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SUPERTOYS: On Play, Affective Machines and Object Relations

Bristol, Nov 22 – Jan 18

Exhibition with works by Codemanipulator, Chris Cunningham, Dunne & Raby,

Natalie Jeremijenko, Kahve Society, Alex McLean, Philippe Parreno, Unmask

Group.

Supertoys is part factory, part zoo and part play area. In the

exhibition, artists, technologists, children and adults examine how toys

operate as transitional objects in allowing feelings to be carried

between the human subject and external objects. The show also explores

the idea of reciprocal relationships with intelligent toys and robots,

and our related hopes and fears.

The exhibition is accompanied by a symposium, film season, online

project and a series of events and activities.

details:

http://www.supertoy.org/

ICIDS08

Interactive Storytelling’08 – 1st Joint International Conference on

Interactive Digital Storytelling, November 26 – 29 2008, Erfurt, Germany

Invited speakers:

Andrew Stern: game designer, co-creator of “Facade” and Grand Text Auto

Marie-Laure Ryan: narratologist, author of “Narrative as Virtual

Reality” and “Avatars of Story”

Early Registration Deadline: October 15 2008

http://www.ai.fh-erfurt.de/ICIDS08

If you happen to be in Scotland:

distance lab OPEN STUDIO 004

Thursday 13 November 2008 / 12 noon – 5 pm

Horizon Scotland / Forres, Scotland

The theme of this event is Slow Technology, an extension of notions from the “slow food” movement into the design of new technologies. Instead of speed and efficiency, slow technology emphasises the quality, locality, and humanity of the total experience.

Distance Lab researchers Costas Bissas and Tomoko Hayashi will describe our ongoing endeavors in the realm of “slow technology”, including Neuromantic, a project that aims to encourage rural modern life through the use of new technologies without altering the authenticity of the environment, local uniqueness and resources.

Special guest speaker: Glorianna Davenport, MIT Media Laboratory ” Slow Stories”

Glorianna Davenport is head of the Media Fabrics (formerly Interactive Cinema) group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab. Trained as a documentary filmmaker, Glorianna has achieved international recognition for her work in new media forms. Her research explores fundamental issues related to the collaborative co-construction of digital media experiences, where the task of narration is split among authors, consumers, and computer mediators.

In her talk, Glorianna will frame her work within the “slow” theme. Time is central to our experience of life and to the concept of story; time is required to experience ones own story, to author story, and to experience the stories of others. Today the agility of computer networks and their associated technologies allow a new class of story: slow stories. For instance, a story of a character – be it a glacier, a day in the life of a salt marsh, or a human being maturing through a complex web of circumstance – can be developed for slow release, in a time coordinated with story development.

A conference on «Interactivity» was held a couple days ago as part of the annual Ars Electronica gathering in Linz, Austria. (And while you’re at it, check out the winner of this year’s Prix Ars for interactive art.)

Interaction, Interactivity, Interactive Art

A buzzword of new media under scrutiny

4. September 2008, 10:00 – 19:30 / Brucknerhaus, Mittlerer Saal, Ars Electronica, Linz

«Interaction: The relation between two or more relatively independent things or systems of change which advance, hinder, limit, or otherwise affect one another»

(Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology, 1901)

«Interactivity» has become virtually a magic word for the promotion of new media and the media arts alike. The term refers not only to a certain technology, it also stands for social concepts and visions ranging from grassroots democracy all the way to consumer freedom. This imbues the term with its broad-ranging impact, but also contributes to its dilution.

This conference invites experts from different disciplines to examine the origins and applications of the various concepts of interactivity. It questions the extent to which interactivity should be considered a fundamental concept in the social and technological, cultural and artistic context, or as an outdated buzzword, useful only for the self-promotion of the different fields.

The idea is to contextualize the notions of interaction, interactivity and interactive art from a multidisciplinary perspective, including, sociology, information theory, interface design, game studies, art history and media art history. Whereas interaction originally described the reciprocity of influences, e. g. in biological systems, the concept was already applied to social interaction at the beginning of the 20th century. Around the 1950s, cybernetics employed the notion for a comparison of social, technological and physiological feedback processes. With the rise of digital technology, interactivity became a key paradigm of human-computer relations and interface design. At the same time, the importance of social interaction and active participation was emphasized within post-war society and the arts alike. In the framework of a thorough investigation of the often diverging concepts of interaction and interactivity stemming from these developments, the conference further invites a comparison and discussion of the heterogeneous interactive strategies of analogue and digital arts.

Moderation: Katja Kwastek, Dieter Daniels

Organizer: Ludwig Boltzmann Institut Media.Art.Research.

Concept: Katja Kwastek

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4th Workshop on Emerging Display Technologies

Evolve out of the Frame: Interactive and Immersive Displays at all Scales

Los Angeles, California, USA, Saturday/Sunday August 9th/10th, 2008

co-located with SIGGRAPH 2008

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Call for Papers, Short Papers, and Demonstrations

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Aims and Scope

The recent flurry of display technology development has produced

families of technologies that make fixed and projected pixels cheaper,

faster, more flexible, and of higher quality. These advances enable

‘smart pixels’ and enable a number of burgeoning applications ranging

from displays being used for better and more flexible images, to user

interaction, scene sensing, and environment enhancement.

This event combines the successful series of Emerging Display Technologies workshops (www.emergingdisplays.org ) with the long-running Immersive Projection Displays workshop to cover all aspects of display technologies, from the very small to the very large, and everything in-between.

