Sponsored by the Computer Arts Society and the Chartered Institute for IT (BCS)
When? Monday 5th - Wednesday 7th July 2010
Where? EVA London 2010 took place in the glamorous central London headquarters of the British Computer Society, 5 Southampton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7HA
Who? Interested in electronic visualisation? EVA London is an elcletic mix including art, design, media, archaeology, museums, music, theatre and more ...
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Delegates are invited to mail me the url to their website, blog etc at suzanne.keene@ucl.ac.uk
Stephen Boyd Davis
Blog on visualising time
http://chronographics.blogspot.com/
The Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts
Ralph Vittucio
http://www.etc.cmu.edu
Ralph's personal website
www.ralphvituccio.com
Ian Wojtowicz
City News Globe
Betweeners Montreal
Betweeners Montreal video
Wally Smith
Wally's personal website in Melbourne
http://disweb.dis.unimelb.edu.au/staff/wsmith/
David Burns
David R. Burns: Digital media art
http://www.davidrburns.com
Lisa Dalhuijsen & Lieven van Velthoven
www.MusicalNodes.com
Lisa:
http://www.studiowith.nl
Lieven:
http://www.youtube.com/lievenvv
Xiying Yang, Honglei Li (Lily & Hongle)
Land of Illusion: Reconstituting History and Culture in Online
Virtual World
http://lilyhonglei.com/LandOfIllusion
Personal website:
http://lilyhonglei.com
BRITISH COMPUTER SOCIETY, 5 SOUTHAMPTON STREET, LONDON WC2E 7HA
>> FULL CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Three days of presentations on a spectrum of themes from electronic arts to experiencing history
>> Keynote speakers
Five distinguished keynote speakers
>> Research workshop programme (Day 1, morning)
Students from leading universities present their work
>> Visualisations - demonstrations
EVA London's answer to the poster session: presentations that are interactive or highly visual. Meet and talk to the artists and presenters.
>> EVA London exhibition
Electronic artworks brought to the conference
Plus chances to network and socialise: opening reception (Day 1) and conference dinner (Day 2)
DETAILS MAY CHANGE
8.30 Registration opens
9.15 Conference opens
DAY 1: MORNING
Plenary session: Electronic arts
Keynote Speaker: Peter Cochrane
Beyond seeing is believing
Plenary session: Data, art and time
MORNING, IN PARALLEL: Research Workshop
DAY 1: AFTERNOON
Keynote Speaker: Seb Chan
Tracking interactions: new ways of finding value in the use of museum websites.
Plenary session: The digital museum
AFTERNOON, PARALLEL 1
The digital museum II
AFTERNOON, PARALLEL 2
Art through evolutionary computation
5.40 Conference closes
6.00 Reception courtesy of the British Computer Society and the Computer Arts Society 40th anniversary
8.15 Registration opens
9.00 Conference opens
DAY 2: MORNING
Plenary session: Photography and reality
Keynote Speaker: David Giaretta
Digital preservation: terminology, techniques, testing and trust
Plenary session: Digital art: problems and challenges
Lunch break: Exhibition, visualisations and demos
DAY 2: AFTERNOON
AFTERNOON, PARALLEL 1
Electronic resources for the public
AFTERNOON, PARALLEL 2
Music and art
AFTERNOON PLENARY SESSION
Keynote Speaker: Alan Read
The ceramic age: a gloss on depth
Plenary session: Digital performance
5.30 Conference day closes
7.00 Conference dinner
at Carluccio's, Covent Garden - one of London's most recommended restaurants
8.15 Registration opens
9.00 Conference opens
DAY 3: MORNING
Plenary session: Digital arts practice
Keynote Speaker: Oliver Grau
New perspectives for digital humanities
Plenary session: Digital perceptions
Lunch break: Exhibition, visualisations and demos
DAY 3: AFTERNOON
AFTERNOON, PARALLEL 1
Art in the digital age
AFTERNOON, PARALLEL 2
Digital understandings of the past
AFTERNOON PLENARY SESSION
Experiencing history
Close: George Mallen
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We will have the honour of welcoming five distinguished keynote speakers to EVA London 2010.
Sebastian Chan is currently the Head of Digital, Social and Emerging Technologies at the Powerhouse Museum. His teams include the museum's web unit, audio visual and photography, rights & permission and the photo library, the research library and Thinkspace, the Powerhouse's digital media teaching laboratories.
Coming from a background in social policy, journalism and media criticism as well as information technology, he has been building and producing websites and interactive media since the mid 1990s. At the Powerhouse he has been responsible for driving a strong user focus in design, usability and content, as well as expanding the scope and reach of the museum's suite of online projects. His focus on audiences and usability has led to an interest in Open Licensing and collaborative ways of enabling deeper engagement with the museum's cultural assets.
