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Scandinavian Interactive Multimedia Research Winter School
``` [This announcement comes from the founders of very interesting new program on computing and design at Malmo University in Sweden. I have reformatted it to 70 columns and removed the MIME markup.]
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Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1998 10:53:29 +0200
From: "Jonas Lowgren"
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Dear Colleagues,
Please find attached and included below the annoucement for the 1st Scandinavian Interactive Multimedia Research Winter School, November 22nd to November 26th, 1998 and the preceding Workshop Seminar on Educating Future Designers, November 20th to November 22nd, 1998, Malmo, Sweden. We would appreciate if you could forward this announcement in your University networks, especially to ph.d. students, among interested colleagues and within your own scientific networks. Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message. Thanks for your cooperation.
Best regards,
Lone Malmborg
Program and organization committee: Lars Qvortrup, InterMedia- Aalborg, Aalborg University. Pelle Ehn, Lone Malmborg, and Peter Ullmark, Art & Communication, Malmo University College.
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First call for participation
The 1st Scandinavian Interactive Multimedia Research Winter School November 22nd to November 26th, 1998
Workshop Seminar on Educating Future Designers November 20th to November 22nd, 1998
Malmo, Sweden
During the previous year efforts have been put into organizing a forum for research students in the area of analysis and design of interactive multimedia. This research area has got a lot of attention in most Scandinavian national research programs, which means that new research projects have been established, as well as many research students have started projects in this area.
The Scandinavian Interactive Multimedia Research Winter School is intended to include Ph.D. students and others engaged in research coming from a wide spectrum of backgrounds. These can be traditional computer science, humanistic sciences as well as performing artists working with digital media and arts. The first research winter school will be organized around the following four centers of gravitation:
The "Narrativity and Communication" and the "Space and Virtuality" studios of the national Swedish Interactive Institute located at Art & Communication, Malmo University College. The Narrativity and Communication studio explores how information and communication technology facilitates the development of new and unconventional narrative forms, where narrativity is understood in the broad sense of time-based representation. The traditional recipients turn into co-actors, shaping their own "stories" by choosing different paths. The distinction between production and consumption is blurred as audiences participate in the creation of instant and ongoing stories. The boundaries between material space and virtual space are growing increasingly harder to define. Virtual reality is perceived nearly as intensely with all senses as material reality. Material space is becoming permeated with virtual information. What happens to us and our conditions for living and working when fact and fiction blend? Such questions are studied in the Space and Virtuality studio.
The national Danish research project 'Staging of Virtual, Inhabited 3D-Spaces'. This project explores the nature and usage of the rapidly developing realm of inhabited, interactive multimedia systems and the virtual worlds, which become available through such systems. Presenting themselves as 3D-stages with artifacts and actors (avatars/autonomous agents) it is the assumption of the project that interactive multimedia applications can be informed by theatre and film conventions. The project brings together researchers from the humanities, from engineering and from computer science in order to both analyze and construct new virtual inhabited 3D-spaces.
Hotel Pro Forma. This internationally renowned experimental theater group will perform its 'Operation : Orfeo'. This re-conceptualization of the classical opera experiments with the staging of space, time and interaction. In the performance, representational technologies are used in order to construct space with light, time with verbal and musical narratives, and interaction between actors and representation of actors.
Professor Bruno Latour. In some of his recent works he has challenged the classical subject-object dichotomy (the human-machine interface model) suggesting that humans and things should be conceptualized as networks of mutually interfering and transforming actors. Through his works the experiments with virtual, inhabited 3D-spaces and with experimental theater performances will be conceptually reflected.
However, only half of the time will be used for plenum activities. The rest of the time will be devoted to teamwork based on the submissions of participating students.
All participating students are expected to submit a short paper describing their project or a particular issue in the project. Participants will be divided into working groups based on these submissions, and will get reviews and comments from other students and faculty members on the submitted paper or artifact.
The program is being developed during the summer, and a final version will be distributed around September 1st.
In collaboration with InterMedia Aalborg, Art & Communication at Malmo University College has taken responsibility of organizing the first research winter school in their new building next to the harbor in Malmo.
A workshop seminar on Educating Future Designers will precede the research school. This seminar will take place November 20th, evening to November 22nd, noon. The workshop seminar will be open for a wide range of researchers and artists representing on-going research projects in Scandinavia and the institutions who have supported Art & Communication in building up research and education programs. All participants from the research winter school are welcome to participate in this workshop seminar as well (detailed program will follow later).
So far we want you to indicate whether you are interested in participating in the winter school. A detailed registration form will be sent out with the final program. Send an e-mail to Katarina Mansson at katarina.mansson@mah.se. Please, state whether you only want to participate in the research school, or both the research school and the preceding work shop seminar.
Program and organization committee: Lars Qvortrup, InterMedia- Aalborg, Aalborg University. Pelle Ehn, Lone Malmborg, and Peter Ullmark, Art & Communication, Malmo University College. ```
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