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

Network by Michael Rigley.

Monika Fleischmann, Wolfgang Strauss: Performing Data (2011) [English/Polish]:

Performing Data exhibition (April-June 2011) is a review of Fleischmann and Strauss´ body of work from Virtual Reality (Home of the Brain) up to Mixed Reality (Murmuring Fields or Energie-Passagen), from Fluid (Liquid Views) to Rigid (Rigid Waves) up to Floating Interface (Media Flow).

Monika Fleischmann and Wolfgang Strauss from the Fraunhofer IAIS Research Institute show an intersection of the body and immaterial digital data. From Body Space (Virtual Striptease) to Knowledge Space (Semantic Map): Interactivity as an extension of touch is a central strategy of their work – interactivity with its complex relationship to reality, re-presentation and presence. Continue reading

Northern Spark: presenting innovative art in the public sphere.

Calling All Artists: Northern Lights is happy to announce a number of calls for participation in the 2012 edition of Northern Spark, which will take place June 9-10, 2012. For some background on this year’s Northern Spark see here. The new website will launch later this week at northernspark.org.

Call for 10 projects in any media/discipline: We are looking for projects that are sited/ performed in public space and engage a broad public audience in that space. Projects can be in any medium or discipline. 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

Robert Lue: Using Art to Express and Advance the Scientific Process :: December 7, 2011; 6:00 pm :: EMPAC (Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY :: FREE + Open to the public.

Robert Lue, biologist and director of life sciences education at Harvard, will discuss the vital and transformative role that visualizations play in both science research and education. Lue is the founder of BioVisions, a collaborative initiative led by Harvard scientists to improve the beauty and precision of science visualization. Continue reading

R. Luke DuBois describes Hard Data, “a data-mining, sonification, and visualization project that uses statistics from the American military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq as source material for an interactive audiovisual composition based around an open-source “score” of events.”

Dataviz: Visual Representation Of Complex Phenomena - Workshop :: December 12-17, 2011 :: Better Nouveau, Via Bonelli, 3, Turin, Italy :: Call for Participation — Deadline: December 9, 2011 :: workshop [at] betternouveau.com.

Dataviz: Visual Representation Of Complex Phenomena is an in-depth workshop on the visual representation of large datasets. Study how to capture, prepare, visualize and refine data. Gain insight in dataviz theories and start to look at data in a different way. Learn about the history of data visualization and how to create your own new and interesting designs for the future. Continue reading

The Virtual Water Project by Timm Kekeritz, part of Surface Tension, Dublin.

People use large amounts of water for drinking, cooking and washing, and even more for producing things such as food, paper, cotton clothes, and almost every other physical product. Usually, the amount of freshwater that goes into making a product – its virtual water content – far exceeds the amount contained in it at the end of the process. The water footprint of a person, company or nation is not unlike their ecological footprint. It is defined as the total volume of freshwater that is used to produce the commodities, goods and services that they consume. Based on data gathered by Hoeckstra et al. on the water footprints of nations, designer Timm Kekeritz created a set of infographics to make the issue of virtual water and the water footprint perceivable. In collaboration with his colleague Frank Rausch, the Virtual Water iOS app was created in 2010. Continue reading