[Reader-list] LEA Special cfp: Locative Media - Deadline 7 March 2005

[nisar keshvani]

LEA Special Issue: Locative Media

* Worldwide Call for Submissions *

Guest Editor: Drew Hemment
lctvmedia at astn.net
http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/LEA/LEA2004/authors.htm#lmedia

The Leonardo Electronic Almanac (ISSN No: 1071-4391) is inviting 
papers [and artworks] that deal with the emerging data-based 
spatial practice of Locative Media.

Across a broad range of contexts the interface between data 
environments and location has emerged as a central concern, 
reversing the trend towards digital content being viewed as 
placeless, or only encountered in the amorphous space of the 
internet. Artists have long been concerned with place and 
location, but the combination of mobile devices with positioning 
technologies opens up a manifold of different ways in which 
geographical space can be encountered and drawn. An emerging field 
of creative practice is coalescing around artists and 
technologists who are exploring the use of portable, networked, 
location-aware computing devices for social interfaces to places 
and artistic interventions in which geographical space becomes a 
canvas.

Submissions are sought which foreground not the technologies but 
rather issues to do with participation, perception and process 
they raise. What is Locative Media's relationship to dominant 
logics of representation, and how does it forces a reassessment of 
accustomed ways of representing, relating to and moving in the 
world? How may methodologies within Media Art and other 
disciplines be developed to meet a convergence of geographical and 
data space? How can collaborative or user-led mapping and 
cartography offer new possibilities for community organisation? 
What metaphors are available for these new kinds of spatial 
experience other than mapping and navigation? How may artists 
respond to the abstraction inherent in Locative Media as a 
data-based form, and look beyond the reductive understanding of 
location that comes from Geographic Information Systems - in which 
place is considered as a set of geographic coordinates or a 
wireless cell - to explore, for example, context, co-location and 
material embodiment? What is the relationship between this 
emerging critical art practice and both the surveillance and 
control technologies it deploys and wider mechanisms of 
domination? What taxonomies of Locative Media projects can be 
discerned, and how may terminology evolve to meet this new 
interdisciplinary environment?

Locative Media is in a condition of emergence, simultaneously 
opening up new ways of engaging in the world and mapping its own 
domain. For this issue, submissions that present the exploratory 
movements of Locative Media in historical context are of equal 
interest to submissions that offer a snap shot or polaroid of its 
current state of emergence.

Topics of interest might include (but are not limited to):
- Antecedents and historical context
- Taxonomies of Locative Media projects
- Art and technology collaborations
- Social applications
- Critical analyses
- Cultural analyses
- Scalability and ownership issues
- etc 


LEA encourages international artists / academics / researchers / 
students / practitioners / theorists that engage with locative 
media to submit their proposals for consideration. We particularly 
encourage authors outside North America and Europe to send 
proposals for essays / artists statements.

As part of this special, LEA is looking to publish:

- Critical Essays
- Artist Statement/works in the LEA Gallery
- Bibliographies (a peer reviewed bibliography with key 
texts/references in Locative Media)
- Academic Curriculum (LEA encourages academics conducting course 
programmes in this area to contact us)

Expressions of interest and outline should include:

- A brief description of proposed text (300 words)
- A brief author biography
- Any related URLs
- Contact details

In the subject heading of the email message, please use “Name of 
Artist/Project Title: LEA Locative Media Special – Date 
Submitted”. Please cut and paste all text into body of email 
(without attachments). Detailed editorial guidelines at: 
http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/LEA/submit

Deadline for expressions of interest: 7 March 2005

Timeline

7 March 2005 - submission of abstracts
11 March 2005 - short-listed candidates informed
1 April 2005 - contributors to submit full papers for peer review

(please note the timeline is subject to changes)

Please send proposals or queries to:
Drew Hemment
lctvmedia at astn.net

and	
Nisar Keshvani
LEA Editor-in-Chief
lea at mitpress.mit.edu

http://lea.mit.edu
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