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digital arts and culture conference, streaming media, interactive
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academics, artists.

[announcement]
Digital Arts and Culture::2003
MelbourneDAC::streaming wor(l)ds
The 2003 iteration of the Digital Arts and Culture (DAC)
international conference series is to be held on the city campus of
RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia from May 19 to 23, 2003.

MelbourneDAC:streaming wor(l)ds will bring together an international
cohort of artists, practitioners, developers, theorists and teachers
to define and explore major themes and ideas confronting contemporary
new media practice. The 2003 event will explore the theory and
practice of computer gaming, ergodic narrative, distributed and/or
immersive performance environments, and streaming media with a
particular focus on the real, imagined and wished for worlds that
these things create.

[what is the Digital Arts and Culture conference?]
DAC was founded in 1998 by Espen Aarseth as an international
conference focusing on new media theory and practice in critical
contexts. DAC seeks to bring together new media artists and theorists
in a spirit of collaboration and exploration. It has nurtured a
significant international community of young and innovative
researchers, artists and scholars in the interdisciplinary field of
new media, and has become the benchmark conference for research and
collaborative endeavour in new media. DAC offers a forum that
recognises the importance of bringing together leading practitioners
from art and theory for the exchange of ideas and to develop
international professional networks and knowledge economies.
MelbourneDAC:streaming wor(l)ds intends to continue this role through
the papers, panels, forums, and exhibition it hosts, and the
innovative series of collaborative workshops and events that will be
undertaken by all conference participants. The mission of
MelbourneDAC is to exchange ideas and promote new developments in
digital arts and culture and to ensure that all participants develop
relevant and sustainable professional communities.

A call for papers will be distributed shortly.

A call for entries for the MelbourneDAC::streaming wor(l)ds
exhibition will be distributed shortly.

All conference material will be published (all participants will
receive their copy during MelbourneDac).

A mentoring process will be available to postgraduate students and
new academics who wish to have feedback in the development of their
contributions.

A moderated announcement list for all interested in receiving
additional information and updates is available. Subscription details
at
http://monaro.adc.rmit.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/dac/

a web site containing this and other information is located at
http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/dac/

[and this is from?]
adrian miles <[log in to unmask]> conference chair
antoanetta ivanova <[log in to unmask]> conference producer

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+  lecturer in new media and cinema studies
[http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vlog]
+  interactive desktop video developer  [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/]
+  hypertext rmit [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au]
+ InterMedia:UiB. university of bergen [http://www.intermedia.uib.no]