[spectre] Raindance Film Festival London: Call for VR submissions

[Mária Rakušanová]

>> Calling all Virtual Reality creators and 360 filmmakers < <

Hi Spectres,

I'm the VR and Immersive Media curator at Raindance Film Festival in
London. We're the biggest indie film festival in the UK, and for the second
year we have opened submissions for Virtual Reality experiences. We'd like
to invite you to submit your latest work in VR.

Last year we shortlisted over 30 experiences in our VR selection:
http://calendar.raindancefestival.org/programmes/vr-arcade, and gave out 10
awards in the following categories:

   1. Best Interactive Narrative VR Experience
   2. Best Cinematic Narrative VR Experience
   3. Best Documentary VR Experience
   4. Best Music VR Experience
   5. Best Animation VR Experience
   6. Best Branded VR Experience
   7. Best Sensual VR Experience (erotica, not porn)
   8. Best Social Impact VR Experience
   9. Best Sound Design VR Experience
   10. Best Storytelling in Virtual Reality


*Submissions:*
https://filmfreeway.com/Raindance (select Virtual Reality as category)
The deadline in on June 1 but we can extend it for you if you have any new
projects in production. If you have any questions about the festival or
submissions, please let me know (ma...@raindance.org)

Thanks,
Maria
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*Mária Rakušanová*
Director and Curator of VR & Immersive Experiences
mobile: +44 745 333 2010

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[spectre] MADATAC X NEW MEDIA ART FESTIVAL OPEN CALL FOR FEBRUARY 2019

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[spectre] Architecture as Sonic Experience Masterclass by Esther Polak & Ivar van Bekkum, Berlin April 14 - 16

[Eric Kluitenberg]

Dear Spectrites,

Coming weekend the first workshop annex masterclass of the reDesigning Affect 
Space project will be conducted by artists Esther Polak and Ivar van Bekkum, at 
Spektrum in Berlin, on April 14 & 15, with a public presentation of results on 
Monday evening April 16.

Limited places are still available for the workshop, which is free of charge, 
but we ask for a ultra brief motivation from prospective participants. 
To join please send an e-mail to: cont...@polakvanbekkum.com 
 

-Eric

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reDesigning Affect Space #1: Architecture as Sonic Experience
Masterclass by Esther Polak & Ivar van Bekkum in cooperation with Hybrid Space 
Lab & Spektrum.
Berlin, April 14 - 16, 2018.

“Like Space” is a research by Hybrid Space Lab on the emotional and affective 
dimensions of hybrid (combined physical and media) space.

In their work, Esther Polak and Ivar van Bekkum (PolakVanBekkum) are 
investigating mobility and the (urban) landscape. In recent years they have 
explored the possibilities of location-specific binaural sound recordings. To 
enter a physical identification with mobilities and moving objects, they 
connected their recording equipment to those objects, instead of the human 
head. To radicalise this work method in scale, PolakVanBekkum proposes to apply 
it to a building. As a result, one ear would hear the eastern side of a 
building, while the other ear would hear the western side.

Workshop: Architecture as Sonic Experience 

Your ears are about 20 cm apart. How will you experience the city once you 
enlarge that distance? Will this make you hear like a giant? 

In two afternoons, you will experiment with listening over expanded distances: 
with your ears one meter apart, 2 meters, 5 meters, 20 meters, as if you 
enlarge your head. Can you intertwine sounds that enter your ears from a 
greater distance than you are used to? 

We will bring mics and extension cables to connect those distances to 
headphones. We can use our mobile phones to produce live streams. And don’t 
hesitate to bring your own equipment to experiment with. Once we decided on a 
setup, we will go out to the street to ‘become’ different objects: a tree, a 
bridge, a car, or a bus stop. 

We, Ivar and Esther, are curious to radicalise the scale of this work method as 
far as possible. Can we even identify with a building adding one ear to one 
side and the other to the opposite side? 

At the start of the workshop all participants will be asked to introduce 
themselves, to see what fields of knowledge, experience, and curiosity each of 
us brings. During the workshop we will build on this collective expertise. 
Concluding the workshop, we will define what ‘spatial listening’ brought us.

Can we approach the urban landscape from this position with a different view, 
or rather a different ear? What sort of bodily information do we get? What is 
the role of (mobile) tech to this? What is this kind of spatial listening? And 
how does it affect our sense of city-awareness?

http://spektrumberlin.de/events/detail/architecture-as-sonic-experience.html 
 

Presentation:

The results of the workshop will be presented in a public discussion at 
Spektrum on Monday April 16, starting at 20.00 (doors open: 19.30).

http://spektrumberlin.de/events/detail/presentation-architecture-as-sonic-experience-esther-polak-ivar-van-bekkum.html
 

 

Context:

This masterclass is part of ‘reDesigning Affect Space’, an international 
design- theory, practice, and research project initiated by lead-researcher 
Eric Kluitenberg, which consists of a series of masterclasses and conferences 
in Berlin, Madrid, Rotterdam and The Hague. The project aims to develop a more  
differentiated design agenda for the increasingly dense connections between 
public space, mobile media, and wireless networks, and the shift to affective 
relations in public space that result from this densification. 

