Central to ISEA2013 is a thought-provoking program of artists’ presentations, creative dialogues and critical debates that will unearth the latest thinking and ideas in contemporary culture.  The 3-day ISEA2013 Conference will feature over 220 speakers, 8 keynote addresses from global leaders in the fields of art, science, technology, media and communications.  Topics will explore a range of cultural forms including bio-art, data visualisation, robotics, augmented realities and urban and virtual ecologies. The conference will be held from Tuesday 11 to Thursday 13 June at The University of Sydney.

Special guest Julian Assange will present a Keynote speech at the ISEA2103 Conference at the University of Sydney on Thursday 13 June 2013 at 5.30pm. The WikiLeaks founder will address the conference via live video link from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.

The Opening Keynote will be given by New York based Michael Naimark ,  renowned pioneer media artist and guest curator of the 25th Anniversary Ars Electronica. Professor Brian Rogerswill discuss “Perception, Art and Illusion” in his conference keynote address.

The ISEA2013 Talks Program in collaboration with Vivid Ideas will inspire new thinking and creative paradigms through provocative speakers such as Italian media critics and hacktivists Alessandro Ludovico  , whose infamous online project Face to Facebook involved stealing 1 million Facebook profiles, filtering them with face-recognition software, and posting them on a custom-made dating website.  Mark Hosler  of Negativland will be giving a storytelling and film presentation titled, Adventures In Illegal Art: Creative Media Resistance, Negativland, and the Fight To Not Be Absorbed”, Stelarc  will present “Meat, Metal & Code: Engineering Aliveness & Affect” as well as a keynote presentation from Genevieve Bell
, Intel Fellow.

ISEA2013 is proud to present a series of artist panel talks at the MCA as part of our collaboration with Vivid Ideas. We have selected artists from the ISEA2013 and Vivid exhibition programs to come together on a range key thematic topics to discuss the role artists play in creatively investigating the possibilities and pushing the limits of new (and old) technologies. Join us to see how artworks help us to imaginatively experience and critically reflect on the role technologies are set to play in life, art, culture and communication in the 21st century.

Also released are a number of workshops  where you have the opportunity to get hands on and play with new techniques and technologies.  These are available for booking through the registration system, but all of these events have limited numbers and most are free to ISEA2013 registered delegates  , some of these are available to non-delegates so look at what’s on offer and book your places now!

If you have already registered, please revisit your registration (http://isea2013.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d0829be2e2adaed4974b29507&id=e9f33c7531&e=9b8f87cccf) and add events to your agenda, all you need is your registration reference number.

The ISEA2013 Exhibition and Performance  Programs will showcase the works of over 200 innovative Australian and International artists at some of Sydney’s key cultural institutions; the Powerhouse Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art, The Rocks Pop-Up, Carriageworks, the College of Fine Arts UNSW, COFA’s Kudos Gallery, 107 Projects, Tin Sheds Gallery, Verge Gallery, Studio 22 – ABC Ultimo, UTS Gallery and DAB LAB, Artspace, and Campbelltown Arts Centre. Also, project hubs at Parramatta and at Chatswood will link Darwin, the Tasmanian Wilderness and Indonesia to Sydney.

Registrations to the ISEA2013 conference (http://isea2013.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d0829be2e2adaed4974b29507&id=0a87141a99&e=9b8f87cccf) are essential. For full event details visit: www.isea2013.org

The 19th International Symposium on Electronic Art ‹ presented by the
Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) and supported by
Destination NSW to align with Vivid Sydney ‹ will showcase the best media
artworks and future-focused ideas from Australia and around the world,
Friday 7 to Sunday 16 June 2013 at venues across central and outer Sydney,
and Darwin.

The ISEA2013 EXHIBITIONS PROGRAM will showcase the works of over 150
innovative Australian and international artists.

