Call For Papers
Life By Design: Everyday Digital Culture
An interdisciplinary graduate symposium
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies
University of California, Irvine
April 10 -12, 2003
Life By Design: Everyday Digital Culture proposes an interdisciplinary
exploration of the
everyday impacts of digital culture. Starting with the premise that digital
culture is no longer
new, but is rather a given, the symposium seeks to open a space for a
'second wave' of analysis,
criticism and practice. In emphasizing the word 'culture', the symposium
assumes a central role
for the interaction between people and technology, rather than placing a
spotlight solely on
technology itself. While we strongly encourage the cultivation of a
critical, and even skeptical,
stance towards the technology we engage with on a daily basis, we find it
is important to include
not just theorists but also practitioners. Therefore the symposium will
include, in addition to
papers, screenings, demos, an exhibition and a catalogue so that the
discussion can take place
across a broad range of interdisciplinary platforms.
In light of the societal changes prompted by long lasting technological
interventions, what can
investigations into design, critical theory and cultural studies tell us
about our digitally mediated
cultural experiences and realities? Searching for a close reading of the
impacts of the digital,
technological, mediated and interactive technologies on ordinary daily
life, the symposium hopes
to foster a generative mix of theorists, practitioners, graduate students,
faculty and community
involvement. Screenings, demos, artworks and installations will be invited
under a related call
for proposals, with details forthcoming on the website. Currently, the
committee is accepting
proposals for papers on the following five topics:
Ubiquity
Is there something about the incursions of digital technology into
'everyday life' which may have
been overlooked, but which make for interesting conclusions about culture
in general, as well as
at this particular digital moment? How does the often barely noticed
penetration of the digital
into almost every aspect of our world alter everyday life? Privacy,
surveillance, mobile devices,
wireless communications, tangible and 'invisible computing', education,
smart homes, media-
convergence, intelligent agents, invasiveness and related topics would all
be considered
appropriate for 'ubiquity'.
Translation
Do the cross-media translations fostered by digital media create a
particular opening for issues
related to interdisciplinarity and/or intertextuality, or is something else
taking place? Are we
building a bridge between the 'two cultures', as addressed by C.P. Snow, of
the humanities and
sciences? Is such a bridge desirable? Papers addressing the 'digitization'
of media forms, such as
text, video, sound, dance, databases, as well as digitally facilitated
interdisciplinarity in general,
automatic translation devices, customization, user profiling and
cross-platform applications such
as porting to different platforms would all be considered appropriate
topics for 'translation'.
Performance
How do issues understood in other time-based practices become altered
within the digital
context? How do issues of identity politics function in new digital
contexts? How do issues of
embodiment, interface and participation apply within the apparent
immateriality of the digital?
What do theorists and practitioners have to say to one another? Papers
addressing duration,
events occurring over time, embodiment, dynamic systems, interactivity,
interfaces,
improvisation, ephemerality, agents, identity politics and behavior,
including behavioral AI and
similar topics would all be appropriate for 'performance'.
Imagination
How has the imaginary evolved to include popular culture references to
scientific breakthroughs,
and what impact has this had on the development of the technology itself?
How does science
fiction impact the creation of new technologies? Have we become posthuman?
What about
cyborgs, genetic engineering, nanotechnology and a host of other everyday
wonders 'just around
the corner'? Papers addressing Artificial Life, futurism, AI, virtual
reality, the entertainment
industry, games, computer generated imagery (CGI), animatronics and the
posthuman would all
be relevant for 'imagination'.
History
What does second generation digital practice and criticism have to tell us
about digital culture?
What critiques of extant theories about digital media should be raised?
Could we already be
beyond 'second wave' considerations, into even deeper digital history? How
should this history
be told, and by whom? Papers addressing cyberfeminism, identity politics,
the histories of
science and engineering, science and technology studies, visual studies and
the history of
computer representation would all be appropriate for 'history'.
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Submission information
A wide variety of submissions are encouraged from graduate students in the
humanities, arts,
architecture and design, including those in game, interface and
transportation design, media,
communication and engineering. Papers from established scholars, theorists,
artists, designers,
engineers and writers of fiction and science fiction are also encouraged.
Established practitioners
and graduate students are invited to present works in the screenings, demos
and exhibition
sessions under a related call for media; see the website for further info.
Presentations will be fifteen to twenty minutes long and in English. Please
send two copies of
your 500 word abstract and brief vitae by Friday, January 3rd, 2003 to:
Life By Design: Everyday Digital Culture
c/o Department of Art History
85 Humanities Instructional Building
Irvine, CA 92697-2785
Email: [email protected]
To ensure readability, cut and paste proposal into the body of your email.
Do NOT send
attachments. Snail-mail submissions preferred.
Notifications of acceptance will be sent out February 1st. The final
versions of the papers are due
on February 15th.
Modest travel stipends may be possible for those outside of California.
Please enquire by e-mail.
For further information, contact the above email address, or visit
symposium website at
www.humanities.uci.edu/visualstudies/everyday.
