[rohrpost] call for papers: trans-culture mapping

[Mirjam Struppek]

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>Call for papers for special issue of Acoustic Space on Trans-Culture Mapping
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>RIXC Centre for New Media Culture, is soliciting manuscripts for 
>publication in its upcoming publication "Acoustic Space", to be 
>published in conjunction with the 7th international 
>Art+Communication festival in Riga Latvia, September 30th- October 
>3rd. Something of an institution in the new media and net-radio 
>community, this 5th edition of Acoustic Space seeks to shelter 
>interdisciplinary exchange across a diverse range of artistic, 
>scientific and social disciplines. In the context of the recent 
>expansion of Europe, the journal will focus on issues relating to 
>locality, autonomy and mobility under the theme of "Trans-Culture 
>Mapping".
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>The ability to visualize a space relates to it ultimate dominance a 
>perspective from which arbitrary borders are maintained by a legions 
>of state cartographers so as to enforce hierarchical regimes of 
>power from the level of the biological to the geopolitical.
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>Against the US-led 'coalition of the willing' of which Latvia counts 
>itself a part --informed as it is by the US Strategic Command's 
>objective of "Full Spectrum Dominance" (that seeks the unilateral 
>total domination of land, sea, air, cyberspace and outer space)- 
>this publication is interested in open-systems and projects that use 
>re-appropriate mapping as a means cultural expression.
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>In response to the continental European process of "normalization" 
>the publication seeks to shelter a space of debate and cultural 
>exchange amongst grassroots activists and new media practitioners 
>who employ tactics of mapping to explore ideas of locality and 
>continue the Acoustic Space tradition of making visible the 
>invisible.
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>Sub-themes
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>Locative Media
>Governments and corporations worldwide are constructing a 
>geo-rectified real-time digital-double of earth-systems, which, with 
>the advent of the mobile interface to the Internet and ever 
>increasing ubiquity of location-sensing technologies, allow for 
>urban space to become conceived of as site for digital media. 
>Beneath the manifold promise for the medium is the harsh reality of 
>'total information awareness', can one escape its axiomatic system?
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>Spectrum Ecology
>Advances in wireless internet technology are changing not only how 
>people connect to the internet but also how they approach the 
>wireless spectrum itself. This section seeks to explore ideas of use 
>and ownership are being analyzed and reconsidered in this 
>environment.
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>Tactical Cartography
>Social softwares have become a means of mobilizing people without 
>having to go to the "Media" to convey a message. Problems, however, 
>persist in making the leap into more mainstream circuits of power. 
>How can maps be used both to help legitimize certain "fringe" 
>Internet-debates and throw light on the nature of multinational 
>capitalism?
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>Endocolonization
>In the context of a "War on Terror" in which global borders are 
>being drawn _within_, in a battle for "hearts and minds". While we 
>celebrate aspects of European integration, smaller States must also 
>be cautious of its the wholesale adoption of various monoculture 
>techniques which threaten their local diversity.  How does the local 
>assert itself whilst avoiding becoming reactionary and 
>fundamentalist.
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>Please send all submissions to Marc Tuters <mt at x-i.net> and Rasa 
>Smita <rasa at relab.net>
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>We encourage you to submit documents of various lengths an forms, so 
>long as they related to one of the sub-themes and display an 
>internal consistence.
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>While we ask for documents in English we actively encourages 
>submissions from non-Anglophones, especially Eastern Europeans.
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>Please submit documents as RTF's and any images separately in a high 
>resolution format.
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>http://locative.x-i.net (list archive: + /archive/ )


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Mirjam Struppek
Urban Research
www.interactionfield.de