ISEA2006_Call_Update

ISEA2006 SYMPOSIUM CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

FOR PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS.

Important Notice: We listen. There has been considerable feedback
that the original Symposium call did not clearly include a call for
Panel proposals. We have revised the call so that proposals for
practice-based panels are encouraged. The deadline for submission of
proposals for ISEA2006 papers, artist presentations and posters has
been extended to January 30th to accommodate this change. Please note
updates to the Symposium Call description.

< http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/symposiumcall/>

ISEA2006 seeks paper and presentation proposals responding to the
Symposium themes of Transvergence, Interactive City, Community Domain
or Pacific Rim. This is the only call for papers and presentations
that there will be for ISEA2006.

What tactics, issues and conceptual practices expose or inform the
distinctions of these subject terrains relating to contemporary art
practice? What theoretical analyses illuminate art practice engaged
with new technical and conceptual forms, functions and disciplines;
provide for innovative strategies involving urbanity, mobility,
community and locality; examine the role of corporations, civic
cultural organizations and their relationship to strategic planning;
serve to expose new portals of production and experience; and provide
for provocative analysis of contemporary political and economic
conditions?

The ISEA2006 Symposium is discussion and conversation based. This
orientation is intended as a break from the tradition of reading
academic papers and the formalities of panels and is the result of a
month-long online discussion with 21 international participants (see
list below). All sessions are moderated, include respondents and are
designed to encourage audience participation. Session formats will
emphasize questioning, debate and provocation. Papers, abstracts and
poster texts will be pre-published on the web and in print. There
will be a pre-symposium online public forum designed to encourage
interaction between symposium presenters and the public to provide
for discussion and debate.

We are seeking proposals for papers, artist and poster session.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE FOR OPEN CALLS

You must login and create a submission using the official ISEA2006
submission tool.

http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/register/submission.php

Open: November 15th, 2005

Closed: January 30th, 2006

The ISEA International Program Committee will evaluate submissions.

On the Submissions Call Page be sure to:

Select "Symposium" from the CALL pull down menu

Select the theme your are responding to from THEME pull down menu

SYMPOSIUM THEMES

INTERACTIVE CITY:

http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/thematic.html#interactive

http://www.urban-atmospheres.net/ISEA2006/

There is an invisible city growing among the growth of the megacity,
and it is the electromagnetic, hertzian spectrum that flows
ceaselessly with data about and from and between us, but which is
always activated by the interfaces of commerce and government-cell
phones, surveillance cameras, marketing databases, navigation systems
that will alert us to a nearby sale. We imagine the city itself as
an interface, which accesses the future, the past, the distant, the
present, the communal, the individual in marvelous ways that allow us
to enjoy the 'opaque and fictitious thickness' of an invisible city
made visible.

PACIFIC RIM:

http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/thematic.html#pacific

http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/prnmscall2/

The political and economic space of the Pacific Rim represents a
dynamic context for innovation and creativity framed by issues of
economic globalization, isolationist nationalism, regional
integrations and environmental change. The concept of a Pacific Rim
is that of a complex geo-political-economic framework that
necessarily includes a vast network of city-states, regions and their
associative relationships that exist beyond the mere geographic
location or assignment of populations. Artists, designers, theorists,
cultural producers, researchers, urban planners and creative
strategist responsive to the rapidly transforming cultural ecology of
Pacific-Asia conditions are invited to submit proposals that serve as
platforms for discussion and debate.

TRANSVERGENCE:

http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/thematic.html#trans

http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/transvergence/index.html

Transvergence goes beyond the disciplinary. Creative interplay of
disciplines to catalyze artistic, scientific, and social innovation
is evidenced by decades of multi-/ pluri-, inter-, and trans-
disciplinary discourse and practice. The models of the think-tank,
media lab and research centre have shown their limits since the 80s
and 90s, as have tactical media activism tied to the logic of events,
and NGOs facing the donor system's arduous accountability
requirements; university research is often encumbered by best-
practice driven managerial culture, and 'creative industries'
clusters are subject to economies of scale and uneven divisions of
labour. ISEA seeks new visions of organizational and participatory
models as structures of possibility for transvergent practice.

COMMUNITY DOMAIN:

http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/thematic.html#community

http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/communitydomain1

The Community Domain theme stands in relation to contemporary debate
about 'Public Domain 2.0' (Kluitenberg, 2003), but emphasizes the
idea of domain from a grass roots perspective and the idea of
community starting with the individual rather than the demographic.
In other words, the goal is not to train people to become artists but
to use digital and networked technologies to allow people to
participate in the creation of their own stories - to become
producers rather than only consumers.

SYMPOSIUM STRUCTURES AND CALLS

There are three types of Calls for Participation:

Papers

Posters

Artist Presentations