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prog:ME (programa de mída eletronica) is the 1st Festival of Electronic Media of Rio de Janeiro which will be an annual event in the city. Organized by Carlo Sansolo and Érika Fraenkel, the festival will take place on the 19th July until the 18th September 2005 in the Centro Cultural Telemar, in Rio de Janeiro-RJ, with 30.000 reais in prizes (approximately $11,000 US). The deadline for application is 15th of June of 2005. To apply please go to www.progme.org.

The event hopes to contribute to the stimulation of national production by highlighting new and established artists who develop works of art and technology, domestically and internationally. Running parallel to this is a program of invited foreign curators who will introduce artists of video-art from around the globe.
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Grants for Researchers in Residence
August 31, 2005 deadline

As it does every year, the Daniel Langlois Foundation is currently offering research grants. The proposals selected will see researchers conduct work at the Foundation's Centre for Research and Documentation. And while the program does not impose research themes per se, the Foundation would like to direct one of the two grants to research on the "Documentation and Conservation of the Media Arts Heritage," the focus of a major research effort led by the Foundation.

Individuals wishing to submit a research proposal are asked to read the program's guidelines:
http://www.fondation-langlois.org/
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Introducing Scream
scream.deprogramming.us

Scream is a software application to facilitate screaming.

Scream sits quietly in your computer's system tray and automatically springs into action when it detects a scream.

Scream disturbs your Windows interface. But it isn't aimed just at computer frustrations. In a world where "anger" is paired with "management," Scream encourages the return to prominence of the lost art of screaming. As Howard Beale said in 1976, "I don't have to tell you things are bad.... all I know is that first you've got to get mad."
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>The Institute for Distributed Creativity and The Graduate Center, City
>University of New York present:

Share, Share Widely
The Conference on New-Media Art Education

>Friday, May 6th, 11am - 8pm

The Graduate Center
Elebash Recital Hall
City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th street)
New York City

newmediaeducation.org -- website

Join us for an intensive one day conference about new media education. Connect with new media researchers and educators, present, discuss, and exchange syllabi or other public domain materials in a temporary gift economy zone. Bring your USB memory key and laptop.
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De-Grammatical: Rhythm and Language Transformation
by Elisabeth Penker

Exhibition runs 10 May - 5 June 2005

HTTP Gallery invite you to the opening on Tuesday 10 May 2005 7-9pm

"For the opening, Penker will perform live to the composition "Die
Bildhauerin". The performance is supported by a sonic structure
constructed of wood and various industrial floor materials which are
amplified and function as instrument and interactive sound sculpture
during the exhibition."

::Mark R Hancock::
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Petition for young Portuguese filmaker under trial, with no lawyer in Dubai.

If you can spare a moment, please take a look, and consider signing
the online petition for Ivo Marques at http://www.PetitionOnline.com/ivomarqu/

Briefly: the 29 year old filmmaker Ivo Marques was in Dubai doing a
documentary when he was arrested after being denounced as smoking haxixe.
The police searched his apartment and indeed found a haxixe cigarette butt on an ashtray (my sources are reputed Portuguese newspapers and is on trial *without a lawyer*. Time in prison can go up to 5 years.

Portuguese authorities are doing very little. We need your help. The petition was written by the Portuguese association of filmmakers.

Thank you
Ana Boa-Ventura
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May 1, 2005
Turbulence Commission: "Imprimatur" by Andy Deck
imprimatur
Needs Java and Adobe Acrobat Reader

"Imprimatur" is a free, easy-to-use tool for producing posters. Users contribute to a poster layout via their web browser. Creativity becomes a shared process, as unpredictable as the people who are passing through. The artist, rather than providing images, provides a system intended to activate the viewer's thought and expressiveness. Against the backdrop of a mass media culture that promotes conformity and passivity, "Imprimatur" encourages 'viewers' to choose themes and produce their own messages. It propels on-line expression out of the ink jet and into the streets.
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Opportunity

CALL FOR ENTRIES! 12th CHICAGO UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL

CUFF is the fest that smacks you up, down and sideways- head to toe, front
to back! For 12 years solid, The Chicago Underground Film Festival has
thrown down with the most innovative, experimental and dangerous films from
around the globe.

Features, Shorts, Documentaries, Experimental, Narrative, Animation
35mm, 16mm, super-8 and video

AUGUST 18-- 24 2005 at the historic Music Box Theatre

SUBMISSION DEADLINE MAY 1
Final deadline June 1

ENTRY FORMS AND GUIDELINES ARE AVAILABLE NOW AT
http://www.cuff.org
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New Resource

NetEx--->:||nmapn||:Cologne ~ networked experiences
weblog.nmartproject.net
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Contents:
-->A Virtual Memorial - in May
-->[R][R][F]2005--->XP - recent updates
-->JavaMuseum - Final show launched
-->Cinematheque - calls
-->Agricola de Cologne - new releases
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