Clinical Virtual Reality: A Brief Review of the Future
Biomedical Informatics Symposium Series – Speaker: Albert (Skip) Rizzo
Apr. 8, noon – 1 p.m.
This presentation will provide a brief overview of the many forms of virtual reality that have been applied across a diverse range of clinical disorders and research questions. A [...]
The following lines up very well with our current discussion on metastructures. Please take a look. I have the whole report if anyone is interested.
From the talk the President of Olin College gave at the Baker Forum (also check out Olin College, a very innovative place)
From president Miller’s talk at the Baker Forum:
Miller suggested that [...]
W. Zev Rymer, MD, PhD
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Northwestern University
Rehabilitation of disabling neurological disorders such as stroke and spinal cord injury is time and
labor intensive. Many therapy visits are necessary, and it appears that there is potential improvement in clinical state, continuing well beyond the traditional 3?4 months of therapy provided by most health care plans.
To improve clinical outcomes, and [...]
Cultural ecologist, David Abram, will be in residence through the Herberger Institute Schools of Art and Dance as part of an evolving discussion on the interdisciplinary shape of the arts and our human responsibility in the 21st century.
In recent years the New England Aquarium sponsored a large public debate between David Abram and distinguished biologist [...]
The founding idea of AME was fairly straightforward: the next generation of media systems had to embrace the growing complexity of our existence. Such complex systems required the recruitment of diverse types of knowledge. It also required that the different experts that joined AME were committed to the transdisciplinary mission of [...]
The Open Agent Based Modeling Consortium (http://www.openabm.org) has an opening for a graduate RA and is seeking a web designer with a strong background in information
visualization and user interface / user experience design to help refine our Drupal website.
The web designer’s responsibilities will include:
• redesigning and improving the overall layout, interaction, and workflow of the site
• [...]
Assistant/Associate Professor – Digital Arts & Sciences
The University of Florida Digital Worlds Institute, in collaboration with the Colleges of Fine Arts and Journalism & Communications, seeks new visionary faculty members with expertise in the rapidly emerging fields of Interactive Media / Digital Arts & Sciences. We are looking for candidates from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds. Ideal candidates [...]
Tenure-Track or Academic Staff position in Media Arts & Game Development (MAGD)/Electronic Media at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater available. See http://www.uww.edu/cac/about/employment.html for more information.
Grad Students- If you have an interest in learning about, networking with or going into the business of social media, this is a great opportunity to meet some of the major players here in AZ and around the country. There is going to be a lot of real world experience at this event that should prove very valuable to [...]
ASU Emeritus College Center for Mentoring offering mentoring service for ASU faculty and students. See http://emerituscollege.asu.edu/ecm.html for more information.
In December 2009 LEA – Leonardo Electronic Almanac, a member of the Leonardo/ISAST/MIT Press family – will re-launch. Its new format will combine the features of a high-production-value art magazine with the scholarly rigor of an academic journal. Lanfranco Aceti, Editor in Chief, and Paul Brown, Co-editor, intend to produce a well illustrated, attractive and readable magazine that will simultaneously [...]
The Department of Art and Art History at Oakland University is accepting applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Art: New Media, with a start date of August 15, 2009. Primary teaching duties include beginning to advanced fine art New Media courses. Candidates must hold an MFA in New Media or related field, have [...]
Laptop performance of computer music has become wide spread in the electronic music community. It brings with it many issues pertaining to the communication of musical intent. Critics argue that performances of this nature fail to engage audiences as many performers use the mouse and keyboard to control their musical works, leaving no visual cues to guide the audience as [...]
ARTECH 2010 -5th International Conference of Digital Arts
22 & 23 April, 2010 – Guimarães, Portugal
http://www.artech-international.com/artech2010
Call for Submissions
Artech 2010 is the fifth international conference held on the topic of
Digital Arts. It aims at promoting contacts between Iberian and
International contributors concerned with the concept, production and
dissemination of Digital and Electronic Art.
Artech 2010 aims at bringing the scientific, [...]
MARCH 4-6, 2010
THE AMMERMAN CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY AT CONNECTICUT COLLEGE
“REVOLUTION: TECHNOLOGY AS CHANGE”
Web site and PDF: http://cat.conncoll.edu/sym2010/
DEADLINE: NOV 1, 2009 (POSTMARK DATE)
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SYMPOSIUM MISSION
The mission of the symposium is for participants to present new works, research and performances in the areas of technology and the arts. The symposium will consist of commissioned works, paper [...]
paintings by John Avedisian & Linda Storey-London, November 6-25, 2009
Reception Nov 6th, 2009 @ 7pm, alwunhouse.org
PROSPECTIVES.09
International Digital Arts Festival
November 12-14, 2009, University of Nevada, Reno
Attention Graduate and Phd Candidates!
Call For Proposals: Exhibit, Play, Present, Perform, Project(full dome)
Deadline for submissions:
DEADLINE EXTENDED! Must arrive by October 5th, 2009
http://www.unr.edu/art/prospectives09.html
A limited number of travel/accommodation grants are available and will be awarded by the festival jurors.
Prospectives.09 will highlight the work of currently enrolled graduate and [...]
Please see http://comm.boisestate.edu/Employment/Employment.htm for more details.
Hi ASU Film Lovers!
You are invited to a special screening of HBO’s acclaimed series True Blood followed by a Q & A session with Cinematographer, Matthew Jensen!
This Tuesday, Sept. 29 at 7:45 pm, please join cinema capstone professor Adam Collis in ASU’s Education Lecture Hall (EDC 117; www.asu.edu/map/interactive/?campus=tempe&building=EDC) for Season 1 Episode 5, “Sparks Fly [...]
Invited Talk
Title: Thespian: A Decision-Theoretic Framework for Authoring Interactive Narratives
Ms. Mei Si
Dept of the University of Southern California
Date: August 28th, Friday, 11:00am – 12:00noon
Place: BYENG (Brickyard) 210
Abstract:
One of the ultimate research goals for Artificial Intelligence is the design of life-like intelligent characters that can interact with us in virtual environments. My research [...]