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Call for Papers

Theme: Representations
Subtitle: Struggles for Reality
Type: 2nd International Symposium
Institution: International Network for Alternative Academia
   Centro de Estudios Demográficos, Urbanos y Ambientales (CEDUA),
El Colegio de México (COLMEX)
Location: Mexico City (Mexico)
Date: 1.–3.11.2013
Deadline: 13.9.2013

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This trans-disciplinary project explores the creation, consumption
and dissemination of representations. It aims to map out the
relationship between representations, conceptions of the real and
cultural constructions of reality. Examining representations as
developing at the intersections of epistemological, political and
ethical modes of enquiry, this symposium offers the opportunity to
reflect on the practice and the theory of the constitution,
legitimation and social implications of image, art and the new media.

We invite colleagues from all disciplines and professions interested
in sharing these explorations in a collective, deliberative and
dialogical environment to send presentation proposals that address
these general questions or the following themes:

1. Real and Imaginary – A Political History

=> To Represent or To Reproduce?

- How is it that representations reflect, reproduce and create our
  sense of reality?
- How are representations and our concepts of reality interlaced and
  intertwined?
- What role do abstractions, conversions and distortions play in the
  construction of representations and our bonds to ‘weighty’
  conceptions of reality?

=> Power and Legitimacy

- What is at stake in the battles over representation? What is the
  relationship between power, reality and representation?
- What are the processes through which representations are
  legitimized and canonized?
- How is a sense of belonging and identity established in and through
  media, art and/or artistic creation? How are the threads of power
  and the needs for legitimacy played out in this context?
- How are self-representations to be assessed? How are
  misrepresentations to be responded to?
- Who gets to name what is real? What standard of evaluation should
  be employed?

=> You Say You Want A Revolution?: Rebellious Representations

- How are images and ideas transformed into action?
- What is the role of representation in political activism, religious
  proselytism, and contestation movements?
- How do representations fuel transformation and change? How do
  representations thwart such efforts?
- How are representations contested? What are the spaces for such
  deliberations?

2. The Authentic, The Original, The Real

=> On Authenticity

- In a world of reproduction, what is the meaning and the value of
  judgments of authenticity?
- What factors and institutions fuel the quest for the perfect
  representation in art and science?
- How are new technologies reconfiguring our understandings of
  authority and expertise?
- Are distortions of reality necessarily destructive? What are the
  potential productive forces of distortion?
- What does the return to the representative in contemporary
  representations reveal about present day conceptions of reality?

=> On Originality

- What is the relationship between The Original and the original?
- How are new understandings of originality reconfiguring our ideas
  of genius?
- In an era defined by pastiche and bricolage, how is originality to
  be assessed?
- Given the prevalence of prequels and sequels, remakes and remixes,
  are we bearing witness to the end of creativity and/or the end of
  originality?
- How are forgeries and fakes to be defined, identified and valued?
- What is the role of the signature in new forms of representation?

=> On Reality

- How are images transformed into icons?
- In what ways do icons reflect reality? In what ways do they
  deconstruct reality?
- How are multiple realities to be represented?
- How can emergent realities be captured?
- In what manner should competing representations be assessed? What
  standards of evaluation should be employed?
- What do pastiche, bricolage and hybridity reveal about our notions
  of reality?

3. Being, Becoming and Performing the Aesthetic

=> The Politics of Art and the Art of Politics

- What are the conditions for the possibility of an aestheticization
  of politics? How are those conditions met in contemporary cultures?
- What is the role of modern day patrons in the artworld?
- How will the history of the politicization of art be written?
- What does the history and the practice of curating reveal about the
  intersection of art and politics?
- What does the structure, organization and operation of art schools
  reveal about the politics in and of art?
- What factors shape and inform the development of a political
  economy of representations?
- How are representations interpreted as political gestures?

=> Technology as Practice

- How are new technologies for the creation, consumption and
  dissemination of representations leading us to reconceptualize The
  Artworld?
- How is art being commodified in and through new media? How are new
  technologies shaping and being shaped by the commodification of art?
- How do new technologies redefine our understanding of imagination?
- How is the relationship between technology and practice being
  re-established in a post-internet era?

=> Creativity and Critique

- How might art be conceived of as a form of critique?
- Can creativity be charted? What new models of creativity might be
  offered to capture how reality is transformed by representation and
  representations are transformed by reality?
- How might creativity be conceived of as critique?
- How are digital and virtual representations leading us to define
  creativity?
- What new horizons, new metaphors, new means for re-signifying life
  and experience in the virtual and non-virtual worlds are being
  envisioned? 

If you are interested in participating in this Annual Symposium,
submit a 400 to 500 word abstract as soon as possible and no later
than Friday 13th of September, 2013. (For justifiable cases, we do
uphold a tolerance period of a week.) 

Please use the following template for your submission:
1. Author(s);
2. Affiliation, if any;
3. Email Address;
4. Title of Abstract and Proposal;
5. The 400 to 500 Word Abstract. 

To submit an abstract online follow these steps:
1) Go to our webpage: www.alternative-academia.net
2) Select your Symposium of choice within the list of annual events
  (listed by period and city)
3) Go to LOG IN at the top of the page
4) Create a User Name and Password for our system and log in
5) Click on the Call for Papers for the Symposium
6) Go to the end of the Call for Papers page and click on the First
   Step of Submission Process button
7) Follow the instructions provided for completing the abstract
   submission process

For every abstract proposal submitted, we acknowledge receipt. If you
do not receive a reply from us within three days, you should assume
the submission process was not completed successfully. Please try
again or contact our technical support for clarifications.

All presentation and paper proposals that address these questions and
issues will be fully considered and evaluated. Evaluation of abstract
submissions will be ongoing, from the opening date of Monday 15th of
July, 2013. All Prospective Delegates can expect a reply time to
their submission of approximately three weeks.

Accepted abstracts will require a full draft paper by Friday 4th of
October, 2013. Papers are for a 20 minute presentation, 8 to 10 pages
long, double spaced, Times New Roman 12. All papers presented at the
symposium are eligible for publication as part of a digital or
paperback book.

Symposium Coordinators:

Cheryl Sim
Commissaire Associée
DHC/ART Fondation pour l’art contemporain
Montréal, Québec, Canada
Email: c...@dhc-art.org 

Wendy O'Brien
Professor of Social and Political Theory
School of Liberal Studies
Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Email: wendy.obr...@humber.ca 

Alejandro Cervantes-Carson
General Coordinator
International Network for Alternative Academia
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Email: a...@alternative-academia.net

Symposium website:
http://www.alternative-academia.net/ocs-2.3.5/index.php/NOV2013/RSR-2/




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