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Deadline: Abstracts due 1 June 2010



Art in the age of pervasive data is a call for papers and artworks for a new issue of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac edited by FutureEverything.



This issue of LEA will seek cross disciplinary thinking on art in the age of pervasive data. 



LEA is soliciting texts and artworks by artists, researchers, and scholars involved in the exploration of themes including:



The networked city


Data visualisation


Open data


Hyperlocal data and the interpretation of proximity


Community use and generation of data


Novel means of navigating the data terrain.



Cities today are vast repositories of information, endlessly collecting and archiving data. The growth and proliferation of databases and libraries that we access and update in the course of our every day lives, and new techniques of accessing, visualising and using that data, leads to new forms of representation and social interaction. The vast scale of these databases brings us to a tipping point, entering an era that is increasingly data-driven. This poses new challenges, such as the demands of making sense of a million different data sources, issues of provenance, interoperability, trust and accountability.



The potential for more innovative and novel interpretations of this landscape by creative invention, social innovation and scientific intervention is there to be explored.

Linked activity exploring the Art in the age of pervasive data theme is being led by FutureEverything and its OpenData Cities project

The Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) will produce an online and print on demand paper and gallery issue edited by FutureEverthing, as well as host curated images and videos online.



The FutureEverything editorial group consists of Karen Gaskill, Drew Hemment, Michelle Hirschhorn, Michelle Kasprzak, Julian Tait, Kate Taylor.
 


Proposals to:

lea@futureeverything.org

info@leoalmanac.org 



More on

http://www.futureeverything.org/news/leonardoelectronicalmanac

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