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Below are conferences of potential interest to the Fables and Formulas community, listed in reverse chronological order. Each conference listing also includes an attendee reference/ficticious scenario to demonstrate its particular appeal. For quick browsing, conferences held in the United States are noted in red; those in Europe, in green; those in Canada, in purple. For additional resources which may list relevant conferences, please visit the Institutional Infrastructure Promoting Collaboration page on this wiki.
March 18-21, 2009
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
http://artslab.unm.edu/leo40
Description:Description on website: Leonardo's"Leonardo's 40th anniversary conference will address key issues for the next decade that require interaction between the arts, humanities, and sciences or between arts, humanities and new technologies. The conference will consist of the following tracks: New Leonardos, New Medicis: Showcasing the best of a new generation; Climate Change: Arts and hard humanities on the front line of cultural change; Re-Designing the World: From nano science to the space option; Limits to Understanding: New methods for burning issues, including a symposium on neo-Darwinism.neo-Darwinism."
Attendee scenario: New Leonardos would be a useful conference for artists interested in science or between scientists interested in the arts. Anyone interested in the intersection of the arts, sciences, humanities, and technologies would benefit from attending this conference.
October 10-11, 2008
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
http://cdrh.unl.edu/opportunities/neb_digital_workshop/index.php
Description:Description on website: The"The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln will host the third annual Nebraska Digital Workshop. Through a competitive process, selected early-career scholars will be invited to present their work in digital humanities. Additionally, two nationally recognized digital humanists will be participating in the workshop: Greg Crane, Perseus Project and Katherine Hayles, Distinguished Professor of Literature in English and Media Arts, UCLA. The goal of the workshop is to enable the best early-career scholars (pre-tenure faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and advanced graduate students) in the field of digital humanities to present their work in a forum where it can be critically evaluated, improved, and showcased. The Nebraska Digital Workshop will offer opportunities to discuss the potential of humanities computing, present examples of successful projects created at the CDRH, share strategies for developing administrative and institutional support for digital humanities scholarship at the applicants’ home institutions, and discuss external funding options. The Workshop ultimately endeavors to foster a network of digital scholars who will come together across disciplinary boundaries at the Workshop, and who in the future will advance humanities computing and help define the state of the field.field." This workshop has a call for papers out: applicants are asked to submit a three-page narrative abstract for an approximately 30 minute presentation of their digital project along with files of, or links to, any digital elements, electronic text, analytical tools, or multimedia visualizations already created. Presentations will be selected on the basis of: the significance of the project in the scholar’s primary disciplinary field, elements of technical innovation, theoretical and methodological sophistication, and creativity of approach to the subject.
Attendee scenario: This workshop is ideal for early-career scholars interested in digital humanities. It is an opportunity for the presentation and critical evaluation of current projects in the digital humanities field. The Nebraska Digital Workshop might also be beneficial for anyone looking for external funding options for digital humanities projects.
Humanities and Technology Association 2008 Annual Conference
October 4, 2008
Borough of Manhattan Community College of the City of New York
http://www.humanitiesandtechnology.org/conferences.htm
Description: The Humanities and Technology Association sponsors annual conferences that"that explore themes at the humanities and technology interface.interface." This year’s theme has not been set yet. Past themes include: “Sustainable Transformations: Technology and Its Environments,” "ReConfigurations: Arts, Humanities, and Technology in the Urban Environment,” and “Ethical Issues and Creativity in the Humanities and Technology.”
Attendee scenario: Once the theme for this year's conference is selected then a more specific user scenario can be created.
LESS REMOTE - The Futures of Space Exploration: an Arts & Humanities Symposium
September 30 - October 1, 2008
Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC), Glasgow, Scotland
http://www.artscatalyst.org/projects/space/lessremote.html
Description: This symposium, sponsored by the Arts Council of England, aims to “consider the future of space exploration in the context of our current understanding of social, economic and technological imperatives. One of the goals of the symposium is to foster a dialogue and exchange between the cultural and space communities.” In the call for papers, the organizers encourage submissions from all disciplines on the subjects of “cultures and space,” “the introspective urge” of all people, humans’ desires to “leave a trace” in the universe, and the concept of “living space” (or colonizing space). These categories are all geared toward the broad theme of the “wider implications of the scientific exploration of space.”
Attendee scenario: This symposium would be an ideal event for those interested in philosophy or cultural studies, as well as those involved in the arts and the sciences. The social and cultural implications of the future of space travel have an impact upon every facet of human life. For the arts researcher and practitioner, however, the “living space” theme may be most useful. Certainly, this portion of the conference would give architects and designers the opportunity to collaborate with scientists, in order to figure out what kind of building design would be feasible in a zero-gravity, zero-oxygen environment.
UK e-Science All Hands Meeting (AHM): Crossing Boundaries
September 8-11, 2008
Edinburgh, Scotland
http://www.allhands.org.uk/2008/programme/call.cfm
Description: This is a forum for discussion and demonstration of a broad range of e-Science projects, and calls for contributions from all disciplines. While the focus of the conference is computational science learning, one extensive workshop lead by the Arts & Humanities e-Science Support Centre in particular appeals to the humanities scholar: e-Science in the Arts and Humanities: Early Experiments and Systematic Investigations. The call for proposals include advanced arts and humanities research infrastructure scenarios; advanced collaboration scenarios for geographically distributed collaborative research; advanced arts and humanities data management and storage; text and media integration and interoperability; advanced discovery and analysis methods for arts and humanities data: text-mining, visualization, etc.; use of e-Science tools and methodologies in practice-led research; legal and ethical issues of open access initiatives; the impact of e-Science on the research life cycle in arts and humanities; and work flows to support arts and humanities research.
