Extrastatecraft: Hidden Organizations, Spatial Contagions and Activism
Contributed by Jan van Eyck Academie on 23/10/2008 12:51 in Calls for participation
Call for applications
Jan van Eyck Academie
Extrastatecraft: Hidden Organizations, Spatial Contagions and Activism
— research project
Extrastatecraft: Hidden Organizations, Spatial Contagions and Activism, a new project of the Design department, initiated by Keller Easterling, researches underexplored territory in the world’s infrastructural and organizational strata. The work focuses on shared protocols, managerial subroutines and financial instruments as they produce and program physical space around the world. Perhaps because these organizations operate in the background, in an active and relational rather than nominative register, their political outcomes are often at once pervasive and mysterious.
For instance, how do organizations like the ISO (International Organization for Standardization) or McKinsey determine management protocols? How do construction networks, more than the singular creations of architects and urbanists, disseminate materials and processes that determine how the world is calibrated? How do markets and financial instruments create templates that shape space?
The research also explores the political leverage latent in this renovated conception of global infrastructure. Some of the most radical changes to the globalizing world are being written, not in the language of law and diplomacy, but rather in the language of architecture, urbanism and infrastructure. Armand Mattelart argues that global infrastructure is a field that is “young and uncharted” largely because it is often still considered in terms of national rather than international histories. Moreover, the political instrumentality of these increasingly familiar global spheres is still frequently theorized in terms of militarization or universal rationalization, when they might really be agents of more discrepant or obscure forms of polity. The notion that there is either a dominant logic or a proper forthright realm of political negotiation usually acts as the perfect camouflage for parallel political activity — the medium of subterfuge, hoax and hyperbole that actually rules the world.
Extrastatecraft will consider a number of tools effective in manipulating active organization, but will pay particular attention to the ways in which these organizations are really populations of repeatable components and formats, the arrangement and chemistry of which possess a political disposition. The project will research multipliers in the organization that make components contagious and powerful as shapers of polity, and will consider these as stealthy tools of activism. New objects of practice and entrepreneurialism, redefined in a relational register, reflect the network’s ability to amplify structural shifts or repeatable moves. If icons of piety, collusion or competition often escalate tensions, might alternative design ingenuities distract from them? Having customarily absented itself from official political channels, architecture, as extrastatecraft, finds itself in an unexpectedly consequential position, manipulating codes of passage and points of leverage in the thickening back channels of global infrastructure.
While researchers will find in the topic many points of entry, some anticipated research agendas address the managerial and infrastructural substrates of space related to finance, construction, trade and marketing. Travel, language skills, archival experience and fieldwork will serve the research. Textual, graphic or design documents may contribute to the final collective product.
Candidates interested in this project can apply with a research proposal. Selected candidates gain the position of researcher at the Design department of the Jan van Eyck Academie.
Deadline applications: 24 November 2008.
The project will start in 2009.
To apply see: www.janvaneyck.nl
For content-based information contact: anne.vangronsveld@janvaneyck.nl
For practical information contact: leon.westenberg@janvaneyck.nl
Keller Easterling is an architect and writer from New York City. Her book, Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and its Political Masquerades (MIT, 2005) researches familiar spatial products that have landed in difficult or hyperbolic political situations around the world. A previous book Organization Space: Landscapes, Highways and Houses in America applies network theory to a discussion of American infrastructure and development formats. A forthcoming book, Extrastatecraft, examines global infrastructure networks as a medium of polity. Easterling has lectured and published widely in the United States and internationally. She has also published web installations including: Wildcards: a Game of Orgman and Highline: Plotting NYC. Her research and design work has been most recently exhibited at the Rotterdam Biënnale, the Architectural League and Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York. Easterling is associate professor at Yale University.
apexart International Franchise "resolving another boundary between art and business"
Contributed by apexart on 18/09/2008 11:09 in Calls for participation
apexart wants to come to you. Any city, any town, anywhere in the world. We are offering a one-time franchise opportunity where apexart will come to your city and appoint you the director of your own temporary non-profit exhibition space. For a four-week exhibition, and in the months preceding, you will be the director and/or curator and/or staff of your own institution with a budget, a salary, and complete control.
We will provide up to 10,000 USD in funding, along with the necessary guidance to make your curated exhibition happen, accompanied by an apexart brochure. In addition, prior to your show, we'll arrange to bring you to NYC for three days, all expenses paid, to visit apexart and meet our staff.
