(via SImon Penny to Netbehaviour list) DAC09communiqué1-17sep08
Dear Colleagues, Greetings to all. This is the first of several communiqués regarding the Digital Art and Culture (DAC)2009 conference. The 2009 conference will occur in mid-December, 2009, on the campus of the University of California, Irvine, in sunny Orange County, just south of Los Angeles. Primarily, this communiqué is an invitation for you to be involved - as a delegate, as a speaker, as a performer, as a reviewer, as a theme leader as an event organizer, or in any other capacity. The first three categories are self-explanatory, the paragraphs below explain the others. Right now, the most pressing issue is the Call for Themes and Theme Leaders. Further down: some details of the calendar and the event - provisional, as they must be at this point. DAC is an international conference series established in 1998. I'm very pleased to have the opportunity to direct this iteration of DAC. I hope that it is a high point in the tradition of engaged and topical, intellectually rigorous, interdisciplinary, mid-scale, horizontally structured events which makes DAC, in my opinion, special. I have been involved in the world of digital art and culture for 25 years, and active in the development of interdisciplinary approaches to practice, discourse and pedagogy. Along with my art practice and writing, I edited an early 'new media reader' (Critical Issues in Electronic Media, SUNY Press 1995), organized an early exhibition of interactive installation (Machine Culture, SIGGRAPH'93). More recently I designed and established the Arts Computation Engineering graduate program at UCI. Further details of my work can be found at www.ace.uci.edu/penny. I will send such notices regularly to the DAC09-announce list. Every attempt will be made to keep them brief and succinct - though this one does go on bit. Please forward this email as you see fit. This posting is the first large-scale test of the newly created list, and of the newly created email address [EMAIL PROTECTED] The address list is compiled from previous DAC lists and related email lists. Apologies in advance for any for multiple and inappropriate postings. (See below to subscribe, unsubscribe, or notify of duplicate addresses etc.) Please notify us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you do not get this posting :) I look forward to seeing you at what promises to be a dynamic and generative event. Simon Penny. Themes and Theme Leaders In the interests of an optimally diverse, relevant and topical conference, DAC09 will have multiple themes. I invite all to propose Themes for DAC09. The conference will be organized around selected themes. I hope thiss trategy will generate an event which is responsive to contemporary concerns while remaining focused. I personally hope to see themes proposed in the following areas: Software Studies/Media Archeology, Digital Art and Culture Pedagogy, Neuroscience/Cognition/Interaction Design, Mobile Media Practices, and other areas. Please do not hesitate to propose in these, related and quite different themes. I am keen to support new areas of inquiry relevant to DAC, especially themes which go beyond the usual Euro-American academic/disciplinary preoccupations. Some massaging of themes may be necessary. It may be necessary to subdivide themes which receive many accepted papers. Conversely undersubscribed themes may have to be merged or not included. Call for Themes/Theme Leaders: To propose a theme title and 100 word outline is required. Note that acceptance of a proposed theme commits proposer to functioning as theme leader. Responsibilities will not be arduous but will include oversight of review process for that theme, cooperating with organisers in designing conference timetables, and identifying and organising panel chairs. Deadline for theme proposals, 15 October 2008. Send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with DAC09Theme as subject line. Call for reviewers A subsequent communiqué will include a call for proposal and paper reviewers, when the themes are confirmed. Call for Event Producers Proposals for Exhibition Curation and Music/Performance Event Productions are requested. This might include touring existing exhibitions/productions or specially organized events. An organizer/producer for Variety Night Producer is also sought. Send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with DAC09Events as subject line. Call for VaRiEtY Night Talent. Do you juggle remotes, play telematic tennis, compose epic poetry about database structures? Do you have a robot that does card tricks or DJs, or an AI system that composes and performs poetry? Please propose your act for variety night. : Already confirmed: the multi-talented Perry Hoberman will sing some of his cycle of media-arts ballads, including