DASH Archives - January 2008

Forwarded from the fibreculture list: http://www.fibreculture.org


Dear colleagues,
     below is the first call for papers for the symposium "Cultural
Heritage Knowledge Visualisation", part of the 2008 12th European
Information Visualisation Conference, at the London South Bank
University, London, UK, 8,9 - 11 July.

Note, papers should be submitted through the IV'08 online paper
submission
system:

    http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV08/

2007 was the inaugural launch of this new symposium at the ETH, Zurich,
Switzerland, with a strong response. The host conference, Information
Visualisation, brings a new dimension to the Cultural Heritage Knowledge
Domain, closely aligned with much of the research we are engaged in. I
hope you will help support this new venture by distributing the CFP
widely.

Regards, Theodor G Wyeld.


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International Symposium of "Cultural Heritage Knowledge Visualisation",
IV08-CHKV
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8,9 - 11 July
London South Bank University - London - UK
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Call for Papers, Videos and Participation
Proceedings will be published by IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY

The symposium seeks original projects that deal with, but are not
limited to, the following topics:
●    Heritage Visualisation
●    Culture Visualisation
●    Visualising Society Networks
●    Visualising Cultural Heritage Knowledge Practices
●    Developing Protocols for Cultural Heritage Knowledge
Visualisation
●    Cultural Heritage Knowledge Semantics
●    Narrative Visualisation
●    Cultural Heritage Knowledge Ethics

Symposium Cultural Heritage Knowledge Visualisation Liaison:
Theodor G Wyeld, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Advisory, Programme and reviewing committee:
Theodor G Wyeld, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Sarah Kenderdine (Museum Victoria, Aust)
Ekaterina Prasolova-Førland (NTNU, Trondheim)
Teng-Wen Chang (NYUST, Taiwan)
Brett Leavy (QUT, Aust)
Malcolm Pumpa (QUT, Aust)
Marinos Ioannides (HTI, Cyprus)
Giovanni Issini (DFI, Italy)

Keynote: TBA

Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version for a
special journal edition.

Supporting Bodies:
Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Interaction Design (ACID)
Faculty of Life and Social Sciences
School of Media, Multimedia and Communication
Swinburne  University of Technology, Australia

Supported by:
London South Bank University, London, UK
Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Interaction Design (ACID)
Faculty of Life and Social Sciences
School of Media, Multimedia and Communication
Swinburne  University of Technology, Australia

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
The school of Computing and Engineering, University of Huddersfield
Department of Information Systems and Multimedia, University of
Greenwich, UK
CCGV - Centre for Computer Graphics & Visualisation, University of
Bedfordshire
The Visualization Lab, University of Plymouth, UK
Construction and Property Research Centre, UWE, UK
Construction IT Research Centre, University of Salford, UK
The Robert Gordon University, UK
GraphicsLink…
VGRU, BCIM, London South Bank University, UK
Institute for Computing Research (ICR)-BCIM, London South Bank
University, UK
National Centre for Computer Animation, Bournemouth University, UK
Department of Visual Art, University of Northern Colorado, USA
HCI Graduate Program, Indiana University School of Informatics, IUPUI,
USA
School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, USA
Information and Computer Science Department, KFUPM, SA
College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University, USA
University of Kent at Canterbury, UK

Endorsed by:
Information Visualisation Society

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Important Dates:
15 February 2008 - Submission of papers
15 March 2008 - notification
15 April 2008 - Submission of camera-ready
30 April 2008 - early registration closes
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Anita D’Pour
GraphicsLink…
Conference Co-ordinator
P.O. BOX 29, HATFIELD, AL9 7ZL, United Kingdom.
Tel: (Int. +44) 1707 - 652 224
Fax: (Int. +44) 1707 - 652 247
Email: IV07@graphicslink.co.uk
URL: http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV08/

OR to the symposium chair:

Theodor G Wyeld

M u l t i m e d i a   P r o g r a m

Faculty of Life and Social Sciences
Swinburne  University of Technology
John Street    Hawthorn    Victoria
Australia                      3122

http://opax.swin.edu.au/~twyeld
twyeld@swin.edu.au

ph:                 +61 3 9214 5977
fx:                 +61 3 9819 6443

URL: http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV08/CHKV.htm

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OZ Landline +61 (0)7 5443 3491 == USA fax +1 309 216 9900
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http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ccnr/research/creativity.html
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The Society for the History of Technology will hold its annual meeting in Lisbon, October 11-14, to continue the celebration of the 50th
anniversary of the founding of the Society.

