INFORMATION OVERLOAD - Call for Papers / Workshop Leaders Conference Date: 4th-5th September 2014, University of Edinburgh
Deadline for Proposals: Friday 16 June 2014 www.infoload.co.uk | @infoload2014 | [log in to unmask]
In recent years, information overload has become a popular term to describe the psychological, emotional and physical consequences of living in a culture defined by the increasing density of data and reach of communication technologies. We invite contributors for a two-day conference to explore the reverberations of this bloom of data in cultural, artistic and academic practice. Aiming to trace an aesthetics of information overload, this event seeks to analyse how different environments and their consequent effects, both real and projected, public and personal, have engendered artistic forms. We encourage participants to experiment with a range of presentational formats, testing new ways of sharing information as well as discussing its conceptual ramifications. The conference aims to prompt conversations between new and perhaps unexpected perspectives on contemporary art, literature, media and culture, opening discussion to a wide range of disciplines, approaches and theoretical frameworks. How have authors and artists interrogated information overload, diagnosed its symptoms and hypothesised its cure? Are there benefits to conceptual overload? What aesthetic forms have been developed to represent or counteract the effects of overload?
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ORGANISERS: Dorothy Butchard, Andrew Campbell, Rob Lederer
INFORMATION OVERLOAD is a project to trace the aesthetics of information overload in cultural, artistic & academic practice. The conference in Edinburgh on 4th-5th September 2014 is funded by AHRC Collaborative Skills award and Edinburgh University's Researcher-Led Initiative fund.
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-- Information Overload University of Edinburgh, 4-5 September 2014