Applications are now being accepted for the 2017 Scientific Delirium MadnessArt/Science Residency, bringing together artists and scientists for a month-long retreat in the Santa Cruz Mountains. During the course of the residency, artists working in a variety of media will work closely with scientists working in various disciplines to explore and transform the boundaries of art and science. In addition to collegial time, the retreat will include a regular series of blogs, LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) events organized by noted cultural historian Piero Scaruffi, an Open House/Open Studio public gathering at the Djerassi Program, and more. The Scientific Delirium Madness Art/Science Residency is a collaborative initiative of Leonardo/The International Society for Arts, Sciences and Technology. Deadline for applications: 15 March 2016.

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20,000 euros await the winners of the STARTS Prize 2016. Appointed by

the European Commission, Ars Electronica is launching an international

prize to select the most pioneering collaborations and results in the

field of creativity and innovation at the crossings of science and

technology with the arts.

Entries Are Now Being Accepted

This is an open call for entries in conjunction with an initiative

launched by the European Commission: STARTS. The name stands for

innovation at the nexus of Science, Technology and the ARTS.

Two prizes – €20,000 each – will be bestowed this year:

One for artistic exploration and projects in which the artistic

approach has significant potential to influence or change the way

technology is deployed, developed or perceived, and

One for innovative cooperative ventures teaming up industry/technology

and art (and cultural & creative sectors in general) in ways that open

up new paths for innovation.

This competition specifically seeks:

Trailblazing forms of collaboration and projects essentially

characterized by both technology and art; strictly artistically or

strictly technologically oriented projects are not what STARTS is

looking for.

Any and all artistic works and practices having to do with innovation

in the areas of technology, business and/or society. This competition

is not limited to a particular genre such as media art and digital

art.

All forms of technological and scientific research that are inspired

by art or in which artists are integrated as catalysts of new ways of

seeing things. This includes but is not limited to information &

communications technology.

Artists or artists’ collectives, creative professionals, researchers

and companies throughout the world. This competition is not limited to

citizens of EU-member states.

A project may be submitted for prize consideration simultaneously to

the STARTS competition as well as a Prix Ars Electronica category

(Computer Animation/Film/VFX, Digital Communities or Interactive Art).

Several special events are being planned to honor and showcase the

projects singled out for recognition with a STARTS Prize:

Awards ceremony at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria

September 8-12, 2016

Exhibition featuring the prizewinning projects at the 2016 Ars

Electronica Festival

STARTS Forum at the 2016 Ars Electronica Festival

Exhibition featuring the prizewinning projects at the BOZAR Electronic

Art Festival in Brussels, Belgium September 23-25, 2016

STARTS INITIATIVE:https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/ict-art-starts-platform

STARTS PRIZE: http://starts-prize.aec.at

The entry deadline is March 4, 2016.

THE SOCIAL is the title of the 4th International Association for

Visual Culture Biennial Conference (IAVC2016@Boston) held at Boston
University September 29, 30 and October 1, 2016. The conference
IAVC2016@Boston invites international collaborations, papers and
events on post-democracy, post-society, anger, violence, future
visions, crisis, zombie democracies, social media, neo-slavery,
post-capitalism, post-data, social evolution, revolution, actions,
post-state, interventionism, cannibalizing corporativism,
post-colonialism, economic vampirism, neo-serfs, globalized thievery,
art activism, red art, insurrectional art and social exploitation.

More information and the call for papers can be accessed here:
http://ocradst.org/visualculture2016/call-for-papers/
Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1624421197797477/

I would be most grateful if you could disseminate the call across your
faculty networks. You can also follow the event on the newsletter
http://ow.ly/Ybxix

Submission Guidelines
Please submit a 200-300 word Abstracts by *April 10, 2016 *to:
ocradst@gmail.com
In the subject of your email write the words IAVC2016@Boston followed
by the chosen Section for your paper, e.g. IAVC2016@Boston Art and
Society.

Please note: you can submit only one Abstract and you should allocate
it in the appropriate section.
The Abstract should contain:
your name
your address
your email
your affiliation (university or other institution you work for/with):
the section you are applying for: e.g. Social Incarceration
your 200 to 300 words abstract

Deadlines
Abstract submission: *April 10, 2016*
Temporary Acceptance: *April 30, 2016*
Full papers: *July 30, 2016*

Lanfranco Aceti, Program Director
Boston University
Arts Administration
808 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 269E
Boston, MA 02215
www.bu.edu/artsadmin
P. 617-353-4742
F. 617-358-1230

Call For All

SLSA 2015 “After Biopolitics” CALL FOR PAPERS

12-15 November, 2015 Houston, Texas

The conference theme, “After Biopolitics,” seeks to reexamine the theoretical,cultural, social, and political underpinnings of the biopolitical paradigm, and to explore conceptual resources (both within and outside of the biopolitical paradigm) for the possibility of thinking what has been called an “affirmative” biopolitics that views the intersection of “Life” and the political as a potential space of affinity, community, and creativity, rather than the “thanatopolitics” that has dominated the biopolitical paradigm thus far.

