For your eyes only: CAT22: International Call For Proposals http://ACTlab.US
Dec 14, 2011 [ Austin, Texas, USA ] The first annual ACTLab Conference Culture, Art, and Techne in the 22nd Century (CAT22) will be held April 12-14, 2012 in Austin, Texas. We invite proposals for papers, roundtable discussions, workshops, dialogues, performances, actions, print-making/poster sessions, storytelling, digital media, maker events, un-conference open format, or things that fit all or none of those categories. The conference will be organized as presentations in the traditional ACTLab “end of semester” style, but any style suitable to the presenter’s work is acceptable. We encourage artists, theorists, geeks, tinkerers, practitioners, academics, curious bystanders, ACTLabbies, former ACTLabbies, friends, family, acquaintances, and anyone interested in collisions of art, technology, and culture or the ACTLab educational style, to submit a proposal by January 15, 2012. During our twenty active years, the ACTLab community — focused on the purpose-built studio designed to facilitate our work — grew, developed, and spread. Now there are hundreds of ACTLabbies in an informal global network, sharing experiences and stories of our time together at the inception of what would become the field of New Media. As New Media increasingly becomes anchored in time, the character of the discipline naturally changes, and many who can proudly say “we were there” during the heyday look inside and miss the atmosphere of guts-and-glory creativity. This conference is a call to return to our roots and look forward together. We are particularly interested in: academic papers about culture, art, and technology in the 22nd century demonstrations of projects proofs of concept performances, behaviours, happenings, disparate connections video and audio compositions, code repositories glitches, accidents, failed experiments indexing, exposing, mining, leaking, annotating, or any folksonomy multi-modal, mesh, distributed or multi-lingual computing creative technologies sentiments, recommendations, user stories, reviews, qualitative evidence perma-biology, hacktivism, dorkbot, live code brain interface, kinetic interactions, Trans-fu, multigender collective intelligence, consensus computing The conference continues the mode of end-of-semester project presentations of the ACTLab program created at UT Austin and continuing at the European Graduate School EGS in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Guidelines for submissions: Papers: submit an abstract, no longer than 250 words Performance, demonstration, or experiences: submit a short proof of concept video, no longer than 5 minutes Video and audio compositions and demos of projects: submit a short essay pitching your project, no longer than 250 words Electronic proposals preferred. Submission URL: http://stratus.ischool.utexas.edu/ocs/index.php/cat22/2012/schedConf/cfp Main guidelines for the ACTLab Conference: Make Stuff Take Risks Be Awesome Timeline January 15, 2012 - Submit proposals http://stratus.ischool.utexas.edu/ocs/index.php/cat22/2012/schedConf/cfp Feb 16, 2012 - Notification of acceptance April 13-14, 2012 - The Conference at the The ACTLab, Studio 4B, CMB Building, University of Texas at Austin Corner of Guadalupe and Dean Keeton Contact Person Joey GeekLife, San Antonio University [email protected] 512-999-9999 http://ACTlab.US We hope to see you at CAT22! _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