Links:
binaural recordings of moving objects: 
car recording https://vimeo.com/136873473  
vorkheftruck recording   https://vimeo.com/138551393 
 
caterpillar recording  https://vimeo.com/137422115 
 
trolley recording https://vimeo.com/138643907  

PolakVan Bekkum:
www.polakvanbekkum.com  

Spektrum:
http://spektrumberlin.de  

Hybrid Space Lab:
http://hybridspacelab.net  

Essay reDesigning Affect Space (Open! Platform for Art, Culture and the Public 
Domain):
www.onlineopen.org/re-designing-affect-space 
 

Dates:
Workshop: Friday & Saturday, 12.30 - 17.00, April 14 & 15, 2018

[spectre] CFP: Arts, Culture, Technology, and Network Science (Paris, 12 Jun 2018)

[Andreas Broeckmann]

From: Maximilian Schich 
Date: Apr 8, 2018
Subject: CFP: Arts, Culture, Technology, and Network Science (Paris, 12 
Jun 2018)


Paris, NetSci2018 conference, June 12, 2018
Deadline: May 6, 2018

Call for contributions:

Arts, Culture, and Technology (ACT) satellite at NetSci 2018 in Paris

satellite website: https://www.netsci-act.info

A call for contributions is now open for the Arts, Culture, and 
Technology satellite session at the NetSci2018 conference in Paris, 
France. The aim of the satellite is to provide a forum for researchers 
working on the interfaces of Network Science, Arts, Culture, and 
Technology to introduce their work to the community through short 
presentations or actions that push the mutual boundaries of these 
fields, both critically and creatively, and to nurture discussion. We 
are particularly interested in contributions that highlight exciting 
results, ongoing work, and the crucial challenges faced by the field.


The satellite will take place in the afternoon of June 12th (Tuesday), 
2018 at the Ray Charles Room of L’Ecole de Musique Chateauform’ 
Republique in Paris, France.


The deadline for submissions is May 6th, 2018. To propose a 
contribution, please send

1. A three-word title;
2. A 240-character abstract; and
3. A single relevant image (2000 x 2000 pixel max)
by e-mail to netsci-...@googlegroups.com with the subject line 
“[NetSci-ACT contribution] Firstname Lastname”.


Accepted contributors will be given 7 minutes, like all other 
contributed or invited speakers, and the organisers. Please find more 
information at https://www.netsci-act.info


If you wish to attend the ACT satellite (regardless of whether you 
submit a proposed contribution or not), please send an email with the 
subject line “[NetSci-ACT attendant] Firstname Lastname”  to 
netsci-...@googlegroups.com by May 27th, 2018.


The ACT@NetSci2018 co-organisers,
Sebastian Ahnert, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Juyong Park, and Maximilian Schich
netsci-...@googlegroups.com

Reference / Quellennachweis:
CFP: Arts, Culture, Technology, and Network Science (Paris, 12 Jun 
2018). In: ArtHist.net, Apr 8, 2018. .




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[spectre] Dronica Festival #7 + Disinformation on Resonance FM

[Joe Banks]

*Dronica Festival #7 [12 to 14 April 2018] + Disinformation on
Resonance FM*Three
day long visual and sound art festival, featuring performances and
installations by Coagulant, Gareth Davis, Diamat, Disinformation, Denis
D’Or, Charles Hayward, Luxul, Jose Macabra, Kieron Mahon, Minus Pilots,
Mothax, Needle Factory, Raxil4, Miguel Domingo Redondo, Blanca Regina &
Pierre Bouvier Patron, Rotten Bliss, Ruido, Pascal Savy, The Seer, Daniele
Sergio, Tasos Stamou, Mira Varg and V-Stok… plus home-made Sicilian street
food by Sicilia Bedda –

Thursday 12 to Saturday 14 April 2018…

Thursday 7pm to 10pm - £5
Friday 6pm to 11pm - £10
Saturday 3pm to 10:30pm - £10

The Old Church
Stoke Newington Church St.
London N16 9ES

https://rorschachaudio.com/2018/04/04/disinformation-dronica
-stoke-newington/
Preview video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5skoigMpJDI

Disinformation feature on Resonance FM -
https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/wavelength-4th-november-2016/
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[spectre] Job vacancies: 4 PhD positions at Locating Media (Siegen, Germany) to study digital and mobile media

[Gerlitz, Carolin, Prof. Dr.]

Dear colleagues and friends,

starting 1 October 2018

four doctoral posts in cultural and social studies (media research) (salary 
category TV-L 13, 65%)

are available at the University of Siegen at the German Research Foundation 
(DFG) Graduate School, GRK 1769 "Locating Media", for the fixed-term period of 
three years. The duration of the contract complies with the 
Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz.

Please see the details below, further info can be found here: 
http://www.locatingmedia.uni-siegen.de. Application deadline: 15 April 2018.

Please do get in touch if you have any question, we are looking forward to hear 
from you.

