CIRCA

Canadian Institute for Reseach Computing in the Arts

Social, Digital, Scholarly Editing

Posted on | April 15, 2013 | No Comments

Announcing a SSHRC supported conference on Social, Digital, Scholarly Editing at the University of Saskatchewan from July 11th to July 13th, 2013. CIRCA scholar Geoffrey Rockwell is one of the speakers confirmed for this conference. There is a call for proposals at this web page with a submission deadline of April 26th, 2013.

Day of DH 2013

Posted on | April 3, 2013 | No Comments

The Day of Digital Humanities project, which was started at the University of Alberta with support from CIRCA is being run again this year on April 8th. This will be the fifth year of the project and it is now a centerNet project. This year’s version is being managed by Michigan State’s MATRIX – see Day of DH 2013. Register and participate.

UofA exchange with SFU (Shannon Lucky)

Posted on | March 12, 2013 | No Comments

In late February this year I was graciously hosted by the SFU-SIAT PLAYPR group for a two day collaborative working exchange at the SFU Surrey campus.

JADH 2013

Posted on | February 21, 2013 | No Comments

The Japanese Association for Digital Humanities has announced their Call For Papers for JADH 2013 which will take place in September 2013. The theme is “Transcending Borders.”

See http://www.jadh.org/JADH2013/ for information.

Upcoming Interactives Events

Posted on | February 16, 2013 | No Comments

Here is a list of upcoming Interactives Events:

Feb 25th, Monday, 4pm to 6:30 – Video and Isadora. Emilie St. Hilaire and Wayne Defehr will be showing their video art and tools. Location TBA.

March 8th, Friday, 2pm to 5pm – Kamal Ranaweera will run an introductions to electronics and microprocessors for interactives.

March 22nd, Friday, 2pm to 5pm – Vadim Bulitko will run an introduction to AI for performance. Location TBA.

Kamal Ranaweera will run an introductions to electronics and microprocessors for interactives.

March 29th, Friday, 2pm to 5pm – Processing. Instruction and location TBA.

April 5th, Friday, 2pm to 5pm – Jamming with the Kinnect and/or introduction to programming for iOS. Instructor and location TBA.

Pure Data Workshop

Posted on | February 16, 2013 | No Comments

Scott Smallwood led a workshop on Pure Data on February 13th, 2013. Below are URLs to some of the works they looked at, as well as help sites and other relevant links.

Examples of work URLs:

Reactable:

fAR-Play

Posted on | February 7, 2013 | No Comments

David Holmes from GRAND ran a workshop on how to author locative games with fAR-Play today. This is the first of a series of teach-ins that are being put together by the Interactives group. Try out the Comic Arts Capture Challenge by Emiliest (the comic above is one of the challenges.) Her web site is Emiliest.com.

Interactives Group

Posted on | January 25, 2013 | No Comments

The Interactives group will be restarting this Winter term. We meet on every other Fridays at 2pm in the CIRCA/TAPoR Lab in Arts 434.

This group will be looking at physical computing, interactive arts, and locative games. See you there.

Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Practices, Principles and Politics

Posted on | January 10, 2013 | No Comments

CIRCA Scholars Geoffrey Rockwell and St

Call for Papers for International Conference on Japanese Game Studies

Posted on | January 8, 2013 | No Comments

CIRCA is supporting an International Conference on Japanese Game Studies in Kyoto, Japan. This conference follows the symposium that was organized at the University of Alberta and is being organized by the Ritsumeikan Center for Game Studies, Ritsumeikan University.

The conference will be held between May 24th and May 26th, 2013. The call for papers is here. The deadline is February 15th.

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