The HESTIA project team are pleased to announce a colloquium on the subject of ‘New worlds out of old texts: interrogating new techniques for the spatial analysis of ancient narratives’, which will take place at the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies in Oxford on 1-3 July 2010. [read more...]

• Explore the impact of the large scale digitisation of newspapers

• Consider the effect that this has had on research and researchers

• Question the implied changes to research methodologies [read more...]

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job title: Data Quality Assurance Assistant

Department: Web Continuity

Reports to: Government Data Manager

Salary: £20,450 + excellent benefits

Job purpose:

You will play an important role in a dynamic team supporting the government’s initiative to encourage departments to publish more of its non-personal data to facilitate the re-use of public sector information. [read more...]

Colleagues at Cardiff University are working an Ordnance Survey research project about vernacular place names in Great Britain. The research aims to collect and represent informal place names to improve information systems that are currently only based on administrative place names. [read more...]

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PERFORMANCES
DRHA 2010 Conference: Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts
Sunday 5th September - Wednesday 8th September 2010
Brunel University, West London
www.drha2010.org.uk

CONFERENCE THEME: Sensual Technologies: Collaborative Practices of Interdisciplinarity [read more...]

Recent launch of Eastern Art Online: The Yousef Jameel Centre for Islamic and Asian Art
http://jameelcentre.ashmolean.org/

This is a major online resource from the recently expanded and refurbished Ashmolean, to open up the University of Oxford's Islamic and Asian Art collections held at the Museum to a wider audience.

The site showcases collections from the Islamic Middle East, the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, China, Japan and Korea. Currently there are around 1,400 objects on the site, but this figure will be [read more...]

http://www.euromed2010.eu [read more...]

The Alpheios Project has released the first beta version of a set of free reading aids and learning tools for Classical Greek and Latin. The source code is also freely available to developers. [read more...]

Barbara Steveni conceived and co-founded the Artist Placement Group (APG), in London in 1966. Steveni’s innovative concept, based on a more holistic and intuitive view of Art than was current at the time, would take another 20 years to enter the mainstream. APG, later renamed O+I, acted as the precursor to current notions of ‘Artist in Residence’ and Public Art programmes. [read more...]

Sound and Music, Noise = Noise and Goldsmiths University present:

The Loudspeaker

Bringing together electroacoustic legend Zbigniew Karkowski, extreme computer sound and image artist ILIOS and instrumental and electronic composer Antoine Cheesex, The Loudspeaker is a trio that performs exclusively with tone generators and sub bass frequencies.

This is The Loudspeaker’s first UK performance. You should expect a visceral and powerful physical sound experience. This show is a rare treat for fans of extreme infrasonics.

www.antifrost.gr/loudspeaker.html

Support comes from: [read more...]

[TESLA@UCL] Scientist Dr. Dolores Steinman:: Investigating the body: Current Medical Visual Culture:: Tuesday, 09 March, 18:00 – 19:00
http://tesla-ucl.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, 09 March; 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...]

This conference aims to fill an existing gap and fulfill the demand for an international conference focused on the specific fields of 3D human body scanning and 3D human body measurement.
In the last two decades, 3D scanning technologies developed in other industrial sectors were successfully applied to the measurement and scanning of the human body. Methods and techniques are continuously ameliorated, more efficient and performing scanning systems are produced every year and new software tools are developed unceasingly. [read more...]

We are pleased to invite you to:

High Throughput Humanities

A satellite meeting at the European Conference on Complex Systems
Lisbon University Institute ISCTE in Lisbon, Portugal
Wednesday, September 15, 2010

http://hth.eccs2010.eu

Abstract: [read more...]

High Throughput Humanities

A satellite meeting at the European Conference on Complex Systems
Lisbon University Institute ISCTE in Lisbon, Portugal
Wednesday, September 15, 2010

http://hth.eccs2010.eu

Abstract: [read more...]

