Call for Submissions / Urban Screens Toronto / Interactive Media & Video Art

Call for Submissions / Urban Screens Toronto / Interactive Media & Video Art / Toronto, ON / Deadline Date:  Monday, March 1, 2010

Explore what is possible with creative access to live, interactive, locally and globally connected screens: real-time, content-rich experiences on digital screens in our public space

The exhibition I am here; what can we do? is part of "Urban Screens Toronto 2010", an international urban screens conference and exhibition taking place between September 24th-30th; produced in collaboration with the International Urban Screens Association (IUSA).

Urban Screens Toronto 2010 will promote a multifaceted approach to exploring the growing appearance of moving images in urban space and the global transformation of public culture in the context of networked forms of urban screens. It will build on the successful events held in Amsterdam, Manchester, and Melbourne and will be the first international Urban Screens conference held in North America.

Through an integrated program of keynote lectures, panel sessions, workshops, curated screenings and multimedia projects, it will bring together leading Canadian and international artists and curators, architects and urban planners, designers, ad agencies and brand managers, screen operators and content providers, academics, activists, policymakers, technology manufacturers, software developers and public intellectuals.

I am here; what can we do?

Public Call For:
New or existing experimental, interactive artwork suitable for urban screens.

Short-format videos that are relevant for presentation on urban screens.

Interactive Design & advertising created for urban screens. We will accept past commercial interactive work from ad agencies and designers.

Student work interactive and video work by students at any institution worldwide is welcome.

Themes include, but are not limited to: The meeting point of the real and the virtual; work that incorporates media technology and contemporary building/architectural technology; user-generated content; multi-site, networked projects; work that addresses public spaces and civic engagement.

Important Information:
Submission deadline: March 1 2010
Submission format: Please submit PDF files only.

No larger than 3 MB.
Provide URLs for viewing of work if desired.

Proposals should include:
1) Brief 50-word summary of your artwork
2) Full proposal or description of the project (maximum 2 pages)
3) Maximum 10 images, URL where work can be found online
4) Documentation of this work if it has previously be exhibited, or of another exhibited work by the artist.
3) Detailed list of technical requirements
4) Curriculum Vitae (maximum 3 pages)

Fees: There is no entry fee. Reasonable presentation fees will be paid, for new and existing interactive work and videos. Fees will not be paid for design & advertising work. Students will not receive a fee, but will be automatically considered for a prize. Please note that we cannot fund the creation of new work.

Submit: In the subject line: Urban Screens Toronto Proposal
Email to JURY at: urbanscreenstoronto@gmail.com                    

Jury: The jury will be comprised of Toronto Urban Screens committee members Michelle Kasprzak, Janine Marchessault, Gabe Sawhney, Suzanne Stein and Sharon Switzer.

Notification: April 1, 2010

GEORGE LESSARD
Information, Communications and Media Specialist
Spécialiste en l'information, communications et  medias
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PHOTO / VIDEO / CONTESTS: Photo & video entries sought on the 'human dimension of climate change'

Posted on: 22/02/2010 Documentaries, Environmental, Fellowships and Awards, Photojournalism, Television Deadline: 15/04/2010 Region: Worldwide

Young journalists between 18 and 35 years old are invited to submit photos and videos to a competition aimed at raising awareness of the human dimension of climate change through photo and video journalism. Deadline: April 15.

The winners will be selected depending on artistic excellence and a powerful message about the human dimension of climate change.

The competition is supported by the Global Humanitarian Forum.

For more information, click here.
http://www.ghfgeneva.org/visionawards/TheAward/Description/tabid/554/Default.aspx
To apply, click here.
http://www.ghfgeneva.org/visionawards/ApplicationProcess/HowToApply/tabid/555/Default.aspx
source
https://www.ijnet.org/ijnet/training_opportunities/photo_and_video_entries_sought_on_the_human_dimension_of_climate_change

Live Webcast Interview Archives for Yellowknife's Auror Arts Society Artists Demonstration - Sunday, February 21, 2010

Aurora Arts Society live webcast archives

for Sunday, February 21, 2010

For the main page.... where the live streaming happened on Sunday...
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/aurora-arts-society
we even had a viewer from the Yukon!

