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1. FWD: CFP ?�Electronic Techtonics:  Thinking at the Interface?� -
"Wayne Miller" 


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Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:46:43 -0400
From: "Wayne Miller" 
Subject: FWD: CFP ?�Electronic Techtonics:  Thinking at the Interface?�

From: jonathan.tarr@duke.edu 

Please forward widely! 

Call for Papers 
International HASTAC Conference
?�Electronic Techtonics:  Thinking at the Interface?�
April 19-21, 2007
www.hastac.org 

We are now soliciting papers and panel proposals for ?�Electronic
Techtonics:
Thinking at the Interface,?� the first international conference of
HASTAC
(?�haystack?�: Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced
Collaboratory). 
The interdisciplinary conference will be held April 19-21, 2007, in
Durham,
North Carolina, co-sponsored by Duke University and RENCI (Renaissance
Computing Institute). Details concerning registration fees, hotel
accommodations, and the full conference agenda will be posted to
www.hastac.org 
( http://www.hastac.org/ )as they become available.

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
?�Electronic Techtonics:  Thinking at the Interface?� is one of the
culminating
events for the In|Formation Year that began in June 2006 and extends
through
May of 2007. (See the HASTAC website for a calendar of	In|Formation Year
events, plus open source archived materials suitable for downloading for
courses or campus events.)

The keynote address will be delivered by visionary information scientist
John
Seely Brown (The Social Life of Information) at the Nasher Museum of Art
at
Duke. Other events include a talk by legal theorist James Boyle
(co-founder of
the Center for the Study of the Public Domain, Creative Commons, and
Science
Commons), a conversation among leaders of innovative digital humanities
projects led by John Unsworth (chair of the ACLS ?�Cyberinfrastructure
and the
Humanities and Social Sciences?� commission), and a presentation by
media artist
and research pioneer Rebecca Allen. The conference will also include
refereed
scholarly and scientific papers, multimedia performances, an exhibit
hall of
innovative software and hardware, plus tours of art and scientific
installations in virtual reality, learning-game, and interactive sensor
space
environments.

CALL FOR PAPERS 
Six sessions will be devoted to panels with refereed papers on aspects
of
?�interface?� spanning media arts, engineering, and the human, social,
natural,
and computational sciences.  Panels will be topical and
cross-disciplinary;
they will be comprised of papers that are themselves interdisciplinary
as well
as specialized disciplinary papers presented in juxtaposition with one
another.
 

We will consider proposals for full panels (three or four papers), for
paired
cross-disciplinary papers on a shared topic, or for single papers.   

Topics: Panels might address interfaces between humans and computers,
mind and
brain, real and virtual worlds, science and fiction, consumers and
producers,
text-archives and multi-media, youth and adults, disciplines,
institutions,
communities, identities, media, cultures,  technologies, theories, and
practices.  

Other possible topics:	the body as interface, neuroaesthetics and
neurocognition, prosthetics, mind-controlled devices, immersion,
emergence,
presence, telepresence, sensor spaces, virtual reality, social
networking,
games, experimental learning environments, human/non-human situations
and
actors, interactive communication and control, access, borders,
intellectual
property, porosity, race and ethnicity, difference, Afro-Geeks and
Afro-Futurism, identity, gender, sexuality, credibility, mapping and
trafficking, civic engagement, social activism, cyberactivism, plus all
of the
other In|Formation Year topics:  in|common, interplay, in|community,
interaction, injustice, integration, invitation, innovation.  

Proposal Submissions:  Please send 500-1000 word paper and/or panel
proposals
to info@hastac.org.  

Deadline for Proposals:  December 1, 2006.  

Full-length papers or power-point presentations will be posted on the
HASTAC
website prior to the conference. The sessions themselves will be devoted
to
synopses of the work, followed by a response designed to elicit audience
participation.	Attendees whose papers are not accepted will be
encouraged to
display their work at a digital poster session.  

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
Registration will be limited to 150 people.  HASTAC will announce a
priority
registration period for HASTAC In|Formation Year site leaders, followed
by open
registration.  

SCHOLARSHIPS
Some scholarship funding will be available to graduate students to help
defray
fees and conference costs. 

For additional information as well as copies of the In|Formation Year
poster,
contact Jonathan Tarr, HASTAC Project Manager (info@hastac.org or 919
684-8471).




HASTAC uses Creative Commons licenses for all of its endeavors.  All
conference
sessions will be webcast, archived, and made available for non-profit
educational purposes.


This e-mail list was compiled by the Information Science + Information
Studies
(ISIS) Program at Duke University in conjunction with HASTAC, the
Humanities,
Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory for communications
about
HASTAC's In|Formation Year 2006-07.  If you do not wish to receive these
messages in the future, please send a message to jonathan.tarr@duke.edu.
 Thank
you. 


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