Chris Joseph

The Computer Arts Society celebrates CAS 40 - 40 year of supporting the computer arts

CAS is pleased to announce the launch of its Autumn programme with an afternoon/evening joint meeting with the TESLA Group at UCL. All CAS meetings are free and open to the public though please note an RSVP is necessary for the afternoon session.

The CAS AGM will be held in the break as indicated

Venue University College London, Gower Street - room to be confirmed
Tuesday 2 September 2008

15:00 Registration and coffee
15:15 Murray McKeitch http://tinyurl.com/56o74o
16:00 Peter Bentley http://www.peterjbentley.com/
16:45 Julie Freeman http://www.juliefreeman.co.uk/
17:30 Drinks and refreshments (60 min)
CAS AGM (in parallel - 20 min)
18:30 Peter Zinovieff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Zinovieff
19:30 ~ Pub/Dinner (BYO)

A further announcement will be made with detail of talks and location. Due to catering arrangements an RSVP is required if you intend to attend the afternoon session and break/CAS AGM. The evening talk is open to the public and no RSVP is necessary.

RSVP to Paul Brown - paul [at] paul-brown.com

http://www.computer-arts-society.org

http://www.digitalfringe.com.au

**Digital Fringe is now accepting entries (video, stills or audio) **

Ferret around your hard drives, dig up some gems and have your stuff seen on hundreds of screens

Digital Fringe: Part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival (September 24 -October 12)

Uploaded content will be moderated and tagged by the Digital Fringe team then popped in a video carousel that plays on hundreds of screens around the world.

Digital Fringe plays on home computers and public screens, from grand urban screens to retail television displays, hospitality venues, galleries and other nooks and crannys. This extensive network of screens is seen by thousands of viewers.

http://www.digitalfringe.com.au

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Registration is open for the 5th Research into Practice conference at the Royal Society of Arts in London on 31 October 2008. You can register online at
http://sitem.herts.ac.uk/artdes_research/res2prac/regcgi2008.html

The conference will explore the problem of interpretation in research in the visual and performing arts. The keynote speakers will be W.J.T. Mitchell (Chicago) and Griselda Pollock (Leeds).

THEME

It is characteristic of research outputs, reports and theses in traditional disciplines that they are expressed in unambiguous language. One reason for this is to establish the grounds and argument from which the conclusions derive. Another reason is to be quite clear and explicit about what is being claimed as original by the author for the research. This characteristic has the effect of reinforcing the dominant knowledge models such as “the scientific method”, “empirical methods”, etc. However these models come from disciplines whose aims and objectives may differ from those in the arts and humanities. There has been much discussion about the suitability of such models for the visual and performing arts, which seem to rely on a more pluralistic approach to interpretation which values the fact that different generations and different cultures find their own value in the artefact.

Does this difference of explicitness between traditional disciplines and the arts mean that their research outputs cannot be compared? What is the status of the outcomes of research in the visual and performing arts in terms of what is known or discovered? Is research in these areas actually trying to achieve something quite different, and if so what? Is the value of research something constructed by the receiver, and if so what would that mean for knowledge-models in the arts? Are its outcomes more contingent than those in other disciplines because of this difference in the role of interpretation by the reader/viewer? Does the scientific method really result in unambiguous interpretation, or conversely is interpretation really so subjective in the arts?

The conference will focus on the theory of interpretation in research in traditional disciplines and on the emerging theory of interpretation in research in the visual and performing arts.

Conference website:
http://sitem.herts.ac.uk/artdes_research/res2prac/confhome.html

www.dreamingmethods.com

The Dreaming Methods website has been redesigned, with a new style, browsing for projects by keywords, categories or appearance, extensive essays and resources section and a growing list of featured digital writing/new media websites.

Call to participate in the 2nd Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards Competition (7000 Euros)

MindTrek Conference
October 7-9, 2008 | Tampere, Finland

DEADLINE: 12th September 2008 16:00

http://www.mindtrek.org
http://www.mindtrek.org/competition/ubi

The Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards is an international competition arranged by MindTrek, Nokia and Tampere Region Centre of Expertise in Ubiquitous Computing, and the NAMU research group.

The purpose of the competition is to encourage makers of digital media to generate ideas and develop new and innovative ubimedia products & services. The entries are expected to take a stand on the following questions, for example:

• How does ubiquitous computing affect media environments?
• What are intelligent media environments like?
• What will the location- and context-aware media services of the future be like?

