery, witjavascript:void(0)h inaugural collections displays focussing on Hepworth’s sculpture, the retrospective exhibition of Moore’s work at Leeds Art Gallery, and the prominent inclusion of the two artists’ work at the Henry Moore Institute and Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Next year therefore provides an excellent opportunity to consider the relationships between these two artists in the county of their birth. To enable this, five arts organisations in the region will work together to stage a conference – the first in a series of collaborative events - that considers the local geographical, social and political contexts for the artistic development and subsequent critical reception of Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth.

Visual Resoning with Diagrams

Call for Papers
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We invite submissions to the journal Logica Universalis for a special issue on Visual reasoning with diagrams. The deadline for submission is *15 December 2010*.

Public Artwork Commissions

Sustrans Cymru are looking to commission a number of innovative site-specific public artworks for new routes of the National Cycle Network across the South Wales Valleys. These will range from small scale interventions to large scale permanent sculpture.

Deadline for applications 31st Aug 2010

For the brief and more info:
Sara Rees, Sustrans Cymru
123 Bute Street, Cardiff CF10 5AE

sara.rees@sustrans.org.uk

Book series - RadicalAesthetics-RadicalArt

Call for book proposals for two titles - Socio-political aesthetics and Eco-aesthetics - as part of a commissioned series of books RadicalAesthetics-RadicalArt. Contact series editors for more details - Dr Jane Tormey J.Tormey@lboro.ac.uk and Dr Gillian Whiteley G.Whiteley@lboro.ac.uk
Deadline: August 31st

Multidisciplinary Sandpit

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS – MULTIDISCIPLINARY SANDPIT

This sandpit will focus upon determinants and incentives for changing travel behaviour, habits and practice in order to better understand how we can move toward increased use of lower carbon transport.

More information at:

http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/funding/calls/open/travelbehaviour/Pages/default.aspx

In November 2009 an initial joint scoping workshop was run by the Department for Transport (DfT) and RCUK Energy Programme to identify possible research themes for a Grand Challenge in Transport. After further consultation with the transport research community, “Determinants and incentives for changing travel behaviour, habits and practice” has been identified as a major research challenge and therefore the focus of this sandpit. Providing funding support in this area will contribute toward making a transformational impact upon energy usage and emissions, and improve our understanding of how to promote lower carbon choices to achieve longer term change.

It is envisaged that proposals generated from this sandpit will:

Increase adoption of sustainable modes and lower carbon travel choices (including public transport and walking/cycling).
Reduce energy consumption and emissions from the transport sector.
Allow economic stability and continued economic growth.
Maintain / Improve quality of life.

This sandpit will take forward the evolving research agenda in this area to bring fresh approaches to this challenge.

Closing date: 4 PM on 18 August 2010

MMU Cheshire - open space call

Documents, Processes and Artworks 2010-11:
Call for artist practitioners to exhibit, stage, or test out, work in MMU Cheshire’s Department of Contemporary Arts project space (OPEN SPACE), as part of the new season of Axis Art Centre activity.
The Department supports mixed and interdisciplinary arts practices (dance, theatre, music, visual/screen practice, live art, creative writing) at undergraduate and postgraduate level*, with a particular inflection towards research led practice, and is host to the ‘Curating Knowledge’ Project. We welcome initial proposals from contemporary practitioners who would appreciate the opportunity to show work in an open venue and/or to put work forward for discussion and feedback. Previous showings of work have included screen practice, installation, performance interventions, ‘relational’ practices and general multi-mode practices – as artworks and/or documents of ongoing process. Professional practitioners and PaR PhD students are equally welcome to apply.

The space is available for each project over a two to four week period and can involve your presence as artist in residence if desired. Initial inquiries (with outline of practice) will be followed up with more detailed information of venue and context. This is an ongoing invitation but we are looking to begin this particular programme of work in January 2011. For inclusion in the next showing schedule please make contact by August 15th.

Please express your interest to: Jane Linden (Curator - Open Space) j.linden@mmu.ac.uk

*See details of MA in Contemporary Arts
http://www.cheshire.mmu.ac.uk/dca/subjects/subject.php?id=8

Global Fashion: Creative and Innovative Contexts

International Conference
CEPESE – Centro de Estudos em Economia, População e Sociedade Universidade do Porto

Call for papers
Introduction

Fashion is a phenomenon that crosses cultural and social contexts and, nowadays, it is a truly global economic activity.

Human beings need something new: it is at the same time an outer stimulus and an inner will to move forward, to make things happen and to be dazzled. Only the human being can create and needs fashion.

Creativity and innovation have always been present since the birth of fashion and intersect several sectors of activity: industries, handicraft and services.

