[rumori] call for papers for conference
Steev [rumori] call for papers for conference
Mon, 18 May 1998 11:22:03 -0700 (PDT) (00895544523, Pine.LNX.3.95.980518112038.31729B-100000ATflotsam.detritus.net)
this is kind of tangentially relevant but thought many of
you would be interested....
smh
Steev Hise, Nervert
steevAThise.org http://www.cyborganic.com/people/steev
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Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 10:12:35 +0000
From: joel <joelATshoko.calarts.edu>
To: steevAThise.org
Subject: Re:
Bruce Sterling wrote:
>
> Subject: Dead Media Announcement
>
> Call for Papers
>
> Creativity and Consumption
> New Media Arts in Advanced Technology Culture
> International conference
> 29-31 March 1999
> to be held at the
> University of Luton, UK
>
> Submission deadline: 30 September 1998
>
> Creativity and Consumption will explore theoretical issues
> around the 'content' and 'use' of digital technology in
> order to promote a critical understanding of new media
> products and the context in which they circulate.
>
> Call for Papers
>
> In particular we are looking for research papers that
> relate to the following themes:
>
> o computers and creativity
> o the human-machine interface
> o dead media and science fiction
> o 'interactivity' and cultural practices
> o the aesthetics and politics of new media practices
> o implications of the 'new media age' for cultural
> institutions
> o distribution, exhibition and the audience
> o preservation and access
> o copyright, ownership and economic models
>
> Papers addressing others aspects of artistic and cultural
> practices and products would also be welcome.
>
> Please submit a 500 word abstract, together with author
> name, address, tel and fax numbers and email address, by
> 30 September 1998
>
> A selection of the papers presented will be published in
> Convergence:
> The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies,
> published quarterly by John Libbey Media at the University
> of Luton Press.
>
> Call for Panel Discussions
>
> We are also calling for proposals for specific panel
> discussions that aim to promote debate and offer a forum
> for discussion around the conference themes. The proposer
> should supply a list of panel participants, together with
> an outline of each participant's contribution and the aim
> of the discussion (the full proposal to be approx 500
> words in total).
>
> Please submit the 500 word proposal, together with author
> name, address, tel and fax numbers and email address, by
> 30 September 1998.
>
> Exhibition
>
> There will be a concurrent exhibition of new media
> artworks located in key venues around Luton town centre.
> Subject to funding this will feature two new works: Simon
> Biggs' The Great Wall of China, as a multi-screen, multi-
> user gallery installation and Black Box, a compilation
> installation produced by the Film & Video Umbrella. Both
> works will be exhibited at Luton's new lottery-funded arts
> centre, artesium.
>
> Sponsored by JVC, Eastern Arts Board, Centre for the Book
> at the Library of Congress.
>
> Alexis Weedon (Dr)
> Department of Media Arts,
> University of Luton,
> 75 Castle Street,
> Luton,
> Beds, LU1 3AJ,
> UK.
> Tel: +44 (0)1582 489031
> Fax +44 (0)1582 489014
> http://www.luton.ac.uk/alexis.weedon
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