Abierta Convocatoria del 9º Festival Internacional de la Imagen
Abril 13 al 17 de 2010/ Manizales-Colombia

El Departamento de Diseño Visual de la Universidad de Caldas invita a todos los interesados a participar del IX Festival Internacional de la imagen que se realizará entre el 13 y el 17 de abril de 2010 en la ciudad de Manizales; Colombia. Así mismo, invita a participar en las convocatorias de la Muestra Monográfica Media Art, Puentes Sonoros y el Foro académico de Diseño, dirigidas a diseñadores, artistas, estudiantes, profesores y profesionales de comunicación, publicidad, ingeniería electrónica y de sistemas, arquitectos y otras áreas afines.

Las convocatorias se proyectarán en el marco del Festival Internacional de
la Imagen, un encuentro que cuenta con un importante apoyo institucional nacional e internacional. Al evento asistirán alrededor de 25 invitados colombianos y 40 invitados provenientes de otros países como España, Inglaterra, Italia, México, Estados Unidos, Argentina y Brasil, entre otros.

Convocatorias

VI Muestra Monográfica de Media Art
Categorías: 1- Paisajes Sonoros / 2- Net Art / 3- Video y Animación / 4-
Diseño Web y Multimedia / 5- Imagen Fija
Recepción: hasta marzo 5 de 2010 / 18:00 horas
Informes: media_art@festivaldelaimagen.com

VII Foro Académico de Diseño
Ponencias que reflexionan sobre temas de diseño, creación audiovisual e interactiva.
Recepción de resúmenes de ponencias: febrero 16/2010.

Confirmación de aceptación: marzo 9/2010.

Recepción de ponencias completas para publicación: marzo 23/2010.
Informes: foro@festivaldelaimagen.com

Puentes Sonoros III
Convocatoria internacional de realización de piezas electroacústicas.
Facultad de Artes de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia en Bogotá, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba en Argentina y la Orquesta del Caos en Barcelona España.
Informes: sonoro@festivaldelaimagen.com

Informes
Universidad de Caldas, Facultad de Artes y Humanidades, Departamento de
Diseño Visual, Calle 65 Nº 26-10, Tel (57) (6) 8781500 ext 12107 (Fax
12225), info@festivaldelaimagen.com

www.festivaldelaimagen.com

La revista El Niuton va a estar asistiendo a los festivales, Transmediale, Amaze y Club transmediale en Berlin, del 29 de Enero al 7 de Febrero 2010.

Espere la transmisión del evento, entrevistas, y un completo informe de estos eventos.

Si hay algún interés en entrevistas o ver alguna conferencia en especial, por favor contactarnos al info@elniuton.com

Transmision video stream:

http://elniuton.com/niutontv.html

Transmediale. http://www.transmediale.de/en/event

A Maze Festival. http://amaze-festival.de/ 

El Niuton busca urgente a un programador radicado en Bogotá con énfasis en internet CSS y Content Management Systems. Contacto: info@elniuton.com

ARTE FIERA
ART FIRST

ARTE FIERA ART FIRST - 34th EDITION
January 29 - 31, 2010

Preview, by invitation only: 28 January at 12 p.m.
International Exhibition of Contemporary Art in Bologna (Italy)

http://www.artefiera.bolognafiere.it/

4 - 6 de febrero de 2010
Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona, Catalunya, España

The Influencers es un think-tank que durante tres días aborda las potencialidades de la comunicación no convencional en la sociedad contemporánea. Queremos explorar las zonas híbridas donde experimentos autónomos y cultura de masas se combinan y producen mutaciones. Nos interesan proyectos que nacen de una arraigada actitud hazlo-tú-mismo, incluso cuando se desarrollan de forma compleja o a gran escala.

http://theinfluencers.org/ 

Technarte 2010 se celebrará los días 15 y 16 de abril en el Palacio de congresos Euskalduna en Bilbao.