Due to its global relevance, we believe it is important to invite researchers and professionals to meet and exchange their knowledge and experience on the field of Fashion.
website at www.cepese.pt

Teaching and Learning Conference 2010

University of Huddersfield
Connect 2: [Teaching, Learning, Research, Enterprise]
Monday 13 September 2010
Call for short papers & posters: Please circulate widely within your School/Service
 
The theme of this year’s conference is the learning, teaching, research and enterprise interface, specifically focussing on the following 3 key areas:
the ways in which subject-specific research and enterprise activity informs teaching and learning
the ways in which pedagogical research or enterprise activity helps us to enhance teaching and learning
the ways in which we teach our students, and they learn, to be researchers and to be enterprising
The conference will comprise keynote speakers, open space sessions, short papers, a poster exhibition and a plenary discussion panel.

Zoosemiotics and animal representations

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE “ZOOSEMIOTICS AND ANIMAL REPRESENTATIONS”
Tartu, Estonia. 4–8 April 2011.

Zoosemiotics is an interdisciplinary research program introduced by an American semiotician Thomas A. Sebeok in the 1960s with the aim to merge semiotics and ethology and to launch semiotic studies of animal communication. The foundational idea in zoosemiotics is that relations between animals and their environment as well as between different individuals are not purely physical, but are to a large extent sign-mediated. This gives a significant role to the animal subjects, and recognizes more as well as higher forms of complexity in animals than previously assumed. A lot has happened since the concept of zoosemiotics was proposed: the rise of biosemiotics and cognitive ethology are two among the many important developments in the field of animal communication studies.

Living on the Edge

The Fourth International Conference of the ISSRNC at the University of Western Australia (UWA-Perth)
16-19 December 2010

The International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, in association with La Trobe University, Melbourne, is organising its 4th International Conference, which will be held between 16 and 19 December 2010, at the University of Western Australia (UWA-Perth). Perth, located on the edge of land and sea, is a perfect site at which to discuss the notion of ‘Living on the Edge’.
We invite proposals from scholars exploring the intersection and edges of religion, nature and culture from a wide range of critical perspectives and from all disciplines.

Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics

Call for Papers

The Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics is a peer reviewed journal covering all aspects of the graphic novel, comic strip and comic book, with the emphasis on comics in their cultural, institutional and creative contexts. Its scope is interdisciplinary and international, covering not only English language comics but also worldwide comic culture. The journal reflects interdisciplinary research in comics and aims to establish a dialogue between academics, historians, theoreticians and practitioners of comics. It therefore examines comics production and consumption within the contexts of culture: art, cinema, television and new media technologies. The journal includes all forms of ‘sequential imagery’ including precursors of the comic but in the main emphasis will be on twentieth and twenty-first century examples, reflecting the increasing interest in the modern forms of the comic, its production and cultural consumption.

Constructing the Discipline: Art History in the UK

The third annual Glasgow Colloquium on Art Historiography will be held in the Institute for Art History of the University of Glasgow 25th – 27th November 2010. Papers lasting 20 minutes are invited on formative moments, movements, institutions and individuals in accordance with the mission statement of the Journal of Art Historiography. The UK means England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Moments could include significant exhibitions or the creation of the Dip AD, with its attendant requirements for art historical instruction. Movements could include the movement of scholars or exchange of ideas, the movement towards new art history and broadening of study to extend out of Europe. Institutions could include the foundation of art history departments or changes in the museum sector. Individuals could include significant scholars who have made an impact on the practice of the discipline.

Permanent Public Art Work – UTSC Instructional Centre

The Doris McCarthy Gallery, UTSC: Call for Applications
Deadline for expressions of interest

An Instructional Centre is being built at the University of Toronto Scarborough, marking an exciting new phase of campus expansion and a bold new addition to a campus that already boasts internationally celebrated architecture. With an expected completion date of March 2011, the new facility will support the emergence of UTSC as a vital hub for cultural and intellectual activity in the eastern region of the Greater Toronto Area.

The New British Sculpture: Reviewing the persistence of an idea, c.1850-present

Henry Moore Institute
16 February 2011, 10am-6pm
British sculpture has been frequently singled out as an area of outstanding cultural expertise. Numerous major exhibitions and accompanying catalogues, including British Sculpture in the Twentieth Century (1981), Un Siècle de Sculpture Anglaise (1996) and Sculpture in 20th-Century Britain (2003) have subscribed to the idea of a distinct ‘strand’, ‘school’ or ‘family’ of artistic endeavour. This idea has been presented as having been rejuvenated by a cycle of Oedipal renewal in which successive groups of younger artists have been seen to overthrow the practices of the previous generation. Among British sculpture's recent enfants terribles are the ‘Young British Artists’ of the 1990s, the 'New Sculptors' of the 1980s and the ‘New Generation’ sculptors of the 1960s who ousted such established figures as Moore and Hepworth. It is a story not only of ostensible generational succession, but also a story of a lack of continuity and a lack of recognition of the recurrence of similar claims for sculpture.

