CALL FOR PROPOSALS: For its upcoming public art series entitled 40°, 73°: Works at the Intersection of Art and Ecology, The Canary Project seeks 3 artists to create site-specific works in Brooklyn (40°N, 73°W), that engage the public in experiencing global ecology on a local level. The work should resonate with specific places throughout Brooklyn and the daily lives of the people that live there. The projects will be implemented during a one- to three-week period in late September to early October 2008 and will culminate in a presentation at the Old American Can Factory in Brooklyn. Following the artists’ presentations, a panel consisting of community leaders, arts practitioners, and local ecologists will respond to the work. Continue reading

Deadline Extended: Evaluating Player Experiences in Location Aware Games (HCI 08) :: HCI 2008: Culture, Creativity, Interaction :: September 1-5, 2008, Liverpool, John Moores University, UK :: Submission Deadline: July 14, 2008.

UPDATE: The authors of the best abstracts may be invited to submit a full paper for inclusion in a special edition of a leading journal.

Location aware technologies such as widespread mobile computers and varying location sensors open up a massive range of possibilities for extending game playing into streets, buildings and even the rural landscape. Continue reading

transmediale.09 - DEEP NORTH - festival for art and digital culture berlin :: 27 January - 1 February 2009 :: club transmediale.09 - STRUCTURES - festival for adventurous music and related visual arts :: 23 - 31 January 2009 :: Call for Entries - Deadline: September 5, 2008.

As leading international festivals for art and digital culture as well as adventurous music and related visual arts, respectively, transmediale and club transmediale are calling for submissions to the transmediale Award competition and the Vilem Flusser Theory Award.

transmediale presents and pursues the advancement of artistic positions reflecting on the socio-cultural, political and economic impact of new technologies. Continue reading

The Geographical Web or Geoweb :: Call for Projects: Residency Program for Web Art :: Deadline: August 15, 2008.

Throughout the year 2009, Agence TOPO will produce a body of Web works comprising geographic references. The selection of the works and their critical contextualization will be ensured by the guest curator Sylvie Parent.

Nowadays, the popularity of cartographic and earth visualization tools such as Google Maps and Google Earth has become an increasingly tangible component of how we experience the Web. Moreover, the use of geolocalization systems, such as GPS, is spreading and increasingly present in the digital world. Continue reading

SMARTCITY | NEW URBAN STAKES, NEW ARTISTIC PRACTICES

SmartCity is an artistic project of research and production on the theme of the European city of
the future. It aims at exploring the new possibilities of artistic intervention in the urban space. At the forefront of new practices, SmartCity invites artists, architects, designers, researchers, engineers and groups of citizens to operate on a rereading of urban space. The project offers a vision of a balanced and sustainable city, centered around the citizen. Continue reading

Call for Papers: Media in Motion: The Challenge of Preservation in the Digital Age
The DOCAM (Documentation and Conservation of the Media Arts Heritage) Research Alliance and Media@McGill invite submissions of abstracts for the presentation of papers at the inaugural Media in Motion Symposium to be held October 30-31, 2008, at McGill University. The interdisciplinary event aims to bring together scholars, professionals, and graduate students across the sciences, humanities, and social sciences in order to explore the many facets of media art preservation. To that end, submissions related to the conference theme, ”The Challenge of Preservation in the Digital Age,” are strongly encouraged. Continue reading

1000 Joyce Walks Call for participation :: When: Bloomsday June 16th 2008 :: Where: Any city in the world :: How: Generate a map and walk in your city.

Participants are now sought for the 1000 Joyce Walks project taking place on June 16th (Bloomsday) 2008. 1000 Joyce Walks is a participatory global intervention which aims to create a day of psychogeographical exploration with 1000 interventions in 24 hours across the globe.

The project uses the Joyce Walks project to remap routes from James Joyce’s Ulysses to any city in the world to be used as the basis of walks which navigate urban space in a new and unexpected way. Continue reading

CALL FOR PAPERS :: WORKSHOP :: Evaluating Player Experiences in Location Aware Games ::: Culture, Creativity, Interaction :: 1-5 Sept. 2008 :: Liverpool, John Moores University, UK :: Submission Deadline: June 15, 2008

Location aware technologies such as widespread mobile computers and varying location sensors open up a massive range of possibilities for extending game playing into streets, buildings and even the rural landscape. New and extended forms of location-aware games including mobile or pervasive phone games, smart toys, role-playing games as well as Mixed Reality (MR) games all demonstrate promising new forms of game play. Substantial work has also gone into new game concepts, sophisticated technology and viable business models. However, research on the methodological issues of studying mobile player experiences, pervasive game activity and ubiquitous interaction has become necessary. Continue reading

Call for Papers :: For Symposium: Media in Motion: The Challenge of Preservation in the Digital Age :: McGill University :: Montreal, Quebec Canada :: Deadline for submissions: June 15, 2008

The DOCAM (Documentation and Conservation of the Media Arts Heritage) Research Alliance and Media@McGill invite submissions of abstracts for the presentation of papers at the inaugural Media in Motion Symposium. The interdisciplinary event aims to bring together scholars,professionals, and graduate students across the sciences, humanities, and social sciences in order to explore the many facets of media art preservation. To that end, submissions related to the conference theme, ”The Challenge of Preservation in the Digital Age,” are strongly encouraged.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to: Continue reading

I am writing to you as I am researching content for the constitution of a film and reading library which will be permanently installed in the reading area (which is presently being set up) at Gasworks, London, and will be available as far as possible, as an online linked bibliography or resource.

This initiative stems from Disclosures, “http://gasworks.org.uk/exhibitions/detail.php?id=344“, a project exploring the extent to which Open Source methodologies find applications in fields of cultural production outside of the Internet. Continue reading