The 7th Nordic Interactive Research School - Call for Participation
Interface: from the desktop to interactive spaces
- Challenging aesthetics, architecture and computer science -
November 9-15, 2003, Aarhus, Denmark
http://www.nordic-interactive.org/researchschool/nires/nires7.shtml
Arranged by Centre for Research in Digital Aesthetics, University of Aarhus=
and Centre for Interactive Spaces, ISIS Katrinebjerg
**************************************************************
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION extended untill 1st of October, 2003
**************************************************************
Computers and the interaction with them are increasingly embedded in our
surrounding space. The aim with the research school is to discuss how art=
and aesthetics challenges, and is challenged by the interface, and to
explore what happens with the interface when it becomes interactive space=
and embedded in architecture.
From the computer screens to interactive spaces, the current developments=
present challenges to aesthetics, architecture and computer science.
Challenges that need cross-disciplinary discussions, explorations,
experiments and answers. NIRES7 will take stock and look at new
perspectives. It will focus on the interface, how it has become a cultural=
and artistic form. Simultaneously the interface as we know it is changing=
towards a situation where the interface is spatialised and space becomes an=
interface.
The interface is a central cultural form of the digital age. It is the
point of convergence where the hidden technological dimensions of the
computer meet human perception, interpretation and interaction. Here, at
the interface, the data become text, image, sound, space and vice versa. In=
digital art forms such as net.art and techno, the very process of
digitalisation has come into focus, but all art forms and genres have
explored digital media and will continue to do so. Digital art develops
well-known aesthetic forms such as narrative, illusionism, space, and so
forth, but it also places these aesthetic forms in a new, technological
context. The aesthetics of the interface is the cultural and artistic
answer to the information society of the digital age
