December 21, 2009
Image from "Star Wars: A New Heap," by John Powers, in issue 4 of Triple Canopy, "War Money Magic.
Call for proposals
from artists, writers,
and researchers
Due by: February 15, 2010
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Triple Canopy: Call for Proposals
Triple Canopy is an online magazine that works collectively with writers, artists, researchers and other collaborators on projects that deal critically with culture and politics, and the ways people engage them, both online and in the world at large. We are pleased to announce our first call for proposals. In the coming months we will be commissioning ten projects spanning the five areas outlined below—original research, new-media journalism, public programming, Internet-specific artwork, and critical dialogues—to be published in the magazine and presented before live audiences in the next year. Submissions and proposals are due by February 15, 2010. For more detailed information, visit our commissions page.
This first round of commissions is supported in part by a generous grant from the Brown Foundation, Inc. of Houston. Commissions will be accompanied by a modest honorarium, the amount of which will reflect the scope of the project and the cost of its development. Support future commissions by making a tax-deductible contribution online now.
Project areas
Research Work
Research Work was established to facilitate the creation of research projects that are produced outside academia, for a general audience; employ Internet-specific methods of presentation; and serve a public best reached by making the work available for free online.
Internet as Material
Internet as Material was established to support emerging and mid-career artists who have never before made work specifically for the Web in the production of an online project. These projects further Triple Canopy's mission by utilizing the Internet—which is too often understood as a channel for the transfer of information—as a medium for the development of artworks that actively engage readers.
Thinking Through Images
Thinking Through Images was established to foster conversations about images and videos of cultural, political, and social relevance, between artists, writers, researchers, and other cultural practitioners working in different fields. The program aims to facilitate close readings of popular media and fine art—from nineteenth-century paintings to Internet memes to documentation of current events—that consider these cultural products in a common context.
New Media Reporting Project
The New Media Reporting Project was established to provide journalists an outlet for—and provide them with the training and technical resources and expertise to realize—in-depth, critical reports executed in multiple media, with the goal of providing an immersive experience of the stories and subjects that shape our age.
New Programming
New Programming was established to support the development of exhibitions, panel discussions, performances, film screenings, and other public events that examine the intersection of culture, politics, and technology.
Triple Canopy works collectively with writers, artists, researchers and other collaborators on projects that deal critically with culture and politics, and the ways people engage them, both online and in the world at large. These investigations are realized in an online magazine as well as in public programs and print publications encompassing various fields and locales. We aim to present work and advance ideas informed by a multitude of disciplines and perspectives, and to disseminate them among a broad and diverse audience. Triple Canopy, a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization, was founded in late 2007; our first issue was published on March 17, 2008.
http://canopycanopycanopy.com
Monday, December 21, 2009
Friday, December 18, 2009
Research Fellowship at John Carter Brown Library
The John Carter Brown Library, an independently funded center for advanced research, will award approximately forty research fellowships for the year June 1, 2010 – June 30, 2011. Fellowships are reserved for scholars and writers whose work considers the early history of the Americas, including all aspects of the European, African, and Native American experience. The library contains one of the world’s premier collections of primary materials related to the discovery, exploration, and settlement of the New World prior to 1825, including books, maps, newspapers, and other printed objects.
Short term fellowships are for two to four months and are open to U.S. and foreign scholars engaged in pre- or post-doctoral research. Independent scholars may also apply. The stipend is $2100 USD per month.
Long term fellowships are for five to ten months with a stipend of $4,200 per month.
For further information about the fellowship program, including a full listing of field areas, eligibility requirements, current and former research projects, JCB holdings, and application forms is available on the library’s website: http://www.jcbl.org or by contacting Ted Widmer, director, John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Providence, RI 02912 USA
The deadline for mailing all application materials is January 10, 2010
Short term fellowships are for two to four months and are open to U.S. and foreign scholars engaged in pre- or post-doctoral research. Independent scholars may also apply. The stipend is $2100 USD per month.
Long term fellowships are for five to ten months with a stipend of $4,200 per month.
