[node-l] [DAC09-announce] DAC09 communiqué 1
Simon Penny
dac09dir at uci.edu
Wed Sep 17 19:28:11 CEST 2008
DAC09communiqué1-17sep08
Dear Colleagues,
Greetings to all.
This is the first of several communiqués
regarding the Digital Art and Culture (DAC)2009
conference. The 2009 conference will occur in
mid-December, 2009, on the campus of the
University of California, Irvine, in sunny Orange
County, just south of Los Angeles.
Primarily, this communiqué is an invitation for
you to be involved - as a delegate, as a speaker,
as a performer, as a reviewer, as a theme leader
as an event organizer, or in any other capacity.
The first three categories are self-explanatory,
the paragraphs below explain the others. Right
now, the most pressing issue is the Call for
Themes and Theme Leaders. Further down: some
details of the calendar and the event -
provisional, as they must be at this point.
DAC is an international conference series
established in 1998. I'm very pleased to have the
opportunity to direct this iteration of DAC. I
hope that it is a high point in the tradition of
engaged and topical, intellectually rigorous,
interdisciplinary, mid-scale, horizontally
structured events which makes DAC, in my opinion,
special.
I have been involved in the world of digital art
and culture for 25 years, and active in the
development of interdisciplinary approaches to
practice, discourse and pedagogy. Along with my
art practice and writing, I edited an early 'new
media reader' (Critical Issues in Electronic
Media, SUNY Press 1995), organized an early
exhibition of interactive installation (Machine
Culture, SIGGRAPH'93). More recently I designed
and established the Arts Computation Engineering
graduate program at UCI. Further details of my
work can be found at www.ace.uci.edu/penny.
I will send such notices regularly to the
DAC09-announce list. Every attempt will be made
to keep them brief and succinct - though this one
does go on bit. Please forward this email as you
see fit. This posting is the first large-scale
test of the newly created list, and of the newly
created email address dac09dir at uci.edu. The
address list is compiled from previous DAC lists
and related email lists. Apologies in advance for
any for multiple and inappropriate postings. (See
below to subscribe, unsubscribe, or notify of
duplicate addresses etc.) Please notify us at
dac09inf at uci.edu if you do not get this posting :)
I look forward to seeing you at what promises to
be a dynamic and generative event.
Simon Penny.
Themes and Theme Leaders
In the interests of an optimally diverse,
relevant and topical conference, DAC09 will have
multiple themes. I invite all to propose Themes
for DAC09. The conference will be organized
around selected themes. I hope thiss trategy will
generate an event which is responsive to
contemporary concerns while remaining focused. I
personally hope to see themes proposed in the
following areas: Software Studies/Media
Archeology, Digital Art and Culture Pedagogy,
Neuroscience/Cognition/Interaction Design, Mobile
Media Practices, and other areas. Please do not
hesitate to propose in these, related and quite
different themes. I am keen to support new areas
of inquiry relevant to DAC, especially themes
which go beyond the usual Euro-American
academic/disciplinary preoccupations. Some
massaging of themes may be necessary. It may be
necessary to subdivide themes which receive many
accepted papers. Conversely undersubscribed
themes may have to be merged or not included.
Call for Themes/Theme Leaders:
To propose a theme title and 100 word outline is
required. Note that acceptance of a proposed
theme commits proposer to functioning as theme
leader. Responsibilities will not be arduous but
will include oversight of review process for that
theme, cooperating with organisers in designing
conference timetables, and identifying and
organising panel chairs.
Deadline for theme proposals, 15 October 2008.
Send to DAC09Dir at uci.edu with DAC09Theme as
subject line.
Call for reviewers
A subsequent communiqué will include a call for
proposal and paper reviewers, when the themes are
confirmed.
Call for Event Producers
Proposals for Exhibition Curation and
Music/Performance Event Productions are
requested. This might include touring existing
exhibitions/productions or specially organized
events. An organizer/producer for Variety Night
Producer is also sought.
Send to DAC09Dir at uci.edu with DAC09Events as subject line.
Call for VaRiEtY Night Talent.
Do you juggle remotes, play telematic tennis,
compose epic poetry about database structures? Do
you have a robot that does card tricks or DJs, or
an AI system that composes and performs poetry?
Please propose your act for variety night. :
Already confirmed: the multi-talented Perry
Hoberman will sing some of his cycle of
media-arts ballads, including the soon-to-be
smash hit 'Motion Capture'.
