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<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">** Sincere apologies for
cross-posting **<br>
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Please feel free to spread the word widely:</font><br>
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<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">LEA Special Issue:
RE:SEARCHING OUR ORIGINS: Critical and Archival Histories of the
Electronic Arts<br>
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Guest Editors: Paul Brown <Paul@paul-brown.com> and</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">Catherine Mason
<cs.mason@hart.bbk.ac.uk><br>
<br>
The Leonardo Electronic Almanac (ISSN No: 1071-4391) is inviting
papers</font><br>
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<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">The mid to late 20th Century
has become a popular topic for humanities research in recent years.
Many projects are attempting to re-discover and re-contextualise the
somewhat neglected field of history of art and technology.
International histories of electronic and digital arts are now
beginning to be written and voice given to the pioneers of these
artforms. Additionally, with contemporary 'new media' artforms such as
video and net art enjoying high prominence at present, much discussion
is taking place about the foundations of current practice and about
reception of electronic arts in cultural institutions, including
curatorial practice as well as archiving and conservation
issues.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000"><br>
This special issue of LEA seeks to report on international projects
and initiatives working to recover, document or construct critical and
historical contexts for the electronic arts.</font><br>
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<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">Topics of interest might
include (but are not limited to):</font><br>
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<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">- Origins of electronic and
digital arts</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">- Key transition points, for
example - from analogue to digital</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">- Art and technology
collaborations</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">- Educational/access
initiatives</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">- Critical
analyses</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">- Cultural
analyses</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">- Acquisition and conservation
issues</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">- EtcŠ<br>
<br>
For the LEA February 2005 issue, we invite contributions from artists,
practitioners, curators, theorists and historians that engage with
histories of the electronic/digital arts and art/science/technology
collaborations. These can include:</font><br>
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<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">- full papers</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">- works in
progress</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">- artists'
statements</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">- museum and gallery
initiatives</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">- etcŠ</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000"><br>
Under three levels of submission:</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">- Fully refereed
papers</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">- Shorter work that may be
sent to peer review and</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">- Personal reminiscences and
experiences that may be editorially selected and not peer
reviewed.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000"><br>
The guest editors are members of CACHe: Computer Arts, Contexts,
Histories, etcŠ a major research and archiving project based in the
School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media at Birkbeck,
University of London and funded by the UK Government's Arts and
Humanities Research Board. CACHe is documenting and
contextualising the early days of computer arts in the UK from its
origins in the 1960s to 1980, when the first "User Friendly"
systems began to appear.
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hafvm/cache/</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000"><br>
LEA encourages international artists / academics / researchers /
students to submit their proposals for consideration. We particularly
encourage authors outside North America and Europe to send proposals
for articles/gallery/artists statements.<br>
<br>
Proposals should include:</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">- 200 - 300 word abstract /
synopsis<br>
- A brief author biography<br>
- Any related URLs</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">- Contact details<br>
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Timeline<br>
<br>
1 May 2004 - submission of abstracts<br>
31 May 2004 - short-listed candidates informed</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">31 Sept 2004 - Contributors to
submit full papers for peer review</font><br>
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<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">Deadline for abstracts: 1 May
2004<br>
<br>
Please send proposals or queries to:<br>
Paul Brown <Paul@paul-brown.com> or<br>
Catherine Mason <cs.mason@hart.bbk.ac.uk><br>
<br>
and<br>
Nisar Keshvani<br>
LEA Editor-in-Chief<br>
lea@mitpress.mit.edu<br>
http://lea.mit.edu<br>
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<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">The Leonardo Educators
Initiative<br>
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The Leonardo Abstracts Service (LABS) is a listing of Masters and
Ph.D. theses in the art/science/technology field, for the benefit of
scholars and practitioners. LEA also maintains a discussion list open
only to faculty in the field. Students interested in contributing and
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What is LEA?</font></div>
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Established in 1993, the Leonardo Electronic Almanac (ISSN No:
1071-4391) is jointly produced by Leonardo, the International Society
for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (ISAST) and published under the
auspices of MIT Press. LEA is an electronic journal dedicated to
providing a forum for those who are interested in the realm where art,
science and technology converge.<br>
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Content</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">For over a decade, Leonardo
Electronic Almanac (LEA) has thrived as an international peer-reviewed
electronic journal and web archive, covering the interaction of the
arts, sciences and technology. LEA emphasizes rapid publication of
recent work and critical discussion on topics of current excitement.
Many contributors are younger scholars and artists, and there is a
slant towards shorter, less academic texts.<br>
<br>
Contents include Leonardo Reviews, edited by Michael Punt, Leonardo
Research Abstracts of recent Ph.D. and Masters theses, curated
Galleries of current new media artwork, and special issues on topics
ranging from Artists and Scientists in times of War, to Zero Gravity
Art, to the History of New Media.<br>
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Mission</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">LEA's mission is to maintain
and consolidate its position as a leading online news and trusted
information filter while critically examining arts/science &
technological works catering to the international CAST (Community of
Artists, Scientist and Technologists)</font></div>
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