For further information about the fellowship program, including a full listing of field areas, eligibility requirements, current and former research projects, JCB holdings, and application forms is available on the library’s website: http://www.jcbl.org or by contacting Ted Widmer, director, John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Providence, RI 02912 USA
The deadline for mailing all application materials is January 10, 2010
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Saturday, June 06, 2009
STP&A 2009 Call for Papers - Deadline Extended
STP&A 2009 Call for Papers - Deadline Extended
As a previous delegate of the STP&A Conference, we wanted to send you a personal note to let you know that the deadline for the call for papers has been extended to 30 June 2009.
At present, six broad overarching themes are being proposed to shape the conference deliberations:
1. New audiences for the arts, old and new
2. Cultural development and community engagement: beyond participation
3. Managing digital art: taking advantage of the new technologies
4. New models for arts businesses
5. Innovation and change in the cultural sector
6. Excellence in the arts and culture.
Proposals should be in the form of an abstract - abstracts should fit on one side of A4 and a maximum of 250 words in length and should.
If you have any questions or wish to submit a proposal please don't hesitate to email stpa2009@euclid.info
I would be grateful if you could pass this information on to any colleague's who may be interested.
Finally, just a reminder that the early bird booking deadline is 31 July.
For more information on the conference, including delegate rates and accommodation & travel in London please visit http://stpa2009.culture.info
As a previous delegate of the STP&A Conference, we wanted to send you a personal note to let you know that the deadline for the call for papers has been extended to 30 June 2009.
At present, six broad overarching themes are being proposed to shape the conference deliberations:
1. New audiences for the arts, old and new
2. Cultural development and community engagement: beyond participation
3. Managing digital art: taking advantage of the new technologies
4. New models for arts businesses
5. Innovation and change in the cultural sector
6. Excellence in the arts and culture.
Proposals should be in the form of an abstract - abstracts should fit on one side of A4 and a maximum of 250 words in length and should.
If you have any questions or wish to submit a proposal please don't hesitate to email stpa2009@euclid.info
I would be grateful if you could pass this information on to any colleague's who may be interested.
Finally, just a reminder that the early bird booking deadline is 31 July.
For more information on the conference, including delegate rates and accommodation & travel in London please visit http://stpa2009.culture.info
Sunday, April 05, 2009
Once is not enough for Laff-It-Off 2009
Unfortunately, the curtains finally came down on Laff-It-Off’s 2009 production “Another Cock and Bull Story,” that had one of its most successful runs in its 24 year history. For those who didn’t see this year’s production, let’s hope that there’s another weekend for the last minute stragglers for you certainly would have missed three hours of pure entertainment, intelligent comedy, good acting and belly laughs to make you fall out your seats.
Cecily Spencer-Cross, in her role as director, brought a freshness to the script by modernizing our favorite Bajan rumshop, ‘the Nook and Cranny Bar,” giving it a website, wireless Internet connection and taking us through the roller coaster ride of converting the bar into a strip joint. Now if that situation alone does not warrant a chuckle, watching Sue with two oversized bunny ears slide up and down a pole is the director’s guarantee that you will laugh.
Sue, played by Carla Springer, was part of what I’d call the veterans, alongside Tony Thompson who plays Lemuel and Sybul Rice, and Peta Allenye who continues to play Wilhemina Herrassofat. It’s also refreshing that Miss Herrassofat has evolved from the passive-aggressive wife who tolerated the indiscretions of Lemuel, into a more liberated business woman who is willing to take new chances with love, lust and her profession. This new found freedom will allow her the space, as she rightly claims, to experiment with Internet dating and more liberal sexual adventures after being repressed by years of sexual frustration at the hands of her alcoholic-loser-husband. Sounds familiar?
If it rings a bell, it’s because since 1983 Laff-It-Off has always looked at problems and issues in the community and our daily struggles and held them up to our faces like a mural in which we can see ourselves, sometimes ridiculed, sometimes parodied but always truthful. It is this truth that makes the characters “sweet” and believable in their purest and most authentic form of Barbadiana.
