notes at the European Science Foundation/COST Networked Humanities Conference, Art History In The Web

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I am at the above conference in Acquafredda, Italy. Acquafredda lies roughly 200 km south of Naples, most here are Art Historians or Data Mining-IT specialists so it is a relatively unusual gathering. Many are German but there are also Slovak, Ukrainian, Luxemborgian, Dutch, Spanish, British, Canadian/Estonian, Brazilian/NZ and four Americans. It is the last day, Day 4. Some of the issues that have not been resolved include:

  • the future of museums and how to use/fight the Internet, and use/avoid social media such as Facebook (“the third biggest country”)
  • how to include text with 3D reconstructions
  • what is the scope  extent of art history?
  • why do people confuse network with Internet and Internet with World Wide Web?
  • and, in my case, avoiding violence in games.

I was asked many years ago how to teach students non-violent but engaging game design and it is something I will have to return to, and also to the philosophical notions of exactly what is violence. To suggest that heritage is a violent controlling process is one thing, and debatable, but that does not excuse the creation and promotion of violence, especially if it is unnecessary. On the other hand much of many past cultures does involve violence. Should we avoid or ignore the bloody past? Something to muse on.

cfp: 2nd Island Dynamics Conference – An International Island Studies Conference

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http://www.islanddynamics.org/conference.html

2nd Island Dynamics Conference

Taking Malta out of the Box

11—15 May 2011, Valletta, Malta

Malta may be small, but with a history featuring the Greeks, Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Normans, Knights of St John, and British, its heritage is monumental. Located at the heart of the Mediterranean, the Maltese archipelago is a bustling microstate. Its tourism industry thrives on the islands’ beautiful scenery, which forms the backdrop to countless heritage attractions, including three UNESCO World Heritage Sites. From megalithic temples to Baroque bastions, paleochristian catacombs to Medieval cityscapes, Malta is a culture lover’s paradise.
At the 2nd Island Dynamics Conference, representatives from academia, government, and business will explore islands, past and present, worldwide. The conference theme addresses how island identities develop alongside their cultures and economies. Henry Glassie, Godfrey Baldacchino, and David Lowenthal are keynote speakers.
Attendance to this island studies conference is open to everyone. Reduced registration rates of £60 (standard) and £36 (students and Malta residents) are available until 31 December, after which prices may rise.

cfp: VAST 2011 in Alexandria -no-Prato

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Ok it has been moved to Prato Florence Italy. Abstracts due 29 May 2011.  New website as well at http://www.vast-conference.eu/2011/call_for_papers

Camus grew up here, birthplace to wonders of the world, as a student I designed a library for here (never commissioned though), this is the VAST conference, and Egypt is Egypt.That is an awful lot of reasons to visit. Hmm, and has VAST combined with Virtual Systems and Multimedia?
http://www.vsmm-vast.org/
The 12th VAST International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, promoted by the EUROGRAPHICS Association, will
take place at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt on the 16-19 October 2011.

cfp: The First Joint 3DIM/3DPVT Conference 2011

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The First Joint 3DIM/3DPVT Conference 2011

3D Imaging • Modeling • Processing • Visualization • Transmission
Hangzhou, China, May 16-20, 2011

http://www.3dimpvt.org/

Printable PDF of CfP

Given the rapid growth of 3D research over the last decade and the recent surge of wide-ranging interest in 3D contents and techniques, the two premier conferences for research in 3D imaging, modeling and processing — 3DIM and 3DPVT — are joining forces for 2011. The event will provide a unique forum for disseminating ideas and results that cover a broad scope of topics related to 3D research in computer vision and graphics, from novel optical sensors, signal processing, geometric modeling, representation and transmission, to visualization and applications. The organizers invite you to submit high quality, original full research papers by December 15, 2010.

cfp: ACHI 2011 Advances in Computer-Human Interactions

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ACHI 2011 The Fourth International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions

URL:http://www.iaria.org/conferences2011/ACHI11.html

February 23-28, 2011 – Gosier, Guadeloupe, France

Technical Co-Sponsors and Logistics Supporters

Details:

• Colocated with other events part of DigitalWorld 2011
• A Poster Forum will be organized during the conference
• A Work in Progress track is available for preliminary work

Submission (full paper) October 15, 2010
Notification November 20, 2010
Registration December 5, 2010
Camera ready December 7, 2010

cfps for September-rest of year

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DEADLINECONFERENCETHEMELOCATIONSTART
30-Sep-10mw2011Museums and the WebPhiladelphia USA6-Apr-11
30-Sep-10EKSIG2011Experiential knowledgeFarnham UK23-Sep-10
1-Oct-10createworld 2010Working on the EdgeBrisbane Australia29-Nov-10
1-Oct-10nodemfrom place to presenceCopenhagen DK24-Nov-10
15-Oct-10vs-gamesGames and Virtual Worlds for Serious ApplicationsAthens Greece4-May-11
29-Oct-10SIMTECT2011Learning and SimulationMelbourne Australia30-May-11
1-Nov-10caadfutures 2011Designing togetherLiege Belgium6-Jul-11
5-Nov-10SimAUDSimulation for Architecture and DesignBoston MA4-Apr-11
15-Nov-10CAA2011Revive the PastBeijing China12-Apr-11
1-Dec-10High rise shuffleModern Architecture-aalto AcademyJyväskylä, Finland27-Aug-11
10-Dec-10C&T2011Communities and TechnologiesBrisbane Australia29-Jun-11
13-Dec-10icc2011Computational CreativityMexico27-Apr-11
10-Jan-11interact 2011Building BridgesLisbon Portugal5-Sep-11