Submit up to a 250-word statement on why apexart should come to you. Applications will be accepted until midnight December 1, 2008 EST, from anyone, anywhere in the world. Visit www.apexart.org/franchise.htm for more information on how to apply.
apexart is a 501(c)(3) non-profit contemporary visual arts organization located in Lower Manhattan. Through our exhibitions, international residency, publication initiatives, and programs and events, we are committed to cultural and intellectual diversity and aim to stimulate public dialogue about contemporary art. Our exhibitions and programs are intended to promote consideration among our local audience while extending the dialogue to our international audience through print and electronic outreach. Since our inception in 1994, more than 1,000 artists, from emerging to established and from all over the globe, have participated in over 130 exhibitions. Each year, apexart presents seven group exhibitions, hosts eight international residents, organizes numerous public lectures and performances, and distributes 70,000 full-color interpretive exhibition brochures free of charge to individuals and institutions in 95 countries. In addition, our web-based audience con sists of over 17,000 unique visitors monthly from more than 100 nations. This widespread distribution and outreach of our programs is vital to apexart's ability to develop new audiences and to bring new voices and critical perspectives to New York.
apexart
291 Church Street
New York, NY 10013
http://www.apexart.org
Call for Expressions of Interest
Contributed by Enough Room for Space on 10/05/2008 00:22 in Calls for participation
ESF Standing Committee for the Humanities (SCH) and the ESF Expert Committee European Space Sciences Committee (ESSC)
The DEADLINE for online submission of Humans in Outer Space Call for Expressions of Interest is Saturday 31 MAY 2008.
Space age has reached its 50th anniversary. Development of robotic exploration to distant planets and bodies across the solar system, as well as pioneering human space exploration in Earth orbit and the Moon, paved the way for ambitious long-term space exploration. Europe has always played a significant role in the endeavours of humankind to explore other worlds and to understand the Universe in which we live.
Today, space exploration goes far beyond a merely technological endeavour, as its further development will have a tremendous social, cultural and economic impact. Space activities are now entering an era where the contribution of the humanities - history, philosophy, anthropology, the arts as well as the social sciences - political science, economics and law - will become crucial for the future of space exploration. Now that the awareness for the societal complexity of activities in space is growing internationally, it is vital that Europe, with a stronghold in natural sciences as well as its identity firmly rooted in the humanities and the social sciences, grasps the opportunity to involve their specific knowledge(s) in the long-term planning of exploration undertakings.
Our generation may be given the opportunity to explore new places and discover new worlds. Those adventures will be driven by the human desire of quest for knowledge and human curiosity. They will provide a main opportunity for equitable international cooperation. Humans divided on Earth will hopefully unite in space as citizens of one planet.
During 2007, the European Science Foundation (ESF) has set up the first comprehensive trans-disciplinary dialogue on humans in outer space. This dialogue goes further than regarding humans as better-than-robot tools for exploration. It investigates the human quest for odysseys beyond Earth’s atmosphere and reflects on the implications of the findings of extraterrestrial life.
The inherent human curiosity for exploring the unknown is at the heart of this dialogue, and has been addressed through collaboration between the ESF Standing Committee for the Humanities (SCH) and the ESF European Space Sciences Committee (ESSC), in cooperation with the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) in Vienna. A conference on ‘Humans in Outer Space’ was organised on 11 – 12 October 2007 in Vienna, resulting in the Vienna Vision on Humans in Outer Space. The vision provides a European perspective in identifying the relevant needs and interests linked with space exploration by humans.
ESF’s Standing Committee for the Humanities together with ESF’s Expert Committee on Space Sciences have identified the topic as an area for cross-disciplinary collaboration, that should be addressed through a broad European approach. The main purpose of this call for Expressions of Interest is to identify key challenging topics from any discipline in this area and investigate the best ways to explore them.
This consultation process will provide ESF with the views of the European scientific community on these issues. All Expressions of Interest received will be synthesised in order to identify key topics of interest to be developed at the European level. One topic recognized by ESF and ESA as interesting for further cross-disciplinary collaboration is the human impact of human spaceflight. Human spaceflight is a major endeavour that calls together many scientific and technical disciplines. Up to now, the emphasis in this context has mostly been on engineering, physical and life sciences aspects, where major achievements have been obtained.
However, with Europe preparing itself for a decision on its ambition in future human spaceflight to further destinations than a low orbit around Earth, it is timely to address also the human and social aspects of having ‘some of us out there’.
The Vienna Vision on Humans in Outer Space clearly indicates that here is a very interesting field to explore. Europe could take the lead in bringing this a step further and provide a social sciences and humanities based framework for decisions and events that are expected to happen in the next decades. Examples include:
· Psychology of isolation
· Ethical aspects of human spaceflight
· Socio-economic costs and benefits
· Space law
· Religious implications of leaving Earth
· Administrative and social structures in Lunar or Martian settlements
· Finding non-terrestrial life forms: social, psychological, religious
implications
· Artistic expression as a means to share the human exploration experience
After selection by a multidisciplinary panel, the most engaging ideas will be pursued in a collaborative way through ESF-managed workshop(s) to be held in 2008 / 2009.
Submission
Submissions of Expression of Interest are invited from researchers based in Europe. The abstract should be submitted by 31 May 2008 via on-line form and should not exceed 400 words.
A panel will discuss the received ideas (Expressions of Interest) in June 2008. All applicants will be informed about the outcome of this exercise. The most engaging ideas will be pursued in a collaborative way through ESF-managed workshop(s) to be held in 2008 / 2009.
