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.
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Deadline extension! – Final call for short papers
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009Deadline 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.
We’re up!
Thursday, August 20th, 2009
photo by Hoong Wei Long on Flickr
We’re opening this blog as the main communication channel for the OPEN 2009 Symposium we’re organizing at Media Lab Helsinki during 5th and 6th of November.
We’ve co-written a Call for Papers in which we ask you to contribute to event. In this first post we try to briefly shed light into the nature of the event and theme of openness, and why it matters.
The OPEN 2009 Symposium is meant to be an academic forum for the doctoral students of the Media Lab to engage with students and researchers from other institutions around topical research subjects. This year’s topic, openness, originated from discussions among our doctoral students, in particular among people interested in the themes of social media, peer production, and new ways of organising activities. We’re witnessing a trend of increased demands on transparency on the public and private levels by individuals who are themselves interacting in open ways by using tools available for them through networked digital media. There has been a lot of buzz around all of this, but we feel that much of it has been on the societal level of laws, policies, values and ideologies. We want to bring the discussion closer to home, to discuss the phenomenom as it unfolds before us in our daily lives. Therefore, we’re asking from our keynotes and contributors to bring up concrete examples on how openness is affecting our lives and the opportunities or conflicts it creates. What do you think?
You can engage with us throughout this fall on the comments section of this blog, in Facebook through the Aalto Openness Interest Group or by sending us email at mlabsymp at taik dot fi. It would please us the most, however, if the discussion would encourage you to participate our call and attending the Symposium, face-2-face or virtually.
We’re looking forward to interesting discussions!
