<nettime-ann> cfp: Culture Machine 11: Creative Media

[Gary Hall <gary.hall@connectfree.co.uk>]

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CFP: CREATIVE MEDIA
Special issue of Culture Machine vol. 11; http://www.culturemachine.net
edited by Sarah Kember and Joanna Zylinska (both at Goldsmiths, 
University of London)

This is a call for papers and non-papers alike. It is open to artists, 
intellectuals, writers, philosophers, analysts, scientists, journalists 
and media professionals who have something to say about the media that 
extends beyond the conventional forms of media analysis. It is also a 
call for enacting a different, creative mode of doing ‘media studies’. 
Taking seriously both the philosophical legacy of what the Kantian and 
Foucauldian tradition calls ‘critique’, and the transformative and 
interventionist energy of the creative arts, we are looking for playful, 
experimental yet rigorous cross-disciplinary interventions and 
inventions that are equally at home with critical theory and media 
practice, and that can make a difference – academically, 
institutionally, politically, ethically and aesthetically.

This creative media project arises out of an attempt on our part to work 
through and reconcile, in a manner that would be ‘satisfactory’ on both 
an intellectual and artistic level, academic writing and creative 
practice. This effort has to do with more than just the usual anxieties 
associated with attempts to breach the ‘theory-practice’ divide and 
negotiate the associated issues of rigour, skill, technical competence 
and aesthetic judgement. Working in and with creative media is for us 
first and foremost an epistemological question of how we can perform 
knowledge differently through a set of practices that also ‘produce 
things’.

‘Creative media’ functions as both a theme and a methodology for us here 
then. Our aim is to produce an issue ‘about creative media’ by means of 
a variety of creative media. We are therefore seeking works which are 
situated across the conventional boundaries of theory and practice, art 
and activism, social sciences and the humanities. Such works can take a 
variety of forms – essays on, polemics with regard to, and performances 
of what it means to ‘do media’ both creatively and critically. They can 
also incorporate a variety of media, from moving and still images, 
through to podcasts, wikis and tweets, to creative writing and 
traditional papers. (And yes, language also counts as a medium.)

Executive summary (of sorts)
We are looking for surprising, inventive and original work on media that 
does something different, is equally at home with critical theory and 
media practice, and plays with the medium of the media.

Deadline for submissions: 15 October 2009

Potential contributors are encouraged to contact the editors prior to 
this date to discuss their possible submissions.

Please submit your contributions by email to:
Joanna Zylinska & Sarah Kember:
<j.zylinska@gold.ac.uk> & <s.kember@gold.ac.uk>

All contributions will be peer-reviewed.

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Established in 1999, CULTURE MACHINE http://www.culturemachine.net is a 
fully refereed, open-access journal of cultural studies and cultural 
theory. It has published work by established figures such as Mark 
Amerika, Alain Badiou, Jacques Derrida, Henry Giroux, Mark Hansen, N. 
Katherine Hayles, Ernesto Laclau, J. Hillis Miller, Bernard Stiegler, 
Cathryn Vasseleu and Samuel Weber, but it is also open to publications 
by up-and-coming writers, from a variety of geopolitical locations.
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Gary Hall
Professor of Media and Performing Arts
School of Art and Design, Coventry University
Co-editor of Culture Machine 
http://www.culturemachine.net
Co-founder of the Open Humanities Press
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org
My website http://www.garyhall.info

Latest book: Digitize This Book!: The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now 
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