I've sent Viki the URLs for some of Barry Wellman's Social Network Analysis
papers that can be found online (see
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman/main.html ).

Does anyone else know of good papers/articles online that apply social network
analysis to the internet and online communities?

Email Viki (buborekos@...) and cc me (robin@...). If enough links
come in, I'll put them all on a page at www.cybersoc.com and will give credit to
those who sent in the links.

Thanks!
Robin.

-----
Dear cybersociology members,

I would like to ask You, weather somebody of You could help me. I would like to
write a research plan (this is a homework actually) about young people (below
the age 18), about they habits of how they use the Net, with whom they are in
contact only virtually, or both virtually and in real life, about weak and
strong ties etc...... So how can I do a network analisys about this topic?

I would be very thankful, if somebody could send me some ideas, ar advises how
can I do this, or maybe some of You have already made a research like that. I
was looking for similar researches , but here in Hungary I couldn't find
anything, neither on Internet.

Thanks is advance.

Viki

From: Lisa Le Feuvre [mailto:info@...]



Talking Networks: 'Are You There?'


The
Photographers'
Gallery
5 Great Newport Street,
London WC2H 7HY
tel: + 44 (0) 20 7831 1772 extension 224
fax: + 44 (0) 20 7836 9704
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Thursday 2, 9, 16 and 23 May 2002 19.00
Talking Networks: 'Are You There?'



Co-organised by The Photographers' Gallery and the MA Spatial Culture at
Middlesex University, Talking Networks: 'Are You There?'   is a series
of discussions addressing ideas and debates around networks and their
impact upon everyday life. Looking to social, fixed, digital and mobile
networks, this series picks up on diverse notions of communication, with
each event chaired by Lisa Le Feuvre, Programme Organiser at The
Photographers' Gallery.

For updates on speakers and to join the text and email discussion group,
text NETWORKS from your mobile phone to 07816 225 290 or email
network@... with NETWORKS in the subject header.


Thursday 2 May 2002 19.00
mobile networks
with  Robin Hamman and  Richard Lander

Robin Hamman is currently Community Development Producer at Granada
Broadband, the internet and interactive television division of Granada
Media. Prior to this Robin worked at TalkCast, overseeing community
aspects of Texer - the UK's first anonymous SMS chat room service; was
Communities Producer at BBC Online; and set up the academic web sites
http://www.cybersoc.com and Cybersociology.

Richard Lander   is Director of Brand2Hand
(http://www.brand2hand.com/), a marketing company which uses interactive
electronic communications to build complex relationships between
consumers and brands. Richard will demonstrate how SMS text to mobile
phones
can be used to develop electronic communities in a commercial context.


Thursday 9 May 2002 19.00
fixed networks
with Sandy McCreery and Jane Rendell

Sandy McCreery is programme leader of the MA Spatial Culture at
Middlesex University. Recently, he has edited The New Babylonians;
published Miles Apart: Examining the Relationships Between Urban
Motorways and Culture Practice' in Issues in Architecture, Art and
Design and The Claremont Road Situation  in The Unknown City; and has
served as a consultant to the BBC 2 documentary, Leviathan.

Jane Rendell teaches architectural theory at the Bartlett School of
Architecture. Her publications include The Pursuit of Pleasure, Gender
Space Architecture (co-editor), The Unknown City (co-editor),
Intersections (co-editor) and Strangely Familiar (co-editor)


Thursday 16 May 2002 19.00
digital networks
with Sarah Cook, Sean Dodson and Adrian Rifkin



Sarah Cook is a doctoral research student at the University of
Sunderland  in conjunction with the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art
investigating the practice of new media curating. She has worked in a
curatorial capacity at the Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada), the
Walker Art Centre (Minneapolis, USA), and the National Gallery of Canada
(Ottawa). When not online working on CRUMB
(http://www.newmedia.sunderland.ac.uk/crumb/phase3/index.html))  she is
a project coordinator at Locus+.

Sean Dodson writes for The Guardian, focussing on the development of
virtual spaces - see
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4378021,00.html and
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4349705,00.html

Adrian Rifkin is Professor of Visual Culture & Media at Middlesex
University, and formerly was Professor of Fine Art at the University of
Leeds. He is the author of Street Noises - Parisian Pleasure 1900 - 1940
and Ingres then, and now . He has researched and written widely in
cultural and art history on topics ranging popular music and opera to
Kantian aesthetics and gay subjectivities,  and is currently preparing a
series of extended studies on this latter subject under the title of
'Hyperventilation, the search for a banal beauty'. He is currently
Editor of the journal, Art History.




Thursday 23 May 2002 19.00
social networks
with Mick Fuzz, Geoff Mulgan and Jon Anderton

Geoff Mulgan is currently Director of  The Performance and Innovation
Unit (PIU) at the Cabinet Office. He is co-founder and was the first
Director of Demos, and his publications include Connexity : How to Live
in a Connected World  and Politics in an antipolitical age. Previously
he has worked as a special advisor to Gordon Brown MP, and before that
as a consultant on telecommunications, a lecturer in communications at
the University of Westminster and a fellow at the Massachussets
Institute of Technology. He has also published books on broadcasting,
telecommunications and culture.

Mick Fuzz has spent a number of years looking at  social networks and
how they are best supported and developed through the use of the
internet. he is active within the alternative news service
undercurrents (http://www.undercurrents.org/) and is currently
developing the project http://www.beyondtv.org. He will talk with
reference to  Social Justice and Environmental projects on the
web and how they interface with real live social networks.

Jon Anderton works with Richard Lander at Brand2Hand and develops SMS
based community networks.



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Tickets are £5 / £3.50 members and concessions for each session.
Booking is essential for all events.
Contact The Photographers Gallery telephone 020 7831 1772 or email
info@...

Following this series there will be a Saturday symposium at The Museum
of Domestic Design and Architecture at Middlesex University to reflect,
discuss and extend the ideas discussed in this series.


_________________________

For updates on speakers and to join the text and email discussion group,
text NETWORKS from your mobile phone to 07816 225 290 or email
network@... with NETWORKS in the subject header.
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The Photographers Gallery
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Hi everybody,

I don´t know if they are good, but in my Ph.D. Thesis I wrote two
chapters about Social Network analysis and aplied them to some
practical examples.
That´s the good news - the bad one is that the whole Thesis is in
german and I hadn´t enaough time yet to translate them into english
and put them on  my website. However, if there are more "people in
cyberspace" who are  interested in said subject I promise to speed up
the process!

Viiki, how urgent do you need those papers? I could sent you
a "special edition" - nothing ready for publication, but containing
some data which might be usefull for you and your research.

Best, Bodo Polzer

Robin Haman wrote:

> I´ve sent Viki the URL´s for some of Barry wellman´s Social Network
> Analysis papers that can be found online

> Does anyone else know of good papers7articles online that apply
> social network analysis to the Internet and online Communities?

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Sent: 18 May 2002 20:52
To: Robin Hamman
Subject: TeknoKultura: Call for Contributions

TeknoKultura: Call for Contributions

Teknokultura, on-line journal (http://teknokultura.rrp.upr.edu/) of  the
University of Puerto Rico's Social Sciences Faculty (Río Piedras
Campus),
announces its opening for contributions to evaluate articles and
electronic
art  relevant to the integration of technology to daily lives and labor.
Book and website reviews, literary work, and cartoons asociated to these
themes will also be evaluated.

Teknokultura provides a forum of expression on subjects related to
technology and culture from a critical and transdisciplinary
perspective.
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related
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of
technology to our social lives in contemporary society.

This call for contributions will be open from April 2002 until April
2003.
During this time, we will receive contributions that will be published
in
the second volume of the journal which will be available on-line on
August
2002.

Contributions in the form of articles should follow these guidelines:
approximately 15 pages in length with double spaced paragraphs,
submitted in
a PC platform (preferably in Microsoft Word), and use APA publication
style.
We encourage the integration of audiovisual material as part of the
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The submitted articles should have not been published elsewhere in an
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contribution and that are protected by copyrights. Authors will retain
the
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From: catac@...
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Subject: CATAC'02 Registration and Information


*** SAVE and Register Early by May 17 ***

International Conference on
CULTURAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION (CATaC'02)
12-15 July 2002, University of Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Conference theme:
The Net(s) of Power: Language, Culture and Technology

Website: www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac02/

-------------------------------------------------------

This biennial conference series aims to provide an international forum
for the  presentation and discussion of cutting-edge research on how
diverse cultural attitudes shape the implementation and use of
information and communication technologies (ICT).  "Cultural attitudes"
here includes cultural values and communicative preferences that may be
embedded in both the content and form of ICT - thus threatening to make
ICT less the agent of a promised democratic global village and more an
agent of cultural homogenisation and imperialism. The conference series
brings together scholars from around the globe who provide diverse
perspectives, both in terms of the specific culture(s) they highlight in
their presentations and discussions, and in terms of the discipline(s)
through which they approach the conference theme.

PROGRAM
An exciting program has been arranged, including presenters from
Australia, Canada, Germany, India, Iran, Israel, Mexico, Philippines,
Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Sweden, United Arab Emirates, UK and USA.
See the conference website for paper details. Ample time is allowed for
open discussions at the end of each session. The conference concludes
with a panel discussion. The panel is led by session discussants and
integrates the themes of the conference, focusing on future research
directions in the converging areas of culture, technology and
communication.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Susan Herring (Associate Professor of Information Science, Adjunct
Associate Professor of Linguistics, Indiana University) will be speaking
on "The language of the Internet: English dominance or heteroglossia".

INVITED SPEAKER
Laurie Walker, University of Lethbridge, Canada

ACCOMMODATION
Blocks of rooms have been reserved at the university residences and at
the Royal Terrasse Hotel. Be sure to make your reservation early,
particularly at the hotel where rooms are limited.

