[ecrea] cfp: Beyond the text form: digital culture and new epistemologies

Beyond the text form: digital culture and new epistemologies
International Conference

September 25-26, 2014
Universidad de las Américas Puebla
Puebla
Mexico

(Please reply to: (conocimientonotextual /at/ gmail.com))

Call for papers

Beyond the text form: art, digital culture and new epistemologies
explores new cultural forms and practices developed in the digital age
that challenge or undermine hegemonic modes of knowledge production
historically linked to the written text. The conference is especially
interested in hosting discussions focusing on the creation and renewal
of non-textual strategies that open the possibility of articulating
different forms of knowledge production. We consider that art-based
research, digital communities and open access, expanded forms of
writing, performance and multimedia digital interventions are among the
strategies that are challenging the traditional conceptions of
knowledge. The conference does not only seek to identify these new forms
and to explore how they are strengthened by practices through an
expanding textual knowledge, but also it pretends to shed light onto the
possibilities they open to renegotiate the unequal geopolitical
distribution of knowledge between the production centers and
peripheries. A central question is whether non-textual media or new
digital forms respond differently to concrete needs through a local
epistemological production instead of a modern, textual and universal
knowledge?

We invite scholars, artists and students from all disciplines related to
the Arts and Humanities as well as the Social Sciences (cultural
studies, philosophy, media studies, communications, psychology, history,
visual arts, sociology, political science, and related fields)
interested in exploring and discussing these issues in a collective,
deliberative and dialogical environment to send abstract proposals that
address one of the following topics:
a) Epistemology and digitalization. Digitalization and the different
practices related to it offer new ways of relating to knowledge
production, distribution and access. Avoiding quick optimism,
digitalization might be just an extension of the traditional and textual
geopolitical order of knowledge. This is why it is fundamental to
critically analyze the pragmatic and epistemological features of these
new digital forms of knowledge practices.

b) Knowledge and art: theory/practice. As a way of mapping non hegemonic
forms of knowledge production, we are interested in discussing artistic
strategies and its epistemological implications: from collective social
endeavors to multimedia interventions in public spaces and new
curatorial proposals. These interventions are increasingly important in
the construction and contestation of historical and political imagery
through non textual strategies –examples of the current transformation
of knowledge generation and the ways to experience it.

c) Expanded forms of writing: new media and social practices. The role
of writing as an epistemological paradigm has long started to be
rethought through digital tools and/or communities in the periphery in
terms of knowledge production. This has important implications that need
to be explored as it has become manifest that the text is not the only
medium of knowledge construction and that it need not always be used in
the same way in different contexts. Today textual production of
knowledge is defied by other practices and codification forms –such as
subaltern communities, as in the case of web bases communities of
migrants and its critical relation to national borders.

If you are interested in participating in this International Conference
submit a 200 word abstract no later than Monday April 14, 2014.
Individual and collective abstract submissions will be reviewed by the
Conference chairs. The results will be available on May 31, 2014. If
your abstract is accepted, you will be required to submit a full paper
or presentation by August 15, 2014.

A typical panel will be composed of either professors, researchers,
artists or students, and will comprise up to five papers or project
presentations and a discussant. Presentations that do not follow the
paper format are welcome. Presentations must be delivered in no more
than 20 minutes either English or Spanish. There will be a Q&A session
right after each panel. All papers and presentations delivered at the
Conference will be eligible to be part of a digitalproject and a printed
publication.

Please use the following template for your submission:

Author(s):
Affiliation:
Email Address:
Title of Abstract and Proposal:
200 word abstract:
Type of presentation (paper, video, multimedia, etc.):

To submit your abstract for consideration and for further queries,
please contact us at:

(conocimientonotextual /at/ gmail.com)

The conference will be held at Universidad de las Américas Puebla,
organized by the PhD program in Creation and Cultural Theories and the
Research Group “Teorías del arte y losmedios contemporáneos.” The
conference is sponsored by the Research Project “La epistemología más
allá del texto. Prácticas culturales en la era de la información” and
the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACyT)

*For more information visit our Research Group web page (in Spanish):
web.udlap.mx/masalladeltexto

--
Gary Hall
Research Professor of Media and Performing Arts
School of Art and Design, Coventry University
Director of the Centre for Disruptive Media
http://disruptivemedia.org.uk/
Co-founder of the Open Humanities Press
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org
Visiting Professor, Hybrid Publishing Lab, Leuphana University
http://www.leuphana.de/zentren/cdc/forschung-projekte/alle/hybrid-publishing-lab.html
Website http://www.garyhall.info










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