This call arrived in my email today. It may be of interest to some of the
participants on this list.
Ken
Date: Sun, 02 Jun 1996 02:58:47 -0700
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Subject: CIBER@RT'96 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: CALL FOR PAPERS
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Dear Ken,
We are sending you the official CALL FOR PAPERS for next Ciber@RT'96:
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ART & NEW TECHNOLOGIES.
We would like to invite you to send paper contributions, and would
appreciate if you could send this information to any person, institution,
or art related link that you may consider that could be interested in the
event.
Thanks in advance.
Fernando CARRION
(Ciber@RT'96 Coordinator)
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Ciber@RT '96
First Internacional Conference on Virtual Reality
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
November 4-7, 1996
Valencia, Spain.
Ciber@RT '96 is an annual international conference that has risen from
the need of creating a space open for discussion and reflexion about
the non-stopping evolution of New Technologies and its relation to the
Art & Communication world. The present edition is fully dedicated to
Virtual Reality, its social and artistic implications, its practical
applications and the development of new interaction proposals, as well
as the emerging phenomena of Virtual Communities.
Conference Format:
Ciber@RT '96 will start on Monday November 4th, and it will be developed
during the three following days (November 5,6 and 7). Four masterly
presentations and an undetermined number of communications will be
presented. Electroacustic music concerts, performances and virtual art
exhibitions will extend the programme to create a wide interdisciplinary
spectrum for theoretic and creative brainstorming, debate and discussion.
Every presentation will include simultaneous translation to English
and Spanish. Communication sessions will be run in sequence, avoiding
parallelism.
The Conference will be a part of Ciber@RT, 'Second International Show on
New Technologies: Art & Communication', where infographic works from
schools and universities from all over the world, as well as special
presentations, will be held.
CALL FOR COMMUNICATIONS
The participants interested in presenting communications should send
a summary to the Conference address, containing:
- Title of proposed communication
- Author(s) personal data (name, address, e-mail...)
- Institution (if any) and position
- Addressed area (see list below)
- Abstract of communication (500 words maximum)
- Brief curriculum vitae of author(s)
- Technical equipment requirements for presentation
This summary, including all documentation, can be delivered by
ordinary or electronic mail (in the first case, a PC or Mac formatted
diskette with the text and a hardcopy should be enclosed) before the
reception deadline.
The text of the communications and the speech can be in English or
Spanish.
No previously published communication will be accepted. All accepted
communications will be edited and published by the Universidad
Politecnica de Valencia after the Conference.
DEADLINES
Summary of communications reception: July 25, 1996.
Acceptance notification: September 10, 1996.
Advanced registration: October 15, 1996.
Selected authors will be informed of the deadline for the final version
submission.
REGISTRATION AND FEES
Advanced registration fee for participants in the Conference will be
20,000 pta., and 15,000 pta. for students. This fee will give the right
to attend all activities of Ciber@RT'96.
Selected communicators will be exempt from the registration fee.
Participants will receive a Certificate expedited by the Universidad
Politecnica de Valencia.
The number of participants in the Conference is limited, so that early
registration is encouraged.
Registration after the advanced deadline wil have an increased fee.
MASTERLY PRESENTATIONS
JARON LANIER (USA)
Visionary programmer, postminimalist music and cyberculture philosopher,
he is one of the few persons in the planet that can be proud of having
started a new industry. He developed in 1980 a new symbolic programing
language, and in a few years he became a famous 'cyberenterpriser',
owner of one of the world's strongest companies in the field (VPL).
He sold its cyberglove to the NASA, and he begun to use the term
'Virtual Reality' in 1982, being one of the first persons to design
virtual equipment. Nowadays he is associated to the University of
Columbia N.Y (USA) leading several Robotics and Telepresence projects
in the field of medical applications.
