International Conference on Research Creativity: Praxis
Presented by Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University
Dates: 21st - 23rdNovember 2012
Venue: Hong Kong Baptist University
As our societies are increasingly reliant on technology, what becomes
obvious is the unique contribution that corporeal experience plays in
creativity, and creativity plays in research. Scholarship in art creation
is equal to that in scientific research. Art creation in some cases may
also be the result of research.
Exploring the borders in art, science and technology, the International
Conference on Research Creativity: Praxis seeks to define this relationship
beyond human geography. Networks that are sites of research and practices
embedded in a larger context are often cross-connected with social
movements of locallyand globally networked societies.
Following the success of AVA’s inaugural conference ‘Opportunities and
Challenges - Visual Arts Education in Asia’ in 2009, this year we bring
some of the world’s leading creative thinkers together in Hong Kong to
delve deeper into the notion of Praxis. How can we avoid falling into the
trap of being pragmatic when undertaking research, so that poetics are
nourished and supported rather than stifled by the need to
articulate/publish, so that entrenched research paradigms donot stifle new
modes of research that can be supported to emerge from artistic fields?
Creative research adopts the language of the times, modeledupon the digital
networks and the electronic circuitry of our age, rather than the
mechanical factories designed in the industrial age.
We have the ability to use the affordances of the body to explore
post-modernity’s alternative geographies. International Conference on
Research Creativity - Praxis is about mapping this new terrain for research.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Submissions are invited on significant, original, and previously
unpublished cases and research in the following areas:
• Thinking through the body (practice as thinking and thinking as practice)
• Body, move, play (Haptic praxis, sensibility, and
practice-led/practice-based research)
• Networks as sites of research
• Collaborative and inter-disciplinary creativity (Breaking down silos and
connecting creative communities)
• Research about creativity and creativity as research
Please submit an abstract limited to 500 words and a bibliography not later
than 15thJune 2012.
The accepted abstracts will be invited to submit a full paper of maximum
4,000 words length that will be peer reviewed prior to confirmation of the
final speakers list. The accepted papers will be published in the
conference proceedings. The authors will then be invited to make a
20-minute presentation at the conference.
Important Dates:
15 June Deadline for submission of abstract
28 June Notification of acceptance of abstract
31 July Deadline for full paper submission
24 August Notification of acceptance of paper
31 August Deadline for final paper submission
21-23 November Conference Dates
For abstract submission or any enquiry, please feel free to contact Denise
Wong
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Phone +852 3411 8295 / 9345 9284
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