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The Distribution Grant for New York State Artists, a regrant program for the New York State Council on the Arts, Electronic Media and Film, provides support for the distribution of new works in film, video, sound, new-media, and media-installation. Grant awards assist artists in making recently completed works available to public audiences and may include, but are not limited to distribution and exhibition expenses such as: duplication of preview, screening, and exhibition copies; promotional materials including documentation and schematics of media-installation and new-media works. Successful grantees are awarded the opportunity to work with a project mentor who will offer guidance as grantees execute their distribution and exhibition plans. The following eight projects were selected during a competitive panel review process:

2012 Grantees:
(alphabetical by artist)

David Dixon, David Dixon is dead.

David Dixon is dead. is a documentary of past events and of events that have yet to come. It is fiction, but a fiction built solidly on the real-life public declaration by its maker, David Dixon, which states that after his death, his head should be removed from his body and cleaned to the skull, the skull then included in an art piece. Distribution funds will support the packaging of David Dixon is dead. including supporting materials, and a tour with the live commentary performance.

Meredith Drum, Louisiana Re-storied

Louisiana Re-storied is an interactive, documentary installation focused on environmental justice issues in small communities along the stretch of Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans – communities uncomfortably sandwiched between large petrochemical plants and oil refineries. The piece demonstrates how, in recent years, community groups have collaborated with scientist activists and won seminal legal battles and out-of-court settlements, initiatives to protect their health from toxic emissions; and it prompts consideration on the role and potential impact of social documentary by placing these current stories in dialogue with, and in contrast to, Robert Flaherty’s 1948 Louisiana Story. Distribution funds will support re-staging the installation in order to reach additional public audiences.

ecoarttech (Cary Peppermint and Leila Nadir), Indeterminate Hikes

Indeterminate Hikes (IH) is an Android app that transforms everyday landscapes into sites of bio-cultural diversity and wild happenings. Generally devices of rapid communication and consumerism, smartphones are re-appropriated by IH as tools of environmental imagination and meditative wonder, renewing awareness of intertwining biological, cultural, and media ecologies and slowing us down at the same time. Distribution funds will support expanded platforms for IH (iPhone, etc.) as well as the production of promotional materials.

Sabisha Friedberg, The Starry Garter: A Certain Point Within a Sphere

The Starry Garter: A Certain Point Within a Sphere is a sonic poem for radio that combines elements of sound art, radio theater, film, and music to examine themes of transmutation and redemption. The work is based upon a text written in the 19th Century by an anonymous author and chronicles the journey of a fallen initiate of a unnamed secret society. Starry Garter updates traditional radio theater by emphasizing an experimental sound score of atomized dialogue, electro-acoustic composition, and interludes of abstracted cello, piano, and chorus in a multi-channel spatialized format combined with minimalist cinematographic scenography. The Starry Garter is conceived for both live audience and radio broadcast. Funding will support the distribution of the work via radio broadcast, the web, and an adjunct live recording with cast and instrumentation.

Michael Galinsky, Battle for Brooklyn

The documentary film, Battle for Brooklyn, follows the story of reluctant activist Daniel Goldstein as he struggles to save his home and community from being demolished to make way for an arena and real estate development. Over the course of seven years, Daniel spearheads the movement against the development plan as he and the community fight tenaciously in the courts, the streets, and the media to stop the abuse of eminent domain and reveal the corruption at the heart of the plan. Distribution funds will support a series of community, school, and college screenings as well as for public relations efforts on behalf of the film.

Jacqueline Goss, The Observers

In Goss’s film, The Observers, the land and sky of Mt. Washington, New Hampshire form a varying frame for two climatologists as they go about the solitary and steadfast work of measuring and recording the weather. Based in part on the Nathaniel Hawthorne story “The Great Carbuncle,” the film features the extreme and surprising beauty of the windiest mountain in the world. Distribution funds will support the production of a home-use release of the film on DVD.

