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Artech 2006 - Third International Conference on Digital and Electronic Art
"Linking frontiers"
"Art, technology, science and society"
Pontevedra, Galicia-Spain,
17-18 November 2006
Objectives:
Artech 2006 will be the third conference, following Artech 2004 in Lisbon, Artech 2005 in V.N. Cerveira, organized in Portugal and Galicia, concerned with disseminating research, development and experiments in Digital Art assuming its multi-faceted artistic and technical characteristics. At the
same time it aims also to promote contacts between Iberian and also
International contributors concerned with the conception, production and
dissemination of Digital and Electronic Art.
Artech 2006 aims to bring together the scientific, technological and
artistic community who are interested in the context of digital culture and
in the intersection between art and technology like a important fields of
research, a common space for discussion and exchange of experiences, as also
provide a forum for digital artists in the creation, understanding and
appreciation of these new forms of cultural expression.
The net, the city and the society are the scenario for a network of
transdisciplinary context between different systems. Nowadays, engineers,
designers, architects, economists, biologists, artists, urban planners,
etc... have to think the concept of city, community, map, and identity in a
new way, a new context of interconnections in the digital ecosystem.
Topics:
Main areas are related with image, video, sound, music, multimedia, virtual
and augmented reality, mobile multimedia as also other new media, developed
and applied as interactive media (spatial organization, hardware, software, networking, other) for the enhancement of the artistic creativity, artistic production and support for artistic experiences and artifacts. Although non exclusive, the main themes of the conference are:
o Net Art and Digital Culture
o Electronic Music
o Audio-visual and Multimedia Creation
o Technology in Art Education
o Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality
o New Experiences, New Media and New Applications
o Media art history
o Art and Science. Artificial Life.
Format:
Artech 2006 has the format of a conference with technical sessions, invited talks and discussion panels and well an exposition area for installations. Contributions can be in the form of full papers, short papers and proposals for installations. All the contributions are subject to a blind peer-review and evaluation by the International Programme Committee. All papers accepted for presentation will be published in a duly registered book (ISBN) and a selection of the best papers will be published in an appropriate scientific and technological academic journal.
Submission:
Authors are invited to submit a paper of six to ten pages in length (in A4
format) for oral presentation. Short paper shall not exceed four pages. The
official languages of the conference will be Portuguese, Galician, Castellan
and English. All papers written in other language than English have to
include a summary in English. In addition to the text, each paper must
include a separate cover page containing:
* The name, organisation, mailing and e-mail addresses of each author
* The name of the presenting author
* The name of the contact author
* A maximum of five keywords
Papers should be submitted in accordance with the rules and guidance defined in (http://artech2005.ccg.pt/Contents/exemplo.doc). Submissions should also
be forwarded electronically in Word format to
<mailto:artech.artigos@ccg.pt> artech2006artigos@uvigo.es and they must not be larger than 7Mb. The act of submitting a paper tacitly implies an
intention that at least one of the authors of the paper will be registered
for the conference to present his/her work.
Important Dates:
Full papers submission: 30 June
Installations proposals and short papers submission: 30 June
Full papers notice of acceptance: 31 July
Installations proposal and short papers notice of acceptance: 31 July
Submission full paper final version: 21 September
Conference: 17-18 November
Conference chairs:
Karin Ohleshläguer Media Lab Madrid
Christa Sommerer DIC-UAD, Graz, Austria
International Program Committee:
Lola Dopico, FBA-UV, Pontevedra, Spain (President)
Adérito Marcos, DSI-UM, Guimarães, Portugal (Vice-President)
Álvaro Barbosa, U. Católica do Porto, PT
Antoni Mercader , U. Barcelona, ES
António Ramires, DI-U. Minho, PT
Charles A. Wuethrich, Bauhaus U. Weimar, DE
David Duce, OBU, UK
Elisa Lessa, IEC-U. Minho, PT
Fernando Suárez Cabeza - FBA/U.Vigo, ES
Fernando José Pereira, U. Porto, PT
Fortunato Rodriguez, FBA/U.Vigo, ES
Henrique Silva, FBienal de Cerveira, PT
Jorge Lens, U. Vigo, ES
José Antonio Castro Muñiz. U. Vigo, ES
José Luis Brea, U. Carlos III, ES
José Ramón Alcalá, U. Castilla -La Mancha, ES
Laura Baigorri, U. Barcelona
Leonel Valbom, DSI-U. Minho, PT
Luis Paulo Santos, DI-U. Minho, PT
Jesús Hernández Sánchez, U. Vigo, ES
Marc Cavazza, SC/TU, UK
Maria José Fernandez Pisón, U. Politécnica Valência, ES
Mariana Correia, ES. Gallaecia, PT
Miguel Encarnação, IMedia, USA
Monica Mendes, FBA-U. Lisboa, PT
Nuno Correia, DI/FCT/U. Nova de Lisboa, PT
Pau Alsina, U. Oberta de Catalunya, ES
Paulo Bernardino, DCA-U. Aveiro, PT
Paulo Dias, IEP/U. Minho, PT
Pedro Faria Lopes, ISCTE, PT
Rui João José, DSI-U. Minho, PT
Salomé Cuesta , U. Politécnica de Valencia, ES
Sudhir Mudur, U. Calgary, CA
Stefan Göbel, ZGDV, DE
Tomás Henriques, FCSH- U. Nova de Lisboa, PT
Local Organization:
Lola Dopico Aneiros
Fernando Suarez Cabeza
Silvia García Gonzalez
Alberto García Ariza
Contacts:
Artech 2006 Secretariat
Facultade de Belas Artes
Rua da Maestranza nº 2
36002 Pontevedra, Spain
Tel: +34 986801800
Fax: +34 986801885
E-mail : artech2006@uvigo.es