[spectre] CALL FOR WORK AND PARTICIPATION

[Andrew Bucksbarg]

CALL FOR WORK AND PARTICIPATION

++Art Work and Creative Practices

++Papers Presentations, Panels, Workshops, Intellectual Environments  
and Practices

Perform.Media – An International, Transdisciplinary Festival of  
Creativity, Research, Theory and Technoculture
September 29th-October 14th, 2006, Indiana University, Bloomington,  
Indiana

Website: http://performthemedia.net

DEADLINE FOR PAPER PRESENTATIONS
Deadline for Abstracts:  April 30th, 2006
Acceptance Notification:  May 15th, 2006

DEADLINE FOR PANELS, WORKSHOPS, INTELLECTUAL ENVIRONMENTS AND PRACTICES
Deadline for Proposals: April 30th, 2006
Acceptance Notification:  May 15th, 2006

DEADLINE FOR ART WORK AND CREATIVE PRACTICES
Deadline:  May 15th, 2006
Acceptance Notification:  June 15th, 2006

Perform.Media is an international media arts festival and symposium  
creating an innovative venue for creative and intellectual work  
around the momentary process and performance in new media art and  
culture.  We begin with the premise that newer media, along with  
modes of representation and narrative, embody momentary processes  
from roots in cybernetics and the biological, to the embodied  
performance of interface, improvised network exchanges and  
spontaneous social acts in multi-user synthetic worlds.  Such  
mediated experiences and actions form meaning in sense experience and  
performance along with interpretive processes like depiction and  
reception.  The dynamic, reciprocal process of the user(s)  
generating, configuring, interacting, choosing and authoring is an  
important component of new media and technologies, expressed in both  
the design of the media and in the momentary, improvised performance  
of the participant.

The festival and symposium seeks the accordance and collision of  
ideas through the lens of interdisciplinarity, exploring the  
performance of new media and the performative qualities of human- 
computer and technologically mediated social interaction.   
Perform.Media will examine sense experience and meaning at the  
threshold and in the performing action, along with the reflexive  
construction of narrative, where creative play, social practices,  
augmented embodiment and exploratory methods establish processes that  
spin out, overlapping locales of influence, in networked, “glocal”,  
mobile, participatory, socially interactive, live processed,  
locative, responsive and multi-user realms.

Perform.Media aims to examine and melt the usual spatial and temporal  
prescriptions of author and spectator in art, creative work and  
intellectual practice. Perform.Media traverses transdisciplinary  
territories in collaborations and social feedbacks of live sound 
+image, interactive and game media, HCI, improvisations, performance  
processes, interactive gallery environments, mobile and locative  
work, live art works, net.art, research practices, theoretical  
discussion, paper presentations, workshops, intimacy and  
communication both online and off.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Submission forms can be downloaded at- http://performthemedia.net/ 
submissions.html

++Paper Presentations, Panels, Workshops, Intellectual Environments  
and Practices

The Perform.Media symposium welcomes submissions of papers, panel  
discussions, workshops and intellectual environments around the theme  
of the festival- performance process in new media, theory, research  
and technological practice.  The Perform.Media symposium seeks to  
promote discussion and collaboration.  The environment of the  
symposium will be conversation based.  Proposals for panels,  
workshops and presentations that energize into new areas of  
intellectual exchange will be welcomed.  All presentations will be  
moderated and encourage participation, questioning and debate.  An  
online forum, discussion and net.art exhibition will precede the  
festival.  Paper abstracts will be published on the Perforrm.Media  
website.

++Art Work and Creative Practices

Work criteria-
Perform.Media seeks new media work and proposals for black box, white  
cube or network that engage in the practice of performing media or  
media performance.  We are looking for work that asks the questions-  
How does the “doing,” the performing inform us in this new media?   
How does this media perform, what does it do and how does it engage us?

Types of work-
Ambient/Ubiquitous Technologies and Creative Practices, Avatars,  
Dance/Embodied work, Environments and Space Based work, Games, HCI,  
Interactive/Participatory Installation, Interface Art, Live Art,  
Locative Media, Mapping, Mobile Screens, Mobile/Wireless Devices,  
Net.Art, New Media Performances, Simulations and Synthetic Worlds,  
Theatrical Pieces, Video Processing and VJ/DJ styles…

For questions contact abucksba at indiana.edu