Call for papers and artworks – International Conference on Information Visualisation, iV 2016 and CGIV 2016, Lisbon – deadline 1 February 2016

A number of invited speakers and tutorial sessions will review current state-of-the-art developments and outline future directions. This embedded with the current research being undertaken in industry and in academia will provide coverage of the salient aspects and sub-areas of visualization and graphics. Such work will be presented in a series of symposia.

The New River, a journal of digital writing & art – Winter 2015

The Winter 2015 issue of The New River includes the feature ‘The Conjunctions: Experiments in Collaboration’, edited by Jill Talbot and Eric LeMay, where fourteen contributors have challenged themselves with extending the boundaries of the essay form through multimedia, mixing everything from interactive graphics to spoken word with musical accompaniment. The issue also features work by Matt Mullins, Lyndee Prickett … Read More

MzTEK.org – Sophie McDonald at the Computer Arts Society, London, 18 January 2016, 6-8pm

MzTEK.org is a women’s art and technology education and showcasing initiative, founded in 2009 by Sophie McDonald and Sally Northmore, in collaboration with Space Studios, with the aim of addressing the gender imbalance in it’s field. It is a loose collection of women artists working with technology that come together to run workshops, talk series and showcases. This talk will present some of the major projects MzTEK has delivered since 2009 including Chi-TEK and Hacked Human Orchestra.

Rhizome Awarded $600,000 by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to build Webrecorder

From: http://rhizome.org/editorial/2016/jan/04/webrecorder-mellon/ Rhizome is thrilled to announce today that The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the institution a two-year, $600,000 grant to underwrite the comprehensive technical development of Webrecorder, an innovative tool to archive the dynamic web. The grant is the largest Rhizome has ever received and arrives at the start of its 20th anniversary year in 2016. The … Read More

ICT & Art – the StARTS platform (Innovation at the nexus of Science, Technology and the Arts) – deadline 12 April 2016

https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/ict-art-starts-platform ICT can enhance our capacity to sense the world, but an artwork can reach audiences on intrinsic emotional levels. Scientific and technological skills are not the only forces driving innovation. Creativity and the involvement of society play a major role in the innovation process and its endorsement by all. In this context, the Arts serve as catalysts in an … Read More

Open Call for EX Experimental New Media Art Prize – deadline 16 January 2016

One of EXā€™s main goals is to support and promote well-constructed electronic art. That is, an art practice capable of dialoguing with its background, committed to regain its experimental vocation, and determined to develop an independent thinking about the machine. EX focuses on projects dealing with an object that is not fully surrendered to the technology and/or the science behind it. EXā€™s prize second edition will award the winnerā€™s proposal with 1,000 ā‚¬. The second best proposal will be offered a spot at Just Residence 2017. This is a four-week art residency program conceived for artists with gallery representation.