Call for Artistic Contributions for Computational Aesthetics 2007 (CAe
2007), held on June 20-22, 2007 in Banff, Alberta, Canada

http://innovis.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/cae2007/

In conjunction with the International Symposium on Computational
Aesthetics in Graphics, Visualization, and Imaging to be held on June
20-22, 2007 in Banff, Alberta, Canada, we invite both artwork and
paper submissions from artists using tools, techniques, and theory
arising out of developments in Computational Aesthetics.

The overriding goal of the conference will be to facilitate a dialogue
between the scientists and engineers who are creating these new tools
and the artists and designers who are the end users.

In particular, we are looking for artists and designers using the new
tools and theory of computational aesthetics to create new types of
objects in areas which are not available through traditional media,
and that go beyond mere visualization and technique to create work
that functions within the larger contexts of contemporary art and
design.

Aesthetics is a recursive realm. Particular aesthetic understandings
bind us to particular moments in time and particular modes of
representation. The development of new forms and aesthetics are
accompanied by changing modes of perception that dictate not only what
can be represented, and how it can be represented, but also,
reflexively, the aesthetic itself.

According to Nicolas Bourriaud "There is a question we are entitled to
ask in front of any aesthetic production: Does this work permit me to
enter into dialogue? Could I exist, and how, in the space it defines?"

For this call we are interested in work that uses or questions the
recursive relationships between bodies, systems and machines, built
through visual and aesthetic means.

Topics could include, but are not limited to:
* aesthetic and psychical distance
* identity
* immersion
* machine aesthetics
* public, personal, private, intimate space
* mystical space
* memory
* beauty
* cultural difference and aesthetics
* pleasure, emotion, desire
* suspension of disbelief
* relational aesthetics
* gendered space
* politics of aesthetics 

Artwork

Work that can be exhibited online or shown through video documentation
will be considered for the conference exhibit. Please send links, bio,
and brief description via email. DVDs should be sent to the addresses
below.

Papers

We are inviting papers of original, unpublished work of up to 6
pages. The manuscripts must be written in English. For details on the
submission guidelines please refer to the paper submission page on the
conference website at

http://innovis.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/cae2007/

Please send submissions with links and a brief bio, to BOTH CAe 2007
Arts Program Co-Chairs:

Alan Dunning
Media Arts & Digital Technologies
Alberta College of Art & Design
1407 14th Avenue NW
Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 4R3
alan (dot) dunning (at) acad (dot) ca

and

Raquel Paricio
Media Arts & Evolvable Technologies
Technical University of Catalunya
C/ Ali- Bey 12, 1-2
08010 Barcelona, Spain
info (at) evolvable (dot) net
raquel (at) clonclon (dot) com 

Important dates:

Submission deadline:            March 12, 2007
Acceptance notification:        May 1, 2007
Camera-ready deadline:          May 18, 2007
Conference:                     June 20-22, 2007