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noise=noise
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#16

alchemical noise
possession trance
DiY punk electronics

Wednesday 27th January 2010
The Grosvenor
17 Sidney Rd
Stockwell
SW9

From 7pm
until the pub closes
£5/£4 conc.

w./

EATEN BY CHILDREN & ALIASED NEURON
(super-8 films & massive mixing board free-noise with hair clippers amongst other house hold objects)
http://www.statesanctioned.com/

JOSE MACABRA
(anarcho noisetek squat punk. 1 of the guys behind Antagony, and Behind Bars, squat techno noise punk filth)
http://www.myspace.com/josemacabra

RYAN JORDAN [read more...]

We are pleased to invite you to

Arts | Humanities | Complex Networks
– a Leonardo satellite symposium at NetSci 2010

taking place at BarabásiLab – Center for Complex Network Research,
Northeastern University in Boston, MA, on Monday, May 10, 2010.

Abstract: [read more...]

We are pleased to invite you to

Arts | Humanities | Complex Networks
– a Leonardo satellite symposium at NetSci 2010

taking place at BarabásiLab – Center for Complex Network Research,
Northeastern University in Boston, MA, on Monday, May 10, 2010.

Abstract: [read more...]

The VRE Collaborative Landscape Study project is one of several studies commissioned by the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) to research on-line research collaboration in [read more...]

We have just started a new group on Arts-Humanities.net with a focus upon social approaches or 'web 2' within the Digital Humanities. [read more...]

I am posting this on behalf of David England:

Dear Colleagues, [read more...]

The aim of this group is to critically discuss and share thoughts about the use of social software applications, techniques, and principles within the Digital Humanities. [read more...]

CREATE 2009 is a 2-day conference about creating innovative interactions, whether digital consumer products, interactive services or interaction paradigms. [read more...]

What is Sculpture in the 21st Century?
The ISC's 22nd International Sculpture Conference will explore and consider the potential of sculpture in the 21st century - to provide an opportunity to both celebrate its vitality and diversity, its capacity to challenge, and to examine its current position, function and production. [read more...]

What is Sculpture in the 21st Century?
The ISC's 22nd International Sculpture Conference will explore and consider the potential of sculpture in the 21st century - to provide an opportunity to both celebrate its vitality and diversity, its capacity to challenge, and to examine its current position, function and production.

The Sonic Arts Research Center (SARC) is offering a 6 Month residency in 2009 for a visual artist working with digital technologies. [read more...]

This five-day course combines in-depth coverage of the latest version of
the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines for the encoding of [read more...]

http://www.pawfal.org/openlab/

OpenLab 5 : Cafe OTO, 25th April 2009

Openlab are providing a day of workshops & presentations about opensource software, and performances in the evening at Cafe OTO, Dalston. There is a venerable lineup of OpenLab members providing some in depth knowledge during the day and some great performances at night. The preliminary line up goes like this: [read more...]

The DRHA (Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts) conference is held annually at various academic venues throughout the UK. The conference this year aims to promote discussion around dynamic networks of knowledge and practice, new digital communities of knowledge and practice, engaging users and digitisation of cultural heritage. [read more...]

Last week I found myself once more in Paris for a meeting of the Conseil Scientifique (sounds impressive, means something like Academic Advisory Committee) of the TGE Adonis which, if you don’t know it, is the major French infrastructural agency for provision and management of digital resources in the humanities and social sciences (SHS), one of the small n [read more...]

Registration is now open for the 2008 Materialise Innovation Forum which will be held in Leuven, Belgium on September 17th and 18th for the second consecutive year. The Materialise Innovation Forum is a two day conference focusing on software solutions for RP&M and CAE professionals. [read more...]

During a workshop with Beatriz Cantinho(dance), Ricardo Jacinto(Cello) and Nuno Torres(sax), we explored the potential of a body tracking system in real time improvisation. Predefine rules for spacial and motion analysis of the performer were fed to sound manipulation modules, extending the soundscape created by the acoustic instruments. [read more...]

Creative Practice/Creative Research
Materiality/Process/Performativity

Symposium July 10-12 2008
York St John University [read more...]

