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The Panel Discussion ‘Sound-Space-Network’ at ISEA2009 was presented by The Audio Cultures Seminar in GradCam and curated by Rachel O’Dwyer. It took place on Monday 31 August 2009 at the Broadcast gallery, DIT, Portland row, Dublin.
www.gradcam.ie/speaking_matters/audio_broadcast.php

Panelists:
Tapio Makela ‘Art of Locative Memory’
Frauke Behrendt ‘Audience Perspectives in mobile Sound Art’
Nigel Helyer ‘The Sonic Nomadic: Exploring Mobile Surround Installations’
Pedro Rebelo ‘Addressing The Network: Performative Strategies for Playing Apart’

Panel Discussion ‘Sound-Space-Network’
presented by The Audio Cultures Seminar in GradCam
Curated by Rachel O’Dwyer
Monday 31 August 2009: Panel Discussion: 11.00am – 1pm
Broadcast gallery, DIT, Portland row, Dublin.
Exhibition open to public 11am-5pm, 28th, 29th, 30th, and 31st August

What role does sound play in the informational society, as a strategy to convey information, produce experiences of place, and illicit new interpersonal behaviours? As part of the International Symposium for Electronic Arts, the Audio Cultures seminar at the Graduate School for Creative Arts in association with Broadcast Gallery, DIT, present a short exhibition and panel discussion around the themes of urban space, sound, and networks. In response to the ISEA theme of Engaged creativity in mobile environments, this exhibition explores the relationship between sound and the networked city, through site-specific audio installation and interactive media work. Those participating include Florian Hollerweger (Au), Matt Green (UK), Sarah Dunne (Ire), Tim Redfern (Ire) and Sharon Phelan (Ire).

As an intrinsic part of the exhibition a panel discussion will take place on Monday 31stSeptember and will address themes related to the exhibition and the symposium in general. The panelists include Tapio Makela, University of Salford, Frauke Behrendt, University of Sussex, Pedro Rebelo, Sonic Arts Research Centre, QUB, and Nigel Helyer, Industry Research Partner at Audio Nomad. Participants in the exhibition and Panel discussion will reflect on the potential of sound, as mobile music, sonic architecture, networked performance, and sonic interaction design, to shape new forms of place-making, interaction, and sociability in the urban informational society.
For more information check: http://www.broadcastgallery.ie/

The Symposium Embodiment & Mobility takes place on Friday, April 3rd on the 4th floor of the CIT building (see below). We will have a morning session starting at 9:30, the afternoon session will start after lunch at 2:30 and finish around 5pm. We will then have drinks at a newly-opened D+M student curated exhibition across the road.

At 6pm Chris Salter will give a talk as part of the “Music and Body” Colloquium at Brown’s Meme program with whom we are glad to co-organize Chris Salter’s contribution and some of you might want to join this event.

We will round off the evening with a dinner at a nearby affordable restaurant (own expense).

This symposium is free and open to the public. However we ask you to reserve your space with Sue Mazzucco at digital at risd dot edu. Thank you!

D+M Symposium Embodiment & Mobility speakers:

Keynotes:

Christiane Paul, curator
D+M part-time faculty
Adjunct Curator of New Media, Whitney Museum of American Art

Chris Salter, media artist composer
Associate Professor, Design & Computation Arts, Concordia University

Speakers:

Lalya Gaye, artist / designer
D+M Artist / Designer in Residence

Kelly Dobson, artist
D+M Artist / Designer in Residence

Francisco Ricardo, historian / theorist
D+M  part-time faculty

Erik Conrad, artist
D+M  part-time faculty

Jamie Jewett, artist / dance technology
D+M part-time faculty and Technology Research & Computing Coordinator

Organisers and speakers:

Teri Rueb, artist
D+M Associate Professor & Head of Department

Frauke Behrendt, media theorist
D+M Visiting Assistant Professor

Information

The Digital+Media Department is on the 4th floor of the CIT building at:

169 Weybosset Street
Providence, RI 02903, USA

Details for Chris Salter’s evening talk are here, and the venue is here. This talk is part of the Colloquium “Music and the Body” at the Department of Music at Brown University.

New call for works
sound is art)))
Phonurgia Nova awards 2008
deadline :15 october

The Loud-speaker is probably the greatest common denominator in all our lives to-day. Video, multimedia, car radios, mobile phones are all crafting a new life for sound. In all domains sound is an objet of research, of reflexion.
It is essential to open up creative, imaginative spaces for sound.
And to encourage people to listen.
Christian Leblé, chairman.

