Dear colleagues, please see below the MINA call for films and call for papers. Apologies for x-posting & feel free to forward to anyone who might be interested. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CALL FOR FILMS #MINA2015 | 5th International Mobile Innovation Screening @ RMIT - Melbourne, Australia 19 November 2015 In Perspective Deadline for submission: 17 July 2015 ([1]www.mina.pro/submit) CALL FOR SMARTPHONE, MOBILE AND POCKET CAMERA FILMS The Mobile Innovation Network Australasia [ MINA ] aims to explore the possibilities of interaction between people, content and the creative industries. The International Mobile Innovation Screening 2015 will showcase short films produced on and with smartphones, mobile, pocket cameras and drones. This year MINA is pleased to announce that RMIT University (AUS) will present the screening in Melbourne, Australia, on the 18th November. #mina2015 is co-organised by Colab (AUT University, NZ), Te Rewa O Puanga - School of Music and Creative Media Production and Toi Rauwharangi, the College of Creative Arts (Massey University, NZ) in conjunction with the Mobile Creativity and Mobile Innovation Symposium. Working in collaboration with Super 9 (Portugal), Mobile Motion Film Festival (Switzerland), Cinephone (Spain), Mobil Film Festival (USA), Mobile Film Festival (Macedonia), Mobile Screenfest International (Australia), MINA showcases mobile filmmaking projects from around the world at the 5th International Mobile Innovation Screening. The MINA showcase will include micro-movies and micro-formats (Vine, Vyclone and live streaming apps), travel, mobility and adventure films (i.e. sports or skate videos) including projects realised with GoPro and/or drone cameras. In its 5th edition the screening theme In Perspective will explore, but not limited too: � ACTUALITIES / Vine, Vyclone & live streaming... � ACTION / Travel, mobility & adventure (i.e. sports, skate...) � CONNECTIVITY / GoPro & pocket camera videos... � DIGITAL ART / iPhonography & animation... � FICTION / Short films & micro dramas... � MICRO / Extreme short-movies & emerging formats... � NONFICTION / Documentary, moving-image & experimental... � PERSPECTIVE / Drone & underwater... Selected mobile films will be featured in the MINA showreel, MINA DVD, MINA eBook and MINA's international partner festivals. For further assistance regarding submission enquiries, please contact Dr. Max Schleser [ [2]max@mina.pro | +64 226 920 872 ] Deadline for submission via [3]www.mina.pro/submit - 17th July 2015. All screening proposals will be double peer reviewed and notification of acceptances will be send out on 31st August 2015. MINA 2012 showreel: [4]http://vimeo.com/51724574 E Book: [5]http://bit.ly/eBook2013 Twitter @MINAmobile Facebook: [6]https://www.facebook.com/MobileInnovationNetwork Screening programms 2011-2014: [7]https://www.scribd.com/mschleser - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CALL FOR PAPERS MINA -- 2015 | Mobile Innovation Network Australasia 5th International Mobile Creativity and Mobile Innovation Symposium & Screening @ RMIT - Melbourne, Australia 19 November 2015 Mobile Innovation Network Australasia [ MINA - [8]www.mina.pro ] is an international network that promotes cultural and research activities to expand the emerging possibilities of mobile media. MINA aims to explore the opportunities for interaction between people, content and the creative industry within the Pacific region. This year MINA is pleased to announce that RMIT University (AUS) will host #mina2015 -International Mobile Creativity and Mobile Innovation Symposium in Melbourne - Australia, in collaboration with Colab (AUT University, NZ) and Te Rewa O Puanga - School of Music and Creative Media Production and Toi Rauwharangi, the College of Creative Arts (Massey University, NZ) . The symposium provides a platform for artists, designers, filmmakers, researchers and industry professionals to debate the prospect of mobile and ubiquitous technologies. CALL FOR PAPERS | Being mobile: The state of play Building on a highly successful five years, including the publication of an edited collection of essays called Mobile Media Making in an Age of Smartphones by Palgrave, the Journal of Creative Technologies Mobile Special issue and Ubiquity: Journal of Pervasive Media in 2015, the 5th MINA Symposium is seeking papers, presentation or panel proposals from practitioners, researchers, academics and activists working in the area of mobile media. These papers/proposals will be published in themed special issue academic journals. We are seeking papers that will discuss the prospects of the proliferation of mobile and digital filmmaking opportunities, which has led to the rise of the videographic citizen journalist form of digital, networked and transmedia collaboration, and the embedding of filmmaking and photography in social media and participatory culture. From avant-garde filmmaking to challenges to media methods and politics, we seek contributions which reflect upon emergent practices to explore contemporary entanglements between mobile media images and sociality. We welcome papers that discuss the use of mobile mobiles as a social means of education and/or how mobile devices can enhance learning and teaching. And we are particularly interested in papers that showcase creative practice as a methodological approach and how mobiles contribute to transdisciplinary co-creation or collaboration. The 5th International Mobile Creativity and Mobile Innovation Symposiumwill specifically focus on the following themes: � MOBILE & AESTHETIC / Digital art, iPhonography & filmmaking... � MOBILE & EDUCATION / Pedagogy, m-learning & teaching... � MOBILE & HYBRID ART / Installation & locative media art... � MOBILE & INTERACTIVITY / Interface design, ludification & gamification... � MOBILE & MEDIA PRODUCTION / Distribution, collaboration & co-creation... � MOBILE & SOUND / Music production, creative process & instruments... � MOBILE & SPACE / GPS tagging, surveillance & big data... � MOBILE & TEXTUALITY / Writing, poetry & screenwriting... MINA welcomes presentations in a variety of formats including academic papers, workshops, poster/panel presentations, performances, project showcases and screenings. The 5th International Mobile Creativity and Mobile Innovation Symposium will also provide the opportunity to present papers via live video and live web-broadcasts. For each submission, please submit: - a proposal / abstract of approximately 400 words, including the title - a brief biographical (100 words maximum) via Easychair >[9]https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mina2015 DEADLINE for paper abstracts and presentation/panel proposals: - Friday17 July 2015, 5pm (NZ time) All papers/proposals will be double peer reviewed and presenters will be notified of acceptances by early August 2015. All selected papers will be published online. If you have any questions related to conference proposals please contact Laurent Antonczak [ [10]laurent@mina.pro | +64 211 625 072 ]. For further information, please check also: [11]www.mina.pro - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Max Schleser Te Rewa O Puanga - School of Music and Creative Media Production College of Creative Arts - Toi Rauwharangi Massey University - Tu Kinenga Ki Purehuroa email: [12]M.Schleser@massey.ac.nz mobile: + 64 (0) 22 692 0872 twitter: @MaxMobile phone: + 64 (0) 4 801 5799 X 63639 office: 1D30, Block 1, Entrance C, Wallace Street, Wellington Creative Media Production: [13]https://www.massey.ac.nz/cmp Mobile filmmaking projects: [14]https://www.behance.net/maxschleser Co-Founder of the Mobile Innovation Network Aotearoa [MINA]: [15]www.mina.pro References 1. http://www.mina.pro/submit 2. mailto:max@mina.pro 3. http://www.mina.pro/submit 4. http://vimeo.com/51724574 5. http://bit.ly/eBook2013 6. https://www.facebook.com/MobileInnovationNetwork 7. https://www.scribd.com/mschleser 8. http://www.mina.pro/ 9. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mina2015 10. mailto:laurent@mina.pro 11. http://www.mina.pro/ 12. mailto:M.Schleser@massey.ac.nz 13. https://www.massey.ac.nz/cmp 14. https://www.behance.net/maxschleser 15. http://www.mina.pro/