Thursday 18 February 2010

The EYE-KEA Project Research Iniative

The EYE-KEA project is a research initiative aiming to open discussions concerning video art, web 2.0, Throwaway Culture, and the impact of technology on visual and popular culture.
Screening works by established and emerging video artists who are pushing the elements of video art, and opening further discussions through a one-day symposium.
This event has been proposed in order to discuss and define what is currently happening to visual culture in light of technological advances which are changing the way we relate to and interact with culture.

Wednesday 17 February 2010

Politics & Public Space

SUBMIT for Issue#4 Theme: Politics & Public Space Deadline - April 1st

Publishing opportunity (online) for reviews, articles and photography.

Images: Up to three images. Should be 300 DPI and at least 1200 pixels on widest side. Save them as RGB, JPEG files on setting 12 (do not optimize).

Statement: All images and projects should be accompanied by a Statement relevant to the specific submission. Should be no more than 200 words long and contained in Email body.

Monday 15 February 2010

IMAGINE: Towards an eco-aesthetic

Aarhus Art Building, Centre for Contemporary Art
OPEN CALL FOR PROPOSALS

IMAGINE
Towards an eco-aesthetic, 2011
The Aarhus Art Building,
Centre for Contemporary Art, Denmark

Artists and curators are
hereby invited to submit
proposals for 2011.

Deadline March 15

http://www.aarhuskunstbygning.dk

Only when people are in a position to use their own creative potentials, which can be enhanced by an artistic imagination, will a change occur [....] Art can and should strive for an alternative that is not only aesthetically affirmative and productive but is also beneficial to all forms of life on our planet.
Rasheed Araeen: Ecoaesthetics. A Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century

OF Lab / Project workshop

Deadline for project proposals 19 Feb 2010.
OF Lab / Project workshop

We are please to announce that to celebrate the conclusion of the Decode show at the V&A museum, we will be hosting an OF Lab from February 26th-28th. It's a completely free event, where we will basically take over the Sackler Centre for Arts Education at V&A, create a space for hacking and experimenting collectively. We've assembled quite a bit of kit (projectors, computers, cameras) and are pretty psyched about the venue. At all times, our space will be open for the members of the V&A public, who will be invited to observe and even participate in the process.

Sunday 14 February 2010

Workshop on Multimodal Location Based Techniques for Extreme Navigation Workshop

Second call for papers -
Workshop on Multimodal Location Based Techniques for Extreme Navigation Workshop in conjunction with Pervasive 2010 Helsinki Finland Monday 17th May 2010 http://www.haptimap.org/events/organized-events/pervasive.html
and twitter as extremenav10

Submission deadline 15th March 2010

Accepted authors may submit extended versions for inclusion in a special issues of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing to appear in 2010.

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Location-based data and services for geographical and navigational information (such as electronic maps and gps directions), are usually presented using visual displays. With the increasing complexity of information, and the variety of contexts of use, it becomes important to consider how other non-visual sensory channels, such as audition and touch, can be used to communicate necessary and timely information to users. Activities such as running, rock-climbing and cycling, are all examples of activities where navigational and geographical information may be needed, but where the visual modality is unsuitable. Additionally, there are a number of user groups such as visually impaired people and the emergency services, who also require non-visual access to geo-data. This workshop will provide a forum for sharing  research ideas and findings about new interaction and perceptualization metaphors, novel application contexts, multimodal and context-aware technologies for mobility -- thereby creating a solid foundation for further exploration of pervasive extreme navigation.

Topics
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Topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:

Sensing and applying user context to navigation and wayfinding Multimodal techniques to augment visual map displays Multimodal navigation systems for extreme sports Multimodal navigation systems for runners Multimodal systems for rescue workers Navigation systems for "eyes-busy" activities Wearable technology and textiles for navigation Environmental awareness for Disabilities and Visual Impairment.
User requirements capture/user involvement for non visual design

Submission details
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Submissions of either position papers or demo abstracts covering the topics of the workshop should be submitted by 15 March 2010.

4 page position papers or 2 page demo abstracts should be submitted in ACM format (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) as camera ready pdf files.

Friday 12 February 2010

Wellcome Trust >> Arts Awards

Small to medium-sized projects (up to and including £30 000)
Funding can either be used to support the development of new project ideas, deliver small-scale productions or workshops, investigate and experiment with new methods of engagement through the arts, or develop new collaborative relationships between artists and scientists.

Large projects (above £30 000)
This funding can be used to fund full or part production costs for large-scale arts projects that aim to have significant impact on the public's engagement with biomedical science. We are also interested in supporting high-quality, multi-audience, multi-outcome projects.

Applicants can apply for any amount within the above boundaries, for projects lasting a maximum of three years.