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Keynote speakers are design engineer and technoartist, Natalie Jeremijenko,
and award-winning
game designer and cultural theorist, Celia Pearce.
With supervising faculty Anne Friedberg (chair), Simon Penny and Akira
Mizuta Lippit.
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A final roundtable discussion, the Battle of the Moderators, will conclude
the proceedings.
A concurrent exhibition at the Beall Center for Art and Technology will
issue an additional call
for proposals. See website for more information.
A CD-ROM catalogue of papers and exhibitors will accompany the symposium.
Co-sponsored by the UCI Ph.D. program in Visual Studies, the UC Digital
Cultures Project, the
UCI Film & Video Center, and the UCI Beall Center for Art and Technology.
Call for Papers
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Type: discussion
Comments
Hi, Friends! Happy Christmas! Happy Holidays!
Happy New Year!
1. Another historical book is under construction! The best of Karenina.it
Project.
If you like to be involved by publishing a teoretical or critical short
essay about new media / experimental poetry, in the new book I am preparing,
send your piece, READY FOR PUBLICATION, to me by e-mail [email protected] (not
more than 3-4 pages long).
It will published before in the web site, then, within this new year 2003,
in a
150 pages paper version, which will be the catalogue of the exhibition, of
which I explain in the point 2.
Please join a 10 lines bio with your former publications.
Dead line: January 31st 2003
2. We are working at a great world wide visual / digital visual poetry
exhibition, at the Bottonera Mill (SO, I) in the next spring, on the theme:
Poetry Migrations/Transit/E-Fluxes/.
General Curator: Caterina Davinio.
The exhibition will present historicized experimental artists and young
artists.
To submit for this initiative send your piece, with your signature, ready to
be shown, format A4, A3 to:
Davinio Art Electronics, V. Sassi 10, 23900 Lecco (LC) Italy.
Join a 10 lines bio and an artist's statement.
Your work will not be returned, it will remain as archives material for
further itinerant developments of the exhibition. It will not be given for
sale, it will be shown only for cultural purpose. Please specify on you mail
"Cultural Material/No Commercial Value".
To send materials means to accept all the conditions.
Dead line: February 15th 2003.
For what concerns my last essay, Techno Poetry and Virtual Reality
(Tecno-poesia e realta virtuali, bilingual Italian / English), I know I
promised to some of you to send a copy of the book, unfortunately I myself
received no single copy from the
publisher yet. I protested, but with no chance, so I'm waiting. Please, be
not angry with me.
I remember the essay is about the international new media poetry landscape
and presents 130 international artists + a special section dedicated
to the video festivals and web projects curated by me since 1990.
Publisher: Sometti, Mantova, 2002
Preface by Eugenio Miccini.
pp. 320
ISBN 88-88091-85-8
To order the book write to:
Editoriale Sometti
c/o Centro Culturale "Baratta"
Corso Garibaldi 88
46100 MANTOVA - ITALY
Price: Euro 6 + mail cost.
Fax: 0039 (0)376 352714
Or to:
Davinio Art Electronics
Via Sassi 10
23900 Lecco (LC) - Italia
Here you pay nothing, friends, but I will have only a very limited number of
copies to send free to journals, friends, cultural institution (for
international archives).
To read the list of the enclosed artists and more information see
Karenina.it:
http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/kareninazoom/daviniobook.htm
Last but not least!
If you like to read poetry, take a look to my "Serial Phenomenologies",
a recent poetry work translated into English, in the review
"Generatorpress" N. 12 (Cleveland OH, USA, John Byrum Publisher ).
Follow the link here: http://www.generatorpress.com/pages/3/index.htm
And of course let me know what you think.
Happy, happy Holiday from the far Italy to you all.
Caterina Davinio
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KARENINA.IT (poetry in phatic function) A web project by Caterina Davinio
[email protected] on line since 1998 - By Jakobson, phatic is the use of the
language which has the finality to maintain open and operative the
communication channel among the interlocutors. On the confine between art
and critic, happening and net performance, Karenina.it is a virtual meeting
place around the theme of the writing and the new technologies, in which
experiences of international artists, curators, theoreticians converge, in a
net that counts thousands of contacts in the world.
http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/kareninazoom/kareninarivista.html
Violence Online Festival
www.newmediafest.org/violence/
is looking for proposals:
papers to included in the coming project versions of this successful New
Media environment.
Currently, more than 300 artists from 40 countries reflect the phenomenon of
violence
from their artistic view.
The requested papers should go down to following topics connected to
"violence":
Society, psychology, philosophy, science, MEDIA; culture, art.
Other topics, if expressively indicated, are welcome, as well.
The accepted languages are English, French, Spanish and German.
There is no specific restriction concerning the lenght of the papers.
Please use only these digital formats for submitting:
a) plain email text
b) RTF (Rich Text Format)
c) .txt
d. html (webpage)
Academic, scientific papers are welcome, as well as articles and private
reflections.
It is intended to show the subject of "violence" from most different views.
