The 16th International Symposium on Electronic Art will take place in the cities of the German Ruhr region (Dortmund, Essen, Duisburg, a. o.) from
20 – 29 August 2010.

The programme will include conferences, exhibitions, audio-visual and dance performances, projects in public space, artist presentations, workshops, an E-Culture Fair, Artists-in-Labs-programme, a. o.

The Call for Proposals will be published in June 2009, the submission deadline is on 15 September 2009. (Please, note that it is not necessary to submit individual projects before June '09.)

Two main Research Themes have been set for ISEA2010RUHR; these are not yet the final programme themes for the festival, but they suggest the trajectories along which we will be doing our research, looking for projects, and developing the programme.

Ecologies
Keywords: resources, sustainability, irreversibility, recycling, consumption, pollution, trash, spam, media ecology, free software, open hardware, knowlegde commons, diversity, access, low tech, urbanity, periphery, passages, intimacy

Expanded Sounds
Keywords: electronic sounds, hybrids, image&sound, synaesthesia, immersion, expanded acoustics, body, space/time experience, sensory overload, sensory deprivation, sound pollution, silence, performance, live-ness, language, conversation

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International Advisory Board
Susanne Ackers, Medienwerk NRW, hartware, Dortmund
Alex Adriaansens, V2_Organisation, Rotterdam
Tania Aedo, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico
Marie-Louise Angerer, Kunsthochschule für Medien, Köln
Bassam El Baroni, Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum ACAF, Alexandria
Andreas Broeckmann, Artistic Director, ISEA2010 RUHR
Alberto de Campo, Robert Schumann Hochschule, Düsseldorf
Dooeun Choi, Nabi Art Center, Seoul
Florian Cramer, Piet Zwart Institut, W. de Koning Academie, Rotterdam
Sara Diamond, Ontario College of Art and Design OCAD, Toronto
Söke Dinkla, Cultural Capital Office Duisburg RUHR.2010
Christo Doherty, Wits School of Arts, Johannesburg
Timothy Druckrey, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore
Dieter Gorny, RUHR.2010 GmbH, Essen
Sabine Himmelsbach, Edith Russ Site for Media Art, Oldenburg
Amanda McDonald Crowley, Eyebeam, New York
Tapio Maekelae, m-cult, Helsinki, University of Salford, Manchester
Jose Carlos Mariategui, Alta Tecnologia Andina, Lima
Kurt Mehnert, Folkwang Hochschule, Essen
Gunalan Nadarajan, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore
Julianne Pierce, ISEA Foundation, Brighton
Melinda Rackham, Australian Network of Art and Technology ANAT, Adelaide
Julian Richter, Forsythe Company, Frankfurt
Annette Schindler, plug.in, Basel
Florian Schneider, Kein.Org, München
Pavel Sedlak, CIANT, Prague
Yukiko Shikata, Inter-Communication Center ICC, Tokyo
Ivar Smedstad, Academy of Fine Arts, Trondheim
Rasa Smite, RIXC, Riga
Adam Somlai-Fischer, Kitchen, Budapest
Floor van Spaendonck, Virtueel Platform, Amsterdam
Ingrid Stoppa-Sehlbach, Staatskanzlei NRW, Düsseldorf

ISEA2010 RUHR, the Sixteenth International Symposium on Electronic Art, is hosted by Medienwerk NRW in the context of RUHR.2010, European Capital of Culture. ISEA2010 RUHR is organised under the auspices of the ISEA Foundation and is funded by RUHR.2010, European Capital of Culture, the State Chancellory of North Rhine Westphalia, and the City of Dortmund.

ISEA2010RUHR, c/o HMKV, Güntherstraße 65, 44143 Dortmund, Germany,
Tel. 0231-823106, info [at] isea2010ruhr [dot] org