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Media-N Fall 2014 edition: “Art & Infrastructures” CFP

Media-N, Journal of the New Media Caucus, is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for fall 2014 edition.

The editors for the fall 2014 issue of Media-N seek proposals that address telecommunication infrastructures as informational processes in order to reveal the values embedded in common protocols, formats or applications. For example, how have artists or designers highlighted the labor practices necessary to operating or maintaining telecommunication systems? What have they revealed or critiqued about the software formats or protocols often considered vital to secure transmission? Who has offered challenges to the dominant modes of representation employed in networked communication? Essays might focus on cultural or aesthetic processes that critique existing ways of using our physical infrastructures of communication, or look to propose new ones.

TIMELINE for Submission for edition two of “Art and Infrastructure: Information”

June 15, 2014: Deadline for submission of abstracts/proposals.

July 15, 2014: Notification of acceptance.

September 15, 2014: Deadline for submission of final papers.

See full details here

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Trans_ : An Anthology of Trans People & the Internet CFP

Submissions are sought for a new anthology on trans people and the Internet. The working title at this time is Trans_ : An Anthology of Trans People and the Internet.

Editors: Mitch Kellaway, Harlan Kellaway
Proposal Deadline: August 1st, 2014
Final Submission Deadline: January 1st, 2015

Trans_ is the first anthology to collect the voices and experiences of trans people speaking to how the Internet has impacted our lives and how we have impacted the Internet. We wish to capture a range of pieces from those who use, cannot use, work with, develop for, socialize on, and build community with the Internet.

Detailed submission guidelines are available at http://transontheinter.net/submit/

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Book Review: Memory Bytes

Memory Bytes: History, Technology, and Digital Culture
Lauren Rabinovitz, Abraham Geil, eds.

Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. 352pp. ISBN: 0822332418

Memory Bytes: History, Technology, and Digital Culture suggests that there ought to be a paradigm shift in how we historically understand the internet’s rise to a prominent cultural, media and technological force. one overused and simplified cliché can be replaced with another overused and simplified cliché. The book suggests that the internet, and the digital culture that it helped inspire, was such a monumental departure from what had previously existed that it requires new models in order to properly engage it. The editors of this anthology: Lauren Rabinovitz and Abraham Geil clearly find fault with this notion. Instead, they posit that the history of the digital can be found behind the curtain of the progression through electronic and mechanized media forms. In so doing, the twelve articles within Memory Bytes do not dull digital culture’s sharpness or lessen its significance. Instead, the book seems to want digital culture to take its proper place within the pantheon of media cultures. This potentially underappreciated task is accomplished through a series of interdisciplinary and inter-methodological articles that frame the social, mechanical, and economic histories of under-discussed mediums.

See the full review by HASTAC scholar Evan Johnson (a third-year PhD student in Aesthetic Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas) here  

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Academic Technology Consultant, University of Richmond (VA)

The Center for Teaching, Learning & Technology at the University of Richmond is recruiting for three open Academic Technology Consultant positions. Each one focuses with a particular group of disciplines, including humanities, social sciences, and sciences (natural, physical, mathematics and computer). Positions work with faculty, departmental staff and students to assist them in effectively using technologies in the teaching and learning environment. The Academic Technology Consultant (ATC) will assist faculty with the incorporation of technology into teaching and learning using sound instructional design theories. The ATC will serve as the technology liaison to assigned departments and will help faculty in those departments to develop desired skills in using technology tools. The ATC will work directly with faculty in developing specific projects, especially web-based projects. The ATC also works with the library and other Information Services divisions to develop and deliver programs, services and tools that are useful to faculty using technology in teaching. The ATC will be experienced in implementing common open source server-based applications such as wikis and blogs with customization and maintenance using web development tools such as php, MySQL, Java, Oracle, Linux, and XML.

The position is open until filled, and full details are available here

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Big Data & Collaboration Conference, Duke University

Big (and messy) Data & Collaboration Workshop & Conference
A Workshop Sponsored by HASTAC, the NSF EAGER Grant team, and the Duke University PhD Lab on Digital Knowledge

May 28, 2014
10:00am – 4:00pm
Ph.D Lab, Garage, C107
Duke University

The National Science Foundation awarded HASTAC the EAGER grant to allow for extensive data mining of HASTAC data. The website includes over 200MB in SQL tables with individual and institutional information of scholars. HASTAC is also an academic social network site and the data allows for various forms of visualization, text, spatial, and content analysis. We are now completing the first year of the grant and we would like to share the preliminary results of the project “Assessing the Impact of Technology-Aided Participation and Mentoring on Transformative Interdisciplinary Research: A Data-Based Study of the Incentives and Success of an Exemplar Academic Network.”

Together with researchers from the U.S. and abroad, we are holding a workshop to discuss the use of computational analysis, data extraction, and social networking analysis to investigate the interplay between scholarly communication and academic networks. This workshop is sponsored by HASTAC, the NSF EAGER grant team, and the Duke University PhD Lab on Digital Knowledge. We are inviting researchers interested in the impact of scholarly networks to cross-disciplinary, multi-institutional research and who are interested in discussing the analysis of big (and sometimes messy) data in academic, collaborative settings. If you are interested, save the date and make sure to register on Eventbrite.

