2016 ARTS IN SOCIETY CONFERENCE: THE PRACTICE OF ART IN THE AGE OF THE ANTHROPOCENE – A COMMON GROUND CONFERENCE

University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, USA
10-12 August 2016

http://artsinsociety.com/losangeles-2016

CALL FOR PAPERS

Proposals for paper presentations, workshops, posters, or colloquia are invited for the Eleventh International Conference On The Arts In Society held at the University of California, Los Angeles in Los Angeles, USA, 10-12 August 2016.

The purpose of the annual Arts Conference is to create an intellectual platform for the arts and arts practices, and to create an interdisciplinary conversation on the role of the arts in society. It is intended as a place for critical engagement, examination and experimentation of ideas that connect the arts to their contexts in the world – on stage, in studios and theaters, in classrooms, in museums and galleries, on the streets and in communities.

Proposals are invited that address the arts in society through one of the following categories:

THEME 1: ARTS EDUCATION

Discusses teaching and learning through and about the arts. Articles publish into The International Journal of Arts Education.

• Ways of seeing, ways of knowing, ways of learning
• Teaching and Learning Arts Practices
• Multimodal literacies, multiliteracies in arts education
• Literacy and the literary: texts at school
• Arts pedagogies
• Art history: purpose and pedagogy
• Creative arts in the humanities
• Art as self-inquiry
• The work of the arts student, researcher and teacher.

Keywords: Arts Education, Performance Studies, Art History, Digital Media Education, Creative Arts, Literacies, Multimodality, Multiliteracies, Perception, Cognition, Affect, Self Inquiry, Arts Pedagogies

THEME 2: ARTS THEORY AND HISTORY

Interrogating arts histories, theories, paradigms and frameworks for critical analysis. Articles publish into The International Journal of Arts Theory and History.

• Sense-Making: Connecting the Arts to Everyday Life
• Mimesis: perspectives on the ‘real’ and ‘representation’
• Authenticity and voice
• Continuity and change in arts histories
• Cultural theory in art history
• Naming and classifying art forms
• Defining the aesthetic
• Defining the avant-garde: the creative, the innovative, the new
• Categorizing genres
• The ethics of art and arts practice
• Arts products: aura and artifact
• The work of the critic
• Abstraction in art
• Crossing borders: anthropology, ethnography and art
• Art movements

Keywords: Art Theory, Art History, Aesthetics, Artforms, Genre, Design, Ethics, Representation, Abstraction, Minimalism, Complexity, Sense-Making, Semiotics, Semantics, Cultural Theory, Anthropology, Ethnography, Avant-Garde, Innovation, Originality, Creativity, Authority, Authenticity, Aura, Criticism

THEME 3: NEW MEDIA, TECHNOLOGY AND THE ARTS

Examines the use of technologies and media in the arts. Articles publish into The International Journal of New Media, Technology and the Arts.

• New Media, Internet and Digital Arts
• Moving pictures: Cinema, Film, Television, Video, Multimedia
• From passive viewer to active user: new artforms and audience interactivity
• Design Technologies
• Spatial and architectonic arts
• The art of games and gaming
• Online Cultures, Social Networks and the Arts
• Multimedia, mixed media and multimodal arts
• The creative industries in a post-industrial or knowledge society
• The nature of the ‘virtual’
• Digital media arts and education

Keywords: Arts and Technology, The Virtual, Design Technologies, Design Arts, Cinema, Film, Television, Video, Multimedia, Cyberspace Art, Digital Arts, Games

THEME 4: SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND COMMUNITY AGENDAS IN THE ARTS

Addressing social, political, and community agendas in the arts. Articles publish into The International Journal of Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts.

• The Arts and Disability
• Arts Festivals and Biennales
• Arts as Activism
• Arts and identities: local, regional, national, global
• Art, Religion and Spirituality
• Museums and galleries as social institutions
• The Prison and Art
• Defining audiences: the role of the reader, viewer, listener
• The arts in popular culture and the media
• Arts Policy, the State and Law
• The Business of Art
• Human Rights, Social Justice and the Arts
• Art, Well Being and Healing
• Public Arts, Collective Memory, Cultural Heritage
• Artistic Expression, Identity and Cultural Rights
• Art and Globalization
• Diasporic, ethnic, multicultural and ‘world’ arts
• Art of nature: ecoaesthetics and the culture of sustainability
• Gender, LGBT arts and queer culture
• Art as propaganda, advertising as Art
• Arts in Tourism and Economic Development

Keywords: Politics of Art, Community Arts, Arts Festivals, Art Museums, Commercial Arts, Public Arts, Arts Policy, Arts and Diversity, Arts and Identities.

2015 SPECIAL FOCUS
THE WORK OF ART IN THE AGE OF NETWORKED SOCIETY

The conference will analyze this special focus through an interdisciplinary lens, addressing the theme through keynote speakers, garden sessions, workshops, and parallel sessions.

Overview: Digital technologies are engendering new platforms to produce, distribute, and display art. The work of art, as a category of labor, in the age of networked society is often argued though a grammar of participation, collaboration, and peers. Online galleries and publishers are also seen to allow for greater access to the products of the work of art. Moreover, there is a perceived newfound autonomy of the artist as distributor of content and message. In addition to its usual broad range of themes on the relation of the arts to society, the 2015 conference will explore the ways in which digital technologies have altered the way that the work of art, as a category of labor, and art objects themselves, are perceived, conceptualized, and theorized.

Note: Presentations at the conference, as well as the journals and books created in this knowledge community, are grouped around the themes listed here. Submissions are welcomed that cross more than one thematic area. Keywords are only indicative – please add your own keywords as you think necessary. The range of ideas listed in each thematic grouping and associated keywords is continually reviewed and revised by the participants in this knowledge community. Please suggest additions and changes.

VIRTUAL PRESENTATIONS

If you are unable to attend the conference in person, you may present in a Virtual Poster session or a Virtual Lightning Talk. Virtual sessions enable participants to present work to a body of peers and to engage with colleagues from afar. As a virtual participant, presenters are scheduled in the formal program, have access to select conference content, can submit an article for peer review and possible publication, may upload an online presentation, and can enjoy Annual Membership to the community and subscriber access to the Arts in Society Collection.

THE ARTS IN SOCIETY COLLECTION

All presenters are invited to submit written articles for publication to the fully refereed the Arts in Society Collection. Articles may be submitted by in-person and virtual participants as well as community members.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE

The current review period closing date for the latest round of submissions to the Call for Papers (a title and short abstract) is 10 September 2015. Please visit our website for more information on submitting your proposal, future deadlines, and registering for the conference.

For more information and to submit a proposal visit: http://artsinsociety.com/losangeles-2016

Enquiries: conferencedirector@commongroundpublishing.com

Sponsored by: Arts in Society / Common Ground Publishing