creativity/machine

Three one-year postdoctoral research jobs at the Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University, Sweden.

The Centre for Gender Research is a research intense unit, consisting of about 20 researchers from different disciplines. We are now recruiting additional post-docs for full-time, one-year positions. Successful applicants have some kind of “double” competence - gender research and science - in one of the following research areas:

1) Gender and physics. The interface between gender research and physics has mostly been restricted to understand “women in science”; conditions, power-relations, mechanisms of exclusion and the like. We encourage applicants to focus on questions about gendered knowledge and materiality.

2)Gender and animal research. Animal research has traditionally, with some very important exceptions, been viewed as “outside” of gender and feminist concerns. Applicants in this area are welcomed to focus on issues concerning the gendering of animals, and the animaling of gender, in biological and other research.

3) Trans-disciplinary feminist didactics. Gender didactics is an undeveloped field, mainly in Sweden but also internationally. At the same time it is pivotal in all gender research to understand how gender is communicated. Hence teaching is the key to transdisciplinary encounters, which is why a national knowledge base in gender didactics is expected to contribute to deepen the planned trans-disciplinary research and theory development. To meet this requirement, we invite a visiting scientist position in feminist didactics who will start the building of such a knowledge base.

The persons we are looking for have different disciplinary backgrounds, and may therefore be researchers in for example pedagogy, history of science, sociology, biology or physics.

Someone around the office told me just now, in exceedingly poor taste mind you, that Steve Irwin’s last words were ‘crikey, that hurt’.

Update: I’ve just heard that this story was leaked to the media before Steve’s wife could be located and notified. That’s crappy if it’s true.

I am so deeply angry and upset about this.

And the fact that Aunty Delmae Barton should feel she had to say “But I was wearing good clothes” makes me want to disappear.

Shame on us.

Just got this via email:

AUDIENCES GET INTERACTIVE WITH SMS CIRCUS
Mobile phone obsession inspires Circa?s latest production This Text Has Legs. Audience members are asked to defy theatre etiquette by turning their mobile phones on and sending text messages to a large projection screen throughout the show. The messages form the ?script? of the show and Circa turns the words into physical poetry. Guest artists Lawrence English and Zane Trow weave live sound into the performance creating a multi-layered information exchange between the audience and performers.

Artistic Director, Yaron Lifschitz said: ?The idea for the show came from being in a theatre audience myself. Hearing the announcement for mobile phones to be turned off, made me want to explore the possibility of the mobile phone as a device for live communication between audience and performer?. ?Audience members are given an active role and their messages can actually alter the direction of the performance.?

This Text Has Legs was originally presented in 2004 as part of Circa?s
experimental One Night Stands concert series and the show has evolved into a full season due to the audience?s overwhelming response to the live texting.

This Text Has Legs launches Circa?s Season 2005 Surround Profound. Known for their inventiveness and intelligent physicality, Circa?s 2005 season explores movement based performance work that embraces experimentation, multimedia and improvisation. Laced with vulnerability and passion, the Ensemble?s work presents circus as an immediate and moving art form.

This Text Has Legs runs from 22 - 26 March, including Good Friday and Easter Saturday, at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, Fortitude Valley.

Bookings: www.judithwrightcentre.com or (07) 3872 900