CALL FOR ARTICLES Istanbul, November-20-09

SUBJECT mish mash

In December 2009 LEA ­ Leonardo Electronic Almanac, a member of the
Leonardo/ISAST/MIT Press family ­ will re-launch.  Its new format will
combine the features of a high-production-value art magazine with the
scholarly rigor of an academic journal. Lanfranco Aceti, Editor in Chief,
and Paul Brown, Co-editor, intend to produce a well illustrated, attractive
and readable magazine that will simultaneously be available online as a
hyperlinked screen-resolution PDF document, a high-resolution
print-on-demand magazine and in a downloadable version for book readers on
electronic devices like the Amazon Kindle.  The publications will be
integrated into a regularly updated web portal that will provide additional
and supporting services like announcements, opportunities, interactive
content-oriented blogs and Wikis.  This LEA online environment is intended
to be a hierarchical content generator with the quarterly publication
representing a punctuated pinnacle of this multidimensional, user-driven,
discipline-oriented social network.

LEA will focus on the convergence of arts, science and technology and
combine special issue front-end features with ongoing thematic background
content.  It will combine invited and commissioned essays with peer-reviewed
scholarly papers.

The target audience for the publication encompasses a broad spectrum ranging
from professionals active in the field to laypeople with a general interest
in the contemporary arts.  We believe the time is right for an arts,
sciences and technology publication pitched centrally within the arts
mainstream.

The theme of the first issue of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac magazine is
mish mash.

The first issue will be a collection of articles, reviews and opinion pieces
that discuss and analyze the complexity of mixing things together as a
process that is not necessarily undertaken in an orderly and organized
manner. In this issue there will be contributions from Frieder Nake, Stelarc
and other important cultural operators.

Although the magazine is thematically structured, the concept of mish mash
leaves a wide open opportunity to discuss issues in interdisciplinary
education; art, science and technology interactions; personal artistic
practices; history of re-combinatory practices; hybridizations between old
and new media; cultural creolization; curatorial studies and more.
Under the editorship of Lanfranco Aceti and Paul Brown the magazine call is
open to the0retical, scientific and cultural analyses as well as practice
based pieces or a mish mash of all of the above.

The Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) will produce an online and print on
demand issue, as well as host curated images and videos online.

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a) Subject heading: mish mash.
b) 500 hundred word abstract for articles.
c) 2 images at 72 dpi resolution no larger than 800 pixels width for
artists.
d) Links to previous work, videos or personal sites.
e) Deadline for full papers is February 15, 2010 for publication in the
first issue.
f) Please feel free to disseminate and forward this call to interested
parties.

Our publication formats allow for full-color throughout and we encourage
rich pictorial content where relevant and possible.  Note however that all
material submitted must be copyright cleared (or due diligence must be
evidenced).  For online publication a wide variety of media content may be
considered (animation, mp3, flash, java, etcŠ)

* For scholarly papers please submit the final paper ready for peer review.
 Your contribution will be reviewed by at least two members of the LEA board
and revisions may be requested subject to review.
* For themed and pictorial essays please submit an abstract or outline for
editorial consideration and further discussion.
* Please keep your news, announcements and hyperlinks brief and focused ­
include contact details and a link to an external site where relevant.  We
reserve the right to sub-edit your submissions in order to comply with LEA
policies and formats.  Where material is time-sensitive please include both
embargo and expiry dates.
* In all cases specify special system considerations where these are
necessary (platform, codecs, plug-ins, etcŠ)

We hope you share our excitement about the new LEA and we look forward to
hearing from you!

For further information or images submission contact:
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Lanfranco Aceti
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Editor in Chief, Leonardo Electronic Almanac

Paul Brown
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Co-Editor, Leonardo Electronic Almanac




http://www.lanfrancoaceti.com
Dr. Lanfranco Aceti, Associate Professor in Contemporary Art & Digital
Culture - Sabanci University
Editor in Chief, Leonardo Electronic Almanac (Leonardo Journal and MIT
Press)
Honorary Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, Virtual Reality
Environments, University College London