http://dh2013.unl.edu/call-for-proposals/
Digital Humanities 2013 (“Freedom to Explore”) – Call for Papers
Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations
Hosted by the University of Nebraska
16-19 July 2013
http://dh2013.unl.edu/
Paper/Poster/Panel deadline: 1 November 2012
Workshop proposal deadline: 15 February 2013
My presentation Monday 3 September featured these slides:VSMM TaoismDIGHUMLAB
CAADRIA 2013 Open Systems – Final Call for Papers
Abstract due September 9, 2012
Open Systems
The 18th International Conference of the Association of Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA)
May 15-18, 2013
National University of Singapore
Contemporary challenges require inclusively integrated approaches to designing. Constrained by established modes of practice, such integration is impossible without a radical commitment to openness. In response to this need, CAADRIA 2013 invites contributions that engage with open systems in all aspects of architectural and urban design: open with respect to the scale of the design objectives and the context, from a building component within a building system to a neighbourhood or city within its urban and rural context; open with respect to the domains being considered, from planning to sustainable performance of a building or city; open with respect to the collaboration of disciplines and participants, from ad-hoc brainstorming to a rigorous process of consultation and feedback; open with respect to design methods and techniques, from physical modelling to digital prototyping; open with respect to design models and representations being adopted, from a parametric exploration to an ontological delineation considering Building Information Modelling, Built Environment Modelling or City Information Modelling; open with respect to the tools and applications being adopted, despite interoperability issues, from modelling to simulation and assessment; open with respect to the learning approach being adopted, from informal interaction and sharing to formal design education; open with respect to the open source approach being adopted in research and development, in order to gather community involvement and use.
By focusing on the theme of Open Systems, CAADRIA 2013 aims to explore all these aspects and more, and raise awareness to the need of overstepping disciplinary boundaries and reaching creative communities at all levels of expertise, by pooling resources, knowledge and practices, and integrating them through the adoption of open systems.
CAADRIA 2013 invites submissions of original research papers on topics in computational architectural design research, including but not limited to the following subjects:
· Computational design research and education
· Modes of production
· Digital fabrication and construction
· New design concepts and strategies
· Mass customization
· Collaborative design
· Digital aids to design creativity
· User participation in design
· Generative, parametric and evolutionary design
· Virtual architecture
· Shape studies
· Virtual reality and interactive environments
· Precedence and prototypes
· Ubiquitous and mobile design computing
· Design tool development
· Human-Computer Interaction
· Simulation, prediction, and evaluation
· City modelling
· Practice-based and interdisciplinary computational design research
· Theory, philosophy and methodology of computational design research
CAADRIA 2013 also invites submissions of practice work in the form of a poster + abstract (deadline: December 1, 2012). A special conference session on Open Systems in Practice will be dedicated to these presentations. Accepted submissions will also be included in the conference proceedings.
Young researchers currently involved in postgraduate studies are invited to apply for the Young CAADRIA Award and to submit their research-in-progress to the CAADRIA 2013 Postgraduate Student Consortium.
Important Dates
· Abstract submission deadline: September 9, 2012
· Notification of abstract acceptance: October 1, 2012
· Full paper submission deadline: December 1, 2012
· Presentation submission deadline: December 1, 2012
· Postgraduate Student Consortium submission: December 1, 2012
· Young CAADRIA Award submission: December 1, 2012
· Notification of paper acceptance: January 15, 2013
· Notification of presentations acceptance: January 15, 2013
· Registration deadline: February 1, 2013
· Camera ready paper submission: February 15, 2013
· Camera ready presentation submission: February 15, 2013
CAADRIA 2013 Organising Committee-National University of Singapore
Conference Chair: Tan Beng Kiang
Vice Chair: Patrick Janssen
Rudi Stouffs
Shinya Okuda
Huang Yi Chun
Dorothy Man Mai Ling
Contact: caadria2013
The 8th issue of V!RUS journal proposes a reflection on Represent. The word comes from the Latin repraesentare and contains two prefixes. The first is re-, which means ‘backwards’, suggesting a reiteration of something, and the second is prae-, which means ‘ahead’, ‘before then’, and refers to something that would still be to come. The two prefixes are linked to the verb sedere, meaning ‘to seat’, ‘to sit’, designating what is established, defined. From this standpoint, RE:PRE:SENT involves at the same time a gesture related to a pre-existence, to what had or to what has already been (re-), associates it with a look at what is not yet, to what might be (pre-), and transforms the act of definition, of settlement, of permanence (sedere).
The three basic meanings that William of Ockham assigns to represent also help us to anticipate possible approaches to this theme: 1. the mediation itself, as “that through which something is known”; 2. the processes of representing as a possibility to “know something, after whose knowledge another thing is known”; and 3. the status of object that the representation may assume related to the represented object, able to “cause knowledge in the same way as the object causes knowledge”.
