Dear Colleagues,

This will interest some of you.

Several streams are anchored
in the framework of design research
and design practice.

Those interested in art research
will also find much here.

Best regards,

Ken Friedman



CFP: Symposium on Communication of Art, Science, Technology.

Bonn 20.-22.09.01

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Call for participation

cast01: Symposium on Communication of Art, Science and Technology

Submission deadline 31.05.2001

Schloss Birlinghoven, Sankt Augustin (Bonn), 20-22.09.2001

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: May 31, 2001

We invite you to participate in the cast01 symposium on intersections
of artistic, cultural, technological and scientific issues of:

Living in Mixed Realities

What does it mean to live, play and work in a world shaped and
perceived through digital media, networks and architectures of
real-virtual space? The development of complex communication spaces,
life environments and economic models is an interplay of technical,
social, and artistic forces - Mixed Realities of Art, Science and
Technology.

The design of a Mixed Reality Architecture, which connects processes
in virtual space to the social environments and cultural practices of
real places, presents challenges to technologists, scientists and
artists alike. In such an architecture the basic design elements are
networked structures for new forms of collaborative work and
knowledge discovery, human-centred interaction and awareness, media
spaces and advanced interfaces.

At cast01 scientists will present technologies and infrastructures
that address these challenges. Artists will present aesthetic
concepts of digital culture and new interactive media formats. cast01
is an invitation for a discussion between artistic practices and the
forefront of research and development of information technologies.

cast01 is organised by netzspannung.org and by the GMD - German
National Research Center for Information Technology. It is supported
by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (bmb+f) and
by the European Commission.

http://netzspannung.org/cast01

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Monika Fleischmann / Wolfgang Strauss
MARS - Exploratory Media Lab
GMD - Institute for Media Communication
Schloss Birlinghoven
D-53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany

OBJECTIVES:

On September 20-22, 2001 cast01 will present inspiring media art and
innovative research projects from the EU Information Society
Technologies programme (IST). Semantic Web, Mixed Reality, Advanced
Interfaces and Future Media Spaces are only some of the topics that
symbolise the influence of information technology on patterns of life
and work in a networked society. cast01 explores the ways in which
Next Generation Internet can be understood, explored and supported
through creative interdisciplinary practices.

cast01 invites submissions of inspiring research, technological
development and artistic production. Proposed contributions may be in
the form of research papers and artistic presentations as well as
blueprints and posters of developing ideas. Researchers, artists,
theorists, practitioners and entrepreneurs are encouraged to submit
interdisciplinary projects and critical reflections on the merging of
the virtual and the real.

Topics:

* Agents, Avatars and Narrative Intelligence
* Advanced and Performative Interfaces, Displays and Sensors
* Awareness and Knowledge Discovery
* Collaborative Media Spaces and Interactive Environments
* Community Systems, Cooperative Platforms, Portals and Channels
* Distributed Systems and Parallel Architectures for the Web
* Distribution of Content and Multimedia Services
* Enabling Technologies, Authoring Tools, Artistic Software
* Interactive Streaming, Intermedia Formats, Interactive TV
* Knowledge & Memory Spaces, Cultural Archives
* Metadata and Application Delivery (XML, VRML, MPEG-4, MPEG-7)
* Network Games, Virtual Theatre, Virtual Exhibitions
* Next Generation Internet and Emergent Technologies
* Signal Processing and Mixed Reality
* Tracking and Tracing People, Homes, Ambience

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: May 31, 2001
Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2001
Camera-ready papers: July 15, 2001
Symposium Registration Deadline: July 31, 2001

The symposium languages are both English and German with simultaneous
translation.

PROCEEDINGS

Accepted papers and blueprints will be published in the symposium
proceedings, in English. A special issue of netzspannung.org -
(e-)Journal of Art, Design and Innovation Research will be published
with cast01 symposium best papers.

BEST PAPER AWARD

The best paper, artistic presentation, blueprint, poster and student
presentation will be honored with the cast01 award.

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Ken Friedman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design
Department of Knowledge Management
Norwegian School of Management

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