[spectre] Fwd: Open call: Museums Without Walls - An inquiry into virtual art / institutions and communities (deadline APRIL 23)

[Gabriel Menotti]

Hey all!

Apologies for cross-posting - I hope this might interest some of you.

Best!
Menotti

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Call: Museums Without Walls – Conference & Exhibition

An inquiry into virtual art / institutions and communities

Queen’s University, Ontario, August 15-17 + Online

museusemparedes.com/en/

Submissions: https://forms.gle/Y9SKgiKg6u2Wzm1L6

Deadline: April 23

The global pandemic has laid bare the technological crossroads where
cultural institutions find themselves in the early 21st century. By
promoting a superabundance of ‘content’ and multiplying the transversality
of connections, digital networks have increasingly undermined the authority
of museums as sites for memory preservation, collection stewardship, and
discourse reproduction. All the while, new media systems keep promising to
expand the museal apparatus and radically transform the ways in which art
institutions can perform their mandates and operate within society.

Has the modern project of the museum finally come to its terms? Can future
forms of socio-cultural institutionality be found among online databases,
simulated environments, social media communities, smart contracts, and
other computer platforms?

These questions invite us to reclaim notions of virtuality from the
technopositivist buzz and revisit the long history of relationships between
museums and media. In the spirit of critical and social museology – and
particularly interested in non-Western perspectives –, the Museums Without
Walls conference seeks to open a space for the discussion and exercise of
new configurations for art and cultural institutions.

We are looking for proposals of papers, talks, workshops, publications,
exhibitions, websites, movies, and other forms of artworks that engage with
subjects such as:


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   Museums and/in virtual realities
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   Uses of new and old media systems and VR/AR/XR for cultural access and
   documentation
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   Online / virtual exhibitions, arts residencies, and other forms of
   public outreach
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   Technopolitics in/of galleries, libraries, archives and museums
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   Art institutions as discursive, knowledge, and informational frameworks
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   Interfaces for art and artifact collections
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   Museum projects in simulated, digital, and gaming environments
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   Publications and merchandise as extensions of institutional activities
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   Printed, broadcasted, and streamed exhibitions
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   Audiotours, videoguides, and other interactive forms of mediating artist
   practice
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   Cultural management and curatorial strategies in the age of computer
   networks
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   Possibilities of collaboration and dissent enabled by online platforms
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   Counterpublic appropriations and the unsettling of museal spaces
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   Performances of monumentality using media and XR technologies
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   The mediation of absences and struggles for re/depatriation
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   Multi-user web platforms as exhibition sites (Mozilla Hubs, New Art
   City, common.garden, etc)
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   Public repositories of museal data (Google Arts & Culture, Smithsonian
   Open Access, Scan the World, etc)
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   Rogue 3D scanning and other digital bootlegs
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   Art institutions in the ‘metaverse’


The Museums Without Walls conference takes place at Queen’s University,
Ontario, between August 15-17. The conference will intersect with the
Summer Institute: The Curatorial  organized by the Agnes Etherington Art
Centre and Queen’s Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies program, and it
will be completely free to attend and participate. A number of online
activities will precede and follow the event.

Submit your proposals by April 23 using the link:
https://forms.gle/Y9SKgiKg6u2Wzm1L6.

Proposals consist in an abstract/synopsis (100-250 words), short author’s
bio (100 words), and links to supporting material. When submitting, please
indicate whether your proposal is for presentation online and/or on site at
Queen’s, during the days of the conference. For workshop and artwork
proposals, please include links to relevant documentation as well as
technical and installation requirements. Submit any questions to
museusemparedes at gmail.com.

Museum Without Walls is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council of Canada.
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