From jhuns at vt.edu Tue Jun 3 13:37:24 2014 From: jhuns at vt.edu (jeremy hunsinger) Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 07:37:24 -0400 Subject: ::fibreculture:: call for chapters: Closed Systems / Open Worlds Message-ID: <6A43F6D2-4569-457B-BDA3-8DD09F7577A6@vt.edu> Closed Systems / Open Worlds Edited by: Jeremy Hunsinger (Wilfrid Laurier University), Jason Nolan (Ryerson University) & Melanie McBride (York University) This book will consist of explorations at the boundaries of virtual worlds as enclosed but encouraging spaces for exploration, learning, and enculturation. Game/worlds like Second Life, OpenSim, Minecraft, and Cloud Party are providing spaces for the construction of alternatives and reimaginings, though frequently they end up more as reproductions. We seek to challenge those spaces and their creativities and imaginings. These worlds exist as both code and conduct. Code is a modulating multiple signifier, in that the interpreters of the code vary from human to machine and that our understanding of the signifier changes the worldliness in itself. The conduct of both participants and administrators of these spaces influences how they flourish and then fade. As such the worlds and their anima/animus are socially constructed fictions where authors/creators/users, both above and below the actions are sometimes in concert, yet often in conflict with the space and intentions of the originators. This book seeks critically engaged scholars who want to risk the possibility of change in the face of closed systems. We are looking for critical or speculative essays that must be theoretically, empirically and/or contextually grounded chapters of 5000-6500 words plus apparatus. Doctoral students and non-tenure faculty members will be afforded blind peer review upon request. We are aiming for 12 -14 chapters that define the boundaries and thus likely futures of research on virtual worlds. Dates Aug 1, 2014 ? 250 word pr?cis with 5-10 key references Aug. 30, 2014 ? accept/reject proposals Feb 1, 2015 ? final draft due July 1, 2015 ? feedback from reviewers September 1, 2015 ? final version December 1, 2015 ? in press Queries and submissions: ClosedandOpenBook at gmail.com Topics may include: alternative and minor game/virtual/etc. worlds archeologies/genealogies of virtuality augmented and mixed-reality worlds distributed cognitions early explorations in virtual learning environments the freedom of limitations identity construction and/or identity tourism the limits of simulation and emulation memories and forgetting in virtual worlds multisensory virtual environments multisensory exclusions in virtual worlds narratival and post-narratival andragogies, ?learning worlds? negative spaces as learning spaces (bullying, trolling, flaming, etc.) in virtual worlds non-social virtual worlds (dwarf fortress, some forms of minecraft, etc.) real world virtual worlds and boundaries (Lego, Hello Kitty, WebKinz, etc.) replication of real world environments/problems surrealism, unrealism and constructable alterities of/within virtual worlds transformative virtual classroom vapourware and virtuality the virtuality of learning jeremy hunsinger Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.stswiki.org/ sts wiki http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series From iheap at iheap.fr Wed Jun 11 22:45:34 2014 From: iheap at iheap.fr (IHEAP) Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 22:45:34 +0200 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Iheap : Call for Articles Message-ID: <5e963499d724849991a1dd964e112b32@iheap.fr> (We thank you in advance for distributing this information.) Institut des hautes ?tudes en arts plastiques (Iheap) Call for Articles Contribute to the reference book of the Institut des hautes ?tudes en arts plastiques (Iheap) of the Session IX, 2013-2015: ?The Invisual?. Looking for external contributions likely to enrich this reference book (Activity Report) on the theoretical field, Iheap opens its pages to external authors who wish to transmit a key text in connection with art. The subject, at the discretion of the author, should be treated in relation to the orientation of Iheap: http://iheap.fr/en The publication of such a text in the activity report will be remunerated. Without limitation of size, the text must be sent in PDF format before October 1st, 2014, in French or in English, to the following address: editions at iheap.fr for consideration by Iheap. A response by email will be provided to applicants from October 15, 2014. The Activity Report The Activity Report of the Institut des hautes ?tudes en arts plastiques is a textual summary of the work carried out by participants of Iheap?s 9th session (2013-2015) entitled ?Invisual?. Non exhaustive, this compilation offers a corpus of writings accomplished within the fieldwork of the Institute: declarations of faith or statements recorded by professors who contributed using various approaches, pedagogical writings, flat plans which played a role within the theoretical and practical workshops given out by the Institute, or even transcripts reflecting selected working sessions. Unique in its nature and objectives, this activity report also offers a consistent place to the concepts imagined and developed by the participants of ?Invisual?. Finally, in order to expand its theoretical contents, several external authors will have the opportunity, by answering a call, to publish a significant text on art. -- Institut des hautes ?tudes en arts plastiques (Iheap) http://iheap.fr T?l. : 0033 (1) 4534 3004 From iheap at iheap.fr Wed Jun 11 22:45:58 2014 From: iheap at iheap.fr (IHEAP) Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 22:45:58 +0200 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Iheap : Call for Articles Message-ID: (We thank you in advance for distributing this information.) Institut des hautes ?tudes en arts plastiques (Iheap) Call for Articles Contribute to the reference book of the Institut des hautes ?tudes en arts plastiques (Iheap) of the Session IX, 2013-2015: ?The Invisual?. Looking for external contributions likely to enrich this reference book (Activity Report) on the theoretical field, Iheap opens its pages to external authors who wish to transmit a key text in connection with art. The subject, at the discretion of the author, should be treated in relation to the orientation of Iheap: http://iheap.fr/en The publication of such a text in the activity report will be remunerated. Without limitation of size, the text must be sent in PDF format before October 1st, 2014, in French or in English, to the following address: editions at iheap.fr for consideration by Iheap. A response by email will be provided to applicants from October 15, 2014. The Activity Report The Activity Report of the Institut des hautes ?tudes en arts plastiques is a textual summary of the work carried out by participants of Iheap?s 9th session (2013-2015) entitled ?Invisual?. Non exhaustive, this compilation offers a corpus of writings accomplished within the fieldwork of the Institute: declarations of faith or statements recorded by professors who contributed using various approaches, pedagogical writings, flat plans which played a role within the theoretical and practical workshops given out by the Institute, or even transcripts reflecting selected working sessions. Unique in its nature and objectives, this activity report also offers a consistent place to the concepts imagined and developed by the participants of ?Invisual?. Finally, in order to expand its theoretical contents, several external authors will have the opportunity, by answering a call, to publish a significant text on art. -- Institut des hautes ?tudes en arts plastiques (Iheap) http://iheap.fr T?l. : 0033 (1) 4534 3004 From andrew.murphie at gmail.com Thu Jun 19 15:57:48 2014 From: andrew.murphie at gmail.com (Andrew Murphie) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 23:57:48 +1000 Subject: ::fibreculture:: =?utf-8?q?The_Fibreculture_Journal=E2=80=94Call_?= =?utf-8?q?for_Papers=E2=80=94Entanglements=3A_Activism_and_Technol?= =?utf-8?q?ogy?= Message-ID: CFP?Issue 24 Fibreculture Journal: Entanglements: activism and technology http://fibreculturejournal.org/cfp-entanglements/ Please note that for this issue, initial submissions should be abstracts only. Issue Editors: Pip Shea, Tanya Notley and Jean Burgess Abstract deadline: August 20 2014 (no late abstracts will be accepted) Article deadline: November 3 2014 Publication aimed for: February 2015 all contributors and editors must read the guidelines at: http://fibreculturejournal.org/policy-and-style/ before working with the Fibreculture Journal Email correspondence for this issue: p.shea at qub.ac.uk This themed issue explores the entanglements that arise due to frictions between the philosophies embedded within technologies and the philosophies embedded within activism. Straightforward solutions are rarely on offer as the bringing together of different philosophies requires the negotiation of acceptance, compromise, or submission (Tsing 2004). This friction can be disruptive, productive, or both, and it may contribute discord or harmony. In this special issue, we seek submissions that respond to the idea that frictions between technologies and activists may ultimately enhance the ability of activists to take more control of their projects, create new ethical spaces and subvert technologies, just as it may also result in tension, conflict and hostility. By dwelling in between and within these frictions and entanglements ? through strategic and tactical media discourses as well as the very concept of an activist politics within technology ? this special issue will elucidate the context-specific nature, constraints and possibilities of the digital environments that are co-habited by activists from proximate fields including social movements, human rights, ecological and green movements, international development, community arts and cultural development. Past issues of the Fibreculture Journal have examined activist philosophies from angles such as social justice and networked organisational forms, communication rights and net neutrality debates, and the push back against precarious new media labour. Our issue extends this work by revealing the conflicting debates that surround activist philosophies of technology. Submissions are sought that engage specifically with the ethics, rationales and methods adopted by activists to justify selecting, building, using, promoting or rejecting specific technologies. We also encourage work that considers the ways in which these negotiations speak to broader mythologies and tensions embedded within digital culture ? between openness and control; political consistency and popular appeal; appropriateness, usability and availability. We invite responses to these provocations from activists, practitioners and academics. Critiques, case studies, and multimedia proposals will be considered for inclusion. Submissions should explore both constraints and possibilities caused by activism and its digital technology entanglements through the following themes: Alternative technology versus appropriate technology Pragmatism and technology choice The philosophies and practices of hacking technologies Activist cultures and the proprietary web Digital privacy and security breaches and errors Uncovering and exposing technology vulnerabilities Technology and e-waste The philosophies of long/short term impact Authenticity and evidence Initial submissions should comprise 300 word abstracts and 60 word biographies, emailed to p.shea