INFINITE GENEALOGY - Conf. --- Call for pres.

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> Call for proposals
> The Infinite Genealogy: Intercultural Approaches to New Media Art
> Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, May 2006
>
> The Infinite Genealogy is a conference for international scholars, 
> artists, and researchers from a variety of fields to explore 
> non-Western genealogies and intercultural understandings of 
> contemporary new media art. Submissions are invited for papers and 
> artists’ presentations and performances.
>
> The premise of this conference is that contemporary new media are 
> already informed by the histories, knowledges, and worldviews that 
> come to us from Chinese, Indian, Arab, African, indigenous, and other 
> worlds of science, mathematics, cosmology, spirituality, and 
> technology. We are interested not only in non-Western adaptations and 
> critiques of new media, but also in affinities and historical 
> connections between new media and traditional and “hybrid” cultural 
> practices. The goal is to refresh our understandings of new media in 
> the light of traditional cultural paradigms; and to locate the most 
> interesting emergent approaches that result. The conference will bring 
> together people from the disciplines of art history, cinema and media 
> studies, music, communications, anthropology, history of technology, 
> history of science, history of mathematics, computer programming, 
> biology, and physics; and artists working in and across these 
> disciplines.
>
> Examples of topics: Traditional cosmologies as models for digital 
> virtuality; ethnomathematics and new media; non-Western models for 
> algorithmic and computative art forms (e.g. calligraphy); traditional 
> understandings of autopoesis and artificial life; worldviews from 
> which to approach genetics; how cultural understandings of 
> communication inform new media practice; specific ways in which 
> spirituality and mysticism inform new media; how traditional 
> algorithms inform musical composition; textiles as proto-digital 
> media; cross-cultural understandings of embodiment and performance.
>
> Submissions for papers and artists’ presentations should include a 
> 500-word abstract, equipment requirements, and a curriculum vitae. We 
> plan to accommodate a variety of lengths and formats of presentation, 
> but presentations of 30 minutes stand the best chance of acceptance.
>
> Deadline: December 1, 2005
> Send to: Laura Marks, lmarks at sfu.ca (Please DO NOT send to 
> bi_elbi at telus.net)
> For inquiries and to be on mailing list: lmarks at sfu.ca



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