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Collaborative Research Residency: Call for Applications

Posted by on January 10th, 2011 · related topics

Collaborative Research Residency: Call for Applications

<http://www.crresidency.net>

Collaborative Research Residency:

Call for Applications

www.crresidency.net <http://www.crresidency.net>

Contact

application [at] crresidency [dot] net <mailto:application@crresidency.net>

Info

Deadline: 1 February 2011

*BAC, Baltic Art Center*in Visby, Sweden;*The Factory of Art and Design (FFKD)*in Copenhagen, Denmark and*Hordaland Art Centre*in Bergen, Norway jointly invite professionals within the field of visual art to apply to our new*Collaborative Research Residency*.

The*Collaborative Research Residency*offers one month residencies spring 2011 for research groups of three collaborators where at least one has a contemporary visual arts background (artist/curator/art critic). The programme encourages new relationships and should be seen as a chance to try out different types of collaborations, which may have an inter-disciplinary character. We welcome applications from research groups of three people, where a minimum of two people are based in or coming from the Nordic and Baltic countries.

This residency programme is a pilot project, and differs from our other residency programmes in two ways: it focuses on collaborative rather than individual practice, and it emphasises the research phase.

The application should outline the initial research idea, how you imagine the collaborative research process, as well as a clear motivation for why you wish to collaborate and how you see that your respective practices can enrich each other.

In 2011 we offer residencies to three groups of three people each to stay for one month in one of the three host institutions. A stipend of ?1400 per month for each person, travel costs up to ? 1000 for the group, accommodation and a studio or office facility will be provided. ?500 will be allocated to each collaborating unit for expenses associated to their research.

*APPLICATION PROCEDURE

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The application should include: a description of the initial idea, an outline of the imagined process and a clear motivation for the collaboration. A minimum of two applicants must be from any of the Nordic or Baltic countries, or be professionally based in any of these countries.  Please see_www.crresidency.net_ <http://www.crresidency.net/>for detailed information.

*Application deadline:*1 February 2011 for one month (30 consecutive days) residency

BAC:  March-June 2011/ FFKD: April-June 2011 / HKS: either April or May 2011.

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THE HOSTS**

Baltic Art Center*is a production office and work place for artists, curators and contemporary art writers located at the Swedish island Gotland. BAC runs a variety of different production- and residency programs. It is a flexible organization placing the artistic process at the centre of its activities it therefore has no permanent studios or exhibition rooms. BAC is working actively with questions concerning the relationship between artistic process, institution and society with the aim to continuously assess and re-think our working methods.

_www.balticartcenter.com_ <http://www.balticartcenter.com/>

*The Factory of Art and Design (FFKD)*is an artist-run institution in Copenhagen, Denmark. FFKD houses 55 studios for professional visual artists and designers and a 1000m2 production hall, which is used for exhibitions and events. We run a variety of different international residency programs and collaborate equally on a local, national and international level in issues dealing with the conditions of artistic production.

_www.ffkd.dk_ <http://www.ffkd.dk/>

*Hordaland Art Centre*based in Bergen, Norway was established 1976 as the first artist run art centre in Norway. Its activities are based around the exhibition programme with equal emphasis on seminars, presentations and dialogue. Since 1987 Hordaland Art Centre has had a residency programme, from 2008 open to international artist, curators, writers and other art professionals. Hordaland Art Centre is situated in one of the oldest remaining school buildings in Bergen where we focus on local commitment in an international every day.

_www.kunstsenter.no_ <http://www.kunstsenter.no/>

Communications Services Update 2010

Posted by on January 10th, 2011 · Communication Services, Operations Services

Late last year Greg Sawyer ran a session to provide an update on all things related to the IT Communication Services Department. Greg has kindly provided a copy of the presentation so that I can share it online.

