22 February: Make a Plant Thirst Detector

Rough Trade East – London
6:30 to 9pm.

Have you ever wanted to know when your plants are thirsty? Wouldn’t it be grand if they would turn a little light on to tell you when they were dry? Join us for a workshop where you will make your own sensor, and your own electronic circuit to tell you when your thirsty plant needs attention.

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Deadline: Wednesday 22nd, February, 2012

11 February: DIY Speaker Workshop
Rough Trade East – London
10AM to 1PM

Join us for a workshop where we teach you how to solder an amplifier and then attach it to a pair of exciters which transform almost any material into a speaker. Work with our resident expert sound engineer who has many years of speaker making experience to understand the best way to get the best audio response from your own hand made speakers.

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Deadline: Saturday 11th, February, 2012

Northumbria and Sunderland Universities operate a collaborative AHRC Block Grant Partnership to support quality research and professional training in the Arts & Humanities. Studentships cover stipend and fees subject to eligibility criteria, and are available for uptake from September/October 2012.

The successful candidate will join an Art and Design research area judged to have World-Leading and Internationally Significant research outputs in the recent Research Assessment Exercise, and with particular experience of Practice-Led research.

The successful candidate will join a curating research area CRUMB, judged to have World-Leading research outputs, and with a history of research partners including BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Eyebeam Art and Technology Center (New York) and Lancaster University. To enable interdisciplinary research, CRUMB collaborates with supervisors from research areas in Design (including Design4Science), Photography, Video and Digital Imaging, and Computing. Research proposals are therefore welcome on any of a range of current issues for curating art, and are welcomed whether they address new media art, or other forms of contemporary art or design.

Works which use new media invite a questioning of materiality, space and time, through their use of networks, interactivity, participation, internationalism, and generative processes. These characteristics can also inform the wider field of contemporary art and design, including live art, design, and socially-engaged art, and so offer exciting opportunities to rethink the ways in which curators work. Research proposals are welcome on any of a range of current issues for curating art – including the work’s production, exhibition, reception, documentation and historicisation.

Deadline: 12 noon, Friday 9 March 2012.

Full details, see:

http://nuweb.northumbria.ac.uk/nebgp/d4fineart.php

Deadline: Friday 9th, March, 2012

This course will help you develop for the iPhone using the openFrameworks coding toolkit, learning about the different sensors the iPhone has and how to utilize them for interaction design.  We will explore audiovisual instruments, or how to create sound and video using interaction from the user and the sensors the iPhone provides.  This will be an intuitive way to understand the basics of iPhone programming with openFrameworks, while also learning about audiovisual processing and synthesis for developing creative, interactive applications.

Led by Parag K Mital. http://pkmital.com

Suitable for beginner-level and intermediate programmers who have some familiarity with environments such as
Processing and/or MaxMSP. Course attendees must bring their own device to use in class.

Tuesdays, 31 January – 27 March (excluding 14 February)

Course Outline

31 Jan – 27 Mar (28 Feb break), 18.30-21.00, V&A Sackler Centre Digital Studio

31 Jan: Introduction to the iPhone, iPhone Developer Website, and XCode

7 Feb: Introduction to openFrameworks, basics of an openFrameworks program

14 Feb: iPhone Sensors introduction, Sensor input to openFrameworks, Basic graphics

21 Feb: Video input, Intermediate graphics, Video/Graphics blending

28 Feb: BREAK

6 Mar: Signal analysis, Frequency decomposition, Sound texture analysis, Onset detection

13 Mar: Video analysis, Motion detection, Object detection

20 Mar: Basic interface design for creating instruments using processing and synthesis

27 Mar: Publishing your apps to the App Store

http://www.vam.ac.uk/whatson/event/1583/developing-apps-for-iphone-and-ipad-2725/

The Watermans’ International Festival of Digital Art, 2012, will coincide with the Olympics and Paralympics in London, and Watermans is pleased to host a Festival of ground-breaking installations exploring interactivity and participation in New Media and Digital Art. This year long project is showcasing the work of six international artists and collectives and initiates discussions around the impact of technology in art as well as the meaning, possibilities and issues around human interaction and engagement inviting responses from artists, academics, students, art professionals and the public. The project will include a series of seminars in collaboration with Goldsmiths, University of London and a publication with the Leonardo Electronic Almanac.

This issue explores the role interactivity and participation, as well as light art and new media approaches to the public space as tool that may foster engagement and shared forms of participation.

We would like to welcome papers relevant to the following themes:

- Interactivity and audience engagement (art, technology and participation)
- New media geographies and technology
- New Media art and illusion: physical interaction & perception
- Sound and gesture in New Media Art
- Gender, sport and technology
- Art in Virtual Reality / virtual spaces and game-space as artistic medium

Contemporary art is pursuing technological modes of interaction and display that provide the audience with media rich experiences. But are these forms of interaction, interpassive pre-ordained engagements or new technologically based forms of entertainment? Or is art redefining further its relationship with the audience – following and pushing forward the experiential examples of Christo and Spencer Tunick through the aid of technology?

