CFS: UMOVE Online Videodance Festival

UMOVE ONLINE VIDEODANCE FESTIVAL
ON THE WEB AND LIVE AT SELECT LOCATIONS
1 - 31 OCTOBER 2009
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Pentacle's Movement Media announces the First Annual UMove Online Videodance Festival from October 1-31, 2009 on the web and at select screening locations across the US and around the world in 2009-10. Submission deadline is August 15, 2009.

UMove celebrates the creativity and diversity of kinetic cinema in all its forms, from dance/film to gaming, from animation to mash-ups - created for sharing on the web, on mobile devices and on ipods.

To date, the web format for dance and kinetic-based film has been under-recognized and under-valued by dance film presenters and curators. It's time to give these videos a platform to receive both feedback and critical praise. UMove seeks work that is strong in concept and execution, rather than sporting fancy production values or large budgets. Film-makers are free to use a variety of high and low tech media to create their work.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: August 15, 2009

If your submission is chosen you will be required to submit digital stills and a finished copy of your video on DVD (NTSC only) for screening and publicity purposes by September 15, 2009. All submissions regardless of selection will be made available for public viewing on our blog, Move the Frame.

Please visit our blog, for general rules and submission details: http://movetheframe.wordpress.com/umove-festival/

Email all information to movementmedia [AT]pentacle.org

UMOVE SUBMISSION CATEGORIES

• Animation/Gaming- including digital animation, machinima, Second life, and Virtual Reality games.
• Cell phone - videos made using a cell phone.
• Gone in 60 seconds - videos under one minute long
• Low/No Budget - videos made for under $1,000
• Surprise me! - unique uses of dance and new media or digital technology

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL

The First Annual UMove Online Videodance Festival will take place October 1-31, 2009. The festival will feature short dance and movement-based videos that were made specifically for the web and other new media formats including cell phones, gaming, virtual reality worlds, and mash-ups. In addition to online programming on YouTube and Movement Media's blog, Move the Frame , the festival will include a launch party and live screenings in New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, UK, and other locations to be announced.

UMove was started by three dance film-makers: Kriota Willberg, Marta Renzi, and Anna Brady Nuse (Pentacle's Director of Movement Media) who are passionate about promoting dance film through any means possible. We seek to find the most innovative and engaging dance videos on the web and to highlight rising talent in the field.

October 1st will mark the launch of the festival online and there will be a live screening and party in New York after which the festival will tour to select locations around the country and the world in 2009-10.

Anna Brady Nuse
Director, Movement Media
Pentacle/DanceWorks, Inc.

Kriota Willberg
Festival Co-organizer

Marta Renzi
Festival Co-organizer

CFP: Thinking Videodance II (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

THINKING VIDEODANCE II
SECOND INTERNATIONAL VIDEODANCE SYMPOSIUM (SIV, BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA)
16 - 19 NOVEMBER 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

The International Videodance Festival of Buenos Aires Association calls for papers to be presented at the II International Videodance Symposium (SIV), from November 16 to 19, 2009, in the framework of the Festival VideoDanzaBA 2009 (www.VideoDanzaBA.com.ar)

Open Call for Papers: Extended deadline: August 14th., 2009

With the aim of continuing the development of the multi-disciplinary reflections, that were initiated by the Symposium “Thinking videodance”, in the frame of the International VideoDanzaBA Festival in 2007, the Academic Exchange Committee of the International Videodance Festival of Buenos Aires Association, invites to present papers concerning to any subject related to research and education in Videodance.

This academic meeting was born by the interest of critics, analysts and artists, who wanted to generate a space for interdisciplinary reflection over Videodance, which, as a hybrid language, is conformed by its own specific and complex grammars and has a still incipient academic reflection field.

Taking into account the succeed of its 2007 edition, our objective for 2009 is to pursue and to contribute to the building of a network of academic bonds both nationally and internationally; as well as to deepen the thinking process, inviting a new generations of researchers and artists to make their own contributions.

