Three decades into the long culture wars, how are artists, scholars, and cultural organizations navigating shifting political, community, and financial tides? Where have we encountered friction or congruence between federal priorities and our work at state, local, and community levels? Has our work changed – in structure, presentation, or substance – in response to these priorities? Despite threats of elimination earlier in the year, federal funding for the arts and humanities has been preserved—at least for now. While rightly celebrating this collective accomplishment, we must also acknowledge that ideological pressures on US cultural policy are performed as much through selective…
CFP for Panel @ UAAC Conference – Round Table: Transformation of the Artist’s Studio
Panel Description: Digital and post-digital movements have transformed traditional studio spaces into labs and confined virtual spaces such as computers and the internet. We investigate this transformation and its implications on the practices that result from this loss of physicality. We will invite artists and curators to examine the qualities of current artistic practices with an urge to understanding how technologies transform practices and furthermore influence the aesthetics of artistic practices. Moreover the digital aesthetics discussion has moved to the post-digital debate that yet again opens up a new dialogue for the practitioner. Invited speakers will demonstrate a couple of…
Call for Submissions – Scenes and Screens Festival 2018: Hyperconnect by AltspaceVR
The 2018 Scenes and Screens Festival is currently accepting submissions for papers, machinima, films, performances, VR installations, and digital prints that center around the theme: Hyperconnect. Though this term is commonly used to describe what we consider to be intermachine communication, it can also be used to describe a state of interpersonal and human-to-machine interaction as well. Alternatively, hyperconnectivity is used as a medical term to describe a rapid firing of neurons making excessive connections within the brain. The Scenes and Screens Festival committee encourages those submitting to consider the impact of all existing connections in our society, both organic…
CFP and Artwork presentations: Taboo – Transgression – Transcendence in Art & Science 2018 in Mexico
Submissions are welcome from all art and research fields and cutting-edge technology in art research. Suggested, but not exclusive topics, are those associated, with: Biopunk, hybridity and aesthetics of mutation | Cyborg, augmentation and bοdy modification | Post gender, transgressive identities and social models | Psycho-pharmacology, somatechnology and post-humanism | Chemistry of the mind, natural healers and mind enhancement | Biotechnology, DIYbio and biohacking | Ethology, human and nonhuman | Evolution, extinction and randomness. The conference TTT2018 – Taboo – Transgression – Transcendence in Art & Science 2018 is co-organized by the Research and Creation Group Arte+Ciencia, UNAM (Mexico), Arte…
Deadline Extended, Besides the Screen Conference – Vaults, Archives, Clouds and Platforms: Archiving and Preservation in the 21st Century
Vaults, Archives, Clouds and Platforms: Archiving and Preservation in the 21st Century King’s College, London, UK (2 – 3 July 2018) CIAC-ISMAI, Porto, PT (5 – 6 July 2018) Deadline for abstracts: 12nd April 2018 The 2018 Besides the Screen Conference welcomes paper, panel, artwork, installation, and workshop proposals on the theme of archiving and preserving audiovisual materials in the 21st century. The topic of archiving and preservation has gained even more significance as forms and formats of audio visual media continue to exponentially expand. Within such a context, those working within archives, museums, libraries and a range of cultural…
The NMC invites proposals for affiliated panel session @ CAA 2019
The New Media Caucus invites proposals for affiliated panel session to be held during the 2019 College Art Association annual conference in New York City. Panels should reflect New Media Caucus’ mandate of promoting the development and understanding of new media art. Panels that address or engage with underrepresented groups within the new media genre are strongly encouraged. Panel chairs will submit the proposal and organize the session, including the call for submissions. The NMC Exhibitions & Events Committee will assist with providing liaison to CAA, administration, publicity, etc. PROPOSALS MUST INCLUDE: 3-page maximum CV, submitted as PDF 500 word…
Submission Deadline Extension – Video Game Art Reader: new deadline March 12th!
Video Game Art Reader is extending the submission deadline for Issue 2 to March 12th at midnight. This is to give anyone who may be interested in submitting an article the additional time to they need polish and revise their work. The theme for the forthcoming issue is Survival Strategy, but any critical works that examine video games through a critical or art historical lens are welcome. All submissions should be delivered to Editor in Chief, Tiffany Funk at tfunk@vgagallery.org. Original CFP and submission guidelines can be found here https://www.videogameartgallery.com/education/. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach…
Call for Abstracts: European Drama and Performance Studies Journal
In The Emancipated Spectator, Jacques Rancière questions the relationship of the viewer and the work (theatre, art, film, etc.). He asks what does it mean if the viewer is seen as passive and the performer as active. He is concerned with the political implications of relegating the viewer’s role to that of observer. As Guy Debord has pointed out this leads to the creation of one-way transmissions, the spectacle. Image-based media has tended to bring forward various forms of empathy in the viewer, be it identifying with a hero or a call to action. Since the Agitprop trains of the…
Besides the Screen Conference 2018
Vaults, Archives, Clouds and Platforms: Archiving and Preservation in the 21st Century King’s College, London, UK (2 – 3 July 2018) CIAC-ISMAI, Porto, PT (5 – 6 July 2018) Deadline for abstracts: 2nd April 2018 The 2018 Besides the Screen Conference welcomes paper, panel, artwork, installation, and workshop proposals on the theme of archiving and preserving audiovisual materials in the 21st century. The topic of archiving and preservation has gained even more significance as forms and formats of audio visual media continue to exponentially expand. Within such a context, those working within archives, museums, libraries and a range of cultural organisations…
Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS) 7th International Conference Bridging Gaps: Where is Ethical Glamour in Celebrity Culture?
The following conference might be of interest to new media scholars exploring questions on digital fashion and wearable technology for sustainability. CFP Deadline: February 10 Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS) 7th International Conference Bridging Gaps: Where is Ethical Glamour in Celebrity Culture? Lisbon, Portugal July 1 – 3, 2018 Keynotes by: Kirsty Fairclough Associate Dean, School of Arts and Media University of Salford, Manchester UK Elliot Pill Senior Lecturer, The School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies Cardiff University, Cardiff UK CALL FOR PAPERS: The fashion modeling industry has occupied a significant area in celebrity culture. For the…