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> ------ Forwarded Message > Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 11:48:59 +0100 > To: [log in to unmask] > 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.) > ------ End of Forwarded Message