Symposium, Book Launch, Research Seminars, Party and funded PhD studentship.Symposium, Book Launch, Research Seminars, Party and funded PhD studentship.

CRUMB is celebrating its 10th Birthday in 2010, and has international events during AV Festival in the North East of England in March (http://www.avfestival.co.uk/), plus a funded studentship opportunity to work with CRUMB

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SYMPOSIUM: COMMISSIONING AND COLLECTING VARIABLE MEDIA
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
Fri 5 March, 9:00am-4:30pm
Free to Contemporary Art Society's National Network Members, £25 non-members
Tickets: www.contemporaryartsociety.org nationalprogrammes@contemporaryartsociety.org

The work of artists who use new media art, live art and other 'variable media' is increasingly being drawn into our national public collections. Excellent models exist where major works are acquired or where artists are commissioned specifically to create works for collections. This symposium offers an opportunity to learn from pioneering institutions that have worked with artists. Keynote speaker: Benjamin Weil, Chief Curator of LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial de Gijon, Spain. Other confirmed speakers include: Laura Sillars, Programmes Director, FACT; Lisa Panting, Director, Picture This; Lois Keidan, Director, Live Art Development Agency; Graham Harwood, artist.

Programmed by the Contemporary Art Society's National Network in partnership with CRUMB.

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BOOK LAUNCH
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
Fri 5 March, 4:30-5.30pm
FREE

Join CRUMB's co-founders, Sarah Cook and Beryl Graham, for a glass of wine to launch their new book Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media, published by MIT Press, and two new volumes of CRUMB dialogues published by The Green Box, Berlin. http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12071
http://www.thegreenbox.net/

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RESEARCH SEMINAR: CREATIVE DIGITAL MEDIA RESEARCH PRACTICE: PRODUCTION THROUGH EXHIBITION 2
Culture Lab, Newcastle
Tues 9 and Wed 10 March
10am-5pm
Free, but booking essential at http://dm.ncl.ac.uk/events/

This two-day research-training event explores current design and curating practice research, and embraces new alternate models of creative production and dissemination, in consultation with CRUMB at the University of Sunderland. With participation from Kitchen Budapest; UDK Berlin Art & Design students; Digital Economy Hub researchers; Social Inclusion through the Digital Economies activities.

A collaboration between Culture Lab and CRUMB. Funded by The Arts and Humanities Research Council, University of Sunderland, EPSRC Partnership Resource.

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BIRTHDAY PARTY!
The Cellar Bar, Grey St. Hotel, Newcastle
Fri 12 March, 5.30-7.30pm
FREE. Tickets: Numbers are limited. RSVP to verina.gfader@sunderland.ac.uk

To celebrate the 10th birthday of CRUMB, the resource for those who exhibit new media art, you are invited for bubbles, cocktails and cake.

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AHRC POSTGRADUATE STUDENTSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

For full details see http://nuweb.northumbria.ac.uk/nebgp/

Northumbria and Sunderland Universities operate a collaborative AHRC Block Grant Partnership to support quality research and professional training. Studentships are available for uptake from September/October 2010 including the following areas:

Doctoral Studentships
D1 Applied Arts and Crafts (Glass and Ceramics)
D2 Fine Art (Curating New Media Art, or Photography)

Awards cover stipend and fees subject to eligibility criteria, see the AHRC Guide to Student Eligibility http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/FundingOpportunities/Documents/Guide_to_Student_Eligibility.pdf

Applications are invited electronically to applications@northeastbgp.org on the relevant form by no later than 12.00 midday on Thursday 24 March 2010. For details of each studentship opportunity and relevant form, see web links above.