[ecrea] CFP: Digital Legacies of the Avant-Garde Conference

*CFP: Digital Legacies of the Avant-Garde Conference*

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*The American University of Paris*

*Paris, France - 14 April 2012*

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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) by 
30 November 2011. All applicants will be notified by 15 December.