Call for Presentations: Knowledge Technology in the Arts

[Peter M. Todd]

(I hope we will get some connectionist contributions-- Peter)


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	  CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS on Knowledge Technology in the Arts
                                       
		     to be presented in a special session
			at the 1993 Conference of the
	    Society of Electroacoustic Music in the U.S. (SEAMUS)
                        University of Texas at Austin
			March 31st to April 3rd, 1993

	       and at the Fourth Arts and Technology Conference
		     Connecticut College, New London, CT
			    March 4th to 6th, 1993
 
During the 1993 SEAMUS conference, a special session on knowledge technology
in the arts will be held, co-sponsored by SEAMUS and IAKTA, the newly founded
International Association for Knowledge Technology in the Arts.  The main
purpose of this session is to familiarize artists with the applications of AI,
Connectionism, and other knowledge technologies in music and related arts, and
the new tools that are available for these artistic pursuits.  IAKTA is
calling for proposals for presentations on applications of symbolic AI and
neural networks to topics in composition, performance, and teaching in the
computer arts (music, film, dance, video art, performance art), in keeping
with the conference's focus on "Music, Media, and Movement".  We would most
like to encourage the submission of tutorial presentations that will help
inspire artists to learn more about and become involved in knowledge
technology, both as practitioners and as researchers.  Speakers will have
approximately 25-45 minutes to give a thorough introduction to their topic.
Talks on new and innovative uses of knowledge technology and the arts are also
welcomed.

Please send abstracts/descriptions up to two pages in length and descriptions
of your audiovisual requirements by October 1 to IAKTA president Otto Laske
(laske at cs.bu.edu) and secretary Peter Todd (ptodd at spo.rowland.org).

(For more information on IAKTA itself, our goals, membership structure, etc.,
please contact Peter Todd at ptodd at spo.rowland.org .)

IAKTA would also like to encourage paper submissions on knowledge technology
in the arts to the Fourth Arts and Technology Conference at Connecticut
College.  This conference will be held March 4th to 6th, 1993, in New London,
Connecticut, and is being organized by Noel Zahler and David Smalley.  The
emphasis of the Arts and Technology Conference is multidisciplinary
interaction; it will cover virtual reality, cognition and the arts,
experimental theater, the compositional process, and speculative uses of
technology in education.  Submissions in the form of a detailed two-page
abstract including audiovisual requirements should be sent by October 15 to

        Dr. Noel Zahler, Co-director
        Center for Arts and Technology
        Connecticut College, Box 5632
        207 Mohegan Avenue
        New London, CT 06320-4196
        email: nbzah at conncoll.bitnet

(Authors should be notified of acceptance by November 15, and camera-ready
copy will be due by January 15, 1993.)  A copy of the contribution should also
be sent to IAKTA president Otto Laske (laske at cs.bu.edu) and secretary Peter
Todd (ptodd at spo.rowland.org).
 
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