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Note from tribe.net: please assign a moderator

touguy — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:54:46 GMT

Hey there, "Art & Technology" members--

This Tribe doesn't have a moderator, but as a matter of policy, Tribe.net likes all groups to have a leader. Can you collectively choose someone to moderate your Tribe?

When you've reached consensus, have the new moderator send a note to help@tribe.net, with the words "Moderator Change – Art & Technology" in the subject header, letting us know that you've selected a new leader. Please be sure to include a link to this discussion thread!

Thanks--

TOU (Terms of Use) Guy

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Waking Up To Eye of The Tiger

jmathew — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 04:01:39 GMT

A short film that looks at the effects of the popular 80's song "Eye of the Tiger" on every day things such as brushing your teeth and getting dressed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7sEcgwKiCM

I made this film using Final Cut Pro and a Sony DV cam.

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Graduate programs in digital arts

carnero — Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:23:45 GMT

Does anyone know of good grad programs in Digital Arts? It seems they're mainly on the West Coast.

I know UC Santa Cruz is offering an MFA in Digital Arts/New Media, what are some other ones?

http://digitalarts.ucsc.edu/

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New digital arts festival in Southampton: call for artists

synnovemathe — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 07:47:22 GMT

New digital arts festival > twonotten
http://www.twonotten.org
Southampton, UK. October 20th - December 15th 2006.

This October will see the launch of a new eight-week long digital arts
festival, twonotten, and this is your opportunity to be part of it.
Submissions are now being called for from digital artists who wish to
showcase their work. The final venues for the festival are to be
confirmed, although we can announce that the bargate monument gallery
and a number of artvaults in Southampton will be part of the event.

Exhibition submission criteria
Artists or groups wishing to submit work for the exhibition must provide
the following information:
- Current CV, inclusive of an 'artist profile' and email address.
- Written proposal (maximum of 500 words). Tell us about the piece(s)
of work you
are submitting.
- Visual representations (images on CD are preferred, however this is
not
essential).
- The dimensions of your piece(s).
- Any technical requirements / specifications the piece(s) may require
(including equipment needed or equipment being supplied by you). Some
equipment is available, but the organisers welcome the use of artist's
own
equipment for the exhibition.
- £10.00 entry fee per artwork in order to cover administrative and
insurance
costs. Please make all cheques payable to the organiser's 'a space'.
The arts
organisation a space has been actively supporting and exhibiting
emerging
artistic talent for the last five years. In association with their
partners
(cockneydog and ocean pixel), this new platform, twonotten, will
support digital
based practitioners. For more information regarding a space please
visit
http://www.bargategallery.org or http://www.artvaults.co.uk

NB
- There is no strict format to follow when entering, please submit a
proposal in a
format that you feel best explains your work and concerns.
- If you require your proposal to be returned, please provide a stamped
addressed
envelope.
- No funding is available to commission new works.
- All media submitted will be considered for artwork that either deals
with digital
or technology issues, or artwork in which digital technology was
critical to its
production.
- Media can include:
o Video / installation / print / performance / sculpture /
interactive
/ illustration / animation / electronic audio / computer based music

Selection
All proposals submitted will be considered. An independent panel will
select the works to be exhibited. The decision of the panel is final
and will be based on
the work's suitability for the festival as well as issues of quality.

Details
- Cut-off date: Submissions must be received by Friday 1st September.
- You will be informed of the panel=92s decision by Friday 8th
September.
- You must be able to deliver your work to Southampton by Monday 2nd
October.
- You must be prepared for your work to be shown in a number of possible
locations.
As this exhibition is in the form of a festival (multiple sites) your
work maybe
selected for any one of a number of venues situated in Southampton
- You will be required to aid the promotion of the event through
assisting in
raising awareness through your own database or artistic networks.
Promotional
material will be supplied to you in order for this to be achieved.
- You must be prepared to have your 'artist profile', edited artwork
description
and supplied images featured as part of the advertising campaign
(online and
print), should the organisers deem it necessary.
- The exhibition will open to the public on Friday 20th October 2006
and continue until Friday 15th December 2006, with a private viewing
of the
exhibition scheduled for the week prior to the exhibition opening
(this date
will be confirmed in due course).

All proposals should be sent by post or email:
By post:
- The bargate monument gallery, High Street, Southampton, SO14 1HF with
an
accompanying cheque.
- Please make all cheques payable to 'a space' and reference 'twonotten'
and your
work on the reverse.

