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CFP NYC 2019 Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies

Jessye McDowell

NYC 2019 CMCS 8th International Conference Bridging Gaps: Re-Fashioning Stories for Celebrity Counterpublics Terrace Club at Club Quarters 25 W 51st St, across NBC & Rockefellar Centre New York City, USA August 30 – September 1, 2019 Call for Papers: In the recent past, there has been an increased interest in exploring intersections of life writing and studies of celebrity culture. Storytelling is central to effective branding in fame. Furthermore, the use of biographical elements has been recognized as a rhetorical device in writing op-eds, personal essays, and public speaking that often raise awareness on critical issues in popular media.…

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Border Control: 2019 NMC Symposium and Exhibition

Jessye McDowell

The New Media Caucus proudly announces the 2019 Symposium and Exhibition, Border Control, at the University of Michigan, Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design and the Stamps Gallery. EXHIBITION DATES: 9/20/19 – 11/10/19 SYMPOSIUM DATES: 9/19/19 – 9/22/19 GUEST CURATOR: Allison Collins, Media Arts Curator, Western Front Borders and boundaries, both tangible and ephemeral, are closely tied to the ways in which humanity has always made sense of the world, and of its place in it. Our current moment is one in which this certainty is being undermined as many borders are being challenged and contested. Borders can be mental, physical,…

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SIGGRAPH 2019 Art Papers CFP

Jessye McDowell

To foster dialogue and diversity of topics, Art Papers are submitted in one of two types: Long Papers: dedicated to describing concepts, processes, and applicability of advances in science, computer graphics, and interactive techniques. Long Papers are published and printed as a special issue of Leonardo, the journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology (MIT Press). Short Papers: dedicated to discussing on-going works and visions. New to this year, Short Papers are published in the ACM and ARTECA Digital Library. Both Long and Short Papers receive a rigorous and thoughtful review by at least three members…

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Does Public Art Have to be Bad Art?

Jessye McDowell

CALL FOR PAPERS for a topical issue of Open Philosophy DOES PUBLIC ART HAVE TO BE BAD ART? (second call) “Open Philosophy” (http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/opphil) invites submissions for the topical issue “Does Public Art Have to Be Bad Art?”, edited by Mark Kingwell (Toronto University). The aim of this topical issue is to explore diverse perspectives and recurring problems in the area of public art. By public art we mean, among other things, civic and institutionally commissioned works that are placed in public places such as community squares and plazas, as well as works that claim to explain or commemorate the spaces…

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CFP: Exploring Fashion as Communication in Popular Communication

Jessye McDowell

Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture CFP: Exploring Fashion as Communication in Popular Communication Special Issue: Exploring Fashion as Communication Guest Editor: Elizabeth Castaldo Lunden, Ph.D. Deadline: February 28, 2019 The editors of Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture invite submissions for a special issue on the topics of Fashion Journalism and Fashion as Communication. With the consolidation of fashion studies as an academic field, the study of fashion, dress, and costume has become a fertile ground for interdisciplinary research for scholars from communication and media studies. Media studies scholars have considered fashion, dress,…

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AWMAT 2019 – Impact!: How women in media arts, science and technology influence the community

Jessye McDowell

Alliance of Women in Media Arts and Technology (AWMAT) 2019: Impact!: How women in media arts, science and technology influence the community. Impact! explores how the creative and innovative works of women in media arts, technology and engineering influence the general community. New forms of artistic representation in multimedia art are highlighted through interactive installations, virtual reality, demos and sonic arts. Emphasis will be placed on how these new forms work in conjunction with technology to shape our culture. Now accepting submissions for papers, installations, demonstrations, sound art/concert works and workshops. Key Dates: Paper/Extended Abstract Deadline: October 15, 2018 Workshop…

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Call for Submissions | Beyond Survival: Public Funding for the Arts and Humanities – Art Journal Open

Jessye McDowell

Three decades into the long culture wars, how are artists, scholars, and cultural organizations navigating shifting political, community, and financial tides? Where have we encountered friction or congruence between federal priorities and our work at state, local, and community levels? Has our work changed – in structure, presentation, or substance – in response to these priorities? Despite threats of elimination earlier in the year, federal funding for the arts and humanities has been preserved—at least for now. While rightly celebrating this collective accomplishment, we must also acknowledge that ideological pressures on US cultural policy are performed as much through selective…

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CFP for Panel @ UAAC Conference – Round Table: Transformation of the Artist’s Studio

Jessye McDowell

Panel Description: Digital and post-digital movements have transformed traditional studio spaces into labs and confined virtual spaces such as computers and the internet. We investigate this transformation and its implications on the practices that result from this loss of physicality. We will invite artists and curators to examine the qualities of current artistic practices with an urge to understanding how technologies transform practices and furthermore influence the aesthetics of artistic practices. Moreover the digital aesthetics discussion has moved to the post-digital debate that yet again opens up a new dialogue for the practitioner. Invited speakers will demonstrate a couple of…

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Call for Submissions – Scenes and Screens Festival 2018: Hyperconnect by AltspaceVR

Jessye McDowell

The 2018 Scenes and Screens Festival is currently accepting submissions for papers, machinima, films, performances, VR installations, and digital prints that center around the theme: Hyperconnect. Though this term is commonly used to describe what we consider to be intermachine communication, it can also be used to describe a state of interpersonal and human-to-machine interaction as well. Alternatively, hyperconnectivity is used as a medical term to describe a rapid firing of neurons making excessive connections within the brain. The Scenes and Screens Festival committee encourages those submitting to consider the impact of all existing connections in our society, both organic…

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CFP and Artwork presentations: Taboo – Transgression – Transcendence in Art & Science 2018 in Mexico

Jessye McDowell

Submissions are welcome from all art and research fields and cutting-edge technology in art research. Suggested, but not exclusive topics, are those associated, with: Biopunk, hybridity and aesthetics of mutation | Cyborg, augmentation and bοdy modification | Post gender, transgressive identities and social models | Psycho-pharmacology, somatechnology and post-humanism | Chemistry of the mind, natural healers and mind enhancement | Biotechnology, DIYbio and biohacking | Ethology, human and nonhuman | Evolution, extinction and randomness. The conference TTT2018 – Taboo – Transgression – Transcendence in Art & Science 2018 is co-organized by the Research and Creation Group Arte+Ciencia, UNAM (Mexico), Arte…

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