Dear Colleagues,
Below you will find a call for abstracts for the AISB Members Workshop
on Serendipity to be held next month at St Mary's University, London.
Please check the website for further details, including information
about how to register:
http://ccg.doc.gold.ac.uk/serendipitysymposium/
I will highlight here that the event is only open AISB members - so
please take the time register with AISB first (the workshop is then
free).
Any queries, as well as abstracts proposing talks, should be directed
to:
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All the best,
Joe
*AISB Members Workshop VIII: Serendipity Symposium*
On June 15th, 2017, we will be holding a one-day symposium on the
theme of ‘serendipity’. This will be the first attempt to gather the
world’s leading ‘serendiptologists’ in one room. Our aim is for this
event to bring together researchers in computing, the arts, sciences,
and other fields of cultural endeavor. To mark the historic nature of
this occasion we plan to meet in the Waldegrave Drawing Room at St
Mary’s University, adjacent to Strawberry Hill House, the gothic
castle in Twickenham built by Horace Walpole, who invented the concept
of ‘serendipity’ in 1754. A tour of Strawberry Hill House will be
included in the programme.
As sociologists Merton and Barber noted, Walpole’s term was only
mentioned in print 135 times prior to 1957: since then it has seen
explosive uptake — in the arts, in technology, and especially in their
intersection. 2018 is the 50th anniversary of the 1968 exhibit on
‘Cybernetic Serendipity’ curated by Jasia Reichardt at London’s
Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), which brought together some of
the leading minds in simulation and synthesis, and left a lasting
impact on fields ranging from electronic music to interactive
sculpture, and helped bring about the formation of the British
Computer Arts Society. Recently, ‘serendipity’ has informed the
design of research programmes and recommendation systems.
We are honoured to welcome Jasia Reichardt and Pek van Andel as our
keynote speakers, two leading figures who have substantially
contributed to the public perception and to research on serendipity in
the arts and sciences. Pek van Andel is joint recipient of the 2000 Ig
Nobel prize in Medicine. His most recent book "C'est quoi la
sérendipité? 80 décovertes due au hasard qui ont bouleversé le course
de l'histoire" was published by Le Courrier du Livre in April.
To round out the programme, we invite 20-minute talks on the theme of
serendipity from across the disciplines. Along with eight short talks
and two keynotes, our schedule for the day includes a morning Writers
Workshop, in which we invite participants into an in-depth discussion
of our preprint “Modelling Serendipity in a Computational
Context”. Talk abstracts of up to 250 words are requested (key dates
below).
Subject to participant interest we may propose an edited volume or
journal special issue at a later date.
This symposium is part of the AISB Member Symposium series, and
registration is free for AISB members.
*Key Dates and Deadlines*
Abstract Submission — 15th May, 2017
Notification of Decision — 22nd May, 2017
Registration deadline — 1st June, 2017
Workshop — 15th June, 2017 (from 9.30am)
*Host Institution*
St Mary's University
Waldegrave Road
Strawberry Hill
Twickenham, TW1 4SX
*Contact*
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