The theme of last year�s conference was �SHOT@50: Looking Back.� This year�s will be �SHOT@50:LookingBeyond.�

To that end, the Program Committee seeks papers or sessions for the 2008 meeting that concern the history of technology as it may or ought to be practiced in the future. Papers or sessions devoted to the question of how we shall write the history of technology in the future are particularly encouraged. To serve the purpose of �Looking Beyond� the Committee also appreciates papers or panels reaching out beyond SHOT�s current disciplinary boundaries. The Committee will also consider papers of high quality on any aspect of the history of technology, broadly defined.

The Committee welcomes proposals for individual papers or sessions, as well as works-in-progress from researchers of all stripes (including graduate students, chaired professors, and independent scholars). It welcomes proposals from those new to SHOT, regardless of discipline.

The committee will also consider alternative venues for presenting one�s scholarship, such as poster sessions, short (8-minute) quick sessions, author-meets-critics panels, discussion of pre-circulated papers, and others.

The deadline for submission is March 14, 2008.

Proposals for individual papers must include:
1) a one-page abstract (maximum 600 words)
2) a one-page curriculum vitae, including current postal and e-mail addresses

Proposals for complete sessions must include:
1) a description of the session that explains how individual papers contribute to an overall theme.
2) the names and paper titles of the presenters
3) for each presenter, a one-page summary (maximum 600 words) of the paper�s topic, argument(s), and evidence used
4) for the commentator, chair, and each presenter: one-page c.v., with postal and e-mail addresses

Please indicate if a proposal is sponsored by one of SHOT�s special interest groups.

Submission Instructions

1) Materials should be sent as a single text attachment to an e-mail message to the Program Committee Chair, Martina Hessler, at:
shot@em.uni-frankfurt.de

2) Proposals for complete sessions as well as individual papers shall be submitted in one file.

3) Please adhere to the 600-word limit for each paper. Use no unusual fonts or special formatting, and save your attachment either as a Microsoft Word document (.doc) or as a Rich Text Format (.rtf) file.
Nearly all word processing programs, including those used on the Macintosh, can save text in the Rich Text Format. Do not use Adobe Acrobat (pdf).

4) Name your attachment with your last name and the word �proposal�, e.g. �Smith_proposal.doc�.

5) A session organizer should also deliver a description of the overall session. If you are organizing a session and proposing a paper in that session, you will be delivering both an abstract and proposal, plus your c.v.

6) If you are proposing a non-traditional session you may indicate that in the abstract. These also require a curriculum vitae.

An update on events:

Imaging by Numbers: A Historical View of the Computer Print
January 18-April 3, 2008
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art
Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois
U.S.A.

This groundbreaking new exhibition examines the intersection of 
digital technology and the graphic arts. Imaging by Numbers surveys 
the use of computers in printmaking and drawing through approximately 
60 works created by nearly 40 North American and European artists 
from the 1950s to the present. The exhibition focuses on artists who 
wrote their own computer code or collaborated with computer 
engineers. Beginning with photographs of electronic waveforms by Ben 
Laposky and Herbert Franke, Imaging by Numbers includes drawings made 
with plotter printers by the likes of Manfred Mohr and Edward Zajec, 
explorations of virtual worlds composed with 3-D imaging software by 
David Em, and works created with inventive modifications and 
combinations of traditional and digital printing techniques by such 
artists as Lane Hall and Roman Verostko. Contemporary artists writing 
their own computer programs or altering existing software - Joshua 
Davis and C.E.B. Reas, for example - are also represented.

Imaging by Numbers is curated by Block Museum senior curator Debora 
Wood and artist Paul Hertz.