Sex sells but as a society we continue to be loath at the mention of the mere word so that we transfer our intellectual energy and ability to critique our society into polarized positions about politics, public personas and salacious newsbytes on issues like bestiality. This is precisely what makes Laff-It-Off so successful after all this time. The producers, director and actors all work as a team and decide each year to unabashedly turn these societal hypocrisies on their head and place them smack in our faces.
It is hopeful, therefore, that the young talent in Barbados will take up the mantel and go forward with this rich tradition of Bajan comedy for which producer Ian Estwick must be given full credit. It was refreshing to see the young brilliant actor Chrispen Hackett as Woodall together with Jherad Alleyne as Panty Pollard, Ishiaka McNiel as Dolly and Toni-Ann Johnson as Allison. Though Alleyne can be charged a bit with hamming on stage, this young brigade brought a renewed sense of hope for the future of our theater.
I will conclude that just as Daphne Joseph-Hackett in 1970 rightly predicted that Tony Thompson will be one of this region’s finest actors, as he has proven time and time again, I dare say that in 2009 we can make a similar prediction on Chrispen Hackett. He has already mastered the one ingredient that guarantees success on stage. He has perfect and precise timing and the lithe movements of his body together with mastering subtlety will take him into the top tier very quickly. A new star is born!
Cecily Spencer-Cross, in her role as director, brought a freshness to the script by modernizing our favorite Bajan rumshop, ‘the Nook and Cranny Bar,” giving it a website, wireless Internet connection and taking us through the roller coaster ride of converting the bar into a strip joint. Now if that situation alone does not warrant a chuckle, watching Sue with two oversized bunny ears slide up and down a pole is the director’s guarantee that you will laugh.
Sue, played by Carla Springer, was part of what I’d call the veterans, alongside Tony Thompson who plays Lemuel and Sybul Rice, and Peta Allenye who continues to play Wilhemina Herrassofat. It’s also refreshing that Miss Herrassofat has evolved from the passive-aggressive wife who tolerated the indiscretions of Lemuel, into a more liberated business woman who is willing to take new chances with love, lust and her profession. This new found freedom will allow her the space, as she rightly claims, to experiment with Internet dating and more liberal sexual adventures after being repressed by years of sexual frustration at the hands of her alcoholic-loser-husband. Sounds familiar?
If it rings a bell, it’s because since 1983 Laff-It-Off has always looked at problems and issues in the community and our daily struggles and held them up to our faces like a mural in which we can see ourselves, sometimes ridiculed, sometimes parodied but always truthful. It is this truth that makes the characters “sweet” and believable in their purest and most authentic form of Barbadiana.
Sex sells but as a society we continue to be loath at the mention of the mere word so that we transfer our intellectual energy and ability to critique our society into polarized positions about politics, public personas and salacious newsbytes on issues like bestiality. This is precisely what makes Laff-It-Off so successful after all this time. The producers, director and actors all work as a team and decide each year to unabashedly turn these societal hypocrisies on their head and place them smack in our faces.
It is hopeful, therefore, that the young talent in Barbados will take up the mantel and go forward with this rich tradition of Bajan comedy for which producer Ian Estwick must be given full credit. It was refreshing to see the young brilliant actor Chrispen Hackett as Woodall together with Jherad Alleyne as Panty Pollard, Ishiaka McNiel as Dolly and Toni-Ann Johnson as Allison. Though Alleyne can be charged a bit with hamming on stage, this young brigade brought a renewed sense of hope for the future of our theater.
I will conclude that just as Daphne Joseph-Hackett in 1970 rightly predicted that Tony Thompson will be one of this region’s finest actors, as he has proven time and time again, I dare say that in 2009 we can make a similar prediction on Chrispen Hackett. He has already mastered the one ingredient that guarantees success on stage. He has perfect and precise timing and the lithe movements of his body together with mastering subtlety will take him into the top tier very quickly. A new star is born!
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