From melissa.mcmahon at rihss.usyd.edu.au Thu Jun 2 16:41:01 2005 From: melissa.mcmahon at rihss.usyd.edu.au (Melissa McMahon) Date: Thu Jun 2 16:40:25 2005 Subject: E-humanities: #139: 6th-10th June 2005 Message-ID: <429EA9FD.40008@rihss.usyd.edu.au> *AUSTRALIAN e-HUMANITIES NEWS BULLETIN #139: 6th-10th June 2005* * 1. Events diary 2. Upcoming events 3. Calls for papers/expressions of interest 4. Other announcements 5. General information * _*1. EVENTS DIARY*_ _*MONDAY 6TH JUNE*_ *10am - 4.30pm:* _Film Victoria Digital Media Fund DVD Seminar: The Case for Content and Effective Distribution_ DVD media continues to capture a significant share of entertainment revenue, driving home cinema trends and turning movie viewers into buyers. This seminar is an opportunity for local producers, entrepreneurs, media companies and game developers to meet with a host of local and national industry speakers to critically examine the creative and commercial issues of the DVD platform Cost: $55.00 (includes GST, lunch and refreshments). Venue: Zinc, Federation Square (next to ACMI) Melbourne Register online at: http://www.secureregistrations.com/dmfdvd For more information: http://www.film.vic.gov.au/news/events.shtml _* TUESDAY 7TH JUNE*_ *6:30 - 8:30pm:* _mo:life Monthly Forum_ A forum held on the first Tuesday of each month for content creators, web developers, info-tech professionals, film makers and artists to come together and sketch out the possibilities of "the new small screen". Each event will feature a ten minute provocation by mobile media expert, followed by informal discussion (over a few drinks). Find out about the various players and networks and what they offer; explore the capabilities of the latest handsets; and see what others around the globe and around the corner are doing with this new format. Free. Refreshments available E2E4 - 170 Abbotsford St North Melbourne (Tram 57, stop 14) Contact details: 03 9328 4777, club@e2e4.net For more information: http://spinach7.com/molife/monthly/ _*THURSDAY 9TH JUNE*_ *5.30pm: *_National Library of Australia and Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (APSR) Public Lecture_ /"The Challenge of Managing and Preserving E-Research: The UK Digital Curation Centre"/, by Chris Rusbridge (Director, Digital Curation Centre (DCC), Edinburgh University) This lecture will focus on the background to the establishment of the DCC, and its activities and plans. Conference Room, National Library of Australia, Parkes Place, Canberra URL: http://www.apsr.edu.au/news/Rusbridge.html _*2. UPCOMING EVENTS*_ _*The launch of "At a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet" edited by Annmarie Chandler & Norie Neumark*_ 6 for 6.30, Monday 20th June, Gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe In this multidisciplinary look at the practice of art that takes place across a distance - geographical, temporal, or emotional - theorists and practitioners examine the ways that art, activism, and media fundamentally reconfigured each other in experimental networked projects of the 1970s and 1980s. At a Distance traces the history and theory of such experimental art projects as Mail Art, sound and radio art, telematic art, assemblings, and Fluxus. Launched by Theo van Leeuwen (Dean, Humanities and Social Sciences, UTS). Introduced by Ross Gibson: (New Media and Digital Culture, UTS). Free. RSVP: please phone 9660 2333 or email: events@gleebooks.com.au _* Education Network Australia (EdNA) Online, Free Workshops *_ July, August Aimed at the higher education sector, the workshops will demonstrate the services of the EdNA Online project. This will cover the free Shared Information Services provided by EdNA Online, as well as services that help support universities publicise and promote their achievements, conferences and events. The workshops in NSW are scheduled to be conducted in the week starting 8 August and we are looking for a suitable venue: a computer lab or similar, with Internet access and presentation facilities, for 2 days, from 9am to 5pm. If your university is able to host the workshops in NSW, please email Nelly Ivanova, nivanova@educationau.edu.au. For further workshop info: http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/page2739.html _*The Pervasive and Locative Arts Network (PLAN) Technology Camp*_ 2 - 8 October 2005, Mixed Reality Lab, University of Nottingham Cross-disciplinary teams will be formed to work on seed project ideas and develop methodologies, encouraging cross disciplinary experimentation. Proposals may develop into real projects or may be entirely hypothetical. There will be opportunities to take the projects further, in particular as part of the PLAN final exhibition at Futuresonic 2006 in Manchester UK during July 2006. The workshop is free, but attendees will need to pay their own travel expenses where possible. Limited support is available from PLAN for participants without institutional affiliation or other means of support, please contact us for further details. Expressions of interest are invited: Please send a 2-page expression of interest, including details of your areas of interest, experience and expertise. Deadline for Expressions of Interest: Monday 4 July 2005 Further details: http://www.open-plan.org, ben@open-plan.org _*3. CALLS FOR PAPERS / EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST*_ _*IE2005: The Second Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment*_ 23-25 November 2005, Sydney (venue TBC) The Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment is a cross-disciplinary conference that will bring together researchers from artificial intelligence, cognitive science, media studies, drama, HCI, psychology, interactive media, cultural studies, graphics, audio, as well as researchers from other disciplines working on new game specific technologies or providing critical analysis of games and interactive environments. Submission Deadlines: Full Papers: 15 June 2005 ; Short Papers: 22 June 2005 ; Demo Proposals: 29 June 2005 http://research.it.uts.edu.au/creative/ie/05/ _*Generative Arts Practice 2005 - A Creativity & Cognition Symposium*_ 5-7 December 2005, University of Technology, Sydney The symposium will focus on research issues in the practice of the generative in areas such as art making, art theory, digital media and human-computer interaction. It will address recent research and future directions in generative art practice, considering issues such as: the specific nature of generative practice, new generative forms, the usability and appropriateness of generative technologies, new devices and software for generative arts, practice-based research results, historical studies of generative art practice. Full papers reporting practice, addressing issues or describing research results relevant to the Symposium are invited. Submissions will be reviewed by the International Programme Committee