Extended Deadline: 14th of April 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PERFORMANCES

DRHA 2010 Conference: Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts

Sunday 5th September – Wednesday 8th September 2010

Brunel University, West London

http://www.drha2010.org.uk

CONFERENCE THEME: Sensual Technologies: Collaborative Practices of Interdisciplinarity

The conferences overall theme will be the exploration of the collaborative relationship between the body and sensual/sensing technologies across various disciplines. In this respect it will offer an interrogation of practices that are indebted to the innovative exchange between the sensual, visceral and new technologies.

At the same time, the aim is to look to new approaches offered by various emerging fields and practices that incorporate new and existing technologies. Specific examples of areas for discussion could include:

Delineation of new collaborative practices and the interchange of knowledge

Collaborative interdisciplinary practices of embodiment and technology

Integration/deployment of digital resources in new contexts

Connections and tensions that exist between the Arts, Humanities and Science

Notions of the solitary and the collaborative across the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences

eScience in the Arts and Humanities

Use of digital resources in collaborative creative work, teaching, learning and scholarship

Open source and second generation Web infrastructure

Digital media in time and space

Music and technology: composition and performance

Dance and interactive technologies

Taking inspiration from SET: imaging, GPS and mobile technologies

Evaluating the experience among providers and users / performers and audiences

Interface Design and HCI

Performative Practices in SecondLife or other virtual platforms

New critical paradigms for the conferences theme

The DRHA (Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts) conference is held annually at various academic venues throughout the UK. This years conference is hosted by Brunel University, West London. It will take place from Sunday 5th September to Wednesday 8th September 2010. It will be held across various innovative spaces, including the newly expanded Boiler House laboratory facilities, housed in the Antonin Artaud Building, and state of the art conference facilities plus high standard accommodation.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers

– Richard Coyne – Professor of Architectural Computing at the University of Edinburgh.

– Christopher Pressler: Director of Research and Learning Resources and Director of the Centre for Research Communications, University of Nottingham.

– Thecla Schiphorst: Media Artist/Designer and Faculty Member in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.

– STELARC, Chair in Performance Art at Brunel University and Senior Research, Fellow in the MARCS Labs at the University of Western Sydney.

We invite original papers, panels, installations, performances, workshop sessions and other events that address the conference theme, with particular attention to the Sensual Technologies focus. We encourage proposals for innovative and non-traditional session formats.

DRHA 2010 will include a SecondLife roundtable/discussion event, led by performance artist Stelarc, which will enable international participants to present performative work via Second Life. For this event, we particular encourage submission of Machinima works that can be screened as part of this panel.

Short presentations, for example work-in-progress, are invited for poster presentations.

Anyone wishing to submit a performance or installation should visit http://www.drha2010.org.uk for information about the spaces and technical equipment and support available.

All proposals – whether papers, performance or other – should reflect the critical engagement at the heart of DRHA 2010.

The deadline for submissions will now be: 14 April 2010.

At this stage, only abstracts are due and these should be between 600 – 1000 words.

Full papers can be submitted after the conference for peer-review to specifically themed issues of the Body Space and Technology Journal (Brunel University), as well as to the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, (Intellect Publishing).

Letters of acceptance will be sent by mid/late May 2010.

Please see http://www.drha2010.org.uk more information and a link for online submission.

Franziska Schroeder

DRHA 2010 Programme Chair

Posted by: Dot Porter (dot.porter@gmail.com).

InterFace 2010: Humanities and Technologies
2nd International Symposium for Humanities and Technology
July 15th-16th 2010, International Digital Laboratory, University of Warwick, UK.
Paper Deadline: 10th May. 1000 Word abstract.

InterFace is a new type of annual non-profit event. Based on the format of last year’s successful forum at the University of Southampton, this year follows in the same footsteps: part conference, part forum, part networking opportunity. The conference aims to bring PhD students, early postdocs and other early researchers together from the fields of Technologies and the Humanities in order to foster cutting-edge collaboration. Delegates can also expect to receive illuminating talks from experts, presentations on successful interdisciplinary projects and on how to succeed as academics.

