Stipendium: Finanzierter Arbeitsaufenthalt von neuen Monaten plus Anteil an Reisespesen und Materialkosten

Informationen und Bewerbungsformular: www.artistsinlabs.ch

Eine Reihe von Forschungsprojekten in den Bereichen Umwelt- und Naturwissenschaften, Technologie, Neurowissenschaften und Physik bietet Kunstschaffenden die Möglichkeit, in die wissenschaftliche Forschung einzutauchen. Zusammenarbeiten auf unterschiedliche Art zu erproben und relevante Kunstprojekte zu realisieren. Schweizer Kunstschaffende aller Bereiche sind eingeladen, sich für einen Arbeitsaufenthalt in einem von vier ausgewählten Wissenschaftslabors zu bewerben:

1. Eidg. Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft, WSL, Bellinzona, www.wsl.ch/sottostazione/
2. Istituto Dalle Molle di studi sull’intelligenza artificiale, IDSIA,Lugano, www.idsia.ch
3. The Brain Mind Institute, BMI, EPFL, Lausanne, bmi.epfl.ch
4. Département de physique nucléaire et corpusculaire, Université de Genève / CERN, Genève, www.unige.ch/sciences/physique/index.html

Kontakt: ail.program (at) zhkd.ch oder 043 446 610 10

Projekteingaben an:
Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, ZHdK / Institute for Cultural Studies in the Arts ICS / Swiss artists-in-labs program / Hafnerstrsse 31 / 8005 Zürich / www.artistinlabs.ch

6-9 October 2008: The 6th International Design & Emotion Conference 2008 -
Dare to Desire will be hosted in School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic
University.

We invite you to join us for 4 days of workshops, paper presentations, posters exhibition, industry case studies presentations and invited keynote
speakers on the cross-disciplinary field of design and emotion.
The conference is co-organized by:

School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University-http://www.sd.polyu.edu.hk

and

The Design & Emotion Society-http://www.designandemotion.org/

For more information and registration please visit our web site: http://www.sd.polyu.edu.hk/de2008/index.php

Our 3 confirmed keynote speakers are: (more…)

19 October 2008: NordiCHI 2008 workshop: Guidelines for Haptic Lo-Fi prototyping.

More details at http://www.english.certec.lth.se/haptics/lo_fi_nordichi_2008.html

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10-12 September 2008: The Advance Conference Program of the 3rd ACM
International Conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and
Arts (DIMEA 2008) has been published online at the Conference Web site at

http://hermes.ait.gr/dimea2008/?technical-program,18

The Advance Program includes numerous opportunities provided by DIMEA 2008 to its participants to gain significant know-how and experience through a rich pool of parallel organized events to attend. Innovations, new research approaches and practices will be presented in focused technical oral sessions, which will offer a wide coverage of the DIMEA 2008 scientific and technological areas, including edutainment, games, interactive storytelling, digital art, enhanced visualization, collaboration spaces, virtual and augmented reality, advanced interaction, etc.

Two Special Sessions in the areas of User Centric and Personalised Multimedia Service Platforms and Mobile Mixed Reality Games and a Technical Workshop on: Pervasive Awareness applications: addressing their Aesthetic and Ludic aspects will further enrich the conference technical program.

Participants will further have the unique opportunity to benefit from Keynote Talks given by internationally distinguished speakers, such as Prof.
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Miralab, University of Geneva, Dr. Roberto Cencioni, Head of Unit INFSO.E2 Content and Knowledge, European Commission, Dr. Ioannis Mihalou(di)s, Visual Artist and Prof. Michael Meimaris, University of Athens.

The conference will in parallel host a Digital Art and Entertainment Exhibition including innovative digital interactive rich-media works in art
and entertainment. The exhibition will be open to the conference participants during 10-12 September, 2008 and to all interested visitors during September 13-14, 2008. (more…)

40 years ago, Jasia Reichart’s exhibition “Cybernetic Serendipity” showed that the interactive confluence of cybernetics, computing and art had
arrived. (60 years ago, Norbert Wiener published his book “Cybernetics”. 50 years ago the worlds first electronic performance installation–the Philips Pavilion at the Brussels World Fair–was launched.)

40 years later, while computers and art remain, cybernetics has nearly vanished, although there is a reviving interest in it in art.

