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+ Registration / Submission / Payment available online via the ACMC 

Medi(t)ations: computers, music and intermedia

Elder Conservatorium of Music, University of Adelaide

Mitchell Whitelaw is an academic, writer and artist with interests in 

new media art and culture, especially complex generative systems and 

digital sound and music. His work has appeared in journals including 

Leonardo, Digital Creativity and Contemporary Music Review. In 2004 

his work on a-life art was published in the book Metacreation: Art 

and Artificial Life (MIT Press, 2004). His current work spans 

generative art and sonic and visual data-aesthetics. He is currently 

a Senior Lecturer in the School of Creative Communication at the 

Fredrik Olofsson + Nick Collins (klipp av)

klipp av are an audiovisual duo who confront the problems of 

insufficient improvisation and live relevance to the location in 

laptop performance. The audio is interactive and generative, adjusted 

on the fly by the medium of live coding. The video/generative 

graphics machine is passed state information on the generative 

algorithms employed in the audio (rather than tracking the bare audio 

out). Audio and visual material is extracted from the performance 

environment to engage with the space. Automated analysis routines 

assist the fast cataloguing of events as audiovisual composites. An 

essential facet of the improvisation is the dialogue with event 

generating algorithms and the mappings themselves. Performance 

follows a continuum from correlation to contest between audio and 

More information on the keynote speakers can be found here -

"..the media have broken down in their traditional forms, and have 

become merely puristic points of reference. The idea has arisen, as 

if by spontaneous combustion throughout the entire world, that these 

points are arbitrary and only useful as critical tools, in saying 

that such-and-such a work is basically musical, but also poetry. This 

is the intermedial approach, to emphasize the dialectic between the 

This conference seeks to highlight new areas of aesthetics and 

interrelations in computer music. These may include:

- Connections between computer music and other media, such as film, 

dance, theatre, new media, and the specific role of technology in 

- Interface and control systems ? controlling and manipulating sound 

through haptic, gestural and other mediums.

- Media as aesthetic agent - generational mechanisms, modelling 

agents, sound source, meta-composition, sonification.

- Computer Music and medium-less states ? psycho-acoustics and 

- Connections between computer music and intermedia practice in 

other areas such as education, research, software / hardware 

- Computer music as physical, tactile interactive media.

ACMC06 is now calling for submissions in the following categories:

More information on submission requirements and formats can be found 

- Full conference program will be available early May 2006

- Please check the conference website for updates

Other contact information can be found here:

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:: UPDATE ::
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+ Registration / Submission / Payment available online via the ACMC  
Gateway
++ http://www.acmc06.org/registration.html
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Medi(t)ations: computers, music and intermedia
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Australasian Computer Music Conference
11 - 13 July 2006
Elder Conservatorium of Music, University of Adelaide
Adelaide, Australia

:: http://www.acmc06.org
:: info@acmc06.org

::  http://www.adelaide.edu.au
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Mitchell Whitelaw
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Mitchell Whitelaw is an academic, writer and artist with interests in  
new media art and culture, especially complex generative systems and  
digital sound and music. His work has appeared in journals including  
Leonardo, Digital Creativity and Contemporary Music Review. In 2004  
his work on a-life art was published in the book Metacreation: Art  
and Artificial Life (MIT Press, 2004). His current work spans  
generative art and sonic and visual data-aesthetics. He is currently  
a Senior Lecturer in the School of Creative Communication at the  
University of Canberra.
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Fredrik Olofsson + Nick Collins (klipp av)
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klipp av are an audiovisual duo who confront the problems of  
insufficient improvisation and live relevance to the location in  
laptop performance. The audio is interactive and generative, adjusted  
on the fly by the medium of live coding. The video/generative  
graphics machine is passed state information on the generative  
algorithms employed in the audio (rather than tracking the bare audio  
out). Audio and visual material is extracted from the performance  
environment to engage with the space. Automated analysis routines  
assist the fast cataloguing of events as audiovisual composites. An  
essential facet of the improvisation is the dialogue with event  
generating algorithms and the mappings themselves. Performance  
follows a continuum from correlation to contest between audio and  
visual modalities.

More information on the keynote speakers can be found here -
:: http://www.acmc06.org/keynote.html

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Conference overview
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"..the media have broken down in their traditional forms, and have  
become merely puristic points of reference. The idea has arisen, as  
if by spontaneous combustion throughout the entire world, that these  
points are arbitrary and only useful as critical tools, in saying  
that such-and-such a work is basically musical, but also poetry. This  
is the intermedial approach, to emphasize the dialectic between the  
media."
~ Dick Higgins (August 3, 1966)

This conference seeks to highlight new areas of aesthetics and  
interrelations in computer music. These may include:
-  Connections between computer music and other media, such as film,  
dance, theatre, new media, and the specific role of technology in  
that relationship.
-  Interface and control systems ? controlling and manipulating sound  
through haptic, gestural and other mediums.
-  Media as aesthetic agent - generational mechanisms, modelling  
agents, sound source, meta-composition, sonification.
-  Computer Music and medium-less states ? psycho-acoustics and  
auditory illusions.
-  Connections between computer music and intermedia practice in  
other areas such as education, research, software / hardware  
development and distribution.
-  Computer music as physical, tactile interactive media.

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Call for submissions
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ACMC06 is now calling for submissions in the following categories:
-  Musical works
-  Papers
-  Posters
-  Artist talks
-  Studio reports
-  Workshops

Due date for all submissions:
-  18 April 2006

More information on submission requirements and formats can be found  
at the website
:: http://www.acmc06.org/submissions.html
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Program
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-  Full conference program will be available early May 2006
-  Please check the conference website for updates
:: http://www.acmc06.org
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General Enquiries
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For general enquiries:
:: info@acmc06.org

Other contact information can be found here:
:: http://www.acmc06.org/contacts.html
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Australasian Computer Music Conference - 11 - 13 July 2006