CFP: Music, Indigeneity and Digital Media Symposium (Royal Holloway)

MUSIC, INDIGENEITY & DIGITAL MEDIA SYMPOSIUM

ROYAL HOLLOWAY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

15 - 16 APRIL 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS

This symposium will focus on the role of digital media in the musical practices of indigenous peoples and in musical representations of indigeneity. It builds on the expanding scholarship on music and technology, music and the politics of indigeneity, and the impact and role of the Internet in musical and indigenous communities. Key questions that it hopes to address include:

• How significant is digital media to indigenous musical practices?

• How do musicians balance new technologies with traditional practice?

• How do digital media offer musical encounters, negotiations and critiques of (post)modernity?

• Do digital media support or hinder the musical indigenous movement?

Other themes that may be explored include the impact of digital media on:

• representation and self determination through music

• musical constructions of place

• cultural revival and cultural repatriation

• musical production, mediation and consumption

• global musical communities and networks

• ethnographic methods, representing musical practices and ethics

For enquiries about the symposium please contact any of the organisers:

Thomas Hilder. t.r.hilder@rhul.ac.uk

Henry Stobart h.stobart@rhul.ac.uk

Shzr Ee Tan shzree.tan@rhul.ac.uk

CFP: Pop Culture Tools in the Music Classroom (publication)

POP CULTURE TOOLS IN THE MUSIC CLASSROOM

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

DEADLINE: 1 AUGUST 2009

Authors are invited to submit potential contributions to an essay collection on using popular culture in undergraduate- and graduate-level music courses. The essays should focus on teaching and learning tools derived from popular culture, and may also include generalized considerations of popular-culture texts. The collection is intended to serve as a framework for course design or as a supplementary text in either pedagogy or music classes. Approaches concerning methods of using popular culture to address either art or vernacular musics, from the disciplines of musicology, ethnomusicology, music theory and analysis, and performance studies are welcome. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

· electronic media such as mp3s and other digital audio; Ipod culture;streamed radio

· multimedia sources, including YouTube, music videos, television shows,movies, soundtracks

· videogames such as Guitar Hero, Rock Band, Dance Dance Revolution, and others

· online environments such as Second Life

· covers, versioning, parodies, mashups

**Essays should be 6,000-10,000 words in length and conform to /Chicago Manual of Style/ guidelines. Authors will be responsible for acquiring any necessary permissions for copyrighted materials included in their works. Text should be submitted as Word files (.doc or .rtf format),with musical examples in .tif, .pdf, .jpg, .gif, or .bmp format (.tifs are preferred).

The collection will be published by Scarecrow Press in 2010. Materials should be submitted electronically to Nicole Biamonte at (nbiamonte@gmail.com) by *August 1, 2009*. Please include:

1) a cover letter or message, including the author’s name and essay title

2) an abstract of approximately 200 words

3) the proposed contribution, with author’s name and other identifying information omitted

4) a brief biography (50 to 100 words)

5) a current cv

Goldsmiths Thursday Club (Goldsmiths, University of London)

GOLDSMITHS THURSDAY CLUB

OPEN CALL FOR PROJECTS & PROPOSALS

2009 - 2010 SEASON

DEADLINE: 29 JULY 2009

The Thursday Club is an open forum discussion group for anyone interested in the theories and practices of cross-disciplinarity, interactivity, technologies and philosophies of the state-of-the-art in today’s (and tomorrow’s) cultural landscape(s). The Club is supported by the Goldsmiths Digital Studios (GDS) and the Goldsmiths Graduate School.

Originally set up in October 2005 by GDS as a more informal setting for research discussions, it has grown to include over 200 members: artists, technologists, scientists – in fact, a growing diversity of people from different communities worldwide, that are connected via a mailing list and online forum.

Most importantly, there are regular meetings in ‘real’ space at the Ben Pimlott site of Goldsmiths, University of London. Anyone can attend these events. By keeping these meetings free, informal and open to all, we provide a platform for diverse and open ended discourse, for people who perhaps would not have the opportunity to discuss ideas outside of their chosen discipline.

The Thursday Club brings together people from diverse fields and degrees of expertise, aiming to initiate discussion and debates among postgraduate students, researchers, academics, artists, theorists, and other cultural practitioners.

Since it focuses on interdisciplinary practices, the Club is interested to experiment with innovative formats of presentation that are appropriate to the nature of the subject. We particularly welcome the proposal of round table discussions, panels, screenings, ‘hearings’, live gigs and performance lectures. We are also interested to platform experimental work-in-progress of both practical and theoretical nature.

Submission Materials

1. A Title and 300 word abstract of your proposal

2. A 1,000 word proposal that will substantiate your abstract as well as include information regarding issues of methodologies and format of presentation; also, this should explain why you think that the Thursday Club is an appropriate forum for the presentation of your work.

2. A 200 word biog

3. Your contact details: name, address, email, telephone number

4. Any relevant links to your work

5. A jpg of your work (if relevant)

Please send any submissions by email to Prof. Janis Jefferies

(j.jefferies@gold.ac.uk) and Patrick Tresset (ma701pt@gold.ac.uk) writing

‘Thursday Club Submission’ as a Subject.

The deadline for the 1st submission of proposals is 10AM, 29th July 2009.

The submissions will be reviewed by the Thursday Club Board and you will hear by the end of August 09.

THURSDAY CLUB BOARD

Dr. Tim Blackwell

Lecturer in Computing, Goldsmiths; co-Head, Live Algorithms for Music Network.

Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka Maria X]

Lecturer in Theatre and Performance - School of Arts and New Media - University of Hull @ Scarborough; Cultural Practitioner.

