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PhD Call in InfoVis and adaptive eLearning technologies
by Riccardo Mazza 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

PhD candidate in Information Visualization and personalization technologies for eLearning ======================================================== The New Media in Education Laboratory at University of Lugano (Faculty of Communication Sciences) is seeking a high motivated PhD candidate for the EU-FP7 funded project GRAPPLE in the fields of Information Visualization, eLearning, and adaptive systems. The main topic of research will be advanced and intelligent technologies for the personalization of the learning experience, with a focus on adaptive systems. A specific research goal will be related to these topics and in particular will explore the use of graphical representations that enable the learners to interact with and explore their history towards gaining insights into their learning processes. REQUIREMENTS - Master degree in Computer Science, Information technologies or a related area. - Excellent programming skills, preferably in PHP and Java, with documented portfolio of work samples. - Experience or interest in Information Visualization, advanced visual interfaces, and adaptive systems. DUTIES Duties will include analysis, design and programming tasks. In particular: - Design and implementation of methods and techniques for the interactive visualization of domain and user models, and of performance data from an adaptive learning system - Extend the Open Souce Learning System Moodle (http://moodle.org) to integrate features and technologies that will be developed in the context of the project. The PhD student will benefit from being associated with the doctoral School RED-INK: Rethinking Education in the Knowledge Society, a joint project of three leading Swiss universities in this field: the University of Lugano, the University of St. Gallen and the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, over the years 2008-2010 for free (travel and lodging for the school activities are paid by the doctoral school) Closing date for applications: December 7, 2007 The position is available as of February, 1 2008 for the duration of three years. For application, see the main RED-INK PhD call that you can found in: http://www.red-ink.ch Informal inquiries can be made to Dr Riccardo Mazza (mazzar(a)lu.unisi.ch) to discuss this position.

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CFP: Visualization for Decision Making, Information Sharing, and Collaboration (ISCRAM 2008)
by Yost, Beth A. 30 Oct '07

30 Oct '07

(apologies for any cross-postings you receive) Call for Papers for a special academic session on Visualization for Decision Making, Information Sharing, and Collaboration (session ID: HCI-02) ISCRAM 2008 5th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management Washington, DC, USA May 4-7, 2008 http://www.iscram.org Motivation for this session: Information visualization can play a critical role in decision making, collaboration, and sharing information during crisis management and response. Both managers and responders deal with large volumes of data from a variety of sources that they must evaluate, correlate, and use to make time-critical decisions. Collaborative visualizations of data can help collocated and distributed teams maintain situational awareness. In practice, most collaborative use of visualizations occurs during planning; during an incident, use of visualization may be relegated to the individual's realm while collaboration may revert to audio channels. We seek research on the use of visualization to improve decision making, dissemination of information, and collaboration during crisis response and management. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Synthesis of novel information from diverse data sources * Visualization on hand-held devices for responders in the field * Collaborative information displays for remote and collocated teams * Innovative visual analytics techniques for events across space and time * Scalable representations of very large volumes of highly heterogeneous data * Analytical reasoning including the human analytic discourse, knowledge discovery methods, perception and cognition, and collaborative visual analytics * Presentation, production, and dissimilation methods including methods and tools for capturing the analytics process, and story telling for specific and varying audiences This is an Academic Session: We invite researchers from academia or research labs to present their research or research-in-progress papers. Prospective presenters submit a regular research (or research-in-progress) paper. Important Notice: * All submissions must be formatted according to the ISCRAM 2008 formatting guidelines. Templates and instructions are published on www.iscram.org. * All submissions must be submitted through the ISCRAM 2008 conference paper submission web page at www.conftool.com/iscram2008. Instructions for the ConfTool system can be found on www.iscram.org. * All papers and presentations will go through a double-blind review process, leading to a decision of (conditional) acceptance or rejection. * Accepted papers will be included in the ISCRAM 2008 program and published in the official proceedings if and only if * (1) the paper is formatted according to the instructions, * (2) the authors sign the copyright transfer form, and * (3) one of the authors registers for the conference and pays the registration fee before the cut-off date for early registration. * Authors who have multiple papers accepted can only register for and present one paper at the conference; co-authors need to register separately. Important ISCRAM 2008 Dates: * December 21, 2007: Paper submission deadline * February 10, 2008: Notification of (conditional) acceptance * February 22, 2008: Early registration deadline * March 1, 2008: Final camera-ready paper submission deadline * May 4-7, 2008: ISCRAM 2008 About ISCRAM: The ISCRAM Community is a worldwide community of researchers, scholars, teachers, students, practitioners and policy makers interested or actively involved in the subject of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management. At its annual international conference alternating between the US and Europe, the ISCRAM Community gathers to present and discuss the latest research and developments in this growing area during an interactive and stimulating 3 day program. The ISCRAM Community also organizes an International Summer School for PhD students and ISCRAM-CHINA, an annual conference for ISCRAM research in China. All information on ISCRAM can be found at http://www.iscram.org <blocked::http://www.iscram.org/> ISCRAM 2008 will be held from 4-7 May at the George Washington University (GWU) located in Washington, DC, USA. The conference will be hosted by GWU's Institute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management (ICDRM). All details on this conference will be made available via the ISCRAM website mentioned above. You can find a full list of sessions online at: http://www.iscram.org/index.php?option=content&task=category&sectionid= 1&id=109&Itemid=2 <blocked::http://www.iscram.org/index.php?option=content&task=category& sectionid=1&id=109&Itemid=2> Aaron Burgman & Beth Yost Session Chairs {aburgman, bethyost}(a)mitre.org

