Human & Machine: Posthumanism in Technology, Culture, and the Arts
Ewha Trans-Humanities Research Team, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Ewha Trans-Humanities Research Team will host an international conference on “Human & Machine: Posthumanism in Technology, Culture and the Arts” from June 1st to 2nd, 2012 and invites suitable contributions for presentation at the conference.

Genetic engineering and digital technology are more than just supplement of human intellectual and physical ability; they seem to bring fundamental changes to the nature of what it means to be human. Such changes have been seen in how philosophy, literature, art, technology and cultural discourse view the issue of individual and group identities, the nature of human characteristics, the meaning of life, the status of humans in nature and other relevant issues taken from ethical and political perspectives. In this conference, the subject of humans and technology, both of which are represented in the debate on posthumanism, will be deeply discussed from a multidisciplinary perspective focusing on the topics of: Human Body Transformation in Science, Technology, and Art; Ethical Issues on Human Enhancement; Representations of Posthumans in Popular Culture; and Posthumanistic Impact on Human Ontology.… read more. “Call: Human & Machine: Posthumanism in Technology, Culture, and the Arts”

Journeys Across Media
University of Reading (UK)
Thursday 19th April 2012

Time Tells: Temporal Excavations in Film, Theatre and Television

JAM (Journeys Across Media) 2012 is celebrating its 10th anniversary with the theme of time. The conference seeks to address issues of time in film, theatre, television, and more widely in performance, media and art, and initiate discussions about the temporal across disciplines, practices and fields of research.

Modernity has often been perceived through ever more urgent temporal demands; modern technologies and art forms (film, television, video) have also been examined as time-based media. Film has been discussed as an imprint of time itself. Debates around representations of time, organisation of time in film, the experience of film time, or film as an archival entity have been only a few of the approaches to the rich investigations of cinematic time.

The most prominent link between time and television is that of ‘liveness’, which highlights the contemporaneous nature of some broadcast television.… read more. “Call: Journeys Across Media 2012: Time Tells”

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Interacting with Computers
Special Issue on the Social Implications of Embedded Systems

http://www.journals.elsevier.com/interacting-with-computers/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-the-social-implications-of-embedded-systems/

Special Issue Editors
Dr Stuart Moran, Informatics Research Centre, University of Reading, UK
Dr Irene Lopez de Vallejo, Tekniker IK4, Avenida Otaola, 20, Eibar, Gipuzkoa, Spain

Research on Embedded Systems or Pervasive Computing (PerCom) and its associated sensory and mobile technologies, is shifting focus from studies in controlled research laboratories, to emerging prototype implementations in real world everyday applications. The future application of PerCom is envisaged to cover almost all public, personal and commercial aspects of our lives. The benefits of PerCom are numerous and wide ranging, providing unprecedented applications on a previously unseen scale. However, this large scale use of technology brings with it a series of potential implications for its users.

Researchers studying the social aspects of PerCom have, to date, generally focused on its future positive application, with insufficient consideration or discussion of its potential short and long term social consequences.… read more. “Call: Social Implications of Embedded Systems – Special issue of Interacting with Computers”

CHI 2012 Interactivity Explorations : Call for projects : artists, designers and makers

CHI2012, the world’s largest conference on human-computer-interaction, is opening its doors to artists, designers and makers whose focus is on cultural applications and explorations of future technologies, to acknowledge and support their influence on future technology thinking and development.

If your work asks questions and inspires reflection on the role of technology in people’s lives, their dreams and imaginations, and if your mode of presentation can take us way beyond a traditional conference mindset, we want to hear from you. For the newly created Interactivity Explorations track we are looking for artworks, design experiences as well as inspirational technologies that the audience can engage with physically, intellectually and imaginatively.

CHI2012 will take place in Austin, Texas from May 5-10, 2012. … read more. “Call: CHI 2012 Interactivity Explorations”

CALL FOR PAPERS, POSTERS AND WORKSHOPS

FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DESIGN COMPUTING AND COGNITION (DCC’12 OR DCC12)
Bringing artificial intelligence, cognitive science and computational theories to design research

7-9 June 2012
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas USA

preceded by Workshops
5-6 June 2012

http://mason.gmu.edu/~jgero/conferences/dcc12/index.html

Paper Abstracts (optional) 1 December 2011
Papers (full – 20 pages) 6 January 2012
Posters (abstracts) 3 February 2012
Workshop proposals 3 February 2012

This biennial conference series provides an international forum for the presentation and discussion of state-of-the-art and cutting-edge design research with a focus on artificial intelligence, cognitive science and computational theories in design. The conference proceedings will form a continuing archive of design computing and cognition research. The conference will be followed by a series of state-of-the-art half-day workshops on specialist topics in design computing and cognition.… read more. “Call: Fifth International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition (DCC ’12)”