CFP: CREATIVE MEDIA
Culture Machine vol. 11; http://www.culturemachine.net
edited by Sarah Kember and Joanna Zylinska (both
at Goldsmiths, University of London)
This is a call for papers and non-papers alike.
It is open to artists, intellectuals, writers,
philosophers, analysts, scientists, journalists
and media professionals who have something to
say about the media that extends beyond the
conventional forms of media analysis. It is also
a call for enacting a different, creative mode
of doing ?media studies?. Taking seriously both
the philosophical legacy of what the Kantian and
Foucauldian tradition calls ?critique?, and the
transformative and interventionist energy of the
creative arts, we are looking for playful,
experimental yet rigorous cross-disciplinary
interventions and inventions that are equally at
home with critical theory and media practice,
and that can make a difference academically,
institutionally, politically, ethically and aesthetically.
This creative media project arises out of an
attempt on our part to work through and
reconcile, in a manner that would be
?satisfactory? on both an intellectual and
artistic level, academic writing and creative
practice. This effort has to do with more than
just the usual anxieties associated with
attempts to breach the ?theory-practice? divide
and negotiate the associated issues of rigour,
skill, technical competence and aesthetic
judgement. Working in and with creative media is
for us first and foremost an epistemological
question of how we can perform knowledge
differently through a set of practices that also ?produce things?.
?Creative media? functions as both a theme and a
methodology for us here then. Our aim is to
produce an issue ?about creative media? by means
of a variety of creative media. We are therefore
seeking works which are situated across the
conventional boundaries of theory and practice,
art and activism, social sciences and the
humanities. Such works can take a variety of
forms essays on, polemics with regard to, and
performances of what it means to ?do media? both
creatively and critically. They can also
incorporate a variety of media, from moving and
still images, through to podcasts, wikis and
tweets, to creative writing and traditional
papers. (And yes, language also counts as a medium.)
Executive summary (of sorts)
We are looking for surprising, inventive and
original work on media that does something
different, is equally at home with critical
theory and media practice, and plays with the medium of the media.
Deadline for submissions: 15 October 2009
Potential contributors are encouraged to contact
the editors prior to this date to discuss their possible submissions.
Please submit your contributions by email to:
Joanna Zylinska & Sarah Kember:
<(j.zylinska /at/ gold.ac.uk)> & <(s.kember /at/ gold.ac.uk)>
All contributions will be peer-reviewed.
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Established in 1999, CULTURE MACHINE
http://www.culturemachine.net is a fully
refereed, open-access journal of cultural
studies and cultural theory. It has published
work by established figures such as Mark
Amerika, Alain Badiou, Jacques Derrida, Henry
Giroux, Mark Hansen, N. Katherine Hayles,
Ernesto Laclau, J. Hillis Miller, Bernard
Stiegler, Cathryn Vasseleu and Samuel Weber, but
it is also open to publications by up-and-coming
writers, from a variety of geopolitical locations.
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Dr Joanna Zylinska
Department of Media and Communications
Goldsmiths, University of London
My website: http://www.joannazylinska.net
Co-editor of Culture Machine: http://www.culturemachine.net
* New book: Bioethics in the Age of New Media *
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11759
