[spectre] Deadline Extension: CulTech 2015 -- Cultural Diversity and Technology Design - Workshop at CT ’15, (June 27), Limerick, Ireland
* Due a number of requests we have decided to extend the submission deadline until next Friday, May 8* === CulTech2015: Cultural Diversity and Technology Design Workshop - Call for Participation! === Does your research explore culture, technology design and communities? If so, join us at the “CulTech2015: Cultural Diversity and Technology Design” Workshop! CulTech2015 will be held at the 7th international Communities and Technologies (CT) Conference in Limerick, Ireland, on June 27, 2015. Website here: https://cultech2015.wordpress.com/ https://cultech2015.wordpress.com/ IMPORTANT DATES Workshop submissions due: May 8, 2015 Feedback to authors: May 22, 2015 Camera-ready papers due: June 17, 2015 Workshop at CT 2015:June 27, 2015 ABOUT THE WORKSHOP With globalization and technological advances, people are increasingly coming into contact with others from different cultural backgrounds, particularly in place-based and virtual communities. Yet, cultural diversity – the diversity of community members’ cultural backgrounds – offers both significant benefits and challenges in the design, usage and evaluation of technologies. In this one-day workshop, we explore the role of cultural diversity in potentially informing, supporting, challenging or impacting the design of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) within community contexts. We welcome workshop submissions that: 1) Engage broadly with the role of culture within technology design and usage for, with and by communities, 2) Proposals for approaches, tools, conceptual and methodological frameworks, case studies and best practices in community-based design that exploit cultural diversity as an asset and seek to facilitate intercultural interactions. Our goal is to bring together academics and practitioners from different domains such as computer science, urban design, interactive art, anthropology and social sciences who share a common interest in exploring the design space of ICTs, culture and communities. WORKSHOP THEMES To stimulate discussion and exploration, we welcome initial idea explorations, as well as ongoing or completed projects relating (but not exclusive) to the following themes: - Theoretical and reflective engagements with the role of culture and cultural difference in community-based (participatory) design and technology appropriation across cultures - Frameworks, tools, and conceptual engagements tackling inclusion in (participatory) design; The role of technology and technology design in mediating or supporting societal inclusion - Means (methods, tools, frameworks) for cross-cultural transferability of design and design processes - Limits of transferability and situated, emergent design practices in community contexts - Localization and culturally adaptive interfaces - Empirical studies exploring cultural difference in technology usage and formulating design implications - Metrics, tools, and frameworks for examining cultural differences in technology usage - Conceptual papers that problematize design, re-framing design processes from cultural studies and intercultural communication frameworks (e.g. design as a process of encoding values and meaning in artifacts) - Uses, benefits and limitations of ethnography and data-intensive research methods in community-based design - Inherent value tensions or clashes between local and academic/scientific knowledge - Local knowledge management, knowledge conversion and the challenges posed by structuring fluid knowledge episodes to generate design requirements - Cultural pathways for community engagement and the localization of participatory practices - Aligning intentions in multicultural design projects - Bridging differences in culturally diverse design teams - Case studies, approaches and best practices in community-based design that explore or engage with issues of connectedness and community cohesion, facilitating intercultural awareness, communication and collaboration, and stimulating intercultural interactions across diverse cultural groups CONTRIBUTION TYPES --- We welcome the following contribution types: - Novel technologies or interaction paradigms - Design or evaluation methods - Case studies on existing applications and systems - Evaluation studies - Theoretical frameworks - Controversial or thought-provoking ideas of issues relating to communities, culture and ICTs WORKSHOP SUBMISSIONS Interested candidates are asked to submit either a position paper (min. 2 pages, max. 4 pages in the ACM format) or a video submission about your project/research and its relevance to the workshop themes. Position papers will be published online in Workshop Proceedings available from the workshop website. Please submit to: cultech2...@gmail.com mailto:cultech2...@gmail.com. SPECIAL ISSUE ON CULTURAL DIVERSITY
