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CALL FOR PAPERS

PixelRaiders 2
6 – 8 April 2004
Venue: Sheffield Hallam University, UK
www.pixelraiders.org

 
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: 

- 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:

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:

- 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:

Submissions may be made for either oral presentation of a full 
paper or a poster presentation. 

Schedule: 

Deadline for abstracts: 10th September 2003
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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. 
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