David Horvitz, Public Access

Public Access, originally exhibited at SF Camerawork in San Francisco, California, was a project in which Horvitz drove up the entire California coast and made photographs for the Wikipedia pages of various California beaches. In each photograph, Horvitz’s body was subtly (and sometimes obviously) placed in the landscape. As the photographs went online, many Wikipedia editors caught on, and began to debate the legitimacy of the images’ usage on the articles. The exhibition documented the project in all aspects: the trip, the photographs, and the commotion caused by the photographs as they entered the web 2.0 sphere. Funds will support the distribution of this new media project vis-à-vis a physical printing of the Public Access images and documentation of the project’s narrative.

Marina Rosenfeld, roygbiv&b

Created for the Museum of Modern Art in New York as part of a series exploring the legacy of Fluxus, roygbiv&b is a musical performance, within a mutli-channel sound installation, exploring the intersection of forms implied by the iconic idea of the rainbow. The work aimed to produce a spectral field vertically within the museum’s large central atrium space, locating bass players and subwoofers on the ground level and strata of choirs, loudspeakers and instruments rising to the top balcony, and to graphically evoke the iconic curve of the rainbow within this field by virtually spraying arcs of song fragments and other sound over the site’s nominally “blank” fourth wall, which is cantilevered out over the atrium’s central cavity. Distribution support will be used to capture the three-dimensionality of the sound field the work created in ambisonic and binaural versions for gallery display and archival purposes, as well as to create a web-based documentation of the project.

2012 Review Panelists:

Brian Dewan, Artist (Catskill, NY)
Justin Luke, Founder, Audio Visual Arts (AVA) (New York, NY)
Nellie Killian, Co-Director, Migrating Forms (New York, NY)

The 2012 Distribution Grant for New York State Artists is a regrant program made possible with public funds from the Electronic Media and Film Program of the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

More Information Contact:
Galen Joseph-Hunter
Executive Director
free103point9
gjh@free103point9.org

Broadcast Art, Sound & Independent Culture – Call for Participation

http://basic.fm/radio/

Call for Submissions -

http://www.thepixelpalace.org/opportunities/basicfm-call-for-submissions

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About basic.fm
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basic.fm is a new radio station that forms part of Pixel Palace, an
exciting programme of digital arts and new media at Tyneside Cinema. It
hosts Broadcast Art, Sound & Independent Culture, aspiring to be a space
that can be inhabited by artists, curators, thinkers and interesting
people with something to share and will be gradually be populated with
work, projects, shows and archived events.

Since launching in November 2011, basic.fm has commissioned an exciting
number of leading artists, including Mark Vernon, The Noize Choir, Ed
Carter, Sarah Boothroyd and People Like Us.

-Call for Participation
Pixel Palace are seeking new or existing works to host on basic.fm.
Selected works will form part of a series of curated programmes (one-off
and regular shows) that will appear on basic.fm from April 2012. Work
can include sound art, spoken word, field recordings and artist
interviews within the context of Broadcast Art, Sound & Independent
Culture.

This is an unpaid opportunity but all selected contributions will be
fully credited and linked appropriately to relevant websites and/ or
sources. This call is open to all artists, musicians, field recordists
and sonic artists regardless of nationality, age, or career stage.

-Submissions must include:
*    Title and description of new or existing work(s) for basic.fm
(100 words maximum)
*    Examples of past work (please provide links to work as large
email large media files cannot be accepted)
*    CV and contact information

-About Pixel Palace
Pixel Palace is the exciting programme of digital arts and new media at
Tyneside Cinema. This programme takes the form of arts residencies,
commissions, live events and exhibitions.  We experiment with new ways
of sharing creative work, ideas and stories as we move towards the
future of cinema.

-How to apply
Please email submissions to Dominic Smith, Digital Arts Manager at the
Tyneside Cinema: info@thepixelpalace.org with the subject heading:
basic.fm
The deadline for submissions is Monday 20 February 2012 at 5pm.
Artists will be notified via email regarding the outcome of their
submitted work(s).

