Call for submissions for Edited Book proposal: Gaming Beyond Screens We are currently seeking contributions to an edited collection on gestural gaming entitled Gaming Beyond Screens. In recent years there has been a surge of interest in digital games, platforms, and peripherals that employ gestural technologies. The Nintendo Wii, Rock Band, and Kinect are just some of the most popular examples in a long list of games and gaming devices that shift our attention away from the screen and towards bodies in motion. The phenomenon of gestural gaming raises a number of pressing questions for both academics and designers. For…

Call for Participation – TaPRA – 2013 Theatre & Performance Research Association (TaPRA) http://tapra.org/ University of Glasgow and The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS) 4th- 6th September 2013 Performance and the Body Working Group and Performance and New Technologies Working Group Title: Embodied Engagement: Participatory And Immersive Performance The Performance and the Body and Performance and New Technologies Working Groups are joining forces this year to explore different bodily, aesthetic, political, ethical and economical aspects of participation in the current performance milieu. In a performance context where hierarchies of participation are being reconfigured and traditional authorial claims are under stress,…

We are seeking a researcher for a position lasting two years at UNC Chapel Hill. The researcher will rotate between UNC Chapel Hill and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, spending six months per year at each institution. The Being There Centre’s research focuses on acquisition and display of 3D environments, large-format and mobile 3D displays, robotic humanoid avatars, and autonomous virtual humans. Position remains open until filled. Selected Possible Research Topics: Automatic real-time reconstruction of dynamic 3D environments using multiple cameras and depth imaging devices Novel auto-stereoscopic displays, conventional head-tracked stereoscopic displays Hardware-based and vision-based tracking technology for users,…

Conference Title: The Posthuman: Differences, Embodiments, Performativity CALL FOR PAPERS September 11th – 14th 2013, University of Roma 3, Rome, Italy The University of Roma 3, the University Erlangen-Nürnberg, the University of the Aegean and Dublin City University are pleased to announce: The 5th Conference of the “Beyond Humanism” Conference Series The specific focus of the Conference “The Posthuman: Differences, Embodiments, and Performativity” will be the posthuman, both in its genealogies, as well as its theoretical, artistic and materialistic differences and possibilities. In order to guarantee a systematic treatment of the topic, we will particularly focus on the following themes:…

Poetics and Praxis: Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces 2013 3-5 september 2013 Newcastle upon Tyne, UK http://www.praxisandpoetics.org/dppi We are excited to invite submissions for the 6th International conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces, hosted by Northumbria University at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, UK 3rd  leading venue for designers, artists, psychologists, systems engineers, social scientists and many more to come together to debate and define future design research and practice. This year’s conference is hosted by Northumbria University (UK) and will be held on the riverbanks of the Tyne in the glorious BALTIC, Centre for Contemporary Art between…

JOURNAL OF LEARNING DESIGN Special Issue on “Design Education” 2013 The Journal of Learning Design is an open-access multidisciplinary forum concerned with innovative technology and pedagogy in higher education. Volume 6, Number 3 [2013] Theme: Technology: A Mobilising Force for a Radical Design Pedagogy Deadline for submissions: Monday 24 June 2013 Provocation and Call for Papers: In relation to architectural pedagogy, Beatriz Colimina writes that it “…has become stale. Schools spin old wheels as if something is happening but so little is going on. Students wait for a sense of activist engagement with a rapidly evolving world but graduate before…