[spectre] Call for Papers: Art of Resilience, No 12, Acoustic Space

[Rasa Smite]

Dear Spectre,

and here comes an other call - for papers for next volume of Acoustic 
Space journal (No 12), which this time will be devoted to the theme: 
Art of Resilience,
deadline for papers: March 15, 2013
the journal will come out in October 2013, to be presented at Media 
Art Histories 2013 Riga conference,

best
Rasa
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Acoustic Space No. 12: ART OF RESILIENCE


Art of Resilience is the theme of the next "Acoustic Space" (Volume 
No. 12), peer-reviewed journal for interdisciplinary research on art, 
science, technology and society.

The conference exploring the topic -- Art of Resilience -- took place 
during Art+Communication 2012 festival in Riga, October 5-6, 2012 
(http://rixc.lv/12). The forthcoming publication will include papers 
presented at this conference, but will not be limited to it and is 
open for contributions by other authors. It will be published in 
English.

The previous publication with the title: Techno-Ecologies (Acoustic 
Space No 11, 2012) - for first time came out in English only (before 
it was bilingual publication). The No 11, as well as other previous 
issues, are now available via amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/Techno-Ecologies-Acoustic-Space-Rasa-Smite/dp/9934822989
and they will be available also next week on sale at Transmediale

* Theme: Art of Resilience

	... "The future is waiting right around the corner and we are 
those, who shall shape it... All our decisions and actions affect our 
future lives and surroundings... To be able to change something, we 
need an imagination..." (Guna Elizabete, 13-year-old participant of 
"Art of Resilience - Dialogue with the City" workshop led by Lina 
Kusaite and Michel Bauwens, Riga, Oct 6, 2012)

* * *

Today art is leaving its autonomous position behind the society's 
quest for a sustainable future. Artists who once were in vanguard of 
exploring digital frontiers, today again are among the first ones who 
are actively engaged in looking for other ways how to make the world 
more sustainable.

Resilience is one of the key tactics that helps people to undergo 
unstable, uncertain times. The idea of a resilience is used as a 
guiding theme and as a point of departure for the discussions with 
which we aim at fostering deeper understanding of social, cultural 
and ecological, as well as technological sustainability issues.

We are questioning: How to enhance resilience - our capability to 
cope with today's complex situation that has occurred in the result 
of rapid 'techno-sciences' development? Does art play a role of a 
'catalyst' in this quest for sustainability, if it keeps actively 
establishing new connections with other fields - science and 
technology, architecture and design, rural infrastructure development 
and urban planning, social networking and global engineering? How 
these emergent art practices that are bridging not only different 
fields but also exploiting resilience experiences from different 
times and different cultures, are contributing towards developing a 
successful scenario for the future world?

* Call for papers

We welcome submissions - articles, conceptual and artistic texts, 
research papers and visual contributions - from artists, theorists, 
scientists, researchers and other lateral thinkers who are engaged 
with issues of social and ecological sustainability, and who are 
interested in a deeper understanding of technology.

* Deadline

for submitting full papers - March 15, 2013.
However, we welcome to submit abstracts first - deadline for 
abstracts: February 11, 2013.

Length of texts: between 2500 and 8000 words (i.e. 20 000 - 45 000 
characters). Submitted texts should include: 1) short abstract (ca. 
250 words, i.e. 1500 characters), 2) 5 - 6 keywords, and 3) short bio 
of the author (ca. 100 words, i.e. 800 characters). References should 
be in APA style. Language for submissions: English.

The publication will come out in October, 2013, and it will be 
presented at the Media Art Histories 2013: ReNew conference / 
Art+Communication 2013 festival, October 8-11, 2013.

* Contact and submissions

Please send abstracts and texts to the editor:
Rasa Smite <rasa (at) rixc.lv>

* The Acoustic Space journal

was initially founded in 1998 by E-Lab/RIXC (Riga) for new media art, 
network culture, and creative explorations within digitally networked 
environments and electro-acoustic spaces.
Since 2007 Acoustic Space comes out as a peer-reviewed international 
journal for transdisciplinary research on art, science, technology 
and society. It is published by Riga's Center for New Media Culture 
RIXC in collaboration with Art Research Laboratory (MPLab.lv) of 
Liepaja University.

The previous editions of Acoustic Space journals are now available 
via amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&field-author=Rasa%20Smite&search-alias=books&sort=relevancerank
or, you can also order them directly form RIXC by sending an e-mail 
request to: daina at rixc.lv (Daina Silina)

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