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Digital Arts and Culture::2003 MelbourneDAC::streaming wor(l)ds The 2003 iteration of the Digital Arts and Culture (DAC) international conference series is to be held on the city campus of RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia from May 19 to 23, 2003. [what is the Digital Arts and Culture conference?] DAC is an international conference series focusing on new media theory and practice in critical contexts. DAC has always sought to bring together new media artists and theorists in a spirit of collaboration and exploration. It has nurtured a significant international community of young and innovative researchers, artists and scholars working in the filed of interdisciplinary new media, and has become the benchmark conference for research and collaborative endeavour in the field. DAC forums emphasise the importance of bringing together leading practitioners from art and theory for the exchange of ideas and for the development of international professional networks and knowledge economies. MelbourneDAC:streaming wor(l)ds recognises and intends to continue this role through the papers, panels, forums and exhibition it hosts, and the innovative series of collaborative workshops and events that will be undertaken by all conference participants. Our mission is to not only exchange ideas and promote new developments in digital arts and culture but to support the growth of sustainable professional communities. MelbourneDAC:streaming wor(l)ds will bring together an international cohort of artists, practitioners, developers, theorists and teachers to define and explore the major themes confronting new media practice. The 2003 event will explore the theory and practice of computer gaming, ergodic narrative, distributed and/or immersive performance environments and streaming media with a particular focus on the real, imagined and wished for worlds that these things create. [what sort of stuff will be talked about, shown and exhibited?] MelbourneDAC::streaming wor(l)ds invites participants to consider what new cultural forms, experiences and possibilities are being developed, and what the implications of these might be for the social, cultural, political and philosophical understanding of ourselves and our technologies in the nascent moment of a new century? The DAC conference has always asked these questions of computer games, hypertext and electronically augmented narrative. At MelbourneDAC we extend this tradition to include streaming graphical wor(l)ds. [and just how is this going to happen?] MelbourneDAC::streaming wor(l)ds will provide keynotes, workshops, forums and participatory seminars with an emphasis on collaboration and constructive engagement with problems and issues. An academic refereeing process will be in place for that sort of content to ensure that material is relevant, innovative and informed. All conference material will be published in a book (all participants will receive their copy during MelbourneDac). Throughout MelbourneDAC the emphasis will be on the engagement with ideas, problems and processes and not on being 'spoken at.' A mentoring process will be available to postgraduate students and new academics who wish to have feedback in the development of their contributions. A call for papers will be distributed shortly. A call for entries for the MelbourneDAC::streaming wor(l)ds exhibition will be distributed shortly. A moderated announcement list for all interested in receiving additional information and updates is available. Subscription details at http://monaro.adc.rmit.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/dac/ a web site containing this and other information is located at http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/dac/ [how old is DAC?] The first DAC conference was held at the University of Bergen, Norway, in 1998 under the auspices of the Norwegian Research Council. It has since been hosted by the Georgia Institute of Technology (1999), The University of Bergen (2000) and Brown University (2001). MelbourneDAC:streaming wor(l)ds is the first time that DAC will be held in the southern hemisphere and will provide a regional focus within the international DAC community. www.stg.brown.edu.au/conferences/DAC [where is it being held again?] MelbourneDAC will be held in Melbourne, Australia, at RMIT University and is being hosted by RMIT's School of Applied Communication. [what is RMIT?] RMIT University is an Australian leader in real world research and development and recognised internationally for its creative arts and media programs. The RMIT School of Applied Communication is committed to the provision of international best practice applied humanities and design education, and has a research focus on new media humanities. And it goes without saying that the School is proud to have been chosen as the host for DAC 2003 Streaming wor(l)ds. www.rmit.edu.au/ADC/APPLIEDCOMMUNICATION [and this is from?] adrian miles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> conference chair antoanetta ivanova <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> conference producer ------------------------------------------------- a m b i t : networking media arts in scotland post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] info: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and write "info ambit" in the message body -------------------------------------------------
