this might be of interest to some ada folks - all
for papers, & below a conference announcement,
"The Intermedial City : Practices, Technologies,
Imaginaries", in montreal. CRI is the centre for
research in intermediality at montreal
university, i was there for a conference on
theatre. they do lots of interesting stuff (quite
academic & lots of it in french)
h : )
Convergence: The International
Journal of Research into New Media Technologies:
Call for Papers
Convergence: The International Journal of
Research into New Media Technologies
Call for Papers Special Issue on Cultural Memory and Digital Preservation
Vol 15 no 3, August 2009
Guest editors: Jessica Santone and Will Straw (McGill University, Canada)
Convergence is pleased to announce a forthcoming
special issue on Cultural Memory and Digital
Preservation. As works produced originally
for analog media come to be preserved within
digital media, and as media-based artworks
confront the imminent scarcity or obsolescence
of their technical supports, the question of how
the cultural expression of the past will be
preserved, transformed and kept in circulation
has become vital. So too is the question of how
todays digital resources (eg media-based
artworks and digital collections) may be
sustained and kept in circulation in the future.
Pro PpPPPPPpPPP posals are invited for
articles dealing with the role of new media
technologies in preserving or replicating the
cultural practices of the past. Articles are
invited from scholars, curators, gallery
conservators, artists and others whose work
deals with the relationship between contemporary
media and cultural heritage.
Examples of topics for which article proposals
are invited include the following:
The preservation and exhibition of media-based
art works: Migration and emulation are
dominant strategies for dealing with the
obsolescence which confronts the media-based
artworks of the past. What are the theoretical
and practical strengths and/or limitations of
each strategy? In what ways may
performance-based art practices of the past be
preserved within digital media? How should
preservation strategies conceive the boundaries
of the artwork? (Should artist statements,
recordings of audience behaviour and technical
specifications accompany the work through the
preservation process?) How has the ontological
status of the artwork been transformed in its
movement through different media supports?
Official and unofficial image archiving: What
is the status of visuality within public memory
projects and the venacular image worlds of Ebay,
Flickr or Facebook?
Place and placelessness: What is the
relationship of online preservation practices to
seemingly contradictory tendences in
contemporary art, such as the simultaneous
growth of megastructure galleries and the
ascendance of a place-based relational
aesthetics?
Shifting skill sets: How have digital
preservation projects altered the forms of
training appropriate to museusms, galleries and
other cultural institutions. What are the
relative values of technological history, art
history, information science and other
disciplines for digital preservation activity?
Archiving and memory as aesthetic concerns: How
have contemporary artists addressed the demands
and limitations of new media technologies as
tools for conveying cultural knowledge, history
and memory?
Ensuring the sustainability of digital
resources: What policies, strategies and
critical positions are required to ensure the
continued circulation of contemporary forms of
digital cultural expression?
We are hoping, with this issue, to balance
theoretical reflection on medias relationship
to cultural memory with practical accounts of
cultural preservation projects and programs.
We hope as well to maintain a balance between
fine art and popular cultural practices across
the articles published in this issue.
Please send proposals by to Prof. Will Straw
at
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
preferably as attachments in Microsoft Word or
WordPerfect and accompanied by full contact
details for the author, as well as information
on the authors current affiliation or position.
Details of referencing style can be found at
<http://convergence.beds.ac.uk/>http://convergence.beds.ac.uk/
Deadline for submission of completed research articles: 22 August 2008
(For all other submissions/inquiries, please
contact<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[EMAIL PROTECTED])
<http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/programs/ahcs/html/Straw.html>http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/programs/ahcs/html/Straw.html
Canadian culture blog:
<http://www.mcgill.ca/misc/blog/>http://www.mcgill.ca/misc/blog/
The Intermedial City : Practices, Technologies, Imaginaries
La nouvelle sphère intermédiatique 10
10th International Conference of the Centre de
recherche sur lintermédialité (CRI)
Montréal, October 9 11, 2008
Organized by:
James Cisneros, Université de Montréal
Nia Perivolaropoulou, University of Duisburg-Essen
Will Straw, McGill University
The city is an intermedial space, a palimpsest
of historical traces, a meshwork of codes,
encounters, and material media forms whose
convergence and collisions produce distinct
significations and senses of place. The question
of urban mediality extends beyond a simple
concern for how cities accommodate concrete
media infrastructures or how distinct media
produce and project images of the city. The
Intermedial City conference will examine the
ways in which media systems and interfaces help
to produce the multiple dimensions of urban
living.
The issues to be explored might include the
following: (a) how distinct media practices
define the limits of the city as a cultural or
political space; (b) how communications
technologies nourish the sense of cities as
spaces of circulation and dispersement; and (c)
how the ongoing interaction of media within
cities makes possible new imaginaries and new
forms of subjective experience.
We welcome papers exploring these and related
issues with respect to any historical period or
geographical location.
Official conference languages are English and
French. Please send your proposal of 150 words
and a brief bio to the address below by Monday,
March 10th 2008.
Julie Beaulieu
Coordonnatrice des activités publiques
Tel. : (514) 343-7793
Fax : (514) 343-2393
Courriel :
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED];
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Site Internet du CRI :
<http://cri.histart.umontreal.ca>http://cri.histart.umontreal.ca
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