[ecrea] CFP: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Documenting Performance (IJPADM)

*The International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media 
(IJPADM) is seeking contributions to a special issue on 
interdisciplinary approaches to documenting performance.*

The formation of the working group on Documenting Performance within the 
Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA) in the UK has 
provided a new platform for researchers to share their works-in-progress 
or finished projects with others working on similar studies and/or 
practical applications for documenting performance. Stemming from the 
success of the initial symposia and conference sessions of this working 
group, as well as the work of the Media & Memory Research Initiative at 
the University of Hull, the International Journal of Performance Arts 
and Digital Media is keen to dedicate an entire issue to examples of 
different approaches to documenting performance, as observed and 
practiced in disciplines other than theatre and dance, such as 
architecture, digital humanities, visual arts, archaeology, etc.

All submissions will be given due consideration, particularly because 
interdisciplinary interests can often be found in what appear to be 
discipline-specific projects. To this end, we also encourage 
contributors exploring the problems related to documenting performance. 
Articles will possibly revolve around (but not limited to) the following 
questions:

   * Why do performance scholars and/or practitioners find
     documentation so problematic?
   * What are the new realities we’re faced with in an era where new
     technologies (including high definition remote screenings of live
     performances) have extended the meaning of liveness beyond
     anything most would have been comfortable considering just a
     decade ago?
   * Are new technologies and contemporary working practices bringing
     theatre and performance closer to music in terms of shrinking the
     separation between the act of performance and the document of
     performance?
   * What role do performance archives play in an age of digital mass
     (re)production?
   * If documentation is something other than performance, what is it
     exactly?


Essays should be between 5,000 and 8,000 words, and include images as 
appropriate. We are seeking essays authored by practitioners, 
researchers and scholars. Co-authored articles are also welcome. Feel 
free to contact (t.sant /at/ hull.ac.uk) with questions, ideas or abstracts 
ahead of the deadline.

*Please submit your essay, formatted according to Intellect style by 1 
June 2013. *

*Essays should be emailed to: (t.sant /at/ hull.ac.uk)*

/This issue of the International Journal of Performance Arts & Digital 
Media is scheduled for publication in 2014. /

/Further details available at 
http://www.m3p.com.mt/media/wiki/8/8e/PADM-CfP10.1.pdf/