Joining the worldwide celebration of the centennial of John Cage, Norte Maar will collaborate with E.A.T. to present Cage Transmitted: Celebrating + Playing John Cage. The twelve evenings of performances of music, poetry, theater, visual art, and dance, occurring once each month, will span the calendar year of 2012.  Most of the performances will take place in the front room of Norte Maar’s apartment gallery, and will be broadcast onto the street and live streamed on the web.

Cage Transmitted: Evening 1

JANUARY 24, 7pm

Note: This event can be experienced street side.

Watch the live stream beginning at 6:45 pm EST at livestream.com/nortemaar

Launching the first of twelve transmitted projects will be a broadcast of John Cage delivering a lecture to students at Harpur College, Binghamton, NY on January 24, 1967. This event marks the first time the lecture has been heard since it was delivered exactly 45 years ago. A select group of choreographers and dancers will perform in the space as Cage speaks and will include dancers Andrew Nemr, TAKE Dance , Lynn Parkerson Artistic Director of Brooklyn Ballet, Rachel Cohen of Racoco, Benn Rasmussen + Megan Madorin + Edward Rice of Ardent August, Morgan McEwen of Gleich Dances , among others. Special thanks to DiJiFi for their assistant in digitizing Cage’s lecture.

TRANSCEIVER

An Exhibition of Works That Are Transmitted, Not Transported

Part One: Bemis Center for Contemporary Art   |   January 13 – February 11, 2012
Opening Reception: Friday, January 13 – 6:00-9:00pm

Part Two: Drift Station   |   February 3-27, 2012
Opening Reception: Friday, February 3 – 7:00-10:00pm

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS INCLUDE
Possible Press (Trevor and Rachel Reese), Sophia Brueckner, Alex Myers, Damien Catera, Collection Enlargement, Gregory Chatonsky, Constant Dullaart, Eilis McDonald, Evan Roth, Dave Beattie, Matt Kenyon, Marius Watz, Maximillian Goldfarb, Michelle Nagai, and Aram Barthol

TRANSCEIVER is an exhibition of works are sent entirely by non-traditional means. Artists from across the US and abroad have been asked to send work via chat, Skype, email, FTP, streaming audio, radio, Twitter, telegram, and Bluetooth. These works, many of which integrate their means of transmission into their structure and content, suggest a non-geographically-centered model. Instead, they suggest the potential for curators and institutions operating within modest budgets and regional locations to mount expansive international shows that challenge traditional structures of what an exhibition and gallery can be.

Transceiver marks the first installment in an open series of exhibitions in the Bemis Underground that highlight regional artist-run spaces and curatorial projects. Sitting at the forefront of creative placemaking, artist-run spaces and initiatives have played a large hand in re-purposing countless spaces and neighborhoods around the world.

Transceiver will continue at Drift Station, featuring a low-power FM radio station that will operate through the month of February, as well as live projections from webcams around the world.

For more information on the first part of the exhibition, please visit the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art’s website.

Recordings wanted for the third edition of the Power/field
compilation.  This series is dedicated to recordings made “in the
field” with processing on-site – ie pedals, laptops, or strange
acoustic phenomena in the intersection of power and environment. No
post-processing besides basic trim edits and gain

Traditional field recording captures ambient sound in various
locations via microphone without any effects. Power/field recordings
are field recordings made with effects processing units used on-site.
The intent is to take experimental music practices outside of their
traditional operating venues (composing studios and performance
venues) and into the “field” (anywhere you don’t normally
compose/record/perform music).

Aesthetically speaking, anything goes – drone, microsound, synth,
ambient, harsh noise. The recordings can come from a wide variety of
musical practices, and can be made with electronic, electrical,
mechanical, and acoustic means.  Harnessing the existing sound in a
space is preferred over generating sound within a space – but the
latter can work when the results align within the perspective of the
series. It is suggested for all to listen to the first edition (link
below) for examples of successful submissions.

Typical scenarios for successful works: microphone feeding into a
pedal; contact mic fed into a laptop; sounds played in an environment
and recorded via mics; lathe records, cassettes, and circuit boards
left outside all winter long, then recorded in their deteriorated
condition outside, a microphone rubbed against subway walls, a
microphone set inside the whirlwind funneling into an air conditioner.

