Due to numerous requests we have decided to postpone the deadline for short paper proposals for the OPEN 2009 symposium. The deadline has been extended until 14 October 2009. This extension is FINAL.
Archive for September, 2009
Deadline extension! – Final call for short papers
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009Two new keynote speakers
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009We’ve secured two more keynote speakers for the symposium.
Professor Saara Taalas is the Chair of Media Business and Director of the Media Futures Network at Turku School of Economics. She has been studying emerging ways of organising within the new media landscape and is currently, among other research, interested in the phenomena of fandom and fan-generated content. To my experience, professor Taalas is also a great presenter and never fails to make her point known in a seriously entertaining way. We are really lucky to have her on board.
Jiri Räsänen brings us the latest from the Electric Cars – Now! movement. These guys and girls have taken on the challenge of creating affordable electric cars. The catch is that new cars are built by replacing the engines of old cars and by doing this using open source as the main form of operation. In July they published their first concept car – the eCorolla. Check it out on this video.
Deadline for video contribution is extended. Still time to submit!
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009Based on a few synopsises we’ve received in response to our call, some of you have noticed our experiment on the form of academic contribution, namely contribution via an audiovisual production. We’ve received some questions regarding what we mean by synopsises or videos. In this post, we would like to explain what we’re trying to achieve through this and to let you know that the deadline for synopsises is extended until the end of September.
During the initial planning of the symposium and scouting the field for open practices we started discussing about dr. Michael Wesch’s video “The Machine is Us/ing Us”. The video manages in just under 5 minutes to explain how the adaptation of digital technologies as tools for communication is affecting our lives. In artistic terms the video looks great and gets its message accross very efficiently – I recommend it to anyone interested in digital culture. What is even more interesting is that in some ways it can be considered as an academic essay.
Inspired by this video, OPEN 2009 welcomes academic audiovisual productions and video works that use audiovisual means to communicate research findings, results and process. Also remember that it has to be made of original content or, if made by someone else, with the author’s permission. Under these clauses we also welcome compilations and remixes of works. The accepted videos can be used in the symposium as stand-alone presentations, they can be part of your own presentations or we can use them as part of the symposium talks or panel discussions. Of course, you as the author will make the decision on its use. They don’t have to be similar in form, structure or content to dr Wesch’s, but you can decide these factors yourself – please just keep the length between 2 and 10 minutes. Just for inspiration, here are few possible forms of videos:
- recordings from presentations
- animations
- screencasts
- documentaries, testimonials or interviews
- visualisations
- concept or scenario videos
Prior to sending a completed video, please submit a written abstract or outline (synopsis) for the proposed work. If accepted, you can produce the video for the event. So you have nothing to lose if you participate. Now you have time until the 30th of September do it.
This information concerning the video submissions can also be found on the new Submission info page.