The Powerhouse Museum will also be a major exhibition hub for ISEA2013.
Already announced is Experimenta Speak to Me
(http://isea2013.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d0829be2e2adaed4974b29507
&id=b15035e9af&e=9b8f87cccf) ­ 5th International Biennial of Media Art
featuring Wade Marynowski and Jess MacNeil. Exhibiting alongside this is the
first survey of ANAT¹s Synapse initiative that has provided over 30
Australian artists with the opportunity to pursue speculative creative
research projects with scientists and medical researchers in Australia and
beyond. The Synapse: A Selection
(http://isea2013.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d0829be2e2adaed4974b29507
&id=a0a1995d36&e=9b8f87cccf) provides a snapshot of the diverse and
fascinating collaborative projects that participating artists and scientists
have produced over the past five years and includes works by Keith
Armstrong, Helen Pynor and Peter Clancy, George Poonkin Khut, Mari Velonaki,
Erica Secombe, Ken+Julia Yonetani, Nola Farman, Chris Henschke and Kirsty
Boyle.

International leaders in the BioArt field, SymbioticA, the Centre of
Excellence in Biological Arts based at the University of Western Australia,
will present their first major Australian exhibition bringing together the
works of 15 artists from different disciplines semipermeable (+)
(http://isea2013.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d0829be2e2adaed4974b29507
&id=2ad876f133&e=9b8f87cccf) . Featuring sworks specially commissioned for
the exhibition including Nigel Helyer and Oron Catts – the groundbreaking
artistic interventions range from protocells, infection and DNA through to
skins and garments, to borders and state control at The Powerhouse Museum.

ISEA2013 and the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority present Electronic Art
Pop-Ups
(http://isea2013.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d0829be2e2adaed4974b29507
&id=9a7f789a86&e=9b8f87cccf) , a special instalment  in the ongoing pop-up
program at The Rocks. ISEA2013 has selected six outstanding artworks from
across the globe to bring the latest in contemporary art into the heart of
this historic area of Sydney.

Electronic Nights
(http://isea2013.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d0829be2e2adaed4974b29507
&id=ef3477507a&e=9b8f87cccf) will transform Parramatta¹s River Foreshore
with interactive artworks, performances and food, presented by ISEA2013 and
Parramatta City Council. Over two nights, Friday 15 and Saturday 16 June
from dusk to late, encounter interactive artworks along the riverbank that
explore movement and sound, electrical generation, multi media performance
and art and roaming data projections.

Projects include Grobak Padi
(http://isea2013.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d0829be2e2adaed4974b29507
&id=3b95822238&e=9b8f87cccf) 2013
(http://isea2013.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d0829be2e2adaed4974b29507
&id=cf7cb7c58f&e=9b8f87cccf) an intimate exchange between cultures and
cities through a fusion of food, film and dance using Œgerobak¹ ­
traditional Indonesian food carts. Wired up carts will link Sydney and
Yogyakarta, Indonesia, live via multi-channel links, along with in-cart
video art and a multimedia dance spectacle by artists Michael Hornblow
(Australia), Agung Gunawan (Indonesia) and Tony Yap (Australia/Malaysia).
Keith Armstrong¹s collaborative work, facilitated by the Information and
Cultural Exchange (ICE), Long Time, No See?
(http://isea2013.us4.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=d0829be2e2adaed4974b2950
7&id=623acb75b3&e=9b8f87cccf)  is an opportunity for the public to create
possible futures through data mapping and a smartphone App on local walks
throughout Parramatta City.

Darwin and Sydney will be connected through The Portals
(http://isea2013.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d0829be2e2adaed4974b29507
&id=57aa3a38ef&e=9b8f87cccf) , a curated program of five telematic artworks
distributed across these two cities. As large screens proliferate in our
environment can we imagine a different way of using these resources aside
from broadcasting TV? This project connects the extensive urban
infrastructure of The Concourse in Sydney’s Chatswood with communities in
Darwin in real time across two large public screens through networked and
interactive artworks, via high speed broadband. The Portals includes live
art, visual art, e-literature, interactive performance, sound art and
community engagement.

Other exhibitions will showcase the diversity of electronic art practice
including the week-long collaborative production of an expanded Durational
Book being created at the State Library of NSW by 6 artists, including Chris
Caines and Megan Heyward, the meeting of electronic art and architecture at
the Tin Sheds Gallery, a sound art exhibition at UTS Gallery, experiments in
cinema at COFA-UNSW¹s iCinema and an exploration of place and representation
at COFA¹s Kudos Gallery, with the interactive installation Point of View,
combining two radically different environments: the Tasmanian wilderness and
the extreme urban development of Hong Kong. In an apparently endless
stereoscopic 3D giga-pixel panoramic montage, the two locations merge
seamlessly from one into another as the observer turns the circular Œscreen¹
to control both the viewpoint and the related soundscape.

