Re-New / Imac 2012: Cybernetics revisited – towards a third order? :: November 19-24, 2012 :: Copenhagen, Denmark :: Call for Papers and Artistic Works - Deadline: March 1. Continue reading

Artaud Forum 2: Konnecting Gestures - International Conference-Workshop on Performance and Sound Technologies :: March 30 - April 1, 2012 :: Antonin Artaud Performance Centre,
Brunel University, Uxbridge, West London, UK.

This symposium and performance laboratory will bring together an invited group of international theatre, performance and sound artists, musicians, digital artists, art theorists and researchers engaged in creative practices that reflect on major innovative performance traditions of the past century and their impact on current performance knowledge and physical (or physical-digital) techniques. Continue reading

[BADco. "Responsibility for Things Seen", 2011, photo: Dinko Rupčić] Symposium: Actionable Image: Agency of Image, Performance of Body, Apparatus of Spectating :: March 16-17, 2012 ::  Zagreb, Croatia :: Call for Participation - Deadline: February 10, 2012.

This symposium and its topic are a continuation of BADco.’s artistic interest to relate performance and image. More concretely, it was motivated by our most recent work Responsibility for Things Seen that was presented in 2011 within the Croatian participation at the Biennale di Venezia. The work required us, in the absence of performers in the six-months exhibition, to pursue the idea of ‘theater by other means’ and to custom develop a database video system that unfolds a particular nexus of body, image and technology. Continue reading

The Second International Conference on Transdisciplinary Imaging at the Intersections between Art, Science and Culture :: June 22-23, 2012 :: Victorian College of the Arts, Federation Hall, Grant Street, Southbank, Melbourne 3006 :: Call for Papers: Interference Strategies for Art - Deadline for Abstracts: March 30, 2012.

The Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference seeks papers that explore the theme of ‘Interference’ within practices of contemporary image making. Continue reading

[3D Alignment Forms. Animation of dancer's traceforms in One Flat Thing, reproduced mapped to 3D space. Synchronous Objects Project, The Ohio State University and The Forsythe Company.] Goethe-Institut New York presents Objects in Performance: Continue reading

in/compatible aesthetics symposium: Uncorporated Subversion: Tactics, Glitches, Archeologies with Michael Dieter (au/nl), Jussi Parikka (fi/uk), Julio D’Escrivan (ve/uk) and jon.satrom (us); Moderated by Rosa Menkman (nl) :: February 3, 2012; 4:00 - 5:30 pm :: Auditorium, HKW. Continue reading

3rd Leonardo Satellite Symposium: Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks @ NetSci2012 :: June 19, 2012 :: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois :: Call for Proposals - Deadline: March 16, 2012.

We are pleased to announce the third Leonardo satellite symposium at NetSci2012 on Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks. The aim of the symposium is to foster cross-disciplinary research on complex systems within or with the help of arts and humanities.

The symposium will highlight arts and humanities as an interesting source of data, where the combined experience of arts, humanities research, and natural science makes a huge difference in overcoming the limitations of artificially segregated communities of practice. Continue reading

Social Cities of Tomorrow - International Conference: February 17, 2012 and Workshop: February 14-16, 2012 :: Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Our everyday lives are increasingly shaped by digital media technologies, from smart cards and intelligent GPS systems to social media and smartphones. How can we use digital media technologies to make our cities more social, rather than just more hi-tech?

This international conference brings together key thinkers and doers working in the fields of new media and urbanism. Keynote speakers such as Usman Haque, Natalie Jeremijenko will speak about the promises and challenges in this newly emerging and highly interdisciplinary field of urban design. Continue reading

Network Archaeology Conference :: Miami University, Oxford OH :: April 20-21, 2012 :: Call for Papers - Deadline: November 29, 2011.

This conference will bring together scholars and practitioners to explore the resonances between digital networks and “older” (perhaps still emergent) systems of circulation; from roads to cables, from letter-writing networks to digital ink. Drawing on recent research in media archaeology, we see network archaeology as a method for re-orienting the temporality and spatiality of network studies. Continue reading