[spectre] SCANZ2013 symposium - extended deadline

[czegledy]

Further information  to previous posting re the  SCANZ2013 symposium

We have revised the call for SCANZ 2013: 3rd 
nature symposium and hui presentations and 
papers, and therefore extended the deadline for 
abstracts. Our intention is to meet PBRF 
standards for research outputs. The hui/symposium 
would be for next years research outputs. By the 
same token, both peer reviewed and non-peer 
reviewed strands are available.

Aotearoa New Zealand is in a unique and leading 
position worldwide due to the length of the 
discussion with tangata whenua. Former Crown 
Research Institutes such as NIWA and GNS, and 
government departments such as DoC have staff 
whose position entails being active at the 
boundary of Maori and scientific knowledges. 
While tangata whenua remain disadvantaged in 
overall terms, this position of knowledge bases 
side by side is far from the situation in many 
countries.

Many of you will have excellent insight into 
working across cultures and engaging with digital 
media and the environment. It would be great to 
see you at SCANZ 2013. Working across cultures is 
not viewed as only referring to the 
Maori/European border, multicultural situations 
are relevant.

Call for abstracts: SCANZ 2013 3rd nature hui and symposium

Feb 1st – 3rd 2013, abstracts due June 15th 2012
Ngamotu New Plymouth, Aotearoa New Zealand

Keynote speakers: Dr Te Huirangi Waikerepuru and 
artist-scientist Nina Czegledy (Adjunct Associate 
Professor, Concordia University)

We know we have built a civilisation which is 
unsustainable. How are we developing today the 
new culture that will allow us to create a 
sustainable civilisation? — Roger Malina, 
Astrophysicist and Editor of Leonardo

Integrating indigenous perspectives with 
creative, environmental, scientific and academic 
views on reality is essential to a sustainable 
future. At the same time, computing and digital 
media are changing our relationship to culture 
and the environment.

On the one hand digital technology allows us to 
analyse and display data in new ways, as when 
anthropologists use language databases to shed 
light on the movement of culture.

On the other hand digital technology adds to our 
senses, and extends them beyond the body to the 
forests and the land. Scientists (along with 
artists and others) are transforming Aotearoa New 
Zealand into an organism, as Maori have always 
known it to be.

SCANZ 2013: 3rd nature will bring together 
diverse people to discuss and celebrate how to 
approach working together across culture, 
discipline and media. We must work together to 
resolve the issues emerging at the boundary 
between fresh knowledge and deep knowledge, 
beginning with sharing knowledge and projects.

Presentations and projects which highlight cross 
cultural interchange and/or computing and 
electronics projects are sought. The ensuing 
discussion, exhibition documentation and 
presentations will then be shared in a special 
edition of Leonardo Electronic Almanac, the 
online publication of Leonardo – the leading 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology journal. 
Abstracts are due June 15th 2012. A robust 
process will be followed.

For more information and detail on the submission 
process go to 
http://tinyurl.com/scanz2013symposium

The full url is: http://www.intercreate.org/2012/04/scanz2013-3rdnaturehui/

Contact: ian.clothier at intercreate.org

Ian M Clothier
Faculty of Humanities
Western Institute of Technology at Taranaki
www.witt.ac.nz
0064 6 757 3100 x 8895
Artist
ianclothier.com

2012
March Waterwheel (online) presentation Tunisia
May Presentation at Technoetic telos - Planetary Collegium, Kefalonia Greece
Sept Wai (curator) at 516Arts, ISEA 2012 Albuquerque
Sept Bus garden at ISEA 2012 Albuquerque

2013
Jan-Feb SCANZ 2013 3rd nature (creative director)
Jun Sea of Ubiquity ISEA 2013