Email:
- Proposals can also be submitted by email but will require a cheque to
be received
in the post by the cut-off date before the work can be considered.
mailto:proposals@twonotten.org

synnove

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: LOVEBYTES

synnovemathe — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 18:26:13 GMT

COMMISSIONS FOR CREATIVE PEOPLE [e.g. artists, designers, musicians and
interactive media developers]

WORKING DIGITALLY [e.g. interactive environments, events, physical /
site specific installation and performance]

Lovebytes Digital Space Commissions offer funding and exhibition
opportunities for creative, digital and interactive artworks. The
commissioned works will be exhibited as part of Lovebytes International
Festival of Digital Art 2007, 19 - 24 March 2007, Sheffield, UK.

Funding is available for the creation of new work and the completion or
exhibition of existing work. Up to £5,000 (GBP) is available for each
project. The aim of the commissions is to create a unique showcase for
creative digital work in South Yorkshire, with the Lovebytes
Festivalproviding an annual exhibition platform. There are also a range
of other exhibition opportunities throughout the year.

Applications are invited by email only mailto:dsp07@lovebytes.org.uk

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 28 JULY 2006
CONTACT: Please use the application form downloadable from
http://festival2006.lovebytes.org.uk/d/DSP_06_APP_FORM.txt
Supporting materials can be sent by post to: DSP 06, Lovebytes,
Workstation, Sheffield, S1 2BX (We cannot return these materials,
please do not send originals or valuable items).

Synnove

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Seeking an fcp tutor in the santa cruz area

Be — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:50:07 GMT

willing to pay $10 hr

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Tech question on DVD file recovery

Devin — Thu, 04 May 2006 18:19:02 GMT

A client has send me a stack of DVD's from which I was supposed to move video onto an internet server. Looking at the disks, they are obviously written on -- you can see the color differnece on the write side -- but they show up as blank on both Mac OS X and Windows XP systems. I suspect the client wrote the data but didn't complete the process, what ever final step was needed to write the index to the disk. Is there a way to retreive the data off these disks or do I need to have the client re-burn these disks and re-mail them? Thanks for any suggestions.

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Creative Commons

Wed, 10 Mar 2004 20:08:56 GMT

I just discovered what this group is about. Pretty interesting concepts. Seems influenced by software copyrighting trends.

Here's a really good contest winner they used to prompote their cause:
http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/movingimages/Building_On_The_Past.mov

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digital media ala McLuhan

ionamiller — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 23:58:15 GMT

http://www.argonautnewspaper.com/articles/2005/02/03/entertainment/wo1.txt

Iona's friend Archivist Bob Dobbs talks McLuhan theory at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica

BY RAHNE PISTOR

Media analyst/cultural theorist Marshall McLuhan believed that artists need to integrate, analyze and utilize rapid changes in technology, in order to truly have a mass impact on people in the modern age.

Now, Bob Dobbs, McLuhan's archivist who chronologized and sorted McLuhan's writings after his death, is scheduled to give a talk and discussion about McLuhan's theories on art and media, at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, February 9th, at Bergamot Books, 2525 Michigan Ave., Santa Monica. Admission is free.

Dobbs will focus on recent releases by Gingko Press of McLuhan's Understanding Media and Through the Vanishing Point.

"McLuhan thought of a better way to deal with art in the relation to its commodification." says Dobbs.

"In Renaissance times, it was the scientist versus the humanist. The scientist would invent and the humanist or artist would write or create, dealing with the side effects of the invention."

McLuhan felt that, for the most part, traditional art was no longer serving this purpose.

"McLuhan believed that electronic environments were molding people on a scale that was greater than any artwork, and that, therefore, artists should embrace the technologies of the future," says Dobbs.

McLuhan's oft-cited example of his theory in practice was James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, a book Dobbs says mirrors the media environment of radio, which was dominant in the 1930s. The book was finished in 1939.

McLuhan's theory on media was divided between old "analog media" (newspapers, radio, TV) and forms of digital media that were in early stages of development in the 1960s and 1970s, and now are common in the home computer age.

McLuhan, understanding information overload and short attention spans, would often express his philosophy in catch phrases and sound bite quotes.

His catch phrase for old media was that the "medium is the message."

"By this, he meant that in mass media environments, people are molded not only by the content but by a sensory bias specific to the medium," says Dobbs.

For digital media, he adopted a different adage, that the "user is the content."

"Once VCRs, and eventually computers, became readily available, it gave more control to the user," says Dobbs. "Now you can control the time that information is fed to you.

"With PCs and workstations and the internet, people are able to interact and have more of a choice. The user can mold and manipulate the content."