Paper length: 6000 words (16 pages in the conference format) including references. Scholarships: A small number of scholarships to cover the conference fee will be available to independent artists who are authors of accepted papers. Deadline for full papers: 12th August 2005 http://research.it.uts.edu.au/creative/gap05/ _*M/C - Media and Culture is calling for contributors to the 'scan' issue of M/C Journal*_ M/C is a crossover journal between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and peer-reviewed journal. The scan is both the quick glance and the measured study, it is a survey of the exterior and an interrogation of hidden interiors. Practices of scanning are a response to the increased number of things to consider and the reduced amount of time to consider them. Scanning engages questions about surveillance, about the way in which we surveil our self and our surrounds, and about the way we submit our self and our surrounds to surveillance by others. In many ways scanning has an impact on the way in which authority is practiced, in creative practice, scholarship and daily life. We invite creative interpretations of the act of scanning and contributions from a wide variety of fields to explore its practices, limitations and potentials. Send 1000-1500 word articles to scan@journal.media-culture.org.au. Article deadline on 1 July 2005 for issue release on 24 August 2005 Further M/C Journal issues scheduled for 2005: 'review': article deadline 26 August 2005, 'affect': article deadline 21 October 2005 M/C Journal is online at http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ _* ACIS 2005: Socialising IT: Thinking About the People*_ November 30 - December 2 2005, Manly Pacific Hotel, Sydney One track of ACIS 2005 is IT, Creativity and Collaboration. This track will concentrate on the understanding of and support for creative work particularly in, although not limited to, the areas of design and interactive art. Addressing recent research as well as future directions, possible topics will include: Social and technical issues surrounding artist-technologist collaboration, supporting remote collaboration in creative work, understanding and supporting the development of collaborative partnerships, communication in collaboration, programming tools to support collaboration. Track chair: Ernest Edmonds, UTS (ernest -AT- ernestedmonds.com) Associate editor: Alistair Weakley, UTS (alastair -AT- weakley.org.uk) Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished papers for consideration for ACIS2005, nominating a theme related track. All papers will be double-blind refereed. Maximum paper length is 10 A4 pages (Times Roman 10pt). Oral presentations will be 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions. Full Paper Submission: 13th June, 2005 http://depts.it.uts.edu.au/is/ACIS2005/track-details.php4 _*4. OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS*_ _* -empyre- online discussion/forum: the weblog*_ -empyre- welcomes four artists whose work engages the medium of the weblog as a new area for artistic practice. Mixing the genres of the documentary, the journal, the personal conversation, the usenet discussion board, this month's artists bring the weblog into the realm of artistic practice in the network. abe linkoln lives here: www.linkoln.net http://www.linkoln.net jimpunk uses the tools of dataculture to create cinematic, yet linguistically-based work that asserts computer control over the browser. http://www.jimpunk.com/ Chris Ashley is an artist, writer, and educator living and working in Oakland, California. He posts an HTML drawing every day, and regularly posts writing about art on his weblog http://www.chrisashley.net. Tom Moody is a visual artist based in New York. His low-tech art made with MSPaintbrush, photocopiers, and consumer printers has appeared in solo shows at Derek Eller Gallery and UP&CO. http://www.digitalmediatree.com/tommoody/ For more information on -empyre-: http://www.subtle.net/empyre/_* *__* *__*5. GENERAL INFORMATION*_ This email bulletin is an initiative of the Australian e-Humanities Network (http://www.ehum.edu.au), an ARC-funded partnership convened by the Australian Academy of the Humanities designed as a reference point for scholars engaged in or interested in projects at the intersection of computing and the humanities. It is used to compile and distribute information about events and other news happening in this field around Australia. 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If you are interested in attending the forum on 8 June, please contact: Kristina Vaughan e-Research Coordinating Committee Secretariat Tel: 02 6240 9604 Fax: 02 6240 9777 email: kristina.vaughan@dest.gov.au -- MM Melissa McMahon melissa.mcmahon@rihss.usyd.edu.au Acting Research Manager (June-August 2005) Research Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (RIHSS) Woolley Building A20 The University of Sydney NSW 2006 Tel: (02) 9351 5704 Fax: (02) 9351 5700 http://www.rihss.usyd.edu.au From melissa.mcmahon at rihss.usyd.edu.au Thu Jun 9 18:07:42 2005 From: melissa.mcmahon at rihss.usyd.edu.au (Melissa McMahon) Date: Thu Jun 9 18:08:14 2005 Subject: E-humanities: #140: 13th -17th June 2005 Message-ID: <42A7F8CE.5030108@rihss.usyd.edu.au> AUSTRALIAN e-HUMANITIES NEWS BULLETIN #140: 13th June - 17th June 2005 1. Events diary 2. Upcoming events 3. Calls for papers 4. Positions 5. General information *_1. EVENTS DIARY_* *THURSDAY 16TH JUNE* *17th -20th June: *_DiGRA 2005: 2nd International Conference of the Digital Games Research_ _Association_ - /'Changing Views: Worlds in Play'/ The goal of this conference is to facilitate a rich, comprehensive grasp of the present and future capabilities and applications of digital games through a framework which demonstrates the values, means and ends of "changing views" on digital games and games research. To support and extend digital games research, featured symposia will showcase international as well as interdisciplinary accomplishments that are currently defining the emerging field of digital games studies. