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International Symposium on Computational Aesthetics in Graphics, Visualization, and Imaging
Date: May 28-30, 2009
Location: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Call for Artworks, Performances, and Artist’s Presentations

You are invited to participate in the fifth annual Symposium on Computational Aesthetics. Invited artists will be involved in the technical, artistic, and theoretical aspects of this young field. The invited artworks aim to help participants better understand what aesthetics is, what computer technology is currently capable of delivering, and what is involved in the creative process.

Artistic submissions are invited across the broad range of mediums covered by Computational Aesthetics. Writers and artists working in electronic literature that focuses on the intersection of writing and computer graphics are encouraged to submit the following types of work:

· artworks that employ real-time visual processing;
· artworks that employ computer graphics on the web;
· 2D or 3D artworks that run on stand-alone consoles;
· virtual worlds created for the web;
· game art pieces that run on stand-alone consoles or the web;
· performances that include live computer graphics and/or live real-time visuals;
· artist presentations, posters or screenings that explore topics related to computer graphics, modeling, and/or real-time visuals

For full information on Artistic Submissions please consult the conference website at: http://www.computational-aesthetics.org/2009/

Contact: sgibson [at] finearts.uvic.ca

_Agrippa (a book of the dead)_ appeared in 1992 as a collaboration between artist Dennis Ashbaugh, author William Gibson, and publisher Kevin Begos, Jr. On December 9, 2008–the sixteenth anniversary of the original “Transmission” event debuting Agrippa–The Agrippa Files (http://agrippa.english.ucsb.edu) announces the release of two major new discoveries for scholars and fans:

* An emulated “run” of the entire original Agrippa poem, made possible by the forensic recovery of the code containing Gibson’s text from a mint condition Agrippa diskette loaned by collector Allan Chasanoff. This is the first public view of Agrippa in its original incarnation (that is, its custom-made behaviors and interface) since 1992.

direct link:
http://agrippa.english.ucsb.edu/category/the-book-subcategories/the-poem-running-in-emulation

* An hour’s worth of never-before-seen footage from the December 9, 1992, public debut of Agrippa at the Americas Society in New York City during the “Transmission” event. This footage, shot by “Templar, Rosehammer, and Pseudophred” is the source of the transcription of the text that was released online within hours of the event.

direct link:
http://agrippa.english.ucsb.edu/category/documents-subcategories/the-hack

These materials are accompanied by high-resolution images, stills from the video, screenshots, and a bit-level copy of the disk image itself, all publicly accessible with the permission of Kevin Begos, Jr., William Gibson, Allan Chasanoff, “Templar,” and “Rosehammer.”

We are also pleased to be releasing a major new full-length essay documenting the process of recovering these materials and exploring their significance for the study of the work: Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, with Doug Reside and Alan Liu, “No Round Trip: Two New Primary Sources for Agrippa.”

direct link:
http://agrippa.english.ucsb.edu/kirschenbaum-matthew-g-with-doug-reside-and-alan-liu-no-round-trip-two-new-primary-sources-for-agrippa

The Agrippa Files, a project of the UC Santa Barbara English Department’s Literature.Culture.Media Center, was aided by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) and the Digital Forensics Lab at University of Maryland, College Park, in recovering and releasing these materials. Special thanks to Doug Reside and Matt Kirschenbaum for their efforts.

Alan Liu
Professor and Chair
Department of English, UC Santa Barbara
ayliu [at] english.ucsb.edu
http://liu.english.ucsb.edu/

Matthew Kirschenbaum
Associate Professor of English
Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland
http://www.mith.umd.edu/
http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/
http://mechanisms-book.blogspot.com/

http://www.rossashby.info

William Ross Ashby (1903-1972) was a British pioneer in the fields of Cybernetics and Systems Theory. He is best known for the Law of Requisite Variety, for his books Design for a Brain (1952) and An Introduction to Cybernetics (1956), and for building the Homeostat.

