Call for entries – 10th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS) – first deadline 23 June 2017

10th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTERACTIVE DIGITAL STORYTELLING (ICIDS) November 14-17, 2017 This year, the International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS 2017) will take place in Funchal, Madeira Islands, Portugal and be hosted by the ?Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute . ICIDS has its origin in a series of related international conferences that ran between 2001 and 2007. Since 2008, ICIDS … Read More

Open Data Institute

Call for artworks from the Open Data Institute (offering loan/production fees) – deadline 26 April 2017

http://theodi.org/blog/call-for-proposals-lmao Where is the humour in data? In these meme-fuelled, data-overloaded, statistically skewed times, we are asking how, when and where can data be funny. Data infrastructures are revealing themselves to direct, redirect or misdirect our news, our governments and ultimately our cultures. How can we find the comedy – dark or light – in the flow of data surrounding … Read More

No Way Out: Theatre as a Mediatised Practice – London, 20-21 April 2017

No Way Out: Theatre as a Mediatised Practice TaPRA Performance & New Technologies Interim Event Birkbeck University of London & London South Bank University, April 20th & 21st [please scroll down for registration details] Mediatisation – the increasingly pervasive influence of new media technologies in the form of social institutions and ideological apparatuses on society, culture and consciousness since the … Read More

Stepworks

Stepworks – new E-lit tool by Erik Loyer

Stepworks is a new site dedicated to “one-button storytelling.” Every work on the site is available for you to perform, modify, or replace with your own content. You can remix the content of any story with the look and feel of any other.

Ugly Duck

Real / Virtual – Ugly Duck’s Creative Call Out – deadline 3 April 2017

In an era where technology is fully assimilated in society, art and media, augmented and virtual reality have shifted the definition of what constitutes the ā€˜real world’. What is the meaning of reality today? ā€˜Does ā€˜virtual’ necessarily stand in opposition to ā€˜real’?

Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture

Call for papers: Algorithmic electronic dance music – deadline 23 March 2017

Algorithms are at the heart of the virtual studio software applications underwriting so much contemporary dance music, but are normally the prior preserve of music engineering teams rather than musicians. This special issue, however, engages with algorithms as musical material, and especially with music which is inherently founded on computer programming technique.