[spectre] CFP: Kapsula Magazine, Issue: Good Measure, art and calculative processes

[Andreas Broeckmann]

From: Sara England <sara at kapsula.ca>
Date: Sep 25, 2015
Subject: CFP: Kapsula, Issue: Good Measure

International
Deadline: Dec 4, 2015
<http://kapsula.ca/submit>

German conceptual artist Hanne Darboven is best known for her 
impenetrable, large-scale grids, equations, and number games. These are 
subjective equations for navigating her world, making no claim to 
universality—an approach her mathematical counterparts might balk at. 
Our investigations in GOOD MEASURE align with Darboven’s interest in 
using numerical data to express a world-view, highlighting that even in 
a realm where black and white seem to be the only options, the 
infinitude of language persists.

For our next quarterly theme, KAPSULA Magazine will look at art 
practices that generate work from calculative process. Perhaps not 
commonly associated with art-making, the business of computation 
nonetheless has a long history with artists. From Leonardo’s Vitruvian 
man to Roman Opalka’s number paintings, low-tech number-crunching to 
complex algorithms, the sublime has always belonged to two fields: 
aesthetics and mathematics. Of course, sublimity is the stuff of mass 
sensation, a tasteful excess—and by no coincidence, so is GOOD MEASURE.

KAPSULA is seeking papers that teeter on the edge between exactitude and 
infinity, experimenting with the way that raw, numerical information 
acts as process and translation in contemporary art practice.

Possible topics might include:

The evolution of computational art in the “information age”
Number as an ontological gesture (Alain Badiou)
Algorithmic art and software art (systems-driven art-making)
Information, excess, and a digital or net aesthetic
Locating subjectivity in art that’s made through pre-determined calculation
Mathematics as a tool for defining ‘taste’ in art (remainders of the 
Renaissance)
The sensory or bodily impacts of data; the body-as-data
Communicating empathy through numbers, variables, and equations

Submit finished texts or abstracts to submissions at kapsula.ca by midnight 
on Friday December 4th, 2015.

Before sending, we encourage you review our submission guidelines at 
http://kapsula.ca/submit.

Reference / Quellennachweis:
CFP: Kapsula, Issue: Good Measure. In: H-ArtHist, Sep 25, 2015. 
<http://arthist.net/archive/11062>.