** Extended Deadline ** LEA Gallery Special cfp: Global Crossings (GX)

[Deb King]

** Worldwide Call for Submissions **

Please feel free to spread the word widely:

LEA Gallery Special: Global Crossings (GX) Online Exhibition
http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/LEA/LEA2004/authors.htm#gx

Guest Curators: Dennis Summers and Choy Kok Kee (gxgallery at astn.net)
The Leonardo Electronic Almanac Gallery
(http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/LEA/LEA2004/gallery.htm) is inviting
submissions in conjunction with the Leonardo Global Crossings Initiative.
The Gallery is looking to make visible the work of international artists,
professionals and scholars who live and work in a wide variety of
situations where access to established venues for exhibition, display and
publication is limited. Difficulty of access may be attributed to
cultural, geographic, ethnic, institutional or disciplinary diversity, or
issues related to the North/South divide, age, gender, etc. Through this
Gallery we seek to showcase little-known work in the
art-science-technology field and to counter the natural tendency of
networks to be inward looking, thus reinforcing established points of
view.

We are looking for work that considers the global earth in some fashion or
another. It can be work that addresses global social, political economic,
spiritual, etc. issues. It can be work that physically or metaphorically
lies in multiple locations on the planet, it can be work that may
have personal relationships to multiple locations on the planet. Or
anything else that loosely falls along the concept of being "global" in
nature.
LEA encourages international artists / academics / researchers / students
to submit their proposal and explore global crossings in an open context
in their creative submissions and work. We particularly encourage young
authors outside North America and Europe to send proposals.

Submission Procedure
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Zip all necessary files into a folder named after the contributing artist.
Send as an attachment to gxgallery at astn.net or if necessary, provide ftp
instructions.

Interested artists should separately send:
- A brief description of proposed text (100 ­ 300 words)
- A brief author biography
- Any related URLs
- Contact details

In the subject heading of the email message, please use “Name of
Artist/Project Title: LEA Global Crossings ­ Date Submitted”. Please cut
and paste all text into body of email (without attachments).

Deadline for submissions: 15 November 2004 *** EXTENDED DEADLINE ***
Please send proposals or queries to:
Dennis Summers/Choy Kok Kee
gxgallery at astn.net
or
Nisar Keshvani
LEA Editor-in-Chief
lea at mitpress.mit.edu
http://lea.mit.edu

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What is the Global Crossings (GX) Initiaitve?
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This initiative is part of the Leonardo/International Society for the
Arts, Sciences and Technology (ISAST) Global Crossings (GX) Project. GX is
committed to identifying and showcasing the work of international artists,
professionals, and scholars from outside North America and Europe.
Leonardo/ISAST has initiated this policy to reach out to diverse cultural
and global communities to overcome the considerable natural barriers that
prevent trans-cultural collaboration in the emerging
art-science-technology field. This initiative is funded by the Rockefeller
Foundation, New York. Leonardo/ISAST, a leading international scholarly
and professional network, has for 35 years been an advocate of new
creative practices, documenting and
promoting innovative work through its publications and projects. 

Info:
http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/LEA/globalx.htm