[ecrea] Uncertain Spaces: Virtual Configurations in Contemporary Art and Museums

> The CFP for our conference  is still open until the 15th of July:
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> OPEN CALL - PAPERS
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> International Conference
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> "Uncertain Spaces: Virtual Configurations in Contemporary Art and 
Museums"
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> 31 October | 1 November 2014, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, 
Portugal
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> Over the past decades, and especially since the generalization of the 
Internet, artists have been actively exploring the potentialities of new 
media languages and communities, often blurring artistic categories. 
Movements like Digital Art or Internet Art clearly demonstrate how these 
technological means came to shape challenging new territories for 
contemporary art, not only in terms of creation, reception and 
participation, but also regarding its preservation, collection, 
curatorship or exhibition.
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> Yet, interestingly enough, while many of these virtual projects 
successfully embrace immateriality as a prolific category, many others 
fail to propose utterly innovative environments, as they merely seek to 
reproduce conventional museum models: uncritically digitizing existing 
collections, following the same classification and display criteria or 
duplicating, online, real exhibition spaces.
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> To what extent is the permanence of the ‘physical’ determining the 
shape of virtual art works and environments? What are the differences 
between digital representations of an existing museum building and a 
purely virtual, web-based exhibition space? How are we to study, 
classify, preserve and exhibit Internet art works and collections? How 
is the emergence of the ‘intangible’ affecting heritage, exhibitions 
design, art practices and public participation? Is ‘intangible 
museography’ a new field of specialization for scholars, museum 
professionals and independent curators?
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> We welcome 20-minute presentations, in English, (followed by 
10-minute discussion) from a wide variety of disciplinary perspectives 
related to contemporary art. Encouraged topics and case studies may 
include, but are not limited to:
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>     * Digital and Internet Art
>     * Virtual Exhibitions
>     * Online Collections, Archives and Data Bases
>     * Collaborative Contemporary Art Projects
>     * Digital Preservation / Media Obsolescence
>     * Communities and Social Participation
>     * Art and Piracy
>     * Romanticism, Empathy and Affect
>     * Politics and Activism
>     * Virtual Museums as Utopian Architecture
>     * Intangible Museography
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> SUBMISSIONS
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> Please send 300-word abstracts, in English, no later than 15th July 
2014 to: (info /at/ unplace.org)
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> Submissions should include the following details:
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>     * Full title of your paper;
>     * Your name and institutional affiliation;
>     * E-mail and postal address;
>     * Short biographical note (100-150 words).
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> Submitted proposals will be peer-reviewed. Selected papers will be 
eligible for publication.
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> The conference will include plenary lectures by keynote speakers and 
thematic sessions for registered delegates, as well as debates with 
artists and curators.
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> For more information, please check the website: 
http://unplace.org/opencall-papers/
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>
> --
> Susana S. Martins
> Institute for Art History, FCSH - Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal &
> Institute for Cultural Studies, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
> http://sites.google.com/site/susanamsmartins/

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