[csaa-forum] Cultural Futures: Call For Contributions and Event Announcement: (Auckland, Dec 1-5 2005)

[Melissa Gregg]

> First Event Announcement and Call For Contributions - please circulate
>
> CULTURAL FUTURES: PLACE, GROUND AND PRACTICE IN ASIA PACIFIC NEW MEDIA 
> ARTS
> Hoani Waititi Auckland / Tamaki Makaurau, December 1-5 2005
> http://culturalfutures.place.net.nz
>
> "The first imperative, that of crossing borders, translates as 
> scepticism of
> the rhetoric of bounded identities, and relates to the role of the
> practitioner as a 'journeyman', as the peripatetic who maps an 
> alternative
> world by her journey through it.  The second, of building a shelter 
> against
> the odds of the law, insists however on a practice that is located in 
> space,
> and rooted in experience, that houses itself in a concrete 'somewhere' 
> on
> its own terms, not of the powers that govern spaces. It is this fragile
> insistence on provisional stability, which allows for journeys to be 
> made to
> and from destinations, and for the mapping of routes with resting 
> places in
> between."
> -- Raqs Media Collective, 'X Notes on Practice'
>
> Cultural Futures: Place, Ground and Practice in Asia Pacific New Media 
> Arts
> is an international event exploring cultural issues in the emerging new
> media environment. It brings internationally significant artists to 
> Auckland
> / Tamaki Makaurau for dialogue, workshops and exhibitions. Cultural 
> Futures
> is affiliated with the International Symposium for Electronic Arts
> (ISEA2006), as an initiative of the Place, Ground and Practice Working 
> Group
> for the Pacific Rim New Media Summit. The Cultural Futures symposium,
> exhibitions and workshops will develop international awareness of 
> local work
> in new media arts; and link international practices in new media arts 
> to
> dialogues in Aotearoa's cultural identity.
>
> Confirmed participants include:
>
> Albert L Refiti (Aotearoa)
> Amanda McDonald Crowley (Australia)
> Cheryl L'hirondelle (Canada)
> Creative Combat (Australia / Aotearoa)
> Fatima Lasay (Philippines)
> Jenny Fraser (Australia)
> Lisa Reihana (Aotearoa)
> Rachael Rakena (Aotearoa)
> Raqs Media Collective (India)
>
> with more currently under negotiation. Information on the presenters is
> available at http://culturalfutures.place.net.nz/presenters.html
>
> The symposium will include significant time set aside for open 
> discussion,
> and an entire afternoon for workshops that will develop ongoing 
> initiatives
> for new media arts in the Asia Pacific region. The outcomes from the
> workshop will be presented at the Pacific Rim New Media Summit in San 
> Jose,
> California in August 2006.
>
> To support this dialogue, we will be publishing a poster/broadsheet 
> which
> includes writings and imagery on the theme of "place, ground and 
> practice in
> the new media context". The broadsheet will be distributed to a wide 
> public
> to help establish an agenda for discussion during the symposium. 
> Submissions
> might address the following themes:
>
> Place-based new media practices
> Migration and movement
> Indigeneity and colonisation
> Home and belonging
> New media and cultural transformation
> Globalisation and cosmopolitanism
> New media audiences and infrastructure
> Activism and social change
>
> Texts (in any genre) should be of less than 1500 words and images in 
> JPEG
> format under 2MB
> in size. These should be sent via e-mail to
> info at culturalfutures.place.net.nz by August 30 2005. Publication will 
> be at
> the discretion of the editors, and all submitters will be notified of 
> the
> editors' decision as soon as possible. All contributions printed will 
> be
> attributed and copyright will remain with the contributor. All 
> submitters
> not attending Cultural Futures will receive copies of the publication 
> by
> post - please include your postal address with your submission.
>
> We are also exploring possibilities for a book and/or journal issue on 
> these
> themes, to be developed after the symposium. Please e-mail if you wish 
> to
> receive more information about these plans as they develop.
>
> Kia ora.
>
> Danny Butt
> Jon Bywater
> Nova Paul
>
> Organisational Group,
> Cultural Futures
> info at culturalfutures.place.net.nz
> http://culturalfutures.place.net.nz
>
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>
>
Melissa Gregg
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies
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University of Queensland 4072
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