Media

Application Deadline: 
05/08/2010

Director of Institute for Digital Humanities, Media and Culture: Texas A&M

Texas A&M University seeks a dynamic scholar with an established record in digital humanities research and academic leadership to establish and direct an interdisciplinary Institute for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture. The Director will be a tenured appointment at the rank of full professor in the Department of English, Department of Performance Studies, or another academic department within the College of Liberal Arts.

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Call for Papers

The International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media (IJPADM) is seeking full journal paper contributions to a special issue specifically relating to Mixed Reality and Performance

http://www.crg.cs.nott.ac.uk/~azc/call.html

Issue Editor: Alan Chamberlain (Mixed Reality Lab - University of Nottingham)

Journal Homepage:
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=120/

project: An exploration of the potential for new narrative experiences in first person perspective gaming.

First person perspective, or shooter, (FPS) games are mass-market virtual realities, whose cultural significance is increasingly clear, yet their content is tends to be problematic, often highly violent, with very limited emotional depth or semantic complexity, and utilising a tiny number of narratives and archetypes. [read more]

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Interactivos?'10: Neighborhood Science Workshop

Registration deadline: June 4, 2010
Dates of the workshop: June 7 - 23, 2010 in Madrid (Spain)

Join us for the Interactivos?'10 international workshop! This event is focused on the 10 development of selected projects that put into action collaboration and local urban knowledge networks using free software and hardware technologies as well as “Do It Yourself” (DIY) and “Do It With Others”(DIWO) methods.

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event: Slow Media

Transformations Journal Call for Papers: “Slow Media”

Given the contemporary fascination with and, indeed, addiction to real-time media dispatch and commentary, what would it mean to speak of “slow media”? Dare we even think such a thing when everything around us screams of increased speed, increased bandwidth, and increased convergence? We are 24-7, we are always-on, we are connected; we are locatable, we are X/Y coordinated, we are plotted; we are status updated, we are tweet-fed, we are real-time media junkies and we don’t have time to slow down.

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The third in a series of 10-minute videos about the adventures and frustrations of an ordinary (but rather hirsute) General Practitioner. In time for the General Election, Dr Hairy inexplicably takes it upon himself to share his philosophical and political views with the nation - with hilarious results!

To view it on my site, go to http://www.edwardpicot.com/drhairy/election.mov ; or you can see it on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA83Kf4IxQI ; or it should be on DVblog (http://dvblog.org) from early next week.

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