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
Submitted by franziska on Fri, 13/08/2010 - 10:45The 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...]
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event: TEI 2010
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Thu, 22/07/2010 - 16:20Registration 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...]
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Motherhood, Servitude and the Delegation of Care Conference - Call for Participation
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
Submitted by cjguest on Sun, 27/06/2010 - 17:17MaMSIE (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...]
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event: Implementing Museum Records Management: Step 1 - Developing your policy
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Mon, 21/06/2010 - 16:23Implementing 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...]
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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: Digital Research in the Study of Classical Antiquity
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Wed, 16/06/2010 - 17:06biblio: EpiDoc: Epigraphic Documents in XML for Publication and Interchange
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Fri, 04/06/2010 - 15:32event: Towards a new edition of the scholia of Euripides
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Wed, 19/05/2010 - 12:14Professor 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...]
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job: Summer internship at the British Library
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Tue, 18/05/2010 - 16:15British 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"
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Tue, 18/05/2010 - 10:28ESU "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...]
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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
Submitted by Gordana on Mon, 10/05/2010 - 17:59[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...]
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event: EpiDoc training workshop
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Thu, 06/05/2010 - 14:16The 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...]
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event: ISMAR 2010 INTERNATION SYMPOSIUM ON MIXED AND AUGMENTED REALITY
Submitted by Julian Stadon on Mon, 19/04/2010 - 12:01http://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...]
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event: [TESLA@UCL] Dr Brigitta Zics: How to think about Art and Design in the Age of Consciousness
Submitted by Gordana on Sun, 11/04/2010 - 20:57[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...]
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event: Blue Ribbon Task Force UK Symposium
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Fri, 26/03/2010 - 17:09JISC 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...]
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event: Digital Preservation Management: Short-Term Solutions for Long-Term Problems
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Fri, 26/03/2010 - 16:55Who 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...]
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event: Networked Humanities: Art History in the Web
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Wed, 24/03/2010 - 12:56Since 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...]
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UNDERSTANDING MACHINIMA: essays on filmmaking in virtual worlds
UNDERSTANDING MACHINIMA:
essays on filmmaking in virtual worlds
Call for Papers [read more...]