The Cabaret Voltaire, birthplace of Dada, began on 5 February 1916 in ZĆ¼rich. 100 years later, we celebrate Dada!
Computer Conservation Society – Doron Swade on Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace, London, 18 February 2016, 2.30pm
Doron Swade’s subject is Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace: Two Visions of Computing, or, Ada Lovelace, why the fuss?
Leonardo Flores – Electronic Literature in 2016: Definitions, Trends, Preservation, and Projections
An interview with Leonardo Flores on Entropy discussing electronic literature – what it is and where it’s going.
Call for submissions for experimental literary journal Infinity’s Kitchen – ongoing deadline
Infinity’s Kitchen is a journal that explores a place for literature in a post-digital setting. We seek writings and artworks in any media that result from new recipes, or from existing recipes that have been compellingly redefined. We seek to experiment with the ways that literary work is presented to its audience.
Computer Arts Society talk: Sita Popat – Leicester, 17 March 2016, 6-8pm
Sita Popat will be talking about the Error Network Project, which explores how dance and human-computer interaction (HCI) design can inform and interrogate each other through positive engagement with the generative possibilities of ambiguity and error.
Call for entries – 12th Athens Digital Arts Festival, ‘Digital Pop’ – NEW DEADLINE 14 February 2016
What kind of digital content do we consume and what culture do we create? How are we “feeding” todayās digital markets? How ephemeral is digital Pop culture? How has digital pop culture affected our daily lives? What kind of aesthetics have emerged? How do artists respond to the current condition?
Call for applications: International Visiting Fellowships in Critical Digital & Social Media Research – deadline 29 February 2016
We invite applications for international junior and senior research fellows (from all academic backgrounds) who conduct fellowship research projects in the realm of Critical Social & Digital Media Research for the duration of 3 months in 2016.
Computer Arts Society talk: NSC Creative – Leicester, 24 February 2016, 6-8pm
NSC Creative is an award-winning UK studio with 15 years of experience in immersive media. They specialise in immersive experiences for theme parks, VR, domes, 3D/4D, museums and science centres.
McKinney International Art and Design Residency for non-US residents – deadline 15 February 2016
The School of Art and Design at Indiana University Bloomington invites applications for a 4-6 week Fall 2016 McKinney International Art and Design Residency. The residency is open to artists at all levels of their career whose primary country of residency is outside of the United States.
Call for papers – Digital Media, Psychoanalysis and the Subject – deadline 25 March 2016
Revisiting psychoanalytic theory and practice as a potential for media and communication studies, this CfP for a special issue of CM: Communication and Media Journal, to be published in December 2016, seeks to enable a dialogue between communication/media studies and psychoanalysis in order to critically explore the processes and dynamics of contemporary culture.
Electronic Superhighway (2016 – 1966) – Whitechapel Gallery, London, 29 Jan – 15 May 2016
A landmark exhibition that brings together over 100 artworks to show the impact of computer and Internet technologies on artists from the mid-1960s to the present day.
Art, Games and Play – essay by Jim Andrews
An essay about about some of the relations between computer art and games and the relation of play to art and games.