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Subject:        Territories Reimagined: International Perspectives
Date:   Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:45:46 -0700
From:   Frank Stieber <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>



For anyone interested in alternative approaches to Cartography/Geography
this looks like a great festival/conference.

~frank



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*TRIP *

*Territories Reimagined: International Perspectives*

Manchester, 19-22 June 2008.

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*Call for Papers and Projects*



    * *Psychogeography*
    * *Neogeography*
    * *Deep topography*
    * *Urban interventions*
    * *Locative media*
    * *Collaborative Mapping*

* *

Between June 19 and 22, 2008, TRIP brings together artists, academics,
movers, shakers, do-ers and dissenters in a unique event combining an
interdisciplinary conference with a city-wide series of  actions,
exhibitions, and screenings. TRIP enables the previously separate worlds
of theory and practice to interact, initiating new approaches and
energies, and furthering techniques to take on and alter the physical
environment.

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Beginning as a reaction to the industrial revolution, the re-imagining
of the city by romantics, bohemians, and avant-gardists evolved into a
diverse range of strategies, practices and arguments, from the
psychogeographic drift or derive to the artistic intervention. By the
1990s these were being utilised by artists, writers, activists, and
historians, attempting to negotiate urban and rural space in the
post-modern world.



But practices developed in the twentieth century encounter a different
world in the twenty first - a more observed and policed world on the one
hand, a more corporate, globally-connected world on the other.
Increasingly the body, social, individual and political, is the site of
contradictory demands - the demands to consume versus the demands of
control.

* *

TRIP will be based at Manchester Metropolitan University, on the city's
main southerly corridor, Oxford Road. But we want events to take place
throughout Manchester, in as wide a variety of spaces and venues as
possible. Like many northern cities, Manchester is changing fast.
Perhaps you want to critique the implications of "regeneration", or
perhaps you want to stimulate new ways of engaging with an increasingly
consumerised environment. Maybe you're passionate about the
possibilities of inventive walking and drifting, or maybe you're a
performance artist aiming to change the energy of a public space.
Wherever you're coming from, TRIP wants to hear from you with your ideas.



*To submit a paper*, you should send an abstract outlining your subject
and the key points of your presentation.

*To submit an idea for an intervention, performance or a walk* involving
members of the public, please outline in one paragraph the aims and
ideal locations for your project.

*To submit an idea for a gallery-based project*, please outline in one
paragraph the thinking behind your installation or work..



Please try to keep your paragraphs to a maximum of 200 words. And don't
forget your contact details. Deadline for submissions: *October 1^st 2007*.



Submissions should be emailed to:  [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>

*(*and for further information on festival announcements, walks, talks
and events, then please access our blog-space, which will be updated
regularly at :

*http://trip2008.wordpress.com/*



The festival proceedings will be fully documented and recorded, and an
edited volume of essays, art and photography will be published at a
later date.**





Frank L. Stieber

Library Specialist, Sr.

ASU - Noble Library, Map Collection

Tempe, AZ

480-965-5183

"In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is
presented as an immense accumulation of /spectacles/. Everything that
was directly lived has receded into a representation." Guy Debord