Interview with Hazel Wainwrite, quilter
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/4920095
Also available on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO5OX7UrNz4

Interview with Landon Peters, Painter
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/4919647
Also available on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CzPnQVzWMk

Interview with Janet Pacey
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/4919741
Also available on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtgDZLBefpk

Interview with Sheila Anderson and Terry Pamplin
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/4919944
Also available on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb_T56PSJd4

Aurora Arts Society website
http://www.auroraarts.ca/

GEORGE LESSARD
Information, Communications and Media Specialist
Spécialiste en l'information, communications et  medias
451 Norseman Dr.
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
X1A 2J1, Canada
Yellowknife Land Line # (867) 873-2662
Yellowknife Cell # (867) 445-9193
E-mail: mediamentor@gmail.com
Website
My Biography - My panoramic images - Photo Illustrations - Circumpolar Blog
Community Radio Around the World Blog - Photography Blog
El Alto to Lake Titicaca Bolivia Photo Book
Chelyabinsk Russian Village Photo Book
Arviat, Nunavut Photo Book
Yellowknife Maps
Twitter Feed on Northern  & First Nations Isuues
Twitter Feed on Journalism & Media Issues
Member:
Canadian Association of Journalists
Canadian Artists Representation / le Front des artistes canadiennes
Canadian Artists Representation Copyright Collective

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Video - Kodak (2006)

Ubu Web @ubuweb free resource dedicated to all strains of avant-garde ethnopoetics & #outsider #arts
http://ow.ly/18a2m
#text #MP3 #video

U B U W E B - Film & Video: Tacita Dean - Kodak http://ow.ly/18a6v

After discovering that the Kodak factory in Chalon-sur-Saone, France, was closing its film production facility, Dean obtained permission to document the manufacture of film at the factory with the soon-to-be obsolete medium itself. The 44-minute-long work Kodak constitutes a meditative elegy for the approaching demise of a medium specific to Dean's own practice. Kodak's narrative follows the making of the celluloid as it runs through several miles of machinery. On the day of filming, the factory also ran a test through the system with brown paper, providing a rare opportunity to see the facilities fully illuminated, without the darkness needed to prevent exposure.

How we learned to love Photoshop

RT @mediaguardian: How we learned to love #Photoshop http://ow.ly/16u69 #media #art #digital #journalism 

[excerpt]

How we learned to love Photoshop

Photoshop, the ubiquitous photo manipulation program that is 20 years old, is now so popular it's a verb in common usage

Keira Knightley pre- and post-Photoshop manipulation. Photograph: Splash News

You're browsing the online catalogue for Heine, the German interiors-and-­everything-else shop, when a "secretary table" catches your eye. The white one looks hideous, but there's a brown one – so you click the picture to see it in more detail. It looks nice, but there's something unsettling about the picture. The table looks fine, but the chair behind it somehow manages also to have a leg in front of the table. It's ­interior design, as done by MC Escher.

Except this isn't the fine artwork of Escher – it's lousy gruntwork by someone using Photoshop, the image ­manipulation program that turns 20 next Friday. The image is just one of a whole stream that have been sent to the ­Photoshop Disasters blog since it started in March 2008. An eerily ­unreal, doll-like Ashlee Simpson graced its first post.

Photoshop has, like Google, transcended its origins in the world of ­computing, and become a verb. But whereas "to Google" is almost always used positively to express usefulness, Photoshopping is almost always a term of abuse: "That picture was Photo­shopped" has become a shorthand way of saying it is untrustworthy and misleading (Adobe, the company that sells Photoshop, decries its use as a verb: "It must never be used as a common verb or a noun," it tuts. Too late.)

If You Can’t Be Original, You Should at Least Be Honest

RT @mediamentor: RT @blackstar: If You Can't Be Original, You Should at Least Be Honest
http://ow.ly/15kKk

If You Can't Be Original, You Should at Least Be Honest

February 9 | By Peter Phun | Posted in Art of Photography

[excerpt]

".... Many photographers start out with lofty goals. The budding artist wants to be an original — to immortalize something unique with his or her camera.

These beginners soon learn that there are very few "secret" locations that have not been captured in photographs (particularly now that a camera is part of most everyone's mobile phone). For some, this realization makes them not want to step outside or hold a camera up to their eye, because everything they see has been photographed so many times before.

