The New Media Caucus invites proposals for affiliated panel session to be held during the 2019 College Art Association annual conference in New York City. Panels should reflect New Media Caucus’ mandate of promoting the development and understanding of new media art. Panels that address or engage with underrepresented groups within the new media genre are strongly encouraged. Panel chairs will submit the proposal and organize the session, including the call for submissions. The NMC Exhibitions & Events Committee will assist with providing liaison to CAA, administration, publicity, etc. PROPOSALS MUST INCLUDE: 3-page maximum CV, submitted as PDF 500 word…
Call for Submissions – Scenes and Screens Festival 2018: Hyperconnect by AltspaceVR
The 2018 Scenes and Screens Festival is currently accepting submissions for papers, machinima, films, performances, VR installations, and digital prints that center around the theme: Hyperconnect. Though this term is commonly used to describe what we consider to be intermachine communication, it can also be used to describe a state of interpersonal and human-to-machine interaction as well. Alternatively, hyperconnectivity is used as a medical term to describe a rapid firing of neurons making excessive connections within the brain. The Scenes and Screens Festival committee encourages those submitting to consider the impact of all existing connections in our society, both organic…
CFP and Artwork presentations: Taboo – Transgression – Transcendence in Art & Science 2018 in Mexico
Submissions are welcome from all art and research fields and cutting-edge technology in art research. Suggested, but not exclusive topics, are those associated, with: Biopunk, hybridity and aesthetics of mutation | Cyborg, augmentation and bοdy modification | Post gender, transgressive identities and social models | Psycho-pharmacology, somatechnology and post-humanism | Chemistry of the mind, natural healers and mind enhancement | Biotechnology, DIYbio and biohacking | Ethology, human and nonhuman | Evolution, extinction and randomness. The conference TTT2018 – Taboo – Transgression – Transcendence in Art & Science 2018 is co-organized by the Research and Creation Group Arte+Ciencia, UNAM (Mexico), Arte…
Deadline Extended, Besides the Screen Conference – Vaults, Archives, Clouds and Platforms: Archiving and Preservation in the 21st Century
Vaults, Archives, Clouds and Platforms: Archiving and Preservation in the 21st Century King’s College, London, UK (2 – 3 July 2018) CIAC-ISMAI, Porto, PT (5 – 6 July 2018) Deadline for abstracts: 12nd April 2018 The 2018 Besides the Screen Conference welcomes paper, panel, artwork, installation, and workshop proposals on the theme of archiving and preserving audiovisual materials in the 21st century. The topic of archiving and preservation has gained even more significance as forms and formats of audio visual media continue to exponentially expand. Within such a context, those working within archives, museums, libraries and a range of cultural…
Extrasolar nebulization – transmedia time capsule for an artistic exploration of space travels and hyperspace
The presentation of Dark foam art project and the defense of the thesis Extrasolar nebulization – transmedia time capsule for an artistic exploration of space travels and hyperspace will take place on Wednesday, May 9 at the Cité de l’Espace in Toulouse starting at 13:00 (meeting time : 12:45 in the entrance hall)13:00 – 14:00: presentation of Dark foam project (Stellarium)14:15 – 18:30: defense of the thesis (Altaïr room) Jury composed of Christine Buignet (Aix-Marseille Université, LESA) & Yves Gourinat (ICA, Institut Supérieur de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace), co-supervisors, and: Jean-Paul Fourmentraux (Centre Norbert Elias, EHESS, Aix-Marseille Université) Bernard Foing (ILEWG, European Space Agency, ESTEC, Noordwijk) Christophe Viart (ACTE, Université Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne) Jean-Jacques Favier (astronaut) DARK FOAM – Transmedia…
CAA Report by America Salomon, Recipient of the Judson-Morrissey Excellence in New Media Award
Hello! My name is America Salomon and I am incredibly honored to be the first annual recipient of the Judson-Morrissey Excellence in New Media Award from the New Media Caucus! Now that we’ve been formally introduced, please let me tell you a bit about myself, this award, and what it meant for me to receive it. I am currently an MFA Interdisciplinary Arts and Media thesis candidate at Columbia College Chicago, where I am in the process of creating and mounting my thesis work, a video installation entitled América, Like the Country. As this work represents for me a manifestation…
Art of the Social Networked Practice Online Symposium
A three-day international gathering presenting keynotes, live Internet performances, and global roundtable discussions Online Symposium held March 29 – 31, 2018 Art of the Social Networked Practice Online Symposium is a collaboration between the School of Art, Design & Media at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore); LASALLE College of the Arts (Singapore); & The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Performance (US) Social Network Practice Online Symposium Schedule Online Registration The Art of the Networked Practice Online Symposium is an international gathering presenting emerging research, artistic work, and technological innovation in the networked arts. Intended as a global…
ABC No Rio In Exile Call for Collaboration: “The Game Show”
The Game Show is a cooperative, participatory arts project initiated by ABC No Rio and artists involved with No Rio’s 2017 Flux Factory collaboration, Against Competition/Towards Mutual Aid. Inspired by non-competitive games such as hacky sack, hot lava, keep-the-balloon-up-in-the-air, cooperative role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons, and the surrealist drawing exercise Exquisite Corpse, The Game Show will take place in the blurry boundary land between art, community, and game playing. We are seeking collaborators to join us in the experimental process of developing the exhibition. The show itself will be a game made of components that participants choose and cooperatively…
VRHAM! 2018 – Virtual Reality & Arts Festival Hamburg
A chance to immerse yourself, relax, marvel, empathise, cross new boundaries, discover fascinating worlds and have a new, 360-degree experience – all that and much more is offered by the first German Virtual Reality & Arts Festival HAMburg: VRHAM! From 7 to 17 June 2018 VRHAM! presents numerous VR experiences by international artists and creative minds, as well as live performances and guided Virtual Reality tours. The varied events program comprises workshops and discussions, lectures and panel meetings on the topic of virtual reality. A high-profile international jury will be awarding the EUR 5,000 »VRHAMMY! Award« for the best VR…
Open Call: The Cube Art Project and MACAA International Digital Art Competition
The Cube Art Project (CAP) Biannual International Digital Art Competition hosts it’s third exhibition on the Cube May 18, 2018. ALL ARTISTS are welcome including MACAA members. We will host two screening events: CAP screening May 2018 – May 2019 AND a special screening on Oct 4, 2018 titled: “Digital Art Screening Exhibition for the 2018 Mid-America College Art Association Conference: Techne Expanding.” We are seeking video art, animations, motion graphics, projects for screening on our large three dimensional monitor (the Cube). This 750 sq ft screen is seen by hundreds of people on a slow day, but it’s also…