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12 July 2009 by nathaniel

ThirdCoast Digest – Shuffling Priorities: How MARN is Pushing Art to the Top of The List

Somehow missed this story earlier in the week:

ThirdCoast Digest – Shuffling Priorities: How MARN is Pushing Art to the Top of The List
Shuffling Priorities: How MARN is Pushing Art to the Top of The List

July 7th, 2009 by Erin Petersen
Posted in Arts & Culture, VITAL, VITAL Features, Visual Art

When the Milwaukee Artist Resource Network MARN named Melissa Musante as its first full-time Executive Director last February, our interest here at TCD was piqued. Musante came to MARN with an impressive resume including several years as Associate Director at Film Wisconsin; prior to that, she was the National Outreach Sales Manager for Utrecht Art Supplies from 2003-2006.

Musante had been active with MARN as a visual artist before assuming the role of ED and has been showing her work both as a painter and an independent filmmaker in the Milwaukee area for years.

Under the direction of former ED Mike Brenner and Interim Director Melissa Dorn Richards, MARN was able to provide some of the most innovative resources for artists, and both leaders played pivotal roles in helping Milwaukee’s arts scene grow exponentially. Since its founding in 2000, MARN has been able to operate as a network…

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30 June 2009 by nathaniel

July 12 at MOCT: Upgrade! Milwaukee presents Nadav Assor (Israel) and Maria Bolivar (Venezuela)

More information: http://digiwaukee.net/upgrade

Upgrade! Milwaukee presents Nadav Assor and Maria Bolivar!
Sunday July 12, 7 – 9 PM
MOCT, 240 E Pittsburgh Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53204

Please come to the second Upgrade! Milwaukee, featuring Nadav Assor (Israel) and Maria Bolivar (Venezuela)!

Nadav Assor, Tunneling (performance)

Nadav Assor, Tunneling (performance)

On Nadav Assor (who was the founder of Upgrade! Tel Aviv):

“I am greatly interested in theories and explorations of urban architectural, emotional and ideological sub-structures. One tactic I use in exposing and reshaping the structures around me is digitization, in the sense of reduction to a primal, reconfigurable matter. The transformed digital matter is recast into its original context, physically manipulated in an ongoing live process that ranges from the absurd to the violent. The outcome often presents various transgressions or inversions of the technological, socio-political structures that served as a starting point. Many of the mechanisms inherent in my work require palpable, physical effort or struggle to manipulate, thus exposing the constant friction between body and media. I do not want my devices to ‘run smoothly’.

My work has been shown in Berlin, Chicago, and in many Israeli venues, including several showings at the Israeli Center for Digital Art, the C.Sides International electronic media festival, the Laptopia festival, the Center for Contemporary Art in Tel-Aviv, The Haifa and Bat Yam Museums and more. I have received a 2006 Leumi (the Israeli national bank) award for excellence in the arts.
I am currently pursuing my MFA with full fellowship in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.”

Maria Bolivar @ UWM

Maria Bolivar @ UWM

Maria Bolivar was born in Caracas, Venezuela. She was significantly influenced by her father, Cesar Bolivar, who is a well-known film director in Latin America. After attending the most important design academy in Venezuela: El Instituto de Diseño de Caracas, Maria spent three years as a professional designer. Due to the violence and her involvement in the 2002 National Strike in Venezuela, Maria was forced to come to Milwaukee  where she received her BFA in communication design from the Institute of Art and Design (MIAD) in 2006. Maria is currently pursuing a Master’s of Fine Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee with an intermedia focus.

Hope to see you there!

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Upgrade! Milwaukee is a regular gathering of digital creatives – artists, musicians, performers, writers, curators and the public – that fosters dialogue and creates opportunities for collaboration within the local new media community. It features 1-3 guest speakers at each event, held at a rotating venue: informal, free, and open to all. We welcome suggestions for speakers, panels or gatherings. Upgrade! Milwaukee will continue to grow as a local node within the global Upgrade! International (UI) network.

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Upgrade! is an international, emerging network of autonomous nodes united by art, technology, and a commitment to bridging cultural divides. Its decentralized, non-hierarchical structure ensures that Upgrade! (i) operates according to local interests and their available resources; and (ii) reflects current creative engagement with cutting edge technologies. While individual nodes present new media projects, engage in informal critique, and foster dialogue and collaboration between individual artists, Upgrade! International functions as an online, global network that gathers in different cities to meet one another, showcase local art, and work on the agenda for the following year. There are currently over 30 nodes in UI, across North and South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Second Life.

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24 June 2009 by nathaniel

Great 3D animation post/job in South Africa

My old stomping ground (Wits School of the Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand) in Joburg has a 3D/animation post available. Great, small department in Africa’s coolest city. I’m happy to answer questions for anyone interested.

Digital Arts is advertising for a new post in 2010.
Please can you forward this to anyone you feel would be interested in teaching 3D Animation at the Digital Arts Division of the Wits School of Arts. Johannesburg, South Africa.

