Syndicate: 2nd Call for Papers / Convergence

[inke@is.in-berlin.de (Inke Arns)]

Dear Syndicalists, dear deep_europeans,

as the list has grown considerably over the last few months, I am sending 
this call for papers again (hello to all the new subscribers!). Already last 
year the editors of Convergence invited me to guest-edit the summer 1998 
issue of this journal. I posted this call for papers for the first time in 
March 1997 on the Syndicate list and received several proposals via the list 
(I'll get back to those who contacted me very soon). Still, I would like to 
invite you - again - to contribute to this issue of Convergence.

Couldn't we turn it into a *secret* part of the planned Syndicate 
Publication Series...?  ;-)

For those who are interested: I wrote a longer proposal for the Convergence 
editors which can be found at  http://berlin.icf.de/~inke/

Greetings from Berlin,

Inke Arns

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Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies

* * * CALL FOR PAPERS * * *

on New Media Technologies in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe

Submission deadline for this issue is *30 October 1997*

For Volume 4, No. 2 of the Journal (Summer 1998) we are seeking papers 
relating to research projects or case studies on media art, specific 
electronic arts discourse(s), and the cultural, social and political 
implications of new media technologies in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern 
Europe.  
Papers would be welcome that deal with current developments in electronic 
arts and the specific aesthetic strategies in the post-socialist Eastern 
European countries; that provide an insight into Eastern European approaches 
to using new technologies and attitudes towards the effects of new media; 
that deal critically with the notion of technology as a 'unifying' or 
'normative' factor; that question the viability of notions such as East and 
West, analysing local developments within a broader global context; or that 
provide critical analysis of institutions and non-institutional networks and 
structures promoting and supporting new media technologies in Eastern 
Europe.  This issue will be guest-edited by Inke Arns, media art curator, 
Berlin, Germany.

All inquiries about, proposals for articles or completed papers for the 
Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe issue should be sent to: Inke 
Arns, Pestalozzistr. 5, 10625 Berlin, Germany, tel/fax +49 (0)30 313 66 78, 
e-mail inke@is.in-berlin.de, http://berlin.icf.de/~inke

All other editorial inquiries, general proposals and submissions to: Julia 
Knight or Alexis Weedon, Editors, Convergence, School of Media Arts, 
University of Luton, 75 Castle Street, Luton, LU1 3AJ, United Kingdom.  Tel: 
+44 1582 34111, fax: + 44 1582 489014, email: Convergence@luton.ac.uk

Convergence is a refereed academic journal which addresses the creative, 
social, political and pedagogical issues raised by the advent of new media 
technologies.  As a research journal it provides a forum  both for 
monitoring and exploring developments and for publishing vital research.  
Published quarterly in paper form and adopting an inter-disciplinary 
approach Convergence will develop this area into an entirely new research 
field.  The principal aims of Convergence are:

-- to develop critical frameworks and methodologies which enable the 
reception, consumption and impact of new technologies to be evaluated in  
their domestic, public and educational contexts
-- to contextualise the study of those new technologies within existing 
debates in media studies, and to address the specific implications of the 
increasing convergence of media forms
-- to monitor the conditions of emergence of new media technologies, their 
subsequent mass production and the development of new cultural forms
-- to promote discussion and analysis of the creative and educational 
potentials of those technologies, and to contextualise those cultural 
practices within wider cultural and political debates.

The Editorial Board. Australia: Rebecca Coyle (Macquarie University), Ross 
Harley (University of New South Wales), Philip Hayward (Macquarie 
University), Canada: Micheline Frenette (Universite de Montreal), Will Straw 
(McGill University). Europe: Roy Ascott (CAIIA, Gwent College of Higher 
Education), Colin Beardon (University of Brighton), Luke Hockley (University 
of Luton), Sadie Plant (University of Warwick), Jeremy Welsh (Trondheim 
Academy of Fine Art, Norwegian University of Science and Technology). Hong 
Kong: Heidi Gilpin (University of Hong Kong).  Japan: Machiko Kusahara 
(Tokyo Institue of Polytechnics). USA: Jay David Bolter (Georgia Institute 
of Technology), Joseph Foley (Independent Consultant), Steve Jones 
(University of Tulsa) George Landow (Brown University), Margaret Morse 
(University of California Santa Cruz). Our aims are supported by: Will Bell 
(The Arts Council of England), Mike Crump (Centre for the Book, British 
Library), David Hancock (Eurimages) Sara Diamond, (Banff Centre for the Arts).

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Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies

Convergence is a paper journal. For further information and details of back 
issues see our web site at http://www.luton.ac.uk/Convergence

Edited by Julia Knight and Alexis Weedon
Department of Media Arts, 
University of Luton, 
75 Castle Street, 
Luton. LU1 3AJ. 
Editorial e-mail: Convergence@luton.ac.uk
Tel: +44 1582 489013/489144. Fax: +44 1582 489014. 

Subscriptions and samples from John Libbey Media at the above address. 
E-mail: ulp@luton.ac.uk Tel:+44 1582 743297. Fax: +44 1582 743298.

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