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SCANZ 2009 Raranga Tangata Symposium: Interconnections

Govett-Brewster Art Gallery
February 7th and 8th 2009
New Plymouth
Aotearoa New Zealand

Registration is required - $120 full registration, $60 for ADA members. To register now click here.

Interconnections
Chaos theory, Complexity, Cybernetics, Post-structuralism
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Pasifika, Aboriginal, Indigenous, Indian, Asian, Polynesian and Maori Knowledge and Belief systems

The symposium theme is Interconnections. We are particularly seeking papers and presentations that locate interconnections between Aboriginal, Indigenous, Indian, Asian, Pasifika, Maori or Polynesian knowledge and belief systems, and a view based on integrated systems. There are also two sessions available for presentations or papers that involve collaboration within the symposium theme.

Following are excerpts from papers which provide an introduction (only) to the themes of the symposium. We are expecting a diversity, so anticipate that proposals may involve subjects not outlined in the linked files below.

Introduction to integrated systems with Pasifika and Maori view download

Introduction to integrated systems (chaos and complexity) download

Nonlinearity, structuralism, post-structuralism and integrated systems download

Proposal deadline: October 15th 2008

We are seeking papers and artist presentations which interrogate, examine, tease, put forward, discuss, postulate, propose, analyse, synthesise, combine, hybridise, expound and tickle ideas around the above subjects. We are also interested in audio-visual art works that can be displayed via data projector.

The symposium will be held at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery on the final weekend of the SCANZ residency.

Papers will be considered for peer reviewed publication in the SCANZ book to follow the residency and symposium. Paper presentations at the symposium are expected to be 30 minutes, consisting of 20 minutes of presenting then 10 minutes for discussion. The symposium is ‘all in’ – everyone will experience all sessions. Proposals for artist presentations are open in terms of format - we expect but do not limit proposals to documentation in the form of video, DVD, CD, animation, website, speech, text, image, software, code and Open Source projects.

Application process

Download the symposium proposal rtf, fill it out and email your abstract to i dot clothier at witt dot ac dot nz. The deadline for abstracts is 5pm, October 15th 2008. If your abstract for a paper is selected, the full paper of 2500-3000 words is due on the 19th of January 2009. This gives one week to distribute the paper to peers, one week for reading the papers and then the second week of SCANZ for discussion. Selected writers are encouraged to attend SCANZ for several days prior to the symposium, to enable deeper discussion.

Schedule

October 15th 2008: Abstracts for papers or artist presentation abstracts due
January 19th 2009: Full papers due for peer review
January 26th 2009: SCANZ residency starts for selected residency participants
Friday 30th January 2009: start of write/reflect focus week - writers welcome
February 4th: pre-symposium writers arrive
February 7th and 8th 2009: Symposium - papers and presentations given
February 2010: Publication launch

Notes for authors/presenters/artists

1. Proposals for presentations could refer to:
Aboriginal, Indigenous, Indian, Asian, Pasifika, Maori or Polynesian knowledge and belief systems
Integrated systems, including ideas around chaos, complexity and/or post-structuralism
Interconnections between the above
Digital media and Aboriginal, Indigenous, Indian, Asian, Pasifika, Maori or Polynesian context
Digital media and Aboriginal, Indigenous, Indian, Asian, Pasifika, Maori or Polynesian projects
Intersections between Pasifika and digital media context
Cultural hybridity and digital media practice context and projects
Collaboration
Collaboration, cross cultural, interdisciplinary

2. Process for peer reviewed papers
If you are interested in submitting a paper to the peer reviewed publication please note the following. Firstly, we are not expecting papers to be read at the symposium, rather that a summary of the paper is presented and key points highlighted.

The length of papers submitted to peer review should be 2500-3000 words maximum long. The process for peer reviewed papers is that the paper is written prior to the symposium and uploaded to the symposium peer review website one week before the symposium. A presentation based on the paper is then given at the symposium. There is therefore an opportunity to discuss the paper with peers in the days leading up to, and during the symposium. The intention here is that discussion with peers can occur in the week prior to the symposium, at the writers/thinkers workshop attached to the residency.

Following the symposium the formal peer review process takes place culminating in a publication launched around twelve months after the symposium ends.

3. Attending the symposium are Sally Jane Norman, Dr Hermann Pi'ikea Clarke and Danny Butt. Presentation times are under discussion. Beryl Graham of CRUMB has agreed to be involved in the peer review of the publication.

4. Proposed conference schedule

 

Intercreativity

Create – to bring about or make from nothing, in the twentieth century often by a single creator in an analogue environment.

 

Intercreate - to create across or between disciplines, often with multiple authors and intersecting a digital environment.