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Call for Papers
Historicizing Digital Art
Session for the 2003 Association of Art Historians Conference
'Articulations'
To be held at Birkbeck College and University College London
10th - 13th April 2003
Art made using computers and other new technologies has in general received
little attention from art historians. Since the 1960s it has been treated as
a marginal activity that is largely irrelevant to the concerns of the
history of art and to the trajectories and debates it engages with. But
recently, with the rise of the World Wide Web and the increasingly important
role played by digital technology in current society, this has begun to
change. The critical interest generated by contemporary artistic movements
such as net.art has also enabled the recovery of a rich history of practice
in this area, going back to the 1950s and before. Digital and computer
practice is being belatedly recognised as an important part of the history
of contemporary art. There is a certain urgency to this as both the work and
knowledge of pioneering practitioners are in danger of disappearing before
they can be properly accounted for and given their due place in the
narratives of modern and post-modern cultural history.
For this session proposals are invited for papers that look at the history
of digital and computer art, or which consider the issues in historicizing
this area, which, hitherto, has not received the attention it deserves.
Contributions are also welcome that look at questions of curation,
conservation and collecting of digital art.
Proposals should be no longer than 200 words and be accompanied by contact
details and an email address. Speakers are not paid and are expected to pay
conference fees, but are offered reduced rates. If you are intending to
apply for funding please let me know. This is particularly important if your
attendance is conditional on funding, or if you are applying for British
Academy funding.
The deadline is the 1st November 2002. Please send proposals to
Dr Charlie Gere
By email to
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Or by snail mail to
School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media
Birkbeck College, University of London
43 Gordon Square
WC1H OPD
London
United Kingdom
Enquiries to Dr Gere on ++44(0)20 7 631 6128
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