DASH Archives - June 2006

.. Please excuse cross posting ..

=> Key Competence for the Art and Media Sector
New and expanded course offer at the Center for Image Science
Parallel to employment!

=> Postgraduate Program MEDIA ART HISTORIES, MA
=> Postgraduate Program IMAGE and SCIENCE

=> Postgraduate Program IMAGE MANAGEMENT, MA
=> Postgraduate Program PHOTOGRAPHY / IMAGE SCIENCE, MA
=> Postgraduate Program ICONOGRAPHY / IMAGE SCIENCE, MA

Danube University Krems is the first public university
in Europe which specializes in advanced continuing education 
offering low-residency degree programs for working professionals 
and lifelong learners. The Center for Image Science, where 
many MediaArtHistories courses take place, is housed in a 
14th century Monastary, remodeled to fit the needs of modern
research in singular surroundings.

With its new modular courses starting in November 2006
the Center for Image Science (CIS) at Danube University offers
an educational program unique in Europe.

Without interrupting their career students have the opportunity to
learn 
through direct, hands-on experience, social learning in small groups 
and contacts with commerce and industry. They gain key 
qualifications for the contemporary art and media marketplace.

International experts analyze the image worlds of art, science, 
politics and economy and elucidate how they originated, became 
established and how they have stood the test of time. 
The innovative approach at CIS is reinforced by praxis-oriented study,

for example, of new types of image and video databases 
and the application of advanced processes for converting 
image collections into digital form. The post-graduate MA 
courses offer instruction in a finely tuned mix of practical skills, 
theoretical knowledge and close cooperation with top 
researchers and professionals from the international 
image science community.

=> First international Master in MEDIA.ART.HISTORIES (English
language)
The postgraduate program MediaArtHistories conveys the 
most important developments of contemporary art 
through a network of renowned international theorists, 
artists and curators like Steve Dietz, Erkki Huhtamo, 
Lev Manovich, Christiane Paul, Paul Sermon, Oliver Grau 
and many others. Using online databases and other 
modern aids, knowledge of computer animation, net art, 
interactive, telematic and genetic art as well as the most 
recent reflections on nano art, CAVE installations, augmented 
reality and wearables are introduced. Historical derivations 
that go far back into art and media history are tied in 
intriguing ways to digital art.  Important approaches 
and methods from Image Science, Media Archaeology 
and the History of Science & Technology will be discussed. 
Media Art History offers a basis for understanding evolutionary 
history of audiovisual media, from the Laterna Magica to 
the Panorama, Phantasmagoria, Film, and the Virtual Art 
of recent decades.
http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/mediaarthistories 
www.virtualart.at 
Application Deadlines: June 15th, Sept. 15th 2006

=> Course Image & Science (English language)
Have you ever asked yourself: "How do I get on the Cover of
Nature?"
The program Image & Science conveys in-depth knowledge 
of the history, aesthetics and practice of scientific visualization. 
Based on historically established image competency it 
demonstrates the latest possibilities of exemplifying scientific 
data and results in a visual form and helps professionals in the 
field to achieve quick results and improve their way of presenting 
their work. Various forms of visual information are being included 
- from statistical analysis and diagrams, plans and technical 
drawings to visualizations in natural sciences like in Medicine or 
Nanotechnology or displays of fluidity. The close cooperation of 
natural scientists, IT-professionals, historians, artists and 
designers contribute to the interlacing of the complementary 
perspectives of natural sciences and the cultural and historical
approach.
http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/imageandscience 
Application Deadlines: April 30, June 30, September 1, 2006

Master Programs in German
=> Course BILDMANAGEMENT, MA (Image Management, MA)
http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/bildmanagement 
Application Deadlines: June 30th, Sept. 1st

=> Course FOTOGRAFIE / BILDWISSENSCHAFT, MA (Photography/Image Science,
MA)
http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/fotografie 
Application Deadlines: June 30th, Sept. 1st

=> Course IKONOGRAPHIE / BILDWISSENSCHAFT, MA (Iconography/Image
Science, MA)
http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/ikonographie 
Application Deadlines: June 30th, Sept. 1st

=> CONTACT and REGISTRATION:
Mag. Andrea Domanig MA, Tel: +43(0)2732 893-2569
Petra Gratzl, Tel: +43(0)2732 893-2542
Fax: +43(0)2732 893-4550
E-Mail: andrea.domanig@donau-uni.ac.at 
           petra.gratzl@donau-uni.ac.at 
http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/cis 
The programs start in November 2006
Further details at
http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/cis/studies 

"Woody and Steina Vasulka: aspects of electronic avant-garde"
http://criticalartware.net/evnt/2006.06.13