Stimulus Respond

We are currently soliciting contributions for the next edition of Stimulus Respond, called Master. Contributions might be literally or abstractly related to Master, and we encourage, as always, creative and experimental approaches to the theme. In congruence with Stimulus Respond's undisciplined approach, we welcome submissions from new and established contributors from within, between, and beyond such fields as cultural studies, anthropology, literary criticism, fashion, creative writing, politics, visual cultures, architecture, theatre, film and screen studies, sociology, media and communications and philosophy.

The Carnival of Death: Perceptions of Death in Europe and the Americas

An interdisciplinary conference organised by Maria-José Blanco and Ricarda Vidal, Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London.
Deadline for submissions: 21 June 2010
Conference dates: 24-26 Feb 2011

Venue: Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
In the most general terms death is defined as the final and irreversible cessation of the vital functions in an organism, the ending of life. However, the precise definition of death and the exact time of the transition from life to death differ according to culture, religion and legal system.

The essential insecurities and doubts over the nature and state of death have affected cultural production since the beginning of civilization. Likewise our attitude towards death is characterised by anxieties and ambiguities. ‘On the one hand the horror of death drives us off, for we prefer life; on the other an element at once solemn and terrifying fascinates us and disturbs us profoundly,’ writes George Bataille. Death can be ‘a consummation devoutly to be wished’ to say it with Hamlet, or ‘a wonderful gain’ to quote Schopenhauer. But while philosophers and poets explore the dark attraction of death, in everyday life we push all thought of it aside. Death, and above all our own death, must not impinge upon the living.

Bolton One

Deadline 30 April 2010
The University of Bolton, Bolton Council and NHS Bolton are seeking to commission an artist to create an integrated large-scale artwork, or a number of smaller artworks.

The artwork(s) will be integrated into the design of the new building, giving a unique opportunity to work alongside the architect and engineers. The new building is due to be completed and opened in 2012.

A short-list of artists will be selected, who will be paid a stipend of £800 to create a model of their proposal, together with a detailed budget. The total budget for the winning design should not exceed £50,000.

To obtain more detailed information pack, please call 01204 903378 or email: a.buckingham@bolton.ac.uk

http://www.bolton.ac.uk/News/News-Articles/2009/oct2009-4.aspx

The Digital Humanities: Beyond Computing

Special issue of Culture Machine, vol. 12;
www.culturemachine.net
edited by Federica Frabetti (Oxford Brookes University)

The emerging field of the Digital Humanities can broadly be understood as embracing all those scholarly activities in the humanities that involve writing about digital media and technology as well as being engaged in processes of digital media production and practice (e.g. developing new media theory, creating interactive electronic literature, building online databases and wikis). Perhaps most notably, in what some are describing as a ‘computational turn’, it has seen techniques and methodologies drawn from Computer Science – image processing, data visualisation, network analysis – being used increasingly to produce new ways of understanding and approaching humanities texts.

Pixilerations [v.7]

Call for entries
Pixilerations [v.7] new media showcase - part of the FirstWorks Festival, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, September 30 - October 10 2010
PIXILERATIONS [v.7] investigates the state of new media arts through installations, concert performances and film/video screenings.

details: http://www.first-works.org
deadline: March 31 2010

Women Make Waves Film Festival

Women Make Waves Film Festival, Taipei, Taiwan, October 2010
Women Make Waves Film Festival aims to celebrate the achievements of outstanding female talents, to explore different aspects of women's lives as well as to promote equality and rights of all genders. Submission to the festival is open to feature films, short films, documentaries, animation, experimental films and innovative visual productions for digital media.

details: http://www.wmw.com.tw
call for entries deadline: April 30 2010

Piksel10 Festival

PIKSEL10 FESTIVAL, Bergen, Norway, November 18 - 21 2010
Piksel is an annual event for artists and developers working with free and open source software, hardware and art. Part workshop, part festival, it is organised in Bergen, Norway, and involves participants from more than a dozen countries exchanging ideas, coding, presenting art and software projects, doing workshops, performances and discussions on the aesthetics and politics of free and open source software.

details: http://www.piksel.org
http://piksel.no/ocs
deadline: June 1 2010

Drawing Spaces - residencies

DRAWING SPACES | CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Residency & Exhibition Program 2010

Drawing Spaces invites artists/ practice-based researchers to submit proposals for a 2 to 3 week project at Drawing Spaces, Lisbon (Portugal).

[Month: to be confirmed]

DEADLINE: 15 April 2010
All candidates will be contacted for feedback after a few weeks after the closing date for submission. For application guideline, please go to:


http://drawingspacesen.weebly.com/call-for-proposal-2010.html




Drawing Spaces strongly encourages potential applicants to tour through our website for a better understanding of Drawing Spaces objectives and mission as a whole. This will also help the applicant to decide if Drawing Spaces is suitable for his/her project or vice versa.

