CALL FOR PAPERS
Performance, installation, and digital art
A Panel Discussion at the Eighth International Literature and Humanities Conference,
INSCRIPTIONS '05: an arts and culture conference and festival
at Eastern Mediterranean University
in Famagusta, on the island of Cyprus
May 12th - 13th, 2005

The Eighth annual Literature and Humanities Conference will be held at Eastern Mediterranean University as part of Inscriptions '05, an Arts and Culture festival taking place at the university and environs between May 12th - 13th, 2005. In conjunction with a wide selection of music, performance and film events, discussion- friendly papers are being solicited for our symposium.  Although we will be publishing selected presentations from Inscriptions '05, we encourage participants to move away from the standard prewritten, “finished paper” format, towards a more open-ended presentation, which will provoke and contribute to a genuine exchange of research and ideas during the panel sessions. Our aim is to create a forum and publishing venue for inspiring work in progress, where the exchange of ideas with fellow academics participating in the conference will contribute to the final form of participants’ work.

With this in mind, we invite papers and/or presentations that examine the current status of critical thinking on performance, installation, and digital art.  Possible topics might include but are not limited to:

-           media (tv, internet, etc.) intrusion: censorship, privacy

-           electronic arts/digital arts/multimedia arts/cyberarts: what’s the difference?

-           semiotics and digital art

-           spatio-temporal poetics in cyberart

-           artificial intelligence and narrative

-           digital alterations to “voice”

-           logocentricism and technology

-           the subversive/revolutionary/political importance of performance art

-           the hamburger and Paul McCarthy

-           authority in the catalogue essay

-           assessing Greenaway’s Tulse Luper Suitcase

-           visual pleasure: gendered gazes and coloured spectacles

-           digital animation/animated technology

-           technologies of intervention

-           silence and technology

-           new sensory experience and conceptualization

-           public/private exhibitions spaces: differences between the art gallery and virtual environments

-           Plato, art and performance

-           theatrical drama and new technologies

-           copyright in the digital age

-           hypertext pedagogy

 

               

Please send 250 word abstracts by 11th February, 2005 to rodney.sharkey@emu.edu.tr

and please visit  http://www.emu.edu.tr/elh/inscriptions for more information.