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HLS2018

Hybrid Labs Symposium

The Third Renewable Futures Conference

May 30 – June 1, 2018,
Aalto University, Otaniemi Campus, Espoo City
Venues: Otakaari 1X (30–31 May), Otakaari 7 (1 June)

Rooms in Otakaari 1X: A1 (1st floor) and A2 (2nd floor)
Rooms in Otakaari 7: Studio Kipsari and Meeting Room 283 (1st floor)

Hybrid Labs is the third edition of Renewable Futures conference that aims to challenge the future of knowledge creation through art and science. The HYBRID LABS will take place from May 30 to June 1, 2018 at Aalto University in Espoo, Finland, in the context of Aalto Festival. Celebrating 50 years of Leonardo journal and community, the HYBRID LABS conference will look back into the history of art and science collaboration, with an intent to reconsider and envision the future of hybrid laboratories – where scientific research and artistic practice meet and interact.

Our three-day media event medley includes:

May 30, 2018 – Exhibition Opening

Opening Programme features Oslofjord Ecologies Extended exhibition opening. The exhibition is based on results of artistic research processes following common workshops, field trips and earlier exhibitions and performances linked to the Creative Europe project Renewable Futures and the Nordic collaboration Hybrid Labs. Curated by Kristin Bergaust on behalf of Art in Society research group at HiOA, this cross-disciplinary exhibition includes contributions from visual arts, art and science, theatre, performance, design, visual culture, art didactics and urban research. See more.

May 31, 2018 – Renewable Futures Conference

Renewable Futures conference will begin with keynotes addressing HYBRID LABS topic from different broader perspectives. Parallel tracks of presentations will discuss the future of HYBRID LABS, art and science collaboration, focusing on five main topics: hybrid practices (in art and science), hybrid storytelling, hybrid fabrication, hybrid reality, and hybrid economies.

June 1, 2018 – Collaboratory Day, Celebrating Leonardo’s 50th Anniversary

Collaboratory day and Leonardo birthday celebration includes guided tours of several of the Otaniemi campus laboratories and a workshop on collaboratory methods during the morning followed by afternoon keynote, sauna, and dinner. The topic of the keynote will be about Arts and Science collaboration and planetary healing. Also throughout the Lab tours, we want to stress the heritage aspects of the spaces, the campus and innovative aspects of art and science collaboration.

See programme Hybrid Labs Symposium 2018.

NEW: Hybrid Labs Symposium 2018 in Photographs

Keynote Speakers:

Roger MALINA / Physicist, Astronomer / Executive Editor, Leonardo Publications at M.I.T Press / Professor, the University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Gediminas URBONAS / Professor, the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT-MIT) / Associate Professor in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Architecture, Cambridge, USA
Nina CZEGLEDY / Artist, Curator and Educator on Art, Science and Technology / Leonardo Community, Toronto, Canada
Judith VAN DER ELST / Anthropologist, Independent Researcher, Netherlands
Vladimir IVANOV / Professor, St. Petersburg Technical University, Collaboratory methods/heritage workshop
Toni KONITK / Professor of Design of Structures, Aalto University, Department of Architecture, Finland
Saara HACKLIN / Curator, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Pia FRICKER /Adjunct Professor, Department of Architecture, Aalto University, Finland

Click for more information on Keynote speakers and their presentations.

Registration

REGISTER HERE: https://eage.aalto.fi/?f/en/HLS2018

Full Price: 86 EUR (Early Bird Full Price: 68 EUR until 15 April).
Student Price 56 EUR (Early Bird Student Price: 42 EUR until 15 April).

Included: Coffee and Snacks, and Sauna+Dinner on the third day. (Lunch is not included.)

Note: Payments must be done by 16 May 2018 to confirm your participation in the programme.

All payments must be done by the beginning of the symposium.
Please note that dinner, coffees and snacks are served for participants who have registered before 30 May.