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Final CFP: BELIV’08 - CHI 2008 Workshop - BEyond time and errors: novel evaLuation methods for Information Visualization
by Adam Perer 27 Oct '07

27 Oct '07

*** Call for Papers *** ---------------------------- BELIV’08 - CHI 2008 Workshop ---------------------------- BEyond time and errors: novel evaLuation methods for Information Visualization A Workshop of the ACM CHI 2008 Conference April 5, 2008 - Florence, Italy WORKSHOP WEBSITE http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~beliv08/ 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’08 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. DATES Deadline for submissions: October 31, 2007 Notification of acceptance: November 28, 2007 Camera ready papers due: Mid-March Workshop: April 5, 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 send an email to: beliv08(a)dis.uniroma1.it by October 31, 2008. 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:// 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 • Quality metrics • Insight characterization • Synthetic data set generation • Taxonomies of tasks • Benchmark development and repositories • Methodology of longitudinal case studies • Evaluation of early prototypes • Measuring adoption • Evaluation heuristics and guidelines ORGANIZERS Enrico Bertini Departement of Informatics University of Fribourg, Switzerland enrico.bertini at unifr.ch Adam Perer Human-Computer Interaction Lab Department of Computer Science University of Maryland adamp at cs.umd.edu Catherine Plaisant Human-Computer Interaction Lab University of Maryland plaisant at cs.umd.edu Giuseppe Santucci Dip. di Informatica e Sistemistica University of Rome “La Sapienza” santucci at dis.uniroma1.it

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CFP: BELIV’08 - CHI 2008 Workshop - BEyond time and errors: novel evaLuation methods for Information Visualization
by Adam Perer 20 Sep '07

20 Sep '07

*** Call for Papers *** ---------------------------- BELIV’08 - CHI 2008 Workshop ---------------------------- BEyond time and errors: novel evaLuation methods for Information Visualization A Workshop of the ACM CHI 2008 Conference April 5, 2008 - Florence, Italy WORKSHOP WEBSITE http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~beliv08/ 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’08 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. DATES Deadline for submissions: October 3, 2007 (or 31 Oct for research papers only, see below) Notification of acceptance: November 28, 2007 Camera ready papers due: Mid-March Workshop: April 5, 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 send an email to: beliv08(a)dis.uniroma1.it by October 3, 2008. Please clarify if you are submitting a position or research paper. If you need more time to prepare your research paper, we suggest that you submit an abstract/outline as a position paper by the Oct 3rd deadline and let us know that you will send us your full paper submission later. We will need all complete research papers submitted by October 31st to start the peer review process. Format All the submissions should be formatted in the ACM style. Suitable templates, in LaTeX and Word, can be downloaded from: http:// 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 • Quality metrics • Insight characterization • Synthetic data set generation • Taxonomies of tasks • Benchmark development and repositories • Methodology of longitudinal case studies • Evaluation of early prototypes • Measuring adoption • Evaluation heuristics and guidelines ORGANIZERS Enrico Bertini Departement of Informatics University of Fribourg, Switzerland enrico.bertini at unifr.ch Adam Perer Human-Computer Interaction Lab Department of Computer Science University of Maryland adamp at cs.umd.edu Catherine Plaisant Human-Computer Interaction Lab University of Maryland plaisant at cs.umd.edu Giuseppe Santucci Dip. di Informatica e Sistemistica University of Rome “La Sapienza” santucci at dis.uniroma1.it

