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Call for papers: Location/Dislocation

December 3, 2008 · Leave a Comment

California State University, Sacramento
Sixth Annual Festival of the Arts Art History Symposium
Symposium date: Saturday, March 21, 2009
Proposal deadline: January 16, 2009

We invite 300-word proposals for 20-minute lectures on the theme of “location and dislocation” in the history of art. The symposium is open to a wide range of historical and contemporary topics on the placement and displacement of artists, identities, artworks, texts, collections, and cultures. “Location” is broadly defined as geographic, temporal, racial, sexual, virtual, invented, or actual. We welcome proposals from historians and theorists of early modern, modern, and contemporary art of Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas with research interests in architecture, design, visual culture, and cross-disciplinary studies.

Please email your proposal with a one-paragraph professional biography to
eobrien@csus.edu or mail them to Elaine O’Brien, Art Department, California
State University, Sacramento, 6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95819-6061.

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Call for papers: SocialEast Seminar on Art and Espionage

December 3, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Proposals for papers are invited from art historians, curators and artists that examine the art and visual culture of Eastern Europe and beyond in both historical and contemporary contexts. Papers are sought for the SocialEast Seminar on Art and Espionage, which will be held at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London on Friday 27 February 2009.*
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This SocialEast Seminar considers the involvement of art during the Cold War with espionage, both on the level of international exchange and in specific national contexts. It deals with attempts within the Eastern Bloc to monitor artists through surveillance and networks of informers, the role of art espionage as an instrument of Sovietisation, and the methods used to control the involvement of artists in the international art world. There will also be discussion of the parallel role of Western organisations in activities from cultural espionage to the use of art as a propaganda weapon. The seminar will also consider artistic responses to the phenomenon of spying and the wider legacy of artistic espionage for the topography of contemporary art.

To suggest a paper for the SocialEast Seminar on Art and Espionage, please send a 200 word proposal and biographical note to Dr. Reuben Fowkes by email

The deadline for submitting a proposal is *Monday 22 December 2008*.

For more information see: http://www.socialeast.org

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Call for papers: Encounters in the Socialverse: Community and Collaborative Art Practices

December 3, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The 9th Annual Art History Graduate Student Association Symposium
Symposium Date: March 6, 2009
Submission Deadline: January 17, 2009*

The Art History Graduate Student Association at York University will be hosting its 9th Annual Symposium on Friday, March 6, 2009. Graduate students and recent graduates in Canada, the United States, and abroad are invited to submit proposals.

This symposium focuses on the centrality of human participation in contemporary art practice. It seeks to engage with the ethics, the aesthetics, and the politics of community-based and collaborative art. We
are interested in presenting papers stemming from the visual arts, theatre, architecture, dance, film production, and other disciplines.

This symposium aims to critically address questions posed by cultural historians and critics concerning the implications in collaborative art projects. Such questions include: How does active participation influence aesthetics? Does collaborative art practice, with its social interactions, shared assumptions and invisible rules, push or hinder the limits of relationality? How does the integration of human participation impact upon works of art? How has the proliferation of outdoor art festivals such as
Nuit Blanche in Paris, Montreal, and Toronto permanently affected the way contemporary artists produce work? How has the response to such large-scale exhibitions influenced art practice? How has public or private art funding reflected this increased interest in accessible art? Do such art practices
allow for the empowerment of communities and participants? How might the inclusion of community-based projects in institutions like museums, cinemas, and concert halls impact their criticality?

Presentations that touch upon questions relating to community and collaborative art practice in the following sub-themes are encouraged:

• artist collaborations and interventionist works
• authorship and cultural property
• developments in Relational Aesthetics
• legalities of human participation
• theories of time, space, and place
• embodiment and performance studies
• activism and social welfare
• the politics of inclusion
• accessibility issues

We invite emerging scholars to submit proposals that engage with any of these issues by sending a 300-word abstract of your paper, curriculum vitae, email address, and contact information by Friday, January 17, 2009 to:

info@yorku-ahgsa.ca
Attn: Symposium Committee

OR

Art History Graduate Student Association
256L Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts
York University, 4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M3J 1P3

For additional information, visit www.yorku-ahgsa.ca.

