THE INTER-SOCIETY FOR THE ELECTRONIC ARTS
ISEA NEWSLETTER #86 ATTACHMENT

ISSN1488-3635

#86-attachment March - April 2002

*CONFERENCES/SYMPOSIA/WORKSHOPS/FESTIVALS
*EXHIBITIONS*JOBS*CALLS*LISTS/URLS/NEWSLETTERS
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* CONTENTS *

I. CONFERENCES/SYMPOSIA/WORKSHOPS/FESTIVALS
I.1. MAXIS - International Festival / Symposium of Sound and
     Experimental Music, UK
I.2. Theaters of Life in New York City, US
I.3. Art, Art Criticism, Computing Science, and Adaptive
     Hypermedia, Spain
I.4. Workshop Live Art, Netherlands


II. EXHIBITIONS
II.1. *NEW* Digital Art Exhibition


III. JOBS
III.1. Lecturers/Senior Lecturers in Film Studies, UK


IV. CALLS
IV.1. Call for Papers, Videos and Participation, UK
IV.2. Call for Papers, Videos and Participation, UK
IV.3. Programming Contest
IV.4. Call for contributions, Germany


V. LISTS/URLS/NEWSLETTERS, ETC.
V.1. Invitation
V.2. Digital Resistance, Book

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I.1

MAXIS

Date:
11th to 14th April 2002.

Time/Day:
Thursday 6.00pm - 11.00pm
Friday 9.00am 11.00pm
Saturday 7.00am - 11.00pm
Sunday 6.00 am - 11.00pm

City:
Sheffield, England, UK.

Venue:
Sheffield Hallam University,
School of Cultural Studies,
Psalter Lane,
Sheffield,
England,
UK.
S11 8UZ.

F u r t h e r  i n f o :
www.maxis.org.uk

T i c k e t s :
Subject to availability...

=A3 75.00 (UK Pounds Sterling) - Festival ticket with copy of proceedings:
=A3 50.00 (UK Pounds Sterling) - Festival Ticket without copy of proceedin=
gs.
www.maxis.org.uk

Synopsis of the event:
16 Concerts (5 stages) over 50 artists, 18 Academic Papers, 20
Installations, 15 Film Screenings, Documentaries, Lectures, New Product
Demonstrations, Live Electronic and Experimental Music, Electroacoustic
Stereo Diffusion, 32 Channel / 40 Speaker Ambisonic Sound System, Field
Trip, Sound Walk, Instrument Making Workshop.

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I.2

Theaters of Life in New York City http://www.psi-online.org 
April 11-14, 2002

Please join Performance Studies international for the 8th annual PSi
conference, Theaters of Life. The conference will bring together
lectures, performances, discussions and presentations dealing with such
topics as: 

New Masculinities
Trauma, Disability, and Performance
Performance, Punishment, and the Death Penalty
Sonic Monsters
Wars at the End of the World, Wars for the End of the World
Trauma and Street Performance
Locales of Life and Death:  Landscape and Representation in Performance
Memory and Photography
Visual Culture, Performance Studies
Technology on and after 9/11
Performance and Love
How to Manage Fear
Performance Beyond the Human
Hacktivism: Life On/off-line

Featured participants this year include: 

Richard Schechner, Coco Fusco, Fawzia Azfal-Khan, Harry Elan, Robert
Vorlicky, Freddie Rokem, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Dwight
Conquergood, Alan Weiss, Toni Dove, Andre Lepecki, Sharon Mazer, Mike
Pearson, Diana Taylor, Peggy Phelan, Lorie Novak, Mark Franko, Catherine
Soussloff, Jon McKenzie, Avital Ronell, Christopher Balme, Jill Lane,
Phil Auslander, Una Chaudhuri, Jill Dolan, Tim Zeiter, Ricardo
Dominguez, and Ong Keng Sen, among others.

A special feature the conference will be the Sound Off, in which all
participants are invited to present a 1-3 minute, immediate, dynamic,
no-tech performance (think: Fluxus!). Manifestos, mini-papers, thought
maps, songs are all welcome: all comers accepted until we run out of
time.

Join us for this international gathering dedicated to furthering the
field of Performance Studies. We are excited about this gathering and
invite you to visit our website at http://www.psi-online.org for
information about membership, registration and mission as well as for a
schedule of the conference itself.

