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THE ISEA NEWSLETTER # 8, AUGUST 1992

Editors: Wim van der Plas, Dirk Boon (Holland)

Correspondents: Yoshiyuki Abe (Japan), Roger Malina (US), Ivan Pope (UK),



ISEA, POB 60103, 9703 BC Groningen, The Netherlands

Tel 31-50-425254, Fax 31-75-701906

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



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CONTENTS





Editorial

SIGRAPH Meeting ISEA/ISAST               Wim van der Plas

TISEA                                    Ross Harley

Manifestation for the Unstable Media IV  V2 Organisation

Lecture by Collis H Davis                Wim van der Plas

Studio for Creative Inquiry              Carl E. Loeffler

AI/Music Meetings                        Eduardo Reck Miranda

Sound Installation                       Edward Osborn

Multimedia Communications                Dorothy Phillips

Graphics Workshop                        Steve B.

Computers in Art & Design Conference     Steve Saltzberg

Calendar

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EDITORIAL

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Recently, the annual reports June 1990 - June 1992 have been mailed to

all ISEA members. As can be learned from the report, our activities are

accumulating rapidly. Also, it can be learned that your contribution

remains essential to us. We thank all members for the faith shown and we

ask all of you to remain with us, yes, it would be appreciated very much

if you could find us more members, make your institute a member, etc.

A number of new members came along as a result of the meeting held at

Siggraph in Chicago on July 30.







SIGGRAPH MEETING ISEA/ISAST

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Wim van der Plas



The meeting was set up by Roman Verostko, chair of FISEA '93 (Minneapolis,

USA). It was a joint meeting of ISEA and ISAST, the International Society

for the Arts, Science and Technology. Approximately 70 people turned up.

For ISEA the speakers were:

Wim van der Plas with a summary of the annual reports

Ross Harley & Gary Warner reporting on TISEA 92

Roman Verostko on FISEA 93

For ISAST:

Craig Harris on ASTN

Roger Malina on Leonardo



Some of the points raised during the discussion:



-Roman Verostko indicated that people start getting confused by the

 abbreviations used for the ISEA symposia. Until now, the name of the

 symposium: International Symposium on Electronic Art, is preceded by the

 first letter of the number of the symposium. So TISEA means Third sym-

 posium, Fisea means Fourth and Fifth, the Sixth is going to be called

 SISEA, etc. Instead, it is now proposed to call all symposia 'ISEA',

 followed by the year.

 The board of the Inter-Society agrees that this is probably a good idea.

 It means that both the Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts and the

 symposia (that are coordinated by the Inter-Society) use the same abb

 reviation. This seems to be no problem: the Special Interest Group

 Graphics of ACM is called Siggraph, and so are the conferences they

 organize. Nobody seems to be terribly confused by this. Since FISEA 93

 (the Fourth symposium) is already being announced, it is proposed to call

 the Fifth symposium ISEA 94, the Sixth ISEA 95, etc.



-Antti Kari of the University of Industrial Arts, Helsinki, Finland,

 announced that Helsinki is a potential candidate for ISEA 94. Of the

 other European candidates for '94, Koln (Germany) has withdrawn, while

 Sofia (Bulgaria), while also announcing its candidacy, has not yet send

 in an official proposal. Montreal, Canada, also expressed interest in or-

 ganizing one of the future symposia.



-Simon Penny called for proposals for the Siggraph 93 Art Show (see ISEA

 Newsletter #7)



-Copper Giloth pointed at the position available for the Art Show Chair

 for Siggraph 94



-Wim van der Plas called candidates for the position of board member of

 ISEA. (From ISEA Newsletter #7: Candidates for the ISEA Board or members

 that wish to nominate other members are invited to submit their names and

 a short resume c.v. to ISEA before September 1, 1992. Candidates must

 understand that members of the ISEA Board are not paid.)









TISEA

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Ross Harley



Sydney, Australia, 9-13 november 1992



The Third International Symposium on Electronic Art  (TISEA) is shaping up

to be one of the most exciting events of its kind to be held in Australia.

An international forum for artists, scientists and critics working in the

field of electronic art, TISEA promises to provide an excellent oppor-

tunity to critically evaluate the role and effect of new technologies in

contemporary art and culture. Planning for the event has been underway

since the last Symposium was held in the Netherlands in November 1990.



The Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) is the host

organisation for this five-day event, which will take place in Sydney 9-13

November 1992.



The TISEA Coordinating Committee has devised a conference program that

will bring together the work of electronic artists, critics, scientists

and technologists from around the world. The five-day program includes:



--2 days of workshops and courses

--3 days of papers, panels and poster sessions

--a large exhibition program mounted in some of Sydney's best galleries

  and museums

--a 2 hour program of electronic theatre

--an evening of electronic art performances

--a two-day public workshop entitled "Being in Nothingness: VR in Pers-

  pective" examining state-of-the-art VR technologies, applications,

  theory and practice



Some of the participants to date include:



Artsnet (Australian Electronic Arts Network)

Cynthia Beth Rubin (Photomedia)

Simon Biggs (Interactive installation)

David Blair ("Wax or The Discovery of Television Among the Bees")

Luc Courchesne (Conversational interactivity)

Anna Couey (Cybercultures Networking)

Cyberdada (Performance installation)

Char Davies (Computer imaging)

Acha Debela (Photomedia)

Stewart Dickson (Stereolithography)

Brian Evans (Digital tonality)

Tessa Elliot (Sensed space environment)

Maria Fernandez ("Globalisation of Culture")

Ingeborg Fulepp ("Local Wisdom in the Global Village")

Madge Gleeson (Laser-prints)

Jennifer Hall ("Out of Body Theatre")

Jean-Pierre Hebert (Artists software)

Eduardo Kac (Telepresence)

Myron Kreuger (Artificial reality, Keynote Address)

Don Herbison Evans (Computers and Choreography)

Roger Malina (Leonardo)

Jon McCormack (Artificial evolution)

Stewart McSherry (Ink-jet prints)

Margaret Minsky (Feeling and Seeing)

Noralyn Newmark and Bogdan Koca ("Diagnosing the Computer User")

Simon Penny ("Virtual Bodybuilding")

Beverley Reiser ("Surfing Data Space")

Henry See (Hypercard interactive)

Karl Sims (Artificial evolution)

Stelarc (Virtual arm)

Wim van der Plas (ISEA)

Roman Verostko ("Art and the Algorithm")

VNS Matrix (Cyber-feminist manifesto)

McKenzie Wark ("Planet of Noise")





TISEA is also in close contact with an International Board of Advisors,

made up of artists, scientists and scholars who have been involved in

previous Symposia. FISEA 93, to be held in Minneapolis 3-7 November, is

currently being planned by Roman Verostko, Program Chair FISEA 93.



Three TISEA Newsletters have been scheduled. Number 1 was a Call for

Participation, and was widely distributed in February. Over 500 proposals

have been received, and participants are currently being communicated with

regarding their involvement.



Newsletter 2 was distributed mid-June, and features an overview of the

program and pre-registration information. Number 3 is scheduled for

September, and will publish the final program and reigistration form.



TISEA has secured some of the best venues in Sydney for the program of

Exhibitions, Workshops and Courses, Papers and Panels, Poster sessions,

Electronic Theatre and Performance. The Art Gallery of New South Wales is

the main conference location, with rooms also available at the Botanical

Gardens nearby. Other venues include the Sydney Opera House, the Museum of

Contemporary Art, the Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, the

Australian Centre for Photography, Ars Multiplicata, Black Galleries, and

The Performance Space.



The Keynote Speaker is Myron Kreuger--familiar to many as the inventor of

"artificial reality", maker of "unencumbered" virtual reality systems and

author of a large body of literature on the subject. We are currently

negotiating with a number of institutions (including the Australian Film

Television and Radio School) to provide him with the technology-intensive

studio and equipment that he requires to make an exhibit for TISEA.



Other speakers in the program will cover a broad range of topics, from

those of our conference themes--"Whither Cultural Diversity in the Global

Village", and "Art and the Algorithm"--to those of interactivity, ar-

tificial evolution, networking cybercultures, "surfing data space" and

virtual body building.



The Symposium is able to accommodate 350 delegates from around the world

to participate in the week's events. Limited places are also available for

a small number of workshops and courses, which cover an equally exciting

range of areas, from digital audio to virtual reality, from computer

graphics to CD-ROM.



The Exhibitions program will present to the public the work of over 20

artists in eight locations. Rather than showing work in a survey-style

fashion, TISEA will exhibit a number of works by a relatively small number

of artists in gallery conditions (there will be no "foyer" artshow). In

addition to this there will be an artists' slideshow located for the

duration of TISEA at the Australian Center for Photography.