Typical unsuccessful scenarios: recorded freak folk / alt rock /
post-war classical jams in someone’s living room or an underground
chamber. Please listen to the tracks from the first edition to get a
sense of the aesthetic intent behind the project.

There is an honor system on the basic rules: the recording must be
made outside of the studio or the stage; no overdubs except on-site;
no re-processing; no edits besides cutting off the beginning or end.
The submission can be an excerpt of a longer take, and basic
normalizing of the levels is fine. Track length 3-15 min preferred,
multiple short tracks are fine to submit. Previously released tracks
will not be considered, and tracks created specifically for this
project are preferred.

The final project will be released March 2012 in an edition of 200.
The first 2 editions each had 2x CDrs, as there were a ton of great
submissions. Traditionally the discs are housed in screen-printed
cardboard sleeves.  A digital edition will be created in addition to
the physical one.

The entire contents of the previous editions can be found here:

vol 1:

http://anarchymoon.com/sounds/powerfield

(p.s. the first track of Disc 1 is titled “\\\” but the slashes don’t
come out right in an online directory)

vol 2:

http://anarchymoon.com/sounds/powerfield2

Please submit everything online by Jan 1 2012.  To prevent wasted
CDrs, please upload your recordings (mp3s in the first round) to your
own website, to a file sharing service such as yousendit, or
soundcloud.  I can also provide an FTP address if you aren’t able to
upload it yourself.  Once the final choices are made, I’ll need full
resolution files (WAV / AIFF) uploaded by Jan 31 2012.

Send track(s), title(s), site location(s), equipment list(s), pictures
of your setup environment, and any other info about yourself to:
bob_AT_halfnormal_DOT_com (please put “power/field submission” in the
subject)

More info:

http://halfnormal.com/powerfield.html

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halfnormal.com

DEADLINE FOR PRODUCER PROPOSALS AND STATION RUNWAY SUBMISSIONS:
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2011

It’s heating up. More stations are coming onto the Localore Station Runway this week and next…WLRN/Miami and WRVO/upstate New York are the latest to date.  Producers, get busy watching them all and reaching out as you finesse your proposals to be one of the 10 selected to lead our station-based initiatives—designed to expand local innovation capacity. See which local outlet is right for you. We provide a contact link for you to be in touch with them on the station profile page.

Stations, keep your options open! Open the door to talent and see what comes in. You can name up to three potential producers. The sooner you get your media up, the more eyeballs you’ll attract.

Guidelines are here (pdf). Take time to read them if you haven’t yet.

November 10: Deadline for proposals. If you’d like to be one of our lead Localore producers, that’s when you must submit proposals for project ideas at Localore.net. By that same deadline, stations hoping to serve as Localore incubators must get media uploaded to our Station Runway.

December 2: Finalists notified. Up to 30 lead producers and incubator stations will be invited to submit a second-round proposal. Final teams will be announced by late January, and projects will begin launching in March.

Want to learn more?

• Read our FAQ:

http://airmediaworks.org/sites/default/files/imce/pdf/LocaloreFAQ.pdf

• Study the Guidelines:

http://airmediaworks.org/sites/default/files/imce/pdf/Localore-guidelines.pdf

• Watch the project’s 6-minute launch video:

• Check out the article on the whys and whats of Localore in Current:

http://www.current.org/indies/indies1118localore-schardt.html

Interested in helping us spread the word? Learn more here.

Questions? Contact Executive Editor Noland Walker at noland@airmedia.org.

Produced by the Association of Independents in Radio with support from CPB, the MacArthur Foundation, the Wyncote Foundation, and the NEA, Localore will charge producers with inventing new, multiplatform models for fresh, locally-sourced, high quality journalism. Selected producers will lead a 9-12 month station-based project designed to expand the station’s innovation capacity.

