Today’s digital technologies have created a new model of understanding different aspects of reality. The change they produced compels us to reconsider the conditioning of our modern lives while their potential demands to be explored. Penetrating and transforming everyday cultural practices and spaces, they are defining our present paradigm. Communication technologies and portable media devices are today omnipresent and are increasingly ubiquitous and personalized.

By capturing and transforming the analog signal in digital form, we are today capable to deal with information of all kinds brought to a common denominator. The digitalization allows us to treat and to carry different types of data with the same efficiency, but also to intermingle them. After a period when the attention was focused on the structures of digital, today we are facing a much more general concern related to the possibilities offered by the interposition between analogue and digital data. With the digitalization we assist to a phenomenon of automation which penetrates the very aspects of our lives. Their alliance today with the spectrum of nano- and bio-technologies is about to induce majors changes in the way we deals with matter and identity.

If the matematization defined modernity, we also notice today a re-evaluation of phenomenological aspects. What kind of models are we using today in perceiving and understanding our environment? In which way these models are to be found in the technological development? Can the phenomenological approach and description bring light to the study of digital structures? What are the means phenomenology provides for the study of the digital technologies and their implications? Which are the potential and the limits of the phenomenological method in the field? Are there new models that impose themselves in the analysis of our highly technological world?

By trying to answer all these questions, we intend to identify the relevance of the phenomenological approach and method in the research of digital technologies. Our goal in this special issue is to bring together papers that explore the different ways in which philosophy, aesthetics, cognitive science and computer sciences can be combined to offer a novel perspective on digital technologies. Prospective authors are encouraged to take into account the following areas:

1. Digital Technology and Common Experience:
* digital and new media art
* imaging and sound technology
* digital-being
* virtual and mixed realities
* augmented reality and augmented virtuality
* digital fiction and digital reality
* simulation and interactivity
* techno- and telepresence
* portable technology and technosomatics
* phenomenological exploration of the digital

2. The Process of Digitalization:
* data systems and models
* data structures and databases
* digitalization and digital literacy
* digital phenomenon
* techniques of representation and visualization
* digitalization and codification of experience
* codification and automation
* codification and materialization
* soft computation
* philosophy of science and phenomenotechnique

The papers and reviews will be selected from the submitted proposals on the basis of double blind peer reviews. Authors should address the papers before September 1st, 2010 and will be notified on the results via email by October 22, 2010.

STUDIA
UNIVERSITATIS BABES-BOLYAI

PHILOSOPHIA Series
ISSN 1221 – 8138

launches a
CALL FOR PAPERS
The topic for the third issue in 2010 is
Phenomenology of Digital Technologies

IMPORTANT DATES:

Deadline for submissions: September 1st, 2010.
Notification of acceptance: October 22, 2010.
Publication: December 2010

Papers should be written in English, French or German should not exceed 75.000 characters and should be accompanied by a short abstract written in English (maximum 700 characters).

Submitted papers should be sent by e-mail to the Editorial Staff: studia@hiphi.ubbcluj.ro in “.doc” or “.rtf” format as attachments only.

INDICATIONS FOR THE AUTHORS
For the submission of the papers, please follows the guidelines specified on the journal’s blog: http://studiaphilosophia.wordpress.com/indication/

JOURNAL PRESENTATION
The series Philosophia of Studia Universitatis Babeş – Bolyai (ISSN 1221-8138) is a peer reviewed journal devoted to promote a high level of academic research in the field of philosophy and related fields; it strives to foster a strong collaboration among senior and junior researchers from Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca and from abroad.

Since 1955, academic journal Studia Philosophia, issued by the Department of Philosophy in the Faculty of History and Philosophy, has been representing an open arena for promoting research endeavours. Senior, as well as junior academics, have found in Studia Philosophia a way of expressing their preoccupations by publishing academic articles that have focused mainly on the European experience and perspectives in various fields of philosophical research.

For more information please contact:
Editor-in-chief: Associated Professor Ion COPOERU : copoeru(at)hotmail.com

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Deadline: Wednesday 1st, September, 2010

RESIDENCY: APO33 invites artists throughout the year to develop work in
situ, that take risks with the space and the artists own approach to
his/her practice. The residency will usually allow 1 week for
development and installation of projects and during the second week the
space will also be open to the public. APO33 will provide technical
assistance to artists and expert assistance to those using digital media
open to exploring FLOSS software and programming tools. In addition
artists are invited to give a public talk around their practice at APO33.

APO33 will pay travel costs and provide accommodation as well as a small
production budget to be discussed with the Artist.

