Chris Joseph
CfP: FLOSSIE 2012, 25/26 May at QMUL, East London, UK
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Flossie 2012 is a free, two-day event for women who work with, or are interested in, Software Libre/FOSS in Open Data, Knowledge Digital Arts and Education.
Flossie is an independent network of women practitioners that has its roots in social change movements as well as arts, technology and academia. Whether you code, tinker or want to explore alternatives to ‘big-tech’ corporations, all women are welcome.
The first day will mix micro-talks with birds of a feather sessions about the work we do. On the second day there will be more structured workshops and discussions for both experienced practitioners and women new to FLOSS to make contact and skillshare.
*Submissions*
We invite proposals for talks, workshops and Birds of a Feather sessions
* Deadline for proposals, Monday 12 March 2012
* Submit proposal here: http://www.flossie.org/openconf/
* The organising committee will send notifications regarding session
proposals no later than 26 March 2012
*Who is this event for?*
• Women users and developers of FLOSS in digital arts, free culture, open data, open knowledge, social change movements and non-profits
• Researchers, students and writers
• Women entrepreneurs and social innovators using FLOSS
*Themes:*
• Sharing our current experiences and achievements
• Building cross-disciplinary and cross-community networks
• Improving visibility of women in FLOSS as well as technology in general and reaching out to new women
*Further Information*
If you have any questions regarding this event please email conf@flossie.org
The conference will be on Friday 25 May and Saturday 26 May 2012 Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, E1 4NS
The nearest tube stations are Stepney Green and Mile End
*Call for participation*
Register here: http://flossie2012.eventbrite.co.uk/
Submit proposal here: http://www.flossie.org/openconf/
Flossie 2012, 25/26 March for digital artists, educators, entrepreneurs and nonprofits using FLOSS – CfP: is.gd/Bt77CZ
for remixworx, from Draft Constitution for the Syrian Arab Republic + Pitterdefunct + hold sway
flash 8 source + font: DCftSAR_pitterdefunctmix.zip (78KB)
The project aims to compile a variety of code poems from software engineers, artists and other code writers, exploring the potential of code to communicate at the level of poetry.
Code poems can be submitted using this form until the 31st May 2012. A selection of poems will be printed in a book.
Code poems can be submitted in any coding language – there are only two rules:
- 0,5 KB maximum size.
- Required to compile.
For visual reference, poems will be printed using a monospace typeface, in pages with 32 lines, 50 characters per line. Formatting (page breaks, indentation) will be respected for the publication.
The topic of the seventh festival for digital arts and cultures in the city of Vienna is REVERSE ENGINEERING
To achieve a system from an existing thing, to reveal the theory using an example. To reconstruct processes arbitrarily, to employ and reproduce them variably, to make them ready to go into mass production. The word „engineering“ contains the words engine – motor – the drive, and also the word engineer – the technician tasked with the implementation – the driven. Being driven and motivated, eternally progressing in creation, immersing oneself in a project, submerging oneself in new subjects – a sensuos devotion. The artist, as an explorer, as a researcher, experiences a renaissance because of the renewed fusion of the disciplines. The high velocity of the industry, however, causes artists to no longer be at the forefront of invention – they rather need to reinterpret, repurpose and augment existing technologies and make them accessible to cultural and sociocultural projects.
Art has in fact become a corrective for industry and science. Technology is not only analyzed and used, but also thematized, documented and criticized. Reverse engineering therefore not only signifies understanding and (re)constructing an existing system, but also implies the yearning for improvement or more applicability, also for adaption to changing requirements.
paraflows .7 – REVERSE ENGINEERING is not only a festival that concerns itself with the analysis of existing systems, but it will also use and adapt an existing system in its own formation and structure. The topic of paraflows .7 permeates content and system.
We are looking for artistic positions dealing with the issues as afore mentioned.
Please send your application as pdf file via e-mail to: office(at)paraflows.at
or ship to:
paraflows
Museumsplatz 1
A-1070 Vienna
AUSTRIA
Mandatory information for submissions:
1) name, institution (if existing), address, e-mail, phone number, website/s
2) submitted work: title, medium, author/artist, year of production
3) work description: 1 DIN A4-page maximum
4) technical explanation, room/space requirements (hardware, operating system, additional software)
5) CD with 1-2 high resolution, printable images
6) biographies
7) documentation of earlier projects, e.g. a link to your website
Language: all submissions have to be in English or in German or need to have subtitles in one of the two languages. Works in any other language have to include a text list in either German or English. We especially encourage international submissions.
DEADLINE: April 30th, 2012
paraflows CONTACT
office(at)paraflows.at
Festival management: Guenther Friesinger
Exhibition management: Judith Fegerl
paraflows
Museumsplatz 1
A-1070 Vienna
Austria
call for entries: SIGGRAPH 2012. 39th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, Los Angeles, USA, August 5 – 9 2012
SIGGRAPH 2012 invites you to showcase your unique talents and skills. From students to studio executives, from scientists to artists, SIGGRAPH is the world’s largest annual gathering of the best and brightest minds in computer graphics. This is your opportunity to present your best work at SIGGRAPH 2012.
details: http://s2012.siggraph.org/
deadlines:
General Submissions (Courses, Emerging Technologies, Panels, Posters, Talks, Studio) – February 21 2012
Computer Animation Festival (Competition Films) and Real-Time Live! – April 9 2012
We want you to join us at this cutting edge of media theory and practice. We’re looking for students from design, scientific, artistic, cultural, philosophical, and/or political backgrounds who have felt the polarity of their disciplines and are looking for a critical environment in which the practical and theoretical carry equal weight and are not simply merged.
You’ll be tutored by leading theorists including Luciana Parisi (author of Abstract Sex), Graham Harwood (Transmediale Festival prize 2009, http://yoha.co.uk/), with special input from Bernard Stiegler (author of Technics and Time) Matthew Fuller (editor of Software Studies, Keynote at Transmediale 2012, http://www.transmediale.de/) and Scott Lash (author of Critique of Information). You’ll be studying in a vibrant research field.
Read more:
http://www.gold.ac.uk/pg/ma-interactive-media-critical-theory-practice/
In the last ten years, interactive media have increasingly become part of the exciting new field of computational culture. Computation can no longer remain the property of specialised expertise. We believe that coding, programmability and modelling are investing culture by operating as open-source forms of knowledge, aesthetic and power. Interactive media are for us agents of computational cultures ready to re-formalise the way in which we see theory and practice.
