[media-art-hr] Fwd: LEA Special cfp: Locative Media - Deadline 7 March 2005

[mila marina burger]

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>LEA Special Issue: Locative Media
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>* Worldwide Call for Submissions *
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>Guest Editor: Drew Hemment
>lctvmedia at astn.net
>http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/LEA/LEA2004/authors.htm#lmedia
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>The Leonardo Electronic Almanac (ISSN No: 1071-4391) is inviting 
>papers [and artworks] that deal with the emerging data-based 
>spatial practice of Locative Media.
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>Across a broad range of contexts the interface between data 
>environments and location has emerged as a central concern, 
>reversing the trend towards digital content being viewed as 
>placeless, or only encountered in the amorphous space of the 
>internet. Artists have long been concerned with place and 
>location, but the combination of mobile devices with positioning 
>technologies opens up a manifold of different ways in which 
>geographical space can be encountered and drawn. An emerging field 
>of creative practice is coalescing around artists and 
>technologists who are exploring the use of portable, networked, 
>location-aware computing devices for social interfaces to places 
>and artistic interventions in which geographical space becomes a 
>canvas.
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>Submissions are sought which foreground not the technologies but 
>rather issues to do with participation, perception and process 
>they raise. What is Locative Media's relationship to dominant 
>logics of representation, and how does it forces a reassessment of 
>accustomed ways of representing, relating to and moving in the 
>world? How may methodologies within Media Art and other 
>disciplines be developed to meet a convergence of geographical and 
>data space? How can collaborative or user-led mapping and 
>cartography offer new possibilities for community organisation? 
>What metaphors are available for these new kinds of spatial 
>experience other than mapping and navigation? How may artists 
>respond to the abstraction inherent in Locative Media as a 
>data-based form, and look beyond the reductive understanding of 
>location that comes from Geographic Information Systems - in which 
>place is considered as a set of geographic coordinates or a 
>wireless cell - to explore, for example, context, co-location and 
>material embodiment? What is the relationship between this 
>emerging critical art practice and both the surveillance and 
>control technologies it deploys and wider mechanisms of 
>domination? What taxonomies of Locative Media projects can be 
>discerned, and how may terminology evolve to meet this new 
>interdisciplinary environment?
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>Locative Media is in a condition of emergence, simultaneously 
>opening up new ways of engaging in the world and mapping its own 
>domain. For this issue, submissions that present the exploratory 
>movements of Locative Media in historical context are of equal 
>interest to submissions that offer a snap shot or polaroid of its 
>current state of emergence.
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>Topics of interest might include (but are not limited to):
>- Antecedents and historical context
>- Taxonomies of Locative Media projects
>- Art and technology collaborations
>- Social applications
>- Critical analyses
>- Cultural analyses
>- Scalability and ownership issues
>- etc 

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>LEA encourages international artists / academics / researchers / 
>students / practitioners / theorists that engage with locative 
>media to submit their proposals for consideration. We particularly 
>encourage authors outside North America and Europe to send 
>proposals for essays / artists statements.
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>As part of this special, LEA is looking to publish:
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>- Critical Essays
>- Artist Statement/works in the LEA Gallery
>- Bibliographies (a peer reviewed bibliography with key 
>texts/references in Locative Media)
>- Academic Curriculum (LEA encourages academics conducting course 
>programmes in this area to contact us)
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>Expressions of interest and outline should include:
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>- A brief description of proposed text (300 words)
>- A brief author biography
>- Any related URLs
>- Contact details
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>In the subject heading of the email message, please use “Name of 
>Artist/Project Title: LEA Locative Media Special – Date 
>Submitted”. Please cut and paste all text into body of email 
>(without attachments). Detailed editorial guidelines at: 
>http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/LEA/submit
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>Deadline for expressions of interest: 7 March 2005
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>Timeline
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>7 March 2005 - submission of abstracts
>11 March 2005 - short-listed candidates informed
>1 April 2005 - contributors to submit full papers for peer review
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>(please note the timeline is subject to changes)
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>Please send proposals or queries to:
>Drew Hemment
>lctvmedia at astn.net
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>Nisar Keshvani
>LEA Editor-in-Chief
>lea at mitpress.mit.edu
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>http://lea.mit.edu
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