The first International Conference on Transdisciplinary Imaging at the
Intersections between Art, Science and Culture.

³New Imaging: transdisciplinary strategies for art beyond the new media².

Takes place on 5 - 6  November at Artspace, 43/51 Cowper Wharf Rd, Sydney,
NSW 2011.

Deadline for Abstracts:  June 25,  2010



 A profound shift is occurring in our understanding of postmodern media
culture. Since the turn of the millennium the emphasis on mediation as
technology and as aesthetic idiom, as opportunity for creative initiatives
and for critique, has become increasingly normative and doctrinaire.
Mediation and the new media arts have in fact become the new medium of
critical and pedagogical discourse: like water is for fish, like culture is
for cultural studies, mediation is a concept that is taken for granted now
because it is itself the medium in which we think and act, in which we swim.
We need a concept that is amphibian, and that can leave its medium. The
concept we propose is a remediated apprehension of the image: an active
image and activity of imaging beyond the boundaries of disciplinary
definition, but also altering the relations of intermedia aesthetics and
interdisciplinary pedagogy. This concept will need to incorporate a vibrant
materialism of the image¹s sensory and cognitive strata and an evanescent
immaterialism of its affective qualities. Rather than locate our conference
in the space of negotiation between disciplines or media (the ³inter-³), we
propose the opposition, transit and surpassing of the interdisciplinary by a
³transdisciplinary aesthetics², and its conceptual and physical practice of
a ³transdisciplinary imaging.²

The aim of the conference is to bring together artists, scholars, scientists
historians and curators.

The conference will explore areas related to: Painting, Drawing, Film,
Video, Photography, Computer visualization, Real-time imaging, Intelligent
systems, Image Science.

Participants are asked to address at least one the following areas in their
abstract:
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·       remediated image

·       hypermediacy and  the iconic character of the image

·       politics of the image and/or image making in a transdisciplinary
context 

·       life sciences and bioart in relation to the living image

·       distributed and networked image


·       table top scale to nano

·       machines and computer vision

·       perspectival image

·       image as speculative research and critique

·       illusion, process and immediacy

·       aesthetics and the proliferation of imaging

 

Proposals

You are invited to submit an abstract for an individual paper relevant to a
conference theme as described above. The deadline for abstracts is June 25,
2010. Abstracts for individual papers should be no longer than 250 words.
Please provide full contact details with your abstract.

Refereeing of papers will be done by members of an expert review panel (to
Australian DEST refereed conference paper standards). All selected peer
reviewed papers will be published in the online conference proceedings.

Please submit by email to conference organiser Julian Stadon
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Conference chairs:

 Associate Professor Su Baker and Associate Professor Paul Thomas

Conference Committee

Brad BUCKLEY :: Brogan BUNT :: Ted COLLESS :: Ernest EDMONDS :: Petra
GEMEINBOECK:: Julian GODDARD :: Ross HARLEY :: Daniel MAFE :: David THOMAS

 Timeline

March 31  call for abstracts; June 30  deadline for call; July 31  peer
reviewed abstracts notified; November  5  -  6  Final papers for conference
3000 words; January 6  Final Papers for refereeing;
1  March  refereed papers returned to be published.

Conference Partners

College of Fine Art, University of New South Wales;  University of
Melbourne, Faculty of the VCA and Music; Artspace

Conference Sponsors

Australian National University, Curtin University, Queensland University of
Technology, RMIT University, Sydney College of the Arts, University of
Sydney, University of Technology Sydney, University of Wollongong.