[ecrea] D|N|A Symposium (Concordia University, May 13-15, 2011)

>DATABASE|NARRATIVE|ARCHIVE
>An International Symposium on Nonlinear Digital Storytelling
>Revised CFP
>Concordia University, Montréal (13-15 May 2011)
>
>Keynotes:
>Marsha Kinder (Professor of Critical Studies, School of Cinematic
>Arts, USC; Executive Director of The Labyrinth Project)
>Katerina Cizek (Award-winning experimental documentarian; Filmmaker in
>Residence, National Film Board of Canada)
>
>With a nonlinear, interactive lecture by Florian Thalhofer (Berlin;
>documentary filmmaker; inventor of the Korsakow System)
>
>Confirmed participants: Hart Cohen (UWS), Adrian Miles (RMIT), Steve
>Anderson (USC), David Clark (NSCAD), Tim Schwab (CINER-G), Elena
>Razlogova (CINER-G), Jason Lewis (CINER-G, Obx Labs), Monika Kin
>Gagnon (CINER-G, co-organizer), Matt Soar (CINER-G, co-organizer).
>
>Reflecting recent developments in the theories and practices of new
>media production, described variously as database documentary,
>interactive narrative, and experimental archiving, D|N|A seeks to
>highlight some of the most important issues and ideas currently
>characterizing this emerging discourse - and perhaps constitutive of a
>future, core set of properties or dynamics. (Contemporary works of
>note that characterize some of these developments include: Planet
>Galata; The Thousandth Tower; Gaza/Sderot; 7 Sons; St. Michael's
>Hospital; The Whale Hunt; Folk Songs for the Five Points; Klatsassin;
>Soft Cinema; Life after Wartime; Danube Exodus; Tulse Luper
>Suitcases.)
>
>This interdisciplinary symposium will bring together theorists,
>scholars, artists, curators and programmers, currently working in
>these and related areas for panel presentations, roundtables,
>screenings, a Korsakow workshop, and an exhibition, in a three-day
>event intended to foster discussions, creative exchange and debate. We
>also aim to stimulate and provoke creative/productive community
>engagements before, during, and after the symposium and will therefore
>be involving individuals and organizations in several activities that
>lead into the event and grow out of it.
>
>As a guide, we welcome innovative and engaging proposals addressing
>the following areas, but also invite other proposals of potential
>relevance:
>
>- critical engagements with existing works and/or artists
>- audiences as communities and vice versa
>- theoretical engagements with authorship, interactivity, databases
>and multimedia archives
>- historical precursors (multi-screen cinema; choose your own adventure)
>- genres of non-fiction media: archival, interview/oral history,
>witness/testimonial/first person, ethnographic.
>- critiques of commercial practices (eg Second Story; Terra Incognita)
>- the potentials and limitations of specific authoring and delivery
>platforms (eg Flash, Korsakow, HTML 5)
>- visual aesthetics and electronic literature
>- exhibition, distribution and alternative forms of circulation
>- future potentials (mobile applications, haptic screens, voice- and
>movement-activated interfaces, iPad, HTML5, expressive type)
>
>Proposals (email only, with plaintext, Word, or PDF attachments only)
>and expressions of interest should be sent to Matt Soar and Monika Kin
>Gagnon at (dnasymposium /at/ gmail.com)  Please tell us in about 500 words
>what ideas, research, and/or creative work you'd like to present at
>the symposium, and bear in mind that we are especially interested in
>finding ways to break out from traditional conference-style
>presentations. Your proposal can be work in progress, but should be
>sufficiently advanced by May 2011 to be presentable. Add a final
>paragraph explaining who you are, what you do, and where we can
>contact you. The revised deadline is December 15th, 2010.
>
>D|N|A is being organized by CINER-G, the Concordia Interactive
>Narrative Experimentation & Research Group, with support from the
>FQRSC, Concordia University (VP Research & Graduate Studies), and the
>Goethe Institute. For more information, updates and amendments to this
>CFP, please visit: www.cinerg.ca
>

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