Languages
Languages of the Symposium lectures will be English and Spanish.


Regulations for abstracts
* Abstracts, of no more than 200 words, will be received until August 14th., 2009 (extended deadline).
* All proposals must be submitted along with the following information from the lecturer: name, academic degree, institution memberships (if any), address, e-mail and a brief curriculum vitae.
* Detail of the required tools for the lecture (projector, screen/TV set, DVD player, laptop connection, etc.)
* Proposals must be uploaded online at www.VideoDanzaBA.com.ar. Please, click on “Academicas”, on the left column of home page.

The Academic Exchange Committee will e-mail acceptance notification and additional program information by August 30th, 2009.


Regulations for lectures and publishing
Lecturers must send a copy of their complete paper no later than September 30th, 2009.

Each lecture during the Symposium must be no longer than 20 minutes (with 10 additional minutes for questions, comments and answers).

In collaboration with the Intituto Universitario Nacional del Arte (http://iuna.edu.ar), and Centro de Investigación Cinematográfica (www.cinecic.com.ar).

For more information about the Symposium, write to simposio [AT]videodanzaba.com.ar

For info about Festival, visit www.VideoDanzaBA.com.ar

VideoDanzaBA Academic Activities Coordinator: Lic. Susana Temperley
VideoDanzaBA Director: Silvina Szperling

CFP: Special Session on Machine Learning with Multimedia Data (Miami)

SPECIAL SESSION ON MACHINE LEARNING WITH MULTIMEDIA DATA

EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MACHINE LEARNING AND APPLICATIONS (ICMLA 2009)

MIAMI, FLORIDA

13 - 15 DECEMBER 2009

http://www.icmla-conference.org/icmla09/CFP_SpecialSession6.html

AIMS AND SCOPE

The web, as well as TV and radio archives and other sources, give access to a growing amount of data in a large variety of formats and media modalities, often containing useful information. However, much of this information is not easily accessible and usable, be it for users or for automatic systems that could make use of it.

While information extraction from written text has seen great advances and is used by search engines, news aggregators, opinion monitoring systems, mail filters, and many more, access to information in other modalities (audio, images, video, ...) is still a very difficult problem. Machine learning is used with varying success for diverse tasks dealing with multimedia data, but many problems remain, ranging from finding good machine readable representations of the data, extracting higher level (semantic) features to the development of machine learning algorithms capable of dealing with high-dimension spatio-temporal data. An important aspect is also the integration of information obtained from various modalities, and the possibility for cross-modal access to information (e.g. textual querying of video recordings).

TOPICS

This session would solicit original research papers including but not limited to the following:

* Low level feature extraction, selection and transformation

* High level feature extraction from multimedia/cross-media

* Semantic content analysis, classification, and automatic annotation

* Machine learning and statistical models for spoken document retrieval

* Speech recognition and speaker recognition

* User-access pattern monitoring, modeling, and prediction

* Learning and relevance feedback in multimedia retrieval

* Semi-supervised learning in multimedia data analysis

* Transfer or multitask learning in multimedia/cross-media data analysis

* Semantic organization/visualization of multimedia and cross-media data

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission Deadline: *** July 15, 2009 ***

Notification of acceptance: September 7, 2009

Camera-ready papers & Pre-registration: October 1, 2009

The ICMLA Conference: December 13-15, 2009

The special session will be held as a part of the ICMLA’09 conference. The authors would submit papers through the main conference submission website. Papers must correspond to the requirements detailed in the instructions to authors. Accepted papers must be presented by one of the authors to be published in the conference proceeding. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to direct your questions to Dr. Jens Grivolla (jens.grivolla@barcelonamedia.org).

