From paulien at dresscher.nl Mon Jan 4 12:25:44 2010 From: paulien at dresscher.nl (Paulien Dresscher) Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 12:25:44 +0100 Subject: The Computational Turn, Swansea University References: <18E72834-F847-43A5-BF29-A91F0940EC0D@govcom.org> Message-ID: Begin forwarded message: > From: Richard Rogers > Date: January 4, 2010 12:20:30 PM CEST > To: Masters of Media > Cc: dmi at mediastudies.nl > Subject: CFP: The Computational Turn, Swansea University > > CFP: The Computational Turn > > http://www.thecomputationalturn.com/ > > SWANSEA UNIVERSITY > 9TH MARCH 2010 > > Keynote: N. Katherine Hayles (Professor of Literature at Duke > University). > Keynote: Lev Manovich (Professor, Visual Arts Department, UCSD). > > The application of new computational techniques and visualisation > technologies in the Arts & Humanities are resulting in new > approaches and methodologies for the study of traditional and new > corpuses of Arts and Humanities materials. This new 'computational > turn' takes the methods and techniques from computer science to > create new ways of distant and close readings of texts (e.g. > Moretti). This one-day workshop aims to discuss the implications and > applications of what Lev Manovich has called 'Cultural Analytics' > and the question of finding patterns using algorthmic techniques. > Some of the most startling approaches transform understandings of > texts by use of network analysis (e.g. graph theory), database/XML > encodings (which flatten structures), or merely provide new > quantitative techniques for looking at various media forms, such as > media and film, and (re)presenting them visually, aurally or > haptically. Within this field there are important debates about the > contrast between narrative against database techniques, pattern- > matching versus hermeneutic reading, and the statistical paradigm > (using a sample) versus the data mining paradigm. Additionally, new > forms of collaboration within the Arts and Humanities are emerging > which use team-based approaches as opposed to the traditional lone- > scholar. This requires the ability to create and manage modular Arts > and Humanities research teams through the organisational structures > provided by technology and digital communications (e.g. Big > Humanities), together with techniques for collaborating in an > interdisciplinary way with other disciplines such as computer > science (e.g. hard interdisciplinarity versus soft > interdisciplinarity). > > Papers are encouraged in the following areas: > > - Distant versus Close Reading > - Database Structure versus Argument > - Data mining/Text mining/Patterns > - Pattern as a new epistemological object > - Hermeneutics and the Data Stream > - Geospatial techniques > - Big Humanities > - Digital Humanities versus Traditional Humanities > - Tool Building > - Free Culture/Open Source Arts and Humanities > - Collaboration, Assemblages and Alliances > - Language and Code (software studies) > - Information visualization in the Humanities > - Philosophical and theoretical reflections on the computational turn > > + Participation Requirements + > > Workshop participants are requested to submit a position paper > (approx. 2000-5000 words) about the computational turn in Arts and > Humanities, philosophical/theoretical reflections on the > computational turn, research focus or research questions related to > computational approaches, proposals for academic practice with > algorithmic/visualisation techniques, proposals for new research > methods with regard to Arts and Humanities or specific case studies > (if applicable) and findings to date. Position papers will be > published in a workshop PDF and website for discussion and some of > the participants will be invited to present their paper at the > workshop. > > Deadline for Position papers: February 10, 2010 > Submit papers to: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tct2010 > > Workshop funded by The Callaghan Centre for the Study of Conflict, > Power, Empire, Swansea University. TheResearch Institute in the Arts > and Humanities (RIAH) at Swansea University. > > + References + > > Clement, Tanya E. (2008) ?A thing not beginning and not ending?: > using digital tools to distant-read Gertrude Stein?s The Making of > Americans. Literary and Linguistic Computing. 23.3 (2008): 361. > > Clement, Tanya, Steger, Sara, Unsworth, John, Uszkalo, Kirsten > (2008) How Not to Read a Million Books. Retrieved 10/11/09 from http://www3.isrl.illinois.edu/~unsworth/hownot2read.html > > Council on Library and Information Resources and The National > Endowment for the Humanities (2009) Working Together or Apart: > Promoting the Next Generation of Digital Scholarship. Retrieved > 10/11/09 from http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub145/pub145.pdf > > Hayles, N. Katherine (2009) RFID: Human Agency and Meaning in > Information-Intensive Environments. Theory, Culture and Society > 26.2/3 (2009): 1-24. > > Hayles, N. Katherine (2009) How We Think: The Transforming Power of > Digital Technologies. Retrieved 10/11/09 from http://hdl.handle.net/1853/27680 > > Kittler, Fredrich (1997) Literature, Media, Information Systems. > London: Routledge. > > Krakauer, David C. (2007) The Quest for Patterns in Meta-History. > Santa Fe Institute Bulletin. Winter 2007. Retrieved 10/11/09 from http://www.intelros.ru/pdf/SFI_Bulletin/Quest.pdf > > Latour, Bruno (2007) Reassembling the Social. London: Oxford > University Press. > > Manovich, Lev (2002) The Language of New Media. MIT Press. > > Manovich, Lev (2007) White paper: Cultural