[spectre] live coding alternatives - workshop - aarhus2015
CALL - Live Coding Alternatives Workshop Call for position papers and performances as part of Critical Alternatives, 5th Decennial Aarhus Conference http://aarhus2015.org/ 17 or 18 August 2015, Aarhus University, Denmark http://www.livecodenetwork.org/live-coding-alternatives/ Live Coding Alternatives is an interdisciplinary workshop (‘live laboratory’) for testing and exploring live coding as a creative, aesthetic and potentially political practice for constructing ‘critical alternatives’ within both computing and everyday life. The workshop explores this emergent field and aims to open up deeper critical questions about contemporary cultural production and computational culture. It is structured around live research practices of writing, presentation and performance, collaboratively interrogated through discussion, and the development of critical frameworks that reflect the live coding dynamic. Live Coding Alternatives emphasizes the relation of live coding to the cultivation of ‘alternative’, potentially subversive, ways of operating within contemporary culture. In addition the workshop explores the alternative possibilities offered by live coding practice as able in itself to generate epistemic claims through software development, improvised live performance and ‘artistic research’. The intention is not only to propose how live coding transforms code and coding practice but to investigate the transformational potential inherent within the process of live coding itself. We ask what possibilities for change and action does the practice of live coding suggest? What alternative ways of ‘being operative’ are evoked? We welcome analytical and theoretical papers from diverse disciplines but especially want to encourage expanded notions of live coding in the form of performances and alternative presentation modes. Initial areas of interest might include: * Live coding and performance writing, interplay of text and code, experimental notation practices * Live coding, its transformative potential and politics * Live coding, temporality and just-in-time production * Live coding, alternative epistemologies and artistic research * Live coding, subjectivity and ‘life’ coding * Live coding and attribution in reputation economies * Live coding as the persistent traces of interaction Position papers will be circulated in advance. Working throughout the day, there will be a critical interlocutor and facilitator, helping excavate and elaborate key ideas connecting live coding to the cultivation of various ‘critical alternatives’. Results of the workshop will be published on the Live Coding Network website (http://www.livecodenetwork.org/). Important dates: Proposals due: 20 May (email abstracts/proposals to g...@dac.au.dk) Results made known: 31 May Workshop: 17 or 18 August 2015, Aarhus Organizers: Alan Blackwell, Reader in Interdisciplinary Design, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge (UK). Emma Cocker, Reader in Fine Art, Nottingham Trent University (UK). Geoff Cox, Associate Professor, Participatory IT research centre, Aarhus University (DK). __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Arts@CERN news
Dear friends, sorry for x posting.. I am sharing with you the latest news of our programme, m Arts@CERN announces three winning artists and launches the new Collide@CERN Ars Electronica call Arts@CERN, CERN’s official engagement with the arts, is today announcing three winning art projects from the different strands, Accelerate@CERN and Collide@CERN, as well as launching the international open call for Collide@CERN in digital arts. Now in its fifth year, Arts@CERN has welcomed more than 70 artists to the Laboratory. “In pursuit of its cultural policy, Arts@CERN continues to bring ‘Great Arts for Great Science’, giving artists the opportunity to discover the universe of high-energy physics at CERN,” said CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer. Accelerate@CERN is a one month research stay at CERN, organized in collaboration this year with Taiwan and Austria. The jury of Accelerate@CERN Taiwan, funded by the Ministry of Culture for Taiwan, made the award to a joint project from dancer Wenchi Su and digital artist Pei-Ying Lin, for their unique combination of dance and physics principles, where language and spatial interaction would be used in extraordinary ways. “CERN is the dream place I always wanted