Book live!, abstracts due 1/15

Book live!
International symposium and related live events at London South Bank
University
8th - 9th June 2012

a collaboration between the Centre for Media and Cultural Research (CMCR) at LSBU and bookRoom Research Cluster at UCA Farnham.

The event will bring together theorists, researchers and practitioners to stimulate a dialogue across disciplines on the ability of the book to keep up with digital culture and the emergence of new modes of writing, of photographing, of reading, or archiving and of disseminating on the page work. The purpose of this conference is to examine the current transforming and expanding of the book rather than its virtual disintegration.

The conference will include international guest speakers from the broader world of publishing, photography and experimental writing as well as short presentations of book works and a series of live experimental and durational readings. The two keynote speakers are Joan Fontcuberta (photographer, artist and all-round critic of contemporary culture from Barcelona) and Sharon Helgason Gallagher (founder and director of D.A.P and ARTBOOK in New York). There will be a performance of the full twelve hours of John Cage's Empty Words (first published in 1979 by Wesleyan University Press) by Sylvia Alexandra Schimag (Germany), coinciding with the release of the complete recording by Editions Wandelweiser.

CALL FOR PAPER AND PRESENTATION max 25 minutes
Call for papers, presentations, panels and readings dealing with (but not limited to) the following themes and research questions;

- How has digital technology allowed the book to expand its boundaries, both in space and time?
- Innovative convergence of traditional craft skills and advanced technologies in the making, reading, archiving or disseminating of books.
- Interdisciplinary experiments that addresses the cultural translations between traditional skills and advanced technologies.
- Explorations that reconsider the contemporary or future role of the book socially, culturally, politically.
- Innovative or disastrous explorations and transgressions of ebook readers.
- What do we gain and lose with on screen Œreading¹?
- How is conventional publishing adapting to fast changing digital economy?
- What has become of collecting in our digital culture?
- What is knowledge now that computers can provide and keep everything?
- High culture versus digital culture

Beyond the conference we will be bringing together papers and other contributions as a publication in its own right; an interesting survey of current thinking and innovative practice informed by both the themes and the findings of the conference. Edited and designed by bookRoom press, and published by RGAP.

Deadline for abstracts: 15th january 2011 - Decision sent before 15th february
Please send abstracts to Emmanuelle Waeckerle (ewaeckerle@ucreative.ac.uk)
Submissions from doctoral students and early-career postdoctoral researchers
are encouraged, as well as submissions from non-academic publishers, collectors, artists, writers and thinkers.

Conference Co-Chairs
Richard Sawdon Smith
Emmanuelle Waeckerlé

DOWNLOAD PDF WITH FULL RATIONALE and SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
http://www.msdm.org.uk/photobook/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Book-live-call-f
or-papers.pdf


Best regards,
paula
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paula roush
London South Bank University
Arts & Media Department
103 Borough Road (room B462a)
London SE10AA
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