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> > CALL FOR PAPERS
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> > PixelRaiders 2
> > 6 - 8 April 2004
> > Venue: Sheffield Hallam University, UK
> > www.pixelraiders.org
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> > Applied, visual, performance artists and designers are using
> > digital technologies for new processes, virtual materials,
> > exhibition, performance and creative strategies. A culture of
> > cross-disciplinary material and digital process is evolving
> > through a range of departments in creative education. This
> > challenges commentary and understanding about hybrid
> > practices that integrate physical, virtual and screen based
> > making.
> >
> > PixelRaiders 2 explores the issues, discourse and reflective
> > practice at the heart of digital making. This international
> > refereed conference follows up the highly successful one
> > day Pixel Raiders symposium held in March 2002 at London's
> > Victoria and Albert Museum. The conference seeks to
> > promote new discourses and perspectives around some
> > critical questions, including:
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> > - How does the artist and the commentator communicate
> > hybrid practices?
> > - In what ways do new technologies enhance the collaborative
> > nature of practice, presentation and performance?
> > - How does the digital workspace impact on practice?
> > - Should technology and technique become invisible?
> >
> > PixelRaiders 2 is a conference to explore how digital practices
> > are being integrated into and are evolving from making processes.
> > We welcome contributions from a practical, theoretical,
> > educational, historical, technological, curatorial perspective.
> > The core theme of the conference is the integration of digital
> > practices within the applied, visual, performance arts, design,
> > and media production. Key elements being material, process,
> > digital integration and transition. We are particularly keen that
> > practitioners and research students in these fields participate
> > in the conference.
> >
> > Refereed Journal:
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> > As well as a publication that will be produced for the conference,
> > a special edition of The Design Journal will be produced
> > subsequent to the event and will include selected papers
> > submitted to the PixelRaider2 conference 2004.
> >
> > Topics:
> >
> > We aim to encourage as many different perspectives and
> > research interests as we can around this central theme.
> > However, the following topics are of primary significance:
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> > - Analysis of the changing role of the maker and her/his
> > creative identity.
> > - The nature and concerns of the discourse that surrounds
> > such practices
> > - The impact of the digital workspace on the experience
> > and nature of making
> > - The social dimensions of digital creativity in the arts / or
> > the social dimensions of digital creativity
> > - Evolving interfaces between disciplines such as applied,
> > visual, performance art, design and media production
> > - Educational implications of digital making
> > - The value and sustainability of material skills education
> > - The cultural role and significance of the handmade object
> > in the digital age
> >
> > International Conference Committee and Board of Referees:
> >
> > Simon Biggs - Sheffield Hallam University, UK
> > Sarah Braddock - Falmouth College of Art, UK
> > Stephen Boyd Davies - Middlesex University, UK
> > Katie Bunnell - Falmouth College of Art, UK
> > Augustus Casely Hayford - British Museum, UK
> > Lina Dzuverovic-Russell - Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK.
> > Charlie Gere - Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
> > Carol Gray - Grays School of Art, Aberdeen, UK
> > Jane Harris - Central Saint Martins, UK
> > Tanya Harrod - Royal College of Art, UK
> > Janis Jefferies - Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
> > Mirja Kalviainen - Kuopio Academy of Design, Finland
> > Malcolm McCullough - Taubman College of Architecture and Planning
> > and School of Art and Design, University of Michigan, USA
> > Franziska Nori - Digital Craft Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
> > Mike Press - Sheffield Hallam University, UK
> > Jane Prophet - University of Westminster, London, UK
> > Casey Reas - Ivrea, Italy and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
> > Paul Sermon - Salford University, UK
> > Marjan Unger - The Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
> > Pauline Van Mourik Broekman - Mute Magazine, UK
> >
> > Presentation categories:
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> > Submissions may be made for either oral presentation of a full
> > paper or a poster presentation.
> >
> > Schedule:
> >
> > Deadline for abstracts: 10th September 2003
> > Submission to [log in to unmask]
> > Use the abstract form available from www.pixelraiders.org
> > Notification of accepted abstracts: 1st October 2003
> > Deadline for full papers: 21st November 2003
> > Notification of accepted papers: 16th January 2004
> > Deadline for revised papers: 20th February 2004
> >
> > Conference convenors:
> >
> > The joint convenors of the conference are:
> > Jane Harris, Central St Martins College of Art and Design:
> > Mike Press, Sheffield Hallam University
> >
> > Contact:
> >
> > Conference website:
> > www.pixelraiders.org
> > This will provide full details on the conference as it develops.
> > Email: [log in to unmask]
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