MutaMorphosis
Call for Papers
First Call for Abstracts: Deadline 31st of January 2007
MutaMorphosis: Challenging Arts and Sciences, International
Conference, Prague
International Conference organised by CIANT as part of the
ENTER festival in the framework of the Leonardo 40th
anniversary celebrations. The festival will feature also the
first retrospective exhibition of Frank J. Malina.
8th - 10th of November 2007, Prague , Czech Republic
Conference website: http://www.mutamorphosis.org
The conference will explore the major mutations that are
affecting the future of our world. We invite papers from
artists,
scientists and researchers on the evolution of living beings
and the societies they constitute, and on modes of
knowledge, expression and communication of humans, animals
and other forms of life.
'MutaMorphosis' seeks a multiplicity of perspectives as well
as a qualified and diverse group of conference participants.
The conference will concentrate on the growing interest --
within the worlds of the arts, sciences and technologies --
in EXTREME AND HOSTILE ENVIRONMENTS. These environments
appear as symptomatic indicators of the mutations that are
taking place; they are potential vectors that make possible
an awareness of the different problems at the origin of the
disturbances that threaten the ensemble of the Earth's
eco-systems.
We invite practitioners in the arts, sciences, engineering
and humanities to submit abstracts that explore the limits
and extremes within the following streams of interest:
1. LIVING BEINGS
How do the arts and sciences deal with new ideas about
strategies of life in extreme conditions?
Keywords: adaptation, artificial life, bioart,
biotechnology, cell, cloning, control, emergence, ethics,
evolution, extremophilia, hybrid, limit, organization,
performativity, self-organization, strategy, survival,
symbiogenesis, symbiosis, tissue, transformation,
transgression, transplantation, unpredictability.
2. SPACE
How do the arts and sciences face radical scales and extreme
environments?
Keywords: Antarctica, astrophysics, colonisation, climate,
dark matter, dark energy, deserts, deteritorialization,
ethics, exobiology, exploration, geotagging, globalization,
map, macro, micro, nano, singularity, outer space, speed,
territory, underwater, vacuum.
3. COGNITION
How do the arts and sciences address evolving ideas about
cognition in extreme environments?
Keywords: collective intelligence, complexity, connectivity,
decision, deficiency, distributed, ethics, intelligence,
dysfunction, emotion, efficiency, information, instrument,
handicap, manipulation, memory, mobility, networked,
pathology, perception, sensorial, simulation, system,
therapy, visualization, web 2.0.
All submitted abstracts will be peer reviewed by an
international advisory panel. Submissions accepted and
presented at the conference will be published in the
conference proceedings.
500-word abstracts required by 31st of January 2007 via
email to mutamorphosis at ciant.cz
Please include URL of web site where your work is documented.
Join us in Prague 8th – 10th of November 2007.
Conference Steering Committee: Alban Asselin, Louis Bec,
Annick Bureaud, Don Foresta, Denisa Kera, Roger F. Malina
(co-chair: rfm.mutamorphosis at gmail.com), Louise Poissant,
Pavel Sedlák (co-chair: sedlak at ciant.cz), Pavel Smetana
Organiser: CIANT – International Centre for Art and New
Technologies in Prague (www.ciant.cz, CZ)
Co-organisers: Leonardo (www.leonardo.info , USA;
www.olats.org, FR) , Hexagram (www.hexagram.org, CAN),
Pépinières européenes pour jeunes artistes (www.art4eu.net, FR)
Partners: Centre for Global Studies at Charles University (http://cgs.flu.cas.cz, CZ), CYPRES Arts Sciences
Technologies Cultures (www.cypres-artech.org , FR), Czech
Academy of Sciences – Week of Science and Technology (www.avcr.cz/tydenvedy, CZ), French Institute in Prague (www.ifp.cz, CZ), MARCEL (www.mmmarcel.org, GB ) , UQAM (
www.uqam.ca , CAN) |