AI & SOCIETY - Special Issue on Articulations of Tacit Engagement in Music Perspectives
AI & Society - Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Communication: collaborative call with Array, Journal of the International Computer Music Association (Issue 2024)
The interplay of tacit knowledge and explicit knowledge form a major part of our music engagement with sound production, performing concepts, and mediation through technology. This happens on a rather continuous scale which makes it even more difficult to grasp. What do we mean when we say ‘we can’t see the wood for the trees’. The expression marks the fact there are always different levels of awareness when we look at what is in front of us. For Polanyi, who coined the expression ‘tacit knowing’ or ‘tacit knowledge’ in his seminal work The Tacit Dimension (1966), these multiple levels together form tacit knowing, as a comprehensive entity. Knowledge for Polanyi is above all personal: an embodied act, and always mediated. As this theory was rooted in an individual’s perception, tacit knowledge has long been considered as lying within the individual rather than lying in our engagement with others in world.
We are keen on outlining articulations of tacit engagement in our collective interactions, as we consider tacit knowledge to be contextual to the frame it is employed in. For music, this includes the surrounding culture, community, accessible technologies, as well as institutional settings. We aim to delineate how 'we' generate, gather, acquire, formalize, objectify, share (or not) and master tacit knowledge in our communities where technology is an integral part of the musical creation.
The goal of this issue is to re-present personal experiences, outline theoretical, social, financial and cultural contexts that help to create a comprehensive picture of the components and articulations of tacit knowledge in music and the ways it is created, developed, captured and maintained within our diverse communities and ecologies of practice. Hereby we explicitly invite and aknowledge accounts from artistic, humanities, technological and engineering perspectives.
The issue intends but is not limited to four major foci:
- Engaging with sound: personal experience with sound, new musical practices, composition.
- Concepts of sound: procedural information and contextual analysis. Emerging theories, scoring techniques, strategies, models and design principles.
- Transmission of knowledge in music and sound: operational and strategic judgements within institutions, actions within an ecology that constitute cultural configurations.
- Nodes of innovation in music and sound: technological developments and the conditions of their implementations that create discourses of an artistic community.
This is a collaborative call between ICMA Array and Springer AI&Society: Knowledge, Culture and Communication Journals.
The submissions will be reviewed along the guidelines of each journal, with a common core of three editors:
Miriam Akkermann, Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany
Chrysi Nanou, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Satinder P. Gill, University of Cambridge, UK
For AI & Society: https://link.springer.com/journal/146 (this opens in a new tab)
All articles are peer reviewed.
Full length scholarly articles - underpinned by theoretical, methodological, conceptual or philosophical foundations - 10K words; Open Forum: strategic ideas, critical reviews and reflections - 8K words; Student Forum is for emerging researchers and new voices to communicate their ongoing research to the wider academic community, mentored by the Journal Advisory Board - 6K words; Curmudgeon Corner - short opinionated column on trends in technology, arts, science and society, commenting emphatically on issues of concern to the research community and wider society - 1K words;
For Array: https:// (this opens in a new tab)journals.qucosa.de/array/index (this opens in a new tab)
Submission: We call for submitting ready works (abstracts can not be considered):
Texts: length approx. 6,000 – 15,000 characters (plus up to 4 images); Media: please upload a description of the work (3,000 – 10,000 characters) and a link to the media file(s). The work can have a duration up to 10 minutes. Please do not upload the media files on the submission platform!
The collaboration allows for a wide range of expression of ideas, both in terms of length of articles and media: for Array, articles can be as short as 1 page, and can include media. Authors/artists retain their copyright.
Articles for AI & Society tend to be longer, and do not include media. Springer retains the copyright except for Open Access articles.
The collaboration allows authors to develop complementary articles/expressions of ideas across both journals.
Article submission deadline: 31st July 2024
AI & Society submission
Submissions can be made at https://link.springer.com/journal/146/submission-guidelines (this opens in a new tab).
For further questions regarding the AI&Society Journal you can contact us at spg12@cam.ac.uk (this opens in a new tab)
Array submission
For submitting, please register and upload your full text or work description and the corresponding link to the media file on our journal’s platform: https://journals.qucosa.de/array/information/authors (this opens in a new tab).
For further questions regarding the array you can contact us at array@computermusic.org (this opens in a new tab)