Information about the show is here:
http://www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/exhibitions/current/imaging.html

A concurrent show of installations, Space, Color and Motion:
http://www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/exhibitions/current/space.html

A special Block Cinema event on February 6 "Imaging by Numbers: An 
Evening of Early Computer Animation."
http://www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/block-cinema/imaging.html

There's also a symposium of artists and scholars on Saturday, February 16:
http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=592


If you are in the Chicago area, do give the show a visit, and feel 
free to contact me about it. Evanston is just a short ride from 
Chicago by public transportation (on the "El," our subway/elevated 
rail system).

best,

-- Paul



-- 
Paul Hertz  
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 From the diatrope list (who should know better!) Computer art was  
invented in the 80's and early 90's "before the advent of the  
internet".  Read on and be illuminated...

Early computer-generated art revived for S.F. exhibit
Ellen Lee, Chronicle Staff Writer
Saturday, January 12, 2008

Back in the days of the early computer, before the advent of the  
Internet, the only kind of art that could be created and transmitted  
consisted of the letters, numbers and symbols found on a keyboard.
Named for standard text codes, it was called ANSI and ASCII art. As  
if using tiny brush strokes, its makers pieced together keyboard  
characters to create their works, which today look like oddly  
pixelated pictures.

Beginning today, an exhibit at a small San Francisco art gallery, 20  
goto 10, will take people back to the age of ANSI art. The technology- 
oriented art gallery, named after a sequence used by computer  
programmers, will display pieces by Chris Lewis, known online as Lord  
Jazz, and Jeff Lindsey, known as Somms.

Their art punctuates the era just before the dawn of the Internet.  
During the 1980s and early 1990s, computer users would connect over a  
phone line and communicate via the Bulletin Board System. Many of the  
bulletin boards, like early Web pages, featured the art. But as  
people began connecting to the World Wide Web instead, bulletin  
boards, along with ANSI art, went away.

"You don't hear about it anymore," said Kevin Olson, a computer  
programmer in San Francisco and co-curator of the project who  
produced a few ANSI pieces himself. "It's an old-school thing that no  
one is bringing out, so my main objective is to bring it out of the  
woodwork."

ANSI refers to the American National Standards Institute and ASCII  
refers to the American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

ANSI art stems from the characters on computers running MS-DOS,  
Microsoft's pre-Windows operating system. A combination of keystrokes  
could create blocks and symbols, as well as 16 colors. ASCII art was  
more basic, using just the letters, numbers and symbols on the keyboard.

Olson selected 11 ANSI pieces by the two artists. Like many of that  
time, they were inspired by dark comic books and Japanese anime. One  
is a gray, red-eyed, drooling monster. A lighter one features a fish  
once used for a sushi bar's bulletin board.

For six of them, Olson enlarged the pictures onto translucent sheets,  
which have been framed in a box with fluorescent lights. When lit up,  
the picture looks like it would have on a computer monitor. The only  
difference is that when the pieces were created, the screen could not  
display them in their entirety. Only 30 lines of text could be seen  
at once, so viewers had to scroll the see the whole picture.

For the other, larger artworks, Olson and gallery owner Christopher  
Abad, who is also a computer programmer, hung up flat-screen monitors  
that let the audience scroll through the entire picture. Made up of  
200 to 500 lines of text, the pictures were too big to turn into a  
framed piece.

Since ANSI art faded away, many of its creators, who were in their  
teens and early 20s, have gone on to computer- and graphics-oriented  
careers at Pixar, Lucas Arts, Electronic Arts and elsewhere.

Lindsey, one of the artists featured in the exhibit, works as a  
producer for a New York City video game company.

Now 33, he learned about bulletin boards through a friend as a 20- 
year-old junior college student in Southern California. He taught  
himself how to create ANSI art and became popular in the underground  
ANSI art scene.

His pieces include a black and white rendering of a scene from "The  
Crow" comic book, which will be on display at the gallery. He would  
outline the basic picture before shading it in with detail, a process  
that could take 20 to 30 hours.

After a few years, he lost interest and moved on, working at Redwood  
City's Electronic Arts Inc. before landing his current position at  
Longtail Studios.

