[spectre] (fwd) ANAT Digest November 2011 :: Synapse 7 call

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From: Australian Network for Art & Technology <anat at anat.org.au>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:01:14 -0500
Subject: ANAT Digest November 2011 :: Synapse 7 call

Synapse 7 Arts/Science Residencies :: Call for Applications
ANAT is calling for applications from artists and 
science and research organisations for the 2012 
Synapse Residency program. Now in its seventh 
round, the program is a core element of the 
Synapse initiative of the Australia Council for 
the Arts and ANAT, which supports collaboration 
between artists and scientists.  The residencies 
are open to Australian artists with a 
demonstrated interest in science working in any 
discipline and/or medium. Australian-based 
residencies of 16 weeks' duration that take place 
during the 2012 calendar year will be supported. 
Ýo ensure a good fit between the artist and host 
organisation, a joint application must be 
submitted. It is the responsibility of the 
project partners to establish contact and to 
identify the nature of the proposed collaboration 
prior to application. Those with existing 
relationships are strongly encouraged to apply. 
The Synapse residencies have a creative research 
focus and it is not expected that they will 
result in the production of new work. The 
residencies may also be approached as a platform 
for testing and informing a more comprehensive, 
longer-term research project suitable for 
submission to the ARC Synapse Linkage program.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS IS 5PM, FRIDAY 24th of FEBRUARY 2012

Guidelines, including an application form, can be 
downloaded from the ANAT website.

http://www.anat.org.au

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ANAT Makerblog now online
The rapidly evolving fields of personal 
fabrication, digital manufacturing and 3D 
printing are changing manufacturing and design - 
taking it from the factory floor to your work 
place or home.  Desktop 3D printers, open source 
software and print-on-demand companies are 
offering artists and creative practitioners 
opportunities to not only prototype their 
creations but also to manufacture and sell their 
work on a scale to suit demand.  As part of its 
ongoing research and development program,  ANAT 
has acquired and assembled a flat-pack desktop 3D 
printer - the MakerBot Thing-O-Matic.  ANAT's 
Makerblog will document our experiments with the 
Thing-O-Matic, provide information and links 
about 3D printing and other personal 
manufacturing techniques and discuss how these 
technologies are being harnessed by creative 
practitioners. http://makerblog.anat.org.au

Industry Highlights

Diagrams 2012 :: 2 - 6 July 2012 :: Canterbury, UK
7th International Conference on Theory & Application of Diagrams
Call for Submissions :: Various Closing Dates
Diagrams is an international interdisciplinary 
conference series, covering all aspects of 
research on the theory and application of 
diagrams and is the only conference series that 
provides a united forum for all areas that are 
concerned with the study of diagrams, including 
architecture, artificial intelligence, 
cartography, cognitive science, computer science, 
education, graphic design, history of science, 
human-computer interaction, linguistics, logic, 
mathematics, philosophy, psychology, and software 
modelling.  Diagrams 2012 will include 
presentations of refereed papers, posters, 
tutorials, workshop sessions, and a graduate 
symposium.
All submissions will be fully peer reviewed. The 
proceedings, which will include accepted long and 
short papers and posters, will be published by 
Springer in their Lecture Notes in Computer 
Science series.
http://www.springer.com/lncs
Full details on the preparation of submissions 
can be found on the conference web site
http://www.diagrams-conference.org

Subtle Technologies Festival 2012 :: Toronto, Canada
24 - 27 May 2012  :: Call for Submissions closes 13 December 2011
The Subtle Technologies Festival is known 
internationally for presenting work by artists 
and scientists at the leading edge of their 
respective disciplines.  Subtle Technologies is 
calling for submissions from individuals, 
interdisciplinary teams and collaborative 
projects with successful stories from artists and 
scientists working together and the issues that 
inhibit disciplines from  collaborating. What 
approaches can we take to foster inter-cultural 
exchanges when it comes to science or technology 
based work? How do we make  scientific systems 
more accessible to artists as tools for creating 
new work?   In 2012 Subtle Technologies is also 
presenting a special symposium session that 
focuses on work inspired by, utilising or hacking 
biological   systems. This will include work by 
artists who are using  live tissues, bacteria and 
other biological process in their work and those 
who are exploring enhancements or modifications 
to  the human body through transhumanism. 
Projects which use concepts of  biomimicry, 
genetic engineering and synthetic biology will 
also be considered for this special session. To 
have your submission considered for either the 
symposium, poster session or a workshop, visit 
the submissions form site.
http://subtletechnologies.com/

