Author: ELO

The 3rd global conference of the “Critical Issues” project, “Cybercultures: Exploring Critical Issues,” invites submissions of proposals for papers, presentations, workshops, and reports on a wide range of topics, including

–Cyberspace and Cyberculture
–Cybermedias: New Media and Technology
–The Virtual and Virtuality
–Cyberpunk: Writing and Film
–Digital and Interactive Arts
–Computers and Games
–Identities, Bodies, Cyborgs and the Human
–Cybercultures and Politics
–Cybercultures, Cybersubcultures and Communities

The conference will be held in Prague August 11-13, 2005.

300-word abstracts are due by Friday, June 3, 2005. All presented papers will be published in an ISBN eBook; selected papers will be developed for publication in a themed hard-copy volume. For the full call, including instructions on how to submit, visit the Critical Issues website.

Got a minute?

The 60 second story competition invites submissions of works of fiction, recorded by their authors as digital videos, which are less than one minute and one second in duration. Files size should be less than 5MB, and work must be submitted under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license. Entries are being accepted from now until June 8th, 2005.

There will one grand-prize winner, who will recieve a one-minute supply of exotic chocolate, a one inch by one inch book of the winning work published by Spineless Books, and other one-minute pleasures. The winner and fourteen runners-up will be published in the “Fifteen Minutes of Fame,” a permanent web shrine to the 60 second story form. The judges of the competition include internet writers William Gillespie, Nick Montfort, Scott Rettberg, Dirk Stratton, Jill Walker and Rob Wittig.

See 60secondstory.contagiousmedia.org for the details, to watch some 60 second stories, and to submit your own.

Guest editors Sue Thomas and Dene Grigar invite submissions of essays, interviews, reports, bibliographies, course syllabi and artworks themed around “Wild Nature and Digital Life” for a special issue of Leonardo Electronic Almanac. The issue will explore such questions as how humans are reinventing “the wild” digitally; how the advent of digital technology has changed the relationship between humans and wild nature; and how the notion of wild nature can be extended to the digital world. Read the full call; send inquiries to Sue Thomas and Dene Grigar at digitalwild@astn.net. The deadline for initial expressions of interest is July 8, 2005; the final submission deadline for chosen contributors will be September 2, 2005.

Hermeneia, a research group focusing on literary studies and digital technology at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), has teamed up with the town of Vinaros, Catalonia, Spain, to offer a new award for digital literature, the Ciutat de Vinaros Digital Literature Prize. Two awards of 2,500 euros will be given in the categories of narrative and poetry. The deadline for submission is September 8, 2005. Only previously unpublished works are eligible.