On-the-door tickets available at the registration desk at the following times:

(Otakaari 1X, 1st floor)

Wed 30 May: 12:00–14:00, and 16:00–18:00
Thu 31 May: 8:00–9:00

Price: 48 € / 25€ students
Payments only with card.
The fee allows for participation in the whole programme excluding Friday 1 June Dinner and coffees and snacks.

Call for Proposals – closed

Accommodation and Travel:

Go to this link

Venue

Otakaari 1 X, entrance X, Espoo
Rooms: A1 (1st floor) and A2 (2nd floor)
Venue for 30 May (Registration desk, Exhibition), and 31 May.
See location on the map.
Please, note that the entrance X is on the parkside of the Otakaari 1 building.

Aalto Studios, Otakaari 7, Espoo
Venue for Friday 1 June 2018

Reach us easily from Helsinki City Centre (Railway Station or Kamppi) with metro (M1/M2).
Metro stop: “Aalto-yliopisto”. Exit metro to: “Otaniementie”.

Busses that come to Symposium / Otaniemi Campus: 551, 552, 111 (see stops on the map below)
Bus routes and timetables: HSL page

Find your way with:
HSL – timetables and ticketing info
Route Planner

Conference Submissions – for Selected Abstracts:

The selected participants will be asked to submit their Full/Short Papers (working version – for pre-review), Posters (layout) and Artistic Presentations (Slides) by May 14, 2018.

1. Full/Short Paper Submission:

If your abstract for full/short paper is selected, you will be asked to submit full/short paper for pre-review before the conference (working version). All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference:

Full papers are up to 6000 words long including references and the presenter must prepare 20+10 minutes presentation.
Short papers are between 2000 and 3000 words. The presenter must prepare 15+5 minutes presentation.

2. Artistic Presentations:

Presentations should be prepared as powerpoint or keynote slides.

3. Posters:

Posters should be made in A1 format, and submitted as PDF.

Submission info

(Credited to Acoustic Space Journal)

Submitted papers should be organized by following categories and saved as .doc or .docx files:

1) Title of the article and author/s;

2) Abstract (300–500 words);

3) 5–6 keywords;

4) The main body text;

Full papers are up to 6000 words long including references
Short papers are up to 3000 words long including references

Please, identify clearly whether you have chosen full or short paper.

The body text should by written in APA style, including in-text citations following APA Manual.
* Example for in-text citation:
… Latour argues that “political ecology has nothing to do with nature” (Latour 2004, 5)…

Font – Timew New Roman 12 pt or Arial 11 pt, single spacing.

5) References List / Bibliography – should also be in APA style;
* Example:
Latour, B. (2004). The Politics of Nature. Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press.

6) Short Author Biography, including affiliation, website link –
100 words (600–700 characters);

7) Correspondence contact information (author’s email address) for publication purposes;

8) Author’s Note (if appropriate);

9) Appendixes (if needed);

10) 4–5 tables, figures and illustrations, numbered and in the order of mention in the article, with accompanying title/caption information. Please indicate the places for tables, figures and illustrations in the text clearly. Size of an image – at least 1000 px the longest side.

Please, see guidelines for APA style:
http://www.apastyle.org
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01

Please, send the Full/Short Papers (working version – for pre-review), Posters (layout) and Artistic Presentations (Slides) by May 14, 2018 via email to Saara Mäntylä: saara.mantyla@aalto.fi

Title your email and attachment: HLS2018_May14_Lastname_Firstname_Title

Publication

Shortly after the conference, the selected participants will be asked to submit their final version of the paper for peer-review. The submitted papers will undergo the double-blind peer-review process to be published in Acoustic Space journal series (Vol. 18, 2019).

When submitting your final papers, you should keep in mind the following:

Your name. Delete your name from the first page or where ever it is mentioned in the paper.
Acknowledgements. Please delete or mark “Acknowledgements removed”, if you have acknowledgements or thanks to those who helped you with the paper.
Document properties. Please don’t send word or similar documents, because it might include personal information in the document (for example in Word, go to file à properties). Send your paper in pdf-format.
Self-citation. Please anonymize your references or citations to your previous works.
Images and Videos. Please hide all such information that can reveal you in videos or images you are sending along with your paper.