An extensive catalogue is being produced. It will contain all the materi-

als of the Symposium under one cover, including abstracts of papers, full

programming information, a series of catalogue essays, and information and

images pertaining to all the exhibitions.



Cost of registration is $AUD375. A pre-registration discount of $ AUD325

is available to all who register before 14 September. Cost of individual

workshops will be announced in the September Newsletter.



There is a limited time to make applications to Electronic Theatre, Poster

Sessions, or the Artists Slideshow. Please contact the TISEA ofice direc-

tly if you wish to receive further information about proposals, registrat-

ion and final program details.



We have also secured some package deals for discounted airfares and

accommodation. LA return is approx $US1,100, NY return approx $ US1,275

and Paris return is approx $US1,500. Further details and bookings can be

made at Arthur Cooke Travel, fax 61.2.211 0180.



Funding and assistance for this important event has been provided by ANAT,

the Australia Council, the University of New South Wales College of Fine

Arts, the Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts and the Australian Film

Commission. In addition, a large amount of in-kind sponsorship has been

offered by a number of companies, including Sony, Philips and Apple.



TISEA is a large biennale-style event that has an enormous level of

support from the electronic art community. If you are interested in

attending the Symposium or if you want further information, please contact





Ross Harley, Director TISEA

PO Box A307, Sydney South, NSW 2000, Australia

Tel: 61.2.360 5607  Fax: 61.2.360 2943  Email: anat@peg.pegasus.oz.au









MANIFESTATION FOR THE UNSTABLE MEDIA IV

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V2 Organisation



September 26th-October 4th, 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands



The annual festival of the V2-Organisation is this year focussed to the

influence of electronic media on visual arts and architecture. We would

like to establish a relation between art and architecture, because both

have come across similar problems. There is a newly created electronic

space where immateriality rules. The desintegration of traditional time

and space questions our rapidly vanishing social structures (social,

political and cultural) as constructed last centuries and which have

always been the motivation for art and architecture. In different ways the

artwork is under question. Traditional relations and the hierarchy between

the artwork, the observer and the artist are put to question by an artform

that is time based and interactive. The shift is from a closed decision-

defined work to an open and non-defined system, from object oriented art

to a context and observer oriented art.

The fragmentation caused by the new media devaluates ideology (as a base

for society) or better put: it makes it possible for all ideologies to be

valid at the same time. The western cities with their pluriform content in

both ethnical and religious aspect show this already. How does all this

affect our architecture? How can our art and architecture deal with the

immaterial tendencies in our society that seems to deny the body or gives

a different view on the human body as being a big failure and far from

sufficient in the frame of the possibilities that new technologies give

us. Or should we see these developments more possitive and cross new

frontiers by applying the new technologies as prosthesis that can help

us cross these borders? How can we establish an art and architecture that

deals with the new conceptions of time and space?



Symposium.

On Friday October 2nd an international group of artists, architects and

writers will discuss issues as mentioned above. Participators to this

symposium are: Daniel Libeskind(BRD), Lebbeus Woods(US), Derrick de

Kerckhove(CND), Kees Christiaanse(NL) and Florian Roetzer(BRD). The

chairman of the symposium is Wim Nijenhuis(NL), researcher at the univer-

sity of Utrecht(NL).



Interactive Artworks

An exhibition os artworks will be presented at the V2 building. The works

demonstrate what kind of art the new conceptions of time and space as

performed in electronic space could bring. Most of them also question the

traditional relationship between the artwork-observer-artist. The works

vary from VR based works to videoworks. Participating artists are Jeffrey

Shaw(AUS/NL), Agnes Hegedus(H), Christine Kubisch(BRD), Jem Cohen(US),

Steina Vasulka(US) and Michael Saup(BRD).



Maquette Exhibition

A small maquette exhibition will be realized in cooperation with the

Technical University of Eindhoven(NL). The maquettes will show the change

in interpreting time and space in models in the last century. There will

be models of the military academy, road constructions and models from the

TU in Eindhoven. This exhibition will take place outside the V2 building.

For more information please contact:

V2 Organisation

Muntelstraat 23, 5211 PT  's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.