CONTACTS
Espaços do Desenho - Drawing Spaces, Fábrica Braço de Prata
Rua da Fábrica do Material de Guerra, nº1, 1950 – 128, Lisbon, Portugal
Office Address: Rua dos Argonautas 3.17.03, 5A, 1990 – 014, Lisbon, Portugal

Opening Hours: Wednesday to Saturday, from 7pm to 11 pm
Email: drawingspaces@googlemail.com
Facebook: facebook.com/drawingspaces.espacosdodesenho

Architectural Humanities Research Association

Open Call for Expression of Interest to host 8th International Architectural Humanities Research Association [AHRA] conference, (Nov 2011)
Deadline Monday 5 April

Schools of Architecture in the United Kingdom, Europe or United States are invited to submit a draft proposal to host the 8th International AHRA conference due to be held in November 2011. Please consider the range of previous AHRA conference themes when making your bid. Also ensure that your bid aligns with AHRA’s agenda to be inter-disciplinary and inclusive.

Please provide in your submission the following:

1. Conference title;
2. A 300 word description of the proposed conference theme including key
questions. This information will be as is included a Conference Call for Papers;
3. A list of six invited speakers you would like to invite;
4. Conference venue and dates;
5. Conference committee members as well as point of contact;
6. Financial proposal for funding of conference.

'Expressions of Interest' are to be emailed to Dr Igea Troiani, itroiani@brookes.ac.uk by Monday 5th April 2010.

Harpo Foundation

Call for Funding Proposals
Deadline 15 April 2010

http://www.harpofoundation.org

Mission
Harpo Foundation was established in 2006 to support artists who are under recognized by the field. This applies to all artists whether emerging or further along in their careers. We view the definitions of art and artist to be open-ended and expansive.

2010 Funding Focus
The relationship between art and site in an era defined by digital technologies is the focus for Harpo Foundation's 2010 funding cycle. Of specific interest is the dialectic between the non-locality of the digital world and the existential physicality of our everyday environment. For example, our sense of place is being drastically altered by web space, which brings geographically distant locations together to form a new kind of locality, yet what's small, local, personal, political and natural informs our vision for a sustainable future; the search for place-bound identity persists.

The EYE-KEA Project Research Iniative

The EYE-KEA project is a research initiative aiming to open discussions concerning video art, web 2.0, Throwaway Culture, and the impact of technology on visual and popular culture.
Screening works by established and emerging video artists who are pushing the elements of video art, and opening further discussions through a one-day symposium.
This event has been proposed in order to discuss and define what is currently happening to visual culture in light of technological advances which are changing the way we relate to and interact with culture.

Politics & Public Space

SUBMIT for Issue#4 Theme: Politics & Public Space Deadline - April 1st

Publishing opportunity (online) for reviews, articles and photography.

Images: Up to three images. Should be 300 DPI and at least 1200 pixels on widest side. Save them as RGB, JPEG files on setting 12 (do not optimize).

Statement: All images and projects should be accompanied by a Statement relevant to the specific submission. Should be no more than 200 words long and contained in Email body.

IMAGINE: Towards an eco-aesthetic

Aarhus Art Building, Centre for Contemporary Art
OPEN CALL FOR PROPOSALS

IMAGINE
Towards an eco-aesthetic, 2011
The Aarhus Art Building,
Centre for Contemporary Art, Denmark

Artists and curators are
hereby invited to submit
proposals for 2011.

Deadline March 15

http://www.aarhuskunstbygning.dk

Only when people are in a position to use their own creative potentials, which can be enhanced by an artistic imagination, will a change occur [....] Art can and should strive for an alternative that is not only aesthetically affirmative and productive but is also beneficial to all forms of life on our planet.
Rasheed Araeen: Ecoaesthetics. A Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century

OF Lab / Project workshop

Deadline for project proposals 19 Feb 2010.
OF Lab / Project workshop

We are please to announce that to celebrate the conclusion of the Decode show at the V&A museum, we will be hosting an OF Lab from February 26th-28th. It's a completely free event, where we will basically take over the Sackler Centre for Arts Education at V&A, create a space for hacking and experimenting collectively. We've assembled quite a bit of kit (projectors, computers, cameras) and are pretty psyched about the venue. At all times, our space will be open for the members of the V&A public, who will be invited to observe and even participate in the process.

Workshop on Multimodal Location Based Techniques for Extreme Navigation Workshop

Second call for papers -
Workshop on Multimodal Location Based Techniques for Extreme Navigation Workshop in conjunction with Pervasive 2010 Helsinki Finland Monday 17th May 2010 http://www.haptimap.org/events/organized-events/pervasive.html
and twitter as extremenav10

Submission deadline 15th March 2010

Accepted authors may submit extended versions for inclusion in a special issues of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing to appear in 2010.

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Location-based data and services for geographical and navigational information (such as electronic maps and gps directions), are usually presented using visual displays. With the increasing complexity of information, and the variety of contexts of use, it becomes important to consider how other non-visual sensory channels, such as audition and touch, can be used to communicate necessary and timely information to users. Activities such as running, rock-climbing and cycling, are all examples of activities where navigational and geographical information may be needed, but where the visual modality is unsuitable. Additionally, there are a number of user groups such as visually impaired people and the emergency services, who also require non-visual access to geo-data. This workshop will provide a forum for sharing  research ideas and findings about new interaction and perceptualization metaphors, novel application contexts, multimodal and context-aware technologies for mobility -- thereby creating a solid foundation for further exploration of pervasive extreme navigation.

