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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="gmailquote">ISEA 2008: Call for
Papers, Panels
and Artist Presentations</span><br>
<span class="gmailquote">From: Nisar Keshvani</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="gmailquote">We are pleased to
announce that </span><strong>The
Leonardo Electronic</strong> <strong>Almanac is the media partner for
the ISEA
Conference 2008 in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Singapore</st1:country-region></st1:place>.</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">ISEA on Leonardo
Electronic Almanac</b>:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://leoalmanac.org/resources/sprojects/ISEA08/">http://leoalmanac.org/resources/sprojects/ISEA08/</a> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">ISEA website</b>:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://isea2008.org/">http://isea2008.org/</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">Submission Link</b>:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://isea2008.org/openconf/openconf.php">http://isea2008.org/openconf/openconf.php</a><br>
<br>
<strong>Call for Papers, Panels and Artist Presentations </strong><br>
We cordially invite submissions to the conference of the International
Symposium on Electronic Art 2008 that will be held in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Singapore</st1:country-region></st1:place>
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. <br>
<br>
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. </p>
<p><strong>Conference Program</strong><br>
The conference program will include competitively selected,
peer-reviewed <strong>individual
papers</strong> and <strong>panel presentations</strong>. This year we
are also
encouraging artists who wish to share their works with a broader
audience of
their peers to submit <strong>artist presentations</strong> 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 <strong>Keynote Speakers</strong> expounding on the major
themes of
the conference. There will also be a special lecture delivered by a
Nobel
Laureate. </p>
<p><strong>Call for Proposals</strong> <br>
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. <b><br>
<br>
<strong>Submissions </strong></b><br>
A dedicated website and online paper submission system is available at:
<a href="http://isea2008.org/openconf/openconf.php" target="_blank"><i><span
style="color: windowtext;"><br>
<br>
</span></i><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">http://isea2008.org/openconf/openconf.php</span></a></p>
<p><em>Submission period:</em> <strong>15 July – 14 November 2007. </strong></p>
<p><strong>Submission requirements:</strong> <br>
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. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The <strong>deadline</strong> for submissions
will be <strong>14
November 2007</strong>. Submissions sent after this date will not be
considered. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>The Leonardo Electronic Almanac (MIT
Press) is the
media partner for the ISEA Conference 2008.</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><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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