His interests include electronic music and digital art, and he has directed and curated large scale national and international events and festivals, and also produces related media from radio broadcasts to print. In his spare time he runs a independent music magazine, Cyclic Defrost.
A seasoned professional with over 40 years of hands on technology and operational experience, Peter has been involved in the creation and transformation of corporations. His BT career saw him progress to CTO with teams engaged on optical fibre systems, network design, HMI, AI, AL, visualisation, healthcare, war gaming, eCommerce, and business modelling.
Renowned for his out of the box thinking, Peter is an advisor and consultant to numerous companies and governments, the author of numerous blogs, articles and books on technology, business, managing, and living with rapid change.
Peter has also spent time in academia and was appointed as the UK’s first Professor for the Public Understanding of Science & Technology @ Bristol in 1998. A graduate of Nottingham Trent and Essex Universities, he received the Queen's Award for Innovation in 1990, numerous Honorary Doctorates and was awarded an OBE in 1999 for his contribution to international communications.
Dr David Giaretta has had extensive experience in planning, developing and running scientific archives and providing and managing a variety of services to large numbers of users. He has made fundamental contributions to the OAIS Reference Model which forms the basis of much digital preservation work far beyond repositories of scientific data, and contributes still to developing the follow on standards.
He has published a number of scientific papers in refereed journals and given presentations at many international conferences, scientific as well as technical. In addition he has broad experience in e-Science and in obtaining funding for and managing distributed teams.
In 2003 he was awarded an MBE for services to Space Science. Dr Giaretta was founding Associate Director for Development in the UK Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and has played an active role in all aspects of that project. More recently he led the successful EU FP6 project CASPAR Integrated Project and the FP7 Support Action PARSE.Insight which has produced a Roadmap for scientific data supported by data from a survey which had a very large number (1000’s) of responses. He leads the work which aims at producing an ISO standard for audit and certification of digital repositories, following on from the work of the RLG/OCLC/NARA working group of which he was also a member, and also leads the recent update of OAIS.
Oliver Grau is Professor of Image Science and Head of the Department for Image Science at the Danube University Krems. Grau’s main research is in the history of media art, immersion (virtual reality), and emotions, as well as the history, idea and culture of telepresence and artificial life. His books include Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion (2003), Mediale Emotionen (2005), MediaArtHistories.
Grau has conceived new scientific tools for the humanities/digital humanities, managing the project "Immersive Art" of The German Research Foundation (DFG) whose team started developing in 1998 the first international archive for digital art, including video documentations.
Grau has developed new international curricula for image sciences and has lectured at the Humbold University Berlin, in different research labs in Japan and USA and as professor at different international universities and manages various international conferences.
Awards include: voted into Young Academy of the Berlin-Brandenburgischen Scientific Academy and the Leopoldina (2001); 2002 InterNations/Goethe Institute; 2003 Book of the Month, Scientific American; 2003 Research Scholarship from the German-Italian Center Villa Vigoni; 2004 Media Award of the Humboldt University.
Alan Read is a writer whose projects include performance and civic intervention. He is currently Professor of Theatre at King's College London where, in collaboration with the Centre for e-Research he has recently restored and re-opened the Anatomy Theatre & Museum on the Strand as a performance research centre and home for the Performance Foundation. In the 1980s he was director of Rotherhithe Theatre Workshop, a neighbourhood theatre in Docklands, in the 1990s he worked as a freelance writer in Barcelona and was Director of Talks at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, and from 1997-2006 he was Professor of Theatre at Roehampton University where he directed a five year research programme on performance, architecture and location exploring theatre and public ceremonial in rational housing blocks and council estates.
Alan Read is the author of Theatre & Everyday Life: An Ethics of Performance (Routledge: 1993) and Theatre, Intimacy & Engagement: The Last Human Venue (Palgrave Macmillan: 2008). He is the editor of The Fact of Blackness: Frantz Fanon and Visual Representation (Bay Press: 1996) and Architecturally Speaking: Practices of Art, Architecture and the Everyday (Routledge: 2000). He is currently working on a book entitled: The Theatre & Its Poor: Performance, Politics and the Powerless and begins a three year Leverhulme Major Fellowship in October 2010 entitled: Engineering Spectacle: Inigo Jones’ Past and Present Performance in Somerset House.
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EVA London will be delighted to exhibit a series of short films from a Tenderpixel Gallery film season during the conference.
Films will include:
TPX42 - Title: Conversations with Walt Whitman, Description: Walt Whitman gets in touch from beyond the grave via flickering lights and morse code.
Director: Theo Tagholm
TPX43 - Title: Drift, Description: Stop motion animation drifting through a dream like metropolis. Intriguing morph motion technique.
