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THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA GRADUATE ART HISTORY SOCIETY announces its 25th annual symposium entitled to be held on April 9th & 10th, 2010.

The School of Art and Art History at the University of
Iowa is seeking papers to be presented at our 25th
Annual Art History Graduate Student Symposium on
Friday and Saturday, April 9th and 10th, 2010. The
topic, Art and Text, is deliberately broad, and gradu-
ate students are encouraged to submit proposals
exploring art that incorporates or engages with text
across a range of possibilities. Subjects might include
illuminated manuscripts; non-figural Islamic art; art
reflecting the writings of such authors as Ovid, Dante,
and Milton, among many others; the Bible and apoc-
rypha; Asian art; collage; graphic design as fine art;
and such artists as William Blake, Francisco de Goya,
and Kurt Schwitters, for whom the written word was
often an integral part of the images they created.

Papers should be analytical rather than descriptive,
and presentations should be the standard 20 to 25
minutes in length. Students selected as speakers will
be guests of the Art History Society at the keynote
dinner, and will receive a modest honorarium toward
housing. Further information will be provided upon
acceptance. Accepted participants will be expected to
submit the final draft of the paper four weeks prior to
the symposium.  Keynote speaker to be announced.
Please submit an abstract of no more than 300
words, along with a Curriculum Vitæ and
cover letter, to Wendy Bellew at:
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Fourth International Conference
& Program of Digitally Mediated Literary Art

June 3-6, 2010
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Organized by the ELO and Writing Digital Media 
at the Brown University Literary Arts Program
dedicated to Robert Coover

The Electronic Literature Organization and Brown University's Literary Arts Program invite submissions to the Electronic Literature Organization 2010 Conference to be held from June 3-6, 2010 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.


electronic literature . writing digital media . language-driven digital poesis . literal art


We welcome papers and presentations on a broad range of topics. The conference will focus on the theory, criticism, close-reading, practice and archiving of language-driven digital art and poetics. Our gathering will also embrace all the related cultural practices that continue to be addressed by scholars and artists in our growing field:

expressive processing, computational art, artificial cognition and intelligence, aesthetic gaming, information art, codework, digitally mediated performance, network & media art & activism.


In addition we will give a special welcome to papers that engage with the contribution that Robert Coover has made to our field. A festschrift comprised of papers from the conference is proposed and Professor Coover will be our chief featured eWriter. (Other featured speakers to be announced shortly.)

In conjunction with the three-day conference, there will be a juried Program of Language-Driven Digital Art, concentrating on but not confined to installation works. We plan to show the selected work in gallery spaces close to the conference venue in downtown Providence over a two week period. Subject to funding restrictions, selected artists will be awarded bursaries to assist with attending the conference. Submission guidelines will be posted on the conference website by mid November.

Deadline for Submissions: December 15, 2009*
Notification of Acceptance: January 25, 2010

*PLEASE NOTE: Deadline for full papers will be May 1, 2010 to allow for reflection and exchange on the papers prior to the conference and to get head-start in the publication process.

The basic cost of the conference is $150; graduate students and non-affiliated artists pay only $100.
Conference registration covers access to all events, the reception, some meals, and shuttle transportation.
All conference attendees are also expected to join the ELO before the conference and this can be done at registration.

We are planning to implement online submission and registration. Before submitting, please consult the conference website at ...

http://ai.eliterature.org
http://www.brown.edu/Conference/Electronic_Literature_Organization

The Media Art and Text Student Guild presents Matt Kenyon

November 5th 2009
Starting at 7pm

MATX Student Gallery
109 N. Harrison St
Richmond VA 23284


VCU Painting and Printmaking MFA graduate Matt Kenyon will be giving a Media, Art, and Text Student Guild Artist Talk on November 5th 2009 at 7pm. Kenyon is the assistant professor of new media at Penn State University, where he teaches physical computing, video and 3D animation. He is interested in the convergence of art, emerging technologies and popular culture. Many of his recent works feature wearable computing technologies and robotics as a means for making cultural critiques.

Please join the MATX Student Guild in welcoming Matt Kenyon back to VCU and to hear about his new project.

Tardigotchi http://www.tardigotchi.com/
Video Introduction of Tardigotchi http://www.tardigotchi.com/tardigotchi_English.html
http://www.swamp.nu/
Wired on Pop Culture – Video Interview of Matt Kenyon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pHR1O0adHo

Deadline: January 15, 2010

The Terra Foundation for American Art annually offers ten summer fellowships to artists and scholars from the United States and Europe. The residency is designed to provide participants with an opportunity for the independent study of American art within a framework of interdisciplinary exchange and dialogue. The setting for the program is the village of Giverny, France, located less than an hour from Paris.

These fellowships are awarded to artists who have completed their studies at the master's level and to doctoral students engaged in research on American art (from the eighteenth century to the 1980s). During their eight-week stay, senior artists and art historians are in residence to mentor fellows and pursue their own work.

Applicants must be nominated by a professor at an academic institution. Eligible applicants are American and European doctoral candidates researching a subject that contains a significant American art component, or that examines artistic exchange between America and Europe; and American and European artists who have completed a master’s program (or its equivalent) in mixed media and/or painting. All applicants are expected to be fluent in English. Knowledge of French is desirable, but not required.

Each Terra Summer Residency Fellow is provided with lodging and study or studio space, daily lunches, and a program consisting of independent study, meetings, and seminars. Terra Summer Residency fellows are awarded a stipend of $5,000 and artists receive an additional $200 for the purchase of materials.

Visit the Terra Foundation Web site for complete program guidelines.

Contact:
Link to Complete RFP

...according to Ernst Jentsch (1906) "On the Pscyhology of the Uncanny"

1. intellectual discernment
2. strong passions
3. narcotics
4. exhaustion
5. associativity
6. reflexivity
7. fantasy
8. grotesque disguises
9. abnormal sensitivity
10. nervous disposition
11. abnormal disposition
12. light sleep
13. deadening
14. depression
15. terrible experiences
16. fear
17. illness
18. the breakdown of a sense organ
19. night
20. noisy workshops and factory floors
21. being mentally undeveloped
22. being mentally delicate
23. being mentally damaged
24. being primitive
25. conjurers (or whatever they call themselves nowadays)
26. having huge stones crushed on one's head
27. swallowing bricks and petrol
28. being buried alive or walled up
29. extraordinary achievement
30. uncertainty as to whether a being is animate
31. locomotives and steamboats (as perceived by a wild man)
32. striking or remarkable noises (as perceived by fearful or childish souls)
33. scarecrows (as perceived by wild animals)
34. spewing fire and flames (as perceived by tame elephants)
35. wax figures
36. panopticons
37. panoramas
38. true art (but only with pure intentions)
39. imitation of human body in form and function (except when very small or familiar)
40. uncertainty as to whether one has a human person or automaton before him
41. a lifeless thing reinterpreted as part of an organic creature
42. being a woman
43. being a child
44. being a dreamer
45. delirium
46. intoxication
47. ecstasy
48. superstition
49. hallucination
50. the natural tendency of man to infer that other beings are animate in the same way as we
51. primitive intellectual development
52. being a child of nature
53. something unknown and incomprehensible
54. observing mentally ill persons
55. epilepsy
56. being a nonexpert
57. novelty
58. dead bodies