CONFERENCE DINNER
The conference dinner will be held on Sunday 14 July at Fairmont Le
Château Montebello, a stunning red cedar log château famed for its
rugged luxury in beautiful surroundings. Dinner and bus transport to
Montebello are included in the registration fee. Montebello is
approximately a one-and-a-half hour drive from Montreal.

REGISTRATION
Until 17 May, the conference registration fee is USD300 with further
discounts for authors (one author discount fee per paper) and full-time
students. After 17 May, each fee type will increase by USD40. Conference
and author registration fees include technical sessions, conference
dinner and transport, reception, proceedings, satchels, breakfasts,
lunches, morning and afternoon coffees, panel and closing cocktails.
Student registration fee excludes the conference dinner and transport.
All fees include the panel on Monday 15 July. The panel is also open to
the public for a fee of USD30.

See the registration form on the conference website for more information
and REGISTER NOW.

CONTACTS

Charles Ess
Director, Interdisciplinary Studies Center
Drury University
900 N. Benton Ave.
Springfield, MO  65802  USA
Tel: 417-873-7230; Fax: 417-873-7435

Fay Sudweeks
Senior Lecturer
School of Information Technology
Murdoch University
Murdoch WA 6150 Australia
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ars Electronica Center (by way of richard barbrook)
[mailto:richard@...]
Sent: 16 May 2002 12:26
To: history_of_convergence@yahoogroups.com
Cc: xhrc@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [xhrc] Ars Electronica 2002 - 3rd Announcement

UNPLUGGED
Art as the Scene of Global Conflicts
Ars Electronica 2002
September 7 - 12
Linz, Austria
www.aec.at/unplugged/
-----------------------------

Ars Electronica 2002 - 3rd Announcement

CONTENTS
.............................
1. Prix Ars Electronica 2002 - The Winners
.............................
.............................
1.1. Computer Animation / Visual Effects
.............................
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1.2. Digital Musics
.............................
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1.3. Interactive Art
.............................
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1.4. Net Vision / Net Excellence
.............................
.............................
1.5. cybergeneration - u19 freestyle computing
.............................
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2. Prix Ars Electronica Gala, Cyberarts 2002, Artists' Forum
.............................


You are reading the third issue of the Ars Electronica 2002 newsletter,
focusing on the winners of Prix Ars Electronica 2002 in the categories
Computer Animation/Visual Effects, Digital Musics, Interactive Art, Net
Vision/Net Excellence and cybergeneration - u19 freestyle computing.

.............................
1. Prix Ars Electronica 2002 - The Winners
.............................

1.373 artists from 80 countries entered 2.356 works this year in the
16th
edition of the most important cyberarts competition with the longest
tradition worldwide.
Five juries of international experts met from April 19 to 21 at the ORF
Upper Austrian Regional Studio in Linz to judge the best works in the
cyberarts competition Prix Ars Electronica 2002.
18 money prizes amounting to a total of Euro 109.900 will be awarded at
the
Awards Presentation on September 9, 2002 at the ORF Upper Austrian
Regional
Studio. The prizes of the Prix Ars Electronica 2002 go to the USA,
Japan,
France, Sweden, Great Britain, Australia, Canada, India and Austria.

.............................
1.1. Computer Animation / Visual Effects
.............................

Golden Nica Computer Animation / Visual Effects
Pete Docter, Pixar (USA): Monster Inc.

Awards of Distinction Computer Animation / Visual Effects
Peter McDonald, Australian Film, Television & Radio School (AUS): Harvey
BUF/Columbia Pictures, David Fincher (F/USA): Panic Room

An Overview of the Honorary Mentions you will find at:
http://prixars.aec.at

.............................
1.2. Digital Musics
.............................

Golden Nica Digital Musics
Yasunao Tone (USA): Man'Yo Wounded 2001

Awards of Distinction Digital Musics
Alejandra Salinas and Aeron Bergman; Lucky Kitchen (E/USA):
Revisionland/The Tale of Pip
Curtis Roads (USA): Point, Line, Cloud

An Overview of the Honorary Mentions you will find at:
http://prixars.aec.at


.............................
1.3. Interactive Art
.............................

Golden Nica Interactive Art
David Rokeby (CDN): n-cha(n)t

Awards of Distinction Interactive Art
Ranjit Makkuni, The Crossing Project - Xerox PARC & DMO (India): The
Crossing: Living, Dying and Transformation in Banaras
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (MEX/CDN): Body Movies - Relational Architecture
No. 6

An Overview of the Honorary Mentions you will find at:
http://prixars.aec.at


.............................
1.4. Net Vision / Net Excellence
.............................

Golden Nica Net Vision
RSG (USA): Carnivore http://rhizome.org/carnivore/

Awards of Distinction Net Vision
It's Alive! (SW): BotFighters http://www.botfighters.com/demo/index.jsp
Maia Gusberti, Michael Aschauer, Nik Thoenen, Sepp Deinhofer (A):
./logicaland http://www.logicaland.net

Golden Nica Net Excellence
Josh On, Futurefarmers (USA): They Rule http://www.theyrule.net

Awards of Distinction Net Excellence
Schoenerwissen (G): Minitasking http://www.minitasking.com
Alexandra Jugovic, Florian Schmitt; Hi-Res! (GB): Donnie Darko
http://www.donniedarko.com

An Overview of the Honorary Mentions you will find at:
http://prixars.aec.at


.............................
1.5. cybergeneration - u19 freestyle computing
.............................

Golden Nica u19 freestyle computing
Karola Hummer (A): TI-92

Awards of Distinction u19 freestyle computing
Philipp Luftensteiner (A): Arena
sofa23 (Milo Tesselaar, Markus Murschitz, Ulrich Reiterer, Jona Hoier),
Mathias Scherz, Stefan Bergmann (A): minimals

An Overview of the Honorary Mentions you will find at:
http://prixars.aec.at


.............................
2. Prix Ars Electronica Gala, Cyberarts 2002, Artists' Forum
.............................

Prix Ars Electronica Gala
The Prix Ars Electronica 2002 Awards Presentation will take place during
the Ars Electronica Festival on Monday, September 9, 2002, at the ORF
Upper
Austrian Regional Studio, and will be broadcast live via the satellite
program 3sat at 9 :00 p.m. and later at 12:30 a.m. on ORF2.

Cyberarts 2002
A selection of the best works of the Prix Ars Electronica will be shown
at
the O.K Center for Contemporary Art in Linz, beginning Saturday,
September
7, 2002.

Artists' Forum
During the 3-day artists' forum from September 10 to 12, 2002, the prize
winners (Golden Nica and Awards of Distinction) will present their works
in
person to an audience at the ORF Upper Austrian Regional Studio in Linz.


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The next announcement update will appear by the end of June. The focus
will
be the programme of Ars Electronica 2002 - UNPLUGGED Art as the Scene of
Global Conflicts.

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Ars Electronica 2002
Organization:
Ars Electronica Center Linz and ORF - Austrian Broadcasting Corporation,
Upper Austrian Regional Studio
Co-organizers: Brucknerhaus Linz, O.K - Center for Contemporary Art

Concept & Artistic Direction: Gerfried Stocker, Christine Sch-pf
Curatorial Team: Ingrid Fischer-Schreiber, Stefano Filipponi, Andreas
Hirsch, Davis O. Nejo, Jay Rutledge
The Theme of Ars Electronica 2002 is based on an idea of Oliviero
Toscani.


Contact:
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Hauptstrasse 2
A-4040 Linz
Austria
info@...
www.aec.at/unplugged/


Sponsors of Ars Electronica 2002:
Compaq Oesterreich GesmbH, Gericom, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft,
Oesterreichische Brauunion, Oracle, Quelle, SGI, Siemens AG, Telekom
Austria AG

Sponsors of Prix Ars Electronica 2002:
The Prix Ars Electronica 2002 is sponsored by Telekom Austria AG.
Supported by Datakom, voestalpine, P.S.K. (Austrian Postal Banking), the
City of Linz, the Province of Upper Austria, Austrian Airlines,
Lufthansa,
Casinos Austria, City-Hotel Linz, Courtyard by Marriott, Poestlingberg
Schloessl, Sony DADC, Oesterreichischer Kulturservice


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From: mute magazine

EXTREME COMPUTING
The NTK/Mute Festival Of Inappropriate Technology

11am-7pm, Sunday June 9th 2002
The Camden Centre, London (opposite Kings Cross station)
£3 entrance on the door
http://www.xcom2002.com/

THE FESTIVAL SEASON is here, but what does it offer to all those whose
idea
of a good time is sitting indoors hunched over a PC with the curtains
drawn
or plotting the overthrow of the gallery-system from a pub in
Shoreditch?
Well, now there's EXTREME COMPUTING 2002, an electronic village fete for
the 21st century, an off-the-radar alt.jumble-sale, an all-day
celebration
of do-it-yourself technological and cultural unusualness.

Contrary to the conventional wisdom that hackers and activists don't mix
and techies and artists come from different planets, award-winning news
site NTK and long-running digital arts magazine MUTE have put aside
their
differences to bring pioneers of the UK's outside-the-mainstream
techno-cultural world together under one roof.

The roof in question is that of THE CAMDEN CENTRE, positioned almost
unhealthily close to Kings Cross railway station. Come SUNDAY JUNE 9TH,
it
will be packed to its maximum 900-person capacity with stalls selling
everything from home-made robots to Japanese junk food, fanzines to
tea-towel manifestos, and aerials to astro-bonsai. Free software
enthusiasts and misfortune-tellers will vie for your attention to create
a
general air of well-intentioned chaos.