This special issue of LEA wishes to analyze the relationship between these different aspects that contribute to the complexity – conceptual, technological and aesthetic – of interactive installation in public space, creating the ground-breaking and complex phenomena that characterize the aesthetics and visuality of contemporary technocultures.

The Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) is inviting proposals for an issue on these or related themes with Senior Editors Lanfranco Aceti (Kasa Gallery Director and LEA Editor in Chief) and Janis Jefferies (Goldsmiths College). The issue guest editors are Irini Papadimitriou and Jonathan Munro.

New Media academics, theoreticians, curators, art historians and artists that are interested in any combination of the above themes are particularly welcome to submit proposals for consideration.

The Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) will produce an online and printed issue, as well as host curated images and videos online.
Proposals to: info@leoalmanac.org

a) Subject heading: Touch and Go
b) 500 hundred word abstract for articles – submission of full articles preferred for this special issue by proposal deadlineFebruary 12, 2012
c) Deadline for submission of full article: March 15, 2012
d) 2 images at 72 dpi resolution no larger than 700pixels width for artists
e) Links to previous work, videos or personal sites

Our publication formats allow for full-color throughout and we encourage rich pictorial content where relevant and possible.  Note however that all material submitted must be copyright cleared (or due diligence must be evidenced).  For online publication a wide variety of media content may be considered (animation, mp3, flash, java, etc…)

• For scholarly papers please submit the final paper ready for peer review.  Your contribution will be reviewed by at least two members of the LEA board and revisions may be requested subject to review.
• For themed and pictorial essays please submit an abstract or outline for editorial consideration and further discussion.
• Please keep your news, announcements and hyperlinks brief and focused – include contact details and a link to an external site where relevant.  We reserve the right to sub-edit your submissions in order to comply with LEA policies and formats.  Where material is time-sensitive please include both embargo and expiry dates.
• In all cases specify special system considerations where these are necessary (platform, codecs, plug-ins, etc…)

We look forward to hearing from you!

http://www.leoalmanac.org//images/articles/LEA_Call_Touch_and_Go.pdf

Deadline: Sunday 12th, February, 2012

PERIOD OF PROGRAM
August 20 – November 6, 2012

NUMBER OF INVITATION ARTISTS
3 artists

HOW TO APPLY
Applications are required to submit the documents listed to the e-mail address below.
Applicants are also asked to write required documents in either Japanese or English.

•Application Deadline
15.02.2012

Further Info:
Creating “Global Kamiyama”
http://www.in-kamiyama.jp/en/art
applytokair@gmail.com, kair2009@in-kamiyama.jp

Deadline: Wednesday 15th, February, 2012

Mexican based Media Artists in the fields of digital media including internet and computer based art, filmmakers, sound and video artists are invited to apply for a two months artist residency at IMPAKT, Utrecht, Netherlands; Bandits Mages, Bourges, France; FACT, Liverpool, United Kingdom or at Werkleitz Centre for Media Arts in Halle, Germany. European Artists can apply for a two months residency at Centro Multimedia in Mexico City and Centro de Arte y Nuevas Technologias (CANTE) in San Luis Potosi.

Students are not permitted, but young artists encouraged. EMARE MEXICO includes a grant of 2.000 Euro, free accommodation, up to 900 Euro travel expenses, access to the technical facilities and media labs and a professional presentation. In addition participating artists of 2012 will take part at the move forward exhibition 5.- 21. 10. 2012 in Halle (Saale) Germany and all artists participating 2012 and 2013 will take part at the final exhibition as part of the Transitio_MX Festival in Mexico City in Octobre 2013. Entries should be submitted online and have to upload a CV, (audio) visual reference projects documentation and a proposal sketch for the project which should be developed within EMARE. Artists with residence in or identity card within Europe and Mexico can contact one of the following institutions for further details before starting the online submission.

•Application Deadline
06.02.2012

Further Info:http://call.emare.eu/
juanmartin_slp@hotmail.com

Deadline: Monday 6th, February, 2012

31.03.2012

After update_1 in 2006,we are determined to continue this series with update_4, to be held from 15th September till 18th of November 2012.

We want to put some new accents in update_4.We want to increase the importance of this contest by taking the following measures:

• New and adapted rules, which are stricter, and will focus more specifically on the artistic contribution of the new technologies,
• The number of nominees who will have the opportunity to show their works of art during update_4 will pass from 10 to 20,
• Finally, the works will be presented at three sites: Zebrastraat in Ghent, La Cambre in Brussels ( for works to be shown in the open air), and iMAL, also in Brussels.

