Sandra Mcneil <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Dear Colleagues,
***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 differentrelationships of theory to creative practice.
· The role of historical consciousness in creativity.
· The effect of RAEon 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 theform 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 Art) 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]
Sponsored by the AHRC & The University of Dundee
Sandra McNeil
PhD Researcher /
Conference Co-ordinator
Visual Research Centre
Dundee Contemporary Arts
152 Nethergate
Dundee
DD1 4DY
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