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HCI/InfoVis faculty position at Purdue ECE -- ALL levels!
by Niklas Elmqvist 11 Dec '09

11 Dec '09

Dear all, We are currently accepting applications for a faculty position at ANY level at Purdue. The research area of a successful candidate is broadly defined as human-centered computing (HCC), and includes topics like HCI, InfoVis, visual analytics, scientific visualization, and graphics. Please note that we are accepting applicants at all levels, and that we particularly encourage more senior candidates to apply. Here is the advertisement: https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECE/AboutUs/Employment/faculty.whtml In order to apply, go to the below URL and choose the "Electrical and Computer Engineering" position under "School and Division Positions": https://engineering.purdue.edu/Engr/AboutUs/Employment Preferred application deadline is January 1, but we will be reading applications even after that date. Questions are welcome to either myself or to David Ebert (ebertd(a)purdue.edu) -- Niklas Elmqvist (elm(a)purdue.edu) Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA http://engineering.purdue.edu/~elm/

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CHI 2010 Registration Site Now Open, 10% Discount Before Dec 31
by Eben Haber 10 Dec '09

10 Dec '09

Registration Site Now Open - 10% discount until the end of the year! The CHI 2010 Registration site is now open, and until December 31, 2009 there is a 10% Early Bird discount on registrations. Still have money in this year's budget for a conference? Register now and get a discount! Don't Forget January Deadlines SIGs, Work-in-Progress, alt.chi, and Student Competitions are due January 4. Workshop position papers are due January 6: January 4, 2010: o Special Interest Groups (SIGs) o Work-in-Progress o alt.chi o Student Research Competition o Student Design Competition Now - January 6, 2010: o Workshops (Participants) - Check the websites for deadlines. Most deadlines January 3 - 6, a few workshop deadlines are in December. CHI 2010: The 28th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI (ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems) is the premier international conference for the field of human-computer interaction. CHI 2010 looks outward to the human experience of computing in the world. "We are HCI" challenges our community to embrace the diversity of HCI in the world and to exclaim our commitment as a profession to empower people from all walks of life. Become a fan of CHI 2010

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Deadline extended: CfP IUI2010 Workshop: Visual Interfaces to the Social and Semantic Web, Hong Kong, 7th February 2010
by VinhTuan Thai 30 Nov '09