Areas which the event will cover (but not be restricted to) include:
community wireless networking - free software - screenings - independent
media centres - PC recycling - no borders activism - retro video gaming
-
renewable energy - mp3 remixing - critical art - robots - weird science
-
weblogging - new distribution models

(not all of which are necessarily "inappropriate" technologies, we
should
emphasise - unless you happen to be Bill Gates or a regional sales
manager
for Dixons).

Further updates are available on the website:

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Call for Contributions



Teknokultura, on-line journal (http://teknokultura.rrp.upr.edu/) of  the
University of Puerto Rico’s Social Sciences Faculty (Río Piedras Campus),
announces its opening for contributions to evaluate articles and electronic art 
relevant to the integration of technology to daily lives and labor.  Book and
website reviews, literary work, and cartoons asociated to these themes will also
be evaluated.



Teknokultura provides a forum of expression on subjects related to technology
and culture from a critical and transdisciplinary perspective.  Through its vast
array of sections, the journal engages in subjects related to lifestyles and
cultural spaces that have emerged from the integration of technology to our
social lives in contemporary society.



This call for contributions will be open from April 2002 until April 2003. 
During this time, we will receive contributions that will be published in the
second volume of the journal which will be available on-line on August 2002.



Contributions in the form of articles should follow these guidelines:
approximately 15 pages in length with double spaced paragraphs, submitted in a
PC platform (preferably in Microsoft Word), and use APA publication style.  We
encourage the integration of audiovisual material as part of the articles.



The submitted articles should have not been published elsewhere in an electronic
format and the author/s are responsible for obtaining the appropriate permits to
use images, videos or music included in their contribution and that are
protected by copyrights. Authors will retain the copyrights of their
contributions published in Teknokultura.



All materials should be sent to Heidi J. Figueroa Sarriera, Editor,  to the
following e-mail address: teknok@....  For more information please
contact Brenda Reyes, José Miró and/or Heidi J. Figueroa Sarriera by phone at
787-764-0000 x. 7917 or send an email to teknok@....





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*Apologies for cross-posting*
This message contains further details on the conference on 'Community'
in the Network Society, at Oxford UK, 16 May 2002. For the original
outline and a booking form, please go to www.cdf.org.uk/html/conf.html
or contact Cheryl Roberts, cheryl@...

A background paper on the issues and this will be sent to all registered
delegates, and posted on the CDF website shortly.

Face-to-face and globally connected? 'Community' in the Network Society
organised by Community Development Foundation in collaboration with the
ESRC Virtual Society? Programme and the Active Community Unit of the
Home Office
16 May 2002
Said Business School, Oxford
Chair: Ruth Lister, Professor of Social Policy, University of Leicester
1015    Welcome and introduction
1025    Keith Hampton, MIT
1100    Parallel sessions
          Jan Steyaert, Fontys University
          Sue Webb, Women Connect
1200    coffee
1220    Alison Gilchrist, CDF
1300    Lunch
1400    Parallel sessions
          Kevin Carey, HumanIT
          Helen Thomson, The Countryside Agency
1500    Tea
1520 Panel-based discussion with:
Somya Joshi, Salford University
Keith Sealy, The INNIT Project
Catherine Herman, consultant
Kim Osterberg, AKB Housing, Copenhagen
1600 Review: Vicki Nash, ippr
1615 Conference closes


Kevin Harris
Community Development Foundation
www.cdf.org.uk
+44 207 226 5375
fax 207 704 0313
60 Highbury Grove London N5 2AG
______________________________________________________________________

2nd Call for Papers

   Soft Power: Informational Ambiguities and Asymmetries in the Network Age

     Special Topic Issue of the Journal of the American Society for
               Information Science and Technology (JASIST)

                           Guest editors:
        Christopher Lueg, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
                 Blaise Cronin, Indiana University, USA.

                    Deadline: October 31, 2002


The next Special Topic Issue of the Journal of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology (JASIST) is scheduled to come out in
2004 on the topic of "Soft Power: Informational Ambiguities and
Asymmetries in the Network Age". The guest editors for this special issue
will be Christopher Lueg of University of Technology Sydney, Australia,
and Blaise Cronin of Indiana University, USA.

Virtually unlimited access to computers and networks in the age of the
Internet and World Wide Web is a double-edged sword, creating both
positive and negative externalities, and generating planned outcomes and
unintended second order effects in near equal measure. On the one hand,
ubiquitous network access provides numerous benefits to business and
society; on the other, it has created a host of unforeseen problems and
technical challenges for organizations of almost every kind.

So-called information-level threats are based on the active or passive
distribution of key information to a large audience. Such information may
result from discussions in Usenet newsgroups or they may be created
purposefully with a certain impact in mind. Examples of such threats are
hoaxes, false rumors, revenge web sites, and joe jobs - spamming under the
name of a competitor which has the effect that the competitor is blamed
(and punished) for spamming.

Information-level threats need to be distinguished from more technical
threats (denial of service, content degrading or destruction).
Information-level threats are not targeted at computers and communications
networks, but at humans receiving the information: the primary lever of an
information-level attack is the content of a message or claim, rather than
its form. An implication of this is that information-level threats are
less about security in a technical or computational sense than notions of
propaganda, opinion formation, and perception management.

Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the
following:

* Identifying information-level activities in networked environments
* Security management, cyber forensics, and counterintelligence
* Strengths and limitations of commercially available Internet
   surveillance technology
* Commercial terrorism through the Internet
* Epistemological and neo-cortical warfare
* Information education - understanding information-based threats
* Digital defamation and free speech
* Journalism in the network age
* Branding in the age of the Internet
* Advertising vs. misinformation

The guest editors are seeking papers that address these and related
topics. Inquiries can be made to:

Christopher Lueg <lueg@...>  or
Blaise Cronin    <bcronin@...>

Manuscript submissions (Word files) should be addressed to:

Dr. Christopher Lueg
Department of Information Systems
Faculty of Information Technology
University of Technology Sydney
PO Box 123, Broadway NSW 2007
AUSTRALIA
Voice: +61 2 9514 1851
Fax    +61 2 9514 1807
Email: lueg@...

The deadline for accepting manuscripts for consideration for publication
in this special issue is October 31, 2002.  All manuscripts will be
reviewed by a select panel of referees.  Original artwork and a signed
copy of the copyright release form will be required for all accepted
papers.

A copy of the call for papers will be available on the World Wide Web at
http://www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~lueg/CfP_JASIST.html
as is further information about JASIST, at http://www.asis.org/.


+______________________________________________________________________+
|                                                                      |
| Dr. Christopher Lueg                  lueg@... (preferred) |
| Department of Information Systems     Fax +61 2 9514 1807 / Vox 1851 |
| University of Technology Sydney       www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~lueg/ |
| PO Box 123 Broadway NSW 2007, AU      CRICOS Provider 00099F         |
+______________________________________________________________________+

Workshop "Main Issues in Designing Interactive Mobile Services"
17 September 2002, Pisa, Italy, in conjunction to Mobile HCI '02
http://giove.cnuce.cnr.it/mobilehci02.html

The new 3G communications technology providing mobile access to
context-dependent services will strongly enhance and extend
communication possibilities in mobility.
Therefore, new design approaches, HF studies, behavioural theories and
evaluation techniques must arise in order to be able to design
interactive mobile artefacts that provide the user with a positive
experience.
The workshop intends to explore and analyse the main aspects in the
design of scenarios of context dependent services for the incoming 3G
mobile communication technologies. It is designed as a one-day practical
activity with relevant theoretical discussion, ending with a poster
design session.


Goals
*****
Development of a HF research agenda for this specific issue of
interaction with mobile devices, to identify and extend the research
community in this topic. Moreover, to sensitise designers to the
particular interaction-design issues in these kind of communication
scenarios (mobile and contextual learning models, interface evaluation,
etc.)


Background of the perspective participants
******************************************
The workshop is intended for practitioners working in the wireless
industry (telcos, device manufacturers, service providers, etc.) and for
HF academics and students with interests in human computer interaction,
technology-enhanced learning and mobile interaction. Participants will
be asked to submit a brief position paper of 2-4 pages, or a reference
to a mobile product/project in which they have been involved.
Participants will be selected on the basis of their interest in and
familiarity with the topic.


Detailed description of workshop
********************************
Participants will be invited to choose a format of context-dependent
mobile service and hypothesise a scenario of use (mainly when he is ‘on
the move’ - e.g. in a train, using a pocket PC or a mobile phone) that
will enhance users' interactive experience with their mobile devices.
Once the usage scenario is well defined, participants will required to
know (assume) the expectations, limitations and behaviour of mobile
users and design appropriate interaction models. Trans-cultural
adaptability and ethic aspects will be analysed. Good communication with
the service provider is a key factor to add value to the user, possibly
involving personalized services. A coerent and relevant multi-channel
identity, for example with related website, will be analysed to ensure
user’s fidelity.
Interface’s usability will be tested according to:
- learnability
- users’ satisfaction
- users’ expectations and perceived value of the services provided
- speed in task completion
- number of irreversible mistakes
- level of interaction enabled


How to participate
******************
Applicants for participation are asked to send a position paper (max.
4pages) in PDF (TXT or RTF) format to a.c.roibas@...

Deadline for submission is July 1, 2002.

Participants will get feedback by July 10, 2002 to allow for early
registration.

Registration to the workshop is required. For details and fee see Mobile
HCI 2002 web site: http://giove.cnuce.cnr.it/mobilehci02.html


Program Committee
*****************
Anxo Cereijo Roibás, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK
A.C.Roibas@...

Stefania Marcoli, E-TREE, Treviso, Italy
smarcoli@...

In collaboration with:
Giorgio Da Bormida, GIUNTI Ricerca, MOBIlearn project, Genoa, Italy
g.dabormida@...





