The Allergic Bodies Conference: Postgraduate/Postdoctoral Research Conference, 2010

This is the programme document for the annual Postgraduate/Postdoctoral Research Conference with Keynotes: Dr Jennifer Bajorek (Goldsmiths), Marianne Sjelsford (National Academy of Arts, Oslo, Sweden); Dr Maarten Vanvolsem (Lieven Gevaert Research Centre for Photography, Katholieke Universiteit, Brussels), Professor Pedro Lasch (Duke University)

Of Clouds and Clocks: When Art Met the Web-Sciences: International launch symposium for ICAS, Oct 16-17, 2009

The Institute for the Converging Arts & Sciences (ICAS) links artists, scientists, designers, social theorists, legal scholars and inventive thinkers in a community directed at fostering transformational research and the dissemination of high impact knowledge Practice, and Performance both locally and globally. The historical setting of the Institute is without peer: the Royal Observatory on the hill overlooking the campus, the Cutty Sark Clipper at the edge of The Thames, the naval history stretching along the peninsula into the English Channel, mark out a territory where the convergence of the arts and sciences has been the standard. ICAS will draw from this rich historical legacy extending it into the future via Electronic & Media Arts Practice, Performance, Philosophy and the New Sciences! Located in King William Court, with strong ties to the Greenwich Maritime Institute and the Schools of Humanities & Social Sciences and Computing Mathematical Sciences, the Institute will create a network of Research Fellows focused on applied projects that will position the University at the centre of enterprises directly engaged with social, cultural, artistic, legal and creative events. Our launch, an international symposium entitled, Of Clouds and Clocks, will be held on the 16-17th October, in the Council Chamber Room (QA 063). Set up as an interactive Roundtable with 25 speakers over two intensive days, speakers will include Dame Wendy Hall (Director, Web-Science Research Institute, South Hampton), Sir Tim Berners-Lee (Founder of the Web, MIT, tbc) Professor Arthur Kroker (Director & Digital Arts Philosopher, Pacific Centre for Technology, Art and Culture, Victoria); Caroline Arscott (Prof of 19thC British Art, The Courtauld Institute), Olga Kisseleva (NANO-Artist, Plastik.Arts, The Sorbonne), Dick Rijken (Director: STEIM) and Joel Ryan (Composer & Physicist, STEIM), Norbert Finzsch (Historian, Univ of Cologne), Mary Bryson (Director, Centre for Cross-Faculty Education, Univ British Columbia), Art Clay (Composer/Mathematician, ETH, Zurich), Steve Gibson & Stefan Muller-Arisona (game arts/sound-light composers, Centre for Creative Technologies, De Montfort University and ETH, Zurich), Fox Harrell (robotics-games, Georgia Tech), Jackson 2 Bears (artist, Univ of Victoria, CA), Michaela Hampf (Historian, the JFK Institute, Frei Univ of Berlin), Ecke Bonk (Designer, ZKM Karlshrue), Pascal Brannan (Artist, London), Stephen Kennedy (Media-Arts Philosopher and DJ/composer, Univ Greenwich), Aya Walfaren (holographic technologies, UBC), Maureen Thomas (Media Arts/theatre Director, Cambridge), Ted Hiebert (media-arts-writer/Univ of Seattle)

Hegel's Eurocentric Triads of Dialectics and its Transformation to Kelly's Planetary Paradigm

This article introduces Hegel's Eurocentric philosophy of dialectics in the 19th century and its transformation to Kelly’s planetary paradigm at the turn of the 20th-21st century. The new theory develops Hegel’s thesis—antitheses—synthesis to identity—difference—new-identity which is applicable for the entire human history, including the planetary era. The new triad generalizes Hegel’s mechanic view of nature by suggesting a dominant worldview which is featured by a series of tightening and converging dynamic fractal cycles

A theoretical model for design in Management science : the paradigm shift in the design profession for management as a constraint to management science as an opportunity

Design Management has changed greatly since 1990 Peter Gorb definition .The purpose of this paper is to synthetize the various models of Design Management and to explain their limits in front of the paradigm shift of the design profession, changing “from an activity based profession to a knowledge based profession” professor Yjro Sotamaa- UIAH The territory of design in Management science will be developed in detail with the limits of these diverging forces. The converging model of Design value management based not on practices but on management science models will be explained with its proactive force. Finally ,this value model will be applied enhancing its pertinence in the emerging “design leadership” trend and consequently the potential for a “design thinking “ input in front of the new challenges of contemporary managers : sense building, complexity , innovation , Socially Responsible Organizations

Creating the on-line documentary: a satellite solution

[Abstract]: The online documentary, A Satellite Solution, is a case study investigation into how digital communications (primarily satellite TV) have impacted the quality of life of a rural community comprising 50 households in southeast Queensland (Australia) between 1999 and 2006. The production depicts a community-mediated process by which these residents adopted and then responded to receiving free-to-air TV services for the first time. The author, instigated and facilitated the project in the community and as well, recorded and produced all the material contained in the in the documentary. The paper will highlight the production components of the research set against the context of this participatory activity.This online documentary is a web site containing research materials (policy documents, significant correspondence and reports) video interviews and location sequences, maps and technical information such as, how to install a satellite system, where to find free-to-air satellite services and what satellite broadband incentives are available etc. Importantly it also represents innovation in film and television and particularly, the researcher's selected art form, the documentary. This paper, takes a practice focus and will document the production of the web site and how this new form impacts on the production style of traditional linear production and as well, what filmmakers working in this emerging non-linear form may need to plan for. This project formed the practical component for a recently completed research degree, Doctor of Visual Arts (Griffith), by the author

iSchools in Central and South Europe: Developments and Challenges of Cooperation

The countries of Central and South Europe entered the 2000s with plans to restructure their higher education systems based on Bologna recommendations and some other EU supported guidelines. The Humboldt tradition at the universities in the region, necessity to introduce new academic profiles as well as the use of ICT in higher education, is leading the way towards the restructuring of existing programs or designing new curricula and to cooperation between the LIS and IS departments in the region. This panel will address the special concerns for restructuring curricula in the wider information sciences field (Library and Information Science - LIS, Information Science ??? IS, Records Management ??? RM, education for digital services etc) Panelists will address three questions with respect to i-schools developments and trends in their respective countries: ??? What are the basic concerns in developing new curricula in their respective countries? ??? How do the multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary issues influence curricula design in IS? ??? What are the future steps, particularly in regard to regional cooperation? After each of the panelists will have presented his position concerning these three questions, they will discuss especially the issues on inter-/multidisciplinarity and on future regional cooperation. The audience of the panel discussion is invited to join this discussion

Liberal Arts Education for a Global Society

Looks at trends in general and liberal education approaches, and explores the most effective ways to address new reforms for revitalizing liberal arts education