ISEA2013 will feature two programs of sound art performances: Macrophonics
II by Donna Hewitt, Julian Knowles, Wade Marynowsky, and dancers, presented
in association with UTS; and Polysonics, with performances by Michaela
Davies, Ian Andrews, Garry Bradbury, Shane Fahey, Evan Carr, David Carr,
Hamish Stuart, Leah Barclay, Garth Paine at ABC, Studio 22.

For full program details visit www.isea2013.org.

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Image Credits:
Left: Title: The Generative Freeway Project [2013] Credit: Matthew Sleeth
(Courtesy of Claire Oliver Gallery, New York).
Middle: Grobak Padi (Australia/Indonesia). Image: Multicultural Arts
Victoria, 2012.
Right: Sanity Clause (Australia), Four arm turntable built by John Jacobs
used in Dragged Backwards through a Hedge. Image: Ian Andrews, 2013.

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The second of three program announcements includes the MCA, COFA, UNSW, Carriageworks, Performance Space, Artspace, Customs House and the Seymour Centre as well as roving locations throughout the city.

The ISEA2013 EXHIBITIONS PROGRAM, will showcase the works of over 150 innovative artists from Australia and around the world. In partnership with Carriageworks, ISEA2013 presents Alex Davies (Australia) Very Near Future large scale mixed reality / interactive cinema installation which will question what is real or virtual, fact or fiction. In partnership with Performance Space, Body Fluid II (Redux) by John A Douglas (Australia) a performance and video installation in which the artist presents the monotony of his daily dialysis treatment as a sublime act of self-transformation.

Artspace presents in association with ISEA 2013 an exhibition featuring Mari Velonaki(Australia), Petra Gemeinboeck & Rob Saunders (Australia) and Simon Ingram (New Zealand). The Media Facade Exhibition curated by M. Hank Haeusler & Martin Tomitsch at Customs House showcases six seminal media façades through large light posters and moving images as well as a selection of new media façade projects from around the world. The exhibition is organised by the Media Architecture Institute and Customs House in collaboration with Vivid Sydney and ISEA2013.

The ISEA2013 TALKS PROGRAM in collaboration with Vivid Ideas will inspire new thinking and creative paradigms through provocative speakers including program highlight - Stelarc (Australia) presented by ISEA2013 and MCA, in partnership with the National Institute for Experimental Arts at COFA, UNSW. ISEA2013 proudly collaborating with Vivid Sydney presents Mark Hosler, Negativland (US), Fee Plumley (UK/Australia), Kate Chapman (USA), Genevieve Bell, Director of Interaction and Experience at Intel Labs (Australia/US) and ISEA2013 Keynote by Brian Rogers on Perception, Art & Illusion (UK).

Electronic music will be showcased during performances at NEW WAVE: SOUNDpresented by Seymour Centre and Vivid Sydney in association with ISEA2013, 7 – 8 June. The two day intensive program features emerging and established artists showcasing their most innovative work. The Seymour’s intimate Sound Lounge will feature non-stop performances from midday to 11pm on Saturday the 8th June presenting acts such as The Noise, Infinity room, Frostbyte and Collarbones.

Roving interactions with Touchy known as the human camera will happen across the city. Hong Kong / Tokyo based artist Eric Siu uses photos or ‘Touch-Snaps’ to remind us of the ephemeral richness of togetherness, and challenge the disembodying nature of social media, which dehumanises physical contact.
“I am a human camera. If you touch me, my shutters open and I take a photo!”
Touchy

Prepare for citywide disruption as Australia’s notorious tactical media art group pvi collective (Australia) takes over the streets of Darlinghurst during Deviator, presented by ISEA 2013, Performance Space and National Art School. During the twilight hours, immerse yourself in an outdoor game experience and become an urban ‘deviator’, temporarily transforming the city into a playground.

