**PROPOSAL APPLICATIONS extended until January 15th ** for ADA08 Tending Networks
(Successful Applicants from the first round will be notified on Monday 17th December as promised.) __OPEN Call for Workshop Proposals and Presentations__ _Tending Networks:_ the ADA Symposium 2008 ------------- The next national Aotearoa Digital Arts symposium, Tending Networks, will be held in Christchurch over the weekend of February 22-24, 2008. The Symposium is a space for New Zealand art practitioners, researchers, curators, and audiences to share projects, skills and ideas relating to digital and media art practices. Non-members, new members and current members of ADA, and members of the broader Christchurch arts community are invited to participate. This is a call for proposals for short presentations and for workshops. Presentations (5 minutes) ------------- The brief presentations will be an opportunity to share any bite-sized idea: a particular work, an aspect of your practice, a project idea, a concept, a research proposal, or anything in five minutes or less. Presentations can be illustrated with slides, video, audio or other media. The brief presentation format aims to allow work in progress can be presented informally, in an open context, without the requirement of writing an entire paper. Proposal format: please send a 200 word outline of your proposed presentation and a 50 word biography to [EMAIL PROTECTED] by December 12th 2007. Please include ‘Presentation Proposal’ in the subject line of your email. Workshops (1.5 – 3 hours) ------------- We are currently seeking leaders for Symposium workshops. Workshops are a chance to share knowledge and develop skills, to make something, to open up new fields of inquiry or just learn some fun new tools. Workshops can take many forms: they can be based around technologies or ideas, as geeky or ungeeky as you like. Possible themes might include: circuit bending, social networks, planning & tactics, hacks & workarounds. The length of the workshops may vary, but tasks will need to be able to be realised in under three hours. Proposal format: please send a 4-500 word outline of your workshop, a list of technical and material requirements, and the ideal number of participants to [EMAIL PROTECTED] by December 12th 2007. Please include ‘Workshop Proposal’ in the subject line of your email. About the ADA Symposium and Trust ------------- ADA is a network of people who are interested in digital and media art as practitioners, writers, curators, researchers and audiences. ADA is a charitable trust that facilitates discussion around themes related to digital and media art in New Zealand through an email list, a website, and regular events. The ADA symposium provides an important opportunity for the distributed network to spend time together in real space, and to share and develop projects, ideas, skills, and plans. This is the first ADA Symposium to be held in Christchurch – previous events have been held in Hamilton, Auckland, Dunedin, and New Plymouth. Tending Networks will feature keynote presentations from significant international digital art practitioners and panel discussions around ‘growing’ social networks, curating, and producing digital media art. The symposium also features ‘Séance for Nam June Paik’, a screening event to be held at the Christchurch Art Gallery, curated by Dan Agnihotri-Clark, and an international exhibition of network art curated by Adam Hyde and Julian Priest to be held at the Physics Room. A call for proposals for ‘Séance for Nam June Paik’ will be circulated on the 30th November 2007. _Tending Networks_ is supported by The Physics Room Contemporary Art Space, and the ADA Trust. Symposium details will be updated here: http://symposium08.aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/ Deadline for proposals for brief presentations and workshops: December 12th 2007. Proposals should be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] of successful proposals: December 17th 2007. _______________________________________________ Ada_list mailing list [email protected] http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/