Petra Kuppers
Artistic Director of The Olimpias Research Projects
www.olimpias.net
Assistant Professor of Performance Studies 
Bryant College, Rhode Island, US
Tel (office) 401 232 6455
pkuppers@bryant.edu

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I.3

Art,
Art Criticism,
Computing Science, and
Adaptive Hypermedia

http://www.iut.univ-paris8.fr/aacah

Malaga, 28/5/2002

in conjunction with the 2nd International Conference on Adaptive
Hypermedia and Adaptive Web Based Systems
29/5/2002 - 31/5/2002 Malaga, Spain

http://sirius.lcc.uma.es/AH2002/

So far, adaptive hypermedia have been used mainly to develop
online educational systems, despite the potentially wider spectrum
of uses to which they could be applied. Some recent research has
explored the potential advantages of delivering cultural information
by means of adaptive methodologies, which can positively
influence the way cultural heritage information is approached,
accessed, and absorbed. Much less attention has been devoted to
producing artistic creations by means of AH. When used for art, AH
should be considered as the canvas whose characteristics can
influence the final artistic result in a peculiar way. The goal of this
workshop is to investigate how artistic constructs and AH can be
integrated.

*****
I.4

Workshop Live Art
Using new technologies in performance

26 - 31 August
Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo / Time Based Arts in 
collaboration with Amsterdam- Maastricht Summer University

The British artists group Blast Theory will help attendants to gain new 
access to history and technology which will allow them to move away from 
fixed images and media. In the evenings a special program is developed to 
further explore the immersion of different media in performance. 
http://www.blasttheory.co.uk

More information + application: http://www.montevideo.nl/www/dutch/AMSU.ht=
m


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EXHIBITIONS
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II.1

May 01, 2002 *NEW* DIGITAL ART EXHIBITION Jun 18-21, 2002. To encourage
and support artists and scholars working with and thinking about
computer-based technologies in inventive and original ways. Event
exhibits work and convenes meetings for exchange between designers,
artists, critics and scholars. 2 juried components.
For more information contact:
Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau,
Calle de la Muralla No 63 entre Oficios e Inquisidor, Habana Vieja, Cuba
OR 537-666-585 OR http://www.artedigitalcuba.org OR
centropablo@cubarte.cult.cu


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JOBS
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III.1

The Faculty of Humanities has a thriving undergraduate programme which
encompasses a broad range of single and joint honours degrees -

applications exceed 2200 for September entry. At postgraduate level the
number of Masters degrees are also expanding, shortly to include a
fourth award in Film and Video. Evidence of our commitment to delivering
high quality teaching has recently been demonstrated by two of our three
schools being awarded an excellent quality rating. The Faculty is also
committed to high quality research and staff are strongly supported in
developing their research interests. The vast majority of staff were
entered in the RAE in three units of assessment and all units achieved a
4 rating.

The Faculty has the following vacancies for Lecturers/Senior Lecturers
but with starting salary within the lecturer end of the range
Cultural Studies ref L/402
Film Studies ref L/403
Film and Media Studies ref L/404
Drama ref L/405
Closing date for application is 12 April 2002

Further details: http://info.uwe.ac.uk/vacancies/current_academic.asp
Faculty of Huamnities: http://www.uwe.ac.uk/humanities/

LECTURER/SENIOR LECTURER IN FILM STUDIES

We require a lecturer in Film Studies to join a team teaching into the
newly established and expanding joint honours half award in Film Studies
run within the School of Cultural Studies. This post will support the
intake of a second year of Film Studies students.

The School of Cultural Studies at UWE is a leading centre in the field.
Its BA (Hons) degree is one of the longest established in Cultural and
Media Studies in Britain. The School was awarded a 4 rating in the 2001
Research Assessment Exercise and a score of 22 in its 1997 HEFCE
Teaching Quality Assessment. Currently, there are sixteen permanent
lecturers in the School all of whom are research active.

The School's main teaching is on its own BA and MA awards in Cultural
and Media Studies and the new joint honours half award in Film Studies.
We are also in the process of validating a new MA in Film and Video
which will offer both theoretical and production routes.

Key Responsibilities

-To lead and teach a module based on Hollywood cinema and contribute
to the teaching of other modules.
-To be responsible for a range of administrative duties necessary
to support teaching.
-To fulfil professional roles within the School.
-To participate in curriculum development for the growth of the
Film Studies award.
-Research.

LECTURER/SENIOR LECTURER IN FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES

We require a lecturer to support the expansion of the School of Cultural
Studies as its newly established half award in Film Studies takes on its
second cohort of students. You will teach into the elements of the
undergraduate programme that are shared between Cultural and Media
Studies and Film Studies.

The School of Cultural Studies at UWE is a leading centre in the field.
Its BA (Hons) is one of the longest established in Cultural and Media
Studies in Britain. The School was awarded a 4 rating in the 2001
Research Assessment Exercise and a score of 22 in its 1997 HEFCE
Teaching Quality Assessment. Currently, there are sixteen permanent
lecturers in the School all of whom are research active.

