DAC 2003 Abstract Deadline

Sept 15 is the deadline for submitting paper and panel abstracts for DAC 2003 – which will be held on the city campus of RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia from May 19 to 23, 2003. Previous DACs (at Brown University in 2001; University of Bergen, Norway, in 2000; and Georgia Tech in 1999) were highly successful interdisciplinary conferences where practitioners and theorists from around the world actually talked with one another. The DACs I've been to have probably been the most satisfying new media gatherings I've attended.

From the annoucement:

http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/dac/cfp.html

MelbourneDAC:streaming worlds will bring together an international cohort of artists, practitioners, developers, theorists and teachers to define and explore major themes and ideas confronting contemporary new media practice. The 2003 event will explore the theory and practice of computer gaming, ergodic narrative, distributed and/or immersive performance environments, and streaming media with a particular focus on the real, imagined and wished for worlds that these things create.

DAC was founded by Espen Aarseth as an international conference focusing on new media theory and practice in critical contexts. DAC seeks to bring together new media artists and theorists in a spirit of collaboration and exploration. It has nurtured a significant international community of young and innovative researchers, artists and scholars in the interdisciplinary field of new media, and has become the benchmark conference for research and collaborative endeavour in new media. DAC offers a forum that recognises the importance of bringing together leading practitioners from art and theory for the exchange of ideas and to develop international professional networks and knowledge economies. MelbourneDAC:streaming wor(l)ds intends to continue this role through the papers, panels, forums, and exhibition it hosts, and the innovative series of collaborative workshops and events that will be undertaken by all conference participants. The mission of MelbourneDAC is to exchange ideas and promote new developments in digital arts and culture and to ensure that all participants develop relevant and sustainable professional communities.