Topics
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Topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:

Sensing and applying user context to navigation and wayfinding Multimodal techniques to augment visual map displays Multimodal navigation systems for extreme sports Multimodal navigation systems for runners Multimodal systems for rescue workers Navigation systems for "eyes-busy" activities Wearable technology and textiles for navigation Environmental awareness for Disabilities and Visual Impairment.
User requirements capture/user involvement for non visual design

Submission details
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Submissions of either position papers or demo abstracts covering the topics of the workshop should be submitted by 15 March 2010.

4 page position papers or 2 page demo abstracts should be submitted in ACM format (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) as camera ready pdf files.

Wellcome Trust >> Arts Awards

Small to medium-sized projects (up to and including £30 000)
Funding can either be used to support the development of new project ideas, deliver small-scale productions or workshops, investigate and experiment with new methods of engagement through the arts, or develop new collaborative relationships between artists and scientists.

Large projects (above £30 000)
This funding can be used to fund full or part production costs for large-scale arts projects that aim to have significant impact on the public's engagement with biomedical science. We are also interested in supporting high-quality, multi-audience, multi-outcome projects.

Applicants can apply for any amount within the above boundaries, for projects lasting a maximum of three years.

Deadlines:

For small to medium-sized projects (up to and including £30 000) upcoming deadlines are:

• 29 January 2010
• 30 April 2010
• 30 July 2010
• 29 October 2010

Decisions will be made approximately three months after the relevant deadline.

For large projects (over £30 000) the deadline for preliminary applications will be 8 January 2010. Decisions will be made approximately six months after the deadline.

http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/Public-engagement/Grants/Arts-Awards/

If...

Call for proposals

Who: all artforms.
What: If.... is a series of projects
that g39 is initiating as part of the
2009-10 season. g39 is changing
the way it uses the space and the
opportunities it can offer to artists.
It is making the ground floor space
available to independent artist
projects, experiments,
performances etc. This opportunity
is open to artists, curators and
other arts professionals at any
stage in their career who have an
idea they’d like to try out in a
gallery environment or new work
that they’d like to expose to a new
audience. These projects will
alternate with g39’s exhibition
programme.

Heritage and the Olympics

HERITAGE and the OLYMPICS
The 11th Cambridge Heritage Seminar
University of Cambridge, UK

24 April 2010
http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/heritage-seminar

CALL FOR PAPERS
The 11th Cambridge Heritage conference seeks to examine the Olympics as a global and a local phenomenon affecting heritage by addressing two themes:
(1) the Olympics as heritage and (2) the impact of the Olympics on cultural heritage. Every four years the Olympics goes beyond just being a sporting event, offering a local and a global stage where countries can promote and showcase themselves to the world. Cultural heritage is intimately entangled in the games, both in terms of the Olympics as historic, but also in how the event impacts the cultural heritage of the host country.

Re-appraising the Neo-georgian

RE-APPRAISING THE NEO-GEORGIAN, 1880-1980 An International Interdisciplinary Conference Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London.
5-6 May 2011

Organised by the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art, English Heritage and the Open University.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Cultural Role of Architecture

THE CULTURAL ROLE OF ARCHITECTURE
University of Lincoln

24-25 June 2010
conferences@lincoln.ac.uk

CALL FOR PAPERS
What role can architecture play as a form of cultural expression? What is architecture capable of communicating in its current means of production, and in current economic structures? What can or should architecture communicate beyond its function? How does architecture participate in cultural and individual identity formation, and in cultural transformations?
What role can contemporary architecture play in the expression and development of the ideas and values of a culture, and in the intellectual development of the individual? To what extent is architecture becoming increasingly commodified, and increasingly marginalized as a form of cultural expression?

HOME, MIGRATION and the CITY: NEW NARRATIVES, NEW METHODOLOGIES

Conference
Scandic Linköping Vast, Linköping, Sweden

6-10 August 2010
http://www.esf.org/activities/esf-conferences/details/2010/confdetail317.html

There has been a recent surge of scholarship from human geography, sociology, history, architecture, and cultural studies that focuses on migration as a social, political, cultural and material process. This area of research on migration examines migrants’ transnational spatial practices, social and political identities and relationships with the state.
Central to this research has been a recognition that at the heart of migration lies a fundamental transformation in spaces and places that are linked to the social and cultural meanings of home and belonging. This conference takes ‘narratives’ – broadly defined as stories, diaries, myths, photographs, music, films, media images and representations of movement – as the analytical starting point for new research on migration.

