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Creating and Performing Musical Media - Call for presentations, demonstrations or papers

The Digital Performance Laboratory has announced a call for presentations, demonstrations or papers on work in progress in musical multi-media for this one-day unconference, which they will host on Saturday 16 June 2012.

The event will focus on the creative process of making musical multi-media: music and sound for Video, Film, TV, Games and any kind of multimedia artifact the design of which is led by musical thought.

For more information or to respond to the call for papers please visit the unconference page.

First annual CoDE Conference takes place in Cambridge

The first annual conference of the Cultures of the Digital Economy Research Institute was held in Cambridge on 27-28 March 2012. Itself a multidisciplinary initiative, CoDE invited participants from a range of scholarly disciplines to present research related to digital culture and the digital economy... read more.

Book 2.0 celebrates first edition

We are delighted to delighted to announce the launch of the first edition of Book 2.0, a new online journal from Intellect that features the involvement of CoDE Director Dr Sam Rayner and affiliate Dr Mick Gowar. The first issue includes also contributions from CoDE affiliates Professor Eugene Giddens and Sarah Gibson Yates, among others...read more.

Spreading the word about the ebook revolution

Anglia Ruskin to host debate on the latest trends in digital publishing

A panel of experts, including Booker Prize shortlisted author Jill Paton-Walsh, will be debating the latest hot topics in digital publishing - including the seemingly unstoppable rise of the ebook - at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge on Tuesday 21 February... read more.

Digital Performance Laboratory inaugural residency and concert

The Digital Performance Laboratory (DPL), part of CoDE (Cultures of Digital Economy Research Institute, held a concert in December to mark two events; the culmination of a two week inaugural residency by Dr Till Bovermann, a post-doctoral researcher on tangible and auditory interfaces at Media Lab Helsinki, and the public unveiling of the DPL's innovative custom Headphone Concert System... read more.

CoDE seed funding call 2011-2012

We are happy to announce that our call for proposals for seed-funding is now open. We will allocate four awards of up to £4,000 to support the development of research projects related to the key CoDE research streams.

The revised deadline for proposals is 31 January 2012.

To be considered, proposals must meet the following criteria:

• proposals must address an area relevant to the CoDE research streams, detailed at www.anglia.ac.uk/code.

• proposals must be directed towards the submission of a larger, external funding proposal (e.g. RCUK, British Academy, Leverhulme) by 1 July 2012.

• proposals should take the form of a 2-3 page document outlining the rationale, objectives and structure of the research. The set structure of the AHRC Case for Support document may prove useful in composing this document (see pp. 48-50 of the AHRC Research Funding Guide)

In addition to seed funding up to £4,000, each successful project will be allocated a CoDE researcher to provide support in the development of the project and the subsequent bid.

Any questions regarding the relevance of specific projects or any aspect of the preparation and submission process should be addressed to Samantha Rayner, Rob Toulson, Leah Tether or Seb Franklin.

Researcher in residence for the Digital Performance Laboratory

Till Bovermann, a tangible and auditory interfaces researcher at the Media Lab Helsinki, has been appointed the first researcher in residence at the Digital Performance Laboratory, and will be in residence from 28 November to 9 December 2011.

We are planning a public event towards the end of his residency, details to follow shortly. For further information about this event or the residency, please contact Dr Tom Hall.

Sequence prepares for second issue

Sequence, the artist-run publication devoted to contemporary film and video art edited by CoDE affiliate Simon Payne, is gearing up for the launch of its second issue.

This issue will include: A.L. Rees on the films of Nick Collins; artists' pages by Lis Rhodes, Cathy Rogers and Samantha Rebello; drawings from the 1950s (and 2010) by Jeff Keen; Duncan White on 'printology' with text-based pieces by Ken Jacobs, Dieter Meier, Erica Scourti, Caroline Bergvall, Annabel Nicolson, Bob Cobbing and Louis Henderson; an interview with Pip Chodorov by Kim Knowles; Angela Allen and Nicky Hamlyn on painting and film; Shama Khanna on Nino Pezella; artists' essays by Lucy Parker and Luke Aspell; and Andrew Vallance on the 'black box phenomenon'.

The launch of Sequence (no.2) is accompanied by Mullender and Grierson's live a/v noise improv 'involving photophonic audio, live video, and algorithmic armatures', a screening of Samantha Rebello's film Forms Are Not Self-Subsistent Substances and a brand new multi-projector piece by James Holcombe.