It is a somewhat lengthy presentation, but there is a wealth of information here for those that are interested.

click to download

Call for Papers for the 7th Media in Transition Conference

Posted by on December 30th, 2010 · related topics

Call for Papers for the 7th Media in Transition Conference

Submissions accepted on a rolling basis until Friday, March 4, 2011.

Conference dates: May 13-15, 2011 at MIT.
Conference website: web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit7/

Has the digital age confirmed and exponentially increased the cultural instability and creative destruction that are often said to define advanced capitalism? Does living in a digital age mean we may live and die in what the novelist Thomas Pynchon has called “a ceaseless spectacle of transition”? The nearly limitless ange of design options and communication choices available now and in the future is both exhilarating and challenging, inciting innovation and creativity but also false starts, incompatible systems, planned obsolescence.

For this seventh Media in Transition conference we want to focus directly on our core topic – the experience of transition. Our first conference in 1999 considered this subject, of course. But that was before Facebook, iPhones, BitTorrent, IPTV and many other changes.

How are we coping with the instability of platforms? How are the classroom, the newsroom, the corporate office exploiting digital systems and responding to the imperative for constant upgrades. Our libraries and archives? Our public entertainments? Are new technologies changing the experience of reading? The experience of watching movies or television programs? How stable, how durable are current or emerging systems? How relevant are earlier periods of media change to our current experience of ongoing instability and transformation?

We welcome submissions from scholars and teachers in all fields as well as media-makers, producers, designers and industry professionals.

Possible topics include:

* Technologies of reading
* The future and fate of media studies
* Narrative across media
* Analog media in the connected era
* Emerging forms of journalism and community engagement
* New questions, new paradigms for media history
* Reappraising divides, digital, generational, and gendered
* Television: a medium of constant change?
* Rethinking access and restriction in the digital age
* The migration of print culture to digital form: promises and problems
* Oral cultures and digital cultures
* The advent of the book
* Corporate strategies for the digital age

Short abstracts of about 250 words for papers or panels can be sent via email to mit7@mit.edu no later than Friday, March 4, 2011.

While emailed submissions are preferred, abstracts can be snail-mailed to:
Brad Seawell
MIT 14N-430
77 Mass. Ave.
Cambridge , MA 02139

Please include a short (75 words or less) biographical statement.

We invite submissions of full papers and proposals of full panels. Panel proposals should include a panel title and one-sentence description of the panel as well as separate abstracts and bios for each panel speaker.

Anyone submitting panel proposals should take it on themselves to identify and recruit a moderator.

Our expectation is that speakers will submit full versions of their presentations before the conference begins so that all conferees will have a chance to preview the materials.

We will be evaluating submissions on a rolling basis. The final deadline for submission will be Friday, March 4, 2011.

Media in Transition conferences are free and open to the public.  A registration link will be added to the conference site.

opening access to academic research output

Posted by on December 17th, 2010 · Uncategorized

Moving on from my qualms about delicious’ shaky future, here’s a great article about alt-metrics and how academic scholarship and publishing is changing.

In growing numbers, scholars are moving their everyday work to the web. Online reference managers Zotero and Mendeley each claim to store over 40 million articles (making them substantially larger than PubMed); as many as a third of scholars are on Twitter, and a growing number tend scholarly blogs.

These new forms reflect and transmit scholarly impact: that dog-eared (but uncited) article that used to live on a shelf now lives in Mendeley, CiteULike, or Zotero–where we can see and count it. That hallway conversation about a recent finding has moved to blogs and social networks–now, we can listen in. The local genomics dataset has moved to an online repository–now, we can track it. This diverse group of activities forms a composite trace of impact far richer than any available before. We call the elements of this trace alt-metrics.

From Alt-metrics, a manifesto

Speaking of moving scholarship online, our fine institution has just migrated the unsw repository of research output to a new user interface. Unsworks now has improved functionality and a more similar look and feel to existing library services. Explore it here.

Vale delicious?