The School's main teaching is on its own BA and MA awards in Cultural
and Media Studies and the new joint honours half award in Film Studies.
We are also in the process of validating a new MA in Film and Video
which will offer both theoretical and production routes.

Key responsibilities

-To lead and teach into a year one core module in representation
theory across film, and at least one of television, photography or
interactive media.
-To be responsible for a range of administrative duties necessary
to support teaching.
-To fulfil professional roles within the School.
-To participate in curriculum development.
-Research


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CALLS
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IV.1.

6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION VISUALISATION IV02

http://www.graphicslink.demon.co.uk/IV02/

10 - 11 - 12 July 2002

SOAS, University of London

LONDON ENGLAND

Call for Papers, Videos and Participation

Theme and scope is planned as series of symposia listed below 
(details and further information are available at: 
http://www.graphicslink.demon.co.uk/IV02/

InfVis- International Symposium of Information Visualisation Theory &
Practice
DVis- International Symposium of Design Visualisation
<KDViz.htm>KDViz First International Symposium on Knowledge Domain 
Visualization
DLib- International Symposium of Information Visualisation in Digital
Libraries
<DART.htm>DArt International Symposium and Gallery of Digital Art
<AVR.htm>AVR International Symposium on Augmented and Virtual Reality
WGV- International Symposium of Web Graphics and Visualisation
<CIV.htm>CIV First International Collaborative Information Visualisation
<CDV.htm>CDV International Symposium of Co-operative Design and
Visualisation
<vsw.htm>VSW International Symposium of Visualisation of the Semantic Web
MediViz- International Symposium of Visualisation in Medical & 
Biological Sciences
BuiltVis- International Symposium of Visualisation in Built Environment
CAGD- International Symposium of Computer Aided Geometrical Design
EIP- International Symposium on Education and Industry Partnerships 
in Visualization
MM- International Symposium Multimedia
Render- Symposium of Computer Visualisation & Graphics Rendering
VISIM- Symposium on Real-time Visualisation of Simulation Data
Animation - Symposium of Computer Animation

Supported by:
GraphicsLinkS
VGRU, SCISM, South Bank University, UK
Department of Computer Graphics Technology, Purdue University, USA
Department of Visual Art, University of Northern Colorado, USA
Computer Graphics & Modelling Group - DMU Milton Keynes, UK
National Centre for Computer Animation, Bournemouth University, UK
School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, USA
Motorola UK Research Lab
Information and Computer Science Department, KFUPM, SA
Mixed Reality Ltd, UK
Department of Electronic Imaging and Media Communications, University 
of Bradford, UK
University of Balearic Islands, Spain
University of Kent at Canterbury, UK
Technical University Graz, Austria
Centre for Research in Instruction, Development and Training, School 
of Psychology, University of Nottingham, UK

Co-operated by:
Information Visualisation Society

Important Dates:
25 January 2002 - Submission of proposal for symposium
15 March 2002 - Submission of papers and Submission of tutorials & 
pre-conference courses
03 May 2002 - Submission of camera-ready and early registration closes

Further details and registration form are available at the conference
wed-site:
http://www.graphicslink.demon.co.uk/IV02/

Anita D'Pour
Conference Co-ordinator
P.O. BOX 29, HATFIELD, AL9 7ZL, United Kingdom. T: (Int. +44) 1707 - 652 2=
24
F: (Int. +44) 1707 - 652 247
E: <mailto:IV2000@graphicslink.demon.co.uk>IV02@graphicslink.demon.co.uk
URL: 
<http://www.graphicslink.demon.co.uk/IV02/>http://www.graphicslink.demon.c=
o.
uk/IV02/ 


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IV.2

6th International Symposium on Digital Art, IV02- Dart


<http://www.graphicslink.demon.co.uk//IV02/DART.htm>www.graphicslink.demon=
.c
o.uk//IV02/DART.htm 

10 - 11 - 12 July 2002

SOAS, University of London

LONDON ENGLAND

Call for Papers, Videos and Participation

A number of invited speakers and tutorial sessions will review 
current state-of-the-art developments and outline future directions. 
This embedded with the current research being undertaken in industry 
and in academia will provide coverage of the salient aspects and 
sub-areas of visualisation and graphics. Such work will be presented 
in a series of symposia. One of which is the 'DIGITAL ART' symposium.

Authors are invited to send three copies of their extended abstract 
or the full paper to the chairperson of symposium.

