<nettime-ann> DRHA 2010 Conference - Call for Papers

[Jameson Wallace <mason@artafternext.com>]

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> CALL FOR PAPERS AND PERFORMANCES
> DRHA 2010 Conference: Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts
> Sunday 5th September - Wednesday 8th September 2010
> Brunel University, West London
> www.drha2010.org.uk
>
> CONFERENCE THEME: Sensual Technologies: Collaborative Practices of  
> Interdisciplinarity
> The conference’s overall theme will be the exploration of the  
> collaborative relationship between the body and sensual/sensing  
> technologies across various disciplines. In this respect it will  
> offer an interrogation of practices that are indebted to the  
> innovative exchange between the sensual, visceral and new  
> technologies.
> At the same time, the aim is to look to new approaches offered by  
> various emerging fields and practices that incorporate new and  
> existing technologies. Specific examples of areas for discussion  
> could include:
> ·       Delineation of new collaborative practices and the  
> interchange of knowledge
> ·       Collaborative interdisciplinary practices of embodiment and  
> technology
> ·       Integration/deployment of digital resources in new contexts
> ·       Connections and tensions that exist between the Arts,  
> Humanities and Science
> ·       Notions of the ‘solitary’ and the ‘collaborative’ across the  
> Arts, Humanities, and Sciences
> ·       eScience in the Arts and Humanities
> ·       Use of digital resources in collaborative creative work,  
> teaching,
> learning and scholarship
> ·       Open source and second generation Web infrastructure
> ·       Digital media in time and space
> ·       Music and technology: composition and performance
> ·       Dance and interactive technologies
> ·       Taking inspiration from SET: imaging, GPS and mobile  
> technologies
> ·       Evaluating the experience among providers and users /  
> performers and audiences
> ·       Interface Design and HCI
> ·       Performative Practices in SecondLife or other virtual  
> platforms
> ·       New critical paradigms for the conference’s theme
> Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
>
> - Richard Coyne - Professor of Architectural Computing at the  
> University of Edinburgh.
> - Christopher Pressler: Director of Research and Learning Resources  
> and Director of the Centre for Research Communications, University  
> of Nottingham.
> - Thecla Schiphorst: Media Artist/Designer and Faculty Member in the  
> School of Interactive Arts and Technology. Simon Fraser University,  
> Vancouver, Canada.
> - STELARC, Chair in Performance Art at Brunel University and Senior  
> Research, Fellow in the MARCS Labs at the University of Western  
> Sydney.
> The DRHA (Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts) conference  
> is held annually at various academic venues throughout the UK. This  
> year’s conference is hosted by Brunel University, West London. It  
> will take place from Sunday 5th September to Wednesday 8th September  
> 2010. It will be held across various innovative spaces, including  
> the newly expanded Boiler House laboratory facilities, housed in the  
> Antonin Artaud Building, and state of the art conference facilities  
> plus high standard accommodation.
>
> SUBMISSIONS:
>
> We invite original papers, panels, installations, performances,  
> workshop sessions and other events that address the conference  
> theme, with particular attention to the ‘Sensual Technologies’  
> focus. We encourage proposals for innovative and non-traditional  
> session formats.
> DRHA 2010 will include a SecondLife roundtable/discussion event, led  
> by performance artist Stelarc, which will enable international  
> participants to present performative work via Second Life. For this  
> event, we particular encourage submission of Machinima works that  
> can be screened as part of this panel.
> Short presentations, for example work-in-progress, are invited for  
> poster presentations.
> Anyone wishing to submit a performance or installation should visit http://www.drha2010.org.uk 
>  for information about the spaces and technical equipment and  
> support available.
> All proposals - whether papers, performance or other - should  
> reflect the critical engagement at the heart of DRHA 2010.
> The deadline for submissions will be 31 March 2010.
>
> Abstracts should be between 600 - 1000 words.
>
> Letters of acceptance will be sent by 15th May 2010, when the  
> conference registration will be opened.
> Please see http://www.drha2010.org.uk for all relevant information  
> and online submission.
> Programme Committee member
> Ghislaine Boddington
> http://www.bodydataspace.net
> http://www.rescen.net/Ghislaine_Boddington/index.html
> http://www.robotsandavatars.net/
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