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Date:    Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:12:46 -0500
From:    Peter Verheyen <verheyen at PHILOBIBLON.COM>
Subject: Call for Papers - The Liquid Page, London, UK, Deadline for 
Abstract 31 Jan, 2008

Introduction
The question 'what kind of a thing is a book?' leads inevitably to 'what 
kind of an age have we got for the book?'.

Each cultural moment has its form of reading and the technology of the 
last 
two decades has dramatically reshaped the environment for reading, 
generating what might be described as a new geography for the book. Some 
landmarks remain: I A Richards' description of the book as 'a machine for 
thinking' still has validity though it falls to us to discover just how 
the 
nature of both the machine and the thinking has changed. Does a book 
engender a kind of performative space for reading? Does its materiality 
matter to the reader's thought-processes?

Much has been said on the threat to the monumentality of the traditional 
book and just has much has been said on the new and liberating 
possibilities 
of the digitally reconfigured book, its very fluidity anticipating a new 
consciousness for the twenty-first century reader.

This symposium intends to interrogate the nature of the new (and old) 
forms 
of the book as well as the reader. It also
explores the ways and means reading itself is restaged, and celebrates the 

increasingly liquid boundaries between page, screen and experience.

The University College for the Creative Arts, at Maidstone College is 
staging a One Day Symposium in London (second half June 2008). We are 
inviting a range of contributions - some of them visual - from a wide 
spectrum of practitioners (artists, book artists, graphic designers, 
on-line 
poets etc) and theorists (anywhere from art and design history to 
psychoanalysis and futurology) for this attempt at an imaginative mapping 
and reassessment of the state of the book.

Topics for discussion could include Abstraction and Materiality, Space and 

Time of the Book, Mediation and Behaviour of the Book, New Legibilities, 
the 
Public or Private Space of Reading, Hypertext, Anachronism and 
Obsolescence, 
as well as the more familiar themes of Book Architecture and Navigation, 
the 
Future Book/ Page and
Designs on Reading. The Symposium will be accompanied by an illustrated 
publication with contributions from all speakers.

Timetable
Call for Papers :Mid December 2007
Deadline for Abstracts: 31 January 2008
Launch Symposium website: 1 March 2008
Deadline for Full Papers: 30 April 2008
Symposium Opens: [second half June 2008] tbc
Symposium Location: Central London
Symposium Publication: Artists' book with essay by Mark Sanderson and 
contributions by all speakers
Deadline for Publication: 15 May 2008
Contact:
www.ucreative.ac.uk
sdettmers at ucreative.ac.uk

Proposals are welcome in the form of a written abstract to be submitted 
electronically in  Adobe Acrobat PDF format.

Abstracts should be no more than two A4 pages. You may wish to add another 

two A4 pages of images to your abstract.

Full details at <http://www.ucreative.ac.uk/index.cfm?articleid=17515>
PDF version of call for papers at 
<
http://www.ucreative.ac.uk/media/pdf/a/m/Maidstone_Symposium_Call_for_Papers.pdf?CFID=2464123&CFTOKEN=75615945
> 

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