30 Nov '09

(apologies for cross-posting) Due to extended IUI early registration deadline, we extend the VISSW2010 deadline to 14th December 2009. CALL FOR PAPERS --------------- 2nd International Workshop on Visual Interfaces to the Social and Semantic Web (VISSW 2010) In conjunction with the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2010) Hong Kong, 7th February 2010 http://www.smart-ui.org/events/vissw2010/ INTRODUCTION ------------ The continued growth and importance of the Social Web has resulted in ever increasing volumes of data created, published and consumed by users. This vast amount of data takes many forms, including text, images, video and more recently streams of status information from applications such as Twitter. Not only is this data accessible through more traditional means, such as desktop and laptop computers, but also via diverse platforms such as mobile phones and set-top boxes that bring unique constraints in terms of computing resources and user interfaces. Through the increasing availability of Web APIs, data that has traditionally been coupled with a specific application may now be exposed through novel interfaces developed by third parties, providing functionality not previously anticipated by the data owner. In tandem with the growth of the Social Web, the Web at large has experienced a significant evolution into a Web not just of linked documents, but also of Linked Data. This development, which exploits the Semantic Web technology stack, allows relationships to be expressed between items in distributed data sets, paving the way for integration of raw data from multiple, heterogeneous sources. Coupled with the increasing availability of APIs that expose structured (if not linked) data from the Social Web, application developers have a wealth of data available to them upon which they can build compelling visual interfaces. The ability to easily integrate vast amounts of data from across the Social and Semantic Web raises significant and exciting research challenges, not least of which how to provide effective access to and navigation across vast, heterogeneous and interconnected data sources. However, the need for intelligent and visual human interfaces to this evolving Web is not limited simply to the modalities of searching and browsing, important as these are. As the Web becomes increasingly populated with data, continues to evolve from a read-mainly to a read-write medium, and the level of social interaction supported on the Web increases, there is also a pressing need to support end-users who engage in a wide range of online tasks, such as publishing and sharing their own data on the Web. This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse, complementary fields to discuss the latest research results and challenges in designing, implementing, and evaluating intelligent interfaces to structured or Linked Data in the context of the Social or Semantic Web. The workshop will serve as an opportunity for researchers to gain feedback on their work, and to identify potential collaborations with their peers. We believe that the potential for fostering links between a variety of facets of the IUI community will help to ensure an exciting workshop program. Information about the previous workshop can be found at: http://www.smart-ui.org/events/vissw2009/ TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Interfaces o Novel visualisation of structured, linked and aggregated data, originating from multiple sources. o Novel interfaces for high-volume transient data, e.g. feeds, streams and sensors. o 'Living' interfaces to constantly evolving data, vocabularies, and emerging links between them. o Task-centric interfaces for structured and/or Linked Data. o Interface components for displaying/interacting with aggregated, heterogeneous Linked Data, e.g. components for displaying provenance information. o Lightweight components and processes for casual users to publish/share their own content on the Web. o Ontology-based visualization of collections of data. * Interaction Paradigms o Novel interaction paradigms for textual, photos, music, videos, etc. on alternative platforms (e.g. mobile devices, set-top boxes, shared/public displays). o Novel interaction paradigms with structured, linked and aggregated data. o Investigation of task-centric interaction paradigms beyond search and browse. o Ontology-based interaction with collections of data. o Semantic models for interaction and their reuse on the web * Empirical Studies and Evaluation o Empirical studies that can guide the development of interfaces for Linked Data. o Use cases which present novel visualization requirements and expose interesting interaction challenges on the Social and Semantic Web. o Lessons learned from user-studies, pilot systems and live deployments in the Social and Semantic Web. SUBMISSIONS ----------- We welcome three types of submissions: * Full papers which should be between 6 and 10 pages. * Short papers and position papers which should be up to 5 pages. * Demo papers which should be a 2 page description with a screenshot of the working prototype or preferably a link to an online demo. Submissions must be in PDF format and prepared according to the IUI format. Papers will be peer-reviewed by three independent reviewers. Papers can be submitted via the EasyChair system at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=vissw2010 . Accepted papers will be published in CEUR-WS.org proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- * Paper submission deadline: 14th December, 2009 (11:59pm Hawaii time) * Notification of acceptance: 5th January, 2010 * Camera-ready paper submission deadline: TBD REGISTRATION ------------ Please refer to the main conference website for registration details: http://www.iuiconf.org/ ORGANISERS ---------- * Siegfried Handschuh, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland * Tom Heath, Talis Information Ltd, UK * VinhTuan Thai, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland * Ian Dickinson, Epimorphics Ltd, UK * Lora Aroyo, VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Valentina Presutti, Semantic Technology Laboratory (STLab), ISTC, Italy PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ------------------- * Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, US * Karen Church, Telefonica Research, ES * Duane Degler, Design for Context, US * Bertrand Delacretaz, Day, CH * Aldo Gangemi, CNR-ISTC, IT * Alain Giboin, INRIA, FR * Michael Hausenblas, DERI, NUI Galway, IE * Nathalie Henry, Microsoft Research, US * David Karger, MIT, US * Nicholas J. Kings, BT, UK * Georgi Kobilarov, FU Berlin, DE * Steffen Lohmann, University of Duisburg, DE * Wolfgang Maass, University of St.Gallen, CH * Knud Möller, DERI, NUI Galway, IE * Enrico Motta, The Open University, UK * Alexandre Passant, DERI, NUI Galway, IE * Adam Perer, IBM Research, IL * Massimo Romanelli, DFKI, DE * Lloyd Rutledge, Open Universiteit, NL * Harald Sack, Hasso-Plattner-Institut, DE * Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research, AT * Bernhard Schandl, Uni Vienna, AT * Daniel Schwabe, PUC-Rio, BR * Barry Smyth, University College Dublin, IE * Carlo Torniai, Simon Fraser University, CA * Fabio Vitali, University of Bologna, IT * Earl Wagner, Northwestern University, US * Jun Zhao, Oxford University, UK CONTACT INFORMATION ------------------- If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the workshop organizers at: vissw2010 [at] easychair [dot] org

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visual analytics and privacy: request for opinions / information / collaboration
by Andrienko 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

Dear colleagues, I am addressing you as experts in visualization and visual analytics. I want to know your opinion concerning the possible impacts of visual analytics on personal privacy. On the one hand, results of visual analytics may affect privacy. On the other hand, visual analytics methods might help to transform data in such a way that privacy is protected but important patterns still can be detected. I am coordinating a working group on this topic within a EU-funded coordination action MODAP - "Mobility, Data Mining, and Privacy" http://modap.org/ The goal of the project is to raise the awareness about privacy issues in visual analytics, shape the community, and define a research agenda. So far, the privacy issues have been addressed mostly by data mining and, to some extent, GIS researchers. Please inform me about any publications / projects / people working on privacy AND visualization. In 2010 we are going to organize an expert workshop on this topic and have a possibility to invite keynote speakers. I would appreciate your candidate recommendations. Please also leave me a note even if you did not work on privacy issues of visualization yet but are interested in this topic. Best regards, Gennady Andrienko ____________________________________________________________ Fraunhofer Institute IAIS: http://www.iais.fraunhofer.de ICA GeoVisualization Commission: http://geoanalytics.net/ica Andrienko's homepage: http://geoanalytics.net/and ____________________________________________________________

