Ca;;" Netaudio '08 seeks performances, installations, and conference presentations

Netaudio’08


http://www.netaudiolondon.cc/blog/137/call-for-entries

Parts of Netaudio’08 will be programmed through an open call for entries. With this call we would like to give you the chance to put our attention to your creative activities related to the festival theme. Call for entries runs in 3 strands:

* Performance: Are you a musician engaging with digital technologies and the Internet as part of your creative work? If yes please tell us more about what you do. This strand is also open to netlabel heads interested in showcasing artists of their label. Please download the performance-form:
rtf, odt or doc

* Installation: the installation strand covers everything from sonic arts installation to Netaudio related machines and hardware tools – anything that lets our visitors engage with technology & space. Please get back to us with your ideas, concepts and existing projects by filling the installation-form:
rtf, odt or doc

* Conference: Have you got knowledge or skills you would like to share? Please fill in the conference-form for proposals for the festival workshops and discussions:
rtf, odt or doc

Of course you are very welcome submit on more than one strand. Please make sure you indicate this in the forms.

Deadline for this Call for Entries is 14th April 08.

Call: Submissions wanted on the theme of "Dance, Timing, and Musical Gesture"

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Dance, Timing and Musical Gesture
13 - 15 June 2008 University of Edinburgh, Scotland

The Institute for Music in Human and Social Development, in
collaboration with Queen's University, Canada, invites abstracts for
an interdisciplinary, international conference on the topic of Dance,
Timing and Musical Gesture. The aim of the conference is to consider
the temporal dynamics, expressive possibilities and communicative
power of dance and musical movement. The meeting will include talks,
posters, dance workshops and performances and will take place in the
beautiful and culturally vibrant city of Edinburgh. Three student
scholarships are available, covering registration and accommodation.

http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/Research/imhsd/DanceConference2008/index.html

Invited Speakers
Luis "Alien Ness" Martinez (New York City, USA) B-Boying and Hip Hop Culture
Prof. Stephanie Jordan (Roehampton University, UK) Dance Studies
Prof. Merce?de?s Pavlicevic (Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Centre,
UK) Community Music Therapy
Prof. Dee Reynolds (University of Manchester, UK) Dance and
Performance Studies
Prof. Daniel Stern (University of Geneva, Switzerland) Developmental
Psychiatry
Dr. Vicky Karkou (Queen Margaret University, UK) Dance Therapy
Dr. Peter Keller (Max Planck Institute, Germany) Neuroscience of
Movement Dr. Sophia Lycouris (Edinburgh College of Art, UK) Dance
Improvisation Dr. Jessica Philips-Silver (University of Montreal,
Canada) Neuroscience of Dance

Invited Performers and Workshop Leaders
Tricia Anderson (St. Andrews, UK) Choreography and Creative Dance Education
Etch N Sketch (Scotland, UK) B-Boy/B-Girl ?Breaking? Performers
Dr. Shelley Katz & Diana Gilchrist-Katz (ISC at Herstmonceux Castle,
UK) Gesture in Vocal Performance
Me?ta-Me?ta (London, UK) Cuban Jazz Performance

Deadline for abstracts: Monday 7 April 2008 Please send abstracts of
300-400 words to Dr. Nikki Moran (n.moran@ed.ac.uk), indicating your
discipline and your preference for a 15 minute talk, a 30 minute
workshop or a 1 hour poster presentation. For further information,
please contact Dr. Katie Overy (k.overy@ed.ac.uk) or Karen Ludke
(K.Ludke@sms.ed.ac.uk) or see the conference website
(www.music.ed.ac.uk/Research/imhsd/DanceConference2008).

Call: The Synthetic Aesthetics of New Media Art Conference seeks presenters

Subject: Reminder CFP: The Synthetic Aesthetics of New Media Art
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 06:38:03 -0500
From: Carolyn L Kane
Reply-To: Carolyn L Kane
To: PHILOS-L@liverpool.ac.uk

Call For Papers:

THE SYNTHETIC AESTHETICS OF NEW MEDIA ART
Presented by The New Media Caucus in Association with the College Art
Association
February 20-23, 2008; Dallas, TX http://conference.collegeart.org/2008/

Panel Chair: Carolyn Kane, PhD Candidate Media, Culture, and
Communication, New York University clk267@nyu.edu

Contrary to traditional aesthetic theories that argue for the primacy of
either the subjective and phenomenological, or formal and objective
interpretations of artwork, the aesthetics of electronic media, like the
logic of technical media itself, is thoroughly removed from
anthropomorphic sensibility. One could say that electronic media
aesthetics are marked by technical trauma.