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dear all,

a very usefull list of internet research lists (in cooperation with AoIR):
http://www.aoir.org/list.php

cheers,

--
Philipp Budka
email: ph.budka@...
tel.: +43(01) 95 28 244
tel. mobil.: +43(0)6991 95 28 244
Rustengasse 5/10
1150 Wien, Austria

GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet.
http://www.gmx.net

HF2002 Human Factors Conference
25 to 27 November 2002, Melbourne, Australia

Theme: "Design for the Whole Person"
Integrating physical, cognitive & social aspects of design.

For further information please contact:
International Conferences & Events (ICE) Aust. P/L
Tel: + 61 2 9544 9134
Fax: + 61 2 9522 4447

E-mail enquiries: HF2002@...

Website: http://www.iceaustralia.com/HF2002/

Organized by: Ergonomics Society of Australia (ESA) and the Computer
Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG)

Workshop "Main Issues in Designing Interactive Mobile Services"
17 September 2002, Pisa, Italy, in conjunction to Mobile HCI '02
http://giove.cnuce.cnr.it/mobilehci02.html

The new 3G communications technology providing mobile access to
context-dependent services will strongly enhance and extend
communication possibilities in mobility.
Therefore, new design approaches, HF studies, behavioural theories and
evaluation techniques must arise in order to be able to design
interactive mobile artefacts that provide the user with a positive
experience.
The workshop intends to explore and analyse the main aspects in the
design of scenarios of context dependent services for the incoming 3G
mobile communication technologies. It is designed as a one-day practical
activity with relevant theoretical discussion, ending with a poster
design session.


Goals
*****
Development of a HF research agenda for this specific issue of
interaction with mobile devices, to identify and extend the research
community in this topic. Moreover, to sensitise designers to the
particular interaction-design issues in these kind of communication
scenarios (mobile and contextual learning models, interface evaluation,
etc.)


Background of the perspective participants
******************************************
The workshop is intended for practitioners working in the wireless
industry (telcos, device manufacturers, service providers, etc.) and for
HF academics and students with interests in human computer interaction,
technology-enhanced learning and mobile interaction. Participants will
be asked to submit a brief position paper of 2-4 pages, or a reference
to a mobile product/project in which they have been involved.
Participants will be selected on the basis of their interest in and
familiarity with the topic.


Detailed description of workshop
********************************
Participants will be invited to choose a format of context-dependent
mobile service and hypothesise a scenario of use (mainly when he is ‘on
the move’ - e.g. in a train, using a pocket PC or a mobile phone) that
will enhance users' interactive experience with their mobile devices.
Once the usage scenario is well defined, participants will required to
know (assume) the expectations, limitations and behaviour of mobile
users and design appropriate interaction models. Trans-cultural
adaptability and ethic aspects will be analysed. Good communication with
the service provider is a key factor to add value to the user, possibly
involving personalized services. A coerent and relevant multi-channel
identity, for example with related website, will be analysed to ensure
user’s fidelity.
Interface’s usability will be tested according to:
- learnability
- users’ satisfaction
- users’ expectations and perceived value of the services provided
- speed in task completion
- number of irreversible mistakes
- level of interaction enabled


How to participate
******************
Applicants for participation are asked to send a position paper (max.
4pages) in PDF (TXT or RTF) format to a.c.roibas@...

Deadline for submission is July 1, 2002.

Participants will get feedback by July 10, 2002 to allow for early
registration.

Registration to the workshop is required. For details and fee see Mobile
HCI 2002 web site: http://giove.cnuce.cnr.it/mobilehci02.html


Program Committee
*****************
Anxo Cereijo Roibás, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK
A.C.Roibas@...

Stefania Marcoli, E-TREE, Treviso, Italy
smarcoli@...

In collaboration with:
Giorgio Da Bormida, GIUNTI Ricerca, MOBIlearn project, Genoa, Italy
g.dabormida@...





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-----Original Message-----
From: Skip Rizzo, Ph. D. [mailto:arizzo@...]



Hi All CyberSoc Listmembers,

Here is something that I hope will be of interest to many of you!!!!

Best Regards,
Skip Rizzo
Apologies for cross posting or potential lack of relevance...

=======================================================
IEEE Virtual Reality 2003 (VR2003) Conference

And

The Eleventh Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and
Teleoperator Systems

CALL FOR PAPERS

Sponsored by
The IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Visualization and
Graphics

MARCH 22-26, 2003

Biltmore Hotel
Los Angeles, California, USA

Tutorials and Workshops: March 22-23, 2003
Haptics Symposium: March 22-23, 2003
General Sessions: March 24-26, 2003
Exhibits: March 24-26, 2003

SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE: September 9, 2002.
Visit our Websites for details at:

VR2003: http://www.vr2003.org <http://www.vr2003.org/>
Haptics2003: http://www.hapticssymposium.org/

**** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ****

You are invited to participate in the IEEE Virtual Reality 2003
Conference, in Los Angeles, California, March 22-26, 2003. IEEE VR is
the premier international conference in Virtual Reality Research and
Technology and will provide a truly unique opportunity to learn, share
and interact with leading researchers and practitioners.  As in previous
years, VR 2003 will be held jointly with HAPTICS Symposium. The
conference will take place in sunny Los Angeles in the springtime and is
located in close proximity to California’s leading centers in the areas
of VR science, innovation and application.

Contributions for all technical programs are due September 9, 2002.
HAPTICS Deadline is September 4, 2002.
Further details of submission instructions are available on line at:
http://www.vr2003.org <http://www.vr2003.org/>


Skip Rizzo
General Chair
Director, Virtual Environments Laboratory
Integrated Media Systems Center
3740 McClintock Ave., MC-2561
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA. 90007
arizzo@...


**** PAPERS ****
IEEE-VR2003 seeks original, high-quality technical papers in all areas
of virtual reality within either research or applied categories.
Research papers should describe results that contribute to advancements
in state-of-the-art virtual reality software, hardware, 3-D CHI, or
systems development. Applied papers should address prototype or fielded
virtual reality systems and include a concise description of the
application area, insight into the relevant VR system implementation
issues, and discuss the effectiveness of the VR system with respect to
the application area.

Papers must be in English, not exceed eight (8) pages in length and be
formatted using the IEEE Computer Society format described at
http://computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm. Include the author's name(s),
affiliations, addresses and electronic mail address.

Papers concerning haptic interfaces may be presented in the main
conference or in the Haptics Symposium. According to the author's
wishes, papers in which haptics are the principal focus should be
submitted to the Haptics Symposium . Papers in which haptic interfaces
are part of a VR system of broader interest should be submitted to
VR2003.

All papers must be submitted electronically. Authors who do not have web
access should contact one of the program co-chairs listed below. In the
case of the Haptics Symposium, please contact Blake Hannaford or Hong
Tan directly (see their contact information on the Haptics Sympsoium web
page: http://www.hapticssymposium.org/)

Authors may submit video materials to aid the program committee in the
review of their submissions. Videos must be submitted following the
instructions on video submissions (see
http://www.vr2003.org/videos.html). In this case, indicate that
videotapes have been submitted by checking the "with supporting video"
check on the Electronic Submission Web Page. Videos submitted with
papers will be automatically considered for possible inclusion in the
video proceedings.

Important dates:

      VR2002 Submission due: September 9, 2002
      Notification to authors: November 8, 2002
      Note--HAPTICS Deadline is September 4, 2002.

For details, contact one of the program co-chairs:

Jim X. Chen (George Mason University) jchen@...
Bowen Loftin (Old Dominion, VMASC) bloftin@...
Ulrich Neumann (University of Southern California) uneumann@...
Haruo Takemura (Osaka University, Japan) takemura@...
Bernd Fröhlich  (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar )
Bernd.Froehlich@...



**** PANELS ****
Lively discussions incorporating differing points of view help focus
attention on significant and/or controversial topics. Interested parties
are invited to submit proposals for interactive panel sessions with the
goal of addressing a specific VR related topic from several
perspectives. Panel sessions should not be structured as a series of
individual stand-alone presentations but rather should address debatable
material that is presented in a lively manner so as to involve all panel
participants and engage the total audience.

Panel proposals are to be submitted electronically and should include a
title for the panel session, a brief description of the overall issues
to be discussed (approximately 250 words each), and the names, contact
information and short (approximately 100 word) biographies for the
organizer and each panelist. Panelist should come from multiple
organizations.

For more information or to submit a proposal contact:
Ben Watson/Simon Julier
Panels@...
Important dates:

      VR2002 Submission due: September 9, 2002
      Notification to authors: November 8, 2002


**** TUTORIALS ****
Learning and sharing knowledge are at the heart of our success.
Interested parties are invited to submit proposals for full-day or
half-day tutorials to be presented during the two days immediately prior
to the VR2003 conference (March 22-23). Proposed tutorials may address
topics of general or specialized interest to the virtual reality
community, or a significant element thereof, and may be at an
introductory or advanced level.

Proposals for tutorials are to be submitted electronically and should
include a title for the tutorial, Half or full day in length, a brief
description of the topic(s) to be addressed (approximately 250 words),
the intended audience and the names, contact information and a short
biography (approximately 100 words each) for the proposed instructor(s).

For more information or to submit a proposal contact:
Grigore Burdea/Mark Billinghurst
Tutorials@...
Important dates:

      VR2002 Submission due: September 9, 2002
      Notification to authors: November 8, 2002


**** WORKSHOPS ****
We are planning a series of full day workshops to bring together
researchers, developers, managers and users for a lively discussion of
issues and an informal exchange of ideas and information. Workshops may
target a specific application or a topic of general interest.
Individuals or teams interested in presenting such a workshop are
invited to submit a proposal.
Workshop proposals are to be submitted electronically and should include
a title for the workshop, a brief description of the topic(s) to be
discussed (approximately 250 words) and the name(s), contact information
and a short (approximately 100 words) biography for the workshop
organizer(s). The proposal should also identify the intended composition
and size of the audience and all technical requirements, i.e., space,
audio/visual, computer, communication needs, etc.

