Friday, August 30, 2019

Fwd: CfP: Revisiting Interdisciplinarity - Airea Journal (deadline extended 15 September 2019)


Dear all, 

An update on the call for papers for Airea Journal issue 2 Revisiting Interdisciplinarity within collaborative and participatory creative practice: deadline extended to 15 September 2019.

Please find below the full call for papers:

CALL FOR PAPERS: Airea Journal issue 2
Revisiting Interdisciplinarity within collaborative and participatory creative practice

For the past two decades, collaboration has emerged as a keyword and an important methodological concern in a variety of disciplines. This has nurtured interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches that encompass innovative and experimental processes of knowledge production. Trends such as participatory and socially-engaged art, the workshop turn, and ideas of Do-It-With-Others contributed to the emergence of creative processes that operate within the sphere of inter-human relations through participation and collaboration. Such processes often operate beyond the institutional space, or classic studio and gallery settings, by engaging directly with the social realm, and blurring in this way, the lines between art, performance and our lived social, political, economic, technological and environmental realities. The growing practices, methodologies and vocabularies of creating, researching and collaborating, can be inextricably intertwined with the way works function and are experienced. Such concerns have been identified and theorized as dialogical (Kester, 2005), transformative (Fischer-Lichte, 2008) and operational (Bianchini and Verhagen, 2016).

In response to the various perspectives and approaches of what it means to create through participation or to participate, this second issue of Airea Journal focuses on artistic practices and research that problematize concepts and theories of (distributed) agency through participation, collaboration, and autonomy. Knowledge production that happens through the exchange and negotiation between communities, non-academic and academic partners has allowed the development of hybrid types of knowledge that provide with an enriched understanding of challenges. We invite both practice-based and theoretical contributions that will map this transition of culturally dispersed, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary practices and theories that may initiate new types of creative processes. This is a move that pays attention to aesthetics, actions, methodologies and politics of collaboration and participation around themes such as:

  • Collective vs personal
  • Authorship-agency
  • Artistic-activist collectivities
  • Process-based approaches
  • Co-creation
  • Temporality-spatiality
  • Performativity and performance ecologies
  • Materials and media
  • Interactivity
  • Machine agency and automated practices

To be considered for this issue, please submit an abstract of 300 words along with author name(s), institutional affiliations, and contact details by Sunday 15 September 2019.

Submission instructions:

Register on http://journals.ed.ac.uk/airea and submit abstracts via the Open Journal System (OJS)
Journal policies: http://journals.ed.ac.uk/airea/about/policies 

Editorial information:

Guest Editor: 
Dr Sophia Lycouris, Reader in Interdisciplinary Choreography (University of Edinburgh)

Co-editors: 
Dr Eleni-Ira Panourgia, Teaching Fellow in Art and Design (University of Edinburgh)
Dr Katerina Talianni (University of Edinburgh)
Jack Walker, PhD candidate in Creative Music Practice (University of Edinburgh)

 
For general enquiries about the call please contact airea@ed.ac.uk 
The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

Fwd: Emotions conveyed by sounds

(with apologies for cross-postings)

Hi all,

We're looking for participants for a 15-minute online study in which you are asked to rate the emotions conveyed by environmental sounds. There is a chance to win an Amazon gift card worth £25 GBP or $30 USD. In addition, the sound stimuli will be used in a future study in which they are matched in their emotional expression to musical stimuli, and I will share these final stimulus sets on my OSF page for other researchers to make use of. 


Thanks in advance for your time!

Kelly Jakubowski
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Dr. Kelly Jakubowski
Assistant Professor (Research)
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Department of Music 
Durham University

Sunday, August 25, 2019

Fwd: [DMRN-LIST] ICLI 2020 - Call for Submissions



# Fifth International Conference on Live Interfaces - Call for Submissions



## Call for Papers and Performances

ICLI is an interdisciplinary conference focusing on the role of interfaces in all artistic performance activities. We encourage critical and reflective approaches to key themes in the design and use of live interfaces. A wide range of theoretical and practice-based approaches are welcomed by people from all possible research, art and other practice backgrounds.

The fifth International Conference on Live Interfaces will take place at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, NTNU, 9-11 March 2020. This biennial conference will bring together people working with live interfaces in the performing arts, including music, the visual arts, theatre, dance, puppetry, robotics or games. The conference scope is highly interdisciplinary but with a focus on interface technologies of expression in the area of performance. Note that technologies here can be understood in the widest possible sense. Topics of liveness, immediacy, presence (and tele-presence), mediation, collaboration and timing or flow are engaged with and questioned in order to gain a deeper understanding of the role contemporary media technologies play in human expression.



The special theme of the 2020 conference is 

### Artificial Intelligence. Artistic Intelligence. Automated Emotional Intelligence. 

A.I. is relatively widespread and ubiquitous within interfaces for artistic expression. Within this domain we can also include various sorts of automation and algorithmic extensions, as this constitutes a form of external agency that allows us to do more – more than we could unassisted by these technologies. How does this affect the artistic expression? Is it merely a convenience and an affordance to allow us to interface to complex domains, and as such just extend our inherent abilities? Or, does it imply a deeper impact on how the art is made? We can assume that all interfaces affect what we can do in profound ways. The difference with A.I. and machine learning in general is that the internal workings of the algorithms to a larger extent is a black box. We understand to a lesser degree how the internals of neural networks actually work, and then, how do we understand what we do as artists with these interfaces?



## Further details of submission categories, dates etc. See: 




## Collaboration with Meta.Morf

This ICLI collaborates with the Meta.Morf biennal for art and technology (http://metamorf.no/), taking place in Trondheim from March 3 to May 5. The Meta.Morf opening week is 5-10 March, and ICLI will commence immediately after. This creates a special opportunity to spend some quality time in Trondheim, in the company of both the ICLI and the Meta.Morf crowd. ICLI attendees will get a discount on Meta.Morf tickets. The theme for Meta.Morf 2020 is "The digital wild" - bending and twisting our illusions about digital futures. Come stay a full week in Trondheim and get the best of both worlds.


Saturday, August 17, 2019

Fwd: [DMRN-LIST] London College of Music, UWL - Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor and/or Professor




The University of West London is looking to recruit staff at Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor and/or Professor level to further its research agenda. This includes potential appointments in the London College of Music where our research specialisms are:
  • Music Practice as Research - score-based composition, electronic composition, performance (classical, jazz and popular), musical theatre
  • Record Production
  • Spatial Audio
  • Music & Sound for Virtual Reality
Staff at LCM have been instrumental in founding and leading the Art of Record Production association and conference, the Innovation In Music conference and the 21st Century Music Practice research network. We have also produced several successful research funding bids in these areas from the AHRC and Innovate UK and are looking to build on this success.
Further details about the application process can be found at:


Professor Simon Zagorski-Thomas
London College of Music
University of West London

Monday, August 5, 2019

Fwd: Funded MSc by research oppurtunity at York


Please distribute to anyone you think may be interested in the funded MSc opportunity below:

MSc by Research studentship: Lag-free audio communication in a multi-user virtual reality environment – a collaborative Masters by Research between New Moon Studios, XR Stories and the University of York Department of Electronic Engineering AudioLab.
Application deadline: 31 August


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Dr Helena Daffern
Lecturer
Director of York Centre for Singing Science
Audio Lab
Communication Technologies Research Group
Department of Electronic Engineering
University of York
YO10 5DD

Please note I work part time (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday) so there may be a delay to my email response.

Email: helena.daffern@york.ac.uk
Phone: 01904 32 2350