educationalinsights.ca
Call For Papers for 2010
Teresa Dobson, Academic Editor | Michael Boyce, Managing
Editor
Born Digital (Contemporary Art and Education)
Over the last 20 years a new generation of art and literature born as electronic,
or borne within distributive digital channels, has developed in tandem with
new ways of defining, measuring and decoding them (i.e. reading), and
along side new delivery mechanisms for pedagogical methods and practices. Born
Digital wishes to explore these new artifacts and their new distributive
form in the context of pedagogy and artistic practice.
A wide range of new forms wherein narrative is restructuring and redefining
itself are of interest: Blog novels; E-literature; Narrative within locative
applications such as google maps and geo-tagging with GPS; RSS poetics; Narrative
in the context of mobile games and social media applications such as youtube,
flickr and facebook. Likewise, consideration and analysis of the digital
artifacts born out these media is of interest to us.
We are interested in playing with the concept of being Born Digital,
taking into account multiple meanings of Born, including: Existing
as a result of birth; Having a natural or perfectly suited ability; Existing
as a result of a particular situation or feeling; And keeping in mind its homonym Borne,
to play with a notion of transport, of delivery, of support and endurance.
Generally, we support submissions using an original approach, which avoid excessive
commentary on any canon, and we encourage efforts to express the matter within
the structure of the medium itself. That being said, we expect rigorously
critical investigation within the parameters of any play.
Please submit your précis by June 15, 2009 to educational.insights@ubc.ca
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