This post was origially sent to the Spectre list by Armin Medosch... marc
Dear Netbehaviourists, the deadline for the The Sixth European Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts in Riga/Liepaja (Latvia), 15-20 June, 2010 has been extended to 15th of September. Among the six very interesting conference streams, the track 'networks and sustainability', hosted jointly by Rasa Smite and me, is described in more detail below. hope to see you in Latvia next year, cheers armin Call for Papers The Sixth European Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts in Riga/Liepaja (Latvia), 15-20 June Main Organizer: Electronic Text + Textiles (e-t+t) slsaat2...@gmaildotcom Venues: Main site for the academic programme, reception, lunches: The Stockholm School of Economics in Riga (SSE Riga) Other conference sites: e-t+t; Latvian Centre for Contemporary Arts; Riga City Art Space (t.b.c.), The Art Lab, University of Liepaja Streams 1. Textuality and Materiality 2. Architextures 3. Biopalimpsests 4. Tissue Cultures 5. Networks and Sustainability_In Liepaja 19-20 June: 6. Art as Research Main Call for Papers, all Streams http://www.e-text-textiles.lv/SLSAeu2010/streams.htm conference email: slsa.2...@gmail.com Networks and Sustainability Chairs: Rasa Smite ( director of RIXC, The Center for New Media Culture, Riga) and Armin Medosch (researcher, writer and curator, Vienna and London) This stream will interrogate the complex relationships between " network technology" and " network society", in order to reveal the multilayered texture of networks and to consider what potential network culture contains for sustainable development in technological, social and cultural fields. After the initial privatisation of the net in the 1990s, there was a wide-spread believe that the decentralized structure of the net would remodel society. Although it did not exactly work out like that, and the net has come under ever more closer corporate and state control, many important developments in the emancipatory use of the net originated in the network culture of the 1990s. While some of the techno-utopian ideas of the 1990s failed, we propose that a deeper analysis of many of the facets of network culture is now demanded. Taking stock of progressive and innovative developments in network culture, we are asking: * Which approaches exist for sustainable and social development of technologies (merging communal and technological developments)? * Which projects are underway to address the alternatives of energy use and other environmental issues (stemming from ICT)? * In which ways have alternative networks been able to create and maintain own network infrastructures (regarding server hosting, bandwidth, wireless and wired community networks, etc.)? * What can artists learn from FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) communities and vice versa? * In which ways has network culture already transformed the ways artists, curators, art historians and the audience "work" together? And which alternative models for dealing with authorship rights and collective authorship exist? * Which (artistic) strategies have been successfully used for purposes of resistance, social transformations, development of autonomous and sustainable structures? For this stream, we welcome papers by researchers, media theorists, social scientists, network activists and artists, who are engaged with the issues of sustainable development, ecological and alterantive uses of new technologies, social networking and social software development, etc. All proposals should be sent to this email address: slsaat2...@gmaildotcom _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
