Past Events

16th International Symposium on Electronic Art

Ruhr, Germany

August 20 2010 - August 29 2010

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ISEA2010 RUHR Conference

At several venues in the cities of Dortmund, Essen and Duisburg, more than two hundred speakers will present recent developments in contemporary art and digital culture and exchange ideas with local creatives. All conference panels will be held in English only.

All conference contributions have been selected in a peer-reviewing process by an international jury from over thousand proposals. The discussed themes vary from aesthetic discourses to questions of art and engineering. Among others, the conference includes panels on art and media in Latin America, on preservation of historical media art, on the phenomenon of materialisation and dematerialisation, and on the role of the user in digital art.

Here is a first outline of the ISEA2010 RUHR Conference panels in Essen, Dortmund and Duisburg, including dates, conference participants and their topics.
Please note that this programme outline might still be subject to minor changes. All venues and exact time slots of the individual presentations will be updated regularly.

All conference panels will be held in English only.

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CFP: Architecture & Gastronomy

Call for Papers: Society of Architectural Historians 64th Annual Meeting

New Orleans, Louisiana, April 13-17, 2011

August 14 2010 - August 14 2010

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Call for Papers
Society of Architectural Historians
64th Annual Meeting
April 13-17, 2011
New Orleans, Louisiana

Session: ARCHITECTURE AND GASTRONOMY
ABSTRACTS DUE: August 14, 2010

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Home, Migration and the City: New Narratives, New Methodologies

Scandic Linköping Vast, Linköping, Sweden

August 06 2010 - August 10 2010

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• Chaired by: Dr. Ayona Datta - London School of Economics, UK
• Co -Chair: Dr. Kathy Burrell - De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

There has been a recent surge of scholarship from human geography, sociology, history, architecture, and cultural studies that focuses on migration as a social, political, cultural and material process. This area of research on migration examines migrants’ transnational spatial practices, social and political identities and relationships with the state. Central to this research has been a recognition that at the heart of migration lies a fundamental transformation in spaces and places that are linked to the social and cultural meanings of home and belonging.

This conference takes ‘narratives’ – broadly defined as stories, diaries, myths, photographs, music, films, media images and representations of movement – as the analytical starting point for new research on migration. Narratives have several dimensions. Firstly, migrant narratives need to be understood as inherently spatial. As is widely acknowledged, migrants’ stories of movement are often stories of different places at different moments, and thus are essentially ‘spatial stories’. Secondly, this spatiality of migration narratives is multi-scalar; it can relate to belonging on a national, political scale, represent locality dynamics, more small-scale, personal experiences of migration, or even the material narratives of migration, such as stories of significant objects and material culture. Thirdly, the performative element of migrants’ narratives is very strong; not all narratives are textual but instead are enacted through music, theatre, film, food, or dance. Finally, such narratives can also be highly visual, corporeal, and embodied, whether through media representations, artwork, or architecture. Such a broad conceptualisation of migrant narratives demands new interdisciplinary theories and methodologies to understand the interconnected landscapes of home, migration and the city.

This conference thus aims to question and compare such narratives and counter-narratives, in different contexts within Europe and beyond, through interdisciplinary perspectives from the humanities and social sciences. Methodological perspectives will therefore be central to the discussions during this conference, to encourage and disseminate interdisciplinary approaches to researching migration. The following questions will help to shape this conference:

• How are narratives of migration used, shared, remembered, materialised, performed and represented in different contexts?
• How do narratives shape belonging and attachment, inclusions and exclusions, around ideas of home(s) and the city?
• How do we examine these diverse narratives of movement through theoretical and methodological innovation?

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Writing Architecture:

A SYMPOSIUM ON INNOVATIONS IN THE TEXTUAL AND VISUAL CRITIQUE OF BUILDINGS

Brisbane, Australia

July 22 2010 - July 23 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS: ABSTRACTS DUE APRIL 16TH

Presentations are invited, that address innovative approaches to critical and creative work about buildings and places, in Queensland and elsewhere, through text and or images. Scholarly papers, as well as new examples of critical and creative work, are welcome. A broad range of disciplinary approaches to architecture, writing and photography are encouraged, including perspectives from literature, philosophy, anthropology, aesthetics, the fine arts, design, psychology, cultural studies, art history, creative writing, sociology, journalism, and others.

Hosted by:

The ATCH (Architecture Theory Criticism History) Research Centre in the School of Architecture at the University of Queensland, with financial assistance from the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

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Separateness and Kinship

Transatlantic Exchanges between New England and Britain 1600 – 1900

University of Plymouth, UK

July 14 2010 - July 17 2010

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This three day conference will explore issues arising from the relationship between Britain and New England in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the light of recent developments in the reading of transatlantic connections. In the run up to the 400th anniversary of the sailing of the Mayflower, and in the context of new critical perspectives on transatlantic studies, such as post colonial theory with its emphasis on the whole Atlantic rim, feminism, discussions of displacement and debates about national identity, what does it now mean in the early twenty-first century to revisit with an interdisciplinary perspective the cultural and ideological exchanges between Britain and New England 1600-1900?

The conference will include contributions from literary scholars, art historians and specialists in the history of architecture and material culture.

Keynote addresses will be delivered by Lawrence Buell, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature at Harvard University and Susan Manning, Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Grierson Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh

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Symposium Scenography Expanding 2: On Artists/Authors

A Symposium

Military museum and Belgrade Fortress Belgrade, Serbia

July 09 2010 - July 11 2010

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Throughout the past decade, scenographic practice and performance design have continuously moved beyond the black box of the theatre toward a hybrid terrain located at the intersections of theatre, architecture, exhibition, visual arts, and media. This terrain and its spaces are constructed from action and interaction. They are defined by individual and group behaviour, and are contrasted by distinct behavioural patterns.  It is proposed here that such spaces result from a trans-disciplinary understanding of space and a distinct awareness of social agency. These two factors of “expansion” are seen as the central driving forces in contemporary scenographic practice and theory. 

In preparation for the Intersection Project of the Prague Quadrennial in June, 2011, we invite researchers in practice and theory (artists, curators, programmers, directors, dramaturges, critics, and theorists) to participate in 3 international scenography symposia held in Riga (February 2010), Belgrade (July 2010) and Évora (September 2010). The overall aim of these symposia is to unfold the wide range of disciplines, genres, theoretical, and artistic positions that comprise the relationships between spectator, artist/author and curator in contemporary scenographic/performance design practice. 

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