Attendee scenario: As the relevant workshop is structured around creating an agenda for the future of the integration of e-Science in the Arts and Humanities, this conference would be particularly intriguing for advanced humanities scholars interested in integrating their groundbreaking cross-disciplinary research with that of UK-based peers; or, alternatively, a developer of the e-Science tools that are being re-purposed for humanities research. This isn't the conference for the neophyte scholar.
ACM SIGGRAPH Conference
Mathematics, Music, Art, Architecture, Culture
July 24-28, 2008
Leeuwarden, CHN University Netherlands (where Escher was born)
http://www.bridgesmathart.org/
Description: The Bridges organization runs annual conferences where there is a confluence of mathematicians, scientists, artists, educators, musicians, writers, computer scientists, sculptors, dancers, weavers, and model builders. They encourage practitioners to explore beyond their fields of discipline. Key components of these conferences include not only formal presentations, but hands-on sessions, gallery displays, musical and theatrical events, as well as interactive sessions with artists who mesh arts and mathematics together. Past sessions included such topics as: Mathematical Visualization; Mathematics and Music; Computer Generated Art; Symmetry Structures; Origami; Mathematics and Architecture; Tessellations and Tilings; Aesthetical Connections between Mathematics and Humanities; Geometric Art in Two and Three Dimensions; and Geometries in Quilting.
Attendee scenario: The work of George Hart is exemplary of the math/art integration where he uses sculpture to represent mathematical concepts. Visual and performing artists who use a wide range of media that are oriented toward mathematical equations geometric patterns would be well suited for this conference.
Digital Humanities 2008
June 25-29, 2008
Oulu, Finland
http://www.ekl.oulu.fi/dh2008/index.html
Description: The call for proposals for the annual joint conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing includes topics such as computer-based research in cultural and historical studies; computing applications for the arts, architecture, and music; research issues such as
information design, modeling, and management; the cultural impact of new media; and the role of digital humanities in academic curricula. Keynote speakers include Eero Hyvönen, professor of Semantic Media Technology at the Helsinki University of Technology, and director of the Semantic Computing Research Group SeCo. Presenters include Tobias Blanke Stuart, Dunn Lorna Hughes and Mark Hedges (“e-Science in the Arts and Humanities – A methodological perspective”) and John A. Walsh ("The Chymistry of Isaac Newton and the Chymical Foundations of digital humanities"). Susan Schreibman (ACH - University of Maryland) is one of the nine scholars on the program committee. The call for proposals specifically requests interdisciplinary research; the program is incredibly varied with appeal for those interested in the historical humanities and avant-garde research.
Attendee scenario: This is the program that will restore the faith of the young historian who just can't take another annual conference that features close reading interpretations of thirteenth-century French literature in the local dialect. Here, our young scholar will be exposed to research that uses new technologies to explore historical culture, and yet still be able to tell his chair that he attended Martti Mäkinen's "The Middle English Grammar Corpus-a tool for studying the writing and speech systems of medieval English."
Art in Science and Science in Art
Description: This conference is named “Art in Science and Science in Art.” It takes place at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, Missouri. This conferences’ goal is to “explain how the arts can deepen students' understanding of science--and how science can enrich students' creativity and appreciation of the arts.” The conference features national and international speakers who include children’s author Seymour Simon and scientist/sculptor Bernie Zubrowski. This conference is sponsored by Springboard to Learning & Young Audiences of St. Louis, University of Missouri-St. Louis College of Education. Division of Continuing Education, Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis, Missouri Arts Council, a state agency.
Berkeley Big Bang 2008
June 2-4, 2008
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California
http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/events/education/bigbang
Description: Berkeley Big Bang 2008 is a three-day symposium and festival of new media and art hosted by the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and the Berkeley Center for New Media. Topics include “Remix: From Science to Art and Back in the Digital Age,” “Osmosis: What can the arts do for the sciences?,” and “Brilliant Noise: How Data Becomes Experience for Artists and Scientists.” Confirmed panelists include: Bronac Ferran, Writer, Researcher, Instructor at Royal College of Art in London, Past director of the Interdisciplinary Arts at Arts Council England;Jim Crutchfield, Complexity and Chaos Researcher, Professor of Physics at UC Davis, Co-founder and Scientific Director Art and Science laboratory; Ruth West, New Media artist, Director Visual Analytics and Interactive Technologies National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research Center, University of California, San Diego; and Wayne Lanier, Microbiologist, San Francisco Exploratorium. Additional panelists are listed on website above.
Attendee scenario: Berkeley Big Bang is a great opportunity for artists interested in new media to explore emerging technologies in science and humanities and their applications in the arts world.
25th Annual Human-Computer Interaction Lab Symposium
May 29-30, 2008
University of Maryland, College Park
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/soh/symposium.shtml
Description: The 25th Annual Human-Computer Interaction Lab Symposium will be presenting cutting-edge research being conducted at the HCIL, by continuing the tradition of demos and posters as a part of lab tours where attendees will be able to see the HCIL new facilities. The symposium is divided into three sessions: Books of the Future, Diverse Users, and Understanding Information. There will also be a wide variety of tutorials and workshops.
Attendee scenario: This symposium would be interesting for researchers interested in the technology and literature and the ways in which they interact and play off of each other.
