Call for paper

ECLAP 2012 Conference

on Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment

7-9 May 2012, Florence, Italy

Conference web page: http://www.eclap.eu/conference 
Deadline of the Call for Paper Submission: 22, December 2011 
Call for papers: http://www.eclap.eu/drupal/?q=node/65309


It has been a long history of Information Technology innovations within the Cultural Heritage areas. The Performing arts have also been enforced with a number of new innovations which unveil a range of synergies and possibilities.  Most of the technologies and innovations produced for digital libraries, media entertainment and education can be exploited in the field of performing arts, with adaptation and repurposing. Performing arts offer many interesting challenges and opportunities for research and innovations and exploitation of cutting edge research results from interdisciplinary areas. For these reasons, the ECLAP 2012 Conference can be regarded as a continuation of past conferences such as AXMEDIS and WEDELMUSIC (both pressed by IEEE and FUP). ECLAP is a European Commission project to create a social network and media access service for performing arts institutions in Europe, to create the e-library of performing arts, exploiting innovative solutions coming from the ICT.

The ECLAP 2012 conference is open to researchers, professionals, industries, institutions, technicians and practitioners in the area of performing arts and information technologies, media entertainment, technology enhanced learning, intelligent media systems, acoustic systems, cultural heritage, and many others. The ECLAP conference should become a place where institutions, industries and European Commission and Europeana projects in the areas of cultural heritage can find a place to collaborate and present results. Thus, we invite all the interested groups to organize a workshop/section into ECLAP conference providing their proposal. Exhibition section offers settings (booth and tables) to host demonstrators. Demo and poster sections will be also organized.


The ECLAP 2012 conference is going to have a general track and a set of workshops/sections and panels, and excellent keynote speakers.
The conference will be constituted by selected top level papers, which will be published in the proceedings pressed by Florence University Press, with ISBN, and promoted in the most relevant indexing engines.

Topics of the General track on Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment, but not limited to, are reported in the following (while other topics can be proposed as well):
•       Indexing and search, filtering, information retrieval
•       Cross media and multimedia mining
•       Media Annotations and tagging, solutions and interfaces
•       Mobile solutions and tools
•       Cloud based mobile solutions
•       Creative technologies
•       Sentiment analysis
•       Multimodal interactive systems
•       Recommendations and suggestions
•       Media grid processing and semantic computing
•       IPR management and business models
•       Data and media protection
•       Linked Open Data and Media, aggregated media
•       Intelligent information management
•       Personalization and profiling, user behavior analysis
•       Live Performance technologies and solutions
•       Emotion recognition and exploitation
•       Audio processing and tools for large events and installations
•       Video analysis, indexing and summarization
•       Social media technologies and solutions
•       Story telling models and tools
•       3D and 4D technologies and tools
•       Brain interfaces and interactions
•       Collective intelligence analysis and exploitation
•       Augmented reality solutions
•       Multilingual and natural language processing
•       Collaborative and cooperative systems
•       Metadata quality, mapping and ingestion models and tools
•       Speech processing and understanding
•       Content production models and tools

Papers will be subjected to the review and selection of the ECLAP Program Committee members.

Papers format and submission: the paper submission (for all the sessions and workshops) has to be maximum of 6 pages in two columns ECLAP format.
http://www.eclap.eu/drupal/files/ECLAP-paper-template-A4-ver2.doc
Submissions have to be original and not submitted and/or published in other journals or conferences. The submission has to be performed by sending via email the paper in PDF with the ECLAP format to info@eclap.eu . Only the papers accepted by the Programme Committee will be presented at the ECLAP 2012 Conference and published in the conference proceedings.

Deadlines:
•       Submission of Workshops/Sections: 15, December 2011
•       Submission of papers to the general track: 22, December 2011
•       Submission of papers to the Workshops/Sections: 10, January 2012
•       Response to the Authors: 20, January 2012
•       Camera ready version in PDF with the correct format: 30, January 2012
•       Conference: 7-9, May 2012

For info: info@eclap.eu or visit the ECLAP portal http://www.eclap.eu or main conference page: http://www.eclap.eu/conference

*Please pass this announcement on to friends and colleagues who might find it of interest.*

We invite international submissions for inclusion in this forthcoming book
being published by MuseumsEtc [www.museumsetc.com] in late Spring of 2012.

College and university museums originated out of the desire to teach with,
and learn from, original objects. These museums today aim to be active
participants in the teaching life of their campus communities and vital
sites for learning, interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration, and
professional training in many disciplines. Academic museums differ from
their freestanding counterparts in that they can express their mandates in
broader and more innovative ways. They can, for example, install
exhibitions that explore controversial topics or artists under the
“umbrella” of education. They can create small, focused shows with little
pressure to produce blockbuster exhibitions. They can include campus voices
in exhibitions, and foster critical dialogues within and beyond the
classroom. And they can explore the teaching possibilities of a broad range
of objects and exhibit those objects in new or unorthodox ways.

We welcome submissions – of between 2000 to 6000 words – that examine
successful strategies, tactics and activities within the academic museum
community internationally. We are particularly interested in practical
experiences which are innovative or pioneering in nature, and which may be
capable of being applied within the wider museum community.

