[Reader-list] ISEA2006 Call for Papers and Presentations

[Joel Slayton]

ISEA2006 SYMPOSIUM  CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
FOR PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS.

  ISEA2006 seeks paper and presentation proposals responding to the 
Symposium themes of Transvergence, Interactive City, Community Domain 
or Pacific Rim. This is the only call for papers and presentations that 
there will be for ISEA2006.

  What tactics, issues and conceptual practices expose or inform the 
distinctions of these subject terrains relating to contemporary art 
practice? What theoretical analyses illuminate art practice engaged 
with new technical and conceptual forms, functions and disciplines; 
provide for innovative strategies involving urbanity, mobility, 
community and locality; examine the role of corporations, civic 
cultural organizations and their relationship to strategic planning; 
serve to expose new portals of production and experience; and provide 
for provocative analysis of contemporary political and economic 
conditions?

  The ISEA2006 Symposium is discussion and conversation based. This 
orientation is intended as a break from the tradition of reading 
academic papers and the formalities of panels and is the result of a 
month-long online discussion with 21 international participants (see 
list below). All sessions are moderated, include respondents and are 
designed to encourage audience participation. Session formats will 
emphasize questioning, debate and provocation. Papers, abstracts and 
poster texts will be pre-published on the web and in print. There will 
be a pre-symposium online public forum designed to encourage 
interaction between symposium presenters and the public to provide for 
discussion and debate.

  We are seeking proposals for papers, artist and poster sessions.
 
SUBMISSION  PROCEDURE FOR OPEN CALLS

You must login and create a submission using the official ISEA2006 
submission tool.

http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/register/submission.php

Open: November 15th, 2005
Closed: January 15th, 2006

Submissions will be evaluated by the ISEA International Program 
Committee.

On the Submissions Call Page be sure to:
Select "Symposium" from the CALL pull down menu
Select the theme your are responding to from THEME pull down menu
 
SYMPOSIUM THEMES

INTERACTIVE CITY:

http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/thematic.html#interactive
http://www.urban-atmospheres.net/ISEA2006/

There is an invisible city growing among the growth of the megacity, 
and it is the electromagnetic, hertzian spectrum that flows ceaselessly 
with data about and from and between us, but which is always activated 
by the interfaces of commerce and government-cell phones, surveillance 
cameras, marketing databases, navigation systems that will alert us to 
a nearby sale.  We imagine the city itself as an interface, which 
accesses the future, the past, the distant, the present, the communal, 
the individual in marvelous ways that allow us to enjoy the 'opaque and 
fictitious thickness' of an invisible city made visible.

PACIFIC RIM:

http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/thematic.html#pacific

http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/prnmscall2/

The political and economic space of the Pacific Rim represents a 
dynamic context for innovation and creativity framed by issues of 
economic globalization, isolationist nationalism, regional integrations 
and environmental change. The concept of a Pacific Rim is that of a 
complex geo-political-economic framework that necessarily includes a 
vast network of city-states, regions and their associative 
relationships that exist beyond the mere geographic location or 
assignment of populations. Artists, designers, theorists, cultural 
producers, researchers, urban planners and creative strategist 
responsive to the rapidly transforming cultural ecology of Pacific-Asia 
conditions are invited to submit proposals that serve as platforms for 
discussion and debate.

TRANSVERGENCE:

http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/thematic.html#trans

http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/transvergence/index.html

Transvergence goes beyond the disciplinary. Creative interplay of 
disciplines to catalyze artistic, scientific, and social innovation is 
evidenced by decades of multi-/ pluri-, inter-, and trans-disciplinary 
discourse and practice. The models of the think-tank, media lab and 
research centre have shown their limits since the 80s and 90s, as have 
tactical media activism tied to the logic of events, and NGOs facing 
the donor system's arduous accountability requirements; university 
research is often encumbered by best-practice driven managerial 
culture, and 'creative industries' clusters are subject to economies of 
scale and uneven divisions of labour. ISEA seeks new visions of 
organizational and participatory models as structures of possibility 
for transvergent practice.

COMMUNITY DOMAIN:

http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/thematic.html#community

http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/communitydomain1

The Community Domain theme stands in relation to contemporary debate 
about 'Public Domain 2.0' (Kluitenberg, 2003), but emphasizes the idea 
of domain from a grass roots perspective and the idea of community 
starting with the individual rather than the demographic. In other 
words, the goal is not to train people to become artists but to use 
digital and networked technologies to allow people to participate in 
the creation of their own stories - to become producers rather than 
only consumers.
 
SYMPOSIUM STRUCTURES AND CALLS

There are three types of Calls for Participation:

Papers
Posters
Artist Presentations

  There will be a limited number of Panel presentations shaped in 
relation to the Symposium themes. Panels may be proposed or the 
organizers may curate these based upon Paper, Poster and Artist 
Presentation proposals.

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Papers submitted will be pre-published on-line with presentations 
limited to 10 minutes. Paper presenters will be grouped thematically to 
encourage discourse that presents divergent perspectives and views that 
serve as a catalyst for conversation.

