[Air-l] Fwd: Digital Utopia? Digital Dystopia: Rendering the Artistic Object UC Graduate Conference

Wendy Robinson wgrobin at duke.edu
Sun Aug 12 11:38:00 PDT 2001


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>From: "Robert Hamm" <rbh1 at umail.ucsb.edu>
>To: <rbh1 at umail.ucsb.edu>
>Subject: Digital Utopia? Digital Dystopia: Rendering the Artistic Object 
>UC Graduate Conference
>Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 14:31:15 -0700
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>Dear UC chairs and MSO's:
>
>Please forward this message to all the current graduate students in your
>humanities or social science program. In an effort to save trees and paper,
>we are only doing this call for papers by electronic means. Therefore, this
>email call is your student's only chance to participate in this conference,
>funded in part by the Office of the President, through the Digital Cultures
>Project Multi Campus Research Group.
>
>William B. Warner
>Professor of English
>Director, The Digital Cultures Project
>http://dc-mrg.english.ucsb.edu/
>Department of English
>University of California/ Santa Barbara
>Santa Barbara, CA 93106
>Home phone: 805-569-5636
>Home fax: 805-569-5436
>
>Dear UC Graduate Students:
>
>We invite you to submit a proposal for the following conference:
>
>Digital Utopia? Digital Dystopia: Rendering the Artistic Object
>
>02.01.02 - 02.02.02
>The conference will be held at UCLA's Royce Hall in Los Angeles, CA.
>
>Deadline for the submission of proposals is October 15, 2001.
>
>This conference aims to examine a variety of aesthetic, political, and
>pragmatic effects of digital technology on the status of the artistic
>object.  We welcome and encourage interdisciplinary and unorthodox
>approaches.
>
>We are considering proposals by graduate students for 20-minute workshop
>presentations expanding on any of the following areas:
>
>Production: Impact of digital technologies on questions of medium.
>Reception: Theorizing notions of interactivity and audience.
>Politics: Questions of communities, access, and the rhetoric of revolution.
>Language: Developing a language of aesthetics specific to digital media.
>
>Sessions are scheduled in 2-hour slots, with a suggested maximum of four
>presentations from varied disciplines per session. Each workshop will be
>facilitated by a plenary speaker from the first day: Katherine Hayles, UC
>Los Angeles; Steve Kurtz, Carnegie Mellon; and Lev Manovich, UC San Diego.
>
>Submission format: We encourage electronic submissions. Please submit a
>one-page proposal or abstract and a current résumé to Amy Pederson
>(pederson at humnet.ucla.edu) by September 30, 2001. Alternatively, mail your
>proposal to:
>Digital Cultures Graduate Conference
>Department of Art History
>UC Los Angeles
>Box 951417
>Los Angeles, CA 90095-1417
>
>You can find out more about the this conference by going to the Digital
>Cultures Project website devoted to this conference:
>http://dc-mrg.english.ucsb.edu/gradconf.html
>
>Please note: all submissions for the conference should be sent not to me or
>Robert Hamm but
>to Amy Pederson: pederson at humnet.ucla.edu
>
>Yours,
>William B. Warner
>Director, The Digital Cultures Project





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