[ecrea] CfP - Art Matters International Conference 2014

we are pleased to inform you that the Art Matters International 
Conference 2014 which will be held on December 11-12, 2014 at the 
University of Barcelona has opened the Call for Papers.

[Spanish and Catalan versions here: 
http://artmattersconference.wordpress.com/]


The materials and technologies of the contemporary art invite us to 
reconsider, not only the role that these play in the articulation of 
artistic practices, but also the theoretical frameworks that demonstrate 
the role of the materiality itself inside the Art History. These 
premises involve new methodological challenges and important 
epistemological transformations in the examination of art; challenges 
that must be analysed, discussed and contrasted with the long and 
fertile tradition of art studies. Fundamental problems such as the 
distribution of the agencies involved in the investigation and the 
artistic practice, the lines of temporal causality, the interconnection 
between materialities and discoursivities, the role of the technology 
and the society, the spatiality and location of the art, gain relevance 
from the suggested challenges.

Art Matters congress hopes to give space for those researches that, 
coming from the academy and the professional practice, rebuild the 
relation between art and its materiality: contributions focused on 
theoretical, methodological and epistemological reconsiderations and, 
specially, empirical studies centered on art routines and infrastructures.

Perspectives such as Media Archaeology, the Actor-Network Theory or the 
New Materialisms contribute decisively to the possibility of blurring or 
even erasing preconceived ontological distinctions –inoperative today-, 
and traditionally supported by the framework of our modernity. We are 
alluding to established dichotomies such as subject/object, 
matter/discourse, theory/practice, social/technological, 
expert/non-expert that lay out important onto-epistemic challenges to 
overcome. The interest of the congress is precisely to connect these new 
perspectives with the tradition of history, theory and art practice, 
starting always from both the reflection and the experience with the 
routines, the infrastructures and the art fields.


Problems to discuss:


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      Researches about art infrastructures: museums, art galleries, 
centres of production and investigation, archives, exhibition and 
distribution displays, art market dynamics.
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      Investigations about objects and artistic practices: new 
materials, technologies inside the art field, production processes, 
distribution, conservation and preservation of the art and the media, etc.
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      Other art histories and narratives: “minor” or divergent 
histories, linear narratives, emergency of novelties, relational 
temporality and spatiality, forgotten geographical areas, etc.
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      Onto-epistemic and methodological art frameworks: human and 
non-human agency, relations between practice and theory, experts and 
non-experts, trans/inter/meta/non-disciplinarity, etc.


Those people interested in participating are invited to send, before 
31st of October, 2014 (included) a communication proposal to this email 
address (artmattersconference /at/ gmail.com) for its following evaluation.


Proposal format (two separated documents):

1. Communication proposal:

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      Format .doc, .docx, .rtf
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      Communication title
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      Communication abstract (300 words maximum)
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      Between 3 and 5 keywords.


2. Information about/the auhtor/authors:

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      Format .doc, .docx, .rtf

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      Name and surname
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      Institutional affiliation (in case of having it)
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      Email address
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      Brief curriculum (100 words maximum)
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      Information and contact person (only if the communication is 
presented by more than one author).
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      Communication title


Notification of the communication acceptance will be published on 10th 
November, 2014.

Further information (Scientific Committee, Programme, Keynotes, venue, 
etc.) will be published here: http://artmattersconference.wordpress.com/

You can also send an e-mail to: (artmattersconference /at/ gmail.com)

Help us disseminate! Feel free to send this e-mail to anyone who you 
think might be interested.


Best wishes,
The Organizing Committee




--
Lara F. Portolés Argüelles
PhD Candidate IN3 - UOC
MediaTIC (Roc Boronat, 117 C.P.08018 Barcelona)
(+34) 934505420 / (+34) 659763624


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