Curating Media and Design

Conference: Governing Algorithms – computation, automation, and control

Algorithms are increasingly invoked as powerful entities that control, govern, sort, regulate, and shape everything from financial trades to news media. Nevertheless, the nature and implications of such orderings are far from clear. What exactly is it that algorithms “govern”? What is the role attributed to “algorithms” in these arguments? Can we turn the “problem of algorithms” into an object of productive inquiry?

This conference sets out to explore the recent rise of algorithms as an object of interest in scholarship, policy, and practice beyond computer science.

GOVERNING ALGORITHMS: A conference on computation, automation, and control. New York University, May 16-17, 2013.

Read more: http://governingalgorithms.org

CFP: Transforming Governance, Enhancing Innovation - RUC Sunrise Conference (due Sep 15)

This conference will explore the link between governance and innovation by bringing together academic scholars, experienced practitioners and interested students.

Abstracts due Sep 15, 2012.

Where and when: RUC Sunrise Conference - Transforming Governance, Enhancing Innovation. Roskilde University. October 29-31, 2012. http://ruconf.ruc.dk/index.php/sun12/sun12

ABOUT - Rising demands, fiscal constraints and a growing number of wicked problems have generated an increasing demand for innovation of public policy, public services and public regulation. Public innovation is rapidly moving to the top of the agenda at all levels of government. It is increasingly recognized as the intelligent alternative to across the board budget cuts and as a promising way of improving services, user satisfaction and the motivation of public employees.

At the same time, there is a growing frustration with traditional forms of bureaucratic governance as well as with the recent New Public Management reforms that both tend to stifle rather than enhance public innovation. Hence in order to turn public innovation into a permanent, pervasive and systematic activity in the public sector we need to transform the current system of public governance. We need to reform public organisations and the predominant accountability and value-for-money systems, drill holes in the silos, mobilise an engage private actors, create new collaborative arenas, and develop new forms of innovation management. In short, we need to transform governance in order to enhance public innovation.

Read more: http://ruconf.ruc.dk/index.php/sun12/sun12

CFP: xCoAx - Computation, Communication, Aesthetics and X (Italy, due Dec 31)

The development of computational tools and media has been radically transforming the landscape for the practice of design, the arts and numerous cultural manifestations. xCoAx is designed as a multi-disciplinary and nomadic enquiry on arts, computers, computation, communication and the elusive x factor that connects them all.

Abstracts due Dec 31, 2012

Where and when: xCoAx 2013: 1st International Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics and X. June 27-28, 2013. University of Bergamo, Bergamo Città Alta, Italy.

ABOUT - The development of computational tools and media has been radically transforming the landscape for the practice of design, the arts and numerous cultural manifestations. Recognizing this, xCoAx is designed as a multi-disciplinary and nomadic enquiry on arts, computers, computation, communication and the elusive x factor that connects them all.

xCoAx is a forum for the exchange of ideas and the discovery of new and profitable synergies. It is an event exploring the frontiers of digital arts with the participation of a diverse confluence of computer scientists, media practitioners and theoreticians, that will focus on the relations between what can and cannot be computed, what can and cannot be communicated, what is beautiful and how humans and computational systems intersect in the development of new directions in aesthetics.

Read more: http://xcoax.org/

CFP: Too many tweets make a twat - Twitter and Microblogging (UK, Apr ‘12)

This conference brings together a range of researchers doing detailed analyses of the discourse, practices, and social interactions of microblogging communities.

Twitter and Microblogging: Political, Professional and Personal Practices. Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom, April 10-12, 2013.

Full call for papers, due December 10, 2012.

Social Innovation Research Conference - places still available to people not presenting at the conference!

This is a conference that brings together the international academic community focusing on social entrepreneurship, enterprise and innovation.

4th International Social Innovation Research Conference (ISIRC), 12-14 September 2012, Hosted by the Third Sector Research Centre, University of Birmingham.

Topics:

Starting and scaling up social ventures
Towards a critical understanding of social entrepreneurship
Impact and performance
Public services and innovation
Governance and stakeholder relationships
The politics of social innovation

Aca-articles: The open and participative city - from Cumulus 2012

The papers from the Cumulus conference in Helsinki has now been posted online. The theme this year was “Open, participative city: how design knowledge can support public services in the development of open, participative city environment”.

You find papers on these themes:

open interactive city
innovative services
designing sustainability
what is the function of art in contemporary society, and what is artistic research?
dialogue of art and design in education

Access here: http://cumulushelsinki2012.org/academic_papers/

Call for Papers: People and Computers - HCI 2012 (Sep, Birmingham, UK)

Technology is now common in all walks of life and HCI practitioners and researchers have more areas of impact than ever before. The theme of the conference is People and Computers, this to encapsulate and highlight the growing diversity of our field of HCI in one event.

The dates for submission for Short Papers, Work in Progress, Alt HCI and the Doctoral Consortium is June, 15, 2012. HCI 2012, Sep 12-14, 2012, Birmingham, UK.

