Category: Calls

Got a minute?

The 60 second story competition invites submissions of works of fiction, recorded by their authors as digital videos, which are less than one minute and one second in duration. Files size should be less than 5MB, and work must be submitted under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license. Entries are being accepted from now until June 8th, 2005.

There will one grand-prize winner, who will recieve a one-minute supply of exotic chocolate, a one inch by one inch book of the winning work published by Spineless Books, and other one-minute pleasures. The winner and fourteen runners-up will be published in the “Fifteen Minutes of Fame,” a permanent web shrine to the 60 second story form. The judges of the competition include internet writers William Gillespie, Nick Montfort, Scott Rettberg, Dirk Stratton, Jill Walker and Rob Wittig.

See 60secondstory.contagiousmedia.org for the details, to watch some 60 second stories, and to submit your own.

Guest editors Sue Thomas and Dene Grigar invite submissions of essays, interviews, reports, bibliographies, course syllabi and artworks themed around “Wild Nature and Digital Life” for a special issue of Leonardo Electronic Almanac. The issue will explore such questions as how humans are reinventing “the wild” digitally; how the advent of digital technology has changed the relationship between humans and wild nature; and how the notion of wild nature can be extended to the digital world. Read the full call; send inquiries to Sue Thomas and Dene Grigar at digitalwild@astn.net. The deadline for initial expressions of interest is July 8, 2005; the final submission deadline for chosen contributors will be September 2, 2005.

Hermeneia, a research group focusing on literary studies and digital technology at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), has teamed up with the town of Vinaros, Catalonia, Spain, to offer a new award for digital literature, the Ciutat de Vinaros Digital Literature Prize. Two awards of 2,500 euros will be given in the categories of narrative and poetry. The deadline for submission is September 8, 2005. Only previously unpublished works are eligible.

FILE is one of the world’s most significant gatherings for consideration and exhibition of computational language. It has taken place in São Paulo, Brazil for each of the last five years, and currently entries are still open for 2005 (until May 1). Standing backward (in English) for “Electronic Language International Festival” or forward (in Portuguese) for “Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletrônica,” FILE includes an exhibition of digital text art, a symposium with the same focus, a section specific to games, and a parallel electronic music festival. FILE will be in early October this year.

Psy-Geo Provflux 2005 is looking for people to propose, plan, and/or participate in a weekend of interventions, lectures, shows, and events that encourage others to reinvent their social spaces May 27-29 in Providence, Rhode Island. Looks like it will be a weekend of happenings. Submissions are due April 15th.

From the call for proposals for one of 4 themes of the next ISEA, in San Jose:

The Interactive City seeks urban-scale projects for which the city is not merely a palimpsest of our desires but an active participant in their formation. From dynamic architectural skins to composite sky portraits to walking in someone else’s shoes to geocaches of urban lore to hybrid games with a global audience, projects for the Interactive City should transform the “new” technologies of mobile and pervasive computing, ubiquitous networks, and locative media into experiences that matter. … Interactive City proposals should embrace aspects of the city of San José and/or the surrounding metropolitan San Francisco Bay Area specifically. We are seeking projects that are large in scale, require advanced or special planning and/or permissions.

Early proposals are due April 22.

The 6th Digital Arts and Culture Conference will take place at the IT University in Copenhagen on December 1-3, 2005. “Digital Experience: Design, Aesthetics, Practice” is the tag line for this conference. Deadline: August 8. You can read about the history of DAC and the organization of the current conference; also, see the CFP.

The deadlines for submission to three panels at the (dis)junctions: theory reloaded graduate conference at UC Riverside have been extended to February 12, 2005: “Chatbots, IF, and Textual Exchange”; “Original Hypermedia, Net.Art, Mods, Flash”‘; and “Eliterature and Cybertext Theory”. For the complete CFPs, visit the global_interface Mellon Workshop website. The conference will take place April 8-9, 2005.

The 3rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities will take place January 13-16, 2005 at the Sheraton Waikiki Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii. The conference will bring together academicians and professionals from the arts and humanities-related fields to interact with one another. The conference is currently seeking papers, abstracts, and submissions. The deadline is August 31, 2004.