STEREOPHONIC SOUNDSCAPE
The Digital Art Weeks of ETH Zurich and the Stereolith Speaker System Company, Switzerland, would like to invite audio artists to submit soundscape works. The works will be chosen on their ability to “evoke” the presence of things or beings in space and to the extent in which the work “immerses” the listener into a completely imaginary sonic environment. Each work must be in stereo of around 10 minutes in length.
Stereolith is an innovative reproduction system for the re-creation of recordings made to playback in stereo. Unlike traditional loudspeaker configurations, the Stereolith is a single construction in which both the “left” and the “right” channels have been incorporated. In this way, the system can be installed at any point within the listening space allowing the listener to experience a true stereo effect of each work from any point within the space as if it was a live event.

CALL
Please submit all works in .aiff format on a CD. Please include in digital form the title of the work, a short description of it (no more than 100 words) and a short biography of the author of the work (no more than 50 words). Selected works will be presented on the Stereolith Systems over a period of 3 days from the 12th to the 14th of July 2007 during the Digital Art Weeks Festival.
Information about each audio artist, soundscape work and the time it can be heard will be announced in the events program. This years prize for the best work in the contest is a Stereolith 232 Monitor. The prize is sponsored by Klangpur Zurich, the exclusive licensing partner of the Stereolith company worldwide. For more information about the Stereolith 232 Monitor and other Stereolith designs, please visit the Klangpur webpage at: http://www.klangpur.ch/

DEADLINE
Friday, 16 March 2007._Notification of acceptance of proposals will be sent out on or before Monday, 16th April 2007.
For more information regarding the call please write to: daw-perfs@inf.ethz.ch_For more on the Digital Art Weeks 07, please see: http://www.digitalartweeks.ethz.ch/ For technical information on the Stereolith, please see: http://www.stereolith.ch/

Arthur Clay, Project Coordinator
ETH Zuerich
Institut für Computersysteme
Clausiusstrasse 59,
ETH-Zentrum, RZ H 22.
8092 Zürich

Tel: 044 632 84 14
E-Mail: arthur.clay@inf.ethz.ch

GeistesGegenwart im Februar: Dr. Wolfang Pauser zu “Design als Zeigeist-Symptom” am 20. Februar 07 im Theater Basel. Sie finden hier die Einladungskarte:

http://www.fhnw.ch/hgk/fhnwAgendaScript?aNum=0&what=Agenda

Datum: 23./24.3.2007 – Ort: Hochschule der Künste Bern

Wir gebrauchen sie alle, die Adjektive. Wir, das sind die Restauratorin und der Geiger, der Mezzosopran, der Wissenschaftstheoretiker und die Designerin. Alle sagen wir ‘schön’ oder ‘banal’, ‘genau’ oder ‘leicht’. Dass Adjektive dazu da sind, Dinge zu qualifizieren, ist so klar wie das Wissen um deren sprachliche Unschärfe und Kontextabhängigkeit. Dass Adjektive im Gebrauch aber trotz allem immer wieder zu gelingender Kommunikation beitragen, ist ein Wunder. Dieses Wunder hat auch damit zu tun, dass wir über die Wörter selbst dann und wann verhandeln. Dass wir sie redend oder schweigend zum Gegenstand machen und bei dieser Gelegenheit überlegen, in welchem Sinne andere ein Wort verwenden. Die nicht selten erschreckenden Resultate der gegenseitigen Erläuterung tragen zur Klarheit und Schärfe bei bzw. sie lassen uns die Unschärfe zumindest besser ertragen. Dieser Verhandlung widmet sich alljährlich das Y-Symposium. Nach “genau” und “leicht” soll es nun um die Konsequenz gehen. Und weshalb konsequent? Ist das nicht eine unbestrittene Qualität? Fordern wir nicht die konsequente künstlerische Haltung geradeso wie die konsequente wissenschaftliche Argumentation? Oder bedeutet “Konsequenz” in den einzelnen Disziplinen etwas Anderes? Wo sind z.B. die ethischen Grenzen konsequenten Handelns? Muss jeder, der A sagt, auch B sagen? Wie jedes Jahr werden Vertreter unterschiedlicher Disziplinen ihre Auslegung des Begriffs vorstellen und mit dem Publikum diskutieren. Dieses Mal sind die Bereiche Musik, Kunst, Theater, Konservierung, Medizin und Theologie vertreten.

Quelle: http://www.transdisciplinarity.ch/newsmail/detail.php?id=574

http://www.hkb.bfh.ch/konsequent.html

HISTORY: The International Conference on Experiential Knowledge 2007 will be the first in a series of biennial conferences by the University of Hertfordshire concerned with the issues and understanding of knowledge in research and practice in the creative disciplines. This interest in knowledge has grown out of, and builds on, the Research into Practice conference series, which has given the debate about “what do we mean by knowledge in art and design?” new profile in 2002. Since then, the debate about knowledge in research, about what we mean by a “contribution to
knowledge” and how new knowledge advances the field, has developed a significance in its own right, which has been recognised by the University of Hertfordshire through the Experiential Knowledge Project, and with its own conference and publication. (more…)

THE CITY AS AN INSTRUMENT

The call concerns itself with the use of the city as an expressive instrument or place of artistic practice. This may vary from art whose subject is the city to art, which is actually performed in a city. Special attention is given to telematic art practices in which activities within the city bring about changes and responses at another open or closed space.

Interactivity may take place between the open and closed space in equal relationship, but in many projects in this area the activities often take place within the open space, (City Streets, a Park, Parking Lot, Public Building) and “consumed” in the closed space (Movie theater, Gallery, Living Room, Bar, Toilets)

CALL
The Digital Art Weeks 2007 invites Artists to submit proposals for open public spaces. We are seeking works that use any form of networking that either connects performers within the space used or connects them in some form between spaces used.

DEADLINE
Friday, 2nd March 2007._Notification of acceptance of proposals will be sent out on or before Friday, 2nd April 2007.

For more information regarding the call please write to: daw-perfs@inf.ethz.ch_For more on the Digital Art Weeks 07, please see: http://www.digitalartweeks.ethz.ch /