More info about the Acoustic Space, peer-reviewed journal series:
http://acousticspacejournal.com

Timeline and Registration

Symposium website http://hybridlabs.static-staging.new.sites.aalto.fi
Proposal submission deadline March 5, 2018
Notifications of acceptance March 23, 2018
Deadline for selected abstracts May 14, 2018

REGISTRATION TO SYMPOSIUM: https://eage.aalto.fi/?f/en/HLS2018
Early Bird fee until 15 April, 2018.

Note: Payments must be done by 16 May 2018 to confirm your participation in the programme!

Early Bird Full Price: 68 EUR (normal price 86 eur).
Early Bird Student Price: 42 EUR (normal student price 56 eur).

Included: Coffee and Snacks, and Sauna+Dinner on the third day. (Lunch is not included.)

Committee

Conference Chair

Prof. Lily Díaz

The Local Conference Organisational Board

Prof. Lily DIAZ-KOMMONEN / Head of Research Department of Media, Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Espoo, Finland
Prof. Rasa SMITE / Liepaja University / RIXC / Riga, Latvia
Prof. Kristin BERGAUST / Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
Nina CZEGLEDY, Leonardo Community, Toronto, Canada
Juhani TENHUNEN / Aalto Studios, Espoo, Finland
Saara MÄNTYLÄ / Department of Media, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland

The International Scientific Board of Renewable Futures Conference

Prof. Lev MANOVICH / Cultural Analytics Lab / The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA
Ph.D. Jussi PARIKKA / Winchester School of Art / University of Southampton / UK
Ph.D. Geoff COX / School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark
Assoc. Prof. Laura BELOFF / IT University, Copenhagen / Finnish Bioart Society, Helsinki, Finland
Prof. Ursula DAMM / Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany
Dr. Vytautas MICHELKEVICIUS / Nida Art Colony, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania
Ph.D. Margrét Elísabet ÓLAFSDÓTTIR / Art Education at the University of Akureyri, Iceland
Assoc. Prof. Ilva SKULTE / Riga Stradins University, Latvia
Dr. art. Piibe PIIRMA / Tallinn University / Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia
Ph. D. Raivo KELOMEES / Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia
Prof. Miško ŠUVAKOVIĆ / Faculty for Media and Communication, University Singidunum, Belgrade, Serbia
Dr. Ellen PEARLMAN / Parsons / New School University, New York, USA
Ph.D. Chris HALES / Assist. Prof. and Study Director of New Media Art Doctoral Programe, Liepaja University, Liepaja, Latvia
Raphael KIM / PhD Student, Media and Arts Technology, Queen Mary University London, UK

The Conference Programme Committee

Prof. Lily DIAZ-KOMMONEN / Head of Research Department of Media, Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Espoo, Finland
Prof. Rasa SMITE / Liepaja University / RIXC / Riga, Latvia
Prof. Kristin BERGAUST / Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
Juhani TENHUNEN / Aalto Studios, Espoo, Finland
Neha SAYED / Doctoral Candidate, Department of Media, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
Saara MÄNTYLÄ / Department of Media, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
Andrea MACIANTI / Doctoral Candidate, Department of Media, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
Samir BHOWMIK / Post Doc, Finnish Culture Foundation, Department of Media, Aalto University, Finland
Ursula PAWLICA / Post Doc, Department of Media, Aalto University, Finland
Tatu BLOMQVIST / Doctoral Candidate, Department of Media, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
NingFeng ZHANG / Doctoral Candidate, Department of Media, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
Tania RODRÍGUEZ-KAARTO / Doctoral Candidate, Department of Media, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
Eun Young PARK / Doctoral Candidate, Department of Media, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland

Contact us:

hls2018@easychair.org
tel. +358 50 326 0627

Hybrid Labs Symposium is the 3rd edition of Renewable Futures Conference Series,
and a part of Leonardo Network’s 50-Years Anniversary Celebrating of the Leonardo Network.
http://renewablefutures.net

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