Call For Papers: “Writing With Images: An Art Symposium”

Call For Papers:  ”Writing With Images: An Art Symposium”
Submission deadline: March 18, 2011
Symposium date: April 22, 2011
Host: Graduate Program in Visual Culture, School of Art, College of Fine
Arts, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois
Contact: Lisa Phillips   llphill [at] ilstu.edu
Submission website: http://www.writingwithimages.wordpress.com

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: “Writing With Images: An Art Symposium”

We invite proposals for papers and presentations from graduate and
advanced undergraduate students for Writing With Images, a student
research symposium sponsored by the Graduate Program in Visual Culture,
School of Art, College of Fine Arts, Illinois State University.

The Symposium is being held in honor of Dr. Annette Lermack, Associate
Professor of Art History, upon her retirement from ISU.

THEME: Over the past twenty years a good deal of debate has centered on
the so-called split between traditional art historical analysis and the
newer milieu of visual culture. This year the field of visual culture
studies has been declared dead–at least in theory–by some of the same
people, such as James Elkins, who breathed life into the budding field
of study. Yet at the same time prominent visual culture scholars such as
Irit Rogoff and Sunil Manghani are calling for a shift in the
relationship between writing and the image: a shift from writing about
the image to writing with the image.  Such a shift seeks to disrupt the
hierarchical nature of much scholarly analysis of images and to allow
the image to “speak for itself”: to attend to the ways that images
exceed or resist total apprehension/comprehension by language. Manghani
(2008) has proposed the term ?image critique? as a new kind of “living
methodology” that responds to these concerns.

This symposium asks what is might mean to write with images or to allow
images to “speak for themselves.” To date, no local attempt has been
made to draw various strands of inquiry together to identify specific
qualities of image critique. This symposium will begin to address this
deficit by exploring creative reconsiderations of the relationship
between text and image, writing and looking, theory and practice. What
must our research and writing practices take into account in order to
engage with images on their own terms? What new kinds of thinking do
images invite?

Successful submissions will reflect issues ranging from current debates
regarding what Manghani terms “image critique” as a source of creative
input for Visual Culture, Art History, Studio Practice, and Art
Education.  Participants will share cutting edge research and practices
that illuminate areas of overlap between the respective disciplines. The
symposium is a space to highlight the scholarly pursuits of students
representing the visual culture and visual art.
Graduate and advanced undergraduate students of all disciplines are
encouraged to apply, especially (but not limited to) visual culture, art
history, studio artists, and art education.

The one-day symposium will take place at Illinois State University
Gallery with a concurrent morning session in the Center for Visual Arts,
Room 201, located on the campus of Illinois State University at Normal,
Illinois. There will be a keynote address by Dr. Kristine Nielsen, the
Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign.

This call is addressed primarily to students in Central Illinois and
vicinity–we are unable to offer lodging for overnight stays, although
we can recommend local hotels upon request.

See the website for abstract submission and symposium details.

We hope you can join us!

Best,
Lisa Phillips
ISU School of Art

Museums & Social Issues Publishing Opportunities

Museums & Social Issues, a peer-reviewed journal published by Left Coast
Press, is pleased to share a sneak peek at several potential themes for
future issues of the journal (below). We welcome your feedback and invite
you to contact MSI’s editor, Kris Morrissey, if you are interested in
submitting, reviewing or helping with any of these topics

*Future Topics:*

   *Being Human:* How does current research shape and inform what it
   means to be human? How is “being human” studied and viewed today
   in the fields of philosophy, cognition, computer science, biology
   and others? How are we as individuals, museums and a society
   connecting with and grappling with changing ideas of our human-ness?

   *Prisons* *& US:* The United States has the highest proportion of
   our population in prison. What does this reflect about our
   society? How are prisons experienced by those within? How has the
   concept and practice of prison shaped our music, literature,
   identity? How have museums reflected life in prisons or served
   populations within prisons?

   *Aging:* How does aging affect the way we live in the 21st
   century? What are the implications of aging on government,
   relationships, and family structures? How is research changing our
   assumptions about aging? What are the implications of an aging
   population on museums and other cultural and educational
   institutions?

   *Homelessness*: Who are the homeless and what is the path to
   homelessness? What is the daily life and culture of the homeless?
   What are the rights, hopes and future for those without homes? How
   do museums connect with and tell the stories of these audiences?

   *Exhibit, Book or Program Reviews:* The journal is always
   interested in reviews of exhibit, books and museum projects that
   address these or any other questions or issues of concern to society.

