Studio XX newsletter 19 - February 2005

>> Studio XX first virtual resident ! Deanne Achong
>> Studio XX Workshops - Winter/Spring 2005 * New dates
>> University of the Streets Café

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> February 14 2005 National Day of Action POWER Camp National
> 8 mars 2005 : Femmes d'ici et d'ailleurs, changeons le monde!
> Concordia Studio Arts & MFA Visiting Artist Program : Nina Katchadourian
> Mémoire du RCAAQ sur la Politique culturelle de Montréal

CALLS
> Canada Research Chair (Tier II) tenure track position in Interdisciplinary Art
> CALL FOR ARTISTICS PROJECTS IN MEDIA ARTS : TERRE NOMADE/NOMAD’S LAND
> Prix Ars Electronica 2005
> BILD-RAUSCH
> GirlSpoken Project
> Wanted: Web designer (bilingual)
> Airborne Entertainment Inc. Internal Tech Support - Full time position
> herland employment opportunity : Festival Coordinator
> UNLIMITED I.D. LE PORTRAIT CONCEPTUEL Dazibao and Neutral Ground

Studio XX first virtual resident !

Studio XX is very pleased to welcome Vancouver artist Deanne Achong as our first artist-in-virtual-residence.

Deanne Achong is a Vancouver based artist. She is interested in the web for a bundle of reasons, and keeps hoping to be one day outwit google. She has exhibited her work, online and off, in Canada, the US, Europe and the Caribbean. She has a BFA from NSCAD and an MFA from UBC.

This represents an opportunity for the Studio to experiment collaboratively with artists who are not in Montreal. The artists will take advantage of our server, high bandwidth and technical support; the goal being to integrate their work with our technical support to facilitate creativity and communication via the web.

" A bird in the house means death in the house"
-- Do you know this superstition? Have any stories about it?
Deanne Achong is an artist doing a research/web production project which looks at various stories about birds. She will be collecting stories, and images for use in a project sponsored by STUDIOXX as part of a virtual residency. If you have any stories and/or images (or even video clips) you would be willing to contribute, please visit studioxx.org. Thematically, they do not need to be strictly restrained to the realm of superstitious tales.

a bird in the google will focus on the intersection of various narratives about birds and exploring the technology of delivering this narrative. The stories will be culled from various sources, a blend of fiction, information found on the web and material gathered from inviting participants to send me pictures, video clips and stories about birds. I am particularly interested in tales of superstition connected with birds, although this is not the only point of interest. A database
will be created from which random or selected stories will be displayed along with the imagery. Flash will be used to interpret the video and other imagery, with an interest in using the process of degeneration of the image as a feature, rather than a negative or mistake. Also, the concept of slowness is something I want to examine, to remember that broad-band access is not yet everywhere.

Studio XX Workshops - Winter/Spring 2005
*New dates !

Linux/Open Source Workshops

* Intro to Linux : Install, Applications, Command Line Wednesday April 20, 27 and May 14, 6-10PM 12 hours/ $150.00
- the Gimp : photo retouching, image composition and image authoring
* Pure Data : graphical programming environment for audio, video, and
graphical processing : Wednesday March 9 to April 13, 6-10PM 18 hours/$250
- Bluefish : editor for web designers and programmers
* PHP : web scripting language Saturday April 9 Avril to May 14, 1-5PM 18 hours/$250

MAC Workshops on-demand 18 hours/$250
- Flash
- Photoshop
- HTML/Dreamweaver

* OSX Dive-in - Saturday March 12, 9:30AM - 1PM, $50.00

For more informations :
http://www.studioxx.org/e/production/workshops.php
ateliers@studioxx.org 514 845-0289

University of the Streets Café

The University of the Streets Café creates gathering places for community members to pursue lifelong learning and engagement in the form of collective discussions. They are an opportunity for people of diverse backgrounds and socio-economic realities to meet, where all people and perspectives are welcome.

