Sunday 15th July 2012 – Tuesday 17th July 2012
Mansfield College, Oxford
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/cyber/visions-of-humanity/call-for-papers/
This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary project aims to explore what it is to be human and the nature of human community in cyberculture, cyberspace and science fiction. In particular, the project will explore the possibilities offered by these contexts for creative thinking about persons and the challenges posed to the nature and future of national, international, and global communities.
Papers, short papers, and workshops are invited on issues related to any of the following themes;
the relationship between cyberculture, cyberspace, science fiction
cyberculture, cyberpunk and the near future: utopias vs. dystopias
science fiction and cyberpunk as a medium for exploring the nature of persons
humans and cyborgs; the synergy of humans and technology; changing views of the body
human and post-human concepts in digital arts and cinema
digital artistic practices and aesthetics
mobile media, place and the telematic body
bodies in cyberculture; body modifications; from apes to androids – electronic evolution; biotechnical advances and the impact of life, death, and social existence
artificial intelligence, robotics and biomedia: self-organization as a cultural logic
gender and cyberspace: new gender, new feminisms, new masculinities
cyberpunk and steampunk: exploring the differences and similarities
online cultures of virtual worlds and videogames and its impact on science fiction
interactive storytelling, emergent narratives, transmedia storytelling
nature, enhancing nature, and artificial intelligence; artificial life, life and information systems
networked living in future city, new urban lifestyles
human and post-human politics; cyborg citizenship and rights; influence of political technologies
boundaries, frontiers and taboos in cyberculture
The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals. Papers will also be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 13th January 2012. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 11th May 2012. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats with the following information and in this order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract, f) up to 10 key words
E-mails should be entitled: VISIONS7 Abstract Submission.
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of the year. All accepted abstracts will be included in this publication. We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend.
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