This is pretty academic, but might be of interest to you if (a) you appreciate that this blog tries to thread different interests together, and (b) you are in fact an academic. Subtle Technologies is a symposium happening this summer in Toronto, in tandem with the equally (if not more) fascinating SoundAxis festival.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Proposals are invited for presentation at the
2006 Subtle Technologies Symposium
June 1st - June 4th, 2006
Toronto, CanadaDEADLINE: January 31st, 2006
Subtle Technologies is a four-day multidisciplinary event exploring complex and subtle relationships between art and science. Subtle Technologies' mandate is to blur the boundaries between art and science. The annual event combines symposia, exhibitions and performances that juxtapose cutting-edge artistic projects and scientific exploration.
This year's theme for Subtle Technologies is Responsive Architectures. We are interested in investigating how environments and systems can interact and respond to their occupants. We hope for wide-ranging discussions and presentations that explore dynamic systems and environments at every scale, from molecules to continents. Extraordinary new qualities are emerging in the 'responsive' systems that are rapidly being integrated throughout our world, exploiting leaps in technology. This transformation creates critical questions as our capacity to change the world grows, for good and for ill.
The symposium encourages a wide definition of architecture that encompasses buildings, mechanical and natural environments. Three kinds of submissions are especially invited. Scientists are invited to contribute current research that relates to the topic. Artists, architects, designers and performers are invited to contribute their ongoing creative work. Writers are invited to contribute discussions of philosophy, history and theory. A range of approaches are welcome including interdisciplinary work that combines these approaches, specialized presentation proposals that focus on a single topic in depth, and general discussions that draw upon multiple topics. To complement the Toronto-wide SoundaXis festival occurring in parallel with Subtle Technologies, sound and acoustics will be a special focus.
Examples of possible topics include:
* Interactive systems
* Adaptive environments
* Hybrid ecologies
* Smart materials
* Buildings that can move and transform
* Extended physiology
* Complex systems analysis
* Expanded perception
* Resonance and spatial acoustics* Physics of sound
More info at the Subtle Technologies site.
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