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Table of Contents: Urgent Appeal from amnesty: Amina Lawal (and to follow, please) Louise Desrenards <louise.desrenards@free.fr> Jobs: SL/Aspro Media-Communications, Melbourne University Ned Rossiter <Ned.Rossiter@arts.monash.edu.au> Call for Work Andrew Bucksbarg <andrew@adhocarts.org> UNESCO Digital Arts Award 2003 at IAMAS "Fatima Lasay" <digiteer@ispbonanza.com.ph> Sex Machine: Call for Entrants (fwd) Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com> ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 22:36:14 +0200 From: Louise Desrenards <louise.desrenards@free.fr> Subject: Urgent Appeal from amnesty: Amina Lawal (and to follow, please) Sharia kills women in Nigeria! Urgent attention on AMINA LAWAL Please take action! go to amnesty international actual pges ta send a mail to His Excellency Olusegun Obasanjo, President of the Republic and the Minister of Justice from: http://web.amnesty.org/pages/nga-010902-action-eng To follow Louise quote Nigeria: How Much More Suffering under Sharia Penal Legislation? Amina Lawal and one of her lawyers at the Sharia Court of Appeal of Katsina State (March 2003) Updated 01 May 2003 Several Northern States in Nigeria have introduced new Sharia Penal Legislation. Thus, they opened the door for the application of death sentences, torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading punishments. This despite the fact that Nigeria recognises human rights standards and has signed and ratified many international human rights legal instruments. Join the campaign to spare dozens of people in Nigeria from being victims of human rights violations under the new legislation: IBRAHIMA BARIYA MAGAZU, AMINA LAWAL, YUNUSA RAFIN CHIYAWA, SAFIYA HUSSAINI, AHMADU IBRAHIM, FATIMA USMAN, SARIMU MOHAMMED and many more who have been condemned under the new Shari'ah based penal codes are being discriminated against on grounds of their religion: these new codes only apply to Muslims in a multi-religious country like Nigeria. They are also being discriminated against on grounds of their social status, as they all come from deprived backgrounds. Ibrahima, Amina and Safiya have also been discriminated against just for being women since the men involved in each one of these cases have walked free from the courts... Background & Updates of individual cases ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 15:19:44 +1000 From: Ned Rossiter <Ned.Rossiter@arts.monash.edu.au> Subject: Jobs: SL/Aspro Media-Communications, Melbourne University Position Description Media and Communications Program, Department of English, Faculty of Arts, The University of Melbourne SENIOR LECTURER Position No: Organisation Unit: Media and Communications Program, Department of English Budget Division: Faculty of Arts Classification: Senior Lecturer (Level C) Salary: $69,337 - $79,951 p.a. (Senior Lecturer Level C) Superannuation: Employer superannuation contributions of 17 percent Employment Type: This is a full-time continuing position Other Benefits: Salary packaging and staff development and training opportunities available Current Occupant: Vacant Contact: Professor Simon Cottle, tel. +61 3 8344 3667, email s.cottle@unimelb.edu.au Closing Date: 25 July 2003 Advice to applicants: Vice-Principal, Human Resources, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010; fax +61 3 8344 6080 or email hr-applications@unimelb.edu.au by the closing date. Applicants must address the selection criteria and provide a detailed curriculum vitae by the closing date. Please quote the position number and include the names, phone, facsimile numbers and email addresses of three referees in your application. 1 Position Summary This newly created Senior Lectureship will help delivery our undergraduate program as required and play an important role in the successful expansion of postgraduate courses in the Media and Communications Program at the University of Melbourne. The successful applicant will contribute to the provision and development of exciting new MA courses, particularly the MA Global Media Communication and MA Global Journalism beginning in 2004, and offered alongside existing MAs by Advanced Seminar and Research, and PhD Media Communication. The successful applicant will be an experienced teacher and researcher and will have research expertise and publications of relevance to these new postgraduate courses. Regional expertise and an ability to teach in one or more of the following would therefore be particularly welcome: Global Media, Theory and Research, Global Crisis Reporting and Development Communication. The successful applicant will be expected to share the Program's commitment to high-quality teaching and methodologically informed research; to be experienced in teaching and supervising students; have engaged in curriculum design and have a track record of relevant international research. S/he will need to have a demonstrated ability to work as part of a team and will be expected to help establish productive links with national and international media organizations and related bodies. 