From rmalina at alum.mit.edu Fri Jul 23 21:38:17 2010 From: rmalina at alum.mit.edu (roger malina) Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:38:17 +0200 Subject: [Yasmin_an] HASTAC scholars Message-ID: HASTAC SCHOLARS www.hastac.org/scholars Any faculty or staff member at a post-secondary institution may nominate an undergraduate or graduate student to be a HASTAC Scholar. Making such a nomination puts you in the official category of "mentor" and the Mentor will be responsible for the following: Complete the online nomination form by August 13, 2010. Subsidize each HASTAC Scholar nominee with a $300 fellowship paid by the Mentor's institution. The payment process is entirely decentralized; the Mentor and the Scholar need to work out their own process. For participants outside the US, this $300 fellowship can be waived if necessary -- please email fiona.barnett at duke.edu for more information. Check in with your HASTAC Scholar(s) throughout the year, suggest material/events to blog about or post on the HASTAC website, and help to promote your HASTAC Scholar within your institution. We hope you will joins us too - you're invited to blog, comment in the forums, or participate in any other HASTAC activity. Requirements for HASTAC Scholars: Blog within the first month introducing yourself and your projects, interests & ideas! Report on at least ONE local relevant event any conference, talk, art project, symposium, experiment or collaboration during the year Introduce at least one other technology project to the greater HASTAC community this could be a new technology, a new coding language, a new use of technology in the non-profit sector, a new game for learning, an interesting new book, etc. Share your research or personal interests, and help other Scholars learn about a new idea or implementation! Contribute to HASTAC Scholar Discussion Forums, either by hosting or commenting. These very lively discussions are part of the backbone of the HASTAC Scholars program. You will be invited to propose topics for forums and to help facilitate forums, and everyone is invited to join in the discussion. For previous forum examples, see the HASTAC Scholars site:www.hastac.org/scholars Build community and conversation by commenting, tweeting, covering conferences, and helping organize local meet-ups From robert.thill at gmail.com Fri Jul 23 15:21:28 2010 From: robert.thill at gmail.com (robert thill) Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:21:28 -0400 Subject: [Yasmin_an] Call for applications: Curator for Catalonia and Balearic Islands for the 54th Venice Visual Arts Biennale Message-ID: Barcelona, Spain 2010 Institut Ramon Llull Curator for Catalonia and Balearic Islands for the 54th Venice Visual Arts Biennale Call for applications www.llull.cat/_eng/_convocatories/Biennal2011.shtm The Institut Ramon Llull (IRL), a consortium created to promote the Catalan language and culture internationally, has convened a competition to contract a project curator, to prepare an artistic proposal for the Catalonia and Balearic Islands participation in the 54th Venice Visual Arts Biennale 2011, within the Collateral Events programme. The winning project will be selected by a jury, chaired by Vicent Todol? (ex-director of the Tate Modern), and whose members are: Bartomeu Mar? (Director of the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona), Laurence Rassel (Director of the Fundaci? T?pies), Joan Fontcuberta (President of the Association of Visual Artists of Catalonia), Cristina Ros (Director of Es Baluard Museu d'Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma), and David Bestu? and Marc Vives (artists taking part in the international exhibition at the 2009 Venice Biennale). The project competition is divided into three phases. The first, Participation, ends at 12 h (midday) on 30 August 2010. Participation in this phase requires the submission of a C.V. and a report that reflects general ideas for the proposal within the conceptual framework. The jury will select a maximum of five projects to go forward to the second phase, Ideas, during which the initial proposal will be developed. The third phase involves the contracting and execution of the winning project. Terms and requirements are available on the website. Rok prijave: 30/08/10 - 12.00 Kontakt: Institut Ramon Llull 2010 Carrer Diputaci?, 279 baixos 08007 Barcelona Spain tel: +34 934 67 80 00 fax: +34 934 67 80 06 info at llull.cat http://www.llull.cat