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Conference: L’histoire de l’art depuis Walter Benjamin

November 23, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Colloque EHESS (CEHTA)/INHA, Paris
5-6 décembre 2008

Colloque sous la direction scientifique de Giovanni Careri (EHESS, Paris) et
Georges Didi-Huberman (EHESS,Paris). En collaboration avec le Département des études et de la recherche de l’INHA, dans le cadre du programme Histoire de l’Histoire de l’Art (HHA)
Coordonné par Anne Lafont (INHA, Paris)

Institut national d’histoire de l’art
salle Giorgio Vasari
2 rue Vivenne, 75002, Paris
www.inha.fr

Le monde de la recherche philosophique, historique et littéraire a depuis longtemps reconnu la valeur toujours plus décisive que représente l’oeuvre de Walter Benjamin. Ce penseur hors normes a revisité un grand nombre de notions cardinales pour les sciences humaines, proposant de nouveaux modèles d’historicité comme de nouvelles façons de lire et de regarder les oeuvres de la culture, depuis l’art baroque jusqu’à la photographie et le cinéma des années trente en passant par la poésie romantique, le roman moderne, l’architecture urbaine ou le théâtre expérimental. Il reste aux historiens de l’art la tâche de faire un point sur la valeur d’usage de notions telles que l’aura, l’image dialectique, l’anachronisme, le montage, la “lisibilité” ou la reproductibilité technique. Le colloque s’interrogera sur les conditions d’application à l’histoire de l’art d’une théorie de l’historicité qui se présente en faisant recours au terme d’”image” et à celui d’”image dialectique”. Il s’interrogera aussi sur l’esthétisation du
politique à l’époque moderne. Quelle est la portée des analyses de Benjamin dans les conditions “bio-politiques” actuelles, quelle place y jouent les nouvelles technologies, et comment peut-on penser le rapport entre esthétique et éthique dans ce contexte ?

VENDREDI 5 DÉCEMBRE (salle Giorgio Vasari)
MATINÉE
Présidence :
Giovanni Careri

9h30 Giovanni Careri et Georges Didi-Huberman (EHESS, Paris) :
Présentation du colloque.

10h Sigrid Weigel (Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin):
“The Painting as Lightening Flash for the Long Thunder Roll of Thought”.
The Role of Art for Benjamin¹s Epistemology.

11h Georges Didi-Huberman (EHESS, Paris) :
Illumination, imagination, montage.

APRÈS-MIDI
Présidence :
Pietro Montani

14h Antonia Birnbaum (Université de Paris-8) :
Silence tragique et stade préliminaire de la prophétie : une ” ressemblance
non sensible “.

15h Giovanni Careri (EHESS, Paris) :
Il n’est pas de tâche plus importante pour l’histoire de l’art que de
déchiffrer les prophéties.

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16h15 Xavier Vert (EHESS, Paris) :
Image dialectique et contamination dans La Ricotta de Pier Paolo Pasolini.

17h15 Présentation de l’ouvrage
Face au réel. Éthique de la forme dans l’art contemporain.

SAMEDI 6 DÉCEMBRE (salle Giorgio Vasari)
MATINÉE
Présidence :
André Gunthert

9h30 Pietro Montani (Università La Sapienza, Rome) :
Du ” politique ” de l’image.

10h30 Éric Michaud (EHESS, Paris) :
L’art comme préparation au danger. Remarques sur ” deux fonctions de l’art “
selon Walter Benjamin.

11h30 Jean-Louis Déotte (Université de Paris-8) :
Les appareils urbains de Benjamin.

APRÈS-MIDI

Présidence :
Éric Michaud

14h André Gunthert (EHESS, Paris) :
Le risque de la culture mineure.

