Proposals for REVIEWING THE FUTURE:
Vision, Innovation, Emergence

Call for Proposals

Proposals are invited from all members and associates of the Planetary Collegium in the form of papers, panels, performances, installations, online projects, and other innovative forms of practice in a broad range of fields that include but are not limited to art, architecture, design, music, literature, dance, performance, and other forms of time-based, locative, interactive, non-linear media. At root there will be some order of relationship with science and technology, and/or with consciousness research within or beyond Western orthodoxies. Work that addresses issues of community, ecology, or ethnography and education at both local and global levels is also welcomed. This will be where theory and practice meet in open-ended, transdisciplinary forms of research and creativity.

Eligibility: All PhD graduates, doctoral candidates, artists and researchers, past and present supervisors and advisors, honorary members, advanced research associates, artists in residence (including "UNESCO-Aschberg laureates"), of the Planetary Collegium, including the former CAiiA-STAR, the CAiiA-Hub, Z-Node, M-Node and P-Node, as well as members of Editorial advisory Board of "Technoetic Arts" journal. We welcome also proposals which could involve collaboration with doctoral candidates and artist researchers affiliated to arts institutions associated with our Canadian hosts.

It is planned to record and archive the work in all media presented at the Meeting for subsequent publication on DVD. A selection of texts will be published in book form. A documentary film covering the evolution of the Collegium is foreseen. We are interested to bring interns into the recording, editing and publication process, as well as enlisting volunteers to staff logistical operations in the conference rooms and exhibition spaces.

Application should be submitted electronically to Peter Anders (peter at mindspace dot net) no later than August 20, 2006 Extended to August 27, 2006.
Full papers are due no later than November 1, 2006.

Applications review committee:
Peter Anders: Chair
Roy Ascott
Victoria Vesna

For additional information related to artist researchers affiliated to arts institutions associated with our Canadian hosts, you may contact Professor Nicolas Reeves (reeves.nicolas at uqam dot ca).