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Summer Fellowship Call for Projects
Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular

The Institute for Multimedia Literacy (IML) at the University of Southern
California’s Annenberg Center for Communication is pleased to announce a
Fellowship program for summer 2004 to foster innovative research for its new
electronic publishing venture, Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a
Dynamic Vernacular.

Vectors is a new, international electronic journal dedicated to expanding the
potentials of academic publication via emergent and transitional media.
Vectors brings together visionary scholars with cutting-edge designers and
technologists to propose a thorough rethinking of the dynamic relationship of
form to content in academic research, focusing on the ways technology shapes,
transforms and reconfigures social and cultural relations.

Vectors will adhere to the highest standards of quality in a strenuously
reviewed format. The journal is edited by Tara McPherson and Steve Anderson
and guided by the collective knowledge of a prestigious international board.

About the Fellowships
· Vectors Fellowships will be awarded to up to six individuals or teams of
collaborators in the early to mid- stages of development of a scholarly
multimedia project related to the themes of Evidence or Mobility. Completed
projects will be included in the first two issues of the journal beginning in
fall 2004. Vectors will feature next-generation multimedia work, moving far
beyond the ‘text with image’ format of most online scholarly publications.

Fall 2004: Evidence
· The first issue of the journal will be devoted to a broad reconsideration of
the notion of Evidence and its multiple transformations in contemporary
scholarship and digital culture.

Spring 2004: Mobility
· The second issue will be devoted to exploring the shifting concepts and
practices of Mobility in contemporary culture, creatively limning the
possibilities and limits of such a concept for understanding 21st century life.

About the Awards
All fellowship recipients will participate in a one-week residency June 21-25,
2004 at the Institute for Multimedia Literacy in Los Angeles, where they will
have access to the IML’s state of the art, Mac-based production facilities.
Fellows will have continuing access to work in collaboration with world-class
designers and the IML’s technical support and programming team throughout the
project’s development.

The residency will include colloquia and working sessions where participants
will have the chance to develop project foundations and collectively engage
relevant issues in scholarly multimedia. Applicants need not be proficient
with new media authoring; however, evidence of successful collaboration and
scholarly innovation is desirable. Fellowship awards will include an
honorarium of $2000 for each participant or team of collaborators, in addition
to travel and accommodation expenses.

About the Proposals
We are seeking project proposals that creatively address issues related to the
first two themes of Evidence and Mobility. While the format of the journal is
meant to explore innovative forms of multimedia scholarship, we are not
necessarily looking for projects that are about new media. Rather, we are
interested in the various ways that new media suggest a transformation of
scholarship, art and communication practices and their relevance to everyday
life in an unevenly mediated world.

Applicants are encouraged to think beyond the computer screen to consider
possibilities created by the proliferation of wireless technology, handheld
devices, alternative exhibition venues, etc. Fellows will also have the
possibility to imagine scholarly applications for newly developing
technologies through productive collaborations with scientists and engineers.
Projects may translate existing scholarly work or be entirely conceived for
new media. We are particularly interested in work that re-imagines the role of
the user and seeks to reach broader publics while creatively exploring the
value of collaboration and interactivity.

Proposals should include the following:
· Title of project and a one-sentence description
· A 3-5 page description of the project concept, goals and outcome (this
description should address questions of audience, innovative uses of
interactivity, address and form, as well the project’s contribution to the
field of multimedia scholarship and to contemporary scholarship more generally)
· Brief biography of each applicant, including relevant qualifications and
experience for this fellowship
· Full CV for each applicant
· Anticipated required resources (design, technical, hardware, software,
exhibition, etc.)
· Projected timeline
· Sample media if available (CD, DVD, VHS (any standard), or NTSC Mini-DV);
for electronic submissions, URLs are preferred but still images may be sent as
e-mail attachments if necessary)

Please submit to:

Vectors Summer Fellowships
Institute for Multimedia Literacy
746 W. Adams Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90089
e-mail: [log in to unmask]

Priority will be given to applications received by March 12, 2004. Fellowship
recipients will be notified in mid-April.

Additional Information

For additional information about the Vectors Summer Fellowship Program, please
consult our informational website at http://www.iml.annenberg.edu/vectors .
Questions may be directed to Associate Editor Steve Anderson,
[log in to unmask] .

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