In January 2003, Ross’s daughters gave his archive materials to The British Library, London. Then, in March 2004, at the end of the W. Ross Ashby Centenary Conference, they announced that they would make Ross’s Journal available on the Internet. Now, in 2008, this web site fulfills that promise, making this previously unpublished work available online.

Ross’s Journal consists of more than one million words on 7,400 pages in 25 volumes, and the index has 860 cards. To make it easy to browse purposefully through so many images, extensive cross-linking has been added, based on the keywords in Ross’s original index.

The Biography describes Ross’s life in more detail than has previously been available in the public domain, and includes many photographs from the family’s private albums. This site also hosts a set of Forums for comments, questions, and discussions about Ross and his work.

“Tumbarumba”, a project by Benjamin Rosenbaum and Ethan Ham, is an anthology in the form of a browser add-on. To read the stories, readers must stumble upon them while browsing the web. The browser add-on will occasionally insert a story fragment into a webpage as it loads it. The result is a disorienting surreal sentence that sometimes is nonsensical and sometimes amusingly close making sense. If the reader spots the fragment, they can interact with it in a way that will cause the full story to appear—albeit in the format of the webpage on which it was found.

The authors in the anthology are:

* Haddayr Copley-Woods
* Greg van Eekhout
* Stephen Gaskell
* James Patrick Kelly
* Mary Anne Mohanraj
* David Moles
* John Phillip Olsen
* Tim Pratt
* Kiini Ibura Salaam
* David J. Schwartz
* Heather Shaw
* Jeff Spock

More information, a link for the add-on download (currently only for Firefox, but an Internet Explorer version will be available in early 2009), and a demo are available on www.tumbarumba.org.

CODED CULTURES -Exploring Creative Emergences
Binational Festival / Austria - Japan 2009
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: www.codedcultures.net

The team of 5uper.net (www.5uper.net) is happy to announce the CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS for the binational festival »CODED CULTURES - Exploring Creative Emergences«, which is taking place in Austria and Japan in the year 2009 (Austria - Japan Year 2009). The second edition of CODED CULTURES (first edition online at: http://codedcultures.5uper.net) is exploring new artistic practices and creative ability profiles within media integrated project-cultures and digital media related art, focusing on Japan and Europe.

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Janis Jefferies & Liliane Lijn in conversation

Date: 11 December 2008
Location: Seminar Rooms, Ben Pimlott Building
Time: 18:00 - 20:00

Liliane Lijn’s work as an artist is primarily concerned with light in its relation to matter. Lijn believes that as an artist, she explores the outside world with one eye and the inner with another, world and self, matter and consciousness. Her work is both mathematical in its use of geometric forms while simultaneously involving archetypes and a continuing obsession with time and memory. As the result of an ACE, NASA, Leonardo Network Fellowship, she has in the last two years been able to work with Aerogel, the fragile and ethereal material used by the NASA Stardust Project to capture both coma and interstellar dust. She describes her recent work as a metaphorical dialogue with Stardust Project Director Andrew Westphal and his quest in search of ‘cosmic fossils’. An exhibition of her recent work Stardust was shown at Riflemaker gallery in London.

www.lilianelijn.com

LILIANE LIJN was born in New York City, studied Art History and Archeology in Paris and lives in London. Her work has been exhibited internationally since the 1960’s and is represented in numerous important collections, including MOMA, Art Institute of Chicago, Tate Gallery, Victoria & Albert Museum and the British Museum.

JANIS JEFFERIES is Professor of Visual Arts in the Dept. of Computing at Goldsmiths, Artistic Director of the Goldsmiths Digital Studios and Director of the Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre in Textiles.

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For more information check: http://www.thethursdayclub.net

THE THURSDAY CLUB IS ORGANISED BY GOLDSMITHS DIGITAL STUDIOS AND SUPPORTED BY GOLDSMITHS GRADUATE SCHOOL AND THE DEPT. OF COMPUTING

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