Deadlines:

For small to medium-sized projects (up to and including £30 000) upcoming deadlines are:

  • 29 January 2010
  • 30 April 2010
  • 30 July 2010
  • 29 October 2010

Decisions will be made approximately three months after the relevant deadline.

For large projects (over £30 000) the deadline for preliminary applications will be 8 January 2010. Decisions will be made approximately six months after the deadline.

http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/Public-engagement/Grants/Arts-Awards/

Thursday 11 February 2010

If...

Call for proposals

Who: all artforms.
What: If.... is a series of projects
that g39 is initiating as part of the
2009-10 season. g39 is changing
the way it uses the space and the
opportunities it can offer to artists.
It is making the ground floor space
available to independent artist
projects, experiments,
performances etc. This opportunity
is open to artists, curators and
other arts professionals at any
stage in their career who have an
idea they’d like to try out in a
gallery environment or new work
that they’d like to expose to a new
audience. These projects will
alternate with g39’s exhibition
programme.

Heritage and the Olympics

HERITAGE and the OLYMPICS
The 11th Cambridge Heritage Seminar
University of Cambridge, UK

24 April 2010
http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/heritage-seminar

CALL FOR PAPERS
The 11th Cambridge Heritage conference seeks to examine the Olympics as a global and a local phenomenon affecting heritage by addressing two themes:
(1) the Olympics as heritage and (2) the impact of the Olympics on cultural heritage. Every four years the Olympics goes beyond just being a sporting event, offering a local and a global stage where countries can promote and showcase themselves to the world. Cultural heritage is intimately entangled in the games, both in terms of the Olympics as historic, but also in how the event impacts the cultural heritage of the host country.

Re-appraising the Neo-georgian

RE-APPRAISING THE NEO-GEORGIAN, 1880-1980 An International Interdisciplinary Conference Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London.
5-6 May 2011

Organised by the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art, English Heritage and the Open University.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Cultural Role of Architecture

THE CULTURAL ROLE OF ARCHITECTURE
University of Lincoln

24-25 June 2010
conferences@lincoln.ac.uk

CALL FOR PAPERS
What role can architecture play as a form of cultural expression? What is architecture capable of communicating in its current means of production, and in current economic structures? What can or should architecture communicate beyond its function? How does architecture participate in cultural and individual identity formation, and in cultural transformations?
What role can contemporary architecture play in the expression and development of the ideas and values of a culture, and in the intellectual development of the individual? To what extent is architecture becoming increasingly commodified, and increasingly marginalized as a form of cultural expression?

HOME, MIGRATION and the CITY: NEW NARRATIVES, NEW METHODOLOGIES

Conference
Scandic Linköping Vast, Linköping, Sweden

6-10 August 2010
http://www.esf.org/activities/esf-conferences/details/2010/confdetail317.html

There has been a recent surge of scholarship from human geography, sociology, history, architecture, and cultural studies that focuses on migration as a social, political, cultural and material process. This area of research on migration examines migrants’ transnational spatial practices, social and political identities and relationships with the state.
Central to this research has been a recognition that at the heart of migration lies a fundamental transformation in spaces and places that are linked to the social and cultural meanings of home and belonging. This conference takes ‘narratives’ – broadly defined as stories, diaries, myths, photographs, music, films, media images and representations of movement – as the analytical starting point for new research on migration.

Beyond Precedent

BEYOND PRECEDENT
Journal of Architectural Education

Theme Editors
Saundra Weddle, Associate Professor, Drury University (sweddle@drury.edu) Marc J. Neveu, Assistant Professor, California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo (mneveu@calpoly.edu)

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Although the National Architectural Accreditation Board (NAAB) requires that students understand historical traditions and global culture, it does not mandate the method of instruction. Still, many schools offer a suite of architectural history lectures that are often perceived as distinct from studio topics. The relegation of history, theory and criticism to a supporting role is furthered by the outdated notion that history courses serve primarily to provide a buffet of precedent studies focusing on form and technique. Such an approach, born of historical methods and pedagogies that emphasize stylistic and typological diagnosis, fails to recognize the depth of historical inquiry, changes within the discipline of history itself and increasingly diverse design pedagogies. Is it possible to propose more complex relationships between history and design?

