[node-l] Call for Submissions - Shortness, Tate Modern.

[Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka maria x]]

*Call for Submissions - Shortness, Tate Modern.
 
shortness -- a very short conference and a very long dinner
 
Tate Modern, London, 20 June 2009

Deadline Friday 20 March 2009
*
 
This event will bring together practitioners and theoreticians of the 
humanities, arts and sciences to extol or berate, to discuss, explore 
and explain shortness in all its spatial and temporal manifestations.

Topics that Shortness aims to cover include: aphorisms, txt msgs, short 
attention spans, nanophilology, music samples, ephemeral relationships, 
short narratives, punch lines, orgasms and other short-lived entities 
and phenomena (insects and fashion).
 

The conference itself will only last a few hours and will be followed by 
a very long dinner. Guests will be entertained by short dinner speeches 
and the whole event will be supplemented by short films and various 
interventions.
This call invites submissions for presentations or performances of up to 
7 minutes to take place during the long dinner. Please note that we 
cannot cover any expenses incurred nor can we accommodate installations.

Speakers include DJ Spooky, Sadie Plant, Tom Shakespeare, Clare Wigfall 
and Steven Connor amongst others. The Compère for the dinner will be 
Nicholas Parsons.

 
Please send an abstract of no more than 200 words to the organisers and 
include a short bio of no more than 100 words.
 
Contact:

short.at.tate at googlemail.com


Shortness is organised by Irini Marinaki, Konstantinos Stefanis, Ricarda 
Vidal and Tate Modern Public Programmes in collaboration with The London 
Consortium and the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, School of 
Advanced Study (University of London).

-- 
Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka maria x] PhD Art and Computational Technologies  Goldsmiths Digital Studios skype: mariax_gr www.cybertheater.org 

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