Submission of proposal abstracts: January 15th, 2006
Notification: February 28th, 2006
Final manuscripts: June 10th 2006


Accepted abstracts will be posted online.  Final manuscripts will be 
pre-published online beginning July 1st.  A one month online 
pre-symposium public discussion forum will feature accepted Papers in 
one week sessions dedicated to each symposium theme. Authors must 
commit to having papers available for publication by June 10, 2006.

CALL FOR POSTERS:

Poster Sessions are scheduled throughout the Symposium to provide 
opportunity for the presentation of individual or group projects or 
research. Poster Sessions represent a significant opportunity for the 
presentation of creative, scholarly or community based initiatives. 
Sessions are moderated. Posters will be on display continuously with 
scheduled author attendance.

Submission for Posters: January 15th, 2006
Notification of acceptance: March 15th 2006

Posters submissions must be presented in a standardized format. Posters 
are 4 x 5 ft. and must be in a form that can be attached to 
presentation boards at the Symposium. A limited number of standard, 
networked computer stations will be available to complement the 
posters.

CALL FOR ARTISTS PRESENTATIONS:

Artists Open Mic sessions provide an opportunity for explication of 
artistic achievement responsive to the Symposium themes. Presentations 
are limited to 5 minutes and will be grouped together by the organizers 
as appropriate to subject matter. An assigned moderator will coordinate 
presentations and audience questions. We recognize, of course, that the 
Artist Presentations are inadequate to fully present one's work, and we 
encourage artists to present paper and poster proposals as well as work 
(see http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/calls.html). We especially encourage 
artists whose work has been accepted to the Symposium and Festival to 
submit a presentation proposal.

Artists submissions should include a brief description of the proposed 
work to be presented along with appropriate documentation.

Submission of proposals for artist presentations: January 15th, 2006
Notification: March 15th, 2006

All Panels and Artist Presentations will be Webcast live and also 
available as podcasts immediately following presentation.

OTHER CATEGORIES OF PARTICIPATION

There are five additional categories of Symposium presentations that 
contribute to the overall scope of Symposium proceedings: Keynotes, 
Emergent Topics, Summit Presentations, Organizational Meetings, Chat 
Rooms. These are described below. Presenters in these categories will 
be determined by the IPC. They may be selected from submissions for 
Papers, Artist Presentations, and Poster Sessions, but please it is not 
possible to submit directly in these categories:

Keynotes: Keynote presentations are invited featured speakers. Sessions 
include a respondent/moderator and have extended opportunities for 
audience interaction.

Emergent Topics: Dedicated sessions on day 3-4 of the Symposium that 
are a direct response to the discourses, topics and interactions 
stemming from days 1-2. Speakers and topics will be identified through 
a ballet system involving all Symposium participants and audiences.

Summit Presentations: There are four pre-symposium Summits focused on 
special topics: The Pacific Rim New Media Summit hosted by San Jose 
State University; Interactive City hosted by Intel Berkeley Lab; 
Creative Communities Forum hosted by the City of San Jose; Artists, 
Corporation and Policy hosted by Montalvo Arts Center; and Technology 
Ethics and Environment hosted by Santa Clara University. Each will have 
a dedicated session for presentation of research, projects and analysis 
outcomes.

Organizational Meetings: Provision for meeting times and spaces for 
international cultural organizations, institutes and programs to host 
meetings specific to their constituency.

Chat Rooms: Chat Rooms are for break out discussions and emergent 
conversations stemming from Symposium interactions. These are 
self-organizing sessions based on Symposium interactions and 
trajectories.

Other Calls: Please note that there are several calls for art projects 
still open. Also, there will be a separate call for workshops. See 
http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/calls.html.


SYMPOSIUM DISCUSSION FORUM

Joel Slayton
  Steve Dietz
  Alex Adriaansens
  Peter Anders
  Andreas Broeckmann
  Danny Butt
  Steve Cisler
  Nina Czegledy
  Sara Diamond
  Ken Goldberg
  Honor Harger
  Doug Kahn
  Patrick Lichty
  Kim Machan
  Amanda McDonald Crowley
  Gunalan Nadarajan
  Marisa Olson
  Christiane Paul
  Julianne Pierce
  Trebor Scholz
  Ana Serano
  Rejane Spitz
  Carol Stekenas
  Mark Tribe

SYMPOSIUM LOCAL HOST COMMITTEE

  Joel Slayton
  Steve Dietz
  Jonathan Berger
  Natalie Bookchin
  Geoffrey C. Bowker
  Danny Butt
  Laura Esparza
  Peter Lunen Feld
  Ken Goldberg
  John Kreideler
  Margaret Morse
  Gunalan Nadarajan
  Sally Jane Norman
  Marisa Olson
  Narendra Pachkhede
  Christiane Paul
  Eric Paulos
  Huan Sauss
  Trebor Scholz
  Carol Stakenas
  Eddo Stern
  Mark Tribe
  Rob van Kranenburg
  Victoria Vesna
  Steve Wilson

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Symposium Committee and members to be added.

Co-Chairs: Steve Dietz and Joel Slayton

IMPORTANT DATES

Submissions Due January 15
Notification of Papers February 28
Notification of Posters + Artist Session March 15
Abstracts 		April 1
Online Forum 	April 15 - May 15, 2006
Papers due 		June 15
Papers published	August 1
Summit		August 7 - 8
Symposium		August 9 - 13



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