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<p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><span style=""><span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Impact;" lang="EN-NZ"><font face="Calibri Light" size="3">Apologies for cross-posting. Please find attached the CFP for Rebooting Futurism.</font><br>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><i style=""><span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Impact;" lang="EN-NZ">Call for Provocateurs!</span></i></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><i style=""><span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Impact;" lang="EN-NZ">Rebooting Futurism @ Victoria University of Wellington - 15
<span style=""> </span>May 2015</span></i></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><i style=""><span style="font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif;" lang="EN-NZ">Rebooting Futurism</span></i><span style="font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif;" lang="EN-NZ"> challenges scholars and scientists from all fields and disciplines
to contribute to a one-day conference/symposium/performance event interrogating the legacies of Futurism. We seek projects that synthesize the spirit and substance of Futurism in the context of contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand, asking "<i style="">What if
Futurism was (re)born today?</i>" Proposals representing all disciplines and a range of formats and media, are welcomed, including but not limited to:</span></p>
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<span style="" lang="EN-NZ"><span style="">.<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman';">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif;" lang="EN-NZ">Pecha Kucha Conference Papers and Micro-Manifestos
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<span style="" lang="EN-NZ"><span style="">.<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman';">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif;" lang="EN-NZ">Performance-based research using theatre, dance, cinema, music, and electronic media</span></p>
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<span style="" lang="EN-NZ"><span style="">.<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman';">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif;" lang="EN-NZ">Exhibitions and demonstrations fusing art and science</span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif;" lang="EN-NZ">THEMES</span></b></p>
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</span></span></span><b style=""><span style="font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif;" lang="EN-NZ">New New Zealand/ Aotearoa à mua</span></b><span style="font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif;" lang="EN-NZ"> - What New New Zealands might Futurism now envision?
For what might a Maori Marinetti agitate?</span></p>
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</span></span></span><b style=""><span style="font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif;" lang="EN-NZ">Rebooting Futurism -
</span></b><span style="font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif;" lang="EN-NZ">What is (or might be) the "Neo-Futurist" Aesthetic and Politic?
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</span></span></span><b style=""><span style="font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif;" lang="EN-NZ">Futurist Fission
</span></b><span style="font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif;" lang="EN-NZ">& <b style="">
Fusion</b> - How does Futurism productively challenge traditional disciplinary boundaries between humanity and machine, science and art, nature and culture, popular and high culture? What new hybrid forms do contemporary media make possible?
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<p class="ecxMsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;"><span style="" lang="EN-NZ"><span style="">.<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman';">
</span></span></span><b style=""><span style="font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif;" lang="EN-NZ">The Influence & Legacies of Futurism
</span></b><span style="font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif;" lang="EN-NZ">in Australasia and Abroad</span></p>
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</span></span></span><b style=""><span style="font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif;" lang="EN-NZ">Sintesi
</span></b><span style="font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif;" lang="EN-NZ">- New performances inspired by and critical of Futurism</span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif;" lang="EN-NZ">SUBMISSIONS</span></b></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif;" lang="EN-NZ"><span style=""> </span>"It is stupid to write 100 pages when one would suffice" (Marinetti). In the futurist spirit,
<i style="">Rebooting Futurism</i> seeks short, dynamic, high-impact contributions. Proposals should embrace innovation in form and content, and contest conventional distinctions between "scholarship," "science," "art," and "entertainment."<span style="">
</span></span><span lang="EN-NZ"></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif;" lang="EN-NZ">Please address submissions - including
<b style="">250-word abstracts</b>, along with bios and any special (space, equipment, etc.) requirements - and queries to
</span><span lang="EN-NZ"><a href="mailto:rebootingfuturism@gmail.com" target="_blank"><i style=""><span style="font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif;">rebootingfuturism@gmail.com</span></i></a></span><span style="font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif;" lang="EN-NZ">.
The deadline for proposals is <b style="">31 January 2015</b>.</span></p>
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