Kelli Dipple

Webcasting Curator, Tate.

Prof. Janis Jefferies, Thursday Club Convener

Professor of Visual Arts, Department of Computing, Goldsmiths; Co-director

Goldsmiths Digital Studios; Director Constance Howard Resource and

Research Centre in Textiles; Curator; Artist.

Alex McLean

PhD Candidate Goldsmiths Digital Studios; Sound artist.

Myrto Karanika

MFA Goldsmiths Digital Studios.

Dr. Sarah Kember

Reader in New Technologies of Communication, Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths; Writer.

Nanda Khaorapapong

MFA Goldsmiths Digital Studios.

Prof. Carrie Paechter

Professor of Educational Studies, Goldsmiths; Dean of Goldsmiths Graduate School.

Stanza

Artist

Patrick Tresset

PhD Candidate Goldsmiths Digital Studios; Artist.

Prof. John Wood

Professor in Design, Goldsmiths.

Matthew Fuller

Reader, Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths; Writer.

CFP: International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media (journal)

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PERFORMANCE ARTS AND DIGITAL MEDIA
DANCING ACROSS FILM, TELEVISION AND THE DIGITAL SCREEN
CALL FOR PAPERS

The contemporary visual landscape is littered with images of performing bodies located in multiple screen contexts, from dedicated art dance film festivals through to prime time reality television shows. The potential for dance to achieve n-screen viewing figures scarcely imaginable in comparison to theatre dance audiences is evidenced by the YouTube clip, Evolution of Dance, a whirlwind demonstration of popular dance through the decades, which received 76.7 million hits. This special edition of the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media explores both contemporary and historical enquiry into the production and reception of performing bodies across the film, television and digital screen. Possible questions that might inform this critical discourse regarding screen dance research are:

* What is the relationship between economics and screen dance production and how does the performing body operate as a vehicle of commercialisation and promotion within these sites?

* To what extent is screen dance shaped by the politics and policy of commissioning editors and executive producers and what relationship do guerrilla filmmakers have to this official framework of production?

* How do the multiple contexts for screen performance inform the aesthetics of dance on screen and how do they create different spectatorship experiences?

* What is the impact of new and extant film-making technologies on the performing body and how has this changed understandings of dance-making?

* How is dance mediated and re-presented in order to achieve popular appeal and in what ways does this reproduce or challenge cultural assumptions about dance?

* Given the global circulation of screen dance images, how are these representations understood within localised contexts of reception?

IJPADM is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal drawing contributions from a wide range of researchers and practitioners who are placed at the rapidly developing interface of new technologies with performance arts. Given the interdisciplinary nature of screen dance practice, proposals are invited from artists, scholars and professionals working across the fields of dance and performance studies, film, television and media studies, cultural studies, history and other related disciplines.

All papers must be submitted by 1st July 2009
Intended publication date: December 2009.

Details for submissions and notes for contributors can be found at:
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals.php?issn=14794713

All papers are to be submitted to Dr Sherril Dodds, Guest Editor.
Dr Sherril Dodds, Department of Dance, Film and Theatre Studies, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH (s.dodds@surrey.ac.uk)

General enquiries can be addressed to Dave Collins, Editor.

CFP: International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media (journal)

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PERFORMANCE ARTS AND DIGITAL MEDIA
ALTERNATIVE MATERIALITIES: SCENOGRAPHY IN DIGITAL PERFORMANCE
CALL FOR PAPERS

The International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media (IJPADM) is seeking contributions to a special issue that will engage specifically scenographic thinking about technologies in performance.

Taking scenography to mean the materiality of performance – the sum total of the performance space, scenery, costume, lighting, sound, video, and so on – we want to address scenography and its associated practices in relation to digital media. The widespread adoption of digital media across the field of performance arts has proposed alternative materialities that have sometimes radically disrupted existing scenographic practices, and sometimes perpetuated established practices through new means. New possibilities have brought new ways of thinking and doing, and new goals.

Previous scholarly accounts of these developments have only occasionally acknowledged scenographic practices as such, so we want now to engage specifically with digital media from a scenographic perspective, including their use as scenographic materials and the challenge that they have presented to the working practices of (amongst others) set, costume, lighting, sound and video designers. The Scenography special edition aims to generate ‘scenographic thinking’ by taking the physical materials of performance, and the performance-makers who manipulate them, as a starting point in approaching the use of digital media in live performance.

IJPADM is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal drawing contributions from a wide range of researchers and practitioners who are placed at the rapidly developing interface of new technologies with performance arts. Within the journal’s overall remit and the above agenda, themes for contributions to the Scenography special edition might include, but are not limited to:

*Specific uses of digital media in performance scenography
*The impact of new media on traditional scenographic practices
*Changing ways of working and collaborating
*The intersection between ‘mainstream’ and ‘avant-garde’ scenographic practices
*The relationship between the academy and professional scenographic practice
*The scenographic as a critical ‘point of view’ from which to observe digital performance
*Digital media and the scenographic as a mode of enquiry into performance
*Digital tools in the scenographer’s process.

All papers must be submitted by 1st November 2009.

Intended publication date: April/May 2010.

Details for submissions and notes for contributors can be found at:
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals.php?issn=14794713

All papers are to be submitted to Nick Hunt, Guest Editor.

General enquiries can be addressed to Dave Collins, Editor.

Nick Hunt
Head of School: Design, Management and Technical Arts
Rose Bruford College
Lamorbey Park
Burnt Oak Lane
Sidcup
Kent
DA15 9DF
020 8308 2650
nick.hunt [at] bruford.ac.uk