Lenka Dolanova presents
"Woody and Steina Vasulka: aspects of electronic avant-garde"
PRESENTATION, SCREENING and OPEN DISCUSSION
facilitated by criticalartware
and hosted by Messhall

TUES 2006.06.13

BYOB POTLUCK DINNER begins @ 6 PM
PRESENTATION, SCREENINGS and DISCUSSION begins @ 8 PM

6932 North Glenwood Avenue
Chicago, IL 60626
('Morse' stop on the Redline)

FREE and OPEN

ABOUT "Woody and Steina Vasulka: aspects of electronic avant-garde"

Lenka Dolanova presents "Woody and Steina Vasulka: aspects of  
electronic avant-garde" a presentation, screening and open  
discussion. In the spirit of sharing and open exchanges, the evening  
will begin with a BYOB potluck dinner @ 6 PM with Lenka Dolanova's  
presentation starting @ 8 PM. Join criticalartware, Messhall and the  
experimental Media Arts community in conversation with Lenka Dolanova  
as she offers insights from her extensive and important research on  
Woody and Steina Vasulka. This event offers a rare opportunity to  
hear directly from Dolanova on the critical connections between the  
histories of Video Art and New Media Art as well as an in depth  
analysis of the work of the Vasulkas, artist's who have individually  
and collaboratively shaped our understanding of Media Art.

Dolanova, a visiting scholar and curator from Prague, will present a  
talk that is based on her research on and into the lives and art work  
of the Vasulkas, seminal media artists who have created pivotal media  
art works, organized events and archived histories for over 30 years.  
As Dolanova writes, the Vasulkas ongoing practices are based on  
"openness to incoming information and self-transformation through  
dialog with the machine. They have significantly contributed to the  
formation of theoretical and institutional framework of electronic  
art, trying to interconnect the spheres of technology and culture.  
Their field of research – image processing – existing mostly outside  
galleries – concentrates on experimenting with the parameters of  
electronic signal."

During this presentation Dolanova will screen examples of the work by  
the Vasulkas as well as discuss topics including early histories of  
Video Art, the electronic avant-garde, ethics of sharing and the Open  
Source movement in relation to the Vasulkas' work. In addition to  
these themes, Dolanova will draw from her current research on the  
Vasulkas to discuss a wide range of contemporary issues. She will  
discuss Video Art as self-transformation, revolutionary politics,  
access to the tools of production, personal transformation through  
technology and the histories of alternative art spaces. Woody and  
Steina Vasulka founded The Kitchen, an alternative multimedia art  
space in New York in 1971. Dolanova connects these histories with  
contemporary New Media Art via the "Open (re)sources" developed by  
the Vasulkas. The Vasulka Archive (http://www.vasulka.org) funded by  
the Langlois Fondation is an unprecedented archiving project  
initiated by the Vasulkas. The Vasulka Archive includes decades of in  
depth resources from the Vasulkas personal collections which are now  
freely available online.

ABOUT Lenka Dolanova:

Lenka Dolanová is a Prague-based curator, free-lance art critic and  
PhD. student in Art History at Charles University. Dolanová is  
currently a Fulbright researcher-in-residence at the School of the  
Art Institute of Chicago. She is interested mainly in the various  
aspects of the avant-garde of electronic arts.

ABOUT criticalartware:

criticalartware is an [application/platform/concern] compiled at the  
turn of the twenty first century to address hyperthreaded hystories  
of new media, [software-as-art/art-as-software] and [connections/ 
ruptures/dislocations] between early moments of artware and Video  
Art. By drawing [parallels/paths] between the [concepts/discourses]  
of the early video art movement and the current [artware/newmedia]  
moment, criticalartware hopes to [re]connect the current context to  
its rightful past: a multitude of [personal/subjective] hyperthreaded  
[her/hi/hy]stories.

http://criticalartware.net

ABOUT Messhall:

"Mess Hall is an initiative mostly based out of a storefront space in  
a North Side neighborhood of Chicago called Rogers Park. There exists  
no single way to describe what Mess Hall is because the initiative  
continually enlarges its domain of activity... Many events involve  
presentations of one sort or another: screenings, lectures, readings,  
listening parties, how-to demonstrations, etc. More than a few of  
Mess Hall’s events from the past fifteen months fit into no category  
but their own: for example, a no-cash, clean-out-your-closet swap  
day, a weekend celebration of Eighties speed and thrash metal  
complete with vintage fanzines on display, and a hands-on deejaying  
tutorial."

excerpts from:

title: MESS HALL: What It Is (After the First Year)
dvr: Dan S. Wang
uri: http://www.messhall.org/wimh.html

http://criticalartware.net/evnt/2006.06.13