Studio XX newsletter 16 - November 2004

Contents:

>> University of the streets café saturday gatherings at Studio XX Oct. 30th
>> Studio XX – Open Session : November 3rd, 6-9pm
>> Femmes Br@nchées Salon N°57 – Electronic Textiles Thursday December 2
>> HTMlles07 > périphéries + proximités | call for submissions > reminder * Oct.28
* Consult our new online calendar!
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>> STUDIO 303 - call for submissions projet/projo High Performance Film/Video
>> CFP: The Feminist Scholarship Division
>> Code : Call for submissions

UNIVERSITY OF THE STREETS CAFÉ SATURDAY GATHERINGS AT STUDIO XX

Intellectual Property in the Digital age
Saturday October 30th 11h-1:00pm
Croissants and coffee will be served !
http://univcafe.concordia.ca/fhtml/event.html#intellectual

Who owns knowledge and culture? Impacts of intellectual property on knowledge and culture
Knowledge is a source of power and culture is fundamental. Their distribution poses problems of equity and justice. How should we manage this very special form of property: intellectual property?
Related Projects: PLoS, MIT OpenCourseWare, Wikipedia, Openphoto, Magnatune, Opsound
Topics:
Impact for developping countries (e. g. aids)
Universities
Collaborative methodologies
Access to knowledge
Copyright
How far does intellectual property go (e. g. patents on life forms)?

Studio XX – Open Session:
November 3rd, 6-9pm

...Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, Programming Fundamentals, PHP, Linux, MAX, MAC O/S, Tech Bites...
In order to provide an opportunity to our community to ask questions about XX, Linux, and the lab, and our workshops we are having a *free* discussion session.

The session will hope to answer the following questions mainly:
* What is Linux?
* Why Linux at XX?
* What is the XX Linux lab?
* What applications are available on Linux at XX?
* What tutorials will be available on Linux?
* What is programming?
* Why should artists be interested in programming?
* How do I access the XX MAC and Linux lab?
* What are the workshops available at XX?
* Why these workshops?
* XX is a wireless internet hotspot! How do I use it?

As well, we will ask the attendees to provide with some feedback on how we can improve the resources available at XX in a short survey.

Refreshments will be served.

Next workshops:

Programming Fundamentals
Saturdays November 20th -Dec 11th.2004 13h-17h English (francais en hiver)
A workshop on the fundamentals of programming. Participants will learn about programming concepts that can be applied when creating projects for the web. By the end of the course each participant will be expected to design a web project using the principles learned.
Instructor: Val Walker
Cost to Participants: $250 (membership included)


Animation/Flash
Thurdays Novermber 4 - December 9 18h -21h english (francais en hiver)
Introduction to animation techniques and basic interactivity for the Web using Macromedia Flash. Cost to Participants: $250 per participant (membership included)

More infos on our workshops :
http://www.studioxx.org/e/production/workshops.php
ateliers@studioxx.org
514-845-0289

Mark the date !
Femmes Br@nchées Salon N°57 – Electronic Textiles
Thursday December 2 starting at 5:30PM – at Studio XX

Don't miss the special presentation of Joanna Berzowska - world expert on intelligent fibres.
http://hybrid.concordia.ca/~joey/
Drinks and snacks will be served.

Joanna Berzowska is an Assistant Professor of Design Art and Digital Image/Sound at
Concordia University in Montreal. Her work and research deal primarily with "soft computation":
electronic textiles, responsive clothing as wearable technology, reactive materials and squishy
interfaces.

She is the cofounder of International Fashion Machines in Boston, where she developed the
first electronic ink wearable animated display and Electric Plaid, an addressable color-change
textile. She received her Masters of Science from MIT for her work titled Computational
Expressionism. She worked with the Tangible Media Group of the MIT Media Lab on research
projects such as the musicBottles. She directed Interface Design at the Institute for
Interactive Media at the University of Technology in Sydney. She holds a BA in Pure
Mathematics and a BFA in Design Arts.

Her art and design work has been shown in the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum in NYC,
SIGGRAPH, Art Directors Club in NYC, Australian Museum in Sydney, NTT ICC in Tokyo and
Ars Electronica Center in Linz among others. She has lectured about the intersections of art,
design, technology and computation at SIGGRAPH, Banff New Media Institute in Canada and
Interaction Design Institute Ivrea in Italy among others.

HTMlles07 > périphéries + proximités
[montréal 05.05]

+ call for submissions > reminder * deadline 28.10.04
+ www.htmlles.net/07/call/index.html
+ info@htmlles.net

STUDIO 303 - call for submissions
projet/projo HIGH PERFORMANCE FILM / VIDEO
Deadline : Nov. 3, 2004
www.studio303.ca

CFP: The Feminist Scholarship Division
The Feminist Scholarship Division of the International Communication Association is interested in receiving formal research papers, papers that are a work in progress, panel proposals, and roundtable proposals that explore the relationship of gender and communication, both mediated and non-mediated, within a context of feminist methodologies, theories, and practices.
The division explores issues including feminist pedagogy; the social implications of the gendered 'digital divide'; international gender commonalities and differences by 'race', social class, gender, sexuality, nationality, etc; women's alternative media; feminist political economy of the media; feminist cultural studies; and transnational feminist theory and political practice, amongst others.
For more details, visit
http://www.icahdq.org/publicPDF/CFP2005NY.pdf

Code : Call for submissions
Code :: an online exhibit of open-source net-based ©ode-art
hosted & organized by www.year01.com
application deadline: Jan. 1/05
launch: July 1/05