All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Detailed instructions for submitting the papers are provided on the conference home page at http://www.icmla-conference.org/icmla09/

Special Session Organizers:

* Jens Grivolla (Barcelona Media, Information Retrieval and Data Mining Group, Spain)

* Rafael Banchs (Barcelona Media, Information Retrieval and Data Mining Group, Spain)

Program Comittee Members:

* Cyril Laurier (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Music Technology Group, Spain)

* Andreas Kaltenbrunner (Barcelona Media, Information, Technology, and Society Research Group, Spain)

* Joan Codina (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Web Research Group, Spain)

* Joachim Neumann (Telefonica Research, Spain)

* Xavier Anguera (Telefonica Research, Spain)

* Oscar Celma (BMAT, Spain/Mexico)

* Benoit Favre (ICSI-Berkeley, USA)

* Christian Raymond (Laboratoire Informatique d'Avignon, France)

* Marc El-Bèze (Laboratoire Informatique d'Avignon, France)

* Jose San Pedro Wandelmer (University of Sheffield, UK)

* Paul Lamere (The Echo Nest, USA)

* Alberto Messina (RAI - Centre for Research and Technological Innovation, Italy)

* Maurizio Montagnuolo (RAI - Centre for Research and Technological Innovation, Italy)

* Elie El Khoury (IRIT, France)

* David Crandall (Cornell University, USA)

* Lyndon Kennedy (Yahoo! Research, USA)

* Roberto Basili (Univ. of Roma, Tor Vergata, Italy)

* Pierre Jourlin (Laboratoire Informatique d'Avignon, France)

* Paul Brossier (Fluendo, Spain)

* Haizhou Li (Institute for Infocomm Research Singapore)

* Teva Merlin (Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Université du Maine, France)

* Nicolas Scheffer (SRI International, USA)

* Jialie Shen (School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University)

CFP: AMR 2009 - 7th International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval (Madrid)

7TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON ADAPTIVE MULTIMEDIA RETRIEVAL

UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACION A DISTANCIA, MADRID, SPAIN

24 - 25 SEPTEMBER 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS

DEADLINE: 20 JULY 2009

http://cabrillo.lsi.uned.es/nlp/amr2009/

The main reasons for undesired steps in multimedia search are on the one hand, the users' difficulty in specifying their interests in the form of a well-defined query, and on the other hand, the problem of extracting relevant (semantic) features from the multimedia objects. To improve today's retrieval tools and thus the overall satisfaction of a user, it is necessary to develop new techniques able to support the user in the interactive retrieval process. Currently, especially Multimedia Interaction and Dialogue Management techniques as well as affect detection for multimedia content and others are currently promising research directions.

The Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval workshop aims to bring researchers, practitioners and companies with specific focus on existing and novel techniques into the field of multimedia retrieval. The goal of this workshop is therefore to intensify the exchange of ideas, to provide an overview of current activities in this area and to point out connections between multimedia, retrieval and artificial intelligence

research communities.

Topics of interest:

The workshop focuses especially on researchers that are working on: feature extraction techniques for multimedia, computer linguistic approaches, (dynamic) data analysis methods, interactive machine learning and visualisation methods as well as user interface design.

Therefore, contributions to the workshop should focus on, but are not

limited to:

- Multimedia retrieval systems (for text, image, audio, video and mixed-media)

- Theoretical foundations of multimedia retrieval and mining

- Intelligent multimedia data modelling, indexing and structure extraction

- Adaptive Hypermedia and web based systems

- Metadata for multimedia retrieval

- Multimedia and multi-modal mining

- Semantic content analysis for multimedia

- Multimedia Interaction and Dialogue Management

- Sentiment Analysis and Affect Detection for Multimedia Content

- Soft Computing in Multimedia Information Retrieval

- Adaptive query languages

- Similarity measures (especially user adaptive measures)

- User and preference modelling (including feedback models)

- Methods for adaptive data visualisation and user interfaces

Important Dates:

July 20th, 2009 Deadline for paper submission

August 17th, 2009 Notification of acceptance/rejection

September 4th, Final paper submission

September 7th, 2009 Early registration deadline

Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. Submissions should be formatted according to Springer LNCS style (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Papers should have about 10 pages but should not exceed 15 pages and should be submitted electronically in PDF or postscript format.

