OINM - calendrier des événements

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			01	02	03 Call for Poster Presentations - Urban Screens Melbourne 08	04 Production sonore en trois dimensions. OBORO, Montréal FORMATION DESIGN DES ARTS INTERACTIFS ET ESTHÉTIQUE DE L’INTÉRACTIVITÉ (DAISI),
05 (Semaine 41)	06	07	08 30th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners 2008,	09 La ville intermédiale : pratiques, techniques, imaginaires	10	11
12 (Semaine 42)	13	14	15	16 Media Facades Festival Berlin 2008	17	18 The Singularity Institute for Artiitficial Intelligence Summit 2008 at the Mont
19 (Semaine 43)	20	21	22	23	24	25
26 (Semaine 44)	27	28	29 The DOCAM (Documentation and Conservation of the Media Arts Heritage) Research A Enjeux médiatiques:le défi de la préservation à l’ère numérique	30 CYNETart_08 - 30/10 - 09/11, Hellerau - D	31 Call for Papers on Immersive Virtual, Mixed, or Augmented Reality Art "Post Me_New ID Forum", Dresden, Deutschland

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Call for Poster Presentations - Urban Screens Melbourne 08

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Urban Screens Melbourne 08
Conference “mobile publics” 3 – 5 October 2008
Multimedia exhibition 3 – 8 October 2008
www.urbanscreens08.net

EXTENDED Deadline for submission: 31st May 2008

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Urban Screens Melbourne 08 is the third, ground-breaking international conference and multimedia exhibition in a series of worldwide events around the redefinition of a growing digital infrastructure of moving images in public space. It will mark the official launch of the International Urban Screens Association and will take place 3.-8. October at Federation Square, Melbourne. Federation Square is a unique cultural and community oriented multimedia precinct, centred around a significant 38m2 public LED screen complemented with other digital elements.

CALL FOR POSTERS ********************

Urban Screens Melbourne 08 is currently looking for researches to present posters on the latest development in the interdisciplinary field of Urban Screens. The poster presentations will be integrated in the overall Urban Screens Melbourne 08 event structure. You will be able to showcase your project to a public audience and professionals and stakeholders with distinctive interests in media and public space, in attendance at our conference “USM08 -Mobile Publics”.
http://www.urbanscreens08.net/conference-2008

The poster presentations provide a forum for authors to present their work in an informal and interactive setting. To bridge the Conference and the Multimedia Exhibition we are looking for proposals for posters and experimental presentations in public space. All accepted posters will be displayed in an exhibition in the public Atrium precinct, next to the conference hall, viewable for all conference attendees and the general public. The conference audience will be gathering around the A1 posters during the poster session to engage with the author.

Urban Screens 08 posters are ideal for presenting speculative, late-breaking results of ongoing research projects; for drawing important conclusions from practical experiments; for giving an introduction to innovative works or new practical design applications, and reporting on cutting edge technologies and content management systems currently in development.

EXPERIMENTAL SKYPE SESSIONS

Besides the poster exhibition, eight submissions will be additionally shown in an experimental presentation on the four outdoor I-sites around Federation Square. These I-sites offer authors from abroad the possibility to present remotely via scheduled Skype sessions whilst the audience gathers in small groups around the terminals. A time schedule for these digital presentations of 15 minutes will be placed on the chosen posters of the exhibition.

This I-hub presentation should be delivered using Adobe Flash or Powerpoint. For remote presentations, the portrait format screen will be split in two half sections, the top one for the presentation, the other for the life image of the presenter. You will be able to remotely control the presentation.

MAIN CRITERIA

Posters are aimed at presenting the latest development in this interdisciplinary field of Urban Screens. We are open to a wide range of issues around this idea about the integration of digital moving images in outdoor public spaces and using this new integrated digital layer of the city for contributing to a lively urban society.

For more information about Urban Screens and range of topics see: www.urbanscreens.org
For more information about Urban Screens Melbourne 08 see: www.urbanscreens08.net

EVENT COMMITTEE
Posters will be reviewed by the Event Committee, announced on the website.

