[Discussion] CFP: Hybrid Identities (grad) (1/17/05; 3/18/05-3/20/05)

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Intersections 2005: HYBRID ENTITIES

Call For Proposals

A Graduate Student Creative Conference
Hosted by the students of the
Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture
York University and Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
March 18-20, 2005

We invite all interested graduate students to join us for our 4th annual
Intersections event, expanded this year into a weekend Creative
Conference. As scholars doing interdisciplinary work in a joint
programme, we are especially interested in encountering and generating
significant intersections of art, activism and academia. How can we
remix resistance? What can mongrel media make possible? How does
contemporary culture rework us? Which beings, theories, technologies,
cultures, languages, representations and values compound into
interesting hybrid entities and identities?

HYBRID ENTITIES is a call for works that take up what is revealed when
entities collide and the creative or transformative possibilities in
interesting combinations and connections.  After last year?s successful
conference around themes of lag, error, breaks and gaps, our focus now
turns to links, networks, compositions and new creations. We are
interested in submissions that explore these intersections where names
have not yet been given, where identities are still being formed and
where new problems and possibilities for bridging the gaps among
scholarly disciplines, and between scholars, artists and activists can
be found.

Open to all graduate students, this interdisciplinary conference
welcomes submissions that take up these themes either through a paper
presentation, an artistic expression, or an activist agenda. Details on
subtopics and submission procedures follow below.

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SUBTOPICS AND THEMES
Invited submissions include papers, artwork and activist presentations
that relate to the following broad themes:

Media and Culture
Topics could include (but are not limited to) subjectivity, popular and
visual culture, media studies, cultural consumption and production,
media democracy, representations of sexualities/race/ethnicity, gender
studies, portrayals of social class, depictions of ability/disability,
semiotics and linguistics, cultures of cities, space and place.

Technology in Practice
Submissions in this category might address (but are not limited to)
questions regarding technology's emergent role in theoretical and
practical debates surrounding art, authenticity, and aesthetics,
negotiations of accessibility and identity, race and gender,
explorations in the concepts of the cyborg, the post-human, and
technoculture.

Politics and Policy
Potential areas of focus could include (but are not limited to)
strategies of resistance, questions of structure, power and agency,
deliberations about the communication and culture and the public sphere,
sovereignty, accessibility, cultural policy, citizenship, globalization,
copyright and intellectual property, privacy and surveillance, media
ownership in Canada, communication policy.

SUBMISSION FORMAT/DEADLINES
As an expanded event, this year HYBRID ENTITIES will include the
following formats for disseminating and discussing ideas.

=B7   Paper presentations
- 15 min. presentation of an academic paper with time for discussion to
follow

=B7   Creative work with artist's talk
- Artwork/media for exhibition, accompanied by artist talk during confere=
nce

=B7   Poster session (with possible roundtable discussion)
- Presentation of materials in a poster and/or table display with
discussant. If there is enough interest, these displays may be followed
by a roundtable discussion.

Although these formats are tailored to accommodate academic papers,
artwork and activist contributions respectively, all participants are
encouraged to apply for whatever format is most interesting or
appropriate for your submission.

All interested participants are asked to submit a textual abstract or
artist's statement explaining the proposed presentation in light of the
conference themes, and indicate which of the above three formats the
presentation would take.

Abstract or statement should be no more than 250 words (approx. 1
typewritten page, double spaced) and submitted via email as an
attachment in .TXT, .RTF, or Microsoft Word format.

Name and contact information should not appear on this page. Please
include a separate page with the following information:
1. Title of presentation as it appears on the abstract or statement
2. Name
3. Affiliation (program and university)
4. Level and year of study (ex. Master's, 2nd year)
5. Phone number
6. E-mail address
7. Mailing address
8. A/V requirements (computer/projector, film projector, VCR, stereo,
turntables, etc.)
9. Other requirements (table, easel, hooks, display materials). If you
have exceptional requirements for your work, please contact us to
discuss feasibility.

Artists are also asked to submit a small sample of their work for
adjudication, by either email or post.

If sending creative works by email, please submit up to 10 jpegs sized
to display onscreen or a multimedia clip with cumulative attachment size
of 5mb or less. You may also direct us to an URL. Please number the
pieces and put viewing instructions, comments and titles in your email
if applicable.

If submitting creative works by post, please mail the proposal well
before the deadline with a self-addressed, stamped envelope for return
to: Intersections, c/o Graduate Communication and Culture, 3068 TEL
Building, York University, 4700 Keele St. Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3.  You may
send a CD, DVD, cued video or other multimedia, the duration of which
does not exceed 10 minutes. Alternatively, you may send up to 10 slides
or printouts of work, illustrations or diagrams. Please include a slide
or media list with title, size, media, and date, and viewing
instructions for your work if applicable. Please do not send original wor=
k.

Deadline:  MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 2005.

Please e-mail submissions to: intersect@ryerson.ca

For inquires and info e-mail: tanner1@yorku.ca

CFP available online:    http://www.yorku.ca/cocugsa/conference.html

Presented by the Communication and Culture Graduate Students
Association: http://www.yorku.ca/cocugsa

For more information about the Joint Programme in Communication and
Culture: http://www.yorku.ca/comcult/

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Peter M. Ryan, MA
Communication and Culture Doctoral Student
Ryerson University

Mobile Phone: 416.706.1792



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