He rarely looks at or thinks about his ANSI art, considering it a  
bygone period in his life.

"I appreciate the desire for someone to archive it. It's a piece of  
technology's history," Lindsey said. "It was a primitive form of art  
before the Internet."

nsi art

Where: 20 goto 10 gallery

Address: 679 Geary St., San Francisco

Dates: Through Jan. 31

Hours: Thursday and Friday, 7-10 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, 3-6 p.m.

Cost: Free

On the Web: www.twentygoto10.com



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Paul Brown - based in OZ Dec 07 - Apr 08
mailto:paul@paul-brown.com == http://www.paul-brown.com
OZ Landline +61 (0)7 5443 3491 == USA fax +1 309 216 9900
OZ Mobile +61 (0)419 72 74 85 == Skype paul-g-brown
====
Visiting Professor - Sussex University
http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ccnr/research/creativity.html
====

The DEPARTMENT FOR IMAGE SCIENCE  &  DATABASE OF VIRTUAL ART present: 

::danube telelecture REMIXING CINEMA : Future and Past of Moving Images with Lev MANOVICH and Sean CUBITT - stream now available ::


In case you were not able to follow Danube TeleLecture #4, live from the MUMOK in Vienna, it is accessable in our archive. Other past lectures/debates available:

Sarat MAHARAJ and Machiko KUSAHARA: Does the West still exist? 

Gunalan NADARAJAN and Jens HAUSER: Pygmalion Tendencies: Bioart and its Precursors

Christiane PAUL and Paul SERMON: Myths of Immateriality: Curating and Archiving Media Art

Lev MANOVICH and Sean CUBITT: Remixing Cinema: Future and Past of Moving Images 

=> www.donau-uni.ac.at/dtl-archive 

=> www.donau-uni.ac.at/telelectures 
 

TOPIC: Remixing Cinema: Future and Past of Moving Images 

Cinema as a visual phenomenon has accelerated increasingly over the last decades. Technical achievements at the material level like new participatory models driven by the melting of Internet, Databases, TV and Cinema are setting new standards and bringing a new dynamic to the black-box of the movie theater. Remixing, Coding, Remapping, and Recombination of visual manifestations are revolutionizing the narrative form of film - new societal phenomena, like the VJ scene, generate immersive viewing spaces and new forms of moving image distribution. The domain of video, film, computer and net-based installations stands on the threshold of a material revolution: do they bring a new aesthetic?
Revolutionary possibilities in camera and projection techniques offer increasingly faster development cycles that also allow for innovative image languages. New historical perspectives of the cinematic revue coalesce with innovative interpretations of our visual consumer culture and foretell future developments. What can be expected ... what are the consequences? 

Lectures and debate with:
Sean CUBITT, Australia: "Immersion, Connectivity, Conviviality"
Lev MANOVICH, USA: "After Effects, or Invisible Revolution"

Concept and Introduction Oliver GRAU

Moderated by Michael FREUND (Der Standard)

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:: The DEPARTMENT FOR IMAGE SCIENCE at Danube University Krems is an 
institution for innovative research and teaching on the complete range of image 
forms. The Department is situated in the beautiful Wachau, Austria - a UNESCO 
world heritage site - in the Goettweig Monastery and is housed in a fourteenth century 
castle. It is the base of the public documentation platforms www.virtualart.at,  
www.mediaarthistory.org and http://dbw.donau-uni.ac.at/gssg/ 
 
The Department's new low residency postgraduate master's programs in 
MEDIAARTHISTORIES www.donau-uni.ac.at/mediaarthistories, IMAGE SCIENCE, 
and IMAGE MANAGEMENT and their international faculty are unique.
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> ! Upcoming TeleLecture !
We would like to welcome you to the upcoming Danube Tele Lecture in April 2008 
live or via streaming from the Conference GAZING INTO THE 21th CENTURY.


PARTNERS: 
MINISTRY FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH, DATABASE OF VIRTUAL ART, 
AUSTRIAN BROADCASTING SERVICE LOWER AUSTRIA (ORF NOE) 

The Department for Image Science Team
www.donau-uni.ac.at/dis