Of course, to become an artist, you need to use your camera. It's how you learn all those pesky dials, knobs and buttons. And it's how you develop, through years of practice, a style that is uniquely your own.

It's how you become an original.

A Disturbing Trend

What I find disturbing, though, is that some beginning photographers don't seem to value originality.

In fact, they don't even understand the difference between learning photography and creating photography. They think that snapping a shutter is what photography is about. ....."

Community Media Association of the UK - A photo blog "year in the life of community media" for 2010

RT @mediamentor: Community Media Association 365 http://ow.ly/14TMX 2010 – a photo blog year in the life of community media - About http://ow.ly/14TOy

About

The Community Media Association (CMA) has started this photo blog for 2010 but we need your help.  We would like you to send us photos of your community project that we will publish on "Community Media 365″.  Every day in 2010 we will post to this blog an image relating to community media so that over the course of 2010 together we will build a rich visual picture of the community media sector.

All images are welcome – whether it's a picture of the stapler on your desk or a visit to your project by a campaigning politician; a photo of your staff team or the view from your window.  Obviously the more photos we can get from you the better chance we have of this project succeeding.  The CMA will also post the odd picture up so you will get a chance to see some of us at work.

Please send your photos to: photo365@commedia.org.uk

We can handle all digital photo file formats but sending jpegs will mean less work for us to convert them.  We can also scale down pictures so hi-res photos are fine.  When sending photos from a mobile phone try to set the highest resolution possible.  Please ensure that all photos are suitable for publishing on the web in terms of rights clearance and privacy.

We will continue to make calls throughout the year for photos so just keep them coming.  We hope to feature as wide a spread of your projects as possible but the more good photos that you send us the better the chances are of your organisation featuring several times.

So please start immediately and send your photos now to: photo365@commedia.org.uk

***
The Community Media Association is the UK representative body for the Community Media sector and we are committed to promoting access to the media for people and communities.  We enable people to establish and develop community based communications media for empowerment, cultural expression, information and entertainment.

Background
Founded in 1983, the CMA is a non-profit making organisation, supporting community radio, local television and community-based internet projects. We represent the interests of the community media sector Government, industry and regulatory bodies.

Membership currently exceeds 600, bringing together established organisations, aspirant groups and individuals within the sector. The CMA provides a range of advice, information and consultancy, offering support to anyone with an interest in the sector.

Kids with Cameras - From a Calcutta brothel to a New York university

RT @mediamentor: Kids with #Cameras
http://ow.ly/14R5l
#photography is an effective tool in igniting children's imagination and building self-esteem.

"...Kids with Cameras was founded in 2002 by photographer Zana Briski out
of her work teaching photography to children in Calcutta's red-light
district. We believe that photography is an effective tool in igniting
children's imagination and building self-esteem. We believe in the power
of art to transform lives, for both the artist and the viewer. ..."

"... Kids with Cameras is a non-profit organization that teaches the art
of photography to marginalized children in communities around the world.
We use photography to capture the imaginations of children, to empower
them, building confidence, self-esteem and hope. We share their vision and
voices with the world through exhibitions, books, websites and film. By
linking with local organizations, we work to strengthen the children's
education and general well-being, providing financial support through
sales of their prints or by developing our own homes with a focus on
leadership and the arts. ..."

Workshops in ...
» CALCUTTA
» HAITI
» JERUSALEM
» CAIRO

"... Kids with Cameras, was founded in 2002 to raise money and awareness
for the children through print sales, exhibitions, film festivals and a
book of their work. The children's images have been exhibited in Calcutta,
Europe and all over the U.S. A book of their photos was published in 2004.
An educational curriculum based on the film has also been created to reach
out to students and teachers across the U.S. and around the world.

Kids with Cameras has supported the education of several children from the
original photography workshop. One of the children completed his secondary
schooling in Utah and is now studying film at NYU Tisch School for the
Arts. Another arrived in the USA one year ago to finish her secondary
schooling and expects to graduate from a private boarding school in 2011.
Many of the other children are excelling in private schools in India. ..."

See also

From a Calcutta brothel to a New York university

"...Born into a brothel in the Indian city of Calcutta, Avijit Halder's
life has undergone a dramatic transformation.

The 20-year-old is currently pursuing a degree at one of the top film
schools in the US.

