SILENCE AWARENESS EXISTENCE Special theme residency program by Arteles in HƤmeenkyrƶ, Finland 1 or 2 month periods in Dec 2015 / Jan 2016 / Feb 2016 Deadline for applications: 15th of April 2015 Retreat into existence The Finnish winter being famous for its darkness, S.A.E offers an extreme retreat into existence through art, silence and nature. The program brings together … Read More
Computer Arts Society Lecture: Dr Paul Coulton, ‘Speculative Game Design’ – London, 11 March 2015, 6pm
6pm for 6:30 on March 11th at the October Gallery, 24 Old Gloucester Street, WC1N 3AL London Free tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/speculative-game-design-dr-paul-coulton-tickets-15976690712 “Speculative Game Design” In this talk I will consider a design manifesto of using games as speculative designs through which players might explore scenarios that represent plausible alternative presents and speculative futures. The talk will review future orientated design … Read More
Call for applications: International M.A. in New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam – deadline 1 April 2015
International M.A. in New Media and Digital Culture Āat the University of Amsterdam Call for Applications forĀ Fall 2015, rolling admissions close on 1 April 2015 One-year and two-year New Media M.A. Programs available. For the two-year “Research Master’s Program: New Media Specialisation,” see below. ### International M.A. in New Media & Digital Culture (one-year program) ### /// Overview The … Read More
Second Poster for the Exhibition #remix
for remixworx, from Bauhaus gifs by Matthew Lucas (here and here) + Poster for the Exhibition + Barbican Bauhaus learning resource <- Plakat zur Bauhaus-Ausstellung in Weimar 1923 (Poster for the 1923 Bauhaus Exhibition in Weimar) by Joost Schmidt source files
CoLAB (Hackney, London) open call for inaugural Associates – deadline 20 March 2015
http://www.artandtechnologyspace.com/ Placing prototyping at the heart of artistic provocation to enable innovation without constraint, celebrating process over product. Applications are now open to become part of the inaugural community of Associates at CoLAB – SPACEās new creative innovation and prototyping incubator. Environment CoLAB features 12 workstations radiating from a prototyping area, designed to encourage a democratic environment for innovation and … Read More
Call for papers – Texto Digital – first deadline 1 May 2015
Texto Digital, the electronic journal edited and published by the Center for Research in Informatics, Literature and Linguistics (NuPILL) at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil, informs that submissions for articles are open for its 2015.1 and 2015.2 issues. This year we celebrate the 20th anniversary of both the beginning of the massification process of modern internet as … Read More
Secrets of the Dark Net: Jamie Bartlett and Zach Blas – London, 14 May 2015, 6.30pm
Public Lecture:Ā Secrets of the Dark Net, Jamie Bartlett; The Contra-Internet, Zach BlasĀ 14 May 2015, 18.30-20.30, Edmund J. Safra Lecture TheatreĀ http://secretsofdarknet.eventbrite.co.uk Jamie Bartlett, author ofĀ The Dark NetĀ and member of the think tank, Demos, will be giving this keynote lecture on the secret side of the Internet. Bartlett will discuss some of the net’s most shocking and unexplored subcultures including trolling, … Read More
Open call for MediaWall digital artwork (Bath Spa University) – deadline 8 March 2015
During the first year from its opening, Bath Spa University (BSU) has filled MediaWall with a number of artworks including works by international artists Julian Opie and Bruce Munro and also the text-based OAK, a response to the Letter to the Unknown Soldier project. For the month of July 2015, we are supporting the creation of a new artwork by … Read More
FLOSS4P2P: distributed FLOSS for communities – London, 16-17 March 2015
FLOSS4P2P: Call for Participation A 2-day London workshop in March, gathering FLOSS projects that are building software for peer production and organization, with a focus on distributed platforms.Ā Scholarships to attend are offered to grassroots communities. ** Context ** We know that the Internet was originally decentralized, with protocols and services built by hackers. However, with the arrival of the celebrated … Read More
kimisms
for remixworx, from ‘Decoding North Korea’s fish and mushroom slogans‘ + flag by think0 source files
Politics of Big Data conference – King’s College London – 8 May 2015
Book your (free) ticket via Eventbrite http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/politics-of-big-data-tickets-15741681794 ——————- POLITICS OF BIG DATA CONFERENCE – King’s College London – MAY 8TH 2015 “Big Dataā is a contested term describing the increasing pervasiveness of data generation, gathering and mining in our society. The unprecedented market success Facebook, Google, and related digital, media, and marketing corporations is predicated on Big Data. Furthermore, as … Read More