For more information or to submit a proposal contact:
Grigore Burdea/Kay Stanney
Workshops@...
Important dates:

      VR2002 Submission due: September 9, 2002
      Notification to authors: November 8, 2002


**** VIDEOS ****
IEEE VR 2003 seeks videos that demonstrate the results of VR hardware
and/or software research or applications. Videos addressing work
described in a submitted technical paper are also welcome. Selected
videos will be included in the VR2003 Video Proceedings. Videos are to
be narrated in English, should stand on their own and not exceed five
minutes in length. This year, for the first time, all videos are to be
submitted digitally using the electronic submission site for VR 2003.
Digital video should be compressed to be less than 100 MB in size, and
should be readable by the latest version of the free QuickTime Player.
Acceptable formats are QuickTime, AVI, and MPEG. Each submitted video
must be accompanied by an abstract of no more than 200 words, which will
also be submitted electronically.

For more information or to submit a video contact:
Doug Bowman/Robert Lindeman
Videos@...
Important dates:

      VR2002 Submission due: September 9, 2002
      Notification to authors: November 8, 2002


**** EXHIBITS ****
More bang for your buck! IEEE VR2003 provides a truly unique opportunity
for your organization to reach the world's foremost virtual reality
researchers and application builders! We have a limited number of
exhibit spaces available and invite government, academic and commercial
organizations to showcase your VR hardware, software, integrated
systems, peripherals, innovations, literature or whatever you believe
will be of interest to our diversified conference participants.

For more information contact:
Mike van Lent/Jarrell Pair/ Francis Govers
Exhibits@...



****RESEARCH DEMONSTRATIONS****
Research demonstrations from academic, government and industry
laboratories or research groups are welcome. Demonstrations should be of
interest to the broad VR community and be executable within a conference
environment. For more information contact:

For more information contact:
Bill Swartout/Randy Hill
Demonstrations@...


**** STUDENT VOLUNTEERS NEEDED ****
As always, we are looking for a few dedicated, reliable, energetic and
enthusiastic student volunteers to help "make it all happen". Volunteers
may commit to ten or twenty hours help time and will receive conference
registration, proceedings, snacks, t-shirt and other items of
appreciation based on level of commitment. For more information visit
our website or contact:
Maria Schultheis/Katerina Mania
Volunteers@...


****HOTEL ACCOMODATIONS****
VR2003 will be held at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel located in Downtown
Los Angeles. A historic landmark, the Biltmore Hotel has been home to
presidents, kings and Hollywood celebrities since it opened in 1923. The
hotel's central location in downtown's business district provides easy
access to the sights of LA. Within walking distance, have lunch at the
Grand Central Market, tour the Neon Museum or Museum of Contemporary
Art, have dinner in Chinatown, Olivera Street or one of the many fine
dining restaurants, or catch an exciting sporting event at the nearby
STAPLES Center. The Biltmore also offers a full array of concierge
services, health club facilities and business services in the old-world
charm and elegance of great European hotels. A block of rooms has been
reserved at the hotel for conference/symposium attendees at the special
rate of $145.00 plus tax per person for single or double rooms. These
rates will apply for three (3) days prior to and three (3) days after
the meeting dates based on availability and conference registration.
Watch our website for updated information about hotel registration and
special deals on tourism activities!

Biltmore Hotel website:
http://www.millennium-hotels.com/pages/index.cfm?page=home
<http://www.millennium-hotels.com/pages/index.cfm?page=home&hotel=losang
eles> &hotel=losangeles
<http://www.millennium-hotels.com/pages/index.cfm?page=home&hotel=losang
eles>


****LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA****
Los Angeles offers an extraordinary array of
"a-little-bit-of-everything." This dynamic center of culture, commerce
and technology features an unrivaled array of resources for the
convention delegate. Besides being home to many first rate
university-based and private VR research laboratories (USC,UCLA, IMSC,
ICT, HRL, JPL to name just a few!), LA of course has unmatched climate
and world famous tourist destinations. Whether your taste is for the
beach, Hollywood, Disneyland, Universal Studios, Knott’s, Magic
Mountain, the Getty Museum, and yes, skiing in March (only 1 hour
away!), Los Angeles has it all. Why not spend a few days before or after
VR2003 and explore what Southern California has to offer!


**** SPONSORS ****
The IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Visualization and
Graphics


****STEERING COMMITTEE****
Larry Hodges (Georgia Tech)
Bowen Loftin (Old Dominion, VMASC)
Robert Moorhead (Mississippi State University)
William Ribarsky (Georgia Tech)
Larry Rosenblum (Naval Research Laboratory)
Sharon Stansfield (Ithaca College)
Grigore Burdea (Rutgers University)
Susuumu Tachi (University of Tokyo)


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From: VSMM Society [mailto:vsmm-sec@...]


REGISTRATION ANNOUNCEMENT
8th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM
2002)

25-27 September 2002 - Hilton Hotel, Gyeongju Korea
http://www.vsmm.org/2002

(Apologies if you receive duplicates)

************************************************************

Tutorials:
J-Angelo Beraldin (NRC, Canada)
Ryugo Kijima (Gifu Univ., Japan)
Wolfgang Muller-Wittig (CAMTech, NTU, Singapore)
James Oliverio (Univ. of Florida, USA)
Skip Rizzo (USC, USA)
Nadia Thalmann (MIRAlab., Swiss)


Workshops :
DHX(Digital Heritage Exchange)
ECAI (Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative)

Invited speakers :
Keynote speech: Robert Stone (Virtual Presence Limited, VSMM president,
UK) Banquet speech: Takeo Ojika (Institute of Dream System Development,
VSMM vice president, Japan) Invited talk: Michitaka  Hirose (Univ. of
Tokyo,  Japan)

Special session:
Katsushi  Ikeuchi (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)

More activities will be added ! Please see the website for updated
details:

http://www.vsmm.org/2002

*******************************************************

International Program Committee members
Ruth Aylett (University of Salford, UK)
Ronald Azuma (HRL Laboratories, USA)
Mark Billinghurst (University of Washington, USA)
Vito Cappellini (Universita di Firenze, Italy)
Donghoon Chang (Ewha Univ., Korea)
James Cremer (University of Iowa, USA)
Carolina Cruz-Neira (Iowa State University, USA)
Hiroshi Fujita (Gifu Univ., Japan)
Marco Gaiani (Politechnico di Milano, Italy)
Martin Goebel (Virtual Environment Research, Germany)
Soon Heung Hahn (KAIST, Korea)
James Hemsley (VASARI, UK)
Michitaka Hirose (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Akira Ishida (IAMAS, Japan)
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann (Miralab., Swiss)
Riccardo Migliari (Univ. of Roma, Italy)
Katsushi Ikeuchi (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Hiroshi Ishii (MIT, USA)
Nigel John (Manchester Visualisation Centre, UK)
Takeo Kanade (CMU, USA)
Ryugo Kijima (Gifu Univ., Japan)
Hyunbin Kim (ETRI, Korea)
Hyungsoo Kim (Yonsei Univ., Korea)
Jeonghyun Kim (Postech, Korea)
Myunghee Kim (Ewha Univ., Korea)
Fumio Kishino (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Heedong Ko (KIST, Korea)
David Koh (KIPA, Korea)
Yong Moo Kwon (KIST, Korea)
Dongman Lee (ICU, Korea)
Manjai Lee (ICU, Korea)
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann (Miralab., Swiss)
Katerina Mania (University of Bristol, UK)
Kenji Mase (ATR, Japan)
Riccardo Migliari (Univ. of Rome, Italy)
Ouhyoung Ming (NTU, Taiwan)
Wolfgang Mueller-Wittig (CAMTech., NTU, Singapore)
Aktihanoglu Murat (Holoscape Inc., USA)
Michael Naimark (MIT, USA)
Yuichi Ohta (University of Tsukuba, JAPAN)
Zhigeng Pan (Zhejiang Univ., China)
Wolfgang Prinz (Fraunhofer Institute, Germany)
Soh Yeong Roh (Art Center Nabi, Korea)
Alfredo Ronchi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Itsuo Sakane (IAMAS, Japan)
Atsuhito Sekiguchi (IAMAS, Japan)
Zen-Chung Shih (NCU, Taiwan)
Wolfgang Strauss (IMK, Germany)
Hanqiu Sun (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Christa
Sommerer (IAMAS, Japan) Liyanage C De Silva (National Univ. of
Singapore, Singapore) Noriho Takahashi (IAMAS, Japan) Daniel Thalmann
(EPFL, Swiss)
Kazuhiko Yamamoto (Gifu Univ., Japan)
Naokazu Yokoya (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, JAPAN) Michael
Zyda (Naval Postgraduate School, USA) Woontack Woo (KJIST, Korea)
Kwangyun Wohn (KAIST, Korea)

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   Dept. of Computer Science
   KAIST
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Daejon, Korea 305-701
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I edit a newsletter called "GlobalPOV" -- it features
'points of view' from a wide array of experts on the
specific ways that technology is altering concepts of
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You can check it out here:  www.globalpov.com

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Digital Media Festival, now on its third year, celebrates
through "pag-uugnay", connecting, the fields of archaeology,
anthropology and new media art. The highlights of DMF2002 are the new
media installations constructed by students in the digital art
elective and workshop courses through collaboration with the
Archaeological Studies Program and Filipino visual artists known for
their interdisciplinary work in the fields of archaeology and
anthropology of art and religion.