PHILIPPE QUEAU (France): "Virtual Presences"
Telecommunication Engineer and Research Director at the INA (The French
Institute de l'Audiovisuel), he is one of the best international
specialist in the study of synthetic images. He is also the responsible
person for the IMAGINA Festival programme at Montecarlo, one of the most
important festivals in the european field of New Images.
Brilliant theoretician, he has written books as "Eloge de la Simulation -
De la Vie des Langages a la Synthese des Images" (1986), "Metaxu: Theorie
de l'Art Intermediaire" (1989) y "Le Virtuel: Vertus et Vertigues"
(1993).
MONIKA FLEISCHMANN (Germany): "Me and you: New Dialogues in the
Cyber-Age"
Artistic director of the Department of Visualization and Design of Media
Systems (VMSD), and responsible of the area of computer art of the
GMD(Sankt Augustin, Germany), one of the most important European research
centres in the field of computer sciences and information technologies.
She was co-founder in 1988 of the Institute of Interdisciplinary Research
on Art and New Technological Media ART+COM. Presently, Monika shares her
work as main responsible of the CYBERSTAR Festival, oriented towards the
search of interactive proposal for TV, with the realization of Virtual
Reality projects and interactive installations that question the
sensorial perception of the spectator.
ZUSH (Spain): "The Augmented Reality"
Highly reputed Comtemporary Artist, part of his art work has been
developed as a collaboration with the Massachussets Institute of
Technology (MIT). He is presently creating images for the Web, producing
a CD-ROM based on his work, and he is also involved in an interactive
project of the Instituto del Audiovisual of the Universidad Pompeu Fabra
named 'Arte para Curarte'.
SUGGESTED AREAS FOR COMMUNICATIONS
1.- VIRTUAL REALITY AND SOCIAL IMAGERY
New markets and new ways of social control generated by synthetic
realities.
Which types of virtual hallucinations and visual drugs are generated by
virtual reality?
Virtual environments and mass-media.
Economical and social impact of digitalization and virtualization of
information.
Which role does cyberspace plays in colective consciousness?
Might it be a new dogma?
Do virtual techniques help us to better understand and apprehend the
world?
Virtuality and cultural modeling.
2.- VIRTUALITY VS. REALITY
Essence of virtual worlds.
The virtual concept and our sense of reality. New representation systems.
Are virtual realities metaphoric realities?
In the experience of virtual worlds, which roles do the image and the
model play?
Fanciful spaces and symbolic world: the nature of virtual environments.
Which are the psychological impacts of virtual worlds?
The potential nature of virtuality.
3.- VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES
What is a virtual community?
Televirtuality and telepresence.
Symbolic representation of human identity in the cyberspace: clones,
avatars, aliases, ghosts, daemons...
Which are our responsabilities in the virtual communities?
Mask games in cyberspace: private vs. public personality.
Cybersex: which is the role of the body in the virtual worlds?
Has cyberspace its own life?. Does it scape from human control?
New algorithmic techniques for network control.
Virtual labyrinths and vertigos.
Hyperimages and hypertext.
Autonomy and tyranny of the cyberspace.
4.- PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF VR
Practical applications of interaction technologies.
New application horizons of these technologies in the field of art and
communication.
Experience obtained in existing work environments from the technical
point of view.
Which is the present state of simulation techniques and what do they
consist of?
Do they offer a real and practical advantage beyond the mere exhibition
of technology?
Are the real time image synthesis techniques capable of becoming tools
that allow new ways of world representation?
Do they produce a deep influence on our way of working, inquiring or
amusing?
5.- INTERACTION TECHNOLOGIES
Up to which point a simulation of natural stimuli has been achieved?
What is the reason for the present limits? Devices? Our ignorance about
psychological mechanisms of interaction? The computer systems that
should interpret and produce the stimuli?
What does the digital adaptation of audiovisual and telecommunication
technologies involve?
Which are the interaction and real-time synthesis technology advances
that allow us to feel immersed in a virtual environment?
What are the navigation techniques?