PRACTICAL

Applications are due (extended deadline): May 31st 2008
Poster design and presentation due: September 15th 2008

For submissions please use the application form provided under www.urbanscreens08.net/call

- One author per accepted poster can attend the conference, for free of charge, excluding travel and lodging expenses
- Authors of accepted submissions must provide a one or two page summary for publication of the best selected posters in the conference proceedings
- Selected submissions will also be published on-line on the International Urban Screens Association website: www.urbanscreens.net
- The size of the exhibition poster is portrait A1
- A broad guideline for the poster design and the I-hub presentations will be announced after the selection process
- The final poster design must be submitted by September 15th for printout
- Authors presenting remotely, via Skype will be contacted for a test after September 15th

APPLICATION AND DETAILED CALL

Please have a look at the complete calls and the official online submission forms for application, available at:
http://www.urbanscreens08.net/callforprojects

CONTACT

exhibition@urbanscreens.net
(please use the subject “USM08 - question concerning the CALL”)

MAYOR EVENT SPONSORS

The event is brought to you by the International Urban Screens Association.
www.urbanscreens.net

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body. www.australiacouncil.gov.au

Fed Square Pty Ltd - www.federationsquare.com
Barco ‘visibly yours’ - www.barco.com
Melbourne University - www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au
Film Victoria - http://film.vic.gov.au
Circus - www.circusexp.com
Pinnacle ‘Production Services’ - www.pinnacleps.com

Media Partner:
ARS HyperMedia - www.simultaneita.net
australian-architects - www.australian-architects.com

Best regards,
Mirjam Struppek
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URBAN SCREENS MELBOURNE 08
www.urbanscreens08.net
Artistic Director

International Urban Screens Association
www.urbanscreens.net
Rheinsberger Str. 68
D-10115 Berlin

Description:

[English follows]

Dans le cadre des Ateliers de formations audio,
OBORO, Laboratoire nouveaux médias présente

Production sonore en trois dimensions : une approche globale
un atelier audio avancé avec Daniel Courville et Stéphane Claude

les 4-5, 11-12 et 25-26 octobre 2008
inscriptions en cours jusqu'au vendredi 19 septembre 2008
12 places disponibles

Cet atelier s'adresse aux artistes des nouveaux médias souhaitant intégrer le surround sound dans leur processus de création et de diffusion. Le système Ambisonic sera privilégié puisqu'il couvre la totalité des activités reliées à la production multiphonique, soit l'acquisition, la synthèse, le traitement et la reproduction d'information sonore en trois dimensions.

Pour vous inscrire ou pour en savoir plus, consultez le communiqué : http://www.oboro.net/pdf/press/0809/workshop/ambisonic_fr.pdf

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Description:

FORMATION DESIGN DES ARTS INTERACTIFS ET ESTHÉTIQUE DE
L’INTÉRACTIVITÉ (DAISI)

entre le 4 octobre et le 10 décembre 2008
laboratoire de Vidéographe production

Cette formation s’adresse à des artistes désireux d’approfondir leur
connaissance par l’apprentissage de méthodes de design liées à la
réalisation de composantes électroniques d’oeuvres interactives.
Seulement huit artistes des arts médiatiques pourront suivre cette
formation l’automne prochain.

Des professionnels reconnus se partagent trois séminaires intensifs :

Samedi le 4 octobre 2008 de 10h à 16h.
Le customérisme (la demande et la production en réseau) par Gregory Chatonsky, artiste en arts médiatiques, philosophe et enseignant.

Samedi le 25 octobre 2008 de 10h à 16h.
Perception du design par Michel Dallaire, une sommité montréalaise dans ce domaine.

Samedi le 15 novembre 2008 de 9h à 19h (5à7 inclu).
Catherine Béchard et Sabin Hudon exposent leur cubes à sons/bruits/babils. Artistes des nouveaux médias, ils nous racontent l’histoire de la réalisation de cette oeuvre en compagnie de Roger Haché, leur ingénieur en électronique. Michel Dallaire, designer industriel reconnu, commentera leur travail. Ce dernier séminaire est un partenariat avec OBORO.

Deux instructeurs chevronnés partagent 72 heures d’ateliers pratiques :

Les lundis et jeudis de 13h à 17h du 13 octobre au 27 novembre 2008 ainsi que les 1, 2, 3, 4 et 8 décembre 2008.
Patrice Coulombe, spécialiste de l’électronique et Gregory Chatonsky, spécialiste du design par internet.

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Subject: New Date of the 30th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners 2008

Dear colleagues,

At the International Conference in Montreal we informed you about our plannings for the 30th International Conference 2008 in Strasbourg. At that time we proposed to hold the conference from 8 to 10 October. Meanwhile, we have realised that this date was not the most suitable one. We are happy to inform you that it was possible to find a more appropriate date for the conference. The new dates will be 15 to 17 October 2008. Please pencil these new dates in your calendar.
We are looking forward to welcoming you in Strasbourg.