Director: Theo Tagholm
TPX51 - Title: Dromosphere, Description: stretched pixel image that as the film continues reveals a car that flashes up until the end when we see a complete image.
Director: Thorsten Fleisch
TPX78 - Title: Entry Point, Description: Entry Point is a video that explores the tensions between journey, memory and place: daily urban experiences are replayed and recalled in ways that are both hypnotic and stressful, acting as a metaphor for city living.
Director: Liz Helman
TPX89 - Title: Lumiere.mov, Description: An experimental audiovisual piece focusing on the effect of digital technology on filmic experience using footage from the Lumiere collection. It highlights the phenomena, or frustration, of the effect of losing compression of the image. Director: Alex Buckingham
TPX127 - Title: LOOPS, Description: monochrome computer generated image of a line circling and evolving, hypnotic.
Director: Paul Burt
TPX123 - Title: Translations, Description: computer generated B&W images of boxes folding in and out, accompanied by an intense soundtrack.
Director: Tom Burtonwood and Jacob C Hammes
TPX 40 - Title: Sinus Aestum, Description: One sound -synthesis process and nearly 12000 indvidual points are continually transformed and warped, restrained and released, without cuts, to form compound, multidimensional waves of activity moving through unstable states between plateaus of pitch and noise. Mathematical processes are transformed into a contemplation of the continual ebb and flow of human experience.
Director: Bret Battey
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The EVA London Research Workshop is an opportunity to catch up with the very latest research into electronic arts and visualisation. Students from the leading universities in the field present their work.
>> Research workshop programme
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Joe Osmond
City Soundscapes
André Rangel Macedo
Imaginary totalizations: New visualizations of place
Visible and Audible Spectrums - a proposal of correspondence
Ian Wojtowicz
CityGloge
Daniel Rogers
Personal Data Mining
Jules Moloney
Mixed reality for Architectural Design Visualization
Xiying Yang and Honglei Li
‘Land of Illusion’ – Reconstructing History and Culture in Online Virtual World
Paul Hazelwood, Amanda Oddie, Steve Presland and Brian Farrimond
Time Maps: 3D Spatiotemporal Visualization of Historical Narratives
The judges praised the simplicity, clarity and adaptability of his design, which was submitted in both colour and monochrome versions against white and black backgrounds.
Mr Miron wins a cash prize of £250 generously donated by Ashgate Publishing, plus free registration at the EVA London Conference, 5-7 July 2010.
The brief for the competition was to design a distinctive and attractive logo for branding and promotion of the EVA London Conference, on the theme of Art and Technology. The aims were to symbolise visualisation in the arts, to be colourful, eye‐catching and uncluttered, and to convey something of the spirit of London and the camaraderie of the event. Altogether 74 logo designs were submitted from all around the world. The winning logo will be used as the new identify of EVA London and will be the motif for redesign of the website.
Mr Miron works for the graphic design agency Project 2211 in Calgary, Canada (www.p2211.com).
The EVA London conference is held annually as part of the family of EVA international conferences, held in venues around the world since 1990. The conferences have provided a unique forum for the introduction of digital technology in imaging, sound and performance into culture and the arts. The next EVA London conference will be hosted by the Computer Arts Society (CAS) and held at the British Computer Society, just off the Strand in London, in July 2010. EVA has a proud tradition of being eclectic and cross‐disciplinary, embracing the many ways in which technology has enlivened the visual and performing arts. The conference themes include 2D and 3D digitisation, cultural heritage, digital media, electronic art, immersive environments, virtual and augmented worlds, sound, music, film, animation.
For more information please contact Prof Lindsay MacDonald: l.macdonald@lcc.arts.ac.uk
We are delighted that you are presenting at EVA London this year.
If you need to contact someone about the conference programme, Julie Tolmie is your person: julie.tolmie@kcl.ac.uk.
If you have questions about the venue or the technology, please contact either Francesca Monti francescamonti9@googlemail.com, or else Gemma Stanley-Evill, Gemma.Stanley-Evill@hq.bcs.org.uk.
Timeslots for speakers are 20 minutes. This includes setup and questions. You would not want to find you have only 5 minutes because others have overrun! So please, make absolutely sure your presentation fits in the time allocated. Session chairs will be sticking strictly to time, so please help them.
Demonstrations and Visualisations will be on the Tuesday and Wednesday of the conference, Days 2 and 3. Information about demonstrations will be sent out shortly. For the demonstrations there will be tables with power connections arranged round a room. More information shortly.
