Dynamic Coupling

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Dynamic Coupling

Dynamic Coupling / Total immersion in new media practice: What happens
when a shared life blurs with shared research?

Guest Edited by Jessica Westbrook
Assistant Professor, Department of Contemporary Practices, School of
the Art Institute of Chicago

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS:
Thursday, September 16, 2010

DESCRIPTION:
There is a history to artists coupling domestically and collaborating professionally: John Cage and Merce Cunningham, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Charles and Ray Eames, Ed and Nancy Kienholz, Christo and Jean Claude, Gilbert and George, Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely, Annelise and Joseph Albers are just a few examples of couples sharing a life and sharing a practice. This level of commitment and collaboration brings with it not only an air of romance and intrigue, but also points out the obvious potential for collaboration (broadly speaking) and interpersonal connection to produce something substantial (dialogue, skill, intensity, ambition, outcome) that is exponentially greater than individual parts. How has this kind of "dynamic coupling" translated into current new media practice? This call for submissions asks for insight on new media couples who share a practice and share a life. How immersive can it get? What do these new media couples make, and how do they work? What happens when a shared life blurs with shared professional research? Are there philosophical motivations in the decision or inclination to work as a couple/collaboratively (e.g. feminist, open source, post-structural perspectives, etc)? How do couples present and talk about projects? Does this shared practice extend into the classroom and/or inform a teaching/co-teaching philosophy?

SUBMISSIONS:
Authors and artists are invited to submit articles, papers, case studies, interviews, and project documentation in response to the theme. Notice of acceptance and/or further requests will be made in late September 2010. Please refer to Media-N submission guidelines for formatting papers and media:
http://www.newmediacaucus.org/html/journal/index.php?f=submissions

EMAIL SUBMISSIONS TO:
Jessica Westbrook
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