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> perthDAC 2007 - The Future of Digital Media Culture
> 7th International Digital Arts and Culture Conference
> 15 -18th September 2007, Perth, Australia.
> http://www.beap.org/dac
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> KEYWORDS - computer games, hypertext theory and literature, new media
> narrative, streaming media, interactive and networked performance, 
> digital
> aesthetics, interactive cinema, theory, art, bio-art, nano-art, 
> augmented
> reality, cyberculture, electronic fiction, electronic music, 
> electronic art,
> games culture, games system design, games theory, interactive 
> architecture,
> cinema and video, MOOs, MUDs, RPG, virtual reality, virtual worlds.
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>
> ABOUT perthDAC
> perthDAC is the seventh iteration of Digital Arts and Culture. DAC was 
> the
> first conference to attract and present the work of researchers,
> practitioners and artists working across the field of digital arts,
> cultures, aesthetics and design.
>
> In September 2007, DAC will be hosted as the key international 
> conference in
> the public program of the Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth (BEAP)  in
> Perth, Australia. BEAP celebrates and critiques new and novel 
> technologies
> (digital, bio, nano, other) by showcasing artworks made with, or that 
> are
> about, new technologies. perthDAC's conference program will be closely
> inter-woven with BEAP's exhibitions.
>
> perthDAC's academic programme is being developed with the close 
> co-operation
> and support of the fibreculture forum, who will also be active on the
> perthDAC conference steering committee.
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS
> Papers are sought for PerthDAC 2007 that will illuminate both the near 
> and
> long term Future of Digital Media Culture. Papers which present 
> research
> outcomes, track trends or developments, describe case studies or works 
> in
> progress, are speculative projection, challenge existing paradigms or 
> record
> a history, are all welcome. Submissions are encouraged from any
> professional, craft or scholarly field that relates to communications
> art/design, cultural expression, practice and aesthetics, and the 
> technical
> means by which they are enabled.
>
> perthDAC 2007 accepts submissions from fields such as the humanities, 
> social
> sciences, human-computer interaction and computer science studies, as 
> well
> as those working both practically and theoretically in specific areas 
> such
> as: digital/interactive art, digital/electronic literature, game 
> studies,
> online communities, new media studies, affective computing, experience
> design, virtual environment design, etc.
>
> Topics of interests may include, but are not limited to, computer 
> games,
> hypertext theory and literature, new media narrative, streaming media,
> interactive and networked performance, digital aesthetics, interactive
> cinema, theory, art, bio-art, nano-art, augmented reality, 
> cyberculture,
> electronic fiction, electronic music, electronic art, games culture, 
> games
> system design, games theory, interactive architecture, cinema and 
> video,
> MOOs, MUDs, RPG, virtual reality, virtual worlds.
>
>
> Artists, early career scholars and PhD students are particularly 
> encouraged
> to submit.
> All abstracts and then full papers will be double blind peer reviewed 
> by an
> international panel, and will be published in the proceedings. Some 
> papers
> will be published as a special themed journal edition.
>
> Dates for the submission of 500 word abstracts and then full papers 
> are:
> Abstracts: 14th August 2006
>
> Full papers: 4th December 2006
>
> See the perthDAC website “method” page for more details on the 
> abstracts,
> papers and presentations process.
>
> perthDAC website http://www.beap.org/dac
>
>
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Beryl Graham, Professor of New Media Art
School of Arts, Design, Media and Culture, University of Sunderland
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