Canada Council for the Arts Media Arts Program - Research and Production Grants for New Media and Audio Artists

Research Grants Component

Mid-career or established applicants: 
from $3,000 to $20,000

Production Grants Component

Emerging applicants: up to $20,000

Mid-career or established applicants: 
- in new media: up to $60,000
- in audio: up to $35,000 

These grants assist Canadian artists working with new media or audio technologies as means of artistic expression. Grants cover…

OCAD University (OCAD U) is now accepting applications for two new graduate programs: a Master of Design (MDes) in Inclusive Design* and a Graduate Program in Digital Futures (Graduate Diploma and MA, MDes, MFA)*. Applications for the 2011/2012 term will be accepted until Monday, May 2, 2011.

"These unique new programs address the Canadian digital economy's ever-increasing demand for artists, designers, innovators and leaders in the fields of inclusive design, digital media and new…

Interactive Ontario (IO) in partnership with The G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education, Ryerson University, is pleased to announce the launch of EDGE: Education for Digital and Games Entrepreneurs. This part-time academic program will deliver targeted business-skills training to video game and digital media entrepreneurs. It will pilot in the spring with a full launch in the fall of 2011. 

The goal of EDGE is to help grow the interactive digital media industry by providing in-depth…

The Ontario Media Development Corporation offers financial support directly to incorporated not-for-profit industry organizations undertaking research initiatives that support or complement the mandate of OMDC. Proposed projects should further industry development or growth; update, improve or strengthen existing data; address an existing information gap or gaps; or respond to a specific crisis in a sector.

Deadline: March 7, 2011

For further information: http://www.omdc.on.ca/Page5481.aspx

Redmond, Washington, June 22-23, 2011
Game Education Summit North America
DigiPen Institute of Technology

Overview

The Game Education Summit North America (GES NA) hosted by DigiPen Institute of Technology is seeking paper proposals from the academic and game developer communities for GES.
Through this annual event we aim to disseminate the most recent, groundbreaking work on curriculum development, teaching methodologies and design. The conference will also have a strong focus on games…

2nd International Conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective - EGOVIS 2011
Toulouse, France 
August 29 - September 2, 2011

OVERVIEW

The international conference EGOVIS focuses on information systems aspects of e-government. Information systems are a core enabler for electronic government/governance with all its dimensions: e-administration, e-democracy, e-participation and e-voting.

EGOVIS papers should be submitted by researchers and practitioners…

25th Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature Science and the Arts 

PLACE: Kitchener, Ontario
VENUE: Delta Hotel Kitchener, THEMUSEUM, Critical Media Lab (all within three short city blocks) 
DATES: September 22-25, 2011  
SITE COORDINATOR: Marcel OGorman, University of Waterloo 
PROGRAM CHAIRS: Melissa Littlefield and Robert Markley, U. of Illinois; Susan Squier, Penn State U.  
DUE DATE FOR PANEL, POSTER, AND ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTIONS: April 1, 2011 
NOTIFICATION FOR ACCEPTANCE OF…

ED-MEDIA 2011 World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications
Lisbon, Portugal: June 27- July 1, 2011

Overview

ED-MEDIA - World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications is an international conference, organized by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).
This annual conference serves as a multi-disciplinary forum for the discussion and exchange of information on the research, development, and…

Open Letter, edited by Frank Davey, seeks critical articles from a wide range of scholars and artists for a special issue on collaborative expression.

"Convergences: Collaborative Expression" will be guest-edited by Beatriz Hausner & Karl Jirgens. Literary, visual and performance artists have worked together in a variety of media. Combinations vary, as do degrees of junction in expression, but the results are always rich and surprising. The transformative power of merging voices is one…