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Foreignness and Translation in New Media

POSTED BY: Pat Badani | Sat Nov 29th, 2008 11:08 a.m.

Media-N: The Journal of the New Media Caucus - USA

CALL FOR PAPERS: Media-N spring edition, 2009

DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 14, 2009

THEME: Foreignness and Translation in New Media.
http://www.newmediacaucus.org/calls.php

Guest Editor for this special issue is Pat Badani
(Integrated Media, Illinois State University, U.S.A.)

This issue will deal with the relationship between foreignness and translation
in new media. We look forward to a discussion on the idea of foreignness seen
as an investigation surrounding notions of travel, displacement and migration
beyond those tied to the geographical movement of populations.

We are interested in the broad practice of translation in new media, in the use
of an electronic system that mediates and enables the movement from one state
to another. We also welcome submissions exploring the specific notion of
cultural translation and migration in new media. That is to say, we are
interested in a discussion on cultural markers that are displaced into foreign
and extraneous locations, languages, supports and genres.

The spring issue will expand the debate initiated during Badani's participation
in the Colloquium "Foreigners in Culture and Technology" held at Espacio
Fundación Telefónica in Buenos Aires, Argentina (August 12 & 13, 2008).

The scope of this issue is double: theoretical and practical. We welcome
submissions on critical thinking and studio practices. Artists and theorists
are invited to discuss their artwork and/or critical thinking in this area.

Please submit via email by February 14, 2009 to Pat Badani at:

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Link:
http://www.newmediacaucus.org/calls.php

Pat Badani's intermedia works explore social space and connectivity across several media platforms. She creates communicational spaces to investigate personal and collective territorial boundaries and aspects of globalization such as migration, nomadism, translocal identities and language convergence. She is interested in the migration of people, but also of images-in-motion brought about by electronic mediation and art practices that intersect with Live situations where images migrate from every-day public spaces to video-screening rooms, to exhibition-spaces, and to Web-spaces. 

 Her projects have been discussed and shown in numerous international New Media Festivals and Symposia, as well as in Museums, Contemporary Art Centers and galleries in Canada, the USA, Europe and Latin America. Some of these venues include ISEA (Belfast & Paris); FILE (Brazil); NEW FORMS FESTIVAL (Canada); MECAD Media Center (Spain); ESPACIO FUNDACION TELEFONICA (Argentina); MEDI@TERRA (Greece); MUSEO DE ARTE MODERNO (Mexico); MUSEO DE MONTERREY (Mexico); CANADIAN CULTURAL CENTER (Paris, France); MUSEE DE BAS ST. LAURENT (Canada); and FRAC (Corsica, France); to name a few.

 She has received 19 awards and commissions, and her works have been subject of monographs and cited in numerous publications in several countries: "Tower-Tour", Esplanade Publications, France; “Extranjerías”; Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Buenos Aires, Argentina; “Extranjeros en la Tecnologia y en la Cultura”, Espacio Fundación Telefónica & Ariel Publishers, Argentina/Spain; "Ser y ver mujeres en las artes visuales", Plaza & Janez, Spain; "Latin American women artists", Greenhood Press, USA; “Géographiques: territoires vécus, territoires voulus, territories figures”, FRAC CORSE, Ministère de la Culture, France; L'Oeil, France; Art Papers Magazine, USA; Afterimage: The journal of media arts and cultural criticism, USA; Art Nexus, International; Vanguard, Canada; HZ-Journal of New Media, Sweden; JIP - JavaMuseum, Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art, Germany; to name a few. 

 Badani is a Canadian artist who has lived in 7 countries in the Americas and Europe, and relocated to Chicago in the USA in 1999 after a decade-long residence in Paris, France. She earned a BFA from the University of Alberta in Canada, and an MFA from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago. She is a full-time researcher, writer and educator having created and taught a digital media curriculum in the School of Art at Illinois State University, USA. In 2007-08 she was full time Lecturer and acting director of the Interdisciplinary Arts Media program at Columbia College, Chicago (USA). more information can be found at: http://www.patbadani.net Net.art projects/web-works: http://www.hometransfer.org http://www.hometransfer.org/where/stories.html http://www.hometransfer.org/w/index.html