[From the Museums Computer Group (MCG) electronic list (posted on October 7, 2014)]

Hello,

As I know a number of list members have attended previous REMIX Summits on Culture, Technology & Entrepreneurship so I thought list members might be interested in the launch of this year’s REMIX London 2014 Summit which is our European event.

It takes place at Google Town Hall, the new event space at Google’s London HQ on 2-3 December 2014. Please note there are just 150 tickets available due to the nature of the venue and the last two events both sold out.

A short intro to REMIX can be found below as well as the first 20 speakers of the 75 to be announced over the next few weeks.

In brief, our line-up this year includes…

• Fabien Riggall, Founder, Secret Cinema – the immersive cinema specialists recently broke the world record for ticket sales for a live cinema event for their recent Back to the Future show where they recreated the town of Hill Valley
• Justine Roberts, Founder & CEO, Mumsnet – learn how to build online communities from a massively successful site with over 10 million visits per month
• Amit Sood, Director, Cultural Institute, Google – the latest from the head of Google’s culture team
• Eleanor Ford, Innovation Director, Time Out – Eleanor is behind the transformation of this iconic brand which now has an online audience in excess of 25 million people per month
• Ruth Mackenzie CBE, Interim CEO / Launch Director – a partnership between the BBC and ACE to provide a new platform for digital art which re-launched with a giant hackathon at Tate Modern earlier this year
• Sir Nicholas Kenyon, Managing Director, Barbican Centre – hear from the MD of The Barbican, who recently unveiled Digital Revolution on the future of the arts and the changing cultural landscape
• Fergus Linehan, Festival Director, Edinburgh International Festival – the new Director of the Edinburgh International Festival looks at the trends shaping the experience economy
• Chris Wild, Director, Retronaut.com

xCoAx 2015: 3rd International Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics and X
Dates: 25-26 June 2015
Location: Glasgow, UK
Website: http://xcoax.org/

Deadline for submissions: 18 January 2015

Computational tools and media, from traditional computers and software to the latest wearable artifacts, sensors, haptic interfaces and more, have dramatically transformed the landscape of arts, design, and several other cultural forms.

xCoAx is an exploration of this environment in the form of a multi-disciplinary enquiry on aesthetics, computation, communication and the elusive x factor that connects them all.

xCoAx is meant as a hub for the exchange of ideas and the discovery of interdisciplinary and international synergies, with the participation of a diverse confluence of computer scientists, media practitioners and theoreticians working on the frontiers of digital arts and culture.

Our focus has always been on critical and stimulating intersections: between the computable and the uncomputable, the communicable and the incommunicable, the chaos of creativity and the rules of algorithms, the human and the machine, in a constant search for new directions in aesthetics.… read more. “Call: xCoAx 2015: 3rd International Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics and X”

Call for Participation

ICMI 2014 Workshop on Multimodal, Multi-Party, Real-World Human-Robot Interaction
Istanbul, Turkey, 16 November 2014
http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~mef3/icmi-2014-workshop-hri/

Late-breaking abstracts are being accepted until 31 October
See below for submission details

ABSTRACT:

The development of robots capable of interacting with humans has made tremendous progress in the last decade, leading to an expectation that in the near future, robots will be increasingly deployed in public spaces, for example as receptionists, shop assistants, waiters, or bartenders. In these scenarios, robots must necessarily deal with situations that require human-robot interactions that are short and dynamic, and where the robot has to be able to deal with multiple persons at once. To support this form of interaction, robots typically require specific skills, including robust video and audio processing, fast reasoning and decision making mechanisms, and natural and safe output path planning algorithms. This physically embodied, dynamic, real-world context is the most challenging possible domain for multimodal interaction: for example, the state of the physical environment may change at any time; the input sensors must deal with noisy and uncertain input; while the robot platform must combine interactive social behaviour with physical task-based action such as moving and grasping.… read more. “Call: Multimodal, Multi-Party, Real-World Human-Robot Interaction (ICMI 2014 Workshop)”

IS-EUD 2015 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Symposium on End User Development: My world, my device, my program
Madrid, 26-29 May 2015
http://www.iseud.net/

THEME

In an increasingly connected world, we use computer technology in more and more of our work practices and everyday routines. End users face the challenge of adapting and combining these devices and technologies for their potentially various and differing purposes, and engage in creative, often collaborative, activities to make the infrastructures fit their practice.

End-user development has established itself as a research discipline that connects the ergonomics of programming with the users’ needs and abilities to shape the technological infrastructures they live in. The research does not aim at making everybody a programmer, but at allowing everybody to be in control of the technologies they live and work with at a degree of complexity of their choice. This includes improving the concepts and interfaces for programming and configuration as well as supporting end users in their activities to share, delegate and collaborate.… read more. “Call: IS-EUD 2015 – Symposium on End User Development: My world, my device, my program”

Call for Participants:
Larp Census 2014

We want to count every larper, including you!

It only takes 1 minute to answer the main questions

Full details and the Census:
http://www.larpcensus.org/home/en… read more. “Call: Larp Census 2014”