More information on Sequence can be found on our Digital humanities research page.

 

CoDE announces new Research Fellow

We are pleased to officially announce that our new CoDE Resarch Fellow is Dr Rob Toulson, well-known to most of our members already through his engagement with CoDE events over the past couple of years, as well as his work with the Faculty of Science and Technology.

Welcome to CoDE, Rob. We know you will make a strong addition to our team!

 

Change of CoDE Directorship

It's a time of change at CoDE research institute, as Director Dr Jussi Parikka moves to his new role as Reader in Media & Design at Winchester School of Art (University of Southampton). We would like to thank Jussi for all his hard work and dedication to leading CoDE since its inception and wish him all the best in his new role, where he will continue to inform CoDE's research as an Honorary Visiting Research Fellow.

We are pleased to announce that Dr Sam Rayner has now taken over as CoDE Director, and look forward to a new era under her direction.

 

Platform Politics conference a sell-out success

The final Network Politics conference 'Platform Politics' successfully concluded after a wide range of excellent papers and discussions.

A number of commentaries and responses are available on the conference website, as well as a link to a video archive of many of the talks.

Ruskin Gallery goes digital

On May 9 2011, Ruskin Gallery held a launch event for its new, state-of-the-art digital gallery, comprising of a series of high-definition display screens that includes the world's first Panasonic 103" 3D Full HD plasma screen, specially imported from Japan. The Ruskin Digital Gallery is the first of its kind in the UK, and should prove a valuable resource for many of CoDE's ongoing projects.

Further information about the digital gallery can be found on the Ruskin Gallery website, while more images from the launch event are available on the Private View page. There is also coverage of the event on the BBC website.

Please click images to enlarge.

 

CoDE Director co-edits latest issue of The Fibreculture Journal

Issue Seventeen of The Fibreculture Journal, the peer-reviewed international journal that focuses on critical thinking within contemporary digital and networked media, has been co-edited by CoDE Director Dr Jussi Parikka along with Dr Michael Goddard of Salford University.

This issue, an exercise in paradoxically unnatural media ecology, can be downloaded now from the Fibreculture Journal website.

Final Network Politics conference arranged for May 2011

The Network Politics project, led by Dr Joss Hands and Dr Jussi Parikka, will hold its third and final conference on 11-13 May 2011 in Cambridge. Under the theme of 'Platform Politics', the aim is to look at the new platforms and forms of politics emerging from social media culture.

The conference will feature some of the most established political and media critics among its speakers, including Michel Bauwens, Tiziana Terranova, Dmitry Kleiner, Tim Jordan, Nick Couldry, Michael Goddard, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Felix Stalder and David M. Berry. Following up from previous collaborations, Greg Elmer and Ganaele Langlois from the Toronto based Infoscape-research lab will also be present. The presentations will address new regimes of politics, labour and activism.

More info on the event and the project can be found on the Network Politics website.

CoDE funding for publication of Richard Baxter's correspondence

CoDE-affiliate Dr Alison Searle is to lead a new project that aims to produce a complete edition, in print and electronic formats, of the correspondence of 17th Century English theologian Richard Baxter. Comprising over 1,200 letters that are held primarily at Dr Williams's Library in London, the final publication will make a critical contribution to scholarship on religion, dissent and epistolary culture both in Britain and further afield.

More information can be found on our Digital Humanities research page.

New CoDE project to investigate Digital Patronage

CoDE affiliate Dr Justin Williams (Department of Music and Performing Arts) is to launch a study into jazz Big Band composer Maria Schneider, headline artist on the internet-based record label ArtistShare. ArtistShare seeks to redefine the music industry by 'allowing fans to finance artist projects in exchange for access to the artist's creative process'. CoDE funding will go towards the cost of scores, recordings and travel to interview Schneider and others on the New York City-based label.

More information on this project can be found on our Social Media and Network Politics research page.

CoDE affiliate launches new publication for artists

CoDE affiliate Dr Simon Payne (Department of English, Communication, Film and Media) recently launched a new publication that aims to 'promote and disseminate ideas and debates concerning contemporary artists' film and video.' The first issue of Sequence, published by no.w.here, recently went on sale at a range of bookshops and galleries, including Tate Modern and the BFI. CoDE will be part-funding publication of the second issue, which will be available shortly.

More information can be found on our Digital humanities research page.