[Commlist] Open call: Museums Without Walls - An inquiry into virtual art / institutions and communities

Call: Museums Without Walls – Conference & Exhibition

An inquiry into virtual art / institutions and communities

Queen’s University, Ontario, August 15-17 + Online

museusemparedes.com/en/ <http://museusemparedes.com/en/>


Submissions: https://forms.gle/Y9SKgiKg6u2Wzm1L6 
<https://forms.gle/Y9SKgiKg6u2Wzm1L6>

Deadline: April 23


The global pandemic has laid bare the technological crossroads where 
cultural institutions find themselves in the early 21st century. By 
promoting a superabundance of ‘content’ and multiplying the 
transversality of connections, digital networks have increasingly 
undermined the authority of museums as sites for memory preservation, 
collection stewardship, and discourse reproduction. All the while, new 
media systems keep promising to expand the museal apparatus and 
radically transform the ways in which art institutions can perform their 
mandates and operate within society.


Has the modern project of the museum finally come to its terms? Can 
future forms of socio-cultural institutionality be found among online 
databases, simulated environments, social media communities, smart 
contracts, and other computer platforms?


These questions invite us to reclaim notions of virtuality from the 
technopositivist buzz and revisit the long history of relationships 
between museums and media. In the spirit of critical and social 
museology – and particularly interested in non-Western perspectives –, 
the Museums Without Walls conference seeks to open a space for the 
discussion and exercise of new configurations for art and cultural 
institutions.


We are looking for proposals of papers, talks, workshops, publications, 
exhibitions, websites, movies, and other forms of artworks that engage 
with subjects such as:


  *

    Museums and/in virtual realities

  *

    Uses of new and old media systems and VR/AR/XR for cultural access
    and documentation

  *

    Online / virtual exhibitions, arts residencies, and other forms of
    public outreach

  *

    Technopolitics in/of galleries, libraries, archives and museums

  *

    Art institutions as discursive, knowledge, and informational frameworks

  *

    Interfaces for art and artifact collections

  *

    Museum projects in simulated, digital, and gaming environments

  *

    Publications and merchandise as extensions of institutional activities

  *

    Printed, broadcasted, and streamed exhibitions

  *

    Audiotours, videoguides, and other interactive forms of mediating
    artist practice

  *

    Cultural management and curatorial strategies in the age of computer
    networks

  *

    Possibilities of collaboration and dissent enabled by online platforms

  *

    Counterpublic appropriations and the unsettling of museal spaces

  *

    Performances of monumentality using media and XR technologies

  *

    The mediation of absences and struggles for re/depatriation

  *

    Multi-user web platforms as exhibition sites (Mozilla Hubs, New Art
    City, common.garden, etc)

  *

    Public repositories of museal data (Google Arts & Culture,
    Smithsonian Open Access, Scan the World, etc)

  *

    Rogue 3D scanning and other digital bootlegs

  *

    Art institutions in the ‘metaverse’


The Museums Without Walls conference takes place at Queen’s University, 
Ontario, between August 15-17. The conference will intersect with the 
Summer Institute: The Curatorial  organized by the Agnes Etherington Art 
Centre and Queen’s Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies program, and 
it will be completely free to attend and participate. A number of online 
activities will precede and follow the event.


Submit your proposals by April 23 using the link: 
https://forms.gle/Y9SKgiKg6u2Wzm1L6 <https://forms.gle/Y9SKgiKg6u2Wzm1L6>.


Proposals consist in an abstract/synopsis (100-250 words), short 
author’s bio (100 words), and links to supporting material. When 
submitting, please indicate whether your proposal is for presentation 
online and/or on site at Queen’s, during the days of the conference. For 
workshop and artwork proposals, please include links to relevant 
documentation as well as technical and installation requirements. Submit 
any questions to (museusemparedes /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(museusemparedes /at/ gmail.com)>.


Museum Without Walls is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities 
Research Council of Canada.


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