Committee: (cf. http://cabrillo.lsi.uned.es/nlp/amr2009/)

Program Chairs:

Marcin Detyniecki CNRS, LIP6, Paris, France

Ana Garcia-Serrano UNED, Spain

Andreas Nuernberger University of Magdeburg, Germany

Further details can be found on the Web page of the workshop

http://cabrillo.lsi.uned.es/nlp/amr2009/

CFP: Viral Ports, Virtual Currents: Interconnections of Media, the Arts and the Everyday in Southeast Asia and its Diasporas (Riverside)

VIRAL PORTS, VIRTUAL CURRENTS: INTERCONNECTIONS OF MEDIA, THE ARTS AND THE EVERYDAY IN SOUTHEAST ASIA AND ITS DIASPORAS

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE

2 - 4 OCTOBER 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS

Sponsored by SEATRiP (Southeast Asian Studies) group

Keynote speaker: Rolando Tolentino

http://www.seatrip.ucr.edu

Media use has escalated greatly throughout the world, leading to more extensive and varied visibility of the arts. Using metaphors of the ocean in cooperation with the viral and the virtual ties popular imaginaries of Southeast Asia with the ability of media to spread and replicate "virally".

As Jean Burgess uses Henry Jenkins' argument about the "spreadability" of values within the dynamic relationship between media and cultural production/consumption, "Through reuse, reworking and redistribution, spreadable media content 'gains greater resonance in the culture, taking on new meanings, finding new audiences, attracting new markets, and generating new values'" (Burgess 2008, 3). Media outputs then become ports of contact and inspiration for other members of the social network. In this fascinating process, the arts are inevitably expanding and evolving into an outlet or carrier for (re)thinking identities in relation to socio-political and economic issues, discussed and solved in what Ien Ang et.al. calls the "field of culture" (2000). This field contains uneven complexities, contradictory approaches, avoidances, identifications, disidentifications, collusion and conflict that form, articulate, and contest hybrid identities "in and through artistic expression, media representation, popular culture consumption, cultural criticism and intellectual reflection" (Ang et. al., 2000:xxx).

The emphasis on the arts and media in this conference should open more comprehensive ways of thinking about Southeast Asia and its diasporas as a whole. This conference reflects on Arjun Appadurai's call for a "new architecture of area studies" which is driven by the concept of process geographies-areas are spaces of action, interaction, and motion (Burgess 2004: 127). The theme of 'arts and media in everyday life' engages with these geographies in motion by highlighting the dynamic, multidirectional networks of culture within Southeast Asia and through its diasporic communities throughout the world in addition to addressing complexities that make a contribution to developing new approaches of thinking.

We define media broadly to include (but is not limited to) genres of film, TV, radio, Internet, digital games. Media connects with various forms of the arts such as dance, music, and theatre that bind and detach Southeast Asia and its diasporas. We invite graduate students, artists, scholars, and community/cultural workers to submit work based on the theme.

Viral Video Festival: Please read more about viral video upload instructions after sample topics.

Topics might include, but are not limited to:

*Reality Bites: Southeast Asian youth culture, viral videos and the influence of transnational television programming.

*Herzfeld's Arenas of Agency: Sensing the feel and sound of Southeast Asian diasporas.

*"Bebot, Ikaw Ang Aking ." Pop Music Links to Philippine Transnational Ethnic Identities

* Everyday Nationalism in the Arts: Artists joining together in national expression from the ground up.

*Capital Movements: Revitalizing classical Cambodian dance through tourism, globalization, and political policy.

*Upload/Download: Internet ties and communicating community through cyberspace.

*Screening SEADs: ecological filmic representations of performing Southeast Asian diasporic subjects.