"Generation X is still somewhat in the clutches of old media. Generation Y, the younger generation, however, laughs at the old mass media. That's why Jon Stewart (host of the Daily Show, a news spoof television program) is more powerful than Dan Rather," says Dobbs.

"Now the flip side is that sometimes with digital media the user tends to think he's in control, when he's really being fed information in the same form of old media."

In November and December 1981, after McLuhan's death, Dobbs sifted through decades of McLuhan's letters, essays, manuscripts and notes, making chronological sense out of the materials.

"I had known McLuhan for years," says Dobbs. "His family knew I knew him. "I knew the history of his work. So I was asked to organize McLuhan's 'garbage', so to speak â€” all of the filing cabinets and boxes that were in his house."

The results of Dobbs' work now rest with the National Archives in Ottawa, as McLuhan was Canadian.

McLuhan's heyday of popularity was in the 1960s, starting with the release of Understanding Media in 1964, and reaching its peak in the late 1960s.

"His ideas were kind of a youth culture fad at that point," says Dobbs. "He also went through a period in the 1970s where it was not cool to like him."

Dobbs considers McLuhan's best protÃˆgÃˆs to be futurist authors Charles Reich, Alvin Toffler and John Naisbitt.

But Dobbs suggests that perhaps today's information age is not ripe for theorists like McLuhan to be viewed as leaders or idolized in popular culture.

"These days there seems to be no need for gurus speaking for society," says Dobbs. "Society is so fragmented by digital media and full of micro-gurus, all reaching their small enclaves."

"The closest equivalent that I can think of to the sort of gurus with mass reach that there used to be would be Wired magazine, where the magazine itself has become the guru," says Dobbs.

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Academy of Art? or UCSC?

j2creations — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 20:57:10 GMT

I can't figure out which is the better choice? Looking for some pros and cons from people who know so I can formulate an opinion of my ow. Please help :( Thanks

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Stanford Media Lab

gish — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 04:57:03 GMT

I heard the stanford is planning on opening a program related to MIT's Media Lab. Does anyone have information on this?

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21" Flat Screen CRT Monitor for sale

Atmara Rebecca — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 20:44:15 GMT

I have recently decided to change to using a LCD monitor, mainly because of space and size considerations (and thanks to those of you on the list that offered your advice in its purchase). I now have a 21" Flat Screen CRT Monitor for sale. It is a Samsung 1100DF-Ivory.
It has a 0.20mm dot pitch, 2048 x 1536 resolution, scanning frequency of 30-121KHz horizontal and 50-160Hz vertical, and Anti-Glare and Anti-Static surface treatment. To see more specs go to:

http://product.samsung.com/cgi-bin/nabc/product/b2c_product_detail.jsp?eUser=&prod_id=CF21GSBU&selTab=Specifications

It has only been used for a year and if it didn't take up so much space and were not too heavy for me to pick up (I'm a small woman), I would still be happy using it. It retails for $467.99 on Amazon. I'd like to get $200 plus shipping.

If you are interested in purchasing it please email me off list at cloe@nwcreations.com.

I live in NH if you want to take that into consideration when figuring shipping costs (weight with original packaging-70 lbs).

Best to you,
Atmara

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20" LCD Monitor

Atmara Rebecca — Sun, 27 Mar 2005 14:43:36 GMT

Greetings,

I'm new to the group so forgive me if this topic has been discussed before. I am in the market for a 20" LCD Monitor. There is no computer store within easy driving distance of my home (I live in rural area), so I can't go and look at different models to compare them.

Going on their past reputation for excellence in graphics monitors, I purchase a LaCie 20" monitor last week. Unfortunately, this monitor is not at all suitable for my digital art. It is so ultra sharp it causes distortions and artifacts in my artwork when I blow up a large 300 dpi image to 100%. It almost looks as though someone used the Uhsharp Mask filter in Photoshop and sharpened things to an extreme that distorts the image.

This monitor may be great for someone who creates work for gaming or video, but for digital art that is going to be printed, it is not workable.

Does anyone have suggestions of other brands of 20" LCD Monitors that would be suitable? I'm on Mac, but would rather avoid Apple's pricey extended warrenty when other companies give a 3 year warrenty for free. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Atmara

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DNG Raw Image Format

Mon, 27 Sep 2004 17:59:42 GMT

http://news.zdnet.com/Adobe+offers+standard+for+raw+photo+formats/2100-3513_22-5383867.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Adobe Systems on Monday unveiled a digital photo format that it hopes will become an industry standard, plus a tool designed to convert photos to that format from the many that are used today.