However, much contemporary new media art criticism exemplifies a
hermeneutic approach that seeks to rationalize and transform work into
intelligible *art objects* for canonization and social theories. Is this
approach problematic for the logic of technical media? Can certain
attributes such as color, form, affect, or sound, effectively reconcile
computer based artwork with the subjective and humanistic drives in art
making?

The panel invites papers that address the aesthetics of New Media art in
distinction to previous aesthetic models or media platforms. For instance,
papers suggesting the ways in which color, sound, line, form, symbolism,
affect, anti-aesthetics or ideology may be distinct to new media
aesthetics are all welcomed. Essentially the panel inquires: what do
theoreticians and practitioners address in New Media art, and why? Which
artists and / or commercial work do you think best exemplifies these
issues? Special attention will be given to those abstracts that are
concerned with the use of color in New Media work.

Presenters can propose brief lectures; media or artist presentations of
their own, or other artist's work; discussions; or other acceptable
suggestions.

Timeline:
Due by October 1, 2007:
*Abstracts (max 500 words)
* Paper / Presentation Titles
*Confirmation that presenters will be able to travel to Dallas on February
20-23, 2008
* Current CV and a brief bio.
*Specification of presentation format

Send proposals and / or any question to Carolyn Kane clk267@nyu.edu
For CAA conference information visit:
http://conference.collegeart.org/2008/

Messages to the list are archived at
http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html.
Prolonged discussions should be moved to chora: enrol via
http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/chora.html.
Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at
http://www.liv.ac.uk/pal.

Call : Papers wanted for IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WWW/INTERNET 2007

-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (2nd call): 23 July 2007 --



IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WWW/INTERNET 2007

Vila Real, Portugal, 5 - 8 October 2007

(http://www.internet-conf.org/)



* Co-organised by: Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD)



* Keynote Speakers (confirmed):

Senior Researcher Ken Kahn, Oxford University and London Knowledge Lab, UK

Professor Philip Powell, Deputy Dean, University of Bath, UK



* Conference background and goals

The IADIS WWW/Internet 2007 conference aims to address the main issues of concern within WWW/Internet. WWW and Internet had a huge development in recent years. Aspects of concern are no longer just technical anymore but other aspects have aroused. This conference aims to cover both technological as well as non-technological issues related to these developments. Main tracks have been identified (see below). However innovative contributes that don’t fit into these areas will also be considered since they might be of benefit to conference attendees.



* Format of the Conference

The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS Digital Library (available online). The best paper authors will be invited to publish extended versions of their papers in the IADIS International Journal on WWW/Internet (ISSN: 1645-7641) and also in other selected Journals.



* Types of submissions

Full and Short Papers, Reflection Papers, Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process.



* Topics related to WWW/Internet are of interest. These include, but are not limited to the following areas:

- Accessibility

- Adaptive Web Systems

- Collaboration

- Computer-Mediated Communication

- Data Mining

- Database Planning and Development

- Digital Economy

- Digital Libraries and E-Publishing

- Distributed and Parallel Applications

- E-Business and E-Commerce

- E-Government

- E-Learning

- Electronic Data Interchange

- Quality, Evaluation and Assessment

- Extensible Languages

- Global Tendencies in WWW/Internet

- Groupware

- Human Computer Interaction

- Hypermedia

- Information Architectures

- Information Visualization

- Intelligent Agents

- Interfaces

- Internet & Customer Relationship Management

- Internet Payment Systems

- Internet Services

- Languages

- Metadata

- Multimedia

- Performance Issues

- Personalized Web Sites and Services

- Portal strategies

- Protocols and Standards

- Searching and Browsing

- Security Issues

- Semantic Web

- Social & Legal Issues

- Storage Issues

- System Integration

- Teaching and Learning Strategies

- Technology Innovation and Competitiveness

- Technology Management

- Technology Strategies

- Tele-Work

- WWW/Internet Applications

- WWW/Internet Case studies

- WWW/Internet Impacts

- Web Engineering

- Web Personalization

- Web Software

- Wireless Applications

- Ubiquitous Computing

- Usability

- User Modelling

- Virtual Communities

- Virtual Reality

- XML



* Important Dates:

- Submission Deadline (2nd call) – 23 July 2007

- Notification to Authors (2nd call) - 5 September 2007

- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (2nd call) - Until 17 September 2007

- Late Registration (2nd call) - After 17 September 2007

- Conference: Vila Real, Portugal, 5 to 8 October 2007



* Conference Location

The conference will be held in Vila Real, Portugal.



