[IxDA Discuss] Conference in Perth

[Nathan]

> Call for Papers - Please distribute to relevant forums
>
> perthDAC 2007 - The Future of Digital Media Culture
> 7th International Digital Arts and Culture Conference
> 15 -18th September 2007, Perth, Australia.
> http://www.beap.org/dac
>
> KEYWORDS - computer games, hypertext theory and literature, new  
> media narrative, streaming media, interactive and networked  
> performance, digital aesthetics, interactive cinema, theory, art,  
> bio-art, nano-art, augmented reality, cyberculture, electronic  
> fiction, electronic music, electronic art, games culture, games  
> system design, games theory, interactive architecture, cinema and  
> video, MOOs, MUDs, RPG, virtual reality, virtual worlds.
>
> ABOUT perthDAC
> perthDAC is the seventh iteration of Digital Arts and Culture. DAC  
> was the first conference to attract and present the work of  
> researchers, practitioners and artists working across the field of  
> digital arts, cultures, aesthetics and design.
>
> In September 2007, DAC will be hosted as the key international  
> conference in the public program of the Biennale of Electronic Arts  
> Perth (BEAP)  in Perth, Australia. BEAP celebrates and critiques  
> new and novel technologies (digital, bio, nano, other) by  
> showcasing artworks made with, or that are about, new technologies.  
> perthDAC's conference program will be closely inter-woven with  
> BEAP's exhibitions.
>
> perthDAC's academic programme is being developed with the close co- 
> operation and support of the fibreculture forum, who will also be  
> active on the perthDAC conference steering committee.
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS
> Papers are sought for PerthDAC 2007 that will illuminate both the  
> near and long term Future of Digital Media Culture. Papers which  
> present research outcomes, track trends or developments, describe  
> case studies or works in progress, are speculative projection,  
> challenge existing paradigms or record a history, are all welcome.  
> Submissions are encouraged from any professional, craft or  
> scholarly field that relates to communications art/design, cultural  
> expression, practice and aesthetics, and the technical means by  
> which they are enabled.
>
> perthDAC 2007 accepts submissions from fields such as the  
> humanities, social sciences, human-computer interaction and  
> computer science studies, as well as those working both practically  
> and theoretically in specific areas such as: digital/interactive  
> art, digital/electronic literature, game studies, online  
> communities, new media studies, affective computing, experience  
> design, virtual environment design, etc.
>
> Topics of interests may include, but are not limited to, computer  
> games, hypertext theory and literature, new media narrative,  
> streaming media, interactive and networked performance, digital  
> aesthetics, interactive cinema, theory, art, bio-art, nano-art,  
> augmented reality, cyberculture, electronic fiction, electronic  
> music, electronic art, games culture, games system design, games  
> theory, interactive architecture, cinema and video, MOOs, MUDs,  
> RPG, virtual reality, virtual worlds.
>
> Artists, early career scholars and PhD students are particularly  
> encouraged to submit.
> All abstracts and then full papers will be double blind peer  
> reviewed by an international panel, and will be published in the  
> proceedings. Some papers will be published as a special themed  
> journal edition.
>
> Dates for the submission of 500 word abstracts and then full papers  
> are:
> Abstracts: 14th August 2006
> Full papers: 4th December 2006
>
> See the perthDAC website “method” page for more details on the  
> abstracts, papers and presentations process.
>
> perthDAC website http://www.beap.org/dac

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