Please note that the closing date is the 17th July.

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POST OF LECTURER IN ANIMATION, WSOA DIGITAL ARTS
WITS SCHOOL OF ARTS
DIGITAL ARTS (ONE FULL-TIME TENURE-TRACK LECTURESHIP) IN COMPUTER ANIMATION

Digital Arts is a strongly interdisciplinary department which offers postgraduate programmes in Animation and Interactive Media and also undergraduate courses which link digital elements in Music, Fine Arts and Drama. Digital Arts also collaborates with Engineering and other Faculties at Wits. With strong links to both the contemporary arts scene, the creative industries in South Africa and the international context in both the theoretical and production fields, this is an exciting area of growth.
The successful candidate can expect to play a leadership role in determining future directions in the field of animation education in Africa. (For more
about the Department go to: http://www.wits.ac.za/Academic/Humanities/WSOA/DigitalArt/)

LECTURESHIP IN ANIMATION

The successful applicant will be an animator/animation artist with a firm grasp of the principles of animation and experience with 3D animation.

Qualifications: MA, MFA or equivalent qualification. Experienced in a 3D software package but also be able to teach the fundamentals of 2D animation and to supervise student animation projects employing a production pipeline.

Duties: Teach both production and theory to postgraduate and undergraduate classes. Supervise postgraduate research projects, collaborative projects and assist with course administration.

For further information contact Professor Christo Doherty, Head of Digital Arts, christo.doherty@wits.ac.za, tel: +27 11 7174682
For application forms contact Mrs Margaret Deyi, Faculty of Humanities, margaret.deyi@wits.ac.za, tel: +27 11 7171414

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04 June 2009 by nathaniel

SnapMilwaukee

Via Art City:

Billed as a “haven for our community’s many voices,” a critical arts journal called SNAPMilwaukee will launch Thursday. The online-only journal will cover architecture, visual art, film, music and performing arts.

SNAP will be a place for “informed critical discourse in and around the arts through in-depth study, commentary, historical analysis, synthesis and discussion of what’s going on in this place at this time,” according to a post on Facebook announcing the launch.

A few articles have already been posted to SNAP, including a piece on the Menomonee Valley by Don Hanlon, a professor at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee., and a piece on book arts in Milwaukee from Petra Press. Other categories show only headlines, images and the tag “Coming Soon.”

Artist Joe Riepenhoff will serve as editor. Other editors and production staff include artist Cat Pham, Green Gallery East owners John Riepenhoff and Jake Palmert and co-owner of the recently closed Armoury Gallery Jessica Steeber.

Section editors include Pham for architecture, Sarah Buccheri for film, Julie Strand for letters, Amelinda Burich and Carly Rubach for music and Neil Gasparka for visual arts. The performing arts editor has not been named yet.

The Journal is being launched with a party at the Green Gallery East, 1500 N. Farwell Ave., Thursday from 8 to 10 p.m. Parking is available at the gallery and adjacent lot on Curtis St.

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02 June 2009 by nathaniel

Wikipedia Art in Venice: call for remixes

SEE THE CALL AND THE REMIXES SO FAR

Wikipedia Art – originally an editable encyclopedia entry as art work – applied for and was denied citizenship on Wikipedia. It now seeks refugee status in Venice through the establishment of The Wikipedia Art Embassy. Encyclopedic ambassadors, Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern, invite writings on, and creative remixes and alternative wiki postings of, the Wikipedia Art project itself. Each will be featured on their now infamous site, wikipediaart.org

Wikipedia Art , officially part of Venice Biennale, has been called “more Wikipedia than Wikipedia” by Miltos Manetas, curator of Padiglione Internet (the Internet Pavilion). It is an incorporation of not only the artists’ primary concept, but the debates, biases and power struggles behind how it continues to exist. Now, Kildall and Stern are re-releasing Wikipedia Art – the story, the concept, the logo, its texts and name – under a Creative Commons license (CC-by). They request public remixes, transformative art and derivative works. They offer the piece up to business and info Wikis, to songwriters, fellow artists and filmmakers, to journalists and storytellers. Despite its absence from the number one source of online information, it perseveres in its temporary yet virtual housing in Italy (and Everywhere Else).

Kildall and Stern continue their examination and intervention into how Wikipedia has reframed knowledge, by asking the public to re-look at and re-make Wikipedia’s mode of online knowledge production. Wikipedia is not open to any editor, not a democracy, and in a great position of power. While an amazing resource, as with any powerful institution, its users – the general public – should continuously question Wikipedia’s methodologies and the power brokers that control them. Wikipedia Art re-engages that general audience; it features any artist or writer who wishes to take part; it frames all public discourse and activity as an ongoing intervention into knowledge and authority – on Wikipedia, on the Internet, in Venice and beyond.

Download the call for remixes (pdf)
See the call and the remixes so far

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