Academic Museums will be edited by Stefanie S. Jandl and Mark S. Gold, both
of whom have long-standing professional interest and experience in the
challenges and opportunities unique to academic museums.

If you are interested in being considered as a contributor, please send an
abstract (up to 250 words) and a short biography to both the editors (at
AMEditors@gmail.com) and the publishers (at books@museumsetc.com) by 31
December 2011. Enquiries should also be sent to these addresses.

The full Call for Papers can be found here: http://bit.ly/acadmus where
there is also a downloadable version.

Deadlines are as follows:
Abstracts: due 31 December 2011
Contributors notified: by 7 January 2012
Completed papers: due 25 February 2012

Topics might include but are not limited to:
* developing exhibitions that explore controversial topics or artists
* cultivating critical dialogues within and beyond the classroom
* engaging a diverse community and including campus voices in museum
programming
* how a college/university museum is uniquely positioned for innovation,
risk-taking, and challenging audiences
* the museum’s role as a site for interdisciplinary teaching and learning
* how the mission of the museum relates to, or conflicts with, the mission
of the parent institution
* how trustees resolve the tension between preserving the museum’s
collection and sustaining the broader educational mission
* the value and opportunities in object-based learning
* cultivating relationships with faculty across disciplines and helping
them integrate a museum’s resources into their teaching
* building a collection appropriate to the educational institution and its
audiences
* organizing exhibitions with faculty members and students
* how a college/university museum defines its role in the community
* the unique opportunities that academic museums offer for experiential
learning and mentoring students
* fundraising and donor relations within a larger non-profit entity
* promoting the value of a museum to administrators and trustees
* how to successfully compete for funds
* securing outside grants as a museum with a parent organization
* case studies of recent or current innovative and pioneering programs

Graeme Farnell
Publisher, MuseumsEtc

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MuseumsEtc Ltd | Hudson House | 8 Albany Street | Edinburgh EH1 3QB |
www.museumsetc.com




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Hi all,

I thought it appropriate to let everyone know on this list about the 
latest review by Rob Myers...

White Heat Cold Logic: The history of British Computer Art from 1960 - 1980.

Review by Rob Myers.

This necessary publication Revisits art at a time when access to 
computers was limited and their potential was only just starting to be 
realised. Brought to life in a collection of memoirs and essays gathered 
by Paul Brown, Charlie Gere, Nicholas Lambert, and Catherine Mason. What 
was previously the secret history or parallel universe of art computing 
can now be seen in context alongside the other avant-garde art movements 
of the mid-late 20th century. I cannot over-emphasise the service that 
CACHe has done the art computing community and the arts more generally 
by providing this much needed reappraisal of early arts computing in the 
UK.

This is the third and last by Rob Myers, in a series of articles 
reviewing publications by the CACHe project 
(http://www.e-x-p.org/cache/index.HTM), an archive of pioneering British 
computer art. Rob's first review was of the V&A's show and book "Digital 
Pioneers" (http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews/digital-pioneers), the 
second was of Catherine Mason's "A Computer In The Art Room". Where "A 
Computer In The Art Room" 
(http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews/computer-art-room-origins-british-computer-arts-1950-1980) 
concentrated on the history of art computing in British educational 
institutions up to 1980, "White Heat Cold Logic" gives voice to the 
individuals who made art using computers in that period more generally.

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/white-heat-cold-logic

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Other Info:

A living - breathing - thriving networked neighbourhood - art,
technology & social change - claiming it with others ;)

http://identi.ca/furtherfield
http://twitter.com/furtherfield

Other reviews,articles,interviews
http://www.furtherfield.org/features

Furtherfield – online arts community, platforms for creating, viewing,
discussing and learning about experimental practices at the
intersections of art, technology and social change.
http://www.furtherfield.org

Furtherfield Gallery – physical media arts Gallery (London).
http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/exhibitions

Netbehaviour - Networked Artists List Community.
http://www.netbehaviour.org

Hi 

Liverpool John Moores University invites you to take part in the ARtSENSE Visual Aesthetic Interest Survey. The survey asks you to give subjective ratings, i.e. your thoughts and feelings, towards artworks on a number of scales. The survey is part of the ARtSENSE project.

ARtSENSE tackles a very important problem in the modern usage of Information Communication Technology in cultural heritage domain. It aims to bridge the gap between the digital world with the physical in a highly flexible way in order to enable a novel and adaptive cultural experience in museums and galleries. For more information go to www.artsense.eu

You can complete the study online and it shouldn’t take you more than 20 minutes. You will be given feedback about the picture you have rated as most interesting and how it compares to that others have rated most interesting. You can also enter a prize draw for some Amazon vouchers!

Please be aware that some of the iamges are sexual in nature and might be distressing or offensive to you. 

You will be able to look at examples of the pictures during three practice slides. Please don't take part in this survey if you feel uncomfortable or distressed by these images. You can also stop without, providing a reason, at any point during the study, if you feel that you are uncomfortable or distressed by the images.


To take part in this study (you have to be at least 18) and for further details go to:


http://physiologicalcomputing.net/isurvey/


Many Thanks,

Ute Kreplin

PhD student at Liverpool John Moores University, UK