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> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 11:48:59 +0100
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> From: Sallie McCorkle [[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 11:31 PM
> Subject: CFP: Call for participation: Visual Culture Caucus
>
>
> CALL FOR PROPOSALS
>
> You are invited to submit a proposal for the Visual Culture Caucus
> Session for the College Art Association Conference, New York, NY,
> February 19-22, 2003
>
> This, That, and the Other Thing: Objects and Visual Culture
>
> In direct contradiction to the forecasted de-materialization of art,
> making things has remained integral to the production of even the most
> conceptual creative work. Moreover, possessions continue to dominate
> our lives well into what claims to be the information age. The
> emergence--or consolidation--of visual culture as an interdisciplinary
> practice makes it possible to discuss mass produced objects in the same
> conversation with hand-crafted objects and to consider intentional, new
> production alongside that which occurs through re-use or
> reconfiguration. Contemporary discourse on things includes artists'
> elaborations of motive and process, material culture analyses of social
> context and use value, psychoanalytic discussions of fetish objects, as
> well as anthropological research on reception and deployment.
>
> This panel invites a consideration of all manner of things: found
> objects, crafted objects, popular cultural artifacts, props, and
> sculptures. Examinations of both contemporary and historical
> relationships to things are encouraged--in part, as a way of
> understanding the persistent resonance of physical objects.
>
> Send Proposals by May 1, 2002, to:
>
> Sallie McCorkle
> Associate Professor, Visual Arts
> Area Head, Sculpture
> School of Visual Arts
> 210 Patterson Building
> Penn State University
> University Park, PA 16802
> Office: 814-865-9471
> Email: [log in to unmask]
>
> Please read and distribute. We are hoping to identify people
> interested in this topic. It is not outside the realm of possibility
> that a separate symposium may be warranted--beyond the panel at CAA--
> should enough interest be generated.
>
> Feel free to contact me with your questions. (My apologies if you
> received this more than once.)
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