With the company's new Digital Negative specification and converter tool, users can translate and store raw files, which contain images prior to any in-camera processing, from more than 65 types of cameras. This process is different from storing the images as JPEGs or TIFFs, which are altered from an image's raw file.

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looking to meet new collegues with same interests

Christopher — Tue, 23 Mar 2004 19:31:59 GMT

Hi - my name is Chris and I just joined your group. Hope to be part of good discussions to come.

Thanks.

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vector animation

jmathew — Sun, 15 Aug 2004 23:04:59 GMT

I created a 10 minute short film back in college and the quality is terrible. I thought it would be a fun project to convert the whole movie into animated film -- maybe by using digital rotoscoping like they did in the movie "Waking Life".

I know Flash can convert a bitmap into a vector image, but can it convert a movie file into a vector animation? Do you know of any programs that might be able to achieve this? (either by rotoscoping or converting to vectors) Thanks!

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check out IDAA digital art awards

ionamiller — Fri, 23 Jul 2004 07:54:21 GMT

http://www.internationaldigitalart.com/IDAA/2003.html

Iona

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photoshop scratch disks

Christopher — Fri, 26 Mar 2004 05:16:00 GMT

I know this is a basic question but...

I have the message error Scratch disks are full - how do I resolve this - restarting the application does not work and I cannot find a way to allot more memory to the application on my desktop but perhaps I am not looking in the right area---

I am operating on OS X.

Thanks

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DRM is bad

Mon, 28 Jun 2004 20:31:03 GMT

Microsoft Research DRM talk
Cory Doctorow
cory@eff.org
June 17, 2004
This talk was originally given to Microsoft's Research Group
and other interested parties from within the company at their
Redmond offices on June 17, 2004.

http://craphound.com/msftdrm.txt

++++++

Here's the blog I found it at, with interesting comments:http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/001984.shtml

like this one (money==media!) :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/3805581.stm

"The notes that turned up in Birmingham were "superdollars" - the most sophisticated counterfeit bill ever produced and undetectable even to currency experts.

Believed to be printed on an industrial scale in the isolated state of North Korea, superdollars have become the currency of choice for the criminal elite who are granted access to them.

With unique access to undercover police surveillance material, Panorama revisits the case and goes beyond the police investigation.

We trace the route of the superdollar distribution network from the presses of North Korea to Moscow's mafia-run underworld, and from former spies to a prominent Irish Republican who supplies them to British criminals in huge quantities."

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H.264 Video Codec

Sun, 27 Jun 2004 02:33:17 GMT

"H.264 Video Codec Adopted for Next Generation DVDs
MPEG Developed Video Codec Key to Future High Definition DVDs"
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2004/jun/23quicktime.html

CUPERTINO, California—June 23, 2004—Apple® today announced that the DVD Forum has ratified the H.264 Advanced Video Codec (AVC) to be included in the next generation High Definition (HD) DVD format. The H.264/AVC codec was jointly developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and has been ratified into the MPEG-4 specification as the next-generation video codec. H.264/AVC is based on open standards and will ship in Apple’s QuickTime® software in an upcoming release next year.

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Interoperable Media Guidelines

Wed, 23 Jun 2004 19:27:34 GMT

These guidelines will reap lots of benefits, I"m sure. Look at the companies behind it. Pretty exciting what's coming!

"Electronics Giants Join in Sales Pact"
http://cio-today.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_title=Electronics-Giants-Join-in-Sales-Pact&story_id=25541

The Digital Living Network Alliance has announced its first interoperability guidelines, designed to allow networked products from different manufacturers to share stored content. The alliance is comprised of 140-plus electronics companies, including the giants of the industry

"Using a networked product to access content stored on another networked product from a different manufacturer is a consumer expectation and should be simple," says Scott Smyers, chairman of the DLNA board of directors and vice president of networks and systems architecture division at Sony. "The Interoperability Guidelines represent a global consensus among the member companies to make this vision a reality," he adds.

The Interoperability Guidelines v1.0 specify formats for image, audio and audio-visual media. The alliance plans to release formats for smartphones and mobile devices in the future. The formats are based on open standards , such as Internet protocol (IP), HTTP, UPnP (universal plug and play) and Wi-Fi . They cover both wired and wireless networks.

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Photoblogging

Thu, 11 Mar 2004 02:54:07 GMT

I think photoblogging could be a whole new art form. Digital cameras are becoming totally ubiquitous. Check out this blog entry:

http://www.kottke.org/04/02/nyc-photoblogger-exhibition

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