CFP: International Conference on Communication and Media Studies

ICCMS Venice 2014: International Conference on Communication and Media Studies



Paper submissions: August 31, 2014 

Notification of acceptance: September 10, 2014 

Final paper submission and authors' registration: October 10, 2014 

Conference Dates: November 13 - 14, 2014

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“Responsive Environments – On the Interrelation between Location, Atmosphere, and Digital Media”

CFP for the Panel: “Responsive Environments – On the Interrelation between Location, Atmosphere, and Digital Media”

Deadline for Abstracts: July 15, 2014

Chair: Dr. Christiane Heibach / Andreas Simon / Jan-Lewe Torpus

Institute of Experimental Design- and Media Cultures, Basel, www.ixdm.ch

Keywords

Responsive/Sensitive Environment, Embodied Interaction, Holistic Experience, Atmosphere, Extended Human Senses, Affective Computing, Media Art, Artistic/Design Research, Adaptive Architecture

Panel-Description

Since the emergence of computer technologies the notion of „location“ has been expanded. From the beginning, digital media were seen as world-generating technologies being able to create alternative forms of „locations“, e.g. virtual environments. Currently, tendencies like ubiquitous computing and wearable computing point to a further dimension of “location”: hybrid spaces in which moving, multi-sensing, and interacting may reach new levels of intensity. This causes a paradigm shift in digital technologies, because the simulation of virtual spaces is substituted by experiments with interaction and digitally expanded perception in physical space. Thus, mobile and pervasive technologies will change the future design and artistic opportunities of Human-Computer-Interfaces. Furthermore, their extended responsiveness will modify the individual’s perception and notion of the self.

The panel aims to discuss different artistic approaches to hybrid spaces and the notion of “location”, starting with our own project of a responsive environment, which is designed as physical space, composed of different materials and changing atmospheric components like shapes, light, sound, smell, temperature or airflow. Using sensory and feedback technologies we aim to establish a close relation between the humans and this environment to question the idea of an immediate experience as it is currently discussed in phenomenological approaches like those of Brian Massumi and Mark B.N. Hansen.

We want to invite artists and researchers working in similar directions to generate an interdisciplinary approach which promises to match theory, art and holistic experience. By this we also aim to critically reflect the consequences of current technological developments heading towards an “interfaceless“ connectivity between humans and machines (like in biofeedback technologies) and/or the design of an ‚intelligent‘ environment (as intedend e.g. by ubiquitous computing applications).

Please send a short abstract (max. 300 words) including university affiliation, address, homepage and e-mail tochristiane.heibach@fhnw.ch by July 15, 1014

Notification of acceptance: Aug. 4, 2014

Intercom 2014

Tema central: Comunicação Guerra e Paz

O XXXVII Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação será realizado de 2 a 5 de setembro de 2014 na Unicentro/Unila/UDC, em Foz do Iguaçu - PR. 

http://www.portalintercom.org.br/component/content/article/307-congresso-nacional/4950-calendario-2014

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