<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Dear all,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Apologies for x-posting.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>The AlgoMech Arts Research Symposium takes place within the Festival of Algorithmic and Mechanical Movement (<a href="http://www.algomech.com" class="">www.algomech.com</a>), on the 13th November 2016 at the Sheffield Hallam University in Sheffield, UK. AlgoMech will celebrate a resurgence of making in performance, where creative processes are made visible during a live event. Rather than presenting technology as seamless, we pick at the seams, exposing its innards as human-made and reconfigurable. We will also go beyond fashionable notions of technology to take the long view; bringing together mechanical, kinetic, electronic, and software arts, from periods spanning the stone age to present day, building a picture of the human maker as both digital and analogue, thinking and feeling, embodied yet reaching beyond what is bodily possible. The festival will take place across Sheffield, and will include concerts, talks, hands-on workshops, and a club night.<br class=""><br class="">The arts research symposium will focus on the latest developments in this field, drawing on both academic and artistic perspectives. We invite proposals for artist talks and academic papers in the form of short abstracts, describing the theme and structure of your research presentation or artist talk in approximately one page of text. As an inclusive, cross-disciplinary symposium, we are open-minded about the form of your talk and proposal, but please do not hesitate to get in contact if you have questions.<br class=""><br class="">As well as talks accepted from this call, the day will include talks from artists contributing work at the festival, and panel sessions on fictive materials and maker culture.<br class=""><br class="">We welcome submissions from areas that intersect with the following themes:<br class=""><br class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Human and mechanical motion<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Human-machine interaction and embodiment<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Creative computing and (live) coding<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Robotics in the arts<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Design and physical computing<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Machine creativity<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Algorithm aesthetics<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Mechanical automata in history<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Kinesthesis and art<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Machine choreography<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Maker culture<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Materialities for motion<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Generative design and architecture<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Alternative histories of algorithms and mechanisms<br class=""></div><br class=""><b class="">Programme<br class=""></b><br class="">9:30 – Coffee + live coding performance<br class="">10:00 – Paper session (8 papers – we will issue a call for papers soon)<br class="">12:00 – Lunch<br class="">13:00 – Panel 1 (on speculative hardware and fictive materialities - chair: Derek Hales)<br class="">14:00 – Keynote talk with Godfried-Willem Raes<br class="">15:00 – Coffee with a performance<br class="">16:00 – Panel 2 (on maker culture – chair: Amy Twigger Holroyd)<br class="">17:00 – Performances at the Millennium Gallery<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">Keynote speaker<br class=""></b><br class="">We will have a keynote by Godfried-Willem Raes, of the Logos foundation (<a href="http://logosfoundation.org" class="">http://logosfoundation.org</a>). Godfried is a composer and instrument maker, who taught at Ghent Royal Conservatory and the Orpheus Higher Institution for Music. In addition to his reputation as a composer, he is also an expert in computer technology, robotics and interactive electronic art. As an example, he is well known in this country for his work on musical robotics with Aphex Twin.<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">Submissions</b><br class=""><br class="">We invite proposals for 15 minute research presentations or artist talks (10 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions). Proposals should be a one page abstract describing the presentation. Please also submit a short (200-300 word) biography for each author and an image describing your project. Submissions should be made in PDF or Word format.<br class=""><br class="">If you are interested in participating in either of the panels on speculative hardware and fictive materialities or maker culture, please send a note to <a href="mailto:symposium@algomech.com" class="">symposium@algomech.com</a> and describe in a sentence or two why you would like to join the panel.<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">Submission Process<br class=""></b><br class="">Submissions will be selected by a panel chaired by members of the Experimental Music Technologies (EMuTe) Lab at University of Sussex. Please email your submission in PDF format to symposium@algomech.com<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">Important Dates<br class=""></b><br class="">10th October: Submission Deadline<br class="">17th October: Notifications<br class="">12th-20th November: AlgoMech Festival<br class="">13th November: Arts Research Symposium<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">Venue</b><br class=""><br class="">Sheffield Institute of Arts, Fitzalan Square, Sheffield S1 2AY, United Kingdom<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">Contact<br class=""></b><br class="">Symposium chairs:<br class="">Thor Magnusson (university profile with email addresse: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/164902) <br class="">Chris Kiefer (university profile with email addresse: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/208667) <br class=""><br class=""></body></html>