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Today's Topics:
1. Bridges Call for Papers (Monica Narula)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 16:14:48 +0530
To: announcements at sarai.net
From: Monica Narula <monica at sarai.net>
Subject: [Announcements] Bridges Call for Papers
Below you will find a call for papers for the Bridges Summit II,
which will be held at The Banff Centre October 4-6, 2002. The
deadline for submission is July 22. We hope that you will post and
distribute the call to interested colleagues and perhaps submit an
abstract (just 300 words). As the deadline is fast approaching, and
you are now just receiving this, please contact ford a couple of days
extension.
The first BRIDGES Consortium was held in 2001 in Los Angeles. It
brought together top experts from educational, research and funding
institutions and the private sector, as well as independent artists,
technologists, and
scientists, to explore interdisciplinary collaboration between art,
culture, science and technology. This year, it is the turn of the
BNMI to welcome this international forum.
The BRIDGES Consortium works from the belief that the great challenge
of convergence is not technology, but communication between people.
It pinpoints collaboration itself as a skill to be identified,
studied, and learned, and proposes practical strategies for including
it as a vital component in education, creation and research. It
identifies best practices, amplifies networks and provides a means of
communication for those engaged in the reality of collaborative
research.
Differences in work styles, priorities, language usage and invention,
communication styles, educational principles, institutional
frameworks, temperaments, and even fundamental values have the
potential to become
either obstacles or stimulants to effective collaboration. And
creating with ever-more complex technology requires greater
specialization as well as better collaboration between technicians
and creators.
The purpose of the First Summit was to establish the need and role
for BRIDGES in the culture, science and technology landscape. In
Banff, we will expand the cross-disciplinary realm to include social
sciences and
humanities researchers who are partners in culture and science
collaboration. The summit will result in an on-line document
accessible for use by anyone working in the culture, science and
technology area, and in
the building of an active community engaged in ongoing initiatives
that support cross-disciplinary work.
For the results of our First Summit, please check our web site at:
www.annenberg.edu/BRIDGES
For more information and to submit an abstract please contact:
Janet Anderson
Bridges II Coordinator
Banff New Media Institute (BNMI)
The Banff Centre
Box 1020, Station 40
Banff, AB, T1L 1H5
Phone: 1-403-762-6282
Fax: 1-403-762-6665
www.banffcentre.ca/bnmi
CALL FOR PAPERS
BRIDGES II: COLLABORATION, COMMUNICATION, CONVERGENCE
October 4-6, 2002
The Banff Centre, Banff New Media Institute, & The University of
Calgary in collaboration with the Annenberg Center for Communication
at the University of Southern California.
The first BRIDGES Consortium was held in 2001 in Los Angeles. It
brought together artists, technologists, and scientists, top experts
from educational, research and funding institutions and the private
sector, to explore interdisciplinary collaboration between art,
culture, science and technology. At the BRIDGES II Consortium we
plan to expand the cross-disciplinary realm to include social
sciences and humanities researchers who are partners in culture and
science collaboration. This year, BRIDGES comes to Canada and will
be held at the Banff New Media Institute. We hope to make it a truly
international event.
As well as a number of keynote speakers, we invite you to join
BRIDGES II, either as the presenter of a paper or to participate in
the consortium's scheduled discussions of collaboration as a form of
knowledge and a set of skills to be identified, studied, and learned.
Through a number of different session formats, including break-out
groups involving all consortium delegates, we wish to identify best
practices, amplify networks, and provide a means of communication for
those engaged in the reality of collaborative research. Difference in
work styles, priorities, language usage and invention, communication
styles, educational principles, institutional frameworks,
temperaments, and even fundamental values have the potential to
become either obstacles or stimulants to effective collaboration.
And creating with ever-more complex technology requires greater
specialization as well as better collaboration between technicians
and creators. Issues of access are critical, as we look at
international challenges and regional discrepancies.
We welcome submissions of proposals for 20 minute papers for the
following panels (suggested approaches are given in the questions
following the panel titles, but proposed papers need not be
restricted to these areas):
Collaborative Methods: What can we learn from collaboration in
science, in arts, in social sciences and humanities that we can apply
across these disciplinary areas? What can learn from studying the
research process as much as the outcomes of research?
The Ethics of Collaboration: What are the ethics of collaboration
between science and art? Social sciences and art? How can we ensure
mutual respect? How do projects shift depending on who is leading
the research?
Policy & Collaboration: What policies exist, are emerging, and are
needed to support collaboration? What policies and practices do we
need on the international front? What assumptions and ideas lie
behind institutional policies? What are the implications for
training the next generation of interdisciplinary researchers? Who
is excluded from policy making? What are the incentives for young
researchers and artists to collaborate?
Collaboration & Gender: How is collaboration gendered? Is it read as
feminine? How does it intrude on science hierarchy? How does it
intrude on art hierarchy? Who is blocked from leading projects? What
are the biases surrounding this?
Where Does Art & Science Collaboration fit in a period of Global
Crisis & War: What examples can we draw from history? What
circumstances are different in today's historical moment? How do
developments in new technologies inflect our understanding and our
experience of global crisis and war?
Digital Archives & Databases for Collaboration: What are effective
models for networks? What are the access issues? How do we
understand virtual and actual presence in the design of archives
and/or databases?)
We will also have two showcases: A festival of new media works or
documentation AND a show and tell of tools that enable collaboration.
… 300-word abstracts for proposed papers
… one page new media and tools descriptions, with URL's, should be
sent NO LATER THAN JULY 15, 2002 to:
Sara Diamond & Susan Bennett
Convenors, BRIDGES II
C/o Janet Anderson
Banff New Media Institute
The Banff Centre, Banff AB, T1L 1H5
Phone: 1-403-762-6282
Fax: 1-403-762-6665
Email: janet_anderson at banffcentre.ca
For further information about BRIDGES II, contact Janet Anderson,
Project Coordinator at the above contact information.
For the results of BRIDGES I, please check our website at:
www.annenberg.edu/BRIDGES
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Monica Narula
Sarai:The New Media Initiative
29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110 054
www.sarai.net
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