2 Selection Criteria Senior Lecturer Level C A Level C academic is expected to make significant contributions to the teaching effort of a department, school, faculty, or other organisational unit or an interdisciplinary area. An academic at this level is also expected to play a major role in scholarship, research, and/or professional activities. 2.1 Essential _ A PhD in Media and Communications or a closely allied discipline; _ Significant research and publication in the field of media and communications including leading refereed journals; _ Capacity to secure research funding and grants; _ Capacity to engage in curriculum design and development; _ Demonstrable excellence in teaching and research supervision; _ Demonstrable capacity for course coordination. 2.2 Desirable _ Experience of curriculum design in global media and communications and/or global journalism; _ Publication in global media and communications and/or global journalism. _ Regional expertise; _ Ability to teach two or more of the following: Global Media: Theory and Research; Global Crisis Reporting; Development Communication; _ Experience of establishing productive links with national and international media and related bodies. 3. Key Responsibilities Key Responsibilities _ The conduct of tutorials _ Initiation and development of subject material _ Subject Coordination _ The preparation and delivery of lectures and seminars _ Supervision of Honours and postgraduate students _ The conduct and publication of research _ Marking and assessment _ Consultation with, and pastoral attention to, students _ Subject administration _ Participation in a range of administrative functions primarily connected with media and communications subjects _ Participation in department and/or faculty meetings and/or participation as a member of a number of committees Environment Health and Safety _ All Staff are responsible for the following safe work procedures and instructions: _ all employees are to comply with the EHS manual _ adopt work practices that support EHS programs _ take reasonable care for the safety of his/her own health and safety and that of other people who may be affected by their conduct in the workplace _ seek guidance for all new or modified work procedures to ensure that any hazardous conditions, near misses and injuries are reported immediately to supervisor _ must not wilfully place at risk the health or safety of any person in the workplace _ participate in meetings, training and other environment, health and safety activities _ must not wilfully or recklessly interfere with or misuse anything provided in the interest of environment health and safety or welfare _ wear personal protective equipment as provided _ use equipment in compliance with relevant guidelines, without wilful interference or misuse _ must cooperate with the University in relation to actions taken by the University to comply with Occupational Health and Safety and Environmental legislation. Supervisors are responsible for: _ developing new work procedures, as required, in conjunction with relevant persons _ providing all staff with relevant EHS information in an appropriate manner _ providing personal protective equipment and clothing if hazards cannot fully eliminated _ providing adequate supervision through technical guidance and support _ identifying and controlling hazardous conditions _ providing appropriate facilities for safe storage, handling and transport of hazardous substances _ ensuring that all accidents and injuries are reported. In addition, ACADEMIC STAFF are responsible for ensuring that an equivalent standard of environment, health and safety is afforded to their students as is afforded to University staff generally. Academic staff are deemed to have principal supervisory duty for undergraduate and postgraduate student activities. - ---------- Position Description Media and Communications Program, Department of English, Faculty of Arts The University of Melbourne ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR Position No: Organisation Unit: Media and Communications Program Budget Division: Faculty of Arts Classification: Associate Professor (Level D) Salary: $83,488 - $91,979 p.a. (Associate Professor Level D) Superannuation: Employer contributions of 17 percent Employment Type: This is a full-time continuing position Other Benefits: Salary packaging and staff development and training opportunities available Current Occupant: Vacant Contact: Professor Simon Cottle, tel. +61 3 8344 3667, email s.cottle@unimelb.edu.au Closing Date: 4 July 2003 Advice to applicants: Vice-Principal, Human Resources, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010; fax +61 3 8344 6080 or email hr-applications@unimelb.edu.au by the closing date. Applicants must address the selection criteria and provide a detailed curriculum vitae by the closing date. Please quote the position number and include the names, phone, facsimile numbers and email addresses of three referees in your application. 