An evening featuring two performances: Shutter Flutter and Feel Me, brought to Access Space by Hacking the Body 2.0. Two interactive dance pieces, exploring custom made wearable tech garments worn by performers.
New Media Writing Prize 2015 winners announced
Announcing the winners of the New Media Writing Prize 2015.
Call for 2016 Electronic Literature Organization Prize – deadline 28 February 2016
The Electronic Literature Organization is proud to offer the following two prestigious awards, “The Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature” and “The N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature.”
Call for artworks – Artificial Life 2016 – deadline 1 April 2016
As part of its arts and culture program The 15th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALIFE 2016) will host an exhibition of artificial life and other electronic artworks, such as video- and sound-based installations as well as agent-based systems and tangible interfaces.
We Are Not Alone, curated by Michael Szpakowski – Scunthorpe, 23 Jan – 30 April 2016
Featuring work by Ruth Catlow, Robert Croma, the Empress of Blandings, Doron Golan, Liz Sterry, and Michael Szpakowski
Computer Conservation Society – ‘The Unknown Alan Turing’ by Sir John Dermot Turing, London, 21 Jan 2016, 2.30pm
Alan Turing is of course rather far from being unknown. His roles in laying the foundations of computer science and in devising a machine method for breaking into the Enigma cipher at Bletchley Park are prominent in the popular imagination. This talk will look at some of the lesser known aspects of his life and work.
‘Shadows of the Amorous’ – new Arabic electronic novel by Mohamed Sanajleh
“Shadows of the Amorous” is the fourth electronic novel by Sanajleh which he calls a “Digital Reality Novel”. You can enjoy the creative mixture of image, sound, animation, graphics and hypertext from here: ???? ?????????
Call for projects – SEEING at Science Gallery Dublin – deadline 21 January 2016
Is beauty in the eye of the beholder, or the orbitofrontal cortex? Do artists really look at the world differently, or for that matter does sex, species, or attitude change what you see? How is seeing more than just looking, and could vision be just one of many ways of seeing? How does the brain interpret what our eyes glimpse, and how will computers, artificial intelligence, and machines further change the way we look at our world?
The New Media Writing Prize 2015 shortlist – vote for People’s Choice Award
The New Media Writing Prize 2015 shortlist is out, featuring work by Viccy Adams and Samantha Silver, Jason Nelson, Christy Dena, Rob Witting and Mark C. Marino, Alan Bigelow, the High Muck a Muck Collective, Shaun Hickman, Annie Hitchman and Mashushala Senaratne. Vote for your favourite shortlister through the People’s Choice Award, now open to votes.
Call for papers: Multisensory Encounters with the Literary – deadline 10 February 2016
This special issue of CounterText is interested in exploring encounters between literature and the multisensory.
Free Event: Portrait of the Machine as a Young Artist, British Library, London – 18 February 2016, 6-8pm
In this evening conversation we take a look at Computational Creativity, a discipline operating at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy of Mind.
Call for papers – Eurographics Workshop on Graphics for Digital Fabrication 2016, Lisbon – deadline 20 February 2016
Digital fabrication technologies comprise a combination of programmable digital tools, processes, materials and equipment which allow the creation of physical objects of complexities not achievable by traditional manufacturing processes. Computer graphics research is at the centre of these developments, as it provides the underlying technologies which allow creating, validating and processing the 3D shapes and textures to be fabricated. We invite paper submission from a wide range of researchers and experts investigating on the many aspects related to computer graphics and digital fabrication technologies.