Kind regards

Alex Türk

President of Commission Nationale de l’Information et des Libertés, France

Peter Schaar, 

Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, Germany

Sujet : Nouvelle date pour la 30ème conférence internationale des commissaires à la protection des données en 2008

Chers collègues,

A l’occasion de la conférence international de Montréal, nous vous avions annoncé la tenue à Strasbourg de la 30ème conférence internationale du 8 au 10 octobre. Depuis, nous avons réalisé que cette date ne convenait plus. Nous sommes heureux de vous annoncer que les dates de la conférence sont les suivantes : du 15 au 17 octobre 2008.

Réservez dès maintenant ces nouvelles dates dans votre agenda.

Nous espérons vous accueillir nombreux à Strasbourg.

Recevez nos sincères salutations

Alex Türk

President de la Commission Nationale de l’Information et des Libertés, France

Peter Schaar, 

Commissaire fédéral à la protection des données et à l’accès aux documents administratifs, Allemagne

Betreff: Neues Datum für die 30. Internationale Datenschutzkonferenz 2008

Sehr geehrte Kolleginnen und Kollegen,

auf der Internationalen Konferenz in Montreal haben wir Sie über unsere Planungen zur 30. Internationalen Datenschutzkonferenz 2008 in Strassburg informiert. Damals hatten wir als Datum für die Konferenz den 8. bis 10. Oktober vorgeschlagen. Inzwischen haben wir aber festgestellt, dass dieses Datum doch nicht so passend war. Wir freuen uns, Ihnen mitteilen zu dürfen, dass wir ein Datum gefunden haben, das besser geeignet ist. Der neue Termin ist der 15. bis 17. Oktober 2008.

Bitte merken Sie sich diese Daten in Ihrem Kalender vor.

Wir freuen uns darauf, Sie in Strassburg begrüßen zu dürfen.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

Alex Türk,

Der Vorsitzender der Commission Nationale de l’Information et des Libertés, Frankreich

Peter Schaar,

Bundesbeauftragter für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit, Deutschland

Description:

Colloque
10ème colloque international du Centre de recherche sur l'intermédialité - Montréal, du 9 au 11 octobre 2008
a ville est un espace proprement intermédial, un palimpseste de traces historiques, un réseau de codes, rencontres et formes matérielles de médiation dont les convergences et les collisions produisent des significations distinctes et confèrent sens aux lieux. La question de la médialité urbaine dépasse celle de l'intégration des infrastructures médiatiques dans l'espace de la ville, comme celle des images qu'en produisent et projettent les différents médias. Le colloque sur « La Ville intermédiale » cherche à examiner la manière dont les interactions entre les divers médias configurent la vie quotidienne dans la cité.

Description:

Media Facades Festival Berlin - Oct.-Nov. 2008 / conference: 17.-18. Oct.Public Art Lab and Urban Screens, together with Media Architecture Group,
are pleased to invite you to our extensive festival in October!

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION:
www.mediaarchitecture.org/mediafacades2008

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Media Facades Festival Berlin 2008
Myth and Potentials of Media Architecture and Urban Screens

Architecture exhibition:      16. October - 12. December 2008 at DAZ
International conference:   17. - 18. October 2008 at DAZ
Urban Screenings:             18. October - 3. November 2008, at dawn
Round Table:                      1.11. 15:00, Art Forum

www.mediaarchitecture.org/mediafacades2008

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The Festival reflects on a worldwide trend of large digital moving images
integrated in facade structures and investigating their communicative function
in the urban environment.

ARTISTS EXPERIMENT WITH A NEW EXHIBITION FORMAT

For the first time, the public will witness the use of not only cultural but also
commercial facades of SAP, O2 World, Gasometer Schöneberg, Collegium
Hungaricum Berlin and the Wall-Terminal as cultural communication portals.
Twenty-four original artist works specifically commissioned for the different
façades will be screened from 17 October until 3 November 2008.

The artist works will focus on the exploration of site-specific content, space
and dimension. The unique artistic productions and installations will also
involve participation of the local inhabitants where the facades are situated
in an attempt to generate a new sense of identity. The interaction amongst
he commercial media facade operators, curators, artists and the general
public facilitated through this festival will serve as testing ground for future
creative and urban media developments.

CONFERENCE AND ARCHITECTURE EXPOSITON

Alongside, we present an international conference with a diverse range of
speakers and an architectural exhibition comparing and providing details
about worldwide unique media Facades at the German Architecture Center.

There's a lot in store for the mind and for the eyes.