It all started with the filming of an Oscar-winning documentary, Born into
Brothels, which dealt with the lives of the children of Indian sex
workers.

Avijit Halder was one of eight children of sex workers who featured in the
2004 documentary film, co-directed by Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman. ..."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8456643.stm

	Youth Photography Toolkit (344KB PDF)
	Developed by The Cultural Agents Intiative »

Kids with Cameras would like to thank the amazing Human Rights Education team at Amnesty International for the development of this curriculum guide. Designed primarily for high school students, this guide consists of three lesson plans centered around the following topics: Personal & Collective Responsibility, The Transformative Power of Art, and Discrimination and the Right to Education. Also included are activities, critical thinking questions and appendices of additional resources. This guide meets national education standards and can also be used in informal settings such as house screenings, group meetings and film festivals.

For questions or feedback about this guide, please contact us at info@kids-with-cameras.org.

Born into Brothels
Companion Curriculum (1.2MB PDF)

Other Workshops

Ahecha Paraguay Asunción, Paraguay www.ahechaparaguay.blogspot.com AjA Project Disparando Camaras Para la Paz Bogota, Colombia www.ajaproject.org/colombiaproject.html AjA Project Journey San Diego, CA www.ajaproject.org/sandiegoproject.html AjA Project Record of Truth Thai/Burma border www.ajaproject.org/karenproject.html Bridges to Understanding Seattle, WA www.bridgesweb.org Chishawasha Lusaka, Zambia www.tribeofman.com/zambia Charleston Kids with Cameras Charleston, SC www.charlestonkidswithcameras.org Child's Right to Thrive Boston, MA www.childsrighttothrive.org Clicking Hearts Belo Horizonte, Brazil www.clickinghearts.org Critical Exposure Washington, DC www.criticalexposure.org Exposures Brattleboro, VT www.exposuresprogram.com Eyes Wide Open Worldwide Springfield, OH www.eyeswideopenworldwide.org

Fair Mail Huanchaco and Trujillo, Peru Varanasi, India www.fairmail.info First Exposures San Francisco, CA www.sfcamerawork.org/education/ first_exposures/ Five Boroughs Foundation of Photography New York City, NY www.5boroughs.org Fotokids Guatemala City, Guatemala www.fotokids.org Fundacion ph15 Buenos Aires, Argentina www.ph15.org.ar Future Guardians of Peace Voinjama, Liberia www.everydaygandhis.com Ghana Youth Photo Project Nima, Ghana www.ghanayouthphoto.org The In-Sight Photography Project Brattleboro, VT www.insight-photography.org Katrina: Images from FEMA's Airport Village Baton Rouge, LA www.kids-with-cameras.org/news/ Kid Camera Project New Orleans, LA www.kidcameraproject.org Kiosk Ngo Bujanovac, Serbia www.kioskngo.org My World, My View Pokhara, Nepal www.asha-nepal.org

Ncoppa e' Quartieri (On Top of the Quarters) Naples, Italy www.largobaracche.it NicaPhoto Nagarote, Nicaragua www.nicaphoto.com Our World in Pictures Lexington, KY www.ourworldinpictures.org Piga Picha Kisumu, Kenya www.pigapichakenya.blogspot.com Photovoice London, UK www.photovoice.org Sharing Stories Northern Australia jilkminggan.tumblr.com jarlmadangah.tumblr.com wugularr.tumblr.com Shooting Jozi Johannesburg, South Africa www.shootingjozi.net Star Shooter Myrtle Beach, SC www.starshooter.org Through the Eyes of Children: The Rwanda Project Rwanda www.rwandaproject.org Umuzi Photo Club Johannesburg, South Africa http://www.umuziphotoclubnews.blogspot.com/ Voices Tuscon, AZ www.voicesinc.org Youth Camera Action Bermuda www.ycabda.com Zanmi Lakay Haiti www.zanmilakay.org

Additional Resources

Garbage Dreams: Raised in the Trash Trade
A feature-length documentary
www.garbagedreams.com

Magnum Photo archive sold to Dell computer boss for display at University of Texas

RT @mediamentor: Magnum #Photo archive sold to Dell computer boss for display at University of Texas #Journalism in the Americas
http://ow.ly/14wmw

"... Magnum Photos, a cooperative owned by some of the world's most distinguished photographers, has sold its New York print archive to an investment firm owned by Michael Dell, founder of Dell Computer, who has loaned the images to the University of Texas for public use. See Magnum's announcement and this report by The New York Times.

