[Microsound-announce] Call for Papers and Proposals: The 21st Annual Conference of the SLSA

[Kim Cascone]

On Feb 3, 2007, at 10:37 AM, Arielle Saiber wrote:

> **Call for Papers and Proposals**
>
> The 21st Annual Conference of the SLSA (Society for Literature,  
> Science, and the Arts)
>
> -Nov. 1-4, 2007
> -Portland, Maine (USA)
> -Topic: CODE
> -Deadline for paper and panel submissions: March 15, 2007
> -Plenary Speakers: N. Katherine Hayles, UCLA; Brian Massumi,  
> Université de Montréal
> -Conference website: http://www.slsa07.com/
>
> Biological and algorithmic, protector of secrets and porthole to  
> mysteries, universal and singular, code is an invitation to thought.
> Code can be “wet” (genetic, organic, human), “dry” (digital,  
> mathematical, logical), something in-between, neither, or both
> (linguistic, symbolic, religious, moral, legal). Code is the  
> meeting ground of strange bedfellows, the cipherer and decipherer,  
> the domain of law and its subversion, communication and privacy.  
> Code is about patterns, sequences, systems, translations,  
> substitutions. It can bind, trick, and free. Modern technologies  
> are affording us more and more keys to unlock nature’s code and  
> more opportunities to manipulate it.
> **We welcome paper and panel submissions that explore any type/ 
> aspect/nature/culture of code in any period of history.  Also  
> welcome are submissions on any aspect of science's relationship  
> with literature and the arts, including ones presented in  
> nontraditional formats (such as film/video, performance, music, or  
> visual art).**
>
> For more information, please see
> http://www.slsa07.com/

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