Critique 2013: An international conference reflecting on creative practice
in art, architecture, and design*
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Call for Participation Deadline Extended*
*ABSTRACTS DUE 7th April, 2013*
We've received a number of requests to extend the call for papers due to
the submission date falling on the Easter long-weekend here in Australia.
As such, we've decided to extend the deadline until the 7th of April, 2013.
Critique, and by extension criticism, is a vital part of both the everyday
creative-practice and teaching in the creative disciplines. The critique of
creative works, such as buildings, drawings, images, or artworks, is
pivotal for creative practitioners and the broader public to understand the
workıs creative and cultural value. In other words, not just judgements of
the aesthetic pleasure that the creative work might provide, but, more
broadly, what cultural values and critical positions are expressed by the
work. However, there are fewer and fewer opportunities and forums inwhich
to mount such cultural critiques of creative practice and its production.
The nature and role of critique is changing. So to the publicıs perceived
value of critique has waned since the 60s, and today is largely thought of
as exclusionary intellectual navel-gazing that only permeates the walls of
universities andacademic journals. The more familiar everyday practice of
debating the latest shock-jock celebrity gossip or news-cycle driven
political sound-bite seems preferable to deeper and more meaningful
interrogations of cultural and environmental questions. It would appear
that perhaps both the critique and the critic are in need of cultural
reinvention.
Critique 2013 aims to provide a forum that will to bring together engaged
professionals and scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds, fields of
knowledge, production, and methodological approaches to discuss anddebate
the role, value and future of both traditional and emerging forms
ofcritique; such as, written critique in the form of blogs, wikis, and
socialmedia, to newsprint, to academic journals; opinion versus critique;
verbal critique; relationship between critics and creative practitioners;
designedartefacts as critique; and curated exhibitions as critique.
Specifically, this conference aims to explore the following three broad
categories of critique:
a) Critique in design education and creative practice (verbal &
visual, all forms)
b) Self-critique in design education and creative practice (reflective
practice)
c) Critique through creative works of things/ideas/policy/ in the
world (design as research)
We invite contributions from a broad range of disciplines that are
concerned with the creative and professional practice of criticism
including, but not limited to; design, the fine arts, architecture,
interior design, industrial design, urban planning, craft, media,
performance, music, exhibition curation, museology, philosophy, education,
journalism, and governance and policy.
The following themes are a guide for contributors to Critique 2013 to
consider:
· Advocacy & Brokerage the role of the critique of government
policy and regulatory authorities by design brokerage organisations.
· Journalism the role of the critique of design in newspapers,
magazines and professional journals.
· Social Media & online Commentary the role of critique through
social media (Twitter & Facebook) and other forms of online, or
technologically-mediated commentary.
· Opinion vs Critique the changing relationship between public
opinion and objectively informed critique in creative practice, design
education and the public; language, accessibility, gatekeepers to taste,
shock jocks.
· Illustration the role of critique through satire, analogy, or
metaphor, as a means to comment on design and culture.
· Drama & Film the role of critique in narrative commentaries
· Music the role of music in critically engaging in narrative
commentaries about historical and/or contemporary cultural practices.
· Reflective Practices roles and methods of self-evaluation by
creative practitioners in creative practice, higher education, and doctoral
models.
· Design critique in higher education pedagogies and education
practices in engaging peers and students in oral and written critique.
· Exhibition Curation as Critique the methods and role of critique
in visual arts exhibition curation.
· Post-critical theory the role of critique in/of creative works
that are un-critical.
· Judgement the methods and role of critical judgement in theorists
such as Emmanuel Kant, Jacques Derrida, Manfredo Tafuri.
· Critique through Creative Speculation the methods and role of
speculative design projects as critical devices to discuss, problematise
and theorise upon potential alternative techniques, paths, and/or futures.
· Other anything and everything that considers the nature, effect
and affect of critique.
Key Dates
28 January 2013 Call for Participation
1 March2013 Online Abstract submission opens
7 April 2013 Deadline for Abstract submission
7 May 2013 Notification of acceptance of Abstracts
31 July2013 Deadline for Full Paper submission
1 October 2013 Notification of acceptance of Full Paper
1 November 2013 Deadline for Revised Paper submission
26/27/28/29 November 2013 Critique 2013 International Research Conference
Submissions
We invite papers that offer new or challenging views on the subject of
critique in the creative industries. The selection process will be subject
to a double blind review process by an international peer review team.
Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted by 31 March 2013.
Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to submit full papers
(4000-5000 words including notes) by 31 July 2013.
Please submit your abstract using theOnline Conference Management System
available on the conference website (www.critique2013.com).
Contact Dr Chris Brisbin or Dr Myra Thiessen at [log in to unmask] with
any questions.
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