Scale

Conference at the University of Kent
Scale is a word which underlies much of architectural and urban design practice, its history and theory, and its technology. Its connotations have traditionally been linked with the humanities, in the sense of relating to human societies and to human form. To build in scale goes virtually without saying in the world of ‘polite’ architecture, but this is a precept observed more often in the breach when it comes to vast swathes of commercial and institutional design. The older, more particular, meaning in the humanities, pertaining to classical western culture, is where the sense of scale often resides in cultural production. Scale may be traced back, ultimately, to the discovery of musical harmonies, or it may reside in the arithmetic proportional relationship of the building to its parts. One might question the continued relevance of this understanding of scale in the global world of today. What, in other words, is culturally specific about scale? And what does scale mean in a world where an intuitive, visual understanding is often undermined or superseded by other senses, or by hyper-reality?

acoustic space 8

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CALL FOR PAPERS:

ENERGY. Scientific and artistic, utopian and critical visions of future terrestrial energy.
Acoustic Space (Issue nr. 8)

"Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it can only be transformed."
(The law of conservation of energy)

RIXC Centre for New Media Culture is seeking manuscripts for the upcoming Acoustic Space journal entitled "ENERGY" (nr.8).

The journal will be published in between the previous Art+Comunication festival with the title ENERGY (organized by RIXC in 2009, http://rixc.lv/09) and the forthcoming 2010 festival conference - NETWORKS AND SUSTAINABILITY. This conference event will be held in Riga, June 16-18, 2010 (moderated by Armin Medosch and Rasa Smite), and it will be a part of the 6th European Meeting of SLSA (the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts) taking place in Riga and Liepaja, Latvia, June 15-20, 2010 (http://www.e-text-textiles.lv/SLSAeu2010/home.htm).

Concrete Geometries

Call for Submissions
Deadline 12th April 2010.
Concrete Geometries Spatial Form in Social and Aesthetic Processes
Over the past decade architecture has witnessed a revolution in design and fabrication tools available to the discipline that has changed the way we imagine space forever. Digital design methods for form finding and implementing have produced an influential body of work, preoccupied with the development of novel,
complex and heterogeneous spatial form.

This form, simply referred to as ‘geometry’, is often evaluated through performance driven issues emphasising the environmental and structural parameters that shape it. Yet, throughout history, the emergence of new spatial forms and with them new architectural styles, bear significance beyond advances in technology but in relation to what they offer to the human condition in terms of aesthetic
and social processes – issues currently under-represented by the discourse.
‘Concrete Geometries’ is a work-in-progress term derived from the notion of ‘concrete’ as ‘existing in reality or in actual experience’ or ‘capable of being perceived by the senses’ and the abbreviation ‘geometries’ for the constructed environment. ‘Concrete Geometries’ like Concrete Science, Concrete Music or Concrete Art is interested in the particular and immediate, concerned with actual use or practice.‘Concrete Geometries’ is an attempt to expand this current debate.

Designing a Business Degree at the Parsons School for Design

Design journalist & editor Bruce Nussbaum describes a workshop at Parsons School of Design:

"The Design & Management program within the School of Design Strategies program at Parsons is huge—600 students, growing fast—and the goal of the workshop was to shape its future. The program began a few years back when students (and their parents) expressed a desire to get into the business side of the fashion industry (hence, it began as a “human-centered” program based on students/parents desires/needs). Now Parsons wants to extend the curriculum and teaching staff to enable students to do Design and Design Thinking in all spheres of society, from business and medical services to social innovation. In short, the business degree program at Parsons wants to grow into the new wider space of Design as it has evolved from product to process, from stuff to experience." Read on after the link ...

http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/NussbaumOnDesign/archives/2010/02/designing_a_bus.html

Call For Papers: EPIC2010 道 Do / The way of ethnography

When: August 29-September 1, 2010

Where: Midtown Conference Center, Tokyo, Japan
Papers: Abstract submission deadline March 14, 2010
Workshops: Proposal submission deadline April 22, 2010
Artifacts: Proposal submission deadline May 2, 2010
Pecha Kucha: Proposal submission deadline May 9, 2010

The start of this new decade marks an exciting new departure for EPIC, as we move beyond North America and Europe for the first time – to Tokyo.

EPIC is the premier international forum bringing together artists, computer scientists, designers, social scientists, marketers, academics and advertisers - and others! - to discuss recent developments and future advances around ethnographic praxis.

We seek original, high quality and engaging papers, workshops, artifacts and
presentations concerning ethnographic praxis in industry, including case studies on research investigations, methodological & theoretical advances, discussions on outcomes, standards, and new applications of ethnography around this year’s conference theme:

道 Do / The way of ethnography

Do captures the sense of individual mastery that is achieved only with the help of a
community and its rich heritage. Do implies a body of knowledge and tradition with an ethic and an aesthetic.

Do is the “path” we have travelled and also the way ahead of us.

'Do' is one's sense of value reflected in a number of spiritual, martial, or aesthetic
disciplines which has been very influential in every aspect of Japanese cultures and societies. 'Bushido,' as portrayed in the movie 'Last Samurai,' is one of the most famous examples of the Japanese way of thinking. Also, Do can be seen in martial arts (e.g. Judo, Aikido and Karate-do), and in aesthetics, such as Sado (the way of tea), Kado (the way of flowers) and Shodo (the way of writing).

