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onedotzero_adventures in motion: festival call for submissions!

this years festival premieres at the bfi southbank, 10-14 november 2010 before touring internationally.

extended deadline for receiving entries is 16th july 2010, 5pm.

onedotzero are seeking innovative short films, installations, interactive work and live audiovisual performances to showcase at the bfi southbank, london, uk, 10-14 november 2010. the five-day festival is the first stop on onedotzero’s extensive worldwide network of events.

onedotzero_adventures in motion has been the largest dedicated digital short film festival in the world since 1999. over fourteen years the programme has expanded to embrace a wide range of digital motion arts and is acclaimed by artists, audiences and creative industries alike for providing a platform to explore new ideas and fresh innovation through curated compilation screenings, features, exhibitions, live av performances, club nights, presentations and panel discussions.

submit now! this is your chance to showcase your work on an international platform and it is completely free to enter!

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what to submit

onedotzero seeks submissions of new work, which demonstrates innovative creative expression and visionary moving image ideas from the following disciplines:

animation + short form: renowned for uncovering exciting moving image work from all over the world, onedotzero continues to champion progressive work of under 30 minutes across music video, animation, motion graphics, narrative shorts, artists moving image, documentary and generative art.

feature films: to compliment the curated shorts programme onedotzero seek feature-length work with an alternative aesthetic and distinctive directorial approach for the big screen.

live audio-visual performances: onedotzero has a passion for presenting narrative driven live cinema, original vj sets and unexpected collaborations between musicians and artists. onedotzero can only schedule a limited amount of live shows at the london festival, but also curate live av projects year round as part of the international tour.

installations: onedotzero is keen to receive submissions of engaging audiovisual installation and compelling interactive experiences. both existing work and proposals for new projects will be considered. please provide details of the technical delivery in your ideas.

more infos / Submission:
http://www.onedotzero.com/submissions

Challenges and Opportunities for Design Research, Education and Practice in the XXI Century
Bangalore, India, 29th of September - 1st of October 2010
Deadline for abstract submission 30th of April 2010
Get more info and register on-line at www.lensconference.polimi.it
The Sustainability in Design: Now! conference is a platform for sharing the latest knowledge and experiences in product, service and system design, to promote sustainable systems thinking in design education, research and practice communities. The conference approach is to look at various stakeholders in this arena - designers, design educators and design researchers - as a unique learning community. The objective is the creation of a new ethos, within such a community, enabling all possible synergies and fruitful processes of knowledge and know-how osmosis and cross-fertilisation.
This conference is promoted and organized as the conclusive event of the LeNS - Learning Network on Sustainability - project, funded by EU under the Asia-link program, that aims at the development and diffusion of design for sustainability in design. institutions.
The conference proceedings will be published (with ISBN)

Call for papers
Participants are invited to submit papers in the areas related to the conference sub-themes outlined below. The conference is structured around three main themes that include:

1. Design Research for Sustainability (DRfS)
2. Design Education for Sustainability (DEfS)
3. Design Practice for Sustainability (DPfS)

Note : Please click here to register and submit your paper.

Deadlines for Abstract for Papers 30^th April 2010
Notification of Acceptance 15^th May 2010
Full Paper Submission 15^th July 2010
Announcement of Paper Presenters 31^st July 2010
Sustainability in Design NOW Conference 29^th September - 1^st October

General Guidelines for Abstract and Paper Submissions
Contributions should provide an original contribution to the field of inquiry of Design for Sustainability. They are expected to be based on identification of an issue worthy of investigation based on the paradigms of the Conference themes and sub-theme.

Submissions should be original and unpublished.

The conference language is English, and abstract and papers should be submitted in English.

Abstract submission guidelines
Abstracts have to be uploaded to conference website after registering as “Author”.

A free lay out can be used by Authors: However the Abstract should have the following details:-

> Author (name, title, position, institution, address, telephone, fax and e-mail)
> Title of the paper
> Text (max 500 words)

Paper submission guidelines
Full paper submissions are required to be done online on the conference website (details will be available by May 7, 2010).

Note: In instances where there are more than one author for a abstract / paper all authors should register, but only one should upload the abstract / paper; so forth it is advised that before uploading one members of every team agree on who of them will upload the abstract/ paper so that duplication can be avoided. In other terms a team need to upload only one paper (jointly aothored).

