This month’s new books reviews at RCCS include: Gitte Stald & Thomas Tufte’s Global Encounters: Media and Cultural Transformation reviewed by Charles Ess, Kevin Douglas Kuswa, and Radhika Seth; Stewart M. Hoover & Lynn Schofield Clark’s Practicing Religion in the Age of the Media: Explorations in Media, Religion, and Culture reviewed by Christopher Helland; and Phillip Thurtle & Robert Mitchell’s Semiotic Flesh: Information and the Human Body reviewed by Anne Beaulieu, Simone Seym, and Sarah Stein, with a response from authors Phillip Thurtle and Robert Mitchell.
CIBER@RT BILBAO 2004
The International Conference within CIBER@RT BILBAO 2004 is seeking papers relating to Computational Sociology, Televirtuality and Telepresence, Body and Nets, Synaptic Cartography, Planetary Art, and The Museum of the Ubiquitous Art. The Conference and CIBER@RT Festival will take place April 26 – 29, 2004, in Bilboa, Spain.
Digit World Contest
The Digit World Contest is a national and international competition between Internet sites dedicated to the conservation and exhibition of cultural and artistic heritage.
INCUBATION3 Call for Proposals
trAce is seeking proposals for INCUBATION3, the 3rd trAce International Symposium on Writing and the Internet. The deadline for proposals has been extended to December 15, and selections will be announced by January 31, 2004.
Brown E-Writing Fellowship
The December 15th deadline is fast approaching for those interested in applying for a fellowship in electronic writing at Brown University. The fellowship lasts two years, with tuition and stipend covered, and leads to an M.F.A. in Creative Writing.
Hello World and Cyborg Lives?
Visit Raw Nerve Books to pre-order your copy of Hello World: Travels in Virtuality by Sue
Thomas, to be published in March 2004. Raw Nerve is having a special offer in which you may pre-order Hello World and buy Cyborg Lives?: Women’s Technobiographies edited by Flis Henwood, Helen Kennedy and Nod Miller, at a discounted price.
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“Teaching the Cyborg,” the final installment of the Technocapitalism thread The Politics of Information, is available at electronic book review.
ArtScience – Call for Paper
ArtScience: The Essential Connection will be published as a series of special sections over the next 3 years for the purpose of exploring the intersections of art and science. If interested, contact rootbern at msu dot edu for more information and to submit proposals.
AIM V: SYZYGY
AIM V: SYZYGY, an exhibition to be held next year in Pasadena, CA, is calling for entries that explore the “remix” of humans and machines. The deadline for entries is November 30, 2003.
Fictional Worlds, Virtual Experiences
“Fictional Worlds, Virtual Experiences” (archive url: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/ccva/) is an exhibition that presents the historical and cultural significance of interactive simulations, computer games, and video games. There is an emphasis on virtual gaming as forms of storytelling and communication. The exhibition opens November 12 at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University. A free conference related to the exhibition will be held Friday, February 6 at the Cantor Arts Center Auditorium. The conference will allow scholars and game developers to discuss the role of narrative in computer games.