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada http://www3.educ.sfu.ca/conferences/digra2004/ *10:00 - 12:00:* _Consultation Forums to discuss e-Research issues_ The e-Research Coordinating Committee is the primary source of expert advice to the Government on a strategic framework for the development of Australia's e-Research capacity. The Committee will provide an interim report to the Government outlining e-Research issues of national importance in the short and medium term and associated strategic options to address these issues. Subsequently, the Committee will recommend a strategic e-Research coordination framework for the longer term. Online comments to the Discussion Paper will be supplemented by face-to-face consultations. Canberra, Venue TBA, RSVP due COB 6 June Other capital cities in June and July. RSVP to the e-Research Coordinating Committee Secretariat at e-research@dest.gov.au http://www.dest.gov.au/sectors/research_sector/policies_issues_reviews/key_issues/e_research_consult/ *_FRIDAY 17TH JUNE_* *17th-20th June: *_Point of View (PoV) Alternative Games Exhibition_ The PoV Alternative Games Exhibition will focus on groundbreaking digital games and game-based projects that innovate through content, process, use of technology, interaction, expectations and audience. The juried exhibition will run in conjunction with the Digital Games Research Association's 2005 international conference "Changing Views: Worlds in Play". PoV (Point of View) will invite participants to present works that create alternative perspectives or viewpoints, or take an innovative or experimental approach to the game experience. Of particular interest are works that explore subjectivities in game environments: games that challenge ideas surrounding players, creators, and contexts; reveal new means of representation and interaction; present personal expressions of hardware; or otherwise play with notions of content, context, and form. Port of Vancouver, Renaissance Hotel Waterfront, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada http://www.gamesconference.org/digra2005/event_PoV.php Enquiries: Cindy Poremba, poremba@sfu.ca *_2. UPCOMING EVENTS_* *_The launch of "At a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet"_* *_edited by Annmarie Chandler & Norie Neumark_* 6 for 6.30, Monday 20th June, Gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe In this multidisciplinary look at the practice of art that takes place across a distance - geographical, temporal, or emotional - theorists and practitioners examine the ways that art, activism, and media fundamentally reconfigured each other in experimental networked projects of the 1970s and 1980s. At a Distance traces the history and theory of such experimental art projects as Mail Art, sound and radio art, telematic art, assemblings, and Fluxus. Launched by Theo van Leeuwen (Dean, Humanities and Social Sciences, UTS). Introduced by Ross Gibson: (New Media and Digital Culture, UTS). Free. RSVP: please phone 9660 2333 or email: events@gleebooks.com.au *_Copyright in the digital age seminar_* 9.30am - 1.00pm, Monday 4 July, State Library of Victoria Providing an overview of the digital environment and digital rights management technology related to e-publishing and copyright on a local and global level for authors and publishers. A panel of authors, publishers and copyright experts will also lead a group discussion on the digital experience. Cost: Free To register, email info@copyright.com.au or telephone CAL on 02 9394 7600. www.copyright.com.au *_Free Play '05: The Next Wave Independent Game Developers' Conference_* 15th-17th July, Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), Flinders St, Melbourne Free Play caters for independent and DIY game developers, game modders and mappers, creatively frustrated professionals, game development students and digital artists from every state in Australia. Its aim is to bring together these communities in a forum that is financially reasonable, with a programme developed by the communities themselves. Feel free to contact the organisers about: bringing demos and games to show at Free Play's indie games expo, showcasing Australian-made multiplayer mods or maps on Free Play's dedicated conference LAN. Email: gamers@nextwave.org.au http://www.free-play.org *_Learning and Mobile Technologies Symposium_* 9.00am - 4.00pm, 29th June, 2005, Carlton Crest, Brisbane, QLD Through international and national case studies, the symposium focuses on the areas of: Workplace learning, young adult learners, mobile technology tools, trends and possibilities. Cost: $220 (inc. GST + lunch) http://www.vision6.com.au/vemail/view_email.php?id=36670&u=4080 *_3. CALLS FOR PAPERS / EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST_* *_IE2005: The Second Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment_* 23 - 25 November 2005, Sydney (venue TBC) The Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment is a cross-disciplinary conference that will bring together researchers from artificial intelligence, cognitive science, media studies, drama, HCI, psychology, interactive media, cultural studies, graphics, audio, as well as researchers from other disciplines working on new game specific technologies or providing critical analysis of games and interactive environments. Submission Deadlines: Full Papers: 15 June 2005 ; Short Papers: 22 June 2005 ; Demo Proposals: 29 June 2005 http://research.it.uts.edu.au/creative/ie/05/ *_d>Art.O5 - "Distributed Art": 8th Annual dLux Media Arts Showcase_* August/September 2005, Sydney Opera House Exhibition Hall An exhibition of sound, web, and mobile phone art and a screening program of experimental film and video art. d>Art.O5 -- "Distributed Art" will both focus on art forms that have an inherently distributed nature (web art, mobile phone art) and investigate new methods for distribution of digital art (podcasting, BitTorrent, Bluetooth etc.). Works are being called for the following categories: - d>Art.O5 Screen (open to Australian citizens or permanent residents only) - d>Art.O5 Sound (open to Australian and International artists) - d>Art.O5 Web (open to Australian and International artists) Deadline for entries: Wednesday 15th June 2005 (Notification of Acceptance: 1st July) http://www.dlux.org.au/dart05 *_ANAT New Media Lab 2005_* 3 - 15 October, Meat Market art space, North Melbourne The Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) is currently calling for applications for the ANAT New Media Lab 2005, a two-week full time intensive laboratory for Australian new media arts practitioners. The Lab will enable artists to network, develop skills, and investigate the possibilities of emerging media. With national and international facilitators, the Lab will focus on research and development, experimentation, collaboration and project development. The Lab theme is Create Space enabling investigation into the design and utilisation of space in game architecture, sound design and locative media. The Lab is open to Australian artists with at least 3 years of practice in the fields of new media arts, sound art, game design, hybrid arts and other related disciplines. Registration fee for the Lab is $600 ($500 ANAT members). Accommodation will be provided for participants from outside of Melbourne. Deadline for applications: Friday June 24, 2005 www.anat.org.au *_4. OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS_* _*Civiblog Launched*_ Civiblog encourages the creation of blogs authored by people who are trying to change the world with the promotion of human rights and democracy. It is a showcase of all weblog posts in the sector, onsite and by way of links and RSS syndication to partner