1 Position Summary This newly created and challenging post will be the second most senior position in the Program and the incumbent will be expected to work alongside the Director in the successful expansion of postgraduate provision and the development of a Program research profile of international standing. New postgraduate courses beginning in 2004 include the MA Global Media Communication and MA Global Journalism that will be offered alongside existing MAs by Advanced Seminar and Research and PhD Media Communication. The incumbent will be expected to teach as required in the undergraduate program and play a full role in the development and delivery of exciting new MA courses. S/he will therefore have established research interests in international communications and the theorization of media and globalization. Regional expertise and an ability to teach in one or more of the following would be particularly welcome: Global Media: Theory and Research; Global Crisis Reporting; Media Convergence and Digital Culture; Development Communication. The incumbent will be expected to share the Program's commitment to high-quality teaching and methodologically informed research; will be experienced in teaching and supervising both undergraduate and postgraduate students; have engaged in curriculum design and development; and will have a significant track record of relevant international research. The incumbent will need to work effectively as part of a team and help establish productive links with national and international media organizations and related bodies. 2 Selection Criteria Associate Professor Level D An Associate Professor is expected to possess distinction in research, scholarship or teaching and leadership in their disciplinary area. Outstanding performance in a range of activities is expected. They must also provide leadership in research and scholarship within the University. 2.1 Essential _ A PhD in Media and Communications or a closely allied discipline; _ International recognition in your field of research including significant publication in media and communications and its leading refereed journals; _ Demonstrable capacity to secure research funding and grants; _ Demonstrable contribution to media and communications pedagogy and curriculum design and development; _ Demonstrable excellence in teaching at all levels and postgraduate research supervision; _ Demonstrable capacity for high level administrative functions. 2.2 Desirable _ Experience of subject development in global media communication and/or global journalism; _ Publications in global media communication and/or global journalism; _ Ability to teach two or more of the following: Global Media: Theory and Research; Media Convergence and Digital Culture; Global Crisis Reporting; Development Communication; _ Regional expertise; _ Experience of leading collaborative international research; _ Experience of establishing productive links with national and international media and related bodies. 3. Key Responsibilities Key Responsibilities _ The conduct of tutorials, practical classes and workshops _ Initiation and development of course material _ Course coordination _ The preparation and delivery of lectures and seminars _ Supervision of major honours or postgraduate research projects _ Supervision of the program of study of honours students and of postgraduate students engaged in coursework _ The conduct of research or contribution to knowledge through scholarship, publications and presentation _ Significant role in research projects including, where appropriate, leadership of a research team _ Significant contribution to the profession and/or discipline _ Involvement in professional activity _ Consultation with students _ Broad administrative functions _ Marking and assessment _ Attendance at departmental and/or faculty meetings and a major role in planning or committee work Environment Health and Safety All Staff are responsible for the following safe work procedures and instructions: _ all employees are to comply with the EHS manual _ adopt work practices that support EHS programs _ take reasonable care for the safety of his/her own health and safety and that of other people who may be affected by their conduct in the workplace _ seek guidance for all new or modified work procedures to ensure that any hazardous conditions, near misses and injuries are reported immediately to supervisor _ must not wilfully place at risk the health or safety of any person in the workplace _ participate in meetings, training and other environment, health and safety activities _ must not wilfully or recklessly interfere with or misuse anything provided in the interest of environment health and safety or welfare _ wear personal protective equipment as provided _ use equipment in compliance with relevant guidelines, without wilful interference or misuse _ must cooperate with the University in relation to actions taken by the University to comply with Occupational Health and Safety and Environmental