This looks amazing! Please give more notice next time so we (who are not in the area) have a chance to make it!
All the best, Gretta Sent from my iPhone > On 28 Sep 2016, at 14:53, thor <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear all, > > Apologies for x-posting. > > The AlgoMech Arts Research Symposium takes place within the Festival of > Algorithmic and Mechanical Movement (www.algomech.com), on the 13th November > 2016 at the Sheffield Hallam University in Sheffield, UK. AlgoMech will > celebrate a resurgence of making in performance, where creative processes are > made visible during a live event. Rather than presenting technology as > seamless, we pick at the seams, exposing its innards as human-made and > reconfigurable. We will also go beyond fashionable notions of technology to > take the long view; bringing together mechanical, kinetic, electronic, and > software arts, from periods spanning the stone age to present day, building a > picture of the human maker as both digital and analogue, thinking and > feeling, embodied yet reaching beyond what is bodily possible. The festival > will take place across Sheffield, and will include concerts, talks, hands-on > workshops, and a club night. > > The arts research symposium will focus on the latest developments in this > field, drawing on both academic and artistic perspectives. We invite > proposals for artist talks and academic papers in the form of short > abstracts, describing the theme and structure of your research presentation > or artist talk in approximately one page of text. As an inclusive, > cross-disciplinary symposium, we are open-minded about the form of your talk > and proposal, but please do not hesitate to get in contact if you have > questions. > > As well as talks accepted from this call, the day will include talks from > artists contributing work at the festival, and panel sessions on fictive > materials and maker culture. > > We welcome submissions from areas that intersect with the following themes: > > • Human and mechanical motion > • Human-machine interaction and embodiment > • Creative computing and (live) coding > • Robotics in the arts > • Design and physical computing > • Machine creativity > • Algorithm aesthetics > • Mechanical automata in history > • Kinesthesis and art > • Machine choreography > • Maker culture > • Materialities for motion > • Generative design and architecture > • Alternative histories of algorithms and mechanisms > > Programme > > 9:30 – Coffee + live coding performance > 10:00 – Paper session (8 papers – we will issue a call for papers soon) > 12:00 – Lunch > 13:00 – Panel 1 (on speculative hardware and fictive materialities - chair: > Derek Hales) > 14:00 – Keynote talk with Godfried-Willem Raes > 15:00 – Coffee with a performance > 16:00 – Panel 2 (on maker culture – chair: Amy Twigger Holroyd) > 17:00 – Performances at the Millennium Gallery > > Keynote speaker > > We will have a keynote by Godfried-Willem Raes, of the Logos foundation > (http://logosfoundation.org). Godfried is a composer and instrument maker, > who taught at Ghent Royal Conservatory and the Orpheus Higher Institution for > Music. In addition to his reputation as a composer, he is also an expert in > computer technology, robotics and interactive electronic art. As an example, > he is well known in this country for his work on musical robotics with Aphex > Twin. > > Submissions > > We invite proposals for 15 minute research presentations or artist talks (10 > minutes talk + 5 minutes questions). Proposals should be a one page abstract > describing the presentation. Please also submit a short (200-300 word) > biography for each author and an image describing your project. Submissions > should be made in PDF or Word format. > > If you are interested in participating in either of the panels on speculative > hardware and fictive materialities or maker culture, please send a note to > [email protected] and describe in a sentence or two why you would like > to join the panel. > > Submission Process > > Submissions will be selected by a panel chaired by members of the > Experimental Music Technologies (EMuTe) Lab at University of Sussex. Please > email your submission in PDF format to [email protected] > > Important Dates > > 10th October: Submission Deadline > 17th October: Notifications > 12th-20th November: AlgoMech Festival > 13th November: Arts Research Symposium > > Venue > > Sheffield Institute of Arts, Fitzalan Square, Sheffield S1 2AY, United Kingdom > > Contact > > Symposium chairs: > Thor Magnusson (university profile with email addresse: > http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/164902) > Chris Kiefer (university profile with email addresse: > http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/208667) > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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