DRHA 2010 Conference - Sensual Technologies: Collaborative Practices of Interdisciplinarity :: September 5-8, 2010 :: Brunel University, West London, UK :: Call for Papers and Performances — Deadline: March 31, 2010.

The conference’s overall theme will be the exploration of the collaborative relationship between the body and sensual/ sensing technologies across various disciplines. In this respect it will offer an interrogation of practices that are indebted to the innovative exchange between the sensual, visceral and new technologies.

At the same time, the aim is to look to new approaches offered by various emerging fields and practices that incorporate new and existing technologies. Specific examples of areas for discussion could include: Continue reading

The DOCAM (Documentation and Conservation of the Media Arts Heritage) Research Alliance presents the 2010 DOCAM Summit (March 3-5), which will mark the end of five years of research. DOCAM is an international research alliance 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.

The interdisciplinary event aims to bring together artists, researchers, students and museum practitioners (conservators, curators, technicians, etc.) in order to expose and explore the issues raised by current research. At this occasion, DOCAM will launch its new website, featuring the following main research results: Continue reading

Blast Theory Intern and Residency Programmes :: Call for Applications — Deadline: January 31, 2010.

20 Wellington Road Residency Programme 2010 – 2011. Expressions of interest are invited from individuals working in the following fields: Pervasive & location based gaming & interactive media; Mobile & portable devices in cultural & artistic practice; Games design and theory; Interdisciplinary and live art .

Residency applications are welcome from UK and international practitioners and should be for a minimum period of 3 weeks to maximum of 3 months. The Residency Programme is a new model of residency initiated and run by artists. Continue reading

International Conference on Information Visualization iV and Computer Graphics, Image and Vision (CGIV) Symposium on Digital Art, and Online Gallery D-ART 2010 :: July 26-29, 2010 :: LSBU, London, UK :: Call for Papers, Videos and Participation — Deadline: February 1, 2010.

SYMPOSIA: Authors are invited to send their extended abstract or the full paper to the chairperson of symposium. Papers presenting original research with the theme of ‘DIGITAL ART’ are being sought. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):

• Preparing artists to learn programming, preparing programmers to learn aesthetics
• Interrelationship between disciplines. Continue reading
  
  

[Image: Photograph by Monica Nerula] The Sarai-CSDS Media Lab Associate Fellowship for Contemporary Art and Media Practices: City as Studio :: Call for Proposals — Deadline: December 26, 2009.

The Sarai Media Lab invites expressions of interest and intent from artists and practitioners in diverse media - textual, visual, aural, spatial and temporal - who could be - visual artists (photographers, sculptors, installation artists, graphic artists), writers and independent scholars, filmmakers, architects, experimental musicians and composers, sound recordists, performers and people whose practices straddle or transcend different areas of practice - for participation in the City as Studio Project. Continue reading

Thursday Club Call for Projects and Proposals (2009/2010) :: Deadline: December 10, 2009; 5:00 pm.

The Thursday Club is an open forum discussion group for anyone interested in the theories and practices of cross-disciplinarity, interactivity, technologies and philosophies of the state-of-the-art in today’s (and tomorrow’s) cultural landscape(s). The Club is supported by the Goldsmiths Digital Studios (GDS) and the Goldsmiths Graduate School.

Originally set up in October 2005 by GDS as a more informal setting for research discussions, it has grown to include over 200 members: artists, technologists, scientists — in fact, a growing diversity of people from different communities worldwide, that are connected via a mailing list and online forum. Continue reading

Undo - Redo with Tarek Atoui (Lebanon), Dima Hourani (Palestine), Hanne Sabier (Morocco), Roy Samaha (Lebanon), Aya Tarek (Egypt), Sara Elias (Egypt) :: November 15-30, 2009 :: Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF), 10 Hussein Hassab Street, Flat 6, Azarita, Alexandria, Egypt.

The Exhibition will present the result of the Undo-Redo workshop conducted by Lebanese media artist and sound performer Tarek Atoui in an attempt to introduce its participants to the diverse and multiple uses of technology in the field of interdisciplinary, visual and sound art. Over the span of 8 days participants are invited to work with Tarek Atoui on developing and exhibiting an art project for which they will receive the necessary software and hardware equipment. Continue reading

Conference and Performanes: Network as a Space & Medium for Collaborative Interdisciplinary Art Practice :: November 8 - 10, 2009 :: University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.

This conference will focus on the increasing use of the network as a space and medium for collaborative interdisciplinary art practices including electronic literature and other network based art forms. Researchers will present papers exploring new network-based creative practices that involve the cooperation of small to large-scale groups of writers, artists, performers, and programmers to create online projects that defy simple generic definitions and disciplinary boundaries. Continue reading

The 25th Annual CHArt Conference: Object and Identity in the Digital Age :: November 12-13, 2009 :: Birkbeck, University of London, Clore Lecture Theatre, Clore Management Centre, Torrington Square, London, WC1 7HX.

This year’s CHArt conference engages with the idea of object and identity in relation to art practice, production, consumption, representation and display. The conference will explore new notions of the identity of the artist, including those involving collaboration and anonymity; new conceptions and ontologies of the art object, as processual, virtual, or hybrid; new means of consumption and reception, whether in galleries and museums, in public spaces, or over networks of broadcast and narrowcast; and the challenges these transformations bring to the display of art and to its curation and access. Continue reading

Meta-Plasticity in Virtual Worlds: Aesthetics and Semantics Concepts, Edited by Dr. Gianluca Mura, Politecnico di Milano University, Italy; to be published by IGI Global in the second half of 2010 :: Call For Chapters Proposals — Deadline: September 30, 2009.

The concept of virtual worlds is strongly related to the current innovations of new media communication. This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to virtual world studies focused on aesthetics and semantics principles from science, technology, media arts and design. It is important for researchers and practitioners interested in this area to understand the actual criteria for creating virtual worlds’ as well as their further evolution, regarding system architecture, information visualization and human interaction. Continue reading