The Digital Body

This group exists to promote critical discussion over virtual, mixed and augmented reality and provide a critical framework for tackling these issues. It is based on the Methods Network workshop Whole Body Interaction: The Future of the Human Body, run by David England.

event: Two Thousand + TEN Symposium on improvisation

06/11/2010 09:30
06/11/2010 09:30

The Two Thousand + symposium (http://twothousand.wordpress.com) is an annual one day research event, which has been running alongside the Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music in Belfast since 2006. It is a day during which performance practitioners from diverse areas such as music, sonic arts, dance, theater, new media, as well as theorists come together to cover a wide variety of topics on performance informed by new technologies.

During the symposium day on the 6th of November, we will have selected papers, two keynote talks plus concerts. [read more...]

Location

Sonic Arts Research Centre
4 Cloreen Park
Belfast BT7 1NN
United Kingdom

event: TEI 2010

11/11/2010
14/11/2010

Registration for the 2010 TEI Conference, Members Meeting, and Workshops is now open at http://www.tei-shop.org/. The meeting will take place November 11-14 at the University of Zadar, Zadar Croatia. Pre-conference Workshops will be held November 8-10. See the conference website: http://ling.unizd.hr/%7Etei2010/

The theme of the conference is “TEI Applied: Digital Texts and Language Resources,” though papers and posters on other subjects are also included. [read more...]

Location

Zadar
Croatia

Motherhood, Servitude and the Delegation of Care Conference - Call for Participation

Closing Date: 
30/06/2010

MaMSIE (Mapping Maternal Subjectivities, Identities and Ethics)

Call for Participation
Motherhood, Servitude and the Delegation of Care
Conference

including the
`Maternal Subjectivities: Care and Labour`
Digital Media Competition

at Birkbeck, University of London

September 23rd and 24th 2010

Motherhood, Servitude and the Delegation of Care Conference: [read more...]

event: Motherhood, Servitude and the Delegation of Care Conference

23/06/2010 09:00
24/06/2010 18:00

MaMSIE (Mapping Maternal Subjectivities, Identities and Ethics)

Motherhood, Servitude and the Delegation of Care
Conference

including the
`Maternal Subjectivities: Care and Labour`
Digital Media Competition

at Birkbeck, University of London

September 23rd and 24th 2010

Motherhood, Servitude and the Delegation of Care Conference: [read more...]

Location

London
United Kingdom

event: Implementing Museum Records Management: Step 1 - Developing your policy

15/07/2010 09:40
15/07/2010 12:30

Implementing Museum Records Management: Step 1 - Developing your policy

Date: Thursday, 15 July 2010

Location: The Brunei Gallery, SOAS (Central London)

Time: 9.45am - 12.30pm

Cost: The training is funded by Renaissance London / MLA and is free to museum staff (paid and unpaid) working in London.

Facilitator: London Museums Hub Records Project
Refreshments will be provided. [read more...]

Location

The Brunei Gallery, SOAS
London
United Kingdom

Text Encoding Initiative Announces Discount Digitization Programme

The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) has just launched a new digitization program, AccessTEI. This program allows member institutions to outsource the transcription and basic structural encoding of source material (whether in print or manuscript, in any language, any sized job), at bulk prices with Apex Covantage, a leader in digitization outsourcing. The program features an easy-to-use web-based portal (http://accesstei.apexcovantage.com/). [read more...]

biblio: EpiDoc: Epigraphic Documents in XML for Publication and Interchange

Bodard, G., "EpiDoc: Epigraphic Documents in XML for Publication and Interchange", Latin on Stone: Epigraphic Research and Electronic Archives: Lexington Books (Rowman & Littlefield), pp. xvii + 174, 2010.

event: Towards a new edition of the scholia of Euripides

28/05/2010 14:10

Professor Donald Mastronarde, Berkeley Classics/GreekKeys, will give a talk at 2.15 pm on Friday 28 May in the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies 66 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3LU. His topic is:

"Towards a new edition of the scholia of Euripides"

in which he will lay out some of the problems and some preliminary results for scholia on Orestes 1-500.

All are welcome. The new edition is a born-digital edition. A beta version of the online open-access digital edition of the scholia of Euripides is available at: http://EuripidesScholia.org [read more...]

Location

66 St Giles' Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies
Oxford OX1 3LU
United Kingdom

job: Summer internship at the British Library

Application Deadline: 
26/05/2010

British Library summer internship 2010 (two months)

The British Library has started digitising its medieval and earlier manuscript collections as part of its plans to make them all available to everyone online. The first volumes to be digitised are drawn from the Greek manuscript collections. [read more...]

event: ESU "Culture & Technology"

26/07/2010 08:00
30/07/2010 19:30

ESU "Culture & Technology", 26 - 30 July 2010
University of Leipzig - http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/

Registration for the European Summer School, Culture & Technology, is now open. Supported by the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing the Summer School will take place at Leipzig University, Germany, from the 26th to the 30th of July. [read more...]