Posted by on December 17th, 2010 · Uncategorized

TechCrunch has reported a leaked slide from a Yahoo internal meeting which intimates the once popular social bookmarking site delicious.com (owned by Yahoo) may be shut down. It’s early days yet, only being a couple of hours since the report appeared on TechCrunch, but the online world is already responding.

At the moment, #delicious is trending on twitter, Australia – not worldwide, which is likely to be a time zone issue.  The general reception seems to be “Nooooo!” and an online petition #savedelicious on activist social media tool act.ly has been started. I have signed it immediately, because this is the one tool that has stayed the course throughout my Masters in Information and Knowledge Management, keeping track of information, issues and developements in the libraries and information sciences sector. The silver lining of this cloud is that I can share with you a global live map of all the people who have signed this petition! Social media is marvellous, until they shut it down. However, let’s be circumspect about this, as there is no official communication confirming this from Yahoo.

Obviously, though, people like to be prepared, and there are already alternatives to delicious being passed around, evernote, for example, and zotero are two that come to mind. A list of other alternatives is available here. I’ll be keeping my ears open for more news about this, because this has pretty big ramifactions for not only the daao blog, but also designing research capabilities into the daao. It just goes to show that software / application dependency for collaborative research tools must be addressed, and that future-proofing is built into any strategy.

Further resources:

How to export delicious tags html

How to export delicious tags to spreadsheet

Lighthouse call for proposals

Posted by on December 13th, 2010 · related topics

Lighthouse is thrilled to be calling for proposals for a unique interdisciplinary art and science workshop, which we are developing in collaboration with The Arts Catalyst, for Brighton Science Festival in 2011.

Laboratory Life is a production workshop, exhibition and talks programme, exploring the use of new technologies in biomedicine. It takes place in February and March 2011.

At its heart is an innovative publicly accessible production workshop – or “open laboratory” – which will result in new art-science projects. Over nine days, Lighthouse will be transformed into a temporary laboratory in which five new projects will be created by collaborative teams led by internationally recognized artists Andy Gracie, Adam Zaretsky, Kira O’Reilly, Bruce Gilchrist and Anna Dumitriu.

The projects created in the open laboratory will be subsequently showcased in a series of public events, including a temporary exhibition at Lighthouse, and in public presentations in Brighton, London and beyond.

We are delighted to be invite proposals to participate in the laboratory from individuals in the early stages of a career in art, medicine, science or technology. We welcome proposals from emerging practitioners and students.

To apply / further information: http://www.lighthouse.org.uk/whatson/laboratorylife.htm

Winter study abroad programs at Dankook University

Posted by on December 7th, 2010 · Uncategorized

Dankook University is a privately-owned Korean university providing quality education for more than 50 years. It was recently ranked 50th among 200 Korean universities.

It is the first university in Korea to implement a dual campus in Jukjeon and Cheonan offering high-tech research facilities, state-of-the-art classrooms, hospital and dental centres, onsite dormitory accommodation, a museum and cafeterias, seminar rooms and fitness centres, all equipped for convenient campus life. It has a student enrolment of 29 787 of which 22 152 are undergraduates and 7635 postgraduates in two campuses.

Dankook University is offering short-term winter teaching and study programs for undergraduate and graduate university students from English-speaking countries, including Australia, who want to explore South Korea.

The International Winter School program, 5 January to 22 February 2011, consists of:

English Village (EV), 5 to 27 January 
A three-week program in which Australian students lead conversation classes with three to four Korean students. Directed by TESOL Graduate Professors, participants are provided with teacher training to assist them in developing their teaching skills. Participants develop relationships with Dankook University students through weekly team-building activities while enjoying a new experience of Korea.

 Intensive Korean Language and Culture Program (IKLCP), 27 January to 22 February
A four-week program following the EV program, the IKLCP provides four hours of Korean language instruction each morning, followed by cultural activities and field trips in the afternoon, exploring both traditional and modern Korean customs. Participants have the opportunity to travel around the Korean peninsula and experience some of Korea’s most famous sights and cultural experiences including traditional folk villages, cooking (and eating!) Korean foods, taekwondo, Korean calligraphy, wearing Hanbok (traditional clothing), kite making, Korean mask making, Korean ceramics and many others.

