The deadline to submit short papers for Hypertext ’05, (Salzburg, Austria, September 6-9) has been extended until June 16. Especially desired are short papers on blogs, which will have a panel devoted to the topic. For inquiries about the blog panel, contact Jill Walker, program co-chair for literary papers.
The deadline has also been extended for submissions of proposals for demonstrations: now June 16, 2005. Poster proposals: June 19, 2005.
The University of Virginia Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities invites applications for participation in its “Summit on Digital Tools,” September 28-30, 2005. The purpose of the summit is to assess the state of the development of digital tools for humanities research, as well as the effectiveness of the supporting and integrating infrastructure. The summit will begin with a keynote speech and discussion, followed by sessions whose structure and content will be shaped by the issue papers submitted by participants. Participation includes room and board, paid for by the Institute. Some limited travel funds are also available. Visit the Summit website for more information. The deadline to submit a 1-page position paper is June 30, 2005.
Markus S. Schulz, chair of the Joint Session of RC07 Research Committee on Futures Research and RC14 Research Committee on Sociology of Communication, Knowledge and Culture, at the 2006 World Congress of the International Sociological Association, invites submissions of papers on “The Futures of New Mediascapes: Communication, Knowledge, and Culture in a Globalizing World”. The session’s purpose is to provide a forum for scholars working on communication, knowledge, and culture to discuss the processes by which the new global mediascapes are being shaped, and their future implications and social consequences. The deadline for paper proposals is October 15, 2005. The World Congress of ISA will take place in Durban, South Africa, July 23-29, 2006. For more information on the ISA World Congress and this session, visit RC07on the web. Contact Markus S. Schulz with inquiries.
ACM Multimedia 2005 is an annual conference, covering all aspects of multimedia computing. This year it will be held in Singapore. The ACM MM Interactive Art Program seeks to bring together the arts and multimedia communities to create the stage to explore, discuss, and push the limits for the advancement of both multimedia technology through the arts, and the arts through multimedia technology.
The Interactive Art Program will consist of a conference track and an art exhibition. We invite artists working with digital media and researchers in technical areas to submit their original contributions to the following tracks:
Conference track: we solicit papers describing interactive multimedia art works, tools, applications, and technical approaches for creative uses of multimedia content and technology. Emphasis will be given to novel works that use a rich variety of media and those that are interactive, particularly works that exploit non-conventional human-computer interfaces or sensors in new and emerging areas. We strongly encourage papers with a strong technical content written by artists.
Multimedia art exhibition: “Presence/Absence.” We seek art works that use multimedia to explore issues of location, relocation and dislocation, particularly where multimedia technology overcomes or reinforces physical presence or separation. The emphasis for the exhibition is on interactive art works that realize powerful artistic concepts using multimedia content and technologies.
Guest editors Cheryl E. Ball and Byron Hawk invite contributions to a special issue of the journal Computers and Compostion on the topic of “Sound in/as Compositional Space: A Next Step in Multiliteracies”. The editors are particularly interested in articles that address how sound is composed in/as new media texts, and also invite written and electronic submissions from a wide range of topics and perspectives, including a variety of classroom, scholarly, and corporate settings. Articles with digital elements will be cross-published in Computers and Composition Online. For the full call, contact Cheryl Ball or Byron Hawk. The deadline for submissions is October 1, 2005.
The ISEA 2006 Symposium and ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival on the Edge (August 5-13, 2006, San Jose, California) invite groups and individuals to submit proposals for exhibition of interactive art work and projects reflecting on the thematic of the Pacific Rim. The deadline for proposal submissions is July 15,2005. Click here to read the full call for participation.
There is still a chance to submit work for Hypertext ‘05, which will take place September 6-9 in Salzburg, although the deadline for full papers has passed. Short papers and demo proposals are due on June 9. Poster proposals are due on June 19. Update: Short paper and demo deadline extended to June 16.
The journal M/C Media/Culture invites submissions on the topic of “scanning“–the activities of watching, surveiling, reporting, and recording. Guest editors Joshua Green and Adam Swift encourage creative interpretations of the act of scanning, and contributions from a wide variety of fields, “to explore its practices, limitations, and potentials.” Read the full call here. Send inquiries to scan@journal.media-culture.org.au Deadline for articles is July 1, 2005, for an August 24, 2005 issue release date.
The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication invites submissions to a special issue on the social, political, economic, and cultural dimensions of search engines. Guest editor Eszter Hargittai of Northwestern University’s Web Use Project seeks to bring together a wide range of disciplinary views to consider what is known about the present and future of the use, design, and meanings of search engines. Some possible topics:
–Who uses search engines and for what purposes?
–What are the effects of search engine use on mass- and interpersonal communication?
–How do search engines shape online identity management and representation?
–Are there any potential alternatives to commercial search engines?
Abstracts are due on June 1, 2005, with full papers of 7,000-10,000 words due October 1, 2005. Read the full call here. Send inquiries to Eszter Hargittai.
The 3rd global conference of the “Critical Issues” project, “Cybercultures: Exploring Critical Issues,” invites submissions of proposals for papers, presentations, workshops, and reports on a wide range of topics, including
–Cyberspace and Cyberculture
–Cybermedias: New Media and Technology
–The Virtual and Virtuality
–Cyberpunk: Writing and Film
–Digital and Interactive Arts
–Computers and Games
–Identities, Bodies, Cyborgs and the Human
–Cybercultures and Politics
–Cybercultures, Cybersubcultures and Communities
The conference will be held in Prague August 11-13, 2005.
300-word abstracts are due by Friday, June 3, 2005. All presented papers will be published in an ISBN eBook; selected papers will be developed for publication in a themed hard-copy volume. For the full call, including instructions on how to submit, visit the Critical Issues website.