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SupraSpace: On the Concept of Space and Place in Art and Visual Culture
International Conference
Tel Aviv University, Art History Department

June 3 – 04, 2012
Deadline CFP: Jan 15, 2012

Keynote speaker: Prof. Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Department of Art and
Archaeology, Princeton University

Space has been subject to aesthetic, art-historical, philosophical,
anthropological, geographical and political investigations, each with
its idiosyncratic definitions. Space maintains a close relation with
illusionism, narrativity, and the performative qualities of art.  Space
is especially interconnected with time, making it impossible to
separate one from the other. In the current dynamic reality in which we
live, it is hard to remain confined to just one modality of spatial
thinking that will capture all of its complexity; yet this problem is
not limited to our contemporary globalized moment, but is also relevant
to different historical periods. Consequently, in order to engage
effectively with the problem of space, recent studies have demonstrated
multiple methods of conceptualization, while emphasizing the
dialectical relations and tensions between them.
Within the realms of art and culture, the discourse on space has often
engaged with problems of representation (artistic genres such
landscape, narrative space, chronotopos, interior/exterior, etc), or
with political issues relating to territorial conflicts and borders.

CFP: Soziale Medien – Neue Massen (Lueneburg, 2-4 Feb 11)
Deadline: Aug 31, 2011

2. Medienwissenschaftliches Symposion der DFG: SOZIALE MEDIEN — NEUE MASSEN

CALL FOR PAPERS: 2010 Conference: “Art on the Street”
The Korean Society of Art Theories, Seoul, KOREA
October 24, 2010

We seek to build upon the recent discussion on public art and community by
investigating specific examples of the practices of contemporary art in
particular contexts. We pay attention to the way in which the process of
creation, perception, and reception of the artwork relates to the formation
of a community. We invite papers on mural projects, site-specific urban
planning projects, parks, public monuments, and other types of
community-oriented projects. Discussions on a project or network of
activities that form relationships among participants and a public are also
encouraged. At the same time, we hope to explore artistic practices that
resist or negotiate in terms of everyday life, localization, globalization,
and social and cultural structures. We also encourage papers that revisit
the issue of memory of community. While proposing art as potential means of
collective empowerment, we aim to investigate art that invokes or produces a
community. All perspectives and methodologies are welcome.

Otis College of Art and Design

Otis Graduate Public Practice Program Call for Applications

Los Angeles–global center of public practices by artists and collaborative groups–is the dynamic setting for Otis’ MFA in Public Practice with studio facilities in the historic 18th Street Art Center. From the beginning, students are encouraged to find themselves as emerging professionals within this vast cultural and spatial geography. Suzanne Lacy, the renowned artist, educator, theorist of socially engaged public art and author of the influential Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art, directs the Program.

ELECTRONIC VISUALISATION AND THE ARTS
EVA London 2010
Monday 5th – Wednesday 7th July 2010

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Deadline: 15th January 2010

http://www.eva-conferences.com/eva_london/

Visualising ideas and concepts in culture, heritage and the arts: digital arts, sound,
music, film and animation, 2D and 3D imaging, European projects,
archaeology, architecture, social media for museums, heritage and fine art, photography, computer arts

OFFERS OF PAPERS, DEMONSTRATIONS AND WORKSHOPS by 15 January 2010

We invite proposals of papers, demonstrations or short performances,
workshops or panel discussions. Only a summary of the proposal on not more
than one page is required for the selection process. this must be submitted
electronically according to the instructions on the EVA London website,
http://www.eva-conferences.com/eva_london/.

Proposals may be on any aspect of EVA London’s focus on visualisation for
the arts and culture, broadly interpreted, including technology, use and
users, creative, visual and performing arts and music and visualisation for
museums, historic sites and architecture. Papers are peer reviewed and may
be edited. They will be published as hard copy and online. Other
presentations may be published as summaries or as papers.

If your proposal is a case study, we will be looking for discussions of
wider principles or applications using the case study as an example.

Bursaries to attend EVA London will again be available if you don’t have
access to grants.

EVA London’s conference themes will include, but are not limited to:

   * Digital and computational fine art and photography
   * Reconstructive archaeology and architecture
   * Visualising ideas and concepts
   * Moving and still images in museums and galleries
   * Digital art
   * Digital performance
   * Historic sites and buildings
   * Immersive environments
   * Web 2.0 technologies in art and culture
   * Visualisation in museums and historic sites
   * Sound, music, film and animation
   * Technologies of digitisation, 2D and 3D imaging
   * Virtual and augmented worlds
For further information see http://www.eva-conferences.com/eva_london/

EVA London 2010 will be co-sponsored by the Computer Arts Society, a Special Interest Group of the British Computer Society, and by the BCS.