[Air-L] CFP: Digital Art and the Urban Environment: a Symposium, Art Exhibition, and Scholarly Volume

[Frank Marchese]

First Call for
Participation
Digital Art
and the Urban Environment: a Symposium, Art Exhibition, and Scholarly Volume
Location:          Pace University, Downtown
Manhattan, New York City
 
Date:                Friday, October 4, 2013
 
Sponsors:         Pace Digital Gallery, Seidenberg School
of Computer Science and Information Systems, and the Pace Academy for Applied
Environmental Studies
 
Digital and new media artists utilize innovations in
locative media, tracking technologies, telecommunication networks, and novel
computer interfaces to craft artworks that create new ways to connect with the
city. Just as their predecessors transformed urban neighborhoods, such as New
York’s SoHo and Chelsea, through their energy and imagination, today’s artists
are altering our perceptions of, and relationships with, urban space though
their digital inventions and interventions. Thus, it is the purpose of this symposium,
art exhibition, and scholarly volume to formally appraise the ways new media and
digital artists engage urban ecology. It seeks to gather together contributions
from artists, architects, computer scientists, designers, urban planners, social
scientists, critical theorists, and others to consider these new modes of
seeing, representing, and connecting within the urban setting. 
 
There are three possible ways to participate:
 
1.    Symposium. Propose an oral
presentation, dialog, panel, or other form of audience engagement for the
symposium. Topics can range from reviews of how technology supports digital artistic
practice to social studies of how a group or community is engaged by the work
of digital and new media artists – and everything in between.
 
The proposal should be
approximately 300 words in length, include a very short list of important references,
the names and affiliations of the presenters, along with a brief bio of each. Papers
related to all accepted presentations will be considered for the edited
scholarly volume (see below).
 
2.     Edited Scholarly Volume. The
goal of the scholarly volume is to define and contextualize the ways new media
and digital artists engage the urban environment and its population. It seeks
chapter proposals that describe theories, applications, analyses, case studies,
reviews, histories, and manifestos that include, but art not limited to:
 
·         Artistic and design practices for the urban setting
·         Artist, designer, scientist, technologist collaborations
·         Artistic creations and practice based on scientific/technological
models and simulations
·         Virtual and physical information artifacts related to, or created
through, artistic and design processes
·         Artistic mapping of information within the urban setting
·         The relationship between information spaces and urban spaces
·         The role of the viewer in urban art
·         How digital artistic practice engages communities within the urban
setting
·         Technological advances supporting urban art
·         User interfaces supporting urban art
 
As with the symposium
proposal, a chapter proposal should be approximately 300 words in length,
include a very short list of important references, the names and affiliations
of the presenters, along with a brief bio of each. It is anticipated that the
scholarly volume will be published by a major international publisher.
 
3.      Art Exhibition. Artists are
invited to submit artwork related to the symposium theme for display either within
the Pace Digital Gallery or through its website (http://csis.pace.edu/digitalgallery/index.html ). Artists should submit a short proposal describing their artwork, a brief
biography, and the URL of their websites. All artwork in the show will be
documented in the show’s catalog.
 
Important Information:

Due Date: All submissions are due by Sunday, July
13, 2012.
 
All proposals for symposia presentations, book
chapters, artwork, and any other inquiries should be emailed to:
 
Dr. Francis T. Marchese
Pace
Digital Gallery 
&
Department
of Computer Science
Pace
University
163 William Street, 2nd Floor
NY, NY10038
Email: fmarchese at pace.edu 
Academic Web page: http://csis.pace.edu/~marchese
Pace Digital Gallery Web
page: http://csis.pace.edu/digitalgallery/