The Festival Ciber@RT Bilbao 2004 announces a Call for Papers for its International Conference, which under the heading CHALLENGES FOR A UBIQUITOUS IDENTITY, will take place in the city of Bilbao from Monday 26th April to Thursday 29th April 2004.
 
 
    
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
  Roy Ascott
  Victoria Vesna
  Angel Kalenberg
  Elisenda Ardèvol
  Giulia Colaizzi
  Peter Anders
  Alex Galloway
  Josu Rekalde
  Lourdes Cilleruelo
  Ramon López de Mántaras Badia
  Javier Echeverría
  Pierre Bongiovanni
 
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
      The International Conference of the Festival Ciber@RT Bilbao 2004 is a biannual event and is a space for debate and reflection.
Under the name Challenges for a Ubiquitous Identity it will focus on the challenges posed by cyberculture and the new artistic practices that use digital technologies and emerging technologies for their development. These technologies and the discussions, which they generate, have a wide-reaching social repercussion.
CONFERENCE FORMAT
 
    The Conference will last 4 days, beginning on Monday 26th April until Thursday 29th April (both included). It will be divided into 8 sessions. The first 3 days will be devoted to the 6 topics proposed by Ciber@RT Bilbao (6 sessions, 2 per day). Each session will open with a master lecture and will be completed by a series of communications to be determined and which an international scientific committee will select from the submitted papers. The fourth day will be devoted entirely to Planetary Collegium, a group of researchers and artists (a total of 19) directed by Roy Ascott. .

- In addition, the main auditorium of the Conference will have two adjacent rooms:

Room for Artistic Projects: here, artistic projects may be submitted which use new technologies for their development. The selected projects will be shown to the public for a given time. From the submitted projects a jury will award a prize to the chosen project. The prize will consist of financing the project and its future exhibition. The prize will be awarded by the Foundation Bilbao Arte and will be displayed in their headquarters.

Room for Emerging Technologies: here, practical applications of interaction technologies (software and hardware development) may be submitted. The projects will be chosen by virtue of their contribution to the science and art community of innovative tools and applications, their social contribution of co-operative software and of new programming languages.
The selected projects will be shown to the public for a given time. From the submitted projects a jury will choose a project that will be awarded an honorary prize in recognition of its merits.

DOCUMENTS
 

1) PAPERS FOR THE CONFERENCE

Those interested in presenting communications at the Conference will provide an abstract with the following format:

- Title of communication.

- Personal data of the author(s).

- Affiliation (if any).

- Chosen topic (from the enclosed list).

- Abstract with maximum 500 words.

- Brief CV of the author(s).

- Technical requirements for the presentation.

2) ROOM FOR ARTISTIC PROJECTS AND ROOM FOR EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES

Those interested in doing a presentation in the adjacent rooms: Room for Artistic Projects and Room for Emerging Technologies should provide the information in the following format:- Personal data of the author(s).

- Affiliation (if any).

- Brief CV of the author(s).

- Room of choice

- Title of presentation

- Presentation of documents

- Technical requirements for the presentation

   
HOW TO SEND COMMUNICATIONS
 
    The communications, together with all the documentation, can be submitted by e-mail or regular post (in a digital medium together with a printed copy) to the offices of Ciber@RT Bilbao 2004 before the reception deadline.

The communications will be granted a maximum of 20 minutes for their presentation.
There will be a period of collective discussion and questions at the end of the presentation.

The communications can be presented in English and in Spanish. All presentations will have simultaneous translation in English and Spanish.

All the selected communications will be published after the conference

DEADLINES
 
Reception of abstracts: 7th January 2004
Acceptance notification: 15th February 2004
Registration deadline: 30th April 2004

The selected authors will be informed of their deadline to present the final version of their communication.
REGISTRATION AND FEES
 

Those interested in attending the conference should fill in the registration form and send it to the festival organization: congres@ciberartfestival.net   

The registration fee for the conference attendants will be 120 EURO; 60 EURO for students. This fee covers the right to attend all activities at Ciber@RT Bilbao 2004.
The speakers, whose communications are chosen, will be exempted from paying the registration fee.


Students enrolled at the Universidad del País Vasco will receive optional course credits for their attendance.

All conference attendants will be given an attendance certificate, issued by the Universidad del País Vasco.

Conference attendance is limited and we advise to formalise the registration as soon as possible.

All those who register after the deadline will have to pay a higher fee.

SELECTION OF COMMUNICATIONS

  A scientific committee will be in charge of selecting the communications.
   
REGISTRATION FORM
 
  Name
  Surname
  Passport Nº
  Profession
  Title
  University
  Department
  Address
  City Zip Code
   
  Telephone Fax
  E-mail
  Web
  Date
   
 
    
 
   
INFORMATION AND RECEPTION OF COMMUNICATION
 
   
PAYMENT FORM
  The payment for registering will be done by bank transfer in Euro, indicating the name of the participant and “Registration Payment Conference Ciber@RT Bilbao 2004”. Once payment is made, please send copy of transfer by post or fax to the FUNDACIÓN BILBAO ARTE FUNDAZIOA .
 
Bank: bbk Caja Bilbao Vizcaya Kutxa
  Account : 2095 0119 90 91 - 0498078 - 2
   
  IBAN: ES22 2095 0119 9091 0498 0782
  BIC: BASKES2BXXX
   
 
   
CANCELLATION
  Should you cancel, please notify in writing (fax or post) at least 20 days before the opening of the conference. In that case, 50% of the registration fee will be returned. No other cancellation form will be admitted.
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