Call for Abstracts

MutaMorphosis: Tribute to Uncertainty

International Conference
December 6-8, 2012, Prague, Czech Republic

Call for Abstracts
http://mutamorphosis.org/2012/important-dates/call-for-abstracts/

We invite you to respond to the Tribute to Uncertainty theme and/or to
address one of the 21 streams of interest led by 28 conference Attractors.

Deadline: July 1, 2012

http://mutamorphosis.org/2012/tribute-to-uncertainty/
http://mutamorphosis.org/2012/attractors-streams-of-interest/

Submission page: http://mutamorphosis.org/2012/submit

Do you have something original to say about our world that is increasingly
fuzzy, unstable and chaotic? Are you interested in how crisis, uncertainty
and complexity can come together in order to question the known as well as
predict and/or model yet unknown? Do you want to share projects
intrinsically linking domains of scientific, artistic and technological
research and creativity that can be introduced as relevant tools for better
understanding of our common future?

The aim of this Call for Abstracts is to provide opportunity for community
of interdisciplinary practitioners to get engaged in a transformative
conversation on mutant futures.

Feel free to address conference Attractors and respond to a specific stream
of interest in order to get involved with other interested individuals and
collectives in structured collaborative efforts before, during, and
hopefully also after the conference. Research groups formed by the
Attractors -who serve as the Reviewers- will be expected to elaborate on the
general theme Tribute to Uncertainty while turning attention to concrete
research objectives as defined by the streams.

The results should be curated panels, roundtables, workshops as well as
publications.

Priority will be given to innovative and challenging proposals.

For more information about MutaMorphosis conference (planned publications,
preparatory committee, partnerships) please visit http://mutamorphosis.org.

For updates join also these channels:
http://www.facebook.com/groups/mutamorphosis.mutalogues/
http://www.facebook.com/MutaMorphosis
https://twitter.com/MutaMorphosis

CFP: Electromagnetic Field 2012, Milton Keynes UK

EMF 2012 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

About the Event

Electromagnetic Field 2012 is a three-day camping festival in the UK
for people with an inquisitive mind and an interest in science,
engineering, DIY, technology, arts, or crafts. It will be a cross
between a tech conference and a music festival, with talks and
workshops on a wide range of subjects. A great opportunity to meet
like-minded people, to learn, to teach, to play, and have a drink with
a stranger. A festival for anyone interested in 3D printing, DIYBio,
textiles, electronics, Internet culture, music hacking, space,
lockpicking, homebrewing, computer security, robots, UAVs, mind
hacking, radio, and pretty much anything else you can think of… in a
field!

http://www.emfcamp.org

Talks

A 1h presentation about a topic in science, engineering, DIY,
technology, arts, or crafts. The allocated time includes Q&A, setup,
and teardown.

Workshops

A 1h, 2h, or 3h workshop involving practices in science, engineering,
DIY, technology, arts, or crafts. The allocated time includes setup
and teardown.

We hope to have enough desk space and chairs for everyone, but details
are yet to be determined. If you prefer to hold open-ended workshops
then we encourage you to start or join a village: see below for
details.

Performances

Musical performances, DJ sets, artistic performances, general evening
entertainment, …

We will provide a stage area in a tent and a basic PA.

Villages

Villages are dedicated camping areas for particular groups, with
shared access to power and Internet. You can form a village for your
local hackerspace, art form, project, or any other community. This
makes it easier for people to get to know each other and encourages
collaboration while at the festival, be it for cooking sessions or to
build ambitious installations.

Villages are not planned through our submissions system. Instead you
can register your village here:
http://wiki.emfcamp.org/wiki/Villages

You may also be interested in our mailing list and IRC channel:
http://wiki.emfcamp.org/wiki/Contact

Venue Details

EMF 2012 is a camping festival in a field. The venue is Pineham Park,
near Milton Keynes in the UK.

We plan to have two event tents with an audience capacity of about 100
each, both with access to power and Internet, each with a projector,
and at least one of the tents will have a PA for larger presentations.
We also aim to have camp-wide wifi, and ethernet ports in key
locations.

We will attempt to stream the talks and performances and publish the
recordings after the event.

Budget and Travel expenses

The EMF camp is a non-profit event produced entirely by volunteers,
and speakers are not paid. Unfortunately we can not subsidise your
entry ticket, and we do not have a travel budget for contributors
either; due to the nature of the event we expect that everyone pays.
We may be able to make a few very rare exceptions, but don’t count on
it.

Dates and Deadlines

The deadline for submission is Friday 29 June 2012, 23:59 UTC.
Notification of acceptance will be sent by e-mail as early as
possible, but on Friday 13 July 2012 the latest.

Electromagnetic Field 2012 is held between Friday 31 August and Sunday
2 September 2012.

Submissions

All proposals for talks, workshops and performances must be submitted
online using our submission system at
http://pentabarf.emfcamp.org/submission/EMF2012. Please follow the
instructions, and state if you have special requirements besides the
basics mentioned there. If you have any questions regarding your
submission you can contact us at events@emfcamp.org

For more details about the event in general see our wiki at
http://wiki.emfcamp.org

Please note that much of this may be subject to changes, in which case
we will make corresponding announcements. To stay up do date follow
@emfcamp, or have a look at our mailing list and IRC channel:
http://wiki.emfcamp.org/wiki/Contact.

COLLIDING IDEAS: art, society and physics

Public symposium, Sunday 8 July 2012 at RMIT University Storey Hall,

10am to 5pm

Call for presentations

“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology,

in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology” –

Carl Sagan

Recent discoveries in physics have changed our lives forever. From

iPhones and the internet to medical imaging and genetic engineering,

modern technology has largely been developed through advances in

physics, yet few people understand it. Melbourne is hosting the 36th

International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP2012), where they

may announce the discovery of the Higgs boson, or ‘God Particle’. Taking

inspiration from this event, the ‘Colliding Ideas’ symposium will

address the social and creative parameters of such events.

‘Colliding Ideas’ will explore the worlds within the physical sciences

and ask what is going on in there, how it relates to our social world,

and how it affects us culturally and physically. And, in such contexts,

how do the perspectives of physicists relate to and differ from those of

artists and visual communicators who use physics-based technologies?

With digital technologies linking the ideas and methods of art and

science, we may be getting closer to a trans-disciplinary visual and

sonic understanding. And through art / science collaborations, artists

can critically engage with the concepts, methods, possibilities and

implications of scientific research. The symposium will feature key

speakers from CERN, the Australian Network for Arts & Technology,

alongside contemporary media and fine arts practitioners and theorists.

A series of thirty minute talks will be followed by panel discussions

and audiovisual presentations. Lunch and snacks will be provided.

Proposals for presentations relating to art and physics are invited.

Topics could include (but are not limited to):

Visual art, scientific visualisation and the limits of interpretatbility

‘Higgs in space’ – what the Higgs Boson means for the rest of us

CP Snow and violations of the ‘separation of the two cultures’

From the teleporter to the death star – physics in cinema

Cats vs rabbits -Quantum uncertainty and the real world

The trials and tribulations of art / science collaborations

Scientific philosophy and the politics of particle physics

Digital art, technology and physics

Risk and failure in science and art

Possible futures in art and physics

Outsider and DIY physics

Mathematics and statistics

Geospatial sciences

Applied sciences

Computing and IT

Holography

Lasers

For further information please contact Chris Henschke

chris.henschke@rmit.edu.au

Proposals are due by June 8 2012

For more information and to register your interest please visit:

http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=ntsfu36kmyfkz