Please Note: There is no conference fee.
For more information on the conference please visit www.lensconference.polimi.it or contact lens.conference@polimi.it
For information on the LeNS project please visit www.lens.polimi.it or contact lens@polimi.it
Looking forward to meeting you in Bangalore!

The LeNS partners

Si riporta integralmente la seguente call for papers, per la quale si segnala l’avvicinarsi della scadenza e si invita alla partecipazione:

La Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa nella sede di Palazzetto Tito ospiterà nei mesi di giugno e luglio 2010 l’esposizione personale di Silvano Rubino intitolata In equilibrio tra due punti sospesi. Con l’occasione, nei giorni 17,18 e 19 giugno si terrà il convegno

Diafano. Vedere-attraverso.

Che cosa s’intende per diafano? E cosa, per trasparenza? Di quanti gradi, livelli, spessori è fatta la trasparenza? Possiamo assimilare diafano a trasparenza? O il diafano è solo un modo di esistenza del visibile che, seppure include la trasparenza tra le sue proprietà, non può esserne in nessun modo assimilato come semplice sinonimia? In cosa consiste allora lo scarto tra trasparenza e diafano sul piano materico e percettivo? E come cambia, a livello cognitivo e passionale, questa esperienza del vedere-attraverso ?
Goethe riguardo agli effetti di trasparenza e opacità affermava che se la torbidezza è un indebolimento della trasparenza e l’inizio della corporeità, possiamo definirla come un insieme di differenze, ovvero, di trasparenze e non trasparenze, da cui risulta una trama ineguale, una sorta di alterazione dell’unità che è, tuttavia, l’unica possibilità che abbiamo di percepire i colori. Questi, infatti, non possono essere colti se non all’interno di uno spazio torbido dove la materia oscura sembra combattere l’impero della luce. Analogamente il livello plastico di un’immagine non è mai da considerarsi come insieme di formanti stabilizzati una volta per tutte, ma come un processo in divenire che si rapporta alla percezione, soprattutto quando si ha a che fare con quelle forme di rappresentazione dell’impalpabile e dell’impercettibile. Queste ultime sono manifestate da alcune configurazioni testurali che mettono in scena il volatile, l’aereo. Il loro supporto, o ciò che s’interpone tra la vista dell’osservatore e l’oggetto osservato, nasconde e allo stesso tempo, attraverso l’effetto trasparenza, lascia trapelare. La sostanza che filtra lo sguardo è di natura tattile, a tratti palpabile, relativamente densa. È, ad esempio, la figura trasparente e opacizzante del velo. Con “velo” s’intende, infatti, una tessuto sottile che, pur coprendo e nascondendo, lascia intravedere ciò che sta sotto. A proposito dell’opera d’arte, riferendosi a Leon Battista Alberti e al suo celebre paragone tra il quadro e ciò che si vede attraverso un velo, Èmile Zola parlava dello schermo trasparente attraverso il quale vediamo gli oggetti più o meno deformati, soggetti a cambiamenti più o meno percettibili a seconda della natura di questo. Sono differenze modulate in base alle caratteristiche degli schermi, egli diceva. Lo schermo, anche quello apparentemente più trasparente, ha sempre uno spessore che rifrange e trasforma gli oggetti. Zola paragonava questa rifrazione a “una finissima polvere grigia”. La sua immagine di schermo polveroso anticipò un altro vetro impolverato, quello su cui Duchamp “sollevava la polvere”(élever, che, in francese, significa anche “allevare”). È il vetro polveroso che consentiva la nozione di retard, con tutte le sfumature di significato che questo termine comporta in Duchamp e che si assommano nella loro “unione incerta”.
Il diafano dunque non è tanto una qualità attribuita a immagini incorporee e atmosferiche in opposizione a forme plastiche precise, ma racconta piuttosto la storia di un percorso percettivo: racconta il processo di affioramento alla visibilità di un qualcosa attraverso forme, colori e configurazioni che accrescono l’iniziale incertezza, trasformando la loro contemplazione in un esercizio che non finisce nell’acquisizione di una certezza. Il diafano è l’ultimo stadio di rarefazione in cui la figura viene ancora percepita : rappresenta il minimo di definizione necessario affinché la percezione di questa venga riconosciuta come tale. Quanto più bassa sarà la sua definizione, quanto più ignoto apparirà l’oggetto. Nel diafano, alla problematica dell’opacità si aggiunge dunque la problematica della trasparenza, la successione per gradi della trasparenza. Tra trasparenza e opacità si distende un continuum graduale: dal fantasma della pura trasparenza (che al limite si confonde con il vuoto, il nulla) fino al traslucido (al diafano) che lascia filtrare la luce, ma non lascia vedere i contorni né le tracce delle figure dietro lo schermo. Il diafano è dunque il segreto di un visivo che lascia tracce del suo passaggio. È l’intervallo attraversato dallo sguardo nel farsi strada attraverso gli strati d’intermediazione costituiti da materie come l’aria, l’acqua, il vetro e ogni elemento translucido che può andare dalla pellicola filmica all’alabastro.
È dunque sulla natura semiotica di questa intermediazione che s’interpone tra il nostro sguardo e gli oggetti rappresentati, che il convegno si dovrà interrogare, a partire dalla riflessione filosofica sul diafano, fino allo studio di opere d’arte visive o musicali, dall’effetto nebbia nel cinema all’architettura translucida per finire con quegli oggetti il cui confine tra design e arte è talmente sfumato e indecidibile, da essere diafano appunto.

