[ecrea] TRANSFORMING CULTURE IN DIGITAL AGE: Call for papers

*TRANSFORMING CULTURE IN DIGITAL AGE: Call for papers
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Tartu, Estonia, 14-16 April, 2010
http://www.transforminculture.eu

Increasingly, we see new forms of culture being 
born in the variety of online environments. Users 
have become producers taking over production of 
online content and traditional hierarchies of 
users and producers are collapsing. At the same 
time, traditional memory institutions like 
museums, archives, libraries and acknowledged 
artists struggle to make sense of the 
transformations that are coming together with new 
technologies. In this interdisciplinary 
conference we aim to look at the questions as how 
such developments influence culture - how is 
culture transformed in the digital age with a 
specific focus on the intersection of individuals 
and institutions. We hope to look at the notion 
of culture and transformations of the cultural 
heritage through a variety of disciplines ranging 
from arts and history to heritage studies and 
from museum studies to sociology and from media 
and literature studies to archival studies. The 
conference calls for variety of people both 
researchers and practitioners to discuss and 
analyze how digital culture is produced and 
consumed both in traditional and new forms.

This conference aims to explore the questions 
above through wide variety of themes. Possible 
paper topics are (but not limited to):

*CONFERENCE THEMES*

I ROLE OF INDIVIDUAL IN THE CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION
1. Changing User

·         User, consumer, creator, producer?

·         User as a creator of the content

·         Role of the user in the heritage world

·         Cultural participation

·         Using globalised content

·         Global or local user practices?

·         Digital libraries and user preferences

·         User in the archives: practices and expectations

·         Museum collections in the hand of the visitor

2. Re-Mediating Personal Memory

·         New forms of storytelling and expression

·         Blogging your own history

·         Digital photos and videos as part of self

·         Re-imaging self in the digital age


II CULTURAL MEMORY AND MEMORY INSTITUTIONS
3. Rewriting Cultural Memory

·         Rewriting the histories of arts

·         Changing hierarchies: canon, centre and periphery

·         New cultural history and the reception strategies

·         Role of the audiovisual archives

·         Archive as a creator of the content of memory

·         Digital resources of the cultural memory

4. Cultural Heritage

·         Questioning and interpreting the concept of heritage

·         From national to global: collections as a determining power

·         Collecting heritage today

·         The role and the future of the original

·         Future perspectives on different memory institutions

·         Making digital content available

·         Cultural heritage and Web 2.0 strategy


III LANGUAGE OF ART
5. Digital Literature

·         The perspectives of digital literature

·         Hypertext and cybertext theory

·         Author and the cyberspace

·         Reader and the cyberspace

·         Electronic poetry and electronic narratives
·         Blogging and literature

·         Fan culture in Internet

·         Creating new canons: questioning the borders of literature

6. Digital Art

·         Digital creativity

·         Immaterial art and real artists

·         Creativity in surveillance environment

·         Artworks  between locations

·         New media art and problems of reception

·         Digital art and authorship

·         New media art education

*Confirmed Keynote Speakers* (alphabetically listed):
*Marju Lauristin* - Marju Lauristin is a 
professor of social communication at University 
of Tartu, she has studied cultural changes from 
the user's perspective since 1960s and has 
closely observed the changes related to new media.
*Edward Shanken *- Edward A. Shanken writes and 
teaches about the entwinement of art, science, 
and technology with a focus on interdisciplinary 
practices involving new media. He is Universitair 
Docent in New Media, University of Amsterdam, and 
a member of the Media Art History faculty at the 
Donau University in Krems, Austria.
Additional keynotes will be announced on the conference website.

Please submit a 500-word abstract with the name 
and institutional affiliation of the speaker 
(mailing address & email address) through our 
conference website: http://www.transformingculture.eu

**

*Schedule:*
Deadline for abstracts: November 23, 2009.
Deadline for acceptance information: December 14, 2009.
Deadline for submitting the completed full-papers 
(approx 4000 words): March 1, 2010.

Deadline for Early Bird registration: March 1,  2010
Deadline for late registration: April 1, 2010

Conference takes place April 14-16, 2010.

Based on completed papers ISBN-numbered and 
edited e-book will be published by the time of 
the conference. Negotiations for publishing the 
proceedings or selection of extended papers in a 
paper version  of a book or special issue of a journal are under way.

For further details about the conference please visit:
http://transformingculture.eu

If you have further questions about the 
conference, please do not hesitate to contact our 
conference staff: Agnes Aljas and Maarja Savan.
E-Mail: (transformingculture.conference /at/ gmail.com)

*Conference organizing committee*:

M.A. Agnes Aljas,  Estonian National Museum and University of Tartu
Prof. Raivo Kelomees, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tartu Art College
Dr. Marin Laak, Estonian Literary Museum
M.A. Piret Noorhani, Estonian Literary Museum and 
Baltic Audiovisual Archival Council
Dr. Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, University of 
Tartu and Estonian National Museum
M.A. Pille Runnel, Estonian National Museum
Dr. Jaak Tomberg, Estonian Literary Museum
Prof. Piret Viires, Tallinn University and Estonian Literary Museum

Conference secretary: Maarja Savan, Estonian 
Literary Museum; e-mail: (transformingculture.conference /at/ gmail.com)

Conference is jointly organized by Estonian 
Literary Museum, Estonian National Museum, 
University of Tartu Institute of Journalism and 
communication, Baltic Audiovisual Archival 
Council, and supported by Estonian Science Fund Grants no: 7162, 7679, 8006.

Associated organizations: Tallinn University and Estonian Academy of Arts



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