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                  THE INTER-SOCIETY FOR THE ELECTRONIC ARTS



                           THE ISEA NEWSLETTER



                         NUMBER 2, FEBRUARY 1992

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                  THE INTER-SOCIETY FOR THE ELECTRONIC ARTS

                                Calls

                 Candidates for the organization of FISEA 94



- The First International Symposium on Electronic Art (FISEA) took place

  in 1988 in Utrecht, Holland. It was sponsored by the Foundation for

  Creative Computer Applications and the Utrecht School of Arts.

- The Second International Symposium on Electronic Art (SISEA) took place

  in 1990 in Groningen, Holland. It was sponsored by the Groningen

  Polytechnic.

- The Third International Symposium on Electronic Art (TISEA) will be held

  in Sydney, Australia in 1992, sponsored by the Australian Network for

  Art & Technology (ANAT) and the Australian Film Commission.

- The Fourth symposium (FISEA 93) takes place in Minneapolis, USA, in

  1993, and is sponsored by the Minneapolis College of Art & Design.



The ISEA is looking for (preferably) European candidates for the organiza-

tion of the Fifth International Symposium on Electronic Art (FISEA 94).

There is allready a candidate for this symposium in the U.S., but ISEA

aims at having the symposia alternately in Europe and elsewhere.

Preferably, the Fifth symposium (FISEA 94) takes place in Europe.

The organizer must be able to raise the necessary funding by itself.

ISEA will give all the assistance it can provide, but is not able to

assist financially.



Potential candidates (non-european candidates too) can write to:



ISEA, POB 6013, 9703 BC Groningen, Holland

Phone: 31-50-425254

Fax  : 31-75-701906

Email: ISEA@RUG.NL  or A430WYNA@DIAMOND.SARA.NL

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10th World-wide Video Festival

April 7-12, 1992 11-01 hrs daily

Kijkhuis, The Hague, Holland

Admission Free

Address:  Noordeinde 140, 2514 GP Den Haag, The Netherlands

Phone: 31-70-3644805 Fax: 31-70-3614448



Contents:

- Approx. 80 new video art productions (the makers are often present)

- Video Installations (by, among others, Alexander Hahn)

- Photo Exhibition

- Music Videos (featuring Dutch independent music videos,

  'Industrial Techno Dance' and Black Rappers)

- Lectures by (among others) Yoichiro Kawaguchi and Steven Partridge

Preceding the festival there is an exhibition of three new video

installations by Tony Oursler in the Kijkhuis.

February 2 - March 15, Wednesday-Sunday, 13-17 hours.

Selected items from Fineart Forum ,  Volume 6 #2

                and Leonardo Electronic News, February 15, 1992



The Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts contributes to Fineart Forum

and republishes the items on electronic art on behalf of its members.

FAF and LEN are published by the International Society for Art, Science

and Technology on behalf of The Art, Science and Technology Network.

ISEA distributes this Newsletter in order to keep its members, who have

no access to Electronic Mail, informed. Those members can, if they desire,

get in touch with the Email addresse mentioned in this newsletter by

contacting ISEA.

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Wim van der Plas

ISEA Announcements



     ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM THE INTER-SOCIETY FOR THE ELECTRONIC ARTS



     TISEA, the Third International Symposium on Electronic Art, is

     scheduled for 11-15 November 1992, in Sydney, Australia. The

     address:

     TISEA

     PO Box 259

     Paddington, NSW 2021, Australia

     Phone : 61-2-3399555

     Fax   : 61-2-3399506

     Email : ANAT@PEGASUS.OZ.AU



     The Fourth International Symposium on Electronic Art will take place

     in 1993 in Minneapolis, USA. It will be called FISEA 93.  Responsible

     for the organization is Roman Verostko.

     His address:

     MPLS College of Art & Design

     5535 Clinton Avenue South

     Minneapolis, MN 55419, USA

     Phone/fax    : 1-612-8223800 (private)

     Phone College: 1-612-8743737

     Fax College  : 1-612-8743704

     Email        : FISEA93@MCAD.EDU



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Nigel Netteim

Announcement of Conference



The Musicological Society of Australia is to hold its 15th National

Conference in Sydney, October 7-11, 1992. I am convening a session

entitled "Computer/Statistical Applications in Music Analysis".  If you

would like to present a paper in person, please contact me as soon as

possible and well before 28th February 1992, indicating your intended

topic. Unfortunately the Society has no funds to assist with travel

or other expenses, so it is hoped that your institution would support your

attendance.