15h Muriel Pic (Université de Neuchâtel) :
La métaphore du regard anatomiste chez Walter Benjamin.

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16h15 Bernhardt Rüdiger (ENBA, Lyon) :
L’expérience de l’arrêt. L’art face au réel.

17h15 Discussion finale

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Conference: Art, Science & Copyright

November 19, 2008 · Leave a Comment

December 11 and 12, 2008

Location:
Akademie Schloss Solitude
Solitude 3
70197 Stuttgart
www.akademie-solitude.de

Announcement:
jw@akademie-solitude.de
Tel: 0711 99619 135

Workshop at Akademie Schloss Solitude
in the framework of the art, science & business program,
initiated by Philippe Perreaux

Program

Thursday, December 11, 2008

8.00 pm
Welcome Remarks by Prof. Jean-Baptiste Joly, Director of the Akademie
»Geht es im Urheberrecht um Kreativität? Bemerkungen aus historischer
und rechtsphilosophischer Sicht« (Lecture in German language)
PD Dr. Alexander Peukert, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute
for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, Munich

Friday, December 12, 2008

Moderation: Julia Warmers, Akademie Schloss Solitude

10.15 – 10.30 am
Welcome Remarks by Prof. Jean-Baptiste Joly, Director of the Akademie
Introduction by Philippe Perreaux, legal advisor, Zurich

10.30 – 11.30 am
»Copyright 101 and the Legal Concept of Creativity«
Dr. Ivan Mijatovic, Vice President Innovation & Growth, Swiss
Reinsurance Company, Zurich

11.30 am
Coffee Break

12.00 – 1.00 pm
»Images in a New Media World – How Does the Copyright Law React?«
Philippe Perreaux, legal advisor, Zurich

1.00 pm
Lunch

Moderation: Philippe Perreaux, legal advisor, Zurich

2.30 – 3.30 pm
»Creative Commons International – The Global License Porting Project«
Dr. Catharina Maracke, Director, Creative Commons International, Berlin

3.30 pm
Coffee Break

4.00 – 5.30 pm
»Surviving in a World of Red Tape: Legal Issues in Arts«
Yi Shin Tang Ph.D., Research Assistant, National University of Singapore
Faculty of Law

5.30 pm
Final Discussion

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Call for Papers: Art and Transnationalism

November 10, 2008 · Leave a Comment

4th International Conference on the Arts in Society
Common Ground
Venice (Italy)
28-31 July 2009

The International Conference on the Arts in Society and the International Journal of the Arts in Society provide an intellectual platform for the arts and art practices, and enable an interdisciplinary conversation on the role of the arts in society. They are intended as a place for critical engagement, examination and experimentation of ideas that connect the arts to their contexts in the world – in studios and classrooms, in galleries and museums, on stage, on the streets and in communities.

The 2009 Arts Conference will coincide with the Venice Biennale, and will be held in conjunction with featured exhibitions and programs. The occasion of the Venice Biennale provides an opportunity for the Conference to serve as a node in the larger phenomenon of fairs, festivals, and their networks. As such, the Arts Conference aims to discover what values, instincts and common ground may exist within the arts and their practices and sites of reception around the world. Your participation shapes the Conference itself.

The theme of this year’s Conference is Art and Transnationalism. It focuses dialogue on the arts and art practices that may be situated within the context of international art expositions, festivals and biennials which are engaged with the transnational production of art and its global distribution networks. The scope is deliberately broad and ambitious. Our times demand nothing less than interdisciplinary and holistic approaches. The breadth of the Conference and the Journal, however, are without prejudice to finely grained discussion of specific, local and grounded practices.

In addition to a roster of international main speakers, the Arts Conference will also include numerous individual paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by artists/practitioners, teachers and researchers. We invite you to respond to the Conference Call for Papers. Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication in the fully refereed International Journal of the Arts in Society. If you are unable to attend the Conference in person, virtual registration options are also available which allow you to submit a paper for possible publication in the Journal.