sites. The site provides a mechanism by which users can share their experiences, trade stories, find job opportunities, and build a sense of community and identity within the sector. A project of The Citizen Lab (www.citizenlab.org) based at the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto - focusing on advanced research and development at the intersection of digital media and world civic politics. http://www.civiblog.org/ _*Mobile Web Initiative *_ The World Wide Web Consortium recently launched the Mobile Web Initiative (MWI) to make Web access from a mobile device as simple, easy, and convenient as Web access from a desktop device. Mobile Web Initiative: http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/ _*Voices from Asia-Pacific: Internet Governance Priorities and Recommendations*_ June 2005 Released by UNDP Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme (UNDP-APDIP), "Voices from Asia-Pacific: Internet Governance Priorities and Recommendations" consists of 1) the ORDIG Policy Brief and Executive Summary, and 2) the ORDIG Input Paper for the UN Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) and the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). ORDIG consulted over 3,000 stakeholders through sub-regional meetings, jointly organized with UNESCAP and others; a region-wide online forum that allowed for open and candid discussions on the issues; and a region-wide, multi-lingual, issues-based online survey that looked at the Internet governance priorities of the region. Issues and recommendations covered in the Infrastructure dimension are access costs, VOIP, and wireless networks. Issues and recommendations covered in the Logical dimension are DNS management, IP address management, and technical standards. Issues covered in the Content dimension are content pollution (spam, viruses, spyware, etc.) and cybercrime. Issues covered in the Social/Developmental dimension are cultural diversity and participation. ORDIG Policy Brief : http://igov.apdip.net/ORDIG_Policy_Brief.pdf ORDIG Input Paper : http://igov.apdip.net/ORDIG_Paper.pdf ORDIG Survey Report : http://igov.apdip.net/ORDIG.Survey.Report.pdf ORDIG Forum Summary : http://igov.apdip.net/undp-apdip%20forum%20summary.pdf -- MM Melissa McMahon melissa.mcmahon@rihss.usyd.edu.au Acting Research Manager (June-August 2005) Research Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (RIHSS) Woolley Building A20 The University of Sydney NSW 2006 Tel: (02) 9351 5704 Fax: (02) 9351 5700 http://www.rihss.usyd.edu.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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EVENTS DIARY MONDAY 20TH JUNE 6 for 6.30: The launch of "At a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet" edited by Annmarie Chandler & Norie Neumark In this multidisciplinary look at the practice of art that takes place across a distance - geographical, temporal, or emotional - theorists and practitioners examine the ways that art, activism, and media fundamentally reconfigured each other in experimental networked projects of the 1970s and 1980s. At a Distance traces the history and theory of such experimental art projects as Mail Art, sound and radio art, telematic art, assemblings, and Fluxus. Launched by Theo van Leeuwen (Dean, Humanities and Social Sciences, UTS). Introduced by Ross Gibson: (New Media and Digital Culture, UTS). Free Venue: Gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe RSVP: please phone 9660 2333 or email: events@gleebooks.com.au 2. UPCOMING EVENTS Learning and Mobile Technologies Symposium 9.00am - 4.00pm, 29th June, 2005, Carlton Crest, Brisbane, QLD Through international and national case studies, the symposium focuses on the areas of: Workplace learning, young adult learners, mobile technology tools, trends and possibilities. Cost: $220 (inc. GST + lunch) http://www.vision6.com.au/vemail/view_email.php?id=36670&u=4080 Education Network Australia (EdNA) Online, Free Workshops July, August, September in all states. Aimed at the higher education sector, the workshops will demonstrate the services of the EdNA Online project. This will cover the free Shared Information Services provided by EdNA Online, as well as services that help support universities publicise and promote their achievements, conferences and events. For further workshop info: http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/page2739.html Copyright in the digital age seminar 9.30am - 1.00pm, Monday 4 July, State Library of Victoria Providing an overview of the digital environment and digital rights management technology related to e-publishing and copyright on a local and global level for authors and publishers. A panel of authors, publishers and copyright experts will also lead a group discussion on the digital experience. Cost: Free To register, email info at copyright.com.au or telephone CAL on 02 9394 7600. www.copyright.com.au Free Play '05: The Next Wave Independent Game Developers' Conference 15th-17th July, Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), Flinders St, Melbourne Free Play caters for independent and DIY game developers, game modders and mappers, creatively frustrated professionals, game development students and digital artists from every state in Australia. Its aim is to bring together these communities in a forum that is financially reasonable, with a programme developed by the communities themselves. Feel free to contact the organisers about: bringing demos and games to show at Free Play's indie games expo, showcasing Australian-made multiplayer mods or maps on Free Play's dedicated conference LAN. Email: gamers at nextwave.org.au http://www.free-play.org 3. CALLS FOR PAPERS / EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST National Archives of Australia (NAA) - Frederick Watson Fellowship This fellowship is awarded annually to individuals interested in conducting research substantially utilising its collection. The National Archives will provide a grant of up to $15 000 for the following: living subsidy during the period of the tenure, airfares within Australia to the office in which the Fellowship is undertaken, copy costs and special software needs, consumables. Deadline for applications: 24th June 2005 http://www.naa.gov.au/About_Us/frederick_watson.html National Archives of Australia (NAA) - Margaret George Award This annual award is for individuals interested in conducting research substantially utilising its collection. The National Archives will provide: a research area at an Archives' office in any Australian capital city, access to an Archives' staff member who will act as a first point of contact for the successful applicant and assist with coordinating project advice if necessary, assistance up to the value of $10 000, for living supplement during the period of the tenure, airfare or equivalent from the applicant's place of residence to the Archives' office