The conference will focus on the relevance of media architecture and urban
screens both for experts and the general public. It aims to promote
architectural questions and visions within a wider context of related aspects
considering danger of visual overload in urban space. Besides Project
Presentations and an expert workshop organized by ARUP we will discuss
the following topics:

- Social Media Architecture
- Culture, Economy, Public Space - an Interface
- Perception and behavior - facing Urban Media
- Dynamic Ornament- Towards a new Iconography

All the info you need is on: http://www.mediaarchitecture.org/mediafacades2008

INITIATORS:

Susa Pop, Public Art Lab and Mirjam Struppek, Urban Screens,
a project in cooperation with Media Architecture Group Vienna and
supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds and Senatsverwaltung für Wirtschaft,
Technologie und Frauen - Landesinitiative Projekt Zukunft.

www.publicartlab.org
www.urbanscreens.org
www.mediaarchitecture.org

FURTHER INFO:
Vanini B. Belarmino vaninibelarmino@yahoo.com

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MEDIA FACADES FESTIVAL
Artistic Festival Director
Initiated by
Public Art Lab / International Urban Screens Association
In cooperation with Media Architecture Group

www.mediaarchitecture.org/mediafacades2008
www.publicartlab.org
www.urbanscreens.org

Mobile: +49 (0) 179 5873337
Phone: +49 (0)30 26325102
Skype: struppek

Description:

The Singularity Institute for
Artificial Intelligence plans to
hold Singularity Summit 2008 at the
Montgomery Theater in San Jose,
California on October 18, 2008, SIAI
Executive Director Tyler Emerson
told KurzweilAI.net. Speakers,
program, and registration details
will be forthcoming....
http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=8226&m=5586

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(La version française suit.)

Call for Papers

Media in Motion:

The Challenge of Preservation in the Digital Age

October 29, 2008

McGill University

The DOCAM (Documentation and Conservation of the Media Arts Heritage) Research Alliance and Media@McGill invite submissions of abstracts for the presentation of papers at the inaugural Media in Motion Symposium. The interdisciplinary event aims to bring together graduate students across the sciences, humanities, and social sciences in order to explore the many facets of media art preservation. To that end, submissions related to the conference theme, "The Challenge of Preservation in the Digital Age," are strongly encouraged. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

- Archival Practices

- Challenges of Audio, Film, Video, and Digital Media Preservation

- Cultural Influences, Impacts, and Considerations

- Cultural Property Law

- Digital Preservation and Cultural Memory

- Digitization of the Humanities

- Effects on Artistic Practices

- Ethical, Social, and Philosophical Concerns

- Preservation Strategies and Techniques

- Future Trends and Directions

As the symposium will be held in conjunction with the Annual International DOCAM Summit (on October 30-31, 2008, at McGill University), preference will be given to proposals that address issues related to the alliance's activities. For more information on DOCAM and its mandate, please visit http://www.docam.ca/en <http://www.docam.ca/en> .

All presented papers will be considered for publication in an edited volume of the proceedings. Additional information will be provided upon acceptance.

Proposals should include a title; the name, affiliation, and e-mail address of the author; an abstract of 300 words; and a brief statement explaining how the paper fits within the research priorities of DOCAM. Submissions in English or French are welcome. Please send proposals by May 31, 2008 to Marilyn Terzic at docam.symposium@mac.com <mailto:docam.symposium@mac.com> .

DOCAM is an international research alliance on the documentation and the conservation of the media arts heritage, initiated by the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology. Its main objective is to develop new methodologies and tools to address the issues of preserving and documenting digital, technological, and electronic works of art.

Media@McGill is a hub of research, scholarship, and public outreach on issues and controversies in media, technology, and culture. Based in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University, Media@McGill is supported by a range of sources, most notably a generous gift from the Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation. For more information, please visit http://media.mcgill.ca <http://media.mcgill.ca/> .

