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Call for Papers and Art Works – Fakeness
Following the first issue on novelty, Critical Contemporary Culture’s second issue will explore the notion of fakeness in contemporary culture. Fakeness appears in many guises, most often in opposition with the authentic. Notions of authenticity, and consequently of fakeness, are implied and deployed in everyday culture and discourse.
So what is the experience of fakeness in the context of consumer culture? Goods and services such as designer clothing, the art market, musical taste, sports and management rely on the relational nexus of fakeness and authenticity. The desire for the authentic creates a spiral of frustration, as the drive to consume can never be satisfied. At the same time, the ‘prosumer,’ who is at once a target consumer and major capital producer, constantly renegotiates the value of the copy, the fake, the authentic and the original. The expansion of information technologies has brought to the fore the fluidity of culture that allows space to analyse the socially constructed binary of fakeness/authenticity.
Race and gender enter into discussions of fakeness a priori—in other words, there is no discussion of fakeness or authenticity that can be conducted completely apart from what is sometimes scornfully called “identity politics.” We value gender constitution, national belonging, immigration, class, race, and ethnicity as indispensable optics through which authenticity and fakeness are viewed. Can the performativity of ‘fakeness’ allow the Self to come close to the Other? This discussion surely leads into the question of the representation of ‘weakened’ Subjects and groups.
Digital reproduction and ‘new’ media integration claim to empower communities and audiences, aiming towards personal and fragmented truths. In this line, where the grand narrative is being disrupted, questions of the existence of authentic representations arise. Parallel to this, are definitions of authenticity/fakeness still valid in the context of artistic and aesthetic production? If so, how does that differentiate and elaborate across the various art forms? An interesting interaction also may occur with the buzzing, problematic notion of creativity and innovation.
Fakeness is generally perceived as a negative value, a negation of value. Is it possible, however, to view authenticity with the scepticism normally reserved for the fake? Can the notion of fakeness allow a re-orientation of authenticity as something other than originality, natural beauty, justice, or truth? If authenticity is actually an essentialist and exclusionary category owned by the few and desired by the many, can attention to fakeness teach us something about the nature of social struggle in our times? Can fakeness support the possibility of a more democratic system of ownership in which everyone can be fulfilled.
Critical Contemporary Culture is designed to bring together students, from the humanities and social sciences,with cultural practitioners to create a dialogue about what culture is. For this issue we particularly welcome essays, art works, narratives and any medium of communication that address the question of fakeness.
For written work, initial submissions should be made in the form of a 300-500 word abstract. Artworks or proposal for an artist’s project should comprise a one-page written description and up to ten sample images. If an original artwork for CCC is proposed, samples of comparable work should be submitted. Details of medium and format should also be included, along with complete caption information.
These should be submitted by Friday, June 25th 2012, noon.
Full papers or art works will be expected by Friday 7th September 2012.
For further details please visit:
http://www.criticalcontemporaryculture.org/call-for-papers/
Irida Ntalla
PhD Candidate
Schools of Arts, Cultural Policy and Management
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Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: MECCSA 2013: 'SPACES & PLACES OF CULTURE'
CALL FOR PAPERS MECCSA 2013
Dear colleagues, below is a call for papers for the annual MeCCSA conference in January 2013, hosted by the University of Ulster. For the first time, MeCCSA is using an Open Conference System, which integrates each stage of the conference, from abstract submission through to registration and payment (using the EventBrite system.) For this you need to log in to the system (i.e. 'register' on it - this does not mean you are registered for the conference, just entered on the system). We hope that this system can be used for all future MeCCSA conferences.
CALL FOR PAPERS
MeCCSA CONFERENCE 2013:
University of Ulster
‘Spaces and Places of Culture’
The next annual MeCCSA Conference, will be held from 9th to 11th January, 2013 at the University of Ulster, Magee campus in Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland. See http://www.arts.ulster.ac.uk/meccsa2013
The conference is being organized by the Centre for Media Research, in the School of Media, Film and Journalism at the University of Ulster and enjoys the unique advantage of participating in the UK City of Culture events, being organized in Derry/Londonderry throughout 2013.
