[spectre] Fwd: ISEA2015: DISRUPTION, Vancouver, Canada, August 10-14, 2015

[Andreas Broeckmann]

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Betreff: <nettime-ann> ISEA2015 / /DISRUPTION
Datum: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 15:14:54 -0800
Von: Kate Armstrong <kate at katearmstrong.com>



ISEA2015 / /DISRUPTION: The 21st International Symposium on Electronic 
Art to be held in Vancouver

Simon Fraser University’s Faculty of Communication, Art & Technology 
(FCAT)  and the School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT) have 
won the bid to host the prestigious 21st International Symposium on 
Electronic Art (ISEA) in Vancouver, Canada, August 10-14, 2015.

ISEA is one of the world’s most prominent international arts and 
technology events, bringing  together scholarly, artistic, and 
scientific domains in an interdisciplinary discussion and showcase of 
creative productions applying new technologies in art, interactivity, 
and electronic and digital media. The event annually brings together 
artists, designers, academics, technologists, scientists, and general 
audience in the thousands. The symposium consists of a peer reviewed 
conference, a series of exhibitions, and various partner events—from 
large scale interactive artwork in public space to cutting edge 
electronic music performance.

In the last three years ISEA has been hosted in Istanbul (2011), 
Albequerque, New Mexico (2012), and Sydney, Australia (2013), with an 
upcoming ISEA2014 in Dubai. ISEA2015 in Vancouver marks its return to 
Canada, 20 years since the groundbreaking first Canadian ISEA1995 in 
Montreal. Conference events will be held at the Woodward’s campus of 
Simon Fraser University in downtown Vancouver with exhibitions and 
events taking place at Emily Carr University of Art + Design and other 
sites and venues throughout the city.

ISEA2015’s  theme of DISRUPTION invites a conversation about the 
aesthetics of change, renewal, efficiencies and game-changing paradigms. 
We look to raw bursts of energy, Davids and Goliaths, reconciliation, 
error, and destructive and creative force of the new. Disruption 
contains both blue sky and black smoke. When we speak of radical 
emergence we must also address things left behind. Disruption is both 
incremental and monumental. Anachronisms; earlier versions. The moments 
of peace and crisis: the state of things now and a moment ago; the proud 
Luddites and the insecurity of change; the unstoppable giants, now only 
shells.

We are familiar in art, design, science, and media with strategies in 
which something is overturned in order to create something new. In 
practices ranging from hacking and detournement to inversions of place, 
time, and intention, creative work across disciplines constantly finds 
ways to rethink or reconsider object, context, body, network, function. 
Artists push, shape, break; designers reinvent and overturn; scientists 
challenge and re-state; technologists hack & subvert to rebuild. We hope 
to broaden the spheres in which disruptive aesthetics can be explored, 
crossing into the worlds of science, technology,  design, visual art, 
contemporary and media art, innovation, performance, and sound.

Symposium Directors for ISEA2015 are Dr. Phillippe Pasquier and Dr. 
Thecla Schiphorst from Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive 
Arts + Technology (SIAT) within the Faculty of Communication, Arts & 
Technology (FCAT).  Artistic Directors are Malcolm Levy, Founder and 
Director of the New Forms Festival and Kate Armstrong, Director of the 
Social + Interactive Media (SIM) Centre at Emily Carr University of 
Art+Design.

The series of ISEA symposia is coordinated by ISEA International. 
Founded in the Netherlands in 1990, ISEA International (formerly 
Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts) is an international non-profit 
organization fostering interdisciplinary academic discourse and exchange 
among culturally diverse organizations and individuals working with art, 
science and technology. ISEA International Headquarters is supported by 
the University of Brighton (UK).

For further details please contact international ISEA Director Sue 
Gollifer at info at isea-web.org or visit the project website at 
www.isea2015.org.

www.isea2015.org

www.isea-web.org

https://www.facebook.com/groups/277711300421/

@ISEASymposium


-- 
Kate Armstrong
Director, Social + Interactive Media (SIM) Centre
Emily Carr University of Art and Design
http://www.simcentre.ca
http://www.katearmstrong.com
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