The European Science Foundation (ESF), in partnership with LiU is organizing the following conference: Paying Attention: Digital Media Cultures and Generational Responsibility Deadline for application: May 1, 2010. Scandic Hotel Linköping Väst, Linköping   Sweden 6 – 10 September 2010 Chairs are: Jonathan Dovey, Digital Cultures Research Centre, University of the West of England, UK & Patrick Crogan, Department of [...]

ESA RN Sociology of Culture mid-term Conference Deadline for abstracts May 15, 2010. Università Bocconi is pleased to host the 3rd edition of the ESA Research Network Sociology of Culture mid-term Conference, that will take place in Milan from 7th to 9th October 2010. The Conference “Culture and the Making of Worlds” is organized and promoted by Università Bocconi and [...]

Astronomy, Lunacies and Ends of the World, Leonardo Electronic Almanac In many mythologies, celestial events connect to the earth and the fates of human civilizations. We know that catastrophic collisions of asteroids with the earth have had large effects on the evolution of the web of life on this planet. Such collisions will occur again in the future. Solar variability, [...]

humanities + digital conference 2010 “Visual Interpretations” – Aesthetics, Methods, and Critiques Of Information Visualization in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences May 20-22, 2010 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology/HyperStudio REGISTRATION PAGE NOW POSTED How do visual representations of complex data help humanities scholars ask new questions? How does visual rhetoric shape the way we relate to documents and artifacts? [...]

Art in the Age of Pervasive Data, Leonardo Electronic Almanac 500 word abstract due September 10, 2010 Deadline Extended Art in the Age of Pervasive Data is a call for papers and artworks for a new issue of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac edited by FutureEverything. This issue of LEA will seek cross disciplinary thinking on art in the age of [...]

Lecturer in Fine Art (2 POSTS) University College London – Slade School of Fine Art Full Time: The appointment will be on UCL Grade 8. The salary range will be £39,510 – £46,635 per annum, inclusive of London Allowance. Duties and Responsibilities The Slade School of Fine Art is a leading university department for teaching and research in Fine Art, [...]

Director of the Edna Lawrence Nature Lab Rhode Island School of Design Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI seeks a science educator with experience in visual studies and a broad scope of curiosity about the natural world and its sustainability, to manage and develop the Edna Lawrence Nature Lab. The Nature Lab is a unique and well known RISD [...]

Nanotechnology, Nanoscale and Art Guest Editors: Tom Rockwell and Tami I. Spector Leonardo Journal Call for Papers Open Call 2011 is the International Year of Chemistry! To celebrate Leonardo is seeking to publish papers and artworks on the intersections of chemistry, nanotechnology and art for our on-going special section on nanotechnology and the arts. Since its inception nanotech/science has been [...]

Cybernetics: Art, Design, Mathematics http://www.asc-cybernetics.org/2010/ A Meta-Disciplinary Conversation. DEADLINE 29 MARCH 2010 How would you like to shape and take part in a conference where the main activity is to explore by listening, talking and questioning (conversing) rather than listen to, and give, prepared lectures; and where the aim is to move forward, taking next steps as a result of [...]

Afterlife & Death in the Digital Age Denisa Kera, National University of Singapore Saturday 17th April 2010 Seminar program Our interests in this workshop extend beyond issues of remembering and commemoration to include: • possible immortality and afterlife through digital media; • cultural issues with dying, death, afterlife and technology; • new forms of grieving and commemorating via emerging technologies; [...]