There will be a LCD projector connected to a conference laptop PC, audio connection, internet access, and Bluetooth pointing device. In general:
• Wherever possible we would prefer to transfer your presentation file onto the host computer. If your presentation is straightforward, please bring it on a USB memory stick or CD-ROM and load it onto the conference machine well ahead of the time for your presentation.
• However, if your presentation uses or includes anything other than straightforward PowerPoint, i.e. special media, such as video, Flash, QuickTime, audio, etc, or a Keynote presentation, it is best to bring your own laptop with the presentation set up.
• Mac users are welcome - if you plan to run your presentation on the conference machine, do check it on a PC and make sure the images are in a Windows readable format (e.g. not .tiff).
NB: If using a Mac, it is essential that you bring the adapter for connecting it to screens. Pack it now!
By 1st June: if you plan to use anything other than a presentation on a USB stick that can be pre-loaded onto the conference computer, please complete and return the Technical Requirements form (download here) to Francesca Monti, f.monti@ucl.ac.uk.
Speaker’s details:
Name of Presenter:
Affiliation:
Title of Paper:
Email address:
Presentation details and requirements (please tick all which apply):
* Bringing presentation on USB memory stick/ CD-ROM / DVD
* Bringing presentation on laptop
* Mac / PC user
* Audio connection
* Internet connection
* Other requirements (please specify): ____________________________________________________________
Enquiries to: Suzanne.Keene@ucl.ac.uk
Conference pack insertions
Cost: £150+ VAT per insert
100 copies to be sent to Gemma Stanly Evill at BCS Swindon, a few weeks ahead of time.
A manned table top/stand to display or sell materials in the conference breakout area
Cost: £150 + VAT per day (includes conference attendance for one person)
Sponsoring a bursary to cover registration costs for artists or others to attend the conference
Cost: £180 + VAT for each 2 day bursary. Sponsors will be prominently acknowledged in the current conference literature.
Displaying materials on an unmanned table top/stand in the conference breakout area
Cost: £90 + VAT per day
BCS contact and address:
Gemma Stanley-Evill AMBCS (nee Liddiard)
Specialist Groups’ Officer & Events Coordinator
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
First Floor, Block D, North Star House, North Star Avenue, Swindon SN2 1FA
Tel: +44 (0) 1793 417 417 | Direct Dial: +44 (0) 1793 417 656
gemma.stanley-evill@hq.bcs.org.uk | http://www.bcs.org
The registration fee includes attendance and lunch on the conference days chosen and any workshops, demonstrations or social events on those days, plus one copy of the printed conference proceedings.
Rates are inclusive of VAT. A VAT receipt can be provided if you wish to reclaim VAT.
Delegate
Day rate: £105.75
2 days: £211.50
3 days : £293.75
Speaker or demonstrator (acceptance confirmed) / Chartered Institute of IT (BCS) member
Day rate: £84.60
2 days: £169.20
3 days : £235.00
Concession (students with NUS card number, and those with no access to grants for conference attendance)
Day rate: £58.16
2 days: £116.33
3 days : £161.56
The conference dinner will be held 7.00, Tuesday 6th July, at Carluccio's, near the conference venue. Carluccio's is one of London's best restaurants.
Cost (payable on registering): £30
Sorry, all bursaries have now been allocated. Please contact Gemma Stanley-Evill as below for information if you have already been allocated one.
Online by credit or debit card: http://www.bcs.org/events/registration
By post / cheque: Download the cheque booking form and post it with your cheque to the registration address below
Gemma Stanley-Evill AMBCS (nee Liddiard)
Specialist Groups’ Officer & Events Coordinator
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
First Floor, Block D, North Star House, North Star Avenue, Swindon SN2 1FA
Tel: +44 (0) 1793 417 417 | Direct Dial: +44 (0) 1793 417 656
gemma.stanley-evill@hq.bcs.org.uk | http://www.bcs.org
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EVA cannot recommend any particular accommodation but here are some possibilities. Transport in London is very expensive so if you are on a tight budget accommodation within walking distance is advisable. We have no information on cost, quality or availability - please contact the establishment.
Hotels nearby
http://www.strandpalacehotel.co.uk
Travelodge is cheaper - there is one in Covent Garden and cheaper ones further away around central London. See http://www.travelodge.co.uk/
Hostels - inexpensive ones nearby are:
LSE hostel, High Holborn
http://www.hostelworld.com/hosteldetails.php/LSE-High-Holborn/London/533
Pickwick Place, Bedford Sq
http://www.hostelworld.com/hosteldetails.php/Pickwick-Hall/London/7502
Astor Museum Inn, 27 Montague Street,
Bloomsbury, WC1B 5BH, London
http://www.hostelworld.com/hosteldetails.php/Astor-Museum-Inn/London/520
There are numerous search sites for both hotels and hostels - consult a map while you search.
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