Further Information and Contacts
Dr. Monique van Donzel, Standing Committee for the Humanities
Dr. Jean-Claude Worms, European Space Sciences Committee
Ms. Marie Suchanova, general enquiries
European Science Foundation
1, quai Lezay Marnésia – BP 90015
67080 Strasbourg cedex – France
Tel: +33 (0)3 88 76 71 00
Fax +33 (0)3 88 76 71 81
Email: HiOS[at]esf.org
Diskurs 08
Contributed by Diskurs Festival on 29/03/2008 20:30 in Calls for participation
From October 9th to October 12th 2008 the diskurs festival "cyborgs
crossing" takes place in Gießen. This year, as in the years before, the
diskurs festival is meant to create networks between young artists who
especially work in the domain of performative arts. We are looking for
works from the domains of theatre, performance, music and video, that
refer to this year's topic.
diskurs08 is searching for interfaces between discourses about theatre,
which is physically present by its nature, and about the presence of
technical media on the other hand. It aims to find out in which ways a
similar perception about arts and cultural change can be seen in both
art forms. diskurs08 asks for art work that deals with hybrid forms of
living organisms and machines, such as for example the cyborg as a
modern and postmodern icon. Also, art work that considers the machine in
itself as a performer can serve as adequate contribution. How compatible
are men and machines? How anthropomorph can and may technology be
thought of?
diskurs08 is looking for works that fathom the spaces between theatre,
performance and the media, and that again face the experiment of uniting
man and technology within the framework of arts.
Visual-Art-Café
Additionally we are looking for cinematic work for an own panel within
the festival program. diskurs08 is interested in fresh and experimental
shortfilms that try to modernize the genre of silent movies and make it
productive. diskurs08 wants to bridge the beginnings of the film history
to the relationship of man and machine nowadays.
diskurs08 takes care of travelling expenses, transport charges and
accomodation.
Please send all applications with a detailed description about the work,
including videos, pictures, texts or audio productions to the adress below.
Closing date for all art work is May 1st 2008.
diskurs08
kunstrasen giessen e.V.
Postfach 11 06 25
35351 Gießen, DE
Tel: +49 (0)641 9931248
info@diskursfestival.de
NO-GO-ZONES audio radio project
Contributed by No-Go-Zones on 13/01/2008 21:44 in Calls for participation
an open access collection of mainly spoken word audio samples inviting you to
• use the archived recordings as a resource for your own work
• send us a 2-3 minutes record of the result (audio or audio /visual)
Hallo Listener!
here are some updates on our running DVD publication project:
• we have extended the deadline for submissions to 4th February 2008
• it would be helpful if you could let us know us by 18th January if you wish
to contribute to this publication and in which format
• we hope to include a wide variety of audio and audio/visual re-mixes
and re-edits of NO-GO-ZONES in the publication
• the DVD of the first 100 influences will be released in an edition of 500 by
Double Entendre in spring 2008
• some recent contributions are already accessible on-line and we’d like to thank
the senders and all of you for your active listening
recent contribution and archived recordings are accessible via the play lists here on this blog
for further information see also : http://www.myspace.com/nogozones
contact us at : nogozones@hotmail.co.uk
CALL FOR ARTWORK
Contributed by Artists at War on 17/12/2007 22:46 in Calls for participation
"I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel,"--Allen Ginsberg
Getting our shit together is essential as we transition from creative individuals to professional artists. Yet we see so many artists, singers, musicians blowing up in the public realm that have seemingly no opportunity to respond to the events of the day. Does a creative career require the focus that shuts out our concerns for history, suffering, justice or peace?
As Artists At Work aims to service the practical aims of building careers, Artists At War asks artists to respond to the larger world that our field belongs to. To use their skills and talents of their professional practices and respond to the war, the empire, the political situation that surrounds us. To become an activist.
We’re looking for propaganda, calls to action, critiques, soapboxes, solutions. . . . But this is also a forum for artists to reflect on their personal relationship to the war, its symptoms and causes. The artworks in this space will not stop the war--these are not the levers of global power. More importantly, we want to give artists an opportunity to escape the suffocating veil of capitalistic denial that we haze through, as we navigate career and life.
In addition to the website ArtistsAtWar.com, a small image of our artsists' projects will appear in the Artists At Work newsletter of GYST Ink, which reaches 20,000 artists and art professionals across the nation.
Specs: We are in the process of defining specifications for AAW project, but in the meantime, please contact steve@stevenlanderson.com.
ABOUT ARTISTS AT WAR
AAW is a collaboration between Los Angelenos Thomas McKenzie and Steven L. Anderson. Tom is a writer for Real Talk LA, an independent grantwriter for artists and theater groups, is active in U.S. Labor Against the War, and is the former publisher of the Pennisula Pulse (Door County, Wisc.). Steve is an artist, activist and former publisher of Cakewalk magazine. His website is StevenLAnderson.com.
CONTACT please email twmckenzie@sbcglobal.net and/or steve@stevenlanderson.com
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