Tel : 31-73-137958, Fax : 31-73-122238







LECTURE BY COLLIS H. DAVIS

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Wim van der Plas



ISEA organized a lecture on interactive cinema by Collis H. Davis of the

Ohio State University. The lecture took place in cooperation with, and at

the location of, Time Based Arts in Amsterdam, on August 14th. Ap-

proximately 20 people showed up for this interesting presentation.

Davis' project is called 'Elegba's Stratagem'. Feed back by the audience

can primarely be given through a speech recognition system. Interesting

was to hear of Collis' motivation for this project: "Black (american)

audiences tend to talk back at a movie they see in the cinema. So I wanted

to create 'back talk cinema'".

For more information on this project, contact Collis H. Davis, Dept of

Theater, Ohio State University, Haskett 156 W. 19th Ave., Columbus, OH

43210-1183, USA. Tel: 1-614-2926637,

Email: CHDAVIS@MAGN US.ACS.OHIO-STATE.EDU

ISEA and Time Based Arts are discussing more cooperation in the future. We

will keep you informed.







STUDIO FOR CREATIVE INQUIRY

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Carl E. Loeffler



Networked Virtual Art Museum Technical Demonstration, to be conducted at

Expedition 92: Launching New Worlds of Learning,  Munich, Germany,

September 10-11, 1992



The Networked Virtual Art Museum is a project directed by Carl Eugene

Loeffler, Research Fellow, at the Studio for Creative Inquiry, College of

Fine Arts, CMU. The pioneering project investigates telecommunications and

virtual reality, and provides a basis for multiple users located in

distant geographical locations to be conjoined in the same virtual,

immersion environment. The project employs telecommunication hardware, as

well as the hardware associated with  virtual reality: data eyephones and

multi-directional navigation  devices.



The immersion environment is an art museum, which contains galleries

offering exhibitions. The exhibition presented for the Munich

demonstration is conceived by Director Carl Eugene Loeffler and is

titled Fun House. While based on the traditional concept of the fun house,

the exhibition features advanced programming concepts such as agents with

Artificial Intelligence, mirrors offering reflections, and a game room

which explores gravity and other aspects of physics illustrated by thrown

objects.



Considered as a whole, the project is on the advancing edge of

telecommunications thru the exploration of immersion environments,

networked over long distance, while supporting multiple users. The use

of agents, and the articulation of  physics  and other details like

reflective mirrors, places the project at the forefront of the design

of virtual worlds.



The Networked Virtual Art Museum utilizes the WorldToolKit, a virtual

world development software, available from Sense8 Corporation.  The

Virtual Research head mounted display, and the Ascension Technology

6-D  mouse (The Bird), and 486/50 compatible with  DVI and MIDI

comprise the basic system hardware.



The first public demonstration of the project will take place September

10-11, in conjunction with Expedition 92: Launching New Worlds of Lear-

ning, held in Munich, Germany., under the auspices of UNESCO  and the

Commission of the European Community. Expedition 92 conducts two  days of

keynote addresses, workshops, and technical demonstrations.Select par-

ticipants include: Michael Eisner, Manager, Disney World;Robert Jacobson,

Director, World Design; Myron Krueger, Producer,Artifical Reality; Kevin

McGee, MIT Media Lab; Siegmund Prillwitz,Director, Institute for Sign

Language; Kristina Hooper Woolsey,Director, MultiMedia Lab, Apple Com-

puter; among many others.



FOR INFORMATION CONTACT:

Carl Eugene Loeffler, Project Director Telecommunications and Virtual

Reality, Studio for Creative Inquiry

College of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon University

Tel: (412) 268-3452, FAX: (412) 268-2829, Email: cel@andrew.cmu.edu











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Selected items from Fineart Forum ,  Volume 6 #8

                and Leonardo Electronic News,  August 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.

__________________________________________________________________________









AI/MUSIC MEETINGS

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Eduardo Reck Miranda



The main purpose of the meetings is to discuss the possibilities of

AI applied to Music. The meetings are open for everyone interested.

Talk proposals are welcome.



