Events and Event Structures

Last Call for Papers


Call for Conference Papers

The Center for Design Research calls for papers on events and event 
structures for a conference to place on May 24-27, 2007. The 
conference will take place in Copenhagen at the Center for Design 
Research at Denmark's Design School and The Royal Danish Academy of 
Fine Arts School of Architecture. Following the conference, 
participant papers will be published as a book.

The conference co-chairs are Prof. Ken Friedman of the Norwegian 
School of Management and Denmark's Design School, and Prof. Owen 
Smith of the University of Maine.

Scholars in many fields are now working with events and intermedia. 
These fields include art, design, architecture, informatics, and new 
media, as well as art history, musicology, philosophy, theology, 
theater, performance studies, management, and economics. We welcome 
contributions from different views and perspectives.


Background

In 2002, Smith and Friedman joined Ric Allsopp as guest editors of a 
special issue of the journal Performance Research (Vol. 7. No. 3, 
2002) focusing on events and performance in Fluxus. They also 
prepared a digital edition of the Fluxus Performance Workbook. A 
free-to-download copy of the Fluxus Performance Workbook is available 
at this URL:

http://www.performance-research.net/pages/epublications.html

This past year, Friedman and Smith completed two special issues of 
the journal Visible Language (Vol. 39, No. 3, 2005; Vol. 40, No. 1, 
2006) with several articles on events and intermedia.

To sharpen the focus on events and event structures, Smith and 
Friedman are now organizing this conference in Copenhagen. In 
addition to invited scholars and artists, they issue an open call for 
paper proposals.

The conference will be limited to fifty participants. We seek a 
working forum for productive dialogue, rather than the more 
traditional presentation forum of most conferences.


Conference topics

The conference will explore some of the many issues that arise at the 
intersection of events, interactive art, and new developments in 
design and the information society. This includes exploring the event 
as designed art activity; process and co-creation in art; the design 
aspect of event production; staging and prop management for events; 
the design of publications, digital editions, and web sites.

We welcome papers on different approaches to events and event 
structures. Examples of topics include:

Events in the work of a specific artist;
Thematic approaches to events (water, time, maps, etc.);
Event as performance;
Co-creation in art;
Process in art;
The ontology of the event;
The epistemological qualities of event-based work;
The hermeneutics of the event;
Translating event structures from art into daily life;
The philosophy of events;
Events, time, and memory;
Process in art, philosophy, and society;
The idea of the event: control, power, and history;
Events and gender;
Musicality and emergent order in events;
Algorithms and events, event as algorithm;
Event and homiletics;
Publishers of event scores and event-based books;
Designing events: boxes, books, and kits;
Event scores and objects;
Event scores and installations;
Theater of the object;
Digital editions for interactive art;
Documenting events and performances;
Photographic events;
The influence of events;
Events in relation to other forms of instructional or scored works;
Event-based projects and exhibitions;
Interactive events on the web.


Publications

Before the conference, participants will receive advance drafts of 
all papers as a proceedings document to encourage exchange and 
conversation. Authors will discuss ideas in conference sessions that 
emphasize dialogue rather than presenting written papers.

The proceedings will be the first of two conference publications. 
Following the conference, selected papers will be revised as chapters 
in a book on events and event structures to be published by the 
Design Research Center.

Selected research libraries will also receive copies of the 
proceedings, and the proceedings will be available to a wider public 
on a conference web site.


Conditions

There is no conference fee. The Design Research Center will fund the 
conference. Participants must pay their own travel and hotel 
accommodations. While we do not have travel funds, we will help 
participants to apply for funding from universities or other sources. 
We hope to make early decisions on proposals to give participants 
time to seek funds. To preserve an atmosphere of open exchange and 
reflective dialogue, the conference will be limited to 50 
participants.

The conference will take place from Thursday May 24 through Saturday May 27.


Proposals and questions

If you wish to participate in the Copenhagen conference on Events and 
Event Structures, send a paper proposal to both organizers. They also 
welcome full papers or drafts of full papers. Please write if you 
have questions.


Deadlines

Proposals due: July 15, 2006

Response to Authors: August 15, 2006

Finished papers due: January 5, 2007


Please sent proposals to both co-chairs:

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Please place the word EVENTS in the subject header of your email.


-- 

Ken Friedman
Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design
Institute for Communication, Culture, and Language
Norwegian School of Management
Oslo

Center for Design Research
Denmark's Design School
Copenhagen

+47 46.41.06.76    Tlf NSM
+47 33.40.10.95    Tlf Privat

email: [log in to unmask]

-- 

Ken Friedman
Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design
Institute for Communication, Culture, and Language
Norwegian School of Management
Oslo

Center for Design Research
Denmark's Design School
Copenhagen

+47 46.41.06.76    Tlf NSM
+47 33.40.10.95    Tlf Privat

email: [log in to unmask]