[Discussion] CFP: Distributed Aesthetics (12/20/04; journal issue)

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Distributed Aesthetics  Call for Papers for fibreculture journal
issue to be published May 2005

It has been widely argued by sociologists, cultural and media theorists
such as Manuel Castells, Arjun Appardurai and Geert Lovink that we now
live in a landscape shaped by the flows and traffic of globally
networked information. We have become, in Castells words, a
"society," and our cultural, social and economic practices must operate
within this global space of flows. The geography of place and history
in which association through physical proximity and tradition such as
neighbourhood, or through identification based upon race, class or sex,
recedes to give way to information space. Artists have responded to
this shifting cultural landscape by taking up the net itself as a
medium for practice, by forming their own artistic networks facilitated
by net infrastructure and functionality, and by critically responding
to what distributed spatio-temporalities might mean for the art object
itself, for art production and for audience interaction. Beyond the
identification of an historical art movement "net.art" distributed
aesthetics names ways of artistically operating in a time and space of
information flows, and of engendering modes of perception specific to
these flows.

In this issue of fibreculture journal, we are seeking contributions to
the aesthetic and artistic theorisation, use and development of
networked spaces, times and technologies. How, in short, has the
network considered in its broadest sense contributed technically and
culturally to contemporary modes of perception? Writers may approach
this from the perspective of speculative, empirical, historical and/or
critical theories. Specific case studies of online artistic practice,
the use of ICTs in artistic community and collaboration, politics and
networked aesthetics, and analyses of networked art projects are
encouraged.

Topics specifically sought for inclusion are:
-The differences between and relationship of new media aesthetics to=20
networked aesthetics
-The geopolitics of online artistic communities.
-Activism and online art/practice
-Theories of distributed time and space as they relate to the=20
production and management of perception.
-Artistic projects that operate in mixed =96 online/offline =96 modes.
-Online aesthetics after net.art, including wireless, mobile, p2p and=20
opens source models.

Distributed Aesthetics will be guest edited by Lisa Gye, Anna Munster
and Ingrid Richardson

Submission Dates:
Please submit a 250 word abstract outlining the principal argument of
your paper, its scope and major methodologies to Anna Munster, guest
editor of Distributed Aesthetics
No later than December 20, 2004
A.Munster@unsw.edu.au
<https://charon.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr/basilix/basilix.php?RequestID=CMPSNEW&premail=-1&is_js=1.4&is_ssl=1&cmps_to=A.Munster@unsw.edu.au>

Completed papers due: February 28, 2005

Dr. Anna Munster
Senior Lecturer
Post-Graduate Coordinator
School of Art History and Theory,
College of Fine Arts
University of NSW
P.O Box 259
Paddington, 2021
NSW
Australia
ph: 612 9385 0741
fx: 612 9385 0615



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