the soon-to-be smash hit 'Motion Capture'. Send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with DAC09Variety as subject line. Call for miscellaneous suggestions and support. Ideas regarding events, geographically and temporally local tie-ins, sponsorship, constructive suggestions and offers of assistance gladly received. Send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with DAC09misc as subject line Conference Structure DAC09 will be a three-day event preceded by evening registration and reception. Days will be structured with three sessions - Coffee: 8.30-9 Morning Plenary Session: 9 -12 Lunch: 12-1.15 Panels1: 1.15-2.45 ( 2 or 3 parallel sessions) Break : 2.45 - 3.30 Panels2: 3.30 - 5 ( 2 or 3 parallel sessions, closing plenary on last day) Each day will include an optional evening event, ~ 7.30-10.30 (Morning coffee, Lunch and afternoon break will be catered and included in registration. Closing Banquet will be included in full registration). The morning plenaries will involve at least one presentation representing each Theme, and may include other relevant presentations. Afternoon sessions will be panels or 'roundtables' organized around Themes, with each theme being represented in a session, two consecutive sessions on one day, or sessions across more than one day - depending on paper acceptances etc. I want to ensure that DAC2009 is maximally generative, so I want to support discussion, both formal and informal. Opportunities will be available to timetable roundtable discussions, I will do my best to ensure that question/discussion times will not be abandoned and breaks will be long enough to allow informal discussion. Evening Events Evening 0 - registration and reception (exhibition opening?) Evening1 - Variety show. Continuing in the spirit of the show and tell night in Perth07, his will be an informal soireé of presentations by registrants, headlined by Perry Hoberman singing his cycle of Digital Culture Ballads, including his (soon to be) smash hit 'Motion Capture'. Proposals for acts and presentations in any format (from juggling remotes to telematic tennis) are welcome. Evening2 -Music/Performance event Evening3 - Banquet/Harbor Cruise Deadlines and Key Dates (Provisional) (AFAIK, the US is the only country to observe a month-day-year date convention. In order to reduce calendric confusion, all dates for DAC09 will be in the format '1oct08'.) Theme proposals - 15oct08 Website up and call for paper proposals - 1jan09 Call for paper proposals (abstracts) - 1Jan09 Deadline for paper proposals (abstracts) - 1apr09 Invitation to submit papers (based on submitted abstracts) - 1jun09 Advanced Registration opens - 1jun09 Paper deadline - 1aug09 Notice of Paper Acceptance - 1sep09 Formatted paper delivery deadline - 1oct09 Conference - Dec 13-16 (or thereabouts) Communication, Information Management, Contacts. This year we are building a web based automated information system which will include automated online submission and review process and online registration by credit card. Website address will be publicized soon. It is planned that proceedings will be online. Registrants will receive proceedings and other documents on a DAC09 datastick at registration. Dedicate email addresses have been created for DAC09: DAC09adm- Dustin Utt - for inquiries regarding delegate correspondence, registration, accommodation, catering and campus/facilities liaison. DAC09inf - Ward Smith - for inquiries regarding website, submission and review process, proceedings, information management, etc DAC09dir - Simon Penny - organisational and committee business only -- Simon Penny, Professor of Arts and Engineering - University of California, Irvine. http://www.ace.uci.edu/penny Director, DAC09 (Digital Arts and Culture Conference, December, 2009) University of California Council on Research 'Humanist at Large' Founding Director - Arts Computation Engineering (ACE) interdisciplinary graduate program. http://www.ace.uci.edu Office/Post: Building 522 Room 3000, UCI Irvine, CA 92697-2790 Director -ACTION lab for robotics and embodied interaction Professor - Studio Art, Claire Trevor School of the Arts. Professor - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Henry Samueli School of Engineering. Professor - Informatics, Bren School of Information and Computer Science. In order to do interdisciplinary work, it is not enough to take a 'subject' (a theme) and to arrange two or three sciences around it. Interdisciplinary study consists of creating a new object, which belongs to no one. Roland Barthes The main point to realise is that all knowledge presents itself within a conceptual framework adapted to account for previous experience and that any such frame may prove too narrow to comprehend new experiences. Neils Bohr. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
