From Grayson.Cooke at scu.edu.au Sun Nov 12 22:13:39 2017 From: Grayson.Cooke at scu.edu.au (Grayson Cooke) Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 21:13:39 +0000 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Transformations issue 30 launched - Concepts for Action in the Environmental Arts Message-ID: Transformations announces the release of Issue 30: Concepts for Action in the Environmental Arts http://www.transformationsjournal.org/ This issue of Transformations aims to establish a toolkit of conceptual resources that can provoke, incite and inform new practices and interventions in the environmental arts. We define the environmental arts broadly for this purpose, with a particular emphasis on modes of thinking, feeling, sensing, designing, making, performing and composing that are attuned to environmental change and are inherently collective in nature. In this respect, artists have often been years and even decades ahead of others in responding to the conceptual and practical challenges of environmental change. Since the 1960s, artists such as Robert Smithson, James Turrell, Robert Irwin, Helen and Newton Harrison, Joseph Beuys and Suzanne Lacy have enacted visionary environmental practices, while also conceptualising these practices within the broader fields of social theory and philosophy. Such critical reconceptualisations of the field are urgently called for in response to mounting evidence that we have entered the Anthropocene epoch, a time typified by climate change, catastrophic loss of biodiversity, ecological instability, resource depletion, ubiquitous digitisation and rapid advances in biotechnology and computer science. In revealing the profound entanglement of human culture and natural phenomena in the contemporary world, the advent of the Anthropocene has had a destabilising effect on dualistic philosophies and binary logics that have upheld rigid barriers between the human and the nonhuman, the organic and the inorganic, the natural and the artificial, the social and the material. New concepts are called for that can mobilise creative thinking and action outside of such anthropocentric and humanistic frameworks, and mobilise new practices that are both attuned and responsive to the rapidly changing environmental conditions of everyday life. Editors: Grayson Cooke, Warwick Mules, Erika Kerruish and David Rousell Papers Maria Michails Tactical Interventions: Environmental Sensing and Socially-Engaged Arts Grayson Cooke The Vicissitudes of the Image: Materiality and the Environment in the Old Growth Project Jessica Mulvogue Catastrophe Aesthetics: the moving image and the mattering of the world Josh Wodak Environmental Art as Remedial Action: From Meditating on to Mediating in Earth?s Energy Imbalance Benjamin Abraham and Darshana Jayemanne Where are all the climate change games? Locating digital games? response to climate change Warwick Mules Annihilating Critique: Walter Benjamin?s World Politics as the Just-Sharing of Nature Bogna Konior Generic humanity: interspecies technologies, climate change & non-standard animism John Ryan Poetry as Plant Script: Interspecies Dialogue and Poetic Collaboration in the Northern Tablelands Region of New South Wales Moya Costello On Writing [expressing a relation to] Dried Plant Specimens Rob Garbutt and Shauna McIntyre The provocation of Ga?a: Learning to pay attention in Rotary Park Kaya Barry Measuring movements in the field: Practices of surveying community walking areas in Finland and Australia Emily Crawford Plant/Human Borderland Jamming -- Grayson Cooke Associate Professor of Media Course Coordinator Bachelor of Digital Media and Communications School of Arts and Social Sciences Southern Cross University P.O. 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Notable examples are the collaborative development of Free Software projects and of the Wikipedia online encyclopedia. JoPP is an open-access journal that allows readers to read, download, copy, distribute and link to the full texts of articles. Authors license works under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) and retain full copyright in their work. In terms of research, we have published ten landmark issues exploring the interconnection of peer production with activism, political economy, bio and hardware hacking, free software, value and currency, shared machine shops, the law, state policies, feminism and queer issues, alternative infrastructures, and waged labour. We will publish our eleventh issue on peer production and urbanism in January 2018 and our twelfth on the institutionalisation of shared machine shops in May 2018. In terms of practice, we have debated policy decisions on a public and archived mailing list. We have renovated the scientific peer review system by publishing not only reviews of papers, but also ? in order to fully appreciate the impact of reviews ? original submissions of articles. We have launched a ?signalling? system so that imperfect articles can be published rapidly, whilst maintaining the standards and reputation of the journal. Having defined the field of peer production studies and put into practice peer production principles, we now seek to foster new avenues and partnerships. We are calling this new phase in the development of the Journal of Peer Production ?OPEN?. At the root of ?OPEN? is the fact that we now live in an era where exclusion and inequality are being justified by overtly racist, even fascist, ideas. It is therefore more important than ever for progressives to develop viable alternatives to plutocracy and environmental destruction which highlight peer values such as inclusion and openness. There are two parts to JoPP ?OPEN?: ?OPEN? EOI and ?OPEN? CFP. JOPP: ?OPEN? EOI We are calling for ?OPEN? editorial Expressions of Interest from people wanting to develop their own take on peer production. This means we are offering our website and network of reviewers for the production and dissemination of activist or scientific interventions in the field of peer production. We are open to accounts of projects, to explorations of special interests, to analysis of the ?infrastructures of the commons? (universal income systems, cooperatives and unions, free public services), etc. We are particularly interested in initiatives that would disseminate peer production knowledge and values to audiences beyond the academic and activist communities. Please write to the JoPP general public list with your ideas or if you prefer to discuss them in confidence please contact the private JoPP editorial team mailing list . We look forward to hearing from you! JOPP: ?OPEN? CFP ISSUE #13 We are also announcing a Call for Papers for issue #13 of the Journal of Peer Production on the theme of ?OPEN?. This means that contributions can explore any aspect of peer production. Please refer to past issues for examples and to our style guidelines for guidance on the type of contributions we accept. Important dates: 500-word abstracts 15th January 2018 Acceptance of papers 15th February 2018 Full papers due 30th June 2018 Reviews due and sent to authors 30th August 2018 Revised papers due 30th October 2018 Signals due 30th December 2018 Issue released 31st January 2019 Submission guidelines Extended paper abstracts of up to 500 words are due 15 January, 2018. Peer reviewed papers should be no more than 8,000 words. These should be sent directly to the editors. All peer reviewed papers will be reviewed according to Journal of Peer Production guidelines. See http://peerproduction.net/peer-review/process/ for details. Full papers for peer review will be due by 30th June, 2018. Editors For more information and feedback on proposed contributions please contact the issue editors: Mathieu O?Neil | http://bit.ly/2A7JgAV | Steve Collins | http://bit.ly/2xNhOmV | Full html version here: http://peerproduction.net/journal-of-peer-production-open-eoi-cfp-issue-13/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: