OSHA
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
OSHA, an independent curatorial project, is currently organizing a show
considering the relation of autonomy with networked being. The
aim of OSHA is to collaborate with artists and theorists on particular
projects, forming a temporary organization to foster the strength and
drives of art + process and to retain its potential within the inherent
flux and vulnerability of experimentation. Working as a free-formed
gathering, OSHA exists without the responsibility to a prescriptive
structure of an established space and is thus able to conceive of the
appropriate foundation, curatorial responsibility and physical identity
for each project. This is an open call for work that engages with the
pre-formative concepts. We will work will artists to realize difficult
projects that may not be realized otherwise, and encourage
collaboration amongst the participants where appropriate. We are
expecting the project to originate in New York, from where it will then
travel, accompanied by a series of lectures and salon style
discussions, as well as relevant video screenings and
performances. Read below as to the general theoretical
foundation.
OS1: wolf
OSHA seeks work, regardless of medium or discipline, that addresses
aspects of the following: collective autonomy, networking, the forming
of virtual entities or organizations, psycho-geographical mapping,
biological and genetic alterity, toxicity, media flows, tangential
drives, interruption + intervention, attraction + repulsion, virus
operations, operating systems (software/lifestyle), identity
(fixed/flux), mobility and distinction.
Counter beats and excess rhythms pulse excitedly, gathering and
separating, parasitically searching for a host to move through.
Social nodes of impulse, tense within a psycho-geographical drive for
placement, flow through the collective, absorbing oneself in that which
doubles and rebounds, necessarily affecting the insignificant tangents
and drives of production. Media exists as a hyperbolic structure
presenting a platform for culture to thrive, as a bacteria which
incessantly variates, creates, doubles, falls back and crawls inward.
The virile excess of mediated life forms interconnect embodiment
through a seepage of information and meaning, with currents of fluidity
leaching onto structural surface tension, boring through open pores
into the facade of fixed networks, revealing an interactive
embeddedness in networked society. Media's amoebic and bacterial
traces, the rhythm science of generation, of surpassing oneself in an
intensive feedback loop with information, as information, flow in all
of its indetermination; identifying, defining, placing, destroying,
changing and unfixing. A cross-platform computability interconnects the
informatic structures inherent in biology and technology. Intervention,
disruption, care and openness are available and processed within the
biological meshing of media and its fields of flow. The bio-media
construction contours porous walls of vibrational excesses as culture,
be it bacterial, neural or informational, resounds as a processor and
composer of tension.
Deadline for proposals: February 15, 2006
Contact Info: send proposals, questions and images to osha.projects@gmail.com
Director: Peter Zangrillo
New Sound & Reviews at FurtherNoise.org
http://www.furthernoise.org
For the first edition of 2006, kick off your winter worn galoshas and
step into the warmth. Explore the varied and explorative talents
featured on Furthernoise.
Furthernoise features Canadian sonic comics The Dry Heeves and Dale
Lloyds collaborative album Amalgram on the net label Conv. The King of
Norwegian Noise, Lasse Marhaug is the subject of Mark Francombes feature
on the Norwegian Art Noise scene.
Other reviews include:
UK improvised guitar & drum duo Ian Kearey and Paul Wigens.
Argentinian orchestral composer Serge Smilovich.
Italian ambient artist Enrico Cosimi.
Australian sonic art star Jodie Rose with her double album Singing
Bridges release Vibrations : Variations.
A/V Net performances now online.
And what seems to be of popular interest these days by the many visitors
to the site is, the A/V net performances on Visitors Studio
http://www.furtherstudio.org/live/, which the net art group Furtherfield
http://www.furtherfield.org has generously offered for us NoiseNiks to
creatively abuse at will;-)
We now have last years A/V net performances on Visitors Studio archived,
available through the following artists links in the Editors Forward.
They feature Mark Francombe, John Kannenberg, Chris Vine and french A/V
duo 2Toms. Stretching the studio's capabilities to it's limits these
performances are some of the most innovative to date. Highly recommended
viewing / listening.
'Exploration in Sound' compilation.
Due to the encouraging success from various radio stations such as
resonance fm (UK) and Spanish radio, and many visitors downloading the
Net Label content, with some pretty cool feedback. We are now feverishly
setting up the next 'Exploration in Sound' compilation.
Furthernoise.org - Explorations in Sound is a net label releasing
quarterly high quality MP3 compilations of adventurous critical music &
sounds. Each selection is a limited edition release, available free to
download (artwork included) for 3 months before being replaced by the
next editions compilation. We will be featuring a diverse array of
artists and groups who are pushing the boundaries of their genre and
exploring new terrains that communicate via sound.
We have an open submissions poilicy for these releases and you don't
necessarily have to be featured in any edition to be considered for
inclusion.
Please visit the Furthenoise link at the top of the page for more details.
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