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Syndicate: <nettime> Second call ISEA98 proposals


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.