Postdoc / Visiting Fellow opportunities

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I am not sure this is news for this site, but I have been lucky enough to be awarded a Massey University Research Fellowship (URF) which will pay for teaching relief for a semester in 2011. My university in its wisdom only supplements sabbatical or study leave research overseas, so I intend to look for an appropriate visiting fellow/scholar/professor roles in other countries next year. That may mean in 2011 this blog will hibernate a tad. Anyway, I’d appreciate knowing of opportunities in cultural heritage and new media, virtual heritage, digital architecture and design, interaction design or game design. I am also more and more interested in collaborative design and learning, not just because I am speaking on the topic in a few weeks here and next month in Italy, but it truly is fascinating (edusim, wave in a box, multi-touch, group biofeedback and camera tracking etc)! Ok, back on topic, under this post I will accumulate links to related visiting fellow and postdoc opportunities-I have trouble finding appropriate ones so I am assuming I am not alone.

cff: European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship Programme

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http://www.eurias-fp.eu/
The European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship Programme is an international researcher mobility programme offering 33 fellowships for the 2011/2012 academic year. It proposes 10-month residencies in one of the 14 participating Institutes: Berlin, Bologna, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Cambridge, Helsinki, Jerusalem, Lyons, Nantes, Paris, Uppsala, Vienna, Wassenaar. The Programme builds on the strong reputation of the Institutes for Advanced Study for promoting the concentrated, self-directed work of excellent researchers within the stimulating environment of a multidisciplinary and international group of fellows.

Europa Nostra heritage awards and prizes -1 October 2010

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http://www.europanostra.org/apply-for-an-award-2011/
Each year, Europa Nostra and the European Union reward the best of cultural heritage achievements. Through our European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards, we celebrate excellence and dedication by architects, craftsmen, volunteers, schools, local communities, heritage owners and media. Through the power of their example we stimulate creativity and innovation.

The awards celebrate exemplary restorations and initiatives of the many facets of Europe’s cultural heritage in 4 categories, described below. Every year, up to six monetary awards of €10.000 each are awarded to the top laureates in the various categories.

Criteria for the assessment of entries include excellence in the work executed and preliminary research conducted, as well as respect for artistic, cultural and social value, setting, authenticity and integrity. Special attention will also be paid to sustainability, interpretation and presentation, educational work, funding and management, and social responsibility. Entries can be on a scale ranging from small to large, local to international, and should display a standard of work considered outstanding in a European context.

Will Adobe Flash 11 feature a proper 3D rendering engine and API

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I spoke to an Adobe sales guy last week who knew nothing of this.

Is it premature to think Flash 11 will feature 3D?

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/07/09/adobe-flash-11-will-feature-a-proper-3d-rendering-engine-and-api/

The next version of Flash, amidst growing competition from emerging 3D-in-the-browser technologies WebGL and O3D, will feature support for 3D graphics.

But don’t get too excited just yet — we’ll probably have to wait until October and the Adobe MAX 2010 conference before we find out more. There, on October 27th, a Flash player engineer will give a talk about “the next-generation 3D API coming in a future version of Flash Player.” How exciting is that?!

NB see also http://www.tcmagazine.com/tcm/news/software/29151/flash-player-plans-embrace-3d-more-info-coming-october

Please Biofeed the Zombies demo video up on Youtube

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Our paper on biofeedback used for a half-life 2 zombie game was shown at DiGRA 2007 (Toyko). We presented a new demo movie last week at UX Australia 2010 in Melbourne during our talk for Blood Sweat and Fears which is now up on youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-MinR-17CA. Thanks to Andrew Dekker!

PS I love the idea to sketchnote conference talks.

real presence is shouting over others

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http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/hp-dreamworks-promote-virtual-meetings-halo-686 The Halo Collaboration Studio, unveiled Monday, is a system of carefully placed plasma televisions, cameras, and microphones that allows two groups of up to six people to hold a live meeting in two separate locations. Conceived by Dreamworks as a response to travel concerns after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Halo allows meeting participants to make eye contact, share files and documents, and shout over each other in an attempt to be heard, just like a real meeting.

Report on UX Australia 2010 Conference

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Penny Hagen and Vicky Teinaki via Johnny Holland magazine gave a great sum up of a very very well run conference (uxaustralia 2010) where I just presented at in Melbourne with Andrew Dekker on his/our biofeedback project using half-life 2.
Mr Holland also mentions our piece briefly and very succinctly.
» UX Australia ‘10 Report: Day One Johnny Holland – It’s all about interaction » Blog Archive
I think there are or will be podcasts of the conference talks, will post the link when I find it.

anthologize turns wordpress blogposts into electronic texts

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http://anthologize.org/download-plugin/but of course you have to webhost the wordpress blog. apart from that it sounds great.

