The 4th edition will take place in London from 3-7 October 2012.

2012 THEME: ‘Unfinity’

We live in a unique moment in history, between two rapidly changing worlds. One is the world of decaying political and economic structures and the other is the world of an infinite explosion in technology and information. There are conflicting mindsets in every part of our culture: the contradiction between ubiquitous virtual presence and physical presence creating an identity crisis; the non-hierarchical, organic web structure clashing with hierarchical, non-organic real-world structures; the myth of the individual as a genius vs the power of the crowd and the collaborative practice; the passive and observant attitude set against active participation and co-creation. These opposing forces are placing us in a paradoxical state that we have named Unfinity.

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Deadline: Sunday 15th, July, 2012

Call for Papers, ZfM Nr. 8 (1/2013)
Special issue: Media Aesthetics

Guest Editors: Erich Hörl (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), Mark B. N. Hansen (Duke University)

“The aesthetic power of feeling”, wrote the late Félix Guattari, seems to be “on the verge of
occupying a privileged position within the collective assemblages of enunciation of our era.” In
discerning a “new aesthetic paradigm” he was not anticipating something along the lines of the
primacy of the institutionalised arts within the social field, but rather a kind of “proto-aesthetic
paradigm”, traversing all universes of value and existential territories, from the arenas of science
and the ethico-political, to the modalities and practices of subjectivation. This general
aestheticisation which Guattari had in mind at the end of the 1980s may be regarded as one of the
first descriptions of a fundamental upheaval in the history of technology and sensation, a change
taking place during the second half of the twentieth century, but especially since the 1990s, and one
which potentially shifts the meaning of aesthetics as such: under the new media-technological
conditions we observe a proto-aesthetic dressing of the present. This means a fundamental
prioritising of the problem of perception and ultimately of all the sensations and affects which
underpin the faculty of perception – such that media aesthetics may well become a fundamental
problem of media studies. At the same time, the aesthetic question thereby proves increasingly to be
a techno-ecological question of the networked and sensory environments in which sensation occurs.

The possible sensorial and sensational facts which characterise the new aesthetic – or more
precisely, media-aesthetic – regime, range from streams of time-objects, as they spread hyperindustrialised
and technologised audiovisual objects on the basis of numerical transfer standards, to
the rise of sensory milieus (e.g. RFID), to the algorithmic environments of the software agencies of
ubiquitous media, ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence and calm technologies. We are
witnessing the transformation of the “technological unconscious” (Nigel Thrift), and with it the
transformation of the aesthetic conditions and means by which the world appears – the general
backgrounds of existence and experience, and thus the meaning of the world.
This special issue of ZfM sets out to clarify the historical-systematic contours as well as the
political implications of the new aesthetic paradigm. This necessitates focusing on the key
technical-medial scenes of the current sensorial caesura, outlining the associated conceptual
challenges and issues of politics of terminology, in order thereby to contribute to the redescription
of media-aesthetics under technological conditions, in particular those of the new era of social and
mobile media in the network age.

The following central questions are to be addressed: What are the core problems of media aesthetics
that are associated with the technical-medial transformation of the present, and what are the
corresponding media-aesthetic perspectives? What is the meaning of experience, perception,
sensation, subjectivity under these new media-aesthetic conditions? Does the outline of an original
media-aesthetic question emerge, on the ground of the new facts of perception emergent in digital,
networked media systems and algorithmic milieus, which would contrast with the now traditional
philosophical aesthetics? What scenes should be considered, and which semantic frames are
required, in order to seize the media-aesthetic question in its specificity and its urgency? How does
the new conceptual politics relate to traditional aesthetic conceptual regimes – where are the
possible connections, and where do we find a need for other conceptual strategies? What
genealogical scenes for the new media-aesthetic paradigm can be discerned in the twentieth
century? What are the political challenges of the new aesthetic condition? How should we assess
previous attempts to redefine aesthetics under these radical media-technological conditions?

