<nettime-ann> CFP: "Art in the Age of Technological Seduction" Fall issue of NMC media-N journal

[Legier Biederman <bieder@humnet.ucla.edu>]

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MEDIA-N CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Deadline July 30, 2006

"Art in the Age of Technological Seduction"
Fall '06 issue of NMC Media-N: Journal of the New Media Caucus
Guest editors: Legier Biederman & Joshua Callaghan
http://www.newmediacaucus.org/media-n/call.htm

The fall 2006 issue of Media-N, “Art in the Age of Technological  
Seduction,” is a collaborative platform, a diverse questioning, re- 
considering and re-imaging of what, when and how new media arts  
practice is viewed by artists, practitioners, theorists, critics and  
historians working in the field today. We seek a broad range of  
contributions discussing the scope, values, and definitions of  
diverse new media arts practices and hope that this issue of Media-N  
will be a departure as much as much as an arrival. Four general  
questions have been posed by the members of the new media caucus as  
points of entry for an engaging, vibrant discussion. The issue will  
be divided into two sections: The first section invites brief  
personal accounts and anecdotal responses addressing and/or expanding  
one of the four questions, and we encourage everyone to respond to  
this section, as we’d like to include as many responses as  
possible.   The second section invites papers that address these  
questions in a more lengthy and detailed form.

Four Questions:
1. Defining and Re-imagining: What are new media arts? Is it  
necessary that we define new media arts? How do we begin to discuss  
or teach new media arts?  What sets new media arts apart from other  
disciplines or practices, or what connects them? What's (still) new  
about new media or what was, if anything ever was?  What defines your  
work as new media art and why?  How do you explain new media arts to  
your students and colleagues?  What did or currently does attract you  
to new media arts practices?

2. Discourses on New Media Arts: What do the discourses do to the  
practice? How might one describe or define the discourse/s on new  
media arts? How does new media arts discourse relate to new media  
practices? In other words, what does the discourse/s do or attempt to  
do to new media arts? Are theory and practice being brought together  
in new media arts discourse, and if not, how might we begin to do so?  
What do you find interesting or problematic about new media arts  
discourses? Do you think there is a disjuncture between new media  
arts practice and the discourses on it? As a new media artist, do new  
media arts discourses affect your practice?

3. Authorship, Relationships & Relationality: Does your work maintain  
a traditional relationship between the artist/author/producer and the  
spectator/viewer?  If not, how does it transgress these boundaries?   
Do you feel it necessary to challenge these boundaries? Do you  
consider relationality, the non-hierarchical intertwining of data,  
artwork, artists, and viewers etc., an important aspect of your work?  
In what context/s is your work shown and how does effect it.  How do  
recombinatory practices commonly found in new media such as sampling,  
appropriation, and mash-ups, challenge traditional author/viewer  
conventions? While autonomy and relationality have long lineages in  
art history, how do they function within new media arts practices and  
discourses?

4. E-litism: Technospheres and the Everyday: How do notions of  
location, language, identity, and cultural understandings of  
communication inform or effect new media practices? Who is left out  
of, disproportionately under-represented, in the world of new media  
art practices? Is, as some have argued, the openness often associated  
with information technologies and new media practices, paradoxically,  
replacing the national politics of a past with the global  
connectivity of cosmopolitan tourism?  How does your particular  
specificity (sexual, gender, ethnic, racial, class) affect your  
practice, your work or its reception?

Event reviews: The editorial board also invites proposals for reviews  
of exhibitions/events/ festivals/conferences, etc.

For more information: http://www.newmediacaucus.org/media-n/call.htm
[] Send manuscripts via email to: Legier Biederman  
(lbiederm@ucla.edu) by July 30, 2006
[] For format information see the  'Submission Guidelines' link
[] For Media-N author's agreement see 'Copyright Statement' link
[] [] Questions: contact guest editors Legier Biederman  
(lbiederm@ucla.edu) and Joshua Callaghan  
(joshua@joshuacallaghan.com)  THANK YOU!!

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