UPGRADE! BOSTON: Eric Gordon + Show-n-tell
http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/

WHEN: March 22, 7 pm
WHERE: Art Interactive, 130 Bishop Allen Drive, at the corner of Prospect
Street, Cambridge. Free parking in the lot on the corner or take the T to
Central Square and walk 1 block.

< Eric Gordon >
http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/archives/03_22_07EG.html

Eric Gordon will present "The Digital Possessive: Private Spaces in Public
Space." Gordon is an assistant professor in the Department of Visual and
Media Arts at Emerson College in Boston. His work focuses on technology in
public space, perceptions of place in synthetic worlds, and social software
in teaching and learning. His book "The Urban Spectator: Emerging Media and
the Consumption of the American City" is forthcoming from Wayne State
University Press.

<< Show-n-tell >>
http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/archives/03_22_07CZ.html

Show-n-tell will present "webAffairs," her book about an adult video web
community and her story of being both an observer and a performer.
Show-n-tell was trained as a graphic designer and artist. She has been
designing personal work for the Web practically since its inception the
early '90s. She grew up in Turkey and upon graduation from high school came
to the U.S. to continue her studies. She currently teaches and resides in
the Boston area.

Upgrade! Boston (http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/about.html) is curated by
Jo-Anne Green for Turbulence.org (http://turbulence.org) in partnership with
Art Interactive (http://artinteractive.org). It is one of 22 nodes currently
active in Upgrade! International (http://theupgrade.net), an emerging
network of autonomous nodes united by art, technology, and a commitment to
bridging cultural divides. If you would like to present your work or get
involved, please email jo@turbulence.org.

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Comp_07: MIXED REALITIES :: Call for Proposals
Juried International Networked Art Competition
Proposal Deadline: March 31, 2007
http://www.turbulence.org/comp_07/guidelines.htm

MIXED REALITIES: (1) a competition and series of simultaneous exhibitions
that engage users in three discrete environments: the Internet (Turbulence),
an online 3-D rendered environment (Ars Virtua/Second Life), and physical
space (Art Interactive); (2) works that evaluate the concepts "virtual,"
"simulation", and "real"; (3) a series of experiences in which participants
connect with one another and contribute to the creation of the work. Five
commissions @ $5,000 (US) each. More >>
http://www.turbulence.org/comp_07/guidelines.htm

NOTE: While collaborative projects are preferred they are not a requirement.
We have set up a FORUM for applicants to ask and answer questions and seek
collaborators. GO TO FORUM >>
http://transition.turbulence.org/forum/index.php

JURORS: MICHAEL FRUMIN, Technical Director Emeritus, Eyebeam; NATASHA
KHANDEKAR, Director, Art Interactive; JAMES MORGAN, Director, Ars Virtua;
TREBOR SCHOLZ, Founder, Institute for Distributed Creativity; HELEN
THORINGTON, Co-Director, Turbulence. See bios >>
http://www.turbulence.org/comp_07/guidelines.htm#jurors

IMPORTANT DATES:

Proposal Deadline: March 31, 2007
Notification: Winners will be contacted after May 15, 2007
Delivery: Works must be completed by February 2008

This project is supported by a generous grant from the Andy Warhol
Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Ars Virtua Artist-in-Residence (AVAIR): Call for Proposals
http://www.arsvirtua.com/residence.html
Deadline: April 7, 2007

Ars Virtua Gallery and New Media Center in Second Life
(http://www.arsvirtua.com) is soliciting proposals for its second
artist-in-residence program. Established and emerging artists will work
within the 3D rendered environment of Second Life. The 11-week residency
will culminate in an exhibition and a community-based event. Residents will
also receive a $400 stipend, training and mentorship as necessary.

Ars Virtua Artist-in-Residence (AVAIR) is an extended performance that
examines what it means to reside in a place that has no physical location.
Ars Virtua presents artists with a radical alternative to "real life"
galleries: 1) Since it does not physically exist artists are not limited by
physics, material budgets, building codes or landlords. Their only
constraints are social conventions and (malleable-extensible) software. 2)
The gallery is accessible 24 hours a day to an unlimited number of people in
every part of the world simultaneously. 3) Because of the ever evolving,
flexible nature of Second Life the "audience" is a far less predictable
variable than one might find a Real Life gallery. Residents will be
encouraged to explore, experiment with and challenge traditional conventions
of art making and distribution, value and the art market, artist and
audience, space and place.