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CFP - CSCW Workshop on Visualization of CSCW data, deadline Nov 20
by Nathalie Henry 11 Nov '09

11 Nov '09

*Have you been wrestling with CSCW data? * *Do you have a visualization of use that could help you out? * *Send us a two-pager and share your ideas!* ** *We want you!* ** * Visualization for Understanding CSCW Data: A CSCW 2010 Workshop* CSCW systems can be very complex to understand and analyze. Users click in various places, talk to each other, and collaboratively travel through websites. Their work in these places can often be best understood through data visualization: laying out the data visually can make sense of a great deal of data. This workshop expands on ideas from past workshops that have touched on visualization as a way of understanding data, including the CSCW 2004 Workshop on Social Networks<http://projects.ischool.washington.edu/mcdonald/cscw04/> . The goal of this workshop is to gather people using visualizations to help in analyzing and understanding collaborative behaviour with CSCW systems in order to share and exchange tools and techniques, and collectively determine the utility of these tools/techniques and how to disseminate these tools/techniques in other venues to help other researchers gain access to these analysis methods. We solicit perspectives from a variety of CSCW authors and researchers who have incorporated existing visualizations into their analyses, or have created novel visualizations in order to understand their data. Workshop Structure and Design The workshop will commence with lightning (2-3 minute) introductions intended to get participants to recognize each other and become refreshed on each others’ work. The introductions will follow a prescribed format, including slides shown from a central source sent in advance. During the day, the workshop will focus on a series of topics based on the submissions. We anticipate that topics may include issues of *scale*(visualizations of large spaces, visualizations of small groups); *technologies* (custom-crated visualizations; use of existing techniques and packages); and *axes *(mappings on geographical spaces; arbitrary spaces). These will be determined by the organizers after the submissions are evaluated. For each distinct topic, our goal is to collect, classify, and organize the existing work, integrating visualizations to inform the wider CSCW community of the broad range of visualizations available for their analyses. If participants’ interests are sufficiently different or if the workshop attracts sufficient interest, we may break the participants into distinct breakout groups. Artefacts and results The workshop will produce a poster to be presented at the CSCW poster session, with samples of the participants’ visualizations, as well as results of any organizing or taxonomizing that the participants may have done, and resource lists that participants will have organized. We are investigating publishing the results of the workshop as a special issue of a journal. Participation In order to ensure intimacy, close interaction and fruitful results, we will favor a small number of participants (16-22, including 2-3 student participants and workshop organizers). Two to three students (in addition to those who submit full workshop position papers) will also be invited to participate. This will provide students pursuing research in this area a unique opportunity to interact with key researchers in the field and help define future directions. Students will need to submit a one-page paper describing their interest in the area of activity-centric groupware systems and their motivation for wanting to participate. What to Submit Send short position paper (under 2000 words, PDF format) to danyelf(a)microsoft.com. It should cover the following topics: · *Interest & Experiences:** *a description of the your interest and past or current experiences with visualizations designed to analyze CSCW data. · *Insights and lessons learned:* a short discussion of your visualizations, the insights you gained from using them as well as the lessons learned by integrating visualizations in their analysis. · *Workshop goals:** *your motivation for attending the workshop and the goals you hope to achieve as a result of the workshop. · *Bio:** *your current affiliation(s) and background. We will review the position papers, recruiting additional reviewers as needed. Important Dates - *November 20, 2009* - Position papers due; submissions will be acknowledged by email - *December 11, 2009 *- Notification of acceptance - *January 8, 2010* - Final position papers due - *January 15, 2010* - Organizers distribute position papers and soapbox topics to all participants - *February 7, 2010 *- Workshop Organizers *Danyel Fisher <http://research.microsoft.com/~danyelf>*, Microsoft Research *Nathalie Henry <http://research.microsoft.com/~nath>*, Microsoft Research *Sheelagh Carpendale<http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~sheelagh/wiki/pmwiki.php> *, University of Calgary *Stacey Scott <http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/~s9scott/wiki/pmwiki.php>*, University of Waterloo

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Call for Papers: BELIV 2010 - CHI 2010 Workshop
by Heidi Lam 09 Nov '09