Subject: "A Survey of Knowledge Representation:

          From Sound  Synthesis to Musical Activity"

Date   :  Thursday  27 August, 3.30pm, F13 Room - AI Dept. - South Bridge

Speaker:  Eduardo Reck Miranda (Faculty of Music, University of Edinburgh,

               Scotland - UK)



Subject: "AI-based musicology: two projects in Florence.

             a) An Expert System Prototype for Time-Reduction and

             b) Computer-Aided Analysis of Electroacoustic Music"

Date   :  Thursday 03 September, 3.30pm, Tutorial Room - Music Faculty -

               Nicolson Square

Speaker:  Francesco Giomi, Conservatorio di Musica L. Cherubini

          Florence - Italy



For any information, please contact:

Eduardo Reck Miranda, University of Edinburgh, AI/Music Group

12 Nicolson Square, Edinburgh - EH8 9DF, Scotland - UK

Email : MIRANDA@UK.AC.ED.MUSIC

Abstracts are available in advance by request.







SOUND INSTALLATION

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

Edward Osborn



"Zaku Zaku," an interactive sound installation by Ed Osborn will be shown

at the Southern Exposure Gallery, 17th and Alabama Streets, San Francisco,

CA, from July 31st to August 29th, 1992.  Gallery hours are 12-5pm,

Wednesday-Saturday.  The opening reception will be held Friday, July 31st,

6-8pm, and an artist's talk and performance will take place Saturday,

August 22nd at 4pm.  All events are free and open to the public.  For more

information contact the gallery at (415) 863-2141.







CALL FOR PAPERS

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Dorothy Philips





                  MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS '93



          "FORGING THE LINKS: MARKET-TECHNOLOGY-POLICY"

                        APRIL 13-16,1993

                         BANFF, ALBERTA



MMC'93 will focus on the convergence of the technical and policy aspects

of multimedia communications applications and their markets.  The con-

ference theme is "Multimedia Communications: Forging the Links: Market,

Technology, Policy".  The conference is intended to explore multimedia

applications for the arts, education, training and business in both

telecommunications and stand alone systems.

The official languages of the conference are English and French;

simultaneous translation will be provided for the presentations.



                          THEME TRACKS



The conference will be organized around three broad theme tracks linked by

plenary sessions. Suggested topics are:



1.  Emerging multimedia markets, applications and services

2.  Technologies influencing recent advances in multimedia communications

3.  Policy, legal, regulatory and standards issues

                       AUTHOR INFORMATION



Submissions may be in either English or French.

Theme Track Presentations: Must be original and unpublished. Submit a

1,000-word abstract in four (4) copies and indicate the theme. Please

indicate audio-visual requirements.



Demonstrations: Should deal with leading edge applications and systems

relevant to emerging public and private networks (telecommunications or

broadcasting) as well as stand alone systems (CD-ROM, CD-I and others).

Should be aimed at educating and giving a view of future possibilities and

trends; should not be directed at marketing a product. Submit a 1,000-word

abstract or a videotape of about 10 minutes. Indicate whether the

demonstration is SHORT (presentations within theme sessions should last no

more than 30 minutes) or CONTINUOUS (a demonstration room will be open for

two days). Please indicate your technical requirements.



CRITICAL DATES: August 1, 1992 - receipt of intent to submit;

September 30, 1992 - receipt of submission of all abstracts;

November 15,1992 - notification of acceptance; January 15,1993 -

Complete papers due; March 15,1993 - final papers due for con-

ference proceedings



Submissions and information:  Dr. Dorothy Phillips, Communica-

tions Research Centre, 3701 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario

Canada, K2H 8S2; Internet: dorothy@calvin.dgbt.doc.ca









GRAPHICS WORKSHOP

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steveb@csc10.wv.tek.com

Eurographics Workshop on Object-Oriented Graphics

Champery, Switzerland, 28-30 October 1992



Aims and Scope:

At past workshops it has been noted that people in the graphics community

are addressing a wide variety of problems: surface modeling, rendering,

animation, interaction, multiple media, constraints, etc. At the same

time, it has also been noted that people share similar concerns in the

areas of software reuse, extensibility and maintenance. This workshop will

be an effort to identify such common concerns and to devise solutions that

benefit a wide spectrum of research domains within the interactive grap-

hics community.  The goal of the workshop is to outline a common platform,

based on a set of object-oriented primitives, for the support of graphics

applications.



Venue and Fee:

The workshop will be held in Champery, Switzerland. The fee will be about

SFr. 700 including accommodation and meals. Limited funds for subsidizing

students may be available.



Organization:

The workshop is organized by Vicki de Mey and Xavier Pintado of the Centre

Universitaire d'Informatique (University of Geneva) and promoted by

Eurographics. The book will be edited by Wm Leler of Ithaca Software,

Vicki de Mey and Xavier Pintado.