Location

Leipzig University
Leipzig
Germany

Win £150 `Maternal Subjectivities: Care and Labour` Digital Media Competition

MaMSIE (Mapping Maternal Subjectivities, Identities and Ethics)
`Maternal Subjectivities: Care and Labour` Digital Media Competition

As part of the Motherhood, Servitude and the Delegation of Care Conference, MaMSIE (http://mamsie.wikispaces.com/ ) are delighted to launch a Digital Media Competition. [read more...]

event: Artist Michaela Nettell, scientist Dr Hugo Spiers and sound designer Tom Simmons: Pattern Completion

17/05/2010 18:00

[TESLA@UCL] Artist Michaela Nettell, scientist Dr Hugo Spiers and sound designer Tom Simmons: Pattern Completion: :: Monday, 17 May, 18:00 – 19:00

Monday, 17 May, 18:00 – 19:00
University College London
Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT
Garwood Lecture Theatre, South Wing
(Details how to get there at the bottom of the page)

Pattern Completion

Pattern Completion is an installation created by an artist, a sound designer and a neuroscientist exploring ways in which networks of brain cells recall memories. [read more...]

Location

Gower Street University College London (UCL), Garwood Lecture Theatre, South
London WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom

event: EpiDoc training workshop

28/06/2010
01/07/2010

The Summer 2010 EpiDoc training workshop will now take place in London, at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College London, from June 28 – July 1. Thanks to the generosity of the Association Internationale d’Épigraphie Grecque et Latine (AIEGL) there €500 available for bursaries to help students attend this event. The workshop will be taught by Gabriel Bodard (KCL) and James Cowey (Heidelberg). There will be no charge to attend this workshop.

From the workshop description: [read more...]

Location

26-29 Drury Lane Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College London
London WC2B 5RL
United Kingdom

event: ISMAR 2010 INTERNATION SYMPOSIUM ON MIXED AND AUGMENTED REALITY

13/10/2010 08:00

http://www.ismar10.org/index.php/AMH_CFP

Call for Participation

The 2010 ISMAR Arts, Media and Humanities chairs invite artists, scholars, media practitioners, who can shed new light on emerging new relations within the future of Mixed and Augmented Reality. We would welcome musings, probings, discourses, insights, and imaginations to be presented in Seoul Korea October 13-16, 2010 in the form of long and short papers, art installations, panels, workshops or tutorials. [read more...]

Location

South Korea

event: [TESLA@UCL] Dr Brigitta Zics: How to think about Art and Design in the Age of Consciousness

29/04/2010 18:00

[TESLA@UCL]
Dr Brigitta Zics, artist, media philosopher and interaction designer:: How to think about Art and Design in the Age of Consciousness

Thursday, 29 April, 18:00 – 19:00
University College London
Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT
Garwood Lecture Theatre, South Wing
(Details how to get there at the bottom of the page)

Abstract [read more...]

Location

Gower Street University College London (UCL), Garwood Lecture Theatre, South
London WC1E 6B
United Kingdom

event: Blue Ribbon Task Force UK Symposium

06/05/2010

JISC and The Blue Ribbon Task Force on sustainable digital preservation and access would like to invite you to a one day free symposium on Thursday 6th May 2010 at the Wellcome Trust Conference Centre in London.

The UK Symposium will be highlighting the final report by the Blue Ribbon Task Force “Sustainable Economics for a Digital Planet: Ensuring Long-term Access to Digital Information”
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/reports/2010/blueribbonta... [read more...]

Location

Wellcome Trust Conference Centre
London
United Kingdom

event: Digital Preservation Management: Short-Term Solutions for Long-Term Problems

13/06/2010 18:00
18/06/2010 12:00

Who Should Attend?

The intended audience for the workshop series is managers at organizations of all kinds who are or will be responsible for managing digital content over time. The workshop begins on Sunday evening with an opening session, continues Monday -Thursday 9am - 5pm, and concludes on Friday at noon. Additional information about the workshop content and logistics is available at: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/dpm/workshops/fiveday.html

Instructors and Keynote Speaker [read more...]

Location

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts
United States

event: Networked Humanities: Art History in the Web

09/10/2010
14/10/2010

Since the earliest times, new technologies have contributed to profound scientific advances and have transformed the ways we can do research. It is claimed today that the World Wide Web offers revolutionary models of scientific cooperation, which promise to instantiate a utopian democracy of knowledge. This claim has repeatedly been associated with the development and introduction of a collaborative Web, commonly referred to as 'Web 2.0' as well as its offspring, a semantically enriched Web 3.0 still in the making. [read more...]

Location

Hotel Villa del Mare
Acquafredda di Maratea
Italy
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