>Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 21:56:59 -0500
>To: ACM MM 2004
>From: Pamela Jennings <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Call for Submissions: ACM Multimedia 2004 Interactive Art Program
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>  Conference Announcement, please post to your mail lists and
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>ACM Multimedia 2004 Interactive Art Program Co-chairs
>Alejandro Jaimes, Fuji Xerox, Multimedia Analysis and Interaction, Nakai
>Research Center
>Pamela Jennings, School of Art and the HCI Institute, Carnegie Mellon
>University
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>ACM Multimedia 2004 Interactive Art Program
>Columbia University, New York City  October 10 - 15, 2004
>http://www.mm2004.org/acm_mm04_call4interactiveartprogram.htm
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>ACM Multimedia 2004 is the premier annual multimedia conference, covering
>all aspects of multimedia computing, from underlying technologies to
>applications, theory to practice, and servers to networks to devices. We
>especially encourage introduction of novel media such as haptic, smell,
>sensors, animation, etc.. With this year's new ACM MM Interactive Art
>Program we wish to bring together the arts and multimedia communities to
>create the stage to explore, discuss, and push the limits for the
>advancement of both multimedia technology through the arts, and the arts
>through multimedia technology.
>
>The Interactive Art Program will consist of two technical paper tracks and
>an exhibition. We invite researchers in technical areas and artists
>working with digital media to submit their original contributions to the
>following tracks:
>
>
>1.  Technical Papers Tracks: Submission Deadline April 5, 2004
>Tools for creating multimedia art: performance, immersive, narrative,
>multi-modal, networked art, etc. The emphasis is on novel technical tools
>developed specifically for the creation of multimedia art in any form. We
>particularly encourage submission of tools in new and emerging areas.
>
>Tools developed by artists in the creation of multimedia art works:  will
>describe the process and technical details of the creation of artistic
>works that have required either the development of new multimedia tools,
>or novel uses of currently available multimedia tools. Artists that
>develop their own tools are strongly encouraged to submit their work to
>this track.
>
>
>2.  Multimedia Art Exhibition: Submission Deadline May 3, 2004
>DIGITAL BOUNDARIES: Multiculturalism, Identity, and Awareness
>Curatorial Committee
>Mark Tribe, Director of Art & Technology, Columbia University School of
>the Arts
>Christina Yang, Curator of Visual Art and New Media, The Kitchen
>Pamela Jennings, Alejandro Jaimes
>
>
>"Digital Boundaries: Multiculturalism, Identity, and Awareness". We seek
>art works that, using multimedia, explore issues of cultural identity,
>cultural awareness, and the boundaries created or enforced through the use
>of multimedia technology. The emphasis for the exhibition is on
>interactive art works that realize powerful artistic concepts using
>multimedia content and technologies.
>
>At no time in history has technology had the prospect of making a stronger
>cross-border impact on culture. Technology can be used to create or
>reinforce boundaries (being fingerprinted and photographed at an airport--
>a multimedia experience), as well as to dissolve them (we are bombarded by
>images and sounds from all over the world). Many of us are being empowered
>with the ability to easily create digital content, document and share our
>own experiences and those of others, challenging the roles of art (passive
>vs. interactive) and revolutionizing the way we see and hear the world. At
>the same time, only a small percentage of people have access to technology
>(boundaries of the haves and the have-nots).
>Multimedia content and technology are of special consideration because
>they appeal directly to our senses, elevating the age-old dilemma of the
>distinction between reality and representations of reality. Does this new
>proliferation and imbalance of multimedia technology help reinforce
>boundaries and cultural differences? Does it contribute to define cultural
>identity in a new age in which everyone talks about multiculturalism? Does
>it raise cultural awareness or simply numb our senses making us take deep
>cultural differences for granted because what we "see" or "hear" is
>commonplace in this "new" multicultural world? Does it create new
>boundaries in art or help unify multiple art forms? How can art, in its
>many roles, make use of the same technology that raises these issues to
>address them?
>For this exhibition, we seek multimedia artworks that challenge the
>participants to consider these questions through the innovative use of new
>multimedia technologies and the combination of multiple media
>(photography, video, sound, etc.). All formats are welcome (narrative,
>performance, interaction, immersion, etc.).
>

______________________________________________________________________________
Pamela Jennings, Assistant Professor
School of Art and the Human Computer Interaction Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Co-chair ACM Multimedia 2004 Interactive Art program

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