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Post-doc position at INRIA, France in Visual Analytics
by Jean-Daniel Fekete 04 Sep '07

04 Sep '07

Information Visualization Post-Doc Position at INRIA, Paris, France Sep, 3 2007 <http://www.lri.fr/%7Efekete/seven.png> The Research Group AVIZ, part of INRIA Futurs <http://www.futurs.inria.fr/>, is seeking 1-2 highly motivated individuals for research projects in the field of Information Visualization, Visual Analytics and Business Intelligence in collaboration with the French Electricity Supplier EDF <http://www.edf.fr/>, Université Paris-Dauphine <http://www.ceremade.dauphine.fr/> and LIMSI <http://www.limsi.fr>. Post-Doc positions are currently available for 6-7 months starting in October 2007. Required skills include good Java programming and experience with Information Visualization. The goal of the project is to build a visual programming environment for Visual Analytics and populate it with components for: * Data storage and retrieval; * Visualization and interaction; * Analysis (language processing, classification). Our current prototype is implemented in Java using the open source projects JBeanStudio <http://jbeanstudio.sourceforge.net/>, the InfoVis Toolkit <http://ivtk.sourceforge.net> and Weka <http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/%7Eml/>. Send a cover letter and CV to Jean-Daniel Fekete (Jean-Daniel.Fekete(a)inria.fr <mailto:Jean-Daniel.Fekete@inria.fr> www.lri.fr/~fekete <http://www.lri.fr/%7Efekete>), Scientific Leader of the AVIZ Team and Senior Researcher at INRIA. Speaking French is not required: AVIZ is an international laboratory. http://www.lri.fr/~fekete/call-seven.html INRIA <http://www.inria.fr/> is a leading French Research Center in Computer Science. The AVIZ Team is among the best ranked French research groups in the field of Information Visualization. It is located in the University of Paris-South <http://www.u-psud.fr/anglais.nsf/index.htm>. -- Jean-Daniel Fekete Jean-Daniel.Fekete(a)inria.fr INRIA Futurs, LRI tel: +33 1 69156494 Bat 490, Université Paris-Sud fax: +33 1 69154240 F91405 ORSAY Cedex, France www.lri.fr/~fekete

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ISEA 2008 - Call for Proposals - deadline Aug, 31 2007
by Image Science 17 Aug '07

17 Aug '07

please excuse cross-postings ISEA 2008 :: July 25 - August 3 Call for Papers, Panels and Artist Presentations We cordially invite submissions to the conference of the International Symposium on Electronic Art 2008 that will be held in Singapore between 25th - 30th July 2008. The conference is held alongside workshops, courses, exhibitions, performances and other in-conjunction events that will be held for the duration of ISEA2008 from 25th July to August 3rd 2008. The conference, as in previous ISEAs, is expected to bring together artists, theorists, historians, curators and researchers of media arts from around the world to jointly explore the most urgent and exciting questions in the field. The five themes of ISEA2008 are especially focused on eliciting a wide range of international scholars and artists. Conference Programme The conference programme will include competitively selected, peer-reviewed individual papers and panel presentations. This year we are also encouraging artists who wish to share their works with a broader audience of their peers to submit artist presentations where they can speak about the specific aesthetic, conceptual and technological aspects of their works. The conference also promises to present a list of internationally renowned Keynote Speakers expounding on the major themes of the conference. There will also be a special lecture delivered by a Nobel Laureate. Call for Proposals We welcome contributions from creative practitioners and researchers from a variety of disciplines and institutional contexts as media arts benefits from and exemplifies the interdisciplinary linkages between contemporary art, science, technology and their related philosophies, pedagogies and institutional practices. The submissions must address or be of relevance to at least one of the themes of ISEA2008 in order to be considered for inclusion in the conference. The conference will be of interest to those working in but not limited to the following areas: media art, contemporary art, design, art history and theory, film and media studies, gaming, toy design, human-computer interaction, cultural studies, literary studies, musicology, sound studies, theatre, dance and performance studies, science, technology and society studies, history of science and history of technology, philosophy, history, gender studies, political science, anthropology, sociology and geography. Submission requirements: We only require abstracts (not more than 300 words) of the proposed paper, panel presentations and artist presentations to be submitted in either Text, RTF, Word or PDF formats via this site. Please do not submit full papers at this stage. While we encourage submissions to include relevant images, it would be useful if the formats in which such images are submitted is restricted to low resolution jpegs. In the case of submissions for artists presentations, artists are encouraged to provide links to their and/or relevant websites. The deadline for submissions will be 31st August 2007. Submissions sent after this date will not be considered. http://www.isea2008.org/cfp.html

