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Subject: [incepem] Call for Submissions - Thresholds 34
From:    "mihnea mircan" <mihnea la sptv.org>
Date:    Tue, December 5, 2006 01:23
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thresholds 34
call for submissions

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portability

On July 1, 1979, the Sony Walkman TPS-L2 went on sale in Japan, ushering
in an age of mobile privatization. Since then, the portability of cultural
and informational content has become ever more portable: television
consumers of today can timeshift with the TiVo and placeshift with the
Slingbox, reminding us that TV, like fast food, need not be different
everywhere.

More object-oriented than the concept of mobility, design for portability
aims to maintain the coherent function, appearance, and identity of the
thing transported: be it a lipstick carried in a purse, software moved to
a competing platform, health care benefits taken to another job, or a Star
Trek officer who needs to be beamed down to the planet. Thus, the pursuit
of the thing's fidelity after transport and transfer is also a quest of
translatability, enabling exchange and reciprocity in an age of
translocational identity. Just as mobility and immobility encapsulate
modern social dilemmas, portability encapsulates all things in transition
between times and places, and the desire to make solid, truthful, and
durable, all that melts into air. We are as much mobile agents, as we are
porters of weighty baggage.


thresholds 34 invites contributions examining the aesthetic,
architectural, political and technological uses of portability. We invite
critical perspectives that explore these issues in a variety of media,
including essays, projects, proposals, policies, and models. Points of
inquiry can include, but need not be limited to, portable objects, spaces
of portage, systems of transport and transfer, processes of
translatability, markets of import and export, and designs on, and for, a
portable life.

Submissions from fields other than art and architecture are strongly
encouraged. Essays are limited to 2500 words. A digital copy of the text
is required as well as 300 dpi digital files of all images. Please include
a two-sentence biography of each author. Thresholds aims to print material
not previously published.

Submissions are due February 15, 2007.
Please send all materials and correspondence to thresh la mit.edu
or to:

Winnie Wong, Editor
thresholds
MIT Department of Architecture
Room 7-337
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02139


thresholds is the bi-annual critical journal of architecture, art and
media culture produced by editors in the Department of Architecture of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

http://architecture.mit.edu/thresholds
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