We therefore propose that the subject RE:PRE:SENT encompasses diverse temporalities and meanings, fostering transdisciplinary thinking coming from many knowledge areas. Will be welcome theoretical, conceptual and historical reflections, as well as records of performances, experiences and practices of artistic and audio-visual works, including interventions in the areas of architecture, urbanism, design, communication and information technology, whether in concrete, virtual or hybrid spaces, and specific studies on software and digital interfaces and their applications, prioritizing those for social and community use. Likewise, we hope to complexify this reflection with contributions from the social sciences, education, philosophy, psychology and mathematics, among other areas, as well as from studies on public policies and social-environmental sustainability.
We are interested in papers that discuss RE:PRE:SENT from various inputs, such as communication, reading and creation processes, narratives study and implementation, rather using digital platforms mediation, tangible or not, on one hand; processes of approaching distant realities, using representation as a mean to bring closer what is far away – in many ways –, exploring concepts such as multiculturalism and transdisciplinarity, and the potentialities of the so called online social networks in these approaches, as well as the very notion of having as reference thoughts and works produced in cultures geographically or socially distant, on the other hand. Relating the topic to cybernetic studies and of complex thinking, we understand re:pre:sent as an observation process even able to modify the represented object, and as the relationship between representation, the represented object and its observers, constituting parts of a system.
Beyond texts and static images, will be welcome musical pieces and testimonials in audio files, architecture, urbanism and design projects and the critical reflection on their conception, short video and films, slideshows, animations, interviews, considering Nomads.usp interest in exploring possibilities of using digital media for science diffusion.
Contributions will be received through the journal’s website until September 17th, 2012, according to the guidelines for authors, available at www.nomads.usp.br/virus/submissao_submission.php.
I will be giving a talk on Monday on playful touchscreen interfaces and although built in Flash, Li Wang’s touch screen taoist games may now also work in html 5, and across PC, touch screen PC and mobile touch screens! Great progress seems to have been made.
Some reference links for further exploring
I am no expert in full domes but I was impressed with the articles on projected environments in full domes, in Digital Creativity Volume 23, Issue 1, 2012 . I feel quite fortunate that I get a free copy for reviewing articles, wish more journals were this generous to their editorial board members!
Nick Lambert, Mike Phillips and David McConville all write articles. My only criticism is that more European, Canadian and Asian-Australasian writers could also have featured. I have little or no knowledge of African and Middle Eastern full dome work, which is surprising (or maybe just reflects on me), given their incredible architectural heritage in domes.
Anyway, the references and background descriptions seem very useful as a reference material for a course.
URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ndcr20/current
http://de.digitalclassicist.org/berlin/cfp
We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the newly established Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin, which will run for the first time in the Winter Term 2012. This initiative, inspired by and connected to London’s Digital Classicist Work in Progress Seminar, is organised in association with the German Archaeological Institute and the Excellence Cluster TOPOI.
We invite submissions on research which employ digital methods, resources or technologies in an innovative way in order to enable increased understanding of the ancient world at large. Abstracts, either in English or in German, of 300-500 words max. (bibliographic references excluded) should be uploaded by midnight MET on September 14, 2012 using the special submission form.
Themes may include digital text, linguistics technology, image processing and visualisation, linked data and semantic web, open access, spatial and network analysis, serious gaming and any other digital or quantitative methods. We welcome seminar proposals addressing the application of these methods to individual projects, and particularly contributions which show how the digital component can lead to crossing disciplinary boundaries and answer new research questions. Seminar content should be of interest both to classicists, ancient historians or archaeologists, as well as information scientists and digital humanists, with an academic research agenda relevant to at least one of these fields.
Seminars will run fortnightly on Tuesday evenings (17:00-18:30) starting in October 2012 in the TOPOI Building Dahlem, hosted by the Excellence Cluster TOPOI. The full programme will be finalised and announced in late September. It is planned to grant an allowance to speakers for travelling and accommodation costs. Further details will be available once the program is finalised.
DIGHUMLAB (http://dighumlab.dk/) is a newly established research infrastructure with the goal of supporting digital humanities and social science research by providing common virtual access to relevant digital and digitised resources for the humanities and the social sciences.
We are looking for a computer scientist, software engineer, or a person with similar qualifications to work for a distributed common secretariat, headed by the project leader (based in Aarhus). Employment will be on a project basis for a 5-year period, and the workplace will be the University of Copenhagen, Centre for Language Technology (www.cst.ku.dk). You will report to the DIGHUMLAB project leader but both you and your personal line manager will be located at the University of Copenhagen. Because of the distributed nature of DIGHUMLAB, you will be required to travel to Odense, Aarhus, and Aalborg, and also to European partners and meetings.
For further information and to apply online, please visit the following website: http://tiny.cc/tkn2iw
The closing date for applications is 23:59 CET, 9 September 2012.
We are having a launch of DIGHUMLAB, on 10 September. Attendance is free but general public or student online registration is required as seats are limited.
