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<div>Dear Spectre,</div>
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<div>The deadline for call for papers for the next volume of
<b>Acoustic Space journal (No. 12)</b> has been extended to<b>
March 30, 2013</b>!<br>
This time the peer-reviewed journal will be devoted to the
theme <b>"art of resilience"</b>. It will come out this Autumn,
October 2013, to be presented at
Media Art Histories 2013: RENEW conference in Riga.<br>
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Please find detailed call below!<br>
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Best regards,<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Daina Siliņa / RIXC
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<div><b>CALL FOR PAPERS</b><b><br>
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Acoustic Space No. 12: ART OF RESILIENCE</b><br>
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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.<br>
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The conference exploring the topic -- Art of Resilience -- took
place
during Art+Communication 2012 festival in Riga, October 5-6, 2012
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rixc.lv/12">http://rixc.lv/12</a>). 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.<br>
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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:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.amazon.com/Techno-Ecologies-Acoustic-Space-Rasa-Smite/dp/9">http://www.amazon.com/Techno-Ecologies-Acoustic-Space-Rasa-Smite/dp/9</a><span></span>934822989</div>
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<div><b>* Theme: Art of Resilience</b><br>
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"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)</div>
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<div>* * *</div>
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<div>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
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<div>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.<br>
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<div>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?</div>
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<b>* Call for papers</b><br>
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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.<br>
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<b>* Deadline</b><br>
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Extended deadline for full papers - <b>March 30, 2013</b>.<br>
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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.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<b>* Contact and submissions</b><br>
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Please send papers to the editor:<br>
Dr. Rasa Smite <rasa (at) rixc.lv><br>
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<b>* The Acoustic Space journal</b><br>
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<div>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.</div>
<div>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.</div>
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The previous editions of Acoustic Space journals are now available
via
amazon.com:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&field">http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&field</a><span></span>-author=Rasa%20Smite&search-alias=books&sort=relevancerank<br>
or, you can also order them directly form RIXC by sending an
e-mail
request to: daina (at) rixc.lv.<br>
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