The 6th national Aotearoa Digital Arts symposium will be held in Wellington over the weekend of June 26-28, 2009. The symposium will be held at the Victoria University Design School in Vivian Street, with performances, screenings and an opening celebration at the New Zealand Film Archive. We invite all ADA members, members of the broader arts community, and all other interested parties to attend and participate. More details will be announced in mid May.
The major themes of this year's symposium are materiality and criticality in digital art. The symposium will include curated conversations, workshops, artist presentations, a keynote presentation by Phil Dadson, and a remote conversation via London and Amsterdam with media theorist Matthew Fuller. This is a call for proposals for short presentations and workshops, and for participation in curated conversations. The deadline for proposals is May 15th 2009. **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. Proposal format: please send a 200 word outline of your proposed presentation and a 50 word biography to [email protected] by 15 May. Please include ‘Presentation Proposal’ in the subject line of your email. **Friday Workshops (3 hours) We are calling for people interested in preparing and running workshops based on existing themes (below), or new themes of your choice. The following workshop themes are currently being planned: • Copyright law and artists • Using open source tools • using Arduino, hardware hacking • new media arts education The length of the workshops may vary, but tasks will need to be able to be realised in under three hours. Workshop leaders will be provided with a small workshop fee. There is also the option for a small charge for participants to cover material costs within the workshop. Proposal format: please send a 400 word outline of your workshop, a 50 word biography, a list of technical and material requirements, and the ideal number of participants to [email protected] by 15 May. Please include ‘Workshop Proposal’ in the subject line of your email. **Conversations The main sessions of the symposium will be based on curated thematic conversations rather than papers or panel discussions. We are calling for expressions of interest in participating in one or more conversations based on these themes: • Materiality in digital art • Developing critical discourse in a small digital arts community • Forging connections beyond art • Facilitating international connections Proposal format: please send a 200 word outline of your interest in the topic and a 50 word biography to [email protected] by 15 May. Please include ‘Conversation proposal’ in the subject line of your email. **About ADA Aotearoa Digital Arts Trust is Aotearoa New Zealand’s only digital artists’ network. ADA’s purpose is to enable communication between artists, curators, teachers, critics, theorists, writers and the interested public. ADA aims to develop public understanding of digital art through online discussion, publications, exhibitions and symposia. ADA symposia provide 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 Wellington – previous events have been held in Hamilton, Auckland, Dunedin, New Plymouth, and Christchurch. Symposia always include 'the ADA free-lunch', time for informal meetings, parallel exhibitions, screenings and performances, friendly critical debate, and for the first time in Wellington: Sunday Soccer. The current members of the ADA Trust Board are: Zita Joyce (chair), Stella Brennan (secretary), Su Ballard (treasurer), Douglas Bagnall and Janine Randerson. _______________________________________________ Ada_list mailing list [email protected] http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/