legislation. Supervisors are responsible for: _ developing new work procedures, as required, in conjunction with relevant persons _ providing all staff with relevant EHS information in an appropriate manner _ providing personal protective equipment and clothing if hazards cannot fully eliminated _ providing adequate supervision through technical guidance and support _ identifying and controlling hazardous conditions _ providing appropriate facilities for safe storage, handling and transport of hazardous substances _ ensuring that all accidents and injuries are reported. In addition, Academic staff are responsible for ensuring that an equivalent standard of environment, health and safety is afforded to their students as is afforded to University staff generally. Academic staff are deemed to have principal supervisory duty for undergraduate and postgraduate student activities. 4 Other Information 4.1 Organisation Unit The Department of English The Department of English houses about 20 full-time staff, including two professors, who teach approximately 350 undergraduate EFTSUs, and approximately 70 HD EFTSUs. The Department offers majors in literary studies, cultural studies and creative writing. It has long had a strong commitment to cutting-edge research and criticism and is widely regarded as one of the most intellectually exciting and innovative English departments in Australia. The current Head of English is Associate Professor Peter Otto. The Media and Communications Program The Media and Communications Program is a relatively new and dynamic Program currently housed within the English Department. Since its inception in 1999 its undergraduate course provision has grown year on year and annually recruits growing numbers of students, many of them from overseas. Under the new Directorship of Professor Simon Cottle, The Media and Communications Program at Melbourne University is now expanding its postgraduate courses and awards. These include the MA Global Media Communication and MA Global Journalism, and MA's by Advanced Seminar and Research, and PhD Media Communication. The Program aims to provide its students with first class teaching delivered by research-active staff and industry-based professionals. The Program is currently embarked on creating a research environment supportive of cutting-edge research of international relevance. The Faculty of Arts Arts is the University's oldest and one of the University's largest faculties, with more than 6000 undergraduate and postgraduate students. The first degree awarded by the University was the Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1858, and the first degree awarded to a female student was again the BA in 1883. The Faculty is distinguished internationally for the quality of its research and graduate study and has considerable success in attracting funding for its research programs. The Faculty has nine departments (Criminology, English, French and Italian Studies, Germanic Studies and Swedish, History, History and Philosophy of Science, Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Philosophy, Political Science), an Institute of Asian Languages and Societies, a School of Fine Arts, Classical Studies and Archaeology, School of Anthropology, Geography and Environmental Studies, School of Social Work and seven centres (The Australian Centre, the Horwood Language Centre, the Language Testing Research Centre, the Centre for Philosophy and Public Ethics, the Centre for Public Policy, the Contemporary Europe Research Centre and the Centre for Classics and Archaeology). A variety of areas of study are offered in the languages, literature and culture of other peoples, the humanities, and the social sciences, including many interdepartmental programs. The Arts Faculty includes amongst its objectives to advance, preserve and refine knowledge through critique and research, to provide professional and general education in its specific disciplines, and to contribute to the intellectual and cultural life of the community though its public programs. The Faculty offers four Bachelor's programs (the Bachelor of Arts, the Bachelor of Letters, the Bachelor of Social Work, and the Bachelor of Public Policy and Management) a range of Graduate Certificates, Graduate and Postgraduate Diplomas, and Masters programs by both research and coursework. 