See a detailed conference schedule here

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Digital Scholarship Librarian, Boston College (MA)

Boston College Libraries seeks TWO creative, knowledgeable, and intellectually curious Digital Scholarship Librarians (Arts & Humanities, and Sciences & Social Sciences) to advance digital scholarship initiatives at Boston College by providing  consultation, technical support, and project management for faculty, librarians, staff, and students engaged in technology-rich scholarly projects, Under the direction of the Associate University Librarian for Digital Initiatives & Public Programs, and in conjunction with subject and instruction liaisons, systems and digital library staff, scholarly communications and repository librarians, and others, s/he works directly with clients (faculty, students, staff) in identifying and deploying appropriate tools and technologies to meet research or publication needs. In addition to direct support at the project level, s/he will deliver training, group instruction, and workshops on Digital Scholarship topics with an emphasis on data visualization, text mining and encoding, mapping, and data analysis, and will maintain project documentation for a growing corpus of digital scholarly production. This role requires exceptional technology skills, creativity, and communication skills, and an understanding of discipline-specific and interdisciplinary research methodology. The ability to listen, articulate problems, and find effective technology solutions across a variety of disciplines, while working with a range of clients from novice scholars to senior faculty, is essential.

See full details at https://chroniclevitae.com/jobs/0000830601-01

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NMCC Graduate awarded a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities

McGinnNMCC Graduate Emily McGinn (PhD in Comparative Literature) has been awarded a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities at Lafayette College where she will work with the library’s Digital Scholarship Services department to formulate policies, manage projects, and develop training to support an expanded and sustainable Digital Humanities (DH) program.  McGinn’s research during the NMCC program focused on the impact of recording technology on vanguard narrative form.

McGinn told us, “The academic job market in the humanities is always competitive and now, more than ever, the job listing are asking for someone who has a background in digital humanities. DH is such a new field that it can be difficult to discern which people have the actual skills required for these positions. The New Media and Culture Certificate has proven to be a crucial part of my resumé. It gave me the kind of credential people were looking for and provided me with the legitimacy I needed to set me apart from the competition in this increasingly crowded market.”

Congratulations, Emily!

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“Remixing Persona” lecture with Mark Amerika

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“Remixing Persona”

May 29th, 6pm
Lawrence 115

Internationally-renowned new media artist Mark Amerika will visit UO to discuss his work in “Remixing Persona,” Thursday, May 29th.

Mark Amerika’s work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as the Whitney Biennial of American Art, the Denver Art Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, and the Walker Art Center. In 2009-2010, The National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, Greece, hosted Amerika’s comprehensive retrospective exhibition entitled UNREALTIME. In 2009, Amerika released Immobilité, generally considered the first feature-length art film ever shot on a mobile phone. He is the author of many books including remixthebook (University of Minnesota Press, 2011 — remixthebook.com) and his collection of artist writings entitled META/DATA: A Digital Poetics (The MIT Press, 2007). His latest art work, Museum of Glitch Aesthetics [glitchmuseum.com], was commissioned by the Abandon Normal Devices Festival in conjunction with the London 2012 Olympics. The project was recently remixed for his survey exhibition, Glitch.Click.Thunk, at the University Art Galleries at the University of Hawaii. Amerika is a Professor of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado at Boulder. In Fall 2013, he was the Labex-H2H International Research Chair at the University of Paris 8. More information can found at his website, markamerika.com and at his twitter feed @markamerika

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Post-Screen: International Festival of Art, New Media and Cybercultures CFP (Lisbon)

The Artistic Studies Research Center of the Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon University invites researchers and artists to submit, until May 31st, a proposal for a paper or artwork to the upcoming POST SCREEN: International Festival of Art, New Media and Cybercultures to be held in 28 and 29 of November 2014, in Lisbon, Portugal.

The Post-Screen 2014 is an International Festival of Art, New Media and Cybercultures and is the first edition of several international meetings related to the use of screens and its influence on contemporary thought.

This project aims to create a Festival that will annually gather a number of experts in diverse fields of research and artistic practice and promote interdisciplinary discussion and exhibition of creative productions on emerging issues related to screen based artistic practices (printing, painting, moving image, sound, digital images, virtual reality, immersive environments, network cultures), considering its evolution throughout history, the circumstances in which it was used, the aesthetic and technological language that is inherent to it, and its artistic, social, cultural and technological context.

The subject of the Post-Screen 2014 will be Device, Medium and Concept, on which we intend to discuss the specifics of these aspects and their intersections between art, technology and the social behaviors mediated by screens.

The event will have a theoretical, artistic and training component, with a cycle of conferences, an exhibition of artworks in a virtual gallery and workshops.

For further information go to: http://postscreen.fba.ul.pt/#/intro