09 Nov '09

*** Call for Papers *** *BELIV 2010 - CHI 2010 Workshop* BEyond time and errors: novel evaLuation methods for Information Visualization A Workshop of the ACM CHI 2010 Conference April 10-11, 2010 - Altanta, GA, USA WORKSHOP WEBSITE http://www.beliv.org/beliv2010/ DESCRIPTION The purpose of information visualization is to provide users with accurate visual representations of data and natural interaction tools to support discovery and sense making. These activities are often exploratory in nature and can take place over days, weeks or months and rarely follow a predefined or linear workflow. While the overall use of information visualizations is accelerating, the growth of techniques for the evaluation of these systems has been slow. To understand these complex behaviors, evaluation efforts should be targeted at the component level, the system level, and the work environment level. The commonly used evaluation metrics such as task time completion and number of errors appear insufficient to quantify the quality of an information visualization system; thus the name of the workshop: “beyond time and errors …”. BELIV 2010 aims at gathering researchers in the field to continue the exploration of novel evaluation methods, and to structure the knowledge on evaluation in information visualization around a schema, where researchers can easily identify unsolved problems and research gaps. This is the third edition of the BELIV workshop series. Based on feedback from past workshop participants, BELIV 2010 will be a *2-day workshop* to provide a more interactive environment where participants can produce a research agenda to be published online. DATES Deadline for submissions: November 30, 2009 (5:00pm PDT) Notification of acceptance: December 21, 2009 Camera ready papers due: Mid-March Workshop: April 10-11, 2008 HOW TO PARTICIPATE To participate to the workshop it is necessary to have a paper accepted and be registered both to the workshop and the main CHI conference. Paper Types We accept 2 types of submissions: position papers or research papers: * Research papers are longer (4-8 pages) and present new work and unpublished results. Research papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee and selected according to their novelty, quality and relevance. Authors of accepted research papers will have a chance to revise their papers before they are published in the **ACM digital library**. * Position papers are short statements (1-2 pages) describing a participant's relevant experience and ideas that can contribute to the discussion during the workshop. They will be made available to the workshop participants only. Submission To submit a paper create an account and submit the paper to the submission system at: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/BELIV2010/. Please clarify if you are submitting a position or research paper. Format All the submissions should be formatted in the ACM style. Suitable templates, in LaTeX and Word, can be downloaded from: http://<http://goog_1254882892965/> www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Submission should be either in PDF (preferred) or Word formats. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics include, but are not limited to: • Evaluation in the visualization lifecycle • Utility characterization • Evaluation metrics • Insight characterization • Synthetic data set generation • Taxonomies of tasks • Benchmark development and repositories • Methodology of longitudinal case studies • Evaluation of early prototypes • Evaluation heuristics and guidelines ORGANIZERS Enrico Bertini University of Konstanz Konstanz, Germany Heidi Lam Google Inc. Mountain View, CA, USA Adam Perer IBM Haifa Research Lab Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel <adamp(a)il.ibm.com>

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Special Issue of IEEE CG&A on Multimedia Analytics
by Ribarsky, William 05 Nov '09

05 Nov '09

Following on the recent Workshop on Video Analytics at IEEE VisWeek 2009, we are pleased to announce the following special issue of IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications on Multimedia Analytics. Please consider submitting a paper and tell your students and colleagues about this opportunity. Special Issue on Multimedia Analytics IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications Submission deadline: 13 Jan. 2010 Target publication date: Sep./Oct. 2010 Multimedia make up 95 percent of the digital universe, and the percentage is growing. Most of these media are unstructured or, at best, semistructured, so it's hard to retrieve, analyze, and understand their content. Multimedia are now the main components of online news, blogs, medical imagery, general picture databases, scientific data, patient or health records, and many other types of digital collections. This special issue will focus on current tools and research in this very challenging and important area. Work on video analytics, either by itself or as part of multimedia analysis, is of special interest as are exploratory interactive visualization methods. Possible topics include, but aren't limited to, · user interfaces for multimedia analysis that optimize cognition; · tools for exploring multimedia collections; · applications that categorize multimedia based on content; · capabilities to fuse multimedia content into one conceptual space; · annotation schema for multimedia analysis; · automated or social methods of annotating multimedia for improved retrieval; · image, speech, soundtrack, and text processing that supports analysis of large multimedia collections; · methods for handling real-time or streaming multimedia; · methodologies for determining originator, message, and audience impacts of multimedia; and · applications that support reporting multimedia analysis results in a multimedia format. A workshop on video analytics to be held at IEEE VisWeek 2009 (http://vis.computer.org/VisWeek2009) will provide context for the importance of multimedia analytics and for some of these topics. We expect that a report on the outcomes of the workshop will appear in this issue of CG&A or in an issue around this time. Articles should be no more than 8,000 words, with each figure counting as 200 words. Cite only the 12 most relevant references, and consider providing technical background in sidebars for nonexpert readers. Color images are preferable and should be limited to a total of 10. You can find CG&A style and length guidelines at www.computer.org/cga/author.html. Please submit your article using the online manuscript submission service at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cs-ieee. When uploading your article, select the appropriate special-issue title under the category "Manuscript Type." Also include complete contact information for all authors. If you have any questions about submitting your article, contact the peer-review coordinator at cga-ma(a)computer.org. Please direct any correspondence before submission to the guest editors: Nancy Chinchor, nancyc(a)rccb.osis.gov; William Ribarsky, ribarsky(a)uncc.edu; and Michael Christel, christel(a)cs.cmu.edu ----------- Dr. William Ribarsky Bank of America Endowed Chair in Information Technology Chair, Computer Science Department Director, Charlotte Visualization Center College of Computing and Informatics University of North Carolina at Charlotte www.viscenter.uncc.edu