to go to, except I never expected to be there as an artist rather than a physicist,” says Pei-Ying Lin. The jury of Accelerate@CERN Austria, funded by the Austrian Federal Chancellery, selected architects Sandra Manninger and Matias Del Campo, for their focus on the notion of geometry. “Scientific insights have always been part of what influenced us as architects and designers, not only in terms of a technological aid, but as a cultural agent and catalyst for new spatial solutions,” said the two winners. The winner of the Collide@CERN Pro Helvetia artist residency programme is the collective Fragment.in, formed by Laura Perrenoud, Simon de Diesbach, and Marc Dubois. Their art deals with two realities: tangible and virtual reality. “In their proposal, Fragment.in has a unique, original and creative approach to data visualization. We look forward to having them at CERN,” said Monica Bello, Head of Arts@CERN. Collide@CERN is the three month residency programme providing artists with time and space to reflect, research and renew their artistic practice. Following on from three highly successful years of partnership with Ars Electronica, Arts@CERN launches today the open call for Collide@CERN Ars Electronica, the award in which artists from any country are invited to apply for a residency at CERN. This call is open for digital artists, innovative concepts and ideas in the field of art, science and technology. The residency will be part of the European Digital Art and Science Network initiated by Ars Electronica with the support of the Creative Europe Programme of the EU. Online submissions for Collide@CERN Ars Electronica open 30 April 2015 and close 23 June 2015: http://www.aec.at/artandscience/open-call/ Monica Bello Head of Arts@CERN Great Art for Great Science www.cern.ch/arts Arts@CERN Batiment 3, R 008, CERN 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland @monica_bello __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] CF Proposals to host the 7th Conf on MediaArtHistories 2017 - Extended deadline July 10, 2015
CALL FOR PROPOSALS to host the 7th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology: Re:2017 Extended deadline to July 10, 2015 Due to numerous requests for extending the submission time, the Media Art Histories Board extends the invitation to applicants to host the 7th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology. The international conference series, which was inaugurated in 2005 in Banff, Canada, has since been held in several international venues around the globe including Berlin in 2007, Melbourne 2009, Liverpool 2011, Riga 2013 and will be held this fall in Montreal. The conference series aims to engage the growing community of scholars from a range of disciplines including art history, contemporary art practice, art theory, history of science, history of technology, science and technology studies, media studies, image science, visual studies, philosophy, cultural studies, anthropology, architecture theory, sound studies, computer science among others to develop and share new research and scholarship in the intersecting fields of the histories of media art, science and technology. The host of the next conference in 2017 will have the opportunity to continue to build on the impressive history of the conference series. CONFERENCE SERIES MISSION *Recognizing the increasing significance of media art for our culture, the conference series on the Histories of Media Art will discuss the history of media arts within the interdisciplinary and intercultural contexts of the histories of the arts. Numerous individuals and institutions collaborate to produce the international art history conference series covering the media arts, the arts and technology, art-science interaction, and the history of media as pertinent to the contemporary arts.* GUIDELINES, SELECTION CRITERIA AND DEADLINES Proposals to host the conference will include the following information: 1. Proposed Dates 2. Proposed Venues (including information on number, capacity and AV and network capabilities of spaces) 3. Rationale for hosting the conference 4. Host Local Organizing Committee 5. Relevant previous experience (e.g., committee members* experience in hosting conferences, events, etc.) 6. Publicity Plan 7. Funding / Sponsorship plan 8. Preliminary Budget Those interested in making a bid to host the conference can download GUIDELINES here (http://www.mediaarthistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/MAH-conf-guidelines.pdf) and are encouraged to write to Wendy Coones at wendy.coones(at)donau-uni.ac.at with an expression of interest prior to submitting a formal proposal. Deadline for final submission