[artinfo] ISEA2008 Singapore CALL

[Andreas Broeckmann]

International Symposium on Electronic Art 2008 (ISEA2008)

CALL FOR PAPERS, PANELS AND ARTIST PRESENTATIONS

We cordially invite submissions to the conference of the
International Symposium on Electronic Art 2008 that will be held in
Singapore between 25th * 30th July 2008. The conference is held
alongside workshops, courses, exhibitions, performances and other in-
conjunction events that will be held for the duration of ISEA2008
from 25th July to August 3rd 2008.

The conference, as in previous ISEAs, is expected to bring together
artists, theorists, historians, curators and researchers of media
arts from around the world to jointly explore the most urgent and
exciting questions in the field. The five themes of ISEA2008 are
especially focused on eliciting a wide range of international
scholars and artists.

Conference Programme

The conference programme will include competitively selected, peer-
reviewed individual papers and panel presentations. This year we are
also encouraging artists who wish to share their works with a broader
audience of their peers to submit artist presentations where they can
speak about the specific aesthetic, conceptual and technological
aspects of their works. The conference also promises to present a
list of internationally renowned Keynote Speakers expounding on the
major themes of the conference. There will also be a special lecture
delivered by a Nobel Laureate.

Call for Proposals

We welcome contributions from creative practitioners and researchers
from a variety of disciplines and institutional contexts as media
arts benefits from and exemplifies the interdisciplinary linkages
between contemporary art, science, technology and their related
philosophies, pedagogies and institutional practices. The submissions
must address or be of relevance to at least one of the themes of
ISEA2008 in order to be considered for inclusion in the conference.
The conference will be of interest to those working in but not
limited to the following areas: media art, contemporary art, design,
art history and theory, film and media studies, gaming, toy design,
human-computer interaction, cultural studies, literary studies,
musicology, sound studies, theatre, dance and performance studies,
science, technology and society studies, history of science and
history of technology, philosophy, history, gender studies, political
science, anthropology, sociology and geography.

Submissions

A dedicated website and online paper submission system is currently
being developed and will be ready for submissions from 15th July 2007.

Submission period: 15th July - 31st of August 2007.

Submission link: To Be Announced 15 July 2007

Submission requirements:
We only require abstracts (not more than 300 words) of the proposed
paper, panel presentations and artist presentations to be submitted
in either Text, RTF, Word or PDF formats via this site. Please do not
submit full papers at this stage. While we encourage submissions to
include relevant images, it would be useful if the formats in which
such images are submitted is restricted to low resolution jpegs. In
the case of submissions for artists' presentations, artists are
encouraged to provide links to their and/or relevant websites.

The deadline for submissions will be 30th August 2007. Submissions
sent after this date will not be considered.

Please see http://www.isea2008.org/themes.html for more information
on the themes.