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CFP: BELIV’08 - CHI 2008 Workshop - BEyond time and errors: novel evaLuation methods for Information Visualization
by Adam Perer 03 Aug '07

03 Aug '07

*** Preliminary Call for Papers *** ---------------------------- BELIV’08 - CHI 2008 Workshop ---------------------------- BEyond time and errors: novel evaLuation methods for Information Visualization A Workshop of the ACM CHI 2008 Conference April 5, 2008 - Florence, Italy WORKSHOP WEBSITE http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~beliv08/ 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’08 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. DATES Deadline for submissions: October 3, 2007 Notification of acceptance: November 28, 2007 Camera ready papers due: TBA Workshop: April 5, 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 either research papers (4 to 8 pages) or position papers (1-2 pages) describing participant's relevant experiences and ideas that can contribute to the discussion. Papers will be peer-reviewed by a program committee and selected according to their quality and relevance. Accepted *research* papers will be refined after the workshop and be published in the ****ACM digital library****. Submission To submit a paper send an email to: beliv08(a)dis.uniroma1.it by October 3, 2008. Format All the submissions should be formatted in the ACM style. Suitable templates, in LaTeX and Word, can be downloaded from: http:// 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 • Quality metrics • Insight characterization • Synthetic data set generation • Taxonomies of tasks • Benchmark development and repositories • Methodology of longitudinal case studies • Evaluation of early prototypes • Measuring adoption • Evaluation heuristics and guidelines ORGANIZERS Enrico Bertini Departement of Informatics University of Fribourg, Switzerland enrico.bertini at unifr.ch Adam Perer Human-Computer Interaction Lab Department of Computer Science University of Maryland adamp at cs.umd.edu Catherine Plaisant Human-Computer Interaction Lab University of Maryland plaisant at cs.umd.edu Giuseppe Santucci Dip. di Informatica e Sistemistica University of Rome “La Sapienza” santucci at dis.uniroma1.it

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VizSEC 2007 Workshop on Visualization for Computer Security
by John Goodall 01 Aug '07

01 Aug '07

VizSEC 2007 Workshop on Visualization for Computer Security http://vizsec.org/workshop2007/ The VizSEC 2007 Workshop on Visualization for Computer Security will be held in conjunction with IEEE Vis 2007 and IEEE InfoVis 2007 in Sacramento, CA USA between October 28 and November 1, 2007. We are still waiting to hear the exact date of the event from conference organizers. This year's workshop will be an incubator for new ideas related to security visualization, a forum for garnering feedback from peers, and a place to identify and meet potential collaborators. We are currently in discussion with a publisher to release the proceedings from this year's workshop in book form. Please see the web site (http://vizsec.org/workshop2007/) for more information, and stay tuned for updates, author instructions, and submission instructions. Also, please note that there is a new web site for the VizSEC community, http://vizsec.org/. While the site is a work in progress, we hope it will help in gathering together resources and ideas related to cyber security visualization. We will also be adding a mailing list in the near future. We look forward to seeing you in Sacramento. Please pass this on to anyone who might be interested. Thank you, John Goodall Greg Conti Kwan-Liu Ma .... John Goodall, Ph.D. | JohnG(a)SecureDecisions.com <mailto:JohnG@SecureDecisions.com> | www.SecureDecisions.com <http://www.securedecisions.com/> Secure Decisions | 6 Bayview Avenue Northport NY 11768 | 631.754.4920

