ANAT SPECTRA 2021: Multiplicity The Ian Potter Southbank Centre Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, December 2-5, 2021 |
Conference website | https://www.anat.org.au/program/anat-spectra-2021-2/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spectra2021 |
Submission deadline | August 4, 2021 |
ANAT SPECTRA 2021: Multiplicity
Proposals are invited from artists, scientists, technologists, researchers and postgraduate students working at the intersection of art, science and technology.
For many around the world, 2020 was a year zero. Not just for the decade but for humanity. We are no longer approaching the tipping-point, we’ve arrived. Our economic, political and cultural systems seem bereft of the solutions to the problems they have created. For centuries, our dominant settings have been singular, linear and binary. Unsurprisingly, our species is in deep conflict with itself and the Earth on which its continuity depends.
How do we move forward with care and respect for the Earth? How do we live in the world without causing further damage? How do we live today to create better tomorrows? If the embedded ways are incapable of providing solutions to problems or made worse by, as Elizabeth Kolbert muses, ‘people trying to solve problems created by people trying to solve problems’ then we must look elsewhere for inspiration.
To create futures for human and non-human worlds that are fair, just and sustainable, we need a multiplicity of new ideas, ways of thinking and being, strategies and sensibilities; we need new shapes, frames and behaviours, new discoveries. Multiplicity speaks to the urgency of this challenge and is a provocation to the ‘possible’ at the nexus of art, science and technology.
Imagined by artist, curator and writer, David Pledger, the program will comprise an artistic offering of moving image, performance, visual and sound art in dialogue with a discursive program presented in symposium and assembly formats. The program will be hybrid, delivered online and in-person.
Multiplicity invites symposium proposals for ideas, artworks, research practices and collaborations made at the intersection of art, science and technology by artists, scientists, technologists, researchers and postgraduate students operating in groups, collectives, ensembles, and individually.
These might engage with but are not limited to climate science, artificial intelligence, robotics, Indigenous futures, space exploration, autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR), posthumanism and transhumanism, algorithmic or generative art, food security, wearable tech, surveillance, blockchain art, bio-art, land care, genomics, digital democracy, nanoart, and science fiction.
We are open to multiple forms of delivery including papers, artist statements, art works, navigation of methodologies, panels, in-conversations, actions, interventions, Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality (VR/AR), performances, walk-and-talks and guided tours. We’re interested in a variety of strategies such as irony, humour, speculation, critique, provocation.
Multiplicity aims to foreground Australians working at the edge of experimental and anti-disciplinary practice.
Submission Guidelines
All proposals must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another symposium or conference.
Proposals are invited from Australian citizens and residents, including those currently based overseas.
All proposals must include:
- Project title
- Proposal in the form of an abstract or project description (300 words)
- Keywords (3-5)
- Author/contributor name, affiliation and contact details
- Author/contributor biographies (100 words per contributor)
Additionally, proposals may include a single PDF document of support materials (maximum 3 pages) containing:
- A brief contextualising statement outlining the relevance of materials to the proposal, and,
- Images, or
- Links to videos, or
- Links to websites
Process
All proposals are read first by the Academic Committee Co-Chairs who will assign them to Academic Committee members for peer review. Each submission will be reviewed by no less than two reviewers as determined by the Co-Chairs.
Recommendations may be forwarded to the author/contributor(s) for attention before the proposals are finally accepted for program inclusion. Proposals that are accepted may go through a further process of development in conversation with the Academic Committee Co-Chairs in preparation for presentation at ANAT SPECTRA 2021. Notification of proposal acceptance is expected to be communicated by late August.
Publication
Selected academic papers presented at ANAT SPECTRA 2021 will be published by LEONARDO JOURNAL following a further process of peer review after the symposium.
Academic Committee Co-Chairs
Dr Robert Walton, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology/Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, The University of Melbourne
Dr David Pledger, ANAT SPECTRA 2021 Program Curator
Melissa DeLaney, ANAT Chief Executive Officer
Venue
ANAT SPECTRA 2021 will be held at the Ian Potter Southbank Centre, December 2 - 5, 2021.
Other venues will include Science Gallery (Melbourne Connect) and Federation Hall, The University of Melbourne, Southbank campus.
Contact
Please submit all questions regarding the symposium and application process to Petra Elliott, ANAT SPECTRA Producer at spectra@anat.org.au. Enquiries will be directed to the relevant Committee member.
Sponsors
ANAT SPECTRA 2021 is presented by ANAT in partnership with the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, home of the Victorian College of the Arts and Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, at the University of Melbourne.
ANAT SPECTRA 2021 celebrates and acknowledges the Traditional Owners and custodians of the lands of the Yalukit Willam Clan, the Boon Wurrung and the Wurrundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present and acknowledge First Nations people as the first artists and scientists.