[[k.0_lab]] FW: [Digital Arts & Culture Conference 2009]

[Javier Pinzón]

FYI

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>Hi all,
>The biannual Digital Arts & Culture conference takes place in California in
>December 2009 (http://dac09.uci.edu)
>The abstract submission deadline is coming up soon - May 1st!
>This year, the conference is theme-based (ie  paper proposals have be to
>submitted to a theme), and as one of the theme organisers, Im happy to
>announce that a new theme, of interest to perhaps some people on this list,
>has recently been added:
>
>"Theme: The Present and Future of Humanist Inquiry in the Digital Field
>What contributions may literary, poetic, and aesthetic idioms of humanist
>inquiry -- traditionally associated with problems of lyrical expression,
>narrativity, linguistic subjectivity, and authorial and readerly agencies --
>continue to offer to the analysis of medial practices and systems in the era
>of mobile, distributed, and social media? The crux of this question, we
>propose, lies in the specifically historical purchase of humanist method:
>its ability to (re)situate new symbolic practices in complex and nuanced
>relation to prior traditions and atavisms of expressive language and action
>-- in contrast to the reductively progressivist, de-historicizing impulses
>of much of contemporary digitalism.
>
>This theme welcomes exemplary close readings (literary-theoretical,
>formalist, narratological, ludological, etc.) of electronic literature and
>poetry, single- and multiple-player computer games, social media, and hard
>and soft medial apparatuses of the digital field. Especially encouraged are
>such close readings which also make general claims regarding the
>significance of humanist investigations of digital arts and cultures."
>
>More info at:
>http://dac09.uci.edu/call.html
>
>best,
>Liz Klastrup
>
>
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>Lisbeth Klastrup
>Associate Professor, Innovative Communication Research Group
>IT University of Copenhagen
>Rued Langgaardsvej 7
>DK-2300 Copenhagen S
>Denmark
>Phone: +45 7218 5029
>
>web/blog: www.klastrup.dk