For further information see: www.cityofculture2013.com
About MeCCSA
MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. The field encompasses the study of audiovisual and print media including film and TV; journalism; radio; photography; creative writing; publishing; interactive media and the web. The field also includes media practice and practice research – film and TV production, journalism practice, and the use of new, digital information technologies in the arts, entertainment, social media and gaming.
We welcome presentations on our broad theme of ‘spaces and places of culture’. And, as always, we welcome scholarly papers, presentations of practice, posters and panels across the full range of interests represented by MeCCSA and its networks, including:
• Film and television studies and practice;
• Radio studies and practice;
• Cultural and media policy;
• Representation, identity, ideology
• Creativity and digital spaces;
• The value and future of journalism;
• Media Studies as a discipline;
• Approaches to media pedagogy
Presentations are also invited for a special strand on children, young people and media, in conjunction with Cinemagic. See: www.cinemagic.org.uk/
Keynote speakers include (in alphabetical order)
• Bruce Brown – Media research and the REF
• James Curran – ‘Mickey Mouse Squeaks Back’
• Adriana de Souza e Silva – digital and urban play spaces
• Terry Eagleton – culture, space and place, an overview
• Beatriz Garcia – Cities of Culture and communication
• Roy Greenslade – journalism post-Leveson
• John Hill – Stuart Hood Memorial Lecture: Radical TV drama
• Shona McCarthy – Derry~Londonderry as City of Culture
• Phil Redmond – film, television, region, culture
• Homsong Shao – information flow in China
• Stephen Shaw – digital designing
• Claire Wardle – citizen journalism
• Richard Williams - Northern Ireland Screen policy
• Brian Winston – documentary film
Guest chairs include Pat Loughrey, former Head of BBC Nations and Regions, Warden of Goldsmiths College and Visiting Professor at the University of Ulster; Maggie Taggart, Arts and Education correspondent, BBC Northern Ireland.
Time and place
The 2013 conference will run from midday on 9 January until 5 pm on 11 January.
Given that some people may need to travel to and from Derry on 8 January and 12 January, please find below a link to assist you with your travel arrangements.
www.arts.ulster.ac.uk/meccsa2013/travel.php
Some hotels are offering special conference rates to stay in the City during this longer period (other cultural events are planned for the evenings of 8 and 12 January).
www.arts.ulster.ac.uk/meccsa2013/accommodation.php
Instructions for Contributors
Abstracts of 250 words requested for:
papers / panels / presentations of practice / posters
These items should be submitted for peer review using the MeCCSA Conference website by Monday 10 September 2012.
Proposers will be notified of proposal acceptance.
Submission of Papers: www.arts.ulster.ac.uk/mecsa2013/papers.php
OR
http://www.ocs.meccsa.org.uk/index.php/meccsa/meccsa2013/login
Panels
Full panel proposals should include a short description and rationale (200 words) along with abstracts for each of the papers (250 words each) and the name of the person chairing, contact details for all panelists and technical requirements.
Panelists should indicate if they are willing to be considered separately.
Practice
We are keen to support the presentation of media practice work, in particular when there is insufficient time to present full work during paper presentation. To this end we will allocate a presentation space for practice artefacts which include screenings, computer based work and multi-screen work (where possible). For practice please include specific technical requirements (e.g. duration, format) and an URL pointing to practice support material. All presentations must run on PowerPoint compatible with Windows 7. We cannot run Keynote or other alternatives. All film/video work must play on a commercial DVD player. We cannot run .AVI, .MOV or similar file types. To avoid disappointment we would ask all delegates to ensure their presentations/films are compatible with the above specifications.
Prizes
The Higher Education Academy Subject Centre (HEA) is supporting the conference and is offering a £500 prize and publication for the best paper analysing key issues impacting on media, communications and cultural studies in higher education. Submission details as for other papers but a full paper must be with HEA by 23 November 2012 Email: [log in to unmask]
Posters: The academic poster is highly valued by MeCCSA as an indicator of current research and there will be an open space set aside for poster display.
A prize of £100 will be awarded to the best poster judged the MeCCSA Executive Committee.
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Máire Messenger Davies, PhD, FRSA, MBPsS,
Professor of Media Studies, Centre for Media Research,
School of Media, Film and Journalism
University of Ulster, Cromore Rd,
Coleraine BT52 1SA, Northern Ireland,UK
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