Open Call for Book Contribution: Worldmaking as Techné
Worldmaking as Techné:
Exploring Worlds of Participatory Art, Architecture, and Music
December 15 2011
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The editors of this book project were drawn together by a common outlook that the creation of work is the creation of concepts, joining the efforts of theory and praxis in one process (techné), and that the results of our works are the expression of an ontological proposition (worldmaking). This connection was the catalyst to host the panel discussion, The Volatility and Stability of Worldmaking as Techné, at the Inter-Society of Electronic Arts conference 2011 (ISEA 2011). Along with invited panelists, Roy Ascott, Jerome Decock, and Marcos Novak, the panel presented a wide range of perspectives on the topic that covered theory and practice in the areas of art, architecture, and music. While well received the discussion was all too short and only scratched the surface. Thus the inspiration to launch this book project comes from a desire to further explore WorldMaking as Techné in participatory works.
The book, Worldmaking as Techné: Exploring Worlds of Participatory Art, Architecture, and Music will focus on the involvement of the techné of worldmaking in participatory art practice. Such practice can be found in all areas of art, however, under scrutiny for this particular book are: interactive, generative, and prosthetic art, architecture, and music practices that depend for their vitality and development on the participation of their observers. The book editors are seeking contributions that will challenge the level of involvement and integration of the observer within the generative praxis in a technoscientific agenda. In this spirit,contributions that cover philosophical, theoretical, and practice-based research are all welcome.
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Methodologies of Sustainable Projects
33 Edition, Edinburgh Architecture Research Journal
The University of Edinburgh, UK
December 12 2011 - January 16 2012
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The 33rd edition of EAR Journal at the University of Edinburgh invites researchers to submit papers on 'Methodologies of Sustainable Projects'. This multi-disciplinary edition will be published in August 2012 and the deadline for abstract submission is due 16 January 2012. Shortlisted authors will be notified by 15 February 2012. For more information please visit EAR website:http://sites.ace.ed.ac.uk/ear/call-for-papers/
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Modern Catholic Space
Mount Street Jesuit Centre, London
December 09 2011 - December 10 2011
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Modern architecture for the Roman Catholic Church in the twentieth century could be experimental, transgressive or progressive, comforting or shocking; sometimes it appeared within a culture of intense theoretical and theological dialogue between architects and clergy, and sometimes it challenged orthodoxy and innovated at the fringes of the Church’s complex structure. At various significant moments, modern architecture was either repressed and quenched, or welcomed and widely adopted. Architects could be concerned with the symbolic potential of modern architecture to evoke newly emphasised ideas in theology. In church architecture throughout the twentieth century, the liturgy was a central focus of development, as space and ritual were intimately connected. Monastic life was subject to modern interpretations of ancient ideals. Mission stations far from Rome might echo modern architecture’s development of a ‘critical regionalism’. Conventionally, the Second Vatican Council has been seen as a pivotal moment in the shift towards a modern form of church space, but increasingly scholarship is revealing the Council to have been only one marker of broader trends. More recently, architects have sought continuity and reattachment to the past instead of innovation. This symposium seeks to present new research on specific manifestations of these larger historical currents.
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Architecture and Audiences: Representation, Experience, Debate
A symposium organised by the Architecture, Space and Society Network, Birkbeck, University of London
School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD, in the Cinema
December 08 2011
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2011 Interstices Under Construction Symposium: Technics, Memory and the Architecture of History
Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
November 25 2011 - November 27 2011
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2011 Interstices Under Construction Symposium:
Technics, Memory and the Architecture of History
Key speakers:
Prof Alessandra Ponte, Université de Montréal, Canada
Prof William Taylor, University of Western Australia
Dr Peg Rawes, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London
Dr Karen Burns, Monash University
Prof Jeff Malpas, University of Tasmania
In the light of massive catastrophes - the earthquakes near Sendai and Christchurch, the tsunamis of Acheh and Katrina's devastation of New Orleans - the question of urban and architectural reconstruction invokes the question of remembering. What is this 'past' that we remember and on which we base our future reconstructions? What images of the past do we call upon in our decisions to build or not to build - and how do they negotiate the terrain between memory and history, nature and culture, technology and sustainability, planning and responding, tradition and innovation, foundations and interstices?
Abstracts due by 31 July 2011
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Sigradi 2011 Augmented Culture
XV SIGraDi Conference
Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina
November 16 2011 - November 18 2011
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Augmented Culture talks about a combination of interdependent cultural and technological meanings in a complex, multiple, interactive and interconnected context. It acknowledges that a new social and cultural paradigm is being developed as the old barriers of time, space and language are ruptured and transcended.
In our knowledge-based civilization, cultural expressions have been qualitatively augmented starting from their integration with information and communication technologies, which have dramatically enhanced not only their creative and reflective processes but also the realization and construction of cultural objects.
In this sense, an Augmented Culture compels us to investigate the wide and complex spectrum of the variables that express the interdisciplinary, collective and participative constructions of our present age, so strongly related to visual culture, information culture and interface culture.
SIGraDi 2011 will pay attention to the field of design in all its scales as well as to art in its multiple expressions, recovering one of the most distinctive features of SIGraDi since its origin. We invite you to contribute to this effort no matter how unique or different your area of interest or approach might be.
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