Carolin Gerlitz


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Starting on October 1st 2018,
four doctoral posts in cultural and social studies (media research)
(salary category TV-L 13, 65%)

are available at the University of Siegen in the German Research Foundation 
(DFG) Graduate School, GRK 1769 "Locating Media", for the fixed-term period of 
three years. The duration of the contract complies with the 
Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz.
The University of Siegen is an innovative institution with an emphasis on an 
interdisciplinary orientation and has about 20,000 students and 2,000 
employees, including 1,200 academic positions. There is a broad spectrum of 
departments, ranging from liberal arts, social sciences, and economics through 
to natural sciences and engineering, and the University of Siegen provides an 
outstanding teaching and research environment with numerous 
inter/transdisciplinary research projects. The University of Siegen offers 
diverse options for combining professional and family life. For this reason, it 
has been certified as a family-friendly university since 2006 and provides a 
dual career service.
Locating Media
The Graduate School "Locating Media" was set up in 2012 and has focused on 
researching historical and current media practices 'in motion' and 'in situ'. 
The main objective of “Locating Media” is to facilitate a methodological 
re-orientation of interdisciplinary media research by engaging with locational 
and situational analyses and the development of new methods for the analysis 
and design of mobile digital media. In the second phase of funding, the 
existing expertise in praxeological, philological, historiographical and 
ethnographic methodologies will be expanded to include digital and mobile 
methods, to investigate the increased mobility and distributed spatiality of 
media and data processes.
The German Research Foundation (DFG) Graduate School provides an international 
environment for inventive and interdisciplinary media research by offering an 
intensive training programme, joint events with collaboration partners, 
training in relevant ethnographic, digital and mobile methods and the 
possibility of field research and research abroad. The research program will be 
realised in close collaboration with international partners and supporters, 
such as the Digital Ethnography Research Centre in Melbourne (RMIT), the 
Digital Methods Initiative (University of Amsterdam), the Centre for 
Interdisci­plinary Methodologies (Warwick University), Centre for Science 
Studies and Mobilities Lab at Lancaster University and other collaborators.
More information on the profile and program can be found here: 
www.locatingmedia.uni-siegen.de
Job description:
We expect:
–   independent conceptual design and implementation of a research project in 
one of the subject areas of Locating Media.
–   participation in the Graduate School events including workshops, 
international conferences, intensive workshops and summer schools.
–   regular presentation of interim findings of individual research projects 
during internal events (Research Colloquium, Lecture Series) and conferences.
This is a position for obtaining further academic qualifications (doctorate), 
for which the ongoing media research in Siegen, for instance the collaborative 
research centre 1187 "Media of Cooperation", provides a stimulating 
environment. The opportunity for this is provided within the scope of official 
duties. There are no teaching obligations as part of this post.
Your profile
−   a relevant postgraduate degree (Magister, Master, or equivalent diploma) in 
one of the following areas of study: media studies, ethnology, anthropology, 
geography, history, information science, science of art, cultural studies, 
literary studies, linguistics, political science, sociology or Science and 
Technology Studies.
–   outstanding scholarly achievements.
−   research project in one of the areas of study listed above (5- to max. 
10-page project prospectus including timetable).
–   interest in media research methods as well as an affinity for 
interdisciplinary research.
–   willingness to participate in the international event programme of the 
Graduate School.

–good written and spoken German and English language skills.
The University of Siegen is an equal opportunity 

[spectre] New podcast: Nina Power shares her thoughts on the ideological power of language, on systems of state violence, surveillance and control, and her own notion of “decapitalism”.

[Radio Web MACBA]

 *New podcast:* Nina Power
 shares her
thoughts on the ideological power of language, on systems of state
violence, surveillance and control, and her own notion of “decapitalism”.

Link: https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/nina-power-main/capsula


*This podcast is part of Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the Creative
Europe programme of the European Union*.

*Sound production commissioned to Jaume Ferrete. Editing by Loli Acebal*

Nina Power is a philosopher, teacher, writer, and activist. Her critical
thought spreads through a porous web of practices and experiences linked to
philosophy, feminism, art, politics, film, new technologies and labour
relations.

In her 2009 essay "One-Dimensional Woman" she drew attention to the
perverse way in which capitalism manipulates feminism, co-opting its
demands and returning them to us in the form of sugar-coated reactionary
slogans. Against this, Power proposes collectively rethinking feminism in
alliance with Marxism, and organising new social, labour, sexual, and
emotional networks.

For Nina Power, writing is a form of activism, and her manifestos,
newspaper articles, and essays are pockets of resistance to the hegemonic
narratives of consumer societies.

In this podcast, Nina Power shares her thoughts
on the ideological
power of language, on systems of state violence, surveillance and control,
and on the need to reverse the savage logic of neoliberalism through
strategies such as commoning and her own notion of “decapitalism”.

*Timeline*
*01:52* Surveillance, self-control and self-policing
*04:19* Decapitalism: unlearning the lessons of Capitalism
*10:11* "One Dimensional Woman", 2009
*17:52* Images and self-identity
*22:15* The language of the new brutality
*26:17* Ethics and politics of technology
*31:53* Commoning as a practice

*E/N/J/O/Y*


*E/N/J/O/Y *

*E/N/J/O/Y *
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