Beyond Precedent

BEYOND PRECEDENT
Journal of Architectural Education

Theme Editors
Saundra Weddle, Associate Professor, Drury University (sweddle@drury.edu) Marc J. Neveu, Assistant Professor, California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo (mneveu@calpoly.edu)

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Although the National Architectural Accreditation Board (NAAB) requires that students understand historical traditions and global culture, it does not mandate the method of instruction. Still, many schools offer a suite of architectural history lectures that are often perceived as distinct from studio topics. The relegation of history, theory and criticism to a supporting role is furthered by the outdated notion that history courses serve primarily to provide a buffet of precedent studies focusing on form and technique. Such an approach, born of historical methods and pedagogies that emphasize stylistic and typological diagnosis, fails to recognize the depth of historical inquiry, changes within the discipline of history itself and increasingly diverse design pedagogies. Is it possible to propose more complex relationships between history and design?

Scale

Conference at the University of Kent
Scale is a word which underlies much of architectural and urban design practice, its history and theory, and its technology. Its connotations have traditionally been linked with the humanities, in the sense of relating to human societies and to human form. To build in scale goes virtually without saying in the world of ‘polite’ architecture, but this is a precept observed more often in the breach when it comes to vast swathes of commercial and institutional design. The older, more particular, meaning in the humanities, pertaining to classical western culture, is where the sense of scale often resides in cultural production. Scale may be traced back, ultimately, to the discovery of musical harmonies, or it may reside in the arithmetic proportional relationship of the building to its parts. One might question the continued relevance of this understanding of scale in the global world of today. What, in other words, is culturally specific about scale? And what does scale mean in a world where an intuitive, visual understanding is often undermined or superseded by other senses, or by hyper-reality?

acoustic space 8

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CALL FOR PAPERS:

ENERGY. Scientific and artistic, utopian and critical visions of future terrestrial energy.
Acoustic Space (Issue nr. 8)

"Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it can only be transformed."
(The law of conservation of energy)

RIXC Centre for New Media Culture is seeking manuscripts for the upcoming Acoustic Space journal entitled "ENERGY" (nr.8).

The journal will be published in between the previous Art+Comunication festival with the title ENERGY (organized by RIXC in 2009, http://rixc.lv/09) and the forthcoming 2010 festival conference - NETWORKS AND SUSTAINABILITY. This conference event will be held in Riga, June 16-18, 2010 (moderated by Armin Medosch and Rasa Smite), and it will be a part of the 6th European Meeting of SLSA (the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts) taking place in Riga and Liepaja, Latvia, June 15-20, 2010 (http://www.e-text-textiles.lv/SLSAeu2010/home.htm).

Concrete Geometries

Call for Submissions
Deadline 12th April 2010.
Concrete Geometries Spatial Form in Social and Aesthetic Processes
Over the past decade architecture has witnessed a revolution in design and fabrication tools available to the discipline that has changed the way we imagine space forever. Digital design methods for form finding and implementing have produced an influential body of work, preoccupied with the development of novel,
complex and heterogeneous spatial form.

This form, simply referred to as ‘geometry’, is often evaluated through performance driven issues emphasising the environmental and structural parameters that shape it. Yet, throughout history, the emergence of new spatial forms and with them new architectural styles, bear significance beyond advances in technology but in relation to what they offer to the human condition in terms of aesthetic
and social processes – issues currently under-represented by the discourse.
‘Concrete Geometries’ is a work-in-progress term derived from the notion of ‘concrete’ as ‘existing in reality or in actual experience’ or ‘capable of being perceived by the senses’ and the abbreviation ‘geometries’ for the constructed environment. ‘Concrete Geometries’ like Concrete Science, Concrete Music or Concrete Art is interested in the particular and immediate, concerned with actual use or practice.‘Concrete Geometries’ is an attempt to expand this current debate.

Designing a Business Degree at the Parsons School for Design

Design journalist & editor Bruce Nussbaum describes a workshop at Parsons School of Design:

"The Design & Management program within the School of Design Strategies program at Parsons is huge—600 students, growing fast—and the goal of the workshop was to shape its future. The program began a few years back when students (and their parents) expressed a desire to get into the business side of the fashion industry (hence, it began as a “human-centered” program based on students/parents desires/needs). Now Parsons wants to extend the curriculum and teaching staff to enable students to do Design and Design Thinking in all spheres of society, from business and medical services to social innovation. In short, the business degree program at Parsons wants to grow into the new wider space of Design as it has evolved from product to process, from stuff to experience." Read on after the link ...

http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/NussbaumOnDesign/archives/2010/02/designing_a_bus.html

Call For Papers: EPIC2010 道 Do / The way of ethnography

When: August 29-September 1, 2010

Where: Midtown Conference Center, Tokyo, Japan
Papers: Abstract submission deadline March 14, 2010
Workshops: Proposal submission deadline April 22, 2010
Artifacts: Proposal submission deadline May 2, 2010
Pecha Kucha: Proposal submission deadline May 9, 2010

The start of this new decade marks an exciting new departure for EPIC, as we move beyond North America and Europe for the first time – to Tokyo.

