[ecrea] Digital Legacies of the Avant-Garde Conference

    CFP: Digital Legacies of the Avant-Garde Conference


    The American University of Paris, 14 April 2012


    Proposal deadline: 30 November

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Mark Tribe, Brown University

In what ways has the formation, development and critique of today’s
digital environments been shaped by the concepts and practices of the
avant-garde? This international conference held at The American
University of Paris considers the question by exploring the potential
avant-garde and modernist genealogies of contemporary digital culture.


Topics may include:


-- historical relationships between the avant-garde, mass media and
networked digital media

-- Internet art and hacker culture

-- analog and digital networking

-- authenticity, appropriation and intertextuality

-- medium specificity and intermedia

-- systems structures

-- collectives, subcultures and transnational movements

-- conformity and subversion

-- framings of modernism and postmodernism through digital media theory

-- political action and agency

-- artist and machine

-- audience, participant and reception theories

-- narratives of technology and progress

-- spatial and temporal relationships

-- kinesis and stasis

-- ephemerality and permanence


Proposals that reference the Paris avant-garde are particularly
desirable. In addition to researchers and scholars, artists, designers,
and hackers are encouraged to participate.


Proposals for presentations should include a 300-word abstract and short
biographical note. All submissions must be sent to (smonteiro /at/ aup.edu)
<mailto:(smonteiro /at/ aup.edu)> by 30 November 2011. All applicants will be
notified by 15 December.


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