Send to DAC09Dir at uci.edu with DAC09Variety as subject line.
Call for miscellaneous suggestions and support.
Ideas regarding events, geographically and
temporally local tie-ins, sponsorship,
constructive suggestions and offers of assistance
gladly received. Send to DAC09Dir at uci.edu with
DAC09misc as subject line
Conference Structure
DAC09 will be a three-day event preceded by evening registration and reception.
Days will be structured with three sessions -
Coffee: 8.30-9
Morning Plenary Session: 9 -12
Lunch: 12-1.15
Panels1: 1.15-2.45 ( 2 or 3 parallel sessions)
Break : 2.45 - 3.30
Panels2: 3.30 - 5 ( 2 or 3 parallel sessions, closing plenary on last day)
Each day will include an optional evening event, ~ 7.30-10.30
(Morning coffee, Lunch and afternoon break will
be catered and included in registration.
Closing Banquet will be included in full registration).
The morning plenaries will involve at least one
presentation representing each Theme, and may
include other relevant presentations. Afternoon
sessions will be panels or 'roundtables'
organized around Themes, with each theme being
represented in a session, two consecutive
sessions on one day, or sessions across more than
one day - depending on paper acceptances etc. I
want to ensure that DAC2009 is maximally
generative, so I want to support discussion, both
formal and informal. Opportunities will be
available to timetable roundtable discussions, I
will do my best to ensure that
question/discussion times will not be abandoned
and breaks will be long enough to allow informal
discussion.
Evening Events
Evening 0 - registration and reception (exhibition opening?)
Evening1 - Variety show. Continuing in the spirit
of the show and tell night in Perth07, his will
be an informal soireé of presentations by
registrants, headlined by Perry Hoberman singing
his cycle of Digital Culture Ballads, including
his (soon to be) smash hit 'Motion Capture'.
Proposals for acts and presentations in any
format (from juggling remotes to telematic
tennis) are welcome.
Evening2 -Music/Performance event
Evening3 - Banquet/Harbor Cruise
Deadlines and Key Dates (Provisional)
(AFAIK, the US is the only country to observe a
month-day-year date convention. In order to
reduce calendric confusion, all dates for DAC09
will be in the format '1oct08'.)
Theme proposals - 15oct08
Website up and call for paper proposals - 1jan09
Call for paper proposals (abstracts) - 1Jan09
Deadline for paper proposals (abstracts) - 1apr09
Invitation to submit papers (based on submitted abstracts) - 1jun09
Advanced Registration opens - 1jun09
Paper deadline - 1aug09
Notice of Paper Acceptance - 1sep09
Formatted paper delivery deadline - 1oct09
Conference - Dec 13-16 (or thereabouts)
Communication, Information Management, Contacts.
This year we are building a web based automated
information system which will include
automated online submission and review process
and online registration by credit card. Website
address will be publicized soon. It is planned
that proceedings will be online. Registrants will
receive proceedings and other documents on a
DAC09 datastick at registration. Dedicate email
addresses have been created for DAC09:
DAC09adm- Dustin Utt - for inquiries regarding
delegate correspondence, registration,
accommodation, catering and campus/facilities
liaison.
DAC09inf - Ward Smith - for inquiries regarding
website, submission and review process,
proceedings, information management, etc
DAC09dir - Simon Penny - organisational and committee business only
--
Simon Penny, Professor of Arts and Engineering -
University of California, Irvine.
http://www.ace.uci.edu/penny
Director, DAC09 (Digital Arts and Culture Conference, December, 2009)
University of California Council on Research 'Humanist at Large'
Founding Director - Arts Computation Engineering
(ACE) interdisciplinary graduate program.
http://www.ace.uci.edu
Office/Post: Building 522 Room 3000, UCI Irvine, CA 92697-2790
Director -ACTION lab for robotics and embodied interaction
Professor - Studio Art, Claire Trevor School of the Arts.
Professor - Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science, Henry Samueli School of Engineering.
Professor - Informatics, Bren School of Information and Computer Science.
In order to do interdisciplinary work, it is not enough to take a
'subject' (a theme) and to arrange two or three sciences around it.
Interdisciplinary study consists of creating a new object, which belongs
to no one. Roland Barthes
The main point to realise is that all knowledge
presents itself within a conceptual
framework adapted to account for previous experience and that any such frame
may prove too narrow to comprehend new experiences. Neils Bohr.
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