6.- ART AND VIRTUAL REALITY
Have the new horizons of virtuality produced a radical revolution in the
conception of art? Has the object idolatry finished?
Does virtuality generate new art languages with specific properties?
Which challenges does virtual art bear?
Interactivity and the artist-public relation.
What is the role of the galleries and the critics when the creative offer
can become almost infinite? The new distribution streams.
The museum in the age of virtual reality.
Does virtual art have a potential nature?. What do we call life of an
artwork?
Is the virtual artist an 'intermediate' artist?
Esthetics and policy in virtual art.
SELECTION OF COMMUNICATIONS
The evaluation and selection of the communications will be carried
out by a selection committee and a scientific advisoring committee,
composed of the following experts:
Scientific Advisoring Committee:
Xavier Berenguer (Universidad Pompeu Fabra)
Josep Blat (Universidad de las Islas Baleares)
Pere Brunet (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya)
Javier Echeverria (Universidad del Pais Vasco)
Santos Zunzunegui (Universidad del Pais Vasco)
Selection Committee:
Salvador Bayarri (Universitat de Valencia)
Josep Gavaldat (Universitat de Valencia)
Jose M. Iturralde (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia)
Angela Molina (Director Ciber@RT'96)
Emilio Rosello (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia)
Jenaro Talens (Universitat de Valencia)
CIBER@RT '96 PRODUCTION & ORGANIZATION
Angela Molina: Director / Chair
Fernando Carrion: Coordinator
Cesar Fernandez: Coordinator
Jimmy Entraigues: Media Manager
Aurea Ortiz: Technical Advisor
CONFERENCE VENUE
Ciber@RT '96 will be held in the Conference Room of the Faculty of
Fine Arts (Facultat de Belles Arts) of the Universidad Politecnica
de Valencia.
SPONSORS
Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (UPV)
Vicerrectorado de Cultura (UPV)
Facultat de Belles Arts (UPV)
SUPPORTERS
Generalitat Valenciana - Direccion General para la Modernizacion de las
Administraciones Publicas
Institut Valencia de la Joventut (IVAJ) - Cinema Jove Valencia
Universitat de Valencia - EG (UV)
K-Tuin (Apple Valencia)
Iberdrola
Telefonica
Fundacio Bancaixa
CyberDrac
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REGISTRATION FORM
First name(s):_______________________________________
Surname:_____________________________________________
Passport number:_____________________________________
Job title:___________________________________________
Official education:__________________________________
University:__________________________________________
Department:__________________________________________
Address:_____________________________________________
Post Zip Code:_______________________________________
City / Country:______________________________________
Phone No.:___________________________
Fax No.:_____________________________
E-mail:______________________________
Date:________________________________
PAYMENT
Payment for registration is required in pesetas and will be made by bank
transfer, indicating your name and "Ciber@RT '96 Registration Fee", to
the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia. Once arranged the payment,
please send us a copy of the bank transfer by ordinary mail or fax to the
Centro de Formacion de Postgrado.
Bank: CAJA DE AHORROS DEL MEDITERRANEO
Account No: 2090-2832-640002-10
Cancellations:
In the event of cancellation, and provided that written notice
is received 20 days prior to the event, a refund of 50% of the
registration fee will be made. No refund will be made otherwise.
INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION
Ciber@RT '96
Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
Centro de Formacion de Postgrado
Camino de Vera s/n
46071 Valencia. SPAIN
Phone: +34 6 387 77 51
Fax: +34 6 387 77 59
E-mail: ciberart@xxxxxxxxxx
WWW:
http://faeton.eleinf.uv.es/ciberart96.html
.............................................................
Ken Friedman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Leadership and Strategic Design
Norwegian School of Management
Box 4676 Sofienberg
N-0506 Oslo, Norway
Phone: +47 22.98.51.07
Fax: +47 22.98.51.11
e-mail: <ken.friedman@xxxxx>