Join Epic 2010 and help define Ethnography’s Do. Show others “the way” of doing ethnography in your context, in your industry, in your geography, for your goals.

For up to date information and further details please visit:
http://www.epiconference.com/epic2010

Send any inquiry about the conference to: info@epic2010.com

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Wednesday 10 February 2010

Conversations about Innovation

Date

16 February, 2010 - 18 February, 2010

Location

Lancaster University

Description

with:

Daria Loi, Research scientist, Intel USA

Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, Tinker.it!, London, UK

Lucy Kimbell, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, UK

This is a short informal series of events around innovation, in part organised around the Experimentality annual research programme, in collaboration with the Department of Sociology, Centre for Mobilities Research and Mobilities.Lab, Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts, ImaginationLancaster, the Highwire Doctoral Training Centre, the Computing Department, and the projects Desire: Creative Design for Innovation in Science and Technology and Relocating Innovation. The idea is to explore different forms, practices and motivations around innovation. The series leads up to the Experimental Objects workshop on 18-19 February.

16 February

16:00-18:00 LICA Research Seminar

Lucy Kimbell on Aesthetic Play and interdisciplinary Ambiguity, Venue: B17 Bowland Annexe (Art Building)

19:00 Dinner

17 February

10:30-12:30 Experience design

Daria Loi, Venue TBA

Discussants: Daniela Sangiorgi, Monika Buscher, Corina Sas, Lucy Kimbell (Management School, Lecture Theatre 6)

12:30-13:30 Lunch

from 18:30 Craft/design your own pancake ;-)

Pancake party in the Sociology back courtyard

18 February

Different forms/motivations/orientations to Innovation

09:30-10:15 Innovation at Intel

Daria Loi, (Management School, Lecture Theatre 9)

10:15-10:45 Coffee

10:45-11:30 The New Chit Chat: design conversations through prototyping

Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino,

(Management School, Lecture Theatre 9)

11:30-12:00 Discussion

Discussant: Lucy Suchman and open discussion

13.30 onwards - Experimental Objects workshop, Storey Creative Industries Centre.

For more information, contact Monika Buscher (m.buscher [at] lancaster.ac.uk).

Thursday 4 February 2010

Politics of Design

Politics of Design
Deadline for abstracts 25 Feb 2010
International Workshop (24-25 June 2010, Manchester UK)

Organised by the Manchester Architecture Research Centre
http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/research/marc/

In the last decade numerous STS trained scholars engaged in a venture of unpacking design practices. Yet, to study the practical course of design means to be simultaneously involved in the subject of politics and in the particular sort of politics that is centred on objects (Latour & Weibel, Making Things Public). Recent studies in political philosophy and STS have argued that politics is not limited anymore to citizens, elections, votes, petitions, ideologies and particular institutionalised conflicts (DeVries, What is Political in Sub- politics?), and have reformulated the question of politics into one of cosmopolitics (Stengers, Cosmopolitics; Latour, Politics of Nature) and ontological politics (Mol, Actor Network Theory and After). The “political” is not defined as a way of codifying particular forms of contestation but as opening up new sites and objects of contestation (Barry, Political Machines).

Research Informed Teaching Conference

Research informed Teaching: Delivering participation, engagement and enquiry
Deadline for papers: 28 Feb 2010

Conference
Wednesday July 14 2010, 9.30am – 4.45pm
Staffordshire University
Keynote Speakers:
Prof. Alan Jenkins, Oxford Brookes University

Monday 1 February 2010

Aotearoa Digital Arts

Deadline 5 Feb 2010
Call for participation in Electrosmog International Festival for Sustainable Immobility

As part of Aotearoa Digital Arts' participation in the electrosmog festival, we invite you to submit plans for projects that engage with one or more of the festival's themes (listed below).

The projects can take any appropriate form: distributed, networked, self-contained, globally participatory, localised, mobile, immobile, object-based, immaterial, grandiose, self-effacing, high-tech, low-tech, strategic, tactical, audio, visual, tactile...

The projects need to be carried out on or before the weekend of March 18-20 2010, and able to be documented online on or before the end of the festival (for international appreciation).

ElectroSmog International Design Competition

Deadline 15 Feb 2010
Call for designs.

Today we issued the call for the international design competition for sustainable immobility. We invite young designers, artists and other interested professionals and advanced students in design and art disciplines to submit proposals for designs for ’sustainable immobility’.

The reward for the winning proposal is a fully equipped residency realised through our extensive international partner network.
ElectroSmog International Design Competition website


ElectroSmog
International Festival for Sustainable Immobility
March 18 – 20, 2010