Call for Papers: The Machinima Reader

This was sent to me just prior to the 2005 holidays, and I'm only getting around to posting it now.

Dr. Henry Lowood (Stanford) and Prof. Michael Nitsche (Georgia Tech) have submitted a CfP for the Machinima Reader, to be published later this year. A quote from their posting:

The Machinima Reader will assemble the first collection of essays to critically review the phenomenon of Machinima from a wide variety of perspectives.

Machinima is on the verge of stepping beyond its chaotic mix of artistic, ludic and technical conceptions into established traditions and vocabularies of contemporary media. As machinima invents itself, the flexibility of its form poses an interesting challenge to academics as well as artists and critics. We want to offer an inaugural reader for the further development and critical discussion of Machinima, one that charts its growth from several angles and also provides a foundation for critical studies in the future.

Abstracts are due by April 6, 2006, with final essays (5000-7000 words) to be submitted by July 2006. Submissions should be sent to michael.nitsche at lcc.gatech.edu and lowood at stanford.edu.

Good luck to those submitting - very much looking forward to this.