Chris Joseph

Second Nature: Call for Papers and projects

Second Nature: The International Journal of Creative Media is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal auspiced by RMIT’s School of Creative Media. Second Nature explores the distinctive particulars of and interconnections between textual, visual, aural and interactive creative research and practices.

The journal’s editorial board seeks papers and online projects for its first issue.

As the journal is multiple-media in focus we welcome contributions from across the field of creative media including creative writers, media and art historians, media practitioners and fine artists, architects and architectural theorists and historians, curators, museum professionals, scientists, cultural and media theorists, archivists, technologists, software developers, educationalists, philosophers and any others who have a stake in the understanding and future developments of creative media. Projects might include web-based interactives, net-art, games, suites of 2D imagery, video and sound works, fiction, critical and non-fiction writing. Both projects and papers will be peer-reviewed.

Deadline:
15th June, 2008: Expressions of interest
30th August, 2008: Papers and projects

Issue 1.
Role Models
The inaugural issue of Second Nature will examine creative practice as a contested site of inscription. It will challenge traditional
concepts of the creator’s role as one of ‘writing’ the world that, despite continual challenges to its hegemony, persists in the popular imagination. Whilst past challenges from cultural theorists have remained largely theoretical in approach, new developments in technologies and communications are rapidly changing the creative landscape. ‘Creativity’ and ‘innovation’ are seen as the drivers of future First World economies and the ‘cultural industries’ account for a substantial proportion of First world GNP. Ironically, less and less Government and corporate support seems to be available for independent, creative research.

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Open Call for projects - International Intensive Project Production Workshop, AVLAB 1.0

September 17 - October 1, 2008
Submission Deadline: July 1, 2008

Directed by Javier Duero. Teachers: Francisco López, Hans-Christoph Steiner and a third one to be confirmed. Coordinated by Daniel González Xavier. Venue: Medialab-Prado (Madrid, Spain).

Medialab-Prado issues a call for projects on audio/video to be developed within the framework of the AVLAB 1.0 workshop.

Projects can be presented individually or by groups, and should be related with the following fields: Sound art, live cinema, computer music, circuit bending, audio/video processing in real time, design of hardware-software applications specifically for audio/video, documentation and historical projects, and anthropological and sociological studies.

A maximum of 10 projects to be collaboratively developed will be selected.

Medialab-Prado will cover lodging at a youth hostel in Madrid and flight expenses for the authors of the selected projects.

More information and call guidelines:
http://medialab-prado.es/article/avlab_10

In collaboration with the Center for Contemporary Music Promotion (Centro para la Difusión de la Música Contemporánea) and Experimentaclub08.