where they will undertake the research. Deadline for applications: 24th June 2005 http://www.naa.gov.au/about_us/margaret_george.html Mobile Journeys commissioning program for mobile phone artworks Between 10 and 15 commissions are available for works in the following areas: short video, sound, text based, locative, social networking, games, performance, installation. There is no required theme but the works must be specifically made for mobile phones, working within the constraints and exploiting the opportunities of this platform. Selected artists are expected to develop their projects independently and without significant technical assistance from Mobile Journeys. Commissioning fees will be determined on a case-by-case basis. Mobile Journeys is a national initiative exploring the creative potential of mobile devices. The Mobile Journeys consortium consists of the Australian Interactive Media Industry Association, the Australian Network for Art and Technology and dLux media arts and is supported by the Australia Council for the Arts. Proposal deadline: June 24. Applicants will be notified about the outcome of the selection process by June 30. Mobile Journeys requires most of the selected projects to be completed by late July to be showcased at the d>Art.O5 Exhibition at Sydney Opera House in August. www.mobilejourneys.com ANAT New Media Lab 2005 3 - 15 October, Meat Market art space, North Melbourne The Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) is currently calling for applications for the ANAT New Media Lab 2005, a two-week full time intensive laboratory for Australian new media arts practitioners. The Lab will enable artists to network, develop skills, and investigate the possibilities of emerging media. With national and international facilitators, the Lab will focus on research and development, experimentation, collaboration and project development. The Lab theme is Create Space enabling investigation into the design and utilisation of space in game architecture, sound design and locative media. The Lab is open to Australian artists with at least 3 years of practice in the fields of new media arts, sound art, game design, hybrid arts and other related disciplines. Registration fee for the Lab is $600 ($500 ANAT members). Accommodation will be provided for participants from outside of Melbourne. Deadline for applications: Friday June 24, 2005 www.anat.org.au IE2005: The Second Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment 23-25 November 2005, Sydney (venue TBC) The Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment is a cross-disciplinary conference that will bring together researchers from artificial intelligence, cognitive science, media studies, drama, HCI, psychology, interactive media, cultural studies, graphics, audio, as well as researchers from other disciplines working on new game specific technologies or providing critical analysis of games and interactive environments. Submission Deadlines: Full Papers: 15 June 2005 ; Short Papers: 22 June 2005 ; Demo Proposals: 29 June 2005 http://research.it.uts.edu.au/creative/ie/05/ Film Victoria Digital Media Fund Digital Media Fund's Game Prototype Development: to assist independent Victorian based game developers to produce market driven game titles in which they own the Intellectual Property (or a percentage thereof) and build stable businesses. Applications from new and small scale developers are encouraged. Innovative Digital Content: this program has two strands, which support a diverse range of projects for digital platforms such as Internet, Broadband, DVD and wireless technologies. Strand A provides development funding to Victorian based producers and developers; Strand B provides production funding of up to $30,000 to Victorian based producers and developers. Digital Animation: providing seed funding to Victorian based producers and animators to develop technical, innovative and creative animation concepts that are market driven. Concepts utilising 2D & 3D animation software for project delivery across a range of digital media platforms such as Internet, Broadband, DVD, iTV, enhanced TV, wireless or hand-held technologies will be considered. Concepts developing interactive elements and cross-sector synergies will also be highly regarded. Submission deadline for all programs: 1 July 2005 www.film.vic.gov.au. Cultural Futures: Place, ground and practice in Asia Pacific new media arts December 1-5 2005, Hoani Waititi Auckland / Tamaki Makaurau Cultural Futures is affiliated with the International Symposium for Electronic Arts (ISEA2006), as an initiative of the Place, Ground and Practice Working Group for the Pacific Rim New Media Summit. The Cultural Futures symposium, exhibitions and workshops will develop international awareness of local work in new media arts; and link international practices in new media arts to dialogues in Aotearoa's cultural identity. The symposium will include significant time set aside for open discussion, and an entire afternoon for workshops that will develop ongoing initiatives for new media arts in the Asia Pacific region. The outcomes from the workshop will be presented at the Pacific Rim New Media Summit in San Jose, California in August 2006. To support this dialogue, we will be publishing a poster/broadsheet which includes writings and imagery on the theme of "place, ground and practice in the new media context". The broadsheet will be distributed to a wide public to help establish an agenda for discussion during the symposium. Texts (in any genre) should be of less than 1500 words and images in JPEG format under 2MB in size. These should be sent via e-mail to info@culturalfutures.place.net.nz Submission Deadline: August 30 2005. http://culturalfutures.place.net.nz Making Badlands Conference 1 - 2 December 2005, hosted by Transformations and the Bundaberg Media Research Group, Central Queensland University, Bundaberg, Queensland. Making Badlands is about the production of visual and temporal spaces in both a real and imaginary sense, and the affective regimes that inhabit them as places of danger, excitement or abhorrence. Following Ross Gibson's provocative lead in his book Seven Versions of an Australian Badland, the conference will draw out the dimensions of making badlands historically and in the contemporary sense, through archival memory, institutional discourse, artistic expression and through various media practices. Calling for papers on the theme 'Making Badlands' and multimedia presentations on badland scenarios and themes. Abstracts for papers and presentations now extended to 31st August. http://www.cqu.edu.au/transformations 4. OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS W3C Workshop on Frameworks for Semantics in Web services Innsbruck, Austria. The intent of the workshop on Frameworks for Semantics in Web Services is to provide advice to W3C on possible future work