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Re:live09 Conference Program
by Image Science 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

Re:live09 Third World Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology. (Partner: Department for Image Science, Danube University Krems) MELBOURNE 26-29 November 2009 The Media Art History national and international conference committees would like to invite you to attend the Re:live media art history conference. Banff 2005 :: Berlin 2007 :: Melbourne 2009 Over three stimulating days, historians, curators, media artists, creative arts practitioners and theorists at the forefront of their practice will explore the latest research and theories; CONFERENCE SESSIONS on the HISTORIES OF:: :: art-science-technology :: biology :: the environment :: liveness :: the life of machines :: innovation :: RELIVE PROGRAM Thurs, Nov. 26 Keynote: Lisa GITELMAN Fri, Nov 27 :: Session 1: Paul THOMAS (Chair), Su BAKER (Introduction from VCA), STELARC (Prosthetic Head), Lucas IHLEIN (Fluxorchestra), :: Session 2: Ross HARLEY (Chair), Stephen JONES (Bush Video), Eva KEKOU (The City as a projection space), Francesca FRANCO (The first computer art show at the 1970 Venice Biennale. An experiment or product of the bourgeois culture?), :: Session 3: Kim MACHAN (Chair), Larissa HJORTH (Cartographies of the mobile: the personal as political), Chris CHESTER (Converging technologies of spatial navigation in computer games and portable digital devices), Sam HINTON (Constructing the First Person Shooter), Ingrid RICHARDSON (Playing Outside the Magic Circle: the Hybrid Corporealities of Mobile Gaming), :: Session 4: Leon MARVELL (Chair), Susan BALLARD (Erewhon: framing media utopia in the antipodes), Darren TOFTS (Writing media art into (and out of) history), Gabriel Menotti GONRING (Executable Cinema: Demos, Screensavers and Videogames as Audiovisual Formats) :: Session 5: Paul THOMAS (Chair), Cat HOPE (Earth Pulse: vibrational data as artistic inspiration), Joanna WALEWSKA (Relationship of art and technology: Edward Ihnatowicz's philosophical investigation on the problem of perception), Monika GORSKA-OLESINKA (Polish digital poetry - lack of "prehistoric" artifacts or missing narrative?), :: Session 6: Ross HARLEY (Chair), Tapio MÄKELÄ (Satellite imaginaries: performing newness and sublime in geospatial media arts), Mathias FUCHS (postvinyl), :: Session 7: Melinda RACKHAM (Chair), Andres BURBANO (Between punched film and the first computers, the work of Konrad ZUSE), Marianne SCHMIDT (Virtureal), Daniela Alina PLEWE (Transactional Art as a Form of Interactive Art), :: Session 8: Darren TOFTS (Chair), McKenzie WARK (The Life and Times of Nettime.org) Mark GUGLIELMETTI (A-Life: the creation and development of new modes of realism), Mike PHILLIPS (A Lost SuperHighway: Tales from a Notworked Dis-Locative Media History). :: Session 9: Anna MUNSTER (Chair), Ionat ZURR (How does zoë transform bio into media?), Natasha VITA-MORE (Interconnected Significance: Human Enhancement and Radical Life Extension), Jens HAUSER (Still, Living: Staging the Ephemeral between Nature Morte and Art Involving Biotechnology) :: Session 10: Lisa GYE (Chair), Leon MARVELL & Rudy RUCKER (Lifebox Immortality & How We Got There), Gebhard SENGMÜLLER (VSSTV - Rediscovery and Re-Interpretation of a Televisionary Parallel Universe), Manosh CHOWDHURY (Perfoming the Universe: The Elephant Clock as a Discoursive Apparatus) Keynote: Douglas KHAN Sat Nov 28 :: Session 1: Oliver GRAU (Chair), Paul SERMON (Telematic Practice and Research Discourses), Katja KWASTEK (*Your number is 96 - please be patient* - Modes of Liveness and Presence investigated through the lens of interactive artworks), Mike LEGETT (Early Video Art as Private Performance) :: Session 2: Alessio CAVALLARO (Chair), Hector RODRIGUEZ (The Black Box), Brogan BUNT (Pre-Socratic Media Theory), Jung-Yeon MA (A Short History of Media Art Events in Japan and Korea since late 1990s: Japan Media Arts Festival and Seoul International Media Art Biennale) :: Session 3: Eleanor GATES-STUART (Chair), Nina WENHART (ARS ELECTRONICA re:shaping a city's cultural identity), Thomas MICAL (Blurring Media-Architecture in 2009), Stefano RAIMONDI (Nanoart: First Steps Beyond the Columns of Hercules) :: Session 4: Ted COLLESS (Chair), Danielle WILDE (A New Performativity : Wearables and Body-Devices), Michael Century (Telematic Improvisation), Laura BELOFF (The Hybronaut and Other Unexpected Approaches to Wearable Technology) :: Session 5: Larissa HJORTH (Chair), Andrea GLEINIGER (*Architekturen des Augenblicks* - a phenomenological view on the medialization of urban space), Cat HOPE (Earth Pulse: vibrational data as artistic inspiration.), Denisa KERA (Apocalypse and Media Art) :: Session 6: Darren TOFTS (Chair), Allison DE FREN (Disarticulating the Artificial Woman), Audrey SAMSON (Haunted profiles; social networking sites and the crisis of death.), Margaret SEYMOUR (Cyborgs and robots: imitation or provocation?) :: Session 7: Melinda RACKHAM (Chair), Lucas IHLEIN (Re-Enacting Expanded Cinema: Three Case Studies), Ryszard W. KLUSZCZYNSKI (Viewer