Extreme TrackingELO’s Visionary Landscapes: CFP for CCS (11/30)
Ξ November 28th, 2007 | → | by Mark Marino | ∇ conferences |
ELO’s upcoming 2008 conference “Visionary Landscapes” would be an excellent opportunity to meet up and share some more CCS work, focusing this time on the “literary” and the “visionary.” If you are still looking for a paper proposal, consider a Critical Code Studies reading of one of the works from the Electronic Literature Collection, many of which include their source code. We can use the blog to build discussion on whatever object you choose.
Looking at the call (reproduced below), CCS would fit well in at least three of the subcategories:
- Strategies for reading electronic literary works
Reading the code is certainly central here, and the more examples we produce the better.
- Innovative approaches to critiquing electronic literature
Again, since CCS is charting its own territories, most CCS readings would fall into the category of “innovative.”
- Artistic methods of composition used in intermedia storytelling (improvisation, collaboration, sample and remix, postproduction art, codework, hactivism, etc).
Certainly, this part of the call turns our attention to artistry in the code.
Hope to see you all there. And send in your proposals!
Producing a work of electronic literature entails not only practice in the literary arts but sometimes also the visual, sonic, and the performative arts; knowledge of computing devices and software programs; and experience in collaboration, interdisciplinarity, and hybridity. In short, electronic literature requires its artists to see beyond traditional approaches and sensibilities into what best can be described as visionary landscapes where, as Mark Amerika puts it, artists “celebrate an interdisciplinary practice from a literary and writerly perspective that allows for other kinds of practice-based art-research and knowledge sharing.”
To forward the thinking about new approaches and sensibilities in the media arts, The Electronic Literature Organization and Washington State University Vancouver’s Digital Technology and Culture program are inviting submissions to the Electronic Literature Organization 2008 Conference to be held from May 29 to June 1, 2008 in Vancouver, Washington.
“Visionary Landscapes: Electronic Literature Organization 2008 Conference” is interested in papers that explore forms of digital media that utilize images, sound, movement, and user interaction as well as—or in lieu of—words and that explore how we read, curate, and critique such works. Topics may include:
- New, non-screen, environments for presenting multimedia writing and /or electronic literature
- Research labs and new media projects
- Strategies for reading electronic literary works
- Curating digital art
- Innovative approaches to critiquing electronic literature
- Emerging technologies for the production of multimedia writing and /or electronic literature
- Building audience for new media literary works and writing
- Digital, literary performances
- Publishing for print or electronic media connecting literature and the arts through common archiving and metatag strategies
- Artistic methods of composition used in intermedia storytelling (improvisation, collaboration, sample and remix, postproduction art, codework, hactivism, etc).
Proposals for presentations should not be longer than 1000 words. Please include a 100 word abstract for use on the conference website.
In conjunction with the three-day conference, there will be a juried Media Arts Show. Along with prizes for the most notable work, selected artists will be awarded bursaries to attend the conference featured at the show. Submission guidelines will be posted beginning August 15, 2007 on the conference website.
The keynote speaker is internationally renown new media artist and writer, Mark Amerika, named a “Time Magazine 100 Innovator.” His artwork has been exhibited at the Whitney Biennial, the ICA in London, the Walker Art Center, and the Denver Art Museum and has been the topic of four retrospectives. Amerika is also the author of many books, including his recently published collection of artist writings entitled META/DATA: A Digital Poetics (The MIT Press), founder of the Alt-X Network, and publisher of the electronic book review. He currently holds the position of Professor of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Deadline for Submissions for Presentations: 30 November 2007
Notification of Acceptance: 30 December 2007