educationalinsights.ca Call For Papers for 2010

Teresa Dobson, Academic Editor  |  Michael Boyce, Managing Editor

Born Digital (Contemporary Art and Education)

Over the last 20 years a new generation of art and literature born as electronic, or borne within distributive digital channels, has developed in tandem with new ways of defining, measuring and decoding such digital artifacts, and alongside new content delivery mechanisms and pedagogical practices. Born Digital wishes to explore these new artifacts and their distributive form in the context of pedagogy and artistic practice.
 
A wide range of new forms wherein narrative is restructuring and redefining itself are of interest: blog novels, e-literature, narrative within locative applications such as google maps and geo-tagging with GPS, RSS poetics, and narrative in the context of mobile games and social media applications such as YouTube, Flickr and Facebook. Likewise, consideration and analysis of digital artifacts born out of and borne by these media is of interest to us.
 
We are interested in playing with the concept of being Born Digital, taking into account multiple meanings of "born," including: existing as a result of birth, having a natural or perfectly suited ability, and existing as a result of a particular situation or feeling. As well, we are keeping in mind the homonym "borne," to play with a notion of transport, of delivery, of support and endurance.
 
Generally, we support submissions using an original approach, which avoid excessive commentary on any canon, and we encourage efforts to express the matter within the structure of the medium itself. That being said, we expect rigorously critical investigation within the parameters of any play.
 

This call is now closed.
Born Digital will launch in March 2011.