Chris Joseph

ACM Multimedia Interactive Arts Program

http://iap07.multimedia.fh-augsburg.de/

This fourth version of the Interactive Art Program will consist of an Art Exhibition and a Conference Track. We invite artists working with digital media and researchers in technical areas to submit their original contributions to the following tracks:

• Multimedia Art Exhibition: “I / You / Other” For this exhibition we seek artworks that use multimedia to explore issues of interactivity, self-exploration, self-representation, identity, the self in a group or the group as a self. We particularly seek interactive multimedia works that by combining multiple media, technologies, and novel technical ideas, realize strong artistic concepts that give a new perspective on the representation and presentation of the self and its interaction with others.

Deadline for submission to the Art Exhibition: May 8, 2007

• Conference Track: we solicit papers describing interactive multimedia art works, tools, applications, and technical approaches for creative uses of multimedia content and technology as well as technical approaches for the management of art-related media collections. Emphasis will be given to novel works that use a rich variety of media and those that are interactive, particularly works that exploit non-conventional human-computer interfaces or sensors in new and emerging areas. We strongly encourage papers with a strong technical content written by artists.

Papers may be long (10 pages) or short (2 to 4 pages). Long papers are presented in front of an audience and short papers are presented in poster format.

* Deadline for full papers to the Conference Track May 8, 2007
* Deadline for short papers to the Conference Track June 1, 2007

Accepted papers and art works will be published in the ACM Multimedia conference proceedings.

Important Dates:

* May 8, 2007 Long papers and art exhibitions submission deadline.
* June 1, 2007 Short papers submission deadline.
* June 20, 2007 Authors notification.
* July 20, 2007 Camera-ready papers due.

Please direct any inquiries to the organisers of the interactive arts exhibition
http://iap07.multimedia.fh-augsburg.de/

How Can We Improve Online Reading? — The University of California Transliteracies Project

Browse, jump, search, filter, aggregate, bookmark, annotate — these signature reading practices of the Internet are both our history and future. History, because recent research in the history of the book, history of reading, and cognitive science fields shows that “extensive” reading across an amplitude of texts (contrasted with intensive, holy, or close reading) have had a long evolution. They were complaining about information overload as early as the 17th-century. Future, because even amid the flood of multimedia, text is extending in new ways. Much of so-called “Web 2.0″ is text-centric: e.g., blogs, wikis, social networking, folksonomical tagging (not to mention ever-present email).

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http://www.oneminute.ch

The One Minute Film & Video Festival Aarau, Switzerland,
is open to shortfilms up to 60 seconds!

You can submit films in 4 Categories:
- Fiction/Documentary
- Animation
- Art/Experimental
- Youth/U20

The films can be sent online!

Our deadline is June 30th 2007

For further informations visit our website:
www.oneminute.ch

One Minute Film & Video Festival Aarau
P.o.Box 2761
CH - 5000 Aarau
Switzerland

info@oneminute.ch

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for remix_runran, from Yoko O[h]no! Atari Virus and Hex Static

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International Prize for Digital Literature

http://www.uoc.edu/in3/hermeneia/vinaros_2007/eng/index.html

Submissions are open for the 3rd Ciutat de Vinaros International Prize of Digital Literature. There are three prizes in Digital Narrative (2500 Euros), Digital Poetry (2500 Euros) and a special ‘Vincent Ferrer Romero’ Prize for the best work of Digital Literature written in Catalan (1000 Euros). This is currently the only annual prize competition with a substantial purse in electronic literature, and all digital authors are encouraged to submit. The judging criteria specify:

* Works that explore and use the possibilities of the computer as a space for creation.
* Literary quality, seen as the renovation of poetic and narrative techniques through new means of creation.
* Quality and accessibility of the interface design.
* In the case of digital poetry, texts submitted may comprise a single piece of work or a compilation of poetry.
* The jury will also take into account works that experiment with the Internet as a medium for literary creation.
* Works entered for these prizes must be unpublished and written in one of the following languages: English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish or Catalan.

The submission deadline is September 14, 2007.

Blogging is a great way to keep in touch with people who are interested in your cause. Blogs are simple to use, easy to update and allow you to write as if you were having a conversation and people can have a conversation though the comments.