* Secretariat

IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WWW/INTERNET 2007

Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3

1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal

E-mail: secretariat@internet-conf.org

Web site: http://www.internet-conf.org/



* Program Committee



Program Chair

Miguel Baptista Nunes, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom



Conference Co-Chairs

Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal

João Barroso, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal



Committee Members: *
* for committee list please refer to http://www.internet-conf.org/committees.asp

Call: Call for Papers - IEEE HCI2007

Call for Papers - IEEE HCI2007 (due in 2 weeks)

4th IEEE Human Computer Interaction 2007
http://www.liacs.nl/~hci2007/

October 20th, 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
(in conjunction with ICCV2007)

Send questions/requests by email to hci2007@liacs.nl

DEADLINES

July 9, 2007: Submission of full paper
August 6, 2007: Notification of acceptance
August 15, 2007: Camera-ready full paper
October 20, 2007: Workshop

GOALS

Human computer interaction (HCI) is one of the foremost
challenges of our society. New paradigms for interacting
with computers are being developed which will define the
21st century and enable the world to communicate and interact
effortlessly and intuitively.

In order for HCI systems to interact seamlessly with people,
they will need to understand their environment through vision
and auditory input. Moreover, HCI systems should learn how
to adaptively and intelligently respond depending on the context.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers
whose work is related to human computer interaction.
We are soliciting original contributions which address
a wide range of theoretical and application issues in
human computer interaction including, but not limited to:

* New paradigms in HCI
* Affective detection and recognition
* Smart interfaces
* Human motion tracking
* Gesture recognition
* Multimedia data modeling and visualization
* Multimodal event detection and recognition
* Human motion and gesture recognition
* HCI issues in image/video retrieval
* Learning in HCI
* Input and interaction techniques
* Perceptual user interfaces
* Wearable and pervasive technologies in HCI
* Intelligent Virtual Environments

Authors should preferably use the paper submission web system to
submit full papers at

http://press.liacs.nl/hci2007/submit.html

(no longer than 10 pages in the Springer LNCS style in English).

All papers will be peer-reviewed. In the tradition of the
previous 3 meetings, these proceedings will also be
published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Michael S. Lew (General Co-Chair), LIACS Media Lab, Leiden University
Nicu Sebe (General Co-Chair), ISIS Group, University of Amsterdam
Erwin Bakker (Program Chair), LIACS Media Lab, Leiden University
Thomas S. Huang (Executive Chair), Beckman Institute, Univ. of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Kiyo Aizawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
Erwin Bakker, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Margrit Betke, Boston University, USA
Alberto del Bimbo, University of Florence, Italy
Edward Chang, Google Research, China
Ira Cohen, HP Research Labs, USA
Jeffrey Cohn, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Daniel Gatica-Perez, IDIAP Research, Switzerland
Alan Hanjalic, TU Delft, The Netherlands
Thomas Huang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Alejandro Jaimes, IDIAP Research, Switzerland
Rana el Kaliouby, MIT, USA
Ashish Kapoor, Microsoft Research, USA
Stefan Kopp, Univ. Bielefeld, Germany
Michael S. Lew, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Qiong Liu, FXPAL, USA
Maja Pantic, Imperial College, UK
Ioannis Patras, Queen Mary University, UK
Nicu Sebe, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Peter Sun, Nanjing University, China
Qi Tian, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Mathew Turk, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Jordi Vitria, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Guangyou Xu, Tsinghua University, China
Ming-Hsuan Yang, Honda Research Labs, USA
Xiang (Sean) Zhou, Siemens Research, USA

SPONSORS

IEEE

Dutch National Science Foundation - NWO

Leiden University

University of Amsterdam

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Call: Life coding opportunity at xxxxx as part of the Piksel Festival in Norway

xxxxx call 2007

xxxxx call for participation in a speculative 12 hour life coding
event (organising hardware and software) to be held in Mid-November
as part of the Piksel festival in Bergen, Norway.