as Performer), Marcin SKLADANEK (Metadesign and Media Art) :: Session 8: Daniel PALMER (Chair), NIgel Llwyd William HELYER (The Sonic Commons; and the privatisation of the aural vis-à-vis), Chris SALTER (The Stage as Organism: Liveness, Dynamics and Expression in Early Twentieth Century Scenography), Slavko KACUNKO (Live Media Art and Japan*s Role: A historical and contemporary sideview) :: Session 9: Paul BROWN (Chair), Ken FRIEDMAN (Intermedia, Multimedia, and Media: Recovering a History), Zita JOYCE (Networked communities in New Zealand media arts), Ernest EDMONDS (The Art of Conversation) :: Session 10: Leon MARVELL (Chair), Lizzie MULLER (An indeterminate archive for David Rokeby*s *The Giver of Names*), Robrecht VANDERBEEKEN (Relive the Virtual: An Analysis of Unplugged Performance-installations), Robert SWEENY (Open (Source) Classroom) :: Session 11: Kim MACHAN (Chair), Suzette WORDEN (Art-Science Connections for the visualisation of minerals: historical precedents for media arts), Morten SONDERGAARD (Beyond the Point One Zero World), Anne-Marie DUGUET (Natural phenomena actualized through technology). :: Session 12: Sean CUBITT (Chair), Jon CATES (RE:COPYing-IT-RIGHT AGAIN), Edward SHANKEN (Reprogramming Systems Aesthetics: A Strategic Historiography), Kathy Rae HUFFMAN (EXCHANGE and EVOLUTION: World Wide Video / Long Beach) Keynote: Zhang GA Sun Nov 29 :: Session 1: Paul THOMAS (Chair), Panel: Ross HARLEY, John CONOMO, Anne FINNEGAN, Danni ZUVELLA (Australia Video Art Histories: A media arts archeology for the future) :: Session 2: Lisa GYE (Chair), Mike STUBBS (Abandon Normal Devices - they dont seem to work), Lissa MITCHELL (Negotiating the future - a new media collection in a public art museum), Rosana MONTEIRO (Reconfiguration of knowledges. Medical images between art, science and technology.) :: Session 3: Eleanor GATES-STUART, Ian CLOTHIER (Animating the Inanimate: Haiku robots, multiplicities of time and intercultural context), Caroline LANGILL (The Living Effect: Autonomous Behaviour in Early Electronic Media Art), Sarah KENDERDINE (The Relocation of Theatre: Making UNMAKEABLELOVE) :: Session 4: Helen STUCKEY (Chair), Roger MALINA (The History Of Intimate Science: Artists beyond the senses), Elena Giulia ROSSI (Posthuman Bodies in New Media Art), Allison DE FREN (Disarticulating the Artificial Female) :: Session 5: Ted COLLESS (Chair), Martin CONSTABLE and Adele TAN (Visual Digitality: Towards Another Understanding), Dimitris CHARITOS (Locative media art practices: locating meaning and narrative in hybrid spaces), Anders CARLSSON (The Forgotten Pioneers of Creative Hacking and Social Networking - Introducing the Demoscene) :: Session 6: Alessio CAVALLARO (Chair), Michael CENTURY (Telematic Improvisation), Katja KWASTEK (Modes of Liveness and Presence in interactive processes), Lawrence BIRD (Re-animating the technical body in the Metropolis tales: Lang, Tezuka, Rintaro), :: Session 7: Sean CUBITT (Chair), Nina WENHART (ARS ELECTRONICA - re:shaping a city's cultural identity), Darko FRITZ (Histories of live meetings - case study: five conferences on computer-generated art and related theories in Zagreb, 1968 - 1978), Ana PERAICA (Overcoming media arts) :: Session 8: Alessio CAVALLARO (Chair), Virginia PITTS (A dance with time: the media art of Shona McCullogh, Pia EDNIE-BROWN (Technologies of Vitality and a Changing Innovation Climate.) :: Plenary Session: Paul THOMAS (Chair) SEAN CUBITT and PAUL THOMAS :: Co Chairs Re:live09 :: Third International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology Conference :: The main conference will be held at Faculty of VCA and Music, University of Melbourne, the selected Keynotes (as listed above) will be held in the evenings at the BMW Edge at Federation Square. National Committee :: Oron CATTS, Edward COLLESS, Eleanor GATES-STUART, Lisa GYE, Ross Rudesch HARLEY, Larissa HJORTH, Kim MACHAN, Leon MARVELL, Anna MUNSTER, Daniel PALMER, Melinda RACKHAM, Darren TOFTS International advisory board :: Andreas BROECKMANN, Berlin; Paul BROWN, London/Cotton Tree; Annick BUREAUD, Paris; Sara DIAMOND, Toronto; Diana DOMINGUES, Caxias do Sul; Timothy DRUCKREY, New York; Oliver GRAU, Krems; Gunalan NADARAJAN, Baltimore; Linda D. HENDERSON, Austin; Erkki HUHTAMO, Los Angeles; Douglas KAHN, Davis; Ángel KALENBERG, Montevideo; Ryszard KLUSZCZYNSKI, Lodz; Machiko KUSAHARA,Tokyo; Roger MALINA, Paris; W.J.T. MITCHELL, Chicago; Christiane PAUL, New York; Miklos PETERNAK, Budapest, Edward SHANKEN, Amsterdam; Barbara STAFFORD, Chicago; Jeffrey SHAW, Sydney; Peter WEIBEL, Karlsruhe; Steven WILSON, San Francisco Further information can be found at www.mediaarthistory.org Leonardo Education Forum (LEF), Melbourne, 26th of November 2009 http://www.leonardo.info/isast/lef.html (with: Paul THOMAS, Oliver GRAU, Ian CLOTHIER a.o.) :: forwarded by the Department for Image Science :: partner of Re:live and home of the Master of Arts programm in MediaArtHistories www.donau-uni.ac.at/mediaarthistories :: join the MediaArtHistories platform on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/groups/mediaarthistories#/group.php?gid=36056054067