Although the technology is easy to use, people often have trouble starting to blog. They wonder where to start, and what people will think, and whether their writing is any good.

The other big thing when you’re trying to raise awareness about a cause is how people will find your blog in the millions of webpages that exist.

Frontline Books will be running a workshop at the Festival of Alternatives that helps you overcome both these problems. We’ll explain how to plan your blog and get started, and how you can help people to find your blog.

The Festival of Alternatives takes place on Monday 7th May at Regent College, Regent Road, Leicester. Registration for workshops starts at 10.15am (or e-mail info@frontlinebooks.co.uk with FoA in the subject line to book a place).

See the full line up for the Festival at http://www.frontlinebooks.co.uk/frontline/viewBlogPost.asp?postID=1781 .

Future Histories of the Moving Image

An international conference to be held at University of Sunderland

16-18 November 2007

Keynote Speaker: Professor Patricia Zimmermann (Ithaca College, New York), with other keynotes to be confirmed

As is now widely acknowledged, with the advent of digital technology the nature of moving image production, distribution and exhibition has changed dramatically. In particular, a rapidly increasing number of people are now accessing an increasing volume and range of moving image material online. This technology is also changing the way in which we analyse and document current and historical moving image practices, as there has been a recent proliferation of digital archive and database projects relating to film, video and television practices. It is timely therefore to examine the changing ways in which we are circulating and interrogating moving image culture.

We would particularly welcome papers that address the following areas:

– What impact does the increasing reliance on database resources have on the nature of the histories we produce and write?

– History as database vs history as narrative.

– Implications of the proliferation of online critical writing (from refereed academic journals through to personal blogs) and its dissemination, with the blurring of the traditional distinction between professional and amateur writer.

– The role and implication of immediate online distribution/exhibition of works

– What impact is digital distribution having on theatrical exhibition?

– Issues arising from the perceived need on the part of major producers/broadcasters to develop content for multiple platforms.

– The implications of multiple producers being able to disseminate a wide range of material to multiple niche audiences (giving the idea of ‘narrowcasting’ a new meaning).

– Revival/development of found footage production practices with the availability of digital archives such as Library of Congress Internet Archive (including the Prelinger Archive) and BBC Open Archive initiative.

– Questions relating to the increasing accessibility online of moving image material in relation to intellectual property and the development of the Creative Commons copyright licence.

– The creative influence of database logic on film structure.

The conference will also host an open workshop – with participation by the Arts Council England, the Tate and the British Film Institute – which will address the issues of securing the sustainability and maximising the use/visibility of the growing number of film and video database/online research resources. The workshop is funded by the AHRC Networks and Workshops Scheme.

Please send proposals of 200-300 words for papers of approx. 20 minutes, together with a brief biographical note by 30 May 2007 to the conference organisers (Steven Ball, Julia Knight and Stephen Partridge) at futurehistories@sunderland.ac.uk

Future Histories of the Moving Image is a joint conference organised by the Univeresity of Sunderland, the British Artists’ Film and Video Study Collection (University of the Arts, London) and the Visual Research Centre REWIND project DJCAD at the University of Dundee, in collaboration with Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. All papers delivered at the conference will be considered for publication in the journal.

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VisitorsStudio is a real-time, multi-user, online arena for creative ‘many to many’ dialogue, interviews, networked performance and
collaborative polemic.

Visitorsstudio is a Furtherfield.org project. Through simple and accessible facilities, the VisitorsStudio web-based interface allows users to upload, manipulate and collage their own audio-visual files with others’, to remix existing media. VisitorsStudio provides a
platform for the exploration of collective creativity for both emergent and established artists from a diverse array of geographical locations and social contexts.

Participants upload sound files and still/moving images (jpg, png, mp3, flv, swf) to a shared database, mixing and responding to each other’s compositions in real-time. Individuals can also chat with each other and are located in the interface by their own dancing-cursors.

VisitorsStudio Version2, incorporates new artistic tools and community building facilities. Users are able to schedule and promote their own networked performance programmes. These can be recorded, archived, rated, downloaded and redistributed as screensavers to users’ own desktops.

More info at http://blog.visitorsstudio.org