Call for Papers/Participation - Paper Deadline June 15th. [read more...]

Presentation given at the Tesla Symposium 'Visions and Imagination: Advanced ICT in Art and Science', organized by Gordana Novakovic at the Department of Computer Science of UCL on 24 November 2007, and funded by AHRC Methods Network. [read more...]

Presentation given at the Tesla Symposium 'Visions and Imagination: Advanced ICT in Art and Science', organized by Gordana Novakovic at the Department of Computer Science of UCL on 24 November 2007, and funded by AHRC Methods Network. [read more...]

The third and final day of Intimacy was a symposium, with feedback from particpants and engaging discussion. A short montage of which can be found in this video.

folly - the digital arts agency and charity based in England 's NorthWest - announced the completion of the first edition of the Digital Artists' Handbook:

www.digitalartistshandbook.org

From their announcement: [read more...]

This hugely significant event will illustrate many of the aesthetic, philosophical, scientific and medical issues raised in the exhibition sk-interfaces, and will feature specialists of international renown from a wide range of fields and disciplines. [read more...]

HCI 2008 is the 22nd running of the British HCI conference; one of Europe's largest and longest running HCI conferences.
We invite full papers, workshop and tutorial proposals. Accepted papers will be archived in the ACM Digital Library and the BCS eWiCS library.

http:/www.hci2008.org
Liverpool John Moores University, 1-5th September 2008 [read more...]

Thanks for all your discussion points. I have put some of the presentations and position papers from the Workshop on the web at

http://lister.cms.livjm.ac.uk/homepage/staff/cmsdengl/AHRC/i...

Links to videos of presentation will follow later.

Dave England
d.england@ljmu.ac.uk

This is Martina who performed the one to one encounter
The Seal of Confession on Saturday at the Albany Theatre
between 4 and 7 pm.
I am wondering whether anyone who has seen the piece is interested
in giving their constructive feedback on their perception of the approach to Intimacy taken.

All the Best
Martina

www.martinavonholn.com

To complement the 'real world' workshops, seminars and performances that will make up 'Intimacy: Across Visceral and Digital Performance' a virtual 'salon' is being hosted to discuss some of the key questions raised by the events.

Over the next two weeks the Intimacy forum will be calling for contributions and responses to questions such as: [read more...]

I wonder if anyone has any thoughts on the importance of the body and body image in Second Life? I must admit I had not ventured into this area until last week - but thought I should log on and explore considering one of the seminars is going to run 'there'. [read more...]

Intimacy: Across Visceral and Digital Performance.

Discussion Forum Open!

As a precursor to the series of events that take place in December an online discussion is taking place on our Digital Arts & Humanities group. Intimacy Across Visceral and Digital Performance. Join now to contribute.
To kick things off, Intimacy organisers Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka maria x] and Rachel Zerihan have kindly agreed to appear online for an interview to discuss the event and to give their responses to the theme of ‘being intimate’ in contemporary performance. [read more...]

Intimacy: Across Visceral and Digital Performance.

Discussion Forum Open!

As a precursor to the series of events that take place in December an online discussion is taking place on our Digital Arts and Humanities
group. http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/448 Join now to contribute. To kick things off, Intimacy organisers Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka maria x] and Rachel Zerihan have kindly agreed to appear online for an interview to discuss the event and to give their responses to the theme of ‘being intimate’ in contemporary performance. [read more...]

It is true that tools and systems for interactive/responsive applications are getting more accessible to a wide range of users. From wireless sensor networks, to wifi internet cameras and the Wii phenomenon...

The "Virtual body" is being widely explored through the research in embodiment/ disembodiment and virtuallity, especially nowadays in applications as the "Second life". [read more...]

A three-day event featuring workshops, seminars, presentations, performances and a one-day symposium, organized by Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka maria x] and Rachel Zerihan. [read more...]

Workshop organized by David England, Liverpool John Moores University.

The aim of this workshop is to promote critical discussion over virtual, mixed and augmented reality and provide attendees with a critical framework for tackling issues. [read more...]