EPIC is the premier international forum bringing together artists, computer scientists, designers, social scientists, marketers, academics and advertisers - and others! - to discuss recent developments and future advances around ethnographic praxis.

We seek original, high quality and engaging papers, workshops, artifacts and
presentations concerning ethnographic praxis in industry, including case studies on research investigations, methodological & theoretical advances, discussions on outcomes, standards, and new applications of ethnography around this year’s conference theme:

道 Do / The way of ethnography

Do captures the sense of individual mastery that is achieved only with the help of a
community and its rich heritage. Do implies a body of knowledge and tradition with an ethic and an aesthetic.

Do is the “path” we have travelled and also the way ahead of us.

'Do' is one's sense of value reflected in a number of spiritual, martial, or aesthetic
disciplines which has been very influential in every aspect of Japanese cultures and societies. 'Bushido,' as portrayed in the movie 'Last Samurai,' is one of the most famous examples of the Japanese way of thinking. Also, Do can be seen in martial arts (e.g. Judo, Aikido and Karate-do), and in aesthetics, such as Sado (the way of tea), Kado (the way of flowers) and Shodo (the way of writing).

Join Epic 2010 and help define Ethnography’s Do. Show others “the way” of doing ethnography in your context, in your industry, in your geography, for your goals.

For up to date information and further details please visit:
http://www.epiconference.com/epic2010

Send any inquiry about the conference to: info@epic2010.com

To receive updates about EPIC2010 Conference, follow us on twitter (epiconference) or join the Linkedin group (EPIC)

Conversations about Innovation

Date

16 February, 2010 - 18 February, 2010

Location

Lancaster University

Description

with:

Daria Loi, Research scientist, Intel USA

Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, Tinker.it!, London, UK

Lucy Kimbell, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, UK

This is a short informal series of events around innovation, in part organised around the Experimentality annual research programme, in collaboration with the Department of Sociology, Centre for Mobilities Research and Mobilities.Lab, Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts, ImaginationLancaster, the Highwire Doctoral Training Centre, the Computing Department, and the projects Desire: Creative Design for Innovation in Science and Technology and Relocating Innovation. The idea is to explore different forms, practices and motivations around innovation. The series leads up to the Experimental Objects workshop on 18-19 February.

16 February

16:00-18:00 LICA Research Seminar

Lucy Kimbell on Aesthetic Play and interdisciplinary Ambiguity, Venue: B17 Bowland Annexe (Art Building)

19:00 Dinner

17 February

10:30-12:30 Experience design

Daria Loi, Venue TBA

Discussants: Daniela Sangiorgi, Monika Buscher, Corina Sas, Lucy Kimbell (Management School, Lecture Theatre 6)

12:30-13:30 Lunch

from 18:30 Craft/design your own pancake ;-)

Pancake party in the Sociology back courtyard

18 February

Different forms/motivations/orientations to Innovation

09:30-10:15 Innovation at Intel

Daria Loi, (Management School, Lecture Theatre 9)

10:15-10:45 Coffee

10:45-11:30 The New Chit Chat: design conversations through prototyping

Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino,

(Management School, Lecture Theatre 9)

11:30-12:00 Discussion

Discussant: Lucy Suchman and open discussion

13.30 onwards - Experimental Objects workshop, Storey Creative Industries Centre.

For more information, contact Monika Buscher (m.buscher [at] lancaster.ac.uk).

Politics of Design

Politics of Design
Deadline for abstracts 25 Feb 2010
International Workshop (24-25 June 2010, Manchester UK)

Organised by the Manchester Architecture Research Centre
http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/research/marc/

In the last decade numerous STS trained scholars engaged in a venture of unpacking design practices. Yet, to study the practical course of design means to be simultaneously involved in the subject of politics and in the particular sort of politics that is centred on objects (Latour & Weibel, Making Things Public). Recent studies in political philosophy and STS have argued that politics is not limited anymore to citizens, elections, votes, petitions, ideologies and particular institutionalised conflicts (DeVries, What is Political in Sub- politics?), and have reformulated the question of politics into one of cosmopolitics (Stengers, Cosmopolitics; Latour, Politics of Nature) and ontological politics (Mol, Actor Network Theory and After). The “political” is not defined as a way of codifying particular forms of contestation but as opening up new sites and objects of contestation (Barry, Political Machines).

Research Informed Teaching Conference

Research informed Teaching: Delivering participation, engagement and enquiry
Deadline for papers: 28 Feb 2010

Conference
Wednesday July 14 2010, 9.30am – 4.45pm
Staffordshire University
Keynote Speakers:
Prof. Alan Jenkins, Oxford Brookes University

Aotearoa Digital Arts

Deadline 5 Feb 2010
Call for participation in Electrosmog International Festival for Sustainable Immobility

As part of Aotearoa Digital Arts' participation in the electrosmog festival, we invite you to submit plans for projects that engage with one or more of the festival's themes (listed below).

