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August on -empyre- .microsound
by Michael Arnold Mages 01 Aug '03

01 Aug '03

August on -empyre- .microsound with Trace Reddell, john hudak, Glenn Bach, John Kannenberg, and tobias c. van Veen Please join us at -empyre- for a month's discussion of .microsound with five practitioners of the art form. Sound at the molecular level - slices of sound that are less than .1 second in length, made accessible by digital sound editing technologies - are the realm of .microsound. Microsound artists stretch and massage these tiny bits of sound into spatially intense, surprisingly expressive works that cover a wide range of styles. subscribe to -empyre- at: http://www.subtle.net/empyre/ ---> Trace Reddell { http://www.du.edu/~treddell/ } has been exploring the intersections of audio and multimedia production, digital networks, media theory, literary criticism, and the history of drug culture for almost fifteen years. He resides in Lafayette, Colorado, where he spends much of his time in Pharmakopolis. Trace's literary sound and multimedia pieces include LITMIXER (2001) { http://www.altx.com/ebr/ebr12/litmix/index.htm }, featured in Electronic Book Review's music/sound/noise issue, and "Machinery for Dreaming" { http://llc.du.edu/faculty/treddell/palimpsest/reddell_machinery_for_dreamin… }, an exercise in .txt-to-.midi conversion exploring the work of Thomas De Quincey. Collaborative projects and affiliations include the pharmakon.t remix { http://www.djrabbi.com/ } work at djrabbi.com with Mark Amerika, Chad Mossholder of Twine, and Rick Silva; and Pharmakopolis Broadcasting Services, an upcoming series of live webcast animations created for Randall Packer's Tel-SPAN network. Publications on networked laptop performances are forthcoming from Leonardo Music Journal and Electronic Almanac and Contemporary Music Review. ---> john hudak { http://www.johnhudak.net/ } bio: I began piano lessons in first grade. I remember the teacher was Japanese, and her home had a feeling of preciseness. The piano I had my lessons on was immaculate... the keys were smooth, cool, ivory, with a definite weight under my little fingers. ---> Glenn Bach { http://www.csulb.edu/~gbach/sound.html } is a sound artist who maps the sonic terrain of the city through detailed sound walks, manipulated field recordings, blind sound drawings, and found poems. His audio works include a recently released four-track EP on the Stasisfield label { http://www.stasisfield.com/ }. With a recent appearance at Sound/Shift Oakland, Bach has upcoming performances at the Big Sur Experimental Music Festival and the CPEACH Summer Series in Eureka, California. He improvises with two other musicians as Luminous Flux, and directs a larger group, The Double Blind Ensemble, for his composed works. His poetry has been published in numerous small press literary journals, and he received three Pushcart Prize nominations for his poetry in print. He currently lives in Long Beach, California, with his future wife. ---> Sound and visual artist John Kannenberg { http://www.whistlingpariah.com } formed the experimental improvisational duo Wireshock with guitarist Scott Kane in 1997 and began exploring electronics and computer-aided composition. In 1999, John began work as a solo sound artist using manipulated field recordings as the foundation for loop-based generative electronic pieces. His major audio and visual works deal with a variety of themes, including atmospherics, transmissions and interference { http://www.stasisfield.com/releases/aero/ }, melancholy and nostalgia { http://www.stasisfield.com/releases_02/2002-miles/ }, and abstracted narrative tales. John has exhibited several sound art installations, alone and as part of a collective known as J3. In April 2002 John created Stasisfield.com { http://www.stasisfield.com/ }, an experimental mp3 record label and digital art gallery. ---> tobias c. van Veen { http://www.quadrantcrossing.org } is a sound & net.artist { http://www.thisistheonlyart.com }, curator, techno-turntablist, and writer. He has been enmeshed with musikal resistance culture since 1993 / working with -- tactical radio { http://www.citr.ca }, TAZ occupations { http://www.shrumtribe.com } / performance & tactical media { http://www.quadrantcrossing.org/blog }. || tobias is currently a researcher on the "Culture of Cities" Project { http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/programs/ahcs/cultureofcities/ } at McGill University in Montréal, Canada, where he is completing his MA in Communications on the politics of sonic microcultures { http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0307/msg00035.html } & remixing a book of collaborative sonic writings on electrofied sounds and events. subscribe to -empyre- at: http://www.subtle.net/empyre/

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airport and conference hotel
by Liss Jeffrey 01 Aug '03

01 Aug '03

Greetings all. You may fly into either Toronto airport, however all international flights go to Pearson International. The web site offers more detail on this. The city airport is restricted in terms of flights, which is not surprising considering it is right on the waterfront of Canada's largest city, and a 20 minute cab ride to the Hilton Hotel. The Hilton is offering great services, and we encourage everyone to stay there in the interests of the conference itself. Charles, our logs show no downtime on the web site so I do not know what was up with your connection: please everyone do visit www.ecommons.net/aoir -- The site is updated with the latest information on a continuing basis. Speaking of which, a new version of the program will be up next week. Yes, you will be able to find your papers by name this time around. The pre conference workshops will also go up next week, and you will be able to pre-register via Kagi. More to come... Liss Jeffrey, PhD director, McLuhan global research network, McLuhan Program, University of Toronto

