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Creative Practice/Creative Research Materiality/Process/Performativity Symposium July 10-12 2008 York St John University In Artforum in April 1970, sculptor Robert Morris noted with regret that creative process held little sway for the meanings imbibed for 'art' by contemporary criticism and the histories of art. His insistence on the imperatives of what he named 'the submerged side of the iceberg' came on the cusp of the 'New Art History.' The advent of post-modern theory and the social history of art located the material production of art at an intersection of history and the social. Practice was thus liberated from the (psycho)biographical expressivity and mastery of the gesture. Hitherto these had been the only means by which making had been thought. And yet the object of critical and historical discourse has remained profoundly visual. Situated in the gallery like so many dead objects 'art's' materiality, the trace of a means to an ends, has remained caught between formalism and semiotics. It is that to which theory has been applied and by which history is index after the fact. Creative Practice/Creative Research seeks to elucidate and participate in the generation of a body of scholarship written by both critics and practictioners that has begun to transform the theoretical and historical frameworks through which art's making can signify. To insist upon the work of art as a 'co-poiësis' (Ettinger, 1997) of 'poiëtic revealing' (Bolt, 2007) is to read art production beyond the locus of a discrete subject bound solely to the paradigms of 'representation.' Rather such a shift foreground the 'dialogical' and 'per formative' means through which art's work may lead research. The emergence of this practice led intervention thus transforms the territories by which 'work' and materiality may be encountered by maker and viewer. This international symposium seeks to creatively draw from emerging and established voices in the practice, criticism, history, and curation of the creative arts. It seeks to explore the particular logic, diversity and implications of the work of art both for its own sake and for the history of art and art criticism, cultural theory, curatorial practice and the pedagogies of art. Speakers Steve Baker, UCLAN, UK Estelle Barrette, Deakin University, AUS Rosemary Betterton, Lancaster University, UK Barb Bolt, University of Melbourne, AUS Vanessa Corby, York St John University, UK Bracha Ettinger, European Graduate School, Switzerland Pam Longobardi, Georgia State University, USA Roddy Hunter, York St John University, UK Linda Weintraub, Independent Scholar, USA Elizabeth Watkins, Bristol University, UK Proposed Panels Material Thinking: Practice Led Interventions in the History of Art Bodies of Knowledge: Genders, ethnicity, sexuality, class Eco-Logical Practice Unruly Objects: Materiality/Process/Performativity Dance and the Document: Tracking Performativity Processing Memory/Psychic Mechanisms Pedagogy & Practice Led Research Website @ www.yorksj.ac.uk/creativepractice <http://www.yorksj.ac.uk/creativepractice> Abstracts for papers may be submitted via email by 6th June 2008 James Alexander, Senior Administrative Assistant-Project & Outreach [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> Faculty of Arts York St John University Lord Mayors Walk York YO31 7EX ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ www.digitalartsforum.org.uk The Digital Arts Forum Website is a new site which offers its members the opportunity to publish news, events and weblogs, as well as take part in discussions, forums and online chat. The Digital Arts Forum is aimed primarily at digital artists and arts workers in the East Midlands region of the UK, although we welcome input from members elsewhere. The Forum is managed by Anna Petry, Digital Arts Development Officer at Broadway Cinema and Media Centre in Nottingham. The Digital Arts Forum provides a meeting ground for digital artists and arts professionals to discuss work, strategy and development. Through its regular meetings and email discussion lists, it aims to bring together a network of artists to develop collaborations and partnerships which will build the quality and profile of digital arts in the region +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++