PIXILERATIONS [v.8]New Media Fringe Festival @ FirstWorksSeptember 22nd-October 2nd, 2011CALL FOR WORKDeadline for entries extended to April 19, 2011 PIXILERATIONS [v.8] is a new media festival in Providence, Rhode Island (USA) that investi…

The Literary Arts Program at Brown University, renowned for innovative fiction and poetry, currently also offers MFA places in Electronic Writing. These studentships are generously funded by the University’s Graduate School for two years of financial support and include remarkable opportunities to gain relevant teaching experience in the second year.<br />
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Electronic Writing at Brown builds on its site within a workshop-based school of writing, and deploys the concepts of writing digital media and language-driven digital art in an effort to extend the writing workshop into a studio of computational language art, while remaining open to narrative and poetic traditions, and to a wide range of hypertextual and networked innovations. Thanks to our strong community of media artists and theorists – the Brown MEME program in Music, Modern Culture and Media, the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Digital+Media Program, and others – there is interested engagement from a wide range of faculty and students.<br />
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Program-led or sponsored courses in electronically mediated writing and programming for digital art and literature may be supplemented by the University’s & RISD’s cross-disciplinary offerings. There is even a unique course for writing in the immersive 3D artificial environment of a ‘Cave.’ These residential graduate positions would also suit relatively mature digital literary artists wanting to develop new work in a supportive environment while acquiring a new qualification. In Spring 2011, the University’s all-new Granoff Center for the Creative Arts will open. Faculty devoted to Electronic Writing at Brown include Professors John Cayley and Robert Coover.<br />
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Information on admissions http://brown.edu/Departments/Literary_Arts/<img src="http://rhizome.org/syndicate/nothing.gif?f=announce" border="0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rhizome-announce/~4/kolnfxJnsrE" height="1" width="1"/>

Associate Professor <br />
Digital + Media <br />
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Rhode Island School of Design seeks a forward thinking and experienced artist/designer, educator and scholar for the position of Associate Professor in its highly regarded Graduate Department of Digital + Media, with the expectation that this individual will also serve as the appointed Department Head starting July 2011. Established in 2003, the Department of Digital + Media offers an MFA program for approximately 30 students a year who bring diverse research interests and creative explorations of technology and the digital world to the fields of contemporary art/design, and new media practices. It is one of three stand-alone graduate departments at RISD. Because of its interdisciplinary structure and reach, the Department of Digital + Media has developed strong connections to other departments and programs both at RISD and at neighboring Brown University. The position offers a unique opportunity for a dynamic intellectual and pedagogical leader to guide the future of the department in its exploration of advanced art, design and research practices within the current cultural environment of ubiquitous digital media. The successful candidate should be an artist/designer who is engaged in the understanding of emergent, adaptive and social media technologies and their relationship with other media, disciplines and debates within contemporary theory. She/he will foster a department culture of curricular innovation in which faculty are encouraged to develop progressive teaching and research practices. As Department Head, she/he will play a pivotal role in supporting the diverse practices of D + M graduate students and forging partnerships with other graduate programs at RISD, as well as external research partners. She/he will develop the role of the Digital + Media Department as a research incubator and creative forum at RISD, and advance the Digital + Media program within the expanding field of new media and technology in art and design graduate education. <br />
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Applicants should have a terminal graduate degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience in art, design, media, computer art, or contemporary theory; at least 5 years of full-time teaching at the college or university (especially graduate) level or the equivalent; a demonstrated background and interest in academic, intellectual leadership in a graduate program; and a strong record of research and creative work. <br />
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Applicants should provide a letter of interest; statement of teaching and leadership philosophy in the context of this field of inquiry; curriculum vitae; names and contact information for three references; examples of creative and scholarly work; and selected syllabi from courses taught with examples of student work. <br />
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Review of applications will begin immediately, and continue until the position is filled. Candidates who submit their materials by January 5, 2011, will be assured full consideration.<br />
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For more information about RISD and to apply online visit www.risd.edu/jobs<br />
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RISD is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage inquiries from candidates who will enrich and contribute to the cultural and ethnic diversity of our College. RISD does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetics, or any other protected characteristic as established by law, in employment, or in our education programs.<br />
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About the Department of Digital + Media:<br />
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The Department of Digital + Media is engaged in a critical examination and exploration of the dynamic relationship of technology, contemporary culture, media, and physical objects, time and space. It offers a two-year MFA with annual enrollment of thirty graduate students with a diverse range of undergraduate and professional backgrounds. The mission of the department is to create a resonant environment for leading edge creative work and research focusing on the creative potentials of media and contemporary technologies. Embracing the broad and dynamic potential of digital media as a ubiquitous tool across many domains, the department fosters exploratory work that exhibits a high degree of innovative visual, sonic, and/or textual expression with conceptual clarity and technological insight and agility. A continuum between digital media and physical objects, virtual and actual space is emphasized. <br />
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Working from a cogent theoretical, historical, and conceptual curricular core, the department is an environment that supports diverse forms of experimentation for students. Students are immersed in a multi-perspective approach to knowledge and contemporary culture with particular relevance to their own areas of interest merged with theory and critique from other disciplines and areas of research. Through a complex understanding of the capacity of digital and new media and social practices through conceptual, critical, social, and cultural inquiry, students pursue ambitious independent work and theses. Multiple, but interconnected, core intellectual values include:<br />
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- To know how to use digital (and analog) technologies; study and understand the various perspectives of their histories and how they came to be<br />
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- To understand the implications materialized in a device or technology; why they are there and for whom, in order to challenge, critique, and interrogate the embedded assumptions and prescriptions and engage critically with technologies<br />
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- To investigate existing or make new technologies from the perspectives of artists and designers rather than from traditionally trained engineers<br />
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- To work in the areas of social practice, activist practice, and science, technology, and society studies in both material and community projects <br />
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Performance, installation, dance, film, sound, objects, two- and three-dimensions, video, glass, ceramics, architecture – any of these forms and media may be part of students’ practice and research, but these forms are not the sole reason the work exists.<img src="http://rhizome.org/syndicate/nothing.gif?f=announce" border="0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rhizome-announce/~4/dD7F-w4q_zc" height="1" width="1"/>

