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We
are delighted to announce our call to be part of the Re@ct!
Social Change Art Technology Symposium NEoN
Digital Arts Festival – REACT 2019 in Dundee, Scotland,
exploring how artists use digital systems to effect change within our
social and political realities. NEoN was founded in 2009, and with
every annual edition of the festival has hosted an artist-led
symposium. This year, we are very pleased to be organising an
expanded 3-day symposium and interconnected activities
entitled, Re@ct: Social Change Art Technology (from the 6th
to the 8th November 2019), chaired by Professor Joseph DeLappe
(Abertay University, Dundee), Professor Sarah Cook (University of
Glasgow) and Dr Laura Leuzzi (DJCAD, University of Dundee). We
are looking for for papers, panels, presentations, actions
and workshops - Deadline for submissions June 30th, 2019, 5pm
GMT
Themes
Many
artists involved in digital arts have historically been prompted to
react and respond to local, national, global, social and political
crises (i.e. around issues of environmentalism, gender equality,
exploitation, colonialism, militarism, emancipation). Re@ct will
be a platform to critically examine the relevance and impact of past
and present practices, theories and strategies – to engage an
uncertain future through an exploration of the creative potential of
digital art.
Re@ct aims
to provide a forum to explore how activist artists develop critical
approaches to utilise, champion and pioneer the creative use of new
technologies. To investigate experimental research methodologies –
both theoretical and practice-based. To retrace early
experiments by digital artists involved at different levels in forms
of activism. To reconstruct histories at present ‘lost’ to
international scholarship. To question how to preserve these
artworks, with their context and narratives and how to represent and
re-mediate them to future generations.
Re@ct aims
to present contemporary strategies and forms of protest, resistance,
resilience and reaction enacted by artists. To debate the status and
role of the artists, curators, art historians, collectives,
producers and institutions involved in digital art and activism. To
reconsider the role and the dynamics of activists’ artists’
communities and collectives today. To investigate the impact of
digital art and activism upon society on a larger scale, on the
government and on economies – does it work?
Re@ct aims
to imagine and speculate as to how best to move forward into the
21st century utilising emerging digital technologies (virtual
reality, augmented reality, blockchain, etc). To stimulate the
production and dissemination of written and practice-based
methodologies for the ongoing engagement of social and political
digital art production and scholarship.
Structure
Rather
than a typical academic symposium this is instead an opportunity to
engage with a broadened context of action – each day will involve
multiple venues, talks, panels, walks, actions and performances
spanning the city of Dundee, and in context of NEoN’s Festival
format.
For
all information and submission details visit -
https://northeastofnorth.com/react-symposium-call-out/
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