EVA London 2014

Tuesday 8th July – Thursday 10th July 2014
Venue: British Computer Society, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7HA
www.eva-london.org

Register for EVA London 2014

Held annually in July, EVA London is one of the international EVA conferences (Electronic Visualisation & the Arts). The first EVA conference was held in 1990. These are events where people using or interested in the new technologies can share their experiences and network in a friendly, collaborative atmosphere. Its focus is on the development and application of visualisation technologies, including art, music, dance, theatre and the sciences.

Register online: https://events.bcs.org/book/1017/
Registration closes Sunday 6 July 2014 at 11:59pm. No bookings will be taken after this date.
Early Bird rates apply until Sunday 25th May 2014.

THATCamp Research Triangle Park: Digital Knowledge
10am-5pm on Friday, March 28, 2014
The Hunt Library at North Carolina State University
http://dk2014.thatcamp.org/

THATCamp Research Triangle Park (RTP): Digital Knowledge is an opportunity to learn and play at the intersections of technology, humanities, social sciences, arts, and libraries. To be held on Friday, March 28 at North Carolina State University’s Hunt Library, THATCamp invites 75 participants to collaboratively plan this one-day “unconference.”  THATCamp is free, informal, and open to faculty, students, university staff and members of the public. A light breakfast and lunch will be served. No specific technical skills are required.

Participants are welcomed to propose sessions that relate to digital scholarship and pedagogy or any other topic they’d like to explore with fellow attendees. Sessions typically enable participants to develop new skill sets, think through ideas in a cooperative setting, and workshop current and future projects.

Participation is limited to 75 people.  To attend, please register by March 26.

LibrePlanet is an annual conference for free software enthusiasts. LibrePlanet brings together software developers, policy experts, activists and computer users to learn skills, share accomplishments and face challenges to software freedom. Newcomers are always welcome, and LibrePlanet 2014 will feature programming for all ages and experience levels.

This year, the theme of LibrePlanet is “Free Software, Free Society.” How can free software protect journalists, whistleblowers, activists, and regular computer users from government and corporate surveillance? How can free software, or free software values like copyleft, community development, and transparency, be used by people fighting to create free societies around the world? What challenges are standing between us and our goal of free software ubiquity? With your help, we’ll tackle these questions and more at LibrePlanet 2014, March 22-23 in Cambridge, MA.

There are two other events, with separate registration, taking place before and after the conference. On Friday, March 21st, community-members will hold the 0th SpinachCon, where users and developers will improve the user experience of free software programs. On Monday, March 24th (the day after LibrePlanet), the Free Software Foundation will hold a GPL Enforcement and Legal Ethics seminar at Suffolk University in Boston.

Visit the LibrePlanet website to register and see the full program of events.

You are cordially invited to attend the Music Encoding Conference 2014, which will be held 20-23 May at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.

The encoding of symbolic music data opens new research paths to traditional music studies (from editing to analysis) and computational musicology, and constitutes a foundational tool for music bibliography and librarianship. The quest for a coherent and universal system for the digital representation of music notation has been pursued for decades and the recent accomplishments of the Music Encoding Initiative have garnered a great deal of attention in a wide range of music scholarship and in the broader digital humanities.

This conference aims to gather specialists in all the above areas, to discuss the current state of modeling, generation and use of music encoding, to exchange experiences, report on successful projects on major collections and composers, and to forge collaborations for future projects.

More details regarding the program, venue, registration and accommodation are available here. Registration will close on 30 April 2014.

Fembot Collective invites contributions to a peer-reviewed special issue of Ada that investigates the conditions of women and gender studies within digital spaces and cultures around the world.

In this issue we seek essays that explore gender and sexuality concerns in digital spaces and cultures, as well as academic fields such as the digital humanities and computational sciences. Possible topics include: what is the shape of the global “gender gap”? Where are digital products produced and consumed and how do these reveal economic, social and structural inequalities? How do global flows of capitalism construct uneven modernities around the world? How do race and ethnicity intersect with the structure of gendered, global digital communities and diasporas? How does the digital provide and police spaces for organizing around trans issues? What are the networks of affect, intimacy and sexuality that grow out of digital cultures?  How are operations of interface, output and input structured by ideas of gender, sexuality and language? How do access and ableism structure issues of gender and sexuality in digital spaces?

