The Leonardo Electronic Almanac (ISSN No: 1071-4391) is inviting
papers [and artworks] that deal with the emerging data-based
spatial practice of Locative Media. Across a broad range of contexts the interface between data
environments and location has emerged as a central concern,
reversing the trend towards digital content being viewed as
placeless, or only encountered in the amorphous space of the
internet. Artists have long been concerned with place and
location, but the combination of mobile devices with positioning
technologies opens up a manifold of different ways in which
geographical space can be encountered and drawn.
An emerging field
of creative practice is coalescing around artists and
technologists who are exploring the use of portable, networked,
location-aware computing devices for social interfaces to places
and artistic interventions in which geographical space becomes a
canvas.
Submissions are sought which foreground not the technologies but
rather issues to do with participation, perception and process
they raise. What is Locative Media's relationship to dominant
logics of representation, and how does it forces a reassessment of
accustomed ways of representing, relating to and moving in the
world? How may methodologies within Media Art and other
disciplines be developed to meet a convergence of geographical and
data space? How can collaborative or user-led mapping and
cartography offer new possibilities for community organisation?
What metaphors are available for these new kinds of spatial
experience other than mapping and navigation? How may artists
respond to the abstraction inherent in Locative Media as a
data-based form, and look beyond the reductive understanding of
location that comes from Geographic Information Systems - in which
place is considered as a set of geographic coordinates or a
wireless cell - to explore, for example, context, co-location and
material embodiment? What is the relationship between this
emerging critical art practice and both the surveillance and
control technologies it deploys and wider mechanisms of
domination? What taxonomies of Locative Media projects can be
discerned, and how may terminology evolve to meet this new
interdisciplinary environment?
Locative Media is in a condition of emergence, simultaneously
opening up new ways of engaging in the world and mapping its own
domain. For this issue, submissions that present the exploratory
movements of Locative Media in historical context are of equal
interest to submissions that offer a snap shot or polaroid of its
current state of emergence.
Topics of interest might include (but are not limited to):
- Antecedents and historical context
- Taxonomies of Locative Media projects
- Art and technology collaborations
- Social applications
- Critical analyses
- Cultural analyses
- Scalability and ownership issues
- etc M
LEA encourages international artists / academics / researchers /
students / practitioners / theorists that engage with locative
media to submit their proposals for consideration. We particularly
encourage authors outside North America and Europe to send
proposals for essays / artists statements.
As part of this special, LEA is looking to publish:
- Critical Essays
- Artist Statement/works in the LEA Gallery
- Bibliographies (a peer reviewed bibliography with key
texts/references in Locative Media)
- Academic Curriculum (LEA encourages academics conducting course programmes in this area to contact us)
Expressions of interest and outline should include:
- A brief description of proposed text (300 words)
- A brief author biography
- Any related URLs
- Contact details
In the subject heading of the email message, please use "Name of
Artist/Project Title: LEA Locative Media Special - Date
Submitted". Please cut and paste all text into body of email
(without attachments). Detailed editorial guidelines at:
http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/LEA/submit
Deadline for expressions of interest: 7 March 2005
Timeline
7 March 2005 - submission of abstracts
11 March 2005 - short-listed candidates informed
1 April 2005 - contributors to submit full papers for peer review
(please note the timeline is subject to changes)
Please send proposals or queries to:
Drew Hemment
lctvmedia@astn.net
and
Nisar Keshvani
LEA Editor-in-Chief
lea@mitpress.mit.edu
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