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Appel de communications

Enjeux médiatiques:

le défi de la préservation à l'ère numérique

29 octobre 2008

Université McGill

L'Alliance de recherche DOCAM (Documentation et conservation du patrimoine des arts médiatiques) et Media@McGill vous invitent à soumettre des résumés pour la présentation de communications au Symposium inaugural Enjeux médiatiques. L'événement interdisciplinaire vise à réunir des étudiants des deuxième et troisième cycles en sciences, en lettres et sciences humaines, et en sciences sociales afin d'explorer les nombreuses facettes de la préservation des arts médiatiques. À cette fin, les propositions liées au thème du symposium, « Le défi de la préservation à l'ère numérique », sont vivement encouragées. Parmi les sujets possibles figurent, sans y être limité :

- Pratiques en matière d'archivage

- Défis de la préservation de contenu audio, filmique, vidéo, et numérique

- Influences, incidences, et considérations culturelles

- Droit en matière de biens culturels

- Préservation numérique et mémoire culturelle

- Numérisation du patrimoine des sciences humaines

- Effets sur les pratiques artistiques

- Enjeux éthiques, sociaux, et philosophiques

- Stratégies et techniques de préservation

- Tendances et orientations futures

Comme le symposium se tiendra conjointement avec le Sommet annuel international DOCAM (les 30-31 octobre 2008, à l'Université McGill), la préférence sera accordée aux propositions portant sur des problématiques liées aux axes de recherche de l'Alliance. Pour plus de renseignements sur DOCAM et son mandat, veuillez visiter <http://www.docam.ca/fr> <http://www.docam.ca/en> .

Toutes les communications présentées seront prises en considération pour être publiées dans un recueil des actes. Des renseignements supplémentaires seront fournis sur acceptation.

Les propositions doivent comprendre un titre; le nom, l'affiliation et l'adresse électronique de l'auteur; un résumé de 300 mots; et un bref énoncé expliquant comment la communication cadre avec les priorités de recherche de DOCAM. Les propositions sont acceptées en anglais ou en français. Veuillez les faire parvenir d'ici le 31 mai 2008 à Marilyn Terzic à docam.symposium@mac.com.

DOCAM est une alliance internationale de recherche sur la documentation et la conservation du patrimoine des arts médiatiques, établie par la fondation Daniel Langlois pour l'art, la science et la technologie. Son objectif principal est le développement de nouvelles méthodologies et d'outils adaptés aux enjeux de la conservation et de la documentation engendrées par les pratiques artistiques reposant sur l'emploi de technologies.

Média@McGill est un pôle de recherche, d'érudition, et de sensibilisation qui se consacre aux enjeux et aux polémiques liés aux médias, à la technologie, et à la culture. Hébergé au Département d'histoire de l'art et d'études en communications de l'Université McGill, Média@McGill peut compter sur diverses sources de financement et a notamment reçu un don très généreux de la Fondation canadienne Beaverbrook. Pour plus de renseignements, veuillez visiter <http://media.mcgill.ca> <http://media.mcgill.ca/> .

Description:

English version follows.

Appel de communications

Enjeux médiatiques:

le défi de la préservation à l’ère numérique

 

29 octobre 2008

 

Université McGill

Montréal, Québec

L’Alliance de recherche DOCAM (Documentation et conservation du patrimoine des arts médiatiques) et Média@McGill vous invitent à soumettre des résumés pour la présentation de communications au Symposium inaugural Enjeux médiatiques. L’événement interdisciplinaire vise à réunir des chercheurs, des praticiens, et des étudiants des deuxième et troisième cycles en sciences, en lettres et sciences humaines, et en sciences sociales afin d’explorer les nombreuses facettes de la préservation des arts médiatiques. À cette fin, les propositions liées au thème du symposium, « Le défi de la préservation à l’ère numérique », sont vivement encouragées. Parmi les sujets possibles figurent, sans y être limité :

- Pratiques en matière d’archivage

- Défis de la préservation de contenu audio, filmique, vidéo, et numérique

- Influences, incidences, et considérations culturelles

- Droit en matière de biens culturels

- Préservation numérique et mémoire culturelle

- Numérisation du patrimoine des sciences humaines

- Effets sur les pratiques artistiques

- Enjeux éthiques, sociaux, et philosophiques

- Stratégies et techniques de préservation

- Tendances et orientations futures

Comme le symposium se tiendra conjointement avec le Sommet annuel international DOCAM (les 30-31 octobre 2008, à l’Université McGill), la préférence sera accordée aux propositions portant sur des problématiques liées aux axes de recherche de l’Alliance. Pour plus de renseignements sur DOCAM et son mandat, veuillez visiter <http://www.docam.ca/fr>.

Toutes les communications présentées seront prises en considération pour être publiées dans un recueil des actes. Des renseignements supplémentaires seront fournis sur acceptation.

Les propositions doivent comprendre un titre; le nom, l’affiliation et l’adresse électronique de l’auteur; un résumé de 300 mots; et un bref énoncé expliquant comment la communication cadre avec les priorités de recherche de DOCAM. Les propositions sont acceptées en anglais ou en français. Veuillez les faire parvenir d’ici le 15 juin 2008 à Marilyn Terzic à docam.symposium@mac.com.

