[ecrea] Call for Papers, Exhibiting Video conference, deadline

Final call for papers for the Exhibiting Video Conference to be held at 
University of Westminster on 23-25 March, in conjunction with '1001 TV 
Sets (End Piece)' David Hall exhibition at Ambika P3 Gallery.

Deadline for abstracts:  Wednesday 1st February.  Abstracts should be 
sent to Helen Cohen at photography@westminster. ac.uk <http://ac.uk>

Conference web link: 
http://www.westminster.ac.uk/research/a-z/cream/events/exhibiting-video-conference



*Exhibiting Video – International Conference *
*Date: 23 – 25 March, 2012 *
University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London, W1B 2UW
In March and April 2012 Ambika P3, the flagship exhibition space at the 
University of Westminster, will present a major solo exhibition of the 
influential pioneer of video art, David Hall in association with REWIND. 
The new commission *'1001 TV Sets (End Piece)' *1972-2012 will involve a 
spectacular sculpture of 1,001 cathode ray tube TV sets. Each will be 
tuned to a different analogue station playing randomly until, between 
April 4 and April 18, the last analogue signals are broadcast from 
London’s Crystal Palace. To mark the occasion the Centre for Research 
and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM) of the University of Westminster 
is convening /Exhibiting Video/, a three-day event considering issues 
central to the display of video art. Bringing together notable artists, 
curators and writers the event will provide a forum for a number of 
related questions:

 On what terms has the rise of video in contemporary arts taken place?

 How do notions of medium specificity and site specificity shape video 
art work made for exhibition?

 What is the legacy of analogue video technology in the digital age?

 How do our museums and galleries understand video art?

Ambika P3, one of London’s largest spaces dedicated to contemporary art 
and architecture presents a public programme of solo and group 
exhibitions. In 2011 it exhibited new works by Anthony McCall and hosted 
the /Deutsche Börse Photography Prize /with works by Thomas Demand, Roe 
Etheridge, Jim Goldberg and Elad Lassry. This conference follows on last 
year’s successful ‘Exhibiting Photography’ conference.
There will be four half-day themes:
*Curating: *
Are the terms upon which video art has become accepted as part of the 
visual arts flexible and constructive, or have they served to favour 
particular practices and secure a restrictive canon? What are the 
current models for curating video art?
*Space: *
How has the development of media specific spaces such as film and video 
centres affected the development of the practice? How does the gallery 
and museum context affect the interpretation and consumption of video art?
*Analogue: *
The cut off of the analogue signal marks the end of the use of analogue 
technology in the moving image industries. Conversely there has been a 
resurgence of the use of analogue technologies by artists in the fields 
of film, video and photography. How is this relevant to the exhibition 
of video art?
*Media and **Context: *
The term video art is present from YouTube and the White Cube. While it 
exists in numerous contexts and multiple format of exhibition can there 
still be video art specificity? How is that validated in the attitudes 
of image-makers, critics, theorists and institutions?

*Speakers include *
*David Hall *is an artist who has exhibited internationally for over 
forty years and also made work for broadcast. An Honorary Professor at 
Dundee University he has taught at numerous institutions including the 
Royal College of Art, San Francisco Art Institute, and St Martin’s and 
Chelsea Colleges of Art.
*Irit Batsry *is an American artist working mainly in video 
installation. She won the Whitney Biennial Bucksbaum Award and was 
awarded the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. In 2007 the Jeu de Paume 
in Paris organized a retrospective of her videotapes.
*Amanda Beech *is an artist and writer. She is Co-Director of the 
research groups Curating Video, www.curatingvideo.com 
<http://www.curatingvideo.com> and The Political Currency of Art 
www.thepoliticalcurrencyofart.org 
<http://www.thepoliticalcurrencyofart.org>. She is Professor of Fine Art 
at the University of Kent.
*Sean Cubitt *is Professor of Global Media and Communications at 
Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton and Professorial 
Fellow in Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne. His 
publications include Digital Aesthetics, The Cinema Effect and EcoMedia.
*Solange Oliveira Farkas *is a Brasilian curator. She founded the 
International Contemporary Art Festival Videobrasil and has recently 
curated /Sophie Calle – Cuide de você /(São Paulo and Salvador, 2009). 
She was also the director of the Museum of Modern Art of Bahia between 
2007–2010.
*Stephen Partridge *is an artist and Professor of Media Art and Dean of 
Research at Duncan Of Jordanstone College of Art, the University of 
Dundee. He established the School of Television at DJCAD in the 1980s. 
He is the principal investigator on the research project REWIND and 
REWIND/Italia/.

*DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS *
We welcome proposals for papers of a maximum of 30 minutes addressing 
any one of the above. Send abstracts of no more than 250 words. They 
must include the presenter's name, affiliation, email and postal 
address, together with the title of the paper and a 150-word 
biographical note on the presenter. Abstracts should be sent to Helen 
Cohen at (photography /at/ westminster.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(photography /at/ westminster.ac.uk)> and arrive no later than 
*Wednesday 1 February 2012. *
*
*
*PROGRAMME AND REGISTRATION *
This conference will take place from 4.00pm on Friday 23 March to Sunday 
25 March 2012. The fee for registration will be:
Full conference: Standard rate £200. One day rate £110
Full conference: Student rate £90. One day rate £65.
This covers all conference documentation, refreshments, lunch, 
receptions and administration costs. Registration will open in February 
2012.