Category: Calls

The Fibreculture Journal is a peer-reviewed journal that explores the issues and ideas regarding internet theory, criticism, research, and wider social formations. Papers are invited for the “Contagion and the Diseases of Information” Issue of the Fibreculture Journal, to be published in the first half of 2005.

Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies is inviting submissions for its forthcoming issues. Submissions may come from both Taiwan and the international community addressing the special topics of “Flows” or “Literature in the Age of Cultural Studies and Globalization.” Articles on any aspects of literature and culture are also welcome. If interested, Concentric can be contacted at concentric at deps dot ntnu dot edu dot tw or addressed to Concentric Editor, the Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University, 162 Hoping East Road, Section 1, Taipei 106, Taiwan, R.O.C.

The Postcolonial Studies Special Issue on “Digital Culture” is seeking papers addressing the spread of networked computing and digital culture (such as email, websites, blogs, digital art, and online games) and its consequences on the postcolonial condition. The deadline for submissions is October 30, 2004.

Volume 4 of TeknoKultura, online journal of the university of Puerto Ricos Social Sciences Faculty (Rio Piedras Campus), announces its opening for contributions to evaluate articles and electronic art related to the integration of technology in our daily lives. Book and website reviews, literary work, and cartoons associated to these themes will also be evaluated. The call for contributions will be open from April 2004 – April 2005. For more information, please contact Heidi J. Figueroa Sarriera by email hfiguero at coqui dot net.

Archival Science, the International Journal on Recorded Information, is seeking articles the long-term preservation of digital data and documents from the academic world. The articles will appear in a special issue of the journal, which is scheduled to be published in mid-2005. Authors are invited to submit a proposal in the form of an abstract before July 1, 2004. Please email Heiko Tjalsma at heiko.tjalsma at niwi dot knaw dot nl for more information or see the full call for articles.

The ACM Hypertext ’04 final deadline for short paper and poster submissions is May 28, 2004. The online submission software is now ready for your submission. Hypertext ’04 is a conference that will bring together researchers, scholars, and practitioners who share an interest in innovative textual and multimedia information spaces, with emphasis on augmenting human capabilities via linking, structure, authoring, annotation and interaction. The conference will be held August 9-13 at UC Santa Cruz.

[R][R][F] 2004 —>XP [Remembering-Repressing-Forgetting] is a global networking project preparing an ongoing feature related to the war in Iraq and the period afterwards. [R][R][F] is seeking proposals of net-based artworks, papers, articles, comments, links, and more.

The New Media and Technological Cultures 2nd Global Conference will take place August 9-11, 2004, in Prague. Titled “Cultural Issues in Developing 3d Worlds,” this multi-disciplinary conference addresses theoretical and practical debates which surround the cultural contexts within which emerging media and technological advances are occurring. Abstracts must be submitted by May 7.

The Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA) announces an international open call for a juried competition featuring digital art. The selected winner receives 10 large archival prints of their work to be shown in a solo exhibition in the LACDA gallery on Melrose Avenue. Five second place winners will receive one print of their work up to be included in upcoming group shows.

The New Research for New Media Symposium aims to bring together researchers who use new media technologies to further their existing research methodologies or use innovative research methodologies to further their research into any aspect of new media. New Research for New Media will take place at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona in Catalonia, Spain from September 30 to October 2, 2004. The call for papers for the Symposium is open to any researcher interested in writing a paper on the research method/s used for an actual research project on new media he/she is conducting or has conducted. These papers will focus on the methodology used rather than the outcome of the research. Abstracts must be submitted by April 30.