of proposals: July 10th, 2015 MAH Advisory Boards final decision for the 2017 host: early fall 2015. *** Media Art History Board (Steering Committee) Sean CUBITT Goldsmiths College, University of London Jorge LAFERLA University of Buenos Aires Oliver GRAU Danube University Linda HENDERSON, University of Texas, Austin Erkki HUHTAMO University of California Los Angeles Douglas KAHN University of New South Wales Martin KEMP Oxford University Timothy LENIOR Duke University Machiko KUSAHARA Waseda University, Tokyo Gunalan NADARAJAN University of Michigan Paul THOMAS UNSW Sydney MEDIA ART HISTORIES PLATTFORM www.mediaarthistory.org ARCHIVE OF DIGITAL ART www.digitalartarchive.at LIVERPOOL DECLARATION: http://www.mediaarthistory.org/declaration CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS http://www.mediaarthistory.org/pub/mediaarthistories.html http://www.mediaarthistory.org/pub/place_studies.html http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/relive __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Falz 1 Goldgruben, Clubs jetzt als Print und online
Falz 1 Goldgruben, Clubs April 2015 Das Gold, edelmetallische Form des Werts, tropft im Nachtbiotop aus sozialem Plastik von der Decke. Wer die Welt verstehen will, muss Deutschlandclubs verstehen. (nicht Neil MacGregor) u.a. hier ausliegend: Argument Buchhandlung, Café Commune, Lunte, Bethanien, Haus, AStA UniKassel, Nörgelbuff, Batschkapp, Waggon Offenbach http://www.n0name.de/falz/falz1.pdf außerdem: Falz 0 facebildungssektor Kreditkritikpunkte März 2015 Prognostisch wird es unter kapitalistischen Bedingungen zum facebildungssektor kommen, einer i.d. Militarisierung d. Gesellschaft ideologisch entsprechend abgesicherten Network-Produktivkraftbildung (vgl. Castells, etatistischer Marxist und Lissabon-Stratege). http://www.n0name.de/falz/falz0.pdf auch hier: n0name newsletter 166 http://n0name.de/news/news166.txt und verlinkt hier: LabourNet Rubrik [ ... Bildungs- und Erziehungseinrichtungen ] http://www.labournet.de/branchen/dienstleistungen/bildung/facebildungssektor-kreditkritikpunkte/ Falz 2 (in Planung) Juli 2015 Die schöne Deutsche - Breakbeat 3! Remix der Kritik der deutschen Zustände und Ideologie Falz 3 + CD-Sampler (in Planung) September 2015 Heimatfrontseite Militarisierung und Sonic Warfare Unkostennutzenbeitrag -,10 € oder donate per PayPal Inc.: la...@n0name.de [mit einer 0] Bei Bedarf senden wir gerne ein Kontigent gedruckter Exemplare zu. Impressum: Falz, n0name, c/o Matze Schmidt, Postnr. 26095827, Packstation 112, 10997 Berlin, (c) 2015 n0name, www.n0name.de, redakt...@n0name.de __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Call for collaborators: Field_Notes – HYBRID MATTERs, 14th – 20th September 2015, Kilpisjärvi Biological Station, Lapland/Finland
Sorry for x-posting. Please consider to apply and share the call amongst your professional network. ** Call for collaborators: Field_Notes – HYBRID MATTERs - From 14th – 20th September 2015 at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station, Lapland/Finland Application deadline: 29th of Mai 2015 http://hybridmatters.net/calls/field-notes-hybrid-matters - Field_Notes – HYBRID MATTERs Field_Notes – HYBRID MATTERs is an artscience field laboratory organized by the Finnish Society of Bioart at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in Lapland/Finland. Five groups, hosted by Marko Peljhan and Matthew Biederman (Arctic Perspective Initiative - API) with Leena Valkeapää, Richard Pell and Lauren Allen (Center for Postnatural History), Antye Greie aka AGF, Antti Tenetz and Lea Schick will work for one week in the sub-Arctic Lapland. Together with a team of five selected collaborators, they will develop, test and evaluate specific interdisciplinary approaches in relation to the notion of Hybrid Ecology. - Application process: We are looking for 25 artists, scientists or other practitioners, which are interested to collaborate and work in one of the five groups. Find more information and the online application system at http://hybridmatters.net/calls/field-notes-hybrid-matters We warmly welcome artists, scientists and practitioners from different fields to apply. - Conditions: We will pay for the journey from Helsinki to Kilpisjärvi and back, as well as for full board and accommodation at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station for the whole working week. Participants from outside of Finland have to take care about travel to Helsinki and possible accommodation in Helsinki themselves. - Field_Notes - HYBRID MATTERs is a project by the Finnish Society of Bioart and part of the HYBRID MATTERs and CHANGING WEATHERS program. It is co-funded by the Nordic Culture Fund, the Creative Europe programme of the European Union and the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture. http://hybridmatters.net http://http://www.changingweathers.net/ - Erich Berger Toiminnanjohtaja / Director The Finnish Society of Bioart http://bioartsociety.fi __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] (fwd) Folklore of the Cyber World—CAC@la Biennale di Venezia 2015