at qub.ac.uk and t.notley at uws.edu.au References: Tsing, A. 2005 Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection. Princeton: Princeton University Press. The Fibreculture Journal (http://fibreculturejournal.org/) is a peer reviewed international journal, associated with Open Humanities Press ( http://openhumanitiespress.org/), that explores critical and speculative interventions in the debate and discussions concerning information and communication technologies and their policy frameworks, network cultures and their informational logic, new media forms and their deployment, and the possibilities of socio-technical invention and sustainability. -- "A traveller, who has lost his way, should not ask, Where am I? What he really wants to know is, Where are the other places" - Alfred North Whitehead Andrew Murphie - Associate Professor School of the Arts and Media, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2052 Editor, with Su Ballard and Glen Fuller?The Fibreculture Journal http://fibreculturejournal.org/> web: http://www.andrewmurphie.org/ tlf:612 93855548 fax:612 93856812 room 311H, Robert Webster Building -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From K.Davidson at uws.edu.au Tue Jun 24 11:19:19 2014 From: K.Davidson at uws.edu.au (Kristy Davidson) Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 09:19:19 +0000 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Extended Deadline & Registrations Open | Knowledge, Culture, Economy International Conference Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, We have extended the abstract submission deadline for the Knowledge / Culture / Economy International Conference at UWS and have opened the conference registrations. Please see my email below. We hope to see you there! Kind regards, Kristy View this email in your browser [http://gallery.mailchimp.com/2c6b3db5d53c38069ca16f941/images/29a9b5f3-5666-4a80-bbeb-1581d5e5c955.jpg] REGISTRATIONS NOW OPEN The Institute for Culture and Society at the University of Western Sydney cordially invites you to attend its flagship Knowledge / Culture / Economy International Conference, held on 3?5 November 2014 at the UWS Parramatta campus. The conference will assess the shifting roles of knowledge, culture and economy in contemporary and historical scenarios of globalisation, production, consumption, expenditure, crisis, governance, technological change and reckonings with nature. It will bring together theorists and practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds and knowledge institutions to debate these issues. Particular themes are: * Asia Pacific Cultural Economies * Cultures of Finance * Economic Diversity * Digital Life * Fragile Environments KEYNOTE SPEAKERS * Aihwa Ong, Professor of Socio-Cultural Anthropology and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley * Timothy Mitchell, Professor and Chair of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University * Chris Gibson, Professor of Human Geography, Director UOW Global Challenges Program, Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research, University of Wollongong * Katherine Gibson, Professor, Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney PAPER AND PANEL PROPOSALS | DEADLINE EXTENDED Paper and panel proposals addressing the conference themes are invited. Proposals spanning one or more themes or other aspects of Knowledge/Culture/Economy relations are also welcome. * Individual paper proposals (200?300 words) * Panel proposals (200 words for the panel concept and 200?300 words on each panel paper) Visit the Conference Online website to submit your abstract. The deadline for abstract submissions has been extended to 11.55pm, 8 July 2014 (AEST). REGISTRATION [http://gallery.mailchimp.com/2c6b3db5d53c38069ca16f941/images/89d6083e-c21a-4eca-bf59-707631cbb9fe.jpg]Registration is now open. Register using the online registration form. Registration Fee The registration fee includes Welcome Reception, 3 day registration, lunches, morning and afternoon teas. Early Bird Rates (ends 26 September) * Standard: $395.00 (incl. GST) * Concession: $295.00 (incl. GST) Full Rates * Standard: $445.00 (incl. GST) * Concession: $345.00 (incl. 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Time Monsters and Space Museums: Doctor Who and Education -- http://www.deletionscifi.org/episodes/episode-5/time-monsters-space-museums-doctor-education/ The Mechanist's Infirmary -- http://www.deletionscifi.org/episodes/episode-5/mechanists-infirmary/ Doctor Who: The Reflection of Social and Political Evolution of Great Britain --- http://www.deletionscifi.org/episodes/episode-5/doctor-reflection-social-political-evolution-great-britain/ Doctor Who and the early modern world -- http://www.deletionscifi.org/episodes/episode-5/doctor-early-modern-world/ Running the asylum? Doctor Who's ascended fan-showrunners -- http://www.deletionscifi.org/episodes/episode-5/running-asylum-doctor-whos-ascended-fan-showrunners/ The 51st Century Guy -- http://www.deletionscifi.org/episodes/episode-5/51st-century-guy/ Acting the gift: Serious in what I do but not necessarily in the way I do it... -- http://www.deletionscifi.org/episodes/episode-5/acting-gift-serious-necessarily-way/ Many thanks again to our contributors, please do consider tweeting, facebooking and otherwise promoting your contributions and passing on the link to the episode. Also please consider signing up to Deletion web site and commenting on each other's work. One of the main aims of Deletion is to build a community of science fiction scholarship and develop a place to share the ideas and work that is ongoing. If you have a concept or idea for a future contribution, or would like to propose a special episode please let me know! 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