For more information visit the Dankook University website or contact the program coordinators directly at dankook.intl@hotmail.com and tanghe@dankook.ac.kr

The FUBiS summer program 2011

Posted by on December 7th, 2010 · 2011, Self finded, Short courses

The FUBiS summer program 2011 is now online and registration is open. The summer terms take place during the following dates:

Most subject classes will be taught in English. In addition FUBiS offers German language courses on five different levels of proficiency, Business German as well as subject classes in German.

Courses offered in term II:

Courses offered in term III:

FUBiS offers various excursions to destinations within Germany (Dresden, Hamburg, Weimar, and Lausitz Region) and activities (e.g. a River Boat Tour through downtown Berlin or visit of the Reichstag building and the Federal Parliament), so students have the chance to collect first-hand cultural impressions.

Students who register for term II by March 15, 2011 and/or for term III by April 30, 2011 will not only benefit from the early registration discount of 50 EUR, but will also receive a free T-shirt in the corporate design of Freie Universität Berlin.

Female students can choose between black and light blue; men have the choice between black and white (S – XL). This offer is only valid with the Promotion Code „TSHMA” (please indicate in the Comment Field of the registration including the preferred size and colour).

Students from UNSW interested in this program should complete and UNSW Outbound Application form and send it to INTEX@unsw.edu.au :

Global Education Programs – Outbound application form     (227K)

AGSM MBA Programs Newsletter – Week 13

Posted by on December 7th, 2010 · Newsletter

Important Reminder: Final Examinations

It is important that you have read your course examination notices and the examination schedule for Session 3, 2010 exam on Saturday 11 December.

The examination schedule displays details for all examination venues.

All NSW students (CBD, Kensington, Parramatta, North Sydney, North Ryde, as per your courier address on myUNSW) will be sitting their exams at one central venue in the Wentworth Building, University of Sydney.  All other students will sit their exam at their usual class venue. Intensive students will be sitting in their home state (as per courier address).

GCCM NSW students will be sitting their exam in the AGSM Building.  Interstate GCCM students will sit the exam in the Cliftons venues alongside GDM students. Any overseas-based GCCM students will need to organise their own venue and invigilator.

Delivery of Course Materials for Session 1, 2011

Please ensure your courier address is up to date on myUNSW immediately to ensure correct delivery of your course materials. Note that you must enter a ‘Courier’ address.

Change to S1, 2011 class schedule – IT & Organisational Performance (Perth)

Please note the format for the ITOP class in Perth has changed from normal face to face classes to Teletutorial classes.

Teletutorial Format: ITOP teletutorial classes will be conducted on Mondays via a 1.5 hour telephone conference. Workshops will be conducted face to face. Dates of workshop will be negotiated between facilitator and students. Link to Session 1, 2011 Class timetable

Key Dates

A list of key dates for 2011 is available in the Student Resources section of the AGSM Website:

It is important to refer to the Table of Key Dates for all enrolment, withdrawal and discontinuation deadlines, as well as the session census date. This table illustrates the academic and financial penalties incurred for withdrawals throughout the session.

Session 1, 2011 Tuition Fee payment

Tuition fees for Session 1 are due by 13 February. Your fee statement is available from your student profile on myUNSW 24 hours after you enrol – payment is also done via myUNSW.

Evaluating Data Consistency Properties in Commercial Cloud Storage – Consumers’ Perspective

Posted by on December 6th, 2010 · Work

Hiroshi and the team here at NICTA are very excited about our work on “Evaluating data consistency properties in commercial cloud storage – consumers’ perspective” being accepted at CiDR 2011! Stay tuned camera ready paper will be available shortly…