Subject:BALANCE-UNBALANCE conference 2016 @ Colombia –
deadline for submissions: OCT. 31 – theme: data science + eco action
From: Ricardo Dal Farra
University of Caldas – Manizales, Colombia
http://www.balance-unbalance2016.org
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Balance-Unbalance (BunB) is an International Conference designed to use
ART as a catalyst to explore intersections between NATURE, SCIENCE,
TECHNOLOGY and SOCIETY as we move into an era of both unprecedented
ecological threats and transdisciplinary possibilities.
The Balance-Unbalance conference will bring artists together with
scientists, economists, philosophers, politicians, management and policy
experts, sociologists and engineers from across the world with the
intent of engendering a deeper awareness and creating lasting
intellectual working partnerships in solving our global environmental
crisis.
“We are living in a world reaching a critical point where the
equilibrium between a healthy environment, the energy our society needs
to maintain or improve this lifestyle and the interconnected economies
could pass more quickly than expected from the current complex balance
to a complete new reality where unbalance would be the rule and human
beings would need to be as creative as never before to survive.
Environmental problems, economic uncertainty and political complexity
have been around for a long time. What was different before was the
speed and depth of transformations compared with today’s sudden changes.
The frequent occurrence and severity that certain weather and
climate-related events are having around us is increasing, and the
ability of human beings on modifying adjacent surroundings as well as
distant places have turn into a power capable of altering the planet
[…] The arts could play a major part in helping the global society to
understand the magnitude of the crisis we are facing, and in promoting
the awareness around environmental matters. it could also be a very good
vehicle to disseminate proposals able produce changes in our behavior
and decisions, influencing our chances for the future. Artists could
promote inter and transdisciplinary actions focusing on our
responsibility regarding the turning point we are living in defining the
future of -human- life on Earth.” (Dr. Ricardo Dal Farra,
/Balance-Unbalance/ founder).
The theme for BunB 2016 is „/Data Science + Eco Action/”.
How can we extract knowledge from large volumes of environmental and
related data? How that can be used in benefit of the human society? What
should we change in our thinking and in our behaviour? Individual vs
community vs global: What matters? Why big or complex data is so
relevant to our daily life? How the capture, analysis, curation,
sharing, storage… and control of large data could rapidly change our
world? What positive sides does it have? What not so positive, and even
risks does it have? What data science has to do with humanitarian
organizations? And with electronic art?
We want to inspire explorations of how artists can participate in this
major challenge of our ecological crisis. We need to use creative tools
and transdisciplinary action to create perceptual, intellectual and
pragmatic changes. We want to discuss our proposals for the future from
a diversity of cultural perspectives and socio-economic situations with
open minds.
The 5th edition of the BunB conference will be held from May 9 to 11 of
2016 in Manizales, Colombia. It will be produced by the Department of
Visual Design of the University of Caldas, with support of the
International Image Festival.
Balance-Unbalance is seeking for papers, transdisciplinary workshops,
artistic activities and exhibitions, posters and panels considering to
propose, analyze and discuss specific projects and actions that could
help us to face the serious environmental crisis. BunB 2016 is also open
to host a diversity of virtual components allowing global accessibility
and significantly reducing the carbon footprint of a major international
conference.
The official language of the event will be English but Spanish
submissions are accepted. Keynotes and paper (oral) presentations in
Spanish will be -simultaneously- translated to English. Workshops won’t
be translated.
Deadline for submissions: October 31, 2015 (midnight, Colombia’s time)
Submission categories (there is only one template for all categories;
you should adapt it as indicated) :
Papers (4-8 pages)
Posters (2-3 pages)
Panels (2-3 pages)
Artistic works (2-3 pages). Be sure to indicate the title of your
project; if you are proposing a live performance, a presentation
using fixed-media support or a work to be exhibited; duration, if it
applies; a full detailed description of your technical needs,
including what will you be providing and what are you expecting the
organisation to provide; links to your online CV and your web site;
and 3 links to online samples of your previously created artistic
work, hosted in a non-expiring URL – please, DO NOT send your
material using wetransfer or any similar application, and DO NOT
send your reference material by email – only submit the links with
your submission.
Transdisciplinary workshops (2-3 pages). This is an open format
area of the conference to propose any kind of transdisciplinary
activities up to a maximum duration of 90 minutes.
Virtual projects (2-3 pages). Virtual projects such as websites,
interactive installations and transdisciplinary documentation
related to the theme of the conference will be considered for
inclusion in our virtual program and onsite virtual showcase.
Successful artists may be required to participate in a Skype forum
(or interaction using another online platform) during the virtual
projects showcase.
In addition, a selection from accepted papers will be invited to publish
in the /Leonardo/journal under a special section devoted to
Balance-Unbalance.
Submissions will be only accepted via EasyChair
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bunb2016). Templatesfor
submissions are available for downloading here
.
