2010 International Conference on the Arts in Society
Where: University of Sydney
When: 22-25 July 2010
Paper submission deadline: 14 January 2010
What: full and virtual conference papers for fully refereed journal The International Journal of the Arts in Society. Papers submitted for publication will be fully refereed through a peer review process. The publication decision is based on the referees’ reports. For more information about the Journal please visit the Publish Your Paper page. Papers can be practice, research or theory oriented.
The 2010 Arts Conference will address a range of critically important issues and themes (see in detail at end of post) relating to the arts in society. A sample:
- Theme 1: Art and Education (including teaching, technologies, creativity, perception, cognition, healing, self-inquiry)
- Theme 2: Arts Agendas (changing the world, changing the local, activism, Moral aesthetics, Ecoaesthetics and the culture of sustainability, collective memory)
- Theme 3: Supporting the Arts (economics, commercialisation, funding, marketing, buying and starving)
- Theme 4: Art in Communities (from cultural democracy to propaganda via the global and the local)
- Theme 5: Constructing Art Worlds (roles of artists, curators, directors, producers, critics, managers, collectives and rights)
- Theme 6: Audiences (defining, blurring, interacting, participating and sub-grouping)
- Theme 7: Analysing Artforms (all forms!)
- Theme 8: Meaning and Representation (aura, authenticity, anthropology, author, artefact and avant-garde)
- Theme 9: Festivals (from the anthropology of- to the economics of-)
- Theme 10: Art and Human Rights (from refugees and diaspora to prison art and social justice)
- Theme 11: Public Art and Public Policy (from policy to nationalism)
Plenary speakers will include leading thinkers and practitioners in the arts, as well as paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by researchers and practitioners in all fields of artistic engagement. We also encourage innovative presentation formats, such as roundtables, staged dialogues, screenings and performances. Parallel sessions are loosely grouped into streams reflecting different perspectives or disciplines. Each stream forms a talking circle, an informal forum for focused discussion of issues and Conference themes.
Conference presenters may include contributors in all areas of the arts – artists, educators, graduate students, curators, writers, theorists, researchers, arts administrators and policymakers – with presentations in all disciplines (visual, performing, literary, and interdisciplinary genres). This is a Conference for any person with an interest in and a concern for art practice, public art, art theory, research and policy, curatorial and museum studies, and art education in any of its forms and at any of its sites .In person presentations include:
- 30-Minute Presentations: 15 minute paper plus questions
- 60-Minute Presentation: A workshop, crafted panel, staged conversation, dialogue or debate.
- 90-Minute Colloquium: A Conference session involving at least five registered participants
If you would like to know more about this Conference, bookmark the Arts Conference website and return for further information and regular updates. You may also wish to subscribe to ‘The Arts in Society’, the Newsletter of the Conference and Journal.
For all inquiries, please contact the Conference Secretariat.
http://artsinsociety.com/conference-2010/
Themes
Theme 1: Art and Education
- Teaching the arts
- Digital media arts and education
- Creative arts in the humanities
- Literacy and the literary: Texts at school
- Art history: Purpose and pedagogy
- Performance Studies: Teaching drama, dance, performance
- Ways of seeing: Perception, cognition, affect
- Art and healing
- Art as self-inquiry
Theme 2: Arts Agendas
- Changing the world: Global visions through art practices
- Arts policy: The role of local, regional/state and local governments
- The arts and collective memory
- Arts and heritage
- Indigenous arts and arts movements
- Feminist art histories and practices
- Arts and culture in economic development
- Arts in tourism
- Art of nature: Ecoaesthetics and the culture of sustainability
- Moral aesthetics: The ethics of art and arts practice
- Arts as activism: Politics and the arts
- Art embodied: Persons in art, the artist as human being
Theme 3: Supporting the Arts
- Bottom lines: The economics of the arts
- Starving artists and the state
- Commercialism in art
- The role of government in arts funding
- The creative industries in a post-industrial society
- Cultural Institutions and Museums
- Marketing the arts
- Arts advocacy
- Sponsorship and philanthropy in the arts
- Art trade: Buying and selling arts objects, cultural properties and copyrights
Theme 4: Art in Communities
- The arts in a civil society and cultural democracy
- The arts in popular culture and the media
- Art as propaganda
- Art in advertising
- Art in public spaces
- Art in cyberspace
- Architecture as art
- Art and religion
- Diaspora communities and the arts
- Ethnic and tourist arts
- Global/local arts: Making the connection
- The arts and disability
- Indigenous community-based art
- Working class and ‘popular’ arts
- Online cultures, hacker aesthetics, open sources
- Queer culture, politics and gender in the arts
- Art in community cultural development and capacity building
Theme 5: Constructing Art Worlds
- The work of the artist
- The work of the curator
- The work of the director and producer
- The work of the critic
- The work of the arts manager
- Artist collectives
- Copyrights: Creative commons and other intellectual properties
Theme 6: Audiences
- Defining audiences: The role of the reader, viewer, listener
- Blurring the boundaries of creator and audience
- New artforms and interactivity: From passive viewer to active user
- Participatory arts and the arts as participation
- Children and youth audiences
- Elder audiences
- Audience development
- Virtual audiences, blogs, cyber-art and performance
Theme 7: Analysing Artforms
- The performing arts: Theatre, dance, music and its successors
- Visual culture
- Moving pictures, from cinema to television and the internet
- Textual and literary arts
- Photography and video arts
- New media and digital arts
- Spatial and architectonic arts
- Art Music, New Music and experimental music
- Multimedia, mixed media and multimodal arts
- Hypertext: What is a narrative?
- Interface art: Design and aesthetics of the web
- The nature of the ‘virtual’
- The art of games and gaming
- Art and advertising: Image, icon, brand
- ‘Craft’ and ‘decorative’ arts
- Art movements
Theme 8: Meaning and Representation
- Mimeses and perspectives on the ‘real’ and ‘representation’
- New genres; What is a genre?
- Minimalism, complexity and art theory
- Sense-making: Connecting the arts to everyday life
- The artist as intellectual and the intellectual as artist
- Cultural theory in art history
- Crossing borders: Anthropology and art
- Defining the avant-garde: The creative, the innovative, the new
- Processes: The author, authority and the authoritative
- Products: Aura, authenticity, artefact
- Authenticity and voice
Theme 9: Festivals
- Festival cities
- Cultural tourism and public display
- Festival and ritual
- Global festivals
- Ethnic arts festivals
- Regional festivals
- Theatre festivals, genres, regions and Shakespeare
- Music festivals
- Visual arts festivals and biennales
- Cultural diversity and festival development
- Festival and event management
- Book festivals
- Film festivals
- Festivals and civic engagement
- Economic impact and festival development
- Why create an arts festival
- Rural festivals as social life
- Olympic festivals – of real and imagined proportions
Theme 10: Art and Human Rights
- Refugee arts and communities
- Prison art
- Healing broken communities through art
- War stories/narratives of war
- Relocations/dislocations
- Arts of the diaspora
- Protecting world heritage
- Art rights as cultural rights
- Cultural production and militarization
- Poetics of occupation
- Arts and social justice
Theme 11: Public Art and Public Policy
- Public art and civic projects
- Art and cultural heritage
- Arts policy in local and regional governments
- Art and nationalism
- Public art policy, the state and politics
