[ecrea] CFP: Creating Second Lives 2011

-- INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: Call for papers --
** DEADLINE EXTENDED TO TUESDAY 31 MAY **

*Creating Second Lives 2011: Blurring Boundaries*

   * 8-9 September 2011, Bangor University, Bangor, Wales UK
   * School of Creative Studies and Media, Bangor University;
   * Conveners: Dr Eben J. Muse and Dr Astrid Ensslin;
   * https://sites.google.com/site/csl20110908/
     <https://sites.google.com/site/csl20110908/home>


The Creating Second Lives conference is a chance to explore lives lived 
in virtual worlds, electronic games, MMORPG and other parts of 
cyberspace. Following Creating Second Lives 2008: Reading and Writing 
Virtual Communities, the theme of *Creating Second Lives 2011* is the 
blurring of boundaries in the mixed reality of ubiquitous computing and 
augmented reality. New technologies are moving users into the screen 
(Microsoft's Kinect), making the user the screen (MIT's Sixth Sense), 
and bringing the content out of the screen into the world (smartphones, 
Layars, Wikitude). Pervasive games, Digital tourism,  telematic art and 
telematic performance are only a few manifestations of this new set of 
boundaries that must alter our definitions of fundamental concepts of 
culture, gender, identity, race, nation, authority, geography, space, 
narrative and time. The distinction between second life and first life 
is blurring at an increasingly rapid rate.

We invite proposals for twenty minute papers that examine how people are 
using these technologies to cross boundaries (technical, spatial, 
temporal, cultural, social, political, linguistic, ludic, economic) 
through a range of theoretical and applied, empirical, critical, 
rhetorical, creative, economic and professional approaches.

Conference papers will be considered for subsequent publication in a 
special, themed issue of the /Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds./

Keynote speakers:

   * Michael Nitsche,  Associate Professor in Digital Media at Georgia
     Institute of Technology: "Fourth Walls and Second Lifes"
   * Paul Sermon, Professor of Creative Technology  at the School of
     Art & Design in the University of Salford

Please e-mail abstracts of 250-300 words to (e.muse /at/ bangor.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(e.muse /at/ bangor.ac.uk)> along with your name, affiliation and title 
of paper. All queries should also be directed to this address. Please 
include in your proposal any technological needs. The deadline for 
submission is 31st May 2011. Selection of papers will be made by 15th 
June. Further information concerning the conference may be found on our 
website: https://sites.google.com/site/csl20110908/ 
<https://sites.google.com/site/csl20110908/home>

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Eben Muse, Ph.D.
Dirprwy Bennaeth Ysgol                  Deputy Head of School
Darlithydd Cyfryngau Rhyngweithiol      Lecturer in Interactive Media
Ysgol Astudiaethau Creadigol            School of Creative Studies
    a'r Cyfryngau                           and Media
Prifysgol Bangor                        Bangor University
Neuadd John Phillips                    John Phillips Hall
Ffordd y Coleg                          College Road
BANGOR Gwynedd LL57 2DG                 BANGOR Gwynedd LL57 2DG
+44 (0)1248 388628                      +44 (0)1248 388628

Golygydd Cysylltiol / Associate Editor
Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds
<http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals.php?issn=1757191X>