+++AIR is everywhere.+++
www.airmedia.org
www.airmediaworks.org

Funding for AIR comes from our members and the generous support of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), the Wyncote Foundation, Recovery.gov, and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), which believes that a great nation deserves great art.
Association of Independents in Radio
P.O. Box 220400
Boston, MA 02122
Phone: 617-825-4400
www.airmedia.org

Association of Independents in Radio
PO Box 220400
Boston, Massachusetts 02122

Copyright (C) 2011 Association of Independents in Radio All rights reserved.

DEADLINE FOR PRODUCER PROPOSALS AND STATION RUNWAY SUBMISSIONS
THURSDAY, NOV 10, 2011

Since our September 15th launch, more than 2000 unique visitors have checked out the Localore Station Runway and details for how to get aboard this new initiative. We’ll bring more than $1 million in CPB funding to support 10 station-based producer-led teams that help stations “go outside” of their walls and traditional reporting routines to tell untold stories across multiple platforms.

If you’d like to be one one of our lead Localore producers, you must submit proposals for project ideas at Localore.net by the November 10th deadline. By that same deadline, stations hoping to serve as Localore incubators must produce 3-5 minutes of media to upload to our Station Runway, where we’re showcasing the creative culture and aspirations of potential incubators. (Note:  the sooner you get your media up, the more eyeballs you’ll attract.) Up to 30 lead producers and incubator stations will be selected by December 2nd and invited to submit a second-round proposal. Final teams will be announced by late January, and projects will begin launching in March.

Want to learn more?
• Read our FAQ and Guidelines.
• Watch the project’s launch video.
• Check out coverage of Localore in Current, the Nieman Journalism Lab, and MediaShift.
• Watch our recent project webinar, produced in conjunction with the National Center for Media Engagement.

Interested in helping us spread the word? Feel free to share this message with colleagues or relevant listservs, or tweet about the project using the #Localore tag.

Questions? Contact Media Strategist Jessica Clark at jessica@airmedia.org

Produced by the Association of Independents in Radio with support from CPB, the MacArthur Foundation, the Wyncote Foundation, and the NEA, Localore will charge producers with inventing new, multiplatform models for fresh, locally-sourced, high quality journalism. Selected producers will lead a 9-12 month station-based project designed to expand the station’s innovation capacity.

+++AIR is everywhere.+++
www.airmedia.org
www.airmediaworks.org

Funding for AIR comes from our members and the generous support of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), the Wyncote Foundation, Recovery.gov, and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), which believes that a great nation deserves great art.
Association of Independents in Radio
P.O. Box 220400
Boston, MA 02122
Phone: 617-825-4400
www.airmedia.org

Association of Independents in Radio
PO Box 220400
Boston, Massachusetts 02122

Copyright (C) 2011 Association of Independents in Radio All rights reserved.

PRESS RELEASE
October 7, 2011
The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes has announced Information Sessions for two state-wide regrant programs in Electronic Media and Film.  Presentation Funds and Finishing Funds provide support to New York State-based non-profit organizations and artists for work in film, video, sound, new media and Web-based art.  Both programs are funded by the New York State Council on the Arts.

Presentation Funds offers partial support to non-profit organizations located in New York State for in-person appearances by independent artists working in film, video, sound, new media and Web-based art. The mission of the program is to encourage opportunities for conversations between artists and audiences, support the creative programming of independent media-makers, and help increase appreciation for electronic media and film as an art form throughout New York State.  Deadlines are four times a year, with the first deadline on December 1, 2011.

Finishing Funds provides support to New York State artists for the completion of film, video, sound, new media and Web-based art. Awards are made annually and range from $500 to $2,500. The postmark deadline for applications is March 15, 2012.

Information Sessions for artists and non-profit organizations will be held as follows:

Buffalo: Saturday October 22, 11am, Burchfield Penney Art Center, 1300 Elmwood Avenue
Capital Region: Saturday November 5, 11am, The Arts Center of the Capital Region, 265 River Street, Troy
New York City: Wednesday October 19, 12pm, American Documentary POV, 20 Jay Street Suite 940, Brooklyn
Southern Tier: Saturday October 15, 10am, 171 Cedar Arts Center, 171 Cedar Street, Corning
Syracuse: Thursday October 27, 5:30pm, Everson Musem of Art, 401 Harrison Street
Rochester: Tuesday October 25, 6pm, Rochester Contemporary Art Center,  137 East Avenue
Please RSVP to director@eARTS.org and visit www.eARTS.org/EMF for detailed information on both grant programs.

