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<FONT SIZE="1"><FONT FACE="Arial Bold"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:9pt'>The first International Conference on Transdisciplinary Imaging at the Intersections between Art, Science and Culture.<BR>
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“New Imaging: transdisciplinary strategies for art beyond the new media”</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:9pt'><FONT FACE="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">.<BR>
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Takes place on 5 - 6 November at Artspace, 43/51 Cowper Wharf Rd, Sydney, NSW 201</FONT><FONT FACE="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">1</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial Bold">.<BR>
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Deadline for Abstracts: June 25, 2</FONT><FONT FACE="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">0</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">10
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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 image’s 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 “inter-“), we propose the opposition, transit and surpassing of the interdisciplinary by a “transdisciplinary aesthetics”, and its conceptual and physical practice of a “transdisciplinary imagi</FONT><FONT FACE="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">n</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">g.”<BR>
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The aim of the conference is to bring together artists, scholars, scientists historians and cura</FONT><FONT FACE="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">t</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">ors.<BR>
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The conference will explore areas related to: Painting, Drawing, Film, Video, Photography, Computer visualization, Real-time imaging, Intelligent systems, Image Sc</FONT><FONT FACE="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">i</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial Bold">ence.<BR>
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Participants are asked to address at least one the following areas in their abst</FONT><FONT FACE="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">r</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">a</FONT><FONT FACE="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">c</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">t:<BR>
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· remedia</FONT><FONT FACE="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">t</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial Bold">ed image<BR>
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· hypermediacy and the iconic character of</FONT><FONT FACE="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial"> </FONT><FONT FACE="Arial Bold">the image<BR>
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· politics of the image and/or image making in a transdisciplina</FONT><FONT FACE="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">r</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial Bold">y context <BR>
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· life sciences and bioart in relation to the </FONT><FONT FACE="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">l</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial Bold">iving image<BR>
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· distributed and net</FONT><FONT FACE="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">w</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial Bold">orked image<BR>
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· table top </FONT><FONT FACE="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">s</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial Bold">cale to nano <BR>
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· machines and c</FONT><FONT FACE="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">o</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial Bold">mputer vision <BR>
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· pe</FONT><FONT FACE="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">r</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial Bold">spectival image<BR>
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· image as speculative rese</FONT><FONT FACE="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">a</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial Bold">rch and critique<BR>
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· illusion, proc</FONT><FONT FACE="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">e</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial Bold">ss and immediacy <BR>
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· aesthetics and the proli</FONT><FONT FACE="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">f</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">e</FONT><FONT FACE="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">r</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial Bold">ation of </FONT><FONT FACE="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">i</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">maging<BR>
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Proposals<BR>
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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 detai</FONT><FONT FACE="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">l</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">s with your abstract.<BR>
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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 </FONT><FONT FACE="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">c</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">onference proceedings.<BR>
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Please submit by email to conference <FONT COLOR="#144FAE">organiser Julian Stadon </FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">t</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial Bold">ransimageconf@gmai</FONT><FONT FACE="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">l</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">.com<BR>
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<B>Conference chairs:<BR>
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Associate Professor Su Baker and Assoc</FONT><FONT FACE="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">i</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial Bold">ate Professor Paul T</FONT><FONT FACE="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">h</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">omas<BR>
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<B>Conference Committee<BR>
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Brad BUCKLEY :: Brogan BUNT :: Ted COLLESS :: Ernest EDMONDS :: Petra GEMEINBOECK:: Julian GODDARD :: Ross HARLEY ::</FONT><FONT FACE="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial"> Martyn JOLLY :: </FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">D</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial Bold">aniel MA</FONT><FONT FACE="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">F</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">E :: David THOMAS<BR>
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<B>Timeline<BR>
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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; <BR>
1 March refereed pa</FONT><FONT FACE="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">p</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial Bold">ers returned to be </FONT><FONT FACE="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">p</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">ublished.<BR>
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<B>Conference Partners<BR>
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College of Fine Art, University of New South Wales; University of Melbourne, Facult</FONT><FONT FACE="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">y</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial Bold"> of the VCA and Mus</FONT><FONT FACE="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">i</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">c; Artspace<BR>
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<B>Conference Sponsors<BR>
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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.</FONT></SPAN></FONT>
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