*Scoring High Karma: the Ethics (Video) Game sharing Thai Buddhist morals around the world.

*Indonesian Pop Divas negotiating Islam and Sex for the record.

*The Culture Show Wars: Fighting for community and identity in southern California college Vietnamese culture shows.

*Media fiksi, Mekanis berharap: Nationalism, science fiction, and media imagery in modern Indonesian graphic novels.

*TRANS-itions in Sound, Venus Fly Trap: music video vixens engendering space and feminine bodies for multisensory consumption.

Call for VIRAL VIDEO Uploads based on the conference theme! 

We invite submissions of viral videos of no more than 5:00 minutes from all over the world exploring our conference theme. Share your stories and issues about Southeast Asia and its diasporas! Please upload your video to http://www.youtube.com and send us your YouTube screenname and email address. You may also send us a hard copy of your video on CD through snail mail. Please make sure videos are saved with extensions that can be read in both MAC and PC format (e.g. avi, mov, mpg, wmv). Early submissions are encouraged. 

Deadline for submission is September 4, 2009. You may send hard copies to:

SEATRiP

c/o 2009 Conference

3149 Interdisciplinary Building

University of California, Riverside

900 University Avenue

Riverside, CA 92521

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Papers may be submitted individually or as part of organized panels. Creative panel formats that encourage discussion and exchange are especially welcomed.

INDIVIDUAL PAPER proposals should include the full title and a brief abstract of the paper (250 words or less). Individual papers will be assigned to a panel according to topic and should be short enough to present in 15 minutes.

A SELF- ORGANIZED PANEL consists of 3 or 4 papers organized around a common topic or theme, and a chair (who may also be one of the panelists). All panel proposals should include: a title and brief abstract of the panel (250 words or less) along with a title and brief abstract for each paper (250 words or less). Panels will run for an hour and a half, and papers should be short enough to allow for questions and discussion.

All panel and paper proposals must include the name and full contact information of all participants, and can be submitted through email to paul.atienza@email.ucr.edu

Please address all inquiries to the email address shown above. Submissions are due no later than June 15, 2009. Notification of acceptance: July 6, 2009.

REFERENCES:

Ang, Ian, et al. Alter/Asians: Asian Australians in Art, Media and Popular Culture Sydney: Pluto Press, 2000.

Burgess, Chris. "The Asian studies 'crisis': Putting cultural studies into Asian studies and Asia into cultural studies," in International Journal of Asian Studies 1.1 (2004) 121-136.

Burgess, Jean. "'ALL YOUR CHOCOLATE RAIN ARE BELONG TO US'? Viral Video, YouTube and the Dynamics of Participatory Culture," in Video Vortex Reader: Responses to YouTube, Geert Lovink and Sabine Niederer (eds.), (Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2008) 101-109.

CFP: International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media (journal)

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PERFORMANCE ARTS AND DIGITAL MEDIA
ALTERNATIVE MATERIALITIES: SCENOGRAPHY IN DIGITAL PERFORMANCE
CALL FOR PAPERS

The International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media (IJPADM) is seeking contributions to a special issue that will engage specifically scenographic thinking about technologies in performance.

Taking scenography to mean the materiality of performance – the sum total of the performance space, scenery, costume, lighting, sound, video, and so on – we want to address scenography and its associated practices in relation to digital media. The widespread adoption of digital media across the field of performance arts has proposed alternative materialities that have sometimes radically disrupted existing scenographic practices, and sometimes perpetuated established practices through new means. New possibilities have brought new ways of thinking and doing, and new goals.

Previous scholarly accounts of these developments have only occasionally acknowledged scenographic practices as such, so we want now to engage specifically with digital media from a scenographic perspective, including their use as scenographic materials and the challenge that they have presented to the working practices of (amongst others) set, costume, lighting, sound and video designers. The Scenography special edition aims to generate ‘scenographic thinking’ by taking the physical materials of performance, and the performance-makers who manipulate them, as a starting point in approaching the use of digital media in live performance.

