The International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) is the main
      nomadic international academic gathering focused on electronic and
      digital arts. Since its inception in 1988 in the Netherlands, it
      has been organized in 4 continents and in over 20 international
      cities that span Istanbul, Paris, Munich, Albuquerque, Sydney and
      Dubai. ISEA last came to Canada in 1995 in Montreal, where it had
      a tremendously positive impact on the local community both in
      terms of cultural and economic shifts that remain central to
      Montreal even today! ISEA brings together scholarly, artistic, and
      scientific domains in an interdisciplinary discussion and showcase
      of creative productions applying new technologies in art,
      interactivity, and electronic and digital media.
      
    
      ISEA2015 is hosted by Simon Fraser University's Faculty of
      Communication, Arts, and Technology, its School for the
      Contemporary Arts, and its School for Interactive Arts +
      Technology (SIAT). We expect 1000+ artists, scholars, researchers
      and students from around the world, making it the largest event on
      electronic art and digital media offered to date in British
      Columbia. While centered at SFU Woodward's, our programming is
      overflowing in various venues in the Vancouver area. Partners
      include many local artistic organisations and venues including:
      the vancouver Art Gallery, the Western Front, VIVO, the Museum of
      Vancouver (MOV), Grunt Gallery, Vancouver New Music, 221A, New
      Westminster New Media Gallery, Fortune Sound Club, the New Form
      Festival, amongst others. As such, we believe that this event will
      exemplify SFU's vision of engaging students, engaging research
      (both practice and theory), and engaging the local, national and
      international communities.
      
    
      ISEA2015 is a five-day symposium featuring over 500+ speakers,
      presenting 19 workshops, 10 tutorials, papers, panels,
      roundtables, posters, and demonstrations, and showcasing over 180
      artworks ranging from large-scale interactive artworks to
      cutting-edge electronic music performances. The theme of ISEA2015
      - Disruption - will allow re-examining and re-negotiating the
      frontiers between the academic and the art world, between practice
      and theory, between systems and reality, between art and society.
      
    
      To frame this dialogue, ISEA2015 will feature keynote addresses by
      visionary pioneers such as Brian Massumi, Michael Connor,
      Dominique Moulon, Hildegard Westerkamp and Sara Diamond. The Yes
      Men will cloture the symposium with an address on the use of
      creative expression for disruption and subversion.
      
    
Visit the Call For Volunteers and apply Today at 
        isea2015.org
      Notification of acceptance will be sent out on July 5th.
      If your application is unsuccessful (which you will know on July
      5th), you will be given a code in order to benefit from the early
      bird rate for attending the symposium.
    
      You can participate as volunteer for different positions,
      including some due before the conference. 
      Visit http://isea2015.org/call-for-volunteers-2015
      for details about each position available. 
      As volunteer you will be asked to fulfill 25-hours in 5 shifts of
      4 hours each, and up to 4 hours of training during the orientation
      session. The symposium holds a diversity of events from 8am until
      1am most days. Volunteer managers will try to accommodate your
      preferences for volunteer times, however, our priority is to
      ensure there are enough volunteers for each area. You must be able
      to work all 5 shifts, plus training time, in order to qualify as a
      volunteer
    
      The volunteer orientation will be held on prior to you first
      shift. In order for you to fully understand your role at the
      conference as well as the location of various meeting rooms,
      participation in the volunteer orientation session is mandatory.
      This means that you have to be in Vancouver on Thursday the 13th
      of August.
    
      We will be grateful if you disseminate the call-out to relevant
      parties through your channels. We need around 120 volunteers.
    
      Philippe Pasquier
      ISEA2015 Symposium Director
      Miles Thorogood
      ISEA2015 Volunteer Chair.