TechnoTravels/TeleMobility: HASTAC in Motion
May 22-24, 2008
UC Irvine and UC Los Angeles, California
www.uchri.org
Description: The second annual HASTAC (“haystack”: Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory) conference is part of the University of California Presidential Humanities Initiative’s 20th anniversary (as is a workshop at UC Berkeley on "New Directions in Scholarship: Science/Gender/ Race/Nation,” May 5, 2008, and a series of lectures that combine medical science and humanities scholarship). This year’s conference "explores the multiple ways in which place, movement, borders, and identities are being renegotiated and remapped by new locative technologies." While the call for proposals has a very broad scope (essentially, concerning cybertravel and new technologies), this conference is key for those looking to make their mark on the development of cyberinfrastructure in the humanities.
Attendee scenario: Attendees must be comfortable around the kind of folks who seek projects that "delve into mobility as a modality of knowledge and stake out new spaces for humanistic inquiry.” Rooming together at this conference might be a GIS specialist who pioneered integrating her mapping prowess into the humanities classroom, and a Second Life devotee who two years ago at 15 developed an award-winning computer game that immediately spawned multiple Ph.D. theses for its insightful look into avatar psychology.
Digital Diasporas: Digital Humanities and African American/African Diaspora Studies
May 1-3, 2008
University of Maryland, College Park
http://www.mith2.umd.edu/diaspora2008
Description: The African American/African Diaspora Studies Area Group of the English Department and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) announce “Digital Diasporas: Digital Humanities and African American/African Diaspora Studies.” The program will begin on May 1st and 2nd with hands-on workshops, including one which will provide a practical introduction to text encoding; a second that will focus on navigating online resources in African American and African Diaspora Studies; and a third on using Second Life in teaching and research. The workshops will be followed by a panel showcasing work by scholars in the field of African American/African Diaspora Studies that address and/or make use of digital technologies and new media. The keynote address by Abdul Alkalimat (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) will be followed by a reception and the presentation of a multi-media art installation by the artist, Pamela Z. The last day will be taken up by panels and seminars; a digital “poster” session, where presenters will use laptops to introduce projects by students, faculty and independent scholars; a book fair; and a closing multi-media performance and book/CD signing by DJ Spooky.
Attendee scenario: Any researcher interested in the intersection of teaching African American studies by using technologies and new media (specifically Second Life) would benefit from attending the Digital Diasporas conference.
June 27-29, 2007
University College, London, England
http://www.artdes.mmu.ac.uk/rnsacg/
Description: This conference was designed to “bring together artists and scientists working in ceramics and glass to share their current interests and investigations.” It was the hope of the organizers of the event that this conference would spark ongoing collaborative partnerships between scientists and ceramics and glass artists. The call for papers for this conference was geared toward the end of exploring emerging scientific discoveries in the field, and their application to art. One example of a collaborative paper presented was “Art, Industry and Architecture: A Collaborative Research Project,” by Alasdair Bremner and David Binns of the University of Central Lancashire.
Attendee scenario: This conference, and the papers resulting from it, would be useful to ceramics and glass artists, as well as architects, who are looking for the best scientific processes needed in order to improve the results of experimental architecture and glass and ceramic art.
Electronic Techtonics: Thinking at the Interface
April 19-21, 2007
Durham, North Carolina
http://www.hastac.org/informationyear/conferenceRFP
Description: This was the first annual international conference of HASTAC (“haystack”: Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory). Presenters included information scientist John Seely Brown (The Social Life of Information; formerly Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and Director of its Palo Alto Research Center/PARC), legal theorist James Boyle (co-founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain, Creative Commons, and Science Commons) and John Unsworth (of ACLS “Cyberinfrastructure and the Humanities and Social Sciences” commission fame). The conference also included presentations of refereed scholarly and scientific papers, multimedia performances and an exhibit hall of innovative software and hardware. The call for proposals covered topics such as interfaces between humans and computers, mind and brain, real and virtual worlds, science and fiction, consumers and producers, and text-archives and multi-media.
Attendee scenario: A conference attendee, a lone arranger at a small archives, shares an elevator with a leading human-computer interaction specialist on her way to make her presentation; by the time the elevator reaches its destination, the archivist has gleaned at least five tips on how to make his online finding aids more intuitive, interactive and user friendly.
Annual Conference of the Association of Medical Illustrators
2006 and earlier
Beyond Mimesis and Nominalism: Representation in Art and Science
June 22-23, 2006
London School of Economics and Political Science, London, England
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/artAndScience/
Description: This conference focused on the subject of representation in art and science, and how dialogue about one subject could inform the study of the other. The conference presenters stressed that representation in art is not that different from representation in science, and challenged scholars to rethink their interpretations of visual representation across academic fields. The call for papers encouraged “submissions that explore the “how” of representation—papers that can enrich our understanding of the techniques employed in scientific representation and/or address their semantic structures or historical convergences with artistic practices - and vice versa.” Example papers from the conference include “Composite Images and Pure Dreams: The Communicative Functions of Iconic Signs,” by Mats Bergman of the University of Helsinki, and “Learning Through Fictional Representations in Art and Science,” by David Davies of McGill University.
Attendee scenario: Researchers who would benefit from this field include academics in the arts and the sciences, as well as science and art librarians. The central theme of representation challenges those who write about and study the arts and sciences to rethink the ways in which they analyze and interpret images, and also to rethink the way in which they classify certain images.
1st International Digital Curation Conference
September 29-30, 2005
Hilton Bath City hotel, Bath, England
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/dcc-2005/programme/
Description: This conference was aimed at information scientists who were charged with the preservation and curation of information, but a key component of the conference was also the application of scientific methods to the preservation of art. Specifically, both arts and scientific researchers authored papers focused on this subject. For example, Sheila Anderson of the Arts & Humanities Data Service and Professor Kevin Schürer of the UK Data Archive presented their research during the same panel session.