Some example topics of interest include:

* multiview, multifocal, or high dynamic range displays;

* omnistereo projection systems;

* ad hoc or “poor man’s” projection systems;

* ultra wide field of view HMD optics;

* ultra fast displays;

* head-worn or hand-held (mobile) paradigms;

* hybrid display systems and applications;

* displays with integrated interaction components;

* adaptive projector display systems;

* extended color gamut or color matching displays;

* projector-based user/device tracking or interaction;

* embedded pixels for Spatially-Augmented Reality; and

* rendering techniques associated with the above.

This two-day workshop should provide an opportunity to expand attendee

thinking about ways to use contemporary display devices in new systems

and applications.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Friday, May 16th, 2008

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The Climate Clock Global Initiative is seeking ideas from artist-led teams

to create a major artwork entitled Climate Clock, which will measure

changes in greenhouse gas levels, and be the first in a series of global

projects calling attention to climate change. Climate Clock will be an

instrument of long-term measurement and will collect data for 100 years.

The artwork will be located in downtown San Jose, California, Silicon

Valley’s city center, and will be a collaboration between an artist-led

team composed of artists, international and Silicon Valley engineers and

other creative professionals who are working with climate measurement and

data visualization. It is anticipated that the budget for the construction

of Climate Clock will be between $5 and $15 million, depending upon the

scope of the final proposal.

Deadline: May 9, 2008

For a PDF of the call, please visit http://www.sanjoseculture.org/?pid=4500 and to apply, go to www.callforentry.org , register a username and password, navigate to “Apply to Calls”, and search for “San Jose Climate Clock”. The Climate Clock Initiative is a collaboration between FUSE: cadre/montalvo artist research residency initiative and the city of San Jose Public Art program in cooperation with ZERO1.

Here’s list of upcoming conferences and workshops in the Human Computer Interface area:

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From the HCI International Newsletter – also available on-line.

The IGDA has just launched the 7th annual Student Scholarship

Program. Twenty-five college students will be awarded complimentary

full access passes to the 2007 Game Developers Conference. Students

can now apply online: http://www.igda.org/scholarships/

The deadline to enter is Wednesday, January 10, 2007. Recipients will be

announced late January.

Applicants are required to be full-time college students (or equivalent) and

IGDA student members for consideration. Scholarship applications will be

judged by a panel of professional game developers.

Full details are online:

http://www.igda.org/scholarships/

Met Heather Kelley recently at the SLOMO video festival in Westwood. In talking about the game program here at IMD, she mentioned this upcoming competition for experimental gameplay that her group is organizing. More info here:

Bonjour a tous,

Greetings from Montreal! You’re receiving this invite because I know you as a developer or supporter of independent-minded and experimental computer and video games. My Montreal colleagues and I have formed a group here to promote experimental gameplay, and games as art, called Kokoromi (“experiment” in Japanese).

For our first project, we’re throwing an event called GAMMA (Game Art Montreal), to be held during the Montreal International Game Summit ( http://montrealgamesummit.com) and the Festival Arcadia ( http://www.festivalarcadia.com/). Our goal is to publicly showcase the potential of indie and “small games” as an artistic and cultural medium. And we’d like you to be a part of it!

During the next two months, you are invited to develop a small PC game that responds to a particular design challenge (which I’ll explain in a sec). In early November, we’ll debut all the finished games at a city-wide social event (aka insane dance party) to coincide with the two consecutive Montreal conferences.

So, the “big idea” for GAMMA 01 is this: You are invited to create a game that translates a live audio stream into realtime game elements and gameplay. At the GAMMA event, the live music (DJs, bands) will be fed into the games to trigger the game content, and the partygoers will play the games live on large screens. Thus, gamers as VJs!

Simple idea, super-cool outcome.

It’s easy to get started: just visit our discussion boards, which contain all the participation and technical information, as well as updates on the event. Be sure to drop by Les Equipes forum and let us know who you are.

http://gamma.gamedesignresource.com/

This is an ideal opportunity to really push the limits of what games can be and do, and we’d be psyched to have you with us. So, we hope to see you in our forums over the next months, and look forward to your games!

KOKOROMI

Heather Kelley

Phil Fish

Damien Di Fede

Game submission deadline is November 1st, 2006

Commercial, indie, and student developers are all welcome.

Starting tomorrow - ACE 2006 here in Hollywood.

The field of computer entertainment technology has aroused great interest recently amongst researchers and developers in both academic and industrial / business fields as it is duly recognized as showing high promise of bringing on exciting new forms of human computer interaction. Now deemed deserving of both serious academic research, as well as major industry and business uptake, techniques used in computer entertainment are also seen to translate into advances in research work ranging from industrial training, collaborative work, novel interfaces, novel multimedia, network computing and ubiquitous computing. The purpose of this conference is to bring together academic and industry researchers, artists and designers and computer entertainment developers and practitioners, to address and advance the research and development issues related to computer entertainment.

As part of the conference, IMD is hosting a reception in the ZML and GIL starting at 7pm, Wednesday evening, 6/14. It will include several live interactive events for ACE conference attendees:

- “Tracking Agama”, an Alternate Reality Game that invites users to explore downtown Los Angeles like never before.

- “Andrew Rivolski”, a real-time collaborative game experience played by teams in matching room-sized immersive video environments over a 10G link between USC and Keio University in Shonan Fujisawa, Japan.

- “SnapShotMapPlot” , a preview of a Mixed Reality project collaboration between the Mixed Reality Lab at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and the Interactive Media Division. In the game, one player attempts to catch the other while avoiding AI predators. One player (the ‘Terran’) is outdoors, running around the USC campus, while the other (the ‘Avian’) flies around a 3D Model of the USC campus.

[Also, recent IMD grad, WIll Carter presented at ACE2004 in Singapore and posted about it here:

Carter, W., Fisher, S. "Mobile Sound Communities". Proceedings of Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE), Singapore (June 2005).]