Application Process: Artists are encouraged to log in to Second Life and
create an avatar BEFORE applying. Finalists will be contacted for an
interview. Interviews will take place in world in April. Applications will
be judged based on ideas presented and work executed. We are looking for an
artist who is willing to work within what may be a new environment for them
and to be prepared to evolve in response to the synthetic world of Second
Life. To apply send the following information to avair-at-arsvirtua.com:

1) Name, address, phone number, email, second life name.
2) Link to an online portfolio (expect a 5 minute visit) and a 500 word (two
page) proposal. If you do not have an online portfolio please briefly
discuss your work.

"AVAIR" is a 2006-2007 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.,
(aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made possible with
funding from the Jerome Foundation.

Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org
New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856
Turbulence: http://turbulence.org
New American Radio: http://somewhere.org
Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog
Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade

Emerson College and New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc./Turbulence.org
present:

OurFloatingPoints 4: Participatory Media: Ulises Mejias and Trebor Scholz:
"The Challenges and Affordances of Participation in the Age of Networked
Individualism"
http://institute.emerson.edu/floatingpoints/

DATE: February 28, 7 pm
VENUE: Emerson College, Bordy Theater, 216 Tremont Street, Boston
Streamed live online and broadcast to Second Life!
Free and open to all!

This Floating Points event will start with Ulises Mejias and Trebor Scholz
both presenting their positions about opportunities and problems with
participation in sociable web media. They will then discuss each others
argumentation and end with a debate open to the public at large.

The sheer scale of current networked sociality demonstrates the potential of
sociable web media to democratize society through emerging cultures of broad
participation. While phenomena like information overload accompanied the
emergence of communication technologies for a very long time, this current
social turn is new. Millions of people can now perform themselves as
speakers, which is more pertinent than the question of quality or even
political orientation of the produced content. In his presentation, titled
"The Participatory Challenge," Trebor Scholz will investigate the
affordances of sociable web media by looking at examples of the different
intensities and motivations for participation in sociable web media and
their effects.

Is production the new consumption? In "Networked participation: Wisdom of
crowds or stupidity of masses?" Ulises Mejias will assess whether sociable
web media can live up to its promise of reinvigorating the public sphere.
While participatory networks are certainly posing an alternative to the ways
in which the old mass media generates and disseminates messages, there is
increasing skepticism about their ability to transform this aggregation of
(mostly self-referential) information into meaningful social change.
Furthermore, participatory media networks run the risk of being appropriated
by the same mass media networks that contribute to the alienation of the
individual within society. To understand why this is happening, we need to
engage in a critique of the network as a model for organizing social
realities. Only then will we be able to conceptualize new social realities
that incorporate the best of networked participation with other ways of
being in the world.

Ulises Ali Mejias is an educator and technocultural theorist whose research
interests include networked sociality, the philosophy of technology, and
learning design. He is a doctoral candidate at Columbia University, where he
has taught a graduate seminar on the affordances of social media. His
dissertation, "Networked Proximity: ICT's and the Mediation of Nearness"
deals with the redefinition of social relevancy by digital media and
explores the limits of the network as metaphor and model for organizing
social realities. Mr. Mejias has been nominated two years consecutively for
an EduBlog award.

Trebor Scholz is a media theorist, artist, and activist who lectures
internationally on the affordances of networked sociality for media
activism, art, and education. As founder of the Institute for Distributed
Creativity (iDC), he contributed essays to several books, journals, and
periodicals and co-edited "The Art of Free Cooperation," forthcoming with
Autonomedia (NYC). He is currently assistant professor and researcher in the
Department of Media Study at the State University of New York at Buffalo and
research fellow at the Hochschule fuer Kunst und Gestaltung, Zurich
(Switzerland).

For more information about the series, please visit
http://institute.emerson.edu/floatingpoints/
Contact: jo at turbulence dot org

Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org
New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856
Turbulence: http://turbulence.org
New American Radio: http://somewhere.org
Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog
Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade

February 16, 2007
Turbulence Spotlight: "Algorithmic Montage 2: A Walk with David Bohm" by
David Crawford
http://turbulence.org/spotlight/crawford/index.html
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"David Joseph Bohm (born December 20, 1917 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania,
died October 27, 1992 in London) was an American-born quantum physicist, who
made significant contributions in the fields of theoretical physics,
philosophy and neuropsychology, and to the Manhattan Project." (Wikipedia)

The audio in this video comes from an interview that F. David Peat conducted
with David Bohm.

BIOGRAPHY

David Crawford studied film, video, and new media at the Massachusetts
College of Art and received a BFA in 1997. In 2004, he received an MSc from
Chalmers University of Technology. Crawford is currently a PhD candidate at
the Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts at Goteborg University, Sweden.

For more Turbulence Spotlights, please visit http://turbulence.org/spotlight

Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org
New York: 917.548.7780