Copyright Steve McCurry/Magnum Photos

The collection of nearly 200,000 vintage prints contains images of wars and major world events, social and religious issues, celebrities and family life. It will be preserved, catalogued and made accessible to the public at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, whose photography collection includes the world's first photograph. (See these shots of the archive's arrival.)
The transaction price was not disclosed, but the collection has been insured for more than $100 million, Bloomberg reports, citing unnamed sources.

The sale could help Magnum ensure its future, Chris Lefkow writes for AFP. "Like France's Gamma, another fabled photo agency, which went into receivership in July, Magnum has been seeking to carve out a niche in the new media era of Web-hosted stock photography and shrinking magazine and newspaper budgets," Lefkow says..."

GEORGE LESSARD
Information, Communications and Media Specialist
Spécialiste en l'information, communications et  medias
451 Norseman Dr.
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
X1A 2J1, Canada
Yellowknife Land Line # (867) 873-2662
Yellowknife Cell # (867) 445-9193
E-mail: mediamentor@gmail.com
My Biography - My panoramic images - Photo Illustrations - Circumpolar Blog
Community Radio Around the World Blog - Photography Blog
El Alto to Lake Titicaca Bolivia Photo Book
Chelyabinsk Russian Village Photo Book
Arviat, Nunavut Photo Book
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Canadian Artists Representation / le Front des artistes canadiennes
Canadian Artists Representation Copyright Collective

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How they see us: photo exhibition looks at the history of Canada's image abroad

RT @mediamentor: How they see us
http://ow.ly/14vqP
#photo exhibition looks at the history of Canada's image abroad

O Canada runs at the Stephen Bulger Gallery in Toronto until Feb. 27.

"... My father is English, and I vividly remember that one of the books his family had on its shelves was an essay collection called The Romance of Canada. It featured a skin-wearing fur-trapper on its cover, plodding through a wintry pine forest on snowshoes, his rifle at the ready.

Many of the images in O Canada, a new photo exhibition that runs until Feb. 27, are similarly stereotypical. The bulk of the pictures, on display at the Stephen Bulger Gallery in Toronto, document the nation's first century, from Confederation to Expo '67. Bulger tracked down historic images in collections around the world, but he hit a mother lode when the New York Times invited him to explore its vast photo archive in Queens. There, among four-million-plus photos, the curator found over 22,000 with Canadian content.

Many of the photos in the show illustrate how Canada grew to be perceived by the rest of the world. Winter is a constant presence, and the Mounties and Niagara also get their close-ups. Some images document the central role aboriginals have played in the nation's story, while others bear witness to the birth of a multicultural society...."

GEORGE LESSARD
Information, Communications and Media Specialist
Spécialiste en l'information, communications et  medias
451 Norseman Dr.
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
X1A 2J1, Canada
Yellowknife Land Line # (867) 873-2662
Yellowknife Cell # (867) 445-9193
E-mail: mediamentor@gmail.com
My Biography - My panoramic images - Photo Illustrations - Circumpolar Blog
Community Radio Around the World Blog - Photography Blog
El Alto to Lake Titicaca Bolivia Photo Book
Chelyabinsk Russian Village Photo Book
Arviat, Nunavut Photo Book
Member:
Canadian Association of Journalists
Canadian Artists Representation / le Front des artistes canadiennes
Canadian Artists Representation Copyright Collective

Chat themediamentor mediamentor@gmail.com

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Journalism in 10: Students on the Future of Media

Speaking at The Nation/Campus Progress annual Student Journalism Conference, a range of student journalists reflect on the future of media. Where is journalism headed? What trends and technologies are changing the game? And with print in peril, is a career in journalism still worth it? Students from all over the country give their view of the changing media landscape, and the efficacy of current “J-School” curricula.
See full story at
http://mediachannel.org/blog/2010/02/journalism-students-on-the-future-of-media-video/

George Lessard by ©2010 John Clark

George Lessard by ©2010 John Clark , originally uploaded by The MediaMentor .