Call for papers

[julesjones]

It so happens that I know one of the Division Heads for the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Next year's theme is "Gender and Sexuality" and she has a call for papers out on her blog, http://esmeraldus.blogspot.com/ as reproduced below. She thought that people who were interested in the transgender sf anthology guidelines that I posted last week might also be interested in this, so I'm reposting here for her. I'd add that writers of cross-genre sf romance, especially those who write non-traditional sexualties, might also be interested. I've got the details for her Division, but there are other areas as well.

ETA to add a useful url after yourbob pointed out that I'd forgotten it. :-)
IAFA's website (the Association that runs the conference) with more details: http://www.iafa.org/



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The theme for ICFA 28, held every March in Ft. Lauderdale, is Gender & Sexuality.

The brand-new Visual & Performing Arts division of the IAFA is all about the site where the visual meets the verbal, where the dynamic and physical intersect the purely textual.

If that doesn’t help, then perhaps it’s about seeing and acting science fiction, or maybe even being fantasy.

This category includes such topics as Illustrations, Anime, Dance, Body Art , Sculpture, Music, Theater, Photography, and Graphic Novels.

Some write science fiction and fantasy, while others show it and do it. The Visual & Performing Arts Division is where to try to determine exactly what that means.

(Stacie and Barb will be selling tickets to the smackdown over the topics of fan art and cosplay.)
The IAFA welcomes and supports graduate students.


Visual & Performing Arts in SF&F


This division might feature titles that begin with the words "Art in the
Novels of . . ." or "Music in . . ." but will be especially appropriate
for papers about "The Art (or Design) of...."


Illustrations & Text: graphic novels, manga Charles Vess, Neil Gaiman .

Anime: styles (Ranma ½ v. Crying Freeman); big eyes, pointy chins, and
purple hair; .

Puppets & Puppeteers: Jim Henson, Yoda, Dark Crystal, heck-Sesame
Street, Labyrinth .

SF&F Role-Playing Games: the art of Game Mastering hard sf RPGs,
performing gender in a high fantasy setting .

Cosplay: the technique of costume design (I've got my own vacuum table,
nyerr!) .

LARP: method acting, props .

Body Art: extreme body modification-performing otherness, Stelarc
(www.stelarc.va.com.au/),

Dance: (what other performing arts am I missing?)

Sculpture: um . . . millennium stuff?, Burning Man? .

Music: Star Wars scores; Danny Elfman, composer to Hollyweird, ambient
music in horror films, the small world of book soundtracks ("From the
Discworld" & "A Soundtrack For The Wheel of Time"), Blue Man Group,
costume rock groups .

Theater: mystery dinner theater, the thriving cottage industry of
Discworld plays .

Photography: digital manipulation, the "infinite resolution" camera
trick in sf movies .

Scenery & Special Effects: CGI gone bad; Where wolf? There wolf!
Lycanthrope Special Effects, 1940-2006; Industrial Light & Magic,
crossdressing & rag .

Video Games: designing visually striking settings, people from polygons .

Multimodal Compositions: .


Fantasy Art History: Hieronymous Bosch, Dali, Magritte, Giger, Lewis
Carrol & John Tenniel-matching the visuals to the vision, William Blake
.

Fantasy Art Techniques, Artists, & Media: depicting monsters, fantastic
landscapes, impossible structures, sense of unreality; Watercolors &
fairies, oils & battle scenes, airbrushed unicorns; Picturing Alternate
Realities: color and position in the works of Michael Whelan (for
instance), Anthropomorphism: Bill Tytla's animation of Cernabog in Night
on Bare Mountain, Escher-tecture .

Cover Art: female/male body language on book covers, What book did he
read?, Kidby & Kirby on Discworld covers, New & Understated DW covers
for the fantasy-impaired .

Art Manifestos: Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology,
and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century .," Post-Porn
Modernist Manifesto (http://www.sexuality.org/l/art/anniems.html) . . .

Comments

[yourbob.livejournal.com]

Um.

That's not a call for papers - or at leat the actual call paragraph may have gotten left out.

And just to be my picky editor self - I betcha ICFA 28 is not held every March anywhere. It's only going to be held once.

Grins and giggles. 'cause I'm feeling silly.

[julesjones]

That's what she gave me. I was going to add the relevant urls which I'd dug up myself, but I got distracted in the middle of cutting-and-pasting...

[yourbob.livejournal.com]

Of course the only call for papers on the org website is for 2006...

And I know I'm used to calls for papers from scientific organizations - ones that include where to send your abstract, length of abstract, deadlines, requests for equipment, that sort of thing.

:)

[julesjones]

So am I. I may well direct her to this conversation as a Subtle Hint. :-)

[yourbob.livejournal.com]

And of course, this is not the first of this kind of call for papers I've seen this week. A different Spec Fic org had a call out and didn't include any information on what to do if you wanted to contribute. But it DID have a deadline (passed by the time I saw it).

[julesjones]

Apparently they're still putting together the paperwork for next year's, but she's trying to get a head start as it's her first year as Division Head. So she's prodding her friends for Good Ideas ahead of time. Which I would have mentioned if I'd known this. :-)

(It's possible that she did mention it on afp, only I was too stoned on having tonsillitis to notice. It wasn't in her original email direct to me, which is where I lifted stuff from.)