[spectre] Call for papers> AcousticSpace(8): ENERGY issue

[Rasa Smite]

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CALL FOR PAPERS:

ENERGY. Scientific and artistic, utopian and critical visions of 
future terrestrial energy.
Acoustic Space (Issue nr. 8)

	"Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it can only be 
transformed."
	(The law of conservation of energy)

RIXC Centre for New Media Culture is seeking manuscripts for the 
upcoming Acoustic Space journal entitled "ENERGY" (nr.8).

The journal will be published in between the previous 
Art+Comunication festival with the title ENERGY (organized by RIXC in 
2009, http://rixc.lv/09) and the forthcoming 2010 festival conference 
- NETWORKS AND SUSTAINABILITY. This conference event will be held in 
Riga, June 16-18, 2010 (moderated by Armin Medosch and Rasa Smite), 
and it will be a part of the 6th European Meeting of SLSA (the 
Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts) taking place in Riga 
and Liepaja, Latvia, June 15-20, 2010 
(http://www.e-text-textiles.lv/SLSAeu2010/home.htm).

Following the theme of ENERGY, the next issue of 2010 will focus on 
different social and cultural aspects of energy in the contemporary 
human society, investigating the notion of 'sustainable development' 
from various perspectives - artistic, scientific, technological, 
architectural, environmental.

The print journal, Acoustic Space is a forum for new media culture 
and creative explorations in the networked (electro-acoustic, 
electromagnetic, wireless, radio, electronic) environments.
For the second time, Acoustic Space journal will come out as 'peer 
review' (refereeing) publication. It will be published by the MPLab 
(Art Research Lab) of Liepaja University in collaboration with the 
RIXC, The Center for New Media Culture.


DEADLINES:

Deadline for submissions: March 31, 2010 - for completed research and 
artistic texts.
(For abstracts - February 21, 2010)

We would like to welcome to submit abstracts first. Proposals and 
inquiries regarding submissions should be made to Rasa Smite 
<rasa at rixc.lv>.

Full texts should consist of 10000-14000 characters (i.e. 5-8 pages 
A4, 12 pt), with references.

Language: English (all texts will be also translated to Latvian).


THEMES:

For this publication, we welcome proposals and texts by artists, 
scientists, academic researchers, media theorists, social scientists, 
activists, and other lateral thinkers, who are interested to share 
their scientific and artistic ideas, utopian and critical visions of 
future terrestrial energy.
The publication will cover broad scope of topics under 4 main sections:

ENERGY IN NATURE AND SOCIETY:
... The concept of energy and its various contexts: in Universe and 
on Earth ... Invisible energy: in myths and legends, in nature and 
science ... Energy technologies: in human life and in information 
society ...

CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF SUSTAINABILITY:
... Environmental science research, climate change and ecology ... 
Permaculture and biosystem design ... Historical traditions vs. 
modern alternative solutions in urban planning and architecture ... 
Alternative economics and visions of sustainable living ...

INFORMATION AND ENERGY:
... Synergetic and co-relation between information and energy ... 
Smart devices and Energy Internet ... Sustainability using open 
source approaches: in art, culture, ecology, architecture, 
environmental design ...

SCIENCE AND ART OF RENEWABLE TECHNOLOGIES:
... Dye sensitized solar technologies ... Green chemistry: new 
approach in biotechnology ... Scientific and artistic explorations of 
clean and renewable energy technologies (sun, wind, water, tides, 
biomass, etc.) ...


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Previous publication - Acoustic Space (Nr. 7):
SPECTROPIA: Illuminating investigations in electromagnetic spectrum - 
is also still available!
http://rixc.lv/kiosks/index.php?obj_id=1008&kat_id=192

* Contact: 2009 at rixc.lv, Rasa Smite <rasa at rixc.lv>, Linda Vebere 
<linda at rixc.lv>

Address:
The RIXC, The Center for New Media Culture
11. Novembra Krastmala 35 - 201, Riga, LV 1050, Latvia.
Tel. +371-67228478, +371-26546776 (mob.),
Fax: +371-67228477
URL: http://rixc.lv

http://rixc.lv/

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