Call For Submissions To The Bamako Symposium 2015: Considering Media Arts From Global To Local

Mali: Call for proposals for theoretical presentations and practical acts for the BAMAKO SYMPOSIUM 2015: CONSIDERING MEDIA ARTS FROM GLOBAL TO LOCAL
 
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DATE: July 17 –31, 2015
VENUE: L'Université de Bamako and Médina Galerie Mediatheque, Bamako, Mali


BAMAKO SYMPOSIUM 2015 will bring together creative practitioners, theorists and cultural entrepreneurs from around the world to interact and exchange dialogues on the useful and non-useful impacts of media arts on the global marketplace of ideas. The symposium reckons a major issue in Africa’s development is sustainability. Through the years, many developmental initiatives have continued to emerged, but failed to roll out and be sustained. With the practical acts and theoretical presentations, we aim to promote critical dialogues on the best practices around the world on how the media arts feed civilizations. Along these lines, the symposium asks: How are the media arts worldwide feeding civilizations? What are the implications for tapping the abundant local resources in Mali in the 21st century?

We define the media arts broadly to include the diversity of recording and presentation modes (such as photography, film/video arts, and the territory of digital arts created for gallery exhibition, television, newspaper, billboard, radio, Internet even architectural structures) that integrate digital technologies with traditional use of images and text to convey symbolism, codes and context contained and projected through audio-visual instruments. Themes of computer as a cyberspace, issues of collaboration, identity, appropriation, open source, telepresence, surveillance, corporate parody, as well as intervention and hacktivism are commonplace in media arts.

Thus, we call for proposals for theoretical presentations and practical acts such as workshops, mini-projects, and artistic interventions involving the diversity of expressions in and applications via digital arts, computer graphics, computer animation, virtual arts, Internet arts, interactive arts technologies, computer robotics, and the arts as biotechnology in society. We anticipate that the cross-cultural interaction and exchange on the challenges and possibilities of media arts in diverse cultures will not only lend new trends to Malian media arts, it would result to personal or professional growth of international participants.

The symposium starts with workshops and artistic interventions, which will run from July 17 – 24, 2015. The Médina Galerie Mediatheque will be the primary site for the workshops; alternatives sites for workshops, mini-projects and interventions can be proposed.  Exhibitions of the results of the various workshops/interventions and paper presentations will run from July 27-31, 2015. The symposium is organized as collaboration between Balani's Association and Nka Foundation. The fee is €500, which includes food and participation in all events in the conference. Additional information such as the symposium programme, Bamako hotels and others related to the symposium will be sent to all registered participants well in advance of the conference.

Interested individuals and collaborative groups should apply by submitting the abstract of your proposed paper or practical act (200 words maximum) in English or French with a brief biography (200 words maximum) of the presenter to balanise @ yahoo.fr and info @ nkafoundation.org. The submitter should include title of the contribution and author(s) information such as name, affiliation, address, phone contact, and e-mail. Upon acceptance, author(s) can decide to publish the full text or only the abstract in symposium proceedings. Abstract deadline is June 25 and submissions will be accepted until space is filled. The deadline for the full text submission is July 12, 2015. If submitting full paper, limit the writing to 6,000 words in APA format.

Contact
Barthosa Nkurumeh
info@nkafoundation.org
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