4.3 About the University The University of Melbourne is an international research and teaching university. We employ people of outstanding calibre and offer a unique environment where staff are valued and rewarded. Founded in 1853, the University commenced teaching its first students in 1855. Now, the University has over 30,000 students in a broad range of professional disciplines. Over 6000 students are higher degree students. The University has over 5000 staff members. The University is Australia's leading research based university, with an international profile through its reputation for scholarship and teaching. It is a founding member of Universitas 21, an international federation of universities. The University is committed to equal opportunity in education, employment and welfare for staff and students. Staff and students are selected and promoted on merit. The Vice Chancellor is the Chief Executive Officer of the University and responsible academic matters. Reporting to the Vice-Chancellor are the Deans of each Faculty, three Deputy Vice-Chancellors, the Vice-Principals Administration, Corporate Services, Information, University Development and the Vice-Principal and Academic Registrar. This position description is approved by: Occupant: Date: Supervisor: Date: Head of Organisation Unit: Date: Head of Budget Division: Date: ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 22:02:39 -0700 From: Andrew Bucksbarg <andrew@adhocarts.org> Subject: Call for Work For Immediate Release LINKING PROJECT 2003 Adhocarts.org Call for work: The current state of geo-politics and globalization highlights once again how the connections of our actions resonate and impact other peoples, beings and environments around the world. The Linking project looks to individuals, with an open call, to trace, through the use of links, relationships that impact bodies of knowledge and how this information filters down to influence global outcomes. Use your links to trace information, construct information, or to exemplify. Use your links to challenge, criticize or celebrate. Please submit: Up to ten or so links in the form of an HTML page. Include a short description of the linking process or what your links accomplish. Include a brief bio. And optional email contact and any relevant text, color or images (for the HTML page.) All linking projects will be accepted. Deadline: September 1st, 2003 Presented by adhocarts.org For more information, visit or email info@adhocarts.org - --Apple-Mail-10--222451863 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/enriched; charset=US-ASCII <fontfamily><param>Times</param>For Immediate Release LINKING PROJECT 2003 Adhocarts.org Call for work: The current state of geo-politics and globalization highlights once again how the connections of our actions resonate and impact other peoples, beings and environments around the world. The Linking project looks to individuals, with an open call, to trace, through the use of links, relationships that impact bodies of knowledge and how this information filters down to influence global outcomes. Use your links to trace information, construct information, or to exemplify. Use your links to challenge, criticize or celebrate. Please submit: Up to ten or so links in the form of an HTML page. Include a short description of the linking process or what your links accomplish. Include a brief bio. And optional email contact and any relevant text, color or images (for the HTML page.) All linking projects will be accepted. Deadline: September 1st, 2003 Presented by adhocarts.org For more information, visit or email info@adhocarts.org</fontfamily> ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 02:05:43 +0800 From: "Fatima Lasay" <digiteer@ispbonanza.com.ph> Subject: UNESCO Digital Arts Award 2003 at IAMAS Dear Sir/Madam, I am pleased to bring to your attention the call-for-work of the UNESCO Digital Arts Award 2003 at IAMAS, which is co-organized by the UNESCO Digi-Arts portal team (UNESCO Portal on media-art, http://portal.unesco.org/digiarts) and IAMAS (Institute of Advances Media Arts and Sciences, Japan, http://www.iamas.ac.jp). The event is addressed to young talents in the field of digital arts (including web art, interactive art, media installation, digital music, performance or any other art forms) from all over the world, who are encouraged to submit their project proposals on the theme of digital pluralism. The award winner will be granted a sum of money and a 6-months-in-residence period at IAMAS, Japan, in which to carry out his/her project proposal. I hope that this information could be of some use and would like to kindly ask you to forward this information to all the interested parties from your institution. Please refer to the website http://www.iamas.ac.jp/unesco_award for further information and the detailed submission guidelines. Proposals should reach IAMAS prior to 12 July 2003. Sincerely yours, Patricia Alberth Coordinator Asian Academy for Heritage Management c/o Office of the UNESCO Regional Advisor for Culture in Asia and the Pacific P.O. Box 967, Prakhanong Post Office Bangkok 10110, THAILAND ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 20:46:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com> Subject: Sex Machine: Call for Entrants (fwd) (from Robert Cheatham) CALL FOR ENTRANTS SEX MACHINE EYEDRUM ART & MUSIC GALLERY MARCH 20 - APRIL 17 2004 Proposals must be postmarked by November 15, 2003 SEX MACHINE In March 2004 Eyedrum Art and Music gallery will host SEX MACHINE, an international show on the most intimate of human extensions. In previous times (that is, before the modern era, say, about 300 years ago) the only accoutrements to the sex act may well have been the