More information hereSubmission of Paper/Panel Proposal due: 1 April, 2015

The Inaugural (Rest of the World) SLSA Conference

Perth Western Australia

1-3 October 2015

CALL FOR PAPERS, PANELS AND WORKSHOPS

Neolife; full of surprises.
From the odd to the mundane, new forms of life are emerging in labs, workshops and studios. With the promise of exploitation for health and wealth we are seeing life as it previously never existed, albeit smothered in hyperbole, rhetoric and speculation. How do cultures such as Indigenous Australia respond to Neolife? On what terms are countries like China, India, Singapore and Japan, who have a rapidly growing biotech industry embracing or rejecting Neolife? How different it is to the west? Neolife: The Rest of the World SLSA 2015 meeting in Perth, Western Australia will attempt to address these questions from a wide range of approaches.

Abstracts (max 300 words) accepted from November 1 2014 due 21 March 2015. Topics include:

• RotW (Rest of the World) Biotech and life science
• Cultural and literary studies of new life
• Representations of new life
• Non-Human biopolitics
• Non-Human bioethics
• Animal studies
• Cultural teratology
• Biotech consumer products
• Speculative biology in Design/Art/Film/Literature
• History of (life) science
• Regenerative biology /Stem Cells (STAP, iPS)
• Synthetic biology
• Biological/biomedical Law
• Anthropocene

Abstract submission portal HERE

SymbioticA presents the inaugural Rest of the World (RotW) SLSA conference in Perth, Western Australia from 1-3 October 2015. This will be the first time the conference, will be staged outside of Europe or the United States, presenting an excellent opportunity for SLSA members in Australia, Asia and New Zealand to take part in the conference.

2015 represents the 20th anniversary of the public outing of regenerative biology which ushered an ontological crisis and new perspectives into the ways living bodies have been related to. The last twenty years also seen a shift in (or maybe a return of) the approach of scientists’ attempt to capture the public imagination; public engagement in forms of science on the display and as a spectacle. This meeting will try to get western and non-western perspectives in relation to life on display as well as life transformed into a raw material to be engineered.

The meeting is planned to take place at the beautiful Crawley campus of The University of Western Australia in Perth. SymbioticA will arrange a series of workshops and pre-meeting events, as practical and conceptual build up to the main event via the SymbioticA Lab which was established at UWA in 2000

Conference, workshops and parallel events
17-19 September 2015
University of Athens, Athens, Greece
http://uranus.media.uoa.gr/hc3/

About

Hybrid City is an international biennial event dedicated to exploring the
emergent character of the city and the potential transformative shift of the
urban condition, as a result of ongoing developments in information and
communication technologies (ICTs) and of their integration in the urban
physical context. It aims to promote dialogue and knowledge exchange among
experts drawn from academia, as well as researchers, artists, designers,
advocates, stakeholders and decision makers, actively involved in addressing
questions on the nature of the technologically mediated urban activity and
experience. The second installment of the Hybrid City, that took place in
2013 boasted seven keynote speakers, sixty-eight paper presentations and
diverse parallel events, that were documented in the printed volume of
proceedings.

Hybrid City Conference 2015 in Athens, Greece will consist of three days of
paper presentations, panel discussions, workshops and satellite events,
under the theme “Data to the People”. The events are organized by the
University Research Institute of Applied Communication (URIAC), in
collaboration with New Technologies Laboratory, of the Faculty of
Communication and Media Studies, of the University of Athens. The main venue
of the conference is the central, historic building of the University of
Athens, while workshops, projects’ presentations and parallel events will
take place in other University venues and collaborating centers and
institutions, in the center of Athens

The 2015 theme: Data to the People

So far in the 21st century, we have experienced a multi-faceted crisis
that’s challenging the current structural paradigm at a global scale. This
crisis is not only economic; it is also social, political and environmental.
As such, it has a very prominent urban dimension, exposing cities to a
diverse spectrum of distress. Acute natural disasters -earthquakes, fires,
or phenomena related to climate change; floods, severe snowfall, fires etc.
– precarious access to basic resources such as food and water, lack of
opportunities for employment, inefficient social services, e.g. healthcare
and education, along with ever increasing unforeseeable acts of violence -a
complex and manifold phenomenon on its own right- render living in urban
areas vulnerable.

The third Hybrid City Conference seeks to investigate Information
Communication Technologies (ICTs) as means of supporting more Sustainable
Cities and Resilient, Self-Reliant Communities and for empowering Citizens.
By proclaiming “Data to the People” the Hybrid City Conference adopts a
citizen centered approach and seeks to highlight bottom-up projects and
initiatives and processes of technological mediation, which assist
individuals, communities and cities in responding and adapting to
challenges. The Hybrid City Conference aims to offer insights into the
complexity of factors that weaken the city fabric and affect urban
wellbeing. Furthermore, it aims to investigate the potential of ICTs to
support proactive and collective design towards future cities, focusing on
real needs and away from a smart-everything rhetoric.

