[Discussion] CFP: Critical Essays on trAce (10/1/04; collection)

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Call for Abstracts: Critical Essays on trAce

Since 1996 the trAce Online Writing Centre http://trace.ntu.ac.uk has
published a wide range of new media writing projects, critical articles,
conference presentations and the frAme Journal of Culture and
Technology. It has also hosted a series of message boards, first a
webboard and more recently a forum, plus chat and MOO events logged on
the site. The website is an extensive repository of valuable materials
dating back almost ten years and includes projects such as The Noon
Quilt, Migrating Memories, Speedfactory, Lost, and Home, and work by
many writers and artists including Randy Adams, Mark Amerika, Michael
Atavar, Belinda Barnet, Catherine Byron, Linda Carroli, Nicholas Clauss,
Claire Dinsmore, Matthew Fuller, Teri Hoskin, Deena Larsen, Geert
Lovink, Marjorie Coverley Luesebrink, Mez, Simon Mills, Millie Niss,
Kate Pullinger, Melinda Rackham, Lehan Ramsey, Scott Rettberg, Francesca
da Rimini, Christy Sheffield Sanford, Alan Sondheim, Reiner Strasser,
Eugene Thacker, S!
ue Thomas, Helen Whitehead, and Tim Wright.

The planned volume represents a timely contribution to the emerging
discussion of the development of digital writing and of the creative
transitions experienced by both print-based writers experimenting with
the new medium, and by artists and programmers coming to it by other
routes. We envisage that the book will be read in conjunction with the
trAce website and be complementary to it.

We encourage essays that examine the materials publicly available on the
trAce site and place them within a critical and cultural context.
Discussions of the development of the trAce community would also be of
interest, and it may be possible to arrange private access to the
archived trAce webboard for research purposes. The trAce community has
been very instrumental in the development and support of many emerging
and established new media writers and artists, and accounts of those
experiences would be of interest, as would be interviews and studies of
those artists.

Essays selected for this collection will be intended for both scholarly
and educated general audiences. We aim to take a multi-disciplinary
approach and welcome contributions from writers and artists, new media
and literary critics, and scholars of digital culture.

Initial brief indications of interest would be welcome. Please contact
Sue Thomas at sue.thomas@ntu.ac.uk to discuss your idea.

To submit an essay for consideration, email an abstract of around
200-300 words to sue.thomas@ntu.ac.uk by 1st October 2004. Please
include a brief CV and identify any papers previously published or under
consideration elsewhere. It is expected that essays chosen for final
consideration will need to be completed by 1st September 2005 - final
deadline tbc.


Sue Thomas
Artistic Director
trAce Online Writing Centre
http://trace.ntu.ac.uk
The Nottingham Trent University
Clifton Lane
Nottingham NG11 8NS
ENGLAND
Tel: +44 (0)115 8483551
Fax: +44 (0)115 8486364

~ Incubation3 Symposium on Writing and the Internet 12-14 July 2004
http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/incubation/
~ Online Writing Courses for Creative People
http://www.tracewritingschool.com
~ new book... Hello World: travels in virtuality
http://www.travelsinvirtuality.com


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