[spectre] MutaMorphosis - Reminder CfA

[Pavel Sedlak]

Reminder of the 1st Call for Abstracts

http://mutamorphosis.org/

Deadline 31st of January 2007

MutaMorphosis: Challenging Arts and Sciences

8th - 10th of November 2007, Prague, Czech Republic

The international conference will concentrate on the growing interest --  
within the worlds of the arts, sciences and technologies -- in EXTREME AND 
HOSTILE ENVIRONMENTS. These environments appear as symptomatic indicators of 
the mutations that are taking place; they are potential vectors that make 
possible an awareness of the different problems at the origin of the 
disturbances that threaten the ensemble of the Earth's eco-systems.

We invite practitioners in the arts, sciences, engineering and humanities to 
submit abstracts that explore the limits and extremes within the following 
streams of interest:

1. LIFE
How do the arts and sciences deal with new ideas about strategies of life in 
extreme conditions?

2. SPACE
How do the arts and sciences face radical scales and extreme environments?

3. COGNITION
How do the arts and sciences address evolving ideas about cognition in 
extreme environments?

500-word abstracts required by 31st of January 2007 via email to
mutamorphosis at ciant.cz.

All submitted abstracts will be peer reviewed by the members of 
International Advisory Committee including Lorella Abenavoli, Marc Battier, 
Paul Bourgine, Nina Czegledy, Alain Depocas, Hans Diebner, Michele Emmer, 
Hervé Fischer, Machiko Kusahara, Lubica Lacinova, Michael Punt, Jaroslav 
Petr, Nicolas Reeves and others. Submissions accepted and presented at the 
conference will be published in the conference proceedings.

The conference is organised by CIANT as part of the ENTER festival in the 
framework of the Leonardo 40th anniversary celebrations. The festival will 
feature also the first retrospective exhibition of Frank J. Malina.

Conference Honorary Panel: Rudolf Arnheim, Ivan M. Havel, Vera Molnar, Frank 
Popper, Sonya Rapoport, Jasia Reichardt, Itsuo Sakane, Sonia Sheridan, 
Steina, Woody Vasulka.

Join us in Prague 8th - 10th of November 2007.