NIEA Postgraduate Seminar #3

When: Friday 3^rd of June, 2-4pm

Where: Room 704, level 7, Woolworths Building, 540 George Street

Who: Professor Frances Dyson, Visiting Professor NIEA, Emeritus Professor UC Davis

Professor Nigel Helyer, Adjunct Professor NIEA, Creative Director, AudioNomad

Free and open to all COFA present, incoming and prospective postgraduate students. Drinks served.

Time: November 3, 2011 to November 13, 2011
Location: istanbul
Organized By: ekmel ertan

Event Description:
amber’11 Art and Technology Festival & Conference4-13 November 2011,
IstanbulNEXT ECOLOGY

call for artworks & papers deadline for submissions: 10th of August
2011submit your work >
amberFestival is interested in interactive installations that explore
the theme of “NEXT ECOLOGY” in today’s world.We see the theme as a
tool to think and work with, and the festival to raise an artistic
voice. You alone will define that voice.The works selected among the
applications to this international call, will be exhibited at amber’11
Art and Technology Festival. We also encourage outdoor interactive
installations.the theme: NEXT ECOLOGYNew technologies are far more
important then ever before not only as a tool but primarily as a
framework. By means of new technologies and with increasing
acceleration we have changed the world in which we live in: we changed
nature, we changed our environments, we changed our bodies. We have
created a new and global habitat, which is different from where we
started. On the one hand, we cannot return to the starting point where
no technology rules. On the other hand, the current situation is not
sustainable neither socially nor environmentally.We have changed our
environments and ourselves, but we have not understood the change that
we have caused nor have we acknowledged the overall results and
effects of these changes. Today we need to reconsider all the
paradigms we rely on: nature, bodies, economics, politics,
environment, and communication to name a few. In sum, we need a new
framework.The abnormal natural disasters, the global social problems,
the antagonism between the consumption economy and energy resources,
the revolutionary movements in Middle East and many other places on
Earth designate the un-sustainability of the current stand and the
need for a change. Examples such as these point to one thing: we must
have a new conceptualization of ecology as the environment that we
live in, which does not exist without today’s technology.Taking
ecology as a conceptual framework, which entails the relationships of
the natural and artificial environments of mankind, we believe that we
need a new holistic ecology which internalizes the transformative
power and possibilities of technology and covers all aspects of
possible relations among the living and non-living surroundings, from
politics to love, from environments to health, from economics to
media. We call this framework Next Ecology.With the theme title Next
Ecology, amber’11 calls on artists to interpret the life forms,
production and consumption patterns and politics of Next Ecology from
the vantage point of arts and technology.for more
information:www.amberplatform.org
www.amberfestival.org
www.amberconference.org

Digital Culture: Innovative practices and critical theories.

ECREA Digital Culture& Communication 3rd workshop

Barcelona, Spain, November 24-25

http://www.uoc.edu/symposia/workshop_ecrea2011/index_eng.html

co-organised by the

ECREA Digital Culture & Communication (DCC) section,

Humanities Department and Information and Communication Sciences Department

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya,

with support from the Centre for Material Digital Culture (DMDC),

University of Sussex, UK

CALL FOR PAPERS:

This workshop seeks to explore innovative perspectives on digital

culture and the study of digital culture. Our concern is to focus on

developing forms of theorizing, critiquing, understanding and

researching digital culture, forms and practice. Our intention is to

contribute to emerging work responding (1) to ‘new’ new media

technologies of all kinds, and (2) to respond to developments in media

research on technology and innovation.

We invite contributions of all kinds, but suggest proposals for papers

may fall into three main areas. Each relates to theories, practices

and methodologies of innovation. They are:

1) Digital Media and the senses. This may include work on or related

to enhanced reality, locative media and virtual worlds.

2) Creative practices and participation in new media. Here we are

particularly concerned with discussing concepts of participation,

co-creativity, co-design or co-innovation in creative processes

involving audiences and independent creators in a wide spectrum of

activities including art, photography, video, videogames.

3) Digital research and education in digital culture.This would seek

to explore innovative theoretical and methodological approaches in

digital media studies as well as innovative teaching tools.

The workshop develops concepts and ideas developed at the previous

Digital stream workshop ‘Revisiting Digital Theories’ – our goal in

exploring innovative forms of media culture is to do so within

frameworks that are capable of thinking through technological and

critical innovation whilst also recognizing the connection of both

with earlier forms.

Please submit an extended abstract (500 words max.) by the 6th of June

2011 (and clearly stating which topic section you would like to submit

this to) to: ecreadigitalculture@gmail.com

Notification of acceptance will be by the 7th of July

It is planned to publish in a journal some of the best papers of the

workshop

Venue: Centre d’Estudis i Recursos Culturals, Barcelona (Spain)

Keynote speakers:

Rosalind Gill, Centre for Culture, Media and Creative Industries

King’s College London

Sarah Pink, Department of Social Sciences

Loughborough University, Visiting Scholar IN·3 Institute, UOC.

Coordinators:

Elisenda Ardèvol – Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

Caroline Basset – University of Sussex

Gemma San Cornelio – Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

Digital Culture and Communication ECREA section

more info at:

http://www.uoc.edu/symposia/workshop_ecrea2011/index_eng.html

and

http://www.digitalcultureandcommunication.blogspot.com/

ecreadigitalculture@gmail.com