Digital Arts and Culture 2009: UC Irvine

Call for Papers/Proposals

DAC09: Themes

• Embodiment and performativity
• After mobile media
• Software/ platform studies
• Environment/ sustainability/ climate change
• Interdisciplinary pedagogy
• Cognition and creativity
• Sex and sexuality
• A Space-Time of Ubiquity and Embeddedness
• The Present and Future of Humanist Inquiry in the Digital Field
• Call for VaRiEtY Night presentations

At DAC07, an informal show and tell night for attendees was deemed a desirable inclusion in the program. At DAC09, we will continue this tradition in an informal 'pub' atmosphere at the UCI Anthill Pub and Grille. This is an opportunity to show documentation of projects and present other material.

• Can you swallow your cellphone, or juggle remotes?
• Do you play telematic tennis, compose epic poetry about database structures?
• Do you have a robot that does card tricks or DJs, or an AI system that composes and performs poetry?

Email DAC09Dir@uci.edu with DAC09Variety as subject line.

• The multi-talented Perry Hoberman will open the event singing some of his cycle of media-arts ballads, including the soon-to-be smash hit 'Motion Capture'.

We are also issuing a call for Artists for the Electronic Literary Arts Performances for DAC 2009. Available technology will be audio, projector, and wifi. Please email Jessica Pressman (Yale University) and Mark Marino (University of Southern California) [Subject: DAC Literary Arts] at DAC09LitArts@gmail.com with your proposals for first-round selections by May 15, 2009.
Volunteer!

• Ideas regarding events, geographically and temporally local tie-ins, sponsorship, constructive suggestions and offers of assistance gladly received.

Send to DAC09Dir@uci.edu with DAC09volunteer as subject line