CALL FOR PAPERS AND PERFORMANCES
Forthcoming DRHA 2013 Conference:
University of Winchester
DRHA 2013: Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts
Reconceptualising Digital Creativity; Re-mapping Behaviour,
Engagement and the way we Archive in the 21st Century;
Date: Sunday 21st July - Wednesday 24th July 2013.
The theme of this conference will focus on the need to re-conceptualize the ways in which we
engage with digital technology in particular regard to the speed with which we are exposed to new
technologies. As societies around the world face fundamental ecological, demographic and
economic changes, we are forced to re-evaluate our relationship with natural and digital resources.
Also, as the next generation of digital natives start to design new interactive futures, the old
paradigms of knowledge exchange, and social interaction are making way for socialized gaming and
crowd sourcing. The focus for this conference will be to re-imagining new and contemporary ways
for designing digital engagement, looking at possible events and social practices that lay just around
the corner. Interdisciplinary processes are assumed strategies in this conference so that we can
focus on how we can, using contemporary technology, map the emerging digital and social
landscape
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Assess and engagement
Managing the shift demographically from passivity to interactivity
Digital Architectonics, designing the future
Generating subjective and objective understanding through a performance paradigm
Digital mobility; imaging, GPS and mobile technologies
Somatics; mapping interior spaces
Open sources and social mediation
Digital mapping of new theories and territories
Holography and communication
Blurring the boundaries between performances inside and outside
Mapping liminal and liminoid structures in new digital rituals
Access to digital archives of the preservation local and global knowledge
Interdisciplinarity, interactivity and performance
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Using digital resources in collaborative creative work, teaching and learning and scholarship
Dance and interactive technologies
Mapping new model of business with reference to sustainability
Virtual worlds, virtual robots and the gaming industry
There will be a selection of papers from the conference, which will be published in an issue of the
peer reviewed journal BST: Body, Space & Technology this year.
For over 10 years Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts (DRHA) continues to be a key
gathering for all those are influenced by the digitization of cultural activity, recourses and heritage in
the UK. This includes: Scholars, teachers, artists, publishers, librarians, curators or archivists who all
wish to extend and develop access and preservation regarding digitized information rendered from
contemporary culture and scholarship; the information scientist seeking to apply new scientific and
technical developments to the creation, exploitation and management of digital resources.
Keynote speakers will include.
Janet H. Murray Professor - Graduate Program in Digital Media School of Literature,
Communication and Culture Georgia Institute of Technology
2. Johnny (Sue) Golding is the BIAD Professor of Philosophy & Fine Art and Director of the
Centre for Fine Art Research (CFAR), The School of Art, Birmingham City
3. Robert Pratten co-founder and Managing Director at Transmedia Storyteller Ltd
4. Dr Hugh Denard - Assistant Professor in Digital Arts and Humanities, Trinity College Dublin
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We invite original papers, panels, installations, performances, workshop sessions and other events
that address the conference theme, with particular attention to the theme of ‘Re-mapping
Behaviour, Engagement and the way we Archive’. We encourage proposals with innovative and
non-traditional session formats.
Short presentations, for example work-in-progress, are invited for poster presentations. Anyone
wishing to submit a performance or installation should visit the conference Website. Details will be
posted soon on the conference website www.winchester.ac.uk/DHRA
For information about the spaces and technical equipment and support available, please check the
website for details. All the proposals, whether papers, performance or poster presentation, should
reflect the critical engagement that lies at the heart of DRHA.
Proposal to post on the Softconf website: http://www.softconf.com
The deadline for submissions will be 31 March 2013. Abstracts should be between 600 - 1000 words.
Letters of acceptance will be sent by 15th of May 2013, when the conference registration will be
opened.
Conference Fees
Accommodation with en-suite facilities our outline pricing for delegates are as follows:
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Full conference fee with en-suite accommodation
(Incl. Accommodation & all meals)
£390
Conference fee without accommodation (excl. conference dinner)
Conference fee without accommodation (incl. conference dinner)
£180
£190
Day Delegates
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Sunday
21st July
Monday
22nd July
Tuesday
23rd (excl. conference dinner)
Tuesday
23rd (incl. conference dinner)
Wednesday 24th July
£40
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Discounted Postgraduate Fees
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Full Conference with en-suite accommodation (University Room)
Sunday
21st July
Monday
22nd July
Tuesday
23rd (excl. conference dinner)
Tuesday
23rd (incl. conference dinner)
Wednesday 24th
Dr Olu Taiwo
DRHA 2013
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