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Montreal Digital Spring (Printemps numérique) is excited to be hosting ISEA2020 / MTL connect to be held from May 19 to 24, 2020 in Montreal, Canada.
ISEA2020 turns towards the theme of Sentience. Sentience describes the ability to feel or perceive. To be sentient is thus to be “capable of feeling,” from the Latin sentientem (nominative sentiens) while “feeling,” the present participle of sentire “to feel,” refers to “being conscious” of something. To feel or perceive something at first seems to suggest that sentience is a uniquely human trait. Yet, sentience implies sensing the world and acting on it across all entities—animal, plant, mineral, environment or machine—rather than cutting things into binaries: human/non-human, animate/inanimate, alive/dead, human/machine, nature/technology. We ask: why sentience? Why and how does sentience matter?
ISEA2020 invites artists, designers, scholars, researchers, innovators and creators to participate in the various activities deployed from May 19 to 24, 2020.
To complete an application, please fill in the forms and follow the instructions. The final submissions deadline is NOVEMBER 25, 2019.
For 2020, ISEA Montreal turns towards the theme of Sentience. Sentience describes the ability to feel or perceive. To be sentient is thus to be “capable of feeling,” from the Latin sentientem (nominative sentiens) while “feeling,” the present participle of sentire “to feel,” refers to “being conscious” of something. To feel or perceive something at first seems to suggest that sentience is a uniquely human trait. Yet, sentience implies sensing the world and acting on it across all entities—animal, plant, mineral, environment or machine—rather than cutting things into binaries: human/non-human, animate/inanimate, alive/dead, human/machine, nature/technology.
ISEA2020 will be fully dedicated to examining the resurgence of sentience—feeling-sensing-making sense—in recent art and design, media studies, science and technology studies, philosophy, anthropology, history of science and the natural scientific realm—notably biology, neuroscience and computing. We ask: why sentience? Why and how does sentience matter? Why have artists and scholars become interested in sensing and feeling beyond, with and around our strictly human bodies and selves? Why has this notion been brought to the fore in an array of disciplines in the 21st century?
ISEA2020 will take place in Quebec, Canada,May 19 to 24, 2020.
The host city will be Montréal, with Printemps Numérique and MTL Connect as main organizing partners around the theme “SENTIENCE”.
Today, when more and more “emotionless” decisions are determined by algorithms and data, what is the value of human instinct and emotion? This is the guiding theme of the symposium, SENTIENCE: The ability to feel and perceive – press release.
Just a reminder the ISEA2019 ‘Early Bird registration’ is open until 30 April 2019
The regular registration will be from 1 May 2019 to 28 June 2019
http://isea2019.isea-international.org/regiGuide.asp
The ISEA International Foundation Board is pleased to make a call for Expressions of Interest to host ISEA2022 (28th International Symposium on Electronic Art).
How to Bid
ISEA International makes an annual call for proposals to host the International Symposium on Electronic Art. The call for proposals is made 3 years in advance.
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. The first International Symposium on Electronic Art was held in 1988 in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
For information about past and planned symposia see http://www.isea-web.org/symposia/past-isea-symposia/
If you are interested in making a possible bid to host ISEA2022 contact Sue Gollifer, ISEA Executive Director, University of Brighton, UK email: info@isea-web.org as soon as possible for submission information.
Timetable for ISEA2022 bids:
March 31, 2019 – Expression of Interest deadline
April 14, 2019 – Bidding organisations notified
June 22 – 28, 2019 – Presentation at ISEA2019 (Gwangju, Republic of Korea) AGM and Meeting with the ISEA International Foundation Board
August 31st, 2019 – Full bid document deadline*
November 1st, 2019 – Candidates notified of outcome
Future ISEA symposium schedule include:
ISEA2019 Gwangju, Republic of Korea
ISEA2020 Winnipeg, Canadian province of Manitoba
ISEA2021 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
ISEA International http://isea-web.org