APO33 a not-for-profit association/artists collective founded in 1997.
APO33 research practices cross philosophy, poetry, visual, sonic art and
anything else that may arrive through collaborative working. APO33
projects often use networked and physical spaces, develop tools
(hardware/software) for its creative projects and the FLOSS (Free/Libre
Open Source Software) community of artists and programmers.

http://www.apo33.org

HOW TO APPLY:

Send an email with the following information included to:
residence2010@apo33.org

FULL NAME (+ ALIAS if applicable)
EMAIL
COUNTRY & CITY OF RESIDENCE
DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
IMAGES OR LINKS TO PREVIOUS WORK
URL
ANY OTHER INFORMATION IN SUPPORT OF YOUR APPLICATION

DEADLINE: 15th August
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APO33
space of research and experimentation
http://www.apo33.org
info@apo33.org

Deadline: Sunday 15th, August, 2010

make art is an international festival dedicated to the integration
of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) in digital art.
make art offers performances, presentations, workshops and an
exhibition, focusing on the encounter between digital art and free
software.

*in-between design: rediscovering collaboration in digital art*

Today’s market production accelerates the spread of non-critical and
standardized aesthetics, by means of locked top-down distribution
mechanisms and a series of tools that enforce it. At the same time
new forms of methodologies inspired or powered by free software,
participatory practices and peer-to-peer networks are fueling many
Internet subcultures. Some of these emerging practices will lead to
competitive social productions, while other will remain as pure
artistic experiments.

By adopting production and distribution methods based on free software
and open standards and by sharing the sources of one’s work with
others, the collective knowledge base and aesthetic sensibilities can
freely interact to explore uncharted, hybrid directions which no
longer reflect the supremacy of a single idea.

- Does the sharing of artworks “recipes” and tools help debunk
the myth of the isolated design genius?
- By leaving the possibility of ongoing development and refinement,
is it possible to ever produce a “final” design?
- Can these methods and technologies inspire new forms of creation or
tools, beyond self-referential productions?
- Is it wishful thinking to approach collaborative graphical design
in the same way as an open source software project?
- Is Free and Open Source licensing a catalyst for creation or does
it add an extra level of complexity?
- Can the limitation of one license trigger new forms of constrained
creativity?

We’re currently seeking new, innovative media art and design works and
projects focusing on the above theme and questions:
- graphical artworks and installations
- lectures
- project presentations
- software and hardware demos

We’re also seeking audiovisual performances that will take place
during the festival evenings.

The submitted projects must fit this focus and be made in a free/libre
and open source environment, this includes both its optional
dependencies or production tools and the operating system. We are
asking you to publish the sources of your project under a free culture
license of your choice or release it into the public domain.
Projects that do not meet these criteria will not be considered.

*How to apply*

Submission form and a list of additional requirements are available at:
http://makeart.goto10.org/call/

Deadline: *Saturday 31 July 2010*

Incomplete or late applications will not be processed.

*Timeline*

31st of July 2010 – Deadline call for proposals
Beginning of September – Selected projects notifications
4th-7th of November 10 – make art 2010 – Poitiers (FR)

For examples of previous editions, please visit the archives :
http://makeart.goto10.org/

make art is powered by GOTO10

Deadline: Saturday 31st, July, 2010

Until 15th of august 2010 you can apply at www.uamo.info for the UAMO art festival 2010/Munich.

Submitted works will be installed in the exhibition and/or shown at the festival screening.

All submitted works should refer to the theme “KONSENS – NONSENS”.

All submissions are free.

All exhibited works will be presented in a limited edition catalogue.

For more info and application form:

http://www.uamo.info

Deadline: Sunday 15th, August, 2010

With only one week left, take a look now: http://lab.tintarts.org

Image: Lauren McCarthy. http://res007.tintarts.org/

This workshop aims to acquaint participants with the technical functionality of both analog and digital video art as well as the technical and aesthetic impact of digitization, compression and format migration. A comparative ’school of seeing’ will be offered to sensitize the participant’s eye for image structure and quality. Sessions focus on the varieties of display modes of video art in an exhibition context and demonstrate the impact of equipment selection on the integrity of the artwork. Curators, conservators and technicians will provide insight into their decision-making processes and discuss their perspectives on the preservation of video art installations.

The confirmed speakers are John Hanhardt, Chrissie Iles, Jennifer Blessing, Joanna Phillips, Steven Dye, Heather Weaver, Maurice Schechter, Mona Jimenez, Howard Besser, Chris Lacinek and Agathe Jarczyk.

For more program details about the two-day workshop and registration please visit: http://www.conservation-us.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=page.viewpage&pageid=1257

American Institute for Conservation
http://cool.conservation-us.org/coolaic/sg/emg/

Deadline: Thursday 2nd, September, 2010

Conceived in 2006, ((audience)) is an unprecedented project that
explores the cinema as a 21st century concert hall. It is dedicated to
the advancement of aural arts by providing wide distribution and new
contexts for works by emerging and established sound artists and
composers. The centerpiece of ((audience)) is a biennial program of 5.1
surround sound works by international artists intended for presentation
in movie theaters as “cinema in the dark.” This program travels to
partnering organizations from Delhi, India to New York City —
accompanied by curatorial lectures, performances, exhibitions and
screenings on a city-by-city basis.