The submitter/author must hold all rights on the paper(s) to be submitted.
Violence Online Festival is a free and independant cultural production and
will not be able to pay any fee.
The selected papers will be published online exclusively on the Violence
Online Festival site
and will include the copyright note of the author.
Deadlines:
28 October 2003
28 November 2003
28 December 2003
28 January 2004
All serious papers will be reviewed as soon as they arrive.
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The submitting author has to fill in this form
and send it together with the file containing the paper
to [email protected]
a) Author
1. Name/first name
2. complete address (only for internal use)
3. email/URL
b) Paper
1. Title and number of words
2. Topic
3. submitted text format
4. Year of origin
5. if published already, when and where
c) Authorisation
I (name of author), hold all rights on the submitted paper
and authorize Violence Online Festival to publish
the text on Violence Online Festival site
until revoke.
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Violence Online Festival
www.newmediafest.org
[email protected]
is corporate member of
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork] :||cologne -
the experimental platform for net based art -
operating from Cologne/Germany.
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—– Original Message —–
From: artact.net
To: Philippe Monfouga
Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2004 2:03 PM
Subject: Call for papers
Artact, new webzine, is looking for papers about net art or digital art.
We search papers about interfaces, archive, database, search engines and ho=
w artistes use them or create pieces of art with these technologies.
Please submit your papers to [email protected]
these proposals will be published on line on www.artact.net
we accept text in english or in french
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Artact, nouveau webzine, recherche des textes a propos du net art ou de l=
'art numerique.
Nous recherchons des ecrits sur les interfaces, l'archive, bases de donn=
ees, les moteurs de recherche et comment les artistes les utilisent ou cr=
eent des oeuvres avec ces technologies.
Soumettez nous vos textes par mail : [email protected]
vos propositions seront publiees en ligne sur www.artact.net
Nous acceptons des textes en anglais ou en francais
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Acoustic Space, special issue of on Trans-Culture Mapping
http://rixc.lv
http://locative.net
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The RIXC Centre for New Media Culture seeks manuscripts for its
upcoming Acoustic Space journal, to be published for the 7th
international Art+Communication festival in Riga Latvia, October 1-3
2004. Now in its 5th edition, the Acoustic Space print journal, is a
forum for net-radio and new media artists broadly interested in the
idea of making visible the invisible. This year's issue, Trans-Culture
Mapping, will focus, in the context of European expansion, on ideas of
locality, cartography and the politics of open-systems.
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The ability to visualize a space relates to its domination where
borders are maintained by a legions of state cartographers, enforcing
hierarchical regimes of power from the level of the biological to the
geopolitical.
Against the US-led 'coalition of the willing' of which Latvia counts
itself a part –informed, as it is, by the US Strategic Command's
objective of "Full Spectrum Dominance" (that seeks the unilateral total
domination of land, sea, air, cyberspace and outer space)- this
publication is interested in projects that re-appropriate mapping as a
means cultural expression.
The publication seeks to offer a space of exchange for grassroots
activists and new media practitioners who are critically exploring
ideas of locality, in response to the continental European (and global)
process of "normalization".
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Sub-themes
Locative Media
Governments and corporations worldwide are constructing a geo-rectified
real-time digital-double of earth-systems, which, with the advent of
the mobile Internet and the ever increasing ubiquity of
location-sensing technologies, allow for urban space to become
conceived of as a site for digital media and, potentially, emergent
social organization. Yet, beneath the manifold promise of collaborative
cartography, is the harsh reality of 'total information awareness'. Can
locative media escape its own axiomatic system?
Spectrum Ecology
Advances in wireless internet technology are changing not only how
people connect to the internet but also how they approach the wireless
spectrum itself. This section seeks to map how ideas of use and
ownership are being analyzed and reconsidered in this environment.
Tactical Cartography
Social softwares have become a means of mobilizing people without
having to go to the "Media" to convey a message. Problems, however,
persist in making the leap into more mainstream circuits of power. How
can maps be used both to help legitimize certain "fringe"
Internet-debates and throw light on the nature of multinational
capitalism?
Endocolonization
In the context of a "War on Terror", global borders are being mapped
_within_, in a battle for "hearts and minds". While we may celebrate
aspects of European integration, smaller States must also be cautious
of the wholesale adoption of various monoculturing techniques that
threaten their local diversities. How does "the local" assert itself
while at the same time avoiding becoming reactionary and
fundamentalist.
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Proposals and inquiries regarding submissions should be made to Marc
Tuters <[email protected]> and Rasa Smite <[email protected]>
We encourage you to submit documents of various lengths an forms, so
long as they related to one of the sub-themes and display an internal
consistence.
While we ask for documents in English we actively encourage submissions
from non-Anglophones, especially Eastern Europeans.
Please submit documents as RTF's and any images separately in a high
resolution format.
Deadline for final, full paper submissions: August 1st
–
Pall Thayer
artist/teacher
http://www.this.is/pallit
http://130.208.220.190
http://130.208.220.190/nuharm
http://130.208.220.190/panse