fetishistic materials of bondage, and those tools which accompanied the act of seduction: musical instruments, wine or other chemical enhancers, a book of poetry perhaps. No doubt the prolonged application of technique to sexuality was the prerogative of the nobility and the leisured class. For most people then the accentuation and prolongation of the sex act would have been most often considered perverse in and of itself, disabling it from the world of procreation and subsequent nurturing of the family. But now we seem to be entering the epoch of 'bare life' as philosopher Giorgio Agamben has termed it. The 'naked life' of the population comes under increasing scrutiny and control of the sovereign forces of the state (in the mediated form of the corporate trans-nationals); in fact, CREATING many aspects of this bare life, at the root of which is the sex act itself and it's increasing severance from human reproduction in an age of cloning and recombinant DNA research. The sex act itself, in its non-metaphorized state, is indeed a simple mechanical machine, rhythmic and lulling, while strangely excitory, in its repetitive nature, a repetition which music generally and rock music particularly have used to its own detourned advantage. (Perhaps why the 'bare life' of the sex act itself has not been much valued by artists, the metaphorical and phenomenological 'clothing' of the act seeming to be more productive of various forms of representation, not to mention seductive for the artist's own purposes.) The act itself is now completely permeated with mechanisms of various kinds: contraceptive 'machines' of various materials (we must include condoms of various sorts, male and female, as well as contraceptive and Viagra-type pharmacologies as machinic), the whole apparatus of the PRODUCTION of sexual desire such as the videos, movies, and games of the porno industry (probably the only industry which makes money from the net) and in fact the vaporous intrusions of the net itself into our psyche. (There are even people doing work in haptic research called Teledildonics which hopes to sell a part of the population on the dream of virtually 'reaching out and touching someone' in order to stimulate and bring to fruition the sex act.) Not to even mention the whole industry of sex aides such as vibrators, dildos, and so on. Eyedrum is doing an 'all stripped down' show of sex machines. Lovingly crafted devices for the practice of, well, if not love, then one of love's major components. Unlike Terry Eagleton's quote that "An instrumental rationality, one attentive to the use of object, is at least an alternative to the fetishism of them," we would like to have our cake and eat it too -- a fetishized rationality of lubricious (and artistic, which we think can count for the same thing) intent. We are looking for workable (or potentially so) sex machines, or plans for such, or utopias of sex machines, stroking, throbbing, probing, their way into a brave new alliance between flesh, steel, latex, plastic, and electricity. Any interpretation of the sex machine will be considered. PROPOSING To be considered, proposals must be postmarked by November 15, 2003 Acceptance/denial notification, contract out by December 15, 2003 Artists contract returned, postmarked January 15, 2004 Art, Statement, Value, etc. delivered March 11 - 16, 2004 Exhibition March 20 - April 17, 2004, at: Eyedrum 290 MLK Jr. Ave. SE Atlanta, GA 30312 USA www.eyedrum.org Opening Saturday March 20, 2004 6 – 11 pm Viewing Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays 12 noon - 5 pm Thursday April 1, 2004 (First Thursday) Mail or deliver proposals to: Eyedrum 290 MLK Jr. Ave. SE Atlanta, GA 30312 USA ATTN: Machine Proposal must include: SUBMISSION FEE - $20 US (US negotiable check, money order, etc. DO NOT SEND CASH) DESCRIPTION – A description of your proposed artwork. Include materials list, precise dimensions, and approximate weight of large pieces. Please address any special shipping needs. EVIDENCE – Slides, prints, VHS NTSC video, CD/DVD/web site (media must be cross platform compatible, web low band accessible; DVDs must be DVD player compliant. Buggy software may be rejected out-of-hand at jurors’ discretion.) DO NOT SEND ACTUAL ARTWORK BIO/STATEMENT/RESUME – A description of yourself. SASE – Proposals without will not be returned. Proposals accepted will be kept at Eyedrum until the closing of the show. - ------ This program is supported in part by the City of Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery, a 501-(c)(3) nonprofit, is dedicated to creating a forum that serves and nourishes multifaceted outgrowth in the contemporary cultural arts. Eyedrum remains 100% volunteer run and donation supported. The gallery was founded in 1998. Eyedrum is located downtown at 290 Martin Luther King Jr. Dr., Suite 8. For information on Eyedrum, a schedule of upcoming events, and directions, please visit our website at www.eyedrum.org. ------------------------------ # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net