[rohrpost] [Locative] call for papers: trans-culture mapping

[Mirjam Struppek]

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>===============CALL FOR PAPERS===============
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>Acoustic Space, special issue of on Trans-Culture Mapping
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>http://rixc.lv
>http://locative.net
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>The RIXC Centre for New Media Culture seeks manuscripts for its 
>upcoming Acoustic Space journal, to be published for the 7th 
>international Art+Communication festival in Riga Latvia, October 1-3 
>2004. Now in its 5th edition, the Acoustic Space print journal, is a 
>forum for net-radio and new media artists broadly interested in the 
>idea of making visible the invisible. This year's issue, 
>Trans-Culture Mapping, will focus, in the context of European 
>expansion, on ideas of locality, cartography and the politics of 
>open-systems.
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>The ability to visualize a space relates to its domination where 
>borders are maintained by a legions of state cartographers, 
>enforcing 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 projects that re-appropriate 
>mapping as a means cultural expression.
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>The publication seeks to offer a space of exchange for grassroots 
>activists and new media practitioners who are critically exploring 
>ideas of locality, in response to the continental European (and 
>global) process of "normalization".
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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 Internet and the ever increasing ubiquity 
>of location-sensing technologies, allow for urban space to become 
>conceived of as a site for digital media and, potentially, emergent 
>social organization. Yet, beneath the manifold promise of 
>collaborative cartography, is the harsh reality of 'total 
>information awareness'. Can locative media escape its own 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 map how 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", global borders are being mapped 
>_within_, in a battle for "hearts and minds". While we may celebrate 
>aspects of European integration, smaller States must also be 
>cautious of the wholesale adoption of various monoculturing 
>techniques that threaten their local diversities.  How does "the 
>local" assert itself while at the same time avoiding becoming 
>reactionary and fundamentalist.
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>Proposals and inquiries regarding submissions should be made 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 encourage 
>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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>Deadline for final, full paper submissions: August 1st

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Mirjam Struppek
Urban Research
www.interactionfield.de