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J.BRADY@livjm.ac.uk writes: ISEA98 Revolution - Liverpool 02, 03 & 04 September 1998 Liverpool Art School, John Moores University, 68 Hope Street, Liverpool L1 9EB, UK. Tel: +44 (0)151 231 3110 / 709 3420 Fax: +44 (0)151 231 5096 Nine ISEA98 Symposium Panels curated and convened by Liverpool Art School: Deadline for receipt of full proposal 15th March 1998. TITLE: EVOLUTION 2.0 Colin Fallows (Reader in Audio and Visual Arts at Liverpool John Moores University); Pete Fulwell (Managing Director Merseyside Online Ltd.) and Michelle Wardle (Programme Leader Multi-media Design and Production at Liverpool John Moores University) are developing a conference panel that seeks to examine and contextualize work with generative systems. A Liverpool Art School research award has enabled the development and projected publication of the CD ROM entitled EVOLUTION 2.0, an audio-visual anthology including history, current practice and debate concerning Generative Arts. Papers, presentations and demonstrations are invited from artists, programme creators, academics and broadcasters concerned with generative systems. Contact: Colin Fallows, providing a summary of your proposal and where appropriate audio/visual examples, at: c.fallows@livjm.ac.uk or c/o Liverpool Art School (address as above). Please quote Panel title. TITLE: ST. PETERSBURG 3.0 Colin Fallows (Reader in Audio and Visual Arts at Liverpool John Moores University) and Alexander Kahn (St. Petersburg writer, broadcaster and Producer of the Russian Service, BBC World Service) are curating a symposium Panel that seeks to examine and contextualize the work of a group of radical St. Petersburg based artists, musicians and writers currently working with electronic media. Papers, presentations, declamations, ideas and critical responses are being invited from the St. Petersburg based artists, musicians and writers described as "... the first manifestation out of the New Russia that actually impresses me ... so weird looking, and it arises from such unique cultural and economic circumstances ... This might become the first digital art movement that really matters." (Sterling, Bruce (1998) 'Art and Corruption', WIRED 6.01, January). This programme builds on links with St. Petersburg's artistic cutting edge established more than a decade ago when Liverpool based ARK published the LP Insect Culture by Popular Mechanics (ARK Records, 1987) the large scale multi-media event Perestroika in the Avant Garde (involving Pop Mekhanika and the New Artists, Liverpool, 1989) and the first Russian techno 12 inch Sputnik of Life by the New Composers (ARK Records, 1990). Contact: Colin Fallows,at: c.fallows@livjm.ac.uk or c/o Liverpool Art School (address as above). Please quote Panel title. TITLE: SONIC BOOM Colin Fallows (Reader in Audio and Visual Arts at Liverpool John Moores University) is compiling a programme of presentations and demonstrations that investigates and celebrates the work of artists and inventors from across the twentieth century who have created, recorded and performed with electronic musical instruments - from the revolutionary to the eccentric. A Liverpool Art School research award has enabled the appointment of a Visiting Fellow in Sound, the UK based sound artist Robin Rimbaud (aka Scanner) who will make a presentation in Liverpool during ISEA98. Papers, presentations and demonstrations are invited from artists, inventors, academics and broadcasters concerned with experimental electronic musical instruments - design, manufacture and performance. Contact: Colin Fallows, providing a summary of your proposal and where appropriate audio and/or visual examples, at: c.fallows@livjm.ac.uk or c/o Liverpool Art School (address as above). Please quote Panel title. TITLE: VISUAL LANGUAGES David Crow (Head of Graphic Arts at Liverpool John Moores University) is currently involved in research projects based around the exploration of visual language in a typographic framework. His research partner is Yaki Molcho (C0-Director, Tel Aviv Centre for Design Studies). Earlier this year, a Liverpool Art School research award enabled David to initiate a programme of work on a dual alphabet font which will be realised through a publication entitled 'Dialogue'. As part of the ISEA98 Symposium programme, the research team will present the work alongside discussion of the issues raised. This will follow an introductory session on the transitions in visual language by Neville Brody's Research Studio (publishers of Fuse and Laboratory CD Roms). If, as artist, designer, academic or theorist, you wish to contribute to these developments and their interpretation at ISEA98 please provide a summary of your proposed presentation and where appropriate some visual examples. Contact: isea98@livjm.ac.uk or c/o Liverpool Art School (address as above). Please quote Panel title. TITLE: MEDIATED NATIONS Using MED TV as an exemplar, John Byrne (Senior Lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University) will develop an ISEA98 Panel looking at the historical and contemporary uses of communications technologies which have sought to disrupt, subvert and/or 'revolutionise' dominant and received notions of cultural identity. As a member of MED TV's Protection Council John's team includes Hasan Sahan (University of Liverpool), Joe Cooper (MED TV) and Hikmet Tabak (MED TV Director). MED TV is an independent satellite broadcasting company, based in Brussels, which seeks to represent the full cultural, political and religious diversity of a global Kurdastanese Diaspora. As the Kurds themselves have no politically recognised 'country', MED TV has increasingly provided