Attendee scenario: One research scenario for this conference would involve a museum curator who is dealing with a new collection of digital art. This curator is used to dealing with physical objects, and now needs a basic grasp of digital preservation. The papers presented at this conference would give the curator this basic grasp.
Refresh! First International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology
Sept. 28 – Oct. 1, 2005
Banff, Canada
http://www.banffcentre.ca/bnmi/programs/archives/2005/refresh/lisiten.asp
Description: The Banff New Media Institute purported to produce the “first international art history conference covering art and new media, art and technology, art-science interaction, and the history of media as pertinent to contemporary art.” The conference sought to document the history of audiovisual media from the laterna magica through to the current state of virtual art. Presentations covered an eclectic mix of emerging disciplines in media art such as Visual Psychology and Histories of Sciences and Technologies, as well as Sound, Film and Media Histories. Furthermore, cultural contexts added another dimension to new media scholarship which called out specifically for attention to international perspectives. Of particular concern was the neglect of appropriate conservation methods of media art. Among the presentations were topics such as: Between Form and Concept - The Positioning of Computer-Based Arts in the Late 1960s; Technophilia, Vietnam, and the Rise and Fall of 'Art and Technology' in the United States, 1965-1971; Gordon Pask - Cybernetic Polymath, and Database of Virtual Art - For an Expanded Concept of Documentation. Giving a culturally diverse perspective to the conference were scholars from countries like Brazil, Pakistan, Germany, and Hong Kong.
Attendee Scenario: Art historians from around the world with particular interest in the interface of technology and art would be good candidates for attending this conference.
Rules of Engagement Conference
September 5-7, 2005
University of York, Yorkshire, England
http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/aboutus/project_detail.php?sid=4&id=304
Description: This conference was sponsored by the Affinities Project, a branch of England’s Arts Council. The aim of the project is to “support, encourage and activate partnerships between art and science, and artists and scientists engaged in the investigation of common concerns.” The call for conference papers emphasized “work from across the world and aimed to provide a platform to debate the politics, ethics and role of the imagination in the interplay between art and science, and to explore what art and science can really offer each other within the wider cultural environment.” Since the conference, the Arts Council has continued this dialogue between scientists and artists on its web site, where it highlights various collaborative projects. Current projects include Lumen, a project combining seismometers and sound arts, and Hylo, an exploration of music using scientific imaging techniques.
Attendee scenario: A practicing artist or a scientist who is interested in groundbreaking creative collaboration would benefit greatly from both the conference and the web site. No idea is too avant garde for the Arts Council, and every kind of experimental project is welcomed.
XVI International Congress of Classical Archaeology of the Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica (AIAC)
August 23-26, 2003
Cambridge, Massachusetts
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byform/mailing-lists/cdl/2002/0882.html
Description: The theme of this conference was "Common Ground: Archaeology, Art, Science, and Humanities,” designed to bring together scholars from these diverse fields in order to put forth new perspectives and new methodologies. The call for proposals included topics such as Science in Archaeology, Computers in Classical Archaeology, Iconography and Religion, and Classical Architecture and City Planning.
Attendee scenario: With its convergence of technology, architecture and public service, this conference would have appealed to a computer scientist looking to integrate her technical skills with her new career as an urban planner and landscape architect.
Conference on A New Space for Culture and Society (New Ideas in Science and Art)
November 19 – 23, 1996
Prague, Czech Republic
http://archives.cicv.fr/council/
Description: The conference was convened for professionals from European countries in the fields of science, philosophy, art, and sociology. The idea was to facilitate discussion on transformations in these fields and their effects on contemporary society and culture. Four main areas of discussion were targeted: 1). the meeting of art and science where science invents new space and art makes the space habitable; 2). fractal geometry and chaos theory where the description of space and spatial organization directly impacts society; new technologies where new products create new definitions for the meaning of Western civilization; and 3).socio-political and cultural implications where the interface of media communications with art formulates a cultural dynamic. This last one illustrates their focus on Europe... “for all countries in Europe as changing political, economic and technological circumstances force countries to redefine their societies and the needs and responsibilities of the individual citizen.” The goal is to foster the cooperation between the arts and sciences in order to meet the needs of a dynamic society.
Attendee Scenario: This conference would be of particular interest to architects who pay careful attention to the impact of art and space on society and are designing for European spaces.
Created by Anne McDonough, Heather Meixler, Amanda Montgomery, Lara Nosek and Robin Pachtman
2009
New Leonardos Engaged in the Burning Issues of Our Times March 18-21, 2009
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
http://artslab.unm.edu/leo40
Description:Description on website: Leonardo's"Leonardo's 40th anniversary conference will address key issues for the next decade that require interaction between the arts, humanities, and sciences or between arts, humanities and new technologies. The conference will consist of the following tracks: New Leonardos, New Medicis: Showcasing the best of a new generation; Climate Change: Arts and hard humanities on the front line of cultural change; Re-Designing the World: From nano science to the space option; Limits to Understanding: New methods for burning issues, including a symposium on neo-Darwinism.neo-Darwinism."
Attendee scenario: New Leonardos would be a useful conference for artists interested in science or between scientists interested in the arts. Anyone interested in the intersection of the arts, sciences, humanities, and technologies would benefit from attending this conference.