Paper Submissions
If you are interested in attending, please submit an original paper of 1000 words or less, describing an idea or concept you wish to present. Following acceptance of your submission you will need to give a three-minute presentation of your paper at the conference. Papers should focus on potential, realistic areas for collaboration between the Technologies and Humanities sectors, either by addressing particular problems, new developments or both. As such, the scope is extremely broad but topics might include:

Technologies:
Agent Based Modelling, Computer Graphics & Visualization, Internet Technologies, Natural Language Processing, Online Collaboration, Pervasive Technologies, Sensor Networks, Semantic Web, Web Science

Humanities:
Applied Sociodynamics & Social Network Analysis, Archaeological Reconstruction, Dynamic Logics, Electronic Corpora, History & Art History, Information Ethics, Linguistics New Media, Spatial Cognition, Text Editing and Analysis, Teaching Methodologies

For further information, please visit the conference website: http://www.interface2010.org.uk, or e-mail the committee: contact@interface2010.org.uk

Kind Regards,
InterFace 2010 Committee

Posted by: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (rosselli at ling dot unipi dot it)

TEI Applied: Digital Texts and Language Resources

2010 Annual Meeting of the TEI Consortium

http://ling.unizd.hr/~tei2010/

• Meeting dates: Thu 11 November to Sun 14 November, 2010
• Workshop dates: Mon 08 November to Wed 10 November, 2010

The Program Committee of the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium invites individual paper proposals, panel sessions, poster sessions, and tool demonstrations particularly, but not exclusively, on digital texts, language resources and any topic that applies TEI to its research.

Submission Topics

Topics might include but are not restricted to:

• TEI and natural language processing
• TEI and language resources
• Analyzing and quantifying encoded texts
• Aggregation and compilation
• Integrating the TEI with other technologies and standards
• Tools that create and process TEI data
• TEI used in conjunction with other technologies and standards
• TEI as:
  • metadata standard
  • interchange format: sharing, mapping, and migrating data

In addition, we are seeking micropaper proposals for 5 minute presentations on how you applied TEI.

Submission Types

Individual paper presentations will be allocated 30 minutes: 20 minutes for delivery, and 10 minutes for questions & answers.

Panel sessions will be allocated 1.5 hours and may be of varied formats, including:

• three paper panels: 3 papers on the same or related topics

• round table discussion: 3-6 presenters on a single theme. Ample time should be left for questions & answers after brief presentations.

Posters (including tool demonstrations) will be presented during the poster session. The local organizer will provide flip charts and tables for poster session/tool demonstration presenters, along with wireless internet access. Each poster will have the opportunity to participate in a slam immediately preceding the poster session.

Micropapers will be allocated 5 minutes.

Submission Procedure

All proposals should be submitted at http://www.tei-c.org/conftool/ by May 1st, 2010.

You will need to create an account (i.e., username and password) in order to file a submission. For each submission, you may upload files to the system after you have completed filling out demographic data and the abstract.

• Individual paper or poster session proposals (including tool demonstrations):
  • Please submit a brief abstract (no more than 500 words) in the “Abstract” field.
  • Supporting materials (including graphics, multimedia, etc., or even a copy of the complete paper) may be uploaded after the initial abstract is submitted.
• Micropaper:
  • The procedure is the same as for an individual paper, however the abstract should be no more than 300 words, but may be as short as the name of the feature.
  • Please be sure the abstract mentions the feature to be presented!
• Panel sessions:
  • The panel organizer submits an abstract for the entire session, listing the proposed papers, and explaining the organizing theme and rationale for the inclusion of the papers in no more than 500 words in the “Abstract” field.
  • The panel members each submit a separate complete individual paper proposal; see above.

The program committee reserves the right to accept papers submitted as part of a panel without accepting the whole panel.

All proposals will be reviewed by the program committee and selected external reviewers.

Those interested in holding working paper sessions outside the meeting session tracks should contact the meeting organizers at meeting@tei-c.org to schedule a room.

Please send queries to meeting@tei-c.org.

Conference submissions will be considered for conference proceedings. Further details on the submission process will be forthcoming.

For the international programm comittee,

Christian Wittern (chair)

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Christian Wittern
Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN

Posted by: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (rosselli at ling dot unipi dot it)