Archive for March, 2009

Opportunities for Young and Emerging Producers

Posted in Master of Electronic Art, Electronic Art 1st year, Electronic Art 2nd year, Electronic Art 3rd year, Interdisciplinary Studies, Sound art, IDIDO on March 25th, 2009

As part of the Australia Council’s Opportunities for Young and
Emerging Artists (OYEA) initiative, 10 paid mentorships for emerging
producers, agents, gallery dealers and rights managers are available
for a period of 18 months under the ‘emerging producers mentorship
program’.

The selected candidates will have the opportunity to work directly
alongside one of the following industry leaders:

Elizabeth Walsh, Artistic Director, 10 days on the Island, TAS

Marguerite Pepper, Managing Director, Marguerite Pepper Productions,
NSW

Steven Pozel, Director, Object : Australian Centre for Craft and
Design, NSW

Daniel Brine, Director, The Performance Space, NSW

Clive Newman, Manager, Fremantle Press, WA

John Oster, Executive Officer, desART : Association of Central
Australian Aboriginal Art & Craft Centers, NT

Michael Heyward, Publisher, Text Publishing, VIC

Lee-Anne Donnolley, Executive Producer, Arts Projects Australia, SA

Rob Gebart, Program Manger, The Arts Centre, VIC

Bill Hauritz, Festival Director, Woodford Folk Festival, QLD

More information and application forms can be found on:

http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/oyeaproducermentors

or email Olivia Parker at the Australia Council:
o.parker@australiacouncil.gov.au

Or try this link to OYEA main page:

http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/the_arts/features/$6.6m_program_for_young_and_emerging_artists

and click on the link “Producers - the next generation of arts professionals”

Listen to UCDARNET SOUND + SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM

Posted in Master of Electronic Art, Electronic Art 1st year, Electronic Art 2nd year, Electronic Art 3rd year, Interdisciplinary Studies, Sound art on March 6th, 2009

You can access the streaming media here:

http://artsci.ucla.edu/sound/stream/index.html

TODAY!!!! UCLA ART|SCI Center + Lab Present

Posted in Master of Electronic Art, Electronic Art 1st year, Electronic Art 2nd year, Electronic Art 3rd year, Interdisciplinary Studies, Sound art on March 6th, 2009
TODAY!!!!
UCLA  ART|SCI Center + Lab Present

UCDARNET SOUND + SCIENCE

SYMPOSIUM

Thursday - Friday, March 5-6, 2009, 9am-7pm

Location: UCLA, California NanoSystems Institute Auditorium
WEB http://artsci.ucla.edu/sound/
<http://artsci.ucla.edu/sound/>
Organized and Curated by Tyler Adams


A trans-disciplinary exploration of scientific research and technological breakthroughs concerned with sound, hearing and aurality. Guest speakers include Curtis Roads (UCSB), Diana Deutsch (UCSD), Douglas Kahn (UCD) and Veit Erlmann. For more information and a complete schedule and list of speakers, please visit the above website.


All events take place in the Auditorium of the California NanoSystems Insitute at UCLA

Thursday, March 5th, 2009:
9am - 10am Morning Reception & Opening Statement Tyler Adams UCLA Art | Sci Center
10am - 11am When sounds collide: Environmental influences on the evolution of acoustic communication Peter Narins UCLA Dept of Physiological Sciences and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
11am - 12pm The sound of fear: implications of alarm calling and predator detection for conservation biology and national security Daniel Blumstein UCLA Dept of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
12pm - 1pm Sounding out the Matter Market Ricardo Dominguez UC San Diego Dept of Visual Arts
1pm - 2pm Lunch Break
2pm - 3pm Communicating the science of the solar wind using sounds from satellite data Laura Peticolas UC Berkeley Space Physics Research Group
3pm - 4pm The computer as an aid or hindrance to musical expression Miller Puckette UC San Diego Dept of Music
4pm - 5pm Break / Film Screening
Cymatics: Bringing Matter To Life With Sound by Dr. Hans Jenny
5pm - 6pm Gabor’s sonic model: A research review Curtis Roads UC Santa Barbara Dept of Media Art & Technology
6pm - 7pm Illusions in music and speech Diana Deutsch UC San Diego Dept of Psychology
7pm - 9pm Reception

Friday, March 6th, 2009:
9am - 10am The Biophysics of Hearing Dolores Bozovic UCLA Dept of Physics
10am - 11am Using Audio Cues to Enhance Navigation and Spatial Learning for the Blind James Marston UC Santa Barbara Dept of Geography
11am - 12pm Brain networks for tracking musical structure Petr Janata UC Davis Dept of Psychology & The Center for Mind and Brain
12pm - 1pm Lunch Break
1pm - 2pm Scaling the Sonic Terrain:  Raising Environmental
Awareness Through Sonification
Andrea Polli University of New Mexico College of Fine Art + School of Engineering
2pm - 3pm Insects, Trees, and Climate: The Bioacoustic Ecology of Deforestation and Entomogenic Climate Change James Crutchfield UC Davis Dept of Physics & The Complexity Science Center
3pm - 4pm Break / Film Screening
Music for the Eyes: Visual Music Films
Cindy Keefer Center for Visual Music
4pm - 5pm Aesthetics of Natural Radio Douglas Kahn UC Davis Technocultural Studies
5pm - 6pm Re(a)sonance Veit Erlmann University of Texas at Austin Butler School of Music
6pm - 7pm Sound, Consciousness, and Culture: Exploring Music and Technology through Semiotics and Ethnographic Study Rene Lysloff /
Paulo Chagas UC Riverside Dept of Music
7pm - 9pm Reception

All Events are free and open to the public. Parking is $9 a day.