CFP: Computational Models of Creativity in the Arts

Wednesday 16 to Thursday 17 May 2006

A partnership between Goldsmiths and Birkbeck Colleges and the
University of Sussex

Hosted by Goldsmiths Digital Studios, Ben Pimlott Building,
Goldsmiths College, University of London

Including a public evening performance/exhibition event on the 16
May curated by BLIP and the Computer Arts Society at the Science
Museum's Dana Centre in Knightsbridge

The proceedings will be a special issue of Digital Creativity
Journal (2007:1), Routledge

Call for Participation

This workshop will bring together practitioners and researchers
who are involved in the use of computational systems in the fine
and performing arts, literature, design and animation as well as
the associated fields of aesthetics, cognitive science, art
history and cultural theory. It especially invites those
involved in the computational analysis and modelling of creative
behaviour to meet and share their experiences and explore the
potential of co-operative future ventures. It is intended that
this call should interest the widest possible constituency.
However a very broad list of (non-exclusive) descriptors might
include:
* the application of computational and generative methodologies
in the arts and related creative disciplines
* computational approaches to creativity, cognition and
aesthetics
* the application of artificial intelligence and artificial life
* the application of evolutionary and adaptive systems
* cultural applications of computing and digital electronics in
general

Categories of Submission
* Position papers, posters, abstracts, etc...
Places are limited! Please send in a one-page (maximum) outline
of why you (and your colleagues) would like to attend and what
you could contribute and/or how you might benefit. Include URLs
to relevant projects/experience where possible
* Artworks, performances, etc...
Please submit a one-page proposal including technical
requirements. Include URLs where possible

Deadline
The deadline for outlines and proposals is 19 March 2006. They
should be sent to the conference chairs as PDF attachments to an
email with the subject "CMCA Workshop Submission"

Co-Chairs
* Paul Brown, University of Sussex - paul@paul-brown.com
* Janis Jeffries, Goldsmiths - j.jefferies@gold.ac.uk
* Nick Lambert, Birkbeck - nick.lambert@gmail.com

Organising Committee
* Catherine Mason, Birkbeck
* Tim Blackwell, Goldsmiths
* Jon Bird, University of Sussex
* Miguel Andres-Clavera, Goldsmiths
* In-Yong Cho, Goldsmiths
* Maria x, Goldsmiths

Advisory Committee
* Margaret Boden, University of Sussex
* Phil Husbands, University of Sussex
* Ernest Edmonds, University of Technology, Sydney
* Charlie Gere, University of Lancaster
* Mitchell Whitelaw, University of Sussex
* Sue Gollifer, University of Brighton
* Tony Longson, California State University, Los Angeles
* Adrian David Cheok, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
* Dustin Stokes, University of Sussex

Funded by the London Centre for Arts and Cultural Enterprise -
LCACE - and the University of Sussex

Art in the land

Dear Students,

See below from Antonia. If you want her contact details, let me know.

Just in case you aren’t already aware, Glasgow School of Art and Glasgow University’s Crichton Campus are collaborating to present a conference entitled

Art in the Land: Ritual, Polemic, Speculation

This will take place at the Crichton Campus from Friday 31 March to Sunday 2 April. There’s a great line up of speakers and there will be visits to various local sites in the Dumfries area on the Sunday.

Details of the rationale, timetable and registration procedure can be found by clicking on either of these two links: www.gsa.ac.uk/land and www.cc.gla.ac.uk/land but if you would like any other information please contact me directly.

Do please pass this information on to any friends/colleagues/students who you think may be interested and we are also looking for reliable students (!!) to help out as volunteers in return for free attendance at the conference (and a free sweatshirt!).

