Writing about Regional Strategies for Digital Arts and Electronic Music in Asia and the Pacific
09-02-2004 (Paris)
For its coming June special issue, the Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) invites artists, musicians, academics, researchers, practitioners, curators and critics in the field of new media, electronic music and digital art practices, to submit contributions addressing regional networking competence problems and realities in the Asia Pacific cultures.
This idea was initiated from the international colloquium "Old pathways/New travellers: new media, electronic music and digital art practices in the Asia Pacific region" that took place on 4 and 5 December 2003 at the Sarai Center for the Study of Developing Societies in New Delhi, India with the support of the UNESCO Digi-Arts Portal.
The colloquium sought to launch a media arts and electronic music initiative sponsored by UNESCO Digi-Arts and Sarai, to promote and develop research, networking, mutual cooperation, training and knowledge in these fields within the region. It also aimed to point out the role and place of media and technology in a social, cultural and economic landscape and paths that internally connect Asia and the island cultures of the Pacific regions, its impact on young people and its potential as a unique tool to promote cultural diversity.
More information on the contributions to LEA, which shoud be submitted by 31 March 2004 with a 300 word abstract/synopsis, a brief author biography and contact details, can be obtained from Fatima Lasay, LEA Guest Editor (fats@up.edu.ph ) or Nisar Keshvani, LEA Editor-in-Chief (lea@mitpress.mit.edu ).
Established in 1993, the Leonardo Electronic Almanac is the electronic arm of the art journal "Leonardo - Journal of Art, Science & Technology" that is jointly produced by Leonardo, the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (ISAST) and published under the auspices of MIT Press.
UNESCO's Digi-Arts portal aims at researching and disseminating different computer practices in the field of art and music through diversified networks.
The colloquium sought to launch a media arts and electronic music initiative sponsored by UNESCO Digi-Arts and Sarai, to promote and develop research, networking, mutual cooperation, training and knowledge in these fields within the region. It also aimed to point out the role and place of media and technology in a social, cultural and economic landscape and paths that internally connect Asia and the island cultures of the Pacific regions, its impact on young people and its potential as a unique tool to promote cultural diversity.
More information on the contributions to LEA, which shoud be submitted by 31 March 2004 with a 300 word abstract/synopsis, a brief author biography and contact details, can be obtained from Fatima Lasay, LEA Guest Editor (fats@up.edu.ph ) or Nisar Keshvani, LEA Editor-in-Chief (lea@mitpress.mit.edu ).
Established in 1993, the Leonardo Electronic Almanac is the electronic arm of the art journal "Leonardo - Journal of Art, Science & Technology" that is jointly produced by Leonardo, the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (ISAST) and published under the auspices of MIT Press.
UNESCO's Digi-Arts portal aims at researching and disseminating different computer practices in the field of art and music through diversified networks.
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