[Commlist] Call for Papers: Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts 2019 | Radical Immersions

Radical Immersions: Navigating between virtual/physical environments and 
information bubbles 8 – 10 September 2019 Watermans Centre, London, UK

Over the past years, immersive technologies have been hyped as consumer 
gadgets, entertainment media and the future of exhibition practices. The 
free distribution of VR headsets with smartphones and the increasing 
interest of museums, festivals and other cultural organisers towards 
‘immersive digital content’ have quickly turned VR and AR devices and 
applications into widely recognized cultural artefacts. The promotion of 
‘full immersion’ in the physical spaces of exhibitions and museums has 
led to some venues relying solely on interactive projections and 
audience interaction. However, just like many earlier ‘new media’ before 
them, the hyperbolic promises attached to these technologies’ supposed 
capacity to deliver immediacy and trigger a paradigm shift in media 
culture have thus far hardly become reality.
We are inviting papers and poster presentations that address questions 
including, but are not limited to, the following: - How are the promises 
and expectations of VR, AR and other immersive consumer technologies 
embedded in broader cultural ideologies of progress and innovation? - 
What are the tensions created between immersive technologies and 
physical environments? - How is the space between an all-digital artwork 
and an all-physical exhibition space negotiated? - How do the material 
aspects of immersive technologies’ hardware affect the generation and 
perception of immersive content? - How might the design, marketing and 
use of digital platforms determine the ways in which online information 
communities are formed? - To what extent might online ‘filter bubbles’ 
and other immersive information environments bear parallels to 
post-structuralist understandings of rhizomatic and fluid meaning-making 
in text?
To submit a paper or poster presentation for the DRHA2019 programme 
please see website for details via the link: 
http://www.2019.drha.uk/call-for-proposal/
Deadline: 30th April


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