Concursos y Convocatorias

Festival for Digital Art and Cultures

MIND AND MATTER

Going into its 5th year, the paraflows festival in Vienna will focus on
the interconnection between the programme and the object. Information
technology is based on the distinction between hardware and software, and
more often than not both systems are treated and discussed as independent
of each other. paraflows .10 – MIND AND MATTER seeks to put on display how hard- and software, content and object in contemporary art not only
co-exist, but also condition and shape each other.

What role does hardware play for media infrastructure – how is the net set up, what are the real pillars on which virtuality rests? How does the
sculptural process look like, from a technological point of view? What are the effects of technological prospects on physical representation?

What are the challenges that digital art must face, when it comes to conserving its works? Additionally to the applications in question, the
corresponding hardware needs to be preserved as well. But how does time affect technology-based works, their conditions of production and their
archives?

Mind and body are inextricably tied to each other, yet we are tempted to regard mental processes as independent of their bodily basis. Can
thoughts, personality or intelligence exist without a body? Or how does the aesthetic image of technology relate to its context, what kind of
interconnections are made?

Our exhibition MIND AND MATTER will present works from the very beginning of media art and also give an overview of current developments that combine programmes with sculpture.

For more information on paraflows .10 – MIND AND MATTER visit
http://www.paraflows.at

We are looking for artistic positions dealing with the issues as afore mentioned.

Pls send your application as pdf file via e-mail to:
mind_and_matter(at)paraflows.at

or ship to:

paraflows
Museumsplatz 1
A-1070 Vienna
AUSTRIA

Mandatory information for submissions:
1) name, institution (if existing), address, e-mail, phone number, website/s
2) submitted work: title, medium, author/artist, year of production
3) work description: 1 DIN A4-page maximum
4) technical explanation, room/space requirements (hardware, operating system, additional software)
5) biographies
7) documentation of earlier projects, e.g. a link to your website

Language: all submissions have to be in English or in German or need to have subtitles in one of the two languages. Works in any other language
have to include a text list in either German or English. We especially encourage international submissions.

DEADLINE: June 15th, 2010

paraflows CONTACT
office(at)paraflows.at
Festival management: Guenther Friesinger
Exhibition management: Judith Fegerl
Office: MQ Musumsquartier
paraflows headoffice
Museumsplatz 1
A-1070 Vienna
Austria

paraflows .10 is supported by the City of Vienna, MA7 digital art and culture.

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International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP 2010)
March 29-30 2010, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

http://cameraculture.media.mit.edu/iccp10/callposters

CALL for POSTERS and DEMOS, IMPORTANT DATES:
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Proposal submission deadline: 8 PM EST, February 5 2010.
Proposal acceptance notification: February 12 2010.

DETAILS:
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ICCP 2010 seeks to provide a strong platform for showcasing exciting work
in fields related to computational photography from both academia and
industry. To this end, this year the conference will feature sessions for
poster and demo presentations in addition to the usual technical talks.

* Presentations may be based on speculative and exploratory research,
or may describe prototypes/commercial systems, or may describe recent
publications at related venues (SPIE, SIGGRAPH, ICCV, CVPR, Applied
Optics, JOSA, PAMI, etc.).

* Presentations may describe work ranging from complete hardware or
optical systems to tools for intelligent processing of photographic
data.

* Video and live demonstrations of prototypes from industry alongside
the posters are encouraged.

* We also encourage recent PhD graduates and PhD students who are close
to graduating to submit posters highlighting accomplishments of their
theses.

WHAT TO SUBMIT:
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* Prospective presenters must submit a short proposal by the due date.
Proposals should include author names, a brief description of the
problem being addressed, the work’s contributions and main results,
and whether any videos or demos will be shown.

* If the proposal is based on a single, previously-published paper, an
electronic copy of the paper can be submitted in lieu of the above.

* Links to websites describing the work, and/or links to videos and
demos are highly encouraged.

Email proposals (PDF or DOC) directly to the Posters/Demos Chair
(Srinivasa Narasimhan, srinivas@cs.cmu.edu).

—
Ramesh Raskar, Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab
http://www.media.mit.edu/~raskar | http://cameraculture.media.mit.edu

KlangKunstBühne 09
International Summer Academy
An interdisciplinary search for new images, sounds, spaces and figures.

September, 26th to October, 11th / November, 14th to 29th 2009

Now in its sixth year, KlangKunstBühne again ventures into the zones where music, theatre and visual art meet. Jurji A. Vasiljev und Philippe Gaulier’s courses offer basic acting and vocal training for actors as well as for artists from other disciplines. The ‘now’ of theatre – real and imaginary spaces, hidden realities, unspeakable forms – are the focus of César Brie’s workshops. Candice Breitz deals with the development of individual multimedia ‘instruments’ and their ramifications. Christina Kubisch experiments with the sounds of electromagnetic fields in urban space and Josef Anton Riedl and Michael Lentz explore sound poetry, acoustic art, speech acts and electronic sounds.

If you would like to receive information about KlangKunstBühne 2009 by post, please send us an e-mail with your name and your postal address to klangkunstbuehne@udk-berlin.de

Application

Please click on the following link in order to download the registration form:

>> KlangKunstBühne 2009 Registration Form (PDF: 47KB)

If you have any questions, please contact the KlangKunstBühne office: Tel. +49 (0)30 3185-2701.

If you would like to receive information about KlangKunstBühne 2009 by post, please send us an e-mail with your name and your postal address to: klangkunstbuehne@udk-berlin.de

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