Stereopublic (Crowdsourcing the Quiet), an attempt to both promote ‘sonic health’ in our cities and offer a public guide for those who crave a retreat from crowds, is coming to Sydney. It will recruit members of the public as ‘earwitnesses’. Sound artist Jason Sweeney will then create an individual quiet sound piece for you and your location, sending it back to you in exchange for your participation. Once this exchange is complete, your city-specific location will be placed on an ever-growing virtual soundmap of Sydney.

The City Data Slam, run by creative producers at Carbon Arts, will bring together leading national and international data art practitioners to jam with Sydney’s sustainability data over the last weekend of ISEA 2013 in Object Gallery’s new workshop space, designed by ARUP’s urban informatics group.

Join dLux MediaArts and Dorkbot as part of ISEA2013 for Art Hackfest, an open-source hackfest that creates an environment for new artistic experiences and collaborations over two days. During this event artists, designers, techies and more will come together in Sydney and in the satellite locations of Darwin and Byron Bay to explore the participatory nature of technology and art.

For full program details visit www.isea2013.org.au

ISEA International, founded in The Netherlands in 1990, fosters interdisciplinary exchange among culturally diverse organisations and individuals working with art, science and technology. Last seen in Sydney in 1992, the annual International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) returns 21 years later to deliver another ground-breaking event.

In that time, digital art has moved from the margins to become part of the fabric of everyday life. At once ubiquitous and unnoticed, resistance to electronic art has proven futile — it now lies embedded in the heart of our contemporary cultures. The symposium events will infuse the city’s social, digital and physical infrastructure.

A highlight of the program is the Australian premiere of test pattern, a stunning large-scale immersive installation by renowned Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda. Carriageworks and ISEA2013, proudly collaborating with Vivid Sydney, the Southern Hemisphere’s largest celebration of light, music and ideas, co-present test pattern at Carriageworks from 8 June until 1 July 2013. Like many of Ikeda’s electrifying works, test pattern represents the intense energies of the massive data flows that increasingly shape our globalised world.

Early Bird discounted registrations are available for a limited time – standard registration is $410.00 and concession is only $250.00 – available before Friday, 19^th April 2013.  Please visit the website for more details and to book your registration early.

ISEA2013 has secured a range of hotel options for its delegates, you can compare these on the website and book directly through the online booking system when completing your registration.

Our public and conference programs will be announced shortly comprising a selection of the best works, performances and talks to demonstrate the diverse practice of electronic media arts.

A comprehensive workshop program will also be available for ISEA2013 delegates.  Further information will be sent along with booking details for these sessions in the coming weeks.

We will continue to keep you updated via email as we announce the programs.  Visit the new ISEA2013 websitefor information about visiting Sydney.

We look forward to welcoming you in Sydney for ISEA2013.

On behalf of Media-N Journal please see the call below inviting ISEA2012 participants generally  - and in all theme and focus areas, including Artists Talks - who did not publish in ISEA2012’s conference proceedings, are invited to submit full papers and proceedings for consideration in the current Media-N publication by April 19th

The first International Symposium on Electronic Art was held in 1988. ISEA is a forum for interdisciplinary academic discourse and exchange among culturally diverse organisations and individuals working with art, science and technology. The Symposium is an annual nomadic event, hosted by organisations around the world.

Potential host organisations must consult the Guidelines for Symposium Host Candidates prior to making a bid and are encouraged to contact ISEA Director Sue Gollifer <info@isea-web.org> for further details and the Symposium Guidelines.

The Expression of Interest should be comprised of a 3-5 page proposal including details about host organisation, partners, Symposium themes, artistic programme, dates, registration and fee process and other relevant details. Plus an outline of budget and finance plan.

Potential host organisations are invited to meet with the Board and present their Expression of Interest to delegates at the ISEA International General Meeting during ISEA2013 in Sydney, Australia (June 7-16, 2013).

Timetable for ISEA2016 bids:

March 29, 2013 – Expression of Interest deadline

April 12, 2013 – Bidding organisations notified

June 2013 – Presentation at ISEA2013 (Sydney, Australia) and meeting with

Foundation Board

October 25, 2013 – Full bid document deadline

November 15, 2013 – Candidates notified of outcome

Please note a shorter deadline for ISEA2016 bids due to ISEA being held this year in June. Potential bidders are encouraged make contact with the ISEA Director prior to submitting a bid.