CALL FOR WORKS
((audience)) is issuing a special call for 5.1 surround sound works for
the 2011 Unsound festival. Selected works will be presented in a
completely dark cinema environment without visual accompaniment at the
Walter Reade Theater / Film Society of Lincoln Center. Selected artists
will receive a modest fee. (Fees to be determined in September.)

All works must relate to this year’s festival theme: “Horror – the
Pleasure of Fear and Unease” (for example, one could submit a soundtrack
to an imagined horror film; a radio play; a work dealing abstractly with
the concept of horror, etc.) New works or newly contextualized works
will be accepted. Artists currently located in Eastern Europe are
encouraged to apply, and will receive special attention. We are
especially interested in narrative or musical works that play with the
traditional idea of cinematic surround sound, and/or with the concept of
horror, and in works that emphasize temporal, narrative or spatial
experimentation.

PLEASE download the submission instructions for information on how to
submit, by visiting http://au.dience.org/?/submit/submit/

Deadline: Sunday 15th, August, 2010

Essential requirements, in addition to the professional credentials already mentioned, are curatorial skills, several years experience in the direction and organisation of large cultural organisations and proficient German and English language skills. Relocation to Berlin is essential.

The conditions of employment will initially be a fixed-term contract for the transmediale 2012. An extension is desired but conditional on funding from the Kulturstiftung des Bundes.

Please send the standard application papers together with a two-page concept that takes into account the conceptual direction and structural format of the transmediale.

Please send your application including your desired salary by 22nd August 2010 to:

Die Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH
Frau Uta Belitz
Klosterstraße 68
10179 Berlin
bzw.: personal@kulturprojekte-berlin.de

Interviews are scheduled for 21st September 2010 in Berlin.

bzw.: personal@kulturprojekte-berlin.de

Deadline: Sunday 22nd, August, 2010

You have just a minute to encourage and inform people why they should join a trade union.

The TUC’s 60 Second Ad contest is back …and there are great prizes to be won.

http://www.unionlearn.org.uk/initiatives/learn-3424-f0.cfm

Visit the addresses above to view the documents in full, in print format or in text-only format.

The full text of the press release is below. Charts, tables and other complications in the layout may not be accurately reproduced, but you can view these on the web site using the links above.

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A minute’s movie magic to sell the trade union message

You have just a minute to encourage and inform people why they should join a trade union.

The TUC’s 60 Second Ad contest is back …and there are great prizes to be won.

In today’s climate, people need a union now more than ever and this is your chance to show them why. Your audience for the advert is those who have little or no knowledge of trade unions.

You will make a hard-hitting or entertaining film to capture their interest and get the trade union message across. You have between 30 seconds and minute to do so. We are not looking for the next Spielberg, necessarily, what we are looking for are innovative and eye-catching ways to tell the trade union story. Your deadline is midnight August 9, 2010.

Log on to www.tuc60seconds.org.uk for more details, examples of last year’s entries and information on the workshop on Friday, July 19 we will be running with experts in the industry to help get you started.

There are great prizes to be won: £1,000 plus a day on a film set and tickets for the premier of Made in Dagenham, starring Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins, Miranda Richardson and Rosamund Pike. Your advert will be shown at a special screening of the film and will be seen by thousands across the world, including showings at the Geneva Labour film festival and the Washington DC Labour film festival. Do not worry, if needed, we will work with you to bring your advert up to broadcast quality.

There are also lots of exciting prizes for the runners up.

Deadline: Tuesday 10th, August, 2010

Radar is an innovative programme of digital artists’ residencies in public libraries across the county of
Lancashire, in the North West of England. It is a partnership between leading digital arts agency folly
and the Lancashire County Library and Information Service. See http:www.folly.co.uk/programme/radar
We are currently seeking an international artist (someone who’s main home is outside of the UK),
to become Radar’s second artist in residence, based at the Harris Library, Preston, Lancashire, UK.

The goal of Radar is to explore relationships between the virtual and physical cultural experiences on
offer and potentially available through libraries; to consider the role of libraries as free and accessible
public gateways to culture, and the implications of the evolution of digital culture on this core function.
Resident artists are expected to do this through engaging collaboratively and creatively with library
users and staff.

How to apply
All potential applicants should download and read the full brief, background information and application
instructions, available on the folly website using the link above.
For an informal discussion prior to submitting an application contact Jennifer Stoddart, folly Projects
Manager on jennifer.stoddart ‘at’ folly.co.uk, +44 (0)1524 388550
Apply by sending a statement (no longer than two sides of A4) detailing:

* Your particular areas of interest in relation to the scheme and its goals (as detailed in the brief)
* A suggestion of how you would spend your time in residence, what outcomes you would expect
to achieve and why

Please also include in your application:

* Your CV
* Examples of previous work
* A completed equal opportunities monitoring form (download from the folly website).

Applications should be submitted by email to Imogen McGarvie, folly Programme Assistant, at imogen.mcgarvie ‘at’ folly.co.uk.
folly is committed to equal opportunities in our employment, programme and services.

Deadline: Friday 30th, July, 2010