[Leonardo/ISAST Network] ISEA 2008: Call for Papers, Panels and Artist Presentations

[Leonardo/ISAST]

ISEA 2008: Call for Papers, Panels and Artist Presentations
From: Nisar Keshvani

We are pleased to announce that *The Leonardo Electronic* *Almanac is 
the media partner for the ISEA Conference 2008 in Singapore.*

*ISEA on Leonardo Electronic Almanac*: 
http://leoalmanac.org/resources/sprojects/ISEA08/

*ISEA website*: http://isea2008.org/

*Submission Link*: http://isea2008.org/openconf/openconf.php

*Call for Papers, Panels and Artist Presentations *
We cordially invite submissions to the conference of the International 
Symposium on Electronic Art 2008 that will be held in Singapore between 
25th & 30th July 2008. The conference is held alongside workshops, 
courses, exhibitions, performances and other in-conjunction events that 
will be held for the duration of ISEA2008 from 25th July to August 3rd 
2008.

The conference, as in previous ISEAs, is expected to bring together 
artists, theorists, historians, curators and researchers of media arts 
from around the world to jointly explore the most urgent and exciting 
questions in the field. The five themes of ISEA2008 are especially 
focused on eliciting a wide range of international scholars and artists.

*Conference Program*
The conference program will include competitively selected, 
peer-reviewed *individual papers* and *panel presentations*. This year 
we are also encouraging artists who wish to share their works with a 
broader audience of their peers to submit *artist presentations* where 
they can speak about the specific aesthetic, conceptual and 
technological aspects of their works. The conference also promises to 
present a list of internationally renowned *Keynote Speakers* expounding 
on the major themes of the conference. There will also be a special 
lecture delivered by a Nobel Laureate.

*Call for Proposals*
We welcome contributions from creative practitioners and researchers 
from a variety of disciplines and institutional contexts as media arts 
benefits from and exemplifies the interdisciplinary linkages between 
contemporary art, science, technology and their related philosophies, 
pedagogies and institutional practices. The submissions must address or 
be of relevance to at least one of the themes of ISEA2008 in order to be 
considered for inclusion in the conference. The conference will be of 
interest to those working in but not limited to the following areas: 
media art, contemporary art, design, art history and theory, film and 
media studies, gaming, toy design, human-computer interaction, cultural 
studies, literary studies, musicology, sound studies, theatre, dance and 
performance studies, science, technology and society studies, history of 
science and history of technology, philosophy, history, gender studies, 
political science, anthropology, sociology and geography. *

*Submissions **
A dedicated website and online paper submission system is available at: /

/http://isea2008.org/openconf/openconf.php

/Submission period:/ *15 July -- 14 November 2007. *

*Submission requirements:*
We only require abstracts (not more than 300 words) of the proposed 
paper, panel presentations and artist presentations to be submitted in 
either Text, RTF, Word or PDF formats via this site. Please do not 
submit full papers at this stage. While we encourage submissions to 
include relevant images, it would be useful if the formats in which such 
images are submitted is restricted to low resolution jpegs. In the case 
of submissions for artists' presentations, artists are encouraged to 
provide links to their relevant websites.

The *deadline* for submissions will be *14 November 2007*. Submissions 
sent after this date will not be considered.

*The Leonardo Electronic Almanac (MIT Press) is the media partner for 
the ISEA Conference 2008.*

Leonardo/ISAST is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. Donations are 
tax-deductible in the U.S. To learn more about Leonardo/ISAST's 
projects, programs and activities, visit http://leonardo.info


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