Patrizia Magli

E. Zola, Correspondance (1958-1871). Paris : Editions de Bernouard, 1928, pag. 250.

http://www.bevilacqualamasa.it

Call for Papers
We invite you to present your research at the SDN Conference 2010. We are looking for high quality research papers to be published in the conference proceedings. Submitted abstracts and papers must contain original research that has not been previously published and is not concurrently submitted for publication elsewhere. The conference language is English and all material has to be submitted to the conference in English.

Submission
The process for submission is in two stages: submission and review of abstracts, and final submission and review of full papers. You need to submit an abstract to be considered for submission of a paper. Based on the review of the abstracts a recommendation for submission of short papers and full papers will be given. Short papers are 3000 words, full papers are 5000 words in length.

Important Dates and Deadlines
2 May 2010  Submission Deadline for Abstracts

3 June 2010  Notification of Acceptance for Abstracts

18 July 2010  Submission Deadline for Final Papers

August 2010 Papers Accepted/Revised

28 October 2010  Conference opens

Abstracts
Submissions for the first review stage are welcome in the form of a written abstract. Successful authors will be requested to submit a short paper or a full paper.

Abstracts submitted for review should have a maximum length of 800 words, including key references, plus, where appropriate, not more than one A4 page of images.

The abstract should at a minimum indicate: keywords, the context of the research including research question and hypotheses; how the research has been developed including research method; and the main findings and conclusions that you will present to the conference.

Detailed submission instructions and a link to the electronic submission system will be available on the conference website at www.sdn2010.ch before 4 April.

Abstracts will be accepted from 4 April 2010. Deadline for submission of abstracts is 2 May 2010.

Final Papers
Short papers are limited to 3000 words, full papers are limited to 5000 words. Based on the review of the abstracts, a recommentation for submission of a short paper or a full paper will be given. An invitation to submit a short paper or a full paper will be accompanied by reviewers’ comments and suggestions. All submitted papers will undergo a second review and revision process.

More infos:

http://www.sdn2010.ch

Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey | 29 giugno - 2 luglio 2010
http://onmuseums.com/conference-2010/

Plenary speakers include some of the leading thinkers in museum studies and leading practitioners, as well as numerous paper, colloquium and workshop presentations.
Participants are welcome to submit a presentation proposal either for a 30-minute paper, 60-minute workshop, jointly presented 90-minute colloquium session or a virtual session. Parallel sessions are loosely grouped into streams reflecting different perspectives or disciplines. Each stream also has its own talking circle, a forum for focused discussion of issues. For those unable to attend the Conference in person, virtual participation is also available.

