Author: Matthew Lombard


  • Call: The Image Conference 2010

    The Image Conference 2010 The 2010 International Conference on the Image will be held at the University of California in Los Angeles, USA from 2-3 December 2010. We invite prospective participants to submit a presentation proposal for one of the following parallel session options: a 30-minute paper; a 60-minute workshop; a jointly presented 90-minute colloquium session; or a virtual session. We also encourage innovative presentation formats, such as roundtables, staged dialogues, screenings and performances. Parallel sessions are loosely grouped into streams reflecting different perspectives or disciplines. Each stream forms a talking circle, an informal forum for focused discussion of issues…

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  • Gaspar Noe’s “Enter the Void” makes you the main character

    [From The Montreal Mirror; the film’s impressive UK web site is here] COVER: Eyes wide open Gaspar Noé on Enter the Void, his neon-coloured psychosexual journey through Tokyo and the afterlife. by Mark Slutsky October 14, 2010 A lot of movies put you in the lead characters’ shoes. But few directors have the audacity to do what Gaspar Noé set out to accomplish with his new film, Enter the Void. This is a movie that basically makes you, the viewer, the main character. For the first half-hour or so, the protagonist Oscar (played—kinda—by Nathaniel Brown) is seen entirely from behind,…

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  • Call: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA London 2011)

    ELECTRONIC VISUALISATION AND THE ARTS EVA London 2011 Wednesday 6th – Friday 8th July 2011 CALL FOR PROPOSALS www.eva-conferences.com/eva_london We invite proposals for papers, demonstrations or short performances, workshops or panel discussions. A brief summary only is required for the selection process. We require the summary proposal on not more than one page. The title, authors’ name, affiliation and contact details including email address must be shown at the top of the page. This should be submitted electronically to easychair.org, an automated online submission system. You will be asked to create an account with the system before uploading your summary.…

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  • 3D facades: Window shopping in the lie street

    [From the UK’s Daily Mail] Window shopping in the lie street: 3D facades in high street hide dozens of empty shops By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 12:00 PM on 12th October 2010 Shoppers are getting a vision of the future in one town – and are walking in a  ‘virtual’ world. Fake facades have been put up in 18 shops in Redcar’s high street – along with one ‘virtual’ house. Shops such as the British Heart Foundation, Greggs, KFC and menswear store Greenwoods have been joined by the simulations, which aim to attract business investment to the area.…

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  • Job: Professor/Chair of Human Media Interaction at University of Twente

    The Computer Science department, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Twente, The Netherlands has a vacancy for Full Professor and Chair of Human Media Interaction http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/vacancies/fullprofessor The Human Media Interaction (HMI) group at the University of Twente performs research in the areas of natural interaction and intelligent environments: Natural interaction research includes human-computer interaction, multimedia processing, dialogue modeling, multimodal interaction, and brain-computer interfacing. Intelligent environment research includes multi-party interaction, embodied conversational agents (virtual humans), and virtual and augmented reality.…

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  • Toshiba to launch no-glasses 3D TV

    [From PC World; a review of the new products can be found here] Toshiba to Launch No-glasses 3D TV This Year in Japan By Martyn Williams, IDG News Oct 4, 2010 Toshiba is readying two 3D televisions that can produce images with the illusion of depth but don’t require the user to wear glasses, it said Monday. It will launch the televisions in Japan in December. By dispensing with glasses, the TVs answer a key complaint of would-be buyers — but they won’t come cheap. Toshiba will offer a 12-inch model and a 20-inch model. They’ll cost around ¥120,000 (US$1,430) and…

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  • Call: 2010 Workshop on Designing Ambient Interactions – Pervasive Ergonomic Interfaces for Ageing Well (DAI 2010)

    The 2010 Workshop on Designing Ambient Interactions – Pervasive Ergonomic Interfaces for Ageing Well (DAI 2010) to be held at the AMI 2010 conference Malaga, Spain, 10 November 2010 Extended Submission Deadline: Sunday 17 October 2010 BACKGROUND The AmI ’10 (one-day) workshop titled “Designing Ambient Interactions – Pervasive Ergonomic Interfaces for Ageing Well”, will address the large number of emerging ergonomic and ambient interfaces that facilitate elderly inclusion and accessibility in the digital society. A large number of such interfaces and related interaction techniques (e.g. computing surfaces, voice/speech interfaces, haptics, multi-modal interfaces, context-aware interfaces, location-based interaction mechanisms) have been recently…

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  • Disney’s TeslaTouch creates new touch screen sensations

    [From CNN] When glass touch screens feel like sandpaper By John D. Sutter, CNN October 8, 2010 (CNN) — Glass screens that can feel the touch of your fingers are all the rage these days. You’ll find them in all kinds of gadgets, from smartphones to tablet computers. But the way a team of Disney Researchers sees it, there’s one huge problem with this technology: All glass screens feel exactly the same. So, OK, that “problem” may not be keeping you up at night. But think about the difference between typing on a hardware keyboard, where you can feel whether…

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  • Call: GAMEON ASIA’2011, 3rd annual Asian Simulation and AI in Games Conference

    GAMEON ASIA’2011, The 3rd annual Asian Simulation and AI in Games Conference Digipen Institute of Technology, Singapore, March 1-3, 2011 The aim of the 3rd annual Asian GAME-ON Conference (GAME-ON ASIA’2011) on Simulation and AI in Computer Games, is to bring together researchers and games people from ASIA and the rest of the world, in order to exchange ideas on feasible techniques and research findings, which will be beneficial to the gaming industry and academia. Secondly it aims to steer young people into this industry by providing how-to tutorials and giving them the opportunity to show their ideas and demos…

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  • Mitsubishi offers “World’s First Online Test Drive” for its Outlander Sport

    [A press release from Mitsubishi; a 0:55 minute video is available here] The All-New 2011 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport is set to become the “World’s First Online Test Drive” CYPRESS, California Thu, Oct 07, 2010 Starting November 2nd and continuing through November 10th, 2010, Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc., (MMNA), will host the World’s First Online Test Drive of an actual vehicle utilizing interactive remote control of the company’s latest automotive creation, the all-new 2011 Outlander Sport. Residents of the United States who are 18 years and older with a valid driver’s license will be able to register to have the…

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  • Call: iDocs – Symposium on Interactive Documentary

    iDocs – Symposium on Interactive Documentary Call for Papers and Presentations In an era of pervasive computing, social media and a networked ‘information society’, digital documentary is embracing new forms. Web-docs, docu-games, photo-reportages, trans-media projects and locative narratives are developing new languages of factual communication that challenge the established linear narrative of documentary. i-Docs is the first lab/symposium to be dedicated to the rapidly evolving field of interactive documentary. The symposium will be a day-long event to showcase new projects and to discuss the artistic, economic and political implications of new forms of factual representation. i-Docs is convened by Judith…

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  • New technologies confuse reality and fiction: Pope

    [From AFP via The Sydney Morning Herald; more details are available in a story from The Catholic News Agency] New technologies confuse reality and fiction: Pope October 8, 2010 Pope Benedict XVI said on Thursday that the media’s increasing reliance on images, fuelled by the endless development of new technologies, risked confusing real life with virtual reality.…

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