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hotel information for AOIR Toronto: Broadening the Band
by Rhiannon Bury 01 Aug '03

01 Aug '03

This will be of interest for those of you planning to attend the conference in Toronto: Iin light of the recent post inquiring about accommodation at the Hilton, I am forwarding the direct URL: http://www.ecommons.net/aoir/hotel_travel.phtml In brief, you can complete the form on our site and send it to the hotel by email or fax, or call the hotel (toll free if you are in North America). For those of you who wish to keep costs down and yet still be at the heart of the conference action, we now have our roommate finder forum up and running: http://www.ecommons.net/aoir/p/list.php?f=2 If you have any further questions, I am in charge of hotel liason and would be happy to assist you in any way I can. See you in October! Rhiannon Bury Steering and Working Committee AOIR Toronto: Broadening the Band

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last day for Air Canada seatsale!
by Rhiannon Bury 01 Aug '03

01 Aug '03

Attention AOIR Toronto participants: Seat sale for great fares to Toronto ends today, July 31. Details below in previous message. Rhiannon -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Air-l] AOIR 4: Getting to Toronto Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 15:32:06 -0400 From: Rhiannon Bury <welshwitch75(a)rogers.com> Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org To: air-l(a)aoir.org Hello all: Again, this message is for those of you coming to Toronto for the conferenence from Canada or the US. Air Canada has announced a massive seat sale for travel good in Canada and the US through December. *Tickets must be booked by July 31!* This has nothing to do with the conference booking code but I bet you $$$ to donuts, this is cheaper. For travel within Canada, please visit: http://www.aircanada.ca/e-home.html Or http://www.aircanada.com/us-home.html for travel to Canada from the US. See you in October! Rhiannon Bury _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l

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Re: friendster observations
by Eszter Hargittai 01 Aug '03

01 Aug '03

I've posted some observations about Friendster on my blog. Here's the first section of the entry. I don't want to clutter the list with the whole extended entry, you can check it out here: http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000386.html Six degrees of separation or unification? Every Internet user knows that the network helps us easily connect with numerous people across wide distances. Over the years, various services have sprung up to facilitate such connections. But is it always a good idea to join such networks? Is bigger always better? There has been an increasing amount of discussion recently about Friendster, a relatively new online service based on connecting people to others through their existing social networks. The service has been enthusiastically covered by the likes of The Village Voice, Wired and Slate describing how Friendster is the newest great social - and procrastinatory - tool given all the information one can glean about people in one's social circles through the service. [..] Many express much excitement about Friendster and even claim that it is the next Google in online popularity and importance. I do not share this enthusiasm and here is why. See here for the rest (and for links): http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000386.html Eszter Post-doctoral Fellow Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs Princeton University --- http://www.eszter.com http://www.esztersblog.com _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Introducing My Way - http://www.myway.com

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POSITION: Director for the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH)
by jeremy hunsinger 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

The University of Virginia invites letters of application, curriculum vitae, and nominations for the position of Director for the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH). The Institute: IATH's goal is to explore and expand the potential of information technology as a tool for humanities research. To that end, we provide our Fellows with consulting, technical support, applications programming, and networked publishing facilities. In its first ten years, the Institute has become an international leader in the innovative application of advanced technologies to the humanities research and publication. Annually, the Institute awards a two-year fellowship to a humanities scholar at the University of Virginia. As it enters its second decade, the Institute looks forward to expanding its mission to include national and perhaps international fellowships in arts and humanities research and scholarly communication. The Position: The position of Director is a five-year renewable term with a joint faculty appointment in an arts or humanities department. The Director will oversee and participate in the Institute's administration (including development of policies and procedures), budget, and fundraising. The Director will keep regular oversight of existing institute projects. The position calls for collaborative work with a diverse population of faculty, administration, students, and staff of many campus organizations (such as the Library, Information Technology and Communications, and the University Press). The Director will stay abreast of important national and international developments in digital humanities work, and will be expected to promote extramural collaborations of various kinds. Qualifications: Candidate must be a tenured professor or associate professor of an arts or humanities faculty with a strong record of scholarship, teaching, administrative experience, and service. Knowledge of advanced technologies sufficient to understand the potential for transforming scholarly research and communication required. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, experience dealing with a diverse academic community, and a demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with people from varied disciplines preferred. Successful experience in grant writing, corporate donations, and other fundraising preferred. For a complete job description visit the website below. Candidates should send a copy of their CV along with a letter briefly indicating a vision statement and qualifications for the position, and names and addresses of five references should be addressed to the contact below. Applications will be considered until the position is filled, however processing of applications will begin by September 1, 2003. Salary commensurate with qualifications and experience. All inquiries, applications and nominations will be held in the strictest of confidence. The University of Virginia is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer. Women and members of minority groups are strongly encouraged to apply. Dir of IATH Search Committee University of Virginia c/o University Recruitment & Staffing P.O. Box 400127, 914 Emmet Street Charlottesville, VA 22904-4127 Fax: (434) 924-6911 Email: executivesearch(a)virginia.edu (Attn: IATH) Website: http://www.iath.virginia.edu/directorsearch/search.html Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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