Call for Papers deadline: 8 April 2010
http://onmuseums.com/conference-2010/call-for-papers/#sd

Call for Papers “Designing for Aesthetics of Interaction”

> for more information visit: www.ijdesign.org/ojs/index.php/IJDesign/announcement

Design and Craft : a History of Convergences and Divergences
7th Conference of the International Committee for Design History and Design Studies
ICDHS 2010
20-22 September 2010
Brussels, Belgium

The conferences of the International Committee of Design History and Design Studies (ICDHS) aim to assess the current state of affairs of design history and design studies.

The seventh ICDHS conference, “Design and Craft: A History of Convergences and Divergences”, will bring the relation between design and craft to the fore. This theme offers an excellent opportunity to gather new design historical and theoretical research from over the world in a focused discussion on regional specificities as well as the impact of global processes of industrialisation. If, until now, design history has been largely dominated by the Western narratives of industrialization, then moving the focus towards non- industrial design practice might bring non-Western scholars to the forefront. Moreover, previously marginalized design histories in industrialized countries can finally get a voice.

The Brussels’ ICDHS conference will contain strands where the emphasis is laid on the presentations (of about 20 minutes each) and workshops with an emphasis on debate and discussion.

> Per ulteriori informazioni sulla consegna di abstract e papers e per i differenti temi della conferenza si veda il sito: http://www.designandcraft2010.be/

March 3 to 5, 2010

Monterrey Tech at Toluca, Mexico

The 1st international congress on Web Studies aims at providing a venue for researchers and professionals from different backgrounds for discussion, study, practical demonstrations, sharing, and exchange on new developments and theories regarding the World Wide Web. The congress therefore invites contributions from a heterogeneous set of fields and domains such as: Web systems, computational intelligence, human-computer interaction, digital theory, Web sociology, and well as interactive and digital arts. We also encourage contributions from businesses and organizations.

On the occasion of celebrating its 20th anniversary, ESDi is organizing The 1st International Congress of Design and Innovation of Catalonia which will be held on the 18th and 19th of March 2010 in Sabadell (Barcelona).

The Congress is considering a wide group of thematics that are involving many interestes for the possible participants. We will apreciate that you include your Call for papers (or the link http://www.esdi.es/focus/Papers_english1.pdf that contains it) in the communication of your events in your webpage or specialized magazines.

Anna Borrell
Head of International Relations Department
Escola Superior de Disseny, ESDi
Marqués de Comillas 79-83
08202 Sabadell (Barcelona) ESPAÑA
Telf. +34 93 727 48 19 (ext. 39)
Fax. +34 93 727 42 49
mail: aborrell@esdi.es / interchange@esdi.es
www.esdi.es

4_xuba (call for papers pdf)

An international interdisciplinary conference exploring the interpretive potential of architecture, exhibitions and design.

20-22 April 2010
Keynote Speaker: Peter Greenaway CBE

Call for papers
Narrative Space is a 3-day international interdisciplinary conference exploring the creation of narrative environments in museums, galleries, historic sites, buildings and landscapes. From the level of the site and the building down to the level of the exhibition and the object, how can we create environments which tell stories of people, of places and of collections? How can spaces, objects and a range of media be utilised to create spatial experiences which are engaging, meaningful and memorable?

Narrative Space draws together museum professionals, exhibition designers, architects and academics to explore practice at the cutting-edge of exhibition and experience making. In order to explore this vast area of research and practice it covers a range of themes including the ability of sites and buildings to hold or be overlaid with narratives; the history and theory of display; museums and exhibitions as spatial media; harnessing the spatial character, history and potential of buildings and sites; the nature and role of narrative and storytelling in the making of interpretive environments; the role of visitor-centred design in the production of museum space; and the emergence of a new range of interpretive approaches to museum and exhibition making which cut across architecture, film, design, digital media, interior and graphic design, literature and art.

Proposals are sought from museum practitioners, architects, designers, artists, filmmakers and others actively involved in the imaginative reshaping of museums, galleries and visitor experiences as well as academics researching in the areas of museum and gallery architecture, exhibition and display, both historical and contemporary.

Please send a short proposal of no more than 300 words to Suzanne MacLeod at sm100@le.ac.uk and Laura Hanks at laura.hanks@nottingham.ac.uk

Deadline: 29th July 2009
For additional information see the website