dear rasa,

is it possible to write something for this edition? i know the deadline is
over, but with tuomo we had a lot of work with our ferry project, but now we
would write few lines and provide some images for the issue.

thanks and all the best,
tamas

Am 07.07.2004 10:41 Uhr schrieb "Rasa Smite" unter <rasa@xxxxxxxxxx>:

> 
> dear Xchange,
> 
> next Acoustic Space publication will be special issue of on "Trans-Culture
> Mapping" theme
> (http://rixc.lv/tcm)
> 
> one of main subthemes are about "spectrum ecology" - which is not about
> wireless spectrum, - any texts related to "mappping radio spectrum" - on sound
> art, networked audio, wireless and open soruce streaming, community radio
> activities, etc. are welcome!
> 
> deadline - August 1st
> 
> rasa
> 
> 
> 
> CALL FOR PAPERS
> 
> =====================================
> 
> The RIXC Centre for New Media Culture seeks manuscripts for its
> upcoming Acoustic Space journal, to be published for the 7th
> international Art+Communication festival in Riga Latvia, September
> 30th- October 3rd. Now in its 5th edition, the print journal, Acoustic
> Space is a forum for net-radio and new media artists broadly interested
> in the idea of making visible the invisible. This year's journal,
> Trans-Culture Mapping, will focus, in the context of European
> expansion, on ideas of locality, cartography and the politics of
> open-systems.
> 
> =====================================
> 
> The ability to visualize a space relates to its domination where
> borders are maintained by a legions of state cartographers, enforcing
> hierarchical regimes of power from the level of the biological to the
> geopolitical.
> 
> Against the US-led 'coalition of the willing' of which Latvia counts
> itself a part --informed, as it is, by the US Strategic Command's
> objective of "Full Spectrum Dominance" (that seeks the unilateral total
> domination of land, sea, air, cyberspace and outer space)- this
> publication is interested in projects that re-appropriate mapping as a
> means cultural expression.
> 
> The publication seeks to offer a space of exchange for grassroots
> activists and new media practitioners who are critically exploring
> ideas of locality, in response to the continental European (and global)
> process of "normalization".
> 
> =====================================
> 
> Sub-themes
> 
> Locative Media
> Governments and corporations worldwide are constructing a geo-rectified
> real-time digital-double of earth-systems, which, with the advent of
> the mobile Internet and the ever increasing ubiquity of
> location-sensing technologies, allow for urban space to become
> conceived of as a site for digital media and, potentially, emergent
> social organization. Yet, beneath the manifold promise of collaborative
> cartography, is the harsh reality of 'total information awareness'. Can
> locative media escape its own axiomatic system?
> 
> Spectrum Ecology
> Advances in wireless internet technology are changing not only how
> people connect to the internet but also how they approach the wireless
> spectrum itself. This section seeks to map how ideas of use and
> ownership are being analyzed and reconsidered in this environment.
> 
> Tactical Cartography
> Social softwares have become a means of mobilizing people without
> having to go to the "Media" to convey a message. Problems, however,
> persist in making the leap into more mainstream circuits of power. How
> can maps be used both to help legitimize certain "fringe"
> Internet-debates and throw light on the nature of multinational
> capitalism?
> 
> Endocolonization
> In the context of a "War on Terror", global borders are being mapped
> _within_, in a battle for "hearts and minds". While we may celebrate
> aspects of European integration, smaller States must also be cautious
> of the wholesale adoption of various monoculturing techniques that
> threaten their local diversities.  How does "the local" assert itself
> while at the same time avoiding becoming reactionary and
> fundamentalist.
> 
> =====================================
> 
> We encourage you to submit finished documents of various lengths an
> forms, so long as they related to one of the sub-themes and display an
> internal consistence.
> 
> Proposals and inquiries regarding submissions should be made to Marc
> Tuters <mt@xxxxxxx> and Rasa Smita <rasa@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> While we ask for documents in English we actively encourage submissions
> from non-Anglophones, especially Eastern Europeans.
> 
> Please submit documents as RTF's and any images separately in a high
> resolution format.
> 
> Deadline for final submissions: August 1st
> 
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