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<p style="margin: 0px;"><b>Transversal Practices: Matter, Ecology, Relationality</b></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><b>VI Conference on New Materialism</b></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">27–29 September 2015</p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">The Victorian College of the Arts</p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">Transversal Practices focuses on how things, subjects, collectives, politics and disciplines are in the making; how</p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">they take-form and transform in relation to other elements, both human and nonhuman. Transversal Practices are</p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">concerned with ecologies where intensities of movement are aligned with and embrace hands-on attitude and</p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">artistic, scientific, ethnographical, philosophical and activist praxis.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">We offer three keywords to inspire thinking and to carve out the specificities of practice. Matter refers to ubiquitous,</p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">vibrant and continuous becoming that is one of the central concerns of New Materialism: practices are always</p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">material, and surprising in nature. Ecology indicates an open and continuously transforming system, which depends</p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">upon how its components relate to each other. Relationality, for its part, is the moving principle of being in the</p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">world, or with the world. We become in relation to others. We co-emerge, as do artworks, ideas and collectives.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">We welcome contributions that address, for example, the following questions:</p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">How do transversal practices work and how can we account or conceptualise them? What kind of methodologies do</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">We encourage critical approaches that transversally cross the following: collectivity, corporeality/incorporeality,</p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">materiality/immateriality, indigeneity, individual/group subjectivity, knowledge-production/onto-epistemologies,</p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">language, temporality, transdisciplinarity, processes of making art/philosophy/ activism, and the three Ss—spatiality,</p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">sociality and the sensorium. All conference submissions will be referred with opportunities to submit completed</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">papers for a refereed publication.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;"><b>Confirmed Keynotes</b></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">A/Professor Erin Manning, SenseLab, Concordia University, Canada</p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">Professor Hayden Lorimer, University of Glasgow, Scotland</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">Professor Brian Martin, Deakin University, Australia</p>
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<div><b>Abstract Submissions</b></div>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">Abstracts for academic papers, creative proposals and experimental and/or experiential laboratorium are invited</p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">from scholars/writers/artists/scientists. Please submit a 250-word abstract or proposal with a title, keywords and</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">technical requirements along with a short 100 word biography via the Newmats2015 website template.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px;">Submit your abstracts online by <b>16 February 2015</b> at: <a href="http://www.newmats2015.net/call-for-papers.html">http://www.newmats2015.net/call-for-papers.html</a></p>
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<div><b>Contact</b></div>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">Enquiries about the conference can be directed to: admin@newmats2015.net</p>
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<div>McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow</div>
<div>Victorian College of the Arts</div>
<div>Faculty of VCA & MCM</div>
<div>University of Melbourne</div>
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<div><i style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11px;">The Faculty of VCA and MCM respectfully acknowledges the Boonwurung and Wurundjeri people of </i><i style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11px;">the Eastern Kulin nation.</i></div>
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<div>Management committee member</div>
<div>Country coordinator (Finland)</div>
<div>Co-leader of “Embracing Creative Arts”</div>
<div>ISCH-COST action New Materialism</div>
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<div>School of History, Culture, and Arts Studies</div>
<div>University of Turku</div>
<div>Finland</div>
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