The Expression of Interest and full bid document should be sent electronically to:

Sue Gollifer

ISEA DirectorUniversity of Brighton, UK

email: <info@isea-web.org>

Current ISEA schedule:

ISEA2013 Sydney, www.isea2013.org/

ISEA2014 Dubai, www.isea-web.org/2012/05/isea2014/

ISEA2015 Vancouver

ISEA2015 has been awarded to Simon Fraser University in a bid led by Prof. Diane Gromala who holds a Canada Research Chair and teaches in Simon Fraser University’s (SFU) multidisciplinary School of Interactive Arts & Technology (SIAT).

The Vancouver team presented their proposal at ISEA2012 in Albuquerque in a very competitive round alongside proposals from the Netherlands, Mexico and Indonesia. The ISEA Board was impressed with the proposal’s developments since its original presentation at ISEA2011. Improvements included a stronger positioning of ISEA2015 within Vancouver’s local culture while maintaining an international perspective.

With the theme ‘Raw and the Cooked’ the symposium fill have the following focus:

“As one of the most  “green” cities on the planet, Vancouver’s inhabitants are committed to the struggle of re-visioning human relationships. Our conference will expand these human relations to non-humans—creatures, technology,  art, etc.—that have the potential to alter the relations in their collectivity through processes of individuation and transduction, among others.  The theme is meant not to bring us back to culture wars, but to provoke conversations about the impact of cultural practices on the technologies we make and use. Too often, technology is viewed in simple paradigms of so-called Western or industrialized nations vs. under-developed nations, yet the relevance of such a dichotomy fades daily. Instead, we hope to generate open discussions on the intertwining of culture  and technology.”

The development and the implementation of ISEA2015 will be managed through Simon Fraser University’s School of International Arts & Technology with the team of: Symposium Directors – Diane Gromala, Philippe Pasquier, Thecla Schiphorst Artistic Directors – Malcolm Levy, Kate Armstrong

With an academic conference, accompanied by a program of exhibitions, performances and workshops, ISEA2015 will be an international gathering of leading and emerging thinkers and practitioners working at the interface of art and technology to be held in July/August 2015.

This is the second time ISEA will be held in Canada with ISEA1995 being staged in Montreal.

For further details please contact ISEA Director Sue Gollifer at info@isea-web.org or www.isea-web.org

Uncontainable, the exhibition catalog of ISEA2011 Istanbul: The 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art,

LEA Volume 18 No. 5, ISEA2011 Istanbul Uncontainable

http://www.leoalmanac.org/uncontainable-on-amazon/

http://www.leoalmanac.org/vol-18-no-5-isea2011-istanbul-uncontainable/

Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) is pleased to announce the publication of its new volume Uncontainable, the exhibition catalog of ISEA2011 Istanbul: The 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art, a collaborative effort by Sabanci University, Kasa Gallery and Goldsmiths College, University of London.

The catalog, produced in collaboration with Leonardo/ISAST, ISEA International, Kasa Gallery, Sabanci University and Goldsmiths College, features the work of artists who exhibited their work in ISEA2011 Istanbul exhibition program.

The Uncontainable exhibition, under the artistic direction of Lanfranco Aceti, was part of the Official Parallel Program of the 12th Istanbul Biennial.

The Uncontainable catalog is available online on http://www.leoalmanac.org/vol-18-no-5-isea2011-istanbul-uncontainable/ and as a printed volume on Amazon.

Electronic Art – Resistance is Futile

The cutting edge of digital art has moved from the margins to become part of the fabric of everyday life. At once ubiquitous and unnoticed, resistance to electronic art has proven futile — it now lies embedded in the heart of our contemporary cultures. ISEA2013 will bleed through Sydney, from the margin to the core. More than a series of exhibitions (although that will be part of it), the symposium events will infuse the city’s social, digital and physical infrastructure. ISEA2013 aims to create a fluid body of thought, culture, community, industry, science and technology.

http://www.isea2013.org/