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CFP: Octopus: Journal Visual Cutlure, History, and Theory
by david silver 03 Nov '03

03 Nov '03

this looks really cool. david *** Call for Papers: Synesthesia Octopus (V1, N1) Spring/Summer 2004 The word synesthesia means "joined sensation." Synesthesia describes both a psychological condition and perceptual experience, conceptualized as a unity, confusion, or profusion of the senses. Synesthetes may visualize tactility, feel colors, taste sounds, or hear smells as if these sensory articulations existed outside of the body of the beholder. Synesthesia suggests a potent metaphor and method for examining and informing practices of visual studies, and for responding to critiques of this emerging field as overly fixated on the visual at the expense of other embodied experiences. The inaugural issue of Octopus invites 2,500-3,000 word manuscripts from all disciplines that engage with synesthesia from a wide-range of perspectives. Possible lines of inquiry include but are not limited to: 1) synesthesia as historically-situated perceptual experience, interdisciplinary methodological tactic, or theoretical engine; 2) phenomenology, the body, subjectivity, will; 3) gender, race, ethnicity 4) cyborg, posthuman; 5) art, music, film/video, new media; 6) philosophy, theosophy, hermeneutics; 7) literature, linguistics; 8) mysticism, ritual, religious experience, fantasy; 9) memory, mnemonics, hypermnesis; 10) geographies, navigation, directionality; 11) psychoanalysis, medicine, science Deadline for Submissions: January 15, 2004. Octopus is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal published by the graduate students of the Program in Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine. The journal is devoted to emerging scholarship that engages with visuality, culture, history, and theory from a range of contexts, disciplines, and methodologies. In addition to submissions on synesthesia, Octopus welcomes longer-form scholarship (6,000-7,000 words) as well as book reviews and art and film criticism (800-1,000 words) addressing questions regarding the politics of vision, the historicity of visual practices, and the cultures and theories of vision and visuality on an on-going basis. Manuscripts to be considered for publication should be accompanied by an abstract of no more than 150 words, six keywords, and a short biographic entry about the author(s). All submissions must include the title of the contribution, the name(s) of the author(s), and the postal address, e-mail address, and phone number for the author who will serve as the primary contact with the editors on revisions. All submissions should follow MLA standards. Book reviews and art/film criticism should be 800-1,000 words in length. Please include title of book(s), retail price, and ISBN at the beginning of the review. Art/show reviews should include the gallery, curator, and dates. For film and video/media reviews, include the director, production company (if applicable), and year of production. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to publish all illustrations and must include captions for each image. Please submit 100% size, printable quality illustrations in at least 350 dpi in an eps, jpeg, gif, or tiff file. Originals or slides of illustrations are also acceptable. Manuscripts and reviews submitted to Octopus should not be under consideration at any other journal. All submissions and inquiries should be sent electronically as Microsoft Word.doc attachments to: submissions(a)octopusjournal.org -- James L. Cahill jcahill(a)uci.edu PhD Student, Program in Visual Studies UC Irvine

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by Douglas Galbi 03 Nov '03

03 Nov '03

"As an apprentice information designer, I regularly have to decide whether to communicate information in words, images, or sounds. How do I decide this?" [Lantham (2001) p.2]. New technologies, such as mobile camera phones, voice-enabled mobile gaming devices, and lower cost color printers, are greatly increasing possibilities for sensuous choices in communication. The sensuous balance and evolution of the Internet and other communication spaces deserves more attention. My work "Sense in Communication" provides much material that you might use in considering sensuous choices in communication. It includes detailed analysis of a couple of artistic masterpieces: the Hamzanama of Akbar (sixteenth-century India) and the Morgan Bible of Louis IX (thirteenth-century France). The work also includes a discussion of sixteenth-century English iconoclasm, and demonstrates the importance of that history for understanding Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. This work, "Sense in Communication," is publicly available at www.galbithink.org I hope that it encourages more discussion of sensuous choices in communication industry development. Douglas Galbi FCC Senior Economist

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* New * Geert Lovink: My First Recession
by geert lovink 03 Nov '03

