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Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 16:58:59 +0100
Subject: cast01: Symposium on Communication of Art, Science and Technology

call for participation / submission deadline 31.05.2001 / Schloss
Birlinghoven, Sankt Augustin (Bonn), 21-22.09.2001

cast01: Symposium on Communication of Art, Science and Technology

We invite you to participate in the cast01 symposium on intersections of 
artistic, cultural, technological and scientific issues of:

Living in Mixed Realities

What does it mean to live, play and work in a world shaped and perceived through 
digital media, networks and architectures of real-virtual space?

The development of complex communication spaces, life environments and economic 
models is an interplay of technical, social, and artistic forces - Mixed 
Realities of Art, Science and Technology.

The design of a Mixed Reality Architecture, which connects processes in virtual 
space to the social environments and cultural practices of real places, presents 
challenges to technologists, scientists and artists alike. In such an 
architecture the basic design elements are networked structures for new forms of 
collaborative work and knowledge discovery, human-centred interaction and 
awareness, media spaces and advanced interfaces.

At cast01 scientists will present technologies and infrastructures that address 
these challenges. Artists will present aesthetic concepts of digital culture and 
new interactive media formats. cast01 is an invitation for a discussion between 
artistic practices and the forefront of research and development of information 
technologies.

cast01 is organised by netzspannung.org and by the GMD - German National 
Research Center for Information Technology. It is supported by the German 
Federal Ministry for Education and Research (bmb+f) and by the European 
Commission.

http://netzspannung.org/cast01
e-mail: cast01@netzspannung.org

Monika Fleischmann / Wolfgang Strauss
MARS - Exploratory Media Lab
GMD - Institute for Media Communication
Schloss Birlinghoven
D-53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany

OBJECTIVES:
On September 21-22, 2001 cast01 will present inspiring media art and innovative 
research projects from the EU Information Society Technologies programme (IST). 
Semantic Web, Mixed Reality, Advanced Interfaces and Future Media Spaces are 
only some of the topics that symbolise the influence of information technology 
on patterns of life and work in a networked society. cast01 explores the ways in 
which Next Generation Internet can be understood, explored and supported through 
creative interdisciplinary practices.

cast01 invites submissions of inspiring research, technological development and 
artistic production. Proposed contributions may be in the form of research 
papers and artistic presentations as well as blueprints and posters of 
developing ideas. Researchers, artists, theorists, practitioners and 
entrepreneurs are encouraged to submit interdisciplinary projects and critical 
reflections on the merging of the virtual and the real.

Topics:
* Agents, Avatars and Narrative Intelligence
* Advanced and Performative Interfaces, Displays and Sensors
* Awareness and Knowledge Discovery
* Collaborative Media Spaces and Interactive Environments
* Community Systems, Cooperative Platforms, Portals and Channels
* Distributed Systems and Parallel Architectures for the Web
* Distribution of Content and Multimedia Services
* Enabling Technologies, Authoring Tools, Artistic Software
* Interactive Streaming, Intermedia Formats, Interactive TV
* Knowledge & Memory Spaces, Cultural Archives
* Metadata and Application Delivery (XML, VRML, MPEG-4, MPEG-7)
* Network Games, Virtual Theatre, Virtual Exhibitions
* Next Generation Internet and Emergent Technologies
* Signal Processing and Mixed Reality
* Tracking and Tracing People, Homes, Ambience

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: May 31, 2001
Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2001
Camera-ready papers: July 15, 2001
Symposium Registration Deadline: July 31, 2001

The symposium languages are both English and German with simultaneous
translation.

PROCEEDINGS
Accepted papers and blueprints will be published in the symposium proceedings, 
in English. A special issue of netzspannung.org - (e-)Journal of Art, Design and 
Innovation Research will be published with cast01 symposium best papers.

BEST PAPER AWARD
The best paper, artistic presentation, blueprint, poster and student 
presentation will be honored with the cast01 award.


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