2008
Nebraska Digital Workshop October 10-11, 2008
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
http://cdrh.unl.edu/opportunities/neb_digital_workshop/index.php
Description:Description on website: The"The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln will host the third annual Nebraska Digital Workshop. Through a competitive process, selected early-career scholars will be invited to present their work in digital humanities. Additionally, two nationally recognized digital humanists will be participating in the workshop: Greg Crane, Perseus Project and Katherine Hayles, Distinguished Professor of Literature in English and Media Arts, UCLA. The goal of the workshop is to enable the best early-career scholars (pre-tenure faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and advanced graduate students) in the field of digital humanities to present their work in a forum where it can be critically evaluated, improved, and showcased. The Nebraska Digital Workshop will offer opportunities to discuss the potential of humanities computing, present examples of successful projects created at the CDRH, share strategies for developing administrative and institutional support for digital humanities scholarship at the applicants’ home institutions, and discuss external funding options. The Workshop ultimately endeavors to foster a network of digital scholars who will come together across disciplinary boundaries at the Workshop, and who in the future will advance humanities computing and help define the state of the field.field." This workshop has a call for papers out: applicants are asked to submit a three-page narrative abstract for an approximately 30 minute presentation of their digital project along with files of, or links to, any digital elements, electronic text, analytical tools, or multimedia visualizations already created. Presentations will be selected on the basis of: the significance of the project in the scholar’s primary disciplinary field, elements of technical innovation, theoretical and methodological sophistication, and creativity of approach to the subject.
Attendee scenario: This workshop is ideal for early-career scholars interested in digital humanities. It is an opportunity for the presentation and critical evaluation of current projects in the digital humanities field. The Nebraska Digital Workshop might also be beneficial for anyone looking for external funding options for digital humanities projects.
Humanities and Technology Association 2008 Annual Conference
October 4, 2008
Borough of Manhattan Community College of the City of New York
http://www.humanitiesandtechnology.org/conferences.htm
Description: The Humanities and Technology Association sponsors annual conferences that"that explore themes at the humanities and technology interface.interface." This year’s theme has not been set yet. Past themes include: “Sustainable Transformations: Technology and Its Environments,” "ReConfigurations: Arts, Humanities, and Technology in the Urban Environment,” and “Ethical Issues and Creativity in the Humanities and Technology.”
Attendee scenario: Once the theme for this year's conference is selected then a more specific user scenario can be created.
LESS REMOTE - The Futures of Space Exploration: an Arts & Humanities Symposium
September 30 - October 1, 2008
Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC), Glasgow, Scotland
http://www.artscatalyst.org/projects/space/lessremote.html
Description: This symposium, sponsored by the Arts Council of England, aims to “consider the future of space exploration in the context of our current understanding of social, economic and technological imperatives. One of the goals of the symposium is to foster a dialogue and exchange between the cultural and space communities.” In the call for papers, the organizers encourage submissions from all disciplines on the subjects of “cultures and space,” “the introspective urge” of all people, humans’ desires to “leave a trace” in the universe, and the concept of “living space” (or colonizing space). These categories are all geared toward the broad theme of the “wider implications of the scientific exploration of space.”
Attendee scenario: This symposium would be an ideal event for those interested in philosophy or cultural studies, as well as those involved in the arts and the sciences. The social and cultural implications of the future of space travel have an impact upon every facet of human life. For the arts researcher and practitioner, however, the “living space” theme may be most useful. Certainly, this portion of the conference would give architects and designers the opportunity to collaborate with scientists, in order to figure out what kind of building design would be feasible in a zero-gravity, zero-oxygen environment.
UK e-Science All Hands Meeting (AHM): Crossing Boundaries
September 8-11, 2008
Edinburgh, Scotland
http://www.allhands.org.uk/2008/programme/call.cfm
Description: This is a forum for discussion and demonstration of a broad range of e-Science projects, and calls for contributions from all disciplines. While the focus of the conference is computational science learning, one extensive workshop lead by the Arts & Humanities e-Science Support Centre in particular appeals to the humanities scholar: e-Science in the Arts and Humanities: Early Experiments and Systematic Investigations. The call for proposals include advanced arts and humanities research infrastructure scenarios; advanced collaboration scenarios for geographically distributed collaborative research; advanced arts and humanities data management and storage; text and media integration and interoperability; advanced discovery and analysis methods for arts and humanities data: text-mining, visualization, etc.; use of e-Science tools and methodologies in practice-led research; legal and ethical issues of open access initiatives; the impact of e-Science on the research life cycle in arts and humanities; and work flows to support arts and humanities research.
Attendee scenario: As the relevant workshop is structured around creating an agenda for the future of the integration of e-Science in the Arts and Humanities, this conference would be particularly intriguing for advanced humanities scholars interested in integrating their groundbreaking cross-disciplinary research with that of UK-based peers; or, alternatively, a developer of the e-Science tools that are being re-purposed for humanities research. This isn't the conference for the neophyte scholar.
ACM SIGGRAPH Conference
August 11, 2008
Los Angeles, California
Description: The annual Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on GRAPHics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH) conference dates back to 1974. This organization's mission is to "promote the generation and dissemination of information on computer graphics and interactive techniques." They do this through upholding the values of excellence, volunteerism, integrity, passion and cross-disciplinary interaction. This organization truly values the artists in their community. They hold art shows, galleries, digital performances at their conferences. They also feature artists at the conferences. For example, at the 2007 conference a featured speaker was Scott McCloud, author and graphic novelist. His speech was entitled, Comics: A Medium in Transition. The conference also makes an online gallery for the artists featured after each conference, these are available on the SIGGRAPH website. They are sponsored by top names in the technology and animation fields. Sony, Dreamworks and Intel are just a few. This conference also has a job fair, many exhibitions, technology lectures. Thousands of people attend this conference each year.
Attendee scenario: This conference would be perfect for a graphic artist or any artist who is looking to move beyond traditional mediums.
