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Call For Proposals: DRHA2020: Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts 2020,
University of Salford, MediaCityUK: 6 - 9 September 2020
DEADLINE: 1 March 2020
Digital Curation has become ubiquitous on a scale ranging from large digital
preservation programmes to individual citizen curation projects that often
involve collaborations between professionals and enthusiasts. Extending Joseph
Beuys’ controversial assertion that everyone is an artist, now everyone is a
(digital) curator. Curation in the context of Contemporary Art is closely
aligned with Digital Curation skills; while a grounding in contemporary art
marking is essential, of course, the ability to understand the contemporary
media ecology within which the works are created, exhibited, documented, and
preserved is equally relevant for contemporary art curators. Similarly, in
Performance there’s an interest in curation of emerging formats, or immersive
documents including social media and augmented/virtual reality, as well as
perspectives relating to the motivations, needs and aspirations of readers or
audience members who might engage with such document. More broadly, Digital
Curation aligns with interest in Digital Heritage, Digital Forensics, Digital
Preservation, and Digital Archives.
In focusing on this evolving area, DHRA 2020 mirrors the purpose of the Digital
Curation Lab at the University of Salford in its theme of ‘Situating Digital
Curation: Locating Creative Practice and Research between Digital Humanities
and the Arts.’ The Digital Curation Lab was established at MediaCityUK in 2019
to facilitate research on the collection, preservation, analysis,
interpretation, and dissemination of digital assets and technologies of memory
at The University of Salford.
Submission Guidelines
We would like to extend a call for proposals for papers, presentations,
provocations, workshops, and other interventions on this theme for the 2020
DRHA conference. Individual 20-minute slots will be made for proposals selected
through a peer-review process. Other formats will be considered on a
case-by-case basis.
Conference Strands
* Digital arts and design
* Digital humanities
* Creative and cultural industries
* Digital libraries and archives
* Citizen science
* Documenting performance*
* The Documenting Performance strand is coordinated by Dr Joseph Dunne-Howrie
and Dr Lyn Robinson (Department of Library & Information Science, CityLis, at
City, University of London) who will be running this strand as a DocPerform
symposium throughout the parallel sessions of DRHA 2020. This follows on from
three previous DocPerform symposia that have been held in London since 2016.
Further information available on the DRHA 2020 website.
Conference Convenors
Dr Kirsty Fairclough
Dr Toni Sant
Publication
Selected DRHA2020 proceedings will be published in an affiliated issue of the
International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, following blind
peer-review on the final submission for publication.
Submissions and Contact Information
All proposals must be submitted through EasyChair.
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Abstracts sent via email will not be processed.
Questions about submissions and general queries about the conference should
sent through the DRHA 2020 website.
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Prof Sue Broadhurst - DRHA Chair
Division Lead,
Production and Performance,
Department of Arts and Humanities,
Brunel University,
London,
UB8 3PH, UK
Direct Line: +44(0)1895 266588
Extension: 66588
Fax: +44(0)1895 269768
Email: susan.broadhurst@xxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:susan.broadhurst@xxxxxxxxxxxx>