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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span><strong><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;">The Leonardo
Education
Forum (LEF) </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">invites
proposals for an event-style exhibition of wearable technology
art, to be held at the College Art Association 2008 Annual Meeting in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Dallas</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">Texas</st1:State></st1:place>,
sponsored by the Leonardo Education Forum.<span style="">
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span>
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<i style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;">Social Fabrics </span></i><span
style="font-family: Arial;">will explore artists'
creative deployments of mobile, socially interconnective media as
wearable
attire or personal accoutrements. </span><i style=""><span
style="font-family: Arial;"><span style=""> </span></span></i><span
style="font-family: Arial;">This event-style exhibition, curated by
Patrick Lichty and
Susan Ryan, will demonstrate convergences between fashion as
expression/statement, and the phenomenology of "network
culture."<span style=""> </span>Works presented will
include technological attire and accessories, as well as works that
engage the
implications of our contemporary media and fashion driven lifestyles.</span><span
style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Submitted works should be functional
(not concept projects)
and able to be withstand some level of demonstration by the time of the
show.<span style=""> </span>Designers or their representatives
are expected to appear in person to present their work.<span style="">
</span>The exhibition will be accompanied by a
catalog listing the work and presenting a designer's statement.<o:p></o:p></span>
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<u><span style="font-family: Arial;">Please submit</span></u><span
style="font-family: Arial;">:<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">-Title of work<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">-Names and email addresses of all
designers<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">-Brief description of work including:</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) How it interacts with
others and/or creates or comments on the digitally enhanced social
sphere; <o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) What technologies are utilized;
and<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) How it can be displayed at
a modified runway style presentation; and <o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">(4)<span style=""> </span>Whether
or not the artist or an agent (named)
can commit to participating in the event in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Dallas</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">Texas</st1:State></st1:place>,
on February 22.<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">-Photos/sketches/video of project and
its presentation (if
available) <o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">-Indicate whether or not you would be
willing to have
visuals from your project appear on the exhibition website<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Please email your submission as a
single PDF (photos
embedded) to: <o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:info@socialfabrics.org">info@socialfabrics.org</a><o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Video can be sent separately or it
can be viewed by us on a
website, send URL.<o:p></o:p></span>
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<b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;">Submission Deadline:</span></b><span
style="font-family: Arial;"> October 15
midnight CST: The submissions will be committee reviewed and you will
receive a
notification on or before November 25, 2007. <o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The exhibition/event will take place
on February 22, 2008 at the CAA 2008 Annual Meeting in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Dallas</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">Texas</st1:State></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;">The
Leonardo Education
Forum (LEF)</span></strong><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;">
</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">promotes the advancement
of
artistic research and academic scholarship at the intersections of art,
science, and technology. Serving practitioners, scholars, and
students who are members of the Leonardo community, LEF provides a
forum for
collaboration and exchange with other scholarly communities, including
the College Art Association of America (CAA), of which it is an
affiliate
society.<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">More about </span><strong><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;">Leonardo Education
Forum</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.leonardo.info/isast/lef.html">http://www.leonardo.info/isast/lef.html</a><o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">More about Social Fabrics: </span><span
style="font-family: Arial;"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.socialfabrics.org">http://www.socialfabrics.org</a><o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p>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 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://leonardo.info">http://leonardo.info</a><br>
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