DOCAM est une alliance internationale de recherche sur la documentation et la conservation du patrimoine des arts médiatiques, établie par la fondation Daniel Langlois pour l’art, la science et la technologie. Son objectif principal est le développement de nouvelles méthodologies et d’outils adaptés aux enjeux de la conservation et de la documentation engendrées par les pratiques artistiques reposant sur l’emploi de technologies.

 

Média@McGill est un pôle de recherche, d’érudition, et de sensibilisation qui se consacre aux enjeux et aux polémiques liés aux médias, à la technologie, et à la culture. Hébergé au Département d'histoire de l'art et d'études en communications de l’Université McGill, Média@McGill peut compter sur diverses sources de financement et a notamment reçu un don très généreux de la Fondation canadienne Beaverbrook. Pour plus de renseignements, veuillez visiter <http://media.mcgill.ca>.

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Call for Papers

Media in Motion:

The Challenge of Preservation in the Digital Age

 

October 29, 2008

 

McGill University

Montreal, Quebec

The DOCAM (Documentation and Conservation of the Media Arts Heritage) Research Alliance and Media@McGill invite submissions of abstracts for the presentation of papers at the inaugural Media in Motion Symposium. The interdisciplinary event aims to bring together scholars, professionals, and graduate students across the sciences, humanities, and social sciences in order to explore the many facets of media art preservation. To that end, submissions related to the conference theme, ”The Challenge of Preservation in the Digital Age,” are strongly encouraged. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

- Archival Practices

- Challenges of Audio, Film, Video, and Digital Media Preservation

- Cultural Influences, Impacts, and Considerations

- Cultural Property Law

- Digital Preservation and Cultural Memory

- Digitization of the Humanities

- Effects on Artistic Practices

- Ethical, Social, and Philosophical Concerns

- Preservation Strategies and Techniques

- Future Trends and Directions

As the symposium will be held in conjunction with the Annual International DOCAM Summit (on October 30-31, 2008, at McGill University), preference will be given to proposals that address issues related to the alliance’s activities. For more information on DOCAM and its mandate, please visit http://www.docam.ca/en.

All presented papers will be considered for publication in an edited volume of the proceedings. Additional information will be provided upon acceptance.

Proposals should include a title; the name, affiliation, and e-mail address of the author; an abstract of 300 words; and a brief statement explaining how the paper fits within the research priorities of DOCAM. Submissions in English or French are welcome. Please send proposals by June 15, 2008 to Marilyn Terzic at docam.symposium@mac.com.

 

DOCAM is an international research alliance on the documentation and the conservation of the media arts heritage, initiated by the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology. Its main objective is to develop new methodologies and tools to address the issues of preserving and documenting digital, technological, and electronic works of art.

 

Media@McGill is a hub of research, scholarship, and public outreach on issues and controversies in media, technology, and culture. Based in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University, Media@McGill is supported by a range of sources, most notably a generous gift from the Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation. For more information, please visit http://media.mcgill.ca.

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CYNETart_08
Festival period: 30th October until 9th November 2008, Festspielhaus
Hellerau
Awards ceremony: 30th October 2008, Festspielhaus Hellerau

The festival will present projects which stand out because of their
integrated tie-in of art, science and media technology. The art
processes are based on modern computer technology and last but not
least a work resulting from media operations. They are essentially
seeking a cross-link to scientific and artistic forms of art.

TMA Hellerau hosts this international competition of CYNETart,
inviting artists and art groups to present their projects every two
years. They can apply with projects that fully utilise digital
technologies in their conceptual, creative and performing processes,
thereby opening up opportunities for digital performance and their
relationship to factors such as time, space, physical presence and
social encounters. An international jury with representatives from
well-established media culture institutions and experienced
scientists with a background in media art history will decide about
the winner of the CYNETart-award and the sponsorship award. It will
also decide on the award of the artist-in-residence-scholarship
funded by the ministry of culture.
Apart from the awards ceremony and presentation of CYNETart-award-
winning projects the Dresden House of Arts will exhibit the entries
of the CYNETart-contest 2008 and the festival theatre Hellerau will
stage topical performances and performance installations of the
international scene. Well-known and popular activities of the
festival include the integration of projects from the Dresden
Innovations Fund for Art and Media Technology, the nationwide multi-
media contest MB21 as well as on-stage acting at further physical and
virtual locations.