Please, make sure you select the correct submission category (paper,
poster, panel, artistic work, transdisciplinary workshop or virtual
project). Submissions will be peer-reviewed. All submissions in Spanish
must also include an abstract in English.
The proposals must be oriented to the goal of this conference. Only
submissions clearly focused to that end will be considered.Please note
that Balance-Unbalance is not able to provide funding support for travel
or lodging, or fees for the presentations.
Previous Balance-Unbalance editions:
BunB 2010 – Buenos Aires, Argentina:
http://www.ceiarteuntref.edu.ar/eq-deseq
BunB 2011 – Montreal, Canada: http://balance-unbalance2011.hexagram.ca
BunB 2013 – Noosa, Australia: http://www.balance-unbalance2013.org
BunB 2015 – Arizona, United States:
http://www.balance-unbalance2015.org
Please direct any questions about submissions to:
submissions(dot)bunb2016(at)gmail.com
Balance-Unbalance 2016 website – Manizales, Colombia:
http://www.balance-unbalance2016.org
Balance-Unbalance 2016 Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/balanceunbalance
Balance-Unbalance 2016 organizing team_:
Dr. Ricardo Dal Farra. Director, Balance-Unbalance Conference
Dr. Felipe C. Londoño. Director, International Image Festival
Dr. Adriana Gómez. Academic program co-chair
Dr. G. Mauricio Mejía. Academic program co-chair
Dr. Walter Castañeda. Artistic works program chair
Dr. Leah Barclay. Virtual projects chair
Liliana Villescas. Transdisciplinary workshops chair
Carlos A. Escobar. Keynotes program chair
Artistic / Academic Review Committee_:
Dr. Pau Alsina/(philosopher; director Artnodes Journal; professor, Open
University of Catalonia – Spain)/
Pat Badani/(artist, writer; editor-in-chief, Media-N journal –
Canada/Argentina)/
Dr. Leah Barclay/(composer, sound artist, producer; Biosphere
Soundscapes – Australia)/
Mónica Bello/ (curator; Head of Arts@CERN – Spain/Switzerland)/
CEIArtE-UNTREF/(Natalia Pajariño and Bernardo Piñero, artists; National
U. of Tres de Febrero – Argentina)/
Joel Chadabe/(composer, author, educator; founder of Ear to the Earth –
USA)/
Ian Clothier/(artist; professor, Western Institute of Technology;
director of Intercreate – New Zealand)/
Nina Czegledy/(curator, artist; co-founder SCANZ – Canada/Hungary)/
Dr. Ricardo Dal Farra/(composer, artist; professor at Concordia
University – Canada/Argentina)/
Peter d’Agostino/(artist, World-Wide-Walks; professor, Temple
University, Philadelphia – USA )/
Dr. Frank Ekeberg/(sound artist; curator Meta.Morf/Trondheim Electronic
Art Centre – Norway/USA)/
Dr. Tony Fry/(philosopher, cultural theorist; professor of Design
Futures at Griffith University – Australia)/
Dr. Diego Golombek/(biologist, science communicator; National Univ. of
Quilmes / CONICET – Argentina)/
Dr. Ramón Guardans/(Scientific advisor, UN’s Global Monitoring Plan on
Organic Pollutants – Spain)/
Land Art Generator Initiative/(architect Robert Ferry & artist Elizabeth
Monoian, co-founders LAGI – USA)/
Eric Leonardson/(composer, artist; president of the World Forum for
Acoustic Ecology – USA)/
Dr. Felipe César Londoño/(architect, author, curator; President,
University of Caldas – Colombia)/
Dr. Rob Mackay/(composer, sound artist, flutist; University of Hull – UK)/
Dr. Roger Malina/(astrophysicist; professor, University of Texas at
Dallas; executive editor, Leonardo – USA)/
Olga Mink/(artist, curator; managing director of Baltan Laboratories –
The Netherlands)/
Dr. Anne Nigten/(founder, The Patching Zone; prof. Rotterdam Univ. of
Applied Sciences – The Netherlands)/
Dr. Raúl Niño Bernal/(aesthetics, political science; professor,
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana – Colombia)/
Santiago Ortiz/(mathematician, data scientist; director of Moebio Labs
– Colombia/USA)/
Mike Phillips/(director of i-DAT; principal supervisor, Planetary
Collegium; prof. Plymouth University – UK)/
Dr. David Rothenberg/(musician, composer, author, philosopher-naturalist
– USA)/
Dr. Peter Stoett/(global ecopolitics; Loyola Sustainability Research
Centre, Concordia Univ. – Canada)/
Eugenio Tiselli/(digital artist, systems engineer, researcher; Golden
Nica, Ars Electronica. – Mexico)/
Michel van Dartel/(curator; Hanze Univ. of Applied Science; CODARTS
Univ. for the Arts – The Netherlands)/
Wim van der Plas/(formerly, Utrecht Univ. of Applied Sciences;
co-founder ISEA – The Netherlands)/
… this list will be updated in the following weeks.