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> From: Edwin van Meerkerk <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: September 1, 2005 9:11:48 AM EDT
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> Subject: [cultstud-l] CFP: Technologies of Memory in the Arts. May
> 19-20, 2006.
> Reply-To: Cultural Studies <[log in to unmask]>
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> W/ apologies for cross postings.
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> TECHNOLOGIES OF MEMORY IN THE ARTS
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> The conference 'Technologies of Memory in the Arts' focuses on art
> as a cultural and technological practice to process and construct
> the past in the present. Central questions to this conference are:
> How do art and artistic practices function as technologies of
> memory? How are cultural artefacts implicated in complex processes
> of remembering and forgetting, of recollecting and disremembering,
> of amnesia and anamnesia?
>
> As a shared artistic and social practice, cultural memory links the
> present to the past. In doing so, cultural memory has strong
> ethical and political aspects. The arts are continuously engaged in
> non-linear processes of remembering and forgetting, characterised
> by repetition, rearrangement, revision, and rejection. In artistic
> representations new memories are thus constantly constructed,
> deconstructed and reconstructed by narrative strategies, visual and
> aural styles, intertextuality and intermediality, representations
> of time and space, and rituals of remembrance. These complex
> processes of representation are what we understand by the term
> 'technologies of memory'.
> The contemporary fascination with history and memory is accompanied
> by developments in media technology that have simultaneously a
> petrifying and a virtualising effect. Both individual and cultural
> memory are increasingly mediated by modern technologies, which
> means that memories are not only recorded and recollected by media,
> but are also shaped and produced by them. The digital media, in
> particular, allow for new ways of storing, retrieving and archiving
> personal and collective memories, as well as cultural artefacts.
> The conference theme Technologies of memory in the arts
> specifically addresses the material construction of cultural
> memory. Some panels will explore procedures of memory in both
> traditional and new media. Other panels will investigate the role
> of digitalisation of art and culture in relation to memory.
> Generally, the focus of this conference will be on the materiality
> of representation and on the relation between the medium and the
> construction of cultural memory.
>
> Key note speakers:
> - Marita Sturken (University of Southern California)
> - Ann Rigney (Utrecht University)
>
> Panels and papers on the conference theme are invited before 1
> November 2005.
> Suggested topics:
> - Mediated memories
> - Narrative strategies
> - Intertextuality / intermediality
> - Music as memory work
> - Urban space and spatial dimensions
> - Tourism and heritage
> - Musical subcultures as memory space
> - Representations of memory in the arts
> - Amnesia and anamnesia
> - Icons of the recent past
> - Rituals of remembrance
> - Rituals, music and the shape of memory
> - Nostalgia and pastiche
> - Retro styles as forms of cultural memory
> - Rewritings of the classics
> - Digitalisation of archives
> - Music/sound recordings and the technology of memory
>
> The department of Comparative Arts and Cultural Studies of the
> Radboud University Nijmegen participates in the EU-sponsored
> research network ACUME, a network of over thirty European countries
> researching cultural memory from an interdisciplinary perspective.
> Conference committee: Sophie Levie, Edwin van Meerkerk, Liedeke
> Plate, Mathijs Sanders and Anneke Smelik
>
> More information and submission:
> http://www.ru.nl/comparativearts/research/technologies_of
> Contact information: Edwin van Meerkerk, [log in to unmask],
> tel. +3124 3615543
>
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Jeremy Hunsinger
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