Podrás venir a Technarte y acudir a las conferencias tanto del día 15 como del día 16 de abril de forma conjunta, o participar únicamente en las conferencias del día 15 de abril sobre Arte e Interacción en Espacios Públicos como tema central de la jornada.

mayor info. http://www.technarte.org/es/registration/inscripcion.php

CONVOCATORIA INTERNACIONAL DE PROYECTOS
Taller INTERACTIVOS? en el marco de la exposición When Process Becomes Paradigm

Una colaboración de LABoral y Medialab-Prado, del Área de Las Artes del Ayuntamiento de Madrid

PLAZO DE LA CONVOCATORIA: hasta el 15 de febrero 2010
FECHAS DEL TALLER: 8 al 20 de abril 2010
LUGAR: LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón (España)

Se abre la convocatoria para la presentación de proyectos para participar en Interactivos? When Process Becomes Paradigm, dentro del programa destinado a artistas y creadores de LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial. Se seleccionarán un máximo de ocho propuestas para su desarrollo colaborativo en el taller que tendrá lugar en las semanas anteriores a la inauguración de la exposición When Process Becomes Paradigm, el 23 de abril de 2010.

La exposición When Process Becomes Paradigm pone de manifiesto, a través de 25 proyectos, el cambio fundamental de una cultura basada en el producto final (sociedad industrial) a otra fundamentada en el proceso. 
Interactivos?, que se anticipa a la exposición, está dedicado a la producción de obras de arte en línea con este planteamiento teórico. Las pruebas y los prototipos realizados durante este taller son procesos que evolucionarán, se desarrollarán y se transforman a lo largo del tiempo. 
Los proyectos desarrollados durante Interactivos? formarán parte de la exposición.

Consulta las bases en www.laboralcentrodearte.org

CALL FOR PAPERS

W I K I S Y M 2 0 1 0

The International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration

http://wikisym.org/ws2010/Call+for+Papers

July 7-8-9 in Gdańsk, Poland.

Co-located with Wikimania 2010 (Intl. Conference on Wikimedia Foundation projects, http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org).

Peer-reviewed and archived in the ACM Digital Library.

SUMMARY

WikiSym, the International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration, will be held this summer in Gdansk, Poland. Starting this year, WikiSym aims to explicitly broaden its scope, exploring not only the thriving wiki community, but also other open movements and open collaboration initiatives. This includes related areas such as open online communities, collaborative creation of multimedia content (with or without wikis), and open journalism and publishing, just to list a few examples.

Furthermore, our goal is to establish WikiSym as a venue for the exchange of information, experiences and practices among an interdisciplinary audience, including researchers, practitioners, industry representatives and experts with a wide variety of different backgrounds.

http://wikisym.org/ws2010/tiki-index.php 

Call for papers:
'Digital technologies and educational integrity'
A special issue of the online refereed journal IJEI

Edited by Chris Moore and Ruth Walker
University of Wollongong

This special issue of the International Journal for Educational Integrity (IJEI) seeks articles that address the impact of digital technologies on educational integrity. Many different terms have emerged in an attempt to capture the shifting terrain of media use and users in various networked environments: 'social', 'participatory', 'user-generated' or simply 'new' media. Common to the online interactive spaces of Web2.0 is the challenge of technologies and practices that are capable of changing the way we teach, learn, and share knowledge. How can we best engage and support students and colleagues coming to terms with the dynamics of these technologies and the development of new literacies?

 http://www.unisa.edu.au/EducationalIntegrity/Journal_submission_guidelines.htm

A WORLD WHERE MANY WORLDS FIT
An exhibition on the counter-globalization movement

Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop's University
Sherbrooke, Canada
January 27 to March 20, 2010
http://www.ubishops.ca/foreman/english/exhibitions/2009-2010/worlds/index.html

>Artists: ATSA (Canada), Zanny Begg (Australia),
>Etcétera (Argentina), Petra Gerschner (Germany),
>John Jordan (England), Oliver Ressler (Austria),
>®TMark (United States), Gregory Sholette (United
>States), Nuria Vila + Marcelo Expósito (Spain),
>Dmitry Vilensky (Russia)