Artists are invited to submit their current digital art-work for 
exhibition in IV2002 - <GALLERY.htm>DIGITAL ART GALLERY 
(<http://www.graphicslink.demon.co.uk//IV02/DART.htm>www.graphicslink.demo=
n.
co.uk//IV02/GALLERY.htm) 

Papers presenting original research with the theme of 'DIGITAL ART' 
are being sought. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):

Art & Visualisation: Oil or Pixel
Visual Thinking, Iconic Messages and Symbolism Visualisation of 
Spatial, Tonal and Temporal Domains Visualisation as a Narrative 
Environment Image Programming Challenge and Aesthetic Quality Digital 
Interaction - Bridging Real to Virtual Role of IT in Visual Art and 
Culture
Visualisation in Humanities
Critical Thinking, Problem Finding
Digital Art Education
Using Computer to its Fullest Potential for the Artistic Products

Important Dates:

25 January 2002 - Submission of proposal for symposium
15 March 2002 - Submission of papers and Submission of tutorials & 
pre-conference courses
03 May 2002 - Submission of camera-ready and early registration closes
Further details and registration form are available at the conference
web-site:
http://www.graphicslink.demon.co.uk/IV02/

All DART enquiries should be addressed to:

Anna Ursyn
REF: Dart_02
Department of Visual Arts
University of Northern Colorado
Greeley CO 80639
T: (Int. +1) 970 - 351 - 2426
T: (Int. +1) 970 - 351 - 2299
E: azursyn@bentley.unco.edu
U: http://www.graphicslink.demon.co.uk/V02/ Dart.htm

All other enquiries should be addressed to:

Anita D'Pour
Conference Co-ordinator
P.O. BOX 29, HATFIELD, AL9 7ZL, United Kingdom. T: (Int. +44) 1707 - 652 2=
24
F: (Int. +44) 1707 - 652 247
E:<mailto:IV2000@graphicslink.demon.co.uk>IV02@graphicslink.demon.co.uk 
U:<http://www.graphicslink.demon.co.uk/IV2001/>www.graphicslink.demon.co.u=
k/IV
02/ 

***** 
IV.3

Apr 30, 2002 *NEW* FIRST ANNUAL GOOGLE PROGRAMMING CONTEST Step right
up, programmers and hex-slingers: Google's got $10,000 for the most
creative coder among you. The geeks'-choice search engine is sponsoring
its "First Annual Google Programming Contest," offering $10,000 to the
person or team that can come up with the best software program for
compressing, organizing, linking or otherwise manipulating a mass of raw
search data. In return, Google gets to keep the idea--forever. The
company won't pay any royalties, although the winner can sell it to
anyone else who wants it.  Details at:
http://www.google.com/programming-contest/

*****
IV.4

URBAN DRIFT - 2002
OCTOBER 16th-20th 2002

++symposium +++ nightscapes +++ urbaninterfaces

URBAN DRIFT is a network for the development of trans-cultural urban
strategies.

Over the past 3 years, URBAN DRIFT has formed part of the berlinbeta
media festival, as a symposium which offers a platform to cutting-edge
architects and designers for whom the city is a medium, and architecture
a communicative tool for new urban strategies.

++The network represented by URBAN DRIFT++
Concentrating on urban voids, gaps and residual, or peripheral zones and
public spaces, members of URBAN DRIFT act as tacticians for a
contemporary urban praxis, developing a discourse within Berlin as one
of the primary cities of flux. Our aim is to communicate architecture
and urban design to a wider audience, to extend the boundaries of
architectural discourse, and to maximise the potential of
interdisciplinary practice. We speculate on the need to point the way to
contemporary architectural practice and urban design as the steering and
managing of processes; on the need to move from formalism to flux
management.

++URBAN DRIFT 2002++
This year urban drift is a 5 day event with a rich mix of talks and
presentations by day, screenings, thematically based visuals, lectures
and sound-scapes by night, along with open offices, in which
architecture and design studios engage with the urban drift themes and
reveal innovative hybrid spaces and working methods.

++planned location++
The event is set to take place in the Umspannwerk, a 19th century power
station in Berlin-Kreuzberg, which has recently been renovated as a
location for large-scale cultural events.

++conference++
Mobile cultures and new urban strategies

The two-day conference will examine the impact of mobile
telecommunications systems and media on architecture and urban design
strategies. We will involve artists, architects, designers, theorists
and activists in mutual discourse.

