Mobility Under Control
In this issue, .dpi will address the control of borders, monitoring and tracking technologies, as well as the control of identity. It will take into account the manipulation of populations, the irruption of organised suspicion, urban configuration due to pedestrian and motorized travels, and the aesthetic of surveillance images.
Publication Date: Mid-December 2007
#1 Article: Mobility Under Control
We are seeking articles which will address the subject mentioned above. The length of the article should be between 2000 and 2500 words and submissions should include a summary of 50 words as well as a biography of a 100 words. These are subject to modifications (style, length, clarity) by the .dpi committee. We invite you to submit illustrations, photos, sound mp3, Quick Time.
Submission deadline:
November 19th 2007
Send to: chantal@studioxx.org
Guidelines for contributors:
http://dpi.studioxx.org/
Remuneration is available for authors.
#2 Feminist Column: Intimacy, Identity, and Surveillance
.dpi proposes to explore the real and imaginary borders, which shape social relations, and the transgression of its borders (lines of conduct, margin markers, binary indicators, underground passages, limits, structures, edges) by women.
Possible topics:
* Sexual Politics
* Women’s spheres of investment and social expectations between them (public/private, finances, motherhood, leisure, etc.)
* The rebellious identity of certain women or group of women in reaction to their stigmatization
* Imprisonment of women, for example, intimate relationships between women, their criminal identity and social control to which they are submitted that goes as far as incarceration
* Women homelessness: the many configurations of the «the home», precariousness of living conditions for women, and their strategies of empowerment against the system
* De-structuring sensations through art, its relation to one’s own mobility
* Aesthetic recycling of the margin by fashion/normalization of body images
* Cosmopolitan experiences
* Migrant sex workers and the discourse pertaining to the traffic of women, or women and migration in a general matter
* Market fluidity and the restrictions of human displacements/migrations
* Appropriation of uncommon spaces by women
* Virtual intimacy: webcam, chatrooms/ discussion groups, blogs & pornography
* Multiple identities & engagement (singular or plural), etc.
Submission Deadline:
November 19th 2007
Send to: melinabernier@hotmail.com
Guidelines for contributors: http://dpi.studioxx.org/
Remuneration is available for authors.
The length of the column should be of about a 1000 words and submissions should include a summary of 50 words as well as a biography of a 100 words. These are subject to modifications (style, length, clarity) by the .dpi committee. We invite you to submit illustrations and photos. Please include: ideas, commentaries, essays, experiences, relationships, drawings, etc.
Stimulated by a desire to create a critical, and socially and creatively engaged transdisciplinary space, .DPI addresses cyberfeminism and broader issues involving women and their diverse relations to new media and contemporary technological landscapes. .DPI is an alternative platform for communication and exchange in a zone of shared concerns between feminism and Net specific realities. We seek to initiate a technocritical exchange on the many preoccupations that women have concerning the technological ubiquity that we live with.