For information about submissions and deadlines contact:
journaleditor [at] me.com

Editor: Kris Morrissey (Morriss8 [at] uw.edu)

Managing Editor: Alex Curio

College Book Art Association: Call for Papers

Call for Papers

The College Book Art Association

welcomes  proposals for its 2011 biennial conference:

Word, Image, Text, Object

Indiana University, Bloomington

January 13-16, 2011

Proposals are due May 25, 2011

This Call for Papers will be available soon at the web site of the College Book Art Association, http://www.collegebookart.org<http://www.collegebookart.org/EmailTracker/LinkTracker.ashx?linkId=AAAUmJLd%2beE8bv5h3JOEWw%3d%3d>.

A copy of the Abstract Reviewer Form will be posted to the conference website soon.  Please review this document to better understand the judging criteria for all abstract submissions.

The College Book Art Association welcomes the submission of paper proposals for its second biennial conference to be held on the campus of Indiana University, Bloomington. The conference will provide students, scholars, librarians, and faculty with a public forum to present topics in and related to the academic book arts field.  The title of this biennial conference is intentionally inclusive and wide-open.  Instead of suggesting themes for the conference the planning committee feels that the conference title and mission of the CBAA should give sufficient direction for submitted abstracts.  This is an opportunity for submissions to be relevant, timely and germane to each person submitting an abstract/topic without having to align their submission to a proscribed theme.

The College Book Art Association is a non-profit organization committed to the teaching of book arts at the college and university level. The Association strives to support, not only education about book arts, but is also concerned with both the practice and analysis of the medium.  It welcomes as members everyone involved in such teaching and all others who have similar goals and interests. The association aims to engage in a continuing reappraisal of the nature and meaning of the teaching of book arts.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

To be considered for acceptance, abstracts must reflect the practice, teaching, scholarship and/or criticism as they relate to academic book arts.  Academic book arts may be considered broadly, including studio art, art history, design studies, history of the book, material culture, typography, comparative literature, and pedagogical and interdisciplinary studies.  All abstract submissions should provide enough detail about the research so that the reviewers have sufficient information to judge its quality in anticipation of the final and completed paper/presentation.

In an effort to promote original scholarship in the field of academic book arts, abstracts submitted to CBAA should not be concurrently submitted for consideration to another conference.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE:

Abstracts should NOT be submitted prior to March 1, 2010 and MUST be received no later than May 25, 2010. Submissions received after this date will not be considered for acceptance.

ABSTRACT FORMAT AND SUBMISSION PROCEDURES:

Please submit abstracts for 25-minute presentations.  Abstracts are not to exceed 400 words.

All abstracts must be submitted electronically as a Microsoft Word attachment (.doc or .docx format) for purposes of review by the program committee, please use the following format:

* Single-spaced

* One-inch margins,

* Times New Roman 12-point font

ABSTRACT FORMAT:

*The 25-minute paper proposals will be slotted onto a panel of the organizers’ choosing.  Panel proposals are not being accepted, only individual papers.

Line 1: three to four keywords that will help the conference chair schedule similar topics in succession Line 2: author and institution name (centered on page) Line 3: presentation title (centered on page) Line 4: blank Line 5 to end: text of abstract

At the end, please list any special equipment needs, etc.  Please note that data projectors will be provided in presentation rooms; laptops will not.

Please email your abstract as an attachment to: CBAA2011@indiana.edu<mailto:CBAA2011@indiana.edu>  In the email message include the principal author’s name, mailing address, email address, and fax and telephone numbers.

CBAA membership must be current at the time of registration for all presenters.

TIMELINE:

March 1

Call for papers

May 25

Deadline for abstract submissions

July 19

Notifications for sessions/papers (acceptance must be confirmed by August 1, 2010)

Call for Papers: ART DOCUMENTATION

Editors are inviting articles for both the Fall 2010 and Spring 2011
issues of ART DOCUMENTATION, the semiannual peer-reviewed journal of the
Art Libraries Society of North America.  The articles should fall within
the scope of art and architecture librarianship, visual resources
curatorship, digital image management, technology related to the visual
arts, art publishing, artists’ books, and related fields.

For the Fall 2010 issue, papers should be close to completion; the first
draft deadline is April 1, 2010.  Many articles have already been
accepted for this issue, but there is still space for a few more. For
the Spring 2011 issue, please send your abstracts now for articles
concerning research or projects that you are still developing. The first
draft deadline for this issue is September 1, 2010.

Have you recently given a presentation at a conference or prepared a
poster session that would be appropriate to expand as a journal article?
Please send an abstract if the subject falls within the scope of ART
DOCUMENTATION.

For additional information and a description of the review process, ART
DOCUMENTATION contributor guidelines may be found at
http://www.arlisna.org/artdoc/contrib_guidelines.html.

I look forward to hearing from you!

Judy Dyki
Editor, ART DOCUMENTATION
Library Director, Cranbrook Academy of Art