*Folklore of the Cyber World CAC@the Chinese Pavilion, la Biennale di Venezia 2015* As the new media art partner institution of the Chinese Pavilion, *Chronus Art Center* will organize a series of parallel online projects under the theme of /Folklore of the Cyber World/ to extend the /Other Future/ envisioned by the Chinese Pavilion to cyberspace, revealing the vigor and brio of the younger generation of Chinese artists in their critical engagement with the pervasive media society and creative use of new technologies. /Folklore of the Cyber World/ inaugurates its program with SHEN Xin’s /Rhythms of Work — Means Something to You/, in which the interior of the Chinese Pavilion is teleported to CAC’s Shanghai space as a defective holographic avatar performs a dramaturgy juxtaposing the real and unreal, unfurling a ghostly story of work, labor, body, wealth, class, and death. Artists GUO Xi and ZHANG Jianling usher us to a cyber trajectory of the epic journey that the two are concurrently undertaking in /Grand Voyage/, sailing on lands and oceans across the globe, reenacting fanciful parables in thousands of words, pictures, things and objects of the trivial and insignificant that aggregate into thick residues of sentiments and memory downloaded and parceled. While WANG Yuyang transforms the strokes of Chinese characters into “0”s and “1”s and molds these digits into myriad three-dimensional objects that can be culled by the millions to create words in sculptural forms at a mouse click, YE Funa calls out for a “congressional assemblage of manicures,” escorting a passion for beauty beyond the pageantry: “Draw nail pattern online and print them on your nails,” letting known autonomy can be as easy as whimsically exercised. MIAO Ying is a veteran of URLS; she finds loopholes to navigate the labyrinths of walls and fences in cyberspace, poking open a bit over here, hacking a crack over there, Youtube videos and dancing GIFs are her accomplices in subverting the politics and commerce of the all mighty electronic sovereign. Finally we have LIN Ke, a digital native who mesmerizes us with the mystics of a laptop ballad, rhyming with the clinching of hard drives and USB sticks and the chiming of keyboards, for him the folklore of the cyber world rehearses a joyful choir sung by a throng of things, human and nonhuman. *电子世 界的民谣 新时线媒体艺术中心（CAC）2015年威尼斯双年 展中国馆合作项目综述* 作为2015年威尼斯双年展中国馆的媒体艺术合作伙伴机 构，*新时线媒体艺术中 心*以 “电子世界的民谣”为主题，把中国馆“民间未来”的构思 推向虚拟空间，发 展出一个系列的网上平行项目，通过这个 窗口，让民间的希望和潜力，尤其是新 生代艺术家创造性地 运用新技术、批判性地反思新技术的张力得以体现。 “电子世界的民谣”以沈莘作品《工作的旋律——对你也许 意味着更多》拉开帷幕。沈 莘将中国馆的内景实时传输至上 海的新时线媒体艺术中心的空间，以一个残缺的 全息 avatar影像演出一场真假重叠的戏剧，叙述一段关于 工作、劳作、身体、财 富、阶级与死亡的鬼魅般的故事。艺 术家郭熙、张健伶带领我们循着电子世界的 轨迹去经历一趟 他们正在同时进行中的史诗般的“大航海”，跨越地球，航 行于陆 海之间，以数不清的词章、图像、物件再造想象之预 言，使看似琐碎平凡的日志 堆积成情感与记忆的浓厚沉淀， 可供下载分享，抑或打包邮寄。当王郁洋把汉字 笔画拆解成 “0”与“1”的序列并赋予其变换无穷的三维图形，让普 罗众生只稍轻击 鼠标便能创造雕塑般的文字时，叶甫纳则召 集了一个“人民指甲大会”，抛开艳丽 的华贵，只为美而纵 情：“在线上绘制指甲的图案，然后打印在你的指甲上”， 告 诉我们自主的愿景或可如此轻松俏皮地得以践行。苗颖是 URL的老手——她在网络的 围墙和篱笆筑成的迷宫里游刃 有余，在这里戳开一个口子，在那里凿开一道缝 隙，Youtube的视频和gif动画是她用来颠覆无所 不能的电子王国之政商规则的同 谋。最后我们迎来了林科。 土生土长于数字空间的林科让我们着迷于手提电脑神 秘的歌 谣，伴着硬盘与USB存储棒间的厮磨，和着键盘敲击的协 奏。对他而言， 电子世界的民谣正预演着一出由无数的东 西，包括了人类与非人类所组成的万众 欢歌的合唱。 *About CAC 关于*新 时线媒体艺术中心 Established in 2013, *Chronus Art Center (CAC) *is China’s first nonprofit art organization dedicated to the presentation, research / creation and scholarship of media art. CAC with its exhibitions, residency-oriented fellowships, lectures and workshop programs and through its archiving and publishing initiatives, creates a multifaceted and vibrant platform for the discourse, production and dissemination of media art in a global context. CAC is positioned to advance artistic innovation and cultural awareness by critically engaging with media technologies that are transforming and reshaping contemporary experiences. *新时线媒体艺术中心（CAC）*成 立于2013年，系国内首家致力于媒体艺术之展 示、研究 /创作及学术交流的非营利性艺术机构。通过展览、驻留、 奖学金、讲 座、工作坊及相关文献的梳理与出版，CAC为 媒体艺术在全球语境中的论述、生产 及传播开拓了一个多样 化且富有活力的平台。CAC以批判地介入不断改变进而重 塑当代经验的媒体技术来推动艺术创新及文化认知。 *Website（网址）*:www.chronusartcenter.org http://randian-online.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=990b73d0d304c578f6f879635id=16b868de9ae=f2ef300e29 *Email（电子邮件）*: i...@chronusartcenter.org mailto:i...@chronusartcenter.org __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
