Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium (TES) :: August 7-8, 2009; 9:00 am - 5:00 pm :: Loop Studio Centre for Lively Arts, 601 Christie #170, Toronto, Canada.

The Canadian Electroacoustic Community and New Adventures in Sound Art are pleased to announce the 2009 Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium. The symposium presents a selection of refereed papers and presentations as well as a keynote lecture by internationally acclaimed scholar Annette Vande Gorne. This is your opportunity to find out the latest in sound art activity around the world. The proceedings of the symposium will be published in a forthcoming issue of the CEC’s online journal, eContact! More info here. Go to here and click on on-line registration to register.

Pratt Manhattan Gallery presents Broadcast Yourself, a symposium that will contrast traditional media with the “YouTube” Generation :: April 1, 2009; 6:30 pm :: Lecture Hall 213, 144 West 14th Street, NYC.

Broadcast Yourself will address the issues of power and control extended by traditional media outlets in contrast with the do-it-yourself attitude pervasive in the tech-savvy younger generation. Symposium panelists will also speak to the impact that radio and television can have in shaping the events of our time; how artists can directly engage, challenge, or subvert the structure and authority of broadcast media; and how our culture is shaped by the actions of individuals and artists. Continue reading

Update on The 8th School of Sound - an International Symposium :: April 15 - 18, 2009 :: Southbank Centre, London.

Four days of masterclasses featuring sessions on Film Sound Design, Documentary Sound, Composing & Songwriting, Experimental Productions, Radio and Sound Art, and the Neurology of Hearing. Go to 2009 Symposium for details about speakers and their presentations. Continue reading

Netherlands media artist Daan Brinkmann will be talking about his work at the FILE RIO symposium which is part of the FILE festival 2009, Rio de Janeiro on March 11, 2009. As part of their exhibition program, his work, Skinstrument, is on exhibit at the Oi Futuro cultural space. Skinstrument II will be part of the Short Circuit Festival which will take place at the Roundhouse, London from May 14 - 17. Skin Instrument will travel to São Paolo this summer. For more information on Skin Instrument, see this post on NMR. Continue reading

Recycling_Sampling_Jamming. Artistic Strategies Now Festival/ Symposium Re-* :: February 26-28, 2009 :: Academy of Arts, Hanseatenweg 10, Berlin-Tiergarten.

The interdisciplinary festival seeks to examine through lectures, concerts, videoscreenings and an acoustic bar the artistic cross-media practices of Recycling, Sampling and Culture Jamming, which rely on the repetition and recreation of the Old and the transformation in the New. Reputable scientists and international artists from music, arts, netarts, film, design and advertising will exemplify at the Academy of Arts, Berlin, the current cultural and political relevance as well as the distinctions of these strategies. Continue reading

Floating Points 6: Games of Culture | Art of Games — A Film Screening, Symposium and Workshops with Asi Burak, Anita Fontaine, Jesper Juul, Friedrich Kirschner, Marcin Ramocki, Jason Rohrer, Adriana de Souza Silva, Mushon Zer-Aviv :: March 20-21, 2009 :: Emerson College, Boston + streamed live on the web and in Second Life.

Video games extend beyond the gaming console into nearly every aspect of contemporary life. They are fun. They drive innovation, consumer engagement and employee productivity. Is our culture turning everything into a game? Video Games have had a greater impact on narrative form than any medium since film. Continue reading

Sound + Science Symposium :: March 5 - 6, 2009; 10:00 am - 7:00 pm :: UCLA California NanoSystems Institute Auditorium, Los Angeles, California.

Sound + Science Symposium is a trans-disciplinary exploration of scientific research and technological breakthroughs concerned with sound, hearing, and aurality. This two-day event will bring together leading figures to discuss the applications and implications of such research in relation to questions of culture, politics, history, environment, art, and music. Participants include Peter Narins, Daniel Blumstein, Ricardo Dominguez, Laura Peticolas, John MacCallum, Miller Puckette, Curtis Roads, Diana Deutsch, James Marston, Petr Janata, Andrea Polli, Jim Crutchfield, Cindy Keefer, Douglas Kahn, Veit Erlmann, Rene Lysloff, Paulo Chagas and Tyler Adams. Continue reading

The 8th School of Sound International Symposium :: April 15 - 18, 2009 :: Southbank Centre, London.

The School of Sound has become a major forum on the creative use of sound with image, presenting a stimulating and provocative series of master classes by practitioners, artists and academics. Directors, sound designers, composers, editors and theorists working at the highest levels of film, the arts and media show us the soundtrack from unexpected perspectives. They reveal the methods, theories and creative thinking that lie behind the most effective uses of sound and music. If you work in film, television, commercials, radio or multimedia - this event will convince you of the extraordinary potential of the soundtrack. Continue reading

4th Radiator Festival and Symposium: Exploits in the Wireless City :: January 13-18, 2008 :: Nottingham, UK :: Launch Event: January 14, 6:00 -11:00 pm — Broadway Media Centre, Backlit (tbc), Surface Gallery.

Exploits in the Wireless City aims to instigate discussion, debate and new interdisciplinary research networks based on the understanding that the development of digital networks are transforming our notion of space.

GOING UNDERGROUND: Through its artistic interventions, Radiator will put theory into practice with projects and events that both position and challenge the dominant forces at work in the urban environment and explore the new territories opened up by new hybrid spaces. Radiator will set up investigations into this infrastructure by placing 5 artists into the urban confines of British cities in the Going Underground project: Continue reading

Audio Forensics :: Exhibition: November 27-30, 2008 :: Symposium: November 30; 3:00 - 6:00 pm :: I M T, Unit 2/210 Cambridge Heath Road, London :: 020 8980 5475 (for symposium booking).

Comprising ambitious works by nine artists — Libero Colimberti, Jan Hendrickse, Simone Izzi, Nitin Lachhani, Luc Messinezis, Maria Papadomanolaki, Vytis Puronas, Mark Shorey and Mark Wright — who employ sound as the principle media of their practice, Audio Forensics demonstrates the breadth of engagement with sound in the arts, and how it can be re-evaluated in the context of an increasingly noisy world. Sound art encompasses a wide range of forms and concerns and has its precedence across many creative fields, yet, as these artists demonstrate, the acknowledgment of sounds significance in the arts is becoming of greater importance as technologies develop, and as the public become ever more aware of the interactions between sound, space and artistic practice. Audio Forensics provides an extraordinarily comprehensive inquiry into how sound, and its manipulation, influences our experience and understanding of our environment. Continue reading