January 23, 2006
DIGITAL ART WEEKS 2006 ETH Zurich
[Kon.[Text]] Symposium
CALL FOR PAPERS, PANELS, DEMONSTRATIONS & PERFORMANCES--Zurich, Switzerland, Thursday July 13th to Sunday July 16th, 2006
The Digital Art Weeks PROGRAM (DAW06) is concerned with the application of digital technology in the arts. Consisting of symposium, workshops and performances, the program offers insight into current research and innovations in art and technology as well as illustrating resulting synergies in a series of performances during the Digital Art Weeks Festival each year, making artists aware of impulses in technology and scientists aware of the possibilities of the application of technology in the arts.
[Kon.[Text]], this year?s Digital Art Weeks SYMPOSIUM concerns the use of the Performative Surround in the arts and the technology that drives it. The Performative Surround pertains to the immersive quality and quantity of the setting of a performative artwork that uses electronic media enhancement. Enhanced media art is any artwork that uses electronic media to communicate in part or in whole its message to the viewer. The viewer may be there with integrated into the performative arena through the use of the communicative powers of the applied media.
In a series of lectures, demonstrations, panels and performances, artists and researcher will examine the use of electronic media in articulating the performer?s presence through the possibilities of the multi-sensuality of electronic media. The possibilities of blurring the divide between public and performer to bond them through the powers of dissemination and inclusion inherent within the technology behind the performative surround will also be considered as well as how communication between both performer and public can be interactively networked in real time through various forms of computer enhanced dialoging.
To draw a parallel between the symposium?s title [Kon.[Text]] and the phrase in the body of the text? in terms how both performer and public are virtually networked by the expansion of the real into virtual, issues in media enhanced performance and its re-embodiment into the domains of hyper-reality will be tangibly demonstrated in a series of evening performances.
The organizers of the Digital Art Weeks ETH Zurich are seeking presentations, demonstrations and performances on all themes specific to performance using electronic media that explore a concept of the Performative Surround in terms of how computer-mediated communication and dialog takes place between performers and viewers and how it tends to aid in dissolving the divide between performer and viewer. Submissions of both theoretical and empirical studies are invited from the perspectives of the performing arts and computer science and as well as other topics relevant to the Performative Surround and it technology basis. Suggested submission topics for papers, demonstrations and performance include, but are not limited to the following themes:
1. Media Enhanced Artwork in the areas of Performance, Dance and Sound-Art
2. Laptop Music (including Live-Coding!) & Film Accompaniment (Live-Cinema, & Re-Scoring)
3. Mobile Art & Music Works that explore Performer Networking and Audience Participation
4. Net-poetry and literature & computer mediated communication (i.e. Hyper-Media Embedding)
5. Grammar- or Syntactically based Software Systems for Multimedia Systems
The organizers of the Digital Art Weeks ETH Zurich are seeking participants for a series of PANELS concerning the following themes in relationship to the Performative Surround:
1. Software Innovations relevant to all aspects of Computer Mediated Communication and its application in the performing arts.
2. Live Cinema, Expanded Video, Film Rescoring & Immersive Audio Space & Video Space
3. Media Enhanced Performance
4 Projects concerning the dissolve of the Performer-Audience & Private Space-Pubic Space Divide
DEADLINE FOR ALL PROPOSALS: Friday, March 17, 2006.
Notification of acceptance of proposals will be sent out on or before Friday, April 7, 2006.
SPEAKERS / ARTISTS (CONFIRMED)
For an up-to-date list of this years participating speakers and artists please see: http://www.jg.inf.ethz.ch/wiki/DAW/Symposium2006
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
DIGITAL ART WEEKS 2006 (DAW06) is interested in artistic and theoretical work in the form of Papers, Panels and Presentations can include DVDs, audio CDs, videotapes, web-sites, etc. Papers and Presentations can be 25 or 45 minutes in length. DAW06 organizers will build panels based on reviews of materials submitted.
Proposed artwork to be included in the DAW06 Festival may take the form of performances with or without media enhancement or be in the form screenings live or fixed material.
Applications should not exceed 500 words. Applicants should indicate one of the festival categories in the subject of the message. Please include a 200 word max bio.
All proposals must be submitted in plaintext only format either as an attachment and/or within the body of the email message. In case of Audio and/or Video examples, please provide a valid URL to a web site containing them. If your presentation requires specific technologies, please describe your needs in detail.
All proposals should be submitted electronically to: Art Clay: arthur.clay[at]inf.ethz.ch
or should be sent per mail to:
Art Clay
Computer Systems Institute
ETH Zentrum, RZ H 18
Clausiusstrasse 59
CH-8092 Z=FCrich
Switzerland
Digital Art Weeks 2006 ETH Zurich
Parallel Event - Interactive Futures, 2006
Co-sponsor - Computer Systems Institute ETH Zurich:
Co-sponsor- sitemapping.ch, Swiss Federal Office of Culture
Research Partner: The Situated Body
FUNDING
THE DIGITAL ART WEEKS does not have funding for travel or accommodation. Presenters and artists are expected to apply for travel funding from their home institutions and/or granting bodies. All presenters and artists will be given a pass to all DIGITAL ART WEEKS events and will have access to food and drinks at the Conference Center. All presenters and artists will be eligible for reduced rates at participating hotels.
CONTACTS
DIGITAL ART WEEKS Curators:
General Requests daw-info[at]inf.ethz.ch
DIGITAL ART WEEKS Chairs:
Art Clay http://www.jg.inf.ethz.ch/wiki/DAW/Chairs
Stefan M=FCller Arisona http://www.jg.inf.ethz.ch/wiki/DAW/Chairs
INTERACTIVE FUTURES Curators: Steve Gibson sgibson[at]finearts.uvic.ca
DAW Workshops for 2006: http://www.jg.inf.ethz.ch/wiki/DAW/Workshops2006
DAW Mailing List: https://lists.inf.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/daw-list
Mailing Address:
Digital Art Weeks
Computer Systems Institute
ETH Zentrum, RZ H 18
Clausiusstrasse 59
CH-8092 Z=FCrich
Switzerland
Voice +41 44 632 7233
Fax +41 44 632 1307
Posted by jo at January 23, 2006 12:45 PM