Antonia Malcolm
Art in the Land: Conference Administrator

Sound and Anthropology

This one may be interesting for Alex:

Call for papers and presentations
Sound and Anthropology Conference

A collaboration between Department of Social Anthropology, St Andrews,
Scotland and Department of Sound Arts and Design, London College of
Communication, University of the Arts, London
Funded by the AHRC

19-21 June 2006.
St Andrews University, Scotland

This conference is the result of an innovative collaborative project
between the Social Anthropology Department, St Andrews and the Sound
Arts and Design department, LCC, University of the Arts, London. The
project has involved collaboration and dialogue between sound artists
and anthropologists, covering subjects such as the soundscape, acoustic
ecology, poetics, language, as well as postgraduate training in
methodologies and skills.
We invite proposals for papers, panels and works on subjects related to
the conjoined disciplines of sound and anthropology, most specifically
on the subject of body, environment and human sound-making, from
anthropologists, sound artists and researchers in associated
disciplines, including postgraduates, wishing to contribute to and
extend this exciting area of study.

Subjects might include:
Sound/Environment/Landscape
Listening and the Senses
Sound/Health/Body
Poetics/Magic Words
Sound and Migration
Speech/Utterance/Language
Archival sound/Oral history
Airwaves/Technology
Ethics/Collecting sound
Using recordings
Sound art/Performance and Anthropology
Sound/Rhythm/Rhyme
Silence and Noise

Please submit 200 word (maximum) abstract; 100 word (maximum)
biography; technical requirements; name, position, institution; postal
address; email address; phone number.
We encourage proposals from postgraduate research students.
There will be limited opportunity to display works

Closing date for submission: February 15th, 2006
Speakers will be notified by March 24th, 2006

Proposals should be sent to:
Dr Stephanie Bunn sjb20@st-andrews.ac.uk,
Dr Cathy Lane c.lane@lcc.arts.ac.uk


Dr Cathy Lane
CRiSAP (Creative Research in Sound Arts Practice)
http://www.soundarts.co.uk/

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS: DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS IS 6TH FEBRUARY 2006

REFLECTIONS ON CREATIVITY:
exploring the role of theory in creative practices

Issues
Papers and projects are solicited from across the disciplines of architecture, fine art, design, new and timebased media, which discuss the role of theory in creative practice. Suggested areas of interest revolve around the intersection of theory, practice and research, and include:

• Theory as practice; practice as theory.
• The resistance of practice to theory; the colonisation of practice by theory.
• The different relationships of theory to creative practice.
• The role of historical consciousness in creativity.
• The effect of RAE on the forms of creative practice in academe.
• The relations of theory and practice to research.
• Practice-based research.
• Theory as a platform for practice-based research.
• The nature of the split between theory and practice.
• Differences between research, theory, and practice in the creative arts, the social sciences, and the natural sciences.
• Theory often takes the form of a critique of practice using the interpretive approaches of the liberal arts & sciences: psychoanalytic theory, structuralism, philosophy, gender studies, socio-economics, and the like. Are there other possible forms of theoretical interest in practice?

Symposium
This two day symposium will be comprised of 4 paper sessions with two or three 20 minute paper presentations each, including an invited keynote speaker. Each paper session will be followed by a workshop, led by a workshop facilitator, including the speakers, which will focus on issues raised in the papers.

Dissemination
We intend to publish edited transcripts of the workshop sessions in addition to the papers. The submission of final papers for publication should be no more than 4000 words.

Venue
The symposium will be held on the 21st and 22nd of April 2006, at the DCA (Dundee Contemporary Art) and is sponsored by the University of Dundee and the Duncan of Jordanstone Faculty of Art and Design. The DCA is one of Scotland’s premier galleries and institutions of contemporary art and design.

Call
We are seeking papers from practitioners and theorists in Scotland, the UK, and abroad; and papers from staff and post-graduate students at the University of Dundee. We are also seeking workshop facilitators and participants from the University of Dundee. This will be an international conference with contributions from many UK HEI’s.

Dates
Mon 6 Feb 2006: Submission of 300 word abstract + 100 word biography
Wed 22 Feb 2006: Notification of acceptance of abstracts
Fri/Sat 21/22 Apr 2006: Symposium
Fri/Sat 21/22 Apr 2006: Submission of 4000 word papers for publication at Symposium

Submit abstracts to
Hamid van Koten h.h.vankoten@dundee.ac.uk or Lorens Holm l.holm@dundee.ac.uk

For further information please contact Sandra McNeil: s.mcneil@dundee.ac.uk