Attendee scenario: This conference would be perfect for a graphic artist or any artist who is looking to move beyond traditional mediums.
Mathematics, Music, Art, Architecture, Culture
July 24-28, 2008
Leeuwarden, CHN University Netherlands (where Escher was born)
http://www.bridgesmathart.org/
Description: The Bridges organization runs annual conferences where there is a confluence of mathematicians, scientists, artists, educators, musicians, writers, computer scientists, sculptors, dancers, weavers, and model builders. They encourage practitioners to explore beyond their fields of discipline. Key components of these conferences include not only formal presentations, but hands-on sessions, gallery displays, musical and theatrical events, as well as interactive sessions with artists who mesh arts and mathematics together. Past sessions included such topics as: Mathematical Visualization; Mathematics and Music; Computer Generated Art; Symmetry Structures; Origami; Mathematics and Architecture; Tessellations and Tilings; Aesthetical Connections between Mathematics and Humanities; Geometric Art in Two and Three Dimensions; and Geometries in Quilting.
Attendee scenario: The work of George Hart is exemplary of the math/art integration where he uses sculpture to represent mathematical concepts. Visual and performing artists who use a wide range of media that are oriented toward mathematical equations geometric patterns would be well suited for this conference.
June 25-29, 2008
Oulu, Finland
http://www.ekl.oulu.fi/dh2008/index.html
Description: The call for proposals for the annual joint conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing includes topics such as computer-based research in cultural and historical studies; computing applications for the arts, architecture, and music; research issues such as
information design, modeling, and management; the cultural impact of new media; and the role of digital humanities in academic curricula. Keynote speakers include Eero Hyvönen, professor of Semantic Media Technology at the Helsinki University of Technology, and director of the Semantic Computing Research Group SeCo. Presenters include Tobias Blanke Stuart, Dunn Lorna Hughes and Mark Hedges (“e-Science in the Arts and Humanities – A methodological perspective”) and John A. Walsh ("The Chymistry of Isaac Newton and the Chymical Foundations of digital humanities"). Susan Schreibman (ACH - University of Maryland) is one of the nine scholars on the program committee. The call for proposals specifically requests interdisciplinary research; the program is incredibly varied with appeal for those interested in the historical humanities and avant-garde research.
Attendee scenario: This is the program that will restore the faith of the young historian who just can't take another annual conference that features close reading interpretations of thirteenth-century French literature in the local dialect. Here, our young scholar will be exposed to research that uses new technologies to explore historical culture, and yet still be able to tell his chair that he attended Martti Mäkinen's "The Middle English Grammar Corpus-a tool for studying the writing and speech systems of medieval English."
Art in Science and Science in Art
June 5-6, 2008
St. Louis, Missouri
Description: This conference is named “Art in Science and Science in Art.” It takes place at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, Missouri. This conferences’ goal is to “explain how the arts can deepen students' understanding of science--and how science can enrich students' creativity and appreciation of the arts.” The conference features national and international speakers who include children’s author Seymour Simon and scientist/sculptor Bernie Zubrowski. This conference is sponsored by Springboard to Learning & Young Audiences of St. Louis, University of Missouri-St. Louis College of Education. Division of Continuing Education, Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis, Missouri Arts Council, a state agency.
Attendee scenario: This conference is targeted at teachers who teach grades Kindergarten through 8th grade. Therefore, one scenario could be a high school biology teacher looking invigorate their curriculum by integrating art into lesson plans.
Berkeley Big Bang 2008
June 2-4, 2008
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California
http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/events/education/bigbang
Description: Berkeley Big Bang 2008 is a three-day symposium and festival of new media and art hosted by the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and the Berkeley Center for New Media. Topics include “Remix: From Science to Art and Back in the Digital Age,” “Osmosis: What can the arts do for the sciences?,” and “Brilliant Noise: How Data Becomes Experience for Artists and Scientists.” Confirmed panelists include: Bronac Ferran, Writer, Researcher, Instructor at Royal College of Art in London, Past director of the Interdisciplinary Arts at Arts Council England;Jim Crutchfield, Complexity and Chaos Researcher, Professor of Physics at UC Davis, Co-founder and Scientific Director Art and Science laboratory; Ruth West, New Media artist, Director Visual Analytics and Interactive Technologies National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research Center, University of California, San Diego; and Wayne Lanier, Microbiologist, San Francisco Exploratorium. Additional panelists are listed on website above.
Attendee scenario: Berkeley Big Bang is a great opportunity for artists interested in new media to explore emerging technologies in science and humanities and their applications in the arts world.
25th Annual Human-Computer Interaction Lab Symposium
May 29-30, 2008
University of Maryland, College Park
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/soh/symposium.shtml
Description: The 25th Annual Human-Computer Interaction Lab Symposium will be presenting cutting-edge research being conducted at the HCIL, by continuing the tradition of demos and posters as a part of lab tours where attendees will be able to see the HCIL new facilities. The symposium is divided into three sessions: Books of the Future, Diverse Users, and Understanding Information. There will also be a wide variety of tutorials and workshops.
Attendee scenario: This symposium would be interesting for researchers interested in the technology and literature and the ways in which they interact and play off of each other.
TechnoTravels/TeleMobility: HASTAC in Motion
May 22-24, 2008
UC Irvine and UC Los Angeles, California
www.uchri.org
Description: The second annual HASTAC (“haystack”: Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory) conference is part of the University of California Presidential Humanities Initiative’s 20th anniversary (as is a workshop at UC Berkeley on "New Directions in Scholarship: Science/Gender/ Race/Nation,” May 5, 2008, and a series of lectures that combine medical science and humanities scholarship). This year’s conference "explores the multiple ways in which place, movement, borders, and identities are being renegotiated and remapped by new locative technologies." While the call for proposals has a very broad scope (essentially, concerning cybertravel and new technologies), this conference is key for those looking to make their mark on the development of cyberinfrastructure in the humanities.
