Digital Art Weeks Festival 2007 (DAW07)

The Digital Art Weeks is concerned with the application of digital
technology in the arts. It consists of a symposium, workshops, and
performances. The program offers insight into current research and
innovations in art and technology. Artists and researchers will
examine the use of electronic media in articulating the performer's
presence through the possibilities of the multi-sensuality of
electronic media. The possibility of blurring the divide between
public and performer to bond them through the powers of dissemination and inclusion inherent within the technology used will also be considered. The organizers of the Digital Art Weeks at ETH Zurich seek papers, posters, and performances on themes specific to performance using electronic media. We seek proposals that explore a concept of the Performative Surround in terms of how computer-mediated communication and dialog takes place between performers and viewers and how it tends to aid in dissolving the divide between performer and viewer.

PERFORMANCES topics include:

-Media Enhanced Artwork in the areas of Performance, Dance and Sound-Art
- Mobile Art & Music that explore Performer Networking and Audience

Participation

- Digital Puppetry including Enhanced, Waldo, Motion Capture, and Machinima
- Laptop Music including Live-Coding, Live-Cinema & Live-Re-Scoring
- Installations involving Net-poetry computer mediated communication

PAPERS, POSTERS and DEMONSTRATIONS topics include:

- Current Research and Innovations in Media Enhanced Artwork and Technology
- Issues Concerning the Live-Electronic Re-Embodiment of the Performance Artist
- Approaches to Performer Networking and Audience Participation using

Technology

- Technology and Aesthetics of Digital Puppetry
- Approaches to Live-Coding, Live-Cinema & Live-Re-Scoring
- Novel Software Paradigms for Mixed-Media Processing and Authoring

PANEL topics include:

- Software Innovations in Mediated Communication and the Arts
- Live Cinema, Expanded Video, and Film Rescoring
- Immersive Audio and Video Space
- The Dissolve of the Performer-Audience Divide
- Networking the Private Space-Pubic Space Divide
- Digital Puppetry from Enhanced to Machinima

Submission guidelines are available at:
www.digitalartweeks.ethz.ch/web/PI07/Submission

Performances

Submitted performance proposals must comprise of an artistic statement and a scientific description of the work. It must also include photos or movies, and detailed realisation information, such as duration, space needs, and technical requirements. Please also specify, which of the technical equipment can be provided by you, and which part would have to be provided by DAW.

Performance entries may be sent by email or postal mail to the addresses below. When submitting by email, please do not send large files, but provide a web link. Note that all materials are required to be available by the submission deadline. Please also note that materials submitted by postal mail will not be returned.

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ETH Zurich
Art Clay
Computer Systems Institute
RZ H 22
Clausiusstrasse 59
CH-8092 Zurich Switzerland

Deadlines:
Deadline for art submissions: 2.3.2007
Deadline for soundscape submissions: 16.3.2007
Notification of acceptance for art works: 2.4.2007
Notification of acceptance for soundscape works: 16.4.2007

Papers and Posters

Papers should be 4 - 8 pages in length, posters 1 - 2 pages. The format must be in pdf and the layout must conform to the templates provided below.

Send your documents by email to:

Deadline for paper and poster submissions: 2.3.2007
Notification of acceptance for papers and posters: 2.4.2007
Deadline for camera-ready papers and posters: 2.5.2006
Document Templates

Template package for LaTeX and Microsoft Word (ZIP)

The provided templates are taken and slightly adapted from the standard ACM SIG Proceedings templates found at www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. You may refer to that site in case of further formatting questions.

Workshop Proposals

We accept proposals for workshops. Please send a one page description of your proposed workshop, including format, space and technical requirements.

Deadline for workshop proposals: 15.1.2007