Text submissions (around 25,000 characters, notes and spaces included), by the end of August 2012,
to: erich.hoerl@ruhr-uni-bochum.de

This special issue of ZfM will be published in April 2013.

Language of the publication is German. Papers are accepted in German, English and French; papers
will be translated after peer-review and acceptance.

Deadline: Friday 31st, August, 2012

Digital forms of expression, both social and artistic, have the power of connecting diverse cultural interests, engaging communities, and giving rise to a wide-range of group interactions. Through this call, the Prince Claus Fund wishes to support innovative creative initiatives that link digital techniques and/or new media with culture and development.

The Prince Claus Fund is particularly interested in projects in the field of digital culture and new media that facilitates freedom of expression, stimulates dialogue and encourages cultural exchange. The Fund has a five year focus on the theme of culture and conflict and encourages project proposals related to this theme.

For more information visit:

http://www.princeclausfund.org/en/activities/current-call.html

Deadline: Sunday 17th, June, 2012

Typical range is based on educational case-studies, interpersonal or social communication paradigms and interactive multimedia art, interactive multimedia applications, sensor-based multimedia systems, interactive interfaces and interactive sense-enhancing art systems.

To find out more about the journal and the submission page, please visit:

http://www.intechopen.com/journals/show/international_journal_of_interactive_multimedia

These are some of our previously published books related to Multimedia. Like our journal, all our books are free to read, share and download:

Interactive Multimedia: http://www.intechopen.com/books/interactive-multimedia

Multimedia – A Multidisciplinary Approach to Complex Issues: http://www.intechopen.com/books/multimedia-a-multidisciplinary-approach-to-complex-issues

Deadline: Sunday 8th, July, 2012

3-5 April 2011 – Vienna, Austria
http://www.evostar.org

EvoStar comprises the premier co-located conferences in the field of
Bio-Inspired Computing:
EuroGP, EvoCOP, EvoBIO, EvoMUSART and EvoApplications.

Featuring the latest in theoretical and applied research, EvoStar topics
include recent genetic programming challenges, evolutionary and other
meta-heuristic approaches for combinatorial optimization, evolutionary
algorithms, machine learning and data mining techniques in the
biosciences, in numerical optimization, in music and art domains, in
image analysis, signal processing and pattern recognition, in finance
and economics, computer games, risk management, security and defence
applications, communication networks, parallel and distributed
infrastructures, dynamic and stochastic environments and in a wide range
of applications to scientific, industrial, financial and other
real-world problems.

The proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture
Notes in Computer Science series.

EvoStar Conferences
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EuroGP
16th International Conference on Genetic Programming

EvoCOP
13th International Conference on Evolutionary Computation in
Combinatorial Optimization

EvoBIO
11th International Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Machine
Learning and Data Mining in Computational Biology

EvoMUSART
2nd International Conference on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired
Music, Sound, Art and Design

EvoApplications – International Conference on the Applications of
Evolutionary Computation
EvoCOMNET
Track on application of nature-inspired techniques for
communication networks and other parallel and distributed systems

EvoCOMPLEX
Track on evolutionary algorithms and complex systems

EvoFIN
Track on evolutionary computation in finance and economics

EvoGAMES
Track on bio-inspired algorithms in games

EvoIASP
Track on evolutionary computation in image analysis, signal
processing and pattern recognition

EvoINDUSTRY
Track on the application of Nature-Inspired Techniques in
industrial settings

EvoNUM
Track bio-inspired algorithms for continuous parameter optimisation

EvoPAR
Track on parallel architectures and distributed infrastructures

EvoRISK
Track on computational intelligence for risk management, security
and defence applications

EvoSTOC
Track on evolutionary algorithms in stochastic and dynamic
environments

Important Dates:
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Submission deadline: 1 November 2012
Notification to authors:21 December 2012
Camera-ready deadline: 15 January 2013
EvoStar event 3-5 April 2013

EvoStar Submission Instructions
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Submissions must be original and not published elsewhere. Submissions
will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the program
committee. The authors of accepted papers will have to improve their
papers on the basis of the reviewers’ comments and will be asked to send
a camera ready version of their manuscripts. At least one author of each
accepted work has to register for and attend the conference and present
the work.