Address:

Eurographics Workshop on Object-Oriented Graphics

Centre Universitaire d'Informatique

12 rue du Lac, CH-1207 Geneva, SWITZERLAND

Tel: 41 (22) 787 65 86, Fax: 41 (22) 735 39 05, E-mail: eoog@cui.unige.ch







COMPUTERS IN ART AND DESIGN CONFERENCE

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

Steve Saltzberg

                       CALL FOR PARTICIPATION



The School of the Arts and Academic Campus Computing Services at Virginia

Commonwealth University will be co-hosting the Second Annual "Computers in

Art and Design Conference".  The focus of the conference will be presen-

tations by professional artists, designers, and faculty what are currently

using computers and related technologies in the production of their work

or in teaching others how to produce work.  Last year's conference was

attended by over 450 faculty, students, and professional artists and

designers from as far away as New York.  Because of the success of the

prior conference, attendance this year will be limited to 500 partici-

pants.



This conference will feature keynote speakers, as well as breakout ses-

sions, workshops, a hardware and software vendor show and a concert of

computer music.

We are looking for submissions of proposal to give a presentation

and/or paper at this conference from professional artists, designers

and faculty in the field.

The conference is scheduled for November 13th in Richmond Virginia.

If you would like more information, or an official "Call for

Papers", please contact me.

Steven Saltzberg, Director Academic Campus Computing Services

Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA 23284-3008

phone: 804/367-6650 email:  ssaltz@cabell.vcu.edu











                            CALENDAR







JAPAN MUSIC AND COMPUTER SCIENCE SOCIETY SUMMER SYMPOSIUM '92

September 1-3, 1992, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

Contact:  JMACS SS'92 Secretariat, c/o Toshiaki Matsushima, Dept. of

Information Science, Toho University, 2-2-1 Miyama, Funabashi-shi, Chiba

274, Japan, tel: 81-474-72-1141 fax:81-474-75-1855, E-mail:

matusima@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp.





EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL

September 2-6 1992     Osnabruck Germany

Info: POB 1861, D-4500 Osnabruck, Germany

Tel: 49-541-21658  Fax: 49-541-28327







EUROGRAPHICS

13th Annual European Computer Graphics Conference

07-11 September 1992, Cambridge, UK

Contact:

Jane Thorp, The Registry, Univ of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ,UK.

Tel: 44 603 92 802  Fax: 44 603 20 03 Email: eg92-organiser@uk.ac.uea.sys.









MUSIC COMPOSITION ON THE NeXT COMPUTER WORKSHOP

07 September - 02 October 1992

Center for Art and Mediatechnology Karlsruhe/Germany

Institute for Music and Acoustics

Contact:  JEG@ZKM.DE





15 September 1992

Deadline for papers for symposium on The Arts and Technology

Connecticut College Center for the Arts and Technology

(conference dates: 4-6 March 1993)

Contact:  Dr. Noel Zahler, Co-director, Center for Arts and Technology,

Box 5632, Connecticut College, 270 Mohegan Avenue, New London, Connecticut

06320-4196, USA,

Internet: nbzah@mvax.cc.conncoll.edu, Bitnet: nbzah@conncoll.







HCI '92,

Human-Computer Interaction '92

15-18 September 1992, University of York, UK

Contact:  Francoise Vassie, Centre for Continuing Education,

University of York, York YO1 2EP, UK.

tel: 44 0904 433901, fax: 44 0904 433949, email: FV1@uk.ac.york.









COMPUGRAPHICS 92,

Int Conference on Comp Graphics and Visualization

16-20 September 1992, Sesimbra, Portugal

Contact:  Harold Santo, Dept of Civil Engineering, Technical University of

Lisbon, Av. Rovisco Pais, Lisboa Codex 1096, Portugal,

tel: 351 1 801 579, fax: 351 1 897 765, email: d1663@eta.ist.rccn.pt.







SYMPOSIUM AND TUTORIAL - COMPUTER SYSTEMS ENGINEERING -

21 - 25 September, ITESCO University,Guadalajara, Mexico

Contact:  Jose M. Rodarte M., email: SISC92@Itesocci.gdl.itesco.mx







CI 92 - COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE

23-27 September  , Milan, Italy

Contact:  Giorgio Valle, Dip Scienze della Informazione, Univ di Milano,

Via Moretto da Brescia 9, Milan 21033, Italy,

tel: 39 2 757 5228, fax: 39 2 761 10556, email: valle@imiucca.bitnet.