#01 Background
Among the prizes awarded for radio art and acoustic creation, the Phonurgia Nova competition has, since 1986, occupied a special place by virtue of its recognition of artists whose work exploits sound as a medium for expressing the real and the imaginary. The contest is open to all radio station formats and to all authors, independant radio producers, musicians, composers, sound artists and production teams. An international jury panel made up of representatives from the radio industry, the press and the sound art world judge the entries. In 2007, 152 productions from 15 different countries were entered in the prize.

#02 Call for Works
This year’s competition will distinguish authors whose work manifests a keen sense of sound and listening as means of expression.
The jury will deliberate on two areas :
++ Radio Arts will privilige all forms of inventive radiophonic creation (documentary, feature, fiction, essays, Hörspiel, experimental forms etc.)
++ Inter Media awards will go to sound installations or works which have been specially created for “inter media environment” to bring new experiences in sound to listeners.
In each category the jury will deliberate on two types of work :
1)completed productions
2)projects

#03 How to apply
The competition is open to all artists without exception and for any work produced later than 2005, regardless of language, format, duration or genre.
Each work or project submitted must be accompanied by a separate registration form, filled out in English or in French, and must be sent on a separate CD or other digital medium.
Each submission must include :
-a biography of the author(s) and general information concerning his (their) habitual manner of working (this will not be given to the jury).
-an authorization to participate from the production or the co-authors of the works submitted
-30 euros registration fee for each work submitted to the competition (there is a limit of two works per author).
-for finished products: a digital copy or transfer of the work (audio CD or DVD), accompanied by a well documented presentation of the work
-for projects: a description and/or maquette and/or a scenario of the project, accompanied by any documentation which could inform the jury as to the intention of
and the technical facilities required for completion of the piece.

One application form per project or production (and not one per author/producer)

An application form is available in PDF format from the link below

DOWNLOAD THE REGISTRATION FORM

#04 Prizes
The jury will award: one Radio Arts prize and one New Media prize and 4 500 euros and three artist’s residencies at GRM/INA, IMEB and GMVL, (three famous sound art centers located in Paris, Bourges and Lyon). The main selective criterion remains the expression of an original artistic vision. At least 4 works will be selected for presentation in Arles in the Museum for Contemporary Art Musée Réattu. Additional prizes could be given at this time. The Jury decisions are not subject to appeal.

#05 Deadlines
Applicants are asked to submit their productions by October 15, 2008 (arrival at Arles)
Results will be announced on December 15, 2008. Results will be given to all participants by email. The terms of artist-in residence will be organized during the year 2009, in accordance with dates chosen by the prize winners. Prize winning works, or works produced during residencies, will be auditioned or exhibited at Arles 2009 Festival and also by the associated production partners.

#06 Liability
Authors must make sure that any participant or right owner has given his agreement. The festival management is not legaly responsible for any damage caused on any piece of the entry. The Festival management reserves the right to use any selected work in order to promote the Festival. The completed entry forme represents the candidate’s consent to the above rules and regulations. The french version of this text will be taken in account in case of contestation.

# 07 A listening room
An online “listening room” on www.transradio.org enable visitors to have access to some previous selected works.

# 08 Sound archives
All the materials received at the Phonurgia Nova contest will constitue a permanent archive of audio works. This archive will be opened to the public.

For more detail and information see http://www.phonurgia.org/concours_crea_regle_Us.htm

The talk by Sumanth Gopinath (who wrote “Ringtones, or the auditory logic of globalisation”) and Jason Stanyeck “Digital Auditory Cultures and the Problem of ‘Mobile Music’” gave a very detailed analysis of mobile music, using the Nike+ range as a case study. They talked about the fundamentally complex experiences of mobile music. Hardt, Negri, and Harraway served as a background to discuss bioregulation and self-regulation in relation to exercising and mobile technology.

Their concerns with auditory feedback of bodily data also chimes with Sonic Interaction Design (SID) group around Thomas Herrmann, that are researching the sonification of biomedical data. Tim Rice presentation of sound in hospitals “Broadcasting the Body: the private made public in a London hospital”, and John Wynne recording that were part of the evening’s concert, and who presented at the Sound Art conference in Copenhagen, are also relevant in this context.

