[spectre] cfp: Media Art Scoping Symposium

[Paul Brown]

Media Art Scoping Symposium
Vital Signs: Revisited
Media art education at the intersection of science, technology  and  
culture
http://mass.nomad.net.au/

Date: July 4th - 5th 2009
Location: Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia

Call for Abstracts - Deadline 27th March 2009

The media/electronic art scoping symposium seeks to explore the  
current pioneering educators, artists and scientists who have brought  
about the dissolution of boundaries that have traditionally existed  
between the artistic and technological disciplines. The symposium will  
survey the work of media art educators who have developed new  
interdisciplinary curricula, facilities and information technologies.

The symposium aims to add to the media art scoping study via  
collaborating between leading universities in Australia currently  
conducting research and academic teaching and learning programs in new  
media/electronic arts.
The symposium will explore influential theoretical, scientific and  
philosophical pedagogies that have influenced the development of media/ 
electronic arts.

It is the ambition of the scoping project to establish the basis for a  
functional network model. Significantly, the establishment of an  
online historical database and link to the symposium will provide a  
body of information to assist development of appropriate  
infrastructure reflecting an approach to training that is in tune with  
the distinctive characteristics of the discipline area now and for the  
future.

The Mass symposium calls for refereed and non referred papers, posters  
on the following themes
•	media art, media art histories and associated pedagogical strategies.
•	media art in the context of contemporary art education.
•	examples of media art, descriptions and analysis of science, media  
art and culture.
•	creative practice as research in new media
•	media art innovations in teaching and learning

These would be based on the introduction and infiltration of digital  
media, technologies and related pedagogies in disciplines such as Art  
& Design, Architecture, the Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences; as  
well as examples of interdisciplinarity through art-science-technology  
collaborations.

We particularly wish to encourage presentations from and about new  
developments in teaching Media Art. Proposals are welcomed from  
academics, artists, theorist, and researchers in media art, media art  
history, performance studies, literature, film, and science and  
technology studies.

Deadline for 200 word abstracts: 27th March 09. Please submit  
proposals by email to:
Julian Stadon Media Art Scoping Symposium organizer j.stadon at curtin.edu.au
Abstracts of proposals, panel presentations and posters should be  
submitted in either text, RTF, or Word formats.

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