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Subject: CFP: 20th International Conference on Virtual Systems & Multimedia (VSMM 2014)
20th International Conference on Virtual Systems & Multimedia (VSMM
2014)
Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, City University of Hong Kong 9th to 12th December 2014
Theme: 'Image & Archive'
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION EXTENSION ANNOUNCEMENT
NEW DEADLINE - THURSDAY, 4TH SEPTEMBER 2014
The Organising Committee wish to inform you that the deadline has now been extended for the for the 20th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia to be held at City University of Hong Kong, 9th to 12th December 2014.
Please before Thursday, 4th September 2014.
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The theme for the 2014 conference is ‘Image & Archive’. Archives serve as basic tools for social accountability, the preservation and dissemination of historical memory, and the development of a richer understanding of cultural, social and political forces in an increasingly digital and networked world. Image & Archive focuses on technical aspects of the digital image and, on the numerous ways in which digital archives have become sources for innovation and dissemination. Over the last decade technical advances including diverse areas in imaging technologies have allowed us to capture the world at increasingly high resolutions and contributed to vast reservoirs of data. New developments in social media and crowdsourcing have resulted in online archives of great diversity and application. Cultural collections are increasing becoming sources for new methods in knowledge-based visualisation and, advances in web protocols make this data increasingly discoverable. There are rapidly emerging demands for theses digital resources to be analysed and ‘designed’ while simultaneously they become sources material for creative and artistic applications.
Image & Archive addresses numerous topics including:
Archival Science – Artificial Intelligence – Augmented, Mixed and Virtual Reality – Critical Theory – Cultural Heritage – HCI – Imaging Science (including Robotics) – Information Science – New Museology – Philosophy – Photography – Remote Sensing – Semantic Web – Social Media – Teaching and Learning – Visual Analytics – Visualization
The aim of this conference is to discuss the concept that fresh research and public engagement initiatives should be integral to ultra-high resolution scanning projects, and to examine the notion that the archive must be further reconfigured for the purposes of successful digital consumption.
In choosing this theme, VSMM 2014 can best exhibit ground breaking work in relation to wide research and criticism in these fields.
The Conference Tracks for papers and presentations are:
· Track 1 - Image Science
· Track 2 - Information Visualization
· Track 3 - Advances in Technology
· Track 4 - Culture & Heritage
· Track 5 - Creative Arts & Design
ABOUT VSMM SOCIETY
The International Society for Virtual Systems and Multimedia is a unique cross-disciplinary organization for the exchange of cutting edge research in new media and virtual and augmented reality applied to everything from art to architecture, medicine to engineering, and archaeology to cultural heritage. We take pride in bringing academia and industry together with policy makers. We bridge computer scientists and artists, engineers and historians, policy makers and philosophers, archaeologists and architects, doctors and librarians, roboticists and cultural officials, and more.
VSMM was born in Japan in 1995 by Professor Takeo Ojika. It was arguably the first international VR conference and has remained a leading venue for cross-disciplinary scholarly research and exchange in new media and virtual systems.
The VSMM Society has held annual conferences for 19 years now, bringing leading researchers in the application of new media, mobile, and virtual and augmented reality technology together with users. In partnership with the IEEE Society the majority of VSMM Conference proceedings are available on IEEE Xplore.
ABOUT CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, SCHOOL OF CREATIVE MEDIA
City University of Hong Kong’s School of Creative Media is recognized to be an international hub for discovery and innovation in Asia. Here creativity is nurtured as a cornerstone of Hong Kong’s social and economic advancement in the 21st Century. It is a place where students from across the globe can encounter the wealth of opportunity afforded by digital media, and where graduates attain those artistic, intellectual and technical skills that enable them to take positions of creative leadership in a global society.
At the School of Creative Media state-of-the-art teaching and research facilities are brought together in a one-of-a-kind building designed by the world-renowned architect Daniel Libeskind. Mentored by an internationally renowned faculty at the forefront of their craft, hands-on creativity is combined within a critical theoretical framework to give students the competence they need to become the innovators of technological culture. There is no better place for young people to discover and develop their creative abilities, and give shape and pleasure to all our futures.
ABOUT THE CENTRE FOR CREATIVE CONTENT & DIGITAL INNOVATION (CCCDI)
The Centre for Creative Content and Digital Innovation (CCCDI) was founded to be a nexus of transformative research-creation and innovation to establish University Malaya as a leader in the global digital media-scape.
Since its beginning in January 2013, CCCDI has built many significant collaborations with key local and international partners and centres in order to synergize and add value to academic-industry R&D, shaping new technological literacies. The Centre's projects empower a new generation of scholars, researchers and postgraduate students in the domain of creative digital media, merging the core characteristics of the arts, sciences, media, technology and humanities at University of Malaya.
ABOUT THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIMENTAL ARTS (NIEA)
The National Institute for Experimental Arts (NIEA) is Australia's leading institute for experimental collaboration in art, science and emerging technologies. Through arts-led thinking we generate new insights into globally important issues resulting in real-world outcomes.
NIEA encompasses a range of transdisciplinary labs and creative research programs. These are united by a focus on the practical and conceptual value of aesthetic inquiry. Our research offers the sciences and humanities new perspectives on human interaction and experience.
Through innovative experimental methodologies we investigate the corporeal and social dimensions of interaction in relation to a range of technologies, environments and wider settings.
For more information please contact:
VSMM 2014 Conference Administrator
Kristen Bowen
School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong [log in to unmask] / [log in to unmask]
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list made up of people who are interested in the interdisciplinary academic
study of Cyber Society in all its manifestations.To join the list please visit:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/cyber-society-live.html
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