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vizNET Conference 2009
by John O'Brien 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

vizNET'09, Loughborough University, 29th-30th October. The 3rd Interdisciplinary Conference on Intersections of Visualization Practices and Techniques ---------------- Description ---------------- vizNET 2009 is annual conference designed to help researchers and postgraduates within UK academia utilise new visualization techniques and software to improve their own analysis and research. The two day workshop aims to introduce leading visualization techniques and improve understanding about state of the art developments for both novice and more experienced users. visualization is an important tool for communicating and analysing complex information in many disciplines. Advances in numerical simulations and imaging techniques have provided scientists with a new wealth of detail into the natural world, but also new challenges in visualization analysis. This year the conference will have a special focus on applied science and engineering disciplines, specifically targeting large data set problems that are often encountered within these fields. The two day conference aims to introduce leading visualization techniques and improve understanding about state of the art developments for both novice and more experienced users. This year the conference will cover a range of topics including: * Intersections in visualizations practice * Modelling and Simulation * A rough guide to data visualization * High-Performance visualization using Cloud-Computing * Distributed visualization and the Grid * GPU-based visualization and computing techniques and their application * Giga-Pixel display walls and applications. * visualization frameworks including VTK / Paraview, Visit, and AVS * Live high-performance visualization demonstrations and showcases Full details of the event can be found in the conference flyer: http://www.viznet.ac.uk/files/viznet_flyer_viznet2009.pdf ----------------- Registration ----------------- Registration is free for all UK university postgraduates and staff, however space is limited. Please note registration closes on the 25th of October. For further details and registration information please visit the conference website: http://www.viznet.ac.uk/viznet2009 ------------------ Organisation ------------------ vizNET is a collaboration between a number of visualization centres in the UK that has been established to share knowledge, communicate best practice between application domains, provide training and support to researchers in visualization. The visualization support network spans across the UK academic research community including centres at Loughborough University, University of Leeds, Manchester University, Cardiff University, the Science & Technologies Facilities Council and King's College London vizNET is funded by the JISC Support of Research Committee. John O'Brien Systems Engineering Innovation Centre Holywell Park Loughborough University Loughborough LE11 3TU Tel: 01509 635674