03 Nov '03

My First Recession Critical Internet Culture in Transition By Geert Lovink ISBN 90-5662-353-2 V2_Publishers, Rotterdam, 2003 My First Recession starts after the party is over. This study maps the transition of critical Internet culture from the mid to late 1990s Internet craze to the dotcom crash, the subsequent meltdown of global financial markets and 9/11. In his discussion of the dotcom boom-and-bust cycle, Geert Lovink lays out the challenges faced by critical Internet culture today. In a series of case studies, Lovink meticulously describes the ambivalent attitude that artists and activists take as they veer back and forth between euphoria and skepticism. As a part of this process, Lovink examines the internal dynamics of virtual communities through an analysis of the use of moderation and "collaborative filtering" on mailing lists and weblogs. He also confronts the practical and theoretical problems that appear as artists join the growing number of new-media education programs. Delving into the unexplored gold mines of list archives and weblogs, Lovink reveals a world that is largely unknown to both the general public and the Internet visionaries. Geert Lovink is a Australian-based Dutch media theorist and Internet critic, a co-founder of numerous online projects such as Nettime and Fibreculture, and the author of Dark Fiber and Uncanny Networks. Table of Contents: Introduction: Currents in Critical Internet Culture; Post-speculative Internet Theory, Three Positions: Dreyfus, Castells, Lessig; Anatomy of Dotcommania, Overview of Recent Literature; Deep Europe and the Kosovo Conflict, a History of the V2_East/Syndicate Network; Principles of Streaming Sovereignty, a History of the Xchange Network; Oekonux and the Free Software Model, From Linux to the GPL-Society; The Battle over New Media Art Education, Models and Experiences; Defining Open Publishing, Of Lists and Weblogs; Conclusion: Boundaries and Sustainable Models. -- V2 Publishing titles are distributed through the publishing house of the Netherlands Architecture Institute. The book will be available in Europe in the Fall 2003 and in the USA and through Amazon from January 2004. V2_Publishing Eendrachtsstraat 10 3012 XL Rotterdam The Netherlands tel: +31.10.206.72.72 fax:+31.10.206.72.71 www.publishing.v2.nl For publicity please contact Marije Stijkel (marije(a)v2.nl,) Direct ordering through V2: store(a)v2.nl Available in North, South and Central America through D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers Inc, 155 Sixth Avenue 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10013-1507, Tel 212 6271999, Fax 212 6279484. Available in the United Kingdom and Ireland through Art Data, 12 Bell Industrial Estate, 50 Cunnington Street, London W4 5HB, Tel 208 7471061, Fax 208 7422319. Available in Australia and New Zealand through Modern Journal, Robyn Ralton, P.O. Box 1082 Collingwood 3066 Australia tel/fax 0061 3 9481 2877 email modernjournal(a)netspace.net.au

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looking for a copy of "The six quests for the electronic grail: Current approaches to information quality in WWW resources" by Matthew Ciolek
by Mentor Cana 03 Nov '03

03 Nov '03

Hello, I'm looking for an electronic copy of the following paper by Mathew Ciolek: Ciolek, T. Matthew (1996). The six quests for the electronic grail: Current approaches to information quality in WWW resources. Review Informatique et Statistique dans les Sciences Humaines (RISSH)(1-4):45-71 Until recently the paper was available at http://www.ciolek.com/PAPERS/six-quests1996.html . Unfortunately, the site is no longer accessible beyond the first page (and it is empty). I'll appreciate if anyone can forward me a copy. Otherwise I'll have to scan the paper copy for the class (I'm a TA). Your help is greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Mentor

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Design in the University: an On-line Conference
by Ken Friedman 02 Nov '03

02 Nov '03

The editors of Design Research News invite you to participate in an unusual on-line conference titled "Design in the University." The conference will convene on the PhD-Design list to examine the issues, challenges, and problems of planning university level design education. What makes this conference unusual is the fact that the keynote "speakers" will focus on a specific project: the proposal for a new school of design at the University of California, Irvine. In the fall of 2000, the University of California at Irvine established a committee to develop a proposal for a new design school. Their mandate was to plan a school balancing inquiry into the nature of design and the design process with training in professional design practice. To write its report and guide the university debate, the committee studied today's leading design schools while working with a wide range of experts to plan the university-level design school of the future. The committee faced two major challenges. One was economic. The new design school would have to contribute to the economic growth and prosperity of a complex multi-cultural state positioned at the edge of the increasingly important economy of the larger Pacific region. The second challenge was quality - conceptual, intellectual, and professional. The new school must further and advance the work of one of the world's great universities, enhancing the university while drawing on its resources. After two years of work studying everything from design programs and best practices in curriculum planning to demographic trends and professional development, the committee delivered its report. The June 2003 issues of Design Research News reviewed the report: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/design-research.html The report is available in free .pdf download at http://www.evc.uci.edu/growth/design/SoD-proposal.pdf This on-line conference offers you an opportunity to meet the committee, to reflect on the questions they asked, and to ask questions of your own. Speakers at the on-line conference will include committee chairman professor Richard Taylor of information and computer science, professors Kristen Day and Sanjoy Mazumdar of urban and regional planning, professor Alladi Venkatesh of management, as well as Michael Clark, professor of English and comparative literature and associate executive vice chancellor for academic planning. Respondents include professors Lorraine Justice, head of industrial design at Georgia Technical University, Keith Russell of Newcastle University in Australia, Charles Burnette of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Christene Nippert-Eng of Illinois Institute of Technology, and David Durling of Staffordshire University. The conference open on November 10, convened by Ken Friedman of the Norwegian School of Management and Denmark's Design School. Following a brief introduction, Prof. Taylor will lead off and Prof. Justice will respond. This will be followed by two or three brief invited comments. The floor will then be open for conversation among the speakers. At this point, any conference participant will be free to ask questions or to offer comments. The first session will last for four days. The second session will open with Prof. Day, following a similar four-day format. Prof. Mazumdar will speak third, followed by Prof. Venkatesh. Vice Chancellor Clark will speak last. This conference offers participants a chance to benefit from the three-year process of research and development at the University of California, Irvine. In today's economic climate, few universities - and fewer design schools - will have the budgetary resources to build (or rebuild) design education on the level of a new purpose-built school. What this conference offers to existing schools is an opportunity to learn from improvements and changes implemented elsewhere, adapting them to local needs and opportunities as they shape programs for the future. To participate in this conference, please go to URL http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/phd-design.html Click on the line that reads Join or leave the list Follow the on-screen instructions to join. We hope you will join us in what promises to be an extraordinary on-line event with speakers and participants from around the world. David Durling and Ken Friedman

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