Hybrid City cordially invites papers both employing a theoretical and/or a
practical approach that present concepts, case studies, projects, works of
art and best practices promoting the discussion on the theme. Emphasizing
the inherently interdisciplinary nature of technologically mediated urban
activity, we welcome proposals discussing concepts or documenting projects
of urban innovation, that through originality contribute to shaping the
future of the hybrid city and offer useful insights to the hybridization
process of the urban environment.

Submissions may critically examine the following topics, or suggest other
relevant lines of research within the Hybrid City context:
. Environmental sensing and the Internet of things: regaining control
. Open urban data, capturing and visualization
. Environmental perception, cognition, immersion and presence in the context
of hybrid urban spaces
. Psychosocial perspectives into the impact of locative and pervasive media
use
. Placemaking, place attachment and place identity in the hybrid city
. New public spaces: From creative spatial re-use to urban farming
. Peer to peer urbanism: From open source to doing it with others
. Collaborative economies and sharing cities practices
. Urban self-reliance: Alternative collectives and support networks
. Resilience and sustainability: Emerging citizen-driven toolkits,
methodologies and prototypes
. Artworks, and urban interventions for citizen empowerment
. Transmedia location-aware storytelling
. Performative bodies, gendered spaces and technofeminism in the Hybrid City
. Infrastructural fails and alternative communication systems: Critical
perspectives and responses to stacktivism
. Autonomous, offline file-sharing and communication networks
. Open hardware and sustainability

Author’s Guidelines

Submissions should include:
. Extended abstract of 750 – 1000 words, (including references).
. Biographical statement of no more than 250 words.
. Keywords (at least five).
All abstracts will undergo a double, blind peer review. Selected authors
will be asked to submit a full paper (8 pages), or short paper (4 pages) to
be included in the printed conference proceedings. Further details will be
announced right after the notification of acceptance

Important dates
Deadline for extended abstract submissions: 15/3/15
Response to authors: 22/4/15
Camera ready full paper submission: 22/6/15

Submission
Please submit your contribution using the online platform.

For any queries or further info please contact us at:

hybridcityathens [at] gmail [dot] com

In cooperation with seven artistic & cultural institutions as well as the ESO–European Southern Observatory, Ars Electronica has launched the European Digital Art and Science Network, an international initiative offering artists the chance to spend several weeks at both the ESO and the Ars Electronica Futurelab.

The results of the residencies will premiere at the Ars Electronica Festival September 3-7, 2015 in Linz. Then, travelling exhibitions will make the rounds of all partner institutions: Center for the Promotion of Science (Serbia), DIG Gallery (Slovakia),Zaragoza City of Knowledge Foundation and LABoral (both Spain), Kapelica Gallery(Slovenia), GV Art (England) and the Science Gallery (Ireland).

More information here.

Submission deadline: 9 February, 2015

In cooperation with seven artistic & cultural institutions as well as the ESO–European Southern Observatory, Ars Electronica has launched the European Digital Art and Science Network, an international initiative offering artists the chance to spend several weeks at both the ESO and the Ars Electronica Futurelab.

The results of the residencies will premiere at the Ars Electronica Festival September 3-7, 2015 in Linz. Then, travelling exhibitions will make the rounds of all partner institutions: Center for the Promotion of Science (Serbia), DIG Gallery (Slovakia),Zaragoza City of Knowledge Foundation and LABoral (both Spain), Kapelica Gallery(Slovenia), GV Art (England) and the Science Gallery (Ireland).

More information here.http://www.aec.at/artandscience/

Submission deadline: 9 February, 2015

Open Call 2015

Artists and designers interested in the life sciences are invited to propose new projects for funding. The BIO ART & DESIGN AWARD (previously called the DA4GA) grants three awards, each of them is €25.000, to fully realize a new work of art or design that pushes the boundaries of research application and creative expression. Winning proposals are developed in collaboration with a Dutch research institution over several months then exhibited to the public in MU Art Space in Eindhoven at the end of the year.

To be eligible for the award you must have graduated no longer than five years ago from a design or art program at either the Masters or Bachelors level. Applicants are encouraged to relate their proposals to recent advances in the life sciences, including (but not limited to) those within specialties such as biomedicine, synthetic biology and ecology. Please be sure to read all information about the call, deadlines, regulations and requirements before submitting an application on the website www.badaward.nl.

The BIO ART & DESIGN AWARD highlights and explores exciting new intersections among design, artistic practice and the life sciences. The award is a product of collaboration between ZonMW, NWO, TU/e, the Waag Society, Bio Art Laboratories and MU. The call procedure will be carried out by ZonMW.

The deadline for applications is 2 February 2015.

WEBSITE    http://www.badaward.nl/open-call-2015/

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