Digital Art Weeks Festival 2007
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Digital Art Weeks Festival 2007 (DAW07) :: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION :: July 9 – July 14, 2007 :: ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland :: daw-info[at]inf.ethz.ch
The Digital Art Weeks is concerned with the application of digital technology in the arts. It consists of a symposium, workshops, and performances. The program offers insight into current research and innovations in art and technology. Artists and researchers will examine the use of electronic media in articulating the performer’s presence through the possibilities of the multi-sensuality of electronic media. The possibility of blurring the divide between public and performer to bond them through the powers of dissemination and inclusion inherent within the technology used will also be considered. The organizers of the Digital Art Weeks at ETH Zurich seek papers, posters, and performances on themes specific to performance using electronic media. We seek proposals that explore a concept of the Performative Surround in terms of how computer-mediated communication and dialog takes place between performers and viewers and how it tends to aid in dissolving the divide between performer and viewer. Continue reading