Dear Colleagues,

ABCIBER – BRAZILIAN ASSOCIATION OF CYBERCULTURE RESEARCHERS is pleased to announce the opening of registrations for papers on RETHINKING DIGITAL ART, to be presented at its 2nd National Symposium, slated to be held at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP) next November 10 to 13. The regulations for preparing and sending papers and additional pertinent information are available at the site of the event, in the menu "Call for papers” of the Digital Art Commission (http://www.cencib.org/simposioabciber/papers_arte.htm).
The new due date for registration is September 12, 2008.
We would appreciate your disseminating this message to your Research Groups, Programs, Departments and Universities
Warm regards,

Eugênio Trivinho
President of ABCiber
General Coordinator of the Organizing Commission

Gilbertto Prado
Coordinator of the Symposium’s Digital Art Commission

ABCIBER – BRAZILIAN ASSOCIATION OF CYBERCULTURE RESEARCHERS

2nd NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

PUC-SP
November 10 to 13, 2008
Promotion, sponsorship and organization: see Technical Info

CALL FOR PAPERS
 
 
Reference: participation in thematic panels
Registration: August 29, 2008
Textual reference: expanded abstract (3 pages or 10,800 characters)
Submission of proposed abstract: file sent via Internet
     Reference addresses for the Symposium’s Digital Art Commission: cencib@pucsp.br and cencib@cencib.org
Required data: title/subtitle of the text, title of the artistic work (if available), name(s) and institutional affiliation(s) of the author(s)

IMPORTANT: in the subject of the message, indicate “TO THE SYMPOSIUM’S DIGITAL ART COMMISSION”.
List of approved papers will be published on: September 15, 2008
Due date for presentation of full papers: October 03, 2008

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

[1] THE PAPERS SUBMITTED FOR THIS EVENT SHOULD BE UNPUBLISHED (i.e., written exclusively for participation in this Symposium, not presented or published prior to this event).

[2] Papers will be evaluated and selected by a Judging Committee composed of 3 (three) professors of USP and of PUC-SP.

[3] The thematic panels for presentation of works will be organized according to thematic approximation and will be published soon.

[4] The rooms allocated for holding the panels will be equipped with computers and projectors and will have Internet access. Other requests and technical or technological specifications for presentation of the works will be evaluated by the Art Commission and their implementation will depend on the availability of institutional infrastructure for the event.

[5] Expenses incurred by participation on the panels, if not covered by ABCiber, should be defrayed with origin funds.

REFERENCES FOR THE EDITING OF COMPLETE TEXTS

Theme: free, relating to ongoing research and inserted within the broad scope of cyberculture studies.
Ideal size of the text: 10 to15 pages (or 36 thousand to 54 thousand characters), including footnotes and references.
Font/size: Times New Roman, 12.
Detailed suggestions:
          title: font size 17 (upper-case letters, bold type)
          subtitle: font size 15 (upper and lower-case, bold type)
          intertitles (indented tabulation):
          topic: font size 15 (upper and lower-case, bold type);
          subtopic: font size 13 (same as above);
          item/subitem: font size 12 (same as above).
Spacing between lines: single
Citations standard: Brazilian NBR 10520/2002 (ABNT)
References standard: Brazilian NBR 6023/2002 (ABNT)
Photographic resolution: compatible with off-set printing.