[Nettime-bold] CFP: Information Aesthetics [Toronto; 15/12]

[carolyn guertin <cguertin@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>]

Apologies for Cross-Posting

Information Aesthetics: Paranoia or Paradigm?

Thomas Pynchon defined paranoia as "the realization that _everything is
connected_, everything in the Creation..." For celebrants of chaos theory,
massive quantities of data pose the joyous possibility of achieving a state
of 'maximum information' or reveal the potentialities of 'pattern
recognition' as an organizational structure. The new media arts, hypertext
and the World Wide Web often toy with information overload and the
exuberant wealth of database systems to unite information with an aesthetic
dimension. Is there an aesthetics of information? If so, what forms does it
take and how does it function? What are the implications for the artforms
of the new media? Does it produce paranoia, nested networks, new modes of
organization, or...?

Your investigation might consider:
spatial and/or temporal navigation
hyperlinking
search engines, databases and/or archives
sequence, randomness, repetition, lists, series
narrative, anti-narrative, games
transparency, interactivity and/or control
speed, delay, friction
shape, colour, sound and/or noise
spacetime, depth, surface, interface
waves and particles
fractals, quantum computation, geometry
memory and/or forgetting
architecture, photography, cartography

Submissions of a 500 word abstract and a short bio or weblink by e-mail by
December 15th to:
Carolyn Guertin
cguertin@ualberta.ca

Carolyn Guertin
Dept of English
University of Alberta
3-5 Humanities Centre
Edmonton AB T6G 2E5

Inter/Disciplinary Models, Disciplinary Boundaries:
Humanities Computing and Emerging Mind Technologies
Consortium for Computers in the Humanities / Consortium pour Ordinateurs en
Sciences Humaines (COCH/COSH)
2002 Meeting at the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities
May 26-8, 2002
U Toronto / Ryerson Polytechnic U

http://web.mala.bc.ca/siemensr/C-C/2002/

___________________________________________________
Carolyn Guertin, Department of English, University of Alberta
E-Mail: cguertin@ualberta.ca; Tel/FAX: 780-438-3125
Website: http://www.ualberta.ca/~cguertin/

Assemblage, the Online Women's New Media Gallery, at trAce:
http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/traced/guertin/assemblage.htm


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