Special Section Global Crossings: The Cultural Roots of Globalizaion

URL: <http://www.olats.org/setF12.html>

Call for Papers

Global Crossings: The Cultural Roots of Globalization

The editors of Leonardo seek papers about the cultural roots (artistic and scientific) of globalization. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• • Cultural dimensions of globalization (e.g. the phenomenon of "métissage," transnational cultural relationships)

• • Different cultural approaches to globalization

• • The global climate (a sensory experience of the climate as a possible corrective of global thinking)

• • Migrations (transportation in a globalized world, travel poetry, etc.)

• • Geography in a globalized world (places, cities, continents, world regions, approaches to space and time in general)

• • Internet and tele-technologies in their planetary dimensions ("Overview Effect," use and consequences of GPS and satellite technologies)

• • Net Art, telematic art and planetary issues

• • Art and biology

Material published on-line as part of the project can be found at <http://www.olats.org> (under "Fondements Culturels de la Mondialisation"). On-line articles include:

• • Roy Ascott, "Planetary Technoetics: Art, Technology and Consciousness"

• • Stéphan Barron, "Ozone, o-o-o, Contact: . . . des oeuvres technoromantiques entre présence et absence"

• • Karen O'Rourke and Sharon Daniel, "Mapping Databases: On-line Representation of Spatiotemporal Experience"

• • Julien Knebusch, "La planète Terre dans la production artistique électronique contemporaine"

Articles published in Leonardo to date include the following:

Volume 36, No. 1 (2003):

• • Hisham M. Bizri: "City of Brass: The Art of Masking Reality in Digital Film"

• • Christopher Hight: "Stereo Types: The Operation of Sound in the Production of Racial Identity"

Volume 36, No. 2 (2003):

• • Eduardo Kac: "GFP Bunny"

• • Celia Pearce, Sara Diamond and Mark Beam: "BRIDGES I: Interdisciplinary Collaboration as Practice"

Volume 36, No. 3 (2003):

• • Ruth Wallen: Of Story and Place: Communicating Ecological Principles through Art

• • Stephen Jones: Synthetics: A History of the Electronically Generated Image in Australia

• • Gregory L. Ulmer, Barbara Jo Revelle, William Tilson and John Craig Freeman: Image Emergency: A Psychogeography of Miami

Volume 36, No. 4 (2003):

• • Roger F. Malina: Introduction: The Spirit and Power of Water: A Leonardo Virtual Africa Workshop

• • Iba Ndiaye Diadji: From "Life-Water" to "Death-Water" or On the Foundations of African Artistic Creation from Yesterday to Tomorrow

• • Artists' Statements by Irit Batsry, Jacky Bouju, Dinis Ribeiro with Richard Clar, Liliane Lijn, Jacques Mandelbrojt with Lucie Prod'homme, Camille Talkeu Tounouga, Nodoka Ui, and Camel Zekri with Dominique Chevaucher.

Interested authors should contact guest editor Julien Knebusch with proposals at: <julien_knebusch@yahoo.fr>. For author Editorial Guidelines see: <http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/isast/journal/editorial/edguides.html>.