ISEA2006 Symposium Call for Participation for Papers and 
Presentations

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JANUARY 30TH, 2006

  Important Notice: We listen. There has been considerable 
feedback that the
original Symposium call did not clearly include a call for Panel 
proposals.
We have revised the call so that proposals for practice-based 
panels are
encouraged. The deadline for submission of proposals for ISEA2006 
papers,
artist presentations and posters has been extended to January 
30th to
accommodate this change. Please note updates to the Symposium Call
description.   

 http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/symposiumcall/

  ISEA2006 seeks paper and presentation proposals responding to the
Symposium themes of Transvergence, Interactive City, Community 
Domain or
Pacific Rim. This is the only call for papers and presentations 
that there
will be for ISEA2006.

  What tactics, issues and conceptual practices expose or inform the
distinctions of these subject terrains relating to contemporary art
practice? What theoretical analyses illuminate art practice 
engaged with
new technical and conceptual forms, functions and disciplines; 
provide for
innovative strategies involving urbanity, mobility, community and 
locality;
examine the role of corporations, civic cultural organizations 
and their
relationship to strategic planning; serve to expose new portals of
production and experience; and provide for provocative analysis of
contemporary political and economic conditions?

  The ISEA2006 Symposium is discussion and conversation based. This
orientation is intended as a break from the tradition of reading 
academic
papers and the formalities of panels and is the result of a 
month-long
online discussion with 21 international participants (see list 
below). All
sessions are moderated, include respondents and are designed to 
encourage
audience participation. Session formats will emphasize 
questioning, debate
and provocation. Papers, abstracts and poster texts will be 
pre-published
on the web and in print. There will be a pre-symposium online 
public forum
designed to encourage interaction between symposium presenters 
and the
public to provide for discussion and debate.

We are seeking proposals for papers, artist and poster sessions.