     Dr. Nigel Nettheim < nigel@cumulus.csd.unsw.oz.au >

     204A Beecroft Road

     Cheltenham NSW 2119

     Australia

     Phone  (612)-868-4005

     Fax    (612)-313-7682

Francesco Giomi

Call for Participation - AI and Music



                     CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

        ECAI-92 WORKSHOP ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MUSIC



Context: The workshop will take place in the context of the

         10th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-92)



Date: Monday, August 3, or Tuesday, August 4, 1992 -

Main topic: REPRESENTATION OF MUSICAL KNOWLEDGE



The aims of the workshop are to discuss, in an informal way, current

topics in research on Artificial Intelligence and Music, especially pro-

blems and approaches related to the representation of musical knowledge.

This concerns both epistemological and methodological issues.

Possible topics include:

   - foundational and epistemological aspects;

   - abstraction and data structures;

   - integration of symbolic and subsymbolic models;

   - Implemented knowledge representation systems and languages;

   - Intelligent human-computer interaction (Implications of AIM in

     multimedia systems etc.);

The workshop will feature some papers presented in the form of talks, but

the main stress will be put on discussions. There will also be some

extended panel or round-table discussions with invited speakers on

specific topics of interest.Researchers interested in participating in the

workshop are invited to submit abstracts (one page) or full-length papers

on completed or on-going research related to the above-mentioned topics.

All submissions must be in triplicate. Submissions should be sent to the

local workshop organizer (address see below). ECAI regulations require

that participants register for the main ECAI-92 conference. For more

information on ECAI-92, please contact the ECAI-92 conference office:

         ADV  c/o ECAI 92

         Trattnerhof 2

         A-1010 Vienna

         Austria

         Phone: +43 - 1 - 5330913-74

         Fax:   +43 - 1 - 5330913-77

         Telex: 75311178 adv a

         Email: ecai92@ai.univie.ac.at



IMPORTANT DATES:

      Abstracts/papers due by                       : March 31, 1992

      Notice of acceptance                          : May   15, 1992

      Deadline for early ECAI registration (cheaper): June   1, 1992.



For more information about the workshop, please contact the workshop

organizer. Please send abstracts/papers or any questions to the

LOCAL WORKSHOP ORGANIZER:

  Gerhard Widmer

     Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence

     Schottengasse 3

     A-1010 Vienna

     Austria

     Phone : +43 - 222 - 53532810

     Fax   : +43 - 222 - 630652

     e-mail: gerhard@ai.univie.ac.at

Robert Trappl

Cybernetics and Systems Research



EMCSR 92

Eleventh European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research

Vienna, Austria

April 21 - 24, 1992

Eighteen symposia will be presented including Connectivism and

Cognitive Processing, Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Telepresence,

Virtual Environments and Interactive Fantasy and Impacts of Artificial

Intelligence.

Contact: EMSCR, Osterreichische Studiengesellschaft fur Kybernetik, A-

1010 Wien 1, Schottengasse 3, Austria, tel: 43 1 53532810, fax: 43 1

630 652, email: sec%ai-vie.uucp@relay.eu.net

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Roger Malina

Hyperculture



Hyperculture: Virtual Presence in Complex Systems

Faculty of Art and Design

Gwent College of Higher Education

Caerleon, Wales

30 April - 4 May 1992



A conference designed to explore the cultural forms and attitudes

emerging as a consequence of the impact of new technologies on art,

architecture, science, philosophy, education and leisure.  The

approach of the conference will be transdisciplinary, with the goal

of developing strategies for creative thought and action within the

new environment of computer-mediated systems and global

communications networks.



For further information, contact; Sheila Hill, Faculty of Art and

Design, Gwent College of Higher Education, Caerleon NP6 1XJ, Wales,

tel: 44 0 467 20584 or 44 0 633 421292, fax: 44 0 467 25181.

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Roger Malina

Computer Music Workshop June 22 - July 10. 1992



The Banff Computer Music Workshop is an intensive three week workshop

offered to composers, performers and other practitioners of computer music

who have considerable prior experience with small computer systems.

Participants will work with a faculty of distinguished artists in the

field.  The workshop will consist of group seminar presentations on

advanced computer music topics by both faculty and participants and

individual faculty coaching as appropriate to each participant's workshop

project.  Each participant will have access to an individual workstation.

The application deadline is March 2, 1992.