As previously, the nominees will be selected by a professional jury, which will also award the final price of 5000 EUR; besides this, there will also be a price from the audience.
The second part of the event consists of an exhibition of renowned artists in the field of New Technological Art. Only two or three works will be presented at each site.
To these two activities will be added a third one, namely the organization of a three days colloquium on new tendencies in contemporary art.
Zebrastraat Gent

Zebrastraat 32/001
9000 Gent
Belgium
http://www.ntaa.be
http://www.newtechnologicalartaward.be
isolde@zebrastraat.be

Deadline: Saturday 31st, March, 2012

The Competition
Art and science are moving towards one another, discovering common issues and working methods. The creative, imaginative processes in the arts and sciences are similar, whereas the concrete realisation of their results tends to differ. Repeatedly, this difference is the source of productive tension and areas of friction. In all disciplines of the arts and sciences, further developments over recent decades have been characterised by mutual influences and efforts at differentiation. Today, traditional dividing lines between the spheres can no longer be maintained; they are being newly defined and presented in their permeability.
This competition aims to give the impetus and opportunity to artists (fine art, media, architecture, design, music, theatre, visual communication etc.) and scientists to work between the priorities of the arts or between the arts and science.

Participants

Individuals and groups are eligible to participate. Full-time employees of the UdK Berlin, as well as students of the UdK Berlin and other colleges/universities are excluded.

Entry Deadline

The deadline for entries is March 1, 2012. The registration form including detailed information can be requested from the address below and is also available as a download.

Prize

The prize will be awarded on a biennial basis and is endowed with 7,500 Euros.

Jury

The jury under the chairmanship of the President of the UdK Berlin consists of the Chair of the Commission for Artistic and Scientific Projects at the UdK Berlin, the Director of the Postgraduate School of the UdK Berlin and four additional jurors who do not belong to the UdK Berlin in any way and have shown outstanding achievements in their own professional fields.

Contact partner

Universität der Künste Berlin
Communications and Marketing
Inge Scheffler / Joachim Schwalbe
Postfach 120544
D-10595 Berlin

Fax: +49 (0) 30 3185 2821
E-mail: udk-preis@udk-berlin.de

Download
Regulations 2012 (PDF: 84KB)

Deadline: Thursday 1st, March, 2012

This special issue of the journal invites papers, projects and reviews exploring and developing the notion of Design Fictions. One of the early proponents of Design Fictions, the author Bruce Sterling, said that design: “seeks out ways to jump over its own conceptual walls – scenarios, user observation, brainstorming, rapid prototyping, critical design, speculative design” (Sterling, 2009). Despite the current burgeoning of this field and its various histories and antecedents, the coming together of design and fiction, as ‘design fictions’, remains relatively underexplored.
Design Fictions might also be sensed as a ‘speculative turn’ in design practice, founding a new engagement in ‘prototyping’ conjectural projections of designed futures. In the context of ever-present near futures, projected as scenarios that threaten radical ruptures of the real, digital creativity expands into a post-digital cybernetics. Design Fictions speculative design methodologies take their cue from science fiction, Sterling however would also have it the other way around, saying that: “design and literature don’t talk together much, but design has more to offer literature at the moment than literature can offer design” (Sterling, 2009).
This issue seeks to put design and literature into conversation. The journal wishes to ask how Design Fictions and related methodological work have mutated or glitched across art, design and architecture, for example in response to ‘design fictions’ (Nokia/Bleecker); in ‘critical design’ (Dunne & Raby); in speculative and visionary architecture (Spiller); in science fiction as prototyping (Intel/Johnson); and in ethnographic work on design and prototyping (Kelty). Papers are invited from three broad areas:
· Papers offering critical reflections on post-digital futures rendered as Design Fictions.

· Papers that illustrate what contemporary design provides as an alternative to the structural orthodoxies of mappings of the ‘hard’ science fictional to the ‘engineering of creativity’ (Altshuller).

· Papers that reflect on Design Fictions as a methodology and on the ways in which fictional constructs and diegetic prototypes might open design discourse on cybernetic futures.

Initial proposals should be extended abstracts in English, between 800-1200 words. The categories for final submission are Short Papers between 2500-3500 words, and Long Papers, between 5000-7000 words. The papers will be selected through a blind peer review process. Upon acceptance of the abstract, you will be sent further authors’ guidelines based on the Digital Creativity guidelines (Instructions for Authors) at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/NDCR.
The extended abstract should include the following information: 1) Name of author(s) with email addresses and affiliation, if applicable 2) Title of the paper 3) Body of the abstract 4) Preliminary bibliography 5) Author(s)’s short bio(s) 6) Indication of whether the submission will be a short or a long paper.
Important dates:
Initial proposals (extended abstracts) deadline: March 5, 2012
Notification of extended abstract acceptance (by editors’ review): March 26, 2012
Final papers are due on: June 04, 2012
Blind peer-reviews due on: July 30, 2012
Revised final papers are due on: September 3, 2012
Special issue published: Winter 2012
Recipients: Please forward your abstract as a PDF attachment in an e-mail addressed to the special issue and Digital Creativity editors below:
Derek Hales, special issue guest editor hales.derek@gmail.com>
Digital Creativity editors dcsubmit@gmail.com

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Sue Gollifer
University of Brighton
School of Arts and Media
Director of ISEA International Headquarters
s.c.gollifer@brighton.ac.uk

Deadline: Monday 5th, March, 2012