Media Lab Melbourne :: Sprint #2: Unconstrained
Call for projects closes 12 December 2011
Technological frontiers have expanded beyond the 
ability of an individual to comprehend their 
complexity. Yet, these frontiers permeate our 
everyday experiences. How does your smartphone 
function? How was your toaster made? What tools 
do you use to earn money? How many different 
forms of communication do you experience in one 
day? How well do YOU understand the technology in 
your life? How well do you need to?
Media Lab Melbourne is seeking proposals for 
devices or services as statements on the 
complexity of our everyday technology and 
systems. Successful applications will work with 
Media Lab Melbourne and collaborators to realise 
these proposals during a sprint over 9 days 
beginning on the 21st of January 2012.  As this 
is a collaborative sprint it is not important 
what skills you have but how effective your idea 
is!  Media Lab Melbourne will support projects 
with technical and production support. Should a 
person live interstate and wish to attend, we are 
also able to provide basic travel and 
accommodation for the duration of the sprint. 
Selected participants will be notified on the 
16th of December.  At this point there will be a 
second call for collaborators to assist in the 
creation of the selected projects. Applicants who 
are not selected in the initial call are welcome 
to participate as collaborators.
http://www.medialabmelbourne.com.au

Consciousness Reframed Conference  :: Technoetic Telos: Art, Myth & Media
Art and Consiousness in the Post Biological Era 
::  30 April - 2 May 2012 :: Kefalonia, Greece
Deadline for Abstracts 20 December 2011 :: 
Deadline for Full Papers 27 February 2012
Convened in Greece, the conference takes its 
theme from the conjunction of telos and tele, in 
the purposes and processes of art in the 
post-digital culture. At the centre of these 
considerations is Mind, and the rich variability 
of consciousness and reality, to which technoetic 
systems and syncretic creativity aspire. Papers 
and projects are welcomed that address these 
issues, and which seek insights into the function 
of metaphor and myth in the emergent complexity 
of the post-biological era.  Selected papers will 
be published in Technoetic Arts Journal, 
Intellect Ltd
http://www.ionionartscenter.gr

Next Things 2012 Global Art & Technology 
Challenge :: The Open Hardware Fellowship
Gijon, Spain :: Applications close 5 January 2012 
:: Fellowship commences 12 March 2012
Telefónica R&D and LABoral are proud to organize 
NEXT THINGS 2012, the First Global Art & 
Technology Challenge, which aims to bring 
together art and technology, artists with 
technologies, and to unleash the huge potential 
of mixing the creativity and perspective of 
artists with the nowadays powerful open hardware 
technologies.  NEXT THINGS 2012 is looking for 
innovative and disruptive ideas on the Internet 
of Things in the interplay of art and technology: 
art that uses connected / smart objects / spaces 
as medium, or art that reframes, rethinks and 
reflects on what the role of the Internet of 
Things could be.
This call is open to all creators in the space 
between art and technology and is looking for 
ideas that can be prototyped and built based on 
open hardware platforms such as Arduino connected 
to the Internet within the course of between 3 - 
6 months. Please send a one page idea proposal, a 
one page visual description and a CV to 
po at laboralcentrodearte.org The proposal should 
outline the project and describe - on a high 
level - the building blocks required to make it.
http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org

MIT Media Lab seeking two Tenure-Track Faculty Members
Massachusetts Insitute of Technology :: Applications due 16 January 2012
An anti-disciplinary research organisation, the 
Media Lab focuses on the invention of new 
technologies that radically improve the way 
people live, learn, express, work, and play. 
Candidates should have a record of original 
thinking, action, and impact in the arts, design, 
and quality of life.  Successful candidates will 
establish and lead their own research group 
within the Media Lab; pursue creative work of 
highest international standard; engage in 
collaborative projects with corporate members and 
other Media Lab research groups; supervise 
master's and doctoral students; and participate 
in the Media Arts and Sciences academic program. 
The Media Lab welcomes applications from 
candidates interested in establishing research 
programs in: music, performance, arts, design, 
food, fashion, architecture, games or any 
combination thereof.
http://www.media.mit.edu

EVA London 2012 :: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts
10 - 12 July 2012 :: Call for Proposals closes 22 January 2012
The EVA London annual conference tracks and 
presents the development and application of 
electronic visualisation technologies in art, 
music, dance, theatre, the sciences and other 
fields Conference themes will particularly 
include new and emerging technologies and 
applications, including but not limited to: 
visualising ideas and concepts, imaging and 
images in museums and galleries, digital 
performance, music, sound, film, animation, 
medical humanities, reconstructive archaeology 
and architecture, digital and computational art 
and photographyand technologies of digitisation. 
EVA London invites proposals for papers, 
demonstrations, short performances, workshops or 
panel discussions, especially look for 
presentations on topical subjects, and the newest 
and cutting edge technologies and applications.
http://www.eva-london.org/

currents 2012 :: Santa Fe International New Media Festival
22 June - 8 July 2012 :: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA :: Call for Sumissions
Submissions due 1 February 2012.  Digital Dome submissions due 2 March 2012
currents 2012, the 3rd Annual Santa Fe 
International New Media Art Festival will explore 
the role of technology and the diverse 
applicaiotns of New Media in the arts.  The 
Festival will be held in venues throughout Santa 
Fe including the digital dome facility at the 
Institute for American Indian Arts.  currents 
2012 will also offer panel discussions and 
workshops and multimedia performances. Submission 
categories include single channel video, video 
and sound installations, interative new media, 
animation, computer/software modulated sculpture, 
multimedia performance, experimental or 
interactive documentary video, digital dome 
projection, art-gaming and web-art.
http://www.currentsnewmedia.org/submissionguidel.html

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