iDMAa Conference 2016: Call for Papers and Panels

The International Digital Media Arts Association (iDMAa) is pleased to announce its fourteenth annual conference, this year taking place at Winona State University in Winona, Minnesota from October 5 through 8, 2016. WSU is located on the banks of the Mississippi River in the “bluff country” of Southeast Minnesota.

iDMAa seeks proposals for paper presentations and panels centering on this year’s conference theme, Interface: The Digital and The Human.

As we welcome into our universities and professions the first “post-digital” generation, born into a world in which tools like mobile media, networked computers, and digital production are the norm, we enter another great media upheaval. Physical computing, big data analytics, biotechnology, cognitive neuroscience, and AI-generated content suggest new possibilities (and problems) for our understanding of the human and the digital. Similarly, ideas like minimal computing, appropriate technology, sustainability, animal studies, and intersectional theory have implications for our understanding of “the human.” What implications does emerging media have for artists, professionals, and education working in traditional industries, media, and disciplines? What can speculative and experimental practitioners learn from “traditional” humanistic approaches and established fields of practice?

This year, we seek to explore the question of the Interface in the creative arts, in scholarship, in media professions.

Topics might include but are not limited to:

  • the postdigital
  • digital ecology
  • posthuman
  • speculative realism
  • transmedia
  • experience design
  • immersive media
  • networked performance
  • creative computing
  • tactical media
  • digital poetics
  • narrative
  • queer and/or experimental interfaces
  • choice architecture
  • augmented/virutal reality
  • technologies of identity
  • animal studies
  • intersectional approaches to media
  • electronic literature
  • sound art
  • phenomenology
  • obsolescence
  • archives and databases
  • twine
  • bots
  • netprov
  • data visualization

 

REQUIREMENTS FOR CONFERENCE PAPERS (SEE DEADLINES BELOW):

  1. All refereed presentations take the form of a five minute lightning talk (See lightning talks for more information). Submit the abstract for your talk (maximum 500 words) online, offering the thesis, context, and significance of your topic.
  2. Panel abstracts should include an overall title and description of the panel. Panels should consist of two to three participants and one moderator. Please make sure to specify panel moderator/chair. In addition, panel proposals should be submitted together as one file and include the names of all presenters and their paper titles, abstracts, bibliographies, and bios.
  3. All abstracts should follow MLA formatting and include keywords and a bio (maximum 100 words).
  4. All abstracts will be refereed for acceptance and should report on the results of creative or research projects that explore innovative areas of digital media. These abstracts will be posted as-is on the conference website. Abstracts will be due on July 31, 2016. Authors will be notified via email of their submission’s status by August 31. For planning purposes, authors are asked to confirm their attendance by September 30th.
  5. In preparation for conference presentations, we ask that presentation decks conform to 20 slides, 20 seconds per slide format. (See lightning talks for more information).
  6. Papers based on conference presentations will be invited for review for publication in iDMAa’s online Journal of Digital Media Arts and Practice in early 2017.
  7. Please submit all papers and panels to the following link: http://idmaa.formstack.com/forms/idmaa20