Deadline for email submission: July 31st 12AM [midnight]

Life coding is a mapping of the descriptive means of hardware and
programming onto the world. In this instance it includes the invention
and construction of models and language to actively describe and code
the event; instructing, structuring, re-structuring and constructing
the 12 hours. Life coding is obviously influenced by the existence of
programming, fiction, scripting and execution.

Participation is not limited to potential forms including:

— performative presentations

— advanced participatory workshops

— actions

— interventions

The above will be assembled into shifts which move between hardware,
interface and (life) code. Proposals should suggest which shift would
be suitable. Proposed topics for shifts include open hardware in
relation to control, the world as interface, material as question of
substance (soft/hard), and the relation of technology, code and
pornography.

Please submit an introduction to your area of research/practice as
well as examples of projects, performances, texts, proposals for
advanced participatory workshops, performative presentations,
actions, interactions, interventions and email your entry to

m@1010.org

Further information on the event:

xxxxx [2007] is proposed and wilfully structured as a 12 hour life
coding event within the context of previous xxxxx activities (Crash
2005, xxxxx 2006), and influenced by Plenum (collaboration with KOP,
2006).

xxxxx [2007] will exist as a major, inspired durational, performative
event allowing for exchange and construction between invited
international participants who truly exist on the bleeding edge of
what could be termed contemporary Crash culture.

xxxxx [2007] expands software and hardware with a wilful emphasis on
construction, an interface between theory and the active entry of
making' in the world.

xxxxx [2007] as event manifests a free software-led, coded structure
of self-organisation, and unique working groups. Although some of
these events will be ongoing (for example several working groups, and
background material), the 12 hours will be assembled by way of
shifts.

http://xxxxx.1010.co.uk
http://crash.1010.co.uk
http://www.1010.co.uk

Job: SAW Video looking for a Programming Coordinator

JOB OPPORTUNITY/POSSIBILITÉ D’EMPLOI - SAW Video

(La version française suivra)

PROGRAMMING COORDINATOR - SAW Video

SAW Video is also seeking a Programming Coordinator to plan and
implement
our dynamic media arts presentation programming.

The Programming Coordinator will oversee all aspects of presentation
programming at SAW Video including (but not limited to): preparing grant
applications for programming activities; overseeing the design and
production of promotional and didactic materials; collaborating on
programming events at Club SAW that support the mandate of the centre;
fostering collaborations with embassies, arts organizations and
collectives
locally, nationally, and internationally; and attending regional and
national festivals/events related to media art when possible.
Hours of work: 28 hours per week
Salary: $21,840 per year

Qualifications:

The selected individual will have:
· Extensive knowledge of contemporary media art practice and the media
arts
milieu in Canada and abroad;
· A minimum of 3 years media arts curatorial experience;
· Proven grant writing experience;
· Strong planning and organizational skills, with the ability to
prioritize
and manage several tasks simultaneously;
· Excellent verbal and written communication skills;
· Self-motivation and the ability to work independently and
collaboratively;
· Proficiency in Adobe Photoshop, MS Word, Excel, and Outlook
applications.
· Critical writing abilities and bilingualism would be assets.

Deadline for applications: Friday, March 9th, 2007

Please submit by mail, fax, or email the following documents:
- A letter of intent (up to 2 pages) describing your skills and
experience
as they relate to this position.
- Curriculum vitae or resumé
- A reference list with names, positions and contact information for 3
references

Send to:

Hiring Committee – Programmer
SAW Video Association
67 Nicholas St., Ottawa, Ontario K1N 7B9
Phone: (613) 238-7648 / Fax: (613) 238-4617
E-mail: sawvideo@sawvideo.com

SAW Video is committed to employment equity. We thank all applicants for
their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be
contacted.

About SAW Video:
SAW Video is an artist-run centre committed to support ground-breaking
artistic production, presentation and programming of independent video
and
media art. SAW Video provides many services to its membership including
affordable technical facilities, and a wide range of programmes
designed to
create an atmosphere that will inspire production through the exchange
of
ideas around form, content and style.
In addition to providing affordable access to video production and
post-production facilities, our activities include production support
programmes for video artists, a comprehensive range of introductory,
inter-mediate and advanced workshops and as well as screenings and
exhibitions. For more information on SAW Video, check out our web site:
www.sawvideo.com.

SAW Video – Centre for the Media Arts
67 Nicholas Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 7B9
tel. (613) 238-7648 / (613) 238-4617 fax