in the area. By bringing together heterogeneous communities (Semantic Web and Web Services communities, researchers and industrial software developers and users), W3C hopes to identify better use cases, leading to more effective and comprehensive solutions. Topics covered include: Semantic Web background technologies; e.g. RDF, OWL ; Web Services background technologies; e.g. SOAP, WSDL ; Registries, taxonomies, and search mechanisms; e.g. UDDI ; Ontologies for Web Services; e.g. OWL-S, WSMO ; Web Services Choreography; e.g. WS-CDL ; Business process; e.g. BPEL4WS Following the two-day workshop, W3C is to issue a report with conclusions based on presentations and discussions. All materials, including the papers themselves, are available for public review. Contact for Australia -- Janet Daly, janet@w3.org, +1.617.253.5884 or +1.617.253.2613 http://www.w3.org/ The Free Software Foundation (FSF) registers its 4,000th software package on its Free Software Directory. Free software packages listed in the directory includes, 'CinePaint', an image retouching software that has been used in the production of (among others) Harry Potter, Scooby-Doo, and Stuart Little. 'diskWriggler' is a newer package intended as a benchmarking tool in film and post-production. http://directory.fsf.org/. Free Software Foundation is dedicated to promoting computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs. The FSF also helps to spread awareness of the ethical and political issues of freedom in the use of software. www.fsf.org Release of the extended Database of Virtual Art. As a pioneer in the field, the Database of Virtual Art has been documenting the rapidly evolving field of digital installation art since 1999. The database is based on open-source-technologies and allows individuals to post material themselves. With the latest release the extended Database now provides an enlarged set of features and research opportunities: The major novelty is the freshly implemented Thesaurus featuring a variety of categories and keywords. The Database offers an extensive search tree that permits a targeted set search. The Thesaurus of the Database constitutes a new approach to systemize the field of Digital Art and the terms and concepts connected to it and will grow over the next few months. http://virtualart.hu-berlin.de Surveys to revamp community weblog (Fitzroy, Collingwood Vic) Have your say on what you might want for a Smith Street weblog. This survey will help revamp the community weblog, SmithStreet.org, in collaboration with Smith Street precinct residents, businesses, artists and community organisations. http://www.smithstreet.org/survey/ Survey deadline: 25 June 2005. 5. GENERAL INFORMATION This email bulletin is an initiative of the Australian e-Humanities Network (http://www.ehum.edu.au), an ARC-funded partnership convened by the Australian Academy of the Humanities designed as a reference point for scholars engaged in or interested in projects at the intersection of computing and the humanities. 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GST + lunch) Carlton Crest, Brisbane, Qld http://www.vision6.com.au/vemail/view_email.php?id=36670&u=4080 THURSDAY 30 JUNE Call for abstracts for a special issue of the International Review of Information Ethics (IRIE) Vol 2, 2005: "The Ethics of E-Games" Guest editors: Dr Charles Ess and Dr Elizabeth Buchanan. E-games represent a relatively neglected subject in Information Ethics, despite their prevalent and controversial impact. This special issue of IRIE calls for critical ethical reflection on the following possible (non-exhaustive) issues: The Rules of Play; Virtue Ethics and Ethics of Care; Social Dimensions; Gender & Culture Issues in e-game portrayal, use and criticism. Deadline for abstracts (1500wds max for a 3000 article): 30th June 2005 Notification of acceptance of abstract: 15th August 2005 Deadline for full article: 30th September 2005 Publication: December 2005 All articles will be subject to peer review. Acceptance of the abstract does not guarantee publication in the journal. For further details on topics and submission guidelines, go to: http://ijie.zkm.de/ Enquiries: Dr Elizabeth Buchanan, eliz1679@uwm.edu and Dr Charles Ess, cmess@drury.edu FRIDAY 1 JULY SATURDAY 2 JULY AusWeb05 11th Australasian Web Conference The major track of AusWeb05 is web-based education and training. Keynotes include: Rod Sims (Academic Director, QANTM New Media College) on "Educating New Media Developers: Electracy vs Creativity vs Pedagogy" and Terence Huwe (University of California, Berkeley) on "Digital Libraries and the Web 2005: Bridging Platforms to Build Context". Special workshops are available on multimedia for educators, writing for the web, XML publishing and skills in web-based teaching such as social and cognitive presence. Until 6 July Cost: $150-$350 per day or packages $1150-$1375 Royal Pines Resort, Gold Coast http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/index.html 2. UPCOMING EVENTS "Transforming Aesthetics" Conference 7-9 July, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Key speakers include: Nicolas Bourriaud, Andrew Benjamin, Ernst van Alphen, Jane Taylor and Sean Cubitt New media art lectures include Anna Munster, Senior Lecturer, Art History and Theory, College of Fine Arts, UNSW and Susan Ballard, School of Art History and Theory, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales Anna Munster examines the debates over nomenclature and identity running concurrent to the growth of new media arts, new media art strategies for intervention into increasingly corporatized public and private space and government backlash against new media artists and organizations, she will argue for the radical undoing of propriety and property that new media arts undertakes in culture. In the wake of new media arts' undoing through the reassertion of the issues of art form, she will focus upon the move to a 'distributed aesthetics' that is now emerging as artists conjoin new media technologies with social movements and explore the aesthetic dimensions of social software. Susan Ballard proposes that an aesthetics of noise introduces a new approach the shifting materialities of digital installation. A focus on noise highlights the often-silent spaces of a gallery, and makes us acutely aware of the acoustic environment. With installation works where the phenomenon of sound is closely tied to the space, sound's ability to travel through space connects directly with the temporality of the visual. Through the digital, noise transforms the materiality of the visual by foregrounding flicker and delay. This is both a transformation of the digital as media and within the boundaries of the digital experience. In examining specific works, this paper demonstrates the ongoing persistence of noise as an affective and differential materiality that emerges within the spaces of digital installation. Cost: $250 (Early bird registrations close 30 June) For programme and registration details: http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/aaanz 3. CALLS FOR PAPERS New scholarly e-journal accepting submissions 3CMedia is a new scholarly e-journal which aims to provide a forum for promoting, reporting and debating research in community-based, citizen's and 'third sector' media and culture. Contributions are blind peer reviewed and cover a wide range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches, research methods and topics. 