DMF has invited Noell El Farol to interact with the students
investigating the relationship between archaeology and artistic
practice through an overview of his works and an open discussion on
the study of archaeology through cooperation with the Archaeological
Studies Program. Farol directed a centerpiece installation that
explores "archaeological recordings" based on his research and work
in "Hukay" (digging or pit). The installation work was constructed
through students' interpretation of site and situation specific to
the compounds of the College surrounding the gallery space. A
reassembly was conducted into the gallery.

Students in the digital media art workshop "Writing as Visual Form"
was directed by Roberto B. Feleo to construct a peripheral
installation, complementing the centerpiece with Farol. Through
discussions of several of his sculptural and installation works and
their socio-historical commentary, Feleo clarifies relationships
between anthropology of art, religion and contemporary artistic
practice. Through Feleo's guidance, students explored writing systems
as cognitive artifacts and their projections into contemporary
culture through a project entitled "Time Capsules."

The new media installation works directed by Farol and Feleo serve to
transform the Corredor Gallery space and adjacent areas into cognate
ritual spaces for connecting, the DMF theme "pag-uugnay", the past
with the future. The theme, "Iugnay" (to connect), is in cadence with
the vision to connect with fields traditionally seen as outside the
arts, where young student artists are seen as creative partners of
the technological forces that will push the country towards progress.
DMF looks at art as research and development, anticipating a shift
from a culture of political nationalism to creative research, as
young creative minds are acknowledged important forces in the larger
nationwide technological development plan that can transform the way
people think about the arts. Technological development is not only
about machines - it's also about creativity, an enlarged
understanding of cultures, and communicating.

---
Digital Media Festival 2002
Manila, Philippines
http://digitalmedia.upd.edu.ph/index.html

The ribbon-cutting ceremony was headed by guest-of-honor Chancellor
Emerlinda Roman, assisted by UPCFA Dean Virginia B. Dandan and
National Artist for Music and Director of the Ethnomusicology Center
Dr. Jose Maceda.

Opening Day Photos
by Archie Yumul
http://digitalmedia.upd.edu.ph/yumul_1.html

Opening Day Photos
by Sabrina de Leon
http://digitalmedia.upd.edu.ph/de_leon_1.html

Set-up photos
Hukay: Site and Situation Installation
http://digitalmedia.upd.edu.ph/hukay_2.html

Set-up photos
Time Capsules
http://digitalmedia.upd.edu.ph/time_2.html

Webcam and Video
by Vincent Samson
http://digitalmedia.upd.edu.ph/webcam.html

Meeting at the Electronic Interface: Artifact Reassembly through New
Media Art
http://digitalmedia.upd.edu.ph/artifact_dmf.html

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 16:23:04 +0200
From: Tara McPherson <tmcphers@...>
Subject: Race in Digital Space 2.0

RDS 2.0 EVENT PROBES RACE AND NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES

Most discussions of the "digital divide" erase the numerous
contributions of minority artists, activists, entrepreneurs,
journalists, and scholars. Researchers from the University
of California-Santa Barbara, MIT and USC's Annenberg Center
for Communication will host a three-day event, Race in
Digital Space 2.0, to explore current issues and celebrate
the accomplishments of minorities using digital technologies,
Thursday, 10 October through Saturday, 12 October 2002, at
LA's Museum of Contemporary Art and on the USC campus.

Day after day we engage with media and technology on
multiple fronts. The Race in Digital Space 2.0 Event defines
"digital space" as a flexible arena that reflects the
continual change of technology in relation to the practices
and processes of the everyday. Following upon both the
recent downturn in technology markets and the tragic events
of 9/11, the once-euphoric conversations about new media
have largely quieted. Race in Digital Space 2.0 seeks to
intervene in this constricted field, offering compelling
new analyses of both the potentials and the risks of new
technological development. This important event offers an
opportunity to comment on the ways media and technology are
used by a diverse array of citizens and to examine how this
interaction defines society and culture. Conference sessions
will explore current public policy affecting "digital
divide" and privacy issues, the global reach of new media,
as well as innovative and creative uses of technology within
communities of color. This international conference will
serve as a touchstone for thinking critically and usefully
about race in digital spaces.

Plenary presentations include 'The Digital Divide, Post
9/11'; 'Tracking Bodies and Global Labor'; 'Entertaining
Race: Representin' Race in New Media Environments';
'Re-making Race: Authenticating "Other" Voices in Digital
Spaces'; 'New Futures: Theory Meets Praxis'; and 'Live
Mixes: Teens and New Technologies.' A concurrent digital
salon will feature a number of cutting-edge art and music
performances as well as online exhibits and video
screenings. Featured speakers and artists include Isaac
Julien, Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky), Greg Tate, Todd
Boyd, Rubin D. Ortiz Torres, Sue Ellen Case, Wendy Chun,
Tony Wilhelm, Chela Sandoval, Daniel Martinez, Pamela Z,
Los Cybrids and many, many more!

The conference is free and open to the public. Registration
information and further details are available online at:

http://www.annenberg.edu/race

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From: Admin Sociopranos [mailto:admin@...]
Sent: 07 October 2002 20:03
To: robin@...
Subject: Sociology forum Invite

This is an invitation to join a new sociology/social psychology
discussion group (including all issues). We are located at the
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Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 16:23:04 +0200
From: Tara McPherson <tmcphers@...>
Subject: Race in Digital Space 2.0

RDS 2.0 EVENT PROBES RACE AND NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES

Most discussions of the "digital divide" erase the numerous
contributions of minority artists, activists, entrepreneurs,
journalists, and scholars. Researchers from the University
of California-Santa Barbara, MIT and USC's Annenberg Center
for Communication will host a three-day event, Race in
Digital Space 2.0, to explore current issues and celebrate
the accomplishments of minorities using digital technologies,
Thursday, 10 October through Saturday, 12 October 2002, at
LA's Museum of Contemporary Art and on the USC campus.

Day after day we engage with media and technology on
multiple fronts. The Race in Digital Space 2.0 Event defines
"digital space" as a flexible arena that reflects the
continual change of technology in relation to the practices
and processes of the everyday. Following upon both the
recent downturn in technology markets and the tragic events
of 9/11, the once-euphoric conversations about new media
have largely quieted. Race in Digital Space 2.0 seeks to
intervene in this constricted field, offering compelling
new analyses of both the potentials and the risks of new
technological development. This important event offers an
opportunity to comment on the ways media and technology are
used by a diverse array of citizens and to examine how this
interaction defines society and culture. Conference sessions
will explore current public policy affecting "digital
divide" and privacy issues, the global reach of new media,
as well as innovative and creative uses of technology within
communities of color. This international conference will
serve as a touchstone for thinking critically and usefully
about race in digital spaces.

Plenary presentations include 'The Digital Divide, Post
9/11'; 'Tracking Bodies and Global Labor'; 'Entertaining
Race: Representin' Race in New Media Environments';
'Re-making Race: Authenticating "Other" Voices in Digital
Spaces'; 'New Futures: Theory Meets Praxis'; and 'Live
Mixes: Teens and New Technologies.' A concurrent digital
salon will feature a number of cutting-edge art and music
performances as well as online exhibits and video
screenings. Featured speakers and artists include Isaac
Julien, Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky), Greg Tate, Todd
Boyd, Rubin D. Ortiz Torres, Sue Ellen Case, Wendy Chun,
Tony Wilhelm, Chela Sandoval, Daniel Martinez, Pamela Z,
Los Cybrids and many, many more!

The conference is free and open to the public. Registration
information and further details are available online at:

http://www.annenberg.edu/race

Apologies for Cross Posting



Call for papers for the panel:



New Methods in the Anthropology of Science and Technologies - Postgraduate
Perspectives



To be held at the Association of Social Anthropology Decennial Conference,
Manchester 14-18 July 2003.



Anyone who is interested, please could you send a short abstract (200 words) to
any of the email addresses at the bottom of this message by 15th November.



Thanks



Hannah Knox



**************************



Using the anthropology of science and technology as its focus this panel wants
to aks what contributions post-graduate researchers can make to the
introduction, application and evaluation of new research methods? It also aims
to provide a platform to present papers, exchange ideas and engage in
stimulating discussions.



During the last decade anthropology as a discipline has undergone a considerable
expansion and reorientation, both geographically and in terms of its research
interests. The demand for new approaches to the subject and new methods of
research was an important corollary of this change. The methodological
challenges faced by anthropologists conducting research in science and
technology included questions such as how to study dispersed, or virtual
communities? How to study 'up'? How to follow decentralised networks? Or how to
engage with other approaches to research, science or technology in the context
of fieldwork, to name but a few? The search for answer introduced the discipline
to new methods such as Actor-Network Theory, multi-sited ethnographies, the
anthropological study of a technology and the use of a technology itself, such
as email or the Internet, as a research tool.



Fro the purpose of this panel we would like to hear in what ways have those new
methods affected your research? What were your experiences as an anthropologist
in the field and in what ways have they influenced the choice of your methods or
your final analysis? Do you think post-graduate researchers can make a distinct
contributions to the methodology used in anthropology?

Though all papers dealing with some of the issues above are welcome, we would be
particularly interested in contributions that are situated outside the
boundaries of Western Europe or North America, or research that has applied some
of the aforementioned methods innovatively outside the context of the
anthropology of science and technology.



Contact:

hannah.knox@...

mattia.fumanti@...

Susanne.G.Langer@...



For further information on the ASA conference 2003 please visit the website:

http://www.octagon-pictures.demon.co.uk/nomadit/asa/papers.htm







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Friends,

APIC is looking for the most creative, imaginative and courageous thinkers and
doers of you to partner and provide services to a consortium led by APIC, as we
complete the last bits of architecting self-sustaining networked mind
cooperatives for shared ethos groups -- minds ecosystems. Below is the framework
from which your mind will need to be able to spring off from.

This is definitely NOT for is-there-really-more-to-life-than-covering-my-ass?
types.