GRAPHICON '92

2nd Annual Conference on Computer Graphics

28 September - 02 October , Moscow, Russia

Contact:  Kelysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, 4 Miusskaya Sq, Moscow

125047, Russia,

tel: 7095 972 3642, fax: 7095 972 0737, email: vlgal@keldsh.msk.su.







INFO37

5th Meeting of the STG on Computer Aided Research (ICTM)

28 September - 02 October

Contact:  Dr. Lubej, University of Wien, Institut fuer Musikwissenschaft,

Universitaetsstrasse 7, A-1010 Wien.









OTTAWA 92 INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL

September 30 - October 4

Info: Ottawa 92 Animation Festival

c/o Canadian Film Institute, 2 Daly Ave., Ottawa, Canada K1N 6E2

Tel: 1-613-2326727  Fax: 1-613-2326315





FAUST 92

October 16-20   Toulouse, France

4th Forum of Arts, Science and Technique in Toulouse, France.

Features exhibitions, performances, competitions, symposia;

Secretariat:

FAUST, Mairie de Toulouse, 34 rue Pargaminieres, 31000 Toulouse, France

Tel: 33-61-214474 & 222300  Fax: 33-61-298611







INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THREE DIMENSIONAL MEDIA TECHNOLOGY

November 3-5    Montreal Canada

3D Film, Video & TV, Stereo Computer Graphics & Animation, Virtual

Reality, Holography, Spatial Sound Systems, 3-D Multi Media,

3D Theory & Research

Info: 3Dmt Center Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke Street,

West Montreal, Canada H4B 1R6

Tel: 1-514-8482539  Fax: 1-514-8483492  Email: hal@vax2.concordia.ca





THIRD INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ELECTRONIC ART

November 9-13    Sydney Australia

Info: TISEA, POB A307, Sydney South NSW 2000, Australia

Tel: 61-2-3605607  Fax: 61-2-3602943  Email: anat@peg.pegasus.oz.au







CREATIVITY AND COGNITION SYMPOSIUM

April 13-15, 1993

Topic areas include Creativity in practice, Reflection upon and obser-

vation of the creative process, art practice and cognition, the role of

technology, creative communications:  dialogue and interchange across

disciplines, cognitive concepts of creativity, computational models of

creativity.

Contact:  The LUTCHI Research Centre, Loughborough University of

Technology, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, UK

Tel: (44) 509 222694  Fax: (44) 509 610815  Email: p.j.bolligan@lut.ac.uk









                     Calls for Participation



IMAGINA

February 17-19, 1993

Imagina, the 12th Monte Carlo International Forum on New Images.

Key dates:

Papers:

July 31st: deadline for reception of abstracts

November 20th: deadline for reception full papers Virtual Gallery:

October 1st: deadline for proposistions



All proposals should be sent to:

M. Philippe Queau

INA, 4, avenue de l'Europe, F-94366 Bry-sur-Marne Cedex, France

Tel 33-1-49832714  Fax: 33-1-49832582



TOPICS:

Natural models & physically-based modeling, Procedural animation/Goal

oriented animation, 3D character animation, Facial animation, Virtual

environments, Multimedia environments & hypermedia, Visual programming

languages & environments, Graphic user interfaces, Gestural input inter-

facres, Emergent user interfaces, Computer vision, Intelligent com-

puter-aided design, Image processing, Motion control, Special effects,

Computer assisted key-frame animation, Real time simulation/animation,

Super computer visualisation/animation, Parallel Processing/advanced

architectures in computer graphics, Cellular automa, Genetic algorithms,

HTV computer graphics, Computer stereographics, Computer graphics for

Imax/Omnimax, Interactive computer art.

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COURSE

Principles & Practice of Advanced User-Interfaces

October 12-16 Bonn, Germany

November 16-20 Rennes, France

Information:

CWI, Mr Frans Snijders, POB 4079, 1009 AB Amsterdam, Holland

Tel: 31-20-5924133  Fax: 31-20-5924199  Email: FRANSS@CWI.NL





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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 at the address on the front page.



Support: Groningen University, Amsterdam University, De Fabriek/Hollandia.