The projects can take any appropriate form: distributed, networked, self-contained, globally participatory, localised, mobile, immobile, object-based, immaterial, grandiose, self-effacing, high-tech, low-tech, strategic, tactical, audio, visual, tactile...

The projects need to be carried out on or before the weekend of March 18-20 2010, and able to be documented online on or before the end of the festival (for international appreciation).

ElectroSmog International Design Competition

Deadline 15 Feb 2010
Call for designs.

Today we issued the call for the international design competition for sustainable immobility. We invite young designers, artists and other interested professionals and advanced students in design and art disciplines to submit proposals for designs for ’sustainable immobility’.

The reward for the winning proposal is a fully equipped residency realised through our extensive international partner network.
ElectroSmog International Design Competition website


ElectroSmog
International Festival for Sustainable Immobility
March 18 – 20, 2010

ElectroSmog

International Festival for Sustainable Immobility

Amsterdam / New York / Madrid / Helsinki / Riga / London / Banff / New Zealand / Munich / & on-lIne

March 18 - 20, 2010

Integrated Product Development

• Integrated Product Development

  Integrated Product Development Workshop (Sept 2010, Magdeburg, Germany).
  
  

Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning through Design — CETLD

Learning at the Interface: Museum and University Collaborations (July 2010, V&A, London)
Deadline for abstracts 7 Feb 2010. Call for conference papers.
Recent thinking by the UK government on the delivery of cultural policy and strategy has acknowledged the vital role that museums occupy in supporting and enhancing cultural and educational provision both regionally and nationally (DCMS 2008). The enormous potential of museums working with HE remains under-explored, under-researched. The conference aims to provide a forum for debate surrounding the policy implications of this work and a platform for discussion of issues and ideas that are relevant to the museum and higher education sectors.

Bonds and Borders: Identity, Imagination, Transformation

Conference of the Graduate School of the Arts and Humanities of the University of Glasgow, (June 2010, Glasgow)
Deadline 15 March 2010. Call for papers.
'Bonds and Borders' is a one-day international postgraduate symposium aiming to explore the challenges and opportunities created by migration and mobility across national, cultural and geographical boundaries. We welcome short papers from any discipline that contribute to the dialogue about geographical, cultural and ideological 'Bonds and Borders.' Presentations may be based on an interdisciplinary or transnational approach, literary or visual representations, political or historical interpretation, or any other relevant approaches. We also invite creative contributions such as from the visual arts or creative writing.

C:ADM2010

Cybernetics: Art, Design, Mathematics — A Meta-Disciplinary Conversation.
International Conference
Deadline for abstracts 29 March 2010.
"This is a conference where the main business will be to confer—to explore ideas through discussion and open exchange, in other words, to take part in an enormous brainstorm together! It is concerned with forming and asking the next question rather than reporting on answers to the last question. The conference is constructed around exploring and developing analogies between the four areas of the arts (including music), cybernetics, design and mathematics. Cross-overs between pairs of these subjects have been common, yet the nature of the cross-overs has rarely been examined, nor have all 4 subjects been brought together."

Art Histories, Cultural Studies and the Cold War

Conference at Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London (Sept 2010, London)
Deadline for abstracts 24 Feb 2010.
"Twenty years ago the world witnessed the most momentous geo-political changes since the end of the Second World War: the fall of the Berlin Wall, the implosion of the Soviet Union and the emergence of the USA as the global superpower. The period of the Cold War (c.1948-89) was one of ideological struggle and profound cultural crisis, no less so than for the discipline of Art History, rooted in the ideals and aspirations of the European Enlightenment. But the crucible of the Cold War also witnessed the re-definition of Art History, the birth of the New Left and a nascent tradition of Cultural Studies."

CfP: Politics of Design International Workshop, 24-25 June 2010, Manchester, UK.

In the last decade numerous STS trained scholars engaged in a venture of unpacking design practices. Yet, to study the practical course of design means to be simultaneously involved in the subject of politics and in the particular sort of politics that is centred on objects (Latour & Weibel, Making Things Public). Recent studies in political philosophy and STS have argued that politics is not limited anymore to citizens, elections, votes, petitions, ideologies and particular institutionalised conflicts (DeVries, What is Political in Sub-politics?), and have reformulated the question of politics into one of cosmopolitics (Stengers, Cosmopolitics; Latour, Politics of Nature) and ontological politics (Mol, Actor Network Theory and After). The “political” is not defined as a way of codifying particular forms of contestation but as opening up new sites and objects of contestation (Barry, Political Machines).

Applicants should submit a 250-word abstract and a short CV in Word format to Albena Yaneva with a copy to Andy Karvonen by February 25, 2010. Accepted participants will be notified by March 1, 2010. Authors of accepted abstracts should confirm their participation in the conference by March 15, 2010 and submit a completed paper of no more than 10 pages that summarises the main points of the presentation by May 21, 2010.

Please follow the link for more details: http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/research/marc/