Call for experimental videos - 4/30/09

AKA sound with some images :)

http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=819

The web page this links to appears to be mainly in Spanish.

call: TRAMUNTANA’09

March 11, 2009 at 2:43 pm · Filed under calls: external, film/video

Call for entries
Deadline 30 April 2009

TRAMUNTANA’09 3rd edition is presented as a “Conextrum” during the 16, 17, July 18 in Cadaqués/Spain (Alt Empordà, Girona) is organized by (ACVEC) Cultural Association of Video and Electronic Arts Cadaqués.

TRAMUNTANA’09 includes multimedia art installations, performances and experimental audiovisual and projection of the selection of experimental video pieces submitted this year.

TRAMUNTANA’09 to integrate audio-visual technology and nature in a current exhibition of art works created and disseminated by contemporary artists engaged in the audiovisual and artistic experimentation. Has several exhibition spaces in which the activities, which bid to link the new paradigms of art expressed through light and sound.

In this edition, [Magnetism] defines the theme of Tramuntana’09. And it fits into sections MIAC’09 (6th International Marathon Artists in Cadaqués)

Experimental videos wanted!
download the entry form

+INFO http://virb.com/tramuntana09

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Service learning conference/proposal - 4/17/09

http://slpapers-proposals.blogspot.com/2009/02/15th-annual-coaltition-for-urban-and.html

The 15th annual Coaltition for Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU) conference Call for Proposals

The 15th annual Coaltition for Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU) conference, hosted by Widener University from October 11-13, 2009 will focus on "Building community resiliency: The role of university leadership."

The term "distressed" is frequently used in describing the urban environments in which many metropolitan universities are situated. This conference will explore how universities can promote a strengths-based approach to partnering with their communities to nurture community resiliency. Defined by Rolfe as the capacity "to respond effectively to significant adversity and risk," community resiliency depends on social capital, as well as the interactions and engagement among community members to achieve common goals. This conference will provide a forum for faculty, students and administrators to share ideas, experiences and recommendations about the leadership role that metropolitan universities can assume in promoting community resiliency.

Please join us for this stimulating meeting that will include plenary sessions, paper presentations, special topic panels, roundtables, poster sessions and student presentations.

Suggested Topics

• Strengths-based approaches

• Educational infrastructure

• Environmental threats and remediation

• Wellness and public health

• Social capital

• Economic/business development

• Impact assessment

Proposal Submission Guidelines

Individuals may submit proposals for paper presentations, panel discussions, or poster displays. Consistent with the conference theme, the content should relate to institutional commitments by urban and metropolitan universities to drive progress in their regional communities. Complete information about proposal submissions can be viewed at:

www.cumuonline.org/conference

Proposals must be submitted electronically at www.widenerconferences.com/cumu.html

Submission deadline: April 17, 2009

Selection and Notification

The committee will evaluate your proposal for content, appropriateness, and interest. Notification will be sent by June 1, 2009. Conference presenters will be invited to submit papers to the editor of Metropolitan Universities journal for possible publication in a future journal issue.

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Organised Sound Journal Call - 6/15

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displaySpecialPage?pageId=1444

Organised Sound
An International Journal of Music and Technology


Call for submissions

Volume 15, Number 1

Issue thematic title: The Sonic Image

Date of Publication: December 2009
Publishers: Cambridge University Press

Issue co-ordinator: Simon Atkinson (satkinson@dmu.ac.uk)


What is the ‘image of sound’? How can the ‘sonic image’ be described and studied? This issue aims to explore the significance of the term for electroacoustic musics, as theoretical concept and phenomenon of experience. Although ideas of musical and sonic imagery appear (explicitly or implicitly) with some frequency within some musicians’ descriptions and discussions of their work, as well as within some music theoretical discourse, there has been little systematic elaboration of its nature or implications. In the context of long-standing more general debates regarding the nature of mental imagery, music, and more broadly, sound, have been significantly underrepresented.

Questions of relevance include:


* Can the ‘sonic image’ act as a focus for future interdisciplinary research that might build bridges between the cognitive and the cultural regarding our experience of sound?

* Does the term suggest approaches that might usefully locate musical practice with technology within broader experience, including media contexts where sound is recorded and reproduced?

* In what ways might ‘sonic imagery’ reveal more about mental and cultural processes involved in listening and the formation of sense and meaning in contemporary musics?

* Although musicians freely talk of the ‘musical imagination’, can this really exist independently of other modes? If not, what might this reveal to us regarding the fundamental nature of musical listening?


Alternatively, some might argue that it is a ‘wrong concept’, something too dependent on thinking not concerned with the specifics of musical or aural experience, and tied up with excessive baggage of previous philosophical and cognitive discourse.