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ANN re:place 2007 conference, Berlin, 15-18 November 2007
by Image Science 30 Jul '07

30 Jul '07

re:place 2007 The Second International Conference on the Histories of Media, Art, Science and Technology Location: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin Date: 15-18 November 2007 Information: http://tamtam.mi2.hr/replace An interdisciplinary forum of over 70 researchers and artists from all over the world, re:place 2007 presents multiple historical relations between art, science and technology. The title 're:place' refers to the sites and the migration of artistic and knowledge production. This theme is highlighted during the panel discussions and poster sessions, particularly in the 'Place Studies' stream which looks at specific historical instances and settings. Special attention will be given to alternatives to the 'Western' historical paradigms through presentations about art-science relations in the former Soviet Union, Africa, and Latin America. The conference includes general forum discussions on interdisciplinary research strategies, as well as keynote lectures by Lorraine Daston and Siegfried Zielinski. replace 2007 is a project of Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH in cooperation with Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Berlin. Conference partners include Leonardo, Database of Virtual Art at Danube University Krems' Center for Image Science, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik at Humboldt Universität Berlin, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, and others. Supported by Tschechisches Zentrum Berlin - CzechPoint and Schwedische Botschaft Berlin. Conference chairs: Andreas Broeckmann (D), Gunalan Nadarajan (SG/USA) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Conference ticket (3 days): EUR 50 (full) / EUR 20 (concessions) Day ticket: EUR 25 (full) / EUR 10 (concessions) Contact and information: replace(a)mikro.in-berlin.de, http://tamtam.mi2.hr/replace ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ PRAGUE / art - science - media - theory / BERLIN 8-18 NOVEMBER 2007 Three major conference events on art, science and media theory will take place in Prague and Berlin this November. Visit the MutaMorphosis conference (8-11 Nov.) and bring yourself up to date with contemporary art in extreme envirnments at the border between art and science. Take part in a Prague symposium about the exceptional media theorist, Vilem Flusser (12-13 Nov.). And then make the short journey to Berlin, where the re:place 2007 conference (15-18 Nov.) will feature outstanding interdisciplinary research and debates about the histories of media, art, science, and technology. http://mutamorphosis.org / http://www.goethe.de/prag / http://tamtam.mi2.hr/replace Flyer download (1.9 MB) for this series at: http://mutamorphosis.org/upload/files/2007/07/18/PRAGUEBERLINNOVEMBER2007.p… ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Programme re:place 2007 check http://tamtam.mi2.hr/replace for updates *** 13 / 14 / 15 November, pre-conference workshops and events (to be announced) ****** Thursday 15 November ********************************** *** Opening Session 15 November, Thursday, 14.00-15.00, Auditorium Welcome by Andreas Broeckmann (DE), Gunalan Nadarajan (SG/US), Bernd Scherer/HKW (DE) Introductory talk by Oliver Grau (DE/AT): MediaArtHistory - Image Science - Digital Humanities *** Panel 1: Place Studies: Art/Science/Engineering 15 November, Thursday, 15.00-17.30, Auditorium Michael Century (CA/US), Encoding motion in the early computer: knowledge transfers between studio and laboratory Stephen Jones (AU): The Confluence of Computing and Fine Arts at the University of Sydney, 1968-1975 Eva Moraga (ES): The Computation Center at Madrid University, 1966-1973: An example of true interaction between art, science and technology Robin Oppenheimer (US/CA): Network Forums and Trading Zones: How Two Experimental, Collaborative Art and Engineering Subcultures Spawned the "9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering" and E.A.T. *** Panel 2: Intersections of Media and Biology 15 November, Thursday, 15.00-17.30, Theatersaal Assimina Kaniari (GR/UK), Morphogenesis in Action: D'Arcy Thompson and the experimental in Leonardo from LL Whyte to now Jussi Parikka (FI): Insect Media of the Nineteenth Century Michele Barker (AU): From Life to Cognition: investigating the role of biology and neurology in new media arts practice Boo Chapple (AU): Sound, Matter, Flesh: A history of