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The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes (The ARTS) is a regional arts services organization located in the Southern Tier of New York State. Founded in 1972 as the Chemung Valley Arts Council, The ARTS now serves artists of all disciplines, organizations and the public in Chemung, Schuyler, Steuben, Allegany and Tioga counties and beyond.  Further information is available at www.eARTS.org.

Contact:
Ginnie Lupi
The ARTS Council of the
Southern Finger Lakes
607-962-5871 x225
director@eARTS.org

From ETC:

The Experimental Television Center is happy to announce that our electronic media arts grants programs have been given new homes. The Technical Assistance Program  will be managed by free103point9. The Presentation Funds and Finishing Funds Programs will be administered by The Arts Council of the Southern Finger Lakes.

ETC has been administering the Presentation Funds and Finishing Funds Programs since 1989, and the Technical Assistance Program since 1998. It has been an honor and a privilege to have had the opportunity to work with all of you over the years. ETC would also like to thank Electronic Media and Film at the New York State Council on the Arts which has steadily supported our efforts to help the media arts flourish.

ETC isn’t going away, but rather refocusing our programs. We have redesigned the ETC website, so if you haven’t visited in awhile, please take a look. We will be spending more time on the development of the Video History Project and working on preservation activities with our partner organizations at Migrating Media.

Experimental Television Center: 1969 – 2009 (5 DVD set with catalog), is an anthology of video art works created through the Residency Program since its inception in 1969 and includes the works of about 100 media artists. The collection was featured in 2011 at Anthology Film Archives. It was named top 100 DVDs for 2010 by LUX, the influential arts organization in London, UK. In 2011 the collection was named by LUX as one of 50 essential moving-image artists DVDs in publication. The collection is available through the well-known distributor of contemporary art Electronic Arts Intermix.

The complete library of artists’ works at ETC is being archived at the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media. Under the sponsorship of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections at the Carl Kroch Library at Cornell University, the archive is curated by Dr. Tim Murray, Director of Graduate Studies in Comparative Literature and Director for the Society for the Humanities at Cornell. The mission is to digitize the collection and provide multiple levels of access to the works and study materials for people internationally.

We are excited about the future and look forward to staying in touch with all of you.

Ralph, Sherry, Hank and Dave

BASIC.fm (Broadcast Art, Sound & Independent Culture)

–A Pixel Palace commission–

Full details here > http://www.thepixelpalace.org/opportunities

–About Pixel Palace–

Pixel Palace is currently developing BASIC.fm a new radio station that will host Broadcast Art, Sound & Independent Culture as a series of monthly audio streams.

BASIC.fm aspires to be a space that can be inhabited by artists, curators, thinkers and interesting people with something to share and will be gradually be populated with work, projects, shows and archived events.

–Call out for new commissions–

Pixel Palace is commissioning four new audio works for BASIC.fm. Each work will be hosted for a month on continuous play and the first commission will go live in November. We are seeking artists who use sound as a medium in unexpected, exciting and innovative ways. This may include work that may act in a similar way to hold music or radio and television test signals.

There is a one-off artist fee of £250 for each commissioned piece.

This call is open to all artists, musicians, field recordists and sonic artists regardless of nationality, age, or career stage.

–Commission proposals must include:

* Title and description of proposed audio work for BASIC.fm (100 words maximum)
* Examples of past work (please provide links to work as large email large media files cannot be accepted)
* CV and contact information

–How to apply

Please email commission proposals to Dominic Smith, Digital Media Projects Manager at the Tyneside Cinema:

info(at)thepixelpalace.org

The deadline for commission proposals is 10 October 2011 at 5pm. Artists will be notified via email regarding the result of their proposal.