Gopinath and Stanyeck’s paper was very interesting in their focus on the body and the sounds of the body in relation to public and private, health and illness, mobility and immobility. The Nike+ is a system where you put a small chip into your running shoes and it transmits your running data to your ipod. You can choose celebrity’s voices for encouragement during your exercise, playlists by celebrety athletes, have information about your run and your preformance read out to you. After the run you can upload your data to a website to track your progress and to join a community of other runners. Gopinath and Stanyeck also analyse two commercials for the Nike+ system. In one of them the public private distinction is dramatised, the private space being where the data is uploaded to the community online, the public space the non-social running arena with your individual run and music. The marketing phrase is “tune your run”. The second clip is around a female runner and features comic-style speakers appearing in the streets accompanying her run, the sound of her breath, and a band emerging and running with her. Interestingly, elite runners (and most runners I know including myself) don’t listen to music on their runs, as it distracts from the needed focus on their bodies.
Their presentation of choreographies of mobile listening, their analysis of the run as sonic object to be tuned opens up to further research in the area, especially around the movement of bodies and capitals.

John Levack Drever’s (Goldsmiths’ College, London) talk “Ochlophonics Hong Kong: Everyday Sound Practices Within the Crowd” was next. I picked up a few random points that don’t reflect the soundscape recording focus of his talk. Levack taught at a university in Hong Kong and observed that it was perfectly normal for students to talk on the phone and text during lectures.

He also observed a very different notion of public and private space, especially as many spaces are highly commercialised. People in Hong Kong don’t seem to listen to (their own) music primarily on their mobile devices, in stead radio listening, and especially Cantonese opera, horse racing, business news and Buddhist chants. Levack reported that many people listen only with one earpiece in public, a listening strategy also observed by a later presentation by Nicola Dibben and Anneli Beronius Haake on “The Experience of Music in Office-Based Workplace Settings”.

The last random piece I noted from this talk is a set of items that are traditionally burned for the dead in Hong Kong. Traditionally this used to be money, but now representations of all sort of consumer goods are also burned. The package Levack showed contained, headphones, hearing aids, radio, mp3 player and mobile phone – all mobile audio devices!

Call for Submissions

Artech 2008 is the fourth international workshop held in Portugal and Galicia on the topic of Digital Arts. It aims to promote contacts between Iberian and International contributors concerned with the conception, production and dissemination of Digital and Electronic Art. Artech 2008 brings the scientific, technological and artistic community together, promoting the interest in the digital culture and its intersection with art and technology as an important research field, a common space for discussion, an exchange of experiences, a forum for emerging digital artists and a way of understanding and appreciating new forms of cultural expression.

Main Topics
Main areas are related with sound, image, video, music, multimedia and other new media related topics, in the context of emerging practice of artistic creation.
Although non exclusive, the main topics of the conference are:
* Art and Science
* Audio-Visual and Multimedia Design
* Creativity Theory
* Electronic Music
* Generative and Algorithmic Art
* Interactive Systems for Artistic Applications
* Media Art history
* Mobile Multimedia
* Net Art and Digital Culture
* New Experiences with New Media and New Applications
* Tangible and Gesture Interfaces
* Technology in Art Education
* Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality

Submissions
Authors are invited to submit:
* A full paper of six to ten pages for oral presentation
* A short paper up to four pages for poster presentations or Art
Installations proposals
Submissions are accepted in the conference official languages:
English, Portuguese, Galician and Castilian.

Format
Artech 2008 has the format of a conference with technical sessions, invited talks and discussion panels as well an exposition area for installations. All the contributions are subject to a blind peer-review and evaluation by the International Programme Committee. All papers accepted for presentation will be published in a duly registered book (ISBN) and a selection of the best papers will be published in an appropriate scientific and technological academic journal.

Important dates
Full papers submission: 2 June 2008
Installations proposals and short papers submission: 9 June 2008
Full papers notice of acceptance: 7 July 2008
Installations proposal and short papers notice of acceptance: 14 July 2008

Organization
[CITAR] Research Center for Science and Technology of the Arts
[http://artes.ucp.pt/citar/]
[UCP] Portuguese Catholic University – Porto, Portugal
[http://artes.ucp.pt/]
[UM] Minho University
[http://www.uminho.pt/]