Details: mandag 10 september 2012: 12.00 – 17.30
Location: Peter Bøgh Andersen Auditorium, Nygaard building, på hjørnet af (corner of) Finlandsgade og Helsingforsgade, Aarhus North.
Aarhus University, 8200 Aarhus Denmark
| Time | Event |
| 12.00 | Informal gathering and light food |
| 12.30 | Rector Lauritz B. Holm-Nielsen & Dean of Arts, Mette Thunø, Aarhus University |
| 12.45 | Danish Minister for Science, Innovation and Higher Education, Morten Østergaard |
| 13.00 | DIGHUMLAB 1: Professor Bente Maegaard: Language Tools and CLARIN |
| 13.15 | DIGHUMLAB 2: Professors Niels Ole Finnemann & Niels Brügger: NetLab |
| 13.30 | DIGHUMLAB 3: Professor Johannes Wagner: Interaction Labs |
| 13.45 | Sally Chambers, Secretary General, DARIAH-EU Coordination Office |
| 14.00 | Steven Krauwer, CLARIN ERIC Executive Director |
| 14.15 | Coffee break |
| 14.30 | Professor Patrik Svensson, HUMlab, Umeå University |
| 15.10 | Professor Lorna Hughes, University of Wales Chair in Digital collections, National Library of Wales |
| 15.50 | Coffee break |
| 16.00 | Associate Professor Palmyre Pierroux, InterMedia, University of Oslo |
| 16.30 | Professor Lily Díaz-Kommonen, Media Lab, Aalto University |
| 17.00 | Open Floor Discussion and questions |
| 17.30 | Light refreshments |
Info viz should be compulsory for researchers!
With the advent of open data and new, powerful methods for analyzing it, we’re learning a lot that could challenge longstanding beliefs on public policy. Politicians, social workers and other civil servants have always had data, of course; they just never had as much and could never do with it what they can today. They should listen to what the computers tell them.
Recent HIV research from Brown University is a great example of what’s possible. Researchers formulated a computer model based on numerous factors relating to drug use, sexual activity and the medical aspects of HIV infection. To ensure it was accurate, they calibrated the model until it could accurately reproduce known HIV infection rates in New York City from 1992 until 2002. They ran the model thousands of times on a supercomputer.
They found that the rate of of HIV infection among New York City injection drug…
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Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Critical Heritage Studies
The University of Gothenburg announces two positions as; Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Critical Heritage Studies
Reference number: PER 2012/113 as part of the University of Gothenburg’s special initiative in Heritage Studies.
To qualify for the position of post-doctoral fellow, applicants must have a PhD in Sweden, or an artistic competence considered to be of an equivalent merit or a foreign degree determined to be of equivalent merit. The candidate must have earned the doctoral degree not more than three years prior to the application deadline except under special circumstances. Heritage Studies is a multi-disciplinary subject area, so candidates are not limited to a specific academic background; on the contrary, we want to encourage anyone interested in conducting research in the field of Heritage Studies to apply.
The fellowship positions will last for at most two years during which time each fellow will execute his or her own research plan within the field of Heritage Studies. The Heritage Studies initiative has been running since January 2010 and the understanding of the research field together with the possible options for continued research at University of Gothenburg, has led to the formulation of four strands guiding the activities in Gothenburg:
For more information, see
http://www.science.gu.se/english/research/prominent-research-environments/areas-ofstrength/Heritage_Studies
An Exclusive One-Day Lab on Interactive Storytelling and Media Architecture
Costs:
Participation Fee: 250 € per project incl. VAT (170 € for the workshop and 80 € for one festival accreditation)
Students discount: 150 € per project incl. VAT (110 € for the workshop and 40 € for one student festival accreditation)
APPLY NOW! Deadline: August 16, 2012
The DOK Leipzig Net Lab 2012 offers an intense day of individual support for your cross media project, with an in-depth look at interactive storytelling and media architecture.
Media professionals and cross media creatives are invited to apply with their multi-platform projects linked to documentary and/or animated film. Six projects will be selected from all applications and the head producer and up to two team members will be invited to participate.
The DOK Leipzig Net Lab provides concrete support for cross-media projects in the development, production or post-production stage. International cross media experts will talk about their experiences, share knowledge and provide engaged mentoring and individual advice for each project.
Our goal is to help you to discover fresh and creative ways of interactive storytelling, strengthen your project’s non-linear dramaturgy and develop a suitable media architecture. We want you to join forces with media professionals from across different disciplines for to draw the very best out of your ideas.
The one-day networking lab will provide a mix of group work, in-depth analysis and individual meetings.
Application Deadline: August 16, 2012 (applications are required in English language!)
Please find the online application form here:
Ha! While it is interesting that some archaeologists are trying to do everything paperless, with general apps, iPAD and PDF, you could design and distribute 3D worlds inside PDF since 2003 with Adobe Atmosphere.
Although that was the beginning of the end for Atmosphere..
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