In remembering Cybernetic Serendipity we have the chance to re-open the debate, to reconsider the relationship particularly between cybernetics and art, and to do so taking into account the way that cybernetics has developed during its period of near invisibility. Thus, we can revisit and reconsider: if Cybernetic Serendipity were to be launched today, what should go in it, how should it be exhibited, and what would cybernetics and art learn from each other?

That, of course, depends not only on developments in art practice, but also (and more critically) on what is new in cybernetics, and how can that inform art: and, what is new in art, and how can that inform cybernetics. (more…)

REGISTRATON OPEN

Registration is open for the 5th Research into Practice conference at the
Royal Society of Arts in London on 31 October 2008.

The conference will explore the problem of interpretation in research in the
visual and performing arts. The keynote speakers will be W.J.T. Mitchell
(Chicago) and Griselda Pollock (Leeds).

Conference website
http://sitem.herts.ac.uk/artdes_research/res2prac/confhome.html

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Never before has the world of images changed so fast and the way images are produced transformed so drastically as in recent times. Second Life, Micromovies, Flickr, Virtual Reality, YouTube, Visual Music, Scientific Visualisation, Google Earth etc. are keywords standing for a multitude of new possibilities for individual producing, projecting and distributing of visual material.

The images historical development between innovation, reflection and iconoclasm reaches a new level of global complexity in the 21st century.
These transformations have hit society to a large extent unprepared. Nevertheless we have to recognize that we will not be able to handle the
knowledge burst of our time without further development of new forms of visualization and orders of visibility.

What inspiration do these new worlds of images gain from art? What influence does the medium have on the iconic character of the image? What chances and challenges do image dealers and museums face with the liquidity of the image? (more…)

“Designed for co-designers” workshop

How to design and manage products, services and experiences that are to be
completed and built upon by users or customers? How can we design for
co-designers?

This full day workshop at the Participatory Design Conference 2008 will
bring together examples and studies of recent trends in user generated
content, open platforms for exchange of products, ideas and media, end user
customization and other open models for innovation.

We invite case studies, methods, stories and critical analysis on this topic
to generate a deeper understanding of its relevance to contemporary
participatory design. The discussion will focus on methods, challenges and
advantages for intentionally supporting end user innovation through design.

The workshop areas of interest includes (but are not limited
to):

(i) consumer products; (ii) user generated content and media;
(iii) social innovation in services, practices and processes

Important Dates

- Deadline for submissions: September 1st 2008 (extended!) (submissions should be done by email to the following address: francesca.rizzo[at]polimi.it with subject line:co-design)
- Notification and feedback for Participants: September 10th 2008
- Workshop: October 1st 2008
- Conference 1-4 October 2008

[Workshop Organizers]

Katja Battarbee,
IDEO

Andrea Botero Cabrera,
University of Art and Design Helsinki; Media Lab

Tuuli Mattelmaeki,
University of Art and Design Helsinki; School of Design

Francesca Rizzo,
Politecnico di Milano; Dept. of Industrial Design

Call for participation
http://mlab.taik.fi/co-design-ws/PDC2008-codesigners-workshopCFP.pdf

The conference itself:
http://pdc08.informatics.indiana.edu/

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Issue: Bridging the Digital Divide: Experiences and Perspectives

Editors

Lucia Terrenghi, Vodafone GROUP Services R&D, Germany
Gary Marsden, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Synopsis

For a portion of the global population, communication capabilities have reached the status of a commodity. Some of us can afford a complex portfolio of communication genres, such as voice over mobile networks, voice over IP, e-mails, sms, mms, instant messaging…The list is long and diverse, and we, as members of the industrialized society, have developed a vocabulary and a semantics of communication genres. These guides our use of one or another particular genre according to the context, to our recipient, to our personal lifestyles and objectives for self-expression and communication. One could actually say that we have developed a culture of communication around the media we can dispose of. Furthermore, our lives and economy in industrialized societies heavily rely on communication technologies (e.g., business, banking, health, public services, and security). (more…)

19 June 2009: EKSIG 2009: Experiential Knowledge, Method and Methodology International Conference 2009 of the DRS Special Interest Group on Experiential Knowledge

The EKSIG International Conference 2009 will address the theme of “Experiential Knowledge, Method and Methodology”. It will be convened by the DRS Special Interest Group on Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG), and hosted by London Metropolitan University.

Organisers: Linden Reilly, Chris Smith, Kristina Niedderer, Seymour Roworth-Stokes
Venue: London Metropolitan University, London, UK
Conference home page: http://www.experientialknowledge.org
Contact: info (at ) experientialknowledge.org

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS (more…)