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Graduate Certificate in Sonic Arts, LCC, University Of The Arts London. Duration: 15 weeks from January 2005. The Graduate Certificate in Sonic Arts gives you an opportunity both to learn new skills and refine and develop your existing techniques, broaden and deepen your practice and extend your critical awareness of trends and issues in contemporary Sonic Arts practice. read more for details on how to apply

Workshops and Demos on Free + Open Source Software for artists by Aymeric Mansoux and Derek Holzer. While many tools exist for sound, multimedia and VJ purposes, few of them are designed with an open architecture which allows artists to configure the tools they use themselves. Fewer still are free to use, share and rebuild. This workshop introduces the software combination of Pure Data, GEM and PDP/PiDiP, running on the Linux operating system, as a platform for audio, video and multimedia artists to explore. Full workshop program [actual program varies with venue]: http://electric-boogaloo.goto10.org/pdzilla/ or read more for details

online editions of the OVO zine, published from 1987. OVO was the first to publish several essays by Hakim Bey that later appeared in his book T.A.Z. The Temporary Autonomous Zone. OVO published work by Mike Diana long before his work drew the attention of State and Federal employees. Photographs of body piercing appeared in OVO two years before the Modern Primitives issue of Re/Search. The phrase 'phone tag' appears in print for the first time in the first issue of OVO. 'Liberating Wednesday' by PM, author of bolo'bolo, appears here for the first (and only) time; this is nearly a decade before and fifty-two times more radical a suggestion than today's 'Buy Nothing Day.' Crop circles and the Men in Black are referenced at a time when they were still obscure. The first appearance of Ride Theory in print occurs in Ignatz Topolino's contribution to OVO. And OVO was aware enough of the outer edges of scientific ethics to mention gene patents in the same year they first were granted.

Lawrence Lessig held a lecture about creativity and copyright and digital rights management at the Hans Christian Andersen Academy at the University of Southern Denmark. A video of the lecture is now online at: http://media.sdu.dk/hca2004/hca1.wmv In the seminar he speaks about: remixing culture, both digitally and not; creative commons copyright http://creativecommons.org/; atmo.se online videos http://www.atmo.se; Brewster Kahle and the internet book archive project http://www.archive.org/texts/texts.php
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Photos of Southern England have been uploaded to the photo gallery. ::: Brighton ::: Oxford ::: Bournemouth ::: Portsmouth & Hamble Valley ::: Southampton & Eastleigh :::

Culturejam: Hijacking Commercial Culture delivers a fascinating rap on the 20th Century movement called Culture Jamming. Pranksters and subversive artists are causing a bit of brand damage to corporate mindshare. Jammers, cultural commentators, a billboard advertiser and a constitutional lawyer take us on a wild roller coaster ride through the back streets of our mental environment. Stopping over in San Francisco, New York's Times Square, and Toronto, we catch the jamming in action with Batman-inspired Jack Napier of the Billboard Liberation Front, Disney arch-enemy Reverend Billy from the Church of Stop Shopping and Media Tigress Carly Stasko. Culturejam asks: Is Culture Jamming civil disobedience? Senseless vandalism? The only form of self defense left?
visit http://www.culturejamthefilm.com/ for details

This Saturday night 25th September sees the next installment of Rhythm Collision Sound System - Reggae Party @ Tongue and Groove Cafe, 63 Hardgrave Road, West End, 8pm til late. Selectors Ben Osborne (Red), Basmati Kassar, special guests and MC Cream O' tha Crop on the mic. FREE entry. Also at the show is a reggae lucky door CD prize pack from www.didgerecords.com

Internet studies is a dynamic and innovative interdisciplinary field of research, which engages in new ways with cultural technologies, literacies, histories, and identities. Aimed at doctoral students and early career researchers from a wide range of disciplines, Internet Class 04 will be a unique masterclass event featuring leading international scholars in critical Internet studies. With a strictly limited enrolment, Internet Class 04 offers the opportunity for participants to: . hear first-hand about the best, new practices in contemporary Internet research; . extend their knowledge of concepts, methods, and theories relevant to Internet studies; . identify and discuss challenges, trends, and opportunities in Internet studies. Confirmed presenters include Lisa Nakamura, Geert Lovink, Roger Clarke, Mark McLelland, Sue Morris, and Gerard Goggin. read more or visit http://cccs.uq.edu.au/events/internetclass/ for details

LABS is a comprehensive database of abstracts of Ph.d, Masters and MFA theses in the emerging intersection between art, science and technology. Persons who have received advanced degress in arts (visual, sound, performing, text), computer sciences, the sciences and/or technology which in some way investigate philosophical, historical, critical or applications of science or technology to the arts are invited to submit an abstract of their thesis for publication consideration in this database. visit http://leonardolabs.pomona.edu/ for details and to submit your work

Immersion 3 is one in a series of events curated by Melbourne based sound artist and academic Philip Samartzis that focuses on the theory and practice of surround sound and immersive environments. Participating artists include Loren Chasse and Jim Haynes from San Francisco, as well as Martine Corompt, Rosemary Dean, Philip Samartzis and Jennifer Sochackyj. visit http://www.westspace.org.au for details

The FREEDOM Festival is based on the belief that we can all use our FREEDOM to help fight for the FREEDOM of others and, at FREEDOM 04, Amnesty International is calling for fairer treatment for all refugees and asylum seekers. Freedom from arbitrary detention; Freedom from the uncertainty of Temporary Protection Visas; Freedom from the isolation of the Pacific solution. Our collective presence can be a powerful voice for the voiceless. We have the voice. We have the freedom. Let's use it. Go to www.vibewire.net/freedomfestival or http://www.amnesty.org.au/whats_happening/freedom_festival for more information and your chance to WIN over $1000 worth of CDs from Creative Vibes and other prizes. artists/bands performing include : THE PROCUSSIONS (USA), GOOD BUDDHA, MORGANICS, DEBASA feat Merlin, URTHBOY, THE BRETHREN, DJs REGAL, BLAZE AND BONEZ (feat. HYJAK), LIZ ETHER, CRUCIAL D, SAVAGE GORDON WATSON, TREVOR PARKEE, NATHAN MCLAY, HUW ELLIS, HI CLIVE, GROOVESCOOTER, SHUEY, FRENZIE, ELI BASSLINES CREW + more

ANALOGORAK with sounds by Neil Dowell, Mike McInerney, Michael Norris - Mondays, 9pm Kingsbridge Inn, Totnes, Devon, UK. expect to hear junk percussion, home-made thinggies, feedback and effects, and a collection of analog synths & the occasional shakuhachi. visit http://www.macinerney.com/analogorak.htm for full details