CONFERENCE THEMES

++ Technical Mobility:  Interaction design; the design of flows++
an examination of the impact of interactive and embedded technologies on
contemporary design processes in architecture and design in the urban
sphere.
++ Mental Mobility:  Network urbanism++
an exploration of new coalitions between architects, artists, designers
and urban planners. How is the role of the architect and designer
adapting to the demands of network practice, and =EBflux management=ED, an=
d
what tools are being employed to visualize increasingly complex,
multi-layered urban processes?
++ Mobility vs. place:  Re-humanizing technology and =EBconnective
urbanism=ED++
How do architects and designers recreate a sense of place and counteract
the speed of the media-driven cityscape? On urban voids, the reanimation
of residual urban spaces, and on re-engaging the public in urban design
processes.
++ Tactical mobility: effective Strategies for the redevelopment and the
repoliticisation of public spaces,
=EBarchitecture is threat management=ED =F1 Mark Wigley
a discussion amongst architects and media tacticians with relation to
urban space. On =EBflexible response=ED, on intervening in and changing
perceptions of the cityscape. On architecture as a medium.

++call for papers++
We welcome abstracts and short papers for inclusion in the conference
and accompanying presentations. We also welcome relevant texts and
essays for inclusion in the planned publication and the web site
(textzone).

Please send abstracts of about 300 words =F1 to: info@urbandrift.org
+++when+++ initial proposals should reach us by April 20th 2002.

++URBAN DRIFT_THE NIGHT SPACE++
The space will provide a temporary, transformational and flexible
situation for artists, architects and designers to present their
proposals and investigations within a more informal setting.

Communicating an =EBemotional urbanism=ED and drawing from the situationis=
t
d=C8rive, Urban Drift=EDs night space will encompass=D6talks, readings, sl=
ide
projections, screenings and urban soundscapes.

+++themes+++urban futures =F1 real and virtual, shopping malls and garage
settlements, the alchemy of urban narrative, urban nomadism and mobile
technologies that foster a restless, edgy urban perspective,
psychogeographies, scanning/mapping the city, displacement, and
peripheral urban zones, in short, the =C7inexhaustible inventory of the
streets=C7 (Benjamin)

++CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS++
We welcome the following from urbanists ++ video works for
screening@umspannwerk, slide shows, proposals for readings,
performances, sound-pieces++
++ posters++ will form a significant part of the night-space=D6 we welcome
polemic, statements and images dealing with the above mentioned themes.

++ Formats++
slides 35mm or larger / vhs / svhs / mini-dv / quicktime files /
cd-rom / jpeg files /

Initial proposals should reach us by e-mail by April 20th 2002
Please mail proposals for participation to: info@urbandrift.org

Or -  post viewing copies of material/slides/related information to

Attn: Francesca Ferguson
C/o Datenflug
Urban Drift Project Space
Zehdenickerstr 21
10119 Berlin


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LISTS/URLS/NEWSLETTERS, ETC
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V.1.

Last fall, The Daniel Langlois Foundation had the pleasure of introducing
you to its Center for Research and Documentation (CR+D) in its outreach
program directed at local Universities and C=E9geps.

As the new session starts, we would like to meet professors, students and
researchers in order to fully present the resources we now have available =
to
the academic community and to exchange ideas regarding your needs. In orde=
r
to accomplish this, we would like to propose a meeting with you here at th=
e
Foundation within the following weeks. We would then be able to show you o=
ur
documentary resources that contain books, videos, slides, catalogues,
CD-ROMS, etc. It would be the occasion to explain how our database has bee=
n
developed and how it is accessible via the Internet. 

If you can't come for a visit, we suggests you to see instead our Web site
at http://www.fondation-langlois.org. The CR+D marks the continuation of a
diffusion process devoted to the collections acquired by the Foundation an=
d
sees its documentation offered on-line enriched regularly.To date, the
Foundation's collection includes four document collections: the Images du
futur Collection, the Steina and Woody Vasulka Archive, the Experiments in
Art and Technology (E.A.T.) Document Collection and the Collection of film=
s
on Frank J. Malina.

Thank you for your time and I look forward to hearing from you about your
interest and disponibilities for an appointment at your earliest
convenience.

Sincerely,

Eric Legendre, Documentalist/Researcher
elegendre@fondation-langlois.org

Audrey Navarre, Assistant to the Direction of programs
anavarre@fondation-langlois.org

The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology
3530, St-Laurent boulevard, suite 402
Montreal, Quebec H2X 2V1 Canada
Tel: (514) 987-7177 - Fax: (514) 987-7492
http://www.fondation-langlois.org

*****
V.2

http://www.autonomedia.org/digitalresistance/

Digital Resistance
Explorations in Tactical Media
Critical Art Ensemble
Autonomedia
US$14.00


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Editor: 
Madris Duric (ISEA HQ)

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