ARTSBlock Live - Mexico

Interview with Oaxaca photographer Gerardo Nigenda from Sight Unseen: International Photography by Blind Artists and poet Gabriela Jauregui of the recently published Controlled Decay. ARTSblock Live is a monthly podcast series produced by the Digital Studio on UCR ARTSblock in collaboration with the new media department of KCET - LA. Download the interview or hear it streaming on KCET.

MGV 2009

Students in the MyGlobalVillage 2009 high school summer session have been busy. Since July 6th, they've screened the acclaimed and award-winning documentaries -- Born into Brothels (outcast youth in India), An Inconvenient Truth (the effects of global warming), Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes (sexism and misogyny in music), Al Otro Lado (immigration and the US/Mexico border), and a series of short international works, titled Youth Producing Change. In the coming weeks, they'll view My Country, My Country (Iraqi citizens on the war), Lioness (women military units in Ramadi), Rize (roots of krump dancing), Life and Debt (globalized poverty) and Lumo (women in a war-torn country). As a response, participants in MGV are creating mini posters, short videos, and t-shirt graphics to share concerns and views on the social and political environment for young people, locally and globally. >>Meet the students and sample their work.

A screening and exhibition of completed works will take place in the Digital Studio gallery on Thursday, September 3rd 6:00-8:00pm @ UCR California Museum of Photography. For more info, email: digitalstudioinfo@ucr.edu or www.artsblock.ucr.edu

Video Conferencing

Re:live

Third International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology
Melbourne 26-29 November 2009

Third International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology.The next iteration of the Media Art History conference is Re:live which is to be held in Melbourne, Victoria in 2009. The event follows the success of the two previous Media Art History conferences, re:fresh (Banff 2005) and re:place (Berlin 2007). The conference series is an initiative of Leonardo/ISAST (International Society for Art, Science and Technology) whose International Advisory Committee will publicise the event and referee papers. 

Australia provides an excellent geographic, geopolitical and geocultural space for hosting this conference. It connects regionally with both Asian and Pacific cultures and the ongoing exchange of media arts between, northern and southern hemispheres. Sponsored by Leonardo and the Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne)

Following the success of Media Art History 05 Re:fresh in Banff and Media Art History 07 Re:place in Berlin, Media Art History 09 Re:live in Melbourne will host three days of keynotes, panels and poster sessions Media Art History 09 - Re:live, a refereed conference, is calling for papers, panels and posters on the histories of digital, electronic and technological media arts. With the theme of Re:live we are especially interested in expanding the range of topics to include sustainability, live arts and the technological arts of life, both organic and nonorganic.

How do the media arts change? Through innovation, accident, discovery, mutation or crisis? How did contemporary media arts come to look and sound like they do? What options and potentialities and eccentricities in the history of media have been lost or overlooked or suppressed? What hopes have been realised and which dashed? What is the history of speculation on alternate histories, and how have they altered the course of media art history? 

Re:live
Third International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology
Melbourne 26-29 November 2009
http://www.mediaarthistory.org

Questions of Capital

Open call for juried exhibition

Guest Juror: Daniel Joseph Martinez

The Center for Social Inquiry at Pitzer College and the Pitzer Art Galleries are pleased to announce an open call for art works addressing the broad theme of "CAPITALISM IN QUESTION (because it is)."

The rampant capitalism of the last decade, and its recent catastrophic crisis, has left us in a peculiar and unfamiliar space. Capitalist economic ideology and practices are suddenly under renewed scrutiny. "CAPITALISM IN QUESTION (because it is)" invites artists to explore our current economic predicament and to consider a range of alternatives to it. Visual artwork in all media—painting, installation, sculpture and photography—is encouraged.

All materials for consideration should be submitted by 7/20/2009 to:

Ciara Ennis, Director, Pitzer Art Galleries, 1050 North Mills Ave., Claremont, CA 91711 FMI:CapinQuestArt@Pitzer.Edu. Please make submissions in the following format: cd with images, dvd or powerpoint. Send artist statement and c.v.

During the 2009-2010 academic year, the Center for Social Inquiry at Pitzer College will be sponsoring a series of lectures and seminars that re-open questions about capitalism and its discontents—rather than treating capitalism, or "markets," as the all-purpose answer to social questions, as has been increasingly common since the 1980s in both American society and the larger global economy. This thematic inquiry will look backward in time to examine the most recent and earlier "busts" following capitalist "booms," and will look forward in time to consider the range of forms, both desirable and undesirable, that might emerge when the global capitalist economy "recovers" from its current collapse.

About Pitzer College

Pitzer College is a nationally top-ranked undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences. A member of The Claremont Colleges, Pitzer offers a distinctive approach to a liberal education by emphasizing interdisciplinary studies, intercultural understanding, and social responsibility.