Watch the archived video of UCLA Department of English Professor N. Katherine Hayles speaking about her new book, My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts, at a recent event at the University of Umea, Sweden’s HUMlab. The talk is also available via podcast.
medi@terra Art and Technology Festival, Athens
medi@terra, the 7th international art and technology festival of the Fournos Center for Digital Culture invites submissions of papers and games on this year’s theme, “Games and Reality”. The festival and conference will take place December 7-11, 2005, in Athens, Greece. The deadline for submission of games and game demos, as well as abstracts for the “Games or Reality: the Challenge of Digital Culture” conference portion of the festival is October 30, 2005. Visit mediaterra.org for the full call.
Duke University Postdoctoral Fellowship in “Interface”
The John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University invites applications for two residential postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities, each awarded for the one-year period beginning July 1, 2006 and ending June 30, 2007, and each offering a stipend of $40,000 plus full fringe benefits and access to a modest pool of research funds.
Of particular interest to Electronic Literature Organization members is the fellowship awarded in the Franklin Humanities Institute Franklin Seminar on “Interface.†This yearlong postdoctoral fellowship is funded by the Franklin Humanities Institute in collaboration with a national consortium called HASTAC (the Humanities Arts Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory). The fellowship is designed to support work on a scholarly research project, software design project, work of interactive digital art, or game-based learning project that address themes explored in the seminar. The post-doctoral fellow will attend the regular weekly meetings of the seminar, and either teach one class of her/his design in Duke University’s Information Studies & Information Sciences (ISIS) Program or undertake a “course equivalent” project, which may include participating in a collaborative project with students and faculty, and which will require the same amount of work as would a conventional teaching experience.
For full details, see the 2006-2007 Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowships page at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University.
Anchorhead
The rich, extensive world of the interactive fiction Anchorhead is inspired by H. P. Lovecraft. Gentry’s work offers hours of challenges, a detailed setting, textual fragments of evidence, and disturbing characters as it unfolds the horrifying secrets of a small New England town.
UC Santa Barbara Arnhold Postdoctoral Fellowship in Early Modern Literature and Media Technology
The UC Santa Barbara English Department invites applications for the Arnhold Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship. This fellowship has a term of one year, but may be renewable for a second year. The fellowship offers recent recipients of the Ph.D. (awarded between January 1, 2003, and June 30, 2006) a unique opportunity to develop their research and teaching interests within the UCSB Early Modern Center; the UCSB Transcriptions Center for literature and the culture of information; and the UC system-wide Transliteracies Project on the technological, social, and cultural practices of online reading.
The fellowship is designed to attract a scholar who is not currently in a tenure track position and who works in some area of British literature 1500-1800 and directly addresses the material, technological, social, or aesthetic dimensions of literature as media. The Fellow’s research, for instance, might be related to such current fields as “history of the book,” “media archaeology”, or the technology of literature. We welcome candidates who have an interest in the relation between early media and contemporary digital new media supported by familiarity with some branch of digital media practice, as well as contributing to the diversity and excellence of the academic community through research, teaching and service.
Rest/Less
Rest/Less is interactive dance which foregrounds poetry as both environment and method. Spatially representing Field’s graphic poems with lighted grids across the floor, Jewett has developed an interactive video-tracking system which allows the dancers total lyrical freedom as they perform both choreographed and improvisational movement. The dancers trigger lines of poetry as they cross lines of light (poetry which is heard as well as projected) and the text alternates with the sound of wind and a score of windchimes electronically generated based on samplings of the text.
UC Santa Cruz, International and/or Digital Media Job
The Film and Digital Media Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, invites applications for a tenure-track position in critical studies. Applicants with a scholarly emphasis in international film and/or media are especially desirable; candidates with expertise in other areas of film, television and/or digital media theory and/or history are also invited to apply. Requires Ph.D. in relevant field of study, with demonstrated potential for excellence in innovative research and for excellence in university teaching. Postmark deadline: November 18, 2005.
Conversational Character Creators & Users Sought for Survey
Mark Marino of UC Riverside seeks chatbot users and creators for a survey which will be available through the end of this week. He writes:
If you have used or have built chatbots, or conversational agents, please participate in my online study of these research communities and their priorities. (Chatting with Non-Player Characters in video games counts here, too).
I am looking to get a sense of who make bots, who use them, and in what ways. The questions will only take a few minutes to answer, but participants can return to participate in ongoing discussions.
To participate, go to: http://wrt.ucr.edu/wordpress/chatbot-survey/
Professor of Digital or Media Arts Position, UC Davis
The Program in Technocultural Studies at University of California, Davis has an open-rank position open for a Professor of Digital or Media Arts in Technocultural Studies.
The program seeks an artist, media artist, or cultural practitioner in any aspect of the digital or media arts to assume the position of core faculty member in the newly established, transdisciplinary Program in Technocultural Studies. This is a position in creative production for a person of substantial merit, who is also capable of teaching courses in history, theory and/or contemporary practice in her or his field, at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The applicant should be critically and creatively conversant with the practices and discourses relating to media/digital arts, documentary, community media or the fine and performing arts, and demonstrate an understanding of the social and political dimensions of cultural practice as well as the aesthetic and poetic. Familiarity with discourses of science and technology is preferred.
Qualifications: An MA or MFA and teaching at the university or tertiary level are required, while a PhD. and teaching both studies and production courses are preferred. Applicants must demonstrate the ability and willingness to work at the
crossroads of the scientific and technological disciplines with the humanities, arts and cultural studies, in a critical and creative manner. Involvement is expected and experience is preferred in program development.
For information about the position, phone 530/752-0573 or FAX 530/752-0795 or check website at
http://technoculture.ucdavis.edu
Deadline for applications: November 23, 2005 for full consideration; however, the position will remain open
until filled. Starting Date: Fall 2006
ICVS 05, Strasbourg, France
The fifth International Conference on Virtual Storytelling, November 30-December 2, 2005, in Strasbourg, France, will feature keynote addresses from Janet Murray of Georgia Tech, Michitaka Hirose of the Univerisity of Tokyo, and others. See the entire conference program here.