<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:14pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><b class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class="">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:<br class=""></span></b><b style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class=""><br class=""><a href="http://www.conncoll.edu/cat/symposium2018" target="_blank" class="">The Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology 16<sup class="">th</sup> Biennial Symposium</a></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><b class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class=""><u class="">INTERSECTIONS</u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:14pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><b class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class="">February 15 - 17, 2018<i class=""></i></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:14pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><b class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class="">Keynote Address </span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class="">by </span><span lang="EN" class=""><a href="https://art21.org/artist/krzysztof-wodiczko/" target="_blank" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class="">Krzysztof Wodiczko</span></b></a></span><b class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class=""></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:14pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><b class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class="">Featured exhibition </span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class="">by </span><span lang="EN" class=""><a href="http://bookchin.net/" target="_blank" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class="">Natalie Bookchin</span></b></a></span><b class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class=""></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:15.3333px;font-family:Helvetica" class="">Deadline for Commission Submission Proposals: <b class="">September 30</b></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:15.3333px;font-family:Helvetica" class=""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:15.3333px;font-family:Helvetica" class="">Deadline for General Submission Proposals: <b class="">October 30</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica" class="">The Ammerman Center at Connecticut College seeks submissions for its 2018 Biennial Symposium on Arts and Technology being held February 15-17, 2018, at Connecticut College. The aim of the symposium, now in its 32nd year, is to create an inclusive forum for multidisciplinary dialogue at the intersection of arts, technology and contemporary culture. The symposium brings artists and researchers from a wide range of fields together as they present new works, research and performances in a variety of formats.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica" class="">The symposium accepts general submissions as well as applications for one of several commissions, in any of the following categories: Exhibition and Installations; Site-Specific Installations and Performances; Screen Based Art; Music and Sound; Dance, Theater and Performance; Paper Presentations and Artist Talks; Workshops and Demos; and Panel Proposals.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;border:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class="">Click here to access the full <a href="http://www.conncoll.edu/cat/symposium2018/submissions/" target="_blank" class="">Submission Guidelines</a> and </span><span lang="EN" class=""><a href="https://ammermancenter.wufoo.com/forms/mg67puc0u66xuy/" target="_blank" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class="">Submission Entry Form</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class="">.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:windowtext" class=""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica" class="">New, original, multidisciplinary works in any medium may be submitted for a special "Commissioned" category; each of the 2-3 selected commissions will be awarded $3000, given a week-long residency prior to the symposium and be featured in the program. Preference will be given for proposals by teams of two or more. Click here for the </span><span lang="EN" class=""><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica" class=""><a href="http://www.conncoll.edu/cat/symposium2018/commissions/" target="_blank" class="">Commission Guidelines</a> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica" class="">for details.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica" class="">All submissions are encouraged to address the symposium theme of <i class="">Intersections</i>, and the proposed thematic threads.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica" class="">In keeping with the symposium theme, scholars and artists from marginalized communities from the northeast region are especially encouraged to apply, including independents and adjuncts. A limited amount of full and partial scholarships are available upon request.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><b class=""><i class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica" class="">ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM THEME:</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class="">It is increasingly understood that our lives are pushed, pulled and interconnected by a range of intersections among multiple factors of identity and experience including: gender, culture, race, sexuality, and economic and technological contexts, among others.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class="">For the 16th Biennial Symposium on Arts & Technology, the theme INTERSECTIONS seeks to question categorizations, to experiment with new and emerging mediums while deferring to the original definition of <i class="">Intersectionality, </i>as coined by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw in relation to the intersecting dynamics of race, class and power. The symposium will explore the infrastructures and imaginaries pushing and pulling our techno-culture into an ever more precarious relationship with the social and ecological fabric on which our intersectional beings are founded.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><b class=""><i class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:windowtext" class="">THEMATIC THREADS<br class=""></span></i></b><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:10pt" class="">While we are open to any number of interpretations of this year’s wide-ranging INTERSECTIONS theme, we encourage and invite participating artists, theoreticians and researchers to relate their work to this theme through the guiding threads listed below:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><b class=""><i class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica" class="">Alternative futurisms</span></i></b><i class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica" class="">: New narratives of the future being crafted and told in any medium, with an emphasis on alternatives to the story told by Silicon Valley, Wall Street and TED.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:15.3333px;font-family:Helvetica" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><b class=""><i class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica" class="">Experimental systems for awareness, equity and justice</span></i></b><i class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica" class="">: Leveraging existing and emerging technological mediums, tools or systems for questioning power and / or promoting increased connection, awareness, equity and justice by activists and artists</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><i class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica" class=""> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><b class=""><i class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica" class="">Hybrid bodies:</span></i></b><i class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica" class=""> Bio-politics and borders, intersectional identities, chimeras, and cyborgs</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><i class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica" class=""> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" 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