Call for papers: "Design(ing) Criticism"
College Art Association annual conference
Boston, Massachusetts (USA)
February 22-25, 2006
*deadline for receipt of abstracts: May 13, 2005*
Session description:
Despite many recent calls for increased rigor in design writing, design
criticism remains an undervalued, underdeveloped, and undertheorized
discipline. This panel examines design criticism as a literary and social
activity, explores new forms of critique, and investigates the extent to
which values and paradigms from art and literary criticism have stifled or
enriched design criticism. Which critics or ideas have most fundamentally
shaped how design criticism has been understood and practiced? Where, by
whom, and for whom is design criticism being written? How does the criticism
in Consumer Reports or users' online product reviews relate to the writing
in design magazines? What new forms of criticism should be considered? What
does the "crisis of art criticism" mean for design criticism? Could design
criticism provide a model for art criticism's regeneration?
Session co-chairs:
Elizabeth Guffey, Purchase College, State University of New York; and Carma
Gorman, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; mail abstracts to: Carma
Gorman, Southern Illinois University, School of Art and Design, MC 4301,
Carbondale, IL 62901, or e-mail abstracts to: [log in to unmask]
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Preliminary abstracts must be accompanied by CAA's "Session Participation
Proposal Submission Form," a short letter of interest, and a c.v. Detailed
instructions for submitting abstracts and supporting materials, as well as
the Session Participation Proposal Submission Form itself, appear on pages 1
and 23, respectively, of CAA's 2006 Call For Participation, which is
available as a pdf file at
http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/2006_conference_call.pdf . Please note that
CAA membership is required of all conference participants (but is not
necessary to submit an abstract).
Carma R. Gorman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, History of Art and Design
School of Art and Design, mail code 4301
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Carbondale, IL 62901
United States of America
voicemail: 618-453-8634
fax: 618-453-7710
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