(addition to yesterday's forward) Fwd: Cross-overs in Audiovisual Arts and Interactive Media - Keynote speakers

[claudia westermann]

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>Cross-overs in Audiovisual Arts and  Interactive Media
>June 7-9, 2004
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>KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - CALL FOR PAPERS
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>The Graduate School of Audiovisual Media - 
>Elomedia at the University of Art and Design 
>Helsinki organizes in cooperation with Crucible 
>Studio a symposium "Cross-overs in Audiovisual 
>Arts and Interactive Media"  in June 7-9, 2004 
>at Media Centre Lume Sampo hall, Hämeentie 135C, 
>00560 Helsinki.
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>The purpose of this three-day symposium is to 
>debate the different audiovisual forms and 
>contents.
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>The program of the symposium consists of 
>lectures and workshop sessions.  The keynote 
>speakers are:
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>Sara Diamond from the Banff Centre, Canada. She 
>is a television and new media producer/director, 
>video artist, curator, critic, teacher, and 
>artistic director. Diamond is currently the 
>executive producer for Television and New Media 
>and the artistic director of Media and Visual 
>Arts at The Banff Centre. Her topic will be 
>specified later.
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>Andrew Salway from the University of Surrey, 
>United Kingdom. His research is concerned with 
>developing intelligent multimedia information 
>systems, like digital image and video libraries, 
>particularly by providing knowledge-rich 
>representations of media content. The topic of 
>Salway's lecture is Computing Moving Images: 
>Beyond the Pixel.
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>Eija-Liisa Ahtila is internationally esteemed 
>Finnish media artist whose versatile works are 
>motivated by art philosophy, by critique of art 
>institutions and traditional forms of 
>representation. The focus of her investigations 
>has been new kinds of constructions of images, 
>language, narrative and space. She calls her 
>films "human dramas". The stories Ahtila tells 
>through her films and multiscreened audiovisual 
>works are based on research, on real and fictive 
>events, on the experiences and memories of the 
>artist herself, of those she knows, or of 
>complete strangers. The topic of her lecture is 
>Narrative and Space: Artist's Perspective to 
>Moving Image.
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>Katriina Ilmaranta from the University of Art 
>and Design Helsinki, professor at the School of 
>Motion Picture, Television and Production 
>Design. Ilmaranta will talk about her 
>artistically oriented doctoral thesis which 
>utilizes the new virtual set design technology. 
>She has completed a digital scenography for 
>Maurice Ravel's fantasy opera L' Enfant et les 
>Sortileges, directed by Marikki Hakola, a 
>pioneering media artist. Her topic will be 
>specified later.
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>The workshop themes include (loosely):
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>1. Visual transformations and new technologies
>2. Real and virtual movements, spaces and places
>3. Foundations and developments of cinematic representations
>4. Logics of interactive storytelling
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>Please contribute to the content of the 
>symposium by offering your paper around the 
>themes above. The final program of the workshops 
>will be available after we have received the 
>abstracts and seen the subjects and interests of 
>the participants.
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>The deadline for submitting abstracts (in 
>Finnish or English, 200-500 words) is April 20, 
>2004. Please send your abstract to Ms Eeva 
>Kurki, director of the research school 
><mailto:eeva.kurki at uiah.fi>eeva.kurki at uiah.fi or 
>to Ms Kirsi Rinne (planning officer), 
><mailto:kirsi.rinne at uiah.fi>kirsi.rinne at uiah.fi.
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>The language of the symposium is English. More 
>information on the organizers: 
><http://www.uiah.fi/elomedia>www.uiah.fi/elomedia 
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><http://crucible.lume.fi/>http://crucible.lume.fi
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