Call for Papers: Digital opera: new means and new meanings

International Journal of Performance Arts & Digital Media (Intellect Ltd)

Special issue: Digital opera: new means and new meanings
Issue Editors: Áine Sheil (University of York) and Craig Vear (University of Salford)


Papers are invited for Digital opera: new means and new meanings, a special issue of the International Journal of Performance Arts & Digital Media (Spring 2012). Two key questions will be addressed: how can 21st-century digital technology become a fundamental, constitutive element (voice) in the creation of digital opera? What could digital opera be? This special issue will explore the open, creative space between composition, technology and interdisciplinary performance. The boundaries of digital opera will not be prescribed in advance; the aim is to explore all facets of sound- and music-led digital performance.

Contributions may deal with the following topics, but are not limited to them:

  • The concept of digital opera
  • Immersive sound- and music-led digital performance environments
  • Site-specific and mobile media composition
  • The theatrical use of digital voice and hyperinstruments
  • Virtual and augmented space
  • Intermediality and cross-media collaboration
  • Dramaturgy in the digital age
  • Gaming as a form of digital opera
  • Digital opera and audience: new modes of reception
  • Dissemination and critical reflection

Full articles of 5000-8000 words or developmental position-takings of 2000-3000 words should be submitted for peer review to aine.sheil@york.ac.uk by 1 September 2011. Expressions of interest should be sent to the above address by 1 August 2011. All submissions should adhere to the Intellect Journal Style and reflect the interests of the International Journal of Performance Arts & Digital Media. Images should be submitted as separate, high-resolution files (300 dpi minimum).

Style Guide:
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/MediaManager/File/style%20guide%28journals%29-1.pdf

Journal Homepage:
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=120/

Dr Áine Sheil
Department of Music
University of York                                                  
aine.sheil@york.ac.uk                                                                

Craig Vear
University of Salford
vear@ev2.co.uk
http://www.ev2.co.uk/vear