View full call here: http://hci2012.bcs.org/calls.html

Relevant topics areas include but are by no means limited to:

Persuasive Technology
Mobile Interactions
User Experience
Touchtable interactions
Affective Computing/Interactions
Usability Engineering
Accessibility
Child Computer Interaction
Interaction Design
UCD4D
Recommender Systems
Annotation
Brain Computer Interfaces
Technology and Culture
E-Government

CFP: New Media and the Public Sphere, (Nov 8-9, Copenhagen)

In the context of media transformation, this event brings together scholars and researchers in the fields of media, ICT, and political science, to reflect and discuss how we can conceptualize and develop empirically the public sphere of the new media-driven society.

Abstracts due July 1, 2012. Conference Nov 8-9, 2012, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Read full CFP here: http://cemes.ku.dk/newmedia/dokument/

Topics

Democracy and the online public sphere;
Cultural production in the digital age;
Identity in the virtual sphere;
Net neutrality and public participation.

CFP: People and Computers, HCI 2012 (due March 30, Birmingham, UK)

This year, HCI 2012 will return to the founding theme of the conference: “People and Computers”. This is to encapsulate and highlight the growing diversity of our field of HCI in one event. Technology is now common in all walks of life and HCI practitioners and researchers have more areas of impact than ever before. We want the conference to reflect this growing importance and diversity.

Full papers due March 30, 2012. HCI 2012, September 2-14, 2012; Birmingham People and Computers XXVI. http://hci2012.bcs.org/

HCI 2012 is the 26th Annual Conference of the Specialist HCI group of the BCS, the BCS Interaction SG. Since its establishment in 1985, the conference has become the leading annual HCI conference in Europe. As well as being a leading venue for dissemination, the conference has a history of nurturing research careers- many of the leading HCI researchers published their early papers here and it is recognised for helping students and new academics as much as being a leading forum for established researchers. We want to carry on this well-established tradition into 2012.

Conference Theme
This year we have returned to the founding theme of the conference: “People and Computers”. This is to encapsulate and highlight the growing diversity of our field of HCI in one event. Technology is now common in all walks of life and HCI practitioners and researchers have more areas of impact than ever before. We want the conference to reflect this growing importance and diversity.

Relevant topics areas include but are by no means limited to:

Persuasive Technology
Mobile Interactions
User Experience
Touchtable interactions
Affective Computing/Interactions
Usability Engineering
Accessibility
Child Computer Interaction
Interaction Design
UCD4D
Recommender Systems
Annotation
Brain Computer Interfaces
Technology and Culture
E-Government

CFP: Symposium on Design Theory & Design Research (Paris, due March 22)

This design research symposium aims to investigate and share design processes applied to the immaterial economy. How do new ideas, identities and systems, emerge by applying art and design processes to larger economic issues?

Short papers due March 22, 2012. Symposium on Design Theory & Design Research, Paris, June 1, 2012.

“Scaling up the Design Process: transformation, hybridization, innovation, new identities through design skills ” Art and design question individuals, groups, organizations, industries, communities, institutions, and change them through the creative process.

This design research symposium aims to investigate and share design processes applied to the immaterial economy. How do new ideas, identities and systems, emerge by applying art and design processes to larger economic issues?

Our 21st century economy is an economy of diversity and individual subjective preferences that reconstructs territories and meanings. The focus of this international research symposium is on sharing case studies, research, and insights into how innovative design processes and designers’ skills may help solve current problems and challenges of this immaterial economy.

This symposium aims to open new directions for design professionals and for design education, regarding organizational design, corporate transformations, experience industries, social responsibility, environmental and urban contexts. And finally, to develop new theories and models through scaling up research in art and design processes using different scientific perspectives.

Subthemes and tracks include:

Workshop 1: Experimentation and risk-taking skills for reinventing decision ecosystems and Corporate Social Responsibility for health systems, transportation systems, leisure, and public institutions;
Workshop 2: Visualization skills and integrative skills for developing plural identities and scenarios for brands and creative cities;
Workshop 3: Empathy skills and co-design, design thinking skills for changing attitudes of institutions in their relation to the outside environment, and service design;
Workshop 4: System skills and holistic skills, developing the awareness of all design stakeholders on the importance of measuring design value in economy and international competition, demonstrating the usefulness of existing design indexes such as World Design Capital criteria, DME Award, Designence Value Index(TM), National Design Competitiveness index… and developing new macro design evaluation methods in the immaterial economy.

Accepted formats include case studies, pedagogical experiences research, and social innovation projects.

Key dates

March 22 - Short papers (max. 3,000 words) submission deadline

April 12 - Acceptance decisions and feedback from symposium chairs

June 1 Symposium
- Morning: plenary session at Universite Pantheon Sorbonne
- Afternoon: parallel sessions at Ecole Parsons a Paris

Submissions should be addressed to: b.borjademozota(at)parsons.paris.edu.

Forum chairs: Brigitte Borja de Mozota (Ecole Parsons a Paris) & Bernard Darras (Universite Paris I) during Designer’s Days June 1st 2012, Paris, France.

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