The new season is up on the website! http://univcafe.concordia.ca

February 17: The Power of Food
February 21: Is the UN vision failing? Humanitarian Aid and International Solidarity - The Practice and Ethics of Global Justice
February 23: Our Neighbourhood, Here and Elsewhere

The University of the Streets Café is open to anyone and everyone. There are no prerequisites except a willingness to listen and a respect for others. Café sessions will take place in both French and English, and people will be encouraged to participate in their language of choice.

February 14 2005 National Day of Action
Check out what actions are happening in your area! www.fillesdaction.ca/love

POWER Camp National
info@powercampnational.ca
http://www.fillesdaction.ca
t 1.888.948.1112
t 514.948.1112
f 514.948.5926

8 mars 2005 : Femmes d'ici et d'ailleurs, changeons le monde!
http://www.cybersolidaires.org/ameriques/quebec.html#8mars
Le prochain 8 mars sera la journée internationale de lancement des actions de la Marche mondiale des femmes en 2005 de même que le début du relais de la Charte mondiale des femmes pour l'humanité. Au Québec, on prépare le lancement de cinq revendications.

Concordia Studio Arts & MFA Visiting Artist Program and the Fibres Area present:
Nina Katchadourian
Feb. 17th, 2005
6:30pm – 8:30pm
Bourget Building MF-108
1230 de la montagne
Reception with artists to follow
Studio visits with MFA Grads
Friday, Feb. 18th, 2005
>From 10am-1pm

Nina Katchadourian works in diverse range of media, including photography, sculpture, sound and video. Her work often involves “nature” as concept, construct and site. She grew up in California, lives and works in Brooklyn NY, and spends part of each year in the Finnish archipelago. Her work has been exhibited in the United States and abroad, including the
Museum of Textiles in Toronto, the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin, PS1/Moma and Sculpture Center in New York, the Berkeley Art Museum in Berkeley, California, the Portland Institute of Contemporary, Arnolfini in Bristol, England, Akron Art Museum, Sara Meltzer Gallery, the Tang Museum and the Serpentine Gallery in London. In 2002, Katchadourian was a grant
recipient of the American-Scandinavian Foundation, and in 2001 she was awarded a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award.
Contact: 848-2424, ext. 4267
E-mail: msywong@alcor.concordia.ca

Lien au mémoire du Regroupement des centres d'artistes autogérés du Québec sur la Politique culturelle de Montréal. Intitulé La place des arts visuels dans une métropole culturelle
http://www.rcaaq.org/actualites/nouvelle/332

Canada Research Chair (Tier II) tenure track position in Interdisciplinary Art Practice
Concordia University, Montreal.

The Faculty of Fine Arts seeks applications from artists with a cross-disciplinary practice for a Canada Research Chair position. Experience could include visual art, performance, design, moving image, emerging technologies, or interactive art. A demonstrated interest in diasporic or transnational issues is an asset.

For full details, see http://fofa.concordia.ca/site/crc3postinge.pdf
or contact Liselyn Adams, liselyn@vax2.concordia.ca

Application Deadline March 15, 2005.

CALL FOR ARTISTICS PROJECTS IN MEDIA ARTS : TERRE NOMADE/NOMAD’S LAND
MONTREAL - JUNE 15-19, 2005
DEADLINE : 1ST OF MARCH 2005
Champ Libre http://www.champlibre.com/

Prix Ars Electronica 2005
International cyberarts competition
Online Submission Deadline: March 11, 2005
Details available online only at http://prixars.aec.at/

BILD-RAUSCH
A platform on internet whose purpose is to present and network female media artists.
Info: http://www.bild-rausch.de/

GirlSpoken invites you to join voices with young women across Canada and contribute to a book of writings and artwork on growing into ourselves...
We are looking for bold pieces from 13-19 year old girls and young women on the challenges, big moments and sweet joys of growing up. GirlSpoken invites you to speak your mind, to explode with colour or to capture photos that reveal what you're all about. We want to hear from you about what makes you who you are, what you value, how you express yourself and the things you have experienced. What do you want to tell the world about what it's like to be you? We are looking for non-fiction pieces that are inspired by your own life.