3CMedia is published by the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia. Issue 1 now at cbonline: www.cbonline.org.au/3cmedia 4. POSITIONS / PRIZES Call for applications for a Post Doctoral, Assistant Professorship (Internet & Society Research Unit) at the Center for Advanced Studies and Research in Information and Communication Technologies & Society (ICT&S), The University of Salzburg Area of research and teaching: eTheory which relates to theories of shaping ICTs for a sustainable global information society. Areas that are focused in particular are: Information Society Theories, Sociology of Technology, Technology Assessment, Social Theories, Systems Thinking, Information Science, Philosophy of Science and Technology. Required qualifications: completed terminal degree: Professional Doctorate, Ph.D. Additional qualifications desired: Inter- and/or transdisciplinary knowledge and experience; Project proposal writing and project management; Social-science methods; Teaching experience. Personal characteristics desired: Demonstrated ability and willingness to work as a member of a (inter-/transdisciplinary) team; Ability to work under pressure and with limited time frames; Demonstrated ability and willingness to fulfil administrative duties. Female applicants are encouraged to apply and have special preference in the event candidates of equal qualifications are chosen. Intended start date: 1 October 2005 Length of employment: 5 years Number of hours expected to work per week: 40 Deadline for applications: 6 July 2005 For more information: http://www.sbg.ac.at/aktuelles/stellen/ GZ: A 0045/1-2005) or call: +43/662 8044/4802 Call for applications for HCI Internship at Information and Communication Technology Centre, CSIRO, Canberra You will be researching what brings people closer together: in their social environments, personal relationships, work environments and through physical exercise. The Centre aims to enable people to interact in novel, engaging and stimulating ways; by providing them technology that helps overcoming barriers such as physical distance and time difference. We are interested in research on how people communicate with other people, using technology when necessary: We are not aiming to introduce technology to a working interaction, however, if the participants are living in two different countries, or even in different time-zones, technology can enable a communication that is otherwise not possible. Current advances such as videoconferencing, instant messenger and email are mainly supporting factual information exchange, but do not pay justice to the rich interaction modalities humans utilize. The Centre is working on solutions that do that. Our research draws on work in human-computer interaction, interface design, ubiquitous computing, social science, design, mechanical engineering and psychology. We are now looking for someone who can bring a unique asset to this mix: could be supporting one of these areas, adding a new expertise, or be a multi-disciplinary background. We need someone who: is a left- and right-brain thinker, is creative, is cutting-edge and aware of research results, is willing to learn many new things quickly, is a team-player, is excited to program, build hardware, design graphics, calibrate sensors, read technical papers and hold presentations all in one day, can challenge his/her own thinking and ideas, is excited about what "seems impossible", is able to do background literature research, ideally has experience in research in HCI, CSCW or interactivity. Flexible start date, duration 4-6 months, $400/week (tax-free), full-time Please send your CV (and links to portfolio/website/papers/etc if you have any) and a sentence about which asset you can provide towards our research. If you have any questions, (there is no website available yet, this is a new group) please feel free to email me: Florian 'Floyd' Mueller, floyd.mueller@csiro.au Call for nominations for the APC Betinho Communications Prize 2005 Community connectivity for economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean In 2005, the APC Betinho Prize will be offered in recognition of community initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean that use the internet and other networks to access markets, skills and opportunities to derive real economic benefits. We are looking for ICT initiatives that: make a positive economic contribution to the community, are driven and developed in Latin America and the Caribbean, can demonstrate a sustainable use of technology. The prize is open to: Civil society organisations, community-based groups, networks, and social movements anywhere in LAC. Applications will be accepted in Spanish, Portuguese and English. The prize: USD$ 7,500.00 may be shared amongst up to three winning initiatives. Deadline for nominations: October 16, 2005 The Association for Progressive Communications is an international network of civil society organisations dedicated to empowering and supporting groups and individuals through the strategic use of information and communication technologies, especially internet-technologies. http://www.apc.org/english/betinho or write to betinho@apc.org 5. OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS New to the Fryer Library & University Archives, University of Queensland website Worth Fighting For! http://www.library.uq.edu.au/fryer/worth_fighting/9.html The display celebrates the centenary of women`s suffrage and the 40th anniversary of the indigenous vote in Queensland, highlighting 3 themes - Indigenous rights, workplace reform and peace. Women's studies, with a focus on women's involvement in social and political movements, are a particular strength of the Fryer collections. Guide to Indigenous Collections, http://www.library.uq.edu.au/fryer/indigenous.html An online guide which lists Fryer's considerable holdings of Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, Papua New Guinean and Pacific Islander material acquired over the past 80 years. This includes unpublished archival materials, paintings, drawings, prints and photographs which form an important part of the history of Indigenous people in the South Pacific region. UQ Memory http://www.library.uq.edu.au/archives/uqmemory/ An online display documenting the history of the University of Queensland in sound recordings, images, documents and moving pictures from the collections of the University Archives and the Fryer Library. 