Organizer
Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau e.V. and The City of Dresden in
cooperation with the European Centre for the Arts Hellerau and
Kunsthaus Dresden, Städtische Galerie für Gegenwartskunst

Information and application form
http://body-bytes.de/02/?page_id=623&language=en

CONTACT
Head of the cynetart/informations:
Thomas Dumke
Email: dumke@body-bytes.de

Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau e.V.
Festspielhaus Hellerau
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 56
D-01109 Dresden, GERMANY
Tel. +49-351-889 6665
Fax +49-351-889 6667
www.t-m-a.de
www.cynetart.de

Description:

Call for Papers on Immersive Virtual, Mixed, or Augmented Reality Art
a Special Issue of the International Journal of Arts and Technology

http://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=914

Important Dates
Submission intent (title and 300-word abstract): 1 September, 2008
Deadline for full paper submission: 31 October, 2008
Review results returned to authors: February 29, 2009
Deadline for camera-ready papers: June 30, 2009

Guest Editors:
Maria Roussou, makebelieve design & consulting, Greece
Maurice Benayoun, UniversitÎ"Â© Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, France

For the past fifteen years, virtual reality (VR) and, more recently, mixed reality (MR) and augmented reality (AR) environments that immerse their participants in imaginary space, have emerged to define an area that blurs the lines between the seemingly different worlds of research, creativity, and technological practice, while exploring the interdependencies between the virtual and the physical. From the immersive, yet more esoteric, CAVEÂ®-based projects of the mid-nineties to the contemporary open experi
ences spread out in virtual as well as physical space, creative VR/MR/AR applications are challenging the ways we perceive both digital art and the science and engineering behind them.

Early enthusiasm with the use of projection-based display structures and the development of authoring solutions for application-building has brought a level of maturity, characterized by the emergence of new technical and conceptual forms. It is this particular moment in the evolution of immersive VR/MR/AR art practice that this special issue seeks to capture. Hence, in this special issue, we aim to bring forth the topic of immersive art in its current maturity, present the newest developments and explore i
ts evolving forms, aspiring to shape a framework that will help us to develop the next generation of environments.

Therefore, this special issue will not include contributions that deal solely with describing a narrow and specific piece of art or research without reference to a conceptual framework or a critical analysis; rather we encourage contributions that take a broad and integrative view of relevant topics, encompassing both theoretical and empirical perspectives of digitally-generated creative spaces.
Submissions are invited that touch on but are not limited to the following themes:

    * Theoretical discourse on immersive virtual, mixed or augmented reality art environments.
    * Novel design concepts, applications, implementations and experiences from the actual deployment of immersive VR/MR/AR art applications
    * Research or empirical work addressing some of the open questions in the design of immersive art environments. For example:

        * Issues concerning creativity and aesthetics, visual depiction, storytelling and narrative, triggering other senses, embodiment, etc.
        * The fine line between designing for entertainment or for artistic pleasure
        * Issues in the design of interactivity, interfaces, and interaction methodologies, such as navigation by and tracking of multiple users, meaningful group interaction, the integration of multi-modal interfaces (e.g. tactile and haptic displays, sensing technologies), etc.
        * Issues concerning the design and development process of immersive artwork, such as the conceptualisation and collaboration challenges presented by multitalented interdisciplinary teams working together, the unavailability of resources and work environments, etc.
        * Issues in the deployment of different display configurations, sizes, and installations, as well as challenges in the practical use with diverse audiences (e.g., the need to guide people in experiencing the artwork)

Contributions are encouraged from different disciplinary perspectives, including fine arts, computer science, performance art, theatre, design, architecture, communications and social sciences, philosophy, cognitive psychology, and enabling technologies.

Contributions should take a broad and integrative view of relevant topics, rather than merely describing a narrow and specific piece of art or research.

See http://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=914 for more information.

Description:

Dresden, Germany, from 31st October to 2nd November 2008.

http://www.postme-newid.net/

The event is called "Post Me_New ID Forum". It will focus on contemporary and future forms of networked creations and multi-identities, and will take place as part of CYNETart_08 festival. Among the presenters there will be kondition pluriel (Canada), Mika Satomi and Hannah Perner-Wilson (Austria), Masaki Fujihata (Japan), Denisa Kera (Czech Republic/Singapore), Michael Takeo Magruder (Unites States/United Kingdom), Sita Popat (United Kingdom), Susanne Berkenheger (Germany) and many more.

We do hope that you find the forum of an interest and will either join us (the call for quickfire presentations is still open!) or recommend the event to your friends and colleagues.

