<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: justify;" id="docs-internal-guid-53f37eb5-42e6-85d3-4cbb-a0294397ed6f"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; line-height: 1.2;">Good morning,</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">We invite you to participate in ISEA2015 in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia from August 14-19th! Our Early Bird registration deadline will close on July </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0); vertical-align: baseline;">15th</span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">, 2015, and we have a very exciting program planned. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">ABOUT ISEA2015 Vancouver</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">20 years after its first occurrence in Montreal in 1995, the 21st International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA2015) returns to Canada. Hosted by Simon Fraser University's School of Interactive Arts + Technology, School for Contemporary Arts, and FCAT; ISEA2015 presents a rich academic program rooted in both the humanities and sciences, as well as a groundbreaking art program. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">ISEA2015 is a six-day symposium featuring over 450 speakers, workshops, tutorials, panels, papers and institutional presentations. It showcases</span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline;"> over 180 artworks ranging from large-scale interactive installations to cutting-edge electronic music performances. The theme of ISEA2015</span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;">—</span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline;">Disruption</span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;">—</span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline;">encourages us to re-examine and re-negotiate the frontiers between academia and art, practice and theory, systems and reality, art and society.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">Centered at SFU Woodward's downtown campus , ISEA2015’s programming will overflow to venues across Metro Vancouver. Partners include local artistic organisations and venues such as the Vancouver Art Gallery, Western Front, VIVO, the Museum of Vancouver, Grunt Gallery, Vancouver New Music, 221A, New Westminster New Media Gallery, Fortune Sound Club, the New Forms Festival, and more. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">ISEA2015 will explore subthemes around the potential of electronic arts to reach out into the world and effect genuine change. These subthemes include </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;">Climate Change, Disruption and Urban Landscapes, Contemporary Curatorial Practices</span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">,</span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;"> Media Activism and Subversion</span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">,</span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;"> DIY Technology</span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">,</span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;"> BioArt</span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">,</span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;"> Sound Ecology</span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">,</span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;"> Embodied Art Practices</span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">,</span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;"> Geopolitics, </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">and more</span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">To frame the discussion around the artistic, scientific, technological, and social manifestations of </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;">disruption </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">as a cultural phenomenon, ISEA2015 will feature keynote addresses by visionaries such as </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">Brian Massumi, Michael Connor, Dominique Moulon, Hildegard Westerkamp, and Sara Diamond</span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">. Master disruptors</span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;"> The Yes Men</span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"> will close the symposium with an address on the use of creative expression for subversion and disruption.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">VIEW the ISEA2015 Schedule</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a href="http://isea2015.org/schedule/" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">http://isea2015.org/schedule/</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">REGISTER for ISEA2015</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><a href="http://isea2015.org/registration/" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">http://isea2015.org/registration/</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">VOLUNTEER for ISEA2015</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a href="http://isea2015.org/call-for-volunteers-2015/" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">http://isea2015.org/call-for-volunteers-2015/</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">ABOUT ISEA International</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">Founded in the Netherlands in 1990, ISEA International is an international non-profit organization fostering interdisciplinary academic discourse and exchange among culturally diverse organizations and individuals working with art, science and technology. The main activity of ISEA International is the annual International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) launched in 1988.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.isea-web.org" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">www.isea-web.org</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p><br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">ISEA2015 - STAY CONNECTED</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a href="http://www.isea2015.org" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">www.isea2015.org</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a href="http://www.twitter.com/isea2015" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">www.twitter.com/isea2015</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"> #ISEA2015</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/isea2015" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">www.facebook.com/isea2015</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a href="http://www.vimeo.com/isea2015" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">www.vimeo.com/isea2015</span></a></p><br></body></html>