Opportunities and Community Announcements

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: SENIOR WEB ARCHITECT Leonardo/ISAST announces an opening for the position of Senior Web Architect. Leonardo/ISAST and its associated web sites, such as Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA), are preeminent resources for those interested in the intersection of art, science, and technology. The journal Leonardo, published by MIT Press, recently celebrated its 40th anniversary. The Leonardo/ISAST Board of Directors has decided to initiate a major effort to update its web sites and to explore Web 2.0 and other electronic possibilities. The board seeks proposals from those who would be interested in helping to lead this challenging effort.Deadline to submit proposals is December 1, 2008. For more details, visit: http://www.leonardo.info/isast/announcements/CFP-Web-Architect-Nov08.html

MASTER OF RESEARCH IN COMPUTER MUSIC. The computer is becoming increasingly ubiquitous in all aspects of music. The new MRes in Computer Music at the University of Plymouth (UK) provides an exciting opportunity to pursue a research project of your choice while enhancing your career with a post-graduate academic qualification. Projects range from the development of music technology to musical practice using computers. The training conveys skills necessary to progress to more advanced research towards a PhD. The course is delivered in the context of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR). For more information please contact Eduardo Miranda (eduardo.miranda@plymouth.ac.uk).

11th GENERATIVE ART CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPER / POSTER / ARTWORK / PERFORMANCE. Topics include: Art & Science; Philosophy & Technology; Infinity & Identity; Image & Space; Music; Poetry; Mathematics; Visionary Scenarios & Virtual Environment; Architecture; Cities Identity & Town Design; Software Art - Web Art; Industrial Design &Intelligent Production; Artificial Intelligence; Artificial Life; Artificial Behaviors; Generative Robotics; Mechatronic; Teaching Theory; Visual Grammar. Visit http://www.generativeart.com for more information.

THE TOPOLOGY OF DESIRE---Artificial Life's Search For Sexuality. Free email article, request from author: dinavonzweck@earthlink.net

INTERSPATIALITY & DYSTOPIA EXHIBITION: 1st - 9th November 2008; Lecture: 6th November 2008. Part of Un-built, 2008 international architecture research events, The Athens Byzantine and Christian Museum & SARCHA (School of ARCHitecture for All). You are cordially invited to Interspatiality & Dystopia lecture and exhibition by Dr Eugenia Fratzeskou. The growth of non object-centred thinking, the cosmological understanding of space as an uncontrollably changing informational substance and the expanded use of virtual environments, necessitate new strategies for developing spatial research in order to advance art and architecture. Pioneering methodologies for expanding the development of digital site-specific art through the in-depth investigation of the emerging relationships between space and digital visualisation have been the outcome of Fratzeskou’s theoretical and practical research on the new intersections between art, architecture, philosophy and computer science. Interspatiality is manifested in the creation of inter-passages between the digital and physical spaces of architecture, revealing the hidden dimensions of architectural space. The creation of inter-passages has resulted in innovative types of spatial intervention within built architectural spaces through devising new types of virtual environments and in-situ digital modelling. The existing modes of digital visualisation, site-specificity, virtual and mixed realities in art, design and science are radically challenged, as the built boundaries of architecture are 'unfolded' to reveal a paradoxical hybrid space.