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Pure Data Convention 2011

A festival of programmed music and art.

Kurzfassung auf Deutsch

The Pure Data convention is an event where users and developers of the open-source programming environment Pure Data meet, discuss and present their research and artworks. It consists of

• A Conference program with peer-reviewed paper presentations
• Workshops for in-depth instructions from professionals aimed at interested beginners, ambitioned users and specialists.
• Concerts and Performances with music made with Pure Data
• An Exhibition of artworks and installations

Preliminary Schedule

Previous conventions have been in Graz (2004), Montréal (2007) and São Paulo (2009). The upcoming convention will be the fourth installment of this venue.

Where and when

The convention will take place in Weimar, Germany from August 8th to 14th 2011. The close collaboration between Bauhaus-University and Music Academy Franz Liszt where computer science, music, media-arts and media-culture meet create the perfect environment for a Pure Data convention. Weimar has a solid tourist infrastructure with accommodation from budget hostels to 5 star. Weimar is a small place which has many venues and places of interest but is small enough not to get lost or to loose much time in transportation from one place to another.

• Weimar/How to get there

Registration

Register now so we can plan space and accomodation in time. A late registration fee of 40,- Euros applies after until June 24th!

• Registration form

Accomodation

We have reserved beds & breakfast for 100 people at the Youthhostel “Am Poseckschen Garten” with a discount. For the group booking no international Youthhostel Membership is required. It is very close to the campus. Please make sure you have registered (this includes workshop instructors, performers, speakers...). If you don't want to share your room with other people we recommend you book yourself as soon as possible. See Weimar/Accommodation for a list of Hotels/Hostels.

Calls

(Time for all deadlines is 24:00h UTC +2)

• for Papers and workshops
  • proposals for workshops were accepted until April 10
  • Deadline for extended abstracts (1 page or 500 words) was April 10
  • Reviewers were asked to read and comment the extended abstracts until April 30th openconf
  • Notification of Acceptance was: May 16, 2011
  • Deadline for the full papers: July 11, 2011 (Download the Templates File:Templates pdcon2011.zip)
• for Music, performances and artworks
  • Deadline for Music, performances and artworks: Monday June 13, 2011
• For pieces up to 12 minutes long to be played on the porcellain carillon of the town hall
  • Deadline end of July

Organizers

Sponsors

The 2011 Convention wouldn't be possible without the support of our sponsors

• Kreativfonds Bauhaus-Univeristät Weimar
• Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Faculty of Media
• Electronic Arts Blog für digitale Spielkultur
• The Mozilla Foundation
• Allied Vision Technologies

Other Potential partners
Want to become a sponsor? See our Sponsoring opportunities
A transparent calculation is filed under Funding

Executing partners

• Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
• Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Studio for electro-acoustic music
• Bauhaus Summer School
• KulturTragWerk e.V.

Production team

• Max Neupert: initiator – max.neupert@...
• Björn Lindig: conference organization – bjoern.lindig@...
• Karsten Kleinert: workshops and accomodation coodinator – karsten.kleinert@...
• Hui Yuan: exhibition coordinator – hui.yuan@...
• Xiaodong Zhang: concerts coordinator – xiaodong.zhang@...
• Chaoying Wang, Patawat Phamuad: travel, lunch breaks – chaoying.wang@...
• Stefan Pach, Patawat Phamuad: graphic design – patawat.phamuad@...
• Marie-Hélène Doré: volunteer
• Moritz Schell, Frederic Seybicke: porcelain carillon concerts coordinators

Wanted:

• Producer
• Public relations
• Staff

Contact the team: PdCon11@mg.medien.uni-weimar.de

Partners

• Fraunhofer IDMT Ilmenau
• DEGEM Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Elektroakustische Musik e.V.

Contributors

• Maschinenraum Hackerspace Weimar

Contribution

Any help is highly appreciated. Please contact us if you have any ideas how to improve our performance or how to bring forward the whole project. If you have time and/or special skills, you are wellcome to join our team.

If you want to donate to us you can direct your funds to KulturTragWerk e.V., make sure you say Pure Data Convention in the Subject.

• Account: 3050580
• BLZ: 82064188
• IBAN: DE33820641880003050580
• SWIFT: GENODEF1WE1
• Bank: VR Bank Weimar
• Tax-ID: 161/141/02796

Your donation is tax-deductible. If you need a receipt mail to max.neupert@ this domain

Social Media + Promotion

• please use the hashtag #PdCon11
• Facebook Pd Convention event page
• Facebook Bauhaus Summer School event page

More

• Ideas
• Group Travelling

4^th international Pure Data Convention 2011 Weimar ~ Berlin