[Air-l] LEA Special Issue: Digital Arts and Electronic Music in Asia and the Pacific

["Fats" Lasay]

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LEA Special Issue: Network Leaps, Bounds and Misses:
Critiquing Regional Strategies for Digital Arts and
Electronic Music in Asia and the Pacific
Guest Editor: Fatima Lasay <fats at up.edu.ph>

The Leonardo Electronic Almanac (ISSN No: 1071-4391)
is inviting papers.

Under the UNESCO Digi-Arts Knowledge Portal for
technology-based arts and music, an international
colloquium took place on 4-5 December, 2003 at the
Sarai Center for Study of Developing Societies in
Delhi, India. The meeting, entitled "Old pathways/New
travelers: new media, electronic music and digital art
practices in the Asia Pacific region", sought to
launch a media arts and electronic music initiative
sponsored by UNESCO Digi-Arts and Sarai, to promote
and develop research, networking, mutual cooperation,
training and knowledge in these fields within the
region. The meeting also aimed to point out the role
and place of media and technology in a social,
cultural and economic landscape inscribed by ancient
histories of contact and paths that internally connect
the landmass of Asia and the island cultures of the
Pacific regions, its impact on young people and its
potential as a unique tool to promote cultural
diversity.

As critical and engaging discussions of such a network
of associations are underway, what do our past and
current national and regional practices reveal about
the limits of localization, proximity and regional
reification? What lies beneath or within concepts of
media and technology as instruments for promoting
cultural diversity? Is media and technology a result
or cause of culture? What is the position of media,
art and technology in the ontological divide between
regionalization and globalization? In which aspects do
we need to transcend the regional level in the
regional network building efforts? What is the
significance of local ontologies within the process of
building a regional network?

Can asymmetrical local and regional development and
promotion of digital arts in the region be addressed
by mere institutional and conventional proximity? If
geographic proximity is insuficient, then which
conceptual spaces might provide a more solid basis for
cooperative development? What critical and realistic
approaches have been and can be made, in both
imagination and actualization, to move in opposite
directions and still meet together, across the globe,
in building that strong and balanced support structure
for digital arts in the region?

For the June issue of LEA, we invite contributions
from artists, musicians, practitioners, curators and
critics that address regional networking competence
problems and realities in the field of digital arts
and electronic music in the Asia Pacific cultures.

LEA encourages international artists / academics /
researchers / students to submit their proposals for
consideration. We particularly encourage authors
outside North America and Europe to send proposals for
articles/gallery/artists statements.

Proposals should include:
- 300 word abstract / synopsis
- A brief author biography
- Any related URLs
- Contact details

Deadline for proposals: 31 March 2004

Please send proposals or queries to:
Fatima Lasay
fats at up.edu.ph

or
Nisar Keshvani
LEA Editor-in-Chief
lea at mitpress.mit.edu

http://lea.mit.edu

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What is LEA?
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Established in 1993, the Leonardo Electronic Almanac
(ISSN No: 1071-4391) is the electronic arm of the
pioneer art journal, Leonardo - Journal of Art,
Science & Technology.

The Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA), jointly
produced by Leonardo, the International Society for
the Arts, Sciences and Technology (ISAST) and
published under the auspices of MIT Press is an
electronic journal dedicated to providing a forum for
those who are interested in the realm where art,
science and technology converge.

Content
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This peer reviewed e-journal includes profiles of
media arts facilities and projects, profiles of
artists using new media, feature articles comprised of
theoretical and technical perspectives; the LEA
Gallery exhibiting new media artwork by international
artists; detailed information about new publications
in various media; and reviews of publications, events
and exhibitions. Material is contributed by artists,
scientists, educators and developers of new
technological resources in the media arts.

Mission
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LEA's mission is to maintain and consolidate its
position as a leading online news and trusted
information filter while critically examining
arts/science & technological works catering to the
international CAST (Community of Artists, Scientist
and Technologists)

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