[spectre] Deadline Extended - Call for Papers: Art of Resilience (Acoustic Space No. 12)

[Daina Silina]

Dear Spectre,

The deadline for call for papers for the next volume of *Acoustic Space 
journal (No. 12)* has been extended to*March 30, 2013*!
This time the peer-reviewed journal will be devoted to the theme *"art 
of resilience"*. It will come out this Autumn, October 2013, to be 
presented at Media Art Histories 2013: RENEW conference in Riga.

Please find detailed call below!

Best regards,

Daina Silin,a / RIXC
http://www.mediaarthistory.org
http://rixc.lv/13
http://renewable.rixc.lv


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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


** 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)

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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*

Extended deadline for full papers - *March 30, 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 papers to the editor:
Dr. 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.



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