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Dear All

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Best Wishes

Sandra McNeil


***SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS: DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS IS 6TH FEBRUARY 2006***

REFLECTIONS ON CREATIVITY: 
exploring the role of theory in creative practices

Issues
Papers and projects are solicited from across the disciplines of architecture, fine art, design, new and timebased media, which discuss the role of theory in creative practice. Suggested areas of interest revolve around the intersection of theory, practice and research, and include:

·	Theory as practice; practice as theory.
·	The resistance of practice to theory; the colonisation of practice by           theory.
·	The different relationships of theory to creative practice.
·	The role of historical consciousness in creativity.
·	The effect of RAE on the forms of creative practice in academe.
·	The relations of theory and practice to research.
·	Practice-based research.
·	Theory as a platform for practice-based research.
·	The nature of the split between theory and practice.
·	Differences between research, theory, and practice in the creative arts, the social sciences, and the natural sciences.
·	Theory often takes the form of a critique of practice using the interpretive approaches of the liberal arts & sciences: psychoanalytic theory, structuralism, philosophy, gender studies, socio-economics, and the like.  Are there other possible forms of theoretical interest in practice?

Symposium
This two day symposium will be comprised of 4 paper sessions with two or three 20 minute paper presentations each, including  an invited keynote speaker.  Each paper session will be followed by a workshop, led by a workshop facilitator, including the speakers, which will focus on issues raised in the papers.  

Dissemination
We intend to publish edited transcripts of the workshop sessions in addition to the papers. The submission of final papers for publication should be no more than 4000 words. 

Venue
The symposium will be held on the 21st and 22nd of April 2006, at the DCA (Dundee Contemporary Arts) and is sponsored by the University of Dundee and the Duncan of Jordanstone Faculty of Art and Design.  The DCA is one of Scotland's premier galleries and institutions of contemporary art and design.

Call
We are seeking papers from practitioners and theorists in Scotland, the UK, and abroad; and papers from staff and post-graduate students at the University of Dundee.  We are also seeking workshop facilitators and participants from the University of Dundee.  This will be an international conference with contributions from many UK HEI's.  

Dates
Mon 6 Feb  2006: 		Submission of 300 word abstract + 100 word   biography 
Wed 22 Feb 2006:	 	Notification of acceptance of abstracts
Fri/Sat 21/22 Apr 2006:	Symposium
Fri/Sat 21/22 Apr 2006:	Submission of 4000 word papers for publication at Symposium

Submit abstracts to:
Hamid van Koten  [log in to unmask]  
or Lorens  Holm  [log in to unmask]

For further information please contact Sandra McNeil: [log in to unmask]


Sandra McNeil
PhD Researcher / 
Conference Co-ordinator
Visual Research Centre
Dundee Contemporary Arts
152 Nethergate
Dundee
DD1 4DY