crosstalk from medicine to contemporary art and biology *** Keynote 1/Helmholtz Lecture (speaker t.b.c.) 15 November, Thursday, 18.30 at Helmholtz-Zentrum, Humboldt University *** Special Lecture Presentation Timothy Druckrey (US): Cinemedia - Visions of Computation in Cinema 15 November, Thursday, 21.00 at TESLA Media>Art<Lab Berlin ****** Friday 16 November ********************************** *** Panel 3: Histories of Abstraction 16 November, Friday, 10.00-12.30, Auditorium Laura Marks (CA): Artificial life from classical Islamic art to new media art, via 17th-century Holland Arianna Borrelli (IT/DE): The media perspective in the study of scientific abstraction Amir Alexander (US): Death in Paris: When Mathematics became Art Paul Thomas (AU): Constructed infinite smallness *** Panel 4: Comparative Histories of Art Institutions 16 November, Friday, 10.00-12.30, Theatersaal moderation: Stephen Kovats (DE/CA) Lioudmila Voropai (RU/DE): Institutionalisation of Media Art in the Post-Soviet Space: The Role of Cultural Policy and Socio-economic Factors Renata Sukaityte (LT): Electronic art in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania: the interplay of local, regional and global processes Christoph Klütsch (DE): The roots and influences of information aesthetics in Germany, Canada, US, Brazil and Japan Catherine Hamel (CA): Crossing Into The Border - an intersection of vertical and horizontal migration *** Panel 5: Place Studies: Media Art Histories 16 November, Friday, 14.30-17.00, Auditorium Daniel Palmer (AU): Media Art and Its Critics in the Australian Context Ryszard W. Kluszczynski (PL): From Media Art to Techno Culture. Reflections on the Transformation of the Avant-Gardes (the Polish case) Caroline Seck Langill (CA): Corridors of Practice I: Technology and Performance Art on the North American Pacific Coast in the 1970s and Early 80s Machiko Kusahara (JP): A Turning Point in Japanese Avant-garde Art: 1964 - 1970 *** Panel 6: Media Theory in Cultural Practice 16 November, Friday, 14.30-17.00, Theatersaal Kathryn Farley (US): Generative Systems: The Art and Technology of Classroom Collaboration Nils Röller (DE/CH): Flusser's Individual Academy: Thinking instruments in institutional and personal relations Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (US): The Enduring Ephemeral, or the Future is a Memory Antony Hudek (US/CH), Antonia Wunderlich (DE): Between Tomorrow and Yesterday: charting Les Immatériaux as technoscientific event *** General Discussion 16 November, Friday, 17.30-18.30, Auditorium *** Keynote 2: Siegfried Zielinski (DE) 16 November, Friday, 20.00, Auditorium ****** Saturday 17 November ********************************** *** Panel 7: Interdisciplinary Theory in Practice 17 November, Saturday, 10.00-12.30, Auditorium moderation: Sara Diamond (CA) Christopher Salter (US/CA): Unstable Events: Performative Science, Materiality and Machinic Practices Simone Osthoff (BR/US): Philosophizing in Translation: Vilem Flusser's Brazilian Writings Karl Hansson (SE): Haptic Connections - On Hapticality and the History of Visual Media Janine Marchessault (CA)/ Michael Darroch (CA): Anonymous History as Methodology: The Collaborations of Sigfried Giedion, Jaqueline Tyrwhitt, and the Explorations Group (1951-53) *** Panel 8: Place Studies: Russia / Soviet Union 17 November, Saturday, 10.00-12.30, Theatersaal Introduction/Moderation: Inke Arns (DE): The Avant-Garde in the Rear View Mirror Olga Goriunova (RU): Cultural critique of technology in philosophy of technology and religious philosophy of early XX century Russia Margareta Tillberg (SE/DE): Cybernetics and Arts: The Soviet Group Dvizhenie (Movement) 1962-1972 Margarete Voehringer (DE): 'Space, not Stones' Nikolai Ladovski's Psychotechnical Laboratory for Architecture, Moscow 1926 (t.b.c.) Irina Aristarkhova (RU/US): Stepanova's 'Laboratory' *** Panel 9: Cross-Cultural Perspectives 17 November, Saturday, 14.30-17.00, Auditorium moderation: Bernd Scherer (DE) Sheila Petty (CA): African Digital Imaginaries Cynthia Ward (US): Minding Realities: Geometries of Cultural Cognition Erkki Huhtamo (FI/US): Intercultural Interfaces: Correcting the pro-Western Bias of Media History Manosh Chowdhury (Bangladesh/JP): Can there be an 'Art History' in the South?: Myth of Intertextuality and Subversion in the Age of Media Art *** Panel 10: Cybernetic Histories of Artistic Practices 17 November, Saturday, 14.30-17.00, Theatersaal moderation/introduction: Geoff Cox (UK): Software Art has No History Christina Dunbar-Hester (US): Listening to Cybernetics: Music, Machines, and Nervous Systems, 1950-1980 David Link (DE): Memory for Love Letters. Computer Archaeology of a Very Early Program Brian Reffin Smith (UK/DE): Hijack! How the computer was wasted for art Kristoffer Gansing (SE): Humans Thinking Like Machines - Incidental Media Art in the Swedish Welfare State *** General Discussion 17 November, Friday, 17.30-18.30, Auditorium *** Keynote 2: Lorrain Daston (US/DE) 17 November, Saturday, 20.00, Auditorium ****** Sunday 18 November ********************************** Presentation of Results of the LBI Workshop on Documentation and Metadata with Dieter Daniels a.o. 18 November, Sunday, 10.00, Conference Hall 1 Forum on Cyber-Feminism with Faith Wilding, Irina Aristarkhova, a.o. 18 November, Sunday, 10.00 Forum Discussion: Connecting Music(ology) and Media Art Statements by Dr. Joseph Cohen (Collège de Philosophie, Paris) and Dr. Rolf Grossmann (Applied Cultural Studies/Aesthetics, Leuphana University Lüneburg). Discussants include Dr. Werner Jauk (University of Graz) and Dr. Paul Modler (Design University Karlsruhe). Moderation by Joyce Shintani (Design University Karlsruhe). 18 November, Sunday, 10.00, Conference Hall 3 Feedback Session and planning for re: conference follow-up in 2009 18 November, Sunday, 12.00, Auditorium ****** POSTERS ********************************** (poster exhibition plus short lunchtime presentations) Su Ballard (NZ): 'Real Time': early encounters with immersive installation in Aotearoa New Zealand Clarisse Bardiot (FR): The Artists and Engineers of 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering, New York, 1966 Ross Bochnek (US): When Clinical Neuropsychology Met Time-Based Art Wayne Clements (UK): The Descent of New Media: Art, Warfare and Cambridge Cybernetics Lenka Dolanova (CZ): What They Were Cooking in There: Cooks, Their Kitchen and the Taste of Fresh Video Ernest Edmonds (UK/AU) Human and robot behaviour: art meets AI Francis Arsene Fogue Kuate (Cameroon): The contribution of technical centres to the development of Media Art in Africa: A case study of the Audiovisual Professional Training Centre of Ekounou (Yaounde) Francesca Franco (IT/UK): New Media Art and an Institutional Crisis in the History of the Venice Biennale, 1968 Darko Fritz (HR/NL): Vladimir Bonacic: Dynamic Objects (1968-1971) - computer-generated works made in Zagreb within New Tendencies art network (1961-1973) Yara Guasque (BR), Sandra Albuquerque Reis Fachinello (BR), Silvia Guadagnini (BR): Skipping stages. From constructivism in architecture and in poetry to the digital media: searching for parameters to understand the emerging media and the formation of a specialized audience in Brazil Rosana Horio Monteiro (BR): Art and Science Playing on the Margins. On the discovery of photography in the 19th century Brazil Karen Ingham (UK): A Ticket to The Theatre of The Dead Maude Ligier (FR): How cybernetics entered the world of art? The case of Nicolas Schöffer David McConville (US): Cosmological Cinema: Pedagogy, Propaganda, and Perturbation in Early Dome Theaters Vytautas Michelkevicius (LT): (Post)photography and Media Art: Rethinking Institutionalization and Public Curatorship in Lithuania Simon Mills (UK): framed: interviews with new media writers and artists Angela Ndalianis (AU), Lisa Beaven (AU), Saige Walton (AU): Technologies of Wonder - a Pansemiotic Approach Ariane Noel de Tilly (CA): The different 'versions' of John Massey's As the Hammer Strikes (A Partial Illustration) Ryan Pierson (US): Thinking Space: Mediating IBM's Deep Blue in the History of Computers Markku Reunanen (FI): Observations on the Adoption of Science in a Subculture Nina Samuel (DE/CH): Re-Reading Fractals: Towards an Archeology of the Digital Form Roberto Simanowski (DE/US): The Art of Mapping Data: Statistics, Naturalism, and Transformation Stefan Sonvilla-Weiss (AT/FI): Paul Otlet's impact on visual knowledge building in current developments of Web 2.0 Melanie Swalwell (NZ): Early Digital Games Production in New Zealand Carolyn Tennant (US), Kathy High (US): The Experimental Television Center Claudia X. Valdes (CL/US), Phillip Thurtle (US): From Spiderman to Alba: transgenics in a post-nuclear world Simon Werrett (US): The Festive Formation of the City: The Art and Science of Urban Space in the late Soviet Union ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Wendy Jo Coones, M.Ed. Department for Image Science DANUBE UNIVERSITY Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Straße 30 3500 Krems, AUSTRIA www.donau-uni.ac.at/dis www.mediaarthistories.org