The application must include a resume, two letters of recommendation,

a project statement and a tape portfolio including examples of computer

music or electroacoustic work.  The workshop is limited to 12 partici-

pants.  For further information, contact: The Banff Center for the Arts,

Office of the Registrar, 107 Tunnel Mountain Drive, Box 1020, Banff,

Alberta, Canada T0L 0C0, tel: 403 762 6180, fax: 403 762 76345,

telex: Artsbanff 03-826657.

Eric Rauch

Computers and Music



International Meeting on Computer and Music, 30th of March to the 4th

of April 1992.

Contact: Direccion de Musica del I.N.B.A.,Eje Central Lazaro Cardenas

No. 2, Piso 31, Torre Latinoamericana, Col. Centro, Mexico 06000, D.F.

FAX: 518-11-18

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Roger Malina

New art and Technology lab



Professor Jenny Zinner, Head of the School of Art and Design, Monash

University, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia reports the launch of

Pro-Tec Art, an in-house experimental art and technology laboratory at

Monash University.  An exhibition of technologically-assisted works of

art was held with works of Bashir Baraki, Isobel Clement, Gillian

Dallwitz, Petra Ellis, Tim Jones, Andrew Hirle, Jean Knox, Dinae

Mantzaris, Gerard Minogue and Fran Van Riemsdyk.

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Yves Pilon

Poduction  92



Production 92, which consists of Festival International du Film par

Ordinateur de Montreal (FIFOM), is scheduled for May 22, 1992 through

May 31, 1992 and COMMUNICATIONS92, a symposium for professionals in the

cultural and communications fields.  During last year's festival, over

200 films were presented, of which 60 were in competition.  FIFOM 92

provides an opportunity for the public as well as for professionals to

view the most recent computer graphic works produced throughout the

world.  Screening will take place in a number of theaters.  FIFOM, in

conjunction with Infographie Canada, will present the international

symposium on computer graphics as part of the Production 92 line-up of

events.  Sixty international experts will be on hand to lead the

symposium conferences, seminars and workshops.  The deadline for entry

is March 15, 1992.



Contact:

     Yves Pilon

     1276, rue Amherst

     Montreal Quebec, Canada H2L 3K8.











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The Inter-Society aims at joining an already existing world-wide network

of artists, scientists and their institutes, making it easier for the

institutes and individual members to share expertise with each other.

The aims of the Inter-Society are to promote a structured approach to

electronic art and to help finance worthy electronic art projects. For

membership information contact : ISEA, POB 60103, 9703 BC Groningen, NL.

                        CALENDAR - MARCH 1992



2 February - 15 March 1992

Video Installations by Tony Oursler

Kijhuis, The Hague, Holland

Contact:  Noordeinde 140, 2514 GP Den Haag, The Netherlands,

          tel: 31 70 3644805, fax: 31 70 3614448



01 March 1991

Deadline for application for video production grant

The Canada Council

Contact:  The Canada Council, 99 Metcalfe Street, P.O. Box 1047, Ottawa,

          Ontario K1P 5V8, Canada, tel: 613 598 4350, fax: 613 598 4390.



01 March 1992

Deadline for registration for Third International Conference on

Cyberspace, Montreal (conference dates: 29-30 May 1992)

Contact:  Allucquere Rosanne Stone, Department of Sociology, University

          of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0102, USA, tel:

          619.534.0525, fax: 619.534.4753, email: virtual@cats.ucsc.edu



06 March 1992

Dalia Judowitz at Public Domain

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Contact:  Jim Demmers at pdomain@emory.edu or at

          jd21@prism.gatech.edu.



15 March 1992

Deadline for films for FIFOM - Festival International du Film par

ordinateur de Montreal.  (festival dates: 29 - 31 May 1992)

Contact:  Yves Pilon, FIFOM, 1276, rue Amherst, Montreal, Quebec,

          Canada, H2L 3K8.



19-21 March 1992

Prints and the Main Stream: Paper Boat or Flag Ship?

Southern Graphics Council Meeting

University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Contact:  Beauvais Lyons, Department of Art, 1715 Volunteer Blvd.,

          University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-2410, USA.



20 March 1992

Shirlene Holmes at Public Domain

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Contact:  Jim Demmers at pdomain@emory.edu or at

               jd21@prism.gatech.edu.





30 - 31 March 1992

IRCAM symposium "Musique, Creation et Television"

Contact: Marc Battier < Marc.Battier@ircam.fr >.





30 March - 4 April 1992

International Meeting on Computers and Music

Mexico City, Mexico

Contact:  Direccion de Musica del INBA, Eje Central Lazaro Cardenas #2,

          Piso 31, Torre Latinoamericana, Col. Centro, Mexico 06000, DF,

          fax: 518 11 18.