The LA Freewaves 9th Celebration of Experimental Media Arts is a month-long showcase that will present experimental media art from around the globe in downtown Los Angeles venues in November 2004. Works may also appear on television and the Internet. LA Freewaves is accepting media art works such as experimental film, CD-ROMs, DVDs, websites, multimedia, community media activites, and more.
Science, Technology and the Arts
The 7th Workshop on Space and the Arts, themed “Science, Technology and the Arts,” will take place May 18-21 at the European Space Research and Technology Centre in Noordwijk, The Netherlands. The workshop will create an environment where artists and space scientists can debate, exchange ideas, and create new partnerships. They are seeking papers on a wide range of topics relating to space and art.
E-Lit Up Close
WordCircuits has published E-LIT UP CLOSE, a set of new critical essays on electronic literature. E-LIT UP CLOSE is comprised of seven short essays written by students from Matthew Kirschenbaum’s graduate course at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Twisty Little Passages
Nick Montfort’s new book, Twisty Little Passages, is now available from MIT Press. For more details and to order the book, visit http://nickm.com/twisty.
Electronic Theory and Criticism at the MLA
ACH is sponsoring a session titled “Electronic Theory and Criticism” at the 2003 MLA Convention in San Diego. “Electronic Theory and Criticism” is organized by Vika Zafrin of Brown University, with talks by Cheryl E. Ball, Marjorie C. Luesebrink, and Talan Memmott. The session takes place Saturday, December 27, Cunningham A, Manchester Grand Hyatt, 3:30-4:45 p.m.
The Iowa Review Web
This month’s TIR Web features Tal Halpern, as well as Judy Malloy’s “Afterwards” and Matthew Purdy’s review of Lisa Gitelman & Geoffrey Pingree’s New Media, 1740-1915.
The New River
Visit The New River for Shuen-shing Lee’s “Heart Changes” and Alan Sondheim & Joel Weishaus’s “Cybermidrash.”
Women in Action
Women in Action, a magazine that covers many issues affecting women internationally, particularly in the Global South, is seeking articles related to “Corporatised Media and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) structures and systems.” For more information, contact Irene R. Chia (irene at isiswomen dot org).
Reviews at ebr
Visit the electronic book review to read two new reviews: “What Remains in Liam’s Going” by Dave Ciccoricco, a review of Michael Joyce’s novel Liam’s Going; and “Bataille’s Project: Atheology, Non-Knowledge” by Marc LaFountain, a review of Georges Bataille’s The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge. Also, be sure to read “Teaching the Cyborg,” the final installment of the Technocapitalism thread of The Politics of Information.
New RCCS reviews
This month’s new books reviews at RCCS include: Gitte Stald & Thomas Tufte’s Global Encounters: Media and Cultural Transformation reviewed by Charles Ess, Kevin Douglas Kuswa, and Radhika Seth; Stewart M. Hoover & Lynn Schofield Clark’s Practicing Religion in the Age of the Media: Explorations in Media, Religion, and Culture reviewed by Christopher Helland; and Phillip Thurtle & Robert Mitchell’s Semiotic Flesh: Information and the Human Body reviewed by Anne Beaulieu, Simone Seym, and Sarah Stein, with a response from authors Phillip Thurtle and Robert Mitchell.