Euphoria & Dystopia: CALL FOR PAPERS/POSITION STATEMENTS/POSTERS
A symposium and student research methods workshop on the future of digital media research and the legacy of the Banff New Media Institute (BNMI).
Thursday, 31 January through Friday 1 February, 2013
OCAD University, 100 McCaul Street, Toronto, Ontario
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GRAND and OCAD University are presenting Euphoria & Dystopia, a one-day student research methods workshop, a keynote lecture and book launch, and a one-day curated symposium with poster sessions. The symposium and workshop will build on the legacy of the Banff New Media Institute, reflecting on history and contemporary research in digital media.
The research summits of the Banff New Media Institute (1995-2005) planted many seeds of art, design, science and technology research in Canada and were the setting for fundamental discussions concerning new methods of collaboration and research. These dialogues have been documented under seven thematic threads in the new book, Euphoria & Dystopia: the Banff New Media Institute Dialogues (Sarah Cook & Sara Diamond, editors)
Those themes are:
• The Material Known as Data
• Physics, Perception, Immersion
• Becoming Machine, Staying Human
• Social and Individual Identity and New Media
• The Art Formerly Known as New Media
• Money and Law
• Production and Distribution
Call for papers and position statements for the Research Methods Workshop (Thursday 31 January, 2013):
Abstracts for student research papers are invited for submission. Selected submissions will be presented and discussed during the research methods workshop. The workshop will include a panel on practice-based research methods in art, design, media and technology collaborative research led by Dr. Sara Diamond (OCADU), Dr. Sarah Cook (University of Sunderland, UK), Dr. Maria Lantin (Emily Carr University of Art + Design) and others. The workshop will be a chance to gain feedback on the methods used in your research and to exchange knowledge with peers and mentors. We invite abstracts of 400 words of previously unpublished student research including papers, position statements on new media topics relating to the symposium themes drawn from art, design, scientific research and social science . Masters, Doctoral and Post-Doctorate candidates welcome.
Call for Posters to accompany the Symposium (Friday February 1 2013):
Poster proposals are invited. Selected posters presenting current student research topics will be displayed at the symposium. . Posters would contain short essays of approximately 400 words on previously unpublished or newly documented research (including artists’ works) on new media topics. Networking with symposium participants will be encouraged. Masters, Doctoral and Post-Doctorate candidates welcome
Please send submissions in Microsoft Word or PDF file format (.doc, .docx, .pdf) to [email protected] before December 7th, 2012
Please ensure that your submission arrives in the following format:
Paper & Position Statements:
• Microsoft Word or PDF file format (.doc, .docx, .pdf)
• Title and approx. 400 word abstract
• Citations or footnotes should appear in MLA format.
• Approx. 100 word statement of how this research corresponds to one of the symposium themes
• Name of author(s), affiliation(s) & contact information (e-mail & primary phone number)
• For students affiliated with NCE GRAND: Approx. 50 word statement on engagement with GRAND research projects (including NI who is supervising you and title of project).
Posters
*for dimensions and content guidelines see Final Submission Schedule & Requirements, below.
• Title and approx.. 250 word abstract
• Associated images, accompanied by an image list in .doc or .pdf format
• Approx. 100 word statement of how this research corresponds to one of the symposium themes
• Name of author(s), affiliation(s) & contact information (e-mail & primary phone number)
• For students affiliated with NCE GRAND: Approx. 50 word statement on engagement with GRAND research projects (including NI who is supervising you and title of project).
Submissions will be acknowledged by e-mail within five working days of their receipt. Once the deadline has passed, a panel will blind review the submissions, and successful applicants will be notified by December 17th 2012. If your submission is not selected, we still wish to extend an invitation to attend the conference and contribute to the overall dialogue.
We will provide a subsidy of $500. per student whose paper or position statement is accepted for presentation. Accepted posters are not eligible for subsidies. We encourage both GRAND affiliated and non-affiliated student researchers to apply.
Final submission schedule & requirements:
Papers/Position Statements | Due by midnight January 24th, 2013
Final drafts should be e-mailed to [email protected]
Submit in either MS Word .doc or .pdf format
Final drafts should not exceed 10 pages double-spaced
Citations and footnotes should appear according to MLA standards
Associated images, figures, tables, etc. should also be submitted at screen resolution, compressed into a .zip file
Posters | Due in hard-copy by Monday January 28th
Finalized posters should be 18 x 24", portrait orientation
Posters should arrive printed and ready to be displayed
Paper weight for printing should be 60 lb. or higher
Posters should be packaged in plastic or cardboard tube and sent to :
OCAD University c/o Zach Pearl, President's Office
115 McCaul St.
Toronto, ON M5T 1W1
The themes of the event (based on the research undertaken at the BNMI as described in the book Euphoria & Dystopia) and possible subtopics for discussion are:
The Material Known as Data
Metadata: Methods of collection, filtration and representation
Data architecture and data visualization
The database as cultural paradigm
Human and/or cultural memory versus technological memory
Challenges in archiving digital media
Artificial intelligence
Physics, Perception, Immersion
Embodiment: The return of phenomenology with new media
Virtual and mixed-reality environments
Affective spaces and emotional computing
The cultural artefact of the screen
The scientific and mathematical basis of new media
Becoming Machine, Staying Human
Performance and performativity, the body as apparatus
The body as metaphor for technology
The overlap of biological and digital science
Artificial life/Designing life forms
Nanotechnology, cybernetics and material innovation
Avatars and the aesthetic of virtual worlds
Social and Individual Identity and New Media
The materiality of technology in relation to identity
How contemporary identities are mediated (socially/culturally/politically)
Inclusive design and assistive technologies
Aboriginal identity and cultural presence in new media
Gender representation and gender construction
The delineation or erasure of cultural difference
Narrative structures in new media (architecture, scale, protocol, etc.)
Intimate technologies, ubiquity & surveillance
The Art Formerly Known as New Media
Exhibition and curatorial practices in new media
The usability of artwork: functionality in new media art
Documentation and historicisation of the digital arts and design
The new aesthetic and debates over born-digital content
Money and Law
The commercial industry and the new media economy
Social policy The politics of user-generated content
Strategies for monetizing digital content
Audience and user-experience design Intellectual property and 'digital rights'
Production and Distribution
The metaphor of the "Lab" as a production and display trope
Remixing culture—the increase of online tools for production and convergent media
Networked performance, narrowcasting & streaming media
The challenge of designing interfaces for collaboration
How is power distributed in networked production?
Collaboration and participation across mobile platforms
Collaboration as a culturally mediated and site specific activity
