[Image: Handheld Histories as Hyper-Monuments by Carmin Karasic, 2007] Digital Art and the Urban Environment: Symposium, Art Exhibition, and Scholarly Volume :: October 4, 2013 :: Pace University, Downtown Manhattan, New York City :: Call for Participation — Deadline: July 13, 2013.

Digital and new media artists utilize innovations in locative media, tracking technologies, telecommunication networks, and novel computer interfaces to craft artworks that create new ways to connect with the city. Just as their predecessors transformed urban neighborhoods, such as New York’s SoHo and Chelsea, through their energy and imagination, today’s artists are altering our perceptions of, and relationships with, urban space though their digital inventions and interventions. Continue reading

Media Archaeology & Technological Debris Conference :: June 21, 2013; 10:00 am - 5:30 pm :: NAB LG01 (New Academic Building), Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, London (map) :: Free, open to the public, no reservations necessary.

Conference speakers: Sean Cubitt (Media & Comms, Goldsmiths); Graham Harwood (Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths); Jennifer Gabrys (Sociology, Goldsmiths); Gabriel Menotti (Audiovisual, UFES); Jussi Parikka (University of Southampton); and James Wallbank (Access Space, Sheffield).

This workshop means to combine the thriving approach of media archaeology with the growing environmental concerns about technological debris, emphasizing the complementary character of these topics in the construction of a material understanding of media practices’ past, present and future. Continue reading

Digital Aesthetic³ 2012 Conference and Exhibition – the third and final manifestation of the Digital Aesthetic series :: Conference: October 5-6, 2012 :: University of Central Lancashire, Preston :: Continue reading

xCoAx 2013: 1st International Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics and X :: June 27-28, 2013 :: University of Bergamo, Bergamo Città Alta, Italy :: Call for Submissions — Deadline: December 31, 2012. Continue reading

Remediating the Social :: Conference: November 1-3, 2012 :: Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, EH3 9DF :: Exhibition: November 1-25, 2012 :: Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB.

The Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice (ELMCIP) research project invites scholars, artists, researchers and performers to the conference, Remediating the Social. The conference programme consists of expert presentations, across a range of disciplines and modes of inquiry, addressing examples of creative communities that have formed around various practices, media and discourses. Case studies, papers and panels, discussing examples arising from the ELMCIP project and other contexts will be presented. The conference will be e-cast, allowing for remote attendees to freely monitor events and put questions to conference via Twitter. Continue reading

DEADLINE EXTENDED for Remote Encounters: Connecting Bodies, Collapsing Spaces And Temporal Ubiquity In Networked Performance :: April 11-12, 2013 :: ATRiuM, Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries, University of Glamorgan, Adam Street, Cardiff, Wales, CF24 2FN :: Call for Papers and Performances - Deadline: September 30, 2012; 4:00 pm.

The keynotes / lead performer lineup has now been confirmed. We are proud to welcome:

Keynotes: Jo-Anne Green from Turbulence.org (http://turbulence.org) and Networked_Performance (http://turbulence.org/blog); and Marc Garrett from Furtherfield (http://www.furtherfield.org)

Lead performer: Annie Abrahams (http://www.bram.org) Continue reading

e-Literature & the Nonhuman: Juried Reading at SLSA 2012 :: September 29, 2012; 5:00 pm :: Milwaukee, Wisconsin :: Call for Submissions — Deadline: September 1, 2012.

Literature in the first part of the 21st Century continues to undergo a revolution. Whether playing to the new aesthetic or re-imagining the literary tradition, emerging works are responding to and shaping the changing nature of reading. The Society for Literature Science and the Arts has been a long-standing center for scholarship on electronic literature. Continue reading

Media in Transition 8: public media, private media :: May 3-5, 2013 :: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA :: Call for Papers — Deadline: March 1, 2013. Continue reading

[Oyvind Fahlstrom's World Maps, Aurel Scheibler] Sense of Planet: The Arts and Ecology at Earth Magnitude - A NIEA Symposium :: August 25, 2012; 9:30 am - 6:30 pm :: UNSW CBD Campus, Level 6 (Combined Theatres T1 & 2), 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney, NSW 2000.

The acceleration of climate change, species extinction, and other ecological crises, enjoins us to find ways of grasping historical and evolving circumstances at earth magnitude. The Sense of Planet symposium concentrates together an international array of artists, eco-theorists and scholars to address the issues and activities of representing the earth in its entirety, and of representing and self-representing regions or localities amid the complex global systems in which they are enmeshed. Continue reading

The Hybrid City II: Subtle rEvolutions — Conference, workshops, exhibition and parallel events :: May 23-25, 2013 :: University of Athens, Athens, Greece :: Call for Papers — Deadline: October 20, 2012.

Hybrid City is an international biennial event dedicated to exploring the emergent character of the city and the potential transformative shift of the urban condition, as a result of ongoing developments in information and communication technologies (ICTs) and of their integration in the urban physical context. After the successful homonymous symposium in 2011, the second edition of Hybrid City has grown into a peer reviewed conference, aiming to promote dialogue and knowledge exchange among experts drawn from academia, as well as artists, designers, researchers, advocates, stakeholders and decision makers, actively involved in addressing questions on the nature of the technologically mediated urban activity and experience. Continue reading