The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 14 November 2008. Future deadlines will be announced on the Conference website after this date. Proposals are reviewed within two weeks of submission. Full details of the Conference, including an online proposal submission form, are to be found at the Conference website: http://www.Arts-Conference.com

Contact:

Tressa Berman, Ph.D.
International Conference on the Arts in Society
Common Ground Publishing
University of Illinois Research Park
2004 S.Wright Street, Suite 105
Urbana, IL 61802-1000
USA
Email
Web: http://www.Arts-Conference.com

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Call for Papers/ Art Presentations: Seminar in Visual Culture

November 9, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Theme 2009: Money Money Money

Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies
School of Advanced Study,
Stewart House, 32 Russell Square,
WC1B 5DN London

The seminar aims to create a forum for practicing artists, researchers, curators, students, and others interested in visual culture to present, discuss and explore the various aspects of a given theme within the field.
In 2009, to keep apace with the present credit-crunching times, the theme is Money.

While the media are providing us with endless analyses of the credit crisis from all imaginable economic angles, it is now perhaps time to look at how artists and writers are responding to Nasdaq and FTSE100, to shiny coins and colourful banknotes and to the repetitive images of worried brokers shouting into their mobile phones. After all, money is itself an object of design and has long been the subject of the creative arts and the credit crunch has not only inspired economists and journalists. The seminar aims to look at the relationship between art, money and the everyday in times of crisis and of affluence.

Sessions will include screenings of artist films on the theme, followed by one or two speakers and time for discussion. The seminar offers opportunities for artists to present new (and existing) work.

Please send proposals for art presentations (200 words plus images) or
academic papers (200 words) to Ricarda Vidal

Dates and times:
6.30pm – 8.00pm: Thursday 29 Jan, Thursday 26 Feb, Wednesday 25 Mar,
Thursday 28 May, Wednesday 24 June

Dr Ricarda Vidal
49 Dalmeny Road
London N7 0DY
United Kingdom

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Call for papers: Representing Citizenship

November 7, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The Center for the Study of Citizenship at Wayne State University conference, Representing Citizenship, will be held at Wayne State’s Detroit campus on 26 – 28 March 2009.

Distinguished philosopher Wil Kymlicka, (Queens University, Ontario, Canada), will serve as the conference’s keynote speaker.

The Center invites proposals for papers, panels, poster sessions, artistic displays, and performances that examine citizenship and representation, from the political and legal to the literary and artistic.

We invite presentations from any time period or geographic area from among and across the widest range of disciplines, including but not limited to literature, political science, history, anthropology, law, communications, sociology, economics, geography, medicine, film studies, and the fine arts.
Abstracts limited to 300 words for individual papers and posters; panel proposals limited to a 250-word panel abstract, including panel title, and a 300-word abstract for the individual papers.

Please submit abstracts on the Center’s website.

Marc W. Kruman
Center for the Study of Citizenship
Wayne State University
3094 Faculty Administration Building
(313) 577-2525
Email
Visit the website

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Conference: Envisioning Utopia: British Art and Socialist Politics, 1870-1900

October 17, 2008 · Leave a Comment

On December 5 and 6, 2008, the Whitworth Art Gallery at the University of Manchester will host a conference to examine the dynamic between the urban and the pastoral in utopian visions of a socialist future and explore the role of visual art in formulating and articulating these political ideals.

Keynote address Friday at 5:30 by Professor Tim Barringer (History of Art, Yale University).
Speakers include Dr. Matthew Beaumont (English, UCL), Dr. Jo Briggs (Yale Center for British Art), Professor Michael Hatt (History of Art, Warwick), Dr. Ruth Livesey (The Victorian Centre, Royal Holloway, University of London), Sarah Turner (Courtauld Institute), and Dr. Anna Vaninskaya (King’s College, Cambridge University Victorian Studies Group).

Registration fee £20, concessions £10. Registration includes reception on Friday and refreshments and lunch on Saturday. For more information, email waltercranearchive@gmail.com. This event is funded by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.

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