6. 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Cost: Free State Library of Victoria To register, email info@copyright.com.au or telephone CAL on 02 9394 7600. Further information at: http://www.copyright.com.au _*THURSDAY 7TH JULY*_ *7th & 8th July, 3 - 7pm: *_ATUG 2005 Communications Kaleidoscope Melbourne_ The 2005 Annual Communications Kaleidoscope event will paint a backdrop for the important policy and regulatory debates will be a feature of the 2005 telecommunications agenda. The event will cover three topic areas with expert presentations and comments and the opportunity for a lively debate and discussion on the implications for the industry and its customers - convergence, next generation technologies and consumer trends. Cost: $55 - $85 (incl. GST) Level 5, KPMG Building, 161 Collins Street, Melbourne http://www.atug.com.au/commskaleidoscope05program.cfm _*2. UPCOMING EVENTS*_ _*The Art and Politics of Netporn*_ 6 & 7 October 2005, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, The Netherlands This conference will comprise theory and politics, art projects and discussions on netporn. Netporn includes: web-based media and environments that filter porn images and traffic; daily activities such as blogging, webcamming, chatting, binging on porn portals, p2p porn, live journals, confession boards, mailing lists and zines. http://www.networkcultures.org/index.php?page=pd&lang=en&ID=7 _*Aesthetics of Play: a conference on computer game aesthetics*_ 14th & 15th October 2005, University of Bergen, Norway Keynotes: Espen Aarseth (IT University of Copenhagen), "Games: The Art of Simulation" and Jon Dovey (University of Bristol), "What Am I Doing in Vietnam?" The aim of this event is to contribute to the continued development of a cultural aesthetics of computer games, allowing us to better understand their role as mediators of cultural change, with a mixture of highly focussed and particular investigations as well as broader more speculative work. The conference has been arranged in collaboration with Norway's first game-art exhibition at Bergen Kunsthall. Cost: 180 euro http://www.aestheticsofplay.org _*3. CALLS FOR PAPERS *_ _*LREC 2006: 5th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation*_ 24-26 May 2006, Magazzini del Cotone Conference Center, Genoa, Italy LREC targets the integration of different types of Language Resources (LRs) - spoken, written, and other modalities - and of their respective communities. To this end, LREC encourages submissions covering issues which are common to different types of LRs and language technologies, such as dialogue strategy, written and spoken translation, domain-specific data, multimodal communication and multimedia document processing. The aim of the LREC conference is to provide an overview of the present and future directions in LRs and their applications, evaluation methodologies and tools, industrial uses and needs and requirements coming from the new e-society, both with respect to policy issues and to technological and organisational ones. Abstract length: Paper abstracts should be 1000words. See the website for further information on workshops, tutorials and panel proposals. Submission deadlines for papers, panels, workshops and tutorials: 14 October 2005 Conference web site: http://www.lrec-conf.org _*Special Issue of 'Scan' - News and the Net: Convergences and Divergences*_ Edited by Chris Atton & Graham Meikle This special issue of 'Scan' invites contributions that are able to push forward our thinking about the modalities of Internet news production and reception. Of particular interest are papers that combine theory and practice to critically explore the claims made for the various manifestations of these practices. Deadline for completed papers (max 6000wds): 30th September 2005. Refereeing and revisions to be completed by 31 October 2005, for a November launch. Send to Chris Atton, Napier University, Edinburgh, c.atton@napier.ac.uk, Graham Meikle, Macquarie University, Sydney, graham.meikle@mq.edu.au Further information, including submission and style guidelines: http://www.scan.net.au/scan/about/journal_submissions.php> _*I3D 2006 - Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games*_ 14th - 17th March, 2006, Electronic Arts Campusm Redwood Shores, CA I3D is the leading conference for real-time 3D computer graphics and techniques that combine 3D computer graphics with human interaction. The conference focuses on the hottest research in 3D game technology, interactive visualization and visual depiction, interactive modeling, user-assisted techniques, and applications. The conference this year will include a doctoral research seminar for selected PhD students to discuss their ongoing research with each other and a panel of experienced I3D researchers. Submission deadlines: Paper abstracts: September 20, 2005 Paper submissions: September 27, 2005 Doctoral seminar submissions: February 4, 2005 Poster and demo submissions: February 4, 2005 Further information, including submission category guidelines, at: http://www.siggraph.org/conferences/i3d/ Enquiries: i3d@siggraph.org _*4. OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS*_ _*OECD report on digital music downloading*_ An OECD report on digital music downloading concluded that it was difficult to establish a link between a rise in file-sharing and a drop in music sales. It stated that digital music will increase overall demand for music, as well as demand for technology products and services. Web: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/13/2/34995041.pdf _*Join New Media Art - Changing Channels in the Dark*_ http://channels-in-the-dark.blogspot.com is a place to discuss, debate, suggest, and comment on new media art. This blog is a central point of reference for Digital Media students to post, gather and interact with one another, both inside and beyond the classroom. We encourage students to review exhibitions, critique and discuss articles, works and performances. The idea of creating blogs is to develop well thought out expression and critical writing skills for students; it aims to inspire and encourage the forming of collaborative groups, within and beyond our learning environment. URL: http://channels-in-the-dark.blogspot.com _*5. GENERAL INFORMATION*_ This email bulletin is an initiative of the Australian e-Humanities Network (http://www.ehum.edu.au), an ARC-funded partnership convened by the Australian Academy of the Humanities designed as a reference point for scholars engaged in or interested in projects at the intersection of computing and the humanities. It is used to compile and distribute information about events and other news happening in this field around Australia. 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