a 'virtual' identity for a historically, politically and geographically dispossessed community. As such, papers, presentations, demonstrations etc. are invited which will provide similar examples of how broadcasting technologies (whether Radio, TV, Video, Digital etc.) have been used in the production, distribution and exchange of diverse racial, political, sexual and cultural identities. Contact: j.byrne@livjm.ac.uk or c/o Liverpool Art School (address as above). Please quote Panel title. TITLE: VIRTUAL INTERVENTIONS: DIGITAL AVANT-GARDES John Byrne (Senior Lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University) and Julia Knight (Senior Lecturer at the University of Luton and editor of Diverse Practices - A Critical Reader on British Video Art , 1996, University of Luton Press/Arts Council of England) are developing a strand for ISEA98 to critically and theoretically contextualize the use of electronic media in the production of radical and oppositional art practices which have sought to disrupt dominant notions of artistic production, distribution and exchange. Initially, it is envisaged that this strand be developed in relation to three key issues: (1) How have uses of analogic and digital reproductive technologies been deployed to disrupt dominant notions of art, artistic production, aesthetic experience and audience reception. (2) What have been the critical, political, racial, sexual and cultural impact of these media in the development of radical, oppositional and or revolutionary art practices? (3) How are contemporary uses of electronic and digital reproduction addressing, developing these themes and issues through radical and oppositional art practice. Papers, presentations, demonstrations, ideas and critical responses are invited from historians, critics, philosophers, artists, curators etc. who wish the engage and contribute to the development of this debate. Contact: j.byrne@livjm.ac.uk or c/o Liverpool Art School (address as above). Please quote Panel title. TITLE: DIGITAL AESTHETICS Michelle Wardle (Programme Leader, MA Multi-media Design & Production at Liverpool John Moores University) is currently investigating 'Fine Art Practice in Digital Media'. Michelle and Dr. Nancy Flint (Designer for the University's Learning Methods Unit) together with two PhD Research Students at JMU: Kevin Furlong ('Sound in Virtual Space') and Rob Rowlands ('Artists as Programmers'), lead the Electronic Arts Research Group. This Group of artists and researchers investigate the use of digital technology within art practice. Current research projects include: Emergence CD Rom on the Post - industrial/Post-photographic Evolution 2.0 CD Rom on Generative Arts We are interested to hear from artists and writers who may wish to collaborate on the development of a Symposium Panel concerned with 'Digital Aesthetics' for ISEA 98. Papers, presentations and demonstrations in relation to digital imaging, interactive film, sensory environments, sound in virtual space, generative programming, interactive multimedia, theories of visual perception are welcome. Contact: EAR@livjm.ac.uk or c/o Liverpool Art School (address as above). Please quote Panel title. TITLE: VARIANT ARCHITECTURE(S) WITHIN CYBER-CELIBACY Lulu Jones is conducting post-doctorate research into Cyber Convent Populations at Liverpool John Moores University. She is leading a small team, including George Buba (Reader in Video at the University of Oterspol), in the critical re-assessment of convent perimeter structures and the wall-flower metaphor matrix. Earlier this year, a Liverpool Art School research award enabled Jones to create artist-in-residence bursaries at the Alpha 9C and Mattas cyber convents. The artists, Sindy Bootikins (USA) and Bob Van Gupta (Borneo), created a range of neo-anchorite extensions at both sites. As part of the ISEA98 Programme, Bootikins and Van Gupta (in a live gallery performance) will select the seven virgins to be manacled into the convent walls for Virtual Eternity. Jones and the artists will moderate an ISEA98 Symposium discussion exploring relations between the w.w.w., Inquisition and the ritual phenomena of voluntary incarceration. If, as artist, academic, theorist or supplicant, you wish to contribute to these developments and their interpretation at ISEA98 please forward a summary of your proposed activities and any relevant supporting materials. Contact: isea98@livjm.ac.uk or c/o Liverpool Art School (address as above). Please quote Panel title. TITLE: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MULTIMEDIA PROFESSIONAL Professor Peter Fowler directs the Learning Methods Unit (LMU) at Liverpool John Moores University. New Technologies offer a range of challenges and opportunities for mediated and distance learning programmes. The LMU has developed and produced multimedia materials for delivery on laser-disc (1991/3), CD Rom (from 1994) and the Internet (from 1995). In doing so LMU has been both innovative and lateral in nurturing the design, communications and domain expertise prerequisite to these developments. For ISEA98 Peter will be joined by Dr.Nancy Flint and Roy Stringer, Creative Director of Amaze Ltd.(1998 Macromedia Award for Best On-line Development), to develop dialogues concerning: (A) The Multimedia Product (B) Future Scenarios (C) The Multimedia Moment: Addressing the Skills Shortage If, as designer, educator or product-developer, you wish to contribute to these developments and their interpretation at ISEA98 please provide a summary of your proposed presentation and where appropriate some visual examples. Contact: p.fowler@livjm.ac.uk or c/o Liverpool Art School (address as above). Please quote Panel title.