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CFP: GeoVA(T) AGILE 2010 workshop and IJGIS spec.issue
by Andrienko 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

---------------- Apologies for cross-posting ------------------------- ---------------------- Call for papers ------------------------------- GeoVA(T): GeoSpatial Visual Analytics: Focus on Time http://geoanalytics.net/GeoVA2010 Workshop at AGILE http://agile2010.dsi.uminho.pt/ , 11 May 2010, and special issue of IJGIS - Int J GIScience http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/tf/13658816.html tentative publication date: September 2010 The workshop is a follow-up of the successful workshops on - Visualization, Analytics and Spatial Decision Support at the GIScience’2006 conference, - Geovisualization of Dynamics, Movement and Change at AGILE'2008, - GeoSpatial Visual Analytics at GIScience'2008. Selected papers from the previous workshops, including research agenda papers, were published as special issues of - IJGIS, 2007, v.21(8), 2007 - Information Visualization, 2008, v.7 (3/4) - CaGIS, 2009, v.36 (3) The theme for the workshop and this special issue of International Journal of Geographical Information Science is the use of GeoVisual Analytics approaches for exploring and analysing large data sets with both spatial and temporal components. Original papers are solicited in this area. In particular, we encourage innovative papers detailing tight integration of visualization, data mining, database processing, optimization and other computational processing methods. The workshop will provide participants with the possibility to present ongoing and developing work without committing to a full journal paper. The journal special issue will provide participants with the opportunity of reporting their work in a refereed journal. Example topics include, but are not limited to, the visualization and interactive analysis of large data sets representing: - individual and group movement behaviours, either in physical or virtual spaces - dynamics of geo-localised sensor data - spatio-temporal events - remotely sensed data, multi-scale and multi-temporal - large high-dimensional data sets in space and time - streams of spatio-temporal data as well as - models and semantics of time in geospatial visual analytics - knowledge construction and reasoning about spatial and temporal phenomena and processes - application of innovative visual analytics methods to real-life problems Organizers and Guest Editors: ----------------------------- Gennady and Natalia Andrienko, Jason Dykes, Menno-Jan Kraak, and Heidrun Schumann ICA Commission on GeoVisualization, http://geoanalytics.net/ica Supported by: ------------- - VisMaster - Visual Analytics - Mastering the Information Age (FET-Open Coordination Action) http://www.vismaster.eu - SPP VA - Scalable Visual Analytics: Interactive Visual Analysis Systems of Complex Information Spaces (DFG Priority Research Program) http://www.visualanalytics.de/ - MODAP - Mobility, Data Mining, and Privacy (FET-Open Coordination Action) http://www.modap.org - MOVE - Knowledge Discovery from Moving Objects (COST-Action IC0903) http://w3.cost.esf.org/index.php?id=177&action_number=IC0903 Paper submission and selection procedure: ----------------------------------------- - October 6, 2009 - CFP for the special issue published - January 22, 2010 - submission of extended abstracts. Abstracts should be up to four pages in length. Illustrations and supplementary online materials are welcome. Authors should indicate whether they are interested in developing the abstract into a full paper for the special issue. Please submit abstracts to GeoVA2010(a)geoanalytics.net - February 15, 2010 - Guest editors will select abstracts for the presentation at the workshop and notify authors - April 16, 2010 - Full papers for the special issue are submitted - May 11, 2010, Guimaraes, Portugal - authors of accepted abstracts present their work at the workshop for feedback and discussion - May 25, 2010 - Authors will be notified about acceptance for the special issue - June 25, 2010 - Deadline for submitting revised papers and responding to reviewer’s comments - July 12, 2010 - final notifications - September 2010 (tentative) - special issue published Please send all inquiries to Dr. Gennady Andrienko at GeoVA2010(a)geoanalytics.net Web site: http://geoanalytics.net/GeoVA(t)2010 ________________________________________________________________________

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