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CFP: Workshop on Massive Datasets - Nagoya
by Yuri Ivanov 14 Jul '07

14 Jul '07

CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Massive Datasets http://www.merl.com/wmd/ at the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces http://www.acm.org/icmi/2007/ November 15, 2007 Nagoya, Japan Are the tools we use to understand our data scalable to the tens of millions of records, huge spans of time, minute details of behavior, and large geographic extent that future sensor networks will generate? In the future buildings will be studded with sensors. Every movement will generate a few bits of data. Every fluctuation in temperature will be recorded. Every deviation in lighting will be noticed. These large and complex datasets will challenge the tools we use today. Looking into the future of residential and office building Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL) has been collecting motion sensor data from a network of over 200 sensors for a year. The data is the residual traces of year in the life of a research laboratory. It contains interesting spatio-temporal structure ranging all the way from the seconds of individuals walking down hallways, the minutes in lobbies chatting with colleagues, the hours of dozens of people attending talks and meetings, the days and weeks that drive the patterns of life, to the months and seasons with their ebb and flow of visiting employees. The dataset contains well over 30 million raw motion records, spanning a calendar year and two floors of our research laboratory. As such it presents a significant challenge for behavior analysis, search, manipulation and visualization of the data. We have also prepared accompanying analytics such as partial tracks and behavior detections, as well as map data and anonymous calendar data marking the pattern of meetings, vacations and holidays. MERL is now releasing this data set to the community. We invite you to download the data and apply your analytic, visualization, and interface tools. We hope that you will find new facets of the data and then submit papers to this workshop to compare notes with your colleagues. The goal of the workshop is to understand the state of the art in the context of the huge, detailed dataset of the near future. We solicit papers which utilize the dataset to demonstrate new insights on the data using any of the following techniques, or any other related technique: * Interactive visualization * Interactive search techniques * Pattern discovery * Interactive data mining * On-line learning * Scalable techniques for data analysis and visualization * Event detection and classification * Data summarization Papers should be 8 pages inclusive. Please use the official ACM format: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html Important Dates: Data Release: June 30, 2007 Paper Submission: August 31, 2007 Notification: September 14, 2007 Camera Ready: September 30, 2007 Organizers: Christopher R. Wren Yuri A. Ivanov (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories) Program Committee (confirmed): Kiyoharu Aizawa (University of Tokyo) Aaron Bobick (Georgia Institute of Technology) Trevor Darrell (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Irfan Essa (Georgia Institute of Technology) Minkyong Kim (IBM Research) Vladimir Pavlovic (Rutgers University) Thad Starner (Georgia Institute of Technology) Kazuhiko Sumi (Mitsubishi Electric) Andrew Wilson (Microsoft Research) [We apologize if you see multiple copies of this CFP.]

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