The Borders of Digital Art The Digital Arts Project Tuesday 15th September – Thursday 17th September 2015 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom Call for Presentations: The digital arts are constantly developing with an ever growing number of new branches (i.e. hybrid art, digital musics, interactive art, animation/FX, game production, curating creative communities, urban gaming, application design, bioart, hacktivism, generic architecture, urban hacking, big data visualisation, etc.). Many of these enter and change the entertainment and media industry and often promote the exploration of various aspects of human life, philosophical issues, anthropological, social, political and judicial problems. Consequently they are strongly…

The Videogame Cultures Project: 7th Global Meeting Friday 11th September – Sunday 13th September 2015 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom Call for Presentations: Videogames have probably become one of the most progressive mediums in the 21st century. The videogame genres and sub-genres are rapidly diverging and many concepts are merging with those from other media and even with the environment of the ‘real’ world (alternate reality games). Consequently the scope of the project is not limited to videogame studies only, but many other disciplines such as philosophy, psychology, sociology, economics, information science, criminology, military studies or ethology, to name but…

Call For Papers HaPoC 3: Third International Conference for the History and Philosophy of Computing 8-11 October, 2015, Pisa http://hapoc2015.di.unipi.it The DHST commission for the history and philosophy of computing (www.hapoc.org) is happy to announce the third HAPOC conference. The series aims at creating an interdisciplinary focus on computing, stimulating a dialogue between the historical and philosophical viewpoints. To this end, the conference hopes to bring together researchers interested in the historical developments of computing, as well as those reflecting on the sociological and philosophical issues springing from the rise and ubiquity of computing machines in the contemporary landscape.…

Call for Papers Designs on eLearning (DeL) 2015: Technology, Culture, Practice 16-17 September 2015 London http://www.designsonelearning.net/ Application deadline: 15 April 2015 Accepted applicants will be notified by late May The DeL 2015 conference is now accepting applications for panel discussions, workshops or short paper presentations on the following themes (see below): Cross-disciplinarity Understanding practice & culture Engaging students in digital spaces Digital identity Digital scholarship As digital technologies continue to transform the creative and pedagogic landscape, we face exciting possibilities and new challenges for the future of education. Titled “Technology, Culture, Practice,” DeL 2015 aims to explore forms of learning…

Call for Chapters: Examining the Evolution of Gaming and Its Impact on Social, Cultural, and Political Perspectives EDITORS Dr. Keri Duncan Valentine (West Virginia University) Lucas John Jensen (The University of Georgia) Proposals Submission Deadline: March 30, 2015 Full Chapters Due: June 30, 2015 INTRODUCTION The maturing field of video games offers unparalleled narrative complexity, experimentation with new game mechanics, and avenues for in-game creativity. Can the interactive nature of video games shift a player’s perspective on sociopolitical and cultural topics by placing them in unique and challenging situations, characters, and/or points of view? As video games grow in popularity,…

Call for Papers – Digital Animals: Inhabiting the Intersections of Nature, Culture, and Technology The University of Florida’s TRACE journal publishes online peer-reviewed collections in ecology, posthumanism, and media studies. Providing an interdisciplinary forum for scholars, we focus on the ethical and material impact of technology. We welcome submissions in a variety of media that engage cultures, theories, and environments to “trace” the connections across and within various ecologies. The first issue of TRACE explores current conversations at the intersection of animal studies and digital media studies. Animal studies scholars argue that animals influence the ways we engage with philosophy, critical theory,…