From lteixeira at porto.ucp.pt Fri Aug 15 18:45:34 2008 From: lteixeira at porto.ucp.pt (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Lu=EDs_Teixeira?=) Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:45:34 +0100 Subject: [My-ci] PhDs position in Visual Arts, Electronic Arts and Multimedia, Design Studies, Interactive/Multimedia Design or in similar areas. Message-ID: <880FC76516FCB644807A5DD42611A6A20D7BDD06@ucpfexh01.ucpcrp.pt> Dear sir, Could you please kindly forward this email to all potential interested. Thanks. Luis The Research Centre of Science and Technology in the Arts of the Portuguese Catholic University (UCP-CITAR), in Porto, Portugal, seeks two candidates with Ph.D. in one of following fields: Visual Arts, Electronic Arts and Multimedia, Design Studies, Interactive/Multimedia Design or in similar areas. The candidate's should have at least three years experience, with relevant research practice in the research lines currently ongoing at CITAR. This call is open under the PhD Hiring Program for the National Science and Technology Centre sponsored by the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation Programme CIENCIA2008. The candidate's record should indicate outstanding intellectual quality and also demonstrate the ability to work in a team, sharing knowledge and responsibilities and assisting the development of projects that fit CITAR's research profile. The hired candidate will be expected to contribute with innovative approaches to the work and projects currently under development in CITAR, or in cooperation with other national and international research institutions. The ability to develop an interdisciplinary research approach in those areas is a quality that is highly valued. The position in UCP-CITAR includes as main duties the conception, coordination and execution of R&D projects, coordination of scientific teams, scientific supervision of researchers at post-graduate level, production of scientific papers, and technology and science management, including proposal and negotiation of contracts. Candidates should have a minimum of 3 years postdoctoral research experience. In exceptional cases, duly justified, FCT may consider accepting applicants with less than 3 years of post-doctoral experience. The jury reserves the right not to fulfil the posts in the absence of qualified applications. Selection does not necessarily imply admission and the actual/effective admission of pre-selected candidates is conditioned to the final decision of FCT (Foundation for Science and Technology) and of UCP-CITAR. Candidates must provide: * Detailed C.V., including most relevant publications; * Motivation letter describing research interests, possible date for the start of the contract, contact details (if not provided in the CV), and stating the reasons for applying to the positions and interest in working at CITAR; * A 5-year Research Proposal emphasizing research objectives, collaborations and expected contributions to research at CITAR unit; * Two recommendation letters (not from PhD supervisors); * Significant examples of the candidate's work in the field (publications, creative and/or scientific work) (maximum of 3); * Abstract of doctoral dissertation (full document may be required later); * A copy of the PhD Diploma Please refer to the job reference in all application materials [C2008-UCP/CITAR/2008]. CITAR invites eligible individuals to submit their expressions of interest. Please send your application to: Lu?s Teixeira (lteixeira at porto.ucp.pt). 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URL: http://idash.org/pipermail/my-ci/attachments/20080815/f9629384/attachment.html From simsite at gmail.com Fri Aug 29 08:15:40 2008 From: simsite at gmail.com (Simeon Moran) Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:15:40 +1000 Subject: [My-ci] Digital Fringe 2008 submissions Message-ID: <48B7940C.7090508@gmail.com> Digital Fringe 08 Call for submissions *Digital Fringe* is now accepting entries (video, stills or audio). Ferret around your hard drives, dig out those gems and have your work seen on hundreds of public screens. Uploaded content will play on an extensive network of screens around the world: from the web to retail television display walls to huge urban screens, hospitality venues, galleries, libraries and many other public nooks and crannys. Visit www.digitalfringe.com.au to submit your works, and for more festival info. Artist retain copyright of their works and have the option of utilising the Creative Commons licensing scheme. Digital Fringe is also chasing *more screening venues* - so if you know of any idle screens in need of interesting art content in your area (in bars, shops, ....wherever) put them in touch with us or let us know at: people at digitalfringe.com.au Digital Fringe is produced by *Horse Bazaar* as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival (September 24 - October 12) ===================================== DF08 Press Release Horse Bazaar in association with Melbourne Fringe & Film Victoria presents DIGITAL FRINGE 08 1's & 0's in your eyes. Digital Fringe pixels will catch your eyeballs somewhere this festival season. Digital Fringe is the digital arts arm of The AGE 2008 Melbourne Fringe Festival. Digital art from all over the world will be streaming into all sorts of nooks and crannies, across the Melbourne, Victoria & the world. See international emerging artists in your local pub, library, or shops. Have your eyeballs hijacked by MPU's guerilla projections as you wander through the cityscape at night. Digital Fringe is a web based digital art festival that links to Melbourne and regional Victoria through site specific streaming of artistic digital content. Produced by Horse Bazaar, Digital Fringe 2008 will load up, stream out and shine across Melbourne, Regional Victoria and the world from Wednesday 24 September to Sunday 12 October as Melbourne Fringe Festival swings open its artistic carrel for the 26th year. Digital Fringe provides artists with access to a network of 100's of public screens and non-traditional audiences through-out the state (and the world). A continual playlist of digital art plays on a multitude of screens. This curated playlist is a compilation of silent, G rated visual works of animation, abstract, video art, short film, motion graphics, photography or other stills. It is the cream of the crop of 1000's of submissions that results from an extensive local, national and international callout. Submissions are received from all around the world; from professional artists to bedroom doodlers and everybody in between. Screening venues range from busy bars and cafes, bustling shopping centres, walls of TV's in Harvey Norman, JB Hifi & Retravision stores, State and regional libraries and art galleries, suburban shop fronts and on massive public screens like Federation Square. All works are also available via the Digital Fringe website www.digitalfringe.com.au Digital Fringe once again features the Mobile Projection Unit (MPU). 3 weeks of public projection shenanigans and culture jacking feature as a centre piece of the festival. As the MPU rolls through the streets of Melbourne, guerrilla pixels alter buildings and billboards, and hijack public audiences across the city. Key features of the MPU van include realtime GPS map positioning of the van viewable on the Digital Fringe website, live video hookups to the artists in the van, text interaction between the MPU and the Web, and real-time monitoring of what the MPU is projecting. The MPU allows local artists to take their work to the streets and interact with the inner urban built environment, and the general Melbourne public at large. Check out www.digitalfringe.com.au for info on the range of digital activities finding their way in from the fringe. -- Simeon Moran 0402 514 017 simeon at horsebazaar.com.au Horse Bazaar 397 Lt Lonsdale St Melbourne 3000 03 9670 2329 www.horsebazaar.com.au www.digitalfringe.com.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://idash.org/pipermail/my-ci/attachments/20080829/40c5ce29/attachment.html