Category: Calls

The New Forms Festival (NFF) is an annual event highlighting emerging forms at the junction of art, culture and technology. It includes performances, panel discussions, workshops, and interactive exhibits on contemporary Media Arts issues. NFF04 will be held in Vancouver from October 14 to 28, 2004. Proposals are invited for four areas of the festival: the Conference, the Exhibition (digital art, performance, installation, immersive environments, Net .Art), Performance Series (sound art, performance art, live film/AV) and Late Night Events (music, visuals, post-digital, laptop, group performance, screenings). The deadline for submissions is May 14.

FILE 2004 is open for registrations to new media works such as webarts, netarts, artificial life, hypertext, web cam art, computer animation, digital design, tele-conference, virtual reality, interactive films, e-videos, online robotics and others. FILE SIMPOSIUM 2004, FILE HIPERSÔNICA, and FILE-GAMES 2004 are all open for entry works, papers, performances and/or registration.

There are only two weeks left to submit your entry to trAce’s New Media Article Writing Competition before the deadline on 30th April. Prize-winners will receive cash prizes and will also be published on the trAce website. This competition is open to all and is organised in conjunction with the Writers for the Future.

COSIGN 2004, the 4th International Conference on Computational Semiotics, is seeking papers, artworks, posters, and demonstrations. The conference will be held September 14-16, 2004, at the University of Split in Croatia. COSIGN 2004 seeks to explore how meaning can be created by, encoded in, understood by, or produced through, the computer.

The Leonardo Electronic Almanac, an international electronic journal and web archive for the interaction of the arts, sciences and technology, is currently seeking submissions for its upcoming Special Issues. Visit the websites for more information on each of the call for papers: Network Leaps, Bounds and Misses: Critiquing Regional Strategies for Digital Arts and Electronic Music in Asia and the Pacific (deadline extended to April 15), From the Extraordinary to the Uncanny: the persistence of a parallel universe, and RE:SEARCHING OUR ORIGINS: Critical and Archival Histories of the Electronic Arts.

“Lyric and Media,” a MLA discussion group on Media and Literature, asks the questions: How do theories of lyric expression, interpretation, and experience intersect with theories of media? Does a focus on the lyric compel us to rethink the narrative orientations of many discussions of the literature-media nexus? Possibile topics for papers include: lyric poetry in its media ecologies, from the alphabet or ideogram to the Internet; lyric, song, and sound recording; lyric and electric or electronic media; lyric and film/video; lyric and the dynamic generation of the page. Please send abstracts, along with requests for any audiovisual equipment needed for the presentation, to Richard Menke at rmenke at uga dot edu by March 25.

Diasporic Avant-Gardes: Experimental Poetics and Cultural Displacement is an international poetry conference to be held at the University of California, Irvine, on November 19-20, 2004. The conference is seeking papers that explore the connection between avant-garde practices developed in European centers and those emerging in postcolonial peripheries. One-page proposals are due by April 20.

The Digital Resources for the Humanities Conference 2004 has extended its deadline for proposals to April 16, 2004. DRH 2004 will take place September 5 to September 8 at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Please visit the website at http://drh2004.ncl .ac.uk for full details of the conference and its themes and how to submit proposals. Email enquiries are also welcome at drh at ncl dot ac dot uk.

Material Electronic Text, a MLA panel sponsored by the Association for Computers in the Humanities, seeks papers that re-consider the materiality of the electronic text in various ways. Possible topics include but are not limited to:

• electronic archives
• archiving electronics
• digital representation of textual artifacts
• textual representation of digital artifacts
• materialities specific to digital texts
• access to and preservation of electronic texts
• data formats and obsolescence

Discussion of particular projects is welcome, as are papers proposing a more theoretical or historical focus. Please send 200 word abstracts (in the body of an email) by March 15, 2004 to Aimée Morrison at aimee.morrison at ualberta dot ca.

The New Research for New Media Symposium, to be held September 30 – October 2 at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Catalonia, will bring together researchers who use new media technologies to further their existing research methodologies, or those who use innovative research methodologies to further their research into any aspect of new media. The Symposium is seeking papers on research methodology and new media. The deadline for submissions is April 15.