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[Oliver Grau]

>>> Cynthia B Rubin <info at cbrubin.net> 04.07.2007 16:25:02 >>>

International Symposium on Electronic Art 2008 (ISEA2008)
CALL FOR PAPERS, PANELS AND ARTIST PRESENTATIONS

We cordially invite submissions to the conference of the  
International Symposium on Electronic Art 2008 that will be held in  
Singapore between 25th * 30th July 2008. The conference is held  
alongside workshops, courses, exhibitions, performances and other in- 
conjunction events that will be held for the duration of ISEA2008  
from 25th July to August 3rd 2008.

The conference, as in previous ISEAs, is expected to bring together  
artists, theorists, historians, curators and researchers of media  
arts from around the world to jointly explore the most urgent and  
exciting questions in the field. The five themes of ISEA2008 are  
especially focused on eliciting a wide range of international  
scholars and artists.

Conference Programme

The conference programme will include competitively selected, peer- 
reviewed individual papers and panel presentations. This year we are  
also encouraging artists who wish to share their works with a broader  
audience of their peers to submit artist presentations where they can  
speak about the specific aesthetic, conceptual and technological  
aspects of their works. The conference also promises to present a  
list of internationally renowned Keynote Speakers expounding on the  
major themes of the conference. There will also be a special lecture  
delivered by a Nobel Laureate.

Call for Proposals

We welcome contributions from creative practitioners and researchers  
from a variety of disciplines and institutional contexts as media  
arts benefits from and exemplifies the interdisciplinary linkages  
between contemporary art, science, technology and their related  
philosophies, pedagogies and institutional practices. The submissions  
must address or be of relevance to at least one of the themes of  
ISEA2008 in order to be considered for inclusion in the conference.  
The conference will be of interest to those working in but not  
limited to the following areas: media art, contemporary art, design,  
art history and theory, film and media studies, gaming, toy design,  
human-computer interaction, cultural studies, literary studies,  
musicology, sound studies, theatre, dance and performance studies,  
science, technology and society studies, history of science and  
history of technology, philosophy, history, gender studies, political  
science, anthropology, sociology and geography.

Submissions

A dedicated website and online paper submission system is currently  
being developed and will be ready for submissions from 15th July 2007.

Submission period: 15th July - 31st of August 2007.

Submission link: To Be Announced 15 July 2007

Submission requirements:
We only require abstracts (not more than 300 words) of the proposed  
paper, panel presentations and artist presentations to be submitted  
in either Text, RTF, Word or PDF formats via this site. Please do not  
submit full papers at this stage. While we encourage submissions to  
include relevant images, it would be useful if the formats in which  
such images are submitted is restricted to low resolution jpegs. In  
the case of submissions for artists’ presentations, artists are  
encouraged to provide links to their and/or relevant websites.

The deadline for submissions will be 30th August 2007. Submissions  
sent after this date will not be considered.

Please see http://www.isea2008.org/themes.html for more information  
on the themes.