Analytics: Analysis and > Visualizations of Large Cultural Data Sets, May 2007. Retrieved > 10/11/09 from http://softwarestudies.com/cultural_analytics/cultural_analytics_2008.doc > > McLemee, Scott (2006) Literature to Infinity. Inside Higher Ed. > Retrieved 10/11/09 from http://www.insidehighered.com/views/mclemee/mclemee193 > > Moretti, Franco (2005) Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a > Literary History. London: Verso. > > Robinson, Peter (2006) Electronic Textual Editing: The Canterbury > Tales and other Medieval Texts. Electronic Textual Editing. Modern > Language Association of America. Retrieved 10/11/09 from http://www.tei-c.org/About/Archive_new/ETE/Preview/robinson.xml > > Schreibman, Susan, Siemens, Ray & Unsworth, John (2007) A Companion > to Digital Humanities. London: WileyBlackwell. > > > > > Organised by Dr David M. Berry, Department of Political and Cultural > Studies, Swansea University. d.m.berry at swansea.ac.uk > > > > > --- > > Dr David M. Berry > Department of Political and Cultural Studies > School of Arts and Humanities > Swansea University. > Swansea > SA2 8PP > Wales, UK > > Tel: 01792 602633 > Web: http://www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/academic/Arts/berryd/ > > _______________________________________________ > mastersofmedia mailing list > mastersofmedia at listcultures.org > http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/mastersofmedia_listcultures.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From niels.reedijk at gmail.com Thu Jan 14 14:11:23 2010 From: niels.reedijk at gmail.com (Niels Reedijk) Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:11:23 +0100 Subject: 39th International Film Festival Rotterdam: Jan 27 - Feb 7 Message-ID: <507d86c1001140511p62f86a14o438d4ec79c739abc@mail.gmail.com> Hey guys, As the promotional posters are literally everywhere in town, and also on all the train stations, I think it is time to get excited about the International Film Festival in Rotterdam from January 27 until February 7. You can find the website here: http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/ This festival is the largest international film festival in the Netherlands and it has a really nice atmosphere. Traditionally, the festival has a very strong selection of Asian films, though I find that in recent years the programmer's tastes have expanded. Whether that's a good thing, I don't know, that's up for you to decide. I think it might be fun to do one festival day as a group. I would suggest Friday January 29th. For those who never been to Rotterdam, I can give you a small tour during the afternoon and I invite everyone on this list to have dinner at my place during the evening. (Though that's dangerous as I don't actually know how many people are on the list ;-). Will this date work for you? Anyway: information! (If you have any questions, don't hessitate to contact me). TRANSPORTATION TO ROTTERDAM --- Getting to Rotterdam is easy. The festival locations are concentrated around the Rotterdam Central station. From Amsterdam central the most optimal trains are the intercities at :29 (to Vlissingen) and :59 (to Dordrecht). These depart from platforms 13 or 14. If you are living in the east of Amsterdam (near stations Amstel, Muiderpoort, Duivendrecht, Bijlmer or Holendrecht) or you live near the subway line that goes past these stations, it is best to take the local train via Breukelen-Gouda to Rotterdam Central (the travel time of the train is a bit longer, but it generally works out best if you offset it with the time you need to travel to and transfer at Amsterdam Central). If you are in the south of Amsterdam, it is usually best to take a train to Schiphol and transfer there to the intercity. TIP: Get door to door travel information at www.9292ov.nl. This is the best website for planning public transport travel in Holland. TRANSPORTATION IN ROTTERDAM --- First of all, my apologies for the lack of a real train station at Rotterdam Centraal. At the moment the station is being rebuilt completely in order to increase capacity inside the station, as well as for the extension of the subway to Den Haag. It is a bit of a maze the first time you're navigating around the perimeter, but I am pretty sure that there will be signs guiding you towards the main festival location in the Doelen building. All festival locations are in walking distance from Rotterdam Central, but if you want to do some exploring it is best to have an OV-chipcard, as that's the only valid ticket in the subways. You can still use a strippenkaart in the trams and busses (until February 11th!). The main arteries of the public transport system are the subway lines (in the center lines A-B-C-D) and the tram lines. Overview of the subway: http://bit.ly/5zsgoz Map of the transportation network: http://www.ret.nl/lijnenplattegrond/index.html (Google maps also contains all the tram, bus and subway stops). FESTIVAL LOCATIONS --- A map of the festival locations can be found here: http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/nl/waar-/ (Sorry, the English version doesn't seem to work) The most important thing you need to know is that the main ticket office can be found at the Doelen building, 5 minutes away from the train station (that's 1 on the map). It is the heart of the festival, have a coffee and enjoy looking at all the people moving about. The 'real' cinemas are Pathe Schouwburgplein (3 on the map), Cinerama (4) and some halls in Lantaren/Venster (5). De Doelen (1), De Schouwburg (2) and het Oude Luxor (6) are normal theatres and while the atmosphere is