The reviewing process will be double-blind. Manuscript should be
submitted in Springer LNCS format.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
EvoStar website: http://www.evostar.org

EVO* coordinator
Jennifer Willies (J.Willies at napier dot ac dot uk)
Edinburgh Napier University, UK

Local Chair
Bin Hu (hu at ads dot tuwien dot ac dot at)
Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Publicity Chairs
A. Sima Uyar (etaner at itu dot edu dot tr)
Istanbul Technical University, Turkey

Kevin Sim (K.Sim at napier dot ac dot uk)
Edinburgh Napier University, UK

Deadline: Thursday 1st, November, 2012

Eligibility: Visual Arts – Artists of all ages, nationalities and backgrounds are eligible to participate.

All artists must agree to donate their works to the museum.

Place of Event: Kumbo – Cameroon

Deadline: 30th September, 2012

Send works to:

ArtXchanges-Global 4 Mus’Art Gallery
P.O Box 21, KUMBO
North West Region,
Cameroon
Africa

Deadline: Sunday 30th, September, 2012

Throughout its history, the competition has welcomed proposals that challenge the boundary between living and non-living, between natural and synthetic, either by juxtaposing both realities or by creating overlapping spaces for reflection.

As in previous years, contestants are invited to submit proposals in one of two categories:

CATEGORY FINALISED PROJECTS: In this category, Vida 14.0 rewards artistic artificial life projects developed after the year 2010.
A total of 40.000 euros will be divided among the three winning projects chosen by the jury:
First Prize: 18.000 euros;
Second Prize: 14.000 euros;
Third Prize: 8000 euros.

Seven honorary mentions will also be awarded to projects chosen by the jury from among the finalists.

CATEGORY INCENTIVES FOR PRODUCTION: In this category, Vida 14.0 helps to finance artistic artificial life projects that have not yet been produced. It is reserved for artists who are citizens or residents of any country in Latin America, Spain or Portugal. This category is also endowed with 40.000 euros to be divided among the selected projects.

Deadline: Monday 30th, July, 2012

Piemonte Share is announcing a new edition of the Share Prize, the international competition designed to discover, promote and support art in the digital age. Open Your City is the guiding theme for the Share Festival 2012. A theme that contains three key, simple and direct words, the pillars on which this year’s festival programme will be built. ‘Open Your City’ will also provide the blueprint for this year’s Share Prize. An international jury will short-list six finalists for the prize (EUR 2,500.00), who will be invited to take part in the 8th Share Festival.

details: http://www.toshare.it
deadline: June 6 2012

Deadline: Wednesday 6th, June, 2012

DEADLINE TO APPLY: 9am on 25 June 2012.
COLLABORATION PERIOD: September 2012 – June 2013.
PAYMENT: 12,000 euros + VAT (including travel and accommodation).

Rules of the call and requested researches at http://www.conexionesimprobables.com

Deadline: Monday 25th, June, 2012

HOW TO APPLY
Please read the Rules & Guidelines below, then complete and send the submissions and equal opportunities form below
by post to
Abandon Normal Devices
70 Oxford Road
Manchester
M1 5NH, UK
or by email to hello@andfestival.org.uk with “Moving Image Submission” in the subject line
Deadline: 17:00, Wed 30 May 2012

For all inquiries please contact Afroditi Barmparousi with “Moving Image Submissions Info” in the subject line: Afroditi@andfestival.org.uk

Downloads
AND_MovingImage_Rules&Guidelines.pdf

ANDFilm_SubmissionForm.doc

ANDequal_opportunities_monitoring_form-submissions.doc

Deadline: Wednesday 30th, May, 2012