Sousveillance Culture Conference :: April 26, 2008; 12 - 5 pm :: The Change You Want to See Gallery, 84 Havemeyer @ Metropolitan, Brooklyn, NY.

Presentations on the theory & practice of surveillance and contemporary protest art, by graduate students in the ITP program at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. The presenters’ talks will be grouped into four panels, to be moderated by their Professor, Marisa Olson (Curator at Large, Rhizome), on topics ranging from voyeurism and play to intervention and networks of control. These panels will consist of both artist talks and critical essays, and audience members will be invited to give feedback on a few works in progress. Continue reading

First Call for Papers :: Fourth International Conference on Multimodality (4-ICOM) :: Singapore :: July 30 - August 1, 2008. The conference theme is From Print to Interactive Digital Media: Technology, Multimodal Representation and Knowledge.

4-ICOM brings together leading international scholars from a range of disciplines (i.e. linguistics, social semiotics, communications & new media, digital media art, history, mathematics, science, computer science and education) to explore the ways in which technology enables and constrains the ways knowledge, social relations and culture are constructed and enacted, with a special focus on interactive digital media. Continue reading

NEO-LEO: Leonardo 40th Anniversary Conference :: March 18-21, 2009 :: ARTS Lab, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM :: Pre-Registration is now open.

We encourage you to pre-register for NEO LEO as this will help us plan, design the conference and fundraise. Pre-registration is voluntary and free, and is not required for final registration. Pay registration will launch later in 2008. Fees are planned at 300 USD for general, 200 USD for students, UNM and Leonardo members.

This conference, the final in a series of Leonardo 40th Anniversary events, will bring together scientists and artists, elder practitioners and younger creators, scholars and administrators from around the world. Continue reading

Programmable Media II: Networked Music, a one-day symposium examining the current and future possibilities of network-enabled music, will be held on April 11, 2008 at Pace University, NYC. The symposium is free and open to the public, and will include artist presentations and live performances. If you’re not in New York, join us in Second Life.

Participants: Andrew Beck, Jason Freeman, Mark T. Godfrey, Sawako Kato, Zach Layton, LoVid, Adam Nash, Helen Thorington, Peter Traub, Dan Trueman, Tobias C. Van Veen. Bios here. Continue reading

Next Nature 2008: The Biggest Visual Power Show - an intellectual show between a conference and a pop concert; from movies to live performance. From physical experience to virtual imagination :: May 17, 2008; 8:00 - 10:00 pm :: Million Dollar Theater, 307 South Broadway, Los Angeles, CA.

We are living in a time in which the ‘made’ and the ‘born’ are fusing. Hypoallergenic cats are already on the market. Plants are used as sensors, information displays and chemical factories. Animals are being augmented and branded. Young girls are provided with hypernatural vaginas, modeled after the photoshopped vaginas seen in Playboy magazine. In response to donor organ shortages, researchers are working on a 3D organ printer. Continue reading

Homo Ludens Ludens - Locating Play in Contemporary Culture and Society :: Exhibition: April 18 - September 22, 2008 :: Symposium: April 19 - 20, 2008 :: LABoral Centre for Art and Creative Industries, Los Prados, 121, 33394 Gijón (Asturias) Spain.

Homo Ludens Ludens is an international exhibition and symposium exploring games as a critical element in our daily lives and a speculation on the emergence of the “Homo Ludens Ludens”: the contemporary playing man. What does it mean “to play” and to be “a player”? The goal of this Symposium, organised jointly with The Planetary Collegium, is to provide the framework for contemporary play, to highlight its interdisciplinary nature, and to show the multifaceted reality of our present-day entertainment society. Continue reading

To complement the exhibition Synthetic Times: Media Art China 2008, a Beijing Olympics Cultural project opening at the National Art Museum of China in June 2008, media art pundits debate imminent topical issues revolving around the exhibition themes: Beyond Body; Emotive Digital; The Recombinant Reality; and Here, There and Everywhere at Synthetic Times: Media Art Now. With an introduction by Zhang Ga, artistic director and curator. The evening event kicks off a pre-exhibition symposium (April 15) held at Parsons, the New School for Design, and EYEBEAM, in conjunction with the National Art Museum of China. Continue reading

Annual NSO Conference’ Nonlinear Fabrication: Strange Loops in the Product’s Lifecycle :: April 3-4, 2008 :: University of Pennsylvania. Program.

Though matter itself has always found its expressions through nonlinear organizations, architecture’s modes of intervention in the life of matter have been linear and willful. As architecture continues its age-old struggles against material realities, the future holds astonishing possibilities as we slowly discern the nuances of complex material organizations and cultivate new regimes of expression. Continue reading

CHArt (Computers and the History of Art) 2008 Conference: Seeing… Vision and Perception in a Digital Culture :: November 6-7, 2008 (central London venue to be confirmed) :: CALL FOR PAPERS: Deadline: May 30, 2008.

This year’s CHArt conference takes seeing as its theme and the associated questions of vision, perception, visibility and invisibility, blindness and insight - all in the context of our contemporary digital culture in which our eyes are assaulted by ever greater amounts of visual stimulus, while we are also increasingly being surveyed, on a continual basis. Continue reading

2008 International GE3LS Symposium - A challenge to digital artists to explore the complex ethical and societal issues emerging from genomic research and new genomic technologies :: April 28-30, 2008 :: The Westin Calgary, Calgary Alberta, Canada :: Call for Work - Deadline: April 13, 2008.

The Art Exhibit Subcommittee of the 2008 GE3LS International Symposium welcomes submissions of original digital works of art that address the ethical, legal, and social themes related to the human genome, biology in the 21st century, or genetics in society. Continue reading