Latest Release: Anthologize 0.4-alpha

WordPress 3.0 and PHP 5 required for installation. Please note that at this time Anthologize cannot be installed on blogs hosted at WordPress.com.

Please remember that this is an alpha release of a prototype and would be best installed in a test environment rather than a production environment the first time around. Please feel free to ask questions in the anthologize-users group.

Anthologize 0.4-alpha includes the following core features:

  • Use your existing WordPress blog content as the basis for your project;
  • Import content feeds from non-WordPress blogs and other publishing platforms;
  • Create a project containing one or more parts (chapters, acts, etc);
  • Add, update, remove, and reorder parts;
  • Add, update, remove, reorder, and merge individual items in parts;
  • Edit project items through standard WordPress editing interface;
  • Export your projects to: TEI, PDF, and ePUB (as well as rudimentary RTF).

CFP: Making Design and Analyzing Interaction

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CfP for intent to contribute to the track “Making Design and Analyzing Interaction” organized by Jared Donovan and Trine Heinemann at the Participatory Innovation Research Conference, January 14-16, 2011, Sønderborg, Denmark.
PINC 2011 is a forum where participants from different disciplines and organisations can meet and challenge each other to develop the field of participatory innovation. Of special interest to Design Research scholars should be the track “Making Design and Analyzing Interaction” (Chairs: Jared Donovan and Trine Heinemann), as described below:
Participatory Innovation brings a wide range of stakeholders together in generative spaces where different perspectives can be challenged in constructive ways. An important research aim is to understand how this meeting of perspectives can be supported by tangible activities of “making”, such as for instance, prototyping, provotyping, tinkering, generative toolkits and forum theatre. “Making” should be understood not only as giving form to pre-established ideas, but also as a process through which innovation emerges out of the messy collision of people and stuff.
The aim of this track is to gather together examples from participatory innovation practices that involve “making”, so that track participants can build an understanding across the diverse range of tangible activities and open these up for (comparative) analysis. This track brings together ‘makers’ (interaction designers, process facilitators), who are willing to share video clips of their engaging participatory activities, with ‘analysts’ (conversation analysts etc.), who are able to investigate whether some of these activities serve particularly well in certain contexts or at certain stages of the process.
Researchers from Design Research and other related fields who are interested in contributing to this track should note that the ‘intention to contribute’ deadline is very soon – the 27th August 2010.
For this, we ask potential contributors to submit either:
– a video example of a participatory ‘making’ activity in the form of an unedited video-recording of 5-20 minutes, showing the activity as it has been employed in one or more contexts.
– an intent to analyse, including a brief description of method experience and a possible line of analysis. Analyses from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and from both micro- and macro-levels are encouraged.
For further information contact Jared Donovan at jared<mailto:jared> or check our (as yet) static conference site:http://www.pinc.sdu.dk/index.html
Keynote speaker for this track will be Lorenza Mondada.

Virtual Impressions: A Second Life gallery experience In partnership with Darwin Festival

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Virtual Impressions: A Second Life gallery experience In partnership with Darwin Festival

Showing: Monday 16 August, 5-8pm and Tuesday 17 August, 10-7pm (all times Australian Central Standard Times)
Opening event: 5pm Monday 16 August
Curator’s Second Life gallery tour: 5.30pm Tuesday 17 August

The opening event on Monday will include a welcome address by the head of the School of Creative Arts and Humanities Bill Wade and the curator of Northern Editions Emma Fowler-Thomason.

Venue: http://slurl.com/secondlife/jokaydia%20Waters/65/171/22 in Second Life and at Brown’s Mart Theatre, Darwin CBD
Become your own Avatar and navigate through the fascinating virtual gallery Virtual Impressions in Second Life.
Created in partnership with Charles Darwin University’s Northern Editions and the School of Creative Arts and Humanities for the Darwin Festival, this unique on-line platform enables visitors to view the centuries-old art form of printmaking with the new virtual environment.
This interactive gallery experience is linked to a CDU research project in new media technologies, ‘Virtual Galleries’, and provides alternative ways to view, consider and discuss fine art.
It showcases the best of the freshly released limited edition prints that have been produced at Northern Editions and replicates on-line the two physical exhibitions at Charles Darwin University’s Casuarina Campus, Tiwi Shima and Nexus.
Darwin Festival goers and arts lovers from around the globe are invited to explore all three Northern Editions’ exhibitions, both physically and virtually, interact on-line with the curator and chat with other virtual visitors.
The opening event will also include a ‘live stream’ of our physical art gallery with a user-controlled Internet camera so that the users can take control of the camera and pan, tilt and zoom to the artworks that they are interested in. Compare the physical artwork with the virtual experience and let us know your “Impressions”.