Incubation3 invites proposals
Tuesday October 7, 2003
from trAce Online Writing Centre:
“We are pleased to invite proposals for Incubation3, the leading international event for writers and artists working online, 12-14 July 2004 at The Nottingham Trent University, England.”
Plus: Paul Brown, Alan Sondheim, Tim Wright
Also featuring: Talan Memmott, Kate Pullinger, Stefan Schemat
Why a Symposium?
Those familiar with Incubation will notice that we are now a symposium rather than a conference. This heralds a subtle shift, not in identity, but in the way we promote the event. Incubation has always been very practice-based and in 2004 it will be even more so. Thanks to Arts Council England we are offering a total of 30 bursaries to enable those who cannot obtain funding elsewhere to attend the full residential conference at no charge. We expect this injection of financial support to provide a greater balance of academia and professional writers and artists.
Themes
The purpose of Incubation has always been to provide ideas, stimulus and motivation; information and debate for the international new media writing community. We aim to encourage interdisciplinary creativity and cross-fertilisation, and we are especially interested in introducing the form to writers for whom it is a new idea as well as helping practitioners to share and expand their work. The themes for 2004 are:
A. Developing a new form: contemporary textual works in new media and performance
B. The practice of making: creative and professional practice; online teaching and learning
C. Critique and criteria: criticism, reviewing, defining, and archiving of new media writing
Types of proposals sought
Proposals will not be considered unless they are submitted via the online form. When completing the form please indicate which of the above themes (A, B or C) your proposal relates to. In order to make the field as open as possible we have kept guidelines to a minimum but as a rough guide, we encourage lively debate and provocative thinking about:
We invite proposals for 20 minute presentations which we will group together in panels of three with an added 30 minutes for questions. You are also welcome to organise and propose your own panel.
2. Performances
A number of 20 minute presentation periods may be used for short performances / presentations of work. In addition a number of longer evening sessions may be available. We particularly welcome performances which extend limits and cross boundaries. Proposals should describe the performance and specify technical support required, set-up times, audience profiles, length of performance, etc.
3. Workshops – 1 hour
There will be space for a limited number of hands-on workshops. We are interested in workshops with a specific technical or artistic focus. Please indicate whether you require a PC resource room or a regular classroom.
4. Position Papers/Posters – 10-15 minutes
There will be a limited number of 1 hour sessions beginning with the presentation of a short position paper which will have been put online before the conference and which will act as a stimulus for discussion. These sessions will be chaired and a scribe will be provided. We invite contentious papers with scope for energetic debate. The online ‘paper’ may be in text or any new media format which will be viewable at the discussion and should be submitted by 1st June 2004.
Additional Collaborative Project for New Media / Video / Sound Artists
We hope to obtain funding for Online/Offline, a collaborative project connecting three new media writers with three video artists and a sound artist to work together online to create an original piece to be premiered at Incubation. Application time for this is likely to be short – current planning is to invite applications from new media writers during the month of December only. The video artists and sound artist will be based in the East Midlands and will be separately appointed. Register for updates to receive further information.
Incubation is generously supported by:
Arts Council England: East Midlands
NESTA through Writers for the Future
Contact: Catherine Gillam
Related resources here at About Poetry:
Library of links to online poetry workshops
“We are pleased to invite proposals for Incubation3, the leading international event for writers and artists working online, 12-14 July 2004 at The Nottingham Trent University, England.”
Deadline for proposals 1st December 2003Keynote speaker: Mark Amerika
Selections announced by 31st January 2004
Plus: Paul Brown, Alan Sondheim, Tim Wright
Also featuring: Talan Memmott, Kate Pullinger, Stefan Schemat
Why a Symposium?
Those familiar with Incubation will notice that we are now a symposium rather than a conference. This heralds a subtle shift, not in identity, but in the way we promote the event. Incubation has always been very practice-based and in 2004 it will be even more so. Thanks to Arts Council England we are offering a total of 30 bursaries to enable those who cannot obtain funding elsewhere to attend the full residential conference at no charge. We expect this injection of financial support to provide a greater balance of academia and professional writers and artists.
Themes
The purpose of Incubation has always been to provide ideas, stimulus and motivation; information and debate for the international new media writing community. We aim to encourage interdisciplinary creativity and cross-fertilisation, and we are especially interested in introducing the form to writers for whom it is a new idea as well as helping practitioners to share and expand their work. The themes for 2004 are:
A. Developing a new form: contemporary textual works in new media and performance
B. The practice of making: creative and professional practice; online teaching and learning
C. Critique and criteria: criticism, reviewing, defining, and archiving of new media writing
Types of proposals sought
Proposals will not be considered unless they are submitted via the online form. When completing the form please indicate which of the above themes (A, B or C) your proposal relates to. In order to make the field as open as possible we have kept guidelines to a minimum but as a rough guide, we encourage lively debate and provocative thinking about:
- Recent work by both new and established writers and artists. You may simply show/perform the work, or accompany it with a practice-based commentary or formal critique.
- Explorations of the ways in which new media works are made, discussed, reviewed, categorised and archived.
- Explorations of online teaching and learning in a creative context.
- . . . Surprise us!
We invite proposals for 20 minute presentations which we will group together in panels of three with an added 30 minutes for questions. You are also welcome to organise and propose your own panel.
2. Performances
A number of 20 minute presentation periods may be used for short performances / presentations of work. In addition a number of longer evening sessions may be available. We particularly welcome performances which extend limits and cross boundaries. Proposals should describe the performance and specify technical support required, set-up times, audience profiles, length of performance, etc.
3. Workshops – 1 hour
There will be space for a limited number of hands-on workshops. We are interested in workshops with a specific technical or artistic focus. Please indicate whether you require a PC resource room or a regular classroom.
4. Position Papers/Posters – 10-15 minutes
There will be a limited number of 1 hour sessions beginning with the presentation of a short position paper which will have been put online before the conference and which will act as a stimulus for discussion. These sessions will be chaired and a scribe will be provided. We invite contentious papers with scope for energetic debate. The online ‘paper’ may be in text or any new media format which will be viewable at the discussion and should be submitted by 1st June 2004.
Additional Collaborative Project for New Media / Video / Sound Artists
We hope to obtain funding for Online/Offline, a collaborative project connecting three new media writers with three video artists and a sound artist to work together online to create an original piece to be premiered at Incubation. Application time for this is likely to be short – current planning is to invite applications from new media writers during the month of December only. The video artists and sound artist will be based in the East Midlands and will be separately appointed. Register for updates to receive further information.
Incubation is generously supported by:
Arts Council England: East Midlands
NESTA through Writers for the Future
Contact: Catherine Gillam
Related resources here at About Poetry:
Library of links to online poetry workshops
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