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Speculating on Utopia: A Fibreculture Journal Launch and Workshop.


24th September 2012.
12.30 launch with workshop following from 1-4pm.

 

Speculating on Utopia: A Fibreculture Journal and Workshop – Invite PDF

To celebrate the launch of Issue 20 of The Fibreculture Journal “Networked Utopias and Speculative Futures” we invite you to a workshop gathering to explore the themes raised by the Issue (twenty.fibreculturejournal.org) and to engage those themes in open speculation and provocation regarding the possible futures and future directions for FCJ after 10 Years and 20 Issues of open access publishing and networked research creation.

Between the recently published Networked Utopias and Speculative Futures (2012) issue and the forthcoming Trolls issue  (Submissions Open) there is a rich uniquely fibrecultural vein concerned with the politics, desires and dynamics of network culture, creation, and community. Join us in a get together of fibrecultural thinkers, past, present and future to work through these dynamics and the creative/disruptive potential they describe.

Location:

Room 25-163
Faculty of Creative Arts,
University of Wollongong.

Convenors:

Su Ballard, Lizzie Muller, Mat Wall-Smith.

Themes:

Networked Utopias, Speculative Futures, Internet Discourse, Disruption and Disorientation, Trolls and Trolling, Research Creation, Academic Publishing, Open access and thereabouts.

Format:

The workshop is conversational, open and participatory. Attendees will be invited to identify thematics raised in the Networked Utopias and Speculative Futures issue that suggest a speculative potential or provocation regarding the broader themes of the workshop. Conversations will be lead by editors and authors from FCJ20 and the editors of the upcoming ‘Trolls’ issue including Glen Fuller, Su Ballard, Lizzie Muller, Zita Joyce, Mat Wall-Smith and Andrew Murphie.

Schedule:

12.30 pm:  arrive/ light lunch and launch of FCJ issue 20.
1.00 : introductions and welcome. positions – thematics – utopias – discussion
1.15- 2.00: Focus on issues raised in FCJ20 Articles.
2.00 – 2.45: Focus on the intersections between FCJ20 Networked Utopias Issue and the forthcoming Trolls issue/CFP (http://fibreculturejournal.org/category/cfp/).
2.45 – 3.30: Focus on the current and future implications of network dynamics, collaboration, publication and production.
3.30-4pm: open discussion

Networked participants:

Participation is also encouraged over the networks. (TBC)

Follow and participate via twitter #FCJChat.
The event will be recorded and streamed – details pending.
RSVP and further information: sballard@uow.edu.au
Event hosted and supported by: Faculty of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong.

Getting To University of Wollongong.

Train from Sydney: (Recommended)

1. Take the South Coast train (CityRail)

Dep: 10:29am  Central Station Platform 25, Sydney
Arr: 12:06pm  North Wollongong Station Platform 2

2. Walk to North Wollongong Railway Station Porter St – 49 metres

3. Take the free # 9 bus (Dions Bus Service)

Dep: 12:08pm  North Wollongong Railway Station Porter St
Arr: 12:13pm  Wollongong University Northfields Ave – Stand 1, Keiraville

Walk north directly across campus until you get to building 25 (Creative Arts). 10mins.

Driving:

UOW has “3 for free” parking close to the creative arts building. You need at least 3 people in a car for free all day parking. For more info: http://www.uow.edu.au/parking/students/UOW002245.html

Further information on travelling to UOW can be found at www.uow.edu.au/transport/suburban

 

Current CFP's and Discussion

    CFP- Special Issue for the Fibreculture Journal: The Politics of Trolling and the Negative Space of the Internet

  •   Edited By Jason Wilson, Christian McCrea and Glen Fuller A great deal of thinking about the Internet and politics is still structured by a desire for deliberative democracy. From 1993 – when Howard Rheingold enunciated one of the Internet’s key founding myths – the virtual community – scholars have sought and found communities characterised by…

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  • Calls for Papers/Pasts/Futures for the Fibreculture Journal

  • The Fibreculture Journal already has a full year planned for 2012, with issues on Affect and Interaction and Speculative Utopias. We will be issuing new CFPs early in 2012 for publication in 2013. Intense discussions are in process. These CFPs may concern media/climate change/environment issues, publishing itself, post-network politics and/or media business models (what these…

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Issues

Issue 21: Exploring affect in interaction design, interaction-based art and digital art
Issue 21: Exploring affect in interaction design, interaction-based art and digital art
December 5, 2012
Edited by Jonas Fritsch and Thomas Markussen
Issue 20 – Networked Utopias and Speculative Futures
Issue 20 – Networked Utopias and Speculative Futures
June 18, 2012
Edited by Su Ballard, Zita Joyce and Lizzie Muller
Issue 19 – Ubiquity
Issue 19 – Ubiquity
December 9, 2011
Edited by Ulrik Ekman
Issue 18 – Trans
Issue 18 – Trans
October 9, 2011
Edited by Andrew Murphie, Adrian Mackenzie and Mitchell Whitelaw
Issue 17 – Unnatural Ecologies
Issue 17 – Unnatural Ecologies
April 20, 2011
Edited by Michael Goddard and Jussi Parikka
Issue 16 – Counterplay
Issue 16 – Counterplay
July 10, 2010
Edited by Tom Apperley and Michael Dieter
Issue 15 – Remix
Issue 15 – Remix
February 18, 2010
Edited by Darren Tofts and Christian McCrea
Issue 14 – Web 2.0
Issue 14 – Web 2.0
November 1, 2009
Edited by Anna Munster and Andrew Murphie
Issue 13 – After Convergence
Issue 13 – After Convergence
December 10, 2008
Edited by Caroline Bassett, Maren Hartmann, Kate O'Riordan
Issue 12 –  Metamodels
Issue 12 – Metamodels
December 1, 2008
Edited by Gary Genosko and Andrew Murphie
Issue 11 – DAC Conference
Issue 11 – DAC Conference
November 1, 2008
Edited by Andrew Hutchison and Ingrid Richardson
Issue 10 – New Pedagogies
Issue 10 – New Pedagogies
November 1, 2007
Edited by Adrian Miles
Issue 09 – General Issue
Issue 09 – General Issue
December 1, 2006
Edited by Andrew Murphie
Issue 08 – Gaming Networks
Issue 08 – Gaming Networks
November 1, 2006
Edited by Chris Chesher, Alice Crawford and Julian Kücklich
Issue 07 – Distributed Aesthetics
Issue 07 – Distributed Aesthetics
December 20, 2005
Edited by Lisa Gye, Anna Munster and Ingrid Richardson
Issue 06 – Mobility
Issue 06 – Mobility
December 10, 2005
Edited by Andrew Murphie, Larissa Hjorth, Gillian Fuller and Sandra Buckley
Issue 05 – Precarious Labour
Issue 05 – Precarious Labour
December 1, 2005
Edited by Brett Neilson and Ned Rossiter
Issue 04 – Contagion and the Diseases of Information
Issue 04 – Contagion and the Diseases of Information
November 1, 2005
Edited by Andrew Goffey
Issue 03 – General Issue
Issue 03 – General Issue
November 1, 2004
Edited by Andrew Murphie
Issue 02 – New Media, New Worlds?
Issue 02 – New Media, New Worlds?
December 1, 2003
Edited by Andrew Murphie
Issue 01 – The Politics of Networks
Issue 01 – The Politics of Networks
November 1, 2003
Edited by Andrew Murphie
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