This issue of Organised Sound is intended as a catalyst for discussion, founded on the premise that the practices of electroacoustic music over recent decades may suggest important questions in this direction, as well as that its elaboration will require fundamentally interdisciplinary approaches. Papers are sought that deal with specific musical practices, genres or listening situations (e.g. acousmatic), that are based upon analyses of specific works or approaches, or that consider existing theoretical studies through the lens of this concept/phenomenon. Within the broad terrain of electroacoustic music studies, arguments might draw upon the perspectives of fields such as Music Perception, Music Psychology, Music Cognition, Neuroscience, Semiotics, Semantics, Phenomenology, Ecologically-informed theory, Aesthetics, Media and Cultural Studies, or the examination of the ontological status of sound recording and reproduction within electroacoustic music practices.

As always, submissions related to the theme are encouraged; however, those that fall outside the scope of this theme are always welcome.

Deadline for submissions is 15 June 2009. Submissions may consist of papers, with optional supporting short compositions or excerpts, audio-visual documentation of performances and/or other aspects related to your submission that can be placed onto a DVD and the CUP website for “Organised Sound”. Supporting audio and audio-visual material will be presented as part of the journal's annual DVD-ROM which will appear with issue 15/3 as well on the journal’s website.




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SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 15 June 2009

SUBMISSION FORMAT

Notes for Contributors and further details can be obtained from the inside back cover of published issues of Organised Sound or at the following url:

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayMoreInfo?jid=OSO&type=ifc (and download the pdf)

Properly formatted email submissions and general queries should be sent to: os@dmu.ac.uk (not to the guest editor)

Hard copy of articles and images (only when requested) and other material (e.g., sound and audio-visual files, etc. – normally max. 15’ sound files or 8’ movie files) should be submitted to:

Prof. Leigh Landy
Organised Sound
Clephan Building
De Montfort University
Leicester, LE1 9BH
UK

Editor: Leigh Landy

Associate Editors: Ross Kirk and Richard Orton

Regional Editors: Joel Chadabe, Kenneth Fields, Eduardo Miranda, Jøran Rudi, Barry Truax, Ian Whalley, David Worrall

International Editorial Board: Marc Battier, Hannah Bosma, Alessandro Cipriani, Simon Emmerson, Rajmil Fischman, David Howard, Rosemary Mountain, Tony Myatt, Jean-Claude Risset, Francis Rumsey, Margaret Schedel, Mary Simoni

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Media Art Scoping

http://transition.turbulence.org/blog/2009/02/03/media-art-scoping-symposium-melbourne/#more-8718

Media Art Scoping Symposium - Vital Signs II — Media art education at the intersection of science, technology and culture :: July 4 - 5, 2009 :: Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia :: Call for Abstracts - Deadline: March 27, 2009.

The media/electronic art scoping symposium seeks to explore the current pioneering educators, artists and scientists who have brought about the dissolution of boundaries that have traditionally existed between the artistic and technological disciplines. The symposium will survey the work of media art educators who have developed new interdisciplinary curricula, facilities and information technologies.

The symposium aims to add to the media art scoping study via collaborating between leading universities in Australia currently conducting research and academic teaching and learning programs in new media/electronic arts. The symposium will explore influential theoretical, scientific and philosophical pedagogies that have influenced the development of media/ electronic arts.

It is the ambition of the scoping project to establish the basis for a functional network model. Significantly, the establishment of an online historical database and link to the symposium will provide a body of information to assist development of appropriate infrastructure reflecting an approach to training that is in tune with the distinctive characteristics of the discipline area now and for the future.

The Mass symposium calls for refereed and non referred papers, posters on the following themes:

• media art, media art histories and associated pedagogical strategies.
• media art in the context of contemporary art education.
• examples of media art, descriptions and analysis of science, media art and culture.
• creative practice as research in new media
• media art innovations in teaching and learning

These would be based on the introduction and infiltration of digital media, technologies and related pedagogies in disciplines such as Art & Design, Architecture, the Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences; as well as examples of interdisciplinarity through art-science-technology collaborations.

We particularly wish to encourage presentations from and about new developments in teaching Media Art. Proposals are welcomed from academics, artists, theorist, and researchers in media art, media art history, performance studies, literature, film, and science and technology studies.

Deadline for 200 word abstracts: 27th March 09. Please submit proposals by email to:
Julian Stadon Media Art Scoping Symposium organizer j.stadon [at] curtin.edu.au Abstracts of proposals, panel presentations and posters should be submitted in either text, RTF, or Word formats.

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Service Learning Symposium

http://www.uindy.edu/issl2009/

Deadline 3/30

Universities increasingly are embracing service-learning as a model to integrate community service with learning and research. If service-learning is considered a social movement or social reform affecting higher education, a number of pertinent questions must be addressed so that service-learning can be rooted in the fabric of higher education. This symposium encourages participants to explore a wide range of issues related to research, curriculum design, assessment, institutional support, community connections and partnerships, and student development, with the goal of providing participants with perspective on critical issues, paradigms, and challenges in service-learning in higher education.
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