[spectre] CFP: Glocal & Outsiders, Prague, July 2007

[Inke Arns]

Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:52:00 +0200
From: Denisa Kera <kera at ff.cuni.cz>
To: Inke Arns <inke.arns at hmkv.de>
Subject: call



Call for proposals


Center for Global Studies (Academy of Sciences and Charles University)
http://cgs.flu.cas.cz/
International Centre for Art and New Technologies (CIANT)
http://www.ciant.cz
and Prague Biennale 3
http://www.flashartonline.com/pg_PRAGUE_BIENNALE3.htm
invite you to send proposals for

the conference on the interplay between art, 
culture and technology and issues of 
globalization and international cooperation:

Glocal & Outsiders
(part of the Prague Biennale 3)

Prague, 13. and 14. July 2007

Since the mid 1990's biennial exhibits in cities 
such as Johannesburg, Istanbul, Melbourne, 
Havana, Sao Paulo and other expanded the art 
world's institutional context beyond any 
imagination. Art became a new global spectacle 
which exposes various cultures and nations to an 
international audience. Asian contemporary art 
has become something like a fashion and museums 
are being built at an increasing rate in Asia as 
well as throughout South America  with new 
collectors popping up all over the world. 
Parallel to this, art also incorporated emerging 
technologies and developed various 
interdisciplinary relations to science and 
industry. Technological innovations and artistic 
creativity joined forces in various new media 
festivals and events which brought new and very 
diverse groups and interests into play. 
Technology and globalization also changed the 
economic infrastructure of the art world. 
Internet services such as artprice.com allow 
artists to showcase their work to a very broad 
audience of international collectors which fund 
the contemporary art boom. On the other hand, 
many artists use the distributive and peer to 
peer properties of the internet to experiment 
with new economic models.
Artists, critics, curators but also buyers are 
part of these global and technological exchanges 
and it is not clear yet whether these 
interdependences, integrations and interactions 
lead to reduction in diversity, to assimilation 
or to hybridization:
What are the challenges artworld is facing in the 
time of globalization and increasing 
technologization? How to balance cultural 
interests and local scenes with global 
opportunities and art with technological 
innovations? How to view the interplay of art and 
globalization in the context of complex economic, 
trade, social, technological, cultural and 
political interrelationships? How does art 
reflect upon globalization: does it support 
intercultural and transnational ideals or it is 
indifferent to claims of geography, history, and 
identity?  How does it resist and how does it 
support globalization? Do new institutions and 
technologies allow us to enjoy and experience art 
from different cultures or they unify them? What 
new forms of artistic and technical exchanges are 
taking place? How does international cooperation 
help emerging fields of art? How can new 
technologies expand  the social, economical, 
cultural and artistic aspects? What are the 
limits or possibilities on the technological 
level to build art projects that improve 
international cooperation? Do emerging 
technologies and art institutions support 
cultural diversity or they level it?

We are calling for proposals by cultural 
theorists, cultural historians, museum experts, 
art historians, art curators and experts of other 
disciplines. Any program formats (papers, 
roundtable discussions, media presentations etc.) 
are welcommed.

Proposals should include the following items:
1. Preliminary abstract, 150-300 words.
2. CV with e-mail address, phone and fax numbers.

Please send them by May 15, 2007 via e-mail to: 
Denisa Kera (kera AT ff.cuni.cz)  and Aurelie 
Besson (aurelie AT ciant.cz)


-- 

Dr. Inke Arns
Künstlerische Leiterin / Artistic Director
Hartware MedienKunstVerein
Güntherstrasse 65 * D-44143 Dortmund
T ++49 (0) 231 - 823 106
F ++49 (0) 231 - 882 02 40
inke.arns at hmkv.de
www.inkearns.de

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