[Air-l] Call for Papers @ ACLA

[Jonathan Lillie]

Call for Papers for special sesion at the American Comparative Literature
Association to be held at Cal State San Marcos in North San Diego County
April 4-6, 2003.

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NMEDIAC (New Media and Culture), a journal out of U North Carolina
Chapel-Hill, is sponsoring a special session on new media/culture
at the April meetings of the American Comparative Literature
Association meetings in San Marcos. The session will include three
panels, a total of 9-12 scholars, writers and artists, that will meet
over a two day period on the topic of new media. The sessions are
intended to result in a journal issue dedicated to the topic.

The session panels on new media will explore questions of digital
poetics, genre, and the role of narrative models and metaphors
from non-digital media, such as those of literature, film and
performance on electronic writing and art. We hope to speculate on
what happens to once vital metaphors and genres as media change (how
the role of  sci-fi and cyber-punk in cultural discourse in the 1980s has
evolved in this era, for example). A special invitation is
extended to digital artists and writers to join in a round table
discussion about the peotics of hypertext and digital art. We also
invite papers that consider how digital media compares to
other era's marked by the invention of a new medium - the press,
photography, or film, for example.

Send paper and presentation proposals by Sept 24. Please send them
via email to Roderick Coover at rcoover at artic.edu.

Conference website: www.csusm.edu/acla2003

NMEDIAC (nmediac.net) has adopted the mission of publishing peer-reviewed
papers and audiovisual pieces which contextualize encoding/decoding environments and
the discourses, ideologies, and human experiences/uses of new media
apparatuses. In relation to previous work, NMEDIAC will provide an
intellectual canvas where the cultural spaces and experiences of new media
are theorized and rigorously explored within both global and local
contingencies of the present and past.

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Jonathan James McCreadie Lillie
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jlillie at email.unc.edu
http://www.ibiblio.org/jlillie
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Managing Editor
NMEDIAC, The Journal of New Media & Culture
http://www.nmediac.net
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Park Doctoral Fellow
The School of Journalism & Mass Communication
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill