Friday, April 12, 2013

CFP: Global Fusion 2013, Deadline June 1st

Because Carbondale is lovely in October.  Ahem.

Call for Abstracts, Papers, Media Art, Panels, Workshops Announcement of Graduate Student Competitions

Global Fusion 2013
Mediations:  Movements and Markets
4-6 October 2013
A Global Media and Communication Conference Global Media Research Center College of Mass Communications and Media Arts Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Illinois

 This year's theme for the Global Fusion conference is Mediations:  Movements and Markets. Expanding the concept of global media to global mediation, we wish to highlight the processes through which media are integral to a world in which people "do things with media" that constitute action in the public sphere as well as in the private sphere.  We recognize that the often blurred boundaries between interpersonal and mediated communication are fostered in the contemporary age of convergence, of the manufacturing or fracturing of markets, and in the wake of large scale protests that have emerged in the Middle East and with the Occupy movement.  These and other events have relied heavily on interpersonal networks and new information technologies. The notion of mediation also recognizes that media, especially small scale, local media, play more than an information transmission role but also perform important relational work by building communities and often emphasizing process over product. Thus, mediation includes attention not only to the production and consumption of media, but also to the ways in which media are used to shape our daily lives and the ways in which we use media to resist that shaping.

We invite submissions of abstracts, finished papers, proposals for panels or workshops, and media artworks that reflect any of the many traditions of scholarship, art practices, and documentary work in the media arts, mass communication, journalism, communication studies, and related fields.  Although works addressing the 2013 theme are preferred, we also welcome submissions in any theoretical, methodological, or expressive traditional on all topics related to global media and international communication.   Two awards will be presented to graduate students:  one for the best paper and one for the best media work.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Graduate Student Competitions and Awards This year's conference offers two awards for graduate student work .  One award will be given for a completed paper for which a graduate student is sole author or first author.  The second award is for a completed media work created by a graduate student.  If the work being submitted has been created through collaboration or by a collective, please include a brief (300 word) framing statement that outlines the varying contributions.  All materials submitted for the competitions are due by 11:59 p.m. (CST) on 15 June 2013.  Details regarding each competition are given below under the headings Individual papers and Media Art.

Abstracts proposing paper presentations: abstracts of 300 words prepared for blind review describing the paper's content; separate cover page must include and clearly state the following information:  title of the paper, author's name, affiliation, email address and telephone number.  If multiple authors are involved, provide the same information for each person. Please submit in (.doc) or (.docx) file format -- NO pdfs, please.

Panel proposals:  a proposal of 300 words prepared for blind review describing the panel and giving its title plus an abstract of 50-100 words for each paper presentation with the paper's title; a separate cover sheet with the panel's title, the names of all authors along with their paper titles, as well as contact information for the person submitting the panel proposal and for each participant. Proposals with panelists from different departments or institutions and different areas of expertise are preferred. Please submit proposals in (.doc) or (.docx) file format -- NO pdfs, please.

Workshop proposals: a proposal of 300 words prepared for blind review describing the workshop with the workshop's title; a separate cover sheet with the names of the workshop leader and all participants, their affiliations, email addresses, and telephone numbers.  Of particular interest are workshops addressing professional issues faced by emerging artists or scholars.  For example, a workshop on getting published in academic journals or submitting work to juried, international exhibitions would be welcome. Proposals with panelists from different departments or institutions and different areas of expertise are preferred. Please submit the proposal in (.doc) or (.docx) file format -- NO pdfs, please.

Individual papers: completed papers appropriate for a 15 minute presentation and prepared for blind review; cover sheet with the paper title as well as the first author's name, affiliation, email address, and telephone number, which should be followed by the names, affiliations, email addresses, and telephone numbers of subsequent authors in order of each person's contribution. Please submit papers in (.doc) or (.docx) file format.  NO pdfs, please.

An award for best scholarly paper will be given to the graduate student scholar who best reflects on the theme "Mediations: Movements and Markets."  The full paper must have a graduate student as sole author or as first author.  In the case of co-authored papers with multiple graduate students, all authors will share the prize equally. The cover sheet should state that the paper is intended for the competition and give full information about the author or authors.  The paper itself should be prepared for blind review, which means that no identification of the author or co-authors should occur anywhere in the paper. Submission deadline: by 11:59 P.M. (CST) on 15 June 2013 Email to:  meehan@siu.edu and cc'd to  dtudor@siu.edu and <lbrooten@siu.edu>

Media Art:  completed works in the traditions of documentary, experimental, or fictional media are welcome, whether narrative or non-narrative or a novel mixture of forms. We invite all media formats (film/video, photography, internet, animation and sound) Proposals for installations and short duration performances are also encouraged.  An award for best creative work will be given to the graduate student artist who best reflects on the theme "Mediations: Movements and Markets."  If a work is collaborative, please include a description of each artist's role in the collaborative process.  All submissions will be reviewed by our jury.  Submit work on DVD, CD, or online.

Presentation Requirements:  Please note on each submission what media support your presentation, workshop, or project requires. We have several rooms suitable for screenings, exhibitions, or performances as well as presentation rooms with internet access and projection capability. We are primarily an Apple facility.

Online submission deadline for the competition: 11:59 P.M. (CST) on 15 June 2013. Email to: jneedham63@gmail.com, cc'dajaguayo@siu.edu.

Postal delivery deadline for the competition:  3 P.M. (CST) on 15 June 2013.  Delivery address:

Jay Needham
Global Fusion 2013 - Media Art Works
Department of Radio, Television, and Digital Media Communication Building Room 1048 Mail Code 6609
1100 Lincoln Drive
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, Illinois 62901

Submission deadlines for work not included in the competition Send abstracts, panel proposals, workshop proposals, and papers not intended for the competition to meehan@siu.edu by 11:59 P.M. (CST) on 1 June 2013.
Email artworks not intended for the competition should be sent to jneedham63@gmail.com by 11:59 P.M. (CST) on 1 June 2013.  The deadline for artworks sent by mail is 3 P.M. (CST) on1 June 2013.  Mail artworks to:

Jay Needham
Global Fusion 2013 - Media Art Works
Department of Radio, Television, and Digital Media Communication Building Room 1048 Mail Code 6609
1100 Lincoln Drive
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, Illinois 62901

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