The deadline for submissions is March 31st, 2005

GirlSpoken Project
School of Social Work, Laurentian University
935 Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury, ON P3E 2C6
girlspokenbook@sympatico.ca
www.girlspoken.ca

Airborne Entertainment Inc.
Internal Tech Support - Full time position

At least 1-2 years experience with tech support.

Activities Include (and not limited) to:
* Hardware preparation for new employees
* Software installation and upgrades
* Employee account management (e-mail, domain)
* Knowledge of Linux / Windows / [Mac optional ;) ]
* Work independently
* Hardware/software troubleshooting and resolution abilities
* Demonstrates initiative
* Experience with WAN/LAN technologies and protocols, TCP/IP, VPN, Switching, backups
* Good understanding of internet protocols including SMTP, HTTP, DNS, FTP, POP
* Excellent verbal and written English communication skills
* Management of our internal servers and shared devices (printers, routers, switches)
* Good time management skills
* Good documentation skills

Leila Marshy, Senior Producer leila@airborne-e.com
Airborne Entertainment Inc.
3575 St. Laurent, Suite 750
Montreal, QC H2X 2T7
T 514-289-9111 x 250
F 514-289-9494
http://www.airborne-e.com

herland employment opportunity
Festival Coordinator, herland film and video festival May 4-8, 2005
DEADLINE: Feb. 15, 4pm

herland feminist film and video festival is seeking a Festival Coordinator. The Coordinator will manage all aspects of the festival. This is a 6 month contract position with the potential for renewal. 30 hour/week at $15/hour. Start date: March 1, 2005
For more information : http://www.herlandfestival.com

herland feminist film and video festival
Attention: Hiring Committee
#208, 223-12 Ave S.W.
Calgary, AB
T2R 0G9
herlandfestival@telus.net

UNLIMITED I.D. LE PORTRAIT CONCEPTUEL
Deadline : March 15, 2005

This co-curated, touring exhibition with Dazibao (Montréal) and Neutral Ground (Regina) is a three to four person exhibition on the premise of conceptual portraiture. We invite artists working within photo-based fields to submit new work that regards portraiture as a concept in the context of art and identity, the utopian relationship with technology or other media, or as a strategy for representation of the individual. Concepts could include; art, identity, technology, avatar, utopia, monster, journey, portrait, self-portrait, dystopia, the idealized self, portrait as computational strategy, as data based information, data bodies and others.
We will also be considering photo-based projects that are created specifically for online dissemination.
This exhibition will be presented in the Winter of 2006 at Dazibao in Montreal and Neutral Ground in Regina, and will possibly tour to other locations.

Application guidelines
Your submission should include :
1. a maximum of 20 slides, well identified accompanied with a slide list (title of the work, medium, size and date); please DO NOT send original work. It's also possible to, in addition, include photographs (no original work), VHS tapes, DVDs or CD-ROMs (Mac), well identified. We will NOT be accepting web links or any variety of digital images that are emailed to Dazibao.
2. a clear description of your project;
3. an artist statement;
4. a curriculum vitae;
5. a self-addressed stamped envelope. You MUST include this to be considered. If you are sending a submission from outside Canada, please calculate the cost of mailing at www.postescanada.ca.Deadline for submissions is March 15, 2005.
Submissions must be postmarked no later than March 15, 2005. If this date falls on a weekend or statutory holiday, the deadline moves to the next business day.
Incomplete submissions, submissions sent after the competition closing date and submissions sent by e-mail or fax will not be accepted.
Results will be known within six months.

Please send your proposal to :
Unlimited I.D. Le portrait conceptuel
Dazibao, centre de photographies actuelles
4001 rue Berri, space 202
Montreal, Quebec H2L 4H2
Canada

Neutral Ground is an artist run centre in Regina organized to support contemporary art practices through presentation and creation activities. The centre accomplishes its artistic goals through collaboration, research and presentation in visual, media and interdisciplinary fields. Our mandate is to respond to the artistic concerns and currencies of contemporary, professional Canadian and Québécois artists with emphasis on contributing to a regional context for new or experimental processes and media. The centre is committed to supporting inclusion and creation in its production and dissemination activities. The program offers a continuous schedule of activities for artists and audiences to interact and exchange.
www.neutralground.sk.ca