great, I find that the projection quality is less optimal. So I suggest to chose for the real cinemas whenever you have the choice. I also urge to you try to visit at least one film in Lantaren/Venster (5). This small theatre is hidden in a residential street, but has a really cool lounge. It is very likely that this theatre is going to move to a new location - though I don't know whether this is meant to happen this year - but this might be the last chance for you to visit it. So I suggest trying to visit at least one viewing here. The shorts programs run here, so big chance there is something of your liking. Furthermore, the Boijmans van Beuningen (C) is a nice museum where some artists are doing some split screen magic. I don't know what it is exactly, but at least that exhibition is free entry when you can show a cinema ticket (11:00-17:00, closed on Mondays). TICKETS --- The full ticket info can be found here: http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/iffr-2010/tickets-and-services/ Short overview: * Normal tickets: ? 9,00. (No single ticket student discount available!) * There is a festival pass called the tiger pass. It costs ?10 with student discount (?15 regular). HOWEVER, the website says that you can get the student discount with the OV-studentcard which some of you do not have. I would suggest contacting them to ask whether the UvA student card is valid as well. NOTE that you can already order the Tiger Pass online, it will be sent to your home address then. * Tickets bought with a tiger pass are ? 6,50, that means that if you go to more than four viewings you are saving money (with the student price). There is a online ticket sale, but I haven't tried it. The online sale starts 20.00 on Friday the 22nd of January. In my experience the weekends are really busy. You might manage to score tickets for the day films on the day itself (though the most popular ones are usually sold out), but the evening's are usually sold out in advance. Your chances are better on a weekday, though evenings are tricky there as well. If a viewing is sold out, usually there is a second viewing during the festival (if the first is on an evening in the weekend, the second is usually during a weekday in the daytime). If you visit more than one day I suggest you buy all the tickets you want on your first visit. You can also buy tickets at the venues, but if I recall correctly, only for the viewings that are in that theatre (and it might even be restricted to the day itself). The central ticket office opens on Tuesday the 26th of January from 09.00. PROGRAM --- The preview of the different categories can be found at: http://admin.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/iffr-2010/programme-sections/ The full program will be announced on the 21st of January. A print version (with Dutch film descriptions) is distributed with the Volkskrant on that day. That is the only day in the year I buy a Volkskrant, and I usually toss out the rest. I suggest everybody else to do the same. The program will also be available online in English. A print version is available at the central ticket office during the festival, though I never paid attention to whether there was one in English. The films to look out for are those in the Tiger Awards competition (the main festival competition). There are also several blogs and news sources that preview the program and pick out the good stuff. LUNCH --- Lunch can be found everywhere over town, but a few suggestions for you: * Nostra. Mid-price, located at the Maurritsstraat 79 (Between the Schouwburgplein and the Van Oldenbarneveldstraat). This is a nice place with good 'broodjes' and salads. Busy during lunch time, but not impossible. http://bit.ly/64UJDH * Bram Ladage. Cheap. For the quick snack, the best fries in town. Can be found at the Kruisplein (accross the Doelen) and at the Binnenwegplein (http://bit.ly/7By00v). * La Place. Mid-price. Good restaurant (part of the V&D department store) with a really nice view. http://bit.ly/8EAphO DINNER --- * Several restaurants in the Witte de Withstraat. Mid-price. This is the 'art street' of Rotterdam. You can find here Bazar with a really nice atmosphere and North-African/Middle Eastern cuisine (the one in Amsterdam is the 'copy' of the Rotterdam one. The Rotterdam one has a very different atmosphere). You can also try Opa which serves descent food. [http://bit.ly/72bkIf] I have had a good experience at Werelds, but many people had a bad one, so try that one at your own risk. * Stalles. Student-price (with weekday offers) in the Nieuwe Binnenweg (at the corner with the Eendrachtsplein) [http://bit.ly/6zmAJf]. Nice good pastas and pizzas and whatever else can be made at a good price. Note that nextdoor is Rotown, a well-known cafe and concert venue for 'indie'-bands. They also have a restaurant which is slightly more expensive but also good. * Sijf. A nice Dutch 'eetcafe', good food at descent prices. Can be found at the Oude Binnenweg. [http://bit.ly/4H9Skr] PARTY --- Finally, where to go partying depends on your mood and more importantly the day. Unlike in Amsterdam, people in Rotterdam actually work during the weekdays so most of the action happens in the weekends. During the film festival, the Schouwburg (2 on the map) is transformed into a 'Film Cafe', where you can hang about. After 23:00 there is a DJ there. Access after 23:00 is free provided you can show a film ticket. In my experience this is a nice intro to the night life. Anyway, if you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me. 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