IJPADM is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal drawing contributions from a wide range of researchers and practitioners who are placed at the rapidly developing interface of new technologies with performance arts. Within the journal’s overall remit and the above agenda, themes for contributions to the Scenography special edition might include, but are not limited to:

*Specific uses of digital media in performance scenography
*The impact of new media on traditional scenographic practices
*Changing ways of working and collaborating
*The intersection between ‘mainstream’ and ‘avant-garde’ scenographic practices
*The relationship between the academy and professional scenographic practice
*The scenographic as a critical ‘point of view’ from which to observe digital performance
*Digital media and the scenographic as a mode of enquiry into performance
*Digital tools in the scenographer’s process.

All papers must be submitted by 1st November 2009.

Intended publication date: April/May 2010.

Details for submissions and notes for contributors can be found at:
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals.php?issn=14794713

All papers are to be submitted to Nick Hunt, Guest Editor.

General enquiries can be addressed to Dave Collins, Editor.

Nick Hunt
Head of School: Design, Management and Technical Arts
Rose Bruford College
Lamorbey Park
Burnt Oak Lane
Sidcup
Kent
DA15 9DF
020 8308 2650
nick.hunt [at] bruford.ac.uk

CFP: Performing Lives, Kingston University

CALL FOR PAPERS
PERFORMING LIVES
An International Conference hosted by the Centre for Life Narratives
KINGSTON UNIVERSITY, UK
6 - 8 July 2009

This international conference on ‘Performing Lives’ follows the inaugural conference of the Centre for Life Narratives, ‘The Spirit of the Age’, the focus of which was ‘Writing Lives’ (2007). Our second biennial conference ‘Performing Lives’ (2009) invites analysis and debate on the relationship between life histories and the ways in which they are embodied and enacted in performance, across a range of cultures and a variety of media: drama, dance, film, TV and video.

The performance of ‘real’ lives takes many forms. On the one hand, in commercial film and TV the traditional ‘biopic’ is an enduring favourite; on the other, autobiographical, verbatim and tribunal modes in theatre, docudramas and TV reality programmes, and more experimental approaches to autobiographical and documentary filmmaking, have challenged conventional forms through their emphasis on ‘ordinary’ lives, their incorporation of multiple perspectives and their interrogation of notions of reality and fiction. In dance, performers’ own lives have frequently served as source material for choreographers while the abstract, non-verbal nature of dance provokes alternative approaches to the representation and performance of lives.

Key questions include:

• WHY LIFE? What do we aim to achieve in performing aspects of our own lives and those of others? What are the pleasures for the spectator/consumer of life narratives? How do the aims of film and TV makers, theatre-makers and dance-makers differ?
  
  
• WHICH LIFE? What kinds of lives do different performance-makers find interesting and why? What is the relationship between the performer and the life performed, particularly in relation to star performances? What are the ideological messages inscribed in life histories in performance?
  

• WHOSE LIFE? From whose perspective is the life being told or shown? What questions are raised about authority, authenticity and ownership? What are the moral and ethical implications of performing the lives of others?

• REAL LIFE? How does the performance of life frame questions about the relationship between reality, fiction and audience? Given the impossibility of representing the whole of a life, what determines the choices made about what elements of a life to perform?

We welcome proposals in English (of not more than 250 words) from a range of critical perspectives in relation to a range of countries, cultures and historical periods. We are interested in the perspectives of performance and media-based practitioners as well as those of academics and thus invite proposals for performances and workshops as well as papers and panels.


Proposals should be submitted online via the following page: http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/activities/conferences/abstracts by 8 December 2008

Enquiries to fass-conferences@kingston.ac.uk

Organisers:

Adam Ainsworth, Dr Simon Brown, Mathew Melia, Trish Reid, Dr Carrie Tarr, Frank Whately