Curated by Oliver Ressler

The trope "A World Where Many Worlds Fit" goes back to the Subcomandante Marcos, when talking about the Zapatistas' struggles in the Lacandonian Rainforest in Mexico. Since their uprising in 1994 the Zapatistas have been fighting for a less-hierarchic autonomous world where more options exist for involvement in democratic decision-making processes. They fight against an existing world, which calls itself "democratic", but should rather be seen as a form of sophisticated oligarchy that functions in favor of the interests of the political and economic elite. While the Mexican army and paramilitary mercenaries are brutally defending this exclusive world of the elite in Chiapas, in the part of the world where I am coming from (Austria/Europe) the stick that punishes people who envision another world is usually not so visible. But this can change suddenly in times when those in power assemble in the framework of the summits of World Bank, International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization, World Economic Forum or the G8. Though the decisions made by the politicians and business leaders at these meetings affect the lives of all people in the world, the negotiations take place hidden from the public gaze behind fences and ten-thousands of riot-police, becoming, therefore, a symbol for the undemocratic and illegitimate formation of global capitalism.

ElectroSmog
International Festival for Sustainable Immobility
Amsterdam / New York / Madrid / Helsinki / Riga / London / Banff / New Zealand / Munich / & on-lIne

March 18 - 20, 2010
www.electrosmogfestival.net

About the Festival:
ElectroSmog is a new festival that explores the concept 'Sustainable Immobility' in theory and practice. Sustainable Immobility is first of all a critique of the growing global crisis of mobility. Current forms of hyper-mobility of people and products in travel and transport are ecologically increasingly unsustainable. The will to slow down, however, seems thoroughly absent. The economic crisis may have temporarily slowed matters down, long term projections still point towards exponential growth of worldwide mobility and exploding energy needs. Alternatives for the current state of hyper-mobility need to be designed urgently.

The exploration of Sustainable Immobility is a quest for a lifestyle less determined by speed and constant mobility. A lifestyle that celebrates stronger links to local cultures, while at the same time deepening our connections to others across any geographical divide by means of new communication technologies, instead of physical travel.

*Cybernetics: Art, Design, Mathematics*

*http://www.asc-cybernetics.org/2010/*

*A Meta-Disciplinary Conversation.* **

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DEADLINE 29 MARCH 2010*

How would you like to shape and take part in a conference where the main activity is to explore by listening, talking and questioning (conversing) rather than listen to, and give, prepared lectures; and where the aim is to move forward, taking next steps as a result of these conversations, rather than reporting on the already discovered? In other words, go to a conference where the intention is to move forward by conferring.

That is the central feature of our conference—a conference of conversation, of listening, talking, and questioning. Of open minds, and delight in the un-thought-of.

And what better way to make an interesting conversation than to bring together people whose backgrounds and interests are different, yet who want to learn by listening to others, to find what can be shared? In other words, to transcend boundaries.

So we bring together practitioners and theorists who wish to explore across boundaries, from 4 different subjects. But not just any 4 subjects. Subjects that already hold conversations together in pairs: cybernetics; art; design; mathematics. With all 4 together, we have a wider conversation, greater variety.

Our 4 subjects have a special quality in common. Each is used to comment, throw light on and inform other subjects. Perhaps mathematics is the most obvious case: a subject in its own right that is used everywhere to illuminate (and make operable) other subjects. But also a subject that can comment on itself: a subject which is a meta-subject, even to itself.

Our conference is surrounded by 3 other, related events. Look on the web site, chose what you like, and come and join us at the Experimental Media Performance Arts Centre at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, from the evening of July 30 to late afternoon on August 2, with surrounding events on July 29 and 30, and August 3 to 5.

http://www.asc-cybernetics.org/2010/ 

REMINDER CALL FOR PAPERS : deadline March 5th 2010

WATER from SPACE: Societal, Educational and Cultural aspects

International Astronautical Congress
27th September – 1st October 2010, Prague

A joint session (E1.6.-E5.4) between the IAF Space Education and Outreach Committee and the IAA Commission VI and co-sponsored by ITACCUS on the topic "Water from Space: 
Societal, Educational and Cultural aspects" will be hold during the International Astronautical Congress that will take place in Prague in 2010 Inter-disciplinary in nature, it will explore the societal and cultural contexts of water as they are related to space.

Nearly 71% of the Earth constitutes water. Recently water has been found on other celestial bodies (Moon, Mars). Yet, the world faces serious issues related to water: not only its general availability and management, but also in the context of global warming as well as in the pollution of rivers, lakes and oceans.

http://www.iafastro.net/