<a href="http://www.digicult.it/call-for-papers/">http://www.digicult.it/call-for-papers/</a><br><br><br><br><blockquote>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:large">Digicult is inviting
proposals for an issue addressing the following call topics, especially
from individuals such as: curators, critics, hackers, fabbers, creative
producers, lab managers, activists, designers, theorists, independent
and academic writers, scholars, artists, etc.</span></strong></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:large"><strong>Call for papers: “Places and Spaces” </strong></span></p>
<p>The birth, growth and development of spaces open to the creative and
experimental use of Media and Digital technologies have affected the
production and dissemination of contents, have enriched the art system
and its boundaries, have provided new methodologies of production, modes
of art display and creative practices (and the daily work of
individuals engaged in the field).</p>
<p>These groundbreaking practices span visual art and design, science
and technology innovation, social studies and politics, ecology and
economy, music and architecture. The context where they take place is
hybrid: hacklabs and bureau of research; mailing lists; virtual and
physical exhibition spaces; media centers and museums.</p>
<p>This call for contributions wishes to assess these emergent places of
innovations and this rich proliferation of research, critical thinking
and radical praxis based on horizontal cooperation, by addressing the
history, present and future, of projects developed to contribute,
support, search, create and spread creativity and innovation using Media
and digital technologies.</p>
<h4><span style="font-size:large"><strong>The call considers, but is not limited to, the following questions:</strong></span></h4>
<p>- How have the reciprocal relationship between spaces, research and
creative/artistic processes been transformed? Is it possible to map the
historical contexts that gave rise to spaces involved in creative
practices based on Media?</p>
<p>- How to describe, from a critical perspective, the tension between public and private, institutional and independent space?</p>
<p>- What kind of economies have emerged from these spaces working with
new media creative practices? What are the links (if any) between these
spaces and contemporary art, culture markets and immaterial culture and
the city? The institutionalization of independent spaces and their long
term development has been in most cases supported by public fundings.
Given the recent cuts, what new strategies of survival are available?</p>
<p>- How has Media culture affected mainstream culture and its spaces?
And in turn, how have spaces been affected by issues of production and
dissemination of art and knowledge? Are there new objectives and
strategies to be followed by spaces and institutions involved in these
fields? </p>
<p>- What spaces could (and can today) be considered most relevant to
the development of production, exhibition, research and archiving of
Media Art? How are methodologies and practices of archiving, preserving
and disseminating Media Art evolved? What displaying techniques created
by institutional and independent spaces can be considered the most
significant and experimental? ?</p>
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<p>Digicult is inviting proposals for an issue addressing these and
related topics, especially from individuals active in the fields:
curators, critics, hackers, fabbers, creative producers, lab managers,
activists, designers, theorists, independent and academic writers,
scholars, artists, etc.</p>
<p>Please, send full manuscripts (Max. 5000 words + 200 words for the
abstract), books and events reviews and interviews (1000 to 2000 words)
to:</p>
<p><a href="http://mailto:journal@digicult.it">journal@digicult.it</a> </p>
<p><strong>a) Deadline for submission of full article for consideration: July 31 2012</strong></p>
<p><strong>b) 5 to 10 images at 72 dpi resolution, 700pixels width</strong></p>
<p><strong>c) correct captions for images</strong></p>
<p><strong>d) please follow the guidlines</strong></p>
<p>If you wish to send us inquiries and proposals for a special topics to be featured in the next issues, please, contact <a href="mailto:journal@digicult.it">journal@digicult.it</a></p>
<p>We look forward to hearing from you!</p>
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<p>Roberta Buiani, Lucrezia Cippitelli, Claudia D’Alonzo, Marco Mancuso, Bertram Niessen <br>(Digicult Editorial Board)</p>
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