[LEAuthors] LEA cfp: New Media Poetics and the Digital Prose

[nisar keshvani]

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** Worldwide Call for Submissions **

LEA Special Issue: New Media Poetics and the Digital Prose
Guest Editor: Tim Peterson (tscotpeterson at hotmail.com) 

The Leonardo Electronic Almanac (ISSN No: 1071-4391) is inviting papers and artworks that deal with New Media Poetics and the Digital Prose. This category includes multimedia digital works (image/text/sound) as examined through the lens of "writing," specifically any of those concerns central to avant-garde poetry rather than narrative or prose: reader as active participant in the "ergodic" sense, the use of chance or automatism inherited from movements such as Oulipo (highlighting the literalized metaphor which automatism becomes here), and the complex relations between the author, reader, and computer-as-writer/reader which evolve from that interaction. Any work that foregrounds the medium as such (for example, web poetry that incorporates code) is also welcome. We would particularly like to emphasize the "poetics" of new media writing as well, that is, the point where aesthetics intersects with politics to create dynamic attempts at social change. 

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. 

Proposals should include: 
-       300 word abstract / synopsis 
-       A brief author biography 
-       Any related URLs 
-       Contact details 

Deadline for proposals: 15 Aug 2004

Please send proposals or queries to: 
Tim Peterson 
newmedia at astn.net

and

Nisar Keshvani 
LEA Editor-in-Chief 
lea at mitpress.mit.edu 
http://lea.mit.edu

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