Attendee scenario: Attendees must be comfortable around the kind of folks who seek projects that "delve into mobility as a modality of knowledge and stake out new spaces for humanistic inquiry.” Rooming together at this conference might be a GIS specialist who pioneered integrating her mapping prowess into the humanities classroom, and a Second Life devotee who two years ago at 15 developed an award-winning computer game that immediately spawned multiple Ph.D. theses for its insightful look into avatar psychology.
Digital Diasporas: Digital Humanities and African American/African Diaspora Studies
May 1-3, 2008
University of Maryland, College Park
http://www.mith2.umd.edu/diaspora2008
Description: The African American/African Diaspora Studies Area Group of the English Department and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) announce “Digital Diasporas: Digital Humanities and African American/African Diaspora Studies.” The program will begin on May 1st and 2nd with hands-on workshops, including one which will provide a practical introduction to text encoding; a second that will focus on navigating online resources in African American and African Diaspora Studies; and a third on using Second Life in teaching and research. The workshops will be followed by a panel showcasing work by scholars in the field of African American/African Diaspora Studies that address and/or make use of digital technologies and new media. The keynote address by Abdul Alkalimat (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) will be followed by a reception and the presentation of a multi-media art installation by the artist, Pamela Z. The last day will be taken up by panels and seminars; a digital “poster” session, where presenters will use laptops to introduce projects by students, faculty and independent scholars; a book fair; and a closing multi-media performance and book/CD signing by DJ Spooky.
Attendee scenario: Any researcher interested in the intersection of teaching African American studies by using technologies and new media (specifically Second Life) would benefit from attending the Digital Diasporas conference.
2007
Atoms to Art 2 Conference June 27-29, 2007
University College, London, England
http://www.artdes.mmu.ac.uk/rnsacg/
Description: This conference was designed to “bring together artists and scientists working in ceramics and glass to share their current interests and investigations.” It was the hope of the organizers of the event that this conference would spark ongoing collaborative partnerships between scientists and ceramics and glass artists. The call for papers for this conference was geared toward the end of exploring emerging scientific discoveries in the field, and their application to art. One example of a collaborative paper presented was “Art, Industry and Architecture: A Collaborative Research Project,” by Alasdair Bremner and David Binns of the University of Central Lancashire.
Attendee scenario: This conference, and the papers resulting from it, would be useful to ceramics and glass artists, as well as architects, who are looking for the best scientific processes needed in order to improve the results of experimental architecture and glass and ceramic art.
Electronic Techtonics: Thinking at the Interface
April 19-21, 2007
Durham, North Carolina
http://www.hastac.org/informationyear/conferenceRFP
Description: This was the first annual international conference of HASTAC (“haystack”: Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory). Presenters included information scientist John Seely Brown (The Social Life of Information; formerly Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and Director of its Palo Alto Research Center/PARC), legal theorist James Boyle (co-founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain, Creative Commons, and Science Commons) and John Unsworth (of ACLS “Cyberinfrastructure and the Humanities and Social Sciences” commission fame). The conference also included presentations of refereed scholarly and scientific papers, multimedia performances and an exhibit hall of innovative software and hardware. The call for proposals covered topics such as interfaces between humans and computers, mind and brain, real and virtual worlds, science and fiction, consumers and producers, and text-archives and multi-media.
Attendee scenario: A conference attendee, a lone arranger at a small archives, shares an elevator with a leading human-computer interaction specialist on her way to make her presentation; by the time the elevator reaches its destination, the archivist has gleaned at least five tips on how to make his online finding aids more intuitive, interactive and user friendly.
Annual Conference of the Association of Medical Illustrators
July 18-21, 2007
Bozeman, MT
Description: Annual Conference of the Association of Medical Illustrators takes place in annually in different location around the country. This conference is a forum for artists who specialize in creating medical illustrations for educational and practical purposes. This conference discusses new technologies and legal issues as well as hosting speakers and demonstrative sessions. One session at the 2007 conference was a demonstration by Richard Fiscella, RPh, MPH, a Clinical Professor at the University of Illinois, of Virtually™ – Virtual Eye. This simulation demonstrated how 3D computer modeling and virtual reality technology were used to create an affordable, portable VR application. Both normal anatomy and ocular disease states, including impaired vision simulations, were shown. This conference also showcased artwork in their "Art Salon." These entries compete for awards in 12 professional and 8 student categories. (Twomey, Catherine. The 62nd Annual Conference of the Association of Medical Illustrators, UK's Journal of Visual Communication in Medicine.) The 2008 conference will be held in Indianapolis, Indiana on July 16th to 20th.
Attendee scenario: This conference would be perfect for an artist who also may have a background in chemistry, biology, medicine or other health/science fields.
Attendee scenario: This conference would be perfect for an artist who also may have a background in chemistry, biology, medicine or other health/science fields.
