Journeys Across Media The Body and The Digital Friday 19th April 2013, University of Reading 2013 will mark the 11th anniversary of the annual Journeys Across Media (JAM) Conference for postgraduate students, organised by postgraduates working in the Department of Film, Theatre & Television at the University of Reading. JAM 2013 seeks to focus on and foster current research relating to the Body and the Digital, as today they are interactive and interdependent facets in the media of film, theatre and television; and more widely, in the areas of performance and art. It is a relationship which continues to develop…

Art Expo at Internet Technologies and Applications (ITA 13) Tuesday 10th – Friday 13th September 2013 The Glyndwr University Research Centre for Creative and Applied Research for the Digital Society (CARDS) Wrexham, North East Wales, UK CALL FOR ENTRIES We are pleased to announce that as part of INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS (ITA 13), Glyndwr University will present its first Art Expo promoting the work of artists and designers working in new or emerging media or using creative technologies in their work. The Expo is intended as a knowledge-sharing and ideas generation event and will form part of the conference…

THE JOY OF LEARNING – EDEN 2013 Annual Conference, Oslo 12th  to 15th June 2013 Oslo, Norway Website: http://www.eden-online.org/2013_oslo.html Organized by: European Distance and E-learning Network – EDEN Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 5th February 2012 E-learning, open and distance education have been increasingly important fields of intellectual excitement and innovative development. The challenges posed by the new technologies are permanent, and students constantly keep teachers under pressure to develop. The human elements are moving to the forefront, employing creative methods and smart solutions. In Europe, despite economic and social pressures, there is a collective drive towards realising the creative potential. Standards…

Symposium: Texture in Film Sat 9th March 2013 09:00 to 18:00 Center for Film Studies University of St Andrews Scotland, UK Dr Lucy Fife Donaldson Texture is more commonly discussed in relation to visual art and design, music and literature than film. In these other disciplines, texture may refer to the tactile quality of a surface, the way a surface is changed by light, paint or other materials, the composition of fabric or narrative (as in the root of the word, to make/weave), the pattern of sound (rhythm and register) and the ‘concrete’ properties of language (metre, diction, syntax). Texture…

Call for Papers: Organic Experiences: (Re-)shaping Interactions with Deformable Displays — A CHI2013 workshop. Website: www.scc.lancs.ac.uk/deformable2013 Submission deadline: January 11, 2013 The next generation user experiences will rely on visual and physical output technologies that extend beyond the rigid, flat surfaces with which we are familiar to produce devices that both users and machines can deform and shape. Such experiences will allow users to physically push, pull, bend, fold, or wrap devices to facilitate new modes of interaction and better represent content. This workshop will provide a forum to examine the three primary themes of research in this area: prototyping…

2nd Interaction Design and Human Computer Interaction Workshop within the framework of the 5th International Conference on Typography and Visual Communication (ICTVC) 4-5 June 2013 | Department of Design & Multimedia, University of Nicosia, Cyprus Interaction Design is about designing interactive products to support the way people communicate and interact in their everyday and working lives. (Rogers, Sharp and Preece, 2011) Human computer interaction (HCI), a component of Interaction Design, is concerned with the design, evaluation and implementation of interactive computing systems for the human use and with the study of major phenomena surrounding them (ACM SIGCHI, 1992). Most people…