Call: STATIC7 seeks critical text about catastrophe, aesthetics, and narrative

Call for Submission to STATIC 7

DUE: Tue Apr 1, 2008
(Timezone: Eastern Time - Montreal)
http://static.londonconsortium.com/index.php


What happened, has not happened: thus spoke patience, that the end might not be hurried.

Maurice Blanchot, The Writing of The Disaster.

The catastrophe takes care of everything: from Greek tragedy to sci-fi, from ethics to (an)aesthetics, from architecture to game theory, from opera to snuff. Static 7 aims to reconstruct the contradictions and oppositions of the catastrophic narrative, which is peripheral yet at the centre of all things, consigned to the past and always to be reinstated.

Static 7 intends to pace the epistemic disaster zone, reading its debris through contributions which explore the notion of catastrophe in literature, architecture, art, politics, science, music and economics, drawing on sources as diverse as Aeschylus and Virilio, Kant and Beckett, financial risk analysis and nuclear reactor meltdown.

Please send your queries and submissions to static.catastrophe@googlemail.com

Static is the online journal of the London Consortium, a unique collaboration between the Architectural Association, Birkbeck College, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Science Museum, and Tate.

We welcome a broad range of written, visual and digital submissions. Please contact the editors at the email addresses given above for submission guidelines and further information.

Call: Canadian Electroacoustic Community seeks articles on hearing loss and related issues

INVITATION TO CONTRIBUTE
eContact! 9.4 -- Hearing (Loss) and Related Issues

The CEC wishes to extend an invitation to contribute articles, commentaries, analyses, WIKI page content (and more) to eContact! 9.4.

We intend to address the theme from a variety of perspectives and therefore welcome contributions from Audiologists, Acousticians, Psychoacousticians and others, as well as from musicians and music lovers (see below for suggestions). Contributions do not necessarily have to be directly related to electroacoustics, but should have some relation to sound (art) and/or musical practices.

In addition to new articles written specifically for eContact! we are interested in publishing articles that may have been written years ago, but have since gone out of print, have not yet been made available on the internet, or which were published on now extinct websites. Any previously-published articles will be fully credited (the author is responsible for securing any necessary permissions).

Articles in any language are welcome. For languages other than English or French, the author will provide an abstract in one or both of these two languages.

The issue will be launched in late May, contributions must be ready by mid-May at the latest.

Contact jef chippewa if you are interested in contributing.

eContact! 9.4 will also feature a number of WIKI pages, to which anyone can contribute information, experiences and recollections, knowledge. Visit the WIKI directly to contribute .

http://eContact.ca (9.2 was just released; 9.3 will be released later this month)

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ARTICLES and COMMENTARIES (suggestions)

A few topics are suggested here, but feel free to propose your own topic.

P r e v e n t a t i v e M e a s u r e s
- encouraging and developing higher quality monitoring situations
- strategies for "resting" the ears
- choosing headphones (across a broad range of $)

P e r c e p t i o n
- a quick intro to Auditory Scene Analysis (ASA)
- perception (distance, pitch content, direction, absolute perception in sound)

D a m a g e (C o n t r o l)
- iPods, mp3s and frequency "holes" in one's hearing
- emergency procedures in the case of sudden loss of hearing

S o c i a l I s s u e s
- who is responsible -- socially? legally? -- for the sound levels?
- aesthetics and musical practice as social commentary

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Communauté électroacoustique canadienne (CEC) Canadian Electroacoustic Community
c/o Dept. de Musique, Université Concordia RF-302
7141 rue Sherbrooke ouest, Montréal QC CANADA H4B 1R6
[ http://cec.concordia.ca | http://econtact.ca | http://sonus.ca ]

Callout: Locus Suspectus Magazine

Locus Suspectus Magazine is a non-profit organization that was
founded in Montreal in 2005. Within its first publishing-year, Suspectus
has increased its readership and cultivated a circulation and
subscription-base across Canada and abroad.


Currently planning for our fourth issue, we are seeking submissions from
writers and artists on the topic of 'technology and nature'. The
pervasive presence of new and increasingly sophisticated technology in
our society has affected our relationship to the natural world and to our
own bodies. The editors are interested in exploring these issues through
both the visual arts and articles, which address broader social concerns.


Artist Guidelines: Artist submissions will be considered for profiles,
feature interviews and the gallery section (an exhibition on paper). We
only accept digital submissions. Please include a maximum of 20 images
(jpg, psd, bmp, tiff format), image list, artist statement and cv. In
addition to the above digital formats, we will also accept short video
submissions for electronic publication in our "Featured Artist" section
on www.lsmagazine.ca.


Writer Guidelines: We are interested in the following: profiles of artists
whose work addresses this topic, or articles which address the
socio-economic and/or historical aspects of the changing relationship
between nature and technology. We accept digital submissions in the
following formats: a) near to complete draft (500-3000 words), with a
50 word bio OR b) proposal of no more than 500 words, accompanied by
a publishing resume.


Send To: Email your submissions to submissions@lsmagazine.ca, with
"Nature and Technology - Your Name" in the subject heading.


Deadline: February 28th, 2007