[Reader-list] ISEA2006_Call_Update

[Joel Slayton]

ISEA2006 SYMPOSIUM CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
FOR PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS.

  Important Notice:  We listen. There has been considerable feedback  
that the original Symposium call did not clearly include a call for  
Panel proposals. We have revised the call so that proposals for  
practice-based panels are encouraged. The deadline for submission of  
proposals for ISEA2006 papers, artist presentations and posters has  
been extended to January 30th to accommodate this change. Please note  
updates to the Symposium Call description.

< http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/symposiumcall/>

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 session.

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 30th, 2006

The ISEA International Program Committee will evaluate submissions.

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 – including panels

CALL FOR PAPERS:
All accepted papers will be part of a pre-Symposium online  
discussion. Papers accepted will be pre-published on-line with  
presentations at the Symposium limited to 10-15 minutes to encourage  
moderated discussion among the panel and with the audience. 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 30th, 2006

Notification: March 15th, 2006

Abstracts due:  April 1, 2006

On-line forum: April 15-May 15, 2006

Final manuscripts: June 15, 2006

Papers published: August 1, 2006

Abstracts of accepted proposals will be posted online April 15.  A  
one-month online pre-symposium public discussion forum will feature  
discussion with the authors of the accepted proposals in one week  
sessions dedicated to each symposium theme.  Draft full manuscripts  
will be pre-published online beginning July 1st for Symposium  
attendees to be able to read prior to the Symposium. Authors must  
commit to having papers available for publication by June 15, 2006.  
Print publication TBD.

CALL FOR POSTERS:

Poster presentations provide the opportunity to showcase individual  
or group projects or research of excellence. ISEA2006 will integrate  
accepted Poster submissions in a special Poster Session as part of  
the main track of Symposium activities. While Posters will be on view  
throughout the Symposium, the Poster Session provides a focused,  
featured platform for the sharing of creative, research, scholarly or  
community based initiatives with Symposium attendees. The Poster  
Session is a special feature of the main Symposium track.  We  
strongly encourage submissions of projects and research that would  
benefit from the opportunity this format and exchange enables.

Submission for Posters: January 30th, 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 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 and PANELS:

Artists Presentations are organized into 50-minute sessions.  These  
are open content presentations for the presentation of artwork,  
projects or research initiatives.  Sessions can be organized as  
individual presentations, panels or in any appropriate format.   
Presentations do not have to be specific the Symposium themes.  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 (We especially encourage artists  
whose work has been accepted to the Symposium and Festival to submit  
a presentation proposal.

Submissions should include a brief description of the proposed  
presentation, inclusive work and participants along with appropriate  
documentation.

Submission of proposals for artist presentations: January 30th, 2006

Notification: March 15th, 2006

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, and  
Break Out Rooms. These are described below. Presenters in these  
categories will be determined by ISEA2006. They may be selected from  
submissions for Papers, Posters, and Artist Presentations - including  
Panels, but please, except for Organizational Meetings, 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. Joel, don’t we want people  
to be able to request these?  To request an Organizational meeting  
please email ISEA2006 directly.  <isea2006 at cadre.sjsu.edu>

Break Out Rooms: Break Out Rooms provide for discussions and emergent  
conversations stemming from Symposium interactions. These are self- 
organizing sessions based on Symposium interactions and trajectories. -

Other Calls: Please note, Calls for Workshops and Tours are open  
until Jan 30th. See http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/calls.html.

The structure of the 13th International Symposium for Electronic Arts  
was discussed and outlined in an invited online discussion forum and  
finalized by a Local Host Committee. An International Program  
Committee will jury selections.

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

To be announced.

Co-Chairs: Steve Dietz and Joel Slayton

IMPORTANT DATES

Submissions Due January 30

Notification of Acceptance March 15th

Abstracts                                 April 1

Online Forum                           April 15 - May 15, 2006

Papers due                              June 15

Papers published                      August 1

Summits, Workshops Tours      August 7-8

Grand Opening Night                August 8

ISEA2006 Symposium             August 9 - 13



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