Do you qualify? Do you have passion? Are you one of the rare "the cup is
half-full rather than half-empty" types?

cheers../bala
Bala Pillai  <bala@...>
"Networking Minds in Halls Without Walls Since 1995"
Founder, The Asia Pacific  Internet Company http://www.apic.net/news.phtml
Founder, Malaysia.Net http://www.malaysia.net , Tamil.Net <http://www.tamil.net
Sydney, Australia
Phone: + 61.2.9807.8589
Yahoo Instant Messenger: bala2pillai


Ecosystems Thinking For The Minds Ecosystem
By Bala Pillai
June 9 2002, Sydney
"Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be."
                      -Kahlil Gibran, "A Handful of Sand on the Shore"


Each of us can see only up to a certain big picture cause-effect level. To
see cause-effect beyond that big picture level, one has to think and reflect
deeply or be attentive and be able to ask questions of one who does.  As
well, one has to interact with unlike minds, for the very existence of
greater pictures to be sparked.


Ecosystems thinking has us to look at some of the biggest pictures possible.
The small picture-big picture continuum is best imagined by its
representation, concentric spheres.

Concentric spheres in turn are best recalled by their two-dimensional
equivalents, concentric circles -- yes, those reverberating circles you see
when you throw a stone into a pond. You may see 20 concentric circles.

Average man only sees with his eyes and he tends to believe
that his eyes cannot belie him. He is wrong. What you see is *not* the
truth, though it may be. For example, if you understood a tree by what you
see, you will understand wrongly, because you cannot see the photosynthesis
process. Neither can you see the crown roots. The most important parts of
the tree, are hidden to the naked eye.

If you trust your eyes fully, you are seeing the smallest concentric sphere.
It will not occur to you that much of what happens in this concentric
sphere, is caused by a sphere one size larger. And much of what happens in
the one size larger sphere was caused by a sphere yet another size larger.
This goes on and on.

Why is ecosystems thinking crucial today?

Let us take the Internet. It is really an emerging ecosystem of human minds that
combines those on the Net and those off (with wired human bridges).

It is working best where minds share a similar ethos -- where minds have
common references to build trust and relationships off.

When the ecosystem is more complete, it will thrive lots more than it is
thriving today. Some questions you may ask are:-

(a) Why is the ecosystem of minds on the Internet not working perfectly?

(b) What components are missing?

(c) What processes are missing?

(d) What components or processes are already there, but are not understood
well or not accorded the priority they deserve?

The answers to these are best found in paralleling Nature's ecosystem to
that of what the ecosystem of minds should have viz (a) to (d) when it is
much
closer to the completeness of Nature's ecosystem, than it is now.

For example, let us for argument sake, say that there are (i) 300 components
and (ii) 200 processes in Nature's ecosystem. We know that one of the
topmost processes in Nature is photosynthesis. Yet another topmost one is
symbiosis.

Question: What are the equivalents of photosynthesis and symbiosis in the
minds ecosystem? What are the hurdles to them forming? What returns are
there if these hurdles are removed? What ingredients are needed to remove
these hurdles and to forge these processes?

Why is photosynthesis important? It is at the bottom of the food chain. It
is the process by which trees and plants obtain resources to start the whole
food chain.

Now ask, what is the equivalent of photosynthesis in the ecosystem of minds
on the Internet? What is the most significant source of resources for
significant new Internet ventures? In the West, it is passionbits including
Open Source and venture capital. How about your ethos' space?

What are the parallels to the other 300 components and 198 processes in
Nature's ecosystem, in your minds ecosystem?

Would trust between participants be one?  Would more intensive networking
between minds be another? Would networking between complementary folks, as
in Nature, make it more worthwhile? How can complementariness be revealed
easier? Would a database of profiles that is shared by participants be a
way?

Would a rating on each of the 6Rs be one?

[6Rs = resourcefulness, responsibility, responsiveness, reliability,
rapport-building, risk-taking]

How do we rate the 6Rs? Can we experiment with some of the models currently
used in psychological testing, while we find better ways?

Is interaction a precusor to trust building? How do we increase interaction?
What are the key ingredients of interaction, that make it a precursor to
trust building? Would the sense of "presence" when we see each other
face-to-face, be one? How do we recreate this in the minds ecosystem? Can we
go some way through the sense of presence in Instant Messaging and Webcams?

Of these which is of a higher priority than another? Why?

The solving of all these needs are income opportunities for minds in your
ethos space.

The unearthing of other whitespace, unfilled space in your minds ecosystem,
will show up all the other opportunities.

And that comes from ecosystems thinking. That is why ecosystems thinking is
important.


(This message is released for use, redistribution, or modification under
the OpenContent License <http://opencontent.org/opl.shtml>.  In plain
English, the license relieves the author of any liability or implication of
warranty, grants others permission to use the Content in whole or in part,
and ensures that the original author will be properly credited when the
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when they were made, and who made them. Finally, the license ensures that
if someone else bases a work on OpenContent, the resultant work will be
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suggestions or edits to the author, Bala Pillai at bala@... Thanks)

Bala Pillai  <bala@...>
"Networking Minds in Halls Without Walls Since 1995"
Founder, The Asia Pacific  Internet Company http://www.apic.net/news.phtml
Founder, Malaysia.Net http://www.malaysia.net , Tamil.Net <http://www.tamil.net
Sydney, Australia
Phone: + 61.2.9807.8589
Yahoo Instant Messenger: bala2pillai
<www.apic.net>



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01 / Digital Research Unit Launched OCT 2002

02 / UK Artist's International Residency
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The Digital Research Unit [DRU], a new research
and production facility located at The Media
Centre, Huddersfield, UK was launched 1st October
2002. Our extensive creative programme consists
of three core strands:

+ DRU Residency Programme
[http://www.druh.co.uk/residencies.html]

+ DRU Commissions
[http://www.druh.co.uk/commissions.html]

+ DRU Research Programme
[http://www.druh.co.uk/research.html]

+ DRU Home
[http://www.druh.co.uk]

+ DRU electronic mailing list:
[http://emaillists.druh.co.uk/dru/email_signup.asp]

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DRU in collaboration with NIFCA - Nordic
Institute for Contemporary Art introduces:

NEW MEDIA AiR, a Residency Programme dedicated to
new media artists.

+ ARTISTS FROM THE UK ARE INVITED TO APPLY NOW +

NEW MEDIA AiR residencies in the Nordic + Baltic
regions. For more information visit:

http://www.druh.co.uk/nifca_exchange.html

+ DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS IS 15 NOVEMBER 2002 +

Themes for the residency programme are:

1. Software art and software tools for artists Art
projects implemented as software, or art projects
that have an essential software component.
Projects dealing with the concept of software.
Software tools enabling new forms of artistic
expression.

2. Sound/audiovisual performances and installation.
New media art that manifests itself as a performance
/event/installation and extends beyond the screen.

Free accommodation, studio/work space, and a
monthly grant of 840 EURO [app'x £500].

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-----Original Message-----
From: Admin Sociopranos [mailto:admin@...]
Sent: 24 October 2002 11:36
To: robin@...
Subject: Sociopranos UK

Greetings from Scotland!

The all new sociopranos discussion board is now up and running at the
easier to remember www.sociopranos.com
Issues vary from Sociology to Philosophy and everything in between.
It's a little quiet at the moment but we have Dr's, Professors,
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Greece, Turkey, India and the UK so far. Remember to post a few
comments, ideas or just random floating ideas/questions to kick things
off. This should lead into indepth discussion with people all over the
world interested in sociology and social / philosophical issues.
We have just added a new section for internet, society and social
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Joining is simple,click the 'register' link, choose a nickname, enter an
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From:            "r. streitmatter-tran" <rstreit@...>
Subject:         RHIZOME_RARE: ATE Massaging Media Conference
Send reply to:   "r. streitmatter-tran" <rstreit@...>


http://www.massagingmedia.com

ATE Conference: Massaging>Media
November 23, 2002
a week before US thanksgiving!
.........................................

The ATE conference (art, technology, experience) is a one-day event
presented by
the Dynamic Media Institute at MassArt and AIGA Boston. It is a forum of

artists/practitioners (filmmakers, performers, dancers, musicians,
designers, writers,
and illustrators) as well as theorists in culture, education,
architecture, and
philosophy.

The ATE conference is a collaboration, a dialog, a discourse, a lecture,
a
performance, a multi-disciplinary experiment, a multi-sensory experience
and, for all
of us, " ... a process of subliminally sniffing out environmental
change." (Marshall
McLuhan)

The ATE conference explores where we are, and what we EAT as a culture
with
regard to new media. It will be about ideas. No shameless self-promotion
is allowed.
You will feel that you ATE plenty.

..........................................