2006 and earlier
Beyond Mimesis and Nominalism: Representation in Art and Science
June 22-23, 2006
London School of Economics and Political Science, London, England
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/artAndScience/
Description: This conference focused on the subject of representation in art and science, and how dialogue about one subject could inform the study of the other. The conference presenters stressed that representation in art is not that different from representation in science, and challenged scholars to rethink their interpretations of visual representation across academic fields. The call for papers encouraged “submissions that explore the “how” of representation—papers that can enrich our understanding of the techniques employed in scientific representation and/or address their semantic structures or historical convergences with artistic practices - and vice versa.” Example papers from the conference include “Composite Images and Pure Dreams: The Communicative Functions of Iconic Signs,” by Mats Bergman of the University of Helsinki, and “Learning Through Fictional Representations in Art and Science,” by David Davies of McGill University.
Attendee scenario: Researchers who would benefit from this field include academics in the arts and the sciences, as well as science and art librarians. The central theme of representation challenges those who write about and study the arts and sciences to rethink the ways in which they analyze and interpret images, and also to rethink the way in which they classify certain images.
1st International Digital Curation Conference
September 29-30, 2005
Hilton Bath City hotel, Bath, England
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/dcc-2005/programme/
Description: This conference was aimed at information scientists who were charged with the preservation and curation of information, but a key component of the conference was also the application of scientific methods to the preservation of art. Specifically, both arts and scientific researchers authored papers focused on this subject. For example, Sheila Anderson of the Arts & Humanities Data Service and Professor Kevin Schürer of the UK Data Archive presented their research during the same panel session.
Attendee scenario: One research scenario for this conference would involve a museum curator who is dealing with a new collection of digital art. This curator is used to dealing with physical objects, and now needs a basic grasp of digital preservation. The papers presented at this conference would give the curator this basic grasp.
Refresh! First International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology
Sept. 28 – Oct. 1, 2005
Banff, Canada
http://www.banffcentre.ca/bnmi/programs/archives/2005/refresh/lisiten.asp
Description: The Banff New Media Institute purported to produce the “first international art history conference covering art and new media, art and technology, art-science interaction, and the history of media as pertinent to contemporary art.” The conference sought to document the history of audiovisual media from the laterna magica through to the current state of virtual art. Presentations covered an eclectic mix of emerging disciplines in media art such as Visual Psychology and Histories of Sciences and Technologies, as well as Sound, Film and Media Histories. Furthermore, cultural contexts added another dimension to new media scholarship which called out specifically for attention to international perspectives. Of particular concern was the neglect of appropriate conservation methods of media art. Among the presentations were topics such as: Between Form and Concept - The Positioning of Computer-Based Arts in the Late 1960s; Technophilia, Vietnam, and the Rise and Fall of 'Art and Technology' in the United States, 1965-1971; Gordon Pask - Cybernetic Polymath, and Database of Virtual Art - For an Expanded Concept of Documentation. Giving a culturally diverse perspective to the conference were scholars from countries like Brazil, Pakistan, Germany, and Hong Kong.
Attendee Scenario: Art historians from around the world with particular interest in the interface of technology and art would be good candidates for attending this conference.
Rules of Engagement Conference
September 5-7, 2005
University of York, Yorkshire, England
http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/aboutus/project_detail.php?sid=4&id=304
Description: This conference was sponsored by the Affinities Project, a branch of England’s Arts Council. The aim of the project is to “support, encourage and activate partnerships between art and science, and artists and scientists engaged in the investigation of common concerns.” The call for conference papers emphasized “work from across the world and aimed to provide a platform to debate the politics, ethics and role of the imagination in the interplay between art and science, and to explore what art and science can really offer each other within the wider cultural environment.” Since the conference, the Arts Council has continued this dialogue between scientists and artists on its web site, where it highlights various collaborative projects. Current projects include Lumen, a project combining seismometers and sound arts, and Hylo, an exploration of music using scientific imaging techniques.
Attendee scenario: A practicing artist or a scientist who is interested in groundbreaking creative collaboration would benefit greatly from both the conference and the web site. No idea is too avant garde for the Arts Council, and every kind of experimental project is welcomed.
XVI International Congress of Classical Archaeology of the Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica (AIAC)
August 23-26, 2003
Cambridge, Massachusetts
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byform/mailing-lists/cdl/2002/0882.html
Description: The theme of this conference was "Common Ground: Archaeology, Art, Science, and Humanities,” designed to bring together scholars from these diverse fields in order to put forth new perspectives and new methodologies. The call for proposals included topics such as Science in Archaeology, Computers in Classical Archaeology, Iconography and Religion, and Classical Architecture and City Planning.
Attendee scenario: With its convergence of technology, architecture and public service, this conference would have appealed to a computer scientist looking to integrate her technical skills with her new career as an urban planner and landscape architect.
Conference on A New Space for Culture and Society (New Ideas in Science and Art)
November 19 – 23, 1996
Prague, Czech Republic
http://archives.cicv.fr/council/
Description: The conference was convened for professionals from European countries in the fields of science, philosophy, art, and sociology. The idea was to facilitate discussion on transformations in these fields and their effects on contemporary society and culture. Four main areas of discussion were targeted: 1). the meeting of art and science where science invents new space and art makes the space habitable; 2). fractal geometry and chaos theory where the description of space and spatial organization directly impacts society; new technologies where new products create new definitions for the meaning of Western civilization; and 3).socio-political and cultural implications where the interface of media communications with art formulates a cultural dynamic. This last one illustrates their focus on Europe... “for all countries in Europe as changing political, economic and technological circumstances force countries to redefine their societies and the needs and responsibilities of the individual citizen.” The goal is to foster the cooperation between the arts and sciences in order to meet the needs of a dynamic society.
Attendee Scenario: This conference would be of particular interest to architects who pay careful attention to the impact of art and space on society and are designing for European spaces.
Created by Anne McDonough, Heather Meixler, Amanda Montgomery, Lara Nosek and Robin Pachtman