Gender Matters/Matters of Gender: Juried Exhibition <br />
Freedman Gallery at Albright College, Reading, PA<br />
March 23-April 20, 2011<br />
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Open to everyone submitting original works of art and design pertaining to or adressing theme.<br />
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Ever since Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro organized the collective Womanhouse project in San Francisco in 1972, as well as Judy Chicago’s 1979 Dinner Party, shows centering on women’s reality have become a staple in galleries nationwide. Gender Matters/Matters of Gender, expands this tradition to include works by artists of both sexes who work from a consciousness of how gender is reflected in art, how the artist’s gender influences her or his medium, and how gender often affects the circumstances in which the artist creates. This show will include a range of artists who make art which explores sexual identity, evolutions in biological reproduction and art which is sometimes informed by an awareness of gender based craft and traditions. <br />
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Juror: Judith Tannenbaum, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design. <br />
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To download the prospectus and submit entries, go to: www.albright.edu/freedman.<img src="http://rhizome.org/syndicate/nothing.gif?f=announce" border="0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rhizome-announce/~4/HkD-P6N7yaM" height="1" width="1"/>

In Guided Growth, Misako Inaoka revamps Johansson Projects into a zoological garden run wild, existing in a strange parallel world that we are perhaps too familiar with. Inaoka’s work echoes the alchemy of food processing by cross-breeding high art and toys, flirting with the familiarity of kitsch. Fawns with surveillance cameras for heads and a moose with ears-turned-bicycle-handlebars frolic in a wonderland impossibly sweet with an unsettling aftertaste. Inaoka’s serious play addresses issues of cloning, bioengineering, alternative energy in pint-sized figurines suited for text books or toy chests. <br />
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Inaoka, born in Kyoto, Japan, had received BFA in printmaking ’01 from RISD (Rhode Island School of Design), and MFA ’06 from Mills College, CA. From 1999-2000, Inaoka spent a year in Rome, Italy, as a part of EHP (European Honors Program). She works with mixed media in sculpture and site-specific installation. Her work has been shown at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, de Young Museum, de Saisset Museum, San Jose ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts), as well as galleries in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, and Texas, in Japan, England, China and Italy. She is a recipient of Irvine Fellowship for Montalvo residency, National Endowment of Arts for MacDowell Colony residency, and has been an artist in residence at the Headlands Center for the Art, de Young Museum, and Vermont Studio Center. <br />
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Closing Reception: November 5, 5-9pm<img src="http://rhizome.org/syndicate/nothing.gif?f=announce" border="0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rhizome-announce/~4/ZntIYult1xA" height="1" width="1"/>

In Guided Growth, Misako Inaoka revamps Johansson Projects into a zoological garden run wild, existing in a strange parallel world that we are perhaps too familiar with. Inaoka’s work echoes the alchemy of food processing by cross-breeding high art and toys, flirting with the familiarity of kitsch. Ceramic fawns with surveillance cameras for heads and a moose with ears-turned-bicycle-handlebars frolic in a wonderland impossibly sweet with an unsettling aftertaste. Inaoka’s serious play addresses issues of cloning, bioengineering, alternative energy in pint-sized figurines suited for text books or toy chests.<br />
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Inaoka, born in Kyoto, Japan, had received BFA in printmaking ’01 from RISD (Rhode Island School of Design), and MFA ’06 from Mills College, CA. From 1999-2000, Inaoka spent a year in Rome, Italy, as a part of EHP (European Honors Program). She works with mixed media in sculpture and site-specific installation. Her work has been shown at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, de Young Museum, de Saisset Museum, San Jose ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts), as well as galleries in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, and Texas, in Japan, England, China and Italy. She is a recipient of Irvine Fellowship for Montalvo residency, National Endowment of Arts for MacDowell Colony residency, and has been an artist in residence at the Headlands Center for the Art, de Young Museum, and Vermont Studio Center.<br />
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Show runs September 17- November 6<br />
Opening Reception October 1, 5-8pm<img src="http://rhizome.org/syndicate/nothing.gif?f=announce" border="0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rhizome-announce/~4/f9orXmh2ufo" height="1" width="1"/>

If you want to see how contemporary designers experiment with glass, attending the GlassLab performances of the Corning Museum of Glass is a perfect idea. During this year’s Art Basel, the museum brought its mobile glass laboratory to the Vitra Campus. VernissageTV watched designer David Wiseman and the Corning Museum glassmakers working side-by-side on new [...]