Massachusetts College of Art
Tower Auditorium
621 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02115

Saturday, November 23, 2002
9:00am - 5:00pm

..........................................
Participants

Henry Jenkins, Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT.
Cultural
Theorist in new media

Chee Pearlman, Design / Editorial Consultant. Columnist for the New York
Times
and former Editor of ID Magazine

Mitchell Resnick, Director of Lifelong Kindergarten research group at
the Media Lab
at MIT and developer of StarLogo environment and Lego MindStorms

Nancy Bauer, Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University,
teachesphilosophy with
film and feminist philosophy

Krzysztof Wodiczko, Director of Visual Arts Program at MIT, heads The
Interrogative Design Group at MIT

Sandy Stone, Founding Director of ACTLab / Convergent Media program of
the
University of Texas. Filmmaker, rock 'n roll music engineer,
neurologist, cultural
theorist and performer

Maira Kalman, CEO, VP and Secretary, M&Co. Illustrator and Author of:
Unfashion:
A Designer's Strip Tease. Co-Illustrator of the New Yorker's "New
Yorkistan" cover

Rick Meyerowitz, Illustrator for the National Lampoon, numerous
magazines and
books, and co-illustrator of the New Yorker's "New Yorkistan" cover

Jeffrey Huang + Muriel Waldvogel, Partners, Convergeo. Designers of new
architectures and media that combine physical and virtual technologies

Glorianna Davenport, Principal Research Associate Director of
Interactive Cinema,
MIT. Pioneer in new methods of digital media: "Evolving Documentary"
"Very
Distributed Storytelling"

Aisling Kelliher, PhD candidate, Interactive Cinema at MIT (Media Lab).
Developing
software for video publishing online

Teresa Marrin Nakra, Artistic Director of Immersion Music, Inc.,
conductor,
composer, and inventor of the "Digital Baton" and other digital
technologies for
musicians

Joanna Kurkowicz, Violinist, Concertmistress of the Boston Philharmonic,
the
Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and the Vermont Symphony

Sangita Shresthova, Dancer/Choreographer. Trained in Kathmandu, her
performances incorporate visual projections and sound into Nepalese
dance
movements

.........................................
Hosts:

Jan Kubasiewicz,
Professor and Coordinator of Graduate Design Program
Dynamic Media Institute at MassArt

Judith Richland,
President, Richland Design Associates Former President of AIGA Boston
.........................................

Conference Format:

9:00-10:00 Coffee/knowledge transfer*
10:00-10:10 Introduction
10:10-10:40 Lecture
10:40-11:10 Performance
11:10-11:20 Break
11:20-11:50 Lecture
11:50 -12:20 Performance
12:20-1:30 Lunch/knowledge transfer*
1:30-2:00 Lecture
2:00-2:30 Performance
2:30-2:40 Break
2:40-3:10 Lecture
3:10-3:40 Performance
3:40-5:00 Soft drinks/knowledge transfer*

*schmooze
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Fees
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Register before 11/15 ($135)
Register after 11/15 ($150)
AIGA member register before 11/15 ($100)
AIGA member register after 11/15 ($115)
MassArt Student register before 11/15 (FREE)
MassArt Student register after 11/15 ($15)

Seats are limited!
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Registration
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Register Online

To register online please visit:
http://www.massagingmedia.com/register
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Register by mail

Name:
Address:
Email:
Telephone:

Mail your nonrefundable check to:
AIGA Boston/ATE Conference,
17 Station Street, 1st floor
Brookline, MA 02445.

Please make your check payable to: AIGA Boston/ATE Conference
All checks for reserved seats must be received by November 18, 2002.
Your cancelled check is your receipt.

This event is being sponsored by GMUND Paper, North America and Hewlett
Packard.

Forthcoming Cybersalon Events Nov/Dec 2002

1. Cybersalon Discussion
9.11 Netzwerke London - networked event ICA, London and the Mousonturm,
Frankfurt
Sat 9 Nov, 1-8pm

+ Laptops Live 9 in Theatre and Cybersalon club night in bar from 8pm
onwards

2. Cybersalon Discussion
with Lev Manovich -'Meaningful Beauty: Data Visualisation in New Media
Culture'
Tue 19 Nov, 8.30pm

3. Cybersalon/NMK Annual Xmas Lecture & Party
Key note speech by Bill Thompson -'Is Big Business Destroying the
Internet?'
Monday, 9 Dec, 7.30pm

4. INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO WITH IT?
The Second Annual Digital Festival
5 November - 28 November 2002

Talks on copyright, intellectual property and the public domain:

All happening @
The ICA
The Mall
London SW1 5AH
http://www.ica.org.uk
Tickets: call 0207 930 3647 or tickets@...

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Cybersalon Discussion - 9.11 Netzwerke London
Sat 9 Nov, 1-8pm
ICA, Nash & Brandon Rooms
£5, £4 Concs. £3 ICA Members
part of whatdoyouwanttodowithit? - the ICA Digital Festival

9.11 Netzwerke is a networked event linking the ICA with the Mousonturm
in
Frankfurt.  Panel discussions will be streamed to and from both venues.
Speakers and panelists, including Malcom McClaren, John Coate, Dr
Richard
Barbrook and Benoit Faucon will talk on topics ranging from 'Networking
-
the New Underground' to 'Networking and Pop' and discuss utopian and
dystopian visions of a networked future.

The event will also feature a 'playful' networked environment in the ICA
Bar to link the audiences in London and Frankfurt through Internet video
phones, web cams and net.art pieces.



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whatdoyouwanttodowithit?
Sat 9 Nov, 8pm Ò 1am
£10, £9 Concs. £8 ICA Members
Theatre (Standing), Bar
Laptops Live 9
Siobhan Fahey
The Droyds
DAT Politics

DAT Politics: 'hyperactive ping-pong melodies and splenetic beat riot'
NME
lektroLAB: presents the first music event of the digital festival. The
Droyds represent the cheekier side of electropop, with their homage to
Duran Duran's Girls on Pills. They will be joined by label mate and very
Shakespear's Sister).

French four-piece DAT Politics record for the super cool Chicks on Speed
label, mixing click-beats with glitch-melodies, with a joyful, humorous
touch. Ex-Playboy model  and electropop princess Pippa Brooks will be on
the decks alongside lektrogirl (Rephlex, Micromusic) and DJ Slippers,
with
Copenhagen Brains providing visuals.

In the bar will be Cybersalon DJs and VJs as well as live laptop acts
serving up uptempo funk, electro, breakbeat, reggae and hiphop vibes.
The
line up includes live sets from the Kansas City Prophets (Control Tower
Records) and The iRiealists with DJ sets from The Bowling Green & Rusty
Warren with VJs - Sapo (Vectors) plus Sancho Plan.


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Cybersalon Discussion - Lev Manovich
Tue 19 Nov, 8.30pm
£8, £7, Concs. £6 ICA Members
Theatre
part of whatdoyouwanttodowithit? - the ICA Digital Festival

Lev Manovich, digital artist, author and Associate Professor at the
Visual
Arts Department, University of California, will give a talk on
'Meaningful
Beauty: Data Visualisation in New Media Culture'. Lev's keynote address
examines the aesthetics and practice of new media culture and launches
Cybersalon Process, Cybersalon's forthcoming digital practioners forum.
To
be followed by a panel discussion with experienced digital arts
practioners
who explore the implications of Lev's keynote address.

Cybersalon will also present two of its recently completed projects:
iSideshow - a site specific digital circus developed for and performed
at
the Big Chill festival in Eastnor Castle this August; and the Cyber
Theatre
Laboratory - an experimental theatre project bringing together writers,
directors and actors from the Y Touring theatre company with Cybersalon
digital artists to explore the potential and impact of new technologies
on
writing and performing youth oriented theatre.


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Cybersalon/NMK Annual Xmas Lecture & Party
Monday, 9th December, 7.30pm-12.00am
ICA Theatre, Bar
£6, £5 concs, £4 ICA Members

"Is Big Business destroying the Internet?"
Key note speech by Bill Thompson
Chaired by Dr Richard Barbrook

Bill Thompson is a new media pioneer whose main interests lie in the
crossover between technology and culture. He has worked in IT as a
programmer, consultant, trainer and now as a writer and journalist. Bill
has been involved with the Internet since 1986 - "when you could read
all
of USENET each day and having an email address on your business card was
radical." He was formerly head of new media at Guardian Newspapers,
formerly technical manager of Nexus and formerly Campaigns Editor at
Internet Magazine. He writes a weekly column for BBC Online and is tame
geek on Go Digital on the World Service.

DR Richard Barbrook is a writer and lecturer on issues of digital
culture,
society and politics. He was a co-founder of Cybersalon and co-founder
of
The Hypermedia Research Centre at Westminster University where he
currently
teaches.

Cybersalon DJs and VJs party in the Bar 'till 12.00. Join us for some
seasonal cheer.


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INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO WITH IT?
The Second Annual Digital Festival
5 November - 28 November 2002

Talks on copyright, intellectual property and the public domain:

Wed 6 Nov, 7.30pm, ICA Cinema
JOHN PERRY BARLOW
Who Owns the Garden of the Mind?

Once called the OEThomas Jefferson of cyberspaceí John Perry Barlow has
beena Wyoming rancher, co-writer of songs with The Grateful Dead, and a
key
figure in debates about cyberliberties, copyright in a digital age, and
the
digital divide. He has been on Wiredís masthead since its inception and
his
manifesto A Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace has been widely
distributed on the net. On an increasingly surveillanced planet, and in
a
world where intellectual property is owned by major corporations such as
AOL/Time Warner, John Perry Barlow talks about politics and ownership.
http://www.ica.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=9621
£10, £9 Concs. £8 ICA Members



Thur 14 Nov, 7.30pm, ICA Theatre
IS COPYRIGHT A GOOD THING?

Whatís OEfairí about OEfair useí? What happens to intellectual property
when it is in the public domain? Who should determine the relative
rights
and responsibilities in relation to artists and their works? Does
technology make a difference? As a follow up to last years CODE
conference
in
Cambridge, we present a panel debate on the rights and wrongs of private
property vs public domain. Speakers include: John Howkins, author of The
Creative Economy, Penguin 2002; Jennifer Jenkins, the director of the
Centre For The Study of the Public Domain, Duke University; Vicki
Bennett,
artist (aka People Like Us), novelist Stewart Home; sound artist Joe
Banks
and
Karsten Schubert, editor of the recently published book on copyright
Dear
Images: Art Copyright And Culture.
http://www.ica.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=9623
£8, £7 Concs. £6 ICA Members
Includes a free copy of CODE Report


The Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH
Information: 020 7930 3647 / www.ica.org.uk

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Subject: Call for entries


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This year, the overall prize has increased  to 100,000 Euros (about
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For specific questions do not hesitate to contact us at:
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Looking forward to your participation, we wish you,

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