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----- Forwarded Message ----- > Please forgive any duplicate messages that you may receive. > > > The Challenge of Ubiquity in Digital Culture > > CHArt 27th Annual Conference, Thursday 17th and Friday 18th November > 2011, London venue to be confirmed; www.chart.ac.uk > > Utopian hopes for the ubiquity of digital and networked technologies > leading to a more transparent and democratic society are being met by > expressions of concern about their implications for art. Nicholas > Bourriaud has observed that such technologies can bring about a > “collective desire to create new areas of conviviality and introduce > new types of transaction with regard to the cultural object”. However, > others perceive an imminent threat, characterised by such terms as a > digital 'deluge' or 'oblivion’. CHArt is interested to examine > critically both positive views and apocalyptic concerns about the > implications of the widespread merger of telecommunications and > computer technology in society for art, its history and practice. > > We are looking for papers that engage with issues including, but not > limited to: > > • The implications of the ubiquity of digital and network technologies > for evaluating what constitutes an original work of art and the > originality of its creator(s). > • What effects have these technologies had on valuing art in terms of > its aesthetic quality? > • What impact have real-time technologies had for the creation, > ownership and distribution of culture? > • What are the impacts of the widespread proliferation and use of such > technologies on curatorial practice and the processes of selecting, > preserving and enabling access to art? > • How have they affected both the content and methods of teaching the > history and practice of art? > • Are other disciplines and areas of society affected by art mediated > by real-time technologies? How? > > We are particularly interested in work that engages with such > questions and extends beyond simply understanding digital and network > technologies as transparent conduits of data and information. CHArt > encourages proposals addressing complex artifacts that, in Friedrich > Kittler's words, “determine our situation”. > > Contributions are welcomed from all sections of the CHArt community on > the intersection between art and art history and semantic web > developments; cloud computing; data mining; screen scraping; crowd > sourcing; mashups; and freely available sites that enable data and > mages to be stored and accessed. > > CHArt seeks papers from art historians, artists, architects and > architectural theorists and historians, curators, conservators, > computing scientists, scientists, cultural and media theorists, > archivists, technologists, educationalists and philosophers. > > Postgraduate students are encouraged to submit a proposal. CHArt is > able to offer assistance with the conference fees for up to three > student delegates. Priority will be given to students whose papers are > accepted for presentation. An application form and proof of university > enrollment will be required. For further details about the Helene > Roberts Bursary please email [log in to unmask] . > > Submissions should be in the form of a 300-400 word synopsis of the > proposed paper with brief biographical information (no more than 200 > words) of presenter/s, and should be emailed to [log in to unmask] by > Friday, July 1st 2011. > > Notification of paper acceptance: 1 September 2011 > Submission of papers: 17 October 2011 > > ----- > Marlene Gordon > Visual Resources Curator > University of Michigan-Dearborn > 313-593-5463 > 313-593-1902 (fax) > [log in to unmask] > Images (VRA Newsletter), Editor > VRA Great Lakes Chapter, Chair > VRA Publishing Advisory Group > www.vraweb.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~