It would be great indeed to meet in Dresden.

On behalf of POST ME_NEW ID FORUM team,

Pavel Sedlak / CIANT

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POST ME_NEW ID FORUM

International media art festival CYNETart_08 held in Dresden, Germany, will host the forum “Post Me_New ID” from 31st October to 2nd November 2008. The forum will bring together interdisciplinary practitioners in art, science and technology to discuss in various formats, from keynotes to Quickfires, issues concerning contemporary and future forms of networked creations and multi-identities. Among the speakers and performers there will be kondition pluriel (Canada), Mika Satomi and Hannah Perner- Wilson (Austria), Masaki Fujihata (Japan), Denisa Kera (Czech Republic/Singapore), Michael Takeo Magruder (Unites States/United Kingdom), Sita Popat (United Kingdom), Susanne Berkenheger (Germany) and many more.

The forum is planned as a platform for reflection on how we are creatively and socially engaged in digital networks, how we perform our online and offline identities, how we have become plural and variable post human bodies. "We are asking ourselves > what is next?< applying the to-be-presented theories to our own cultural/art creating and networking practices"… says Ghislaine Boddington (United Kingdom), one of the forum organizers.

There is a call for Quickfire presentations open, designed to enable speakers and delegates to present their ideas in a dynamic way. Each speaker will have a chance to present their project or give an overview of their work in a format of 14 presentation slides, 30 seconds per slide, 1 image or 10 words per slide. Please contact Thomas Dumke pmn_id@cynetart.de or +49-351-8896665 for more information.

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SCHEDULE

FRIDAY October 31st – Networked Creations [ see http://www.postme-newid.net/foru/fri-31-oct-networked-creations/ for full detail ]
SATURDAY November 1st – Multi-Identities [ see http://www.postme-newid.net/foru/sat-1-nov-multi-identities/ for full detail ]
SUNDAY November 2nd – Future Visions [ see http://www.postme-newid.net/foru/sun-2-nov-future-visions/ for full detail ]

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CONTEXT

Forum is a part of the Post Me_New ID project which examines the complexity of 21st century European identity through an exploration based on the effect of digital technologies of the body and identity. An active and public Blog is fed by a series of debate led Research Engines with a Forum, Book and DVD as the end products. In addition a series of Creation Processes will result in a public Installation / Performance.

The project is co-produced by an international consortium of partners coming from Czech Republic, Germany, Slovenia and United Kingdom, and is co-financed by the European Commission under Culture 2007 programme.

Co-producers:
body>data>space (London, UK) - www.bodydataspace.net
CIANT | International Centre for Art and New Technologies (Prague, Czech Republic) - www.ciant.cz
TMA | Trans-Media-Academy Hellerau (Dresden, Germany) - www.body-bytes.de
KIBLA (Maribor, Slovenia) - www.kibla.org

Associated funding bodies & institutions:
European Commission DG Education and Culture - http://ec.europa.eu/culture/our-programmes-and-actions/doc411_en.htm
Arts Council England - www.artscouncil.org.uk
CYNETart_08 - www.body-bytes.de/02/?p=747&language=en
Prague City Hall - www.praha-mesto.cz
Czech Ministry of Culture - www.mkcr.cz
ResCen - Centre for Research into Creation in the Performing Arts - www.rescen.net
EZKA - European Centre for the Arts - www.kunstforumhellerau.de
Mestna obina Maribor - www.maribor.si/podrocje.aspx
Slovenian Ministry of Culture - magistrat.praha-mesto.cz/l2

The 14 Associated partners for Post Me_ New ID are:
A4-nulty priestor - Slovakia - www.a4.sk
Brunel University - UK - www.brunel.ac.uk
New media Studies at Charles University - Czech Republic - www.cuni.cz
Grains and Pixels - Sweden - www.bertrandgondouin.net/post/Grains-Pixels
Hellen Sky - Australia - www.hellensky.com
Leeds University - UK - www.leeds.ac.uk/icsrim
M2F Creations - France - www.m2fcreations.fr
Multiplace - Slovakia - www.multiplace.sk
PROJECT DCM Foundation - Romania - www.rhiz.eu/institution-9567-en.html
Rehearsal.org and Ignite - London,UK - www.rehearsal.org.uk
ResCen Middlesex University - London,UK - www.mdx.ac.uk/rescen/
SKA CULTURE - China - www.skaculture.com
Swap-Project - Portugal - www.swap-project.com
Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music - Tokyo, Japan - www.geidai.ac.jp/english/

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