[NetBehaviour] Vjtheory book ++ EXTENDED DEADLINE ++

[Ana Carvalho]

Vjtheory book 

++ EXTENDED DEADLINE ++

The deadline for synopsis has been extended to the
30th of November.


Since June we've received a very large amount of high
quality proposals. We are therefore mailing everyone
who has expressed an interest to let them know that we
have extended the deadline for submiting a synopsis.
This way we intend to have time to review the work so
far and give contributors more time to develop work. 

++ Timeline ++

+ Call for submissions – Deadline: 30th November 05

Synopsis/abstract 500 words
If possible please indicate the theoretical area where
the work is focused.

+ Initial selection based on synopsis/abstracts - 28th
February 06, contributors will be informed as soon as
possible after this date.

+ Deadline to send final papers: 30th April 06 
Final papers between 3000 and 5000 words




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VJTheory Book
Philosophy and cultural theory of vjing and realtime
interaction


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Editors: Ana Carvalho and Brendan Byrne
Narrative editors: Lara Houston and Paul Mumford


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Keywords; narrative, philosophy, psychoanalysis,
cultural theory, ephemeral, performance, technology,
aesthetics, politics, ethics, realtime processing,
collaboration, integrating media.

During AVIT UK 05 there was a fantastic level of
debate based on both the theory and practice of VJing
and realtime interactive installations and the
questions those practices raise.

Paul and Lara have been organizing Narrative Lab, a
program of lectures, screenings, performances and
projects as a major strand since of AVITUK since 2003.
 The group has been seeking to encourage debate, spark
new work arising from theory and facilitate
collaboration examining the territories of narrative.
Over the last two years the narrative Lab has hosted
lectures on hypertextuality, meta narratives,
psychogeography, screen aesthetics, structuralism,
process methodologies and various production
techniques.

These theoretical debates have now expanded across
many of the other sessions. What became apparent was
the lack of written texts which attempt to deal with
these questions which involves everybody's practice.
With this in mind we propose to gather a collection of
articles and essays which begins to deal with these
new media debates.

We see this volume as paralleling the early
anthologies of film criticism, such as 'Movies and
Methods' by Bill Nichols, containing a broad range of
analytical perspectives relating to the new medium.


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This is an invitation to submit a short synopsis,
propose an article or ideas to be published as a book.


Please send it to the following e-mail address: 
vjtheory at yahoo.co.uk

Aditional information:
+ Deadline for synopsis: 30th of November
Synopsis:500 words
If possible please indicate the theoretical area where
the work is focused.
+ Initial selection based on synopsis/abstracts - 28th
February 06, contributors will be informed as soon as
possible after this date.
+ Deadline to send final papers: 30th April 06 
+ Final papers between 3000 and 5000 words

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Here are some suggested areas, please feel free to
suggest your own:

1- Narrative and hyper narrative
+ The cultural position of narrative
+ Meaning in narrative
+ Narrative Structures
+ New narrative
+ Cognitive process and discourse\Narrative Practice

2- Ethics
+ Copyright and "copyleft" (the creative commons open
source software and gnu licensing)
+ Cross cultural appropriation of imagery themes and
content (sources for video and other visual assets and
it's relation to the social)
+ Commercial sponsorship and market flooding

3- Real time processing and the problem of the "now"
+ Problem of the 'real' and the problem of the "now"
+ Internet realtime data

4- Collaboration and rhizomic relations
+ Vj <> Dj/ Network collaborations

5- Philosophical and cultural perspectives including
+ Phenomenology
+ Language and the body
+ Schizoanalysis
+ Semiology
+ Feminist analysis
+ Deleuzian movement\Image 
+ Habermas and the relationships with cinema and
theatre

6- Interaction
+ Public/ work interaction (how much should the
interaction be apparent to the user of an installation
for example)
+ Vj <> interaction

7- Software
+ Open source and proprietary software
+ Latest software developments and software in
development
+ Software and ideas led production of work

8- Aesthetics
+ Moving wallpaper
+ The problem of the formal time/movement image
+ Control and the dispersal of control
+ Crafting the image and its relations
+ Abstract animation (e.g. Oscar Fischinger, Len Lye)
and it's relation to reactive 3D modeling.


		
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