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, Paul Catanese 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 theoretical, 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.

Proposals to: info [@] leoalmanac.org

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, etc…)

* 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, etc…)

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: Ozden.Sahin [@]
leoalmanac.org

Lanfranco Aceti
Lanfranco.Aceti [@] leoalmanac.org
Editor in Chief, Leonardo Electronic Almanac

Paul Brown
Paul.Brown [@] leoalmanac.org
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