Essays should be submitted by September 30, 2014 and full details are available here.

This conference seeks to explore both the specific uses of algorithms and algorithmic culture more broadly, including topics such as: gamification, the computational self, data mining and visualization, the politics of algorithms, surveillance, mobile and locative technology, and games for health. While virtually any discipline could have something productive to say about the matter, we are especially seeking contributions from software studies, critical code studies, performance studies, cultural and media studies, anthropology, the humanities, and social sciences, as well as visual art, music, sound studies and performance. Proposals for experimental/hybrid performance-papers and multimedia artworks are especially welcome.

Proposals must be submitted by March 1st, and further information is available here.

WikiConference USA is the first national Wikimedia conference of its kind in the United States. The conference will be held on May 30 – June 1, 2014 at New York Law School, located in Tribeca district of Manhattan, New York City. WikiConference USA’s program will be devoted to topics concerning the Wikimedia movement in the United States, as well as related topics of free culture and digital rights.

WikiConference USA will feature a diverse array of conference offerings such as keynotes, presentations, panels, and workshop sessions; provide a lounge space and break areas for conference attendees to gather and mingle; and host an unconference day for attendees to design their own schedule and engage with each other around common interests.

Read more or sign up for the event at http://wikiconferenceusa.org/wiki/Main_Page

In an effort to bring together literary theorists, writers, computer programmers and artists to investigate the impact of new technologies on the humanities, City University of Hong Kong has planned the first Digital Humanities Roundtable in Hong Kong.

From May 15-17, 2014, we will host several prominent, international speakers from top universities to discuss topics such as digital literatures, digital pedagogies, and visualization in the humanities. We aim for this roundtable to encourage new partnerships and to reveal commonalities between those working with computation and those investigating literature, poetry and critical-cultural theory.

We invite university faculty, graduate students, and members of the public interested in these issues to sign up and attend.  See details at http://www.english.cityu.edu.hk/en/portal/digitalhumanities/

The Communication and Society Research Centre invites you to submit a proposal for a paper, panel or poster presentation to the upcoming International Conference “Gender in focus: (new) trends in media.”

Over the last decades, a considerable amount of research has been conducted on the relationship of gender with communication. However, new insights are still needed, especially those that explore the interrelations and negotiations between media and gender through the use of interdisciplinary and intersectional approaches.

This event aims to serve as a forum to discuss ideas, experiences and research results on gender and media, bringing together social sciences researchers, NGOs representatives and media professionals.

Go to http://www.lasics.uminho.pt/genderfocus2014/?page_id=154 for submission guidelines. Proposals should be submitted by February 15th.

Print technology and the discovery of the new world have often played a major role in the construction of our visions of modernity by means of a mass-produced imagery set in motion by the increased circulation of goods, people, and ideas across transcontinental routes. Such characterization of “modernity,” however, too quickly risks erasing the preexistent in ways that have become utterly familiar to the field of American studies: what is presented as new and innovative has a history extending already from the conceptualization of the American continent itself as the “discovery” of a “new world.”

Our scholarly project aims therefore at reflecting upon a set of interconnected questions about how an integral understanding of the non-neutral characterization of the digital can be carried out from a great diversity of perspectives that transcend American geographical, historical, linguistic, and cultural boundaries. To what extent are current digital theories developed in the US driven by a supposedly neutral attention to the medium? To what extent do the range of digital forms of expressions and the methodologies employed in their analysis happen to exceed the alleged paradigm of “media-specific” analysis? And how might the formal and technological approaches to digital poiesis be ideally situated within a history of artistic practices related to (North) American culture?

We invite submission of abstracts (500-word length max) by no later than February 20, 2014 http://www.iasaweb.org/news/20.html