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CONVERGENCE: THE JOURNAL OF RESEARCH INTO NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES Call for papers New Media Technologies in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe Submission deadline for this issue is *30 October 1997* For Volume 4, No. 2 of the Journal (Summer 1998) we are seeking papers relating to research projects or case studies on media art, specific electronic arts discourse(s), and the cultural, social and political implications of new media technologies in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. Papers would be welcome that deal with current developments in electronic arts and the specific aesthetic strategies in the post-socialist Eastern European countries; that provide an insight into Eastern European approaches to using new technologies and attitudes towards the effects of new media; that deal critically with the notion of technology as a 'unifying' or 'normative' factor; that question the viability of notions such as East and West, analysing local developments within a broader global context; or that provide critical analysis of institutions and non-institutional networks and structures promoting and supporting new media technologies in Eastern Europe. This issue will be guest-edited by Inke Arns, media art curator, Berlin, Germany. Convergence is a refereed academic journal which addresses the creative, social, political and pedagogical issues raised by the advent of new media technologies. As a research journal it provides a forum both for monitoring and exploring Developments and for publishing vital research. Published quarterly in paper form and adopting an inter-disciplinary approach Convergence will develop this area into an entirely new research field. The principal aims of Convergence are: o to develop critical frameworks and methodologies which enable the reception, consumption and impact of new technologies to be evaluated in their domestic, public and educational contexts o to contextualise the study of those new technologies within existing debates in media studies, and to address the specific implications of the increasing convergence of media forms o to monitor the conditions of emergence of new media technologies, their subsequent mass production and the development of new cultural forms o to promote discussion and analysis of the creative and educational potentials of those technologies, and to contextualise those cultural practices within wider cultural and political debates. The Editorial Board. Australia: Rebecca Coyle (Macquarie University), Ross Harley (University of New South Wales), Philip Hayward (Macquarie University). Canada: Micheline Frenette (University of Montreal), Will Straw (McGill University). Europe: Roy Ascott (CAIIA, Gwent College of Higher Education), Colin Beardon (University of Brighton), Luke Hockley (University of Luton), Sadie Plant (University of Warwick), Jeremy Welsh (Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, Norwegian University of Science and Technology). Japan: Machiko Kusahara (Tokyo Institue of Polytechnics). USA: Jay David Bolter (Georgia Institute of Technology), Joseph Foley (Independent Consultant), Steve Jones (University of Tulsa) George Landow (Brown University), Margaret Morse (University of California Santa Cruz). Our aims are supported by: Will Bell (The Arts Council of England), Mike Crump (Centre for the Book, British Library), David Hancock (Eurimages) Sara Diamond, (Banff Centre for the Arts). All inquiries about, proposals for articles or completed papers for the Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe issue should be sent to: Inke Arns, Pestalozzistr. 5, 10625 Berlin, Germany, tel/fax ++49-30-313 66 78, e-mail [email protected] All other editorial inquiries, general proposals and submissions to: Julia Knight or Alexis Weedon, Editors, Convergence, School of Media Arts, University of Luton, 75 Castle Street, Luton, LU1 3AJ, United Kingdom. Tel: +44 1582 34111, fax: + 44 1582 489014, email: [email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies Convergence is a paper journal. For further information and details of back issues see our web site at http://www.luton.ac.uk/Convergence Edited by Julia Knight and Alexis Weedon Department of Media Arts, University of Luton, 75 Castle Street, Luton. LU1 3AJ. Editorial e-mail: [email protected] Tel: +44 1582 489013/489144. Fax: +44 1582 489014. Subscriptions and samples from John Libbey Media at the above address. E-mail: [email protected] Tel:+44 1582 743297. Fax: +44 1582 743298. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Inke Arns * Pestalozzistr. 5 * D-10625 Berlin * Germany Tel / Fax + 49 - 30 - 313 66 78 * [email protected] have a look at: * Int. Meeting on the Documentation of Media Art in Eastern, Central and South Eastern Europe (Rotterdam Sept. 96) <http://www.v2.nl/east/> * discord. sabotage of realities. (Hamburg Nov. 96 - Jan. 97) <http://www.icf.de/discord> -- * distributed via nettime-l : no commercial use without permission * <nettime> is a closed moderated mailinglist for net criticism, * collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets * more info: [email protected] and "info nettime" in the msg body * URL: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ contact: [email protected]