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Call for papers - SECAC 07
Net(works): Art and Pre-Existing Web Platforms
Beyond using the internet as a way to show representations of visual
and performance work, artists have been using pre-existing dynamic
content web sites as the actual site of the work. One of the first
projects of this nature included Keith Obadike selling his blackness
on eBay. More recently, Cary Peppermint's Department of Networked
Performance, an educational situation, uses MySpace as its host. The
Gif Show also used MySpace, appropriately, as a parallel site for a
curatorial project in real space about the aesthetics of low-bit
production. A public art competition and gallery shows have suddenly
been popping up in Second Life, a virtual world created by users and
inhabited by their avatars, which interact with each other in real-time.
How are artists currently using these and similar spaces? Are these
projects considered interventions, or otherwise? Are these spaces
appropriate for undergraduate education projects? How do real
curatorial spaces intersect with these virtual spaces? What do these
spaces, with or without the art world, mean within visual culture
contexts? Please propose your presentation as it pertains to any
field - practice, history/theory/criticism, museum studies, and/or
education.
Patrick Holbrook, Georgia College & State University
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Proposals are due May 1st, 2007. Conference is October 17-20, 2007 in
Charleston, West Virginia.
http://www.unc.edu/~rfrew/SECAC/annual_conference.html