Some of the highlights from the school included:

• The formation of a Free Culture Portugal working group
• Plans for a wireless mesh network workshop in Lisbon
• An ISDT group on Facebook
• Lively discussion on Twitter and Meebo
• New friendships and enthusiasm for future instances of ISDT

Many of the sessions for ISDT have been documented on the school’s wiki, which you can view here. Many thanks to all of the ISDT students, faculty, and organizers!

The Sound and Music Computing Conference is a privileged forum in Europe for the promotion of international exchanges around Sound and Music Computing. The 2009 edition is organised by the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering of Porto (INESC Porto), the Research Center for Science and Technology in Art (CITAR) of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Porto, the School of Music and Performing Arts (ESMAE), Casa da Música, and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. This edition also has the support of several institutions, including the Polytechnic Institute of Porto, the Catholic University, the University of Porto and the UT Austin | Portugal program.

The conference consists of 3 full days of music and science, featuring world-class speakers, oral and poster presentations of the latest SMC “inspirational” sessions and an exciting music program, specially compiled by 4 invited music curators (Pauline Oliveros, Evan Parker, Nicolas Collins and Robert Rowe). There will be eight concerts in total featuring the state-of-the-art in electronic music performance.  The full conference program can be consulted here.

Join us in Porto at  this exciting event!

The full text of the call is below.

GLOBAL FUSION 2009: A Global Media and Communication Conference

The Purpose of the Global Fusion Conference Series is to promote academic excellence in global media and international communication studies. These conferences bring together scholars and professionals interested in media and communication in global contexts.

This year’s conference theme is “New Directions in Global Media and International Communication.” Submissions on this theme are preferred, but proposals for conference panels and papers may be on any topic related to global media and international communication.

The conference will be held at the University of Texas at Austin, October 16-18, 2009.

The conference series is sponsored by a consortium of schools including the University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M University, Ohio University and Southern Illinois University. The organizing committee members are professors Joseph Straubhaar, Karin Wilkins and Shanti Kumar in the Radio-Television-Film Department, College of Communication, UT.

The Global Fusions conference will immediately follow a short conference on New Agendas in Global Media Research, October 15-16, at UT with invited speakers. Global Fusion participants are encouraged to attend. Details will follow.

CALL FOR PAPERS & PANEL PROPOSALS

Submissions for Global Fusion 2009 are due by 1 July 2009. Submissions can be in three formats: 1) full papers, 2) abstracts, or 3) panel proposals. Full papers (not to exceed 30 pages, including references) are eligible for awards, based on peer-reviewed competition. Abstracts are limited to 200 words. Panel proposals should include names and titles of all involved, an abstract for the panel and for each presentation.

Please send papers and proposals to globalfusion2009@gmail.com. Please attach papers in Word (not .docx) or. rtf format. Or mail to Global Fusion papers, care of Joseph Straubhaar, RTF Dept., CMA 6.118, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78735.

AWARDS
There will be awards for paper competition winners, based on peer review.

Submit your proposal here.

Ivan Franco of industrial affiliate YDreams is leading a panel on “New Interfaces for Performance.” Affiliated faculty member Bruce Pennycook is participating in the discussion.

The whole panel schedule for the festival is available at the SXSW web site.

Hope to see some of you there — we’ll be posting further updates on festival activities as we near the event.

The Flow Conference is organized as a set of roundtable discussions rather than as a traditional series of paper presentations. It is hosted by the graduate students and faculty of the Radio-Television-Film department and is an outgrowth of FlowTV, an online journal and critical forum run by RTF students.

The UT Austin branch of the CoLab Digital Media group was also a general sponsor for the Symposium this year. The Knight Center is directed by Professor Rosental Alves, who will lead an Online Journalism workshop at the Summer Institute in Lisbon in June.