The International Digital Media Arts Association (iDMAa) is pleased to announce its fourteenth annual conference, taking place at Winona State University in Winona, Minnesota from October 5 through 8, 2016. WSU is located on the banks of the Mississippi River in the “bluff country” of Southeast Minnesota.
iDMAa seeks proposals for paper presentations and panels centering on this year’s conference theme. Please click on Call for Papers/Panels if you are interested in participating.
This year, we also seek to explore the question of the Interface in the creative arts though our 2016 iDEAS exhibition, taking place on October 6th through 8, 2016. For artist interested in applying go to Call for Art-iDEAS 2016.
Keynotes
We are pleased to announce three fabulous iDMA 2016 keynote presenters.
Flourish Klink, masterminds all of Chaotic Good’s key social media and fan strategy initiatives across all platforms for studios, networks, game developers and brands.
Flourish’s interest in fandom started early: at thirteen, she co-founded FictionAlley, which became the largest Harry Potter fanfiction community online. She also spent ten years organizing Harry Potter fan conferences. She then continued her interest in participatory culture at MIT and for her graduate degree carried out a groundbreaking and in-depth study of Twilight fans (and their counterparts, Twilight haters).
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Nick Montfort, develops computational poetry and art and has participated in dozens of literary and academic collaborations. His tenth book is #!, a collection of poems and programs. He has been invovled in developing several new fields of study: platform studies, critical code studies, software studies, and electronic literature. Before #!, he organized and co-wrote 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 in collaboration with nine other authors.
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Dene Grigar is Professor and Director of The Creative Media & Digital Culture Program at Washington State University Vancouver whose research focuses on the creation, curation, preservation, and criticism of Electronic Literature, specifically building multimedial environments and experiences for live performance, installations, and curated spaces; desktop computers; and mobile media devices. She has authored 14 media works such as “Curlew” (2014), “A Villager’s Tale” (2011), the “24-Hour Micro E-Lit Project” (2009), “When Ghosts Will Die” (2008), and “Fallow Field.
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Registration
Register here for iDMAa 2016.
All presenters, artist, and papers: one person (artist or co-author) MUST be registered for their piece/paper to be included in the program. Any artist/presentation involved in multiple collaborator, only one member of the group needs to register in order for all to be able to participate. However, if the other members wish to participate fully in the rest of the conference, they are encouraged to register as well.