A few other examples are:
• Pervasive and ubiquitous games
• Ambient installations
• Artistic works related to ubiquitous media and computation
• Business models
• Ambient and ubiquitous media technology
• Ubiquitous and ambient media services, devices, and environments
• Context aware, sensing, and interfaces for ubiquitous computation
• Ergonomics, human-computer interaction designs, and product prototypes
• Software, hardware and middleware framework demonstrations
• Ambient television
• etc.

The total award sum for the Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek competition category is 7 000€. The sum can be awarded to one entry, divided between several entries or not awarded at all if the award criteria set by the jury are not fulfilled.

All ubimedia, ubiquitous, pervasive, or ambient products or product and service concepts which have been finalized during the previous year after 1st January 2007 are eligible to take part in the competition.

How to participate?

Please check out the website http://www.mindtrek.org/competition/ubi for entry forms and actual information.

In case of questions, please contact:

Dr. Artur Lugmayr, artur.lugmayr [at] tut.fi, Tel.: +358 40 821 0558, Skype: lartur

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MEDIA ART HISTORY 09
Re:live
Third International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology
Melbourne 26-29 November 2009

Call For Papers - Deadline 19th December 2008
http://www.mediaarthistory.org

Sponsored by Leonardo and the Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne)

Following the success of Media Art History 05 Re:fresh in Banff and Media Art History 07 Re:place in Berlin, Media Art History 09 Re:live in Melbourne will host three days of keynotes, panels and poster sessions Media Art History 09 - Re:live, a refereed conference, is calling for papers, panels and posters on the histories of digital, electronic and technological media arts. With the theme of Re:live we are especially interested in expanding the range of topics to include sustainability, live arts and the technological arts of life, both organic and non-organic.

How do the media arts change? Through innovation, accident, discovery, mutation or crisis? How did contemporary media arts come to look and sound like they do? What options and potentialities and eccentricities in the history of media have been lost or overlooked or suppressed? What hopes have been realized and which dashed? What is the history of speculation on alternate histories, and how have they altered the course of media art history?

Participants are asked to address at least one the following areas in their abstract:
- histories of the art-science-technology connection in particular works, careers, exhibitions and institutions, especially in national and regional perspective
- histories of biology, the life sciences and bioart in relation to media arts
- histories of the environment, environmental sciences, ideas of sustainability and ecology in the discourses and practices of media arts
- histories of liveness and performance in relation to media arts theory and practice, including network performance, multimedia performance and the relation of media to the histories of theater
- histories of the life of machines, cyborgs, virtual communities and the arts of transmission
- histories of the liveness of real-time arts and art-science-technology collaborations in such areas as earth sciences, meteorology and astronomy
- histories of innovation, accident, discovery, and speculation on alternative futures in media arts

We particularly wish to encourage presentations from and about these histories in the Asia-Pacific region. Proposals are welcomed from artists, curators, arts organizers and researchers in media, art history, performance studies, literature, film, and science and technology studies.

Selected papers from the conference will be published in Leonardo (MIT Press). We are negotiating with academic presses for one or two anthologies from the conference.

Submissions: A dedicated website with updates and online paper submission system is available at http://www.mediaarthistory.org. Abstracts of proposals, panel presentations and posters should be submitted in either text, RTF, PDF or Word formats

Deadline for 200 word abstracts: 19th December 2008. Please submit proposals at
http://moodle.donau-uni.ac.at/relive/openconf.php

Sean Cubitt and Paul Thomas, conference co-chairs.

the museu d’art contemporani d’eivissa and the biennial committee are organizing the 20 biennal d’eivissa, which shall open in autumn 2008 in the museu d’art contemporani d’eivissa and which shall governed by the following rules:

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GRANTS FOR ARTS WRITERS

Online application form will open on Monday, August 4, 2008
Deadline for completed applications is Monday, September 22

http://www.artswriters.org

The Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program announces its third round of grants as part of the Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Initiative.

The online application form will open on Monday, August 4, 2008 and the deadline for completed applications is Monday, September 22, 2008.

The Arts Writers Grant Program recognizes and supports individual writers working on contemporary visual art through project-based grants ranging from 3,000 USD – 